My assumption was that the destruction of so many ships created a situation where battlefield promotions of young officers who had proven themselves would be possible.
Still, I agree that it would have been more likely that Kirk would have been promoted but not given command of a starship immediately. But hey, a little dramatic license is okay with me.
Yes, he's definitely in the new movie. Saw a sneak preview a few weeks ago. To say anything more on the subject would be a spoiler.
BTW, I liked it, and was a big fan of the series, but it still was a bit of a letdown. One of the joys of the series was the way that Whedon was able to let some of the plot lines develop slowly. In the movie, it ends up feeling rushed by comparison.
Also worth remembering that there are already different versions of the tale - the differences between the radio play scripts and the novel are fairly significant.
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"Simplified routing tables through Route Sggregation"
oops! I meant "Route Aggregation" - apologies, I seem to have a caffeine deficiency in my diet this morning.
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There is more ignorant speculation on this IPv6 discussion thread than I've seen in a long time. It seems like everybody is just saying "well, if the IPv6 addresses are 128 bits, then that would mean . . . " Stop speculating and start reading up on the subject.
IPv6 addresses some real specific needs beyond just giving us more addresses:
Simplified routing tables through Route Sggregation
An nobody here seems to even be talking about how the addressing scheme actually works (the 3 address types (Local Link, Site Local, and Aggregatable Global addresses) for example), how MAC addresses are actually used, or how the option for anonymous addressing (which isn't perfect, but does exist) can partially address some of the privacy concerns.
Yes, some companies want you to treat it like a family business when they want you to do something but then treat you like an employee when they want something.
JWW sums up the central problem perfectly - there was no way to come up with a "correct" solution - by the time the courts were involved, the damage was done. Whoever won the court battle was going to have their legitimacy questioned.
The kind of election problems that happened in Florida happen all the time - elections, especially ones with national significance, just haven't been close enough for it to matter.
On the subject of the popular vs. electoral vote, the Electoral College is doing exactly what it's designed to do - prevent the largest and most populous states from dominating the rest of the country. When they were writing the constitution, it was Pennsylvania and New York vs. Rhode Island, today it would be California, New York, Texas, and Florida vs everybody else.
The poster is taking that quote a little bit out of context. All Ballmer is really saying is that they are spending a lot of money on advertising. Assuming that you will see ads anyway, there is nothing wrong with him saying "I want to make sure (a user) can't get through... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad." If you were to substitute Linux for Microsoft in that quote, would anybody here really object (unless they object to all advertising on principle)?
You take the facts, come up with a working theory that fits the facts. As more facts come in, you continue to test your theory against the facts. When too many anomolies show up, it's time to come up with a new theory.
And there is nothing wrong with that. Is Newtonian physics worthless just because it couldn't explain everything? No, but we had to be willing to look for new answers when we began to see evidence that the old answers didn't work for everything we observe. It's called a paradigm shift.
Agreed - the posting was way over the top for something that is old news. If you own a Tivo and didn't know this was taking place, then you haven't been paying attention.
Now, if a story comes out that they are making my specific viewing habits to anyone, then that would be news.
28 Days Later may be the best horror movie that I've seen since the original alien. An amazing amount of tension - but what really got me was that it didn't rely on special effects. From an effects perspective, you could have made the same movie in 1970.
Watch this movie and realize that you can do sci-fi and horror without relying on the crutch of CGI effects.
I'm surprised more discussion hasn't concerned the differences between the allegories of the old show and the new one.
The original came from writers who were mixing the experiences of WWII (pre-war II pacifism, Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust) with Cold War fears about preparedness and the threat of an "evil empire." (the cylons served much the same purpose as the original Klingons in the original Star Trek - stand-ins for the Communist threat)
The new series has a completely different set of themes - civilian authority over the military, over-reliance on technology, etc.
For me, it works. The writers were smart enough to use the old show as a launching point with dealing with contemporary issues.
"It depends on the format, but they could be searchable. Ever have a book where you want to find the exact wording of a quote, or want to look up something in a book that has a crummy index? Just search. Also convienience; if I had a good reader (very clear screen) I'd much rather carry that around than a couple 1000-page textbooks."
Project Gutenberg provides a lot of out-of-copyright texts for free, and is a great resource for the student doing the kind of research that you are talking about. If I was doing a term paper on Hamlet, having the etext available would be very valuable. However, if I'm reading Hamlet for the first time (or simply for enjoyment's sake) I'd rather have a paper copy, and that's not likely to change anytime soon. For many of us, reading is one of the ways that we unhook.
I still find Usenet extremely useful, but if you want to avoid being overwhelmed by the garbage you have to take advantage of the filtering features provided by your newsreader. Marking threads as "ignored," creating a "bozo file," etc.
