They have actually redefined the RGB values of those colours, supposedly to better suit LCD monitors.
You couldn't do that originally under DOS because the various graphics adaptors of the day emulated ancient text modes that only supported digital colour and half-bright. That is, each of the red, green and blue channels could be binary on/off and a binary half brightness applied to all of them, so the available colours were (hex RGB values):
000 black 00F blue 0F0 green 0FF cyan F00 red F0F magenta FF0 yellow FFF white 007 dark blue 070 dark green 077 dark cyan 700 dark red 707 dark magenta 770 dark yellow 777 grey (default text colour in DOS)
I did a post comparing the number of white male to non-white or non-male characters in Discovery a while back. Can't find the link now but basically it's 50% of the cast is white male.
TOS was over 70% white male. TNG was more balanced, about 50% depending on who you count as being part of the main cast.
Picard - white male Riker - white male Troi - white female Crusher, B. - white female Crusher, W. - white male LeForge - black male Worf - black male Data - white male
So really Discovery is not at all radical or unusual for Trek, in fact it's the same as it was back in 1987, 30 years ago. I'm not saying that's bad or anything, just pointing out that Discovery isn't some "PC bullshit" or whatever, unless you also consider other Trek series to be the same in which case maybe Trek isn't the franchise for you.
Race mattered in Star Trek. Allowances were made for Worf due to being a Klingon, for example. And it wasn't quite as post-racial as people think, e.g. Riker's reaction when some Ferengi were invited to the Enterprise and he couldn't hide his disgust, even asking for them to be quartered well away from his own dwelling.
Where "social justice", or rather some of the movements that are labelled as such, say that race and gender matter they are just accepting reality as it is. In reality men and women are different, and have slightly different needs in some situations. In reality, some races are disadvantaged in some societies, and trying to ignore that and pretend that we are a perfect meritocracy is not very helpful.
Trek is mostly post-feminist though, at least by TNG times. During the TOS era women couldn't become starship captains for some reason, which today seems ridiculous.
It seems like Tesla has a choice. Set up their own "union" in the form of a worker's council or similar, with real power and funding. Seat on the board, ability to get things sorted out and hold the management to account.
Or accept that the workers will form their own union and deal with that.
There is nothing contradictory about those statements.
The living wage varies from place to place, because it costs more to live in some places. It is the amount someone needs to earn to live comfortably while supporting a modest family in a modest home with healthcare, a pension and some savings for emergencies.
If $15/hr is not a living wage, that doesn't mean that $15.01 is. There is nothing contradictory about what Tesla pays also not being adequate to meet the conditions above.
Tesla claims that its pay is good because it includes valuable stock. Problem is, you can't by groceries or pay the rent with stock, you have to wait until it matures and then sell it. As we should all know, having been through the dot-com boom, stock is not a substitute for wages.
Renewable technology is developing fast enough for our needs. The problem is that it has become somewhat politically toxic and some governments are finding it hard to invest enough in it. For example, in the UK they are wrongly blamed for high energy costs and opposed by NIMBYs.
By the new the UK finishes its latest nuclear power stations, they will be obsolete and unnecessary.
Wind and solar have large numbers of individual small generators, which can be turned on/off easily by angling the blades of the turbines or simply disconnecting/reconnecting them. Hydro is as easy as opening or closing the slew gates.
Battery storage is also ideal for load following, as well as other kinds of storage like below ground pressurised air or pumped water.
Your post has everything. Question the very nature of knowledge, create doubt about everything, pretend that we can't be reasonably certain about anything. The unwritten implication is that your gut is as good as any consensus of experts, and if you gut says lower taxes and don't worry about pollution then that's equally valid.
The headline is misleading. The September launch date is still going ahead, it was just supposed to be January, i.e. 9 months ago. The trailer is what it's going to be like when it starts next month.
It's hardly new for Trek - TNG re-imagined a lot of stuff, including the look for the Klingons. In any case, in the established universe (which this is part of, it's not a reboot) the Klingons did look different back then. There were the augmented Klingons and various other groups with different appearances.
Star Trek Continues released a new episode at the weekend. It's another masterpiece, Trek at its very best. And it manages to deal with a modern social issue, migration and refugees, in a way that presents different arguments and views while creating drama and interest for the viewer.
People seem to forget how bad all the other Star Trek series were at first. TNG had a really bad first season, and the original series had one failed pilot and a difficult start too. Even DS9 and Voyager weren't brilliant from the get-go.
Having said that, the trailer for Discovery looks okay. At most I'd say it's too early to pass judgement.
