Me: Quick, Anakin! Crawl up the Jefferies tube and shut off the, um, telefluxchron particle emitter!
Anakin: (all pouty faced and with Rarity-class whining) Oh, all right!
First Officer: Um, sir, that's the photon torpedo tube.
Me: (shutting tube hatch behind Anabitch) Yeah, yeah. Bridge? Fire all torpedos.
(muffled scream cut off by torpedo firing sound effect)
Me: Sweet! Drinks are on me in Ten Forward!
First Officer: Wow. That was a bit cruel.
Me: Uh huh. Just so you know, I have dirt on most of Starfleet high command, so I can have you and the entire bridge crew replaced by green Orion slave girls at a moment's notice.
...how annoying is the fan base? You can be honest with me. I liked TOS, TNG and DS9, but at this point I will end the next person who quotes a Klingon proverb at me.
What's the old joke? - Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal."
Yes, and it they would occasionally explode for no apparent reason, killing all the occupants.
I've been quietly saying this for years. A friend a couple months ago mentioned how China was becoming the #1 economic superpower. My response was, "Great. maybe everyone in the world will blame them for all their problems now."
Now I realize you Americans tend to see yourselves as #1 in everything
You know, it's possible to discuss this subject without bigoted broad brushing.
This is why I have no hope for anything anymore. Even little things like this are parsed into unreality and woven into the tapestry of myth, lies and nonsense that represents "truth" for most people. I can;t even talk politics to anyone anymore because it's constant triage figuring out which lies they believe to fix first, and you can't fix them anyway, because they "know what they know". This applies to ideologues from one end of the spectrum to the other.
Well, I'd take the time to give a long and wordy answer to a random person on the Internet, but Mozilla just released this hour's update of Firefox and I need to deal with that there thing.
Dreamworks exec: You're right! Quick! Have them stuff more hip cultural references into our cartoons that will be dated by next week! Call those pony people! See what they are doing, pervert it beyond all recognition, and stuff that in there, too!
I thought the point of the original monkey idea was that they create Shakespeare *without* access to the original. This is like other experiments were genetic algorithms are used to recreate something that exists by comparing the output to the existing thing. That's just glorified curve fitting.
The real goal is to design something new that would not necessarily have been arrived at through traditional design methodology. People have "evolved" FPGA circuits by generating random bit configuration files, testing the functionality, and crossbreeding the best circuits. They don't compare it to an existing circuit. Sometimes the circuits don't even use clocks, and no one can quite explain how they do what they do. Some stop working when loaded onto a supposedly identical FPGA, as if the circuit is taking advantage of some unique variance of that particular FPGA. Another company designed an antenna with a genetic algorithm, and the end result looks like nothing you'd come up with using traditional antenna design techniques.
By the time even primaries roll around, the voters are presented with a slate of narcissistic sociopaths. We have the John & Ken radio show here in Southern California. Love them or hate them, they fit the bill of "adversarial media", and they are often the *only* media outlet covering many of the shenanigans the state government gets up to while the local news stations are covering the cat show down at the auditorium, or the tree that fell on someone's house.
Yeah saw that today. OK, so they're super future soldiers. Not sure why that's a problem. This is another world and we don;t know how far in the future this is. Maybe Sera has higher gravity.
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Me: Quick, Anakin! Crawl up the Jefferies tube and shut off the, um, telefluxchron particle emitter!
Anakin: (all pouty faced and with Rarity-class whining) Oh, all right!
First Officer: Um, sir, that's the photon torpedo tube.
Me: (shutting tube hatch behind Anabitch) Yeah, yeah. Bridge? Fire all torpedos.
(muffled scream cut off by torpedo firing sound effect)
Me: Sweet! Drinks are on me in Ten Forward!
First Officer: Wow. That was a bit cruel.
Me: Uh huh. Just so you know, I have dirt on most of Starfleet high command, so I can have you and the entire bridge crew replaced by green Orion slave girls at a moment's notice.
No, that's a question for "Ask Robert Stack anything you'd like."
...how annoying is the fan base? You can be honest with me. I liked TOS, TNG and DS9, but at this point I will end the next person who quotes a Klingon proverb at me.
What's the old joke? - Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal."
Yes, and it they would occasionally explode for no apparent reason, killing all the occupants.
Why do you think you need to be #1 in everything?
I've been quietly saying this for years. A friend a couple months ago mentioned how China was becoming the #1 economic superpower. My response was, "Great. maybe everyone in the world will blame them for all their problems now."
Now I realize you Americans tend to see yourselves as #1 in everything
You know, it's possible to discuss this subject without bigoted broad brushing.
Canada is a myth. It does not exist.
This is why I have no hope for anything anymore. Even little things like this are parsed into unreality and woven into the tapestry of myth, lies and nonsense that represents "truth" for most people. I can;t even talk politics to anyone anymore because it's constant triage figuring out which lies they believe to fix first, and you can't fix them anyway, because they "know what they know". This applies to ideologues from one end of the spectrum to the other.
Can you steal healthcare?
I've been known to steal organs. Does that count?
I can't imagine...
Well, imagine harder.
So stop being an old fogey.
I've enjoyed everyone of the non-online ones. Some were better than others, but I finished and had fun with them all.
Well, I'd take the time to give a long and wordy answer to a random person on the Internet, but Mozilla just released this hour's update of Firefox and I need to deal with that there thing.
Duh, obviously.
Sorry. That was not apparent from your post.
Thanks for the negative.
No problem. I have lots of negativity to spare.
Do you know what it ~does~ mean?
Yes.
The "post-PC era" does not mean an era without PCs.
I'm one of the Cool Ranch fans. :-) I eat other flavors, though, sorry.
I think I was the only one who liked the Pizza ones.
I will observe a moment of silence and enjoy a "big grab" bag tonight in his honor.
You think I'm kidding.
Dreamworks exec: You're right! Quick! Have them stuff more hip cultural references into our cartoons that will be dated by next week! Call those pony people! See what they are doing, pervert it beyond all recognition, and stuff that in there, too!
I keep seeing this. Is this Netflix's goal? To be the world's (approved Regions only) babysitter?
I thought the point of the original monkey idea was that they create Shakespeare *without* access to the original. This is like other experiments were genetic algorithms are used to recreate something that exists by comparing the output to the existing thing. That's just glorified curve fitting.
The real goal is to design something new that would not necessarily have been arrived at through traditional design methodology. People have "evolved" FPGA circuits by generating random bit configuration files, testing the functionality, and crossbreeding the best circuits. They don't compare it to an existing circuit. Sometimes the circuits don't even use clocks, and no one can quite explain how they do what they do. Some stop working when loaded onto a supposedly identical FPGA, as if the circuit is taking advantage of some unique variance of that particular FPGA. Another company designed an antenna with a genetic algorithm, and the end result looks like nothing you'd come up with using traditional antenna design techniques.
Worst. Mad-Lib. Ever.
By the time even primaries roll around, the voters are presented with a slate of narcissistic sociopaths. We have the John & Ken radio show here in Southern California. Love them or hate them, they fit the bill of "adversarial media", and they are often the *only* media outlet covering many of the shenanigans the state government gets up to while the local news stations are covering the cat show down at the auditorium, or the tree that fell on someone's house.
*snore*
No.
Cue the WalMart Hate Brigade in 3... 2... 1...
I really wish our culture had more interesting bogeymen.
Well, they had an order with Solyndra, but... well...
Yeah saw that today. OK, so they're super future soldiers. Not sure why that's a problem. This is another world and we don;t know how far in the future this is. Maybe Sera has higher gravity.