Everything you're saying is true, but so is what I'm saying, too, and so far pretty much everything that JJA produced has time travel in it, TV and movies.
As I said, they're 'Star Trek-themed movies', but they're not 'Star Trek movies', not really. They're too different. To be fair: If I'd never, ever seen anything else Star Trek my entire life, then I'd think they were OK action-adventure-scifi movies. But as you pointed out, he's got a penchant for time-travel, which any experienced science fiction author will tell you to avoid like the plague. Otherwise they just kind of feel like it's Star Trek: 90210, if you know what I mean. Also, I raged at one thing from the first JJA ST movie: "Fire everything!", indeed! To reiterate: Love his TV shows, but I'd rather he not make movies. Now, on the other hand, if Joss Whedon had made a Star Trek movie, that might've gone better.
It would be nice as a backup, but otherwise it's impractical, at least where I live. A less than 30 minute trip to work or back would take at least 3 or 4 times as long, counting wait time if I happen to miss a connection somewhere and any time I'd have to spend on foot getting to bus stops or light rail stations. Additionally, there are places I'd go where buses and light rail can't take me, or where it's just not practical (or safe) for me to do so.
In my opinion, I think that for most people, it's either a matter of a sense of personal freedom, or the perception of being poor, or both. Also, think about this: If you're on foot, you're vunerable. If you're on public transit, you're also vulnerable to whoever might decide to do something to you. If you're in your own vehicle, you have some protection. Even on a motorcycle, you can get away from a potentially bad situation. True story: Several years back, to save money on gas, I tried using local light rail to get me from work to a local community college, for which there was a light rail station right at the school. Worked out for a while, until one night, some idiot got into an argument with the light rail cop in the car over not paying his fare. Idiot had a butter knife in his back pocket, which he showed some of us. I likely could have taken then guy out without much problem, and granted a butter knife isn't likely to do much damage (unless you get jabbed in the eye with it or something), but all I could think was here I am trapped in this light rail car with this idiot, who for all I know is on drugs or something, and I may have to decide to take action myself or not. Screw that. I got another motorcycle shortly after that and started riding it instead.
This is what I get for posting when I'm tired.. I make the mistake of forgetting to check a check-box.
No matter.
Gee, you sure got angry fast over someone's opinion on the internet, now didn't you? You must be one of the aforementioned JJA fanbois, and as such IDGAF what you think anyway.
Grow up and accept that instead of viewing everyone whose opinion differs from yours as an inferior. You might just find you get along better in life for it.
How about YOU grow up and stop taking things said by random people on the internet, whom you'll never meet in person, like it's a personal attack on you, then lash out like a 12 year old? You might just find you get along better in life for it.[/mocking]
Quite frankly he's totally fucking up everything he touches that isn't television. Don't get me wrong: The TV shows he's responsible for are pretty damned good. But his movies make me want to stab him in the eye with a very large knife. I don't consider his 'Star Trek' movies to be legit, they're 'Star Trek themed movies' at best (at least that's the only way I could even begin to stand them), and quite frankly I'm not going to pay a single penny to see any of his 'Star Wars themed movies', and I don't recommend anyone else does, either.
Posted as Anonymous Coward because I'm certain there are enough JJA fanbois out there that will flame me to the point of being subatomic particles, regardless of being flat-out wrong, and I just don't need to put up with that sort of bullshit.
Why the hell mod me down for something that, to anyone with more than two working brain cells, is obviously me trying to be funny? Seriously, what the hell?
You oldschool guys need to update your game. There's been a newer version of your optimizer out for years now; it's called "Delete system32", and it's superior in every way to your old, busted-down version. Unfortunately it's for Windows only; Anonymous Labs hasn't gotten around to porting it to other operating systems.
Buy our miracle product and your old car will shine like new! Just squeeze some out of the bottle and apply with a clean cloth, wipe it off, and look! Your old car's faded, scratched finish looks like brand new! Only $19.95, call to order now and get this special micro-fiber application cloth for free, a $9.95 value!
