"Remember Bones' appearance in TNG?" That was the best part! The idea of a starship populated by descendants of the original crew was done at least once in print back in the '50s or '60s, but I can't remember which author. Of course in that one they were outbound from Earth, and, after many generations while the ship's computers and robots ran everything, the humans all forgot that the inside of the ship wasn't all of creation and existence. The plot of the book, of course, was that brave young hero and heroine eventually discover the truth, fighting high priests of whatever religion evolved over those generations.
Nurse Chappell (give or take a p or l), as I recall. Also, played a doctor secretly working with the resistance on the early episodes of "Earth:Final Conflict" (an excellent prediction of any advanced alien race we might encounter: they'll have their own agenda, and they will worry about that first, and our future and well-being a distant second). There are rumors floating around about how she and Nichelle Nichols became close while Nichols and Rodenberry were busy being close, which leads to speculation of the sort which I'm sure Slashdotters wouldn't engage in.
Dukat's daughter was played by Melanie Smith and I suppose all that alien makeup job helped concentrate my attention on her acting ability, but don't pass up an opportunity to watch her play the part of a human female lounging by a swimming pool if you ever get the chance.:-) She was on "As the World Turns" years ago.
Glad to see someone agrees with me about DS9! As I was about to post way down at the bottom of the page...
I'd be interested in a pre-Earth show. Where did the Borg come from and how did they get to be the Borg, how did Vulcans and Romulans start as one and wind up like the results of a particularly nasty divorce, how about a revisit to some of the aliens only seen in the original series, only visit them beforehand to show how they got to the point they were when Kirk & Co. showed up. On the other hand, earth-centric could be good too. 10 or 15 years ago I read one of the Star Trek based paperbacks that featured Kirk's father and how he died, it would have made a good show. They could even do a show that's faithful to the original series's premise that there were atomic wars in the '90s and show how "we" wound up converting from the current calendar to "star date" this and "star date" that and how Earth acquired a single, planetary-wide government and which came first, StarFleet or the Federation. According to one DS9 episode the entire Star Trek universe only exists in the imagination of a black guy from the '50s who wrote for a pulp SF mag (which solves the atomic wars in the '90s conflict very nicely). Perhaps they could do an anthology show based on stories from that magazine and show us what some of the other writers might come up with (which could present endless spin-off possiblities). Showing my ignorance now, could someone please tell me what "First Contact" is/was, an episode I missed, a book, a movie, what? And is there any way to see the original Blake's 7 episodes here in the U.S.? I remember the name Terry Nation from Dr. Who and that's sufficient recommendation.
It seems as though this could be built right into the cpu or into the package holding the cpu die, which would lead to getting your hard drive, ram, and cpu all in one unit. So what happens when that package, with a certain company's operating system permanently installed and hardwired in, is available cheaper than the same hardware without any os, or with a certain "free" os pre-installed? If this thing is "instant-on", then either os will be right there, ready to go as soon as you hit the switch, but one certain company will be able to subsidise the purchase, whereas the other os, even though free, won't have a financial behemoth behind it (unless it's AOL, and you have to be a subscriber of theirs to get the discount, or maybe even for the hardware to work at all).
Nando Times is a spin-off of the Raleigh, North Carolina newspaper "The News and Observer". The N&O (n and o, nando, get it?) got into the ISP business several years ago with, IIRC, Nando.net, which I think still exists, but the actual subscriber base got sold off to Mindspring a few years back. If linking like that becomes illegal, won't that pretty much be the end of the internet as we know it? As to whether or not Slashdot can or should provide content, I don't think that's what it's really here for. We the Slashdot audience provide the content. Unfortunately the content is sometimes of the quality of posts like yours.
Two other books of interest in this general subject area are "The American Black Chamber" by Herbert O. Yardley and "Piercing the Reich" by Joseph E. Persico. The first is about early 20th century U.S. codebreaking (and the idiots in the U.S. government who did their best to make it impossible) and the second is about the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services), World War II precursor to the CIA and NSA, and includes some pictures and info on the Enigma.
