Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Made mid '80’s.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Made mid '80’s.
If you had been a fly on the wall, you would have seen the lines on the table…
This isn’t a science post, it’s a political agenda post.
It must be awful to live in a place where scientific study into human well being is political.
It sounds like some undeveloped country where you can’t drink the tap water.
I’m not saying anything goes either but if people around you use less and fewer interchangeably, there is no communication breakdown at all.
Do you know the correct times to use practice vs practise?
People thinking the English language is static and has to follow rules.
This Is English, my friend. The top dog of non-proscriptive languages where meanings change over time and reflect current usage.
Want to force everyone to follow the rules?
Start speaking French.
It is as realistic as that other nature documentary, Sharknado.
I know, I have seen them.
I was sysadmin for a Bankruptcy and Insolvency Firm for more than a decade and walked into 100s of businesses on the point of failure. Many of them could not be saved simply because their systems were so bad it was better for a buyer to buy their equipment and start with a clean sheet.
The ice cream business was going under because the partner who had been the access self starter had an argument with the others and had walked out 18months ago.
The access system ran the entire business (accounting and wages were on other programs but the db feed them data) and he was the only one who had any idea.
Shit started to go wrong and they had no idea what to do.
I believe you. I can even guess the story.
In the late 80s/early 90s a staff member (self taught in office/access) quickly threw together something at the request of a manager as a stop gap wile a new proper system was specked out.
The person learned as they went and the system grew in functionality and complexity until the term spaghetti code was a massive understatement. It became their job.
The new proper system never arrived and they have been making do for the past 30-40 years.
I ran into the same thing a decade or so ago and it was a nightmare, but it was just an ice cream franchise, not prison related
The prisoner transport system ran on MS access lol
This is just…Well, if you wrote a prison escape movie that involved accessing an Access DB to reroute a transport you would be laughed at.
Welcome to the age of positive feedback. The ride will not be fun but it will be spectular.
Sadly children born in the last decaded will look on the 2020s as the good old days and they will be right.
This quote, the origional souce of which is hard to find, is sadly relevant.
When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.
And yet the 10,000 years of the clock’s run time is not even a single tick in comparison to geological time or the lifespan of the sun.
Human life spans are so short in comparison to the wider universe it is hard for the human mind to grasp. We are not even a blink in the eye of a person who lives to 100.
True but the problem is that they see 1,000,000s of people using the free version and think they are leaving money on the table by not charging and assume ~50% will happily pay for it when the conversion rate from free to paid is usually closer to 1% than it is to 50%.
That make sense?
Yes, it does.
It sounds like the discovery of the mechanics was more rewarding for you as making progress and winning.
I‘m probably just fed up with being the oddball all the time.
Don’t be. It is the oddballs of the world that are actually the agents of change.
Having read this I would suggest you have a look at Kerbal space program. On the surface it is a fairly simple game but the mechanics of actual space flight are very complex.
Giving something away for free then expecting to make people pay for it is always a winning strategy…
I replied to a comment saying one way of putting bog roll on is more hygienic…
People who care this much about dunny paper must not have much else going on .
Here’s a tip to ensure your toilet use is hygienic no matter howe the paper is stored: After you take a shit, wipe, then wash your hands
Its about the fact that minecraft isnt as fun as it used to be (to you)
It sounds more like you have changed, rather than minecraft.
That is normal. People’s tastes change.
What do you think are currently games that are not focused on children and have great potential?
That is such an open ended question as to be impossible to really answer well.
You have stated you no longer enjoy minecraft but not what you do like playing. So again, quite hard to make a recommendation.
Do you want building sims? Tropico or Cities: Skylines.
Other than that, I have no idea what to recommend.
That patent expired more than a century ago.
Society has moved on.
I am very comfortable with never owning a ubisoft game ever again.
If you are going all the way back, movie wise, you can start at Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan as the first one is not the strongest.
2, 3 and 4 make a good trilogy.