Next time you get it into your head to state extremely painful truths, wait til I have some mod points so that I can protect you from crackmoderation (-1, Troll).
Five years ago, I would have assumed that a radio transmitter wouldn't look like a Pringles can, either. I guess I was just insufficiently imaginative
What a cheat. If you mean that some people use pringles cans as waveguides, then you're trying to tell me it is shocking that radio waves bounce off and are blocked by everyday objects? I just had to trim a branch on a tree in the front yard, because our DirecTV signal was losing strength the past few months. By your logic, tree benches also make good radio transmitters.
How the hell that has anything to do with FTL, is anyone's guess. "I'll know it when I see it" is a principle with at least a little bit of truth behind it, and the "pringles can" can't save your argument from it. Guys, I'm a little fuzzy on debating rules, which fallacy is that, btw?
The crew of the ship needs the extra cash, and she needs transportation.
Exactly. There simply aren't enough horny men on any given planet, that's why there are generally no more than 12 hookers in any given solar system.
Sorry. Don't have time to explain why most of those are unsuitable, so let's talk Mercury. It's unworkable by any standard oof Terraforming that anyone has ever imagined. Unless you propose towing it to a new orbit. I suppose you'd use the spinning engines (minus blown catalyzers) to do it. Maybe 10 is low, though. It might be more like 20, or 30. You still can't get anywhere near that magic number 100 unless you count articial stations. I'd hardly consider those as "worlds".
Moving to another solar system just begs the FTL question again, unless you want to play "parallel development of six shooters and birthday cake candles".
The problem with techno-babble wasn't that they had something technical that was a problem, it was that they made up inane words to sidestep a crisis every single week.
If it's fantasy they should give us a few wizards and dragons. At least that would fit. This is a boring retread of stories everyone else has already told, and done a better job of.
Of course, since every child knows that FTL drives don't look anything like that... oh, wait, we haven't invented them yet, have we? Unless you have a patent that you want to talk about?
Yeh, too true. Then again, there are at least a few things that a somewhat intelligent person can say about what it wouldn't look like. For instance, a safe bet is that a FTL drive wouldn't consist of a giant Quaker Oats can, with 3 sprigs of celery sticking out of it wrapped in last year's christmas lights. Which isn't too extreme an example, given how ridiculous the device in question looks.
The permanent magnet suggestion is almost tolerable. If they had suggested it, it would do them much credit. Instead, you did, so you get the credit, and they still get my sarcasm.
Besides, you do argue a little circularly, before you come up with the decent explanation. If things were fastened down, you'd just assume that gravity could fail, but didn't this time.
they're a CREW, they were CHOSEN that way
Hmm. From that perspective, it only seems practical to staff a ship with a comical stardrive with a prostitute. He should have picked one that would service them though.
Assuming that they are human and earth-descended, this is clearly shown to be ridiculous. There are maybe 5-10 bodies in this solar system that are workable. They implied hundreds.
I figure, that at minimum, for their premise to hold, humans have to be able to manage to travel 10 light years or so, in a reasonable amount of time. I figure 2 years is about the max, to cross from one edge of explored space to the opposite expanse. Do the math.
I'll grant that a slight reworking of the story would make FTL unnecessary. But they'd still need large fractions of c even then.
The spinning engines aren't rationalizable. The RPM is too damn low for anything imaginable, except possibly a no-talent prop designer on a shoestring budget. Even that's a stretch.
Their engine is only 3ft DIA, 10ft long. It rotates. And this will push them faster than light? Should they fill the tank with regular or premium, and how fast can they do 0-60MPH ?
Their life support dies when the engine is off. Yet they don't start floating around because of lack of artificial gravity?
Enough with the technical nitpicks though. Let's talk about story development and plots that are so vapid, with none of the epic overtones that make other scifi shows interesting. Let's talk about characters that are assembled together according to occupation in some Canterbury-Talesque clone that is lacking any nuance, subtley or homage to that classic. Characters that never have any real decision to make, because things are so cut and dried, that even a retard could make them and never choose poorly. Except when the ship is "dead in the water" and the captain has to send everyone away even though they'll die, just so he is in danger with no help, when we get to the "suspenseful" part. And then said shipmates mysteriously return, for the hell of it, so that his lifeblood doesn't leak out much like my soul does when I commit the insanely stupid crime of attempting to watch it.
