what made Star Trek great wasn't anything specific about the story's universe so much as it was that they actually made an attempt at continuity, and an attempt at internal consistency within that continuity, including coming up with a lot of back story before filming the first episode.
Whaaaat? Perhaps starting in the second season, but that was probably due to rioting fans/focus groups more than anything else. In the original Star Trek the only two characters which were supposed to be consistent were Kirk and Spock. That's it. All other characters were supposed to be changed nearly every episode. All of the other actors signed on for just a handful of episodes. The reason is because the executives didn't want any actors getting all uppity and demanding more money to keep the show consistent. Watch the first few episodes, every crew member, but the core two, gets cycled through. Most come back, and I suspect that's because focus groups must have mentioned how much they didn't like the inconsistent characters.
And then there's the capabilities of the Enterprise. They certainly were making that up episode to episode. In one of the first few episodes Spock mentions how they can track anything on the planet (might have even said every sparrow, but I'm not positive), then in every following episode once the landing party gets separated from their communicators they're all of a sudden impossible to find. In one of the early episodes Sulu is trapped on a planet because something's up with the transporter and there's no way to get him back on the ship as the temperature on the planet is dropping. The next freaking episode the Enterprise has a docking bay and shuttle craft.
The show was going out of its way to have inconsistences. I seriously think that the shows producers thought they could get away with it because no one would watch most episodes and even notice. They probably found it quite the bother that they were people who really liked the show, and that the personality type who liked it were the brainy nerds who love consistency.
Roddenberry mostly sat around and screwed starlets and offered up lousy script rewrites.
Having just recently watched ToS, I did suspect that Roddenberry's primary motivation for the whole thing was to get attractive women into immodest outfits.
I guess you're suggesting the future is WALL-E, not Star Trek?
How many people do you know where you suspect when watching WALL-E they thought to themselves "I want to live that like!"? I know for myself the number is not 0.
and intangible things like status and fame (which is why not everyone gets to be a starship captain).
Yes, but if it's post scarcity, there's no reason why there wouldn't be as many starships as there are people. Once there's a 1:1 relationship of starships to adults, everyone gets to be a starship captain!
I'm wondering, who told you that? I just watched ToS for the first time, at night when I was up the newborn and there's certainly plenty of references to money, getting rich, earning your paycheck for the week, etc. If the Federation was supposed to be without money, it certainly didn't happen in the original series.
Who wants a check from Ashely Madison sent to their home or work?
Before this hack, I had never heard of Ashely Madison, and I suspect that many people hadn't heard of it either. Especially when the hack was first made public all of the news sites described what Ashely Madison was. So I would be surprised if that was discouragement.
I would have loved to have learned CS in K-12. There was so much other stuff that we were taught that felt like it was only there to kill time. Many students struggle with math beyond arithmetic, because they just don't see it possibly being applied to anything. CS lets people see how math can be applied to solve problems.
Given how the laws around this were written into the constitution, it makes me suspect that the founding fathers were okay with unsolved criminal mysteries if that meant that the government couldn't become too powerful.
The Bing toolbar scraped Google search pages, copying the results verbatim.
Just because user's browsers did the scraping rather than Bing servers is fairly irrelevant.
But that's not what's implied by your claim (or sense of righteous anger). I still get the sense that you feel that Bing went out of its way to copy Google search results. When really Bing bar tracked users behavior the same way that Google does. And the user behavior learning had nothing specific to do with Google. It applies to all web pages that the users ever used. If no users of the Bing bar went to www.google.com, the "copying of Google" couldn't have ever occurred.
The idea presented implicates that the Bing search engine servers were sending queries to Google search engine servers and storing the results. But that's not what happened, even in the article you linked to. What happened there is that users who had the Bing toolbar, and opted in to have their behavior tracked, did have an influence on the Bing search engine. Given that's the point of the opt in behavior, that's no surprised. And it had nothing to do with Google. The Bing toolbar was looking for situations where a user would enter text into a text box, and then click on a link. It didn't matter whether the text box was from a Google website or another website. The idea is that Bing was trying to learn from users behavior, and perhaps learn a way it could save users steps in the future.