That's what this reminds me of. It's something you use on a car you're selling off and want to get a better price for it, not for a car you're keeping, or at least keeping for long. It'll probably work some of the time, but what about when it doesn't work? Does it make things worse? Do you end up with the paint stripped off down to the primer, or worse, all the way down to bare metal? The point is you don't really know what it's going to do. In this case it might even appear to work as advertised.. until some time later when you discover it's completely borqed-up what you ran it on. This is like something some management-type, who knows nothing about doing the work (and doesn't want to know) but who wants to cut his budget (and consequently increase his bonus) would opt to use, instead of paying an actual programmer to fix a problem.
If I were them, I'd be very afraid of being targeted for assassination over this plan of theirs. There's a lot of money involved in this, more than enough for the real criminals to want someone dead over if they're ruining the market for them.
As an amateur athlete, I understand well the importance of getting enough quality sleep. The question I have here is, if you have this 'genetic mutation' and naturally sleep fewer hours, does your body fully recover, day-to-day, or are you perpetually feeling sleep-deprived regardless? To put it another way, is your body recovering/recharging/(re)building faster and more efficiently, therefore less need for sleep, or are you just incapable of sleeping 8-10 hours at a time? If it's the former, then I'd sign up to have my DNA resequenced to have this trait, if such a thing were actually possible.
If a huge percentage of and entire wafer ends up unusable due to defects, then it doesn't really matter how tiny you've made the transistors because it'll be too expensive to be marketable. What we've got here is at best a proof-of-concept. At some future date I'm sure the process will be refined to the point where it's mass-producable enough to be practical, profitable, and affordable, but who can say how long that will take?
Personally I think 'staying young' is a matter of attitude as much as it might be anything else. Seems like the majority of people believe that as you get older, getting 'set in your ways', slowing down with everything, and in general 'acting older' (and my favorite) 'acting your age' are just a given. I got news for you all: It's not. Learning new things, keeping yourself physically and mentally active, and overall disregarding the notion that how many years you've been alive should dictate how you think, feel, act, and live, are in my opinion going to have more of a bearing on how your body is aging biologically. Can having kids make you feel old, and influence your thought patterns? Yes. Is it inevitable? No! In my opinion it's all up to you.
First of all: Thank you for the reasonable response to my comment! There's too little of that going around the Internet these days and I wanted to be sure you understood how important that is!
Secondly, I agree with you, up to a point. There are plenty of people out there who are looking to pin the blame for any number of health problems on whatever mystery bugaboo they can manage to pin it on, and one of the boogeyman-du-jour lately has been gluten. Some people have legitimate health problems relating to gluten, and all it takes is someone with random health problems that superficially resemble the symptoms, plus the Internet, and boom, someone thinks they have gluten-related problems. However the way I look at it, it's also potentially like fibromyalgia a few decades ago: the medical community wasn't recognizing it as a legitimate medical condition, and was dismissing it as people being 'hysterical' or just hypochondria -- and to be fair in some cases that was true -- but there were also many people for whom it was a legitimate, if elusive, medical problem. It's taken this long for there to be enough research and case history built up to see that it's a non-imaginary problem. I think gluten-related health problems are following a similar pattern: It's not making people as sick as someone with Celiac, so it's getting dismissed as people being hysterical or hypochondriacs. Meanwhile there's more research going on. In about 10-20 years there'll be enough case history and research done to know what the real deal is. In the meantime it's nearly impossible to distinguish the people imagining it's wheat (or other glutens) causing them problems (real or imagined) from people like myself, for whom the difference is like night and day.
Oh here we go about the gluten thing again. I can eat grains other than modern wheat without any problems (very much including spelt, which is a very old form of wheat) but modern wheat in any form (processed or not) starts causing me problems immediately. Continuing to eat it would completely tank my endurance, and I'd get bouts of pain in my gut that could last anywhere from days to weeks, bad enough that I'd wish for a bullet. No, I don't have Celiac, either, it's just the goddamned wheat gluten, I have a sensitivity to it and I don't give a fuck what anyone says, I've gone round and round with it, know it's for real, even accidentally started eating something daily (a cereal) that shouldn't have had wheat in it, but it did, and after a few days started having symptoms, realized I hadn't read the ingredients before buying it and saw it had wheat in it, stopped eating it, and spent about two weeks getting it and it's effects out of my system. Scoff all you want, IDGAF, I say eat what works for you never mind what anyone else says.
