...values higher than 10 were just nick names for speeds like warp 9.9993
Makes sense. After all, it would be mildly embarrassing to have a situation like "Captain! They're firing a methyl-ethyl-killmequick pulse!" - "No time to lose! Take evasive action, warp nine point nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-oh-crap!"
The holodeck killed writers' imaginations to cater to the wardrobe department's fantasies.
I think there was a lot of budget give-and-take near the end of Voyager. For every expensive "let's battle the Borg" episode, they had to make a cheap "let's relax in Fairhaven" episode. It's a lot cheaper to go out and buy a bunch of period costumes than to have ILM (or whoever they used) come up with half an hour of F/X shots.
...showing a real, unsanitized war with it's attendant ugliness...
Are you serious? DS9 was The Care Bears Fussy Day compared to the ugliness of a real war. The producers didn't have the budget or the political will from the network to add any real ugliness.
A bad actor he may be (who had his ass handed to him by Ricardo Montalban in that movie), but every captain of every TV or movie spaceship since has, and always will be, compared to Shatner's Kirk.
Sometimes you don't need talent to achieve immortality; you just need to be recognizably unique.
Why would a company even bother in that kind of environment? Answer: they wouldn't - they shut down instead.
Actually, they probably continue to operate at a loss with the belief (supported by evidence or not) that the deflationary period will only last for the next quarter... or the next six months... the next year at the most...
Then they run out of cash and ask for a government bailout.
(Actually, the Chinese government has just told shipping companies that they aren't allowed to charge "zero rates"; that is, rates that only cover expenses and "compromise profitability", so at least one sector is being given the choice of staying in the black or shutting down.)
Another example: those who play both Mario and Sonic.
There's an example the average user will get! On the other hand, extending this example to computers would make the average clueless user think they need another computer to install the alternative programs.;)
Tell that to anybody who plays two MMORPGs, or anybody who uses two file sharing networks, or anybody who has Nano, vi, Emacs, and gedit all installed, anybody who has both Emacs and Lockjaw installed (they both include a Tetris clone), or anybody who actually puts effort into her MySpace profile (need to test on webkit, gecko, and trident). "The same thing" isn't always as easy to define as you might think.
To the vast majority of Windows users, most or all of the terms I've emphasized above don't apply. To them, proposing a second web browser would elicit a reply like "Why would I need Firefox? I've already got the Internet on my computer!" or similarly, "OpenOffice? I can already open Office. Why would I need to open it through that other picture?" or "I can get geckos and tridents on my MySpace from the picture thingy, but what's a webkit?"...
That would be the area between Lethbridge and the Crowsnest Pass. I drive through there at least once every summer. It's ironic that you see so much evidence of clean energy in a province that is responsible for some of the dirtiest energy in the country.
As far as wind farms go, almost everyone wants them, but no one wants to be near them or have to see them.
Solution to that: Turn northern Alberta into a giant solar/wind farm. After years of tar sands development, there isn't much wildlife left, and a bunch of wind turbines would actually improve the appearance of that lunar landscape.
Businesses should be able to protect their trademarks but the process should be fair. Little guys who don't compete in the same market should not get squashed.
Rather than Toyota, the best example to illustrate this principle should be Nissan. The little guy is still holding on, but it's a tough fight.
Ah, but you're not supposed to be proud in your belief, but humble in it. After all, did not St. James Buffett describe the seven deadly sins thusly:
Pride...Thou shalt not have pride in thy neighbor.
Coveting...Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
Lust...Thou shalt not lust after his neighbor's wife.[sic]
Anger...Do not be angry with your neighbor's wife.
Gluttony...Do not eat thy neighbor's wife's...popcorn.
Envy...Do not envy your neighbor's wife.
Sloth...Do not be a slob.
And the eighth deadly sin is...PIZZA!
For what it's worth, I know two Mormon couples. They're very nice people, they don't have multiple wives, and are very active in the community. They don't proselytize on the evils of keyword advertising. And that proves this isn't "a Mormon thing" because, as we all know, the plural of "anecdote" is "data".
But if a corrupt group of politicians could rig the machines to get into power and (hypothetically, of course) start a war and that would cause many more deaths than some spurious bug in some medical equipment.
Pfft, like that could ever happen. And if it did, they'd be unceremoniously thrown out after a single term.
Stop it. Stop the "There's only one answer and it's the one I choose!" bullshit. Phobia has been in common use for a long time to describe an irrational fear.
I'm also having difficult envisioning how one flies across into Africa.
Since it flew from London to Africa, I'm assuming it flew across Europe to Africa. I guess the author didn't think that little land mass in the way was worth mentioning.
What's annoying is when corporations Don't let you improve process. "You must do it this way, even though it takes 6 hours, and you found a way to do it in 1." It's stifling.
Tell me about it. In my former small pond, I quickly became a big enough fish to make some real improvements (which didn't stop the company from collapsing due to poor management last year). Now I deal with entrenched inefficiency that I can't fix. Oh well, a big part of that is changing this year due to smart, decisive management.
For that reason most corporations say nothing, except to confirm "yes this guy worked here starting ____ and ending ____". They don't want to get sued so they avoid saying anything negative.
Actually, the best reference I got from a former employer started out as sounding negative:
New company HR: "What was geobeck like as an employee?" Former supervisor: "He was lazy." New company HR: "Um... really?" Former supervisor: "Oh yeah, definitely. If he had an inefficient process he had to do over and over again, he'd do everything he could to make it more efficient so he wouldn't have to do as much work."
Don't forget 'quick' and 'fast'... which makes me wonder how the English described something moving at high speed when those words meant 'alive' and 'stationary'.
