...says the AC who hasn't been watching it. It's been so much better than it has any right to be.
It's better than sad grimdark trek made by grimdark millenials for cynically pushing a streaming service with absolutely no concept of what made Trek fun.
Not necessarily. The old Paramount with the primary ST rights is now CBS. The company currently known as Paramount, making STD and the recent movies has to license it, and they don't have the rights to make things look the same. This includes the "reboot" movies, and is why they had to change the way the uniforms looked. (As if we'd really notice, since ST has been changing uniform designs since the first movie. It's more notable when they don't change uniforms, as happened in the TNG/DS9/VOY era.)
1: It's magic, we don't gotta explain shit. Probably the least believable part was "why here and why now?" Transcended species are a staple of science fiction, Q was just more of an asshole than is usual. There was also a TOS episode that had two magical beings running the show.
2,3: The holodeck and replicator are based on transporter technology. If you want to talk about magic, that's the elephant in the room. It can somehow re-assemble your atoms perfectly, thousands of miles away? I can accept the platform part, but the remote end is complete fucking magic. Also, the first holodeck episode was in the animated Star Trek series, so you can't even blame TNG for inventing it.
One of the better things about The Orville is that they don't have transporter technology. One of the more advanced races that won't talk to them apparently does, but there's no magic plot device that has to be subverted every other episode.
I have one, and it it works just fine with OS X, as long as you don't mind downloading Silver(b)light to run their downloader app. Yes, that's right, Silverlight. Adobe Flash wasn't crappy enough, so Microsoft had to do it worse.
The remote itself is pretty junk, though. First of all, the side buttons stopped working without a lot of smooshing them around. The display comes on at the slightest shake, running the batteries down faster. I particularly hate the "one activity time" model. You will either watch TV, or you will watch a DVD, or you will watch $OTHER_THING, but thou shalt not mix and match! I was regularly using two TVs, one for a computer display to play PC games, and another to watch a DVR along with a home theater amp. I just wanted a simple multi-function remote where you hit the device button for each device. You can do that, but the Harmony remote makes it more annoying.
At least I got the model that takes AA batteries. The original one that uses a LiPo battery gets the battery stuck inside when it goes bad and starts to expand.
The only good part is that it had codes for a device that I got without the remote, so now I can decode them and hack up something else to send them from.
Also R&D is on Microsoft's side on this one with 85% of new feature requests were from features already there. After moving to the ribbon it went down to closer to 20%. It was a success.
So in other words, you think it's better because it panders to people who can't find their own ass because they were sitting on it? I'll stick with something that doesn't eat up 20% of my vertical screen space on a wide-screen laptop display.
Sure, vinyl has problems, but nothing like cassette tape. The only thing worse is 8-track. First of all there's the normal noise floor. "B-b-b-but noise reduction!" You have to use good quality tape with better formulation to start with, and I think you still have to have some support for it in the player.
The biggest problem is the playback. Rubber belts, rubber drive wheels, all will go bad. Compact players with auto-stop will eventually reach a point where the stop detect will never turn off. I used a tape adapter for an MP3 player, just leaving it in play mode all the time, no reverse or rewind, and it went bad in a few years. And even if you had a player that was mechanically perfect, you would still be dealing with the crap that is the tape.
And then there's the duplication process. I bought my first and only pre-recorded tape back in the early '80s. It had a glitch in it, I took it back to the mall (remember malls? This mall eventually became Rackspace HQ otherwise it would have been bulldozed already) and got a replacement. The replacement had the same glitch in the same place, so it was obviously a problem with the master tape. Fuck that shit, CD was new then, and I just had to wait a few years for it to become affordable.
The only thing cassette tape had going for it was size, resistance to vibration, and being recordable. It did NOT have quality as an attribute, except under special circumstances that cost money and weren't portable. MP3 players (now mostly obsoleted by smart phones) have all three, plus you can get higher quality if you are willing to use more storage space.
Oh, you mean that shit on over the air broadcasts?
I think they mostly mean that shit with ink on paper that has constantly gotten narrower and thinner over the years, especially the ones who still haven't figured out how to replace the income they used to get from classified ads. The internet and even over-the-air broadcasts (including talk radio) are much faster than print editions. Who wants to pay a dollar a day for yesterday's news? I mean, other than old people who subscribe to a print newspaper because it comforts them to hold something physical.
Ten years ago, the online version of the local news had a comment section. The trolls took over, but as long as you didn't scroll down, you could stick to finding the news.
Speaking of comment sections, I noticed very quickly when Disqus (aka Disgust) removed the sub-thread collapse widget. All the kooks hang their crap off of the firstest posts they can find, so usually the first thing I would do was collapse the first post and keep hitting the more posts button until finally the next thread appeared. Now it's not even worth hitting the more posts button, because I'll have to wade through the worst of the crap.
This. I barely even use social media (I have an Apple ID that dates back to when it was used for developer accounts, and a Google account that hooks up an ancient YouTube account, everything else is on my own server), yet recently Google told me I had been at a place before. The only way it could have known was by constantly monitoring my GPS/location info. Fortunately, I leave my cell phone hard-off (so I won't have to recharge it later) most of the time, and rarely even take it when me when I leave home. I don't need for people to be able to contact me every moment of the day. Send me e-mail, I'll get around to it when I can.
