Most of the people here would be saying the same things no matter what the episode was like. They had all these preconceptions and didn't even want to give the show a chance.
In my opinion, it was a great show. Paramount is trying to reach out to a broader spectrum here, the Star Trek franchise has been faltering as of late. Unfortunately "Star Trek" is so synonomous with geekiness and nerdom, mainstream acceptance is unlikely. Anyone else notice that the show has no mention of "Star Trek" it's just called "Enterprise." Also no cheesy re hash of the same opening sequence (no offense to TNG, it's my fav series).
This show looked really good. They are dealing with more human issues, and we are seeing the imperfectness and difficulty of space travel come out. There are some unrealistic things like I'd presume starfleet would have some trainings and protocol set for off ship expiditions, etc. I know it's only the beggining and picard's suggestion of the captain not leading away teams hasn't been implemented yet, but come on. This is Earth's first and only ship, the government and others should be watching it like a hawk and would probably have had very strict guidelines laid down.
All in all though, it seems very promising. Action, plot, suspense, drama, female teasing, all the great ingredients. We'll see how it goes. Anyone else besides me waiting for an "oh Boy" everytime something bad happened?
Back in the middle ages, the Islamic World was scientifically way beyond anything the West had seen. Historians will tell you that the information the crusaders brought back was what caused the end of the European dark ages and the beggining of the Renaissance.
The muslims had preserved much of the Greek and Roman knowldege that had been lost in Europe when the Dark ages started. Beyond that though, they made great strides on their own. Studies in astronomy, medicine, public health, nature, architecture, math, etc, in almost every field of human knowldege then known. For example, the concept of 0 comes to the West through them. Great strides in Algebra were made by them.
It is really surprising how little of this known in much of the world, besides experts in the field. Knowledge is useful, but history should also reflect where that knowledge comes from. If not for the many advances made by the Islamic world, we would be living in a really different world right now since the Dark ages would have ended god knows when.
The best Science Fiction on TV is how the Media manages to overlook important science related issues such as MS practices, Dimitri in Jail, and tries to pass of fiction as fact, and gets away with it.
The unfortunate problem with Sci Fi is that rarely anyone besides us "geeks and/or nerds" seem to like it. If I'm sitting around with a buncha friends, and we are channel surfing, if I see a cool show like say Star Trek TNG (in my opinion the best Star Trek), they won't even consider watching it.
There is some sort of stigma attached with Sci Fi that mainstream people just don't seem to like it. Sure there are exceptions (most prominent one being X-Files when it was good), but many people just don't want anything to do with Sci Fi.
That being said, I really love Sci Fi. Some of my favs are Star Trek, and old stuff like Quantum Leap, that rocked. Maybe that's why I'm actually looking forward to the new Star Trek with Scott Bakula. It's got a really interesting premise, and if they can just do it right, it has the potential to be awesome.
I'm sorry, but there's just one game missing from that list. Oregon Trail, though simple, was one of the most addictive early games I'd played. I mean, come on managing everything, and don't tell me you didn't like hunting. I'd always buy max bullets and little food, do all hunting. Sucked that you could always only carry back 200lbs regardless of how much you shot.
I use WebWasher to block all of the ads that are on webpages, I never see any ads. Yesterday though I went to a site I frequently go to, and they detected I was using ad blocking software. So they said that I couldn't view their pages since ads is how they make money. If I wanted ad free pages, there was a separate subscription based version of the site that was exactly the same except it had no ads.
Sux too, because I'd gotten so used to no ads, and each hyperlink on that site has like 3 popup windows. Anyone out there who had websites, do you actually make a significant amount of money off your website's banner ads and pop up windows?
In my opinion a lot of it has to do with the way the internet and digital media started out. Everything was free, the internet was hailed as a medium to connect the world, a world of information was available at our fingertips. Digital Media started as free, and now no one wants to pay for it, they are used to it being free.
Information though is a very important thing, and how does it get distributed in a capitalistic society if the distributor has no incentive (i.e. $$$)?
