And if it CANNOT be changed even with your consent it is not fit as a security token either. It's great for identity, but it could hardly be worse for authorization.
It's all bullshit. Whatshisfuck stood on stage and claimed that it was orders of magnitude more secure and reliable than TouchID. What happened?
"More" is not necessarily more than a lot. A condom you had in your back pocket for a month is also more secure than "don't worry honey, I'll pull out".
Any organization that blunders in THIS proportion should have been eliminated and dissected, its assets sold off to the highest bidder and the revenue used to compensate the damaged parties no later than two weeks ago.
Doesn't fit the canon in any way. If this is to be set 10 years before Kirk, with the Klingons being in a mostly-cold war with the Federation by then and from what we can tell from TOS have been for a while, it makes no sense to join forces with the Klingons to fight a bigger enemy only to turn onto each other immediately after.
One of the biggest complains most Trek fans had was that STD pretty much pisses on the canon and established Trek history. Let's not make it worse. The Klingons make great enemies and you need some kind of enemy for a ST series to work. And no plots-within-plots, please. This is ST, not GoT. In ST, we'd like to know who the enemy is and be right about it.
The problem with that approach, as it was with other endeavors in this respect, is that the echo chamber residents aren't numerous enough to make such a show work out. Being inoffensive is one thing. Being bland is another.
You have to watch your demographics and write for them. And, sorry to say it, SJW isn't a demographic to write for. Not numerous enough and not pulling enough "normal" people with them. Trekkies on the other hand, do. If only for being insane enough to play dress up and make other people interested in what the hubub is about.
And like I lined out above, you can actually make it a show that appeals to all of them. Star Trek fans like social commentary in their show. It's been a staple of ST since, well, forever, so if they didn't, they were no fans of the show. What they don't like is if it's done as ham-fisted as this approach.
And that's not even the real problem with the show, what killed it for me was the horrible, horrible dialogues and the wooden acting. Not to mention the Michael character that smacks of very bad Mary-Sue Fanfic.
Agile development can be quite useful. Sadly, most project managers confuse it with not having to do their work and think "agile" means "the programmers have to change the project daily when I come up with new shit I didn't think about before".
What bothered me most was the ungloved fist-like introduction of the characters. And all of them, without fail, stereotypes. Hello, I'm the nonstandard captain. Hello, I'm the faithful sidekick. Hello, I'm the nonbinary genderfluid... well, that has to suffice for a character. Hello, I'm the alien.
That's not characters. You could get away with that in a TV show in the 1950s where the Indian was the Indian and the Cowboy was the Cowboy, but PLEASE, TV writing went a wee bit further by now. Who the heck designed these characters? Could they be any more bland and nondescript?
And they don't work together. There is zero chemistry, they don't "work" together. You get the feeling that you are dealing with people who just got thrown into a new project and don't yet know how to treat each other, when they have allegedly been together for years. Well, of course in reality they were, but c'mon, you are allegedly ACTORS! TNG solved this by throwing a new captain into the mix and, as everyone can relate, getting a new boss makes people act cautiously, not knowing what the new head honcho is like, that could have played out well here, too.
I usually sell good advice, this one is free: Can the shit and redo it. Here's how.
First, create a new character, an alien, and make it captain. It's only the logical next step in the development of commanding officers if you want to go down the "inclusive and diverse" road. We've had it all, except an alien captain. Make that race not quite as warlike as the Klingons, but make it a race that has some Klingon traits. The whole warrior code of honor thing comes to mind. And give them a reason to dislike Klingons, which should fit beautifully into the planned setting. It would also allow a lot of very interesting scenes with Saru's character, who such a captain would of course antagonize somehow but at the same time requires him and depends on him at the same time. It would allow some plot angles depicting how we have to work together with people whose personality or whose philosophy we can't stomach. Star Trek has always also been social commentary, and if there's ONE thing right now that we face as a social problem, it's exactly this.
If you really want to go overboard with it, make it a female captain and make the race she's from a very male oriented and dominated species which would again allow a lot of angles that can be explored. Like i said, ST has always been a social commentary on real life issues, so why not? There's plenty of space to develop that race and character, make them associate members of the federation with her leaving her race because she knew she wouldn't get anywhere with her own folks... that alone is enough material for at least 5 episodes.
The idea of making the first officer the focal point and the main character is good, keep that. We need an identification figure in that slot. What we need here is a Joe or Jane Everyperson that many in the audience can relate to. Make sure to make this character well detailed. Don't forget family, hobbies, quirks, the whole shit. This has to be the most detailed character. Gender and race are pretty much negligible in the end, but he or she has to have an aspect that everyone watching can somehow relate to. FFS, I hope you checked your viewer demographics before making this show, so model that character accordingly!
