Everybody says that they don't make 'em like they used to, and after watching Voyager, Andromeda and Enterprise I tend to agree. Will you be willing to star in a new series of Star Trek (set after TNG)?
Aye, the problem with TNG was always that it was somewhere hideously between having a continuity, and not having a continuity. But what can you do?
Hmmmm, well I've never written an epsiode of TNG so, hmmmm maybe instead of criticising I should write an epsiode of Enterprise, show those dumbasses how to do it. I mean, how hard can it be?
The Inner Light should have affected him just as much; he had a family. Wife and children. This should have shown up in his attitudes towards children, off hand comments, for example like 'Hello, young man. Blah blah blah, you remind me of my son when he was your age...' to which Riker would give him a look, and say 'Your son, sir?'
Hmmm, that just seems a bit cheesy. I'm not sure how they scripted it, but I find it difficult to believe that the script/story for the whole series could be written by one person, so I understand the lack of follow-up. "Okay people, one compartmentalised episode bagged and tagged, no discontinuities added to the timeline, so forget about it. Now, we have 20 more episodes to write."
I must admit, if Picard suddenly became good with children his authoritarian presence would have been eroded, which would be a shame as it would devalue all subsequent episodes. So it's a good thing they buried this new trait in the future. If he suddenly became good with kids/dogs just like Oprah (and every other boring American running after ratings), TNG might have ended up like the current Enterprise series, having to resort to time travel trickery to create any sort of episode that wouldn't create massive contradictions in the future. Star Trek is supposed to be groundbreaking, but in Enterprise there aren't any gay/transvestite people, I'd imagine Majel Roddenberry is going to sue their asses off for not following what Gene Roddenberry intended.
Hello again, I disagree with your post here. That was the best TNG episode I've seen. Picard's face at the end when playing Frere Jacques summed up that it would simply be the start of his mourning period. Can you remember when Picard was converted into a borg? His guilt spread across multiple episodes, resulting in him getting drunk and having a fight with his brother on Earth in the mud.
Personally I'd find it incredibly difficult to fit something good into just 1 hour, actually minus ads it's probably just 40 mins. So I'll ask you this - what scene(s) would you have cut from Frere Jacques episode to extend Picard's fluteplaying at the end? Personally, I'm happy that the scriptwriters left it to the imagination.
They can illegally abuse a monopoly and still make money, because they could outfight and outplan the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration doesn't want a fight
Why would a Government want to fight a succesful company with hundreds of thousands of employees? If they won, all they would gain is new welfare claimants.
would produce a consumer backlash, and more people would switch to Mac and Linux, which would cost Microsoft money. If Microsoft loses money, it can't pay its employees (well, after a couple years..), so they leave, and Microsoft doesn't exist anymore.
I don't think you understand how much money they have - Micro$oft's expenses are minimal, and Bill Boy Gates can pay the severance for 100% of his employees with his pocket change in the event of bad times.
As with all conspiracy theories, the media must be in league with them, to achieve this all Micro$oft has to do is blackmail Rupert Murdoch and CEO of AoL/TW then that's 90% of the media covered. Centralised ownership of the media brings with it the power of blackmail over these owners.
If Micro$oft had advance knowledge of its own collapse, it would invest in Apple and Redhat, then it would fire all of its employees. This'll make Micro$oft money even out of the destruction of its own product.
so the overflow couldn't be in ActiveX. Fourth of all, attempting to 0wN machines that just surf to its websites would be illegal, like criminally illegal, not just antitrust-illegal.
Really? I remember reading on IDG that AoL barred MSN Messenger users from AoL IM by using a buffer overflow present in AoL IM. Nothing happened to AoL.
As IT transitions from a fancy product into an infrastructural requirement, the ability to switch to competition tends to zero. As an example, if your electricity company said that they'd give everybody normal electricity, except to YOU - they'd give you a 600V DC rail and an Earth rail. Good luck trying to find a DC washing machine. You'd throw in the towel and give the electricity company whatever they want. They already do this - if you connect very inductive high power-factor motors to the mains power line they'll cut you off.
