Now I have to cancel my plans at buying a new Macintosh and make an AROS machine instead.
#1 AROS runs faster and has a lower memory footprint than OSX. #2 AROS is free to use even on Non-Apple PCs. #3 AROS does not have any DRM at all. #4 AROS only needs an i386 or higher machine to run on, OSX needs modern hardware and more RAM than I can afford to buy to run smoothly. #5 I don't use iTunes, all my songs are in DRM-less MP3 or OGG format. CD-RIPS or buying them from iTune competitors that don't use DRM and cost cheaper.
Oh yeah Sloppy Programming became so common that Java and C# did away with pointers and does their own garbage collection because most programmers get pointers messed up and don't clean up their garbage by freeing up memory.
If Bit Flippers refuse to learn proper programming, the computer languages get changed to adjust for their incompetence.:)
They will write code for near minimum wage or under $25,000 a year with a comp sci degree or Microsoft certification. Usually aged 22-30, no spouse, lives at home with parents, and works 80 hour weeks with no extra pay.
But does a sloppy job and systems crash 12 times a day or more, but good enough to get work done.
The 35 to 65 aged IT workers will draw too much salary via their experience and will be worth $45,000 to $150,000 a year as Master Programmers. They will do quality work and the computer system never crashes because they close every object they use and free up memory and other advanced programming techniques. But since quality takes longer to code that sloppiness the Bit Flipper is usually hired over the Master Programmer as most managers don't understand how computers or programming works and hires and keeps the ones that can code the fastest. Not the best at the job, not the higher quality work, and not the more experienced or professional either.
Bit Flippers are usually narcissistic and selfish, or more like egomaniacs, but they tend to keep to themselves and write code most of the day while cussing out coworkers and managers under their breath.
Because the Windows Defender and other Microsoft AV software are almost total crap and not a real AntiVirus program. Non-MS Antivirus programs seem to find malware that Windows Defender won't like trojans and rootkits and spyware and adware.
Windows Defender etc did not come built in with Windows like CPAV did. It was an add on, but in many geek's opinion a commercial Antivirus or even a free one like Avast! Home Edition or AVG Free was better than Windows Defender.
Germany during World War II, for example, most believed and followed Hitler. Germany had some smart people, but they made stupid decisions and fell for Hitler's scam.
The same is true of Democratic and Republican US citizens falling for their candidate's scams. Once elected into office, do you really think they will keep every promise they made and do what they told their supporters they would do?
If it sounds too good to be true, most of the time it isn't true at all, it is a scam.
If, for example, you get an email saying you won the UK lottery chances are it is a scam, or Bill Gates giving out millions if you forward this email to 20 of your friends and family, it is a scam, or someone dying in Nigeria with your last name and has $10 million waiting to be wired to you and need your contact info and banking numbers etc, it is a scam.
Commercialize space travel. Turn the Airline Industry into the Space Travel Industry.
Richard Branson is trying to do that with Spaceship-1.
Build domes on The Moon and populate them, we know there are ice caps on the Moon we can use to create water and oxygen and hydrogen, use hydrogen for fuel.
Open Source NASA spaceship designs, we can use retro Apollo 13 rockets for commercial use or make a better rocket design that can carry more people, or put rockets on Airliners and streamline them so they are air tight and carry more people than a space elevator.
Then we can use The Moon as a base to launch for Mars later.
Meanwhile we can build floating islands and under water domes for the growing hundred million population problem. Until we can launch them into space.
so of course unhappy people watch more TV. They are trying to become happy by enjoying TV programs and movies. But it does not always work, and some shows actually make people unhappy, so they change the channel and try to watch different shows.
#1 Find a new fuel instead of oil and fossil fuels.
#2 Get rid of hatred and bigotry and racism.
#3 Invest in Fringe Science to create future technology and not let some asshole scientists holding up progress with flawed theories that they cherrypicked data or did fraud like Piltdown man that prevent us from having rapid progress in improving our technology for cleaning up the environment (Terraforming) space travel (Earth will be crowded we need to make a few colonies)
#4 Creating floating cities and under water cities to help with population growth.
#5 Until we can replace oil, why are polar bears more important than human beings? We either can save the polar bears and make humans extinct or drill for oil and natural gas in the Alaskan wilderness to get enough oil until we can invent a replacement for it. Save the Polar Bear DNA so when he invent cloning we can recreate the polar bears and the Dodo and other extinct animals.
