No, if I was insecure over enjoying a teen/tween show I wouldn't admit to watching Charmed, would I? Which would imply I was either a 14 year old boy watching for the T&A or a 35 year old woman who identifies with the sisters, considering those are the two markets that watch it. However, I am a 26 year old male, and I don't watch for T&A.
Party of Five was another soap opera, although I think calling it a teen show is stretching it a bit.
And My So-Called Life is, so I've heard, pretty good, although I've not seen it. I don't know who it was aimed at.
What those shows have to do with Buffy I don't know. The average age for a Buffy viewer in 1998 was around 28 years old, according to the Neilson ratings. Buffy's demographic has always been skewed to the 18-34/18-49 male crowd, although it gained female viewers later on.
1998, BTW, was the end of the second season, with only one more year left in high school. People seem to have this impression the whole show was in high school, when the show had 2.5 years in high school, and 4 years not in high school. So the viewership wouldn't have skewed younger as time went on.
And Joss has always said it was aimed at college kids, which is really the only market that 'high school is hell' makes sense to aim to, although obviously you'll pick up some high schoolers along the way. (Which was just the original premise. The premise of the entire show could be something like 'Life's a bitch, then you die. Then you have to do it again.')
So...it's aimed at 18-25 year olds, and watched by 18-34 year olds. I'm failing to see how it's a show aimed at teen/tweens. (Unless you want to quibble that 18 and 19 year olds are 'teens', but that's just how the demographics are broke up.)
Here's a serious question: Did you ever watch Buffy? People who didn't watch it often have quite a different idea of what it was about than people who did.
For one thing, people who watched it know the show is totally inappropriate for tweens for quite a few reasons.
The enviromental movement is about as conflicted as it is possible for a movement to be, because half of it is controlled by fucktards who believe whatever they are told.
Note I said half. There are quite a few intelligent people in the enviromental movement. People who go 'Hey, recycling paper doesn't actually seem to accomplish anything' (Penn and Teller did a great story on recycling on Bullshit!.) and 'You know, nuclear power seems like the best form of power as long as we make it safe, like the French have. And unlike the French, we have huge open spaces in this country we're not using.'.
These people, sadly, are completely ignored, in favor of morons protesting nuclear plant instead of coal mines, and the completely absurd PETA.
If a company orders too much steel to make widgets, their competitor isn't magically going to make extra money. However, people could easily get laid off when the budget comes up short that month.
What you're talking about is an aspect of the broken window fallacy. The economy is not helped when bad things happen, it is harmed. The economy is not helped when company makes incorrect decisions, it is harmed, along with that company.
Bad decisions on the part of a company certainly can help other companies...but not more than they hurt the company that makes the mistake, and often quite a bit less.
Those shows, except 90210, which doesn't belong in that list at all, are all copies of Buffy aimed at teenagers, and stripped of anything that might appeal to adults. (Well, except Mutant X, which is just semi-generic sci-fi. It might star young people, but it wasn't 'about' anything at all.)
And 90210 is just a soap opera by another name. I don't know why you put it in that list, except to have something that predates Buffy.
In other words, TV people figured out that teenagers (Hopefully not tweens!) were watching Buffy and created a bunch of shows aimed at them that were fairly similiar in setting, about people with superpowers. (You left out Birds of Prey.)
Saying that the shows that followed somehow determine who Buffy was aimed at is insanity. And Buffy was only about teenagers for the first half of its existence. And Angel was never about teenagers.
Erm, non-MP3 playback without skipping requires the speed of about 1.5x.
To make nonskip, all they do is have a memory buffer, and a speed slightly above 1x to refill the buffer if anything goes missing from it. 'A speed slightly above 1x' is clearly not that incredibly high speed.
What MP3 playback does to save power is spin up the CD, pull a few megs in (The same buffer that's used to stop skipping.), and spin it down again.
Now, it'd be nice if they could spin the CD at the 0.2x or whatever that's required to read an MP3 in real time (1x is 150K/s a second, MP3s are around 128k/s, or 16K/s.), but I know of nothing that does that.
Although it'd be really obvious to see, now that I think of it. Just get the same types of CD-Rs, put a single mark with a sharpie on them if they do not have a clear pattern, and fill one with audio and one with mp3s. Play the first and last track on both.
The spinning will differ between the first and last track, but will it differ noticable between CDs? A five times slowdown should be pretty noticable.
Simple, we'll outsource the job to India, paying them to jump up at the same time the Chinese land, and land the same time the Chinese jump.
That wouldn't work, unless people in India are already hovering in midair, and you can cause them to fall and then leap back up and rehover on command.
Wait a minute. If everyone in India fall to the floor when the Chinese jump, and then quickly leap back up...that just might work. You could even figure out which direction they need to fall in, to counteract the fact China and India are not in exactly the same place.