Whadda ya bet the same person who moderated this up as "Interesting" is the one who moderated the original down as "Off-topic" and is the one who moderated a later version of it (post # 13) down as "Redundant"?
Your comment only got a +1 because you checked the box that said "No Score +1 Bonus". What, you didn't? There wasn't any such box? Well, that's because your karma isn't high enough to rate that extra point, and since the other post only said "(Score:2)", instead of something like "(Score:2, Interesting)", which your original comment got, most likely anatoli's karma is high enough for the extra point and he/she didn't choose to disable it before posting. If you'll read the Slashdot FAQ and Moderator Guidlines, this will all be clearer. Judging by your user info, the moderators have been kind to you for the most part, and you may be on your way to a high enough karma to get that "bonus" point. Should you get it, I don't recommend using it, as there are some very unkind moderators out there whose attention you don't need to attract if low scores on your comments upset you.
Not only did it not get scored one way or the other except for the default, this particular "Ask Slashdot" 's reply thread shows no sign of having even been noticed by anyone currently moderating.
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Apparently it was a problem in the '90s as well. 6 years ago a bar where I used to DJ had a nearly new set that they left set on CNN headline news overnight every night and you could see where the logo was burned into the lower right hand corner of the screen whenever the channel was changed or a commercial came on.
"let JMS (B5, Crusade) write / direct." Now *there's* a great idea (although I like the other guy's idea about Robin Williams in "Good Morning, Cardassia" a lot, too).
Mad magazine's take-off of "The Man from Uncle" described Napolean Solo as a manic-depressive who's never depressed, so maybe a manic depressive accountant is a manic depressive who's never manic.:-)
seriously, i'm sure that accountants are as likely or unlikely as anyone else to suffer this affliction
YRO also means Your Rights On-air! The FCC was created to protect those rights (even though they don't always act like it these days). Actually the kind of "hearing 2 stations at once" interference the NAB "simulated" is more characteristic of AM (amplitude modulation) than of FM (frequency modulation). This used to be one of the things that got FM talked up, the stronger signal "overrides" the weaker one. There's actually a name (which I can't remember just now) for this effect, and it's in at least 2 or 3 of my electronics texts and references that're all packed up somewhere, so I'll let someone else come up with it and get the mod points.
now watch someone else post it and some jerk will come back 48 hours later and moderate me as redundant
But my favorite trick of theirs is taking the non-broadcast channels that are part of basic cable (the cheapest level available), and therefore not scrambled, and moving them above cable channel 38, and putting the scrambled stuff between 14 and 38, so that older "cable ready" TVs and VCRs that only go up to 36 or 38 aren't so cable ready anymore and you have to upgrade or rent a converter box from them, and since that disables your remote, you can pay even higher rent for a converter box with a remote, just so you can watch channels that you're already paying for.
The AC speaks truth. The more you like a show, the better its chances of disappearing by midseason. What I want to know about the Sci-Fi channel is why it's a pay channel *and* it's jammed full of commercials, and furthermore, why do I have to subscribe to the golf channel and the hillbilly channel and who knows what else just so that I can pay them to see a channel full of commercials?!? Did I mention that it's not part of the basic service tier?
"Update: 04/07 12:47 by CT: I remember when Angelina and I shared an issue of Rolling Stone... *grin*" *sigh* I remember when Rolling Stone was worth reading.
Having read the article, now that it's finally not Slashdotted for a while, it seems to me that the police in question have been handed something complicated and confusing from the courts and are erring on the side of caution until they get a handle on just what they are and are not legally allowed or required to do. In other words, they're doing their best to obey the law while they try to get a better explanation of what the law *really* says. To put this into a perspective understandable by us civilian types, think of trying to make heads or tails out of federal tax laws, IRS interpretations of same, and federal court rulings on both. Starting to understand a little better what it's like for those police departments now?
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"Remember Bones' appearance in TNG?"
That was the best part!
The idea of a starship populated by descendants of the original crew was done at least once in print back in the '50s or '60s, but I can't remember which author. Of course in that one they were outbound from Earth, and, after many generations while the ship's computers and robots ran everything, the humans all forgot that the inside of the ship wasn't all of creation and existence.
