The episode you refer to ("All Good Things...") took place in a fantasy universe created by Q, and he's just the sort of jerk that would abuse the canon like that.
I think tSTTM was trying to demonstrate the paradoxical nature of the idea of moving at warp factor 10 with the "all points in the universe" thing.
You had Monty Python? Well, if WE wanted to look at half-burnt black and white still photographs of naked Buster Keaton doing his "spoon dance" act, WE'd have to march through nine feet of snow for six miles! With no shoes! Over broken glass! Uphill! Both ways! AND THAT WAS THE WAY WE LIKED IT!!!
Let me ask you a hypothetical question, then... say I'm running windows 2000. Fresh installation, no weird third-party software installed. I pop open Task Manager and ponder a number of mysteriously-named standard system processes, call them foo32 and bar1337. Where do I go to read about these? How do I un-confuse myself, iow. On any decent unix, I have apropos and man... what is the equivalent on windows?
Between TOS and TNG, the warp scale was changed to an exponential one. Warp factor 1 - speed of light - is consistent between serieses, but as warp factor approaches 10, effective speed approaches infinity. TNG ships regularly move at or beyond what, in TOS, could have been called warp factor 11.
As long as we're spouting our biased, unsubstantiated opinions...
First Contact was the best Trek movie. Insurrection was the worst. Final Frontier comes in a notch above Insurrection, purely for camp value. All the rest were somewhere inbetween.
Not every story has to be news!/. is a pretty crummy news site anyway... the idea with late stories like this is just to provide a discussion forum. The readership here would be vastly reduced if they turned off comments.
They wanted everyone to forget Star Trek: INSURRECTION, which was so amazingly bad next to First Contact that I've been trying to block it from memory for the entire interval. Fortunately, I think I'll be clear by the time Nemesis is released.
Funny you should juxtapose Wired and and Nelson in that particular way, considering how unhappy he supposedly was with the way he was portrayed in that feature. I was inspired by the article as well, but I guess he wasn't.
I've noticed that the petulant, whiny nonmovers always lecture open/free software users on how to "win converts". Parent is one of many such posts in this story.
As if (a) it were a popularity contest and (b) those people were actually to know something about persuasion. Neither of which is true. I mean, they're doing horribly at persuading me that they're not human wastelands, let alone that I should change my operating system.
On the other hand, the polite nonmovers simply tell us what work they have to do or games they want to play and manage to resist the urge to preach.
> I did manage to watch the entire run of Babylon 5
Funny you should mention that.
Continuity was always a strong part of B5, and never a feature of Trek. The former was basically Straczynski's vision, whereas the latter has always had mostly-unrelated scripts by a diverse crew of writers.
Trying to watch B5 when it was first on the air was always frustrating because I could never sit down for it the same time every week, and there would be so many things going on that I didn't understand because I'd missed a couple of episodes. I've caught virtually all of DS9 in reruns, but there's no way I could bring myself to watch Babylon 5 again unless I had the whole series in some sort of box next to me.
It's not "a lot", it's around 50 bytes per image. Not kilobytes, bytes. That's an eyeblink on even the slowest connection.
This guy actually made a special effort to find gifs that are bigger than equivalent pngs, minus the png overhead. You can see for yourself how little success he has had.
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Personally, I found it +1, Funny once, maybe twice. I can see it continuing to be funny a couple of orders of magnitude beyond that, but at this point it just seems -1, Redundant.
On the other hand, I like the Step 3: Profit posts because they remind me of those adorably creepy little underpants gnomes. I guess I could conceivably see RMS as a really big, extra creepy GNOME, who steals the underwear out of your end user licenses...
> Imagine recieving an PGP-encrypted e-mail which is loaded straight into hardware locked memory.
Master, does Tokerat have the hacker mind?
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Offtopic, but why is it that any post which suggests that RMS will demand something have a "GNU/" prefixed to its name recieves several "+1, Funny" moderations?
There's already an implementation of the FastTrack protocol, the problem is that the kazaa-and-friends network doesn't allow clients which aren't blessed by the authentication server to connect.
Gnutella clients have been and still are accumulating the useful features of FastTrack.
> Apt has been ported to allow use of RPM packages.
Debian packages still tend to be more consistant, since there is only one independent distribution (Debian) which uses them. Other deb-based distros are based on Debian, like Mandrake used to be based on RedHat. A deb can target Debian and it will work on any sane (read: Debian-compatable) dpkg-based distro. It's like magic!
Meanwhile, back in reality, every RPM-based distro has its own incompatable set of policies, requiring each distro to have its own RPM file for many packages. Browse rpmfind.net a while if you don't believe me.
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> Telnet can be sniffed.
... such as http ...
Sure, just like any other clear-text protocol
Well, if the events from the future part of that universe are taken as canon, there should be a big glaring discontinuity error following Nemesis.
The episode you refer to ("All Good Things ...") took place in a fantasy universe created by Q, and he's just the sort of jerk that would abuse the canon like that.
I think tSTTM was trying to demonstrate the paradoxical nature of the idea of moving at warp factor 10 with the "all points in the universe" thing.
