Well, if you had actually looked at the thing, you would have noticed that the drive is integrated into a picture of neurons.
Not a very good picture of neurons mind you, in fact it's about as crap as it gets since it depicts weirdly shaped thingies which are interconnected directly via some short connecting thingies. Whoever did this clearly has no clue about neurons.
For the record, real neurons are connected by synapses (missing on the picture) formed between the axon (missing on the picture) of one neuron and the dendritic tree (missing on the picture, which is a real shame because they can be made to look very cool) of another.
Also, neurons do NOT touch each other to form one badly drawn smooth 3D surface, unlike what you see in that picture. The synapse is actually a small cleft between axon and dendrite into which the presynaptic neuron can release neurotransmitters, which are then picked up by the postsynaptic one.
All in all, a bad piece of work.
Functionally, it's pointless. The fans are especially pointless and if the creator seriously thinks they actually make a difference in any way, I will most definitely not be buying anything that has as much as a wire in it from him.
Artistically, it's a bad drawing of something that is about as far away from neurons as you can get without actually starting to paint houses in the countryside.
I have to switch between Swiss-French QWERTZ and UK QWERTY every now and then (i.e. I use mostly the Swiss-French layout but sometimes some insensitive British clod forces a QWERTY keyboard on me).
However, I don't find it particularly difficult to switch between them. Obviously you could argue that this is not exactly astonishing since most of the letters are in the same place, but still, most of the symbols aren't. On very rare occasions, insensitive French clods force an AZERTY keyboard on me, but even then I find that it doesn't make typing much harder - after an initial 10 minutes of swearing:)
I normally switch any Pc I can to Swiss-French however, regardless of what the keyboard actually looks like physically. It's very amusing, especially at work (QWERTY keyboard with Swiss-French layout) where a mate every now and then completely messes up his machine and always tries to ssh back in using mine. A typical exchange normally goes something like this:
He: Can I borrow a console for a sec, need to ssh into my box.
Me: Sure.
(he sits down)
*clickety* ...
*clickety* ...
*clickety*
He: Ok, where the f*ck is the hyphen?
My main reason for not using Dvorak? I need é, è, à, ö, ä and ü readily available.
Sorry, no mod points at the moment;)
Instead I'll tell you how to redeem yourself... just claim that the dot is right there, conveniently placed on the letter i:)
I actually find this quite interesting in so many different ways.
For one, once upon a time, all things Microsoft were CLI - it was called MS-DOS... crappy as all linux-enthuisats may think it might have been, I grew up with it and I loved it. Now it seems we're going back to an OS that can be controlled by typing commands into a shell - looks like point'n'click doesn't really cut it after all.
Second, and this is what makes all linux geeks smile smugly, all the *nixes always had great CLIs and now the arguably most common OS is following that trend - looks like point'n'click doesn't really cut it after all.
Thirdly, remember that one-mouse-button company that once said that eventually, people won't need a keyboard at all to control their OS? Well, turns out that people like their keyboards and even said company has decent shells now - looks like point'n'click doesn't really cut it after all.
I remember being gutted when Win95 came out. I hated Win 3.1, In short, I hated everything point-and-click and all of a sudden, an entire OS was working on that principle?? Now I feel vindicated.
Funny how history runs in circles.
And anyone feeling the urge to point out, that the majority of users will never know nor use monad - save it. I'm well aware of that. I also know that for most everyday users, point'n'click is fine for all practical purposes. But all that matters is that Microsoft thinks a CLI important enough to merit full attention.
To answer the parent - yeah it might not be a true MS innovation. But they too have been there before, they merely strayed from the Path Of Typing for a while - you can't hold that against them - and you can't pretend that they're only just discovering CLIs - they've been there before too, regardless of how crap you think they might have been. So they're merely improving an existing feature, not pretending to have invented a new one while it's actually been around forever.
Industry sources also say Apple is a licensee of Transitive's QuickTransit virtual processor technology, which allows anything to run on Intel x86 (and vice versa) via dynamic instruction translation.
