But as a Trek fan, I am a little disappointed with how the storyline stacks up. I mean, Trek is known for having some plot holes here and there, but this movie really just forgoes all notion of continuity or semblance of some of the more recent Trek constants. To name a few:
The Temporal Prime Directive
In the Future, there is a division of Starfleet that watches the timeline for massive changes
The fact that reversing the damage caused by Neo would require a simple bit of time travel (jump to the past to reverse the damage caused, then jump to the future to prevent Neo from ever going back)
Neo's ship conforms to NONE of the established Romulan shiip design
Voyager's Chakotay-style Face Tattoos on romulans?
An Enterprise bridge designed by Apple
The fact that Starfleet knew that Romulans were related to Vulcans before Stardate 1709.2 The Kelvin crew should have reported an attack by a strange ship populated by Vulcans with tattoos and emotions.
I have no problem with time travel changes (maybe the timecops are too busy elsewhen fixing Voyager's fubars), but timeline changes without a reason smacks of poor research on the writers' part.
At least the kirk from the other movies always fixes the timeline.
Are you suggesting The City on the Edge of Forever will have a happy ending? I know that Balance of Terror will be different. My only question is how George's crew knew they were Romulans and not just some crazy Vulcans...
the number 1 the most plentiful and nine the least -- therefore, the entries were fraudulent. [...] I thought of how many bogus figures I had entered in my expense accounts over the years....
I don't know about your purchasing habits, but mine rarely start with 1. Benford fails.
The IPhone has a lot of limitations, but the amount of apps for it makes it the killer device.
Free or pay apps? I recently started playing the free lemonade stand game until it started asking me marketing survey questions. Delete, 1 star. Want your OS/platform to sell well in the future? Allow people to make free (beer/speech) apps! And yes, requiring someone to spend money on the dev kit, and requiring their app to be approved is a significant barrier. Granted, I potentially like the vetting of something like the app store, but the process turns lots of things that could easily be free (rdesktop, SSH, games, etc) into pay or ad-supported apps.
The iphone has more quality apps than all other platforms have total apps combined.
Windows mobile/CE apps have been around for evers and evers. Add Java VM, and suddenly java apps are added to the mix. Not that I like Windows mobile, but it's got a lot more freedom.
Where does the law stand on civilian use? If there's no warrant needed, a cop can use this method for personal reasons? Track the wife, kids, friend suspected of sleeping with the wife, other cops? There needs to be oversight and/or rules for potentially abusive tools/methods.
Sorry, but the trojan CANNOT create a hidden partition.
To do this, it must have to defragment the files (by moving the last files to the beginning of the disk),
defrag.exe c:
defrag.exe c:
defrag.exe c:
(three because the defrag normally sucks, although IIRC, Vista has a regular defrag schedule).
then when all the space is free create a partition.
diskpart.exe c:
shrink desired=1024
tada, 'doze just lost a gig
Won't someone explain this in terms of a car analogy!?
Car analogy ho!
"Toyota recently announced that it will be switching manufacturers of its most commonly used drive trains because the original manufacturer said that the changes Toyota requested were 'for the sole benefit of this hybrid/electric crap.'"
In other words, in three years time, glibc might be used only by RHEL6, and Ulrich Drepper will just be forking eglibc and calling it glibc.
They certainly came up with the idea, but all the technology behind it today was created internationally. Hell, the key is in the name - INTERnet. The internet wouldn't BE the internet if it wasn't for international coverage, so why should one country run the whole thing?
Because they created it, and the other countries attached to it like parasitic lampreys. They could have set up their own internets, after all. INTER does not stand for international. The internet is a network topology to connect a bunch of smaller networks, all originally designed to be in the US.
19 Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt and lusted after her paramours there, whose genitals were like those of donkeys, and whose emissions was like that of horses.
[...] with the Egyptians' donkey-sizes penises as ejaculating like horses.
Technically, the "she" is Jerusalem, and the paramours in Egypt are all the countries of the (then) known world. See Ezekiel 23:1-18 for context.
But, your main point stands; it's not a chapter reviewed in Sunday School...
Are none of you seeing the big picture? Apple doesn't want to buy Twitter, the micro-blog service, they want to buy Twitter, the slashdot user. The actual GUY, not the username. They want a slave with a bajillion slashdot sockpuppets to moderate in articles just like this one.
This law will further criminalize every teenager in America.
Speaking of which... People keep assuming that criminalizing the masses is a sure-fire means of controlling them (police can do XYZ 'cause you're already a criminal), but the way I see it, Law itself becomes trivialized, to the point where you get the anarchic street thugs of England (they'll do what they want because they'll get in trouble no matter what).
