Get a PCI card or two for extra USB ports.
As for mice, I've been using Wacom pen and tablet combinations since I got one free with a draw program and haven't looked back. Aside from the carpal tunnel syndrome and inability to draw very well with a mouse, it's a heck of a lot easier to shoot things with a pen.
If they shut up in Germany and can still drag this thing out in other places, then the rest of your argument crumbles. They seem to be using a shotgun approach and are trying to cause as much trouble as they can no matter how many hits they take in various countries. Which leads me to believe that at least one of your suppositions is correct. That Uncle Bill is somehow involved in this little scheme. As for selling short, I would remind you all that MyCrowsOff (ha!) has vast sums of cash on hand and unless the authorities show a bit more gumption and intelligence than they have in the past, said corporation can prop up SCO for as long as it takes to put a real hurt on the free software community.
The problem's not really T'Pol. As pointed out at Bureau 42, the producers just couldn't pull off the whole prequel concept. This whole thing might have worked if it had taken place AFTER some major bork in the timeline that flowed from the time of the Voyager series. Basically, a return to simpler times without the necessity to try to explain the presence of plot elements never mentioned in "later" episodes. Then T'Pol would be free to evolve BEYOND the earlier buttoned down persona of the average Vulcan and round out her personality along any number of new lines, including sexuality. It's a real shame. It might have been interesting. And the lady really deserved better.
I really wasn't talking about missions per se, though the points raised are certainly important. What I was really trying to get at was that space exploration should resemble more what Christopher Columbus did. Though he actually thought he was on a specific mission to find India, what he was really doing was sailing around seeing what he would run into. This is what Lewis and Clark did. They weren't really looking for anything specific as much as they were simply exploring the great western spaces. Space exploration needs something along these lines. In short, if you decide before hand what you are going to find, you tend to miss everything else. For instance, I can imagine a situation where one of these Mars rover type vehicles falls into the fossilized tunnel from the ancient Martian subway system, complete with subway cars and gum machines, and reports back that its sensors have found no sign of organic life.
As a former photoengraver and member of the IPEU, now the GCIU, I can assure you that at one time it was illegal to make ANY kind of reproduction of American currency. The rules have now been relaxed a bit, but I personally would never do it. It's just too difficult to prove you weren't trying to counterfeit. My father worked with a fellow who claimed he was just "seeing if he could do it" after someone found a plate he left sitting in the water tank in the etching room overnight. He ended up with a long vacation to Leavenworth, Kansas. This is not a joke, and the Feds have no sense of humor about it at all.
This all seems to imply that our so-called presence in space is really only limited to a very small volume of space and that any manned or unmanned missions are only capable of reaching certain specific places. There is currently no ability whatsoever to actually travel freely in space. That should be our longterm goal. To be able to go anywhere we want without worry about carrying our lunch along. In other words, we need to be able to generate our own fuel as we go along. There are options in this area but they don't seem to be at the forefront of research. One almost has to wonder if the governments of the Earth aren't afraid of such free-flying craft. And perhaps they should be.
I am truly saddened by the demise of Star Trek, though I haven't watched it this season. It just got so bad I couldn't take it anymore. Perhaps this will prompt a good housecleaning at UPN and at least open the opportunity for the show's return. It's only a glimmer of a hope, but I'm afraid it's all we long-term fans have to hope for. Again, I am truly saddened.
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I have to agree. There's nothing funny about the Martian Defence Grid. After all, as a taxpayer, it's COSTING ME A FORTUNE!
Get a PCI card or two for extra USB ports. As for mice, I've been using Wacom pen and tablet combinations since I got one free with a draw program and haven't looked back. Aside from the carpal tunnel syndrome and inability to draw very well with a mouse, it's a heck of a lot easier to shoot things with a pen.
If they shut up in Germany and can still drag this thing out in other places, then the rest of your argument crumbles. They seem to be using a shotgun approach and are trying to cause as much trouble as they can no matter how many hits they take in various countries. Which leads me to believe that at least one of your suppositions is correct. That Uncle Bill is somehow involved in this little scheme. As for selling short, I would remind you all that MyCrowsOff (ha!) has vast sums of cash on hand and unless the authorities show a bit more gumption and intelligence than they have in the past, said corporation can prop up SCO for as long as it takes to put a real hurt on the free software community.
The problem's not really T'Pol. As pointed out at Bureau 42, the producers just couldn't pull off the whole prequel concept. This whole thing might have worked if it had taken place AFTER some major bork in the timeline that flowed from the time of the Voyager series. Basically, a return to simpler times without the necessity to try to explain the presence of plot elements never mentioned in "later" episodes. Then T'Pol would be free to evolve BEYOND the earlier buttoned down persona of the average Vulcan and round out her personality along any number of new lines, including sexuality. It's a real shame. It might have been interesting. And the lady really deserved better.
I really wasn't talking about missions per se, though the points raised are certainly important. What I was really trying to get at was that space exploration should resemble more what Christopher Columbus did. Though he actually thought he was on a specific mission to find India, what he was really doing was sailing around seeing what he would run into. This is what Lewis and Clark did. They weren't really looking for anything specific as much as they were simply exploring the great western spaces. Space exploration needs something along these lines. In short, if you decide before hand what you are going to find, you tend to miss everything else. For instance, I can imagine a situation where one of these Mars rover type vehicles falls into the fossilized tunnel from the ancient Martian subway system, complete with subway cars and gum machines, and reports back that its sensors have found no sign of organic life.
As a former photoengraver and member of the IPEU, now the GCIU, I can assure you that at one time it was illegal to make ANY kind of reproduction of American currency. The rules have now been relaxed a bit, but I personally would never do it. It's just too difficult to prove you weren't trying to counterfeit. My father worked with a fellow who claimed he was just "seeing if he could do it" after someone found a plate he left sitting in the water tank in the etching room overnight. He ended up with a long vacation to Leavenworth, Kansas. This is not a joke, and the Feds have no sense of humor about it at all.
This all seems to imply that our so-called presence in space is really only limited to a very small volume of space and that any manned or unmanned missions are only capable of reaching certain specific places. There is currently no ability whatsoever to actually travel freely in space. That should be our longterm goal. To be able to go anywhere we want without worry about carrying our lunch along. In other words, we need to be able to generate our own fuel as we go along. There are options in this area but they don't seem to be at the forefront of research. One almost has to wonder if the governments of the Earth aren't afraid of such free-flying craft. And perhaps they should be.
I am truly saddened by the demise of Star Trek, though I haven't watched it this season. It just got so bad I couldn't take it anymore. Perhaps this will prompt a good housecleaning at UPN and at least open the opportunity for the show's return. It's only a glimmer of a hope, but I'm afraid it's all we long-term fans have to hope for. Again, I am truly saddened.