I watch a few foreign films that are entirely subtitled, and enjoy them a lot more than having every fucking character putting on a fake British accent.
Subtitles can, when done properly, add a new dimension ot the delivery of the script, as reading affects you brain differently from watching. A clever director can use this to improve the overall story.
So basically, everything is American, except the villain will speak with a Shakespearean accent
That's not just SF either. It seems every historical or mythical drama also in inhabited by 20th century upperclass English accents.
Roman, Spanish, Greek, Macedonian, Persian, apparently all spoke with English accents back in the day. It's gotten so ridiculous I can no longer watch these films. Is it that hard to give a foreigner an accent that isn't English?
The whole idea of themed planets or themed races largely turned me off of reading SF, and one of the reasons I won't go near StarWars with a 10 foot pole.
Trying to define an entire race or culture or planet with a 3 word phrase is asinine.
Only based on your experience of one single known example.
Evolution breeds variation in isolation. In the 20th century alone, the earth became 'enclosed' and sparked a mass convergance of culture. Languages are dying, species are dying, it's not too hard to suggest that in a thousand years we'll all look a lot more similar, and speak a common language.
Since most SF is set in the future or a more advanced time, it's entirely plausible that the dominant culture has taken over their entire environment.
The problem with using a laser weapon to heat up someone else is that you are likely to need much more cooling at the weapon end than at the target end. Getting 50%+ efficiency out of a laser while dumping 100% of the laser energy into the target is challenging.
Not necessarily. I don't know the original material, but if the weapon is ground based and built next to a river of lake then cooling is trivial. For an enemy ship, to build in technology to be able to cool the ship, and carry that with you everywhere you go, is a lot more of a challenge.
A weapon can also be built out of much heavier materials than something that has to fly.
Is there a more stupid argument than "my country's beer is better than yours"?
I come to Slashdot to get away from that level of discussion. I'd like to think that someone with a 5 digit UID would be a bit above all that too.
It's even more ridiculous since a large chunk of "Australian" and "NZ" beers are owned by the Japanese.
Discerning drinkers don't drink any mass produce piss that all tastes the same anyway. Seriously, pour yourself a glass of any of the top 20 'marketed' lagers and blind taste test. It's all the same shit, owned by the same handful of corporations, just with different labels
If you want a real beer, get yourself down to your local craft brewery and learn what flavour is.
I live in a street with a particularly irksome speeding problem (some drivers are regularly hitting 80-90mph in a 30mph zone) that the local authoritries refuse to address.
Buy a stack of bricks and start randomly leaving some out in the middle of your street. Anyone going a reasonable speed should be able to avoid them.
If you've got more time, get some quickset concrete and create your own speed hump in the middle of the night. Again, anyone driving normally should be able to navigate it without too much issue.
I'm struggling to see how this could be misused? Whenever I'm doing something dodgy I never take my car with me.
And if anyone is really interested in what time I leave for work, or the supermarket, I pity the fool.
We've been over this numeours times before. Privacy isn't binary. When I walk around my front yard in my underpants I don't care if my neighbours see me, but I should have a right to expect that I won't end up on youtube.
You forgot one, but who cares?
I started out as a sysadmin and had access to everyone's email and files. I thought it'd be great to dig up some dirt, find out who was fucking who etc. After a short time, the novelty wears off and you realise the info you thought would be interesting actually isn't. So the Sales manager is fucking his PA, or the marketing team are coke fiends, or the IT manager is stealing hardware and selling it on eBay. It all becomes uninteresting really quickly and you wonder why you've invested so much time and effrot chasing it.
If you're the type that find's other people's lives are so interesting, it probably says more about you than them.
Wouldn't be too hard for a group of like minded individuals to start sharing intel. Google Docs a list of plates of known people on both sides of the law and the rest is trivial.
Are you going to have more fun driving to work in a Tesla or a 911 Turbo?
Niether becasue any 1 litre sports bike will destroy both of them in work traffic. Hell even a Vespa will beat anything with 4 wheels since the biggest challenge in getting from A to B these days is not power, but space.
The car industry seems to be plagued with 20th century business men, trying to apply their 20th century logic in a 21st century world.
If Tesla can survive the next 5 to 10 years they will own the entire industry.
Okay, so once you've flipped over the sack of groceries in the back seat with g-force and your kid in his car seat is crying because you jarred him. Has the novelty worn off?
Based on decades of muscle car ownership by millions of people I think the answer to that is no.
I've been on./ since pre-Y2K and have never bothered with an account: does that make the conviction of my beliefs any less authentic?
Yes it does. I normally don't engage with AC's since it's impossible to follow a conversation.
The value of a forum is being able to post your opinion, have others challenge those, then having to justify your position in a logocal and reasonable matter. Simply firing off ad-hoc comments anonymously doens't really acheive much, which is why AC's generally get ignored.
Can someone tell me what exactly I am missing by [stubbornly] refusing to use Windows Server? I know there surely exist some advantages but what are they really?
