Not that I disagree with you, but since there is a very widespread ideal notion of what Star Trek was, it seems like someone would have the vision to try to make that ideal real.

But no, let's just take some generic Hollywood pablum, stick some names from a popular franchise on it so it will sell, and leave the thinking for someone else.

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Yeah, I thought the first one was a mildly entertaining adventure movie, but not Star Trek.

I'll only go see this one if I decide to shell out $20 for an evening of mild entertainment. More likely I'll stay home and watch the Harry Potter movies.

If you're concerned with chauvinism, you should have noticed that ToS was a parable about an international crew under the benevolent command of an American captain, who occasionally had to yank the Russian's chain to keep him under control.

Google Docs--er--Drive (don't like the new brand) is convenient. Like, my wife and I can edit and watch the budget (spreadsheet) easily on different devices. I know a lot of people use Mint.com and whatnot, but it is insufficient for our needs (I use both. Mint has its place.). When we were preparing for adoption, it was convenient for editing various documents without having to email stuff around. Dropbox can work, but you can also easily overwrite someone else's changes. Live editing with history makes that less likely.

It's also nice for making Christmas Wish Lists as you can share it with tech-savvy grandparents and they can claim items. As a blended family, we have a lot of people to manage when it comes to Christmas and birthdays.

If you have a lot of young single dude friends or non-planning type families, yeah, what's the point? But, for planning-type people and microbusinesses, it's really useful until you outgrow it. Then there's Google Apps for Business and Quickbooks when you're ready to take the next step.

$0.02USD, YMMV, offer not valid in California, Alaska, or the US Virgin Islands,
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pretend?

I thought the last story said we had 30 years before this happens.

The question that actually needs to be asked is, will the people who own the robots let the rest of us have any food?

Indeed, for most home and SOHO users, Google Docs/Drive/Apps is Good Enough[tm].

When you get to the point where you need Excel, you buy Excel. Oh, it comes with a word processor. How nice. If you're not mail merging, who cares?

And frankly, I like Google's presentation software better than PowerPoint simply due to its simplicity and near universal access.

It's not Open Source. That sucks. But it is free and easy to access and use. Just trade your data and your soul to Google Marketing Group and be done with it. :)

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lazy fare.

Actually he's one of the world's leading computational neuroscientists, and he's not proposing to just hook a lot of computers together.

He's proposing to simulate the brain from the neuron level up. And he just won a billion-euro award to pursue that.

If it's on the internet, maybe it will post to Slashdot as an A/C.

You want me to list my cred? You want to measure my green-peen, as it were?
I walk to work. I live 15 minutes away. To do that, I live in a small apartment with my partner. By living in a smaller space, our carbon footprint is markedly lower than people in bigger spaces. We have a single car that we don't drive very often, and when we do, it's on the highway. It's 6 years old, and I don't plan on replacing it any time soon. It's a turbo-diesel, so it's very good on fuel (though we know now that it's not so great on particulates--but it's still better for me to keep it than to incur the overhead of buying a new one). I own several bicycles, because I'm a bike racer. I recycle. I eat relatively little meat, and it's getting less every year. My electricity comes from hydro.

And yeah, I DO want a carbon tax to take into account the negative externalities not accounted for in the price of carbon-based fuels. Just because CO2 is invisible doesn't mean it has no effect on anything. I also think that big pipelines like Keystone XL are a bad idea because they encourage more fossil fuel use when we should be cutting back, and I try to vote in a way that promotes my environmental beliefs.

Al Gore isn't my messiah. I'm Canadian, so David Suzuki is much more my style.

So, yes. I want you to live like me, and I'm better than you. Are you happy now?

I'm late to the game, but anonymous charity is the best kind of charity. Nobody needs to know if you're charitable. Maybe he's not known for it, but that doesn't mean he wasn't doing it. I guess we'll never know, unless his family decides to say something about it.