I don't think so. TOS season one was absolutely dreadful at large.
Maybe if you watch it now. At the time, it was revolutionary and that gave it a pass on a lot of failings (rickety sets, hammy acting...). One thing especailly: they used a lot of real SF writers. These days most sci-fi TV and moves are written by the same hacks who do every other type of drama; or worse, writers (or even actors!) who know nothing about SF other than what they've seen on TV, who just tell the same stories as they're familiar with by translating ship -- spaceship, foreigner -- alien, magic -- science. And because it's SF, feel even less obligation to make sense than on other types of TV drama.
I can think of one: Doctor Who. It was `on hiatus' for ~15 years, but the BBC never announced that it was permanently cancelled
The BBC does try to make money, but that's not its main mission. From what I recall, the newly-appointed boss of the BBC at the time hated SF and just killed it. Now they have someone else who has obviously noted that it still has a following, not to mention being dirt cheap -- much less than a costume drama or most cop shows even, and you can change the cast whenever you like so no one can hold you up for a million an episode. (Terry Nation's estate tried to hold them up to use daleks, which he created, so the BBC has said they'll do without.)
spammers since that offense seems to have a 9 year prison sentence
Unfortunately, I doubt he'll serve any of it, it's been suspended while he appeals, and seeing as he's earned millions from his spamming, he can afford to appeal forever. If finally he does do some time, it'll be like Martha Stewart, a few month's stress-free low-security then out on probation.
What I don't get is that none seems to have noticed this story is a dupe:
Indian Call Center Employees Hack US Bank AccountsPosted by
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on Friday April 08, @05:49PM from the easy-money dept.>
The Ascended One writes "Call center employees working for an Indian software company, MSource, supposedly used confidential client information to transfer client funds to themselves. The alleged perpetrators used the personal information of four NY-based clients to transfer ~$350,000 (Rs. 1.5 crores) in their names, a large sum in Indian currency. They were caught after the victims alerted the bank officials in the US, who then traced the crime to the Indian city of Pune. While the name of the bank has not been revealed, the article indicates that the bank in question is Citibank."
This story links to a Times of India story which is rather more detailed than the Yahoo one in today's regurgitation.
Mary Shelly's days started just about when Galvani's ended, as he died in December 1798, while she was born in August 1797. She wrote the story of "Frankenstein's monster", where dead flesh is revived by electricity, during Summer 1816.
What a coincidence. Mary Shelley was also born in 1797 and wrote a book about a monster in 1816.
The only reason for humans in space is commercial viability.
You're forgetting the military -- as in "military-industrial complex". The Cold War was the whole reason for the Apollo program. And if China and India, not to mention Europe, follow through on their plans there will be another space race, and the contractors will do very nicely out of it too. Hopefully, however base the motives, we will have off-earth colonies this century.
Interstellar space travel is hard. Really hard. So hard that an intelligent, technological species doesn't manage to get very far....too heavy to get to velocities that cross interstellar distances in a reasonable number of generations.
Whether an interstellar trip takes decades or centuries or millennia doesn't really alter the conclusion: it's possible. With some advances in biology we could use 20th C propulsion technology to colonise the galaxy. Hibernation perhaps, though seems unlikely to be good for centuries. Otherwise freeze some fertilised eggs and have robots defrost at destination. Or before long we could just synthesize the entire human DNA and not have to worry about radiation and such messing it up en route. We're not making return trips so it doesn't matter how long it takes. We're about 20,000 LY from the galactic core, if we chug along at 1% of light speed we could reach every star in the galaxy in 2 million years. (This is still 250 times faster than current space probes; if no advances make that 500 million years for the entire 10^11 stars, but after a million years or so we'd be pretty well established and I think might have faster probes in the works.) If dinosaurs had survived and gotten smarter, as seems entirely possible, they could have done so already.
hoard 1 A collection, esp. of valuable items, horde 2 A numerous company; a gang, a troop whored 1 engaged in promiscuous sexual relations with prostitutes
The first category are countries, rather than languages, and the second were all supposed to be associated with the US at first, but have been used more and more by just anyone.