I can't tell you what *you* are missing, but for most people (not nerds), "IT" means Back Office. And if you want a simple, cheap and easy to support Back Office, it's hard to go past the MS solution. Server, Desktop and mobile OS all integrate seamlessly, you get and LDAP out of the box that just works, and centralised client management via Group Policy. You also get the SQL, Exchange, Office combo that pretty much does everything that most Joe Office users need. And more importantly you can find admins anywhere.
MS admins also tend to be able to relate better with normal people too, since everytime you meet an Linux fan boy they always seem angry and bitter about something.
So in your case, you may not need any of that, but for most businesses there is no other solution that comes close (feel free to offer one, but cobbling together a bunch of clunky, disparate FOSS shit that needs to be band-aided together and constantly tweaked is not what people want).
I'm not saying that's not happening, but what I am observing is that businesses are jumping on the Surface bandwagon. And Business buy in bulk, and do it on a regular cycle. Apple really dropped the ball by not tagetting business users.
I also notice at the airport security check, more and more other people are pulling out Surface Pros, so I believe they are making ground.
I recall when the Macbook went Intel and everyone wanted one. We did evaluations at the time fro our next fleet replacement but Apple just wouldn't come to the party with any kind of enterprise support. So they lost our business, and I'm sure we weren't the only ones. That was about 7 or 8 years ago and from what I've seen they haven't changed their stance since. So they sat by and let MS eat their lunch.
Tablets are already dying off, the iPad sales plateau is proof of that.
Why tablets are dying is a more interesting question.
Tablets aren't dying. Tablet sales are falling off because the people willing to buy one now have one. Tablets will stick around for the foreseeable future.
It's 1995 all over again. Apple target home users, who have a taste for new shiney and lead the sales curve, but don't have the appetite to continually upgrade or replace. Microsft target business users who are slower off the mark, but throw a lot more money around and do it on a regular cycle, for a lot longer periods.
When I read these stories they're always set in the tone of some poor victims who's home is being taken from them by the big bad white man. A lot of these nations are poor, so a free ticket to a wealthier country is a big win for a lot of them.
For the generation that move it moight be tough, but for their children they will have access to far greater health, education and career opportunities previously unknown to them.
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I watch a few foreign films that are entirely subtitled, and enjoy them a lot more than having every fucking character putting on a fake British accent.
Subtitles can, when done properly, add a new dimension ot the delivery of the script, as reading affects you brain differently from watching. A clever director can use this to improve the overall story.
So basically, everything is American, except the villain will speak with a Shakespearean accent
That's not just SF either. It seems every historical or mythical drama also in inhabited by 20th century upperclass English accents.
Roman, Spanish, Greek, Macedonian, Persian, apparently all spoke with English accents back in the day. It's gotten so ridiculous I can no longer watch these films. Is it that hard to give a foreigner an accent that isn't English?
The whole idea of themed planets or themed races largely turned me off of reading SF, and one of the reasons I won't go near StarWars with a 10 foot pole. Trying to define an entire race or culture or planet with a 3 word phrase is asinine.
Only based on your experience of one single known example.
Evolution breeds variation in isolation. In the 20th century alone, the earth became 'enclosed' and sparked a mass convergance of culture. Languages are dying, species are dying, it's not too hard to suggest that in a thousand years we'll all look a lot more similar, and speak a common language.
Since most SF is set in the future or a more advanced time, it's entirely plausible that the dominant culture has taken over their entire environment.
The problem with using a laser weapon to heat up someone else is that you are likely to need much more cooling at the weapon end than at the target end. Getting 50%+ efficiency out of a laser while dumping 100% of the laser energy into the target is challenging.
Not necessarily. I don't know the original material, but if the weapon is ground based and built next to a river of lake then cooling is trivial. For an enemy ship, to build in technology to be able to cool the ship, and carry that with you everywhere you go, is a lot more of a challenge.
A weapon can also be built out of much heavier materials than something that has to fly.
I thought American food was just the same as any other food, but served in much larger portions, with less flavour and more salt and sugar?
Is there a more stupid argument than "my country's beer is better than yours"?
I come to Slashdot to get away from that level of discussion. I'd like to think that someone with a 5 digit UID would be a bit above all that too.
It's even more ridiculous since a large chunk of "Australian" and "NZ" beers are owned by the Japanese.
Discerning Aussies drink
Discerning drinkers don't drink any mass produce piss that all tastes the same anyway. Seriously, pour yourself a glass of any of the top 20 'marketed' lagers and blind taste test. It's all the same shit, owned by the same handful of corporations, just with different labels
If you want a real beer, get yourself down to your local craft brewery and learn what flavour is.
And Fosters: Australian for Beer.
Correction: Fosters is British for "Australian Beer". People is Australia don't even know what Fosters is.
I live in a street with a particularly irksome speeding problem (some drivers are regularly hitting 80-90mph in a 30mph zone) that the local authoritries refuse to address.
Buy a stack of bricks and start randomly leaving some out in the middle of your street. Anyone going a reasonable speed should be able to avoid them.
