I'm not certain if they ever established an official lifespan for the El-Aurian species. I'd wager at least a thousand years, maybe somewhere on the order of five thousand at the most.
The Klingons went to crap during and after the Dominion War because of their cultural obsession with fielding large numbers of proven ship designs despite their age. Even as the Federation was fielding Akiras, Steamrunners and Defiants, the Klingons were still obsessed with fielding large numbers of B'rels. They incurred much more losses during the War partially because of this, and also because of their cultural obsession with charging blindly into the fray with no regard for their survival.
It wouldn't surprise me one damn bit if the Klingon Empire continued to field B'rels into the 25th Century, whereas any other major power with a simple majority of firing neurons in their heads would've retired that class at least half a century before.
Of course, the fact that they've been allies with the Federation for so long hasn't helped their image either. They've grown more and more tolerant with letting the Federation dictate their policy, when Klingon common sense would've advocated no less than mass invasion of anyone that dared to mess with them.
Yeah, at least the one time Bev took command she kept the ship in one piece. Though I wouldn't have blamed StarFleet Command if they reprimanded/relieved Picard and Riker for dereliction of duty by leaving a doctor (an unqualified starship commander of anything more than a hospital ship) in command of the Federation flagship with a renegade Borg ship in the area.
Them storing your data on their servers only increases their liability in the event it all blows up in their faces. It doesn't compel you to break in just to prove to them that their doors aren't locked well enough.
Ultimately, if your data means that much to you, be all the wiser and don't give it to them.
Nope. What you do if the school administration doesn't listen is simple:
Absolutely nothing.
If the school is more interested in tempting fate, by all means, let them. It's their network -- if they can't or won't take care of it, there's nothing compelling you to do it for them.
What's even worse is that it only took an implied few weeks of "bridge officer training" for Troi to get her Commander's pip. Star Trek obviously never had the benefit of military advisors.
In a previous article, the reigning complaint was that on a percentage basis, South Korea easily outshines the United States in broadband connectivity as a percentage of the population (their 73% to our 12%). Using raw numbers, the United States' broadband users outnumber that of the South Koreans by a narrow margin.
Now we're using raw numbers to say that China (wherein 57 million is about 4% their population, whereas 54 million is about 20% ours) is due to outpace the United States.
So lemme get this straight. South Korea > United States because 73% of their population has broadband versus our 12%, and in the near future when we have our 20% China will have its 4% and be considered "ahead"?
For the sake of consistency, it'll either be South Korea > United States > China, or China > United States > South Korea. Which shall it be?
Naturally, Bush would turn around and start pissing off Vicente Fox until he closes our southern border for us. Then the security problem's solved for good, without him having to lift a finger against his hispanic constituency that worries him so much.
(Seriously, that's why the Republicans aren't doing diddly to fix the illegal immigration issue despite having total control of two thirds of the government -- they're afraid any action taken on illegal immigration will alienate their Hispanic legal migrant constituency into voting Democrat.)
The problem is, of course, that the RIAA doesn't serve in the function of law enforcement. If they want to try them as "criminals", they gotta file charges with the police, just like everyone else.
The initial estimates for number of dead at the WTC called for a fuckton of extra bodybags because the initial assumption was that both towers were filled to capacity when the planes hit.
If a hypothetical island nation with the population of 10,000 were to have 90% of its people broadband-capable, would that be more or less of an accomplishment if, say, 20% of the United States were to have broadband connectivity?
Depends on the number of people we're talking about. 9,000 !> 58,600,000.
It's like those complaints over the US not donating so much of its GDP in foreign aid, yet its GDP is astronomically greater than most other nations'. Percentage doesn't mean jack.
Canada has a population of 32,507,874. The United States has a population of 293,027,571. South Korea has a population of 48,598,175. (All according to Google.) Anything that compares by percentage of population is going to be biased towards small populations.
According to the article, 73% of South Korea has broadband at home. That comes out to 36,448,631 people.
Certainly, broadband in the U.S. is growing. The OECD estimates the number of American broadband subscribers increased 32%, to 37 million, last year.
12% of the population of the United States (that 37 million) with broadband access is still more than the 73% of South Korea that has broadband, put into perspective.
The competition in this case just happens to have the market share of a Lamborghini, the sturdyness of a Mercedes, the fuel economy of a Honda and the handling and feeling of security of an M1A1 Abrams tank, and you can get these for free, legally.