I'm afraid it even isn't that. I've got a 19 inch CRT monitor at home running at a resolution of 1920*1440@85Hz - that's almost 145.000 Pixels more than that LCD setup. My monitor at work is a 22inch running at 2048*1536@85Hz - that's more than half a million pixels (i.e. another 800x600 monitor and some leftovers) more at half the price.
So mine is longer, thicker and bigger - but the LCDs still get all the girls. I just don't get it,
I really looked forward to reading the Chronicles to my own children one day. I guess I'll still be able to, but they'll probably see the movie somewhere first and the magic will be gone from the words.
If it's any consolation, they would have had a chance to see the film since 1988.
This is where it started. A couple of Sullibans attended (they really are party animals once you get to know them), but unfortunatley one present-time Enterprise fan thought they were just other geeks in a costume and poured his beer over their heads.
That kinda sparked it, really. We told Bermann that showing history programmes before the events actually happened was really not a good idea, especially given how his documentaries polarise against de Sulliban but that's Rick for you. When he was a kid, he showed the moon landing to Jules Verne, who was rather impressed.
But no worries about the Temporal Cold War. Admiral Daniels will be dispatching Archer to stop the party from happening, thus preventing the onset of the war. Some of you present-timers might actually look forward to this, as it will result in the purging of all Temporal Cold War references from the documentaries Bermann has slipped into your time.
Shame about the party though. It really was a good laugh. Well... would have been.
In defence of the film, and despite of what Will Smith might have said, the film actually states in the credits to merely have been 'inspired by the book'. So it's not a movie version of the book, and it's not even really based on it. Why they decided to use the book's title will remain a mystery. It is certainly a fine example of 'How to alienate 80% of your potential customers in less then 2 seconds'.
I still went to see it though and I did really like it. Simply because I told myself at the beginning of the film 'Ok, this is NOT I, Robot, it is merely a completely different film which happens to have the same name.'
Unfortunately I don't think that'll work for THHGTTG....
I say, let Trek rest up a few years, you know, like get some new material and come back stronger than ever!
But therein lies the problem. Obviously it needs new material, but where would you find it? There's only so much a ship in space can do and if Kirk hasn't done it then Picard has or Janeway, in a rare moment of originality has. And if you get rid of the ship idea, then your chances are good that whatever episodes you want to write were aired in DS9 already. Besides, how far away from spaceships can you stray and remain Trek?
Difficult to come up with something new, when so much has been done before.
Microsoft Releases Source Code For Outlook Express Posted by brian on Wed April 13, 07:48 PM from the have fun hitting reload page dept. Microsoft announced today that they would be releasing Outlook Express under the GPL and all the source code would freely be available. They plan to make money by charging for security patches. This looks legit, but I'm worried that Microsoft might just be doing this to eradicate drug abuse. Get it while you can.
Now, apart from the drugs bit, doesn't this sound like something MS might actually do? Once they get over the problem of people writing their own security patches, that is;)
I much prefer the Pounds of the Euros though (and no, I'm not British).
British coins come in 4 different shapes: coppers (1 and 2 p), silvers (5 and 10p), edged (20 and 50p) and chunky (£1 and £2). Each shape is has a small and a large version (for the lower and the higher value respectively) and the difference in size is substantial. Thus it's unbelievable easy to tell with a single glance in your wallet roughly what change you have.
In the Euro's case on the other hand, sure the 2 Euro coin does stick out, as does the 1 Euro one... but apart from that all you see is a golden mess interspersed with random coppers. Especially the coppers are extremely annoying and hard to tell apart (so yes, I'm not Finnish either).
The British coins simply have a great design and considering that they were around well before the Euro, it makes you wonder why we didn't pick up on that....
It makes no sense for a home user to not be able to control their power settings or change their system time unless they have escalated privileges.
I think that point is debatable.. as a user, I don't wanna call a sysadmin everytime I notice that the clock is off, but then, as a sysadmin, I wouldn't want the users to set all computers to Himalayan time.
And I'm not sure if this is still true, but under NT and I'm pretty sure under 2K too, you couldn't even see the monthly calendar (doublecklicking on the clock) without Admin rights.
A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away...
