Could someone corner the market by selling a TeeVee that just happens to be hackable to remove the flag. And a memo on precisely how to do this easy hack just happens to leak out of the company and onto the Internet.
We think Star Trek and especially its latest incarnation, Enterprise is the kind of TV that should be aired more often.
Derivative and insipid? I couldn't get through the first half of season one, and I'm someone who thought season five of Babylon 5 was OK. The new Trek has far too many annoying characters. Captain Archer isn't fit to shine the shoes of Jack Bauer over on 24. Invader Zim would easily make a monkey of his filthy human ass.
The people responsible at Paramount think this is just a show and we want to tell them, it is not.
Yes it is, and not a very good one. If it's more than a show to you, you might want to look up the term "obsessive compulsive" or start watching Monk.
We are in the commercial space flight industry and would like to testify
Testify, brother, testify!:)
that at least one out of two of all the actual entrepreneurs involved in this industry has been inspired by Star Trek;
Well, speaking as someone in the military space industry, we kick your ass.:-) We just can't publish papers about our kung fu. Nothing do do with Trek. Just a little professional rivalry.;-)
And anyway, if you really look at those people, they probably had plenty of other inspirations, or someone else would have done the same thing. History doesn't work that way. There's no point to point connections. All things must be considered. Didn't you people see The Butterfly Effect? Sheesh!
and we are not only good at watching TV sci-fi
Arrrh! And a hard earned skill that be, matey. Oops. Sorry. Lapsed into pirate mode there. Personally I think the five fingered exploding heart technique might be more useful in a tight spot, but, well, that's me.
, we are also good at writing checks, big checks.
Really big check! HUGE checks! We're talking lottery winner public relations kinds of checks! Hey, I've tried that one for years, pal. I'm single with a six figure income, but I can't get a media outlet to pander to me to save my life.
The people airing this kind of TV have a responsibility; inspiration.
No, they have a responsibility to pay their employess and investors (with big checks!). You want better television, appeal to the audience. If the audience demands better television, the industry will do it.
How come you folks don't just come over to the Stargate shows? There you have contemporary humans doing valiant battle with technological forces far superior to Earth. It's very Campbellian and even Heinleinian to an extent. Galactic war has just started on SG-1. It's really quite smashing!:)
Dr. Svetlana Markov: If you're insinuating that everything Russian-made is of poor quality, the sub is Swiss.
Daniel Jackson: So it occasionally catches fire but keeps perfect time?
Don't forget, "Get off my lawn!" I've been practicing.:)
No, you are not stodgy. You are mature. I have my NexTel Motorola set to the basic ring tone, and it's always on vibrate if I'm wearing it. It's called having some concern for others.
Of course now I'm a self-righteous old bastard, but, well, what can ya do?
But electronic music delivery is based on the single song model, so what is old is new again. You savvy?
I wrote a RealBasic program that grabs a random selection of my MP3 collection and puts them onto a CD which I then play in my car. The latest version even searches for smaller songs near the end in order to fill up those last few megabytes.:)
I spent three days of productive work time listening to polyphonic ringtone versions of speed metal, trying to find exactly the ringtone that expressed my personality with enough irony and enough coolness that I could live with it going off ten times a day.
Might I suggest "Useful Idiot" by Tool.
In a quiet room, in a meeting, this phone's gonna go off-- what are they going to hear?
Well, in my neck of the woods, if they hear anything other than the gentle buzz of a phone set to vibrate, it'll be the distant sound of your phone shattering into a thousand pieces on the sidewalk four stories below.
I was hoping to see the end of the album format, with the exception of concept albums or soundtracks or long classical works and such. Artists would just release a new song when they had one worth peddling.
Or you could sell tickets for rides on the PM wheel, rent out the jacuzzi as a safe incall location for local escorts, and buy more land. Heck, you'd have enough left over for a new graphics card!
But you see I don't care if anyone believes.:-) It's casual discussion on/. It's not important enough to go out and find a link that I'm not sure I could find without way too much effort.
How about this: it's here in Califonia. If that doesn't convince you, nothing will.;-)
Actually, many places require you to have ID when you operate any kind of vehicle, including a bicycle. That's the way it is where I live, but they never really enforce it.
My friend's mom has an old iMac, and she never got the hang of computers. Both my friend and I have tried to get her up to speed, but it's no good. She's not stupid by any measure, but she is one of those people who simply cannot grasp the basic concepts of computers.
