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I will attempt to analyze the multiple series from a hard/soft sci fi perspective.

Enterprise is probably the hardest. Very RPG-like how they operate to their self made rules in what compared to later series is extreme limitations. Life is a lot different when the fastest transport ship flys at warp 1 and everything isn't deus ex machina away with AI or technobabble. On the other hand they overdo the "wooden ships and iron men" thing a little and there is too much "pew pew" action.

Next up is DS9. Some technobabble for dramatic license but still reads like a paper and pencil RPG fiction (which is good). Some "crewman of the week" cheesy soft filler episodes but mostly hard science fiction story. Has a reasonably hard science overall story arc. Arguably the best overall series. Has the best "hard" written "soft" character in all of trek, the Cardassian "tailor". He's not really a tailor, hope this isn't too much of a spoiler. Best sci fi on TV, maybe.

TOS is all over the map. Sometimes they did a good job of both hard and soft sci fi at the same time. Then there's "space hippies" or "spocks brain" or "spock needs to get laid" which we'll pretend never happened. There is an unrealistic (by hard sci fi standards) fixation on alien planets being the wild west desert. You NEED to watch certain individual episodes, like the doomsday machine.

TNG is the softest series, its General Hospital soap opera, on a space ship. Toward the middle either its a short story arc, sometimes halfway decent, or "crewmember of the week special story". The Wesley character is kind of the series Jar-Jar and you'd do best to skip episodes where he is "crewman of the month". Also the romance episodes read like fanfic from /r9k/. The alien civilizations are bad caricatures.

Generally across all the series from a hard sci fi viewpoint if an episode involves space nazis, time travel, Ferengi, romance, or a holodeck accident, it can be ignored with little to no loss with very few exceptions.
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Its 9pm where I am and I'm too tired to type, but the advice above is simply very bad. How is he supposed to live until (if ever) his idea gains traction? Better to work on the business until it is profitable.
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I, for one, am optimistic. Even though the JJ Abrams reboot movies sucked, he's not the only one who can do the work. There are hordes of people in Hollywood who grew up on Star Trek, love it properly, and want to bring back the spirit of exploration and optimism and the ensemble cast work that make the older series so compelling. I think the world needs a new Star Trek - one that isn't just shiny effects, but holds true to the sense of hope and courage that I loved and still love. And I know it can be done.

On the plus side, the quality of ensemble-cast science fiction tv writing has exploded over the past 15-20 years, starting with how Babylon 5 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer built season and multi-season story arcs that depended on character growth. I would love to see the sort of rich, passionate writing that made Firefly, Walking Dead, and other shows so effective applied to Star Trek!

And I'm a little biased toward the development of web-only series - some friends of mine are doing Cartoon Network's first web-only series, and I'm really hoping it succeeds spectacularly and points a new direction for CN. Fixed timeslots in general are a dated way of doing shows now. Timeshifting is the norm.

So yeah, hope for a bright future. And screw the Prime Directive.
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4000 years into the future would take us to Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda :)
In other news, bread comes in white. Glad someone has already posted scale of economy against other sources. Cool beans.
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It says BS or PhD now (don't know if they changed it).
Thanks for the extensive response but with around 62k mails a day, on each MX, I think pre-queue filtering requires too much RAM.

It's been made clear to me, thanks to this thread, that I first and foremost need to explore greylisting in postfix before mail is passed to the proxy_filter. Secondly that I should explore dspam and rspamd as faster alternatives to SA.
BSG is in many ways a response to the happiness and ease of Voyager, with pretty much everyone leading a good life with plentiful resources despite being marooned far from any help. Terribly lazy writing had the Voyager crew constantly destroy shuttlecraft and fire photon torpedoes they weren't supposed to be able to replace. The ship started out with 38 torpedoes and no way to replace them (stated explicitly in dialogue!) and by the end of the show they had used something like 85 of them.

Total internal consistency isn't necessary, and can actually be harmful to a show if you take it too far. Sometimes it's better to conveniently paper over an earlier mistake. But this is just plain laziness in writing, and it hurt the show by removing a lot of material for conflict and drama.

