Of course it doesn't answer the fact why a stupidly young kirk is sat in the big chair...
Unless maybe Pike is there as an instructor? That could be quite interesting but then Christopher Pike wasn't exactly old in TOS...
I'm not being funny but I can see this film going the way of Star Wars I-III...
It's going to throw the whole timeline right out of whack. Then again Enterprise saw to that quite nicely as well... And that came resplendant with it's "And it was all just a dream" Dallas-style finale!
Yeah but it's not unlocked or sim free is it? It's locked to O2 (Uk). It'd (probably) be worth it if it was sim-free but £399 for a different sim card... I dunno about that.
I'd like to think that now iPhone has gone to PAYG it might follow that trend and get cheaper.
They'll probably drop the price to celebrate the release of Duke Nukem Forever...
I'm not going to pay for the iPhone beacuse of the restrictive OS.
Severely restricted bluetooth, poor / absent MMS capability... Both blackmarks for me.
If I parted with that amount of money safe in the knowledge that an open source, extensible OS would slot in there quite nicely and not be subject to Apple's "you're not playing with that" mentality toward 3rd party apps, I'd be much happier about it.
It's not the hardware I dislike, it's the ball and chain operating system.
So it's not a complete impossibility. That's good. I'll just have to wait! I'm nowhere near smart enough to even consider writing anything for it.
That and my knowledge of cellular devices equates to "use of" and that's it.
I'm just wondering if they're taking the "Open in that you have a choice of our handsets" a la symbian, or whether I'm going to be able to put it on the nyx in the fullness of time.
Failing that, I'll just have to wait for the G1 to be available in the UK:( Roll on 2010!
I can forgive HTC for allowing a "less polished" feel in return for not having to pay the enormous mark-up present on Apple's iPhone.
I eagerly anticipate the post in the near future of "Android hacked onto iPhone chassis".
Now that might make the iPhone worth the extorsionate price they're charging for it!
Im still slightly in the gray about the open-ness of the android platform. Everywhere I've looked has said that Android is open but the official website under "Will Android work on [insert phone here]" Only gives the SDK emulator rather than an HCL.
Can anyone shed some light on whether it will only run on specifically designed hardware or if it is "open" in the sense they lead me to believe. I may have got the wrong end of the stick but I hope not, I have an LG Nyx I was looking forward to androiding...
Disclaimer: I think Britain is royally fucked anyway.
I'm inclined to agree on that front. What with our so-called credit crunch at the moment the government is pouring how much money into contravention of privacy rights rather than digging us out of this huge economic crash?
Taxes are going to go through the roof due to the bail-out and nationalisation schemes coupled with the Icelandic crash. They seem to have a lot of money they don't know what to do with.
How about instead of spying on your own people you dig us out of this downward economic spiral?
Oh yeah. Sorry. I forgot logic and politics aren't compatible.
They keep going like this and they'll go the way of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation and be the first against the wall when the revolution comes!
Yup. Some mods are getting a little happy with the -1's methinks.
Personal experience here: I see no problem with slamming someone that is blatantly trying to troll as that kind of behaviour has no place here but then I get modded down as a troll. What's the deal?
If someone is being blatanly racist and off-topic I find it offensive that it gets modded "Insightful"
Its this kind of behaviour that makes people stop paying attention to the karma.
Not consumers really but I suspect corporate customers will be a bit more willing to take the open source plunge once M$ axes XP support and businesses are left with Vista (M$ has pretty much admitted is no good by replacing it so quickly) and Windows 7 (A new, untested platform that will undoubtedly be plagued by all the incompatibilities that comes inherent with a new OS).
Don't get me wrong, I'd love M$ to make a massive turnaround but I think that'll be a long wait for a train don't come.
And I suspect a lot of people will indeed overlook windows obvious flaws in favour of the familiarity of the start button...
I have to admit that is true. I don't presume to say that it won't sell a single copy because it obviously will but even my dad (12 o'clock flasher) has lost faith in M$ and even asked me to install Ubuntu for him.
Astoundingly Windows continues to have a market presence especially among gamers but that, in my opinion, is due to legal / licencing issues, not because windows is a superior gaming platform.
I know windows will sell just, like you said, not to you and I:D
I'm a mac user but I don't think Snow Leopard will be met with much enthusiasm either to be honest. Anyone with an iota of sense knows that a stabilising update is a fantastic idea and will get it but most users will only see the line "no new features" and will instantly dismiss it as "paying for what they already have".
I think the latest releases of the various OSes are going to met with a resounding "Meh" by the general populous.