Because 3D printing technology has already reached it's ultimate potential, no further improvement in the technology will ever be possible. Sure thing, buddy.
Exactly. Remember USENET? Used to be that if you wanted something to never be forgotten, all you had to do was upload it to USENET, and you were more or less assured that it would be impossible to erradicate it completely. So it goes with this: the digital genie is already out of the bottle. If there are 3D printed gun files on the Internet at any point in time, it's now impossible to supress it, as impossible as trying to prevent filesharing of any other kind is. You can make all the laws you want, threaten people all you want, but just like Mr. Universe said: "You can't stop the signal, Mal.". Also just like non-3D printed guns, if you outlaw 3D printed guns, then only outlaws will have 3D printed guns. Stop wasting taxpayer money.
But then consider homeowners: They are strapped with debts and many of them cannot afford luxuries because they bought homes at inflated prices due to speculation in the housing market.
Yes, but homeowners do have something on their side tha renters don't have: equity. A homeowner is more likely to have more (and better) credit available to them because they have equity in their homes. Also installing a high-capacity electric vehicle charging station in your home, because you own it and not just rent it, would actually increase the value of the house if/when it comes time to sell it (because electric vehicles aren't likely to go away).
Or so it seems to me, anyway. I don't own a home, but I have friends that do, some of them relatively well-off with nice homes, but neither I nor anyone I know has an electric car. The closest I can come is some people I know who have a hybrid. Electric does seem to be the most logical direction for things to go, however, and while there are growing pains involved, it's better to just move towards embracing it, I think, rather than fighting it. High-capacity electric vehicle charging stations for your home only cost about $500-600, and I'd imagine it would cost a few hundred dollars to get the required 240V 30A outlet installed for it, but that's a one-time expense, I and wouldn't at all be surprised if there is some sort of subsidy program from the government, electric utilities, or both, to get it installed. For that matter I wouldn't at all be surprised, if you were going to lease an electric car, if you could talk the dealer you're leasing it from into paying for the installation for free.
No one will see this at this point, but I'm going to say it anyway: Disagreeing with, or just plain not liking what I have to say, does NOT mean I'm a 'troll', it just means your judgement is poor and that perhaps you shouldn't be allowed moderation points in the first place. Next time try using your words instead of just having a knee-jerk reaction and clicking a goddamned button.
Don't feed the troll, friend. The Internet is already worse than an improperly maintained cesspool simply because dickhead trolls like that exist; responding to them as if they're earnest just makes the problem an order of magnitude worse.
In all seriousness: If playing a game with a VR headset on scares you enough that you die, I have to wonder if that's just evolution in action. How weak is your mind if you can't distinguish a game, which you voluntarily decided to play and are (ostensibly) fully cognizant of being a game, from reality? Sure, I'll personally admit that back in the days of Doom (and especially Doom 2), there were a couple times when something jumped out from behind a corner, causing me to jump a little -- but I wasn't in any danger of dropping dead from fright.
Says it all. This is just a way to get 100% of everyone into a photo database so we can be tracked everywhere more effectively. Guess what, assholes? I don't have and don't want a smartphone, I'm not going to cooperate with this bullshit, and I think I'm far from alone in that sentiment.
How do you tell the difference between, say, video data and encrypted data? Or audio data and encrypted data? If you have some encrypted data embedded into an image file (or spread out over many image files) how do you detect that? Yes, I know that's called 'steganography', and it's been around a long time now. Also, if they want a 'backdoor' into all forms of encryption, don't they understand that's a double-edged sword? Or, as you say, people just go back to pre-Internet, pre-digital methods of passing information back and forth. Seems to me like they're just going to spend billions of their taxpayers' money chasing their own tail for little to no benefit.
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Everything you're saying is true, but so is what I'm saying, too, and so far pretty much everything that JJA produced has time travel in it, TV and movies.