We need a main antagonist. Someone like Tomalak in TNG. That Klingon uniting the Empire comes to mind. Don't show him. Not in the first episode, not even in the first season. You needn't even cast an actor for him yet. Why would the big warlord show his face to those insignificant insects anyway? Megalomania is a good trait, and make him someone the other Klingons revere. Hitler would actually be a great role model for him, mostly because he did something very similar and it worked for very similar reasons.
Get rid of Sarek. Seriously. He's basically the magical negro deus-ex-machina, and if you really need something like this, well, get better writers. S
Not to mention that light itself would be actuallyslower than you. The "tunneling" phenomenon already starts when you approach light speed, where the amount of stars you see becomes fewer and fewer, with the stars behind you going into redshift and eventually (at light speed) vanishing entirely while stars ahead of you blueshift until at lightspeed even a brown dwarf's low infrared radiation hits you like hard gamma rays. What that would mean at speeds faster than light I have no idea.
By that logic alone, approaching a star at just warp factor 1 seems a wee bit deadly.
Well, they aired the same time, it's likely they were available on TPB at the same time, too. And people downloading ep1 will probably start downloading ep2 too, why wait?
I think the deciding moment will come when Ep3 comes out, where people will actually have seen the first two and decide based on this whether or not it's worth their bandwidth.
Because if it's not even worth the bandwidth, I doubt many would consider it a subscription...
How you think I'm feeling? I mean, fuck, remember how people were fighting an uphill battle to stop the segregation, and how those white supremacists were adamant to not allow it that it took the effin' National Guard to step in and make it possible?
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
Remember those words? Where the hell did we take the wrong exit?
My best (former) manager (I was developing Oracle software for a State agency) said that his number one job was to be an umbrella to keep the shit from falling on us and distracting us
I think he's now working for us, these words sound quite familiar.
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And if it CANNOT be changed even with your consent it is not fit as a security token either. It's great for identity, but it could hardly be worse for authorization.
It's all bullshit. Whatshisfuck stood on stage and claimed that it was orders of magnitude more secure and reliable than TouchID. What happened?
"More" is not necessarily more than a lot. A condom you had in your back pocket for a month is also more secure than "don't worry honey, I'll pull out".
That can be arranged.
*gasp*
Don't tell me Apple is now anti-LBQTBBQWTFKMA?
Hey, earlier models could do this even without 3 failed attempts. All you had to do is repair it when it breaks.
So ... about 8,000 people on this planet can unlock my phone?
With a pass token that I can neither change nor keep secret to boot...
Yes, because the information from someone who probably gets commission on crap he sells you is more reliable.
Any organization that blunders in THIS proportion should have been eliminated and dissected, its assets sold off to the highest bidder and the revenue used to compensate the damaged parties no later than two weeks ago.
Depends on what "retire" means. There are a few organizations that you don't want to "retire" you.
And if you imagine they got "retired" this way, it's all a lot easier to stomach.
Doesn't fit the canon in any way. If this is to be set 10 years before Kirk, with the Klingons being in a mostly-cold war with the Federation by then and from what we can tell from TOS have been for a while, it makes no sense to join forces with the Klingons to fight a bigger enemy only to turn onto each other immediately after.
One of the biggest complains most Trek fans had was that STD pretty much pisses on the canon and established Trek history. Let's not make it worse. The Klingons make great enemies and you need some kind of enemy for a ST series to work. And no plots-within-plots, please. This is ST, not GoT. In ST, we'd like to know who the enemy is and be right about it.
Mostly a Mary-Sue.
You must be the joy at every astrophysics conference after conference bender.
The problem with that approach, as it was with other endeavors in this respect, is that the echo chamber residents aren't numerous enough to make such a show work out. Being inoffensive is one thing. Being bland is another.
You have to watch your demographics and write for them. And, sorry to say it, SJW isn't a demographic to write for. Not numerous enough and not pulling enough "normal" people with them. Trekkies on the other hand, do. If only for being insane enough to play dress up and make other people interested in what the hubub is about.
And like I lined out above, you can actually make it a show that appeals to all of them. Star Trek fans like social commentary in their show. It's been a staple of ST since, well, forever, so if they didn't, they were no fans of the show. What they don't like is if it's done as ham-fisted as this approach.
And that's not even the real problem with the show, what killed it for me was the horrible, horrible dialogues and the wooden acting. Not to mention the Michael character that smacks of very bad Mary-Sue Fanfic.
It does feel like someone turned a Mary-Sue Fanfic story into a TV show, doesn't it?
In case anyone's wondering, Michael is the Mary Sue Character.
Agile development can be quite useful. Sadly, most project managers confuse it with not having to do their work and think "agile" means "the programmers have to change the project daily when I come up with new shit I didn't think about before".
