Why would manufacturers want to get their heads into the real world? If they can do things like get consumers to (potentially) pay for tech support instead of finding answers in a decent manual or if they can get people to think they have an HDTV when they don't, then they've got a pretty good thing going. The only recourse is if they're being deceptive or vague on purpose, and then force them to get it together.
Don't we have this thing called due process in this country any more? Seems like crap like this just bypasses tenets like that and "innocent until proven guilty", if they can just go after you for thinking you've got pirated music.
Actually, I think what they need to do is give it a rest for awhile. There's only so much they can do before they're just rehashing or just plain ripping off old stories. It seemed to me like that's what Voyager became on several instances, and now we have Enterprise and the Borg showing up.
I know it won't happen, but it would be great to see Trek completely disappear from the airwaves for several years. Just think how cool it must have been for the original series to go off the air in the late sixties, then show up again on the big screen a decade later. Well, great for the fans when TMP came out, at least.
When The Motion Picture came out, fans had an appetite for Trek, one that we don't have anymore. And how can we, having had nothing but a bunch of crap with the name Star Trek attached (either officially or unoficially, as with Enterprise) shoved down our throats?
I think the whole status of the franchise can be summed up with the opening theme for Enterprise. Hands down, people hate that song. Sure, there may be one or two fans, but for the most part, it sucks.
When asked about the backlash brought on by the atrocious theme, Rick Berman's response was "I like it". That there, to me, is the whole problem. Berman doesn't give a shit about what anyone else thinks. If he likes it, good to go. And, since Berman has shitty taste and doesn't know the first thing about Trek, we're stuck with substandard crap.
Keep in mind that the moon (its gravity, etc.) has influence on what happens here on earth. That, however, was not what I was getting at.
The whole idea of what I was saying was to point out our natural selfishness and continual drive to fulfill our needs, regardless of anything else. Sure, the moon doesn't have an ecosystem to destroy. But what about the future? Say that we eventually have the capability to move beyond our solar system. What then? Chances are, we'll be running out of resources in the future as well. Are we just going to ru around, destroying whatever we please, just because our resources "have to come from somewhere"?
"The improved battery life derived from the ability of the Centrino platform to complete the assigned tasks more quickly than the Pentium III-M, Chandrasekher said"
With 1 MB of heat dissipatin' cache (assuming it's on-die) and higher clock speeds, I think things are a little more complicated than "oh, it does things faster." What all have they done to get energy consumption and heat dissipation under control?
Ok, this is an honest question, not meant to be a smart-ass comment or something I'm saying just to be a jerk.
Do you hate, or at least have a distaste, for Star Trek fans (in general)? Despite the fact that you continue to write books based on Captain Kirk, I always get the sense that you want to distance yourself from the franchise.
If you're not going to buy a diamond because of the immoral things that went into producing that diamond, you're going to have to start reconsidering a *lot* of your purchasing decisions.
Get off your high horse and get her what she wants. Besides, she's a woman; don't they always get what they want anyway?;)
What this is trying to do is make the MPAA an arm of the justice department, with their own rules and punishments, as well as the authority to put them to use. They "see" a crime, and they go out and exact a sentence, in the form of a DoS atack, all on their own. And I like how they can do it on "reasonable suspicion"... None of this messy "innocent until proven guilty" nonsense.
I think that to the tech oriented person, this sounds like a bad idea. It does to me. I personally don't like the idea of not owning my software or having my own storage for my own data.
Of course, everyone isn't me and you. I think, for the average consumer, this is desirable. Especially with a new version of Office or whatever coming out every year. How many "average" users will want to continually upgrade or installing new software, when they can pay a some sort of fee and have it happen automatically? With the increasing availability of broadband access, I can see how something like this would catch on. I don't like it, but I do see its merits.
Slashdot Mirror
Why don't we blame physics instead for making it so hard to keep transistors and circuits made from them cool as speed & complexity increase.
Why would manufacturers want to get their heads into the real world? If they can do things like get consumers to (potentially) pay for tech support instead of finding answers in a decent manual or if they can get people to think they have an HDTV when they don't, then they've got a pretty good thing going. The only recourse is if they're being deceptive or vague on purpose, and then force them to get it together.