Partly becasue most CCTLDs had a single registrar, who applied strict condition &/or charged extortionately, where the competition in the.com registries made them much cheaper. I've never even been to the USA, but my own domain is a.com because of that. And with Joe Sixpack only knowing "Dotcom", anything else is viewed with suspicion, at least in the USA. Note the decline in the use of.org for political groups -- both www.georgewbush.com and johnkerry.com -- one can joke that both are commercial enterprises, but with any rationality both should be.org.
There should only be a need for registering 1 TLD for the whole set. For instance, if i did register www.vettemph.com, I should only have to register as vettmph.TLD and automatically get all the com info travel doctor. I should have to use each TLD apropriately but I shouldn't have to spend extra just to block the squatters. I should automatically have obtained *.*.vettemph.*.*
This is exactly backwards. If you own vettemph.com, you already own
www.vettemph.com, info.vettemph.com, doctor.vettemph.com, xxx.vettemph.com; anything.vettemph.com. It's because of all these marketing idiots who create new secondary domains instead of tertiary domains (like company.com, company-sales.com, company-service.com, instead of sales.company.com, etc., which they can do for free); and those bullshit domain resellers who have tried to make the TLD for the island of Tuvalu into an ersatz "television" (.tv) domain, or Moldova into a doctors' (.md) domain, and so on that people seem to have forgotten, if they ever knew, how the naming system is supposed to work. The assholes who run it are only concerned at creating new TLDs so all the companies have to buy the corresponding ones in the "new" domain to prevent squatters setting up a porn site on it. All these new TLDs will either be spam, SEO crap, or when owned by a legit company, redirect to a.com or a CCTLD.
Many low budget movies that get big releases have the soundtrack redone from scratch with better equipment. If the studio was going to release it in America, it made sense to redo the soundtrack with voices that Americans could easily understand. It's not a dialogue focused movie anyway.
With respect, bullshit. if it wasn't a "dialogue focused" movie, why would they bother to redub at all? I've seen and heard it with the original soundtrack, there's nothng "wrong" with it except the accents. And Mad Max didn't get a big US release, Mel Gibson was unknown in the US, I think it went out on the drive-in circuit. They just thought the rednecks couldn't cope with the ocker accents.
"Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" are the current heavy hitters
You're lucky -- in Hong Kong neither show has even started yet. I can buy DVD box sets of many series in China before they're broadcast here. Many series run 2-3 years behind the US, except a very few like 24 and Survivor, when after the first series' endings were spoiled by the newspapers reporting them months before they were shown, so they're mpow shown days after the original.
Its actually happens the other way around - some lines in "Crocodile Dundee" were changed for Americans
The entire original Mad Max was redubbed with Ameican voices -- it was a big shock to hear this when I saw it on TV outside Australia. Insensitive clods indeed.
3) Most people who don't maintain even small backups, don't understand the annoyance, complexity, difficulty and cost.
I set up a daily backup of our entire accounting systeytem. HAd to restore or refer to them a few times, so I know, soemthng. Maybe not "Enterprise clas terabytes", but the principle is the same.
You're storing 20 mb in your 10 year history of e-mail? I get five times that much in less than a month in only one of the five accounts
It's humanly impossible to either read or write 100 MB of text in a month. Maybe if you get lots of mailing lists and CCs you don't actually look at; or people like to send you "funny" flash animations. As I said, I boil mine down to plain text as they come in. I've got some mailing lists, but don't keep most of them as mail, just excerpt anything that looks useful, they're archived online anyway. I'm talking about mail sent by me or personally sent to me, basically stuff that there is only a mine and a handful of other copies of (and after a while, only mine apparently). My average mail message is about 4k, most less than a page of text (so your 100 MB would be about 1000 messages a day -- who are you kidding if you say you read this -- or are they one page Word files weighing in at 500k? -- I just convert these to 1k of text and paste it into the message). For one thing, makes it simple to grep through the mailboxes when I need something -- a name, date, address, remark that becomes important in retrospect. Sneer if you like, but I've got my entire career's correspondence available should I need it. With the cost of storage less than a dollar a gig, there is no economic reason to destroy records any more. The only reason is the one MS and the big companies have, to destroy evidence. It's just as easy to move data to permanent archival storage as to send to trash, once you've spent a few days setting up a system.
