its less than useless. Its actually harmfull. (I'm thinking of starting a class action lawsuit for the 3% of the population that can't digest the crap that they're polluting the food stock with.)
You're right, the articles in Byte, Dr Dobbs and Computer Language Magazine HAD depth. (As did AI Expert, PC AI, Hot-line on Object-Oriented Technology, and a few others.)
Another big factor is that print ads are a lot less ANNOYING than web ads.
The magazines had some persistence so they weren't as desperate to get your eyeballs. (You want persistent? I'm looking at an ad for Cromemco Incorporated from the August 1981, [volume 6 number 8] issue of Byte Magazine.:-)
That why I'm NOT breaking up my podcasts with pre-roll and interstitial ads but instead have short reminder ads post-rolled at the end of my podcast in their own chapters, with images and web links to a full ad hosted on my site.
When you want it, its there, when you don't its not in your friggin' way.
They're going to use the cheapest "government approved" shit that they can get away with to make their dough (and don't get me started on bread. [That plastic-wrapped shit with a shelf-life into the next millenium is NOT bread... {And I'm well aware of the "double-entendre" of dough. }]:-)
And when "push comes to shove" they'll claim they were following government regulations and be legally liable for none of it, Just like with urea-formaldehyde foam, we taxpayers will be stuck with the bill.
and have the TIME to do the shopping, the TIME to do the prep, the TIME to do the actual cooking (plus some implements and not an immeasurable amount of skill are also involved) and there's the clean up after which also takes TIME.
Getting a decent dinner on the table takes TIME.
Getting a "Murder Burger" at White Castle takes a fraction of the TIME.
It might kill you slowly but it does it fast.
Your only contribution is some money.
All these food companies make their money on convenience (a net saving of minutes per day when you don't have to be in the kitchen [that's when you even have a kitchen {many apartment buildings in New York City don't even HAVE kitchens.}])
The whole thing is a protection racket (and EVERYBODY needs protection from these guys [if I was Judge Garcia, I would look in my bed for horse's heads.])
There are some disadvantages to having MS (my hand writing went to hell) but I now have a script of squiggles that makes sense only to me (its not writing, its nmemonic dabbling which gives me clues as to what was happening to me [and around me!] at the time of the dabble.)
As such its as individualistic and unbreakable as a crypto "one-time-pad."
We can SEE all these #1 ratings, (in localized e-copies of 'print' issues,) all contradicting each other, so we can deduce that we're being fed a load of crap.
And then the **AAs wonder why we don't believe them...:-)
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If Sony tried that "We don't fart and we don't fuck on Blue-Ray" their share-holders would carve them up and eat them raw on vinagered rice patties.
They REMEMBER the VHS-BetaMax debacle.
That is not likely to happen again.
Like Vespasian said, holding up the sesterces collected from the public toilets: "Money has no odor..."
space aliens and cover their heads with tin foil hats.
They even a reference to MST3K in it.
Instead of debugging machine code, you'd be debugging genetic code.
The gene sequencing, splicing & replicating hardware already exists. (How do you think Monsanto did it?)
Now we just have to figure out what the 80+% "junk' DNA is...
Once the process of genomics gets sufficiently advanced, companies like Monsanto will go the way of all flesh.
its less than useless. Its actually harmfull. (I'm thinking of starting a class action lawsuit for the 3% of the population that can't digest the crap that they're polluting the food stock with.)
The bushmen of the Kalahari run around starkers and so do the bush women.
If you NEED the OLPC project, you probably have better things than clothes to spend your few bucks a week, or a month, on...
You're not going to shock the children.
You're going to make them homesick.
We're the RIAA and we'll just relieve you of that.
All money is OURS! Bwahahaha...
We won't stop until we can collect on a bee's fart in the forest. Bwahahaha...
And if you don't like it, well you can just take this here ice pick and shove into your ears. Bwahahaha...
Let 'em fix it.