Student A (me, on a Windows box) in computer lab: "Mate, you free the 17th?"
Student B (on a Redhat machine): "Is that a thursday?"
Student A: Hang on... *click click*
Windows: *DOINK* Thou mere mortal shalt not know the layout of the month!
Student A: Ah crap..
Student B: Hang on.... *clickety* nah, that's a friday, sorry, no can do.
Coding, in my humble opinion, is akin to any other blue collar vocation. Like coal mining or any other labor job. Yes, there are some mental challenges in programming, but for most part, it's straight forward (especially object based programming).
If programming is like coal mining, can you do a PhD in Coal Mining too?
You, sir, seem to misunderstand what programming is about. Programming is not jotting down some if statements, for loops and the like - any 9 year old can do that after having reading a bit through Learn C++ in 21 days and in the development cycle of a program, it is probably the least time-intensive part. But defining the problem you're tackling, designing your solution, your strategy, your algorithms, indeed the program itself (and yes, this includes the OO Paradigm - you don't seriously think the OO Paradigm is a funky thing where everything just works automagically with zip effort?) takes up at least half the total development time and it is not "some mental challenge with most part labour", it is purely a mental challenge. The most important tools of a programmer are a pencil and (lots of) paper. After the design is finished, you spend another significant amount of time deciding how to best implement your design. And yes, all of this is important and this is what they teach CS students at universities - or did you think it was all about different ways of writing a while loop? The better your design, the less time you will spend debugging your program (another substantial part of the development cycle of a program and another purely mental task once you've ironed out the compiler errors due to typos).
So don't diss it till you've done it - you clearly haven't.
Hell, if you did it right, you could even bring back Wesley as an Academy instructor... why not?
Because he'll be immediately beaten to death by the Academy's current Uberbully.
But this is a good thing. Contemplate the evolution of the Trek franchise from that point onwards:
- Bully kills Wesley. - (Bully wins the "Favourite Star Trek Character of All Times" award by over 95% of the votes 2 hours after "Death of a Nerd" is aired) - As a direct result, the Bully gets laid by the most gorgeous girls in the academy in "Consequences". It is the first Star Trek episode to feature a full-length full-nudity Sex Scene. Viewings skyrocket despite the 2am airing time (U.S. censored version only - full uncut version shown in Germany and Sweden on the usual 3pm and 7pm spots). - Because it is the politically correct thing to do, and because he is completely out of touch with the fanbase, Rick Berman kicks the Bully out of the Academy for killing Wesley. - (The number of people watching the series takes a nosedive. It is later corrected from 20 to 3 after Rick Berman admits to watching the series on multiple televisions in an effort to increase the viewing ratings.) - Star Trek: Academy is cancelled after half a series. - Paramount Pictures successfully obtains a restraining order stopping Rick Berman from coming within 100 yards of anything Trek-related. - Rumours of a new Trek series featuring the Bully leak. - Star Trek:Omega launches. - The Bully is revealed to have been secretly awarded a high-ranking position on a soon-to-be-launched ship in regard of his outstanding achievements for the good of humanity. - Janeway assumes command of the Voyager B, which features the Federations first Meta-Warp engine. The Bully turns out to be first officer on the ship. - Janeway manages to get lost in the Omega quadrant of a distant galaxy. - The Bully 'accidentally' locks Janeway in the airlock in "Decompression". He goes on to assume the command of Voyager B and safely returns Voyager B home by the end of the episode. - Having run out of enemies in our galaxy, Starfleet Command gives the Bully command of the biggest fleet in history with the Voyager B as a flagship and sends him back to conquer the Omega quadrant.
So you see.... having Wesley as an instructor has plenty of positive consequences for the Trek franchise: - Wesley dies - Janeway dies - Full Sex on Star Trek!! - Crap series idea gets killed off. - A new series with a cool "The Man Who Killed Wesley" Captain leading a full fleet into lots of great combat action starts. (which, though it isn't groundbreaking will provide for plenty of entertainment) - Discussions of who the best captain on Star Trek is will die forever, regardless of any future actions of the Bully. - The crapiness of the original Voyager series is finally avenged by the Voyager B.