The best ads are independent reviews of products. I read tech news sites which tell me about new products and review them. If multiple reviewers that I think are reasonably objective bring it to my attention and say it's good, I'll consider it.
The problem for marketing departments is that their products are often total crap. Junk that only sells if they can trick you into buying it somehow. Thus they need advertising to either con you or make you want the new shiny. And I'm gonna block that rubbish.
You are on the right path but I can see a few issues.
The liability could potentially be huge, and in some circumstances not entirely fair. For example, say the manufacturer used a well respected open source library. Did the right thing by not trying to roll their own security, followed the best available advice and practice... But someone finds a bug in it, and starts exploiting their devices.
Maybe they can patch it, assuming that the exploit doesn't disable the update mechanism. Even if they can, it takes time to identify the problem and develop and test the fix. It takes time to roll out to all devices. Is it really fair to hold them to potentially huge liabilities?
There is also the difficulty of holding foreign manufacturers to account, or handling the case where they simply declare bankruptcy and form a new company from the ashes.
I think the best solution is to make the seller deal with security issues the same way as warranty ones. If you have to disconnect it from your network because it's vulnerable, they either have to fix it under warranty or give you your money back. Any costs you suffer can be settled in the usual way via civil law.
The UK has a fairly good system for this. A typical crappy consumer grade router should last 5 years, that's a reasonable expectation. If it fails before then, even outside the warranty period, you can get part of your money back. If it fails after 3 years, you get 40% of the purchase price since it lasted only 60% of the expected lifetime.
Labour capitalized on people noticing that austerity had been a lie - it wasn't all of us in it together, it was most of us getting fucked over and the rich staying nice and rich. The people who caused the banking crisis certainly didn't suffer like the rest of us did.
Now the Tories are back to their usual tactic of blaming people of their own ineffective and half baked policies. I'm sure they could stop terrorism if only Whats App would disable encryption. Yeah, that's the problem.
It's more like just "political content". Lots of people on the left are getting their videos taken down too, mostly due to people maliciously flagging them. Shaun & Jen, H. Bomberguy, Contrapoints... Some people have lost entire channels.
Star Trek seemed to have really strong privacy protections. Clearly they could record everything all the time, but chose not to. When investigation was required there was never any CCTV from the ship, or voice recordings made by the computer.
Meltdowns are almost always a combination of bad reactor design + human error. Both of these can be mitigated.
In theory yes, but in practice there are budgets and profitability to think about. Part of the reason why nuclear is now so expensive is because we realized that those "bordering on impossible" scenarios are actually not that unlikely and need to be addressed.
People seem to conveniently forget that france has generated > 50% of its grid electricity from nuclear for over 50 years without a single major incident.
Yes, it was a great welfare programme for the energy companies. The French electorate has got fed up giving them money though, which is why they are struggling to raise the funds to build plants in other countries like Hinkley C, and having to rely on Chinese investment.
You can tell that this narrative about the Left ruining everything is nonsense by how it only ever applies to things that failed. If they were really that powerful we wouldn't be burning oil in our cars or scrapping Obamacare. And if it really worked the right wing NIMBYs would have blocked every wind farm from ever being built.
The Chinese cancelled most of their new reactors, just finishing the ones they have already started, shortly after Fukushima. Not entirely due to safety concerns either, but because they realized that the market for nuclear power was failing and renewable energy was the smart investment. Look at China now, leading the world in wind, in electric vehicles, even giving the Tesla/Panasonic gigafactory a run for battery production.
Russia has the world's only power-generating fast-neutron reactor (BN-800) and is preparing to build the second generation (BN-1200) of this reactor type.
From Wikipedia:
"In 2015, after several minor delays, problems at the recently completed BN-800 indicated a redesign was needed. Construction of the BN-1200 was put on "indefinite hold",[1] and Rosenergoatom has stated that no decision to continue will be made before 2019."
That's why people aren't rushing to build these things. They are wonderful until someone notices that some unforeseen design flaw needs to be rectified, or some unforeseen stupidity mode comes to light, and suddenly it's delayed for a decade and billions are added to the price.
Plenty of progressive/left leaning videos get taken down too. 4chan users have been flagging them like mad lately, and some videos and even entire channels have been removed because of it.
It's not some political conspiracy by YouTube, it's just a shitty system that is wide open to abuse and utterly devoid of human oversight.
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If anything is wrong now, and if anything has destroyed a generation, it's baby boomers. They screwed the millennials pretty hard.
They have actually redefined the RGB values of those colours, supposedly to better suit LCD monitors.