You all know the difference between an application and the files it creates. She doesn't get that. She doesn't understand the concept of the drives having a top level and sub directories. When she saves an email attachment, she has to go into the file search function to find out where it wound up becuase she can't grasp the save file browser. And she uses AOL
Apple needs to come out with "Mac OS Lite". There's quite a number of people like my friend's mom. The basic computer concepts we take for granted are inaccessible abstractions to them. For example, if they get a ".doc" attachment, this computer would tell them it's an Office Word file, and what they need to do to open it, and so on.
But they didn't. Each species were conditioned over centuries to see the Vorlons as the angelic creatures of their choice. They were mucking about with the "lesser" races for a very long time. Same thing with the Shadows pushing humans and others to develop telepathy so that they could be plugged into spacecraft. I dunno... for SF television those are pretty dark ideas.
And I said the "rut that Trek got stuck in" implying the later series. I would love to have seen the Tholians reprised in the newer series.
Powerbooks cost a mint, but, damn, they is nice 'puters! I bought mine for 8 weeks of work travel, but I use it at home far more than my desktop Mac. I'm using it right now!
And, unknown to most, Powerbooks are actually mint flavored. Yummy!
Or you could just make a backup when it arrived. They could encrypt the files, but leave them copyable. You'd still need the key to view the copy. Or they could ship two copies. Lots of solutions there.
Video tends to be self-anti-aliasing, though. We have a digital theater near me, and eveything looks fine. Nice and crisp, but not in the "jaggies" sense. And you shouldn't get artifacts with lossless compression.
It wasn't space angels, which would be dumb. It was advanced aliens trying to convince people they were space angels for the advanced alien's own selfish ends, which is cool.:)
The big missed oppurtunity was, when they were granted a 5th season, to do the Psi war on Earth. That would have been a good season.
I'm not a fanboy, but I was sufficiently entertained by the thing. You know what I liked the most about B5? It was so NOT the Trek universe of no money and everyone performing in string quartets in their free time. In B5 there was an economy, and trading, and the conflicts arising from such things. The telepaths were licensed and it was a professional position. One character watched old Daffy Duck cartoons in his spare time, and was building a motorcycle in his quarters. There were prejudices and factions and ill will from bulkhead to bulkhead. Space travel was a large and involved endeavor requiring complicated instrumentality.
And best of all, at least some of the aliens were not bipedal. Hell, I'd take space angels over the bumpy forehead of the week rut that trek got stuck in.
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Could someone corner the market by selling a TeeVee that just happens to be hackable to remove the flag. And a memo on precisely how to do this easy hack just happens to leak out of the company and onto the Internet.
If you have no idea what that is, please do not say so, because that will just make me feel really old.
Derivative and insipid? I couldn't get through the first half of season one, and I'm someone who thought season five of Babylon 5 was OK. The new Trek has far too many annoying characters. Captain Archer isn't fit to shine the shoes of Jack Bauer over on 24. Invader Zim would easily make a monkey of his filthy human ass.
The people responsible at Paramount think this is just a show and we want to tell them, it is not.
Yes it is, and not a very good one. If it's more than a show to you, you might want to look up the term "obsessive compulsive" or start watching Monk.
We are in the commercial space flight industry and would like to testify
Testify, brother, testify! :)
that at least one out of two of all the actual entrepreneurs involved in this industry has been inspired by Star Trek;
Well, speaking as someone in the military space industry, we kick your ass. :-) We just can't publish papers about our kung fu. Nothing do do with Trek. Just a little professional rivalry. ;-)
And anyway, if you really look at those people, they probably had plenty of other inspirations, or someone else would have done the same thing. History doesn't work that way. There's no point to point connections. All things must be considered. Didn't you people see The Butterfly Effect? Sheesh!
and we are not only good at watching TV sci-fi
Arrrh! And a hard earned skill that be, matey. Oops. Sorry. Lapsed into pirate mode there. Personally I think the five fingered exploding heart technique might be more useful in a tight spot, but, well, that's me.
, we are also good at writing checks, big checks.
Really big check! HUGE checks! We're talking lottery winner public relations kinds of checks! Hey, I've tried that one for years, pal. I'm single with a six figure income, but I can't get a media outlet to pander to me to save my life.