Now look what you've made me doing, I'm crying like a child in horrid memory of a show best left unwatched. They should seal up that studio with concrete and lead, like they do with nuclear reactors in meltdown. With the actors and director still inside.
I use awstats as my web statistics package, which happens to check if the OS is CP/M. I didn't know what to think when I saw that... maybe they werer just being thorough.
Well, once per month, I actually get a hit from someone using it. I mean... damn. I like vintage stuff and all (I just managed to get my Amiga 2000 up and running not so long ago, and I actually have a copy of Atari ST Minix) but how in the hell do you browse from CP/M?
I need to find this guy. Whether I should bitchslap him, or bow down in worship when I do, is something to debate
Note: I have a friend that likes to screw with me, telnets in and manually adds bizarre headers. But this isn't him, nor can I imagine someone else doing this for kicks on strangers' websites. I really am shocked and bewildered, in a way.
Actually, in canada it is legal, or was until recently.
Legal = Not stealing.
But thanks for tossing some sympathy towards Dave, he needs it after all. I'm sure he's grateful to sniveling little asswads like yourself. BTW, for those that don't know. Canadians can't by law subscribe to directv, and a court ruling declared their signals to be public domain, across the border. He could have been a billionaire, and he still couldn't have subscribed to them, without immigrating to the US. So, he's not honest at all, and he's not even lying for his own benefit... rather, for the benefit of a big, fat, filthy corporation! Way to go, AWG.
I agree completely. Applications shouldn't need to install any libraries at all. And I won't stand for the half-assed hack that would result either, where coders roll library functionality into the app itself, bloating it's size.
God-fucking-dammit, isn't it about time we had magical depenencies? Where the computer uses it's psychic abilities to create this depenency code on the fly, pulling it out of its ass or something? It's ridiculous, when you think about it. Who ever in their right mind has ever walked up to you and said "you know, to run Word, you need windows and a fuckload of DLLs already loaded and running!" It just doesn't happen, my friends. Why, because Windows already has Micro$oft Magical Library Generator XP, which creates them on the fly. And sure, if sometimes it is just random code that locks the CPU, isn't it worth it?
Damn, sarcastic mode is exhausting. BTW, mgkmsal2, you're one of the biggest slashtards I've ever seen here. Ever play with windows, and have it go spastic, wanting to know which version of the DLL you'll keep? Every operating system has this problem. If you don't like it, don't install software. Wanting your cake and eating it too, makes for really lame whining...
This totally ignores a more urgent problem than Y2K. I like to call it the "Y10K" problem. Since no one is preparing for it, when the year 9999 rolls around, we are going to have major problems. You see, they only updated most date fields with 4 digits, not nearly enough just a few millenia from now. And I dare you to suggest "they certainly won't be using the same computers they're using now!". That's what they said last time. Worse, all the copies of COBOL for Dummies and The Complete Idiot's Guide to COBOL will have long since rotted.
If I were you, I'd start stocking up on canned food, and non-electronic forms of currency like rolls of toilet paper.
Blah. You shouldn't have even responded. I'm cringing now, just thinking about what it would be like trying to explain what a register is, or how the PPC has 4 times as many of them (general purpose).
And if you pointed out how even a compiler that optimizes poorly still sees big advantages from this, he'd probably look at you condescendingly and chuckle, only to claim it's impossible, because VB can't generate code for the Motorola chip.
192.168.1.x is my main ethernet segment. 192.168.5.x is my main arcnet segment. 192.168.6.x is my token ring segment. 192.168.7.x is my IP over localtalk tunnel segment. 192.168.8.x is my ATM/LANE segment. 192.168.9.x is my FDDI segment. 192.168.10.x is reserved for my IP-over-HIPPI segment. 192.168.11.x will be my 100mps token ring segment, should I ever find a MAU for it. 192.168.3.x contains various slip/ppp serial connections, including the tivo. 10.x.x.x is a cute little VPN I'm building for shits and giggles.