If Micro$oft buffer overflows your system in order to upgrade your OS from Win '98 to WinXP-DRM, they're upgrading your product. You can't sue them and claim damages - what damage have they caused? They've upgraded your product without your permission, the only way you can claim damages is to say, "I want to illegally(?) download MP3s and DivX so I hereby forthwith herein sue Micro$oft for damages incurred in my future by the illegal actions they have blocked me from performing"
If you wanted to take the DRM out, you could, and recompile. Fairly trivial, at least until we're all running trusted hardware platforms. And we all pray that day never comes
With the collapse of the commercial PGP.com I'm worried that we'll see a large number of very important closed-source linux apps becoming de facto standards like Kylix runtime. When trusted hardware arrives I'll be the first guy to clone it with my Altera FPGA kit
Hate to use your post as a counter-example, but it really didn't fit into the +4 category.
A Taliban moderator might disagree. I'm sure you're aware that paedophiles can moderate Slashdot too, when they get the chance. You shouldn't be surprised by moderations outside your wishes. I was talking with my psychiatrist Uncle who's a shrink for Cambridge graduates that overstretch themselves (majority of them, especially Maths). He tells me that half of the people in the world are insane/stupid/thieves/murderers. I asked him, "Which half?" He pointed his finger at me and told me that that was the exact problem.
What security updates are you talking about? What DRM?
The security updates Micro$oft said it'll force down users' throats somehow, maybe via a buffer overflow in an ActiveX control or something. There's already an ActiveX control that does this - http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com. If Micro$oft sticks a few of these up instead of Gator, we'll have a web minefield, Win '98 machines will be crashed one by one until WinXP-DRM is the only remaining OS.
This can happen with app upgrades as well, when the.NET DRM-compliant runtime is required to run applications in the future just like the MFC libraries are now. Linux is not immune as when DRM-compliant Mono runtimes and DRM-glibc are required for compiling and running awk we'll be taken over.
Knocked out my whole theory of "intelligence floats, stupid sinks".
Dude, shit floats too. My comment is good though, sorry I don't have 6 hours spare to write a 50-page grammatically correct English essay for you, what with the company I work for getting out of software and diversifying into catering. Cooking instead of coding is a kinda nice change. Anyway, if you'll excuse me I have to write a Perl script and then sautee some shallots for our client tonight.
And why are you railing away at M$ like the most rabid linux user (disclaimer-I am a linux user, just not rabid) and then copping to running win98 and IE4
I have a winmodem
not contributive
See above
It's not logical
Live long and prosper
not grammatically correct
What's you a sayin? People is gonna die?
at least it has certainly captured the primal rage that I often find so illuminative in rational conversations...
<blink> WHAT? I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS!!! </blink>
I was reading along nicely at 3*
I'm sorry my post wasn't considered conformant, conservative and dull like the other posts, at worst I'm RMS in disguise;-)
I wish I could suicide-bomb the parent post, and lose two karma to knock it down two points or so.
Well done, now you can meet the giant Shish kebab in the sky. Hey I guess this makes you rabid too;-)
Then don't be an asshole and complain when things in "Micro$oft" (don't forget the $, moron!) go wrong or don't work right. All software has bugs. Deal with it. If you don't refuse to update your software, then you shouldn't complain
I'm not complaining. The reboot button on my Win98 is well-used and acts as a constant reminder that I should keep frequent backups, bit like a log fire reminds you about fireproofing, and having an old Chevy reminds you to be nice to hitch-hikers.
I want to install apps in 10 years on my Win '98 without having.NET runtime DRM-enabled forced down my thrown, and likewise linux-man won't want DRM-enabled glibc and Mono shoved onto his hard drive either just to compile and run awk.
How the hell will Micro$oft propogate these "updates" to old systems? Are they gonna use a buffer overflow in a safe ActiveX control to "update" my computer?
Real Crypto = Paranoid Schizoprenic minus Schizophrenic
Nice to see Microsoft taking reponsibility for their mistakes, but they really should have done so when they designed Windows."
I mean, come on. When they do something right, you just GOTTA change it around to make it a negative. And you wonder why MS is after Linux, right? Who's being childish now?