Not that I care (the Wii was the most recent console I bought, and my eyes are no longer 4K compliant), but I would like to point out that this is the same Sony who pushed the PS3 as a premiere Blu-Ray player, and (to a lesser extent) the PS2 as a DVD player.
As I understand it, grass-fed is better for steak, grain-fed is better for slow-cooked barbecue. Better for the cow? Isn't not being eaten better for the cow?
The best color for the WE2500 is red, harkening back to the cold war days, when red phones were used for direct communication lines to rival government leaders. How about a nice game of chess?
That's what you get for trying to be all fancy with Unicode, when using the original Japanese "ou" spelling works more than well enough. People who insist on using o-macron are just too smug for their own good.
Remember that the lowercase "at&t" we have now was originally one of the baby bells (Southwestern Bell), which slowly bought back all the other bits, except for one or two that are now Verizon (formerly GTE). The building that used to say "SBC Technology Resources Inc." when I worked there for a few months, then SBC Labs, now says AT&T Labs on its sign.
You can break up a magnet, but its bits eventually stick back to each other.
Last night I was using the mbed online compiler, very much in The Zone, when it just stopped working. In my main browser it wouldn't even show the IDE screen, just a blank page. I tried other browsers, and even browsers on other computers that I had a remote screen connection for. All were broken, though some other browsers showed the IDE screen, which still wouldn't compile. It worked this morning, so it was obviously some sort of outage, but at least I knew it wasn't something that happened because of my web browser.
Yeah, I know, my big problem was depending on The Cloud for something. At least it was an excuse to make another attempt at getting the offline compiler working, but again I failed, apparently due to Python versions (and even a module that I had to download, but wasn't documented anywhere), and error messages where things were just left to throw exceptions without any explanation. Literally "it don't work" tier errors.
And that is when you find that all the marker pens in the room are dry, because the only other guy who doesn't use the projector is that mousy guy who doesn't put the caps back on tightly enough. Or someone put sharpie markers in instead of dry-erase markers.
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If you are making an exoskeleton dance, wouldn't it be more appropriate to call it "Gundam style"?
Chuck Norris and Natalie Portman as co-stars would be a good start.
...says the AC who hasn't been watching it. It's been so much better than it has any right to be.
It's better than sad grimdark trek made by grimdark millenials for cynically pushing a streaming service with absolutely no concept of what made Trek fun.
Not sure if anyone caught episode 8 where Saru is "running" and high speed. It was cringe worthy bad.
Did it have "ch-ch-ch-ch-chhhhhhh" sound effects?
It's not on cable TV. At least not in the US. But they did broadcast the first episode on CBS, and it bored me before it could offend me.
Not necessarily. The old Paramount with the primary ST rights is now CBS. The company currently known as Paramount, making STD and the recent movies has to license it, and they don't have the rights to make things look the same. This includes the "reboot" movies, and is why they had to change the way the uniforms looked. (As if we'd really notice, since ST has been changing uniform designs since the first movie. It's more notable when they don't change uniforms, as happened in the TNG/DS9/VOY era.)
1: It's magic, we don't gotta explain shit. Probably the least believable part was "why here and why now?" Transcended species are a staple of science fiction, Q was just more of an asshole than is usual. There was also a TOS episode that had two magical beings running the show.
2,3: The holodeck and replicator are based on transporter technology. If you want to talk about magic, that's the elephant in the room. It can somehow re-assemble your atoms perfectly, thousands of miles away? I can accept the platform part, but the remote end is complete fucking magic. Also, the first holodeck episode was in the animated Star Trek series, so you can't even blame TNG for inventing it.
One of the better things about The Orville is that they don't have transporter technology. One of the more advanced races that won't talk to them apparently does, but there's no magic plot device that has to be subverted every other episode.
I have one, and it it works just fine with OS X, as long as you don't mind downloading Silver(b)light to run their downloader app. Yes, that's right, Silverlight. Adobe Flash wasn't crappy enough, so Microsoft had to do it worse.
The remote itself is pretty junk, though. First of all, the side buttons stopped working without a lot of smooshing them around. The display comes on at the slightest shake, running the batteries down faster. I particularly hate the "one activity time" model. You will either watch TV, or you will watch a DVD, or you will watch $OTHER_THING, but thou shalt not mix and match! I was regularly using two TVs, one for a computer display to play PC games, and another to watch a DVR along with a home theater amp. I just wanted a simple multi-function remote where you hit the device button for each device. You can do that, but the Harmony remote makes it more annoying.
At least I got the model that takes AA batteries. The original one that uses a LiPo battery gets the battery stuck inside when it goes bad and starts to expand.
The only good part is that it had codes for a device that I got without the remote, so now I can decode them and hack up something else to send them from.
Also R&D is on Microsoft's side on this one with 85% of new feature requests were from features already there. After moving to the ribbon it went down to closer to 20%. It was a success.
So in other words, you think it's better because it panders to people who can't find their own ass because they were sitting on it? I'll stick with something that doesn't eat up 20% of my vertical screen space on a wide-screen laptop display.
