It's called the "DS Lite" partly because you can change the brightness of the screen through a switch, right?
That'd be the "DS LIGHT." Lite doesn't have anything to do with the brightness of a screen. It's called the DS Lite because of its smaller form factor.
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What?
Lilo & Stitch is an excellent movie, and it even went back to using the watercolor backgrounds that made Disney's movies so lush.
Lilo & Stitch is, if anything, the last real Disney movie. It was made by a small team out on their own, without any of the beaurocratic nonsense that ruined movies like Treasure Planet. It's how Disney SHOULD make movies. It's too bad they've tried to run the Lilo & Stitch property into the ground with the sequels and TV series...
The thing here is, Beatles Beatles, or whoever it'll be next, aren't "known troublemakers." The conspiracy theorists in the forums are the ones making trouble. Why should someone be punished for being a troublemaker when they are doing the thing that keeps the site alive?
What you're saying is, essentially, that a prolific submitter should have a halflife. Planned obsolescence. Once a submitter's name becomes "known," the editors should no longer accept their submissions, regardless of their quality?
That's not an appropriate or acceptable solution. Submissions are the lifeblood of sites like this, and to institute such a policy would discourage members of the community from submitting stories.
I meant to, and forgot, to make that clear in my original post. I don't agree with either the Singaporean blogger or the "historian" in your post, but I don't think either of them should have been arrested for their remarks or beliefs.
It's much the same as Fred Phelps and the others at Westboro Baptist Church. I despise them and pretty much everything they stand for. I wish they didn't exist, but I'm glad I live in a country where they can say those things without going to jail. Freedom of Speech means freedom for everyone, not just the people you agree with.
From the point of view of someone who has family members tattooed with concentration camp numbers, it is hard to separate emotion from this subject.
The amount of evidence that must be discarded as "fake" to revise the Holocaust out of existence is immense. Photos, eye-witness accounts from various soldiers, both Axis and Allied, survivor stories by Jews, Poles, Gays, etc., film, and the mass graves of executed prisoners discovered. The physical evidence of corpses disposed of in gas chambers.
To ignore the evidence, or worse, to suggest that the victims (or their decendants) are making it up is, whether you want to accept it or not, an act of belittlement and ridicule.
This is the same sort of mindset that suggests a rape victim is making it up for the "attention" or if they do acknowledge that a violation occured, dismisses it because "she wanted it," or "was asking for it, I mean, did you see how she was dressed?"
Questioning the accuracy of a source is one thing, but really, ignoring the vast amount of evidence that there was a Holocaust and that the Nazis commited genocide (a word INVENTED to describe their actions. It didn't exist until WWII) is not intellectual rigor, it is intentional intellectual blindness.
Advertisers tend to have sales numbers for magazines or newspapers. Billboard salespeople do counts on the average number of people to drive by a particular billboard. Radio stations have ways to estimate their number of listeners (based on call-ins, website traffic, and of course, the number of cars with their bumper stickers on them out on the road.)
Generally, they're not looking for "actual exposure," they're looking for "potential exposure" when they buy an ad spot. The campaign's usefulness is tracked after the fact, based on sales data and surveys.
While I'm sure that's part of it... Restricting the hardware gives them complete control of the experience. Apple computers "just work" for a reason. Apple doesn't have to worry about poorly written drivers or incompatible configurations. Every system that comes from Apple can run OS X without problems. Guaranteed.
"Surprisingly, I thought kids are becoming dumber"
There's a tense problem there... "Surprisingly, I thought kids WERE becoming dumber" or "surprisingly, I THINK kids are becoming dumber" are both grammatically valid, but your subject line wasn't.
Right, because "won't get played on the radio" is a sure sign that it doesn't "warrent" [sic] your attention. I'm very sorry for you if only "known" bands are worth anything to you. There's plenty of Independent music that is easily better than most of the crap Clear Channel spews these days.
Oh, and if your friendly local music store can't (or won't) get an album for you, there's this thing called the "internet." It's amazing what they can do these days...
The thing is, and here's where media coverage is biased, Steve Jobs is charismatic. The reality distortion field is nothing more than that. He's a strong and interesting leader that can make people feel the way he wants them to feel. He's a skilled orator.
Bill Gates, on the other hand... Isn't. He's dull, both to look at and to listen to.
Pretty and interesting people get more coverage in the media because they "give good face." Steve Jobs is probably the most stylish tech personality there is. That's why the media listens to him.
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That'd be the "DS LIGHT." Lite doesn't have anything to do with the brightness of a screen. It's called the DS Lite because of its smaller form factor.
What?
Lilo & Stitch is an excellent movie, and it even went back to using the watercolor backgrounds that made Disney's movies so lush.
Lilo & Stitch is, if anything, the last real Disney movie. It was made by a small team out on their own, without any of the beaurocratic nonsense that ruined movies like Treasure Planet. It's how Disney SHOULD make movies. It's too bad they've tried to run the Lilo & Stitch property into the ground with the sequels and TV series...
I'm conflicted, to be honest.
As a writer, I'd like to be paid for my work. I'd rather not make it easy for people to redistribute my work without compensating me.
As a consumer, I'd like open access to the things I purchase.
Argh!
I try not to play games that sound too much like bodily functions.