We have clay tablets that tell us of daily life in Meosopotamia. We're going to have nothing equivalent of this century with scheduled data destruction, DRM locking up files forever, copyright making it illegal to reproduce and preserve decaying information.
Let's see here, we've got ~3TB of data that we back up weekly, and differentials during the week. So that's going to be 654 DVDs to burn and archive each week.
You're not creating 3 TB of data a week. (Not of email, anyway.) As I said, archive what you'd delete.
I know, you want us to put key loggers on everyone's computers and archive those forever.
Calm down.
we have mailboxes in excess of 13GB, and that's just the stuff they wanted to keep!
How long did it take them to accumulate this? I didn't say keep everything online forever and back it up weekly, but to take it offline, make a backup or two for luck, put it in a safe place. Most never will be referred to again, but you never know what you might have a despreate need for at some time.
when someone comes to us and asks for a document that was deleted last June, they're SOL.
That seems amazing to me. Don't you have any business relationships that last several years? Don't you need to review things discussed several years ago, especially when all those on your end have left? I've had to pick up the threads and continue, digging through dusty old faxes. If it was all done on emails, now deleted, I'd have had no hope. How many man hours are wasted for lack of a backup that would have cost a few cents and minutes?
Storage is cheap, and getting cheaper. It quite likely costs more to sort out old files and decide what should be deleted than just to archive the lot.
Y'know, judging from the submitter's slant on this, I would guess he's never had to maintain multi-gigabyte document repositories bursting at the seams with obsolete documents. Nor, I suspect, had to restore and rebuild five years worth of old email databases just to satisfy some little ambulance-chaser's fishing expedition.
"Multi-gigabyte" sounds like a lot, but it's only a couple of DVDs.
Instead of deleting, you could just as easily back it up and file the DVD, hard disk, or whatever. Should be able to keep decades' of correspondence in a cubic metre.
Aside from the legal risks that seem to motivate all this destrucion, this is in the short term losing the corporate memory; in the long term losing history. I personally have every email I've sent, and most I've received, over the last 10 years, periodically backed up into zip files on CDR, currently these are about 20 MB. Maybe it's because I use plain text, and convert anything that comes in to that as well. (I don't keep Xmas card flash animations and crap like that.) Storage is getting cheaper even faster than Moore's Law; and file bloat isn't keeping up, thank God.
On a personal basis, when the files are gone all that's left is what someone remembers happening. They may not be able to sue you, but if it's your boss, he can hang you out to dry. I had a dispute with a former employer, it was decisive to show email that disproved his claims, e.g., that I had "agreed" to take my salary late, that I had never worked overtime.
Walking up to a stranger and insulting them; yes, that's pretty obviously a signal that you want a fight. Especially in a bar, in front of his peers, the members of his tribe. That's quite different from having a disagreement and escalating to violence.
You keep talking about "manhood". Need I mention that someone who keeps on about how masculine he is usually has some insecurities in that regard?
If you insulted me in a public place I'd ask if I had misheard you and would you like to step outside. That doesn't make me a violent person, it makes me a normal human male.
I wouldn't insult you unless you were doing something that deserved it. And I didn't, (again, YOU were the one who labelled yourself an idiot)you're spoiling for a fight. In real life it's easy to provoke a fight and take offence at anything someone says, or how they look at you, if you want one, as you evidently do. And while you may feel happy to resolve your problems through violence, it just means you're confident that you can win; quite likely you could beat me up, I haven't been in a fight since primary school. I don't think asking someone to "step outside" is normal in modern society, you've been watching too many cowboy movies.
That's amazing. So what you're saying is that you believe you should be free to insult anyone you like (much like you just called me a violent idiot) and they should have no recourse. Well if we can't get you to respect other people we can at least get you to act like you do. I hope you like living in fear.