With each new version, one must spend several extra minutes figuring out where the Double Secret Super Duper Advanced Don't Try This At Home Brutal Power User Steel Cage Death Match Of Dh00m dialog is located, merely to set the PATH.
Whaaaat? Could you provide examples of how to set the PATH variable in the different version of Windows. Because honestly, I've only ever done it one way for last 16 some odd years now.
I wasn't taught programming in school, and really wish that I had been. I want to my children to learn programming. Hopefully the policies of not teaching students can be a policy of the past and we can make the policy of the future to be to teach kids new and interesting subjects.
Or, more likely, so they can fucking monetize your usage like the greedy self entitled assholes they are.
And I don't just mean Microsoft.
It depends upon the corporation. With Windows they're going to track your usage data to improve the product. Microsoft would be over whelmed by uploading every computers key strokes every day. So each machine is configured to only upload on certain days. Plus every time it's uploaded, the user id, is given a different GUID. Microsoft couldn't track Windows usage data back to a single user if they wanted to. Let alone wrap it up into an advertisable unique user product. They can do this because there's a large enough user base that they a small slice still represents enough people to get how the product is used.
Now they are tracking you and your surfing habits even more than Google
Do you have any quantifiable information to back that up? I'm pretty sure Google still tracks more for the purposes of turning you into a sellable product.
I would love to see how an autonomous car drives in snow/ice/rain.
Better than humans with little experience. It's also quite likely that if the autonomous cars didn't handle it well, people might just end up not caring and not drive/ride around during those times.
Neither of those OS's, by default, farm you for information.
That's not possible for a Google product. The point of all Google products is to farm information from you. That's why they create the products. The default settings will always be "Upload everything to Googles server for purposes of turning you into a product to be sold".
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what made Star Trek great wasn't anything specific about the story's universe so much as it was that they actually made an attempt at continuity, and an attempt at internal consistency within that continuity, including coming up with a lot of back story before filming the first episode.
Whaaaat? Perhaps starting in the second season, but that was probably due to rioting fans/focus groups more than anything else. In the original Star Trek the only two characters which were supposed to be consistent were Kirk and Spock. That's it. All other characters were supposed to be changed nearly every episode. All of the other actors signed on for just a handful of episodes. The reason is because the executives didn't want any actors getting all uppity and demanding more money to keep the show consistent. Watch the first few episodes, every crew member, but the core two, gets cycled through. Most come back, and I suspect that's because focus groups must have mentioned how much they didn't like the inconsistent characters.
And then there's the capabilities of the Enterprise. They certainly were making that up episode to episode. In one of the first few episodes Spock mentions how they can track anything on the planet (might have even said every sparrow, but I'm not positive), then in every following episode once the landing party gets separated from their communicators they're all of a sudden impossible to find. In one of the early episodes Sulu is trapped on a planet because something's up with the transporter and there's no way to get him back on the ship as the temperature on the planet is dropping. The next freaking episode the Enterprise has a docking bay and shuttle craft.
The show was going out of its way to have inconsistences. I seriously think that the shows producers thought they could get away with it because no one would watch most episodes and even notice. They probably found it quite the bother that they were people who really liked the show, and that the personality type who liked it were the brainy nerds who love consistency.
Roddenberry mostly sat around and screwed starlets and offered up lousy script rewrites.
Having just recently watched ToS, I did suspect that Roddenberry's primary motivation for the whole thing was to get attractive women into immodest outfits.
that is the level of your understanding of this topic you inject your ignorance into
Kind of like your ignorance of the shift key and punctuation?
I guess you're suggesting the future is WALL-E, not Star Trek?
How many people do you know where you suspect when watching WALL-E they thought to themselves "I want to live that like!"? I know for myself the number is not 0.
and intangible things like status and fame (which is why not everyone gets to be a starship captain).
Yes, but if it's post scarcity, there's no reason why there wouldn't be as many starships as there are people. Once there's a 1:1 relationship of starships to adults, everyone gets to be a starship captain!
We are told that they don't need money.
I'm wondering, who told you that? I just watched ToS for the first time, at night when I was up the newborn and there's certainly plenty of references to money, getting rich, earning your paycheck for the week, etc. If the Federation was supposed to be without money, it certainly didn't happen in the original series.
where the emphasis is no longer on writing code, but on decentralized design – code becomes simply a by-product of this collaboration.