#6 Fight terrorism by following the money trails and bank accounts they use to pay off members to do suicide bombings. Make it an International law to shut down any bank account that pays terrorists and prosecute the owners. The same for donating to fake Islamic charities that fund terrorism by giving money to Sheiks and Clerics that launder it for terrorist networks. Terrorist networks work like a business, so just shut off their bank accounts and money and they won't afford to be in business any more.
#7 Learn ancient skills like pottery, black smithing, leather working, wood working, etc so in case civilization collapses we can have experts to help rebuild it using ancient technologies that don't need oil or electricity. Study the Amish and other groups that do this so in case the rest of us can survive an economic collapse and post-oil world with no alternative to oil.
#8 Set up more charities that help poor people and people with disabilities and mental illnesses and drug and alcohol addictions. Teach them how to be responsible and sober and think clearly and be able to go back into the work force or start up their own small businesses to help stimulate the economy.
#9 Get governments to stick to a budget by cutting pork spending and useless programs, leave the taxes alone, but control spending, end useless wars and stop trying to protect people from their own bad decisions and bad behavior and bad actions, and let them learn from the consequences of them, so they can avoid them in the future, Tough love, but if they spent $50,000 in credit cards for useless crap and then could not afford a house payment, they are too stupid to bail out. The same for banks who didn't verify that they made what they claimed they made they claimed $45,000 a year but only earned $15,000 a year, and banks that gave them loans and mortgages are too stupid to allow to stay in business. Let them fail and eat their own mistakes. Why should the rest of us, responsible people, pay more taxes and lower the currency value to bail out stupid people so they can rip us off again 5 to 10 years later with the same "scam"? The bailouts are a Ponzi scheme that ruins the stock market and economy and ruin the US dollar's value and cause inflation and unemployment to rise, stop them!
#10 Find a better way to rehabilitate criminals, most of them are repeat offenders. Learn from Europe and Australia and other nations that do not have the crime repeat offender rates the USA has.
Wasting billions to catch European Hackers who stole source code for a video game worth $2 million in Intellectual Property?
Since when is IP violations more important that catching all 20 million illegal aliens in the USA, or keeping track of 10 million pedophiles, or stopping Foreign Mafia Drug Lords from smuggling illegal drugs into the USA that funds terrorist networks?
If the federal government put that much effort into catching Osama bin Laden, we'd have caught him by now, he'd have his trial, and been sentenced to death or life in prison.
All the FBI had to do was work with INTERPOL and the UN and cite the European and International laws that got broken and schedule the local German government to arrest them and try them for IP theft. Wouldn't even cost 1 million dollars to do that. But we cannot have that, oh no, it makes way too much common sense and logic, and comes from the Internet Troll Orion Blastar therefore the other way is the right way to do things.
Doomsday is when Daleks and Cybermen appeared in the same Dr. Who Episode. Or the play The Seven Keys to Doomsday that had Daleks in it.
But those are tame: JOurney's End had the Daleks steal Earth and create a Crucibleâ"the Dalek flagship 'Davros explains that the twenty-seven stolen planets form a compression field which can cancel the electrical energy of atoms. The resulting "reality bomb"'
The Daleks had a "reality bomb" that made all matter and energy break apart, except for the Dalek planet and Crucible that were shielded. Not that is the ultimate doomsday weapon.:)
Which begs the question, is there an "Ask Slashdot" question that cannot be answered by a Google search?
If most "Ask Slashdot" questions can be answered by Google, and Slashdot screens them out by searching Google first, and after finding an answer tell the submitter to F-ing Google it and cancel the story. There there wouldn't be any material for "Ask Slashdot".
A good question to ask Slashdot that Google couldn't answer is "What web site can I buy a Rose Ratchet Whatchamigiger (From a "Pinky and the Brain" episode) and also ask what it is used for.
Another good question would be "Where do I find '101 BASIC Computer Games', a book that has been out of print since the 1980's and uses Darth Mouth and Microsoft BASIC."
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#1 Keep the VPN use work related. Follow the same network policies as if in the workplace.
#2 Scan the home PC on a regular basis for malware. Last thing the company needs is trade secrets, password and login info, and email stolen by some hacker who happened to get a key logger trojan on the Home PC, and then sell them to the higher bidder or steal corporate bank and credit card accounts. That means keeping your Antivirus programs updated every day and scan for viruses at least three times a week.