Just my opinion though. Personally I can't wait for Snow Leopard:D
Using my amazing powers of clairvoyance I will predict the slashdot headlines for the future...
1. Windows 7 Released - 9 months late. 2. Windows 7 Security Enhancements. 3. Windows 7 Security circumvented already. 4. Massive corporate drive toward Open Source OSes in light of MSW7 massive failure to do anything!
Unzipping would take ages, Then it'll be "Do you want me baby? [Yes][No][Cancel]"
Windows is opening it's mouth [Allow][Deny] Windows is attempting to access penis [Allow][Deny] Detecting New Hardware [2 hour wait] Disappointing blowjob with crap animation. Windows has detected you're attempting to ejaculate - You do not have sufficient permissions - Fatal Error
Slashdot Mirror
Worth a quick giggle though.
Hadn't considered that!
If that is indeed the case then it makes perfect sense.
Thanks, I forgot about that!
I stand corrected.
Of course it doesn't answer the fact why a stupidly young kirk is sat in the big chair...
Unless maybe Pike is there as an instructor?
That could be quite interesting but then Christopher Pike wasn't exactly old in TOS...
I'm not being funny but I can see this film going the way of Star Wars I-III...
It's going to throw the whole timeline right out of whack. Then again Enterprise saw to that quite nicely as well... And that came resplendant with it's "And it was all just a dream" Dallas-style finale!
shit. I spelt canon wrong :(
*Hangs head in shame*
Talking of April...
Wasn't Robert April captain of the Enterprise before Kirk?
Hell, Robert April came before Pike...
Or is this another Hollywood example of Continuity Be Damned...
I suspect a lot of people are going to non-cannon this.
It's like Kirk and Spock: The Frat Years
oh bugger :(
Still... I think Android has more chance of having that rectified than iPhone...
It's bloody annoying, I can't RTFA because work has blocked it so I'm flying blind here for a few hours.
Bloody control freaks :D
Yeah but it's not unlocked or sim free is it?
It's locked to O2 (Uk). It'd (probably) be worth it if it was sim-free but £399 for a different sim card... I dunno about that.
I'd like to think that now iPhone has gone to PAYG it might follow that trend and get cheaper.
They'll probably drop the price to celebrate the release of Duke Nukem Forever...
I'll rephrase.
I'm not going to pay for the iPhone beacuse of the restrictive OS.
Severely restricted bluetooth, poor / absent MMS capability... Both blackmarks for me.
If I parted with that amount of money safe in the knowledge that an open source, extensible OS would slot in there quite nicely and not be subject to Apple's "you're not playing with that" mentality toward 3rd party apps, I'd be much happier about it.
It's not the hardware I dislike, it's the ball and chain operating system.
So it's not a complete impossibility. That's good. I'll just have to wait! I'm nowhere near smart enough to even consider writing anything for it.
That and my knowledge of cellular devices equates to "use of" and that's it.
I'm just wondering if they're taking the "Open in that you have a choice of our handsets" a la symbian, or whether I'm going to be able to put it on the nyx in the fullness of time.
Failing that, I'll just have to wait for the G1 to be available in the UK :( Roll on 2010!
I can forgive HTC for allowing a "less polished" feel in return for not having to pay the enormous mark-up present on Apple's iPhone.
I eagerly anticipate the post in the near future of "Android hacked onto iPhone chassis".
Now that might make the iPhone worth the extorsionate price they're charging for it!
Im still slightly in the gray about the open-ness of the android platform. Everywhere I've looked has said that Android is open but the official website under "Will Android work on [insert phone here]" Only gives the SDK emulator rather than an HCL.
Can anyone shed some light on whether it will only run on specifically designed hardware or if it is "open" in the sense they lead me to believe.
I may have got the wrong end of the stick but I hope not, I have an LG Nyx I was looking forward to androiding...
Of course I'm a pompous ass - I'm British.
You're quick enough to jump up and tell me I'm in the wrong Anonymous Coward ...
Who the fuck are you to decide what behavior is acceptable on Slashdot?
and then go and do the exact same thing telling me where to get off...
Also anyone is entitled to decide "what behaviour is acceptable on slashdot". That's what modpoints are for.
Of course, I say anyone. I mean anyone that hasn't been modded down by a racist cunt like yourself Anonymous Coward .
Thank you for your constructive criticism Anonymous Coward.
Oh and for the record racism has no place anywhere.
This is, of course, purely my opinion which seems to have no place here among the "intellectual" community.
I didnt think its was Faster and Cheaper.
I was taught that what you get for a set amount of money will double every 18 months.