The people airing this kind of TV have a responsibility; inspiration.
No, they have a responsibility to pay their employess and investors (with big checks!). You want better television, appeal to the audience. If the audience demands better television, the industry will do it.
How come you folks don't just come over to the Stargate shows? There you have contemporary humans doing valiant battle with technological forces far superior to Earth. It's very Campbellian and even Heinleinian to an extent. Galactic war has just started on SG-1. It's really quite smashing! :)
Dr. Svetlana Markov: If you're insinuating that everything Russian-made is of poor quality, the sub is Swiss.
Daniel Jackson: So it occasionally catches fire but keeps perfect time?
Created in the shadow of Mt. Hood: http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bob/hood.jpg
Sigh. Everything was so simple and clean back then.
All these new office suites make me feel depressed, and they make baby Jesus cry.
:(
So the consumer is not carrying around all their precious data and applications on a portable and vulnerable device?
$28.27 at overstock.com.
No, you are not stodgy. You are mature. I have my NexTel Motorola set to the basic ring tone, and it's always on vibrate if I'm wearing it. It's called having some concern for others.
Of course now I'm a self-righteous old bastard, but, well, what can ya do?
I wrote a RealBasic program that grabs a random selection of my MP3 collection and puts them onto a CD which I then play in my car. The latest version even searches for smaller songs near the end in order to fill up those last few megabytes. :)
Might I suggest "Useful Idiot" by Tool.
In a quiet room, in a meeting, this phone's gonna go off-- what are they going to hear?
Well, in my neck of the woods, if they hear anything other than the gentle buzz of a phone set to vibrate, it'll be the distant sound of your phone shattering into a thousand pieces on the sidewalk four stories below.
I was hoping to see the end of the album format, with the exception of concept albums or soundtracks or long classical works and such. Artists would just release a new song when they had one worth peddling.
You see? Capitalist thinking isn't so bad. :-)
Cliches evolve in mysterious ways. It is futile to resist the forces involved.
http://www.nanosolar.com/pr2.htm
This isn't the guy who claimed years back that powerline networking had infinite bandwidth because it was unsheilded, is it?
How about this: it's here in Califonia. If that doesn't convince you, nothing will. ;-)
Yeah, I'll get right the search for that link for ya.
Actually, many places require you to have ID when you operate any kind of vehicle, including a bicycle. That's the way it is where I live, but they never really enforce it.
You all know the difference between an application and the files it creates. She doesn't get that. She doesn't understand the concept of the drives having a top level and sub directories. When she saves an email attachment, she has to go into the file search function to find out where it wound up becuase she can't grasp the save file browser. And she uses AOL
Apple needs to come out with "Mac OS Lite". There's quite a number of people like my friend's mom. The basic computer concepts we take for granted are inaccessible abstractions to them. For example, if they get a ".doc" attachment, this computer would tell them it's an Office Word file, and what they need to do to open it, and so on.
And I said the "rut that Trek got stuck in" implying the later series. I would love to have seen the Tholians reprised in the newer series.
And, unknown to most, Powerbooks are actually mint flavored. Yummy!
I did the first time because I had just seen an article about the cameras all over London. Power of suggestion.
Or you could just make a backup when it arrived. They could encrypt the files, but leave them copyable. You'd still need the key to view the copy. Or they could ship two copies. Lots of solutions there.
Video tends to be self-anti-aliasing, though. We have a digital theater near me, and eveything looks fine. Nice and crisp, but not in the "jaggies" sense. And you shouldn't get artifacts with lossless compression.
The big missed oppurtunity was, when they were granted a 5th season, to do the Psi war on Earth. That would have been a good season.
I'm not a fanboy, but I was sufficiently entertained by the thing. You know what I liked the most about B5? It was so NOT the Trek universe of no money and everyone performing in string quartets in their free time. In B5 there was an economy, and trading, and the conflicts arising from such things. The telepaths were licensed and it was a professional position. One character watched old Daffy Duck cartoons in his spare time, and was building a motorcycle in his quarters. There were prejudices and factions and ill will from bulkhead to bulkhead. Space travel was a large and involved endeavor requiring complicated instrumentality.
And best of all, at least some of the aliens were not bipedal. Hell, I'd take space angels over the bumpy forehead of the week rut that trek got stuck in.
That was pretty cool, I guess.