He calls a friend on the mobile communicator and says, "I have just had the worst nightmare in which I lived a version of the ancient history taught at Star Fleet Academy. The entire universe was screwed up. Hand-held phasers are called 'phase pistols', and on-board phasers are called 'phase cannons'. Further, some incompetent moron was serving as Captain. Also, one of the engineers spoke Ebonics, which was eradicated from earth centuries ago. Also, there was this Vulcan with big breasts, and she tried to act sexy. Ugh. It just did not work. Bit breasts with a boyish haircut but without emotions just does not make "sexy". She looked horribly repulsive. It scared the living daylights out of me."
The voice out of the communicator says, "Don't worry. It was just a nightmare. Everyone knows that Vulcans do not have big breasts. [laughter] Go back to bed, James."
Your criticisms essentially boil down to "WAAAAH, IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT I'M USED TO!"
What was wrong with "phase pistols/cannons?" What would make you assume that "phaser" was not a contraction? "Phase" is not a transitive verb. You can't phase something.
Ebonics? What? Trip is from Florida and he has a slight Southern accent. If someone had an urban African-American accent, why would that be surprising? This show takes place not too far in the future after the events depicted in First Contact, and that wasn't too different from modern America.
T'Pol is a complicated character who happens to be hot. She is anything BUT a typical emotionless Vulcan.
Stop whining and pay attention to the content. Not everything in the Star Trek universe is going to be just like TNG or TOS, and you shouldn't want it to be or expect it to be.
Personally, I'd like to see another show focus on the civilian part of the Trek universe. Maybe something similar to Firefly.
"IT is a very non-social job. You don't get to routinely gab with your "friends" (ie, coworkers) about this or that, because you invariably need to be concentrating on a monitor if, indeed, you're, well - working."
This isn't really true, from my own experience in IT jobs. I worked as a support technician for AT&T and actually had a very developed social life because I was wandering around two buildings installing hardware and software and talking to everyone I was working around.
Socialization is a factor of who you are as much as what your job is. Even if you're a programmer it's possible to have a well-developed social life at work.
"Most males are pigs, and by the time a girl is 14 (if she's not physically hideous) she's already learned what men are interested in, by and large: getting their poles slicked, one way or the other."
This is likely to be less true in communities of males who were more than likely tortured quite a bit growing up and therefore are significantly more sensitive than their peers on average.
Also, go screw yourself for making an unjustified generalization about half the human race.
the terrible acting and awful dialogue in the "love scenes" (ugh) between Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen in the second movie. They were so, so, SO BAD.
AoC could have been only slightly worse than RotJ if it wasn't for those, but Lucas went and fucked it up, sadly.
You'd think the Internet would be a place with slightly above-average intelligence people out there who weren't afraid to speak their minds, but what typically happens with any online discussion medium (forums, IRC, whatever) when I bring up politics or religion is that a couple people either storm off in a fury -simply because something controversial is being discussed- or try again and again to change the subject because any kind of argument about anything makes them uncomfortable. I can't stand that shit.
In fairness, however, he's now going to be the chairman of the DNC. He might just convince the country that the Democrats stand for something after all.
you posit this course of action because you know it can't succeed.
"Selling content," when it comes to music and to some lesser extent video, is just not a viable business anymore. You can't make it significantly profitable because in order to be able to sell content you have to be able to induce scarcity - artificial scarcity, in the case of digital music.
DRM will be broken, no matter what kind of scheme is used. This leaves you with no way to control duplication other than suing your customers, which cannot continue.
The current business model of "ginormous corporation buys IP of artist for megabucks, artist gets more or less nothing after that" has to go. As for how, well... that I'm entirely unsure of.
Writing letters accomplishes nothing, because they still get their re-election campaign money from (for example) Time-Warner or whomever. If they spend enough money to get re-elected, they get re-elected. Period.
There is no, repeat, NO hope of galvanizing a significant enough fraction of a Congressman's demographic to make a difference in an election when it comes to issues like intellectual property.
The only thing you can do is move out of the country or just continue to civilly disobey.