Yeah, and now Micro$oft can also force those "security" updates onto *nix systems as well, oh oooops our "security" update is incompatible with Samba, you'll just have to upgrade to WindowsXP and deal with product activation and force DRM down your throats. I'm happy with my Win 98 on my P2-450 with IE4. I don't need your IE6 with DRM auto-updates
So when I teach my kids how to read, write and speak, when they grow up can I sue them for copyright infringement whenever they read, write or talk? COOOOL
But you are missing the point. If we can now clone cars, there is no need for automobile assembly lines, since we can *all* have a car. What the IP proponents are proposing is that the cloning machine be outlawed in order to keep the auto manufacturers in business because they have some inherent right to exist, even at the expense of the populace at large. NOT COOL
CORRECTION: Is Cool. What do you think Planned Obsolescence is? Engineers designed fridges that can last for 200 years, but that would make jobs disappear - so jobs take priority and fridges are built to last 7 years nowadays. Once you get used to your car you're not gonna change it no matter what new stuff is on the new car.
But trying to tell legislators "we know better than you" is immoral
DUDE! that's Taliban law, I think you've been watching too much CNN, you probably need to go to another civil war re-enactment. ... Look at what happened to Prohibition
The people have the Right to refuse to comply with laws, otherwise Prohibiton would still be in effect. That's why jails are nice and comfortable - because nice people end up there too like Kevin Mitnick and the DeCSS guy.
Police even put gay people in prison just for being gay, WHY DO YOU THINK WARFTP WAS WRITTEN? Here's why. The rest of the gory details are buried elsewhere on his site.
There's a trade-off the RIAA and others like it (MPAA) don't realize
I know how to protect P2P - we can centralise P2P networks, and house the servers in a country like Ethiopea. Then just in case the RIAA convinces Bush to invade us, we should train up some suicide bombers and.... Oh yeah whoops.
Download the uhhhh Kazaa unlimited demo versions. Lightwave is the smallest, Maya is a few hundred Meg. To download these you'll need Cable, which isn't protected by FCC regulations, so download while you can;-)
wow, the media is conservative according to you and they arent saying something good about a fundamentalist?
A fundamental failure in the 4th pillar of democracy is a serious problem indeed. Since the media is corporate-owned, they are providing a product that satisfies their customers' requirements. Since the United States is inherently conservative, the media has conflicting objectives - fourth pillar obligations and corporate customer-satisfaction (by pandering to conservativism). In a CMOS circuit I'd say this is like positive feedback in an OP-AMP. A fourth pillar would provide negative feedback (is that what you think - well here's the alternative perspective), a corporate product would provide positive feedback (you want a product, here I'll saturate you with it)
Sometimes, at the end of the day, I still think that at least the US has it sort of right - free speech is free speech. No ifs, ands, or buts.
False sense of security, for instance how many pro-binLaden articles have been posted on CNN? [Media conservatism = Worse censorship than Government] at least you know when your Government's oppressing you.
News: Micro$oft forces a buggy trashy piece of software out on time Slashdot: NOOOO!
Conclusion: If Micro$oft is obliterated it won't be a happy era like the '60s, because everybody'll demand that volunteer OSS be released on time! Therefore Nobody will never happy
Wake up, people, OSS also means Open Source deadlines! Whatever happened to all this "Linux is about quality not quantity" that everybody believed in? I hope the ext4fs developers are paying attention - even if it's buggy and causes inode corruption it's GOTTA BE ON TIME! Sheesh, I wonder what'll happen on Slashdot if Stallman announces, "like Micro$oft we're gonna halt all Hurd development for 12 months while we look for security bugs".
Let's all be honest - we'd all rather have buggy software than late software.
You're confusing web services with the application service provider model
Both technologies can be used for international outsourcing. With web services, why do the back tiers need to be in the same country as the front tiers?
It's common practice in the commercial world for vendors to issue temporary software licenses until the customer has paid in full-- when you're selling $500,000 cuts of software, it's common for the customer to choose the installment plan-- but at that point, the customer gets a permanent hardware or software license key
With the transition to web services (based in India - cheapst developers) the IT industry's model will switch to a rental one. This may even be superior to GPL software which is subject to tyranny of the developer, as web services is "tyranny of the customer", in line with the rest of corporate America.
In the commerical software world, you cannot use the same product for 10 years. You will purchase upgrades, and you will purchase new hardware to run those upgrades if you want support. Why? Because any company that doesn't make you do that will be bankrupt in 10 years
...and this is why planned obsolescence has existed in software since the start. It just hasn't been made official
I also love the fact that he is ragging on hungary and india and he is called "Avishek Chaudhuri"...