Or the hardware fries and no replacements are readily available. Then it'd likely cost much less to get new hardware than it would to find equivalent replacements.
Only insofar that our concept of what is of "good quality" isn't nearly as strict as what it was twenty years ago. I still have a Sony Betamax player that works, yet in the past ten years I've gone through five VHS players. Most of the crap that breaks within a year is (surprise surprise) made in China.
Since this stuff's dirt cheap, I suppose it's worth what you pay, so it's "good" in the sense that it's so cheap you really can't expect it to last a long time, you just buy a replacement when it breaks. I prefer to pay more for something that will last longer, though in the past few years I've found that to be a nigh-impossible task.
Well if all you use your computer for is gaming and web browsing with the occasional bit of homework, why switch? Honestly, you're not going to get widespread adoption of Linux until you get the games working on them right out of the box.
Dad placed me in front of an IBM PC/XT he used (about mid-1980's) to play with a drafting program he used (possibly a very-very old version of AutoCAD). Learned the home row keys and the basics of DOS at this time, including the necessity for booting off of a floppy disk. After about half an hour of screwing around in DOS he said "let's try something that'll make more sense" and put me in front of a Mac. Twenty minutes later I panicked as I tried to boot the thing like how he showed me with the PC and got the floppy disk stuck in the drive, with it refusing to boot with the auto-eject stuck. We ended up spending an hour taking the thing apart (because the whole paperclip-in-the-hole routine wouldn't work either) to get the damn disk out so it'd boot.
Since then he's avoided putting me in front of a Mac because I have a knack for breaking the damn things.
Then about four years later he bought me my first computer (IBM PC, non-XT) at a TRW surplus sale for $125. Monochrome green screen, 10MB hard drive, 5.25" 360K floppy drive, Epson dot matrix printer... it took several minutes for the damn thing to boot and I never managed to fill the hard drive. The only use I got out of it was for typing up my schoolwork with WordStar. It finally died when I reached 8th grade (so I'd had that pile of shit for at least three years) and that's when I started putting together computers out of OEM parts, the first bits donated from my dad's coworkers and later purchased at computer shows.
Five minutes before and after is how I have my TV tuner scheduled to record Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis episodes. Moreso for compensation for time differences (between 9:00PM at SciFi and 9:00PM here).
It would honestly surprise me if they've never considered something so obvious. One minute before, one minute after? Bah, they could've implemented that years ago and I'd never have noticed.
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I'm not certain if they ever established an official lifespan for the El-Aurian species. I'd wager at least a thousand years, maybe somewhere on the order of five thousand at the most.
It wouldn't surprise me one damn bit if the Klingon Empire continued to field B'rels into the 25th Century, whereas any other major power with a simple majority of firing neurons in their heads would've retired that class at least half a century before.
Of course, the fact that they've been allies with the Federation for so long hasn't helped their image either. They've grown more and more tolerant with letting the Federation dictate their policy, when Klingon common sense would've advocated no less than mass invasion of anyone that dared to mess with them.
Welp, that'll be the last time I use extrans. *sigh*
Yeah, at least the one time Bev took command she kept the ship in one piece. Though I wouldn't have blamed StarFleet Command if they reprimanded/relieved Picard and Riker for dereliction of duty by leaving a doctor (an unqualified starship commander of anything more than a hospital ship) in command of the Federation flagship with a renegade Borg ship in the area.
Them storing your data on their servers only increases their liability in the event it all blows up in their faces. It doesn't compel you to break in just to prove to them that their doors aren't locked well enough.
Ultimately, if your data means that much to you, be all the wiser and don't give it to them.
Nope. What you do if the school administration doesn't listen is simple:
Absolutely nothing.
If the school is more interested in tempting fate, by all means, let them. It's their network -- if they can't or won't take care of it, there's nothing compelling you to do it for them.
What's even worse is that it only took an implied few weeks of "bridge officer training" for Troi to get her Commander's pip. Star Trek obviously never had the benefit of military advisors.
Does this include governments?
Now we're using raw numbers to say that China (wherein 57 million is about 4% their population, whereas 54 million is about 20% ours) is due to outpace the United States.
So lemme get this straight. South Korea > United States because 73% of their population has broadband versus our 12%, and in the near future when we have our 20% China will have its 4% and be considered "ahead"?
For the sake of consistency, it'll either be South Korea > United States > China, or China > United States > South Korea. Which shall it be?
