Not everyones daddy is rich enough to send them to collage.
Guess not.. then again, many of us went through college receiving no money at all from our parents. Sure, I had a job (which helped in getting real post-college job), and over $10,000 worth of financial aid loans to pay back, but the investment was worth it.
Although they've both backpedaled since then. Alec Baldwin has never been directly quoted on it, it's something Kim Basinger says he said. Streisand was staying at the White House at the time, and she said what she was refering to was not coming back to the White House, not leaving the country.
Maybe people actually moderate based on what he was saying as opposed to a reactionary "Oh, it's Hanzo, let's moderate him down!" If I have moderation points and Hanzo posts some stupid flamebait, I'll moderate him down. If he posts something informative/insightful, I'll moderate him up. I really don't care what his "ulterior motives" are, I moderate on the actual post as it stands in the thread, not the person. Like all moderators should.
- Why is every single AM radio station right-wing?
Around where I live, the most popular AM radio station here is decidedly left-wing (in fact, it's one of the largest and most popular station in the western US). They only have one conservative talk how host (he's their best one, too), and he's libertarian, not Republican. And he's pretty reasonable too. KGO 810 AM.
But then again, this is the SF Bay Area, so maybe that's to be expected. Maybe the right-wing stations are located in more conservative areas?
It's a movie starring the winner of the Americal Idol contest on Fox last year, co-starring the runner up. What's the plot? I don't know, I was just assuming there wasn't one.
I think my problem with CG is slightly different than what you are talking about. First off, I could tell right away that FFotO was CG. That being said, the CG in FFotO does not bother me in the slightest. The reason why I can "buy into" the CG of FFotO is that the entire FFotO world is rendered in the same way. I am, therefore, able to buy into that world - just as I can easily (and gladly) buy into a world like Toy Story or Spirited Away. Those films are not trying to trick me into thinking anything is "real" - they are simply taking me to new worlds altogether, and giving me new definitions of what is "real." Im not sure if that came out right - it is somewhat difficult for me to explain my viewpoint.
I think what you're saying is that your problem isn't with CG, it's the mixing and matching of two different styles in one scene (since very little CG is lit effectively).
I agree with this.. I felt the special effects in the first Matrix film were far more convincing than in Reloaded, for example. When Neo leaps into the air at an Agent Smith clone, and it's so OBVIOUS that they're both just CG copies (and not that authentic looking), it just sucked out the enjoyment of a scene which went on too long anyway.
Okay, so if this story had been "MS comes out with XBox Home+ with a 120GB HD, DVDRW, etc.", all the +5 posts would have been to the tune of "See, it's just MS trying to take over the living room", and "XBox is just a closed, proprietary computer". Instead, since it's Sony it's "cool, look at these new features - MS is way behind".
Someone else has mentioned how damaging MS has been. I'll simply mention a different argument: I don't want MS to "win," nor do I want Sony to win. I wouldn't want either one of them to fully come out dominant, either Sony in the computer world, or Microsoft in the console world. As long as these two heavyweights duke it out, they are forced to compete, and we all benefit from that.
Right. People get sick just to cash in on the health system.
People are more likely to seek medical attention for less serious conditions when they don't have to pay for it.
I actually see the same in our current medical industry in the US. Just look at the commercials for any single hour of network broadcasting (hard to stomach, I know), and chances are that you'll see several advertisements for drugs that almost no one actually needs, yet are marketed towards a large audience. Some companies are even flagrant enough about this to not even mention in the ad what symptoms or problem the drug is supposed to cure, instead simply marketing it as a designer drug. Here is a system where people cash in on the system without needing to.
Shit, compared to me and almost every other person that lives in this town, you are.
I suppose it depends on the cost of living in your area too. In the SF Bay Area, no, $50,000/yr would not make you rich, but in, say, Fayetteville, Arkansas, that could go quite a long way.
That seems to be the way of things. But generally, we don't expect doctors and lawyers to become managers, so why should we expect software developers to do so?