So, yes, bring on Star Trek: Academy and bring on Wesley as a teacher. Please.
It's not? Were my credits in music appreciation not academic? If I downloaded a couple of ditties by Beethoven, was I cutting into the bandwidth of students browsing the Web, no doubt purely for academic purposes?
True. This is why my University at least permits the use of P2P programs for academic purposes, provided you obtain permission beforehand. In my opinion, such a clause is essential in a University's Terms of Computer Use as it is a simple fact that there are plenty of legal uses of P2P software out there - even if 99.95% of the actual use is illegal.
The University also doesn't ban P2P software explicitly, they ban anything that could potentially use the bandwidth in an "unlimited and uncontrolled way" or anything that could be used to download/propagate copyrighted material, unless of course prior permission is sought. This obviously includes P2P, but also stuff like Skype et al... although noone's dissed me for listening to Internet Radio yet;)
Amusingly, they also ban any software that installs or facilitates installation of adware/spyware or could potentially cause a virus infection. Ironic, given that the publlic computers almost exclusively run Win2k with IE as the standard browser and Outlook as the standard email client;)
It makes a world of difference to the people who are older and are just getting into computers.
That is an argument I'm getting tired off... It is a totally unsubstantiated claim supported solely by the mistaken belief that old people are all stupid/slow/whatever. And yes, I know you've all seen your grandmother struggle with a mouse, since that's about the only piece of evidence that is ever brought forward but I suggest that maybe you simply haven't explained stuff properly?
What's that you say? With a one-button mouse, there's no need for explanations? Sure thing mate, Control-Click, Apple-Click, Shift-Apple-Z-F4-DEL-Click and their little cousins all need no explanations whatsoever and are much easier to remember than which button is on the right.
And, without being sarcastic, the number of old people that are just learning to use a computer is declining rapidly. Computers have been around a while, you know... So regardless of its validity, this argument belongs into the box of used-up-arguments that are about 20 years out of date, together with the "But Apples already had graphical interfaces when people where still TYPING (shock!!) in DOS (black and white nasty thing, don't go near it)" argument. Yes. That was 20 years ago. Here's a voucher for a free reality check.
But anyway... by the same argument a scrollwheel should not be standard, because it can confuse people (not only does it click, it also TURNS!! In 2 different directions!!!) and anyway it wouldn't fit into the design philosophy.
Ah well... I'll stick to hardware which is designed with usability in mind rather than looks, but cheers anyway.
There's no doubt in my mind it's a possibility that Apple is trying to walk that line.
I know I'm just being picky, but that statement actually has 0 informative value. Since most things are possible (even if p 1.0e-500), there will obviously not be a doubt that it's a possibility.
Anyway, I don't think it's playing favourites... What would be the point? Saturate the user so they won't listen to that artist ever again in their entire life? Way to go.
The one button mouse, or rather glidepoint, drives her nuts. Not the glidepoint itself (she loves that), but the single button that forces her to memorize somekey+mouseclick to do basic things the rest of us do with the right mouse button and, in the case of us Linux/*BSD folks, the middle mouse button.
Actually, you can set the button itself to be the right mousebutton, with the touchpad click being the left button. So, strictly speaking, the Powerbook does have at least the option of a left and a right mousebutton - at least under MacOS X, afaik it doesn't work under linux.
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Well, if you had actually looked at the thing, you would have noticed that the drive is integrated into a picture of neurons.
Not a very good picture of neurons mind you, in fact it's about as crap as it gets since it depicts weirdly shaped thingies which are interconnected directly via some short connecting thingies. Whoever did this clearly has no clue about neurons.
For the record, real neurons are connected by synapses (missing on the picture) formed between the axon (missing on the picture) of one neuron and the dendritic tree (missing on the picture, which is a real shame because they can be made to look very cool) of another.
Also, neurons do NOT touch each other to form one badly drawn smooth 3D surface, unlike what you see in that picture. The synapse is actually a small cleft between axon and dendrite into which the presynaptic neuron can release neurotransmitters, which are then picked up by the postsynaptic one.
All in all, a bad piece of work.
