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Is this why every sodding space-based 4X game makes the player explore the universe at the start?
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moons of gas giants
Have to admit I didn't think of that
which is fine for TV SF show, of course, but it's still bullshit
As long as it's internally consistent enough to break my willing suspension of disbelief, I'm fine with bullshit
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As long as it's internally consistent enough to break my willing suspension of disbelief, I'm fine with bullshit
Me, too. I'm just saying I had some cognitive dissonance about the...geography?...geometry?...of the show.
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Sure, but all of them in the habitable zone?
It's... a magic star! Rainbows! Ponies! Ok, I got nothing.
I was never that bothered by it in Firefly tbqh, so I never thought about it that hard. They downplayed the science of it pretty much so I ignored it. Kinda like Star Wars, which I'd slot into fantasy genre, just with spaceships, I slotted Firefly under western, just with spaceships.
Now, when they fuck up the science* in Star Trek, then I get pissed.
* Basic stuff. Warp drives and transporters are part of the lore and I accept them as such.
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Now, when they fuck up the science* in Star Trek, then I get pissed.
Now I'm confused. I thought the science in there was always the joke.
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Now I'm confused. I thought the science in there was always the joke.
Again, referring to basic, textbook stuff. Shooting tachyons through the deflector? Yeah, technobabble bullshit, roll with it. Referring to event horizon of a black hole as some kind of physical barrier? Bullshit, GTFO.
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Referring to event horizon of a black hole as some kind of physical barrier? Bullshit, GTFO.
Huh. I can't imagine that bothering me.
You're not one of those fish eaters, are you?
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You're not one of those fish eaters, are you?
Reference lost. But I'm not a fan of fish in a non-metaphorical sense.
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TvTropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance
Firefly was ambivalent as to whether action was taking place in a "system", presumed to be a solar system, or the galaxy. It was finally pinned down into a series of five star systems, four of which were orbiting around a single giant star, which was reached from Earth by Generation Ship. The show was vague about distances and speeds, e.g. "How far can it go?" "Standard short-range."
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Given the number of planets and moons, I'd say multiple systems is more likely
The movie muddied the waters with River's recollection of "a system with hundreds of planets" or whatever it was she said: TDEMSYR. It pretty much has to be multiple systems.
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The movie muddied the waters with River's recollection of "a system with hundreds of planets" or whatever it was she said: TDEMSYR. It pretty much has to be multiple systems.
Yeah. That was my impression, except that a lot other things pointed at a single one. Or so I recall. It's been a while since I've watched it.
Hmm...I think my daughter watched it all last summer. I'll ask her impression...
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Hmm...I think my daughter watched it all last summer. I'll ask her impression...
First, she said that it was multiple. But then as she was talking about it, doubt crept in. She agreed with me that it was somewhat ambiguous.
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Kinda like Star Wars, which I'd slot into fantasy genre, just with spaceships, I slotted Firefly under western, just with spaceships.
And that's exactly how Wikipedia categorizes them, though they use the term "space opera" for Star Wars.
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1) winkey + start typing doesn't work
Repro. Ok, maybe you taskbar-on-bottom people win. Fuck. A vertical taskbar totally breaks search.
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A vertical taskbar totally breaks search.
Nope, "A non-bottom taskbar breaks search". It doesn't work if the taskbar's on the top, either. I left testing a right-docked bar for a pedant[1].
[1] should we derive "pendant" as a noun from "pendantry?" I'm not sure. It sounds silly.
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[1] should we derive "pendant" as a noun from "pendantry?" I'm not sure. It sounds silly.
Isn't that a reason to do it?
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So now taskbar / panel placement will be the new contentious issue around here?
Now I feel old for remembering the bracket placement wars...
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My grandmas are all dead you insensitive clods!
Microaggression ftl.
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Total planets, maybe. Rocky planets with roughly Earth-like gravity (strong enough that people aren't jumping 10 feet in the air, weak enough that they can still walk) might be a bit more rare
We've very little evidence on that so far, either for or against; our current techniques for detecting planets aren't really all that suitable for “small” rocky planets. It's like the drunkard searching for his keys under the lamppost, not because that's where he dropped them, but because that's where he can see…
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There are no planets known that can support Joss Whedon dialog. Especially Earth.