Well, sometimes they do. Becoming judges, aspiring to politics. But the most important difference is that the medical and legal fields are established and mature. The IT field is very immature.
This is of course because when someone enters into your home and takes a chair, he steals it, you loose the chair.When someone roots you and copies your porn, or your wedding photos, whichever you like more, you still have them.
What if I broke into your house, taking pictures of everything in it, scanning through your CD collection and copying them, and so forth? Would that be just fine? I'd have a hard time just accepting the "coming into my home" part.
The problem with you conservative people is trying to apply rules based on physical property to things which aren't physical.
I guess the difficult part for both sides is coming up with analogies between real world and virtual world that line up.
You convieniently ignored the "Personal files can be restored from backup" part of the parent comment.
You're also ignoring the fact that "good backups" are only common in the business world. Almost no one else actually makes any, and rarely thinks about it until disaster strikes.
Of course, "pagan" is the bloody stupidist name for a religion I've ever heard.
Pagan is really more of a blanket phrase than a name for an actual religion. For many, "pagan" simply means "non-Christian." For others, it's a blanket term used for Wiccan, various druidic religions, and other minor localized religions of the Western world.
If by "we" you mean the US government, then no that exactly what they don't want. What they want is a weak democracy that takes its orders from the likes of Hillary Rosen.
Or even a dictatorship or oligarchy which pretends to be a democracy.
Hmmm, reminds me of the Shah in Iran. Would the US back another Shah-like leader, subverting the democratic process in favor of a "friendly" leader? That the US thinks it can muck around in a Middle Eastern country without it blowing up in our faces is laughable. It hasn't worked for the last half century.
I'm sorry, but if you think music is not a luxury and is not essential to life, than you lead a sad, dark, inhumane existence.
Hey promixr... ever turn on a radio? There's your free music right there.
It is the artifacts of culture that keep us alive and fuel other commerce. If you want to reduce works of art to the level of commerce, you are just like the corperate slugs who milk the art and talent of others.
Whatever man. If you think music is a requirement on the level of food, water, housing, and clothing, you're simply spoiled.
all I know is the Win32 SDKs all have the BSD "parts are copyright by Berkeley" header still, implying that the winsock dlls contain that code.
Not necessarily, the winsock.h IS code. The interface in the header file is pure BSD for compatability, but that doesn't mean the implemenation in the dlls are.
Sadly, the reaction of Blackboard is a big hint to the future discoverers of security flaws: don't even try to contact the company - wear gloves, attach a fake beard, go to an internet cafe, publish your exploits on Freenet, Usenet, foreign haxx0r sites and whatever else comes to your mind, grin evilly (this part is optional).
Until you are required to provide ID for your cybercafe visits. I don't think we're far off from the day where all data exchange on the Net (at least in the US) -must- be trackable. No more anonymous access in the library, in the cafes, in the wi-fi networks.
Slightly related, I was saddened when anon.penet.fi went away. Wonderful service.
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Guess not.. then again, many of us went through college receiving no money at all from our parents. Sure, I had a job (which helped in getting real post-college job), and over $10,000 worth of financial aid loans to pay back, but the investment was worth it.
I'm sure the answer to that is just a Star Trek fan fiction or two away...
Dude, you made me cry for hours and hours and hours.
It was Barbara Streisand who said it too. They both made that utterly rediculous and hypocritical promise.
Maybe people actually moderate based on what he was saying as opposed to a reactionary "Oh, it's Hanzo, let's moderate him down!" If I have moderation points and Hanzo posts some stupid flamebait, I'll moderate him down. If he posts something informative/insightful, I'll moderate him up. I really don't care what his "ulterior motives" are, I moderate on the actual post as it stands in the thread, not the person. Like all moderators should.
Around where I live, the most popular AM radio station here is decidedly left-wing (in fact, it's one of the largest and most popular station in the western US). They only have one conservative talk how host (he's their best one, too), and he's libertarian, not Republican. And he's pretty reasonable too. KGO 810 AM.