Kerry is more boring than corrupt, I'd say. He's gotten behind a lot of good legislation and has fought the good fight, he's just not very inspiring.
I wish Edwards - or Dean - and McCain had made it through the primaries. THAT would have been the kind of tough choice I wanted to make - which one was better, as opposed to which one was not more worser. Er. Right.
Are you saying Canon is dumping cartridges onto the market?
This isn't the case, AFAIK. The reason the Canon cartridges are cheaper is because they are not entire cartridge assemblies like the HP and Lexmark ones are. Canon printers have you replace only the ink tank, rather than the ink tank and entire print head.
I think we're going to see the Cylons factionalizing. It's already starting - two of the Sharons don't want to go back to or listen to the others. One of the Sixes is completely in love with Baltar. Another broke a baby's neck rather than let it live through a nuclear holocaust.
I don't think they're as single-minded as they initially appeared to be.
It seems to me your procedure for picking a phone should be obvious - find whichever phone is rated highest in the departments that matter to you:
(guessing here) a) Call quality b) Battery life c) Durability
Then ignore the other features of it, which will be somewhat limited anyway.
The reason the cell makers include these other extraneous things is because they're becoming incredibly inexpensive to include. It's not costing you much, so stop complaining!
Just looking at your post history, you have a "-1, Interesting" which caught my eye. Turns out you were spamming your (closed-source, paid) software on Slashdot. The editors probably don't like that very much.
I'm certainly not condoning their action, but it would help explain the bitchslap.
Slashdot Mirror
He calls a friend on the mobile communicator and says, "I have just had the worst nightmare in which I lived a version of the ancient history taught at Star Fleet Academy. The entire universe was screwed up. Hand-held phasers are called 'phase pistols', and on-board phasers are called 'phase cannons'. Further, some incompetent moron was serving as Captain. Also, one of the engineers spoke Ebonics, which was eradicated from earth centuries ago. Also, there was this Vulcan with big breasts, and she tried to act sexy. Ugh. It just did not work. Bit breasts with a boyish haircut but without emotions just does not make "sexy". She looked horribly repulsive. It scared the living daylights out of me."
The voice out of the communicator says, "Don't worry. It was just a nightmare. Everyone knows that Vulcans do not have big breasts. [laughter] Go back to bed, James."
Your criticisms essentially boil down to "WAAAAH, IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT I'M USED TO!"
What was wrong with "phase pistols/cannons?" What would make you assume that "phaser" was not a contraction? "Phase" is not a transitive verb. You can't phase something.
Ebonics? What? Trip is from Florida and he has a slight Southern accent. If someone had an urban African-American accent, why would that be surprising? This show takes place not too far in the future after the events depicted in First Contact, and that wasn't too different from modern America.
T'Pol is a complicated character who happens to be hot. She is anything BUT a typical emotionless Vulcan.
Stop whining and pay attention to the content. Not everything in the Star Trek universe is going to be just like TNG or TOS, and you shouldn't want it to be or expect it to be.
Personally, I'd like to see another show focus on the civilian part of the Trek universe. Maybe something similar to Firefly.
"IT is a very non-social job. You don't get to routinely gab with your "friends" (ie, coworkers) about this or that, because you invariably need to be concentrating on a monitor if, indeed, you're, well - working."
This isn't really true, from my own experience in IT jobs. I worked as a support technician for AT&T and actually had a very developed social life because I was wandering around two buildings installing hardware and software and talking to everyone I was working around.
Socialization is a factor of who you are as much as what your job is. Even if you're a programmer it's possible to have a well-developed social life at work.
"Most males are pigs, and by the time a girl is 14 (if she's not physically hideous) she's already learned what men are interested in, by and large: getting their poles slicked, one way or the other."
This is likely to be less true in communities of males who were more than likely tortured quite a bit growing up and therefore are significantly more sensitive than their peers on average.
Also, go screw yourself for making an unjustified generalization about half the human race.
the terrible acting and awful dialogue in the "love scenes" (ugh) between Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen in the second movie. They were so, so, SO BAD.
AoC could have been only slightly worse than RotJ if it wasn't for those, but Lucas went and fucked it up, sadly.
