Star Trek – AuliaSays

It’s always upsetting seeing a StarTrek show ending whether by its own accord or by executive order but when it’s ordered, it doesn’t get to conclude on its own terms no matter how much time they give it.

Discovery hasn’t been the best among all Treks and even breaks the mold of what a Trek show is especially given how frequently it’s centered and dependent on Michael Burnham saving the day. What it does have though, are some of the boldest story tellings in the franchise and really going to new places and opening up far more possibilities.

Would have loved to see it go six or seven seasons with Burnham as captain in a rebuild of the Federation in the 32nd century and all the storylines and conflicts that would have gone along with it. Maybe we’ll still get to see it in season 5 but just one season of that, and only ten episodes, it’s going to come in very compact and rushed.

MacBook Pro: The Next Generation

Apple SVP Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller took to the stage at Worldwide Developer Conference earlier today to introduce the new MacBooks with Intel’s latest processors. The MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro received the usual and expected regular internal upgrades, but Apple’s biggest notebook announcement was the next generation MacBook Pro.

The new MacBook Pro is a 15.4 inch notebook weighing only 4.5 pounds and only 0.71 inch thick. The screen is a retina display with 2880 * 1800 pixels for 220 ppi, roughly double the sharpness of the screens on the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.

The next generation MacBook Pro is powered by a 2.3 GHz quad core i7 Intel processor, 8GB of RAM, GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of video RAM, 256 GB of flash storage, upgradable to 768GB. As far as ports are concerned, it has MagSafe 2, HDMI out, USB 2 and USB 3 ports, and two Thunderbolt ports. Firewire 800 and Ethernet ports have been relegated to dongle status. With this update it looks like Apple is quietly discontinuing the 17-inch MacBook Pro.

As expected, there is no longer an optical drive and since this is the next generation MacBook Pro, don’t expect optical drives in future MacBook Pro updates. Apple has been known to keep legacy models though, such as the white MacBook which Apple quietly discontinued earlier this year but it remains to be seen if Apple will keep selling MacBook Pros with optical drive once the next generation model become the standard, and if so, for how long.

To support the new MacBook Pro’s retina display, Apple has updated its built in Mac OS X Lion, the iWork and iLife suites as well as its professional apps. Adobe and AutoDesk are also updating their apps to support the retina display.

This introduction of the new MacBook Pro marks the end of the monstrous 17" model. The next generation MacBook Pro starts from $2199.

In the public’s eye, Cook has become the Riker to Jobs’ Picard—and people generally like Riker.

Jacqui Cheng writing about Tim Cook’s first company letter as CEO of Apple.

Waitaminute… Captain Cook?

thedailywhat:

Babylon Galactica Quote of the Day: Aaaand we’re done.

[reddit.]

Earlier: Star Trek QOTD; Stargate QOTD.

hidekiryuga:

How to annoy Star Wars, Star Trek, and Firefly fans at the same time.

Source: reddit.com

thedailywhat:

Pizza Cutter of the Day: “Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter” from ThinkGeek.

Officially licensed collectable. Laser-etched stainless steel blade; solid zinc-alloy chromium plated body.

Space… the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new pizzas, to seek out new toppings and new cheeses, to boldy cut pizza where no man has cut before!

Make it slice.

This would be perfect to cut this.

Source: thinkgeek.com