No it's not, this is my Uncle's computer
Hey one second, even if that was my real name what does that mean? What you're saying is if my surname is Smith I should wear sunglasses and join the FBI, but if my name is Chaudhuri I should wear a rag on my head and smash some planes into tall buildings? Now who's the xenophobe asshole?
If you're not in the G8, then you're a third world country. In the United States you can get sued for sneezing the wrong way, a power which is abused. If you don't believe me, paint your face black, put on a scarf and walk around the projects at 2 in the morning, see just how long it is before your Cops stop you and kick your ass like Rodney King. I'm not xenophobic, the powers that be are xenophobic.
These strict laws make companies in the G8 to be highly suable and thus gives them more incentive to create higher quality and safer products. I'm not saying all imported stuff is trash, but I'd love to see an American trying to get his money when an amdmb capacitor catches fire and burns his house down while his children are asleep (this is the real world, computers are used in real houses - this can happen to real people so don't laugh it off).
If Enron was in China - what could we do to get our money?
See! This is what happens when components are manufactured in the third world like Taiwan, Hungary and India. These are Ferengi countries - buyer beware, try suing amdmb manufacturers now with all the International laws you'll have to do jump through
Tiawanese capacitors, Hungarian IBM Deskstar factories, small Indian software partners. That's why big companies don't pay if the product's bad, they've learnt their lessons.
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Everybody says that they don't make 'em like they used to, and after watching Voyager, Andromeda and Enterprise I tend to agree. Will you be willing to star in a new series of Star Trek (set after TNG)?
"Okay people, one compartmentalised episode bagged and tagged, no discontinuities added to the timeline, so forget about it. Now, we have 20 more episodes to write."
I must admit, if Picard suddenly became good with children his authoritarian presence would have been eroded, which would be a shame as it would devalue all subsequent episodes. So it's a good thing they buried this new trait in the future. If he suddenly became good with kids/dogs just like Oprah (and every other boring American running after ratings), TNG might have ended up like the current Enterprise series, having to resort to time travel trickery to create any sort of episode that wouldn't create massive contradictions in the future. Star Trek is supposed to be groundbreaking, but in Enterprise there aren't any gay/transvestite people, I'd imagine Majel Roddenberry is going to sue their asses off for not following what Gene Roddenberry intended.
Hello again, I disagree with your post here. That was the best TNG episode I've seen. Picard's face at the end when playing Frere Jacques summed up that it would simply be the start of his mourning period. Can you remember when Picard was converted into a borg? His guilt spread across multiple episodes, resulting in him getting drunk and having a fight with his brother on Earth in the mud.
Personally I'd find it incredibly difficult to fit something good into just 1 hour, actually minus ads it's probably just 40 mins. So I'll ask you this - what scene(s) would you have cut from Frere Jacques episode to extend Picard's fluteplaying at the end? Personally, I'm happy that the scriptwriters left it to the imagination.
As with all conspiracy theories, the media must be in league with them, to achieve this all Micro$oft has to do is blackmail Rupert Murdoch and CEO of AoL/TW then that's 90% of the media covered. Centralised ownership of the media brings with it the power of blackmail over these owners.
If Micro$oft had advance knowledge of its own collapse, it would invest in Apple and Redhat, then it would fire all of its employees. This'll make Micro$oft money even out of the destruction of its own product.
Really? I remember reading on IDG that AoL barred MSN Messenger users from AoL IM by using a buffer overflow present in AoL IM. Nothing happened to AoL.As IT transitions from a fancy product into an infrastructural requirement, the ability to switch to competition tends to zero. As an example, if your electricity company said that they'd give everybody normal electricity, except to YOU - they'd give you a 600V DC rail and an Earth rail. Good luck trying to find a DC washing machine. You'd throw in the towel and give the electricity company whatever they want. They already do this - if you connect very inductive high power-factor motors to the mains power line they'll cut you off.