If you've got more time, get some quickset concrete and create your own speed hump in the middle of the night. Again, anyone driving normally should be able to navigate it without too much issue.
If misuse becomes a problem,
I'm struggling to see how this could be misused? Whenever I'm doing something dodgy I never take my car with me.
And if anyone is really interested in what time I leave for work, or the supermarket, I pity the fool.
We've been over this numeours times before. Privacy isn't binary. When I walk around my front yard in my underpants I don't care if my neighbours see me, but I should have a right to expect that I won't end up on youtube.
#maintainthestatusquo
You do realise this isn't Twitter right? Or are you trying to pretend that you're younger and stupider than you UID suggests?
You forgot one, but who cares?
I started out as a sysadmin and had access to everyone's email and files. I thought it'd be great to dig up some dirt, find out who was fucking who etc. After a short time, the novelty wears off and you realise the info you thought would be interesting actually isn't. So the Sales manager is fucking his PA, or the marketing team are coke fiends, or the IT manager is stealing hardware and selling it on eBay. It all becomes uninteresting really quickly and you wonder why you've invested so much time and effrot chasing it.
If you're the type that find's other people's lives are so interesting, it probably says more about you than them.
Wouldn't be too hard for a group of like minded individuals to start sharing intel. Google Docs a list of plates of known people on both sides of the law and the rest is trivial.
Does less, cost more. They should team up with Apple....
Are you going to have more fun driving to work in a Tesla or a 911 Turbo?
Niether becasue any 1 litre sports bike will destroy both of them in work traffic. Hell even a Vespa will beat anything with 4 wheels since the biggest challenge in getting from A to B these days is not power, but space.
The car industry seems to be plagued with 20th century business men, trying to apply their 20th century logic in a 21st century world.
If Tesla can survive the next 5 to 10 years they will own the entire industry.
Okay, so once you've flipped over the sack of groceries in the back seat with g-force and your kid in his car seat is crying because you jarred him. Has the novelty worn off?
Based on decades of muscle car ownership by millions of people I think the answer to that is no.
What does being AC have to do with it?
I've been on ./ since pre-Y2K and have never bothered with an account: does that make the conviction of my beliefs any less authentic?
Yes it does. I normally don't engage with AC's since it's impossible to follow a conversation.
The value of a forum is being able to post your opinion, have others challenge those, then having to justify your position in a logocal and reasonable matter. Simply firing off ad-hoc comments anonymously doens't really acheive much, which is why AC's generally get ignored.
Can someone tell me what exactly I am missing by [stubbornly] refusing to use Windows Server? I know there surely exist some advantages but what are they really?
I can't tell you what *you* are missing, but for most people (not nerds), "IT" means Back Office. And if you want a simple, cheap and easy to support Back Office, it's hard to go past the MS solution. Server, Desktop and mobile OS all integrate seamlessly, you get and LDAP out of the box that just works, and centralised client management via Group Policy. You also get the SQL, Exchange, Office combo that pretty much does everything that most Joe Office users need. And more importantly you can find admins anywhere.
MS admins also tend to be able to relate better with normal people too, since everytime you meet an Linux fan boy they always seem angry and bitter about something.
So in your case, you may not need any of that, but for most businesses there is no other solution that comes close (feel free to offer one, but cobbling together a bunch of clunky, disparate FOSS shit that needs to be band-aided together and constantly tweaked is not what people want).
This is first-world "news".
We live in a first world country so what did you expect?
I'm not saying that's not happening, but what I am observing is that businesses are jumping on the Surface bandwagon. And Business buy in bulk, and do it on a regular cycle. Apple really dropped the ball by not tagetting business users.
I also notice at the airport security check, more and more other people are pulling out Surface Pros, so I believe they are making ground.
I recall when the Macbook went Intel and everyone wanted one. We did evaluations at the time fro our next fleet replacement but Apple just wouldn't come to the party with any kind of enterprise support. So they lost our business, and I'm sure we weren't the only ones. That was about 7 or 8 years ago and from what I've seen they haven't changed their stance since. So they sat by and let MS eat their lunch.
Tablets are already dying off, the iPad sales plateau is proof of that. Why tablets are dying is a more interesting question.
Tablets aren't dying. Tablet sales are falling off because the people willing to buy one now have one. Tablets will stick around for the foreseeable future.
It's 1995 all over again. Apple target home users, who have a taste for new shiney and lead the sales curve, but don't have the appetite to continually upgrade or replace. Microsft target business users who are slower off the mark, but throw a lot more money around and do it on a regular cycle, for a lot longer periods.
When I read these stories they're always set in the tone of some poor victims who's home is being taken from them by the big bad white man. A lot of these nations are poor, so a free ticket to a wealthier country is a big win for a lot of them.
For the generation that move it moight be tough, but for their children they will have access to far greater health, education and career opportunities previously unknown to them.
How will it stop the reciever taking screen grabs? OR save it using other methods?
Or more importantly, how will it stop customers from leaving?