If I'm not mistaken, I remember reading in American History class about Native Americans playing a form of baseball when European settlers began coming to the "New World". Playing with a stick as a bat and a ball made from some sort of filled leather "ball".
Don't make the situation that she's wandering the web while you occasionally peek. Make the situation that the two of you are wandering the web together. She's driving, but every so often you can point out something interesting on the screen. Be interested, don't just pretend. The stuff your kid wants to look at is stuff that matters to your kid; you should care about what that is. Of course you'll have different tastes, but you may find that you've got more in common than you realized.
The online version of Jeopardy! does this, too. There's a commercial between the rounds. It doesn't get in the way much, it gives you time to refresh your drink, just like the ones on TV.
Imagine a world where you have these small disks. Your old CD players are no longer compatible with the new music coming out. You now have this thing that is nearly impossible to copy.
I don't have to imagine. I can remember when CD's came out. My old cassete player was no longer compatible with the new music coming out. I now had this thing that was nearly impossible to copy.
Of course, it made no sense to complain then, either. There were people around who could remember 8-tracks being incompatible with their record players.
Expect the standard audio medium to change regularly.
My opinion on the art vs craft thing is that craft is the mechanical process of creation - what you can teach to someone else. Art comes from within. Thus, you can learn all about perspective, use of color, how to combine pigments, etc. and become a competent painter of pictures, but all you have mastered is the craft of painting. You are not truly an artist until your inspiration is projected onto the canvas.
Similarly, you can master the craft of programming, but if all you're producing is code to fit someone else's specifications, there is little art. If you're creating some piece of software just because you wanted to, (not because you needed a piece of software to do something) it could be art.
Instead of digging them out, using the raw material and destorying such a wonder, they're actually going to make the place accessible to the public, including AC to handle the heat.
Score 1 for ecotourism, even if it's just some really huge crystals.
How can you be eco-friendly if you're using air conditioning?
I watched the first quarter of the Vegas game, and I realized how I've grown so used to the magic yellow line on NFL games that its absence in the XFL was annoying.
According to Library of Congress Country Studies the average monthly earnings of [Brazilians is] US$211, and of this, in 1990, 60% of the nation was making less than that.
Just a question here... how can the average be $x when over half are making less? Wouldn't that bring the average down?
Not necessarily. It just means the rich people are very rich. Here's some math:
Let's pretend there are only 10 people in the country.
6 of them make $1/month
The other 4 make $526/month
Which makes the total monthly income for all 10, 6 + 526 x 4 = 6 + 2104 = $2110
The average monthly income is $2110/10 = $211, yet 60% of the people earn less.
Borland hosts their own newsgroups, so it's not technically usenet, but the peer support provided tends to be excellent. Theoretically, there will be some Kylix experts recognized and made members of TeamB, the group of Borland users that get a few special privileges in exchange for supporting the community.
If you're going to call someone a moron, check your spelling. Courts establish precedents, not precidents.
Although a court did establish our president, so if you were making a pun and not a misspelling, I applaud you.
(The laws of irony require that I made at least one spelling error in this, but I haven't found it yet)
According to the inventor of "Ginger," Dean Kamen, his device will be an alternative to products that "are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in the cities."
Sounds more like a subway to me.
That would explain why cities would have to be redesigned around it.
They might not need a boat. If it only weighs 350 pounds, and its dimensions are 1'x4'x9', then its density is considerably less than water. It should float.
I keep a copy of the constitution in my desk. The Second Amendment reads:
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
There are a number of unconstitutional laws that do indeed infringe the right to bear arms, but most people agree that they make sense. For example, you can't go out and legally buy some weapons-grade plutonium. Bill Gates can't decide he wants a carrier full of jet fighters to play with. In this day and age, a well-regulated militia would need that level of armaments. However, most people would agree that we don't want every compound in Montana to have a missile silo.
The second amendment should either be replaced with something that allows laws to restrict what kinds of arms the people are allowed to bear, or those laws should be repealed.
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Engineering a chicken into a T Rex?
Isn't this the plot behind a crappy movie?
It's even less complicated:
Stack a set of alphabet blocks in two rows:
ABCDEFGHIJKLM
NOPQRSTUVWXYZ
You've just built a ROT-13 decoding device,
and are in violation of the DMCA.
If I'm not mistaken, I remember reading in American History class about Native Americans playing a form of baseball when European settlers began coming to the "New World". Playing with a stick as a bat and a ball made from some sort of filled leather "ball".
That's lacrosse.
Totally different sport.
They're not really on Mars; they're in the Arctic.
There are hieroglyphs depicticting boats with sails. A kite is just a sail without a boat.
Her character on Different World was of mixed race.
