18th April 2005, 5:18 PM
Well that's rather limiting... So ALL fiction should be like that?
Oh yeah, the sound generator thing? Yeah I heard about that. Stupid... It was stupid before, but that explanation is even worse. Better the other way, the sound is just for people watching the movies to get into the scene. Now THAT is a proper explanation. I should think that if an onboard computer was going to analyze ship positions it would present them in a much better way like, I dunno, TELLING them what's happening?
And um, this "law" doesn't specify any limits. It's not properly constructed to be a law. Nothing is defined.
Oh yeah, the sound generator thing? Yeah I heard about that. Stupid... It was stupid before, but that explanation is even worse. Better the other way, the sound is just for people watching the movies to get into the scene. Now THAT is a proper explanation. I should think that if an onboard computer was going to analyze ship positions it would present them in a much better way like, I dunno, TELLING them what's happening?
And um, this "law" doesn't specify any limits. It's not properly constructed to be a law. Nothing is defined.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)