Don't worry, when the centre console fails it'll only cost you $1k or more to get it replaced. And seeing as how every car company out there also makes the entire thing responsible for important things like the heater controls and signal chimes, this is gonna be a real fucking mess.
I guess that's the thing. The car-industry knows that with electric cards there will be much less for them to do and sell after they have sold the car so they need new business.
Enter Windows and Microsoft and now people need to turn in their car the whole fucking time to fix various issues again;)
(I'm not really so serious, it's a joke! Microsoft products doesn't necessarily have to be worse I guess.)
I think Python would silently convert Country to Person (after all, corporations are People) and merrily continue going. (You might be able to guess I'm not a fan of weak typing;)
I've only been tinkering for a few days but the idea of Python silently "fixing" all your array index out of bounds still horrifies me.
You know you've got programming on the mind when you read that as
(My partner is Australian) is a Science teacher.
and then I was trying to figure out what sort of return value (My partner is Australian) would return and whether it would be a string or if there would be a compiler error. I think learning Python has ruined me;)
Shoot, faster than light travel is basically magic as far as we understand it.
I was under the impression that the underlying principles e.g. warp drive (Alcubierre drive)
Well it's better than replying to points I've already debunked.
I never said those two points were exactly the same but that's great you saddled me with that.
There are obviously arguments for either of Star Wars and Star Trek to be fantasy. I just think that Star Wars is a much more clear-cut case.
And even when we think we're being terribly scientific we are often not. Take one of my favorite Sci-fi authors, Asimov. I've sure he thought he was being terribly scientific with various characters wearing nuclear reactors around their necks. In a modern context, how stupid. Yet he is still a giant of the genre, and for good reason.
historically science fiction stories were intended to have at least a faint grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created
And another already-addressed point...
Finally, I'm thoroughly entertained that rather then combat my ideas you try to slander me as someone who doesnt understand what the word "literally" means. Good work! You are a truly insightful person!
No, I didn't say you didn't understand what it means. I postulated that you're one of those descriptivist twats that claim the English language has no objective meanings.
I'd like to know where you got that idea. SF stories have long included magic, even if they're not about magic.
Let's see what Wikipedia has to say on the matter.
Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas."[1] It usually eschews the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, historically science fiction stories were intended to have at least a faint grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively
Star Wars in particular stays mostly to the science-y part of the spectrum, albeit with a lot of handwaving and soft principles (how the heck do hyperspace and lightsabers work?). But debatably the central plot point of the entire story is Luke and the other Jedi, whose Big Thing is that they manipulate this phantom, unexplainable, unmeasurable force of nature to accomplish things without using any instrumentation or technology or anything.
So yeah. Fantasy.
Maybe when you examine Star Trek on a per-episode basis it comes off as magic (Janeway: "Just shoot it with the deflector dish already!"), but I was under the impression that the underlying principles e.g. warp drive Alcubierre drive, although admittedly I don't think the theory existed formally at the time) and the transporter (something using quantum entanglement, I assume) have science-based explanations in-universe.
If you can point me to a scientific in-universe explanation of the Force, I'll recant.
Perhaps somebody could explain what the hell the title means? Because it definitely doesn't make sense according to all the old EU stuff that they just threw under the bus.
(The two major parts of the Force were the Unifying Force and the Living Force. Apparently the latter idea was about the Force having a will, judging between light and dark, guiding people, etc....so if it can "awaken" supposedly The Force has been asleep or in a coma or something for this whole time? So what have all the Force users been drawing from? Guess thousands of years of Jedi had just misread an ancient document or something.)
It's also why Linux hasn't become a realistic contender of Windows on the PC desktop. There's many projects, but no single standardized high-quality system.
Just don't go into Lexx expecting to get another version of Star Trek. It's a lot of black humor and since it's a German-Canadian production it has the occasional softcore porn-y scene thrown in.
So sad that Eva Habermann couldn't continue doing the show:P
The question is whether to lay down your own life or kill someone to preserve it.
The U.S. invading Japan would've involed a LOT of U.S. soldiers dying. And maybe more Japanese, depending on how strongly they resisted, than the atomic bombings anyway (remember, those were just 2 cities, and we're talking about conquering the entire home islands).
I don't think it would be an easy sell to all the families at home if you told them that X% of their husbands and fathers had to die to end the war. Not that the public was informed about The Bomb or given a choice, but yeah.
It's not useful if idiots are constantly applying it to things that don't really warrant the label "scandal."
Whenever I hear -gate these days it's a pretty safe assumption it's something that is totally not worth the bother for me to inform myself about enough to realize it's overblown and really doesn't matter.
The people who name these things also have a real low threshhold for what constitutes a "scandal." I swear, half the time I hear about a new one, I couldn't care less, much less get outraged about it.
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Don't worry, when the centre console fails it'll only cost you $1k or more to get it replaced. And seeing as how every car company out there also makes the entire thing responsible for important things like the heater controls and signal chimes, this is gonna be a real fucking mess.
I guess that's the thing.
The car-industry knows that with electric cards there will be much less for them to do and sell after they have sold the car so they need new business.
Enter Windows and Microsoft and now people need to turn in their car the whole fucking time to fix various issues again ;)
(I'm not really so serious, it's a joke! Microsoft products doesn't necessarily have to be worse I guess.)
Ha ha only serious.
Maybe you (s/he, whatever) would be treated better if you gave any justification whatsoever for your suspicion that he's full of shit.
Or, y'know...logged in. But I'm not one of those assholes who browses at +2 assuming that ACs never have anything to contribute.
