I hope Obama holds up to his $2 billion offer. I know there are other problems facing the USA but space exploration is not something we should ever stop.
Not only that, wide screen is just more natural. Our natural vision is wide screen. I still dont understand why the original TVs were square unless it had to do with technological limitations.
>>>The Original Series bridge looked like something strait out of the 70's...
That's amazing considering it was made in 1965. Huh. Maybe Gene had a time travel device that let him peak into the disco era and copy it./end sarcasm. THIS new movie ship will look like it was made somewhere around... 2010. And it will look very aged come 2020 or 2030.
Ok, maybe I should turn in my geek card, I thought Star Trek was early 70's. Anything from 1960-1980 basicaly looks the same to me.
And yes, it will look aged come 2020 and that was the point I was trying to make.
I have to submit a counter example. My parents bought me a Aircraft Carrier set from Mega Blocks years ago. It had over 1000 pieces. It went together like a champ and to this day I can pick it up and carry it with one hand on each end (it is almost 2ft long). It does feel lighter then I would think a similar model made from Legos would but it was a) cheap and b) took me a good 2 or 3 days to put it together.
I think you were being funny however you were sorta correct. All the Enterprise ships had the ability to separate the saucer section and land on a planet, however I believe it was not until the Galaxy class that the saucer section had enough power to take off again (that did not work in Generations because the ship crash landed due to damage).
Actually there were 2 more movies. Nemesis was Star Trek 10, so this new movie will in fact be a odd-numbered film. For anyone wondering why that was a question, even-numbered films appear to be liked by the Fans and do better at the box office.
Well there is also Star Trek Online that is in development. Apperently all they have to do to get that game out is create content and beta test it (they already had a engine ready to go before they got the license). It may be rushed but I think the perfect time to release a new MMO is when a movie with the same name is released.
I'm not saying they will, I have no clue how much dev work needs to be done but it is a possibility.
I liked them all to, DS9 and the last 3 seasons of TNG more then everything else.
It is only natural for the bridge and ship designs to look more futuristic no matter where they are in the cannon because our ideas about what looks futuristic change. It's the general idea and themes of Star Trek that make Star Trek what it is, not the layout of the bridge.
The Original Series bridge looked like something strait out of the 70's, not sci-fi at all. It was just a bunch of shiny buttons that you have no clue what the purpose was.
In the Next Generation the computers actually looked like computers that could function with the user knowing what they were doing. There is actually a LCARS Standards Development Board (however the site Wikipedia links to is off line). Heck, there is a trending and monitoring program we use at my work that has a LCARS style interface.
Personally, the bridge and ship should be updated for every series because our view of what is futuristic changes every 5 years or less. Thats why you go from having monitors in large cases on Voyager and DS9 to having flat screen monitors everywhere in Enterprise, because when DS9 and Voyager were in production LCD monitors were some fancy new toy that were very expensive but when Enterprise came out everyone had LCD monitors. It is just natural for the bridge design look more high-tech no matter where it falls in cannon.
*Tinfoil_Hat_on* That is exactly the reason LSD and mushrooms were outlawed. If everyone realizes this and opens their mind then they would no longer bicker about petty things. There would be no more war, no more self indulgence. If war and constant purchasing of things that people have no need to purchase stops then how will the politicians and corporate fat-cats make all their money and continue to repress the masses. If everyone started to realize things like this *they* would no longer be able to control people and have power. It is *their* fear of what we the masses could do with this new power.
I'v said it before and I'll say it again, DRM DOES NOT justify 1-star reviews. You review a game biased on it's ability to entertain. If the game sucks then say "this game sucks because of graphics/gameplay/story. oh and it has DRM"
I'm to the point that I would like to EMP all of my electronics. However, my job requires me to be on a computer all day and even without useable ones at home I dont think I could resist getting another one.
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your news letter. Seriously.
I understand what your saying but just like writing a term paper in college, the first paragraph is always the hardest. Frankly I'm dead tired when I get home from work and barely have the mental power to play WoW, let alone throw myself into stressful social situations. I just look around at everyone I have ever known and none of them seem like they ever had a proublem with people, like I missed some critical step in my social development (it could be that I went to school with the same people for 1st to 8th grade, a class of maybe 30).
