Even the Federation ships had a downgrade though. Look at the screens in the runnabouts.
They switched from using backlit static panels and compositing to using live displays on CRTs. For some reason they didn't bother with flat CRTs though, even though they were available at the time. Probably due to cost.
I've been enjoying The Orville too. I just find it funny that so many people who seem to hate Discovery for the "touchy feely crap" and "forced diversity" seem to love that show.
Last week the away team was three women, a man and a genderless robot. Two of the women had a long conversation about their feelings. There was also a domestic conflict subplot. The week before that it was an all-male society that considered the female gender to be a handicap in need of medical intervention, loads more feels there. Before that it was more domestic conflict when an ex-married couple are forced together in an apartment/zoo, and a female member of the crew has a crisis of confidence that she needs to talk out at length.
In comparison Discovery is very business-like and direct.
I think Discovery could keep with the ideals of Trek. Remember the war in DS9, it was fascinating to see how that kind of enlightened society dealt with a major conflict. Hopefully they will bring the moral issues that made that great into Discovery as time goes on.
The ship's computer seems to have gone through some fairly drastic changes over the years.
Enterprise: No voice interface, apparently people got fed up with Alexa and Siri by the next century.
Discovery: Young female voice borrowed from an early 21st century sat-nav.
Original Series: Lost her voice again, people finally realized that touch interfaces and transparent screens are dumb and reverted to good old reliable 12V bulbs and switches.
Next Generation: The computer is a bit older and wiser now, and everything reverted to flat screens and touch panels.
Deep Space 9: CRTs are back in fashion, complete with curved display.
Voyager: Why does the ship even need people any more?
Two Klingons? She killed one on the Klingon ship after beaming aboard, but the only other one I remember was the one she accidentally impaled during the first encounter in space suits.
You are right about the ending of the second episode, it could have been better.
I can assure you that Musk is wrong. Tesla haven't even got their Autopilot V2 hardware working as well as the V1 yet, let alone self driving. I see they have release a V2.5 hardware as well, which doesn't bode well for people with V1 and V2.0.
I've switched to Bluetooth for headphones (Android supports AptX) because I need the headphone jack for something else: a strap.
Remember when phones used to have mounting points to loop a strap through? And when phone cases did? I need a strap because I don't want to drop my expensive, slippery phone. So now I have a little widget that locks into the headphone socket and provides a little metal loop.
In future I think I'll have to resort to buying a more chunky case with strap loop, or hacking one. The problem is that the phone can still fall out of the case with enough force, e.g. when it slips away, falls and is retarded by the strap.
The Pixel camera is a major step up from the iPhone. Okay, not DSLR good, but the dynamic range is incredible. Night shots come out really well, plenty of detail in the shadows and minimal bloom from lighting.
I love it because I don't have to screw around with settings to get a good result, it mostly just works. And I do own a DSLR as well, I just don't want to carry it when my phone is 95% as good most of the time. Better in fact, the auto mode is far superior to my DSLR and often I either can't or don't want to hang around setting it up.
Was kind of hoping for some interesting discussion about the show. It's very different... The captain from the first two episodes was a model Starfleet officer, trying to avoid conflict and do the right thing. Now we are getting echos of Section 31 and doing what it takes to win the war.
The Federation itself perhaps has not reached that level yet. Life imprisonment doesn't sound very enlightened, especially when the crime was largely poor decision making. Of course, in reality she was actually correct and the Klingons would have started the war no matter what, but the court didn't know that. Had she succeeded in destroying that ship the war might actually have been averted.
Star Trek usually considers the moral and philosophical implications of choices, but so far there has been very little of that in Discover. Okay, we are only 3 episodes in so probably too early to judge.
Their obsession with the internet is actually making them blind to the real threats. There was a BBC investigation broadcast just yesterday that revealed newspapers and leaflets openly praising jihadis were being widely distributed. No-one noticed because they were written in Urdu, and they are too focused on the internet.
If people has been armed in Vegas it would have made the situation worse. Unless one was carrying a sniper rifle there would be no way they could have hit the guy. Too far away and high up for hand guns... Maybe someone really skilled with a hunting rifle might have got lucky.