Functionally, it's pointless. The fans are especially pointless and if the creator seriously thinks they actually make a difference in any way, I will most definitely not be buying anything that has as much as a wire in it from him.
Artistically, it's a bad drawing of something that is about as far away from neurons as you can get without actually starting to paint houses in the countryside.
So cheers, but I'll ignore this one.
I have to switch between Swiss-French QWERTZ and UK QWERTY every now and then (i.e. I use mostly the Swiss-French layout but sometimes some insensitive British clod forces a QWERTY keyboard on me). :)
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However, I don't find it particularly difficult to switch between them. Obviously you could argue that this is not exactly astonishing since most of the letters are in the same place, but still, most of the symbols aren't. On very rare occasions, insensitive French clods force an AZERTY keyboard on me, but even then I find that it doesn't make typing much harder - after an initial 10 minutes of swearing
I normally switch any Pc I can to Swiss-French however, regardless of what the keyboard actually looks like physically. It's very amusing, especially at work (QWERTY keyboard with Swiss-French layout) where a mate every now and then completely messes up his machine and always tries to ssh back in using mine. A typical exchange normally goes something like this:
He: Can I borrow a console for a sec, need to ssh into my box.
Me: Sure.
(he sits down)
*clickety*
*clickety*
*clickety*
He: Ok, where the f*ck is the hyphen?
My main reason for not using Dvorak? I need é, è, à, ö, ä and ü readily available.
Sorry, no mod points at the moment ;)
Instead I'll tell you how to redeem yourself... just claim that the dot is right there, conveniently placed on the letter i :)
I actually find this quite interesting in so many different ways.
For one, once upon a time, all things Microsoft were CLI - it was called MS-DOS... crappy as all linux-enthuisats may think it might have been, I grew up with it and I loved it. Now it seems we're going back to an OS that can be controlled by typing commands into a shell - looks like point'n'click doesn't really cut it after all.
Second, and this is what makes all linux geeks smile smugly, all the *nixes always had great CLIs and now the arguably most common OS is following that trend - looks like point'n'click doesn't really cut it after all.
Thirdly, remember that one-mouse-button company that once said that eventually, people won't need a keyboard at all to control their OS? Well, turns out that people like their keyboards and even said company has decent shells now - looks like point'n'click doesn't really cut it after all.
I remember being gutted when Win95 came out. I hated Win 3.1, In short, I hated everything point-and-click and all of a sudden, an entire OS was working on that principle?? Now I feel vindicated.
Funny how history runs in circles.
And anyone feeling the urge to point out, that the majority of users will never know nor use monad - save it. I'm well aware of that. I also know that for most everyday users, point'n'click is fine for all practical purposes. But all that matters is that Microsoft thinks a CLI important enough to merit full attention.
To answer the parent - yeah it might not be a true MS innovation. But they too have been there before, they merely strayed from the Path Of Typing for a while - you can't hold that against them - and you can't pretend that they're only just discovering CLIs - they've been there before too, regardless of how crap you think they might have been. So they're merely improving an existing feature, not pretending to have invented a new one while it's actually been around forever.
My monitor at work is a 22inch running at 2048*1536@85Hz - that's more than half a million pixels (i.e. another 800x600 monitor and some leftovers) more at half the price.
So mine is longer, thicker and bigger - but the LCDs still get all the girls. I just don't get it,
you don't because you can use your pinkie to do it. :)
but others can't and they need this.
as you would know if you had rtfa
This is where it started. A couple of Sullibans attended (they really are party animals once you get to know them), but unfortunatley one present-time Enterprise fan thought they were just other geeks in a costume and poured his beer over their heads.
That kinda sparked it, really. We told Bermann that showing history programmes before the events actually happened was really not a good idea, especially given how his documentaries polarise against de Sulliban but that's Rick for you. When he was a kid, he showed the moon landing to Jules Verne, who was rather impressed.
But no worries about the Temporal Cold War. Admiral Daniels will be dispatching Archer to stop the party from happening, thus preventing the onset of the war. Some of you present-timers might actually look forward to this, as it will result in the purging of all Temporal Cold War references from the documentaries Bermann has slipped into your time.