You couldn't do that originally under DOS because the various graphics adaptors of the day emulated ancient text modes that only supported digital colour and half-bright. That is, each of the red, green and blue channels could be binary on/off and a binary half brightness applied to all of them, so the available colours were (hex RGB values):
000 black
00F blue
0F0 green
0FF cyan
F00 red
F0F magenta
FF0 yellow
FFF white
007 dark blue
070 dark green
077 dark cyan
700 dark red
707 dark magenta
770 dark yellow
777 grey (default text colour in DOS)
I guess it's C#, then it would be valid.
I did a post comparing the number of white male to non-white or non-male characters in Discovery a while back. Can't find the link now but basically it's 50% of the cast is white male.
TOS was over 70% white male. TNG was more balanced, about 50% depending on who you count as being part of the main cast.
Picard - white male
Riker - white male
Troi - white female
Crusher, B. - white female
Crusher, W. - white male
LeForge - black male
Worf - black male
Data - white male
So really Discovery is not at all radical or unusual for Trek, in fact it's the same as it was back in 1987, 30 years ago. I'm not saying that's bad or anything, just pointing out that Discovery isn't some "PC bullshit" or whatever, unless you also consider other Trek series to be the same in which case maybe Trek isn't the franchise for you.
Race mattered in Star Trek. Allowances were made for Worf due to being a Klingon, for example. And it wasn't quite as post-racial as people think, e.g. Riker's reaction when some Ferengi were invited to the Enterprise and he couldn't hide his disgust, even asking for them to be quartered well away from his own dwelling.
Where "social justice", or rather some of the movements that are labelled as such, say that race and gender matter they are just accepting reality as it is. In reality men and women are different, and have slightly different needs in some situations. In reality, some races are disadvantaged in some societies, and trying to ignore that and pretend that we are a perfect meritocracy is not very helpful.
Trek is mostly post-feminist though, at least by TNG times. During the TOS era women couldn't become starship captains for some reason, which today seems ridiculous.
It seems like Tesla has a choice. Set up their own "union" in the form of a worker's council or similar, with real power and funding. Seat on the board, ability to get things sorted out and hold the management to account.
Or accept that the workers will form their own union and deal with that.
hose points proclaim a 52-percent reduction in âoelost time incidentsâ and 30-percent reduction in âoerecordable incidentsâ during the first quarter.
That sounds like an admission that things were bad and they were forced to improve when people started complaining and looking to unionize.
There is nothing contradictory about those statements.
The living wage varies from place to place, because it costs more to live in some places. It is the amount someone needs to earn to live comfortably while supporting a modest family in a modest home with healthcare, a pension and some savings for emergencies.
If $15/hr is not a living wage, that doesn't mean that $15.01 is. There is nothing contradictory about what Tesla pays also not being adequate to meet the conditions above.
Tesla claims that its pay is good because it includes valuable stock. Problem is, you can't by groceries or pay the rent with stock, you have to wait until it matures and then sell it. As we should all know, having been through the dot-com boom, stock is not a substitute for wages.
Renewable technology is developing fast enough for our needs. The problem is that it has become somewhat politically toxic and some governments are finding it hard to invest enough in it. For example, in the UK they are wrongly blamed for high energy costs and opposed by NIMBYs.
By the new the UK finishes its latest nuclear power stations, they will be obsolete and unnecessary.
Renewables are ideal for rapid stop/start.
Wind and solar have large numbers of individual small generators, which can be turned on/off easily by angling the blades of the turbines or simply disconnecting/reconnecting them. Hydro is as easy as opening or closing the slew gates.
Battery storage is also ideal for load following, as well as other kinds of storage like below ground pressurised air or pumped water.
Post truth bullshit.
Your post has everything. Question the very nature of knowledge, create doubt about everything, pretend that we can't be reasonably certain about anything. The unwritten implication is that your gut is as good as any consensus of experts, and if you gut says lower taxes and don't worry about pollution then that's equally valid.
The headline is misleading. The September launch date is still going ahead, it was just supposed to be January, i.e. 9 months ago. The trailer is what it's going to be like when it starts next month.
It's hardly new for Trek - TNG re-imagined a lot of stuff, including the look for the Klingons. In any case, in the established universe (which this is part of, it's not a reboot) the Klingons did look different back then. There were the augmented Klingons and various other groups with different appearances.
Star Trek Continues released a new episode at the weekend. It's another masterpiece, Trek at its very best. And it manages to deal with a modern social issue, migration and refugees, in a way that presents different arguments and views while creating drama and interest for the viewer.
People seem to forget how bad all the other Star Trek series were at first. TNG had a really bad first season, and the original series had one failed pilot and a difficult start too. Even DS9 and Voyager weren't brilliant from the get-go.