I like my search engines to search, thankyouverymuch. "'New York Times' Philly" Should turn up results with Philly and the NY Times newspaper, not modulo the populations of NYC by Philly. Do one thing and do it well.
I've never heard of Wolfram Alpha, so I googled it. Then I thought: If this new search engine becomes popular, will I still use google as a verb? I'd hate to wolfram stuff.
Hmm. Here we have a serious security breach but the details are so sketchy we're resorting to ethnic humour and the finer points of grammar to fill in the time. Allow me to offer up my guesses as to what Really Happened(TM):
The server was recently migrated to Windows Vista from RedHat, the hackers were Chinese nationals who coordinated their actions using Hotmail accounts, and needed funding for the Virgina health department IT department was cut by Republicans in the stimulus bill.
Discuss.
But Republicans weren't cutting spending recently, only taxes.
This may lead to the end of large, bureaucratic, inefficient mega corporations which exploit people and resources for short term profit, using monopoly tactics and sleazy practices like bribing politicians or using tax havens or ripping off their customers. You might end up with uni[c]o[r]ns, four week vacations, the right to health care, and a lower poverty rate!
Unions are magical creatures! Four week vacations for everyone! Wait, I get 6 weeks of vacation, which becomes 8 weeks after 3 more years. And I don't have to pay union dues to some parasitic organization. Awesome health care too. Keep your unicorns; I want my money and my good relationship with my managers.
Now how exactly would they cleanroom this implementation if compliance required access to the source code?
If it did, they couldn't. Luckily it doesn't. Compliance requires knowing what OpenOffice does; not exactly how it does it. Team1 inspects the source code & writes out a series of inputs/outputs (heck, Team1 could be a computer program). Team2, upon receipt of the inputs/outputs, starts coding to make the inputs into the outputs (Team2 could in theory, also be a computer program). If MS can't afford to do that, couldn't they just reuse OpenOffice source and make the ODF portion an ancillary DLL under a GPL license or something (IANAL)?
But regardless, the fact is that if the specification allow this, its the SPECIFICATION that's broken.
Slashdot Mirror
But as a Trek fan, I am a little disappointed with how the storyline stacks up. I mean, Trek is known for having some plot holes here and there, but this movie really just forgoes all notion of continuity or semblance of some of the more recent Trek constants. To name a few:
I have no problem with time travel changes (maybe the timecops are too busy elsewhen fixing Voyager's fubars), but timeline changes without a reason smacks of poor research on the writers' part.
At least the kirk from the other movies always fixes the timeline.
Are you suggesting The City on the Edge of Forever will have a happy ending? I know that Balance of Terror will be different. My only question is how George's crew knew they were Romulans and not just some crazy Vulcans...
the number 1 the most plentiful and nine the least -- therefore, the entries were fraudulent. [...] I thought of how many bogus figures I had entered in my expense accounts over the years....
I don't know about your purchasing habits, but mine rarely start with 1. Benford fails.
The IPhone has a lot of limitations, but the amount of apps for it makes it the killer device.
Free or pay apps? I recently started playing the free lemonade stand game until it started asking me marketing survey questions. Delete, 1 star. Want your OS/platform to sell well in the future? Allow people to make free (beer/speech) apps! And yes, requiring someone to spend money on the dev kit, and requiring their app to be approved is a significant barrier. Granted, I potentially like the vetting of something like the app store, but the process turns lots of things that could easily be free (rdesktop, SSH, games, etc) into pay or ad-supported apps.
The iphone has more quality apps than all other platforms have total apps combined.
Windows mobile/CE apps have been around for evers and evers. Add Java VM, and suddenly java apps are added to the mix. Not that I like Windows mobile, but it's got a lot more freedom.
And people think admitting that installing "Jaunty Jackalope" is embarrasing. Cupcake.
Where does the law stand on civilian use? If there's no warrant needed, a cop can use this method for personal reasons? Track the wife, kids, friend suspected of sleeping with the wife, other cops? There needs to be oversight and/or rules for potentially abusive tools/methods.
Sorry, but the trojan CANNOT create a hidden partition. To do this, it must have to defragment the files (by moving the last files to the beginning of the disk),
defrag.exe c:
defrag.exe c:
defrag.exe c:
(three because the defrag normally sucks, although IIRC, Vista has a regular defrag schedule).
then when all the space is free create a partition.
diskpart.exe c:
shrink desired=1024
tada, 'doze just lost a gig
autorun.inf
Nullriver's tethering app had its ins and outs with the app store too. Give it a couple days and the NIN will be re-revoked.