She had a white guy for a cousin.
I would have guessed it was the cartoon that was your prize at the end of the computer game.
Surf together.
Don't make the situation that she's wandering the web while you occasionally peek. Make the situation that the two of you are wandering the web together. She's driving, but every so often you can point out something interesting on the screen. Be interested, don't just pretend. The stuff your kid wants to look at is stuff that matters to your kid; you should care about what that is. Of course you'll have different tastes, but you may find that you've got more in common than you realized.
Don't spy. Share.
Kes - now there was a babe...
Gotta be the most sexy voice of any ST character..
Wonder what she's doing now..
If you need to get your fix, her voice has a regular role in the Men in Black cartoon as Agent L.
I can think of three ways to pay for your site:
1) Sell advertising on the site. (Like how NBC pays for itself)
2) Switch to being subscription based, and charge your readers a fee. (Like HBO)
3) Keep the site free to view, and free of advertising, but beg your readers for voluntary donations. (PBS)
Am I the only one who saw the headline and thought it was about the guy who played Marcus Welby?
The online version of Jeopardy! does this, too. There's a commercial between the rounds. It doesn't get in the way much, it gives you time to refresh your drink, just like the ones on TV.
Sure they do. Quoting from the first patent (4,634,845):
Quoting from the second patent (4,689,478 ):
Imagine a world where you have these small disks. Your old CD players are no longer compatible with the new music coming out. You now have this thing that is nearly impossible to copy.
I don't have to imagine. I can remember when CD's came out. My old cassete player was no longer compatible with the new music coming out. I now had this thing that was nearly impossible to copy.
Of course, it made no sense to complain then, either. There were people around who could remember 8-tracks being incompatible with their record players.
Expect the standard audio medium to change regularly.
My opinion on the art vs craft thing is that craft is the mechanical process of creation - what you can teach to someone else. Art comes from within. Thus, you can learn all about perspective, use of color, how to combine pigments, etc. and become a competent painter of pictures, but all you have mastered is the craft of painting. You are not truly an artist until your inspiration is projected onto the canvas.
Similarly, you can master the craft of programming, but if all you're producing is code to fit someone else's specifications, there is little art. If you're creating some piece of software just because you wanted to, (not because you needed a piece of software to do something) it could be art.
Instead of digging them out, using the raw material and destorying such a wonder, they're actually going to make the place accessible to the public, including AC to handle the heat.
Score 1 for ecotourism, even if it's just some really huge crystals.
How can you be eco-friendly if you're using air conditioning?
I watched the first quarter of the Vegas game, and I realized how I've grown so used to the magic yellow line on NFL games that its absence in the XFL was annoying.
According to Library of Congress Country Studies the average monthly earnings of [Brazilians is] US$211, and of this, in 1990, 60% of the nation was making less than that.
Just a question here... how can the average be $x when over half are making less? Wouldn't that bring the average down?
Not necessarily. It just means the rich people are very rich. Here's some math:
Let's pretend there are only 10 people in the country.
6 of them make $1/month
The other 4 make $526/month
Which makes the total monthly income for all 10, 6 + 526 x 4 = 6 + 2104 = $2110
The average monthly income is $2110/10 = $211, yet 60% of the people earn less.
usenet, (dont know)
Borland hosts their own newsgroups, so it's not technically usenet, but the peer support provided tends to be excellent. Theoretically, there will be some Kylix experts recognized and made members of TeamB, the group of Borland users that get a few special privileges in exchange for supporting the community.
If you're going to call someone a moron, check your spelling. Courts establish precedents, not precidents.
Although a court did establish our president, so if you were making a pun and not a misspelling, I applaud you.
(The laws of irony require that I made at least one spelling error in this, but I haven't found it yet)
I had the exact same reaction.
Maybe it is a hovercraft.. But have you ever seen one in person? They're _very_ LOUD. How would he get around that?
Your hovercraft is loud because it's full of eels.
And they're shrieking.
Sounds more like a subway to me.
That would explain why cities would have to be redesigned around it.
They might not need a boat. If it only weighs 350 pounds, and its dimensions are 1'x4'x9', then its density is considerably less than water. It should float.
I keep a copy of the constitution in my desk. The Second Amendment reads:
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
There are a number of unconstitutional laws that do indeed infringe the right to bear arms, but most people agree that they make sense. For example, you can't go out and legally buy some weapons-grade plutonium. Bill Gates can't decide he wants a carrier full of jet fighters to play with. In this day and age, a well-regulated militia would need that level of armaments. However, most people would agree that we don't want every compound in Montana to have a missile silo.
The second amendment should either be replaced with something that allows laws to restrict what kinds of arms the people are allowed to bear, or those laws should be repealed.