Comment Re:Make it DARKER dammit. (Score 1) 233
The only TNG movie I ever thought that was worth a damn was Insurrection, which really played more like a two-parter from the series. I agree with the others, in particular Nemesis.
The only TNG movie I ever thought that was worth a damn was Insurrection, which really played more like a two-parter from the series. I agree with the others, in particular Nemesis.
Not asking permission is theft.
I'm a fan of U2 and I can see how some people might consider what they did rude or presumptuous, but theft? - No, just leave the contorted 'theft' analogies to the MAAFIA. No offense intended, but they are much better at it than you are.
Back on x86 legacy advantages: The other issue I'd raise is that there are quite a few "tablet operating systems" that are languishing in "Not Android" land that might well do well if more hardware comes out supporting x86. The stuff Ubuntu and GNOME are trying to make work might, for example, end up turning into something very, very, powerful if they can get the UIs fixed and if a surfeit of x86 tablets comes out.
Why would that help them? Not being cruel but being open source and ARM a recompile away was supposed to be their big boon and with so much running on Android that's likely the primary source of ports. If they can't make it as a first party OS then they'll never go anywhere in the mobile world that's full of custom, poorly supported, one generation hardware, I don't see any compelling reason why you'd buy a Linux/x86 tablet if Linux/ARM tablets don't sell. And the aftermarket install market is probably just as tiny on the x86 side as on the rootable ARM side.
Well, we certainly can't expect to go to Star Trek to see something deep anymore. But really, it is a generic action flick.
The super-duper Transporter is definitely the reboot franchise's midichloreans.
Frankly, I can't even be sure what the plot of the first movie was. There was this big fucking ship that screwed up the space-time continuum, so Kirk was a mean brat who turned out alright, except for cheating on the Kobiashi Maru test, which now earns him a big spanking, as opposed to the commendation in the other time line. And then blowing up Vulcan, Nimoy's Spock telling Kirk that the pointy-eared prick who has been trying to fuck him over is really his bestest buddy, and then big battle scenes and Enterprise wins. Yay!
Occam's razor. Which is simpler. A routine battery failure, or a complicated military test on a hostile satellite?
Ah, but which is more fun? This Occam sounds like a right misery guts.
I was in Florida to speak at Orlando Hamcation and went to see the DISCOVR launch at Kennedy Space Center. I paid $50 to be at LC-39 for the launch, an observation tower made from a disused gantry on the Nasa Causeway between the pads and the Vehicle Assembly Building. A crawler was parked next door! A hot sandwich buffet, chips, and sodas were served. It was cold and windy! I watched for a few hours and unfortunately the launch scrubbed due to high stratospheric winds.
The next day, Delaware North Corporation, which operates tourism at KSC, decided not to open LC-39 or the Saturn 5 center for the launch. This was the third launch attempt and I guess they decided most people had left. I was annoyed.
The closest beach was going to be closed in the evening, it's a sensitive ecological area. I ended up seeing the launch from Jetty Park. This turned out not to be such a great location, the tower wasn't visible at all and the first 10 seconds of the rocket in flight were obscured before we saw it over a hill.
What's a better viewing location?
My impression of both films was a mindless action film with a Star Trek pastiche shoved on top. Just a lot of incredibly short shots, pointless dialog that served only to push the ponderous plots on, and very little beyond a skim of "Trekiness" that would suggest I was watching Star Trek.
My wife and I finally got down to watching fanfic Star Trek Continues series. Now THAT'S Star Trek. I wish someone would give these guys the tens of millions of dollars it took to make Abram's abortions. They could bring in Karl Urban, because the McCoys they've had so far are iffy (who would have known Bones would have been the hardest character to find a new actor for).
> Where was the satellite over geographically when it exploded?
The Earth.
Nuke the entire site from orbit, it's the only...oh.
There is always Taylor Mali's Pizza poem for Pluto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I is a poem about a planet mnemonic: My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
He also has a great poem about teachers and I love his spell checker poem.
Ah, I never could work out how Richard Of York Gains Battles In Vain was supposed to help you remember the planets.
No internal organ squishing required.
Wuss.
Yes but it's popular and sadly too many slashdotters not only feel that have too much nerd cool to ever be interested in something normal people are interested in but feel the need to tell us about it too.
It's similar to the hipster "I liked X before it was popular" thing. Intellectual snobbery.
Actually France and the UK both had a better Army and Air Force than Germany in 1938. They were in even better position than in 1936 when the allowed Germany to re occupy the Rhineland.
I disagree with both of those assertions - the Luftwaffe already had 2,100 Bf109 aircraft delivered pre-1939, while the RAF had a grand total of 500 Hurricanes (which were already outclassed by the Bf109) and no Supermarine Spitfires until mid-1938.
The Luftwaffe were also combat experienced through their involvement in the Spanish Civil War etc, while RAF pilots were not.
Also, the UK did repay our WW1 loans - they were paid back by the proceeds of a War Bond issued by Neville Chamberlain in 1932 (which the current government is refinancing this month).
The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation. -- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