Not going to happen until there's an AI that can understand a design doc.
Who wants a check from Ashely Madison sent to their home or work?
Before this hack, I had never heard of Ashely Madison, and I suspect that many people hadn't heard of it either. Especially when the hack was first made public all of the news sites described what Ashely Madison was. So I would be surprised if that was discouragement.
And here I disable animated GIFs in my browsers. The internet is so much more enjoyable without them.
I would have loved to have learned CS in K-12. There was so much other stuff that we were taught that felt like it was only there to kill time. Many students struggle with math beyond arithmetic, because they just don't see it possibly being applied to anything. CS lets people see how math can be applied to solve problems.
Given how the laws around this were written into the constitution, it makes me suspect that the founding fathers were okay with unsolved criminal mysteries if that meant that the government couldn't become too powerful.
The Bing toolbar scraped Google search pages, copying the results verbatim. Just because user's browsers did the scraping rather than Bing servers is fairly irrelevant.
But that's not what's implied by your claim (or sense of righteous anger). I still get the sense that you feel that Bing went out of its way to copy Google search results. When really Bing bar tracked users behavior the same way that Google does. And the user behavior learning had nothing specific to do with Google. It applies to all web pages that the users ever used. If no users of the Bing bar went to www.google.com, the "copying of Google" couldn't have ever occurred.
The idea presented implicates that the Bing search engine servers were sending queries to Google search engine servers and storing the results. But that's not what happened, even in the article you linked to. What happened there is that users who had the Bing toolbar, and opted in to have their behavior tracked, did have an influence on the Bing search engine. Given that's the point of the opt in behavior, that's no surprised. And it had nothing to do with Google. The Bing toolbar was looking for situations where a user would enter text into a text box, and then click on a link. It didn't matter whether the text box was from a Google website or another website. The idea is that Bing was trying to learn from users behavior, and perhaps learn a way it could save users steps in the future.
You know, like how Bing used to scrape Google for results?
Bing never scraped Google for results.
With each new version, one must spend several extra minutes figuring out where the Double Secret Super Duper Advanced Don't Try This At Home Brutal Power User Steel Cage Death Match Of Dh00m dialog is located, merely to set the PATH.
Whaaaat? Could you provide examples of how to set the PATH variable in the different version of Windows. Because honestly, I've only ever done it one way for last 16 some odd years now.
I wasn't taught programming in school, and really wish that I had been. I want to my children to learn programming. Hopefully the policies of not teaching students can be a policy of the past and we can make the policy of the future to be to teach kids new and interesting subjects.
And how do the rulers know?
Preferably by reading Adam Smith's "On the Wealth of Nations".
Or, more likely, so they can fucking monetize your usage like the greedy self entitled assholes they are.
And I don't just mean Microsoft.
It depends upon the corporation. With Windows they're going to track your usage data to improve the product. Microsoft would be over whelmed by uploading every computers key strokes every day. So each machine is configured to only upload on certain days. Plus every time it's uploaded, the user id, is given a different GUID. Microsoft couldn't track Windows usage data back to a single user if they wanted to. Let alone wrap it up into an advertisable unique user product. They can do this because there's a large enough user base that they a small slice still represents enough people to get how the product is used.
Why does it seem like manufacturers feel that they automatically have a right to your usage data after you buy their product?
So they can improve the product.
And so it begins....
How does it begin with Windows 10 having changed nothing about the Solitaire app from Windows 8?
Now they are tracking you and your surfing habits even more than Google
Do you have any quantifiable information to back that up? I'm pretty sure Google still tracks more for the purposes of turning you into a sellable product.
This is the same Solitaire Collection app that was released with the Windows Store in Windows 8.
I would love to see how an autonomous car drives in snow/ice/rain.
Better than humans with little experience. It's also quite likely that if the autonomous cars didn't handle it well, people might just end up not caring and not drive/ride around during those times.
Neither of those OS's, by default, farm you for information.
That's not possible for a Google product. The point of all Google products is to farm information from you. That's why they create the products. The default settings will always be "Upload everything to Googles server for purposes of turning you into a product to be sold".
Would you be kind enough to name the browser?