#3 You are on the honor system, Work can only monitor your activities on the VPN network, but not your Home PC and the Internet being used by your home PC. Yes it is alright to check your local email on your home computer, but use common sense and don't spend a lot of time doing personal things on your home computer and home Internet connection. We'll notice it when the VPN activity stops for more than 15 minutes, and your work productivity drops on the VPN. Yes you can take two 15 minute breaks and lunch hour or half hour, but we'll really notice it when you do nothing on the VPN for hours. Either you are goofing off and doing personal things, or the connection is dead, but we can tell by pinging your home computer to test if the connection is dead and deduce your wasting time.
#4 Keep all company email professional. Make effective use of company email and web sites and software. Don't use them and act like you do when you are posting Anonymous trolls on the Internet or your Myspace page.
#5 Do not access other user's accounts unless you are given permission by management for troubleshooting something or testing out software. We know that your profile might not have the same issues as a coworker, but only IT staff should be loging in as other employee's accounts only for testing purposes. Do not use an alias either on the VPN or create a fake account via a hack, but use the account and account name assigned to you.
#6 Do not save work data on your personal hard drive, instead store it on a server drive.
#7 Do not run cracking and/or hacking tools on the VPN, do not do any denial of service attacks over the VPN.
Offically they don't use those technologies anymore, unoffically they developed better more high tech versions and stopped using the old versions in 2000, and classified it as Top Secret Magestic Level so that only Members of Congress and the President know about it, but cannot tell the public about it.
Shatner had Twilight Zone experience (There is a monster on the wing of this plane!), Nimoy played Sherlock Holmes in a movie (Spock is logical deducer like Holmes so it was easy for him to adapt to playing a Vulcan that uses logic over emotions), and others had prior experience as well.
But they got Gene Roddenberry training and guidance to help them fit into those roles.
Star Trek the original series had wooden acting, cheesy special effects, cheap props and backgrounds (When Kirk fought the Lizardman they were obviously fake rocks made out of paper), and the combat was faked and the same ship combat scenes got played over and over again and the uniforms were basically jogging sweat suits with a badge and rank insignia put on them. But it turned into a cult clasic, even if the original series was canceled for bad ratings, it got good ratings in syndication on third party stations.
But by the time the first few Star Trek movies got made, the acting was better, the special effects was better, the plots were better, and the combat wasn't looking so fake but more realistic. Just that Odd numbered Star Trek films are awful, but even numbered Star Trek films are much better. Like Star Trek: The Motion Picture wasn't so good, but Star Trek II: The Wraith of Khan was a smash hit at the box office.
is the amount of time it takes Microsoft to finally fix a serious security flaw in the way their network for file and print sharing work.
Meanwhile billions of people still wait for that fix for the blue screen of death ever since Windows 95 was released, each new version of Windows was supposed to (or at least promised to) fix that BSOD issue and make the new Windows run faster and more stable with fewer crashes.
As it turns out Apple Macintosh OS X and distros of Linux already have a fix for that, either trade in your Windows PC for down payment on a Macintosh at an Apple store or reformat and install Linux or some other alternative operating system.
Funny that every version of Windows seems to have serious security flaws that still allow malware to infect the system so badly that there are thousands of malware programs slowing down the system so it is at 286 IBM PC-AT speeds and no Microsoft or third part antivirus program can prevent it fully. I'm still waiting for Microsoft to make Windows virus-proof and pick a Unix type security system that makes it hard for a virus to run much less infect the system. Both Mac OS X and Linux have a Unix like security system because they are based on Unix standards.
in that they make the Prequels better than the Original films.
Otherwise it will become another Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and mess up some of the continuity in the original films and TV series, and have a plot that does not make sense, and acting that was not as good as the originals as they are using new actors and actresses that hardly anyone heard of before and have not yet fully learned the art of acting.