Shame about the party though. It really was a good laugh. Well... would have been.
Besides, if I wanted to run OSX (I don't), I'd be running it on the hardware it was designed to work on like a charm.
In defence of the film, and despite of what Will Smith might have said, the film actually states in the credits to merely have been 'inspired by the book'. So it's not a movie version of the book, and it's not even really based on it. Why they decided to use the book's title will remain a mystery. It is certainly a fine example of 'How to alienate 80% of your potential customers in less then 2 seconds'.
I still went to see it though and I did really like it. Simply because I told myself at the beginning of the film 'Ok, this is NOT I, Robot, it is merely a completely different film which happens to have the same name.'
Unfortunately I don't think that'll work for THHGTTG....
Difficult to come up with something new, when so much has been done before.
Now, apart from the drugs bit, doesn't this sound like something MS might actually do? Once they get over the problem of people writing their own security patches, that is
These are large eggs ;)
I much prefer the Pounds of the Euros though (and no, I'm not British).
British coins come in 4 different shapes: coppers (1 and 2 p), silvers (5 and 10p), edged (20 and 50p) and chunky (£1 and £2). Each shape is has a small and a large version (for the lower and the higher value respectively) and the difference in size is substantial. Thus it's unbelievable easy to tell with a single glance in your wallet roughly what change you have.
In the Euro's case on the other hand, sure the 2 Euro coin does stick out, as does the 1 Euro one... but apart from that all you see is a golden mess interspersed with random coppers. Especially the coppers are extremely annoying and hard to tell apart (so yes, I'm not Finnish either).
The British coins simply have a great design and considering that they were around well before the Euro, it makes you wonder why we didn't pick up on that....
And I'm not sure if this is still true, but under NT and I'm pretty sure under 2K too, you couldn't even see the monthly calendar (doublecklicking on the clock) without Admin rights.
A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away...
Student A (me, on a Windows box) in computer lab: "Mate, you free the 17th?"
Student B (on a Redhat machine): "Is that a thursday?"
Student A: Hang on... *click click*
Windows: *DOINK* Thou mere mortal shalt not know the layout of the month!
Student A: Ah crap..
Student B: Hang on.... *clickety* nah, that's a friday, sorry, no can do.
If programming is like coal mining, can you do a PhD in Coal Mining too?
You, sir, seem to misunderstand what programming is about. Programming is not jotting down some if statements, for loops and the like - any 9 year old can do that after having reading a bit through Learn C++ in 21 days and in the development cycle of a program, it is probably the least time-intensive part.
But defining the problem you're tackling, designing your solution, your strategy, your algorithms, indeed the program itself (and yes, this includes the OO Paradigm - you don't seriously think the OO Paradigm is a funky thing where everything just works automagically with zip effort?) takes up at least half the total development time and it is not "some mental challenge with most part labour", it is purely a mental challenge. The most important tools of a programmer are a pencil and (lots of) paper. After the design is finished, you spend another significant amount of time deciding how to best implement your design. And yes, all of this is important and this is what they teach CS students at universities - or did you think it was all about different ways of writing a while loop? The better your design, the less time you will spend debugging your program (another substantial part of the development cycle of a program and another purely mental task once you've ironed out the compiler errors due to typos).
So don't diss it till you've done it - you clearly haven't.
Because he'll be immediately beaten to death by the Academy's current Uberbully.
But this is a good thing. Contemplate the evolution of the Trek franchise from that point onwards:
- Bully kills Wesley.
- (Bully wins the "Favourite Star Trek Character of All Times" award by over 95% of the votes 2 hours after "Death of a Nerd" is aired)
- As a direct result, the Bully gets laid by the most gorgeous girls in the academy in "Consequences". It is the first Star Trek episode to feature a full-length full-nudity Sex Scene. Viewings skyrocket despite the 2am airing time (U.S. censored version only - full uncut version shown in Germany and Sweden on the usual 3pm and 7pm spots).
- Because it is the politically correct thing to do, and because he is completely out of touch with the fanbase, Rick Berman kicks the Bully out of the Academy for killing Wesley.