What bothered me most was the ungloved fist-like introduction of the characters. And all of them, without fail, stereotypes. Hello, I'm the nonstandard captain. Hello, I'm the faithful sidekick. Hello, I'm the nonbinary genderfluid ... well, that has to suffice for a character. Hello, I'm the alien.
That's not characters. You could get away with that in a TV show in the 1950s where the Indian was the Indian and the Cowboy was the Cowboy, but PLEASE, TV writing went a wee bit further by now. Who the heck designed these characters? Could they be any more bland and nondescript?
And they don't work together. There is zero chemistry, they don't "work" together. You get the feeling that you are dealing with people who just got thrown into a new project and don't yet know how to treat each other, when they have allegedly been together for years. Well, of course in reality they were, but c'mon, you are allegedly ACTORS! TNG solved this by throwing a new captain into the mix and, as everyone can relate, getting a new boss makes people act cautiously, not knowing what the new head honcho is like, that could have played out well here, too.
I usually sell good advice, this one is free: Can the shit and redo it. Here's how.
First, create a new character, an alien, and make it captain. It's only the logical next step in the development of commanding officers if you want to go down the "inclusive and diverse" road. We've had it all, except an alien captain. Make that race not quite as warlike as the Klingons, but make it a race that has some Klingon traits. The whole warrior code of honor thing comes to mind. And give them a reason to dislike Klingons, which should fit beautifully into the planned setting. It would also allow a lot of very interesting scenes with Saru's character, who such a captain would of course antagonize somehow but at the same time requires him and depends on him at the same time. It would allow some plot angles depicting how we have to work together with people whose personality or whose philosophy we can't stomach. Star Trek has always also been social commentary, and if there's ONE thing right now that we face as a social problem, it's exactly this.
If you really want to go overboard with it, make it a female captain and make the race she's from a very male oriented and dominated species which would again allow a lot of angles that can be explored. Like i said, ST has always been a social commentary on real life issues, so why not? There's plenty of space to develop that race and character, make them associate members of the federation with her leaving her race because she knew she wouldn't get anywhere with her own folks... that alone is enough material for at least 5 episodes.
The idea of making the first officer the focal point and the main character is good, keep that. We need an identification figure in that slot. What we need here is a Joe or Jane Everyperson that many in the audience can relate to. Make sure to make this character well detailed. Don't forget family, hobbies, quirks, the whole shit. This has to be the most detailed character. Gender and race are pretty much negligible in the end, but he or she has to have an aspect that everyone watching can somehow relate to. FFS, I hope you checked your viewer demographics before making this show, so model that character accordingly!
We need a main antagonist. Someone like Tomalak in TNG. That Klingon uniting the Empire comes to mind. Don't show him. Not in the first episode, not even in the first season. You needn't even cast an actor for him yet. Why would the big warlord show his face to those insignificant insects anyway? Megalomania is a good trait, and make him someone the other Klingons revere. Hitler would actually be a great role model for him, mostly because he did something very similar and it worked for very similar reasons.
Get rid of Sarek. Seriously. He's basically the magical negro deus-ex-machina, and if you really need something like this, well, get better writers. S
*6 months later*
Now they canceled the show because you intolerant nazis didn't watch!
Well, I'm at least certain that CBS can boldly stick it where the sun doesn't shine.
Not to mention that light itself would be actuallyslower than you. The "tunneling" phenomenon already starts when you approach light speed, where the amount of stars you see becomes fewer and fewer, with the stars behind you going into redshift and eventually (at light speed) vanishing entirely while stars ahead of you blueshift until at lightspeed even a brown dwarf's low infrared radiation hits you like hard gamma rays. What that would mean at speeds faster than light I have no idea.
By that logic alone, approaching a star at just warp factor 1 seems a wee bit deadly.
If your opponent only respects force, it's quite logical to show him force.
Well, they aired the same time, it's likely they were available on TPB at the same time, too. And people downloading ep1 will probably start downloading ep2 too, why wait?
I think the deciding moment will come when Ep3 comes out, where people will actually have seen the first two and decide based on this whether or not it's worth their bandwidth.
Because if it's not even worth the bandwidth, I doubt many would consider it a subscription...
How you think I'm feeling? I mean, fuck, remember how people were fighting an uphill battle to stop the segregation, and how those white supremacists were adamant to not allow it that it took the effin' National Guard to step in and make it possible?
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
Remember those words? Where the hell did we take the wrong exit?
Why do you try to pigeonhole photons? I think they have the right to be matter or wave, whatever they prefer to be.
My best (former) manager (I was developing Oracle software for a State agency) said that his number one job was to be an umbrella to keep the shit from falling on us and distracting us
I think he's now working for us, these words sound quite familiar.
Oh. Sorry. I didn't notice that this was a joke.
It's already hard enough for me when someone tells it, in written form it's nearly unrecognizable to me.