I was luckier. In the late '80s when I got to high school my Mom got one of those Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedias you could get at the supermarket. It was great, I'd go to look up one thing and then two hours later would realize I was still at it, with various volumes strewn about.
Also, their depiction of human-made technology, particularly computers, is completely fantastical: their technology is simply too reliable, instead of being filled with all kinds of dumb UI errors, bugs, various systems that are incompatible with each other, etc.
I can refute this part in two words: 1. Transporters. 2. Holodecks.
I different people are different. I'm about halfway through a DS9 rewatch, and I haven't seen it at all since it originally aired. I loved it then and this time around it's as great as I remember. (And it's creepy how closely on target we are for the future predicted by the two-part episode "Past Tense", set in 2024.)
You make them sound like Muad'Dib, but all they did was write a song that includes the image of an anchor or mooring scarping the floor of the ocean and severing an undersea cable as a simile for spinal cord damage. That sort of thing happens from time to time.
"Gigabyte" is still the standard for the layperson. "More gigabytes" is better than "less gigabytes". If you ask the layperson what a terabyte is, they'll probably have no idea.
Perhaps, but some of us remember when Slashdot's readership could handle jargon more advanced than that you'd find on CNN.
"In Russia, mixed phage preparations may have a therapeutic efficacy of 50%. This equates to the complete cure of 50 of 100 patients with terminal antibiotic-resistant infection. The rate of only 50% is likely to be due to individual choices in admixtures and ineffective diagnosis of the causative agent of infection."
To quibble, appropriations come from Congress, not the president. Besides, in the U.S., there is more than one level of government. If the feds drop the ball, states are welcome to pick it up.
That's true, but even in coin form pre-1964 silver half-dollars, quarters, and dimes trade at just about the going price of the metal they contain. As the value of the dollar continues to fall, there's no reason people would treat copper coins differently.
I do this with pre-1982 pennies. I have many rolls of them now, I drop all the pennies I get in change into a jar and every once in a while sort them, roll up the copper ones, and bring the zinc ones to the bank to get counted and deposited. It's not like it's a retirement fund or anything, but it takes just a few minutes every few weeks and my kids help me which is fun, so I figure why not?
I was only there out of family obligation. When their leaders live in palaces and dress like and are treated like royalty, I can't imagine why even the faithful donate a red cent.
I fear the abandoned story line too much now, and I blame Robert Jordan. "Heroes", the TV show, was a similar letdown... I waited until "Lost" was finished, for fear of it falling into the same pit as "Heroes", and nearly did the same thing with "Battlestar Galactica".
BSG... so an ending is required, but it can be a stupid ending? (I loved, loved, loved the series, but the ending really blew.)
ugh... the Jordan series is fantastic in many ways and I'm very glad to see it completed -- I hope the finale lives up to the series -- but please noone ever do this again, or at least give good warning so that we can avoid going down the path until it's complete.
I know what you mean. I do wish that authors in mid-series would make it a point to put notes about the ending in a safe deposit box to ensure fans aren't left hanging should they die prematurely. I'm glad Frank Herbert left "Dune 7" notes behind, for example.
Out of curiosity, what field are you entering instead? My daughter's pretty disattentionated, so it's always useful to hear a report from the trenches.
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I still can't get over that Agent Smith and Elrond were in that movie.
They should call it Ms. Pong, and it should be essentially the same game, except the ball has a ribbon in its hair.
Perhaps this was a social engineering trick to get people like you all to publicly list all your extensions. ;-)
I was luckier. In the late '80s when I got to high school my Mom got one of those Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedias you could get at the supermarket. It was great, I'd go to look up one thing and then two hours later would realize I was still at it, with various volumes strewn about.
Well, true that might be, democratic elections are the only way to get the representative you deserve.
I wish that were true, but unfortunately elections are merely the way to get the representatives that the majority deserves.
Also, their depiction of human-made technology, particularly computers, is completely fantastical: their technology is simply too reliable, instead of being filled with all kinds of dumb UI errors, bugs, various systems that are incompatible with each other, etc.
I can refute this part in two words: 1. Transporters. 2. Holodecks.
In my house, it is known simply as "The Spoof".
I different people are different. I'm about halfway through a DS9 rewatch, and I haven't seen it at all since it originally aired. I loved it then and this time around it's as great as I remember. (And it's creepy how closely on target we are for the future predicted by the two-part episode "Past Tense", set in 2024.)
That might make it worth it.
While I think I share your outlook here, strictly speaking, by definition money is both a resource (medium of exchange) and a score (unit of account).
You make them sound like Muad'Dib, but all they did was write a song that includes the image of an anchor or mooring scarping the floor of the ocean and severing an undersea cable as a simile for spinal cord damage. That sort of thing happens from time to time.
"Gigabyte" is still the standard for the layperson. "More gigabytes" is better than "less gigabytes". If you ask the layperson what a terabyte is, they'll probably have no idea.
Perhaps, but some of us remember when Slashdot's readership could handle jargon more advanced than that you'd find on CNN.
In fairness, there are a number of eurocrats in Brussels, etc. who don't recognise this either.
"In Russia, mixed phage preparations may have a therapeutic efficacy of 50%. This equates to the complete cure of 50 of 100 patients with terminal antibiotic-resistant infection. The rate of only 50% is likely to be due to individual choices in admixtures and ineffective diagnosis of the causative agent of infection."
That is seriously amazing.
And, of course, they had seatbelts.
The original series Star Trek episode Balance of Terror had something similar.
To quibble, appropriations come from Congress, not the president. Besides, in the U.S., there is more than one level of government. If the feds drop the ball, states are welcome to pick it up.
Sadly, it's now illegal to melt them down.
That's true, but even in coin form pre-1964 silver half-dollars, quarters, and dimes trade at just about the going price of the metal they contain. As the value of the dollar continues to fall, there's no reason people would treat copper coins differently.
I do this with pre-1982 pennies. I have many rolls of them now, I drop all the pennies I get in change into a jar and every once in a while sort them, roll up the copper ones, and bring the zinc ones to the bank to get counted and deposited. It's not like it's a retirement fund or anything, but it takes just a few minutes every few weeks and my kids help me which is fun, so I figure why not?
you are yet another kool-aid drinker (Ghana style).
Do you, um, mean Guyana style?
I was only there out of family obligation. When their leaders live in palaces and dress like and are treated like royalty, I can't imagine why even the faithful donate a red cent.
I fear the abandoned story line too much now, and I blame Robert Jordan. "Heroes", the TV show, was a similar letdown... I waited until "Lost" was finished, for fear of it falling into the same pit as "Heroes", and nearly did the same thing with "Battlestar Galactica".
BSG... so an ending is required, but it can be a stupid ending? (I loved, loved, loved the series, but the ending really blew.)
ugh... the Jordan series is fantastic in many ways and I'm very glad to see it completed -- I hope the finale lives up to the series -- but please noone ever do this again, or at least give good warning so that we can avoid going down the path until it's complete.
I know what you mean. I do wish that authors in mid-series would make it a point to put notes about the ending in a safe deposit box to ensure fans aren't left hanging should they die prematurely. I'm glad Frank Herbert left "Dune 7" notes behind, for example.
Cool, thanks!
Out of curiosity, what field are you entering instead? My daughter's pretty disattentionated, so it's always useful to hear a report from the trenches.
Well, one or two people in the crowd, but even at that I agree that was still a WTF?! moment.