This is the way I heard it from a full-on Trekkie:
1)When the Klingons first met up with Humans they, "liked the look", beginning with the "Royal Klingons" - it became a fashion statement to have yourself genetically and cosmetically altered to appear more "human". Much in the same way as Oriental persons today have surgery to create the white european tea-bag look under the eyes...
2)When the Klingons first met up with Humans they created a gene-altering virus in order to infiltrate and spy on Humans. The virus got out of control and infected the whole Klingon population.
By the time of the film episode, "The Undiscovered Country", either the fashion, or, the effects of the virus began to wear out, and we begin to see Klingons evolving back into their natural appearance.
The second version is funnier by far, maybe someone should submit a script for the the new series, involving support groups for human-virus infected Klingons... "My mate left me, I woke up one morning and my forehead was smooth... boo-hooo-hooo-hoooo..."
I do tech support for several ISPs. I set up clients to use the browser and email program that comes with the OS. I just got grand-dad to connect with Windows 95, get the homepage, and check his email... do you really think I'm going to end that hour of hell by saying, "Now, if you don't like that browser let me show you how to download and install Netscape."??? Haha, yeah right! Thats where the numbers come from, IMHO, and not because IE is a better product. Thats a matter of opinion AFAIC. Its just whats easiest to do. NOW. If Netscape or Mozilla can make it worth an ISP's time to coax the sheep into Netscape they might have better luck with browser share. Yeah, I know the problem starts with Microsoft having IE 'built-in', but perhaps NSs (ie AOLs) marketing divisions might consider that avenue.
Does anyone remember, "The treacherous French! Who crippled our once-great economy and wrecked our telephone system!" from the movie 'Death Race 2000'...
Nobody has ever knocked on my door and offered to teach me about "Not believing in God".
Yes indeed my friend, there have been socialist revolutions of many flavors that have played that particular trick-or-treat.
No, they just inject it directly into school curriculums...
Rrriiight... teachers are telling children, literally telling children, that there is no God... "Good moring class. Open your science books to page 66, chapter 6, entitled, 'There is no God'. Timmy will you read the first paragraph..."
You two guys are the bookends on the Time-Life Destruction of Civilization book set.
Its much preferable for me to imagine that Deckard was human, and that the androids dilemma over the reality of memories extends to the human breed as well.
This view makes for more interesting speculation, than whether he was an android or not, IMHO.
the delightfully thin premise that they could use this rocket as a sort of super helicopter
Yes thats is exactly. The feds gave them a permit to use the ship as an "experimental hovercraft", provided they only used conventional fuel and not the very nasty fuel that they had pirated from NASA to take them to the moon. I loved that damn show. And I say good luck to Captain Wslker. May he go s-ss-sonic!
Has there ever been a push to 'slim down' software packaging, similar to what happened with CD's in the early 90s?
Hell no.
If not, should there be?
Hell YES.
There should be a push for software to be sold in jewel cases without all the cardboard, and sometimes plastic casings. All documentation can be put on the disk and printed out if needed, or a double cd jewel case can be used which have plenty of room for small 'getting started' booklets.
If shelf visibility is a concern for software companies perhaps they should consider reuseable shelf displays and dioramas for their product to sit upon.
I never RTDM anyway. I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to.
More like about five episodes. And I'm in full agreement with associated posts to this thread on the content of the series, sexually its completely twisted.
If you live in or around Dallas, Texas you can rent the whole series at Forbidden Books and Tapes in Fair Park. I think I'll just stick with Akira-like anime, thanks just the same.
Also, Stars is running an anime flick every Sunday at midnight nowadays so be sure to check it out.
I realize your objective is to apply AI to web pages or a web site, however... I would prefer to see AI put to work in the form of a personal web search entity. Your preset web browsing interests are fuzzy-logically enhanced by an artificial entity's observation of your web browsing patterns. That is, when the entity sees that your interest in the subject of 'computer games' leads to you web pages with certain words or phrases or brand names, that information gets added and subtracted to/from the defining characteristics of that subject by fuzzy/intelligent deduction. During periods of inactivity the entity looks up more web pages of interest to you by way of search, news, and discussion sites, also by way of a server for entities to meet and exchange information. Older, smarter entities help out the new ones. You get a report on demand or an alert when your entity has some info it thinks you might want. Of course, a 'personality' on it would make it fun. Like the computer doggie from that old AT&T 'You will...' commercial, "I have a lead on the tickets you wanted." "Thank you Fido."
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>>>how they affect each other without ever knowing each other. Could be a quite claustrophobic series.
Sounds like, Space: Above and Beyond...
No Thanks.