Updates may also remove features, like certain codecs.
Sure, vinyl has problems, but nothing like cassette tape. The only thing worse is 8-track. First of all there's the normal noise floor. "B-b-b-but noise reduction!" You have to use good quality tape with better formulation to start with, and I think you still have to have some support for it in the player.
The biggest problem is the playback. Rubber belts, rubber drive wheels, all will go bad. Compact players with auto-stop will eventually reach a point where the stop detect will never turn off. I used a tape adapter for an MP3 player, just leaving it in play mode all the time, no reverse or rewind, and it went bad in a few years. And even if you had a player that was mechanically perfect, you would still be dealing with the crap that is the tape.
And then there's the duplication process. I bought my first and only pre-recorded tape back in the early '80s. It had a glitch in it, I took it back to the mall (remember malls? This mall eventually became Rackspace HQ otherwise it would have been bulldozed already) and got a replacement. The replacement had the same glitch in the same place, so it was obviously a problem with the master tape. Fuck that shit, CD was new then, and I just had to wait a few years for it to become affordable.
The only thing cassette tape had going for it was size, resistance to vibration, and being recordable. It did NOT have quality as an attribute, except under special circumstances that cost money and weren't portable. MP3 players (now mostly obsoleted by smart phones) have all three, plus you can get higher quality if you are willing to use more storage space.
So what the hell are hipsters smoking now?
Oh, you mean that shit on over the air broadcasts?
I think they mostly mean that shit with ink on paper that has constantly gotten narrower and thinner over the years, especially the ones who still haven't figured out how to replace the income they used to get from classified ads. The internet and even over-the-air broadcasts (including talk radio) are much faster than print editions. Who wants to pay a dollar a day for yesterday's news? I mean, other than old people who subscribe to a print newspaper because it comforts them to hold something physical.
Ten years ago, the online version of the local news had a comment section. The trolls took over, but as long as you didn't scroll down, you could stick to finding the news.
Speaking of comment sections, I noticed very quickly when Disqus (aka Disgust) removed the sub-thread collapse widget. All the kooks hang their crap off of the firstest posts they can find, so usually the first thing I would do was collapse the first post and keep hitting the more posts button until finally the next thread appeared. Now it's not even worth hitting the more posts button, because I'll have to wade through the worst of the crap.
I've known for a long time that Little Brother is the bigger problem.
This. I barely even use social media (I have an Apple ID that dates back to when it was used for developer accounts, and a Google account that hooks up an ancient YouTube account, everything else is on my own server), yet recently Google told me I had been at a place before. The only way it could have known was by constantly monitoring my GPS/location info. Fortunately, I leave my cell phone hard-off (so I won't have to recharge it later) most of the time, and rarely even take it when me when I leave home. I don't need for people to be able to contact me every moment of the day. Send me e-mail, I'll get around to it when I can.
Not that I care (the Wii was the most recent console I bought, and my eyes are no longer 4K compliant), but I would like to point out that this is the same Sony who pushed the PS3 as a premiere Blu-Ray player, and (to a lesser extent) the PS2 as a DVD player.
In fact, red peppers depend on birds passing the seeds through their digestive systems and dropping them in nice shady places under trees.
As I understand it, grass-fed is better for steak, grain-fed is better for slow-cooked barbecue. Better for the cow? Isn't not being eaten better for the cow?
A Western Electronics product is one of the few things I would not be sure that it could blend.
The best color for the WE2500 is red, harkening back to the cold war days, when red phones were used for direct communication lines to rival government leaders. How about a nice game of chess?
The 2011 Thoku tsunami
That's what you get for trying to be all fancy with Unicode, when using the original Japanese "ou" spelling works more than well enough. People who insist on using o-macron are just too smug for their own good.
Remember that the lowercase "at&t" we have now was originally one of the baby bells (Southwestern Bell), which slowly bought back all the other bits, except for one or two that are now Verizon (formerly GTE). The building that used to say "SBC Technology Resources Inc." when I worked there for a few months, then SBC Labs, now says AT&T Labs on its sign.
You can break up a magnet, but its bits eventually stick back to each other.
I guess that's just one more reason why The Orville is superior to STD.
Last night I was using the mbed online compiler, very much in The Zone, when it just stopped working. In my main browser it wouldn't even show the IDE screen, just a blank page. I tried other browsers, and even browsers on other computers that I had a remote screen connection for. All were broken, though some other browsers showed the IDE screen, which still wouldn't compile. It worked this morning, so it was obviously some sort of outage, but at least I knew it wasn't something that happened because of my web browser.
Yeah, I know, my big problem was depending on The Cloud for something. At least it was an excuse to make another attempt at getting the offline compiler working, but again I failed, apparently due to Python versions (and even a module that I had to download, but wasn't documented anywhere), and error messages where things were just left to throw exceptions without any explanation. Literally "it don't work" tier errors.
And that is when you find that all the marker pens in the room are dry, because the only other guy who doesn't use the projector is that mousy guy who doesn't put the caps back on tightly enough. Or someone put sharpie markers in instead of dry-erase markers.