Don't forget the ideological advantage. The Spanish, being good Catholics, followed the Aristotlean view that an object followed a straight horizontal path until it returned to its natural place; the ground in the case of a projectile. The English, meanwhile, actually paid attention to Galileo's (and others) work on ballistics, and realized that you achieved the greatest distance by firing upward, not straight at your target.
So it looks like the only advantage the Spanish had was that their galleons were too big to fail... uh-oh.
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Makes sense. After all, it would be mildly embarrassing to have a situation like "Captain! They're firing a methyl-ethyl-killmequick pulse!" - "No time to lose! Take evasive action, warp nine point nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-oh-crap!"
I think there was a lot of budget give-and-take near the end of Voyager. For every expensive "let's battle the Borg" episode, they had to make a cheap "let's relax in Fairhaven" episode. It's a lot cheaper to go out and buy a bunch of period costumes than to have ILM (or whoever they used) come up with half an hour of F/X shots.
Okay...
Firefly = 1980s Hyundai - They didn't have much, but they survived on smarts and a vehicle that could be repaired with duct tape and baling twine.
Voyager = 2000s GM - How the hell have they survived to this point?
Now that would have been an interesting twist; Re-cast Bob Denver as Chakotay.
"Skipperrrrrr! The Borg are off the port bow!"
Are you serious? DS9 was The Care Bears Fussy Day compared to the ugliness of a real war. The producers didn't have the budget or the political will from the network to add any real ugliness.
A bad actor he may be (who had his ass handed to him by Ricardo Montalban in that movie), but every captain of every TV or movie spaceship since has, and always will be, compared to Shatner's Kirk.
Sometimes you don't need talent to achieve immortality; you just need to be recognizably unique.
Actually, they probably continue to operate at a loss with the belief (supported by evidence or not) that the deflationary period will only last for the next quarter... or the next six months... the next year at the most...
Then they run out of cash and ask for a government bailout.
(Actually, the Chinese government has just told shipping companies that they aren't allowed to charge "zero rates"; that is, rates that only cover expenses and "compromise profitability", so at least one sector is being given the choice of staying in the black or shutting down.)
There's an example the average user will get! On the other hand, extending this example to computers would make the average clueless user think they need another computer to install the alternative programs. ;)
To the vast majority of Windows users, most or all of the terms I've emphasized above don't apply. To them, proposing a second web browser would elicit a reply like "Why would I need Firefox? I've already got the Internet on my computer!" or similarly, "OpenOffice? I can already open Office. Why would I need to open it through that other picture?" or "I can get geckos and tridents on my MySpace from the picture thingy, but what's a webkit?"...
That would be the area between Lethbridge and the Crowsnest Pass. I drive through there at least once every summer. It's ironic that you see so much evidence of clean energy in a province that is responsible for some of the dirtiest energy in the country.
Solution to that: Turn northern Alberta into a giant solar/wind farm. After years of tar sands development, there isn't much wildlife left, and a bunch of wind turbines would actually improve the appearance of that lunar landscape.
With three replies all saying the same thing, I've got to fix my previous post:
So the Cook County Sheriff is upset that people are getting f**ked by lawyers?
Rather than Toyota, the best example to illustrate this principle should be Nissan. The little guy is still holding on, but it's a tough fight.
I think the difference boils down like this:
Ah, but you're not supposed to be proud in your belief, but humble in it. After all, did not St. James Buffett describe the seven deadly sins thusly:
For what it's worth, I know two Mormon couples. They're very nice people, they don't have multiple wives, and are very active in the community. They don't proselytize on the evils of keyword advertising. And that proves this isn't "a Mormon thing" because, as we all know, the plural of "anecdote" is "data".
I love the smell of whoosh in the morning. It smells like... whoosh.
Pfft, like that could ever happen. And if it did, they'd be unceremoniously thrown out after a single term.
Stop it. Stop the "There's only one answer and it's the one I choose!" bullshit. Phobia has been in common use for a long time to describe an irrational fear.
References: Wikipedia, Dictionary.com
Since it flew from London to Africa, I'm assuming it flew across Europe to Africa. I guess the author didn't think that little land mass in the way was worth mentioning.
Because they want to revitalize their advertising.
"Apple has that young hipster, Linux has that cute penguin, but look! We've got a fat nerdy guy with a fish in his pants! Look at him dance!"
Well, it would be more amusing than the Seinfeld commercial.
Tell me about it. In my former small pond, I quickly became a big enough fish to make some real improvements (which didn't stop the company from collapsing due to poor management last year). Now I deal with entrenched inefficiency that I can't fix. Oh well, a big part of that is changing this year due to smart, decisive management.
Yes, it actually does exist. Really!
Actually, the best reference I got from a former employer started out as sounding negative:
New company HR: "What was geobeck like as an employee?"
Former supervisor: "He was lazy."
New company HR: "Um... really?"
Former supervisor: "Oh yeah, definitely. If he had an inefficient process he had to do over and over again, he'd do everything he could to make it more efficient so he wouldn't have to do as much work."
Don't forget 'quick' and 'fast'... which makes me wonder how the English described something moving at high speed when those words meant 'alive' and 'stationary'.
Don't forget the ideological advantage. The Spanish, being good Catholics, followed the Aristotlean view that an object followed a straight horizontal path until it returned to its natural place; the ground in the case of a projectile. The English, meanwhile, actually paid attention to Galileo's (and others) work on ballistics, and realized that you achieved the greatest distance by firing upward, not straight at your target.
So it looks like the only advantage the Spanish had was that their galleons were too big to fail... uh-oh.