This makes me feel better about staying up all night downloading pr0n. Well, no it doesn't.
:)
And yes, the pun in the title of this messafe was intebded
Don't we have this thing called due process in this country any more? Seems like crap like this just bypasses tenets like that and "innocent until proven guilty", if they can just go after you for thinking you've got pirated music.
Actually, I think what they need to do is give it a rest for awhile. There's only so much they can do before they're just rehashing or just plain ripping off old stories. It seemed to me like that's what Voyager became on several instances, and now we have Enterprise and the Borg showing up. I know it won't happen, but it would be great to see Trek completely disappear from the airwaves for several years. Just think how cool it must have been for the original series to go off the air in the late sixties, then show up again on the big screen a decade later. Well, great for the fans when TMP came out, at least. When The Motion Picture came out, fans had an appetite for Trek, one that we don't have anymore. And how can we, having had nothing but a bunch of crap with the name Star Trek attached (either officially or unoficially, as with Enterprise) shoved down our throats?
I think the whole status of the franchise can be summed up with the opening theme for Enterprise. Hands down, people hate that song. Sure, there may be one or two fans, but for the most part, it sucks.
When asked about the backlash brought on by the atrocious theme, Rick Berman's response was "I like it". That there, to me, is the whole problem. Berman doesn't give a shit about what anyone else thinks. If he likes it, good to go. And, since Berman has shitty taste and doesn't know the first thing about Trek, we're stuck with substandard crap.
"... Brandon Cotter is urging moralistic Web surfers to take matters into their own hands"
Isn't "taking matters into their own hands" the problem that they're trying to solve?
Yup, it's gone from being a picture of a bad day on earth to a bad day for JPL's webmasters.
Aren't there some other good reasons to move to Amsterdam? Seems like there's at least one or two...
Yeah... I meant to do that...
Keep in mind that the moon (its gravity, etc.) has influence on what happens here on earth. That, however, was not what I was getting at.
The whole idea of what I was saying was to point out our natural selfishness and continual drive to fulfill our needs, regardless of anything else. Sure, the moon doesn't have an ecosystem to destroy. But what about the future? Say that we eventually have the capability to move beyond our solar system. What then? Chances are, we'll be running out of resources in the future as well. Are we just going to ru around, destroying whatever we please, just because our resources "have to come from somewhere"?
We aren't doing a good enough job of runing this planet, so why not move on and start screwing up the rest of the universe?
"The improved battery life derived from the ability of the Centrino platform to complete the assigned tasks more quickly than the Pentium III-M, Chandrasekher said"
With 1 MB of heat dissipatin' cache (assuming it's on-die) and higher clock speeds, I think things are a little more complicated than "oh, it does things faster." What all have they done to get energy consumption and heat dissipation under control?
Ok, this is an honest question, not meant to be a smart-ass comment or something I'm saying just to be a jerk.
Do you hate, or at least have a distaste, for Star Trek fans (in general)? Despite the fact that you continue to write books based on Captain Kirk, I always get the sense that you want to distance yourself from the franchise.
Back in the days of middle school, I got this error on one of the Macs when trying to get my floppy back:
Not enough memory to eject disk
If you're not going to buy a diamond because of the immoral things that went into producing that diamond, you're going to have to start reconsidering a *lot* of your purchasing decisions.
;)
Get off your high horse and get her what she wants. Besides, she's a woman; don't they always get what they want anyway?
Eric
What this is trying to do is make the MPAA an arm of the justice department, with their own rules and punishments, as well as the authority to put them to use. They "see" a crime, and they go out and exact a sentence, in the form of a DoS atack, all on their own. And I like how they can do it on "reasonable suspicion"... None of this messy "innocent until proven guilty" nonsense.
Eric
I think that to the tech oriented person, this sounds like a bad idea. It does to me. I personally don't like the idea of not owning my software or having my own storage for my own data. Of course, everyone isn't me and you. I think, for the average consumer, this is desirable. Especially with a new version of Office or whatever coming out every year. How many "average" users will want to continually upgrade or installing new software, when they can pay a some sort of fee and have it happen automatically? With the increasing availability of broadband access, I can see how something like this would catch on. I don't like it, but I do see its merits.