And since I don't feel like pouring through the rest of my custom init scripts, I won't even bother to look up the other segments that I have. Then again, maybe I should get rid of them all, because...
Or I should say, there's no good reason to have multiple subnets.
BTW, if you mean routing IP between eth and tr, then yes, it's simple. Bridging though, is probably impossible via software.
I have both the DirecPC pci card, and the usb modem version. I'm not capable of reverse engineering these myself, but anyone that is, is welcome to mine. I could probably even spare an 18" dish+LNB.
I mean, every time we wait for these fuckers, we end up losing. Maybe you need to decide to write it yourself? It's the only way to be sure it's done right.
PS Anyone that knows the pinout for the power on the DirecPC usb modem (mini-din 8), could you send it to me? I know it's gotta have 14v for the lnb power, in addition to 5v, but last time I tried to deduce this from looking at the pcb, it took me a day and I still fried the device.
Actually, for a retard, you have shown quite a bit of talent at almost being able to reason.
What the guy is suggesting, is we spend a small amount of money to remove that blindfold. At that point, we can start to figure out what to do... we might even learn there's no cliff.
Of course, when the goverment has to choose between building orwellian "anti-terrorist" systems or spending a few extra bucks on science, what will they decide on?
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Whoa there!
Next time you get it into your head to state extremely painful truths, wait til I have some mod points so that I can protect you from crackmoderation (-1, Troll).
Yeh, willing to sell if you want it. Manual also.
Would rather trade though. Email me at moc.ibtta@relyo.nhoj if interested (think I let that hotmail acount lapse).
So. A cheap, well-understand chemical reaction uses too much power, but gravity generation doesn't?
Five years ago, I would have assumed that a radio transmitter wouldn't look like a Pringles can, either. I guess I was just insufficiently imaginative
What a cheat. If you mean that some people use pringles cans as waveguides, then you're trying to tell me it is shocking that radio waves bounce off and are blocked by everyday objects? I just had to trim a branch on a tree in the front yard, because our DirecTV signal was losing strength the past few months. By your logic, tree benches also make good radio transmitters.
How the hell that has anything to do with FTL, is anyone's guess. "I'll know it when I see it" is a principle with at least a little bit of truth behind it, and the "pringles can" can't save your argument from it. Guys, I'm a little fuzzy on debating rules, which fallacy is that, btw?
The crew of the ship needs the extra cash, and she needs transportation.
Exactly. There simply aren't enough horny men on any given planet, that's why there are generally no more than 12 hookers in any given solar system.
Sorry. Don't have time to explain why most of those are unsuitable, so let's talk Mercury. It's unworkable by any standard oof Terraforming that anyone has ever imagined. Unless you propose towing it to a new orbit. I suppose you'd use the spinning engines (minus blown catalyzers) to do it. Maybe 10 is low, though. It might be more like 20, or 30. You still can't get anywhere near that magic number 100 unless you count articial stations. I'd hardly consider those as "worlds".
Moving to another solar system just begs the FTL question again, unless you want to play "parallel development of six shooters and birthday cake candles".
The problem with techno-babble wasn't that they had something technical that was a problem, it was that they made up inane words to sidestep a crisis every single week.
If it's fantasy they should give us a few wizards and dragons. At least that would fit. This is a boring retread of stories everyone else has already told, and done a better job of.
Of course, since every child knows that FTL drives don't look anything like that... oh, wait, we haven't invented them yet, have we? Unless you have a patent that you want to talk about?
Yeh, too true. Then again, there are at least a few things that a somewhat intelligent person can say about what it wouldn't look like. For instance, a safe bet is that a FTL drive wouldn't consist of a giant Quaker Oats can, with 3 sprigs of celery sticking out of it wrapped in last year's christmas lights. Which isn't too extreme an example, given how ridiculous the device in question looks.