The plot of the book, of course, was that brave young hero and heroine eventually discover the truth, fighting high priests of whatever religion evolved over those generations.
Nurse Chappell (give or take a p or l), as I recall. Also, played a doctor secretly working with the resistance on the early episodes of "Earth:Final Conflict" (an excellent prediction of any advanced alien race we might encounter: they'll have their own agenda, and they will worry about that first, and our future and well-being a distant second).
There are rumors floating around about how she and Nichelle Nichols became close while Nichols and Rodenberry were busy being close, which leads to speculation of the sort which I'm sure Slashdotters wouldn't engage in.
Dukat's daughter was played by Melanie Smith and I suppose all that alien makeup job helped concentrate my attention on her acting ability, but don't pass up an opportunity to watch her play the part of a human female lounging by a swimming pool if you ever get the chance. :-)
She was on "As the World Turns" years ago.
As I was about to post way down at the bottom of the page...
I'd be interested in a pre-Earth show. Where did the Borg come from and how did they get to be the Borg, how did Vulcans and Romulans start as one and wind up like the results of a particularly nasty divorce, how about a revisit to some of the aliens only seen in the original series, only visit them beforehand to show how they got to the point they were when Kirk & Co. showed up.
On the other hand, earth-centric could be good too. 10 or 15 years ago I read one of the Star Trek based paperbacks that featured Kirk's father and how he died, it would have made a good show. They could even do a show that's faithful to the original series's premise that there were atomic wars in the '90s and show how "we" wound up converting from the current calendar to "star date" this and "star date" that and how Earth acquired a single, planetary-wide government and which came first, StarFleet or the Federation.
According to one DS9 episode the entire Star Trek universe only exists in the imagination of a black guy from the '50s who wrote for a pulp SF mag (which solves the atomic wars in the '90s conflict very nicely). Perhaps they could do an anthology show based on stories from that magazine and show us what some of the other writers might come up with (which could present endless spin-off possiblities).
Showing my ignorance now, could someone please tell me what "First Contact" is/was, an episode I missed, a book, a movie, what? And is there any way to see the original Blake's 7 episodes here in the U.S.? I remember the name Terry Nation from Dr. Who and that's sufficient recommendation.
It seems as though this could be built right into the cpu or into the package holding the cpu die, which would lead to getting your hard drive, ram, and cpu all in one unit.
So what happens when that package, with a certain company's operating system permanently installed and hardwired in, is available cheaper than the same hardware without any os, or with a certain "free" os pre-installed?
If this thing is "instant-on", then either os will be right there, ready to go as soon as you hit the switch, but one certain company will be able to subsidise the purchase, whereas the other os, even though free, won't have a financial behemoth behind it (unless it's AOL, and you have to be a subscriber of theirs to get the discount, or maybe even for the hardware to work at all).
I wouldn't have moderated him up, but why waste points moderating him down when there are so many other *much* more deserving candidates?
Nando Times is a spin-off of the Raleigh, North Carolina newspaper "The News and Observer". The N&O (n and o, nando, get it?) got into the ISP business several years ago with, IIRC, Nando.net, which I think still exists, but the actual subscriber base got sold off to Mindspring a few years back.
If linking like that becomes illegal, won't that pretty much be the end of the internet as we know it?
As to whether or not Slashdot can or should provide content, I don't think that's what it's really here for. We the Slashdot audience provide the content. Unfortunately the content is sometimes of the quality of posts like yours.
Two other books of interest in this general subject area are "The American Black Chamber" by Herbert O. Yardley and "Piercing the Reich" by Joseph E. Persico. The first is about early 20th century U.S. codebreaking (and the idiots in the U.S. government who did their best to make it impossible) and the second is about the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services), World War II precursor to the CIA and NSA, and includes some pictures and info on the Enigma.
Whadda ya bet the same person who moderated this up as "Interesting" is the one who moderated the original down as "Off-topic" and is the one who moderated a later version of it (post # 13) down as "Redundant"?
