I gotta say... you're the odd man out in this thread. If anyone is trying to make himself the center of attention right not, it's not the GP. He just fit right in.
I think the GP was just using this as a venue to complain about George Lucas (and I happen to agree with him there) He didn't seem too confused about Trek vs. Star Wars.
DS9 was great, because it continued the story of Klingon politics and civil war.
True, but then the plots kept getting bogged down in the whole Bajoran/Prophets thing (even Jadzea Dax had had enough when she told Sisko, "I liked it better back when they were wormhole aliens.") I kinda lost interest at that point, but up 'til then I agree. It was cool when Worf had it out with Gowron.
Voyager sucked, though, because they ruined the Borg.
Hey, mods, that's not flamebait, it's precisely the truth. Remember "The Best of Both Worlds", the original Next Generation cliffhanger? The Borg were utterly implacable, totally inscrutable and free of anything resembling emotion. Worse, the discovery of the Borg's primary motivation ("You will become one with the Borg. You will all become one... with the Borg.") was absolutely terrifying. As Q put it, "The Borg are the ultimate user." And let's not forget that they could pulverize Starfleet vessels with impunity.
Then they got a "Borg Queen", which put a human face on them, and in Voyager it turns out that there's an entire hidden subnet of drones that can communicate via their subconscious minds (in virtual worlds, experiencing the full gamut of emotion) unknown to the Collective itself. I mean, what the Hell? Roddenberry's team came up with the most awesome high-tech enemy imaginable... and his successors threw it away.
The truly entertaining aspect to the original Borg came in the Enterprise crew's attempts to locate and exploit even the tiniest weakness in the Borg's apparent invulnerability. The Borg's personality (or rather, total lack of it) was irrelevant. Making them more "human" was irrelevant. It also made them less interesting (maybe Braga & Co. thought that would give them wider appeal. It didn't.)
There are two kind of people in the world...the kind that thinks the new Day the Earth Stood Still is science fiction, and the kind that thinks it would have been if Klaatu had said to Barnhardt something like that.
Nah... then it would have been science, not sci-fi. And nobody goes to the IMax to see science.
Minority Report. Serves the double purpose of marketing to individual preferences, and also keeping track of the populace.
So, what you're saying is the UK just has to figure out how to use their network for advertising and Tom Cruise can shoot Minority Report II over there.
People are numb but they still take it, I only turn my head if it grabs my attention and that's what they want to know - does the poster grab people's attention.
The only way an electronic billboard would get my attention is if the thing reached out and grabbed me by the nuts (of course, at that point I'd snap the damn robotic arm off at the root and disassemble the machine with it.) The rest of me is completely numb to advertising: if anything I actively work to avoid awareness of it. In fact, that's the reason I don't want targeted advertising (yeah, I mean you Google) because ads are a lot easier to completely ignore if they're totally irrelevant.
I think most of the/. posters have the inconceivable problem.
conceive means to become pregnant with (young). As in conceive a child.
The 'in' prefix tends to mean not or opposite.
So, inconceivable could mean not being able to conceive a child.
Tim S
Most/. posters would get the Princess Bride reference that the GP made and that I simply continued.
Spare me from grammar nazis with no sense of humor. I was simply continuing the previous poster's reference to the movie "The Princess Bride". Don't attempt to correct someone's cinematic references if you just don't get the joke.
What annoys me about Obama's behavior in this regard is that he promised he wouldn't do it, then went and voted for immunity anyway. If he'd kept his mouth shut up front, instead of trying to curry favor from the portion of the voting public that was upset about the Telcos activities, we'd probably feel differently. I think we all understand the art of compromise in politics, just as we understand the value of a promise.
"One of the UK's top cyber cops, detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, says the top brass want to develop the equivalent of a breathalyzer for computers, a simple tool that could be plugged into a machine during a raid and retrieve evidence of illegal activity. McMurdie said the device was needed because of a record number of PCs were being seized by police and because the majority of cops don't have the skills to forensically analyse a computer."
If this is one of the UK's "top cops" I'd hate to see what one of their ordinary cops is like.
My disagreement lies with with the assumption that words themselves (from a non-authority figure) can impinge on ones' rights.
What about the rights of dictators? Have you thought about that? All this anonymous speech makes it so much harder to stay in power, if you can't identify, torture and kill your detractors. I mean, really.
Until I see a reason to switch (ie serious advantages over XP) why would I?
About the only reason I can think of is when you can't get XP drivers for your laptop, your motherboard, or some peripherals you need. That's already happening, and will ultimately kill XP off no matter what else Microsoft does.
Slashdot Mirror
Godspeed, Majel.
Is that warp-eight, or -nine?
My guess is that she's in a Transwarp conduit right now.
I gotta say ... you're the odd man out in this thread. If anyone is trying to make himself the center of attention right not, it's not the GP. He just fit right in.
always tried to seduce the lovable, virginal social retard in all of us
I may be a social retard but the resemblance ends there.
Oh my...
Hand in your Geek card now and walk away.
Trek != Wars
I think the GP was just using this as a venue to complain about George Lucas (and I happen to agree with him there) He didn't seem too confused about Trek vs. Star Wars.
DS9 was great, because it continued the story of Klingon politics and civil war.
True, but then the plots kept getting bogged down in the whole Bajoran/Prophets thing (even Jadzea Dax had had enough when she told Sisko, "I liked it better back when they were wormhole aliens.") I kinda lost interest at that point, but up 'til then I agree. It was cool when Worf had it out with Gowron.
Voyager sucked, though, because they ruined the Borg.
