Reliant wrote:At least, he was actually fairly mild by some standards. When you get into a debate with most of our heavy hitters (Tyyr, Cpt. Seafort, Deep) you have to expect it.
I already said the same thing to Deepcrush: Just because your environment makes it casual to throw insults and offensive comments around doesn't make it right. And just because the rules says nothing is against doesn't make it right too. Being insulting makes any kind of argument personnal and detrimental to the conservation, since you are attacking the arguer, not the argument. Why? Because the insutled parties start sticking to their side of the issue at all cost, regardless of wether they are right or not, just for the principle of things. Therefore, removing any point of the argument, where you are trying to convince the other party.
I already lost my temper once on this website because of such attitude, and I don't want to be drawn again into another useless fece-throwing.
Tyyr wrote:SolkaTruesilver wrote:Rather than being an offensive jerk who throws insults,
Awww, aren't you cute. Would you like me to lasso you the moon while we're talking about s**t that's never going to happen? I've said it before to people, I'll stop being an asshole when you stop being an idiot.
Be abusive as much as you want, it doesn't make you right. I ain't wrong just because you throw an insult at me, and you aren't proven right just because I refuse to participate in further insults.
Ok, lets review. Emergency situation. Data has lost his s**t. Picard decides to deal with this himself, rather stupid to begin with, and takes chase. There is absolutely no evidence at all that the HMS Pinafore thing was thought out ahead of time. The visuals indicate that Picard thought this up on the fly. Being that he came up with this on the fly that means he probably didn't prep for it.
- Emergy situation. What does it have to do with the argument? Picard knew Data has gone berserk, and he had time to plan his strategy, very much in-character for Picard.
- It is not indicated that Picard improvised it either. Whatever "visuals" that you may perceived as "Picard thought it on the fly" is quite subjective, and can be interpreted in many ways. Maybe he had quite a good number of strategy in mind, and he set his mind on one at that very moment.
In this serious emergency situation he's decided to have one of the shuttles displays be taken up by his MP3 player. This wasn't some tiny console in the back or in a hard to reach place it was one of the main ones front and center. The kind on modern aircraft that's reserved for important s**t both pilots need. You're honestly suggesting that they decided to burn a display on his MP3 collection?
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Two clicks either indicates that Picard took the time to set up one important flight console with his music just in case he wanted to listen to something, remember there was no music before he started up HMS Pinafore. Or the computer was doing some weird futuristic mind reading s**t. I'd generally like to assume Picard was a tad more professional and not incompetent.
Even on a modern computer, a work computer, or anything, you can easily set any interface to "with this click, play this music and make one of my screen go into Karaoke mode". It doesn't take that much time on our own computers, I don't see why the shuttle Picard decided to pick for his mission couldn't have been programmed like that.
The LCARS interface itself might be dubious, but I have no problem thinking that Starfleet officers are all trainer programmers who can redesign their interface based on their most common needs. Since they all know their own console set out personnally, for having programmed them, they all know intuitively how to use it. Hell, there is probably also "standardized" programming courses at the Academy to make sure that your officers keep the same basic design templates.
When an officer takes a console, you usually see him tap a few things immediately on the screen. Maybe they are calling up the interface they already pre-programmed? Would make sense, if you accept my interpretation.
But seriously, I think programming capacity is actually quite reasonable to assume on the parts of Starfleet Officers.