At least make the Prequel better than the Star Wreck parody. I am sorry to say but Even Stark trek fan based films seem to be better than the original most recent Star Trek films, since Gene Roddenberry passed away. Maybe they should hire some of the Star Trek fans who made those films to help make the Prequels, if the current Star Trek film bombs? When Gene Roddenberry was alive, he was able to write or at least inspire the writers to have a good plot that follows logic and inspire the actors to act better, and have better combat and drama and more Sci Fi than Space Opera. I got a bad felling that this Prequel will end up more Space Opera than Sci Fi and deal more with relationships and personal issues between the characters than the Sci Fi story it should be. I hope it does not become, gasp, "Broke Back Starfleet Academy" or something.;)
Kid "Mom, I need your credit card to pay Blizzard $20 so I can defeat the final level boss Cement Head in Worlds of Warcraft Junior: Adolescence Rage"
Mom "What? You need my credit card for what? A video game?"
Kid "I also need $15 more to buy a magic sword +5 against cement."
Mom "But that's extortion, who does Blizzard think they are to charge money to get to the final level and buy a weapon to help you defeat a boss, and what kind of name is Cement Head anyway?"
Kid "But moooooooom, all the kids in Junior High are playing it, and if I don't beat Cement Head, I'll be laughed at lunch by all of my friends because my family is too poor or too stingy to pay for unlocking those parts of the game."
Mom "Well if they laugh at you dear, then they aren't your friends. I am not paying $35 for you to finish some stupid video game."
Kid "But Mom, G4 'Cheat' gave it five out of five stars, the highest rating they can give it."
Mom "I don't care who gave it five stars, I am not giving you my credit card and that is final!"
Yeah good one but TFA talked about Windows XP having the user32.dll virus and not Windows Vista.
Even 12 year olds who use Google as a research tool for Junior High Computer Papers know that much.:)
BTW Tin Foil hats don't work, I use Lead foil hats, they block the gamma radiation used by alpha waves the CIA uses via the Remote Viewing exercises invented by Dr. Doom er ah Claude Van Dam, er Whatshisname
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Now I have to cancel my plans at buying a new Macintosh and make an AROS machine instead.
#1 AROS runs faster and has a lower memory footprint than OSX.
#2 AROS is free to use even on Non-Apple PCs.
#3 AROS does not have any DRM at all.
#4 AROS only needs an i386 or higher machine to run on, OSX needs modern hardware and more RAM than I can afford to buy to run smoothly.
#5 I don't use iTunes, all my songs are in DRM-less MP3 or OGG format. CD-RIPS or buying them from iTune competitors that don't use DRM and cost cheaper.
Oh yeah Sloppy Programming became so common that Java and C# did away with pointers and does their own garbage collection because most programmers get pointers messed up and don't clean up their garbage by freeing up memory.
If Bit Flippers refuse to learn proper programming, the computer languages get changed to adjust for their incompetence. :)
which are like Burger Flippers.
They will write code for near minimum wage or under $25,000 a year with a comp sci degree or Microsoft certification. Usually aged 22-30, no spouse, lives at home with parents, and works 80 hour weeks with no extra pay.
But does a sloppy job and systems crash 12 times a day or more, but good enough to get work done.
The 35 to 65 aged IT workers will draw too much salary via their experience and will be worth $45,000 to $150,000 a year as Master Programmers. They will do quality work and the computer system never crashes because they close every object they use and free up memory and other advanced programming techniques. But since quality takes longer to code that sloppiness the Bit Flipper is usually hired over the Master Programmer as most managers don't understand how computers or programming works and hires and keeps the ones that can code the fastest. Not the best at the job, not the higher quality work, and not the more experienced or professional either.
Bit Flippers are usually narcissistic and selfish, or more like egomaniacs, but they tend to keep to themselves and write code most of the day while cussing out coworkers and managers under their breath.
Because the Windows Defender and other Microsoft AV software are almost total crap and not a real AntiVirus program. Non-MS Antivirus programs seem to find malware that Windows Defender won't like trojans and rootkits and spyware and adware.
MS-DOS 6.X had Central Point Antivirus with the Microsoft name on it.
Windows Defender etc did not come built in with Windows like CPAV did. It was an add on, but in many geek's opinion a commercial Antivirus or even a free one like Avast! Home Edition or AVG Free was better than Windows Defender.
Germany during World War II, for example, most believed and followed Hitler. Germany had some smart people, but they made stupid decisions and fell for Hitler's scam.
The same is true of Democratic and Republican US citizens falling for their candidate's scams. Once elected into office, do you really think they will keep every promise they made and do what they told their supporters they would do?
If it sounds too good to be true, most of the time it isn't true at all, it is a scam.