Hey, mods, that's not flamebait, it's precisely the truth. Remember "The Best of Both Worlds", the original Next Generation cliffhanger? The Borg were utterly implacable, totally inscrutable and free of anything resembling emotion. Worse, the discovery of the Borg's primary motivation ("You will become one with the Borg. You will all become one ... with the Borg.") was absolutely terrifying. As Q put it, "The Borg are the ultimate user." And let's not forget that they could pulverize Starfleet vessels with impunity.
... and his successors threw it away.
Then they got a "Borg Queen", which put a human face on them, and in Voyager it turns out that there's an entire hidden subnet of drones that can communicate via their subconscious minds (in virtual worlds, experiencing the full gamut of emotion) unknown to the Collective itself. I mean, what the Hell? Roddenberry's team came up with the most awesome high-tech enemy imaginable
The truly entertaining aspect to the original Borg came in the Enterprise crew's attempts to locate and exploit even the tiniest weakness in the Borg's apparent invulnerability. The Borg's personality (or rather, total lack of it) was irrelevant. Making them more "human" was irrelevant. It also made them less interesting (maybe Braga & Co. thought that would give them wider appeal. It didn't.)
I wonder if the magma melted the drill bit?
Remember the movie A Crack in the World? Well, there you go. We're playing with fire here folks.
I'm fairly certain you're wrong in your reasoning, but I also am not an expert on the subject so I could be wrong as well.
You're an old hand here at Slashdot, aren't you. ;-)
Not really. Real oldtimers here a. don't admit they aren't an expert and b. even if they are, won't ever admit they could be wrong.
There are two kind of people in the world...the kind that thinks the new Day the Earth Stood Still is science fiction, and the kind that thinks it would have been if Klaatu had said to Barnhardt something like that.
Nah ... then it would have been science, not sci-fi. And nobody goes to the IMax to see science.
Minority Report. Serves the double purpose of marketing to individual preferences, and also keeping track of the populace.
So, what you're saying is the UK just has to figure out how to use their network for advertising and Tom Cruise can shoot Minority Report II over there.
People are numb but they still take it, I only turn my head if it grabs my attention and that's what they want to know - does the poster grab people's attention.
The only way an electronic billboard would get my attention is if the thing reached out and grabbed me by the nuts (of course, at that point I'd snap the damn robotic arm off at the root and disassemble the machine with it.) The rest of me is completely numb to advertising: if anything I actively work to avoid awareness of it. In fact, that's the reason I don't want targeted advertising (yeah, I mean you Google) because ads are a lot easier to completely ignore if they're totally irrelevant.
I don't know what's with Slashdot this evening: it's sometimes not showing replies correctly. Anyway, please ignore the previous comment.
Sorry, thought you were replying to me.
That would be ... inconceivable.
I think most of the /. posters have the inconceivable problem.
conceive means to become pregnant with (young). As in conceive a child.
The 'in' prefix tends to mean not or opposite.
So, inconceivable could mean not being able to conceive a child.
Tim S
Most /. posters would get the Princess Bride reference that the GP made and that I simply continued.
Don't correct someone's usage of a word if you yourself are not knowledgeable about the word. OP used the word correctly in the correct context.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conceive
Spare me from grammar nazis with no sense of humor. I was simply continuing the previous poster's reference to the movie "The Princess Bride". Don't attempt to correct someone's cinematic references if you just don't get the joke.
Wow...your post is the BEST
Hey now, just because Pudge is an Editor doesn't mean you have to be so worshipful of his posts. They aren't that great.
You may have Frontotemporal Dementia. Please see your physician.
You know, if I didn't have Frontotemporal Demetia, I'd think you were being sarcastic.
So he was defenstrated?!
No, he was defenestrated.
totalitarian, authoritarian
You keep using those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
That would be ... inconceivable.
What annoys me about Obama's behavior in this regard is that he promised he wouldn't do it, then went and voted for immunity anyway. If he'd kept his mouth shut up front, instead of trying to curry favor from the portion of the voting public that was upset about the Telcos activities, we'd probably feel differently. I think we all understand the art of compromise in politics, just as we understand the value of a promise.
"One of the UK's top cyber cops, detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, says the top brass want to develop the equivalent of a breathalyzer for computers, a simple tool that could be plugged into a machine during a raid and retrieve evidence of illegal activity. McMurdie said the device was needed because of a record number of PCs were being seized by police and because the majority of cops don't have the skills to forensically analyse a computer."
If this is one of the UK's "top cops" I'd hate to see what one of their ordinary cops is like.
My disagreement lies with with the assumption that words themselves (from a non-authority figure) can impinge on ones' rights.
What about the rights of dictators? Have you thought about that? All this anonymous speech makes it so much harder to stay in power, if you can't identify, torture and kill your detractors. I mean, really.
So you're saying by posting anonymous cowardly then I'm advocating abortion?
I almost feel as sorry as when I heard that god kills kittens when I masturbate... those poor kitties.... millions of poor dead kitties... :(
Millions? Damn.
Until I see a reason to switch (ie serious advantages over XP) why would I?
About the only reason I can think of is when you can't get XP drivers for your laptop, your motherboard, or some peripherals you need. That's already happening, and will ultimately kill XP off no matter what else Microsoft does.
The fact that Windows 7 comes out on top in three out of four of these tests at this early stage is very promising indeed.
then they should have waited. Vista always seemed a bit premature.
Boy will they be ticked when I release my competitor on the iPhone for $4.99!
Cool! With such a substantial cost savings, I'm sure I'll get a bigger bonus next year.
Wasn't the spreadsheet the killer app for the Apple ][?
I thought the killer app for the Mac was desktop publishing.
You're correct.