You had Monty Python? Well, if WE wanted to look at half-burnt black and white still photographs of naked Buster Keaton doing his "spoon dance" act, WE'd have to march through nine feet of snow for six miles! With no shoes! Over broken glass! Uphill! Both ways! AND THAT WAS THE WAY WE LIKED IT!!!
Hear hear! On a server, the mandatory windows gui is nothing but a heavy, accident-prone vestigal organ.
Let me ask you a hypothetical question, then ... say I'm running windows 2000. Fresh installation, no weird third-party software installed. I pop open Task Manager and ponder a number of mysteriously-named standard system processes, call them foo32 and bar1337. Where do I go to read about these? How do I un-confuse myself, iow. On any decent unix, I have apropos and man ... what is the equivalent on windows?
> Final Frontier comes in a notch above Insurrection, purely for camp value.
"Have you seen my fly boots?"
Between TOS and TNG, the warp scale was changed to an exponential one. Warp factor 1 - speed of light - is consistent between serieses, but as warp factor approaches 10, effective speed approaches infinity. TNG ships regularly move at or beyond what, in TOS, could have been called warp factor 11.
As long as we're spouting our biased, unsubstantiated opinions ...
First Contact was the best Trek movie. Insurrection was the worst. Final Frontier comes in a notch above Insurrection, purely for camp value. All the rest were somewhere inbetween.
Not every story has to be news! /. is a pretty crummy news site anyway ... the idea with late stories like this is just to provide a discussion forum. The readership here would be vastly reduced if they turned off comments.
They wanted everyone to forget Star Trek: INSURRECTION, which was so amazingly bad next to First Contact that I've been trying to block it from memory for the entire interval. Fortunately, I think I'll be clear by the time Nemesis is released.
Funny you should juxtapose Wired and and Nelson in that particular way, considering how unhappy he supposedly was with the way he was portrayed in that feature. I was inspired by the article as well, but I guess he wasn't.
Meaningless?? But bunnies are so cute and fluffy! What sentimental coder wouldn't want to hug one?
> Removing the blindfold from Lady Justice is far too grave a matter to justify a separate standard for monopolies.
It's a blindfold, not a stupidfold.
> GNOME has "ee" and lots of other little programs.
gthumb is teh r0xx0r for browsing porn. It even has a slide show.
I've noticed that the petulant, whiny nonmovers always lecture open/free software users on how to "win converts". Parent is one of many such posts in this story.
As if (a) it were a popularity contest and (b) those people were actually to know something about persuasion. Neither of which is true. I mean, they're doing horribly at persuading me that they're not human wastelands, let alone that I should change my operating system.
On the other hand, the polite nonmovers simply tell us what work they have to do or games they want to play and manage to resist the urge to preach.
> I did manage to watch the entire run of Babylon 5
Funny you should mention that.
Continuity was always a strong part of B5, and never a feature of Trek. The former was basically Straczynski's vision, whereas the latter has always had mostly-unrelated scripts by a diverse crew of writers.
Trying to watch B5 when it was first on the air was always frustrating because I could never sit down for it the same time every week, and there would be so many things going on that I didn't understand because I'd missed a couple of episodes. I've caught virtually all of DS9 in reruns, but there's no way I could bring myself to watch Babylon 5 again unless I had the whole series in some sort of box next to me.
> PNGs are a lot bigger than GIFs
It's not "a lot", it's around 50 bytes per image. Not kilobytes, bytes. That's an eyeblink on even the slowest connection.
This guy actually made a special effort to find gifs that are bigger than equivalent pngs, minus the png overhead. You can see for yourself how little success he has had.
Personally, I found it +1, Funny once, maybe twice. I can see it continuing to be funny a couple of orders of magnitude beyond that, but at this point it just seems -1, Redundant.
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On the other hand, I like the Step 3: Profit posts because they remind me of those adorably creepy little underpants gnomes. I guess I could conceivably see RMS as a really big, extra creepy GNOME, who steals the underwear out of your end user licenses
> Imagine recieving an PGP-encrypted e-mail which is loaded straight into hardware locked memory.
Master, does Tokerat have the hacker mind?
Offtopic, but why is it that any post which suggests that RMS will demand something have a "GNU/" prefixed to its name recieves several "+1, Funny" moderations?
OpenFT?
There's already an implementation of the FastTrack protocol, the problem is that the kazaa-and-friends network doesn't allow clients which aren't blessed by the authentication server to connect.
Gnutella clients have been and still are accumulating the useful features of FastTrack.
> Apt has been ported to allow use of RPM packages.
Debian packages still tend to be more consistant, since there is only one independent distribution (Debian) which uses them. Other deb-based distros are based on Debian, like Mandrake used to be based on RedHat. A deb can target Debian and it will work on any sane (read: Debian-compatable) dpkg-based distro. It's like magic!
Meanwhile, back in reality, every RPM-based distro has its own incompatable set of policies, requiring each distro to have its own RPM file for many packages. Browse rpmfind.net a while if you don't believe me.
Maybe LSB mitigates this problem, I can't say.
Sure, he doesn't need them for himself. Like all Linux users, he can just interpret the binary data in his head.
Now it's time for me to pipe some more porn to stdout. Woah, momma.
> the "intellectual" content of most of their series is all in the minds of the fans
I'd rather watch a series that facilitates the exercise of my own imagination over a series that spoon-feeds it any day.