More likely people would have started shooting where they suspected the shots were coming from, so now as well as the criminal you have paniced people sending bullets all over the place.
what was more damage: the fact that her private server was hacked or the contents of that private server?
Clearly the hack, or rather the release of the hack. Remember that the FBI looked at those emails and decided that there was no case to answer, but the damage was already done.
It's definitely their strategy. They like to create genuine looking fake news sites and then spam links to them everywhere, while also doing their best to discredit non-fake sources by overstating their failings.
Also, they should post conflicting versions of stories and events to help readers make better informed decisions as to whether or not a news item is believable.
The problem with that is that it gives credibility to fake news sites by presenting them as genuine alternatives to reputable sources.
Google's stated goal is to be like the computer on Star Trek, i.e. to provide answers to questions naturally, like a person would. So when a user searches for current events or names, Google's goal is to provide reliable and current information, not just an Altavista style database query dump or the results of a popularity contest.
When people are searching for information on a mass shooting, they are probably not looking for 4chan conspiracy theories and fake news.
You think that the theft of her private emails and the sudden release of a large batch of them (which were completely innocent by the way, don't forget that) a couple of weeks before the vote, perfectly timed to cause maximum damage, was a coincidence? Even though the hacking has been linked to Russia.
Even though Trump has done his best to scupper it, the results of the official investigation are going to blow your mind.
The facebook ads are the tip of the iceberg. Plus the Clinton campaign was bound by electoral rules and was already under heavy attack by the leaked emails and subsequent last minute FBI investigation, which were Russian efforts to damage her.
Most of it is just trying to charge you for free stuff anyway. How often does a Slashdot story include "story may be paywalled, click here to read the same thing for free"?
Junk mail is well understood to be advertising things that are for sale. Search results with snippets of articles are understood to take you to those articles to read.
It would be fine if Google put a little icon to indicate non-free content next to such results, and allowed you to filter them out.
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Even the Federation ships had a downgrade though. Look at the screens in the runnabouts.
They switched from using backlit static panels and compositing to using live displays on CRTs. For some reason they didn't bother with flat CRTs though, even though they were available at the time. Probably due to cost.
I've been enjoying The Orville too. I just find it funny that so many people who seem to hate Discovery for the "touchy feely crap" and "forced diversity" seem to love that show.
Last week the away team was three women, a man and a genderless robot. Two of the women had a long conversation about their feelings. There was also a domestic conflict subplot. The week before that it was an all-male society that considered the female gender to be a handicap in need of medical intervention, loads more feels there. Before that it was more domestic conflict when an ex-married couple are forced together in an apartment/zoo, and a female member of the crew has a crisis of confidence that she needs to talk out at length.
In comparison Discovery is very business-like and direct.
I think Discovery could keep with the ideals of Trek. Remember the war in DS9, it was fascinating to see how that kind of enlightened society dealt with a major conflict. Hopefully they will bring the moral issues that made that great into Discovery as time goes on.
Why do starship designers love to route plasma conduits behind control panels?
The ship's computer seems to have gone through some fairly drastic changes over the years.
Enterprise: No voice interface, apparently people got fed up with Alexa and Siri by the next century.
Discovery: Young female voice borrowed from an early 21st century sat-nav.
Original Series: Lost her voice again, people finally realized that touch interfaces and transparent screens are dumb and reverted to good old reliable 12V bulbs and switches.
Next Generation: The computer is a bit older and wiser now, and everything reverted to flat screens and touch panels.
Deep Space 9: CRTs are back in fashion, complete with curved display.
Voyager: Why does the ship even need people any more?
Two Klingons? She killed one on the Klingon ship after beaming aboard, but the only other one I remember was the one she accidentally impaled during the first encounter in space suits.
You are right about the ending of the second episode, it could have been better.
I can assure you that Musk is wrong. Tesla haven't even got their Autopilot V2 hardware working as well as the V1 yet, let alone self driving. I see they have release a V2.5 hardware as well, which doesn't bode well for people with V1 and V2.0.
I've switched to Bluetooth for headphones (Android supports AptX) because I need the headphone jack for something else: a strap.
Remember when phones used to have mounting points to loop a strap through? And when phone cases did? I need a strap because I don't want to drop my expensive, slippery phone. So now I have a little widget that locks into the headphone socket and provides a little metal loop.