The permanent magnet suggestion is almost tolerable. If they had suggested it, it would do them much credit. Instead, you did, so you get the credit, and they still get my sarcasm.
Besides, you do argue a little circularly, before you come up with the decent explanation. If things were fastened down, you'd just assume that gravity could fail, but didn't this time.
they're a CREW, they were CHOSEN that way
Hmm. From that perspective, it only seems practical to staff a ship with a comical stardrive with a prostitute. He should have picked one that would service them though.
Assuming that they are human and earth-descended, this is clearly shown to be ridiculous. There are maybe 5-10 bodies in this solar system that are workable. They implied hundreds.
I figure, that at minimum, for their premise to hold, humans have to be able to manage to travel 10 light years or so, in a reasonable amount of time. I figure 2 years is about the max, to cross from one edge of explored space to the opposite expanse. Do the math.
I'll grant that a slight reworking of the story would make FTL unnecessary. But they'd still need large fractions of c even then.
The spinning engines aren't rationalizable. The RPM is too damn low for anything imaginable, except possibly a no-talent prop designer on a shoestring budget. Even that's a stretch.
Wait a minute. A Stargate movie? It just might work!!! Damn, I wonder if they'll actually cat on this great idea.
Now, if only someone would start to seriously consider making a Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, my life would be perfect!!!
Their starship looks like a giant wrinkled turd.
Their engine is only 3ft DIA, 10ft long. It rotates. And this will push them faster than light? Should they fill the tank with regular or premium, and how fast can they do 0-60MPH ?
Their life support dies when the engine is off. Yet they don't start floating around because of lack of artificial gravity?
Enough with the technical nitpicks though. Let's talk about story development and plots that are so vapid, with none of the epic overtones that make other scifi shows interesting. Let's talk about characters that are assembled together according to occupation in some Canterbury-Talesque clone that is lacking any nuance, subtley or homage to that classic. Characters that never have any real decision to make, because things are so cut and dried, that even a retard could make them and never choose poorly. Except when the ship is "dead in the water" and the captain has to send everyone away even though they'll die, just so he is in danger with no help, when we get to the "suspenseful" part. And then said shipmates mysteriously return, for the hell of it, so that his lifeblood doesn't leak out much like my soul does when I commit the insanely stupid crime of attempting to watch it.
Now look what you've made me doing, I'm crying like a child in horrid memory of a show best left unwatched. They should seal up that studio with concrete and lead, like they do with nuclear reactors in meltdown. With the actors and director still inside.
Yes, they really do some things right.
Are you sure some of those aren't ebonics error messages?
You think that's funny.
I use awstats as my web statistics package, which happens to check if the OS is CP/M. I didn't know what to think when I saw that... maybe they werer just being thorough.
Well, once per month, I actually get a hit from someone using it. I mean... damn. I like vintage stuff and all (I just managed to get my Amiga 2000 up and running not so long ago, and I actually have a copy of Atari ST Minix) but how in the hell do you browse from CP/M?
I need to find this guy. Whether I should bitchslap him, or bow down in worship when I do, is something to debate
Note: I have a friend that likes to screw with me, telnets in and manually adds bizarre headers. But this isn't him, nor can I imagine someone else doing this for kicks on strangers' websites. I really am shocked and bewildered, in a way.
Actually, in canada it is legal, or was until recently.
Legal = Not stealing.
But thanks for tossing some sympathy towards Dave, he needs it after all. I'm sure he's grateful to sniveling little asswads like yourself.
BTW, for those that don't know. Canadians can't by law subscribe to directv, and a court ruling declared their signals to be public domain, across the border. He could have been a billionaire, and he still couldn't have subscribed to them, without immigrating to the US. So, he's not honest at all, and he's not even lying for his own benefit... rather, for the benefit of a big, fat, filthy corporation! Way to go, AWG.
Retard boy, hold on to that suggestion, for when they ask the "where do we want to go with X" article.
Linux is not the windowing system, whether your choice is X or one of the alternatives to it.
I agree completely. Applications shouldn't need to install any libraries at all. And I won't stand for the half-assed hack that would result either, where coders roll library functionality into the app itself, bloating it's size.
