> I noticed that same thing about the dialogue
> disappearing into the background noise.
I only saw the last 10 or 15 minutes, but I noticed that, too. I went into the menu of my TV because I thought someone was playing around with it and had jammed bass all the way up. If I do that (and surround) on my computer, the voices of playing DVDs becomes muffled and unintelligible from the background.
Between this, the reports of 1/2 to 1 second mismatch between voice and video, and the reported 30 second freeze in one scene, it's clear they've got some serious work to do to clean things up by episode 2. Other TV shows don't have this problem. Must be a bleeding edge thing.
Earthers don't let the Klingon die an honorable death. Earthers shake hands of Vulcans, or rub disinfectant on them.
Why are we the only ones who have to worry about offending other cultures? Why don't they worry about offending us? Answer: Because that's nonsensical. Traders learn this very quickly or stop being traders.
And yet I could swear I heard another tale about how the Klingons were like Niven's Kzinti, in that a pacifist warp-capable civilization came to their home world, and they took over their ships, learned the technology (mildly) and started expanding from there.
Well, Tuvok and Kleenex almost frenched on that one episode where Kleenex suddenly remembers he was an expert on space elevators attached to asteroids.
> I said the same thing about "Saved by the Bell."
Which sucked, badly, until the "Showgirls" 3-hour multipart episode, released also in theaters as a movie!
My goodness! How far Liz Berkely's character has come from the heady days of sophomoric high school, where she refused to parade about in a bikini in a beauty contest because that was treating women like sex objects.
Although I'm partial to Jeri Lynn Ryan, the hottest women ever on any ST, piecewise-of-ass, was the "demon" charlatan claiming to come back to complete a thousand-year contract.
It's from the Julia Roberts school of lip jobs. Someone in the plastic surgery industry believes, evidently, that you'll get much more bang for your buck if you overplump the upper lip in relation to the bottom one.
Yet the Emperor has no clothes, but no one wants to say that this just looks stupid.
If you're going to do an enormous lip job that looks hot, see Jeri Ryan, Xenia Seeburg, or Angelina Jolie.
And, T'Pow!, please stop adopting late 20th century earth makeup standards ala Pam Anderson. Putting on lipstick bigger than your lips is a stage trick, not something to be done on TV where there are closeups.
>I Like the fact that originally Han Solo shot first.
Certainly. Then you don't have to introduce the idiocy of Greedo missing just so Han doesn't die immediately, stranding Luke, and thus dooming the Rebellion.
Shades of hero movies where the hero tries to save the bad guy who's about to fall in the vat of chemicals/off the edge of a mechanical spider/ etc. Shades of the bad guys' planes being shot down and all the bad guys parachute out in kids cartoons. Yeah, it's ok to kick someone in the head a dozen times. They'll pop right back up. In fact, instead of being stunned, they'll actually fight BETTER after a few kicks in the head.
I believe the semiofficial, Monday-morning quarterback explanation involves Klingons altering themselves so as to not be so scary, which some factions didn't like because it is humiliating to a warrior race. Hence the "I don't like to talk about it."
> then later on in the TOS the klingons gave the
> warp drive to the romulans in exchange for the
> cloaking device
That really wouldn't make any sense since the Romulans ARE Vulcans who split off from Vulcan, and thus would already have warp drive, and for thousands of years, yet.
If that's the case, how come Vulcan technology isn't way ahead of even Janeway's 26th century technology?
I'm in my mid 30's and I remember that. My dad hated that character.
He spawned a tradition of lame lounge singers on SNL that continues up to this day with the high school music instructors by < mispelling> Will Farrel and Ana Gasteyer </misspelling>.
It's half name-dropping of current theoretical physics, half jabberwocky.
Given the macroscopic quantum entanglement experiment announced this week, expect that to make its way into transporter upgrades as the show progresses.
Building a massive distribution network like the major labels have done is not a trivial task. It adds tremendous value to a musician's earnings.
Do some musicians, after they get started, suddenly feel ripped off? Sure, and some go their own way, and frequently earn less money. Some do start up their own companies for just these reasons. The Beatles did. Ever hear of United Artists? Same thing, but by actors for movies.
This is just socialist nonsense that the massive means of distribution, created by very hard work by the record companies, should be used by musicians at the whim of and under terms of the musician.
Much more efficient would be some kind of spider bots, first with 2 or 3-jointed mechanical legs, then with many, many-jointed legs ala Matrix or Doctor Octopus type limbs, ultimately something like an elephant's trunk.
Much more stable, plenty of redundancy, and ironically, easier to program than a 2-limb humanoid walker.
I thought it kept a table of simple search terms and what people clicked on most in the results list, and on subsequent searches using those terms, put the more clicked on ones at the top.
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> I noticed that same thing about the dialogue
> disappearing into the background noise.
I only saw the last 10 or 15 minutes, but I noticed that, too. I went into the menu of my TV because I thought someone was playing around with it and had jammed bass all the way up. If I do that (and surround) on my computer, the voices of playing DVDs becomes muffled and unintelligible from the background.
Between this, the reports of 1/2 to 1 second mismatch between voice and video, and the reported 30 second freeze in one scene, it's clear they've got some serious work to do to clean things up by episode 2. Other TV shows don't have this problem. Must be a bleeding edge thing.