In future I think I'll have to resort to buying a more chunky case with strap loop, or hacking one. The problem is that the phone can still fall out of the case with enough force, e.g. when it slips away, falls and is retarded by the strap.
The Pixel camera is a major step up from the iPhone. Okay, not DSLR good, but the dynamic range is incredible. Night shots come out really well, plenty of detail in the shadows and minimal bloom from lighting.
I love it because I don't have to screw around with settings to get a good result, it mostly just works. And I do own a DSLR as well, I just don't want to carry it when my phone is 95% as good most of the time. Better in fact, the auto mode is far superior to my DSLR and often I either can't or don't want to hang around setting it up.
Was kind of hoping for some interesting discussion about the show. It's very different... The captain from the first two episodes was a model Starfleet officer, trying to avoid conflict and do the right thing. Now we are getting echos of Section 31 and doing what it takes to win the war.
The Federation itself perhaps has not reached that level yet. Life imprisonment doesn't sound very enlightened, especially when the crime was largely poor decision making. Of course, in reality she was actually correct and the Klingons would have started the war no matter what, but the court didn't know that. Had she succeeded in destroying that ship the war might actually have been averted.
Star Trek usually considers the moral and philosophical implications of choices, but so far there has been very little of that in Discover. Okay, we are only 3 episodes in so probably too early to judge.
Their obsession with the internet is actually making them blind to the real threats. There was a BBC investigation broadcast just yesterday that revealed newspapers and leaflets openly praising jihadis were being widely distributed. No-one noticed because they were written in Urdu, and they are too focused on the internet.
If people has been armed in Vegas it would have made the situation worse. Unless one was carrying a sniper rifle there would be no way they could have hit the guy. Too far away and high up for hand guns... Maybe someone really skilled with a hunting rifle might have got lucky.
More likely people would have started shooting where they suspected the shots were coming from, so now as well as the criminal you have paniced people sending bullets all over the place.
The UK wants to divorce from Europe partly because those pesky European Human Rights keep getting in the way if their oppression.
The hacking has been widely attributed to Russian, including by the US government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I don't know why you thought it was Snowden, that's that bizarre.
They are sub £5000 in the UK so maybe $6000 US... But I don't know what the market is like over there.
The exact same thing happened to me.
what was more damage: the fact that her private server was hacked or the contents of that private server?
Clearly the hack, or rather the release of the hack. Remember that the FBI looked at those emails and decided that there was no case to answer, but the damage was already done.
It's definitely their strategy. They like to create genuine looking fake news sites and then spam links to them everywhere, while also doing their best to discredit non-fake sources by overstating their failings.
Also, they should post conflicting versions of stories and events to help readers make better informed decisions as to whether or not a news item is believable.
The problem with that is that it gives credibility to fake news sites by presenting them as genuine alternatives to reputable sources.
Google's stated goal is to be like the computer on Star Trek, i.e. to provide answers to questions naturally, like a person would. So when a user searches for current events or names, Google's goal is to provide reliable and current information, not just an Altavista style database query dump or the results of a popularity contest.
When people are searching for information on a mass shooting, they are probably not looking for 4chan conspiracy theories and fake news.
Obviously I'm not posting hard enough.
You think that the theft of her private emails and the sudden release of a large batch of them (which were completely innocent by the way, don't forget that) a couple of weeks before the vote, perfectly timed to cause maximum damage, was a coincidence? Even though the hacking has been linked to Russia.
Even though Trump has done his best to scupper it, the results of the official investigation are going to blow your mind.
The facebook ads are the tip of the iceberg. Plus the Clinton campaign was bound by electoral rules and was already under heavy attack by the leaked emails and subsequent last minute FBI investigation, which were Russian efforts to damage her.
A paywall will get the site down-ranked naturally anyway. People will link to it a lot less often.
Most of it is just trying to charge you for free stuff anyway. How often does a Slashdot story include "story may be paywalled, click here to read the same thing for free"?
Junk mail is well understood to be advertising things that are for sale. Search results with snippets of articles are understood to take you to those articles to read.
It would be fine if Google put a little icon to indicate non-free content next to such results, and allowed you to filter them out.