Ronald Moore was a big driving force behind the new BSG and previously did a lot of work on various Star Treks, including a brief stint with Voyager. In many ways, BSG is "how Voyager should have been."
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Since the username was available again, probably someone else could have created a new profile with the username lazer.
With the caveat that I haven't tried it myself:

> What about pattern matching? This is where the word “sealed” above comes in handy; we can do an exhaustive pattern match without an else/otherwise branch

from https://medium.com/@octskyward/kotlin-fp-3bf63a17d64a#.8dbwa...
To be fair the "tech" of laser tag is pretty minimal too :-) but its a fair point. Makes me wonder if there is a business in making props for these rooms with a bit more flash.
Yeah; any period dramas, fantasy or sci fi shows are just going to be ridiculously expensive. Sitcoms and ensemble dramas are a little cheaper; but eventually if the show gets popular, the cast will demand to be paid. But at least for the first couple seasons the show is cheap to produce, and if it builds an audience, it's easier to justify the increased cost.

Sci Fi shows are the most expensive in their first season, because you have to design the universe up-front. A network exec doesn't know if the show is going to pull an audience, but he does know he's got to drop a whole lot of money to even find out. Which makes other options a lot more attractive, and explains the lack of high-quality Sci Fi on TV right now.

And like it or not, the cinematic tie-ins and continuity within the universe are what make Marvel appealing as a brand. DC has done a terrible job at this; the upcoming Batman vs. Superman movie has different actors and takes place in a different universe than the last (or really, any) Batman movie. Having multiple Batman characters confuses audiences, and Marvel has done a really good job keeping things consistent.
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Wealth disparity may be growing, but I think folks disagree about the source. Some point to tax havens which allow the rich to accumulate wealth without a bit being shaved off and redistributed. They say we need to increase taxes and disallow tax havens to limit wealth accumulation.

I don't think taxes paint the full picture. For the past 7 years or so central banks in the US, Japan, and UK (and recently the European Central Bank) have embarked on aggressive quantitative easing programs, printing and injecting into the economy massive amounts of new cash, propping up banks and stock markets. The first layer that this cash passes through is filled with wealthy folks (i.e. bankers and those with lots of investments). The people at the lower end of the wealth spectrum benefit indirectly through living in an economy which survived and having their investment-backed retirement/pension packages in-tact (for the most part). Thus quantitative easing is fundamentally a regressive stimulus package, with most of the new cash going into the pockets of the most wealthy, and the least wealthy getting table scraps by comparison.

Quantitative easing may have spared us a collapsed global economy, but the effects are increasing wealth inequality. I don't know what the best solution is, and in fact I don't think anybody does. Everyone is kinda shooting in the dark here.
Voyager is definitely the worst offender with "reverse the polarity" plot devices, but it also doesn't take itself so seriously. It was very much the polar opposite of BSG in that regard.

I didn't find DS9 picked up that problem in the later seasons though, so I've got to disagree with you there.
How was the setup for you? For us I think there were cameras in each room, and a radio we could use to ask the staffer clarifications about the game itself. But they weren't present in the room itself and I don't think they had audio.

I agree you need a hands on approach to guiding. For example, in the same game we found a pencil but the lead was broken. So we asked "is the lead supposed to be broken; if not I have a pen in my pocket..." and they gave an emphatic "yes it's part of the challenge". So when other obstacles came up we of course assumed they were part of the challenge too.
So, they received the new text, read it, and accepted it, but they were never notified of the new text?

It seems like you are requiring some out-of-band signalling? What should the specs be for that other signalling mechanism?
It would be a nice feature to reject any PRs that are over a certain # of characters diff. That way it becomes more collaborative instead of wholesale replacement.
Wow. This could be another user re-creating the account to create drama, though. Is the rest of the profile info (favorite line of code, etc.) the same?

I wouldn't call it impossible, but this seems like such a deliberately bad move that I can't even believe it was done by livecoding.tv
The offer says "BS or PhD" and said so before your comment. We accept anything, even no diploma, and do not require anything above a BS. It turns out that our best candidates had the most education, but we would love to be proven wrong for our next hire.
What did you dislike about the reboot films? I really liked them, I thought they were cast well, and were over-all pretty good.

edit: others in the comments have noted that the reboots are basically just action sequences with none of the underlying social themes that made Star Trek significant in the first place.
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The [Racket gui toolkit](http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/) is successfully multithreaded, and manages this despite being implemented on top of existing non-multithreaded and non-thread-safe toolkits. It's hard, but it's certainly not impossible.

