The voices are fantastic, but I watch Futurama because it has some of the best writers working in animation. Seriously, when a show is that PhD- and Master's-heavy, AND they're all huge nerds, the show just has to be great.
All of the writers are probably still working separately on various projects, but Futurama let them all work *together* on something exponentially better than the sum of its parts.
Maybe, but are they going to have fewer accidents per billing period? Right now, they get paid every month (or six months). In the new system they would get paid by the mile, which might equalize the costs quite a bit. Probably not in anyone's favor, though, since you know damned well that they won't reduce rates for the safer driver.
Er... yeah... My point was that it's already flying, it already HAS been flying, for years- and producing valuable science and experience. Your contention, that it was an expensive six years, ignores the previous years that it has been habitable prior to 2010.
The shuttle does science in a mini-hotel. The real heavy lifting costs considerably less than your quote. The shuttle allows us the flexibility and facilities to learn *what to do* with the cheaper launch capabilities out there. The U.S. and Russia are not the only space powers...
If the russians had done the whole moon thing, we would have done the whole LEO thing except with 10X the warheads. I mean really, you want to send something up out of earth's gravity well into the moon's gravity well, and then back to earth? Do you have any idea how much more energy it takes to get to the moon vs. LEO? The moon is not, like, LEO plus 10 miles- It is a big deal.
Granted, having LEO nukes would have made the cold war WAY too tense for my comfort, so I'm glad it didn't happen.
Healthcare would be much less expensive if we paid for poor people's visits to their GP instead of the ER. I know it hurts some people to "pay someone's way", but one way or the other we are paying for life-saving medical care. I'd prefer to pay a $30 prescription and a $100 consultation rather than a $1,000 ER bill. I hate people but I'm willing to pay taxes that ensure everyone's continued life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Even if that person is lazy, or congenitally ill, or if maybe that person used to be just like me but they got laid off and their situation went from bad to worse due to no fault of their own. Shit happens.
You go first. Seriously. Go kill yourself and reduce the burden on the planet. Put your money where your mouth is. If you have kids, kill them too. And everyone you love. No? You don't want to? Then go fuck yourself. I'm sick of people like you who project their own feelings of shame and inadequacy on the entire population.
Yeah. I don't think IE counts as an antitrust violation. Windows in and of itself is not anti-competitive. MS's business practices are worth looking into, but that has little to do with the actual products. And iPods are not browsers.
If apple pulled a bait-and-switch with lockin, then yes that would be a problem. The only apple is doing, as far as I can see, is not actively supporting their direct competition. You want a good example of lockin? Try using sony's minidisc players with your existing music collection. Or try using your sony flac files on an ipod or a zune or whatever.
Your last statistics are a non-sequitur. If amazon's service was number one, I imagine you'd be saying the same thing about them. Any time any company is number one in rank, market cap, or popularity, slashdot's pack of little dogs goes snarling after it, without regard to past experience, business knowledge, common sense, or context.
You can still listen to ITMS music on your pre. You can still listen to amazon mp3's on your ipod.
The only thing broken now is that iTunes won't recognize the pre as an ipod (oh, maybe because the pre isn't an ipod) meaning that itunes won't automatically sync calendars, contacts, new music, etc. You can still do those things manually just like with every other phone, every other phone that no one ever talks about because NO ONE writes software for their phone/device that explicitly supports their COMPETITOR's products.
I'm halfway through the comments in here and I think I'm done reading. It's like walking down the corridor of a mental asylum- paranoia, delusions of grandeur, dogmatism, and the guy bashing his head into the wall. Yeah, brother, you show apple who's boss by buying a Palm instead of an iPhone! Yeah! Ok now let's see how well iPhones work with Palm software...
So can you put a toyo denso alternator off a honda into your late-model ford truck? WHY THE HELL NOT!!! Down with honda and ford for breaking interoperability between their own damned products!
And for some damned reason I want to put a frigidaire icemaker into my kenmore refrigerator but I CAN'T! Fie on kenmore! Fie on frigidaire! Don't even get me started on trying to use garmin gps's on tomtom software!
The whole world is out to get me! Everyone is trying to make money! Except me, because everything I do is golden and altruistic and I'd continue to do my job even if I didn't get paid because I care that much! The Pre should be able to capitalize on itunes even though they shouldered none of the development, infrastructure, or support! Everyone should be able to use anything to do anything except make money! Oh wait the pre is printing money, I guess I don't like the pre now either.
What is apple doing to stifle mp3 player manufacturers? What is apple doing to stifle online music stores?
There are tons of other players out there, and tons of other online music stores. Apple designed a wildly successful product with supporting software and services. Amazon mp3's work on iPods, and the itunes-plus music (which is most of the catalog) will