I think Python would silently convert Country to Person (after all, corporations are People) and merrily continue going. (You might be able to guess I'm not a fan of weak typing ;)
I've only been tinkering for a few days but the idea of Python silently "fixing" all your array index out of bounds still horrifies me.
*interpreter error above. Apparently nobody actually compiles Python?
Idiots are present at all levels of delegation :P
My partner is Australia is a Science teacher.
You know you've got programming on the mind when you read that as
(My partner is Australian) is a Science teacher.
and then I was trying to figure out what sort of return value (My partner is Australian) would return and whether it would be a string or if there would be a compiler error. I think learning Python has ruined me ;)
that is a totally out of context comment from an anonymous poster.
What do you fucking expect?
Are we really still in an era where we care about counting individual clock cycles, outside of an embedded context?
rather then combat my ideas you try to slander me
Shoot, faster than light travel is basically magic as far as we understand it.
I was under the impression that the underlying principles e.g. warp drive (Alcubierre drive)
Well it's better than replying to points I've already debunked.
I never said those two points were exactly the same but that's great you saddled me with that.
There are obviously arguments for either of Star Wars and Star Trek to be fantasy. I just think that Star Wars is a much more clear-cut case.
And even when we think we're being terribly scientific we are often not. Take one of my favorite Sci-fi authors, Asimov. I've sure he thought he was being terribly scientific with various characters wearing nuclear reactors around their necks. In a modern context, how stupid. Yet he is still a giant of the genre, and for good reason.
historically science fiction stories were intended to have at least a faint grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created
And another already-addressed point...
Finally, I'm thoroughly entertained that rather then combat my ideas you try to slander me as someone who doesnt understand what the word "literally" means. Good work! You are a truly insightful person!
No, I didn't say you didn't understand what it means. I postulated that you're one of those descriptivist twats that claim the English language has no objective meanings.
Oh, TOS. Yeah, I haven't really seen any of that series other than the movies.
I didn't realize it was such a technical subject as to be incomprehensible,
No kidding. I wasn't talking about the distribution; I was talking about the predictability of the movie.
I'd like to know where you got that idea. SF stories have long included magic, even if they're not about magic.
Let's see what Wikipedia has to say on the matter.
Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas."[1] It usually eschews the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, historically science fiction stories were intended to have at least a faint grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively
Star Wars in particular stays mostly to the science-y part of the spectrum, albeit with a lot of handwaving and soft principles (how the heck do hyperspace and lightsabers work?). But debatably the central plot point of the entire story is Luke and the other Jedi, whose Big Thing is that they manipulate this phantom, unexplainable, unmeasurable force of nature to accomplish things without using any instrumentation or technology or anything.
So yeah. Fantasy.
Maybe when you examine Star Trek on a per-episode basis it comes off as magic (Janeway: "Just shoot it with the deflector dish already!"), but I was under the impression that the underlying principles e.g. warp drive Alcubierre drive, although admittedly I don't think the theory existed formally at the time) and the transporter (something using quantum entanglement, I assume) have science-based explanations in-universe.
If you can point me to a scientific in-universe explanation of the Force, I'll recant.
The Force is magic. Magic instantly disqualifies it as sci fi. Otherwise it would be.
Apparently JJ only has two modes: Zero Originality, and Shit All Over Everything?
Perhaps somebody could explain what the hell the title means? Because it definitely doesn't make sense according to all the old EU stuff that they just threw under the bus.
(The two major parts of the Force were the Unifying Force and the Living Force. Apparently the latter idea was about the Force having a will, judging between light and dark, guiding people, etc. ...so if it can "awaken" supposedly The Force has been asleep or in a coma or something for this whole time? So what have all the Force users been drawing from? Guess thousands of years of Jedi had just misread an ancient document or something.)
It's also why Linux hasn't become a realistic contender of Windows on the PC desktop. There's many projects, but no single standardized high-quality system.
That's a feature.
See, the best thing Bitcoin has going for it is that it was the first to make it work.
How is that an advantage in any sense but "we did it before it was popular"?
Well, since the exchange rate from USD to North Korean wons is 1:900, all we need is 1.1 million each to be a billionaire in NK.
The EFF?
If you took out The Force it would be sci fi, definitely. But The Force = magic, and if there's magic it's at least partly fantasy.
And?
Just don't go into Lexx expecting to get another version of Star Trek. It's a lot of black humor and since it's a German-Canadian production it has the occasional softcore porn-y scene thrown in.
So sad that Eva Habermann couldn't continue doing the show :P
The question is whether to lay down your own life or kill someone to preserve it.
The U.S. invading Japan would've involed a LOT of U.S. soldiers dying. And maybe more Japanese, depending on how strongly they resisted, than the atomic bombings anyway (remember, those were just 2 cities, and we're talking about conquering the entire home islands).
I don't think it would be an easy sell to all the families at home if you told them that X% of their husbands and fathers had to die to end the war. Not that the public was informed about The Bomb or given a choice, but yeah.
Pragmatism ain't pretty.
It's not useful if idiots are constantly applying it to things that don't really warrant the label "scandal."
Whenever I hear -gate these days it's a pretty safe assumption it's something that is totally not worth the bother for me to inform myself about enough to realize it's overblown and really doesn't matter.
The people who name these things also have a real low threshhold for what constitutes a "scandal." I swear, half the time I hear about a new one, I couldn't care less, much less get outraged about it.
4 out of 99 is not 10%, it's just over 4%.
Since I phrased the dice bit poorly (although you can tell from the explanation what I was going for), alternately 4 out of 20 is 20%.