>> The whole economic system the show portrayed just didn't make sense (e.g. paying for an interstellar trip by hauling some cattle around). >Ever stop to think how much those ships that haul bananas around cost to acquire and operate?
I assumed that genetic diversity might justify moving a herd of cattle to a new planet. Think of it like importing horses to the new world or new world crops to Ireland.
>>With digital projection, why not rent out a movie theater for a super bowl party?
>because among other things, it'd be illegal.
I agree that's an issue - but I think its possible that the NFL and other sports leagues would be interested in creating special licensing terms in the same way that they currently do for bars and restaurants (I don't recall the exact terms, but I believe the cost of televising an event in a bar or restaurant was tied to seating capacity).
The exciting aspect of digital video in movie theaters (regardless of whether the underlying technology is MS or not) is the flexibility that becomes available.
With digital projection, why not rent out a movie theater for a super bowl party? maybe we'll start seeing Monday night independent film festivals in suburban theaters? In theory, digital projection could open up all kinds of new possibilities for the theater industry.
seriously now, ppl. is M$ software reliable enough to such operation ?
Given a static, known platform, I'll bet they can make it reliable. One of the biggest challenges for operating sytem reliability is that in the typical PC or server, the OS vendor has to try and make allowances for combinations of hardware and software that they have never even thought of. In this scenario, as long as the boxes are dedicated for the purpose of displaying digital video I'm sure they can figure out how to overcome any bugs that come up.
Having said that, it would be nice to see Red Hat or one of the other Linux distributions try to compete in this space. Certainly Linux does well in these sort of dedicated applications (e.g. Tivo).
What sales company doesn't like the idea of permanent commercials on a DVD?
Lots of companies won't like this - many commercials are time sensitive and meant to be a part of a larger ad campain. Some companies (Coca-Cola, Nike, etc) might be interested in building long-term brand awareness, but for most this is a losing proposition, especially if people FF over the commercials on the DVD.
"The AutoCAD and 3D Studio and Photoshop apps the parent poster mentioned *are* dying for more RAM. I have 3D models that are pushing that 2GB limit."
Then buy an Itanium workstation or wait for Opteron. The point here isn't that nobody needs 64-bit, but that the majority of users don't need it yet. I know plenty of folks who use photo shop who never get anywhere near the 2Gb limit.
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My assumption was that the destruction of so many ships created a situation where battlefield promotions of young officers who had proven themselves would be possible.
It's not without precedent in US military history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galusha_Pennypacker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_commission
Still, I agree that it would have been more likely that Kirk would have been promoted but not given command of a starship immediately. But hey, a little dramatic license is okay with me.
Yes, he's definitely in the new movie. Saw a sneak preview a few weeks ago. To say anything more on the subject would be a spoiler.
BTW, I liked it, and was a big fan of the series, but it still was a bit of a letdown. One of the joys of the series was the way that Whedon was able to let some of the plot lines develop slowly. In the movie, it ends up feeling rushed by comparison.
This would be great for traveling, except that most of the cyber cafes in Europe don't allow you to use their USB ports.
Also worth remembering that there are already different versions of the tale - the differences between the radio play scripts and the novel are fairly significant.
"Simplified routing tables through Route Sggregation"
oops! I meant "Route Aggregation" - apologies, I seem to have a caffeine deficiency in my diet this morning.
IPv6 addresses some real specific needs beyond just giving us more addresses:
An nobody here seems to even be talking about how the addressing scheme actually works (the 3 address types (Local Link, Site Local, and Aggregatable Global addresses) for example), how MAC addresses are actually used, or how the option for anonymous addressing (which isn't perfect, but does exist) can partially address some of the privacy concerns.
Come on, folks - let google be your friend!
Yes, some companies want you to treat it like a family business when they want you to do something but then treat you like an employee when they want something.
I'd rather use Cygwin's ssh client than putty - plus cygwin can give you an ssh server for your Windows machine as well.
JWW sums up the central problem perfectly - there was no way to come up with a "correct" solution - by the time the courts were involved, the damage was done. Whoever won the court battle was going to have their legitimacy questioned.
The kind of election problems that happened in Florida happen all the time - elections, especially ones with national significance, just haven't been close enough for it to matter.
On the subject of the popular vs. electoral vote, the Electoral College is doing exactly what it's designed to do - prevent the largest and most populous states from dominating the rest of the country. When they were writing the constitution, it was Pennsylvania and New York vs. Rhode Island, today it would be California, New York, Texas, and Florida vs everybody else.
The poster is taking that quote a little bit out of context. All Ballmer is really saying is that they are spending a lot of money on advertising. Assuming that you will see ads anyway, there is nothing wrong with him saying "I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad." If you were to substitute Linux for Microsoft in that quote, would anybody here really object (unless they object to all advertising on principle)?
