It's the "Blockbuster" mentality...Give Trekkers a good story and they are happy...but to attract the Mundanes (What SF Fans call Muggles), you need flash rather than substance...and this film delivers flash in excess.

And is it just me, but does anyone else read Christopher Pike when the see Christopher Pine's name written?

True, and they ask for fantasy qualifications...or what they ask advertise for, and what the actual hiring person wants isn't always the same. I went to an interview in another city...took the train up, since the phone interviews with the HR people and such went great...then I got into the interview, and instead of a SysAdmin for Linux, the actual person doing the hiring wanted a programmer, but he wasn't allow to get one he was interviewing SysAdmins hoping to get a programmer!!! What at sh*thead he was! Waste of my time and money (Lunch, etc). HR Lies, Other applications lie and get jobs...and I sit fricking unemployed still. So maybe, I will just get into the Music Business...a lot more stable than the tech sector!!!! :-/

Last year, a friend of mine got a windows phone...and I told him he should bring it back, and get either an Android or an Apple phone. He asked why, and I said that MS has a habit of abandoning mobile platforms...he didn't believe me....I deserve +1 for Prescience! :-)

Wow, a situation where you can say "Drill, baby drill" ,and not feel embarased about it! :-)

Rudy Rucker had a great little booklet out called "Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension" that I would recommend, as well as his "Infinity and the Mind".

His fiction is all over the place...but if you want specifically math oriented, then try "The Sex Sphere". It is, literally, Flatland taken to the nth dimension! Lots of weird kinky pan-dimensional sex too. :-) Captain Jack would love this book! :-)

For spending that time to create this community. I've had many years of enjoyment from your work!

From an early admirer...

Farrell

Congratulations on surviving this long...many other places on the net have come and gone in the time that you have been around...and I have been there with you too, and enjoying it all the time. Thank you for building such a wonderful site, again and again and again! :-)

Good luck going into the future, from one of you're earlier members!

ttyl
          Farrell

A PRIMER FOR ERISIAN EVANGELISTS
by Lord Omar

The SOCRATIC APPROACH is most successful when confronting the ignorant. The "socratic approach" is what you call starting an argument by asking questions. You approach the innocent and simply ask "Did you know that God's name is ERIS, and that He is a girl?" If he should answer "Yes." then he probably is a fellow Erisian and so you can forget it. If he says "No." then quickly proceed to:

THE BLIND ASSERTION and say "Well, He is a girl, and His name is ERIS!" Shrewedly observe if the subject is convinced. If he is, swear him into the Legion of Dynamic Discord before he changes his mind. If he does not appear convinced, then proceed to:

THE FAITH BIT: "But you must have Faith! All is lost without Faith! I sure feel sorry for you if you don't have Faith." And then add:

THE ARGUMENT BY FEAR and in an ominous voice ask "Do you know what happens to those who deny Goddess?" If he hesitates, don't tell him that he will surely be reincarnated as a precious Mao Button and distributed to the poor in the Region of Thud (which would be a mean thing to say), just shake your head sadly and, while wiping a tear from your eye, go to:

THE FIRST CLAUSE PLOY wherein you point to all of the discord and confusion in the world and exclaim "Well who the hell do you think did all of this, wise guy?" If he says, "Nobody, just impersonal forces." then quickly respond with:

THE ARGUMENT BY SEMANTICAL GYMNASTICS and say that he is absolutely right, and that those impersonal forces are female and that Her name is ERIS. If he, wonder of wonders, still remains obstinate, then finally resort to:

THE FIGURATIVE SYMBOLISM DODGE and confide that sophisticated people like himself recognize that Eris is a Figurative Symbol for an Ineffable Metaphysical Reality and that The Erisian Movement is really more like a poem than like a science and that he is liable to be turned into a Precious Mao Button and Distributed to The Poor in The Region of Thud if he does not get hip. Then put him on your mailing list.

DevAX, you are just regurgitating MarketSpeak!

No, everyone knows that what Windows 8 really needs to survive is to become Windows 9....Windows 8 will be another Vista...lots of broken, beta quality stuff which will not really provide any real improvements in functionality to the average user until the next iteration of Windows.

Unfortunately, it turned out to be for *last* month...

+1 for obscure "Hackers" Movie reference.

It does sort of hit the "paranoia" button...first the "convenien" DDOS of Demonoid, now Wikileaks....if it *is* taken down, after the DDOS, it will definitely make people wonder who has hired some group to do the dirty work that the IP Industrial Complex would like done....

But Steel Beach has the worlds weirdest/most disturbing opening sentence....'In five years the penis will become obsolete'

Noir by J W Jeter. Imagine if the *AA organizations got their way, and made copyright infringment a capital offence...and the people who police IP law are like Bladerunners...it's a very good book, both a satire of Cyberpunk/Bladerunner, and RIAA/MPAA rhetoric....but it is TANJ DEPRESSING!!!!

That was depressing!!!!