Is partly due to the inexperience/naiveness of the coders. But another factor IMHO that i've noticed in my experience has been big is simply human laziness. So many coders I know don't document, "can't be bothered to", they just write code that works, but don't worry about "elegant," algorithimically well thought out code. You can never just sit down and begin to code. And please don't tell me you can, I can just sit down and crank out a buncha programs too, but I mean well thought out plans. ( I dont' mean the BS stuff like Requirement's Engineering, Software Architecture, etc. although that stuff is sometimes useful), but just to sit down and think about what you wanna do and what's the most efficient way to do it.
I'm not trying to be troll at all, so please don't think that. I'm just saying something that I've noticed. Plus I can't emphasize the importance of documentation. Currently I'm expanding upon a project that has a few thousand lines of code, and it's hardly documented. Hacking the code and trying to figure out what it's doing is tedious. Please document, it doesn't mean you are a bad programmer, actually means you are a good one.
Yes, because that is something intangible, and I don't think physically hardcoded into DNA or anything. That's just me though, please feel free do disagree.
You know, the article brings up some good points. I'm a religious person, and I happen to believe that only God can reproduce the spirit. I don't know what will happen here though. Technically nothing can happen without God (who is all powerful) permitting it to happen. If God didn't want it, then...? But, also God has given humanity the freedom of choice, and where does that lead?
I agree that this is an issue not being given enough focus in the mainstream media/philosophical circles. This is an issue that will be at the centerpiece of human society in the next 10 yrs. Will clones be treated as humans? Or will they be treated as some kind of subhuman slaves? This kind of reminds me of the X-Men and the country of Genoshia. There are certain elements in humanity that will never permit clones to be regarded as humans, and in this case we have to wonder, should we regard them as humans?
You know, right now India has one of the worst poverty situations in the world, the second largest population in the world, and was just hit by a tremoundous earthquake. They should really try to build up their infrastructure. I mean, 5 km outside of Delhi and it doesn't look like a civilised city!! I realize other countries also have issues, but India should really handle those before going to space.
They just want to be able to say, look at us go we went to space, don't look at our bad side though, which we hid when Clinton came to visit (Delhi's streets were never that good as that day).
I dunno about you, but to me and a lotta other people this article means a lot. If you don't like it, just don't read it. Slashdot is read by so many people with a variety of interests.
Transformers, Lego, and G I Joe that's what my life as a kid was about. I looked at that auction and my heart almost bled 'cause I really, really want that! Too bad I'm only in college right now, maybe in 15 years...? Those toys really helped my mind expand, ah the games I played with them! Never, ever followed the instructions on the back of the Lego box, always made up my own designs!
I still play with my Lego and G I joes sometimes. God those toys were awesome!
That you feel it's ok to change the language, or even the OS? I mean if you are at the debugging stage, then unless you have a really simple application (which wouldn't be heavily threaded then), you have all the original conceptual coding done. I agree with the other posters that there's something fishy about this article.
Anyway, I've done some concurrent programming, and in my experience Java is a great language for concurrency. The fact that threads are a built in feature of Java (unlike C++ which has add-ons i.e. p-threads) provides a very powerful tool for concurrent programming.
Java Threads are easy to use, and to learn. I'm assuming you already know Java, but if you don't, you know C++, and if you can afford to rewrite your whole application you can spend the half a day it'll take you to learn Java.
If you are in unix you can look at m_fork from SGI's libraries, but I still say to stick with Java.
CutMX is back, spread the word!!!!
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I loved, scour, it got me soo many things... Anyway, we could just sit aorund here and bemoan it's loss, or we could move on and "show the man he can't keep us down." Cutmx is back, it's in beta testing right now, but you can download it free, and works great. Like anything P2P though, it needs people to know about it and to start using it. you can get it here:
http://www.cuteftp.com/products/cutemx/index.sht ml
Why is it that all the individual contibutions that lead to the beggining of the internet and the computer industry as we know it today have been erased and now big monopoly like corporations control everything?
That Bill Gates, that great monster, who's done so many sleazy business practices, whose one soo much illegal suff, etc, etc, etc, would just sit back and watch it all go away and lose?