That's why it's called The Old Series, after all.
No self-respecting Trekkie calls it The Original Series.
Earthers don't let the Klingon die an honorable death. Earthers shake hands of Vulcans, or rub disinfectant on them.
Why are we the only ones who have to worry about offending other cultures? Why don't they worry about offending us? Answer: Because that's nonsensical. Traders learn this very quickly or stop being traders.
Fleshy as in carbon-based, or silicon-based?
And yet I could swear I heard another tale about how the Klingons were like Niven's Kzinti, in that a pacifist warp-capable civilization came to their home world, and they took over their ships, learned the technology (mildly) and started expanding from there.
Well, Tuvok and Kleenex almost frenched on that one episode where Kleenex suddenly remembers he was an expert on space elevators attached to asteroids.
> I said the same thing about "Saved by the Bell."
Which sucked, badly, until the "Showgirls" 3-hour multipart episode, released also in theaters as a movie!
My goodness! How far Liz Berkely's character has come from the heady days of sophomoric high school, where she refused to parade about in a bikini in a beauty contest because that was treating women like sex objects.
Whatever happened to Guinan's warning that they will come in force, which also never happened?
Although I'm partial to Jeri Lynn Ryan, the hottest women ever on any ST, piecewise-of-ass, was the "demon" charlatan claiming to come back to complete a thousand-year contract.
And a bad lip job to boot.
It's from the Julia Roberts school of lip jobs. Someone in the plastic surgery industry believes, evidently, that you'll get much more bang for your buck if you overplump the upper lip in relation to the bottom one.
Yet the Emperor has no clothes, but no one wants to say that this just looks stupid.
If you're going to do an enormous lip job that looks hot, see Jeri Ryan, Xenia Seeburg, or Angelina Jolie.
And, T'Pow!, please stop adopting late 20th century earth makeup standards ala Pam Anderson. Putting on lipstick bigger than your lips is a stage trick, not something to be done on TV where there are closeups.
>I Like the fact that originally Han Solo shot first.
Certainly. Then you don't have to introduce the idiocy of Greedo missing just so Han doesn't die immediately, stranding Luke, and thus dooming the Rebellion.
Shades of hero movies where the hero tries to save the bad guy who's about to fall in the vat of chemicals/off the edge of a mechanical spider/ etc. Shades of the bad guys' planes being shot down and all the bad guys parachute out in kids cartoons. Yeah, it's ok to kick someone in the head a dozen times. They'll pop right back up. In fact, instead of being stunned, they'll actually fight BETTER after a few kicks in the head.
I believe the semiofficial, Monday-morning quarterback explanation involves Klingons altering themselves so as to not be so scary, which some factions didn't like because it is humiliating to a warrior race. Hence the "I don't like to talk about it."
Brings new meaning to the Blue Screen of Death.
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> then later on in the TOS the klingons gave the
> warp drive to the romulans in exchange for the
> cloaking device
That really wouldn't make any sense since the Romulans ARE Vulcans who split off from Vulcan, and thus would already have warp drive, and for thousands of years, yet.
If that's the case, how come Vulcan technology isn't way ahead of even Janeway's 26th century technology?
I'm in my mid 30's and I remember that. My dad hated that character.
He spawned a tradition of lame lounge singers on SNL that continues up to this day with the high school music instructors by < mispelling> Will Farrel and Ana Gasteyer </misspelling>.
Star Wars!
It is just Star Wars!
Something something Star Wars!
da da da duh
It's half name-dropping of current theoretical physics, half jabberwocky.
Given the macroscopic quantum entanglement experiment announced this week, expect that to make its way into transporter upgrades as the show progresses.
Ok, then think of it as +5 in-firm-ative, then.
> Vulcan female names starting with T and male names starting with S.
I take it there was something we didn't know about Tuvok?
Perhaps the sexual tension between him and Kleenex was hetero after all...
http://www.allaboutanorexicwomenwithrediculouslipi mplants.com
> I've been wondering how streaming over the net is
different from radio boradcasts...apparently it is
> not save for over the air vs wires.
If the digitization were not saveable locally, you would be correct.
Nonsense.
Building a massive distribution network like the major labels have done is not a trivial task. It adds tremendous value to a musician's earnings.
Do some musicians, after they get started, suddenly feel ripped off? Sure, and some go their own way, and frequently earn less money. Some do start up their own companies for just these reasons. The Beatles did. Ever hear of United Artists? Same thing, but by actors for movies.
This is just socialist nonsense that the massive means of distribution, created by very hard work by the record companies, should be used by musicians at the whim of and under terms of the musician.
Liable for linking to something that is publically available, i.e. addressable? No fraud is used, like embedding a name and password.
I hope laws don't change to make linking illegal.
Humanoid bots are probably stupid to build.
Much more efficient would be some kind of spider bots, first with 2 or 3-jointed mechanical legs, then with many, many-jointed legs ala Matrix or Doctor Octopus type limbs, ultimately something like an elephant's trunk.
Much more stable, plenty of redundancy, and ironically, easier to program than a 2-limb humanoid walker.
Keep forging ahead with technology, lads! Don't rest until there is a 3D wireframe renderer, complete with transparent polygons.
I thought it kept a table of simple search terms and what people clicked on most in the results list, and on subsequent searches using those terms, put the more clicked on ones at the top.