Overheard today: "the least plausible technology in Star Trek is instant video conferencing that just works".
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Replying to @scarybeasts
don't they have holoconferencing in some parts of Star Trek? I think video conferences are for them like phone bridges are for us
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Replying to @tehjh @scarybeasts
also: note the plural in the instruction "open hailing frequencies". you just turn on all the different crappy legacy implementations at the same time and see for which one you get a valid reply.
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Replying to @tehjh
OMG. You're saying the Enterprise parses all of XML, JSON, SDP, CSV, ... it's probably how the Borg got in.
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it's like AV. if you want to parse everything, you need parsers for everything, and since nobody wants to write all those parsers and you already have all those neat C implementations...
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