If, for example, you get an email saying you won the UK lottery chances are it is a scam, or Bill Gates giving out millions if you forward this email to 20 of your friends and family, it is a scam, or someone dying in Nigeria with your last name and has $10 million waiting to be wired to you and need your contact info and banking numbers etc, it is a scam.
All I see are Ada 95, Embedded C, and C++ support, not much third party driver support, and hardly any third party applications at all.
Might as well use AROS as it has more of that than the OS in TFA.
Don't forget buying up a big building and hiring "fake" employees and issuing "fake" stock to make it look like a real technology company.
Commercialize space travel. Turn the Airline Industry into the Space Travel Industry.
Richard Branson is trying to do that with Spaceship-1.
Build domes on The Moon and populate them, we know there are ice caps on the Moon we can use to create water and oxygen and hydrogen, use hydrogen for fuel.
Open Source NASA spaceship designs, we can use retro Apollo 13 rockets for commercial use or make a better rocket design that can carry more people, or put rockets on Airliners and streamline them so they are air tight and carry more people than a space elevator.
Then we can use The Moon as a base to launch for Mars later.
Meanwhile we can build floating islands and under water domes for the growing hundred million population problem. Until we can launch them into space.
No sorry, Happy People hang out in video game web sites.
Unhappy unemployed IT geeks and nerds hang out on Slashdot. Duh! :)
so of course unhappy people watch more TV. They are trying to become happy by enjoying TV programs and movies. But it does not always work, and some shows actually make people unhappy, so they change the channel and try to watch different shows.
This is basically common sense.
#1 Find a new fuel instead of oil and fossil fuels.
#2 Get rid of hatred and bigotry and racism.
#3 Invest in Fringe Science to create future technology and not let some asshole scientists holding up progress with flawed theories that they cherrypicked data or did fraud like Piltdown man that prevent us from having rapid progress in improving our technology for cleaning up the environment (Terraforming) space travel (Earth will be crowded we need to make a few colonies)
#4 Creating floating cities and under water cities to help with population growth.
#5 Until we can replace oil, why are polar bears more important than human beings? We either can save the polar bears and make humans extinct or drill for oil and natural gas in the Alaskan wilderness to get enough oil until we can invent a replacement for it. Save the Polar Bear DNA so when he invent cloning we can recreate the polar bears and the Dodo and other extinct animals.
#6 Fight terrorism by following the money trails and bank accounts they use to pay off members to do suicide bombings. Make it an International law to shut down any bank account that pays terrorists and prosecute the owners. The same for donating to fake Islamic charities that fund terrorism by giving money to Sheiks and Clerics that launder it for terrorist networks. Terrorist networks work like a business, so just shut off their bank accounts and money and they won't afford to be in business any more.
#7 Learn ancient skills like pottery, black smithing, leather working, wood working, etc so in case civilization collapses we can have experts to help rebuild it using ancient technologies that don't need oil or electricity. Study the Amish and other groups that do this so in case the rest of us can survive an economic collapse and post-oil world with no alternative to oil.
#8 Set up more charities that help poor people and people with disabilities and mental illnesses and drug and alcohol addictions. Teach them how to be responsible and sober and think clearly and be able to go back into the work force or start up their own small businesses to help stimulate the economy.
#9 Get governments to stick to a budget by cutting pork spending and useless programs, leave the taxes alone, but control spending, end useless wars and stop trying to protect people from their own bad decisions and bad behavior and bad actions, and let them learn from the consequences of them, so they can avoid them in the future, Tough love, but if they spent $50,000 in credit cards for useless crap and then could not afford a house payment, they are too stupid to bail out. The same for banks who didn't verify that they made what they claimed they made they claimed $45,000 a year but only earned $15,000 a year, and banks that gave them loans and mortgages are too stupid to allow to stay in business. Let them fail and eat their own mistakes. Why should the rest of us, responsible people, pay more taxes and lower the currency value to bail out stupid people so they can rip us off again 5 to 10 years later with the same "scam"? The bailouts are a Ponzi scheme that ruins the stock market and economy and ruin the US dollar's value and cause inflation and unemployment to rise, stop them!
#10 Find a better way to rehabilitate criminals, most of them are repeat offenders. Learn from Europe and Australia and other nations that do not have the crime repeat offender rates the USA has.
Wasting billions to catch European Hackers who stole source code for a video game worth $2 million in Intellectual Property?