You're the one who described himself as an idiot, and from all you've said (which of course is likely to be total fantasy, you could be a 14 year old girl for all I know) you're violent, or at least like to threaten violence.
And, sorry, I'm not "living in fear", since you don't know who I am, or even which timezone I live in. That means you can't just intimidate me into showing you "respect".
There are other responses to perceived insults than violence. A snappy one liner is generally appropriate. Or dignified silence. The Internet is full of obnoxious, tough-talking blowhards, life is too short to waste on them.
"How many law suits would this cause based on unknown heart conditions?"
That's probably one reason the shock goes through the hips, not the arms and chest. Anyway, in TFA, this is a system used only by military now, and they're allowed to kill people in training.
Technology could also be used to discourage stupid sacrifices, such as lunging for someone's foot knowing you will be hit on the head a split second later.
It's been a long time since I fenced, so I'm not entirely a layman -- but if this sacrifical tactic is getting too common, perhaps if there is a hit, especially in a non-lethal area like the foot, a subsequent hit by the opponent (within, say 0.1 second) should also count, or perhaps just negate the foot hit. As for the J-hits on the back, perhaps the epees are too flexible? Though stiffer might be more dangerous otherwise. Anyway, electric jolts are unworkable. Competitive types would practice shocking themselves till they could ignore it, or cheat by inserting bits of conductive or insulating material or paints, etc in their costumes or skin.
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Maybe if you watch it now. At the time, it was revolutionary and that gave it a pass on a lot of failings (rickety sets, hammy acting...). One thing especailly: they used a lot of real SF writers. These days most sci-fi TV and moves are written by the same hacks who do every other type of drama; or worse, writers (or even actors!) who know nothing about SF other than what they've seen on TV, who just tell the same stories as they're familiar with by translating ship -- spaceship, foreigner -- alien, magic -- science. And because it's SF, feel even less obligation to make sense than on other types of TV drama.
The BBC does try to make money, but that's not its main mission. From what I recall, the newly-appointed boss of the BBC at the time hated SF and just killed it. Now they have someone else who has obviously noted that it still has a following, not to mention being dirt cheap -- much less than a costume drama or most cop shows even, and you can change the cast whenever you like so no one can hold you up for a million an episode. (Terry Nation's estate tried to hold them up to use daleks, which he created, so the BBC has said they'll do without.)
Unfortunately, I doubt he'll serve any of it, it's been suspended while he appeals, and seeing as he's earned millions from his spamming, he can afford to appeal forever. If finally he does do some time, it'll be like Martha Stewart, a few month's stress-free low-security then out on probation.
What a coincidence. Mary Shelley was also born in 1797 and wrote a book about a monster in 1816.
You're forgetting the military -- as in "military-industrial complex". The Cold War was the whole reason for the Apollo program. And if China and India, not to mention Europe, follow through on their plans there will be another space race, and the contractors will do very nicely out of it too. Hopefully, however base the motives, we will have off-earth colonies this century.
Whether an interstellar trip takes decades or centuries or millennia doesn't really alter the conclusion: it's possible. With some advances in biology we could use 20th C propulsion technology to colonise the galaxy. Hibernation perhaps, though seems unlikely to be good for centuries. Otherwise freeze some fertilised eggs and have robots defrost at destination. Or before long we could just synthesize the entire human DNA and not have to worry about radiation and such messing it up en route. We're not making return trips so it doesn't matter how long it takes. We're about 20,000 LY from the galactic core, if we chug along at 1% of light speed we could reach every star in the galaxy in 2 million years. (This is still 250 times faster than current space probes; if no advances make that 500 million years for the entire 10^11 stars, but after a million years or so we'd be pretty well established and I think might have faster probes in the works.) If dinosaurs had survived and gotten smarter, as seems entirely possible, they could have done so already.
hoard 1 A collection, esp. of valuable items,
horde 2 A numerous company; a gang, a troop
whored 1 engaged in promiscuous sexual relations with prostitutes
Partly becasue most CCTLDs had a single registrar, who applied strict condition &/or charged extortionately, where the competition in the .com registries made them much cheaper. I've never even been to the USA, but my own domain is a .com because of that. And with Joe Sixpack only knowing "Dotcom", anything else is viewed with suspicion, at least in the USA. Note the decline in the use of .org for political groups -- both www.georgewbush.com and johnkerry.com -- one can joke that both are commercial enterprises, but with any rationality both should be .org.
