The Rift by Peter David
http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/The_Rift

I'm a nerd.

What exactly _is_ the emoticon for 'cut off limb X'?

Who do you trust? People who come in from all over the place with their "security experience" who build antivirus software that can protect against exploitation of all the security holes in Microsoft products, or the people who develop the Microsoft products that have those holes in them?

I say stay with the people who know the holes best, and who knows a child better than its parent? Microsoft!

No silly, it's about watches.

Quis custodiet ipsos chronos?

You seem to have watched /
the wrong trailer.
How awkward.

> And why have a Korean play a Japanese character (Sulu)? WTF?

I know! And I heard that the guy who's playing Spock isn't even a real alien!

The new Enterprise looks neat, but the fanboy in me wishes the change to the secondary hull hadn't been so pronounced, because the part of my brain that can explain away the differences ("Obviously, they did another refit between when this was shot and when Pike was captain, yeah, that's it!") would have trouble understanding why the entire shape of that secondary hull is so different.

But then again, I don't want to be one of those sad Battlestar Galactica fans who still hate the new series because they DARED to change things from the original one.

Blast! Different nerds are fighting it out in my head, and the only constant is the martial trek 'fight music' that's playing right now.

When he mentions it being 'disruptive', he's referring to the concept of disruptive technology as written about in The Innovator's Dilemma by Christensen:
http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-National-Bestseller/dp/0066620694

Great read, and the concepts are laid out here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology

If you're not familiar with the concept, it's worth checking out.

For the same reason you do performance testing on slow machines. It makes it easier to detect differences in sound quality (or slow code in performance testing) and the results scale smoothly upwards.

By limiting the bitrate to 128, you're more likely to get good data instead of just guesses.

When marriage is made illegal, only outlaws will have inlaws.

It's an LED with an anticipated life of 20,000 hours. That's, like, a war-crime's amount of PowerPoint.

Can 'War Crime' be a unit of measurement for terribleness and quantity?

I suggest mounting a standard generator at the core of the prospective space ship and attaching a coffin containing one of our founding fathers to it. The rapid spinning should provide plentiful power for all manner of techno-gadgetry.