Since when is IP violations more important that catching all 20 million illegal aliens in the USA, or keeping track of 10 million pedophiles, or stopping Foreign Mafia Drug Lords from smuggling illegal drugs into the USA that funds terrorist networks?
If the federal government put that much effort into catching Osama bin Laden, we'd have caught him by now, he'd have his trial, and been sentenced to death or life in prison.
All the FBI had to do was work with INTERPOL and the UN and cite the European and International laws that got broken and schedule the local German government to arrest them and try them for IP theft. Wouldn't even cost 1 million dollars to do that. But we cannot have that, oh no, it makes way too much common sense and logic, and comes from the Internet Troll Orion Blastar therefore the other way is the right way to do things.
Doomsday is when Daleks and Cybermen appeared in the same Dr. Who Episode. Or the play The Seven Keys to Doomsday that had Daleks in it.
But those are tame:
JOurney's End had the Daleks steal Earth and create a Crucibleâ"the Dalek flagship 'Davros explains that the twenty-seven stolen planets form a compression field which can cancel the electrical energy of atoms. The resulting "reality bomb"'
The Daleks had a "reality bomb" that made all matter and energy break apart, except for the Dalek planet and Crucible that were shielded. Not that is the ultimate doomsday weapon. :)
Peak Oil, Global Warming, New World Order, 9/11 Conspiracy Theories. :)
Which begs the question, is there an "Ask Slashdot" question that cannot be answered by a Google search?
If most "Ask Slashdot" questions can be answered by Google, and Slashdot screens them out by searching Google first, and after finding an answer tell the submitter to F-ing Google it and cancel the story. There there wouldn't be any material for "Ask Slashdot".
A good question to ask Slashdot that Google couldn't answer is "What web site can I buy a Rose Ratchet Whatchamigiger (From a "Pinky and the Brain" episode) and also ask what it is used for.
Another good question would be "Where do I find '101 BASIC Computer Games', a book that has been out of print since the 1980's and uses Darth Mouth and Microsoft BASIC."
#1 Keep the VPN use work related. Follow the same network policies as if in the workplace.
#2 Scan the home PC on a regular basis for malware. Last thing the company needs is trade secrets, password and login info, and email stolen by some hacker who happened to get a key logger trojan on the Home PC, and then sell them to the higher bidder or steal corporate bank and credit card accounts. That means keeping your Antivirus programs updated every day and scan for viruses at least three times a week.
#3 You are on the honor system, Work can only monitor your activities on the VPN network, but not your Home PC and the Internet being used by your home PC. Yes it is alright to check your local email on your home computer, but use common sense and don't spend a lot of time doing personal things on your home computer and home Internet connection. We'll notice it when the VPN activity stops for more than 15 minutes, and your work productivity drops on the VPN. Yes you can take two 15 minute breaks and lunch hour or half hour, but we'll really notice it when you do nothing on the VPN for hours. Either you are goofing off and doing personal things, or the connection is dead, but we can tell by pinging your home computer to test if the connection is dead and deduce your wasting time.
#4 Keep all company email professional. Make effective use of company email and web sites and software. Don't use them and act like you do when you are posting Anonymous trolls on the Internet or your Myspace page.
#5 Do not access other user's accounts unless you are given permission by management for troubleshooting something or testing out software. We know that your profile might not have the same issues as a coworker, but only IT staff should be loging in as other employee's accounts only for testing purposes. Do not use an alias either on the VPN or create a fake account via a hack, but use the account and account name assigned to you.
#6 Do not save work data on your personal hard drive, instead store it on a server drive.
#7 Do not run cracking and/or hacking tools on the VPN, do not do any denial of service attacks over the VPN.
Actually I was joking, the FBI and NSA and CIA doesn't need a back door in any operating system.
Not when they have Carnivore at every ISP, and Magic Lantern to back it up.
Offically they don't use those technologies anymore, unoffically they developed better more high tech versions and stopped using the old versions in 2000, and classified it as Top Secret Magestic Level so that only Members of Congress and the President know about it, but cannot tell the public about it.
Shatner had Twilight Zone experience (There is a monster on the wing of this plane!), Nimoy played Sherlock Holmes in a movie (Spock is logical deducer like Holmes so it was easy for him to adapt to playing a Vulcan that uses logic over emotions), and others had prior experience as well.
But they got Gene Roddenberry training and guidance to help them fit into those roles.