God-fucking-dammit, isn't it about time we had magical depenencies? Where the computer uses it's psychic abilities to create this depenency code on the fly, pulling it out of its ass or something? It's ridiculous, when you think about it. Who ever in their right mind has ever walked up to you and said "you know, to run Word, you need windows and a fuckload of DLLs already loaded and running!" It just doesn't happen, my friends. Why, because Windows already has Micro$oft Magical Library Generator XP, which creates them on the fly. And sure, if sometimes it is just random code that locks the CPU, isn't it worth it?
Damn, sarcastic mode is exhausting. BTW, mgkmsal2, you're one of the biggest slashtards I've ever seen here. Ever play with windows, and have it go spastic, wanting to know which version of the DLL you'll keep? Every operating system has this problem. If you don't like it, don't install software. Wanting your cake and eating it too, makes for really lame whining...
Oh. AmIbad.
I didn't see anything about them being Windows machines... they're ultrasparcs for crying out loud.
Though I do agree with you on the last point. They make some very fine mice and keyboards.
Subject says it all.
This totally ignores a more urgent problem than Y2K. I like to call it the "Y10K" problem. Since no one is preparing for it, when the year 9999 rolls around, we are going to have major problems. You see, they only updated most date fields with 4 digits, not nearly enough just a few millenia from now. And I dare you to suggest "they certainly won't be using the same computers they're using now!". That's what they said last time. Worse, all the copies of COBOL for Dummies and The Complete Idiot's Guide to COBOL will have long since rotted.
If I were you, I'd start stocking up on canned food, and non-electronic forms of currency like rolls of toilet paper.
Blah. You shouldn't have even responded. I'm cringing now, just thinking about what it would be like trying to explain what a register is, or how the PPC has 4 times as many of them (general purpose).
And if you pointed out how even a compiler that optimizes poorly still sees big advantages from this, he'd probably look at you condescendingly and chuckle, only to claim it's impossible, because VB can't generate code for the Motorola chip.
Screw that. They wouldn't know how to install it with my dish anyway, a Toroidal 90. It takes more than a little skill to align the LNB's.
Besides, who says we have to subscribe to the service to be able to do interesting things?
192.168.1.x is my main ethernet segment.
192.168.5.x is my main arcnet segment.
192.168.6.x is my token ring segment.
192.168.7.x is my IP over localtalk tunnel segment.
192.168.8.x is my ATM/LANE segment.
192.168.9.x is my FDDI segment.
192.168.10.x is reserved for my IP-over-HIPPI segment.
192.168.11.x will be my 100mps token ring segment, should I ever find a MAU for it.
192.168.3.x contains various slip/ppp serial connections, including the tivo.
10.x.x.x is a cute little VPN I'm building for shits and giggles.
And since I don't feel like pouring through the rest of my custom init scripts, I won't even bother to look up the other segments that I have. Then again, maybe I should get rid of them all, because...
Or I should say, there's no good reason to have multiple subnets.
BTW, if you mean routing IP between eth and tr, then yes, it's simple. Bridging though, is probably impossible via software.
I have both the DirecPC pci card, and the usb modem version. I'm not capable of reverse engineering these myself, but anyone that is, is welcome to mine. I could probably even spare an 18" dish+LNB.
I mean, every time we wait for these fuckers, we end up losing. Maybe you need to decide to write it yourself? It's the only way to be sure it's done right.
PS Anyone that knows the pinout for the power on the DirecPC usb modem (mini-din 8), could you send it to me? I know it's gotta have 14v for the lnb power, in addition to 5v, but last time I tried to deduce this from looking at the pcb, it took me a day and I still fried the device.
MicroVax.
Actually, for a retard, you have shown quite a bit of talent at almost being able to reason.
What the guy is suggesting, is we spend a small amount of money to remove that blindfold. At that point, we can start to figure out what to do... we might even learn there's no cliff.
Of course, when the goverment has to choose between building orwellian "anti-terrorist" systems or spending a few extra bucks on science, what will they decide on?