If Micro$oft buffer overflows your system in order to upgrade your OS from Win '98 to WinXP-DRM, they're upgrading your product. You can't sue them and claim damages - what damage have they caused? They've upgraded your product without your permission, the only way you can claim damages is to say, "I want to illegally(?) download MP3s and DivX so I hereby forthwith herein sue Micro$oft for damages incurred in my future by the illegal actions they have blocked me from performing"
With the collapse of the commercial PGP.com I'm worried that we'll see a large number of very important closed-source linux apps becoming de facto standards like Kylix runtime. When trusted hardware arrives I'll be the first guy to clone it with my Altera FPGA kitA Taliban moderator might disagree. I'm sure you're aware that paedophiles can moderate Slashdot too, when they get the chance. You shouldn't be surprised by moderations outside your wishes. I was talking with my psychiatrist Uncle who's a shrink for Cambridge graduates that overstretch themselves (majority of them, especially Maths). He tells me that half of the people in the world are insane/stupid/thieves/murderers. I asked him, "Which half?" He pointed his finger at me and told me that that was the exact problem.This can happen with app upgrades as well, when the .NET DRM-compliant runtime is required to run applications in the future just like the MFC libraries are now. Linux is not immune as when DRM-compliant Mono runtimes and DRM-glibc are required for compiling and running awk we'll be taken over.
Dude, shit floats too. My comment is good though, sorry I don't have 6 hours spare to write a 50-page grammatically correct English essay for you, what with the company I work for getting out of software and diversifying into catering. Cooking instead of coding is a kinda nice change. Anyway, if you'll excuse me I have to write a Perl script and then sautee some shallots for our client tonight. I have a winmodemSee aboveLive long and prosperWhat's you a sayin? People is gonna die?<blink> WHAT? I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS!!! </blink>I'm sorry my post wasn't considered conformant, conservative and dull like the other posts, at worst I'm RMS in disguiseI want to install apps in 10 years on my Win '98 without having .NET runtime DRM-enabled forced down my thrown, and likewise linux-man won't want DRM-enabled glibc and Mono shoved onto his hard drive either just to compile and run awk.
How the hell will Micro$oft propogate these "updates" to old systems? Are they gonna use a buffer overflow in a safe ActiveX control to "update" my computer?
Real Crypto = Paranoid Schizoprenic minus Schizophrenic
So when I teach my kids how to read, write and speak, when they grow up can I sue them for copyright infringement whenever they read, write or talk? COOOOL
... Look at what happened to Prohibition
The people have the Right to refuse to comply with laws, otherwise Prohibiton would still be in effect. That's why jails are nice and comfortable - because nice people end up there too like Kevin Mitnick and the DeCSS guy.
Police even put gay people in prison just for being gay, WHY DO YOU THINK WARFTP WAS WRITTEN? Here's why. The rest of the gory details are buried elsewhere on his site.
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Download the uhhhh Kazaa unlimited demo versions. Lightwave is the smallest, Maya is a few hundred Meg. To download these you'll need Cable, which isn't protected by FCC regulations, so download while you can ;-)
Slashdot: NOOOO!
News: Micro$oft forces a buggy trashy piece of software out on time
Slashdot: NOOOO!
Conclusion: If Micro$oft is obliterated it won't be a happy era like the '60s, because everybody'll demand that volunteer OSS be released on time! Therefore Nobody will never happy
Wake up, people, OSS also means Open Source deadlines! Whatever happened to all this "Linux is about quality not quantity" that everybody believed in? I hope the ext4fs developers are paying attention - even if it's buggy and causes inode corruption it's GOTTA BE ON TIME! Sheesh, I wonder what'll happen on Slashdot if Stallman announces, "like Micro$oft we're gonna halt all Hurd development for 12 months while we look for security bugs".
Let's all be honest - we'd all rather have buggy software than late software.
Hey one second, even if that was my real name what does that mean? What you're saying is if my surname is Smith I should wear sunglasses and join the FBI, but if my name is Chaudhuri I should wear a rag on my head and smash some planes into tall buildings? Now who's the xenophobe asshole?
These strict laws make companies in the G8 to be highly suable and thus gives them more incentive to create higher quality and safer products. I'm not saying all imported stuff is trash, but I'd love to see an American trying to get his money when an amdmb capacitor catches fire and burns his house down while his children are asleep (this is the real world, computers are used in real houses - this can happen to real people so don't laugh it off).
If Enron was in China - what could we do to get our money?
Tiawanese capacitors, Hungarian IBM Deskstar factories, small Indian software partners. That's why big companies don't pay if the product's bad, they've learnt their lessons.