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I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me.
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Nope, "A non-bottom taskbar breaks search".
Srsly? How does Windows break such basic stuff? Did they throw out all of their old taskbar code after 7 and start over from scratch?
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Srsly? How does Windows break such basic stuff?
My only guess is that in Win7, Win+typing was a function of the Start menu, not the taskbar. In Win8 it moved to the Start screen, of course. Now in 10, it's in the taskbar, not the start menu. Perhaps the code was lost somewhere, but then again, a number of things change when you put your taskbar vertically, since it's not normally wide enough. IIRC Quick Launch bars and Explorer bars with text boxes didn't work right going back to XP (earlier?) if the taskbar wasn't horizontal, either.
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Perhaps the code was lost somewhere, but then again, a number of things change when you put your taskbar vertically, since it's not normally wide enough.
Which is insane, because it pops open a dialog. None of this shit happens "inside" the bar or the button.
IIRC Quick Launch bars and Explorer bars with text boxes didn't work right going back to XP (earlier?) if the taskbar wasn't horizontal, either.
So Microsoft is like sharks, where you turn the shark over and it goes catatonic.
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Which is insane, because it pops open a dialog.
Sure, but there's a textbox in the taskbar at first. When you type, text goes in the box. You can't really do that with the bar vertically unless you widen the shit out of the bar--nope, never mind that, in that case, when you start typing, the box goes onto the dialog.
Actually from playing with it, I bet the text box in the taskbar itself is a fake, and the one you type in is just placed so that it overlays the other one when the taskbar's on bottom.
BTW: "To change the order of app buttons on the taskbar, drag a button from its current position to a different one. You can rearrange them as often as you like. " Oh, I'm glad you added that last sentence, because until then it had never occurred to me there might be a limit. HOW WILL I SLEEP AT NIGHT, BILL GATES?
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Oh, I'm glad you added that last sentence, because until then it had never occurred to me there might be a limit. HOW WILL I SLEEP AT NIGHT, BILL GATES?
From Windows 10.1 patch notes:
* Increased the number of allowed icon rearrangements. Who will rearrange their icons more than 10k times anyway?
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Sure, but there's a textbox in the taskbar at first.
I don't have 8.1 handy to play with right now. I'm just going off of what 7 does, which obviously uses the start menu.
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Bill's not worked at MS in years
Like stuff the Borg don't care about, that's irrelevant to my joke.
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I don't have 8.1 handy to play with right now. I'm just going off of what 7 does, which obviously uses the start menu.
8.x opens the start screen, of course. I showed a screenshot of the results upthread. I think it was in this thread.
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Oh, I'm glad you added that last sentence, because until then it had never occurred to me there might be a limit.
Taskbars by Discourse.
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8.x opens the start screen, of course. I showed a screenshot of the results upthread. I think it was in this thread.
...and because of that, the position of the taskbar, like @raceprouk's objections, is irrelevant.
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What nitpickery?
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If you can't figure it out I may have to start calling you blakeyrat junior.
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If you can't figure it out I may have to start calling you blakeyrat junior.
THERE WAS NO NITPICKERY. YOU IDIOTS CAN'T PROVIDE A LINK. FUCK YOU.
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If you can't figure it out I may have to start calling you blakeyrat junior.
Was I nitpicking somewhere? I seriously can't remember… I'll go look...
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He wouldn't do this.
Exactly.Anyway, I've found it now; it was a back-and-forth between me and @Gaska. It was mostly me saying that his complaints about the Start Screen didn't really make a lot of sense, since the Start Menu shares a lot of the problems he was mentioning.
Still not sure how that relates to Cortana in Win10 though
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Why did they name their search feature after a fictional AI anyway
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LOL, no, it was you saying Bill Gates isn't at MS any more.
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Yeah, I figured that's what you were doing. I said, so you'd stop.
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Why did they name their search feature after a fictional AI anyway
Because Siri happened 4 years ago and they've taken this long to come up with a name for their rival
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Because Siri happened 4 years ago and they've taken this long to come up with a name for their rival
Well, we do know that naming things is hard...