And it'll be fixed on the next update of OS X 10.4.x and 10.5 onward.
Fur Christ sake, I'm not exactly quaking in my boots here...
I feel great, old but great.
:-)
You're right, the articles in Byte, Dr Dobbs and Computer Language Magazine HAD depth. (As did AI Expert, PC AI, Hot-line on Object-Oriented Technology, and a few others.)
Another big factor is that print ads are a lot less ANNOYING than web ads.
The magazines had some persistence so they weren't as desperate to get your eyeballs. (You want persistent? I'm looking at an ad for Cromemco Incorporated from the August 1981, [volume 6 number 8] issue of Byte Magazine.
That why I'm NOT breaking up my podcasts with pre-roll and interstitial ads but instead have short reminder ads post-rolled at the end of my podcast in their own chapters, with images and web links to a full ad hosted on my site.
When you want it, its there, when you don't its not in your friggin' way.
"I'm vibrating..."
I still get a laugh remembering that episode of "Dinosaurs".
It would kate 1 growing season.
Once a crop is dead its dead. That's all there is to it.
Once crop subsidies are gone (which would save us money) they're gone.
So how do you make them go away?
STOP WRITING THE CHEQUES!
That all it takes. Just remove the check writing authority from some people.
If you're BUYING it somebody's SELLING it.
:-)
They're going to use the cheapest "government approved" shit that they can get away with to make their dough (and don't get me started on bread. [That plastic-wrapped shit with a shelf-life into the next millenium is NOT bread... {And I'm well aware of the "double-entendre" of dough. }]
And when "push comes to shove" they'll claim they were following government regulations and be legally liable for none of it, Just like with urea-formaldehyde foam, we taxpayers will be stuck with the bill.
and have the TIME to do the shopping, the TIME to do the prep, the TIME to do the actual cooking (plus some implements and not an immeasurable amount of skill are also involved) and there's the clean up after which also takes TIME.
Getting a decent dinner on the table takes TIME.
Getting a "Murder Burger" at White Castle takes a fraction of the TIME.
It might kill you slowly but it does it fast.
Your only contribution is some money.
All these food companies make their money on convenience (a net saving of minutes per day when you don't have to be in the kitchen [that's when you even have a kitchen {many apartment buildings in New York City don't even HAVE kitchens.}])
The whole thing is a protection racket (and EVERYBODY needs protection from these guys [if I was Judge Garcia, I would look in my bed for horse's heads.])
There are some disadvantages to having MS (my hand writing went to hell) but I now have a script of squiggles that makes sense only to me (its not writing, its nmemonic dabbling which gives me clues as to what was happening to me [and around me!] at the time of the dabble.)
As such its as individualistic and unbreakable as a crypto "one-time-pad."
Of course nothing has changed in the mechanics of the biology curriculum.
Besides that, two foot wide calimari rings probably end up tasting like erasers.
and the fools are still in print.
:-)
We can SEE all these #1 ratings, (in localized e-copies of 'print' issues,) all contradicting each other, so we can deduce that we're being fed a load of crap.
And then the **AAs wonder why we don't believe them...
And that's just tough for us.
but he's able to just issue a fatwah and everybody's ears get chopped off.
"RIAA meet Mullah Omar" or "Cupidity meet Stupidity"
I'll just listen to my podcasts, full of podsafe music and watch them all screw each other to death.
the **AAs won't be too happy that she's deaf as post and blind as a bat.
Apple has bought CUPS to forestall any problems coming from using the GPL (like those M$ is PRETENDING they don 't have.)
its only a matter of time.
I say crack up the video camera and give the lonely l'il feller the "ride of a lifetime!"
(Keep the goop on ice and maybe we can figure out what MAKES a lemur.)
Remember, "homemaker style" consumer class equipment pales in comparison to professional equipment.
Even at that, $400 for a blender puts it into pro-sumer class.
No wonder its called Canola oil these days.