I follow several engineering and aviation Youtubers, and for months they've been frequently reporting that they are getting "demonitized" for unknown reasons, and are more and more counting on Patreon and in-band infomercials, and probably other sources I don't know about.
Eventually (by the time of the 1st movie?) it seems the asymmetric chevron became the a logo for all of Starfleet. There have also been several various logos and flags seen for the Federation - the one that looks a lot like the UN logo is the most common.
Someone else can find the best Wikipedia and Memory Alpha articles...
Maybe Lucas should have tried going after Ted Kennedy.
Plenty of things failed. Including a web site's date counter that proudly displayed "1-1-100 Yay, no Y2K bugs!!"
I still have a screenshot of the New York TImes web page saying "January 1, 19100". On New Years day most web sites looked like that for a while. It was because of the getYear() library call (in C, Perl, Java, Javascript, and probably others) which returned an integer number of years since 1900. Lots of software was simply prepending "19" to the function return instead of numerically adding 100 like it was supposed to.
At my job at the time I remember one thing with an embedded controller that got bricked, but otherwise no hardware problems. Excel spreadsheets that contained dates had the Y2K bug. (do they still?) I remember the stories about credit card expiration dates but don't remember experiencing it. At the New Years eve party I was at, nothing happened - no one even turned off the lights at midnight or anything.
At my current job we have lots of old computers at test stands. The oldest one I've dealt with this year (running Windows 3.11!) prints "1919" on its test and calibration reports.
I've since seen and still see many computers and embedded controllers with bugs involving time zones and daylight saving time but I've only seen that one that outright broke due to Y2K. I know of a looming Y2K bug in satellite tracking data, but that one won't hit until October 2057.
I'm sure there will be fun times when Unix time_t rolls over past 2^31-1. "We're going to party like it's 2037!"
I liked the rules Quark and Jadzia once bantered about (don't remember which episode):
"Peace is good for business" and "War is good for business. It's easy to confuse them..."
I liked Nog, being a fellow engineer. I, like him, probably don't have the "lobes for business."
At least this test didn't wake me up in the middle of the night like most of the Amber alerts.
The odd part was that right after that, the oil refinery across the street from where I work tested their alert sirens. But that was just a coincidence - they do that every month on the first Wednesday.
Or even worse, car emissions standards. There's been Low Emission Vehicle, (was there Super low?), Ultra Low Emission Vehicle, Partial-Zero Emission Vehicle, and probably others I don't remember. Then there's "tiers". I doubt anyone knows what it means except regulators and their victims.
As for USB I wish they'd just get rid of everything older than USB3, or at least restrict it to mice and keyboards and other stuff that needs only a tiny throughput.
I was pretty disappointed that I could only pick up a couple of channels from very nearby.
Maybe I'm fortunate in the urban jungle I live in. I get dozens of channels when I have my TV re-scan. Of course, the majority of them are foreign languages, home shopping networks, religious stations, etc. It takes a long time working the TV's preferences to whittle it down to the ~30 I might ever actually watch.
I haven't bothered with TV much at all since then, because watching terrible network broadcast stuff isn't worth my time now that I'm older.
Thanks to low signal-to-noise ratios, find I usually can't stand watching much other than live sports (the ones I want to watch are rarely on now, thanks to "business issues") or public TV shows.
Of course the DTV switchover really fucked a lot of people and made the situation even better for affiliates. Anyone intelligent knew that 8VSB was going to be a horrible choice for modulation; granted OFDM wasn't ready when they developed the standard...
I don't know about the "business" issues (you're probably right about that) but I read that 8VSB was going to be overly vulnerable to multipath distortion, and my experience seems to show that. I'm in a strong signal area with many transmitters, but I get dropouts all the time from trucks driving by, airplanes, police helicopters, etc. With analog, the video would get ghost images and audio would usually be unaffected. Now the video pixelates (OK) and the audio frequently drops out (unacceptable). They should have at least left audio as analog...
Heck, if you're traveling with the same company and have a late incoming flight connecting to an outbound spoke they might hold the gate for you a few minutes. On approach I've been told the connecting gate, walked straight to it and boarded as the last passenger, grabbed a seat and a few minutes later we're in the air. That doesn't happen at a major hub, if you're late you missed it.
I had that happen once at Denver several years ago. My first flight left late (from LAX - big surprise). As we were approaching the gate, they asked everyone who wasn't connecting to another flight to stay seated a minute. We walked up the jetway and fortunately just across the concourse to the next gate, where one of the pilots was waiting for us and followed us, closing the door behind him.
Must submit to full background and security clearance check.
No, those usually require already having a Top Secret security clearance, with special compartmentalization authorization for that proprietary hardware.
Also that non-flexible work schedule is probably graveyard shift.
I figured they were on their way out when I saw them on display at the car wash cash register.
And near the registers in every CVS.
I first noticed these things when I was traveling in UK last month, and I saw them in shops everywhere. I'm glad I didn't bother getting a couple as silly gag gifts while I was there, because I'm noticing them here (USA) now too.
Sierra Madre !
Upgrades?
We don't need no steekin' upgrades!
(Still running Mavericks.)
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.