This is exactly backwards. If you own vettemph.com, you already own www.vettemph.com, info.vettemph.com, doctor.vettemph.com, xxx.vettemph.com; anything.vettemph.com. It's because of all these marketing idiots who create new secondary domains instead of tertiary domains (like company.com, company-sales.com, company-service.com, instead of sales.company.com, etc., which they can do for free); and those bullshit domain resellers who have tried to make the TLD for the island of Tuvalu into an ersatz "television" (.tv) domain, or Moldova into a doctors' (.md) domain, and so on that people seem to have forgotten, if they ever knew, how the naming system is supposed to work. The assholes who run it are only concerned at creating new TLDs so all the companies have to buy the corresponding ones in the "new" domain to prevent squatters setting up a porn site on it. All these new TLDs will either be spam, SEO crap, or when owned by a legit company, redirect to a .com or a CCTLD.
We have native penguins in Australia, there's even a colony on St Kilda pier in Melbourne.
Isn't this just trading one monolith for another?
"Monolith" implies a single structure, if not company. There are 5 listed above, and several others.
With respect, bullshit. if it wasn't a "dialogue focused" movie, why would they bother to redub at all? I've seen and heard it with the original soundtrack, there's nothng "wrong" with it except the accents. And Mad Max didn't get a big US release, Mel Gibson was unknown in the US, I think it went out on the drive-in circuit. They just thought the rednecks couldn't cope with the ocker accents.
You're lucky -- in Hong Kong neither show has even started yet. I can buy DVD box sets of many series in China before they're broadcast here. Many series run 2-3 years behind the US, except a very few like 24 and Survivor, when after the first series' endings were spoiled by the newspapers reporting them months before they were shown, so they're mpow shown days after the original.
The entire original Mad Max was redubbed with Ameican voices -- it was a big shock to hear this when I saw it on TV outside Australia. Insensitive clods indeed.
I set up a daily backup of our entire accounting systeytem. HAd to restore or refer to them a few times, so I know, soemthng. Maybe not "Enterprise clas terabytes", but the principle is the same.
You're storing 20 mb in your 10 year history of e-mail? I get five times that much in less than a month in only one of the five accounts
It's humanly impossible to either read or write 100 MB of text in a month. Maybe if you get lots of mailing lists and CCs you don't actually look at; or people like to send you "funny" flash animations. As I said, I boil mine down to plain text as they come in. I've got some mailing lists, but don't keep most of them as mail, just excerpt anything that looks useful, they're archived online anyway. I'm talking about mail sent by me or personally sent to me, basically stuff that there is only a mine and a handful of other copies of (and after a while, only mine apparently). My average mail message is about 4k, most less than a page of text (so your 100 MB would be about 1000 messages a day -- who are you kidding if you say you read this -- or are they one page Word files weighing in at 500k? -- I just convert these to 1k of text and paste it into the message). For one thing, makes it simple to grep through the mailboxes when I need something -- a name, date, address, remark that becomes important in retrospect. Sneer if you like, but I've got my entire career's correspondence available should I need it. With the cost of storage less than a dollar a gig, there is no economic reason to destroy records any more. The only reason is the one MS and the big companies have, to destroy evidence. It's just as easy to move data to permanent archival storage as to send to trash, once you've spent a few days setting up a system.
We have clay tablets that tell us of daily life in Meosopotamia. We're going to have nothing equivalent of this century with scheduled data destruction, DRM locking up files forever, copyright making it illegal to reproduce and preserve decaying information.
You're not creating 3 TB of data a week. (Not of email, anyway.) As I said, archive what you'd delete. I know, you want us to put key loggers on everyone's computers and archive those forever.
