In WoW terms, for whoever is more familiar with that, think how memorable the cave with the ship was in the Deadmines when you saw it the first time as a newbie. Now think if it were reused in a thousand other dungeons, and you're seeing the same bloody room again from level 1 to level 80. Because it's reused again and again and again.
So, kinda like the non-instance caves (of which there are about 30 copies each of three designs) or the forts? One of the first things I noticed when I got WotLK was "Hey, new castle design!"
losing the mountain man was akin to filling in the Grand Canyon with a backhoe
Not to specifically agree or disagree, but your analogy completely misses Opportunist's point: "filling in the Grand Canyon with a backhoe" would be a deliberate act. This is more like a flood filling the Grand Canyon with mud. (Causing such a flood without simultaneously killing everyone capable of caring is left as an exercise for the reader....)
I got my master's (CS, after a Comp. E. BS) strictly out of economic necessity--it was 2003, and there were no jobs to be had. The length of time it takes to get a master's correlates nicely with the average length of a recession.
Un-Spoileriffic Complaints: Style, Canon, Prequels
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On the styling: someone's been watching way too much BSG; Starfleet ships are not supposed to look steam powered. That engine room was ridiculous.
On canon: Robert April, call your agent.
On prequels: WTF is wrong with going forward with the 24th century? I took about five minutes to come up with the following idea for a new series, which I hereby place into the public domain: in the Voyager finale, Janeway brought working transwarp back from the Delta Quadrant, making it feasible to visit other galaxies for the first time. Put the epic multi-year arcs on hold for a while and go back to the roots, one ship, episodically exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations, one per week. (Unfortunately it can't really be called "Star Trek: Andromeda", as that would confuse the fuck out of everyone, but I'm sure they can come up with a suitable name.)
Or do something about Section 31, or something about Romulan politics, or something about the Mirror Universe. There are forty years of continuity here to play with, I fail to see why they're so eager to throw them away and start over.
I suppose everyone's trying to avoid posting spoilers, but doesn't anyone else think the single biggest problem with the movie is that they BLEW UP VULCAN!?!?! (If/. supported BLINK, I'd add that too.) I mean really, casual genocide of one of the most important races in Trek? WTF?
pedant fail: itym "novel", not "book". last time i checked the r.a.s.* FAQs (which was admittedly in 1996), several "non-fiction" books (okuda's tech manual, etc.) are considered canon.
even 909 and 919 were impossible under the original system, which could only handle a limited number of pulse-dialing "clicks". (wikipedia says 21, but i'm wondering if that's a typo for 11--all the examples they give (south dakota 605, PEI 902, etc.) add to 11, not 21, which would have been completely unreachable anyway as 9+1+9=19.)
alaska's 907 and hawaii's 808 presumably figure into this somehow, but they don't appear on the list of original area codes i found, possibly because they weren't states yet.
This year will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation is free of paintball guns! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!
yes, i know the "original" is fake too, but i couldn't resist.
well, something of that era. ps/2's, tandy 1000s, i dunno. it was just a rumor, my hard drive back in those days was an HD20. (bonus points to anyone who knows what that was hooked up to without googling it...)
god that's annoying. i wrote a launchservices script to kill it, and i'm seriously annoyed apple won't let me do it any other way. (unless there's a hidden defaults setting i haven't heard about....)
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could be worse, he could be david gerrold
In WoW terms, for whoever is more familiar with that, think how memorable the cave with the ship was in the Deadmines when you saw it the first time as a newbie. Now think if it were reused in a thousand other dungeons, and you're seeing the same bloody room again from level 1 to level 80. Because it's reused again and again and again.
So, kinda like the non-instance caves (of which there are about 30 copies each of three designs) or the forts? One of the first things I noticed when I got WotLK was "Hey, new castle design!"
isn't le guin like 120 or something? is it any wonder she doesn't get it? maybe it's time to revive "don't trust anyone over 30"....
losing the mountain man was akin to filling in the Grand Canyon with a backhoe
Not to specifically agree or disagree, but your analogy completely misses Opportunist's point: "filling in the Grand Canyon with a backhoe" would be a deliberate act. This is more like a flood filling the Grand Canyon with mud. (Causing such a flood without simultaneously killing everyone capable of caring is left as an exercise for the reader....)
will they take Zimbabwe dollars?
I got my master's (CS, after a Comp. E. BS) strictly out of economic necessity--it was 2003, and there were no jobs to be had. The length of time it takes to get a master's correlates nicely with the average length of a recession.
d'oh. of course....
On the styling: someone's been watching way too much BSG; Starfleet ships are not supposed to look steam powered. That engine room was ridiculous.
On canon: Robert April, call your agent.
On prequels: WTF is wrong with going forward with the 24th century? I took about five minutes to come up with the following idea for a new series, which I hereby place into the public domain: in the Voyager finale, Janeway brought working transwarp back from the Delta Quadrant, making it feasible to visit other galaxies for the first time. Put the epic multi-year arcs on hold for a while and go back to the roots, one ship, episodically exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations, one per week. (Unfortunately it can't really be called "Star Trek: Andromeda", as that would confuse the fuck out of everyone, but I'm sure they can come up with a suitable name.)
Or do something about Section 31, or something about Romulan politics, or something about the Mirror Universe. There are forty years of continuity here to play with, I fail to see why they're so eager to throw them away and start over.
I suppose everyone's trying to avoid posting spoilers, but doesn't anyone else think the single biggest problem with the movie is that they BLEW UP VULCAN!?!?! (If /. supported BLINK, I'd add that too.) I mean really, casual genocide of one of the most important races in Trek? WTF?
pedant fail: itym "novel", not "book". last time i checked the r.a.s.* FAQs (which was admittedly in 1996), several "non-fiction" books (okuda's tech manual, etc.) are considered canon.
even 909 and 919 were impossible under the original system, which could only handle a limited number of pulse-dialing "clicks". (wikipedia says 21, but i'm wondering if that's a typo for 11--all the examples they give (south dakota 605, PEI 902, etc.) add to 11, not 21, which would have been completely unreachable anyway as 9+1+9=19.)
alaska's 907 and hawaii's 808 presumably figure into this somehow, but they don't appear on the list of original area codes i found, possibly because they weren't states yet.
Pity it's too late for a 3G G3....
at which point he'd been hanging around various parts of western russia and eastern europe for nearly forty years....
yes, i know the "original" is fake too, but i couldn't resist.
if it had been a couple hours off, it could've taken out lenin.
there's also :wq!, for read-only files
Collidus interruptus?
well, something of that era. ps/2's, tandy 1000s, i dunno. it was just a rumor, my hard drive back in those days was an HD20. (bonus points to anyone who knows what that was hooked up to without googling it...)
there were supposed to be things of that vintage where you could slam the read head into the hard drive platter hard enough to do physical damage
itym "lulz"
ditto OS X, now
god that's annoying. i wrote a launchservices script to kill it, and i'm seriously annoyed apple won't let me do it any other way. (unless there's a hidden defaults setting i haven't heard about....)
/me rushes to patent the thumper
well, yeah, kinda. vinge did invent the singularity, after all....