No, he's gonna fight. And now that everyone is just celeberating that Linux has been acknowledged, think about how that acknowledgement will lead to a more active strategy against Linux. Now that it's officially a threat, the negative publicity against it will skyrocket exponentially. Do we really want that?
most large corporations, banks, etc. The problem is that most of the world out there doesn't know much about an operating system, let alone that there are so many types out there. They just implement what most of their clients will use.
The total number of non Windows using clients that bank has is probably very small. They really couldn't care, plus the bank's systems are probably implemented by some coder who just got into the business for the money, doesn't probalby know much either, and he/they jsut don't want to bother. They did what the book told them for implementing this stuff, and that's enough.
It's really bad for free OS people, but what can you do? Joe Schmoe out there doesn't care about what OS he uses.
get an interest in these things for purposes other than games, then there'd be more funding for these things. Thus, we could get cooler and more advanced stuff quicker, and it would help out everybody. Game players would have better games, and real world situations can use these applications too.
NASA could test out the international space station, or a future mon base using one of these. Whole ships, like a complex aircraft carrier, etc. The possibilities are endless, and we get cooler games to play as well. Where's the down side?
YOu know why? Because people always want pwer and to be in control. To qoute Homer Simpson:"in theory communism works" but nobody, including Marx could figure out what to do after that big revolution, because noone ever wanted to give up the power. Let's face it, humanity is a power hungry monster.
There will always be somebody out there trying to prove they are right and to get the power. Do you actually think that politicians want to seve and spend their lives representing the interests of the common man, BS!!! They just want the power associated with political office. Politics can never end.
Without, we'd still be workign on computers that couldn't do all that much. It helps access memory quicker, and as any computer geek can tell, the slowest processor function is moving stuff back and forth from memory. I definetly think that we need to somehow fix this problem, and Computer Engineering PHD out there wanna give this a shot?
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Fentom Quackshell ( I think that last name is right) will protectit. Blaberingblaberskites!!!!!!
Can't go directly to the URL for some reason. Go to http://www.apple.com/trailers/, and then click on the Episode 2 banner. Awesome Trailer!!!!!!!!!!!
Most of the people here would be saying the same things no matter what the episode was like. They had all these preconceptions and didn't even want to give the show a chance.
In my opinion, it was a great show. Paramount is trying to reach out to a broader spectrum here, the Star Trek franchise has been faltering as of late. Unfortunately "Star Trek" is so synonomous with geekiness and nerdom, mainstream acceptance is unlikely. Anyone else notice that the show has no mention of "Star Trek" it's just called "Enterprise." Also no cheesy re hash of the same opening sequence (no offense to TNG, it's my fav series).
This show looked really good. They are dealing with more human issues, and we are seeing the imperfectness and difficulty of space travel come out. There are some unrealistic things like I'd presume starfleet would have some trainings and protocol set for off ship expiditions, etc. I know it's only the beggining and picard's suggestion of the captain not leading away teams hasn't been implemented yet, but come on. This is Earth's first and only ship, the government and others should be watching it like a hawk and would probably have had very strict guidelines laid down.
All in all though, it seems very promising. Action, plot, suspense, drama, female teasing, all the great ingredients. We'll see how it goes. Anyone else besides me waiting for an "oh Boy" everytime something bad happened?
Back in the middle ages, the Islamic World was scientifically way beyond anything the West had seen. Historians will tell you that the information the crusaders brought back was what caused the end of the European dark ages and the beggining of the Renaissance.
The muslims had preserved much of the Greek and Roman knowldege that had been lost in Europe when the Dark ages started. Beyond that though, they made great strides on their own. Studies in astronomy, medicine, public health, nature, architecture, math, etc, in almost every field of human knowldege then known. For example, the concept of 0 comes to the West through them. Great strides in Algebra were made by them.
It is really surprising how little of this known in much of the world, besides experts in the field. Knowledge is useful, but history should also reflect where that knowledge comes from. If not for the many advances made by the Islamic world, we would be living in a really different world right now since the Dark ages would have ended god knows when.
He cracked security and he used educational resources to do it, not only will he get a huge fine because of that, the government will lock him up now.