This is the way I heard it from a full-on Trekkie:
1)When the Klingons first met up with Humans they, "liked the look", beginning with the "Royal Klingons" - it became a fashion statement to have yourself genetically and cosmetically altered to appear more "human". Much in the same way as Oriental persons today have surgery to create the white european tea-bag look under the eyes...
2)When the Klingons first met up with Humans they created a gene-altering virus in order to infiltrate and spy on Humans. The virus got out of control and infected the whole Klingon population.
By the time of the film episode, "The Undiscovered Country", either the fashion, or, the effects of the virus began to wear out, and we begin to see Klingons evolving back into their natural appearance.
The second version is funnier by far, maybe someone should submit a script for the the new series, involving support groups for human-virus infected Klingons... "My mate left me, I woke up one morning and my forehead was smooth... boo-hooo-hooo-hoooo..."
I do tech support for several ISPs. I set up clients to use the browser and email program that comes with the OS. I just got grand-dad to connect with Windows 95, get the homepage, and check his email... do you really think I'm going to end that hour of hell by saying, "Now, if you don't like that browser let me show you how to download and install Netscape."??? Haha, yeah right! Thats where the numbers come from, IMHO, and not because IE is a better product. Thats a matter of opinion AFAIC. Its just whats easiest to do. NOW. If Netscape or Mozilla can make it worth an ISP's time to coax the sheep into Netscape they might have better luck with browser share. Yeah, I know the problem starts with Microsoft having IE 'built-in', but perhaps NSs (ie AOLs) marketing divisions might consider that avenue.
Does anyone remember, "The treacherous French! Who crippled our once-great economy and wrecked our telephone system!" from the movie 'Death Race 2000'...
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Sorry. I just had to get get that in here, for some reason...
Nobody has ever knocked on my door and offered to teach me about "Not believing in God". Yes indeed my friend, there have been socialist revolutions of many flavors that have played that particular trick-or-treat. No, they just inject it directly into school curriculums... Rrriiight... teachers are telling children, literally telling children, that there is no God... "Good moring class. Open your science books to page 66, chapter 6, entitled, 'There is no God'. Timmy will you read the first paragraph..." You two guys are the bookends on the Time-Life Destruction of Civilization book set.
It's multiverseBSD... Sending sentient life forms to /dev/null since eternity....
Its much preferable for me to imagine that Deckard was human, and that the androids dilemma over the reality of memories extends to the human breed as well.
This view makes for more interesting speculation, than whether he was an android or not, IMHO.
the delightfully thin premise that they could use this rocket as a sort of super helicopter
Yes thats is exactly. The feds gave them a permit to use the ship as an "experimental hovercraft", provided they only used conventional fuel and not the very nasty fuel that they had pirated from NASA to take them to the moon. I loved that damn show. And I say good luck to Captain Wslker. May he go s-ss-sonic!
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Has there ever been a push to 'slim down' software packaging, similar to what happened with CD's in the early 90s?
Hell no.
If not, should there be?
Hell YES.
There should be a push for software to be sold in jewel cases without all the cardboard, and sometimes plastic casings. All documentation can be put on the disk and printed out if needed, or a double cd jewel case can be used which have plenty of room for small 'getting started' booklets.
If shelf visibility is a concern for software companies perhaps they should consider reuseable shelf displays and dioramas for their product to sit upon.
I never RTDM anyway. I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to.
Fire the "laser".
I have good news and bad news:
/. trollers and shitting potato-powered beowulf clusters.
The bad news is that the Martians have landed.
The good news is they're eating fanatical, conservative, off-topic,
Also a sci-fi short story by Asimov, "Buy Jupiter".
More like about five episodes. And I'm in full agreement with associated posts to this thread on the content of the series, sexually its completely twisted.
If you live in or around Dallas, Texas you can rent the whole series at Forbidden Books and Tapes in Fair Park. I think I'll just stick with Akira-like anime, thanks just the same.
Also, Stars is running an anime flick every Sunday at midnight nowadays so be sure to check it out.
I realize your objective is to apply AI to web pages or a web site, however...
I would prefer to see AI put to work in the form of a personal web search entity. Your preset web browsing interests are fuzzy-logically enhanced by an artificial entity's observation of your web browsing patterns. That is, when the entity sees that your interest in the subject of 'computer games' leads to you web pages with certain words or phrases or brand names, that information gets added and subtracted to/from the defining characteristics of that subject by fuzzy/intelligent deduction. During periods of inactivity the entity looks up more web pages of interest to you by way of search, news, and discussion sites, also by way of a server for entities to meet and exchange information. Older, smarter entities help out the new ones. You get a report on demand or an alert when your entity has some info it thinks you might want. Of course, a 'personality' on it would make it fun. Like the computer doggie from that old AT&T 'You will...' commercial, "I have a lead on the tickets you wanted."
"Thank you Fido."