But then again, this is the SF Bay Area, so maybe that's to be expected. Maybe the right-wing stations are located in more conservative areas?
I think what you're saying is that your problem isn't with CG, it's the mixing and matching of two different styles in one scene (since very little CG is lit effectively).
I agree with this.. I felt the special effects in the first Matrix film were far more convincing than in Reloaded, for example. When Neo leaps into the air at an Agent Smith clone, and it's so OBVIOUS that they're both just CG copies (and not that authentic looking), it just sucked out the enjoyment of a scene which went on too long anyway.
Someone else has mentioned how damaging MS has been. I'll simply mention a different argument: I don't want MS to "win," nor do I want Sony to win. I wouldn't want either one of them to fully come out dominant, either Sony in the computer world, or Microsoft in the console world. As long as these two heavyweights duke it out, they are forced to compete, and we all benefit from that.
Well, that is the entire point of the Green Party..
People are more likely to seek medical attention for less serious conditions when they don't have to pay for it.
I actually see the same in our current medical industry in the US. Just look at the commercials for any single hour of network broadcasting (hard to stomach, I know), and chances are that you'll see several advertisements for drugs that almost no one actually needs, yet are marketed towards a large audience. Some companies are even flagrant enough about this to not even mention in the ad what symptoms or problem the drug is supposed to cure, instead simply marketing it as a designer drug. Here is a system where people cash in on the system without needing to.
Nice ad-hominem attack there. Impressive. Not. Being called a techie is an ad-hominem attack?
I suppose it depends on the cost of living in your area too. In the SF Bay Area, no, $50,000/yr would not make you rich, but in, say, Fayetteville, Arkansas, that could go quite a long way.
Well, sometimes they do. Becoming judges, aspiring to politics. But the most important difference is that the medical and legal fields are established and mature. The IT field is very immature.
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Are you under the mistaken impression that there isn't one?
What if I broke into your house, taking pictures of everything in it, scanning through your CD collection and copying them, and so forth? Would that be just fine? I'd have a hard time just accepting the "coming into my home" part.
The problem with you conservative people is trying to apply rules based on physical property to things which aren't physical.
I guess the difficult part for both sides is coming up with analogies between real world and virtual world that line up.
You're also ignoring the fact that "good backups" are only common in the business world. Almost no one else actually makes any, and rarely thinks about it until disaster strikes.
Pagan is really more of a blanket phrase than a name for an actual religion. For many, "pagan" simply means "non-Christian." For others, it's a blanket term used for Wiccan, various druidic religions, and other minor localized religions of the Western world.
Or even a dictatorship or oligarchy which pretends to be a democracy.
Hmmm, reminds me of the Shah in Iran. Would the US back another Shah-like leader, subverting the democratic process in favor of a "friendly" leader? That the US thinks it can muck around in a Middle Eastern country without it blowing up in our faces is laughable. It hasn't worked for the last half century.
1) buy a full CD (on average 12-15 songs per CD) at $10 or more when I really just one this one song,
2) buy this one song I want for a buck
Give me option number 2 any day.
You people need to stop listening to such shitty bands. Good bands don't release albums with only 1-2 good songs.
Hey promixr... ever turn on a radio? There's your free music right there.
It is the artifacts of culture that keep us alive and fuel other commerce. If you want to reduce works of art to the level of commerce, you are just like the corperate slugs who milk the art and talent of others.
Whatever man. If you think music is a requirement on the level of food, water, housing, and clothing, you're simply spoiled.
Not necessarily, the winsock.h IS code. The interface in the header file is pure BSD for compatability, but that doesn't mean the implemenation in the dlls are.
When the Scientologists come after you for posting OTIII on Slashdot, you might rethink that. ;)
Until you are required to provide ID for your cybercafe visits. I don't think we're far off from the day where all data exchange on the Net (at least in the US) -must- be trackable. No more anonymous access in the library, in the cafes, in the wi-fi networks.
Slightly related, I was saddened when anon.penet.fi went away. Wonderful service.