The best Science Fiction on TV is how the Media manages to overlook important science related issues such as MS practices, Dimitri in Jail, and tries to pass of fiction as fact, and gets away with it.
The unfortunate problem with Sci Fi is that rarely anyone besides us "geeks and/or nerds" seem to like it. If I'm sitting around with a buncha friends, and we are channel surfing, if I see a cool show like say Star Trek TNG (in my opinion the best Star Trek), they won't even consider watching it.
There is some sort of stigma attached with Sci Fi that mainstream people just don't seem to like it. Sure there are exceptions (most prominent one being X-Files when it was good), but many people just don't want anything to do with Sci Fi.
That being said, I really love Sci Fi. Some of my favs are Star Trek, and old stuff like Quantum Leap, that rocked. Maybe that's why I'm actually looking forward to the new Star Trek with Scott Bakula. It's got a really interesting premise, and if they can just do it right, it has the potential to be awesome.
I'm sorry, but there's just one game missing from that list. Oregon Trail, though simple, was one of the most addictive early games I'd played. I mean, come on managing everything, and don't tell me you didn't like hunting. I'd always buy max bullets and little food, do all hunting. Sucked that you could always only carry back 200lbs regardless of how much you shot.
I use WebWasher to block all of the ads that are on webpages, I never see any ads. Yesterday though I went to a site I frequently go to, and they detected I was using ad blocking software. So they said that I couldn't view their pages since ads is how they make money. If I wanted ad free pages, there was a separate subscription based version of the site that was exactly the same except it had no ads.
Sux too, because I'd gotten so used to no ads, and each hyperlink on that site has like 3 popup windows. Anyone out there who had websites, do you actually make a significant amount of money off your website's banner ads and pop up windows?
In my opinion a lot of it has to do with the way the internet and digital media started out. Everything was free, the internet was hailed as a medium to connect the world, a world of information was available at our fingertips. Digital Media started as free, and now no one wants to pay for it, they are used to it being free.
Information though is a very important thing, and how does it get distributed in a capitalistic society if the distributor has no incentive (i.e. $$$)?
Is partly due to the inexperience/naiveness of the coders. But another factor IMHO that i've noticed in my experience has been big is simply human laziness. So many coders I know don't document, "can't be bothered to", they just write code that works, but don't worry about "elegant," algorithimically well thought out code. You can never just sit down and begin to code. And please don't tell me you can, I can just sit down and crank out a buncha programs too, but I mean well thought out plans. ( I dont' mean the BS stuff like Requirement's Engineering, Software Architecture, etc. although that stuff is sometimes useful), but just to sit down and think about what you wanna do and what's the most efficient way to do it.
I'm not trying to be troll at all, so please don't think that. I'm just saying something that I've noticed. Plus I can't emphasize the importance of documentation. Currently I'm expanding upon a project that has a few thousand lines of code, and it's hardly documented. Hacking the code and trying to figure out what it's doing is tedious. Please document, it doesn't mean you are a bad programmer, actually means you are a good one.
Yes, because that is something intangible, and I don't think physically hardcoded into DNA or anything. That's just me though, please feel free do disagree.
You know, the article brings up some good points. I'm a religious person, and I happen to believe that only God can reproduce the spirit. I don't know what will happen here though. Technically nothing can happen without God (who is all powerful) permitting it to happen. If God didn't want it, then...? But, also God has given humanity the freedom of choice, and where does that lead?
I agree that this is an issue not being given enough focus in the mainstream media/philosophical circles. This is an issue that will be at the centerpiece of human society in the next 10 yrs. Will clones be treated as humans? Or will they be treated as some kind of subhuman slaves? This kind of reminds me of the X-Men and the country of Genoshia. There are certain elements in humanity that will never permit clones to be regarded as humans, and in this case we have to wonder, should we regard them as humans?
You know, right now India has one of the worst poverty situations in the world, the second largest population in the world, and was just hit by a tremoundous earthquake. They should really try to build up their infrastructure. I mean, 5 km outside of Delhi and it doesn't look like a civilised city!! I realize other countries also have issues, but India should really handle those before going to space.