In fact, they may just need to lean one way, and then back.
That's idiotic. What if everyone in China jumps up and down at the same time, thus moving the earth in its orbit? (That is, jumping up moves it, and landing moves it back.)
Can your system cope with the entire earth moving 'up' and then 'down' several inches?
Those old fans were extremely dangerous. If a plane rammed you, they could chop you into little bits.
That's why they moved them to the wings, and eventually put them inside little tubes. They have a big-ass heatsink running out the length of the wings to behind the fans.
Incidently, airplanes only need those while they are standing still. When they're moving, the wind will cool them.
So what they really need to do is just build giant catapults and not start the plane until it's in the air. You'd think the military would do this, they already have something like that on aircraft carriers, but sadly they're aimed level and thus the airplane wouldn't have time to boot up before hitting the water if it wasn't already running.
It would be trivial to stop prostitution. We could just keep arresting them, every ten minutes. And arresting people for solicitation.
One week spent arrest hookers, fining them, letting them go, and arresting them again the next day, or even the same day, and doing the same to the customers, would seriously cripple prostitution.
The fact we don't do that implies we don't actually wish to stop it. Why, I'm not entirely sure. But we don't.
What really needs to be done is lawsuits filed against the police for false arrest.
Saying 'You can always vote the fascists in charge out' is idiotic. Police shouldn't break the law even if ordered to. The fascists, meanwhile, control the media, and thus you can't vote them out.
Do people not watch any of the numerous cop shows on TV?
Police departments have sections. One part works on homicide/violent crimes, one on vice (prostitution/drugs), one on traffic...although they can be split up more.
That's not to say cops can do more than one, but the investigative people don't, the people who actually track down criminals and set up stings.
The problem is their getting hit can hurt other people.For example, people swerve to miss them, hit someone else or at least someone else's car. That's why jaywalking is illegal...it's because its a 'traffic' violation, like swerving into other people's lane, and can cause others to get hurt, not a safety issue of the person doing it, like failing to wear a seatbeat.
But I've never heard of anyone written up for jaywalking unless they actually caused an accident with it, or at least almost caused one. (Causing enough of a commotion to get the police out there.)
That's not really accurate. Or, at least, it's confusing.
Hard links are the original directory entry. Every file has a entry in a directory somewhere, and that's a 'hard link', even if you don't call them that.
ln just makes another hard link. So you literally have the file listed in two places. Neither is 'really' the file, the file is really in a random location on the disk, like all files...it just has two records pointing to it instead of one.
And, more to the point, you can edit it either way, and it changes 'both'. (Because there's only really one.) You can move one around, and the other name is unaffected. You can delete either one, and the other one is unaffected.
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Party of Five was another soap opera, although I think calling it a teen show is stretching it a bit.
And My So-Called Life is, so I've heard, pretty good, although I've not seen it. I don't know who it was aimed at.
What those shows have to do with Buffy I don't know. The average age for a Buffy viewer in 1998 was around 28 years old, according to the Neilson ratings. Buffy's demographic has always been skewed to the 18-34/18-49 male crowd, although it gained female viewers later on.
1998, BTW, was the end of the second season, with only one more year left in high school. People seem to have this impression the whole show was in high school, when the show had 2.5 years in high school, and 4 years not in high school. So the viewership wouldn't have skewed younger as time went on.
And Joss has always said it was aimed at college kids, which is really the only market that 'high school is hell' makes sense to aim to, although obviously you'll pick up some high schoolers along the way. (Which was just the original premise. The premise of the entire show could be something like 'Life's a bitch, then you die. Then you have to do it again.')
So...it's aimed at 18-25 year olds, and watched by 18-34 year olds. I'm failing to see how it's a show aimed at teen/tweens. (Unless you want to quibble that 18 and 19 year olds are 'teens', but that's just how the demographics are broke up.)
Here's a serious question: Did you ever watch Buffy? People who didn't watch it often have quite a different idea of what it was about than people who did.
For one thing, people who watched it know the show is totally inappropriate for tweens for quite a few reasons.
Note I said half. There are quite a few intelligent people in the enviromental movement. People who go 'Hey, recycling paper doesn't actually seem to accomplish anything' (Penn and Teller did a great story on recycling on Bullshit!.) and 'You know, nuclear power seems like the best form of power as long as we make it safe, like the French have. And unlike the French, we have huge open spaces in this country we're not using.'.
These people, sadly, are completely ignored, in favor of morons protesting nuclear plant instead of coal mines, and the completely absurd PETA.
Now they build an entire company, that makes nothing, around one patent, and sue everyone. MAD doesn't work there, because they don't do anything.
If a company orders too much steel to make widgets, their competitor isn't magically going to make extra money. However, people could easily get laid off when the budget comes up short that month.