- (The number of people watching the series takes a nosedive. It is later corrected from 20 to 3 after Rick Berman admits to watching the series on multiple televisions in an effort to increase the viewing ratings.)
- Star Trek: Academy is cancelled after half a series.
- Paramount Pictures successfully obtains a restraining order stopping Rick Berman from coming within 100 yards of anything Trek-related.
- Rumours of a new Trek series featuring the Bully leak.
- Star Trek:Omega launches.
- The Bully is revealed to have been secretly awarded a high-ranking position on a soon-to-be-launched ship in regard of his outstanding achievements for the good of humanity.
- Janeway assumes command of the Voyager B, which features the Federations first Meta-Warp engine. The Bully turns out to be first officer on the ship.
- Janeway manages to get lost in the Omega quadrant of a distant galaxy.
- The Bully 'accidentally' locks Janeway in the airlock in "Decompression". He goes on to assume the command of Voyager B and safely returns Voyager B home by the end of the episode.
- Having run out of enemies in our galaxy, Starfleet Command gives the Bully command of the biggest fleet in history with the Voyager B as a flagship and sends him back to conquer the Omega quadrant.
So you see.... having Wesley as an instructor has plenty of positive consequences for the Trek franchise:
- Wesley dies
- Janeway dies
- Full Sex on Star Trek!!
- Crap series idea gets killed off.
- A new series with a cool "The Man Who Killed Wesley" Captain leading a full fleet into lots of great combat action starts. (which, though it isn't groundbreaking will provide for plenty of entertainment)
- Discussions of who the best captain on Star Trek is will die forever, regardless of any future actions of the Bully.
- The crapiness of the original Voyager series is finally avenged by the Voyager B.
So, yes, bring on Star Trek: Academy and bring on Wesley as a teacher. Please.
The University also doesn't ban P2P software explicitly, they ban anything that could potentially use the bandwidth in an "unlimited and uncontrolled way" or anything that could be used to download/propagate copyrighted material, unless of course prior permission is sought. This obviously includes P2P, but also stuff like Skype et al... although noone's dissed me for listening to Internet Radio yet
Amusingly, they also ban any software that installs or facilitates installation of adware/spyware or could potentially cause a virus infection. Ironic, given that the publlic computers almost exclusively run Win2k with IE as the standard browser and Outlook as the standard email client
Exactly. No less. But definitely not more.
That is an argument I'm getting tired off... It is a totally unsubstantiated claim supported solely by the mistaken belief that old people are all stupid/slow/whatever. And yes, I know you've all seen your grandmother struggle with a mouse, since that's about the only piece of evidence that is ever brought forward but I suggest that maybe you simply haven't explained stuff properly?
What's that you say? With a one-button mouse, there's no need for explanations? Sure thing mate, Control-Click, Apple-Click, Shift-Apple-Z-F4-DEL-Click and their little cousins all need no explanations whatsoever and are much easier to remember than which button is on the right.
And, without being sarcastic, the number of old people that are just learning to use a computer is declining rapidly. Computers have been around a while, you know...
So regardless of its validity, this argument belongs into the box of used-up-arguments that are about 20 years out of date, together with the "But Apples already had graphical interfaces when people where still TYPING (shock!!) in DOS (black and white nasty thing, don't go near it)" argument.
Yes.
That was 20 years ago. Here's a voucher for a free reality check.
But anyway... by the same argument a scrollwheel should not be standard, because it can confuse people (not only does it click, it also TURNS!! In 2 different directions!!!) and anyway it wouldn't fit into the design philosophy.
Ah well... I'll stick to hardware which is designed with usability in mind rather than looks, but cheers anyway.
No worries then.... we'll all be playing Duke Nukem Forever long before that happens
And for the record, I do run debian on all my boxes.... sid, of course
Who knows... it might be Apple, it might not be, but whoever it is, it is Coming Soon!
Inspection of the whois record is left as an exercise for the reader.
Anyway, I don't think it's playing favourites... What would be the point? Saturate the user so they won't listen to that artist ever again in their entire life? Way to go.