Your comment only got a +1 because you checked the box that said "No Score +1 Bonus".
What, you didn't? There wasn't any such box?
Well, that's because your karma isn't high enough to rate that extra point, and since the other post only said "(Score:2)", instead of something like "(Score:2, Interesting)", which your original comment got, most likely anatoli's karma is high enough for the extra point and he/she didn't choose to disable it before posting.
If you'll read the Slashdot FAQ and Moderator Guidlines, this will all be clearer.
Judging by your user info, the moderators have been kind to you for the most part, and you may be on your way to a high enough karma to get that "bonus" point.
Should you get it, I don't recommend using it, as there are some very unkind moderators out there whose attention you don't need to attract if low scores on your comments upset you.
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"Commas, whadda ya mean we gotta put commas in our address?"
"*** On the Internet, no one knows you're using a VIC-20"
Not even if you're using it as a server?
Not only did it not get scored one way or the other except for the default, this particular "Ask Slashdot" 's reply thread shows no sign of having even been noticed by anyone currently moderating.
Anonymous coward posts get a zero by default.
Logged-in users get a +1 by default.
Logged-in users whose karma is over 25 get a +2 by default, but each time they post there is a check box that allows them, if they so choose, to forgo that extra point and just get a +1.
Many of us wish it worked the other way around so that we didn't have to worry about forgetting to check it off, but had to check it to *get* the extra point.
For more information see the Moderator Guidelines.
Apparently it was a problem in the '90s as well. 6 years ago a bar where I used to DJ had a nearly new set that they left set on CNN headline news overnight every night and you could see where the logo was burned into the lower right hand corner of the screen whenever the channel was changed or a commercial came on.
"let JMS (B5, Crusade) write / direct."
Now *there's* a great idea (although I like the other guy's idea about Robin Williams in "Good Morning, Cardassia" a lot, too).
Well Time-Warner is the cable company around here so I guess I'll see you in the "Time-Warner + AOL worse than Microsoft" thread.
When I said "this", I meant the post I was replying to (the one full of nothing and a lot of it), not my own.
For more on this topic, see "Ancient Iraq" by Georges Roux
seriously, i'm sure that accountants are as likely or unlikely as anyone else to suffer this affliction
Actually the kind of "hearing 2 stations at once" interference the NAB "simulated" is more characteristic of AM (amplitude modulation) than of FM (frequency modulation).
This used to be one of the things that got FM talked up, the stronger signal "overrides" the weaker one.
There's actually a name (which I can't remember just now) for this effect, and it's in at least 2 or 3 of my electronics texts and references that're all packed up somewhere, so I'll let someone else come up with it and get the mod points.
now watch someone else post it and some jerk will come back 48 hours later and moderate me as redundant
But my favorite trick of theirs is taking the non-broadcast channels that are part of basic cable (the cheapest level available), and therefore not scrambled, and moving them above cable channel 38, and putting the scrambled stuff between 14 and 38, so that older "cable ready" TVs and VCRs that only go up to 36 or 38 aren't so cable ready anymore and you have to upgrade or rent a converter box from them, and since that disables your remote, you can pay even higher rent for a converter box with a remote, just so you can watch channels that you're already paying for.
The AC speaks truth. The more you like a show, the better its chances of disappearing by midseason.
What I want to know about the Sci-Fi channel is why it's a pay channel *and* it's jammed full of commercials, and furthermore, why do I have to subscribe to the golf channel and the hillbilly channel and who knows what else just so that I can pay them to see a channel full of commercials?!?
Did I mention that it's not part of the basic service tier?
"Update: 04/07 12:47 by CT: I remember when Angelina and I shared an issue of Rolling Stone... *grin*"
*sigh* I remember when Rolling Stone was worth reading.
In other words, they're doing their best to obey the law while they try to get a better explanation of what the law *really* says.
To put this into a perspective understandable by us civilian types, think of trying to make heads or tails out of federal tax laws, IRS interpretations of same, and federal court rulings on both.
Starting to understand a little better what it's like for those police departments now?
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