Which six do you think it is?
Please point me to some grassroots efforts to change some political matter that actually made a difference.
You'd think the Internet would be a place with slightly above-average intelligence people out there who weren't afraid to speak their minds, but what typically happens with any online discussion medium (forums, IRC, whatever) when I bring up politics or religion is that a couple people either storm off in a fury -simply because something controversial is being discussed- or try again and again to change the subject because any kind of argument about anything makes them uncomfortable. I can't stand that shit.
In fairness, however, he's now going to be the chairman of the DNC. He might just convince the country that the Democrats stand for something after all.
We'll see.
with merely "enough."
you posit this course of action because you know it can't succeed.
"Selling content," when it comes to music and to some lesser extent video, is just not a viable business anymore. You can't make it significantly profitable because in order to be able to sell content you have to be able to induce scarcity - artificial scarcity, in the case of digital music.
DRM will be broken, no matter what kind of scheme is used. This leaves you with no way to control duplication other than suing your customers, which cannot continue.
The current business model of "ginormous corporation buys IP of artist for megabucks, artist gets more or less nothing after that" has to go. As for how, well... that I'm entirely unsure of.
Writing letters accomplishes nothing, because they still get their re-election campaign money from (for example) Time-Warner or whomever. If they spend enough money to get re-elected, they get re-elected. Period.
There is no, repeat, NO hope of galvanizing a significant enough fraction of a Congressman's demographic to make a difference in an election when it comes to issues like intellectual property.
The only thing you can do is move out of the country or just continue to civilly disobey.
Kerry is more boring than corrupt, I'd say. He's gotten behind a lot of good legislation and has fought the good fight, he's just not very inspiring.
I wish Edwards - or Dean - and McCain had made it through the primaries. THAT would have been the kind of tough choice I wanted to make - which one was better, as opposed to which one was not more worser. Er. Right.
there are any products out there that actually make use of "micro" 802.11 though, are there?
The idea of this system seems to me to be like a "fast Bluetooth." 802.11 doesn't really lend itself to that kind of usage.
I would not be surprised if this requires significantly less power than a wireless solution for its given amount of bandwidth.
Also, this technology would give new meaning to the term "handshake."
Are you saying Canon is dumping cartridges onto the market?
This isn't the case, AFAIK. The reason the Canon cartridges are cheaper is because they are not entire cartridge assemblies like the HP and Lexmark ones are. Canon printers have you replace only the ink tank, rather than the ink tank and entire print head.
'Matter of fact, it's all dark.
Diet HIV!
I think we're going to see the Cylons factionalizing. It's already starting - two of the Sharons don't want to go back to or listen to the others. One of the Sixes is completely in love with Baltar. Another broke a baby's neck rather than let it live through a nuclear holocaust.
I don't think they're as single-minded as they initially appeared to be.
Also, Katee Sackhoff is fucking hot.
This was a beautiful summation of why I love Star Trek.
Thank you. I'm saving this post.
I've been watching plenty of shows, but haven't turned on my television in months.
BT is a wonderful thing, my friend. No commercials, just content.
The key to enjoying television is to be able to watch it with a critical eye. But you already know that, don't you.
This just goes to show you that when television gets better, less people watch it.
Enterprise has been getting more and more interesting this season, and they choose now to can it.
Morons.
Why is this so important to you?
It seems to me your procedure for picking a phone should be obvious - find whichever phone is rated highest in the departments that matter to you:
(guessing here)
a) Call quality
b) Battery life
c) Durability
Then ignore the other features of it, which will be somewhat limited anyway.
The reason the cell makers include these other extraneous things is because they're becoming incredibly inexpensive to include. It's not costing you much, so stop complaining!
Just looking at your post history, you have a "-1, Interesting" which caught my eye. Turns out you were spamming your (closed-source, paid) software on Slashdot. The editors probably don't like that very much.
I'm certainly not condoning their action, but it would help explain the bitchslap.
I am fully in support of that.
I'll take one (or four). Where are you?
Sold.
:)
Email address is starkruzr@starkruzr dot com. We can talk price later