Actually, I suppose ONE way out of the problem would be for the final episode of this new show (probably seven years hence, our time) to have some classic Braga-esque time-anomaly wank happen that erases it completely out of Star Fleet history, thus making Kirk's ship the first one after all...
Not only that, but last week here in the U.K. they had a 35th Anniversary Star Trek Night, which included a reshowing of "Trials and Tribble-ations", which included roughly the following - now very amusing - dialogue, taking place in Sisko's office at the start of the show:
Time cop guy:"WHICH Enterprise?" Sisko: "The first - Constitution class." Time cop guy:(disgustedly)"Kirk's ship!"
Oh well, talk about shooting yourself in the foot...
Yeah, she's a nice enough shape (I agree with your general opinions), but what a shame she has to wear that backwards baseball cap and a permanently goofy expression.And I think you're poser model's WAY off, especially in the thighs department.
P.S. Does she KNOW that you're this weirdly obsessive about her?;-)
Male pattern baldness is caused by a susceptibility of hair follicles to the effects of the male hormone, testosterone.Since testosterone also causes aggressiveness (as well as many other things, good and bad), it's not really surprising that many military types are balding.
(However the reverse is not always true...the susceptibility is optional and genetic.To go bald you need to have fairly high levels of testosterone AND the genes for testosterone-induced hair loss.So it doesn't mean that people with full heads of hair are necessarily wimps...they just may not be genetically inclined to lose hair.)
Actually, though at first he did refuse it, last I heard he'd changed his mind and decided to have a new one after all. Apparently it will have an English accent; whether it sounds more "human" I don't know.
I wonder if it's significant to the joke in some way that the ROM of the Tandy Model 100 is reputed to be the last code that Bill Gates actually wrote himself?
"Your ebony rod is so weakly electified because although it comprises an impressive number of charges, most balance out (there are positive and negative charges which cancel each other's effect out). Net electric charge is only caused by an imbalance between positive and negative"
"Gravity is different though: there are no 'negative' gravity particle which could cancel out the normal positive gravity, or at least there are none known today."
Exactly...how do you KNOW for sure? Could we not be in the same situation now with gravity as we were 200 years ago with electromagnetism? Perhaps what this guy has discovered IS a negative force of gravity that is normally invisible due to it cancelling out normal gravity.
OK, so I'm playing Devil's Advocate a bit here, as electromagnets have been known to have two poles for a lonnnggg time, and gravity hasn't, but even so, it makes you think...:-)
Yes, and sadly I think this is the main thing that Chris Morris failed to highlight.
As the woman who wrote a wonderfully Morris-supportive letter to the Guardian website put it (quoting from memory, but not far off): "I too am sick of all this 'paedo-lurking-behind-every-bush' hysteria, when 9 times out of 10 it's actually Daddy diddling his daughter on the sofa while Mum's out at Tesco's[1], but nobody's interested in that."
She then went onto explain how she told both her school and the family doctor, neither of whom believed her. No doubt if some git had leapt on her from behind a bus-stop then they might have shown some concern.
...about this little girl that professionally starred in beauty pagents. Her mother grilled her constantly over walking right, talking right, smiling right, sticking out her chest ("strut it like you'll have it in 10 years")...
One of the sketches in Brass Eye *was* a scene that pretended to be from an American beauty pageant, where a couple had had false breasts grafted onto their 7/8/9 (can't remember) year-old daughter so as to improve her chances in the pageant.
They had one parent holding up the child, with another adoring parent going "Wow, aren't they realistic?" and the proud father going "Yes, and look <shakes child> they even jiggle!"
(I should add at this point that the breasts were apparently computer generated - and in any case they were then pixellated over, so you couldn't see them anyway.)
Only The Sun and The Star have a "Page Three" girl, and even those are drifting out of fashion.
The Mirror is a leftish "red-top" tabloid that, despite having an iffy editor, seems to have its heart in the right place. No Page Three.
The Daily Mail and The Daily Express are right-wing middle-market tabloids; the former in particular is sickeningly hypocritical.
There are four serious broadsheets: The Times (right wing), The Telegraph (ultra-right wing), The Independent (as it says) and The Guardian (left wing).
Not all the British press is crap, just most of it.
(Sunday paper variations left out for simplicity, and before anyone mentions The Sport, I'm not sure it qualifies as a newspaper...;-) )
It would be nice if that worked. Sadly because Google can only INCLUDE a whole phrase, not EXCLUDE it, your expression above would exclude "my" but include both "home" and "page" (God knows whether as a phrase or not).