Nobody will pay for content that used to be free.
That's why he's not proposing to sell Olds. He wants to sell News (content never seen before).
Could be a spy's drive.
Won't someone explain this in terms of a car analogy!?
Car analogy ho!
"Toyota recently announced that it will be switching manufacturers of its most commonly used drive trains because the original manufacturer said that the changes Toyota requested were 'for the sole benefit of this hybrid/electric crap.'"
In other words, in three years time, glibc might be used only by RHEL6, and Ulrich Drepper will just be forking eglibc and calling it glibc.
The US is not holding a gun to their head, telling them they _must_ use the US tubes. Let them make their own internets. The US made this one.
They certainly came up with the idea, but all the technology behind it today was created internationally. Hell, the key is in the name - INTERnet. The internet wouldn't BE the internet if it wasn't for international coverage, so why should one country run the whole thing?
Because they created it, and the other countries attached to it like parasitic lampreys. They could have set up their own internets, after all. INTER does not stand for international. The internet is a network topology to connect a bunch of smaller networks, all originally designed to be in the US.
when you pry it from my cold dead hands!
19 Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt and lusted after her paramours there, whose genitals were like those of donkeys, and whose emissions was like that of horses.
[...] with the Egyptians' donkey-sizes penises as ejaculating like horses.
Technically, the "she" is Jerusalem, and the paramours in Egypt are all the countries of the (then) known world. See Ezekiel 23:1-18 for context. But, your main point stands; it's not a chapter reviewed in Sunday School...
Liquify what?
Their lawyers? Chief Officers? A company might be able to make some soylent green and make a profit.
Are none of you seeing the big picture? Apple doesn't want to buy Twitter, the micro-blog service, they want to buy Twitter, the slashdot user. The actual GUY, not the username. They want a slave with a bajillion slashdot sockpuppets to moderate in articles just like this one.
This law will further criminalize every teenager in America.
Speaking of which... People keep assuming that criminalizing the masses is a sure-fire means of controlling them (police can do XYZ 'cause you're already a criminal), but the way I see it, Law itself becomes trivialized, to the point where you get the anarchic street thugs of England (they'll do what they want because they'll get in trouble no matter what).
Think of the Children: Reign in overbearing laws.
What are you looking for, content? It's in the subject.
I like my search engines to search, thankyouverymuch. "'New York Times' Philly" Should turn up results with Philly and the NY Times newspaper, not modulo the populations of NYC by Philly. Do one thing and do it well.
I've never heard of Wolfram Alpha, so I googled it. Then I thought: If this new search engine becomes popular, will I still use google as a verb? I'd hate to wolfram stuff.
Hmm. Here we have a serious security breach but the details are so sketchy we're resorting to ethnic humour and the finer points of grammar to fill in the time. Allow me to offer up my guesses as to what Really Happened(TM): The server was recently migrated to Windows Vista from RedHat, the hackers were Chinese nationals who coordinated their actions using Hotmail accounts, and needed funding for the Virgina health department IT department was cut by Republicans in the stimulus bill. Discuss.
But Republicans weren't cutting spending recently, only taxes.
This may lead to the end of large, bureaucratic, inefficient mega corporations which exploit people and resources for short term profit, using monopoly tactics and sleazy practices like bribing politicians or using tax havens or ripping off their customers. You might end up with uni[c]o[r]ns, four week vacations, the right to health care, and a lower poverty rate!
Unions are magical creatures! Four week vacations for everyone! Wait, I get 6 weeks of vacation, which becomes 8 weeks after 3 more years. And I don't have to pay union dues to some parasitic organization. Awesome health care too. Keep your unicorns; I want my money and my good relationship with my managers.
Really? REALLY?
Really.
Now how exactly would they cleanroom this implementation if compliance required access to the source code?
If it did, they couldn't. Luckily it doesn't. Compliance requires knowing what OpenOffice does; not exactly how it does it. Team1 inspects the source code & writes out a series of inputs/outputs (heck, Team1 could be a computer program). Team2, upon receipt of the inputs/outputs, starts coding to make the inputs into the outputs (Team2 could in theory, also be a computer program). If MS can't afford to do that, couldn't they just reuse OpenOffice source and make the ODF portion an ancillary DLL under a GPL license or something (IANAL)?
But regardless, the fact is that if the specification allow this, its the SPECIFICATION that's broken.
I'll buy that for a dollar.