Having said that, the trailer for Discovery looks okay. At most I'd say it's too early to pass judgement.
No, but it makes people think twice when the project could cost billions more than expected or be cancelled entirely.
The best ads are independent reviews of products. I read tech news sites which tell me about new products and review them. If multiple reviewers that I think are reasonably objective bring it to my attention and say it's good, I'll consider it.
The problem for marketing departments is that their products are often total crap. Junk that only sells if they can trick you into buying it somehow. Thus they need advertising to either con you or make you want the new shiny. And I'm gonna block that rubbish.
You are on the right path but I can see a few issues.
The liability could potentially be huge, and in some circumstances not entirely fair. For example, say the manufacturer used a well respected open source library. Did the right thing by not trying to roll their own security, followed the best available advice and practice... But someone finds a bug in it, and starts exploiting their devices.
Maybe they can patch it, assuming that the exploit doesn't disable the update mechanism. Even if they can, it takes time to identify the problem and develop and test the fix. It takes time to roll out to all devices. Is it really fair to hold them to potentially huge liabilities?
There is also the difficulty of holding foreign manufacturers to account, or handling the case where they simply declare bankruptcy and form a new company from the ashes.
I think the best solution is to make the seller deal with security issues the same way as warranty ones. If you have to disconnect it from your network because it's vulnerable, they either have to fix it under warranty or give you your money back. Any costs you suffer can be settled in the usual way via civil law.
The UK has a fairly good system for this. A typical crappy consumer grade router should last 5 years, that's a reasonable expectation. If it fails before then, even outside the warranty period, you can get part of your money back. If it fails after 3 years, you get 40% of the purchase price since it lasted only 60% of the expected lifetime.
No, it's just the usual politics of blame.
Labour capitalized on people noticing that austerity had been a lie - it wasn't all of us in it together, it was most of us getting fucked over and the rich staying nice and rich. The people who caused the banking crisis certainly didn't suffer like the rest of us did.
Now the Tories are back to their usual tactic of blaming people of their own ineffective and half baked policies. I'm sure they could stop terrorism if only Whats App would disable encryption. Yeah, that's the problem.
It's more like just "political content". Lots of people on the left are getting their videos taken down too, mostly due to people maliciously flagging them. Shaun & Jen, H. Bomberguy, Contrapoints... Some people have lost entire channels.
https://youtu.be/UgNhO8lMINw
Star Trek seemed to have really strong privacy protections. Clearly they could record everything all the time, but chose not to. When investigation was required there was never any CCTV from the ship, or voice recordings made by the computer.
Meltdowns are almost always a combination of bad reactor design + human error. Both of these can be mitigated.
In theory yes, but in practice there are budgets and profitability to think about. Part of the reason why nuclear is now so expensive is because we realized that those "bordering on impossible" scenarios are actually not that unlikely and need to be addressed.
People seem to conveniently forget that france has generated > 50% of its grid electricity from nuclear for over 50 years without a single major incident.
Yes, it was a great welfare programme for the energy companies. The French electorate has got fed up giving them money though, which is why they are struggling to raise the funds to build plants in other countries like Hinkley C, and having to rely on Chinese investment.
Actually, no.
You can tell that this narrative about the Left ruining everything is nonsense by how it only ever applies to things that failed. If they were really that powerful we wouldn't be burning oil in our cars or scrapping Obamacare. And if it really worked the right wing NIMBYs would have blocked every wind farm from ever being built.
The Chinese cancelled most of their new reactors, just finishing the ones they have already started, shortly after Fukushima. Not entirely due to safety concerns either, but because they realized that the market for nuclear power was failing and renewable energy was the smart investment. Look at China now, leading the world in wind, in electric vehicles, even giving the Tesla/Panasonic gigafactory a run for battery production.
Russia has the world's only power-generating fast-neutron reactor (BN-800) and is preparing to build the second generation (BN-1200) of this reactor type.
From Wikipedia:
"In 2015, after several minor delays, problems at the recently completed BN-800 indicated a redesign was needed. Construction of the BN-1200 was put on "indefinite hold",[1] and Rosenergoatom has stated that no decision to continue will be made before 2019."
That's why people aren't rushing to build these things. They are wonderful until someone notices that some unforeseen design flaw needs to be rectified, or some unforeseen stupidity mode comes to light, and suddenly it's delayed for a decade and billions are added to the price.
Plenty of progressive/left leaning videos get taken down too. 4chan users have been flagging them like mad lately, and some videos and even entire channels have been removed because of it.
It's not some political conspiracy by YouTube, it's just a shitty system that is wide open to abuse and utterly devoid of human oversight.