Nope...this is my one big bugbear with Google compared to Altavista.
Searching for "john doe" will indeed find pages that contain that whole phrase. But searching for -"john doe" will exclude "john" and include "doe".
In other words the "-" exclusion operator only works on the very next word, not the whole phrase in quotes. To exclude "john doe" you have to type -john -doe although that of course also excludes "doe john" or indeed "doe wibble ftanng john".
I'm constantly amazed that Google can't get this right.
Not even at v22bis!If I remember correctly, V22bis modems are actually 600 baud, with sixteen symbols (4 bits) per baud, 4*600 giving 2400 bps.The sixteen symbols are a combination of 8 phase shifts (0, 45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270 & 315 degrees) and 2 amplitude levels.
Even plain old V22 (1200bps) is 4 symbols (2 bits) at 600 baud - in that case just four phase shifts (0, 90, 180 & 270). You have to drop down to 600 or even 300 bps before 1 bit = 1 baud.
Meanwhile (so some Google research has just told me), 14k4 is 64 symbols (6 bits) at 2400 baud, and 28k8 is no less than 512 symbols (9 bits) at 3200 baud!!You can't increase the baud rate much past that without exceeding the bandwidth of the telephone line.
Meanwhile, after 28k8/33k6 we get into 56K territory, which is a completely different ballgame, and I'm not going there today.:-)
I suppose I'd get a slap if I pointed out that "56k modem" actually means (roughly) "56,000 bits per second" modem?
"baud" does NOT mean "bits per second", it is a measure of the number of state transitions per second on the line - not the same thing, as each state can encode multiple bits.
> and practically speaking you will be lucky to hit 5
For what it's worth, I consistently get a 50,666bps connection...
Agreed about the general misuse of kB/s vs. kb/s etc., though.
My, you *are* a charming fellow, aren't you? An excellent advertisement for Doug's site. Perhaps I'd have more respect for your point of view if you could make it without the mass of childish personal abuse posted behind the noble moniker of AC...
However it does seem in this case that Slashdot has a lot to answer for, and maybe the "asking the sites" first policy has something going for it - but then I'm sure Microsoft would give permission for Slashdot to link to something embarassing on it, wouldn't it? Not. It's a tricky one...oh sod it, I don't even know WHY I'm trying to be reasonable, given your attitude; you could have made your point just as well without the insults...
Which is why for phrase searches I put up with all the soddin' advertisements and haul my arse over to Altavista...but for anything else, Google rules, if only for the sheer speed of loading the query page.
Apologies. I see where you're coming from now, and I quite agree. Mind you, having re-read your original post, there wasn't QUITE enough in it to make it clear that you weren't just being geographically ignorant.;-)
Or maybe that's what happens when you post at 2 in the morning. Anyway, sorry for being a bit of an arse.
Slashdot Mirror
Because not enough people put it down?
As I understand it, the only qualification for having a separate placing on the list is gaining more than 10,000 returns. (See the original Register story at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/18203 .html)
So more than 10,000 people put down Jedi, but less than 10,000 people put down Shinto, I guess.
Sure most of them are Japanese, but I'd think there would be more than some of the other things in that list....
Just goes to show...scary, isn't it?!
Nope. Me too! :-)
Trouble is, I think that would be even worse...
Time cop guy:"WHICH Enterprise?"
Sisko: "The first - Constitution class."
Time cop guy:(disgustedly)"Kirk's ship!"
Oh well, talk about shooting yourself in the foot...
P.S. Does she KNOW that you're this weirdly obsessive about her? ;-)
Yup...he only wrote them so he could grab half of Alexander Courage's royalties.Sad but true.
While I'm here, TOS had 79 episodes, and I *think* TNG had 179...I could check if I could be arsed, but I can't.
Male pattern baldness is caused by a susceptibility of hair follicles to the effects of the male hormone, testosterone.Since testosterone also causes aggressiveness (as well as many other things, good and bad), it's not really surprising that many military types are balding.
(However the reverse is not always true...the susceptibility is optional and genetic.To go bald you need to have fairly high levels of testosterone AND the genes for testosterone-induced hair loss.So it doesn't mean that people with full heads of hair are necessarily wimps...they just may not be genetically inclined to lose hair.)
You're kidding, right? Please tell me you're kidding...
And then there was "3D Monster Maze" on the Commodore PET...1980 or 1981 the latest...
Actually, though at first he did refuse it, last I heard he'd changed his mind and decided to have a new one after all. Apparently it will have an English accent; whether it sounds more "human" I don't know.