Naturally, Bush would turn around and start pissing off Vicente Fox until he closes our southern border for us. Then the security problem's solved for good, without him having to lift a finger against his hispanic constituency that worries him so much.
(Seriously, that's why the Republicans aren't doing diddly to fix the illegal immigration issue despite having total control of two thirds of the government -- they're afraid any action taken on illegal immigration will alienate their Hispanic legal migrant constituency into voting Democrat.)
The problem is, of course, that the RIAA doesn't serve in the function of law enforcement. If they want to try them as "criminals", they gotta file charges with the police, just like everyone else.
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
The initial estimates for number of dead at the WTC called for a fuckton of extra bodybags because the initial assumption was that both towers were filled to capacity when the planes hit.
If a hypothetical island nation with the population of 10,000 were to have 90% of its people broadband-capable, would that be more or less of an accomplishment if, say, 20% of the United States were to have broadband connectivity?
Depends on the number of people we're talking about. 9,000 !> 58,600,000.
It's like those complaints over the US not donating so much of its GDP in foreign aid, yet its GDP is astronomically greater than most other nations'. Percentage doesn't mean jack.
Canada has a population of 32,507,874. The United States has a population of 293,027,571. South Korea has a population of 48,598,175. (All according to Google.) Anything that compares by percentage of population is going to be biased towards small populations.
According to the article, 73% of South Korea has broadband at home. That comes out to 36,448,631 people.
12% of the population of the United States (that 37 million) with broadband access is still more than the 73% of South Korea that has broadband, put into perspective.
The competition in this case just happens to have the market share of a Lamborghini, the sturdyness of a Mercedes, the fuel economy of a Honda and the handling and feeling of security of an M1A1 Abrams tank, and you can get these for free, legally.
Or the hardware fries and no replacements are readily available. Then it'd likely cost much less to get new hardware than it would to find equivalent replacements.
It's episode 1, titled "33".
Only insofar that our concept of what is of "good quality" isn't nearly as strict as what it was twenty years ago. I still have a Sony Betamax player that works, yet in the past ten years I've gone through five VHS players. Most of the crap that breaks within a year is (surprise surprise) made in China.
Since this stuff's dirt cheap, I suppose it's worth what you pay, so it's "good" in the sense that it's so cheap you really can't expect it to last a long time, you just buy a replacement when it breaks. I prefer to pay more for something that will last longer, though in the past few years I've found that to be a nigh-impossible task.
Chances are it was made in China, in which case that's about as good as it gets.
Well if all you use your computer for is gaming and web browsing with the occasional bit of homework, why switch? Honestly, you're not going to get widespread adoption of Linux until you get the games working on them right out of the box.
Yup. I just switched phone carriers from the local telephone monopoly to the local cable monopoly.
Dad placed me in front of an IBM PC/XT he used (about mid-1980's) to play with a drafting program he used (possibly a very-very old version of AutoCAD). Learned the home row keys and the basics of DOS at this time, including the necessity for booting off of a floppy disk. After about half an hour of screwing around in DOS he said "let's try something that'll make more sense" and put me in front of a Mac. Twenty minutes later I panicked as I tried to boot the thing like how he showed me with the PC and got the floppy disk stuck in the drive, with it refusing to boot with the auto-eject stuck. We ended up spending an hour taking the thing apart (because the whole paperclip-in-the-hole routine wouldn't work either) to get the damn disk out so it'd boot.
Since then he's avoided putting me in front of a Mac because I have a knack for breaking the damn things.
Then about four years later he bought me my first computer (IBM PC, non-XT) at a TRW surplus sale for $125. Monochrome green screen, 10MB hard drive, 5.25" 360K floppy drive, Epson dot matrix printer... it took several minutes for the damn thing to boot and I never managed to fill the hard drive. The only use I got out of it was for typing up my schoolwork with WordStar. It finally died when I reached 8th grade (so I'd had that pile of shit for at least three years) and that's when I started putting together computers out of OEM parts, the first bits donated from my dad's coworkers and later purchased at computer shows.
Won't happen. If you don't upload, nobody will upload to you. It's the inherent nature of the protocol.
You could use a client like Azureus to limit the upstream bandwidth used though.
Five minutes before and after is how I have my TV tuner scheduled to record Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis episodes. Moreso for compensation for time differences (between 9:00PM at SciFi and 9:00PM here).
It would honestly surprise me if they've never considered something so obvious. One minute before, one minute after? Bah, they could've implemented that years ago and I'd never have noticed.