You take the facts, come up with a working theory that fits the facts. As more facts come in, you continue to test your theory against the facts. When too many anomolies show up, it's time to come up with a new theory.
And there is nothing wrong with that. Is Newtonian physics worthless just because it couldn't explain everything? No, but we had to be willing to look for new answers when we began to see evidence that the old answers didn't work for everything we observe. It's called a paradigm shift.
Check out Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Agreed - the posting was way over the top for something that is old news. If you own a Tivo and didn't know this was taking place, then you haven't been paying attention.
Now, if a story comes out that they are making my specific viewing habits to anyone, then that would be news.
28 Days Later may be the best horror movie that I've seen since the original alien. An amazing amount of tension - but what really got me was that it didn't rely on special effects. From an effects perspective, you could have made the same movie in 1970.
Watch this movie and realize that you can do sci-fi and horror without relying on the crutch of CGI effects.
I'm surprised more discussion hasn't concerned the differences between the allegories of the old show and the new one.
The original came from writers who were mixing the experiences of WWII (pre-war II pacifism, Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust) with Cold War fears about preparedness and the threat of an "evil empire." (the cylons served much the same purpose as the original Klingons in the original Star Trek - stand-ins for the Communist threat)
The new series has a completely different set of themes - civilian authority over the military, over-reliance on technology, etc.
For me, it works. The writers were smart enough to use the old show as a launching point with dealing with contemporary issues.
"It depends on the format, but they could be searchable. Ever have a book where you want to find the exact wording of a quote, or want to look up something in a book that has a crummy index? Just search. Also convienience; if I had a good reader (very clear screen) I'd much rather carry that around than a couple 1000-page textbooks."
Project Gutenberg provides a lot of out-of-copyright texts for free, and is a great resource for the student doing the kind of research that you are talking about. If I was doing a term paper on Hamlet, having the etext available would be very valuable. However, if I'm reading Hamlet for the first time (or simply for enjoyment's sake) I'd rather have a paper copy, and that's not likely to change anytime soon. For many of us, reading is one of the ways that we unhook.
One of the cable movie channels (Action, I think, which is part of Encore) has been showing it on and off for the last couple of months.
I still find Usenet extremely useful, but if you want to avoid being overwhelmed by the garbage you have to take advantage of the filtering features provided by your newsreader. Marking threads as "ignored," creating a "bozo file," etc.
>> The whole economic system the show portrayed just didn't make sense (e.g. paying for an interstellar trip by hauling some cattle around).
>Ever stop to think how much those ships that haul bananas around cost to acquire and operate?
I assumed that genetic diversity might justify moving a herd of cattle to a new planet. Think of it like importing horses to the new world or new world crops to Ireland.
Nope - it was a DOS game.
>>With digital projection, why not rent out a movie theater for a super bowl party?
>because among other things, it'd be illegal.
I agree that's an issue - but I think its possible that the NFL and other sports leagues would be interested in creating special licensing terms in the same way that they currently do for bars and restaurants (I don't recall the exact terms, but I believe the cost of televising an event in a bar or restaurant was tied to seating capacity).
The exciting aspect of digital video in movie theaters (regardless of whether the underlying technology is MS or not) is the flexibility that becomes available.
With digital projection, why not rent out a movie theater for a super bowl party? maybe we'll start seeing Monday night independent film festivals in suburban theaters? In theory, digital projection could open up all kinds of new possibilities for the theater industry.
Given a static, known platform, I'll bet they can make it reliable. One of the biggest challenges for operating sytem reliability is that in the typical PC or server, the OS vendor has to try and make allowances for combinations of hardware and software that they have never even thought of. In this scenario, as long as the boxes are dedicated for the purpose of displaying digital video I'm sure they can figure out how to overcome any bugs that come up.
Having said that, it would be nice to see Red Hat or one of the other Linux distributions try to compete in this space. Certainly Linux does well in these sort of dedicated applications (e.g. Tivo).
Lots of companies won't like this - many commercials are time sensitive and meant to be a part of a larger ad campain. Some companies (Coca-Cola, Nike, etc) might be interested in building long-term brand awareness, but for most this is a losing proposition, especially if people FF over the commercials on the DVD.
the www.glduke.com site is full of dead links, and this page has an "I give up" announcement.
http://www.thisstrife.com/GLDUKE/oldnews.asp
One of the complaints in the message is "they won't release the source," so maybe we'll see a revival of the project.
"The AutoCAD and 3D Studio and Photoshop apps the parent poster mentioned *are* dying for more RAM. I have 3D models that are pushing that 2GB limit."
Then buy an Itanium workstation or wait for Opteron. The point here isn't that nobody needs 64-bit, but that the majority of users don't need it yet. I know plenty of folks who use photo shop who never get anywhere near the 2Gb limit.