It's been automatic for me since it first came out...it was an old PCWism, wasn't it? (David Tebbutt where are you now when we need you?)
I wonder if it's significant to the joke in some way that the ROM of the Tandy Model 100 is reputed to be the last code that Bill Gates actually wrote himself?
...poor sod never recovered from having his linear motor project cancelled...
"Gravity is different though: there are no 'negative' gravity particle which could cancel out the normal positive gravity, or at least there are none known today."
Exactly...how do you KNOW for sure? Could we not be in the same situation now with gravity as we were 200 years ago with electromagnetism? Perhaps what this guy has discovered IS a negative force of gravity that is normally invisible due to it cancelling out normal gravity.
OK, so I'm playing Devil's Advocate a bit here, as electromagnets have been known to have two poles for a lonnnggg time, and gravity hasn't, but even so, it makes you think... :-)
As the woman who wrote a wonderfully Morris-supportive letter to the Guardian website put it (quoting from memory, but not far off): "I too am sick of all this 'paedo-lurking-behind-every-bush' hysteria, when 9 times out of 10 it's actually Daddy diddling his daughter on the sofa while Mum's out at Tesco's[1], but nobody's interested in that."
She then went onto explain how she told both her school and the family doctor, neither of whom believed her. No doubt if some git had leapt on her from behind a bus-stop then they might have shown some concern.
[[1] - Tesco's = major British supermarket chain]
One of the sketches in Brass Eye *was* a scene that pretended to be from an American beauty pageant, where a couple had had false breasts grafted onto their 7/8/9 (can't remember) year-old daughter so as to improve her chances in the pageant.
They had one parent holding up the child, with another adoring parent going "Wow, aren't they realistic?" and the proud father going "Yes, and look <shakes child> they even jiggle!"
(I should add at this point that the breasts were apparently computer generated - and in any case they were then pixellated over, so you couldn't see them anyway.)
Only The Sun and The Star have a "Page Three" girl, and even those are drifting out of fashion.
The Mirror is a leftish "red-top" tabloid that, despite having an iffy editor, seems to have its heart in the right place. No Page Three.
The Daily Mail and The Daily Express are right-wing middle-market tabloids; the former in particular is sickeningly hypocritical.
There are four serious broadsheets: The Times (right wing), The Telegraph (ultra-right wing), The Independent (as it says) and The Guardian (left wing).
Not all the British press is crap, just most of it.
(Sunday paper variations left out for simplicity, and before anyone mentions The Sport, I'm not sure it qualifies as a newspaper... ;-) )
The sooner they fix this idiocy, the better.
Searching for
"john doe"
will indeed find pages that contain that whole phrase. But searching for
-"john doe"
will exclude "john" and include "doe".
In other words the "-" exclusion operator only works on the very next word, not the whole phrase in quotes. To exclude "john doe" you have to type
-john -doe
although that of course also excludes "doe john" or indeed "doe wibble ftanng john".
I'm constantly amazed that Google can't get this right.
Even plain old V22 (1200bps) is 4 symbols (2 bits) at 600 baud - in that case just four phase shifts (0, 90, 180 & 270). You have to drop down to 600 or even 300 bps before 1 bit = 1 baud.
Meanwhile (so some Google research has just told me), 14k4 is 64 symbols (6 bits) at 2400 baud, and 28k8 is no less than 512 symbols (9 bits) at 3200 baud!!You can't increase the baud rate much past that without exceeding the bandwidth of the telephone line.
Meanwhile, after 28k8/33k6 we get into 56K territory, which is a completely different ballgame, and I'm not going there today. :-)
"baud" does NOT mean "bits per second", it is a measure of the number of state transitions per second on the line - not the same thing, as each state can encode multiple bits.
> and practically speaking you will be lucky to hit 5
For what it's worth, I consistently get a 50,666bps connection...
Agreed about the general misuse of kB/s vs. kb/s etc., though.
However it does seem in this case that Slashdot has a lot to answer for, and maybe the "asking the sites" first policy has something going for it - but then I'm sure Microsoft would give permission for Slashdot to link to something embarassing on it, wouldn't it? Not. It's a tricky one...oh sod it, I don't even know WHY I'm trying to be reasonable, given your attitude; you could have made your point just as well without the insults...
Which is why for phrase searches I put up with all the soddin' advertisements and haul my arse over to Altavista...but for anything else, Google rules, if only for the sheer speed of loading the query page.
Or maybe that's what happens when you post at 2 in the morning. Anyway, sorry for being a bit of an arse.