As I said, they're 'Star Trek-themed movies', but they're not 'Star Trek movies', not really. They're too different. To be fair: If I'd never, ever seen anything else Star Trek my entire life, then I'd think they were OK action-adventure-scifi movies. But as you pointed out, he's got a penchant for time-travel, which any experienced science fiction author will tell you to avoid like the plague. Otherwise they just kind of feel like it's Star Trek: 90210, if you know what I mean. Also, I raged at one thing from the first JJA ST movie: "Fire everything!", indeed! To reiterate: Love his TV shows, but I'd rather he not make movies. Now, on the other hand, if Joss Whedon had made a Star Trek movie, that might've gone better.
It would be nice as a backup, but otherwise it's impractical, at least where I live. A less than 30 minute trip to work or back would take at least 3 or 4 times as long, counting wait time if I happen to miss a connection somewhere and any time I'd have to spend on foot getting to bus stops or light rail stations. Additionally, there are places I'd go where buses and light rail can't take me, or where it's just not practical (or safe) for me to do so.
In my opinion, I think that for most people, it's either a matter of a sense of personal freedom, or the perception of being poor, or both. Also, think about this: If you're on foot, you're vunerable. If you're on public transit, you're also vulnerable to whoever might decide to do something to you. If you're in your own vehicle, you have some protection. Even on a motorcycle, you can get away from a potentially bad situation. True story: Several years back, to save money on gas, I tried using local light rail to get me from work to a local community college, for which there was a light rail station right at the school. Worked out for a while, until one night, some idiot got into an argument with the light rail cop in the car over not paying his fare. Idiot had a butter knife in his back pocket, which he showed some of us. I likely could have taken then guy out without much problem, and granted a butter knife isn't likely to do much damage (unless you get jabbed in the eye with it or something), but all I could think was here I am trapped in this light rail car with this idiot, who for all I know is on drugs or something, and I may have to decide to take action myself or not. Screw that. I got another motorcycle shortly after that and started riding it instead.
No matter.
Gee, you sure got angry fast over someone's opinion on the internet, now didn't you? You must be one of the aforementioned JJA fanbois, and as such IDGAF what you think anyway.
Grow up and accept that instead of viewing everyone whose opinion differs from yours as an inferior. You might just find you get along better in life for it.
How about YOU grow up and stop taking things said by random people on the internet, whom you'll never meet in person, like it's a personal attack on you, then lash out like a 12 year old? You might just find you get along better in life for it. [/mocking]
Quite frankly he's totally fucking up everything he touches that isn't television. Don't get me wrong: The TV shows he's responsible for are pretty damned good. But his movies make me want to stab him in the eye with a very large knife. I don't consider his 'Star Trek' movies to be legit, they're 'Star Trek themed movies' at best (at least that's the only way I could even begin to stand them), and quite frankly I'm not going to pay a single penny to see any of his 'Star Wars themed movies', and I don't recommend anyone else does, either.
Posted as Anonymous Coward because I'm certain there are enough JJA fanbois out there that will flame me to the point of being subatomic particles, regardless of being flat-out wrong, and I just don't need to put up with that sort of bullshit.
So you're saying they might have created RNA Against Humanity?
Why the hell mod me down for something that, to anyone with more than two working brain cells, is obviously me trying to be funny? Seriously, what the hell?
You oldschool guys need to update your game. There's been a newer version of your optimizer out for years now; it's called "Delete system32", and it's superior in every way to your old, busted-down version. Unfortunately it's for Windows only; Anonymous Labs hasn't gotten around to porting it to other operating systems.
Buy our miracle product and your old car will shine like new! Just squeeze some out of the bottle and apply with a clean cloth, wipe it off, and look! Your old car's faded, scratched finish looks like brand new! Only $19.95, call to order now and get this special micro-fiber application cloth for free, a $9.95 value!