Moore's Law isn't it?
CBA to look it up. I'm supposed to be working :D
compels someone served under the act to divulge an encryption key used to scramble data on a PC's hard drive
I think I see a way out of this lads!
I'm predicting ebay's traffic of pre-intel macs is about to take a massive leap!
Disclaimer: I think Britain is royally fucked anyway.
I'm inclined to agree on that front.
What with our so-called credit crunch at the moment the government is pouring how much money into contravention of privacy rights rather than digging us out of this huge economic crash?
Taxes are going to go through the roof due to the bail-out and nationalisation schemes coupled with the Icelandic crash. They seem to have a lot of money they don't know what to do with.
How about instead of spying on your own people you dig us out of this downward economic spiral?
Oh yeah. Sorry. I forgot logic and politics aren't compatible.
They keep going like this and they'll go the way of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation and be the first against the wall when the revolution comes!
Yup.
Some mods are getting a little happy with the -1's methinks.
Personal experience here: I see no problem with slamming someone that is blatantly trying to troll as that kind of behaviour has no place here but then I get modded down as a troll. What's the deal?
If someone is being blatanly racist and off-topic I find it offensive that it gets modded "Insightful"
Its this kind of behaviour that makes people stop paying attention to the karma.
I'll probably get slammed for this but in my opinion anyone that can mod http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=994523&cid=25366727 as Insightful isn't worth shit.
Thankfully it's been changed by someone with an ounce of moral fibre but it deeply disturbs me that there are people with this mentality.
Not consumers really but I suspect corporate customers will be a bit more willing to take the open source plunge once M$ axes XP support and businesses are left with Vista (M$ has pretty much admitted is no good by replacing it so quickly) and Windows 7 (A new, untested platform that will undoubtedly be plagued by all the incompatibilities that comes inherent with a new OS).
Don't get me wrong, I'd love M$ to make a massive turnaround but I think that'll be a long wait for a train don't come.
And I suspect a lot of people will indeed overlook windows obvious flaws in favour of the familiarity of the start button...
Shame really.
WHAT THE HELL?
How the hell is that trolling?
Must've got modded by the OP...
I have to admit that is true. I don't presume to say that it won't sell a single copy because it obviously will but even my dad (12 o'clock flasher) has lost faith in M$ and even asked me to install Ubuntu for him.
Astoundingly Windows continues to have a market presence especially among gamers but that, in my opinion, is due to legal / licencing issues, not because windows is a superior gaming platform.
I know windows will sell just, like you said, not to you and I :D
I'm a mac user but I don't think Snow Leopard will be met with much enthusiasm either to be honest.
Anyone with an iota of sense knows that a stabilising update is a fantastic idea and will get it but most users will only see the line "no new features" and will instantly dismiss it as "paying for what they already have".
I think the latest releases of the various OSes are going to met with a resounding "Meh" by the general populous.
Just my opinion though. Personally I can't wait for Snow Leopard :D
Using my amazing powers of clairvoyance I will predict the slashdot headlines for the future...
1. Windows 7 Released - 9 months late.
2. Windows 7 Security Enhancements.
3. Windows 7 Security circumvented already.
4. Massive corporate drive toward Open Source OSes in light of MSW7 massive failure to do anything!
You kidding? Window's doesn't do meaningful! Long, but not meaningful!
More like tofu and a kick in the fork!
And the ache in your groin is only surpassed by the numbing realisation that you paid $500 for it!
Unless you have a site licence in which case you can get a free kick in the balls whenever you want...
oh wait...
Amen to that!
Jeri Ryan in a tight os-tan style costume...
I'd buy it!
Yeah but it'd be a disappointing experience.
Unzipping would take ages, Then it'll be
"Do you want me baby? [Yes][No][Cancel]"
Windows is opening it's mouth [Allow][Deny]
Windows is attempting to access penis [Allow][Deny]
Detecting New Hardware [2 hour wait]
Disappointing blowjob with crap animation.
Windows has detected you're attempting to ejaculate - You do not have sufficient permissions - Fatal Error
BSOD! No steak for you!
I think M$ saw the whole 666 thing coming.
I don't blame them for picking them a different name!
And quite frankly they can call it whatever they like - no one is going to trust it straight up after the fiasco of Vista.
You can call it Microsoft Windows Affordable-Beautiful-And-Absolutely-Fucking-Bombproof. Noone will buy it!
Offtopic, Flamebait, Troll...
Maybe.
But Insightful?
It'd be insightful if it wasn't copypasta.
That sounds like the sort of code an idiot would have on his luggage!