What you're talking about is an aspect of the broken window fallacy. The economy is not helped when bad things happen, it is harmed. The economy is not helped when company makes incorrect decisions, it is harmed, along with that company.
Bad decisions on the part of a company certainly can help other companies...but not more than they hurt the company that makes the mistake, and often quite a bit less.
I think the USPTO should have to pay for the lawyers that get it overturned.
Why not? They crippled their browser's CSS support because of their ideological opposition to open standards.
And 90210 is just a soap opera by another name. I don't know why you put it in that list, except to have something that predates Buffy.
In other words, TV people figured out that teenagers (Hopefully not tweens!) were watching Buffy and created a bunch of shows aimed at them that were fairly similiar in setting, about people with superpowers. (You left out Birds of Prey.)
Saying that the shows that followed somehow determine who Buffy was aimed at is insanity. And Buffy was only about teenagers for the first half of its existence. And Angel was never about teenagers.
What Buffy was about was high school.
I think we can figure out how knowledgable you are if you think Buffy and Angel weren't for adults.
Are you one of those people who buy Monster Cables?
Of course, what I really want is an MP3 player that's gapless.
To make nonskip, all they do is have a memory buffer, and a speed slightly above 1x to refill the buffer if anything goes missing from it. 'A speed slightly above 1x' is clearly not that incredibly high speed.
What MP3 playback does to save power is spin up the CD, pull a few megs in (The same buffer that's used to stop skipping.), and spin it down again.
Now, it'd be nice if they could spin the CD at the 0.2x or whatever that's required to read an MP3 in real time (1x is 150K/s a second, MP3s are around 128k/s, or 16K/s.), but I know of nothing that does that.
Although it'd be really obvious to see, now that I think of it. Just get the same types of CD-Rs, put a single mark with a sharpie on them if they do not have a clear pattern, and fill one with audio and one with mp3s. Play the first and last track on both.
The spinning will differ between the first and last track, but will it differ noticable between CDs? A five times slowdown should be pretty noticable.
That wouldn't work, unless people in India are already hovering in midair, and you can cause them to fall and then leap back up and rehover on command.
Wait a minute. If everyone in India fall to the floor when the Chinese jump, and then quickly leap back up...that just might work. You could even figure out which direction they need to fall in, to counteract the fact China and India are not in exactly the same place.
In fact, they may just need to lean one way, and then back.
Can your system cope with the entire earth moving 'up' and then 'down' several inches?
That's why they moved them to the wings, and eventually put them inside little tubes. They have a big-ass heatsink running out the length of the wings to behind the fans.
Incidently, airplanes only need those while they are standing still. When they're moving, the wind will cool them.
So what they really need to do is just build giant catapults and not start the plane until it's in the air. You'd think the military would do this, they already have something like that on aircraft carriers, but sadly they're aimed level and thus the airplane wouldn't have time to boot up before hitting the water if it wasn't already running.
And there are too many legacy airports now.
Someone should hack the iPod to display lyrics, so deaf people can use them.
Are you on drugs or something?
In fact, almost everyone who builds their own computer has like four or five fans laying around.
One week spent arrest hookers, fining them, letting them go, and arresting them again the next day, or even the same day, and doing the same to the customers, would seriously cripple prostitution.
The fact we don't do that implies we don't actually wish to stop it. Why, I'm not entirely sure. But we don't.
What really needs to be done is lawsuits filed against the police for false arrest.
Saying 'You can always vote the fascists in charge out' is idiotic. Police shouldn't break the law even if ordered to. The fascists, meanwhile, control the media, and thus you can't vote them out.
Do people not watch any of the numerous cop shows on TV?
Police departments have sections. One part works on homicide/violent crimes, one on vice (prostitution/drugs), one on traffic...although they can be split up more.
That's not to say cops can do more than one, but the investigative people don't, the people who actually track down criminals and set up stings.
But I've never heard of anyone written up for jaywalking unless they actually caused an accident with it, or at least almost caused one. (Causing enough of a commotion to get the police out there.)
It's even stupider when you realize a lot of DRM breaking schemes are going to be software.
Or is this like the emperor's new clothes?
Hard links are the original directory entry. Every file has a entry in a directory somewhere, and that's a 'hard link', even if you don't call them that.
ln just makes another hard link. So you literally have the file listed in two places. Neither is 'really' the file, the file is really in a random location on the disk, like all files...it just has two records pointing to it instead of one.
And, more to the point, you can edit it either way, and it changes 'both'. (Because there's only really one.) You can move one around, and the other name is unaffected. You can delete either one, and the other one is unaffected.
Here's a fun question: Would a program like DVDCopy (Or whatever it's called.) exist if it wasn't difficult to copy DVDs?