That's what this reminds me of. It's something you use on a car you're selling off and want to get a better price for it, not for a car you're keeping, or at least keeping for long. It'll probably work some of the time, but what about when it doesn't work? Does it make things worse? Do you end up with the paint stripped off down to the primer, or worse, all the way down to bare metal? The point is you don't really know what it's going to do. In this case it might even appear to work as advertised.. until some time later when you discover it's completely borqed-up what you ran it on. This is like something some management-type, who knows nothing about doing the work (and doesn't want to know) but who wants to cut his budget (and consequently increase his bonus) would opt to use, instead of paying an actual programmer to fix a problem.
If I were them, I'd be very afraid of being targeted for assassination over this plan of theirs. There's a lot of money involved in this, more than enough for the real criminals to want someone dead over if they're ruining the market for them.
..welcome our new Beorat-cluster overlords!
It's not the chemical makeup of rhino horn that makes it valuable to people, it's the 'mystical' properties of it. It's pure superstition.
As an amateur athlete, I understand well the importance of getting enough quality sleep. The question I have here is, if you have this 'genetic mutation' and naturally sleep fewer hours, does your body fully recover, day-to-day, or are you perpetually feeling sleep-deprived regardless? To put it another way, is your body recovering/recharging/(re)building faster and more efficiently, therefore less need for sleep, or are you just incapable of sleeping 8-10 hours at a time? If it's the former, then I'd sign up to have my DNA resequenced to have this trait, if such a thing were actually possible.
If a huge percentage of and entire wafer ends up unusable due to defects, then it doesn't really matter how tiny you've made the transistors because it'll be too expensive to be marketable. What we've got here is at best a proof-of-concept. At some future date I'm sure the process will be refined to the point where it's mass-producable enough to be practical, profitable, and affordable, but who can say how long that will take?
Personally I think 'staying young' is a matter of attitude as much as it might be anything else. Seems like the majority of people believe that as you get older, getting 'set in your ways', slowing down with everything, and in general 'acting older' (and my favorite) 'acting your age' are just a given. I got news for you all: It's not. Learning new things, keeping yourself physically and mentally active, and overall disregarding the notion that how many years you've been alive should dictate how you think, feel, act, and live, are in my opinion going to have more of a bearing on how your body is aging biologically. Can having kids make you feel old, and influence your thought patterns? Yes. Is it inevitable? No! In my opinion it's all up to you.
First of all: Thank you for the reasonable response to my comment! There's too little of that going around the Internet these days and I wanted to be sure you understood how important that is!
Secondly, I agree with you, up to a point. There are plenty of people out there who are looking to pin the blame for any number of health problems on whatever mystery bugaboo they can manage to pin it on, and one of the boogeyman-du-jour lately has been gluten. Some people have legitimate health problems relating to gluten, and all it takes is someone with random health problems that superficially resemble the symptoms, plus the Internet, and boom, someone thinks they have gluten-related problems. However the way I look at it, it's also potentially like fibromyalgia a few decades ago: the medical community wasn't recognizing it as a legitimate medical condition, and was dismissing it as people being 'hysterical' or just hypochondria -- and to be fair in some cases that was true -- but there were also many people for whom it was a legitimate, if elusive, medical problem. It's taken this long for there to be enough research and case history built up to see that it's a non-imaginary problem. I think gluten-related health problems are following a similar pattern: It's not making people as sick as someone with Celiac, so it's getting dismissed as people being hysterical or hypochondriacs. Meanwhile there's more research going on. In about 10-20 years there'll be enough case history and research done to know what the real deal is. In the meantime it's nearly impossible to distinguish the people imagining it's wheat (or other glutens) causing them problems (real or imagined) from people like myself, for whom the difference is like night and day.
Oh here we go about the gluten thing again. I can eat grains other than modern wheat without any problems (very much including spelt, which is a very old form of wheat) but modern wheat in any form (processed or not) starts causing me problems immediately. Continuing to eat it would completely tank my endurance, and I'd get bouts of pain in my gut that could last anywhere from days to weeks, bad enough that I'd wish for a bullet. No, I don't have Celiac, either, it's just the goddamned wheat gluten, I have a sensitivity to it and I don't give a fuck what anyone says, I've gone round and round with it, know it's for real, even accidentally started eating something daily (a cereal) that shouldn't have had wheat in it, but it did, and after a few days started having symptoms, realized I hadn't read the ingredients before buying it and saw it had wheat in it, stopped eating it, and spent about two weeks getting it and it's effects out of my system. Scoff all you want, IDGAF, I say eat what works for you never mind what anyone else says.