Seriously, the only thing that GURPS ever had that kept my attention was the Wild Cards supplements for GURPS Supers.
Don't even get me started on their atrocious adaptations of the World of Darkness. They were so bad that White Wolf didn't even let them finish.
The thing here is, Beatles Beatles, or whoever it'll be next, aren't "known troublemakers." The conspiracy theorists in the forums are the ones making trouble. Why should someone be punished for being a troublemaker when they are doing the thing that keeps the site alive?
What you're saying is, essentially, that a prolific submitter should have a halflife. Planned obsolescence. Once a submitter's name becomes "known," the editors should no longer accept their submissions, regardless of their quality?
That's not an appropriate or acceptable solution. Submissions are the lifeblood of sites like this, and to institute such a policy would discourage members of the community from submitting stories.
And how many people play World of Warcraft, again?
Right. No money to be made in the online gaming market.
That's not actually a statistic, that's an anecdote.
I can pretty much guarantee that you don't know a large enough sample of people for your data to be of much use to anyone.
Uhm...
Geek girls aren't cute?
Right.
My mistake.
And this I'll agree with.
I meant to, and forgot, to make that clear in my original post. I don't agree with either the Singaporean blogger or the "historian" in your post, but I don't think either of them should have been arrested for their remarks or beliefs.
It's much the same as Fred Phelps and the others at Westboro Baptist Church. I despise them and pretty much everything they stand for. I wish they didn't exist, but I'm glad I live in a country where they can say those things without going to jail. Freedom of Speech means freedom for everyone, not just the people you agree with.
From the point of view of someone who has family members tattooed with concentration camp numbers, it is hard to separate emotion from this subject.
The amount of evidence that must be discarded as "fake" to revise the Holocaust out of existence is immense. Photos, eye-witness accounts from various soldiers, both Axis and Allied, survivor stories by Jews, Poles, Gays, etc., film, and the mass graves of executed prisoners discovered. The physical evidence of corpses disposed of in gas chambers.
To ignore the evidence, or worse, to suggest that the victims (or their decendants) are making it up is, whether you want to accept it or not, an act of belittlement and ridicule.
This is the same sort of mindset that suggests a rape victim is making it up for the "attention" or if they do acknowledge that a violation occured, dismisses it because "she wanted it," or "was asking for it, I mean, did you see how she was dressed?"
Questioning the accuracy of a source is one thing, but really, ignoring the vast amount of evidence that there was a Holocaust and that the Nazis commited genocide (a word INVENTED to describe their actions. It didn't exist until WWII) is not intellectual rigor, it is intentional intellectual blindness.
Troll?
Nitpicky, maybe. Annoying, probably... But Troll?
Wunderkind.
If you're going to use a "big word" to make yourself look smart, it's usually a good idea to take the time to spell it correctly.
You ALL lose your geek cred.
It's "VOTE PEDRO."
And I don't even LIKE Napolean Dynamite. GOSH!
Advertisers tend to have sales numbers for magazines or newspapers. Billboard salespeople do counts on the average number of people to drive by a particular billboard. Radio stations have ways to estimate their number of listeners (based on call-ins, website traffic, and of course, the number of cars with their bumper stickers on them out on the road.)
Generally, they're not looking for "actual exposure," they're looking for "potential exposure" when they buy an ad spot. The campaign's usefulness is tracked after the fact, based on sales data and surveys.
While I'm sure that's part of it... Restricting the hardware gives them complete control of the experience. Apple computers "just work" for a reason. Apple doesn't have to worry about poorly written drivers or incompatible configurations. Every system that comes from Apple can run OS X without problems. Guaranteed.
Then you've never seen any art by Yoshitaka Amano.
Guess she doesn't read Slashdot, huh?
"Surprisingly, I thought kids are becoming dumber"
There's a tense problem there... "Surprisingly, I thought kids WERE becoming dumber" or "surprisingly, I THINK kids are becoming dumber" are both grammatically valid, but your subject line wasn't.
Right, because "won't get played on the radio" is a sure sign that it doesn't "warrent" [sic] your attention. I'm very sorry for you if only "known" bands are worth anything to you. There's plenty of Independent music that is easily better than most of the crap Clear Channel spews these days.
Oh, and if your friendly local music store can't (or won't) get an album for you, there's this thing called the "internet." It's amazing what they can do these days...
The thing is, and here's where media coverage is biased, Steve Jobs is charismatic. The reality distortion field is nothing more than that. He's a strong and interesting leader that can make people feel the way he wants them to feel. He's a skilled orator.
Bill Gates, on the other hand... Isn't. He's dull, both to look at and to listen to.
Pretty and interesting people get more coverage in the media because they "give good face." Steve Jobs is probably the most stylish tech personality there is. That's why the media listens to him.
Interestingly, that casting change is accurate.
Harvey Dent originally appeared in the comics as a black man, but when he returned as Two Face, he was white.
Net profit is the money a business gets AFTER costs such as these are considered.
That $100.00 figure is gross profit. The amount of money left over after paying for the physical materials used to build the iPod Nano.
Not a flashlight, a 3-cell Graflex photography flash unit's handle. And the ones I've seen modded into lightsabers DID still work.
It's important to note that the article mentions Bruce Campbell only in his role as producer.
It's possible (and probable) that he's not playing Ash.
Actually, scalping was invented by European bounty hunters.