Calm down.
we have mailboxes in excess of 13GB, and that's just the stuff they wanted to keep!
How long did it take them to accumulate this? I didn't say keep everything online forever and back it up weekly, but to take it offline, make a backup or two for luck, put it in a safe place. Most never will be referred to again, but you never know what you might have a despreate need for at some time.
when someone comes to us and asks for a document that was deleted last June, they're SOL.
That seems amazing to me. Don't you have any business relationships that last several years? Don't you need to review things discussed several years ago, especially when all those on your end have left? I've had to pick up the threads and continue, digging through dusty old faxes. If it was all done on emails, now deleted, I'd have had no hope. How many man hours are wasted for lack of a backup that would have cost a few cents and minutes?
Storage is cheap, and getting cheaper. It quite likely costs more to sort out old files and decide what should be deleted than just to archive the lot.
Let's settle this outside.
"Multi-gigabyte" sounds like a lot, but it's only a couple of DVDs.
Instead of deleting, you could just as easily back it up and file the DVD, hard disk, or whatever. Should be able to keep decades' of correspondence in a cubic metre.
Aside from the legal risks that seem to motivate all this destrucion, this is in the short term losing the corporate memory; in the long term losing history. I personally have every email I've sent, and most I've received, over the last 10 years, periodically backed up into zip files on CDR, currently these are about 20 MB. Maybe it's because I use plain text, and convert anything that comes in to that as well. (I don't keep Xmas card flash animations and crap like that.) Storage is getting cheaper even faster than Moore's Law; and file bloat isn't keeping up, thank God.
On a personal basis, when the files are gone all that's left is what someone remembers happening. They may not be able to sue you, but if it's your boss, he can hang you out to dry. I had a dispute with a former employer, it was decisive to show email that disproved his claims, e.g., that I had "agreed" to take my salary late, that I had never worked overtime.
Walking up to a stranger and insulting them; yes, that's pretty obviously a signal that you want a fight. Especially in a bar, in front of his peers, the members of his tribe. That's quite different from having a disagreement and escalating to violence.
You keep talking about "manhood". Need I mention that someone who keeps on about how masculine he is usually has some insecurities in that regard?
However, "they" are just MGM. Any other copyright groups would not be bound by this, where they would be if the court had ruled on it.
I wouldn't insult you unless you were doing something that deserved it. And I didn't, (again, YOU were the one who labelled yourself an idiot)you're spoiling for a fight. In real life it's easy to provoke a fight and take offence at anything someone says, or how they look at you, if you want one, as you evidently do. And while you may feel happy to resolve your problems through violence, it just means you're confident that you can win; quite likely you could beat me up, I haven't been in a fight since primary school. I don't think asking someone to "step outside" is normal in modern society, you've been watching too many cowboy movies.
You're the one who described himself as an idiot, and from all you've said (which of course is likely to be total fantasy, you could be a 14 year old girl for all I know) you're violent, or at least like to threaten violence.
And, sorry, I'm not "living in fear", since you don't know who I am, or even which timezone I live in. That means you can't just intimidate me into showing you "respect".
There are other responses to perceived insults than violence. A snappy one liner is generally appropriate. Or dignified silence. The Internet is full of obnoxious, tough-talking blowhards, life is too short to waste on them.
That's probably one reason the shock goes through the hips, not the arms and chest. Anyway, in TFA, this is a system used only by military now, and they're allowed to kill people in training.
It's been a long time since I fenced, so I'm not entirely a layman -- but if this sacrifical tactic is getting too common, perhaps if there is a hit, especially in a non-lethal area like the foot, a subsequent hit by the opponent (within, say 0.1 second) should also count, or perhaps just negate the foot hit. As for the J-hits on the back, perhaps the epees are too flexible? Though stiffer might be more dangerous otherwise. Anyway, electric jolts are unworkable. Competitive types would practice shocking themselves till they could ignore it, or cheat by inserting bits of conductive or insulating material or paints, etc in their costumes or skin.