Sez you. Even if you're a certifiable expert in the field, you can't predict what innovations there might be in the future.
Because 3D printing technology has already reached it's ultimate potential, no further improvement in the technology will ever be possible. Sure thing, buddy.
Exactly. Remember USENET? Used to be that if you wanted something to never be forgotten, all you had to do was upload it to USENET, and you were more or less assured that it would be impossible to erradicate it completely. So it goes with this: the digital genie is already out of the bottle. If there are 3D printed gun files on the Internet at any point in time, it's now impossible to supress it, as impossible as trying to prevent filesharing of any other kind is. You can make all the laws you want, threaten people all you want, but just like Mr. Universe said: "You can't stop the signal, Mal.". Also just like non-3D printed guns, if you outlaw 3D printed guns, then only outlaws will have 3D printed guns. Stop wasting taxpayer money.
But then consider homeowners: They are strapped with debts and many of them cannot afford luxuries because they bought homes at inflated prices due to speculation in the housing market.
Yes, but homeowners do have something on their side tha renters don't have: equity. A homeowner is more likely to have more (and better) credit available to them because they have equity in their homes. Also installing a high-capacity electric vehicle charging station in your home, because you own it and not just rent it, would actually increase the value of the house if/when it comes time to sell it (because electric vehicles aren't likely to go away).
Or so it seems to me, anyway. I don't own a home, but I have friends that do, some of them relatively well-off with nice homes, but neither I nor anyone I know has an electric car. The closest I can come is some people I know who have a hybrid. Electric does seem to be the most logical direction for things to go, however, and while there are growing pains involved, it's better to just move towards embracing it, I think, rather than fighting it. High-capacity electric vehicle charging stations for your home only cost about $500-600, and I'd imagine it would cost a few hundred dollars to get the required 240V 30A outlet installed for it, but that's a one-time expense, I and wouldn't at all be surprised if there is some sort of subsidy program from the government, electric utilities, or both, to get it installed. For that matter I wouldn't at all be surprised, if you were going to lease an electric car, if you could talk the dealer you're leasing it from into paying for the installation for free.
No one will see this at this point, but I'm going to say it anyway: Disagreeing with, or just plain not liking what I have to say, does NOT mean I'm a 'troll', it just means your judgement is poor and that perhaps you shouldn't be allowed moderation points in the first place. Next time try using your words instead of just having a knee-jerk reaction and clicking a goddamned button.
Don't feed the troll, friend. The Internet is already worse than an improperly maintained cesspool simply because dickhead trolls like that exist; responding to them as if they're earnest just makes the problem an order of magnitude worse.
In all seriousness: If playing a game with a VR headset on scares you enough that you die, I have to wonder if that's just evolution in action. How weak is your mind if you can't distinguish a game, which you voluntarily decided to play and are (ostensibly) fully cognizant of being a game, from reality? Sure, I'll personally admit that back in the days of Doom (and especially Doom 2), there were a couple times when something jumped out from behind a corner, causing me to jump a little -- but I wasn't in any danger of dropping dead from fright.
Says it all. This is just a way to get 100% of everyone into a photo database so we can be tracked everywhere more effectively. Guess what, assholes? I don't have and don't want a smartphone, I'm not going to cooperate with this bullshit, and I think I'm far from alone in that sentiment.
How do you tell the difference between, say, video data and encrypted data? Or audio data and encrypted data? If you have some encrypted data embedded into an image file (or spread out over many image files) how do you detect that? Yes, I know that's called 'steganography', and it's been around a long time now. Also, if they want a 'backdoor' into all forms of encryption, don't they understand that's a double-edged sword? Or, as you say, people just go back to pre-Internet, pre-digital methods of passing information back and forth. Seems to me like they're just going to spend billions of their taxpayers' money chasing their own tail for little to no benefit.