I try, I really do. Every Friday my local paper has a list of events going on within 50 miles of me and I look for ones that are interesting. However, the fact that I live in Mayonnaise-on-white-bread-Utah means most of the events are religion focused.
Thanks, I'll keep what you said in mind. However, I base all future predictions on past events and if moving half way across the USA did not change anything, it's hard to see anything changing now.
Then they could make the excuse that the contracts are a matter of economic security and if your economy turns to crap then so will your national security.
Call be paranoid, but something about the government providing free high quality drugs is a scary first step to "opiates for the masses".
My first thought was "Brave New World", and then "Equilibrium".
And what is the problem with that? If there was a pill that I could take that would make me feel happy with this boring and unrewarding life then I would be the first one in line.
How many people do we know ho complain every day about their LACK OF A SOCIAL LIFE, but DO NOTHING ABOUT IT? You suggest they go volunteer at verious places, and they go "that won't owrk!" You tell them to stop spending their free time at home on the stupid internet, but they say "that's all I have." You invite them to a party, and they say "I don't want to go" or "I'm too busy" - doing what? Sitting at home doing sweet-fra- all
True, but when you go volunteer or go to a party and you get there and feel completely out of place and have nothing to talk about you end up feeling worst then you did before you go there. This happens to me EVERY TIME. I feel out of place and alone because I dont go out socially much and I dont go out socially much because I feel out of place and alone when I do.
It goes back to "I need experience to get a job but to get experience I need to have had a job."
It's just a fucking feedback loop that I have not been able to escape ever since I realized I was stuck in it 6 years ago and frankly I dont see an escape EVER.
Yes, they still work in the exact same way. The biggest problem I had with their services was the fact you have no clue what the other person looks like before you call them. I like to have a image in my mind of what they look like, also it prevents my expectations from getting to high before I meet them.
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I hope Obama holds up to his $2 billion offer. I know there are other problems facing the USA but space exploration is not something we should ever stop.
Not only that, wide screen is just more natural. Our natural vision is wide screen. I still dont understand why the original TVs were square unless it had to do with technological limitations.
Apparently I did not, care to elaborate.
>>>The Original Series bridge looked like something strait out of the 70's...
That's amazing considering it was made in 1965. Huh. Maybe Gene had a time travel device that let him peak into the disco era and copy it. /end sarcasm. THIS new movie ship will look like it was made somewhere around... 2010. And it will look very aged come 2020 or 2030.
Ok, maybe I should turn in my geek card, I thought Star Trek was early 70's. Anything from 1960-1980 basicaly looks the same to me.
And yes, it will look aged come 2020 and that was the point I was trying to make.
A self-indulgent druggie is the drug version of a alcoholic or fat person. The possibility of self-indulgence is no excuse for banning something.
That's really cool. I kinda want to get the new generation now. My old Mindstorms brick became a brick a few years ago.
I have to submit a counter example. My parents bought me a Aircraft Carrier set from Mega Blocks years ago. It had over 1000 pieces. It went together like a champ and to this day I can pick it up and carry it with one hand on each end (it is almost 2ft long). It does feel lighter then I would think a similar model made from Legos would but it was a) cheap and b) took me a good 2 or 3 days to put it together.
I found it on amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Mega-Bloks-Pro-Builders-Nimitz/dp/B0006H60HO
I think you were being funny however you were sorta correct. All the Enterprise ships had the ability to separate the saucer section and land on a planet, however I believe it was not until the Galaxy class that the saucer section had enough power to take off again (that did not work in Generations because the ship crash landed due to damage).
Actually there were 2 more movies. Nemesis was Star Trek 10, so this new movie will in fact be a odd-numbered film. For anyone wondering why that was a question, even-numbered films appear to be liked by the Fans and do better at the box office.
Well there is also Star Trek Online that is in development. Apperently all they have to do to get that game out is create content and beta test it (they already had a engine ready to go before they got the license). It may be rushed but I think the perfect time to release a new MMO is when a movie with the same name is released.
I'm not saying they will, I have no clue how much dev work needs to be done but it is a possibility.
I liked them all to, DS9 and the last 3 seasons of TNG more then everything else.
It is only natural for the bridge and ship designs to look more futuristic no matter where they are in the cannon because our ideas about what looks futuristic change. It's the general idea and themes of Star Trek that make Star Trek what it is, not the layout of the bridge.