They just want to be able to say, look at us go we went to space, don't look at our bad side though, which we hid when Clinton came to visit (Delhi's streets were never that good as that day).
I dunno about you, but to me and a lotta other people this article means a lot. If you don't like it, just don't read it. Slashdot is read by so many people with a variety of interests.
Transformers, Lego, and G I Joe that's what my life as a kid was about. I looked at that auction and my heart almost bled 'cause I really, really want that! Too bad I'm only in college right now, maybe in 15 years...? Those toys really helped my mind expand, ah the games I played with them! Never, ever followed the instructions on the back of the Lego box, always made up my own designs!
I still play with my Lego and G I joes sometimes. God those toys were awesome!
Why is this off topic? THe moderating system doesn't work at all.
That you feel it's ok to change the language, or even the OS? I mean if you are at the debugging stage, then unless you have a really simple application (which wouldn't be heavily threaded then), you have all the original conceptual coding done. I agree with the other posters that there's something fishy about this article.
Anyway, I've done some concurrent programming, and in my experience Java is a great language for concurrency. The fact that threads are a built in feature of Java (unlike C++ which has add-ons i.e. p-threads) provides a very powerful tool for concurrent programming.
Java Threads are easy to use, and to learn. I'm assuming you already know Java, but if you don't, you know C++, and if you can afford to rewrite your whole application you can spend the half a day it'll take you to learn Java.
If you are in unix you can look at m_fork from SGI's libraries, but I still say to stick with Java.
I loved, scour, it got me soo many things... Anyway, we could just sit aorund here and bemoan it's loss, or we could move on and "show the man he can't keep us down." Cutmx is back, it's in beta testing right now, but you can download it free, and works great. Like anything P2P though, it needs people to know about it and to start using it. you can get it here:t ml
http://www.cuteftp.com/products/cutemx/index.sh
Let's do it!
(Sorry don't know how to do URLs)
Why is it that all the individual contibutions that lead to the beggining of the internet and the computer industry as we know it today have been erased and now big monopoly like corporations control everything?
That Bill Gates, that great monster, who's done so many sleazy business practices, whose one soo much illegal suff, etc, etc, etc, would just sit back and watch it all go away and lose?
No, he's gonna fight. And now that everyone is just celeberating that Linux has been acknowledged, think about how that acknowledgement will lead to a more active strategy against Linux. Now that it's officially a threat, the negative publicity against it will skyrocket exponentially. Do we really want that?
most large corporations, banks, etc. The problem is that most of the world out there doesn't know much about an operating system, let alone that there are so many types out there. They just implement what most of their clients will use.
The total number of non Windows using clients that bank has is probably very small. They really couldn't care, plus the bank's systems are probably implemented by some coder who just got into the business for the money, doesn't probalby know much either, and he/they jsut don't want to bother. They did what the book told them for implementing this stuff, and that's enough.
It's really bad for free OS people, but what can you do? Joe Schmoe out there doesn't care about what OS he uses.
get an interest in these things for purposes other than games, then there'd be more funding for these things. Thus, we could get cooler and more advanced stuff quicker, and it would help out everybody. Game players would have better games, and real world situations can use these applications too.
NASA could test out the international space station, or a future mon base using one of these. Whole ships, like a complex aircraft carrier, etc. The possibilities are endless, and we get cooler games to play as well. Where's the down side?
YOu know why? Because people always want pwer and to be in control. To qoute Homer Simpson:"in theory communism works" but nobody, including Marx could figure out what to do after that big revolution, because noone ever wanted to give up the power. Let's face it, humanity is a power hungry monster.
There will always be somebody out there trying to prove they are right and to get the power. Do you actually think that politicians want to seve and spend their lives representing the interests of the common man, BS!!! They just want the power associated with political office. Politics can never end.
Without, we'd still be workign on computers that couldn't do all that much. It helps access memory quicker, and as any computer geek can tell, the slowest processor function is moving stuff back and forth from memory. I definetly think that we need to somehow fix this problem, and Computer Engineering PHD out there wanna give this a shot?