[Here's a paper](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/icfp99-ffkf.pdf) about the system, and how it enables cool new stuff
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Perhaps. Observed a lovely exchange a while back where a database was being publicly shamed for producing a poor unit file (i think they actually had the unit file launch a shell script that fired up the database).

Their response given was that it was the only way for them to avoid tying their database to the systemd signaling lib.

This was counted by one of the systemd devs claiming they could just use a socket that systemd provides.

But when i poked at the documentation, the only place such a "option" was mentioned was at the bottom of the man file for said lib. And it was presented as a note on the internal workings of systemd.

And you will find warning after warning about not using systemd internals, as the devs reserve the right to change the behavior of those internals at any time.
Sure I use SSD Persistent disk and the latency is pretty horrible with the throughput being worse, it is much slower than a similar AWS EBS volume.

--- /dev/sda1 (device 20.0 GiB) ioping statistics ---
13 requests completed in 12.5 s, 161 iops, 647.9 KiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 213 us / 6.2 ms / 18.2 ms / 6.0 ms

This is pretty bad, everything on AWS is under a millisecond.

I submit feedback through the feedback links in the panel and on the product forums. Since you folks don't offer any other way of communicating.
>and a feature request

What does this mean?
That quote really doesn't explain anything, since they could put it in the 24th or 25th century in the new timeline, and not have it impact the upcoming movie.
Actually, the JS specification doesn't constrain the date parser except to require that ISO 8601 dates must be accepted, so it differs from JS engine to JS engine. I'm guessing you're testing in V8, since my SpiderMonkey test right now gave Invalid Date for both of those.

It got really annoying for me because the ISO 8601 portion of the parser refused to accept leap seconds but non-ISO-8601 forms (such as RFC 5322) did.
Not the OP, but I'll take a stab at it: In increased the separation between those who could read, and those who could not, because there was more to read. Note well: that separation was along a skill line, not along a class line (though the skill was largely but not completely correlated with class at that time).
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I'm not a hardcore fan either I watched TNG, DS9 and Voyager as just another Scifi show back when MGM, Paramount and 20cent Fox still wanted to make television we had Stargate, Babylon 5, Star Trek, then Scifi was pretty much left to in the hands of syndicated TV productions and basic cable which resulted in well meh.

Shows like BSG are pretty much unicorn's these days no one seems to want to make serious scifi the best we can hope for is for the random Canadian show to be picked up by SyFy and not being shredded (Continuum was good, Dark Matter seems interesting but very goofy).

SyFy is also trying to get of their asses together I'm still hoping that they'll pick up Ascension it's backdoor pilot / mini-series was one of the most interesting Scifi concepts of late and if they don't screw up 'Childhoods End' (which from the trailer looks like an HBO show which is great) I might actually believe that they still can produce something besides fake reality shows and wrestlemania.
> I really hope that this won't be in the rebooted universe because it was well kinda meh.

I'd bet money that it will be. The potential for movie tie-ins alone will make it irresistible. (also the producer of the movies is involved)
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Any examples of such a system?
Any recommended good ones in Washington DC?
I don't know that a post-TNG Worf would be all that interesting anyway. He largely overcame his struggle between his Klingon and Star Fleet self, which is where most of his appeal lay (for me at least).
NYU Ada/ED -- the free teaching compiler that went on to become GNAT -- was released in 1983, 4 years before the first release of GCC, the same year Stallman first published his Free Software Manifesto, and two years before the FSF was created. It's hardly for lack of compilers that people rejected Ada (I agree that the ecosystem there is lacking relative to other options in 2015).

Also, FWIW, seL4 is not an ecosystem. It's a mish mash of Haskell prototype, Isabelle/HOL proofs, and C99 code put together by an extremely talented team. You might use some of their tricks, but there is no such thing as putting together an "seL4 ecosystem" software project.
I'm a bit disappointed how pessimistic this thread is. They're bringing Star Trek back! There are 1000 reasons it might fail, but it's GREAT to see them trying. The ideals are timeless.
Have you looked at IDEAVim plug-in for IntelliJ?