The Original Series bridge looked like something strait out of the 70's, not sci-fi at all. It was just a bunch of shiny buttons that you have no clue what the purpose was.
In the Next Generation the computers actually looked like computers that could function with the user knowing what they were doing. There is actually a LCARS Standards Development Board (however the site Wikipedia links to is off line). Heck, there is a trending and monitoring program we use at my work that has a LCARS style interface.
Personally, the bridge and ship should be updated for every series because our view of what is futuristic changes every 5 years or less. Thats why you go from having monitors in large cases on Voyager and DS9 to having flat screen monitors everywhere in Enterprise, because when DS9 and Voyager were in production LCD monitors were some fancy new toy that were very expensive but when Enterprise came out everyone had LCD monitors. It is just natural for the bridge design look more high-tech no matter where it falls in cannon.
*Tinfoil_Hat_on*
That is exactly the reason LSD and mushrooms were outlawed. If everyone realizes this and opens their mind then they would no longer bicker about petty things. There would be no more war, no more self indulgence. If war and constant purchasing of things that people have no need to purchase stops then how will the politicians and corporate fat-cats make all their money and continue to repress the masses.
If everyone started to realize things like this *they* would no longer be able to control people and have power. It is *their* fear of what we the masses could do with this new power.
*Tinfoil_Hat_off*
I'v said it before and I'll say it again, DRM DOES NOT justify 1-star reviews. You review a game biased on it's ability to entertain. If the game sucks then say "this game sucks because of graphics/gameplay/story. oh and it has DRM"
I'm to the point that I would like to EMP all of my electronics. However, my job requires me to be on a computer all day and even without useable ones at home I dont think I could resist getting another one.
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your news letter. Seriously.
I understand what your saying but just like writing a term paper in college, the first paragraph is always the hardest. Frankly I'm dead tired when I get home from work and barely have the mental power to play WoW, let alone throw myself into stressful social situations. I just look around at everyone I have ever known and none of them seem like they ever had a proublem with people, like I missed some critical step in my social development (it could be that I went to school with the same people for 1st to 8th grade, a class of maybe 30).
I try, I really do. Every Friday my local paper has a list of events going on within 50 miles of me and I look for ones that are interesting. However, the fact that I live in Mayonnaise-on-white-bread-Utah means most of the events are religion focused.
Thanks, I'll keep what you said in mind. However, I base all future predictions on past events and if moving half way across the USA did not change anything, it's hard to see anything changing now.
Good advice, however I already have a full time job as an engineer (aka cubical rat).
Then they could make the excuse that the contracts are a matter of economic security and if your economy turns to crap then so will your national security.
Call be paranoid, but something about the government providing free high quality drugs is a scary first step to "opiates for the masses".
My first thought was "Brave New World", and then "Equilibrium".
And what is the problem with that? If there was a pill that I could take that would make me feel happy with this boring and unrewarding life then I would be the first one in line.
Dam I wish I had mod points today. +1 Interesting
I'll see your 6 and raise you two 8s.
You just described my life.
How many people do we know ho complain every day about their LACK OF A SOCIAL LIFE, but DO NOTHING ABOUT IT? You suggest they go volunteer at verious places, and they go "that won't owrk!" You tell them to stop spending their free time at home on the stupid internet, but they say "that's all I have." You invite them to a party, and they say "I don't want to go" or "I'm too busy" - doing what? Sitting at home doing sweet-fra- all
True, but when you go volunteer or go to a party and you get there and feel completely out of place and have nothing to talk about you end up feeling worst then you did before you go there. This happens to me EVERY TIME. I feel out of place and alone because I dont go out socially much and I dont go out socially much because I feel out of place and alone when I do.
It goes back to "I need experience to get a job but to get experience I need to have had a job."
It's just a fucking feedback loop that I have not been able to escape ever since I realized I was stuck in it 6 years ago and frankly I dont see an escape EVER.
It does not matter if they are on "the heavy side" but I think they still need to be attractive.
The old saying goes, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" but you need to be able to see the person before you can make a judgment.
Yes, they still work in the exact same way. The biggest problem I had with their services was the fact you have no clue what the other person looks like before you call them. I like to have a image in my mind of what they look like, also it prevents my expectations from getting to high before I meet them.