Star Trek's Wesley Crusher blasts Google+ landgrab A former Star Trek: The Next Generation actor, who is plastered all over the internet, has blasted Google for trying to force people into signing up to its social network. Wil Wheaton, who played Wesley Crusher, son of chief medical officer Dr Beverly Crusher in the popular TV series, attacked Google after he discovered that …
And you can't use the old thumb icons if you're not logged in. Youtube uses handles instead of real names, even for G+ users, and a G+ profile does not have to be searchable. So really there's no change here except that you apparently can't downvote a video any more. Oh, and the buttons which previously existed to let you...errr FORCE YOU...to share on Facebook and Twitter after thumbing something on Youtube were not shown in the screengrab the ageing Ensign posted.
He's famous for being "The Wesley Crusher," but also for being 'one of us' he's on the big bang theory because, despite his fame, he's as big a geek as the rest of us. He goes to sci-fi and gaming conventions, not as an exhibit... and is currently running a YouTube series on playing board games with his friends, ok he is friends with a lot of celebrities!
He knows how annoying Wesley crusher, his foot in the door, was and accepts it. And now does stuff he enjoys for his fans.
So let me get this straight... Wesley Crusher saves the day again?
1 finger: Captain says "make it so" or a Redshirt dies
2 fingers: Data doesn't get the joke or Worf doesn't get the joke
3 fingers: Geordie reverses the polarity of something
4 fingers: Wesley saves the day
Everyone take a drink!
Is there anything more painfully boring than someone commenting on an article to say "Never heard of them"? Thanks for your superb contribution to the debate. Perhaps, given that this site is fulla nerds, they'd be more interested in the opinion of another nerd than that of the latest chart rapper?
If you had you might have noticed the text in bold, here a clue if you still can't find it.
"I like Google Plus. Some of the smartest people I've ever read are on Google Plus, and the Hangout is amazing. But Google is doing everything it can to force Google Plus on everyone, and it's pissing me off."
I got to see him and most of the Eureka cast at DragonCon in 2011. He was funny as hell. At one point during the panel Wheaton said he was disappointed nobody had yet asked him to sign their boob. Without missing a beat Colin Ferguson asked somebody to give Wil a pen and started taking off his shirt. It was one of the best panels I've ever seen at an sf convention.
>yet another fucking social network they don’t want or need.
Yep - that's the problem with nerds, no social life == no need for social network
I have a G+ account but don't really bother with it, I've been busy finding a 'hack'* for the UK National Lottery that lets me log in because it thinks I am not in the UK, though when pressed they also said it was because they couldn't see my web page history.
I had a Facebook account, but deleted all the content that was on there after getting inundated with request to become a zombie, pirate, zombie-pirate, mafiosa and all sorts of similar crud.
ttfn
*turns out that opening a second tab does the trick in Chrome or FF
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"You don't get people to enthusiastically use your services by forcing them to. In fact, that's probably a great way to ensure that a huge number of people who may have been interested in trying out your service never even look at it."
That is exactly my case, and I will add that I do not want Google to have my f*****g mobile number.
It's a shame that the overly embellished description of Wheaton, with all the tabloidesque shoe-horning of his previous acting rolls and exactly who he was in Star Trek, fails to mention he is also a computer programmer, and has made more of a living out of that than acting in recent years.
Of all the things to leave out about him on a computer-centric IT news site...
...did you really have to focus on the oh-so-long-ago role of Wesley Crusher? Why not more mention of his more recent roles in Eureka, or games like Fallout: New Vegas and DC Universe Online?
Christ, he's known as an all round good guy as well as a very experienced and skilled actor, FFS.
And curse you, Reg! I had almost forgotten about "Weasel"-y Crusher. Now I am stuck with a vision of the future's fresh-faced greatest argument against single motherhood!! Couldn't he have been blown out an airlock, or gone missing during an away team mission to the pedophile colony of Gamma-Snuff IV?
"Shut up Wesley".
Partly meant as a joke but still: Google is doing everything it can to force Google+ on everyone? Guess they missed me then. You get what you pay for and if you don't like it (this includes me btw) then don't use their services and move on to something else. THEN you're making a statement.
I used to think the trend towards evil wasn't the Google's fault, but then I read that Google has become a major customer of Washington lobbyist firms.
Background: In America, most businesspeople are nice folks who just play the game of business by the rules. Meanwhile, the LEAST ethical businessmen hire lobbyists. The lobbyists bribe the CHEAPEST politicians, mostly through campaign donations (AKA SuperPACs since Citizens United). The corrupt politicians then write laws to protect the quasi-legal business models of the least ethical businessmen. The final result is American companies must become more and more cancerous and EVIL just to survive.
It can be restated as a philosophical version. Do you think that a business is in business soley to make money? I disagree. I think a business should be in business to stay in business, but if a business loses too much money, then it will go out of business. However, the rules of the game as encoded into American laws now require American businesses to grow like cancers (just to avoid being crushed or swallowed).
The greedy out-of-wedlock children who are driving this process now think their "wealth" is insured by being too big to fail. In the sad reality, a cancer always kills its host--and then the cancer also dies, so have a nice day. Google has simply joined the cancer club--and is now paying lots of money to lobbyists. Google is now increasingly at fault for the problems.
My philosophy: Government should act as an impartial referee encouraging fair competition that increases FREEDOM in the form of meaningful and unconstrained choice, while the same competition also drives innovation and improvement. The referees should get a cut of the gate (in the form of taxes) in a system that also encourages the referees to make the pie (and the total gate) bigger. However, what America has now is like a baseball game where the umpire is paid by a few of the richest teams.
I'm very careful about revealing any info on a Google service it gets stored away indefinately get in to dashboard and delete it away and why do they want my mobile number? they won't get it .!
Respect to Wil having been a child star it takes a lot of fortitude to become a respected adult actor. There is a huge list of child stars that never achieved their potential with that particular Albatross hanging round their necks, plus he seems to enjoy playing the darker characters great in both TBBT and Eureka
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