Star Trek the original series had wooden acting, cheesy special effects, cheap props and backgrounds (When Kirk fought the Lizardman they were obviously fake rocks made out of paper), and the combat was faked and the same ship combat scenes got played over and over again and the uniforms were basically jogging sweat suits with a badge and rank insignia put on them. But it turned into a cult clasic, even if the original series was canceled for bad ratings, it got good ratings in syndication on third party stations.
But by the time the first few Star Trek movies got made, the acting was better, the special effects was better, the plots were better, and the combat wasn't looking so fake but more realistic. Just that Odd numbered Star Trek films are awful, but even numbered Star Trek films are much better. Like Star Trek: The Motion Picture wasn't so good, but Star Trek II: The Wraith of Khan was a smash hit at the box office.
is the amount of time it takes Microsoft to finally fix a serious security flaw in the way their network for file and print sharing work.
Meanwhile billions of people still wait for that fix for the blue screen of death ever since Windows 95 was released, each new version of Windows was supposed to (or at least promised to) fix that BSOD issue and make the new Windows run faster and more stable with fewer crashes.
As it turns out Apple Macintosh OS X and distros of Linux already have a fix for that, either trade in your Windows PC for down payment on a Macintosh at an Apple store or reformat and install Linux or some other alternative operating system.
Funny that every version of Windows seems to have serious security flaws that still allow malware to infect the system so badly that there are thousands of malware programs slowing down the system so it is at 286 IBM PC-AT speeds and no Microsoft or third part antivirus program can prevent it fully. I'm still waiting for Microsoft to make Windows virus-proof and pick a Unix type security system that makes it hard for a virus to run much less infect the system. Both Mac OS X and Linux have a Unix like security system because they are based on Unix standards.
in that they make the Prequels better than the Original films.
Otherwise it will become another Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and mess up some of the continuity in the original films and TV series, and have a plot that does not make sense, and acting that was not as good as the originals as they are using new actors and actresses that hardly anyone heard of before and have not yet fully learned the art of acting.
At least make the Prequel better than the Star Wreck parody. I am sorry to say but Even Stark trek fan based films seem to be better than the original most recent Star Trek films, since Gene Roddenberry passed away. Maybe they should hire some of the Star Trek fans who made those films to help make the Prequels, if the current Star Trek film bombs? When Gene Roddenberry was alive, he was able to write or at least inspire the writers to have a good plot that follows logic and inspire the actors to act better, and have better combat and drama and more Sci Fi than Space Opera. I got a bad felling that this Prequel will end up more Space Opera than Sci Fi and deal more with relationships and personal issues between the characters than the Sci Fi story it should be. I hope it does not become, gasp, "Broke Back Starfleet Academy" or something. ;)
Kid "Mom, I need your credit card to pay Blizzard $20 so I can defeat the final level boss Cement Head in Worlds of Warcraft Junior: Adolescence Rage"
Mom "What? You need my credit card for what? A video game?"
Kid "I also need $15 more to buy a magic sword +5 against cement."
Mom "But that's extortion, who does Blizzard think they are to charge money to get to the final level and buy a weapon to help you defeat a boss, and what kind of name is Cement Head anyway?"
Kid "But moooooooom, all the kids in Junior High are playing it, and if I don't beat Cement Head, I'll be laughed at lunch by all of my friends because my family is too poor or too stingy to pay for unlocking those parts of the game."
Mom "Well if they laugh at you dear, then they aren't your friends. I am not paying $35 for you to finish some stupid video game."
Kid "But Mom, G4 'Cheat' gave it five out of five stars, the highest rating they can give it."
Mom "I don't care who gave it five stars, I am not giving you my credit card and that is final!"
Yeah good one but TFA talked about Windows XP having the user32.dll virus and not Windows Vista.
Even 12 year olds who use Google as a research tool for Junior High Computer Papers know that much. :)
BTW Tin Foil hats don't work, I use Lead foil hats, they block the gamma radiation used by alpha waves the CIA uses via the Remote Viewing exercises invented by Dr. Doom er ah Claude Van Dam, er Whatshisname
Sorry typo, This is the real Captain Obvious UnNews article now with a quote from Batman's sidekick Robin.
Captain Obvious to the rescue!
Windows really is a virus and not an operating system. The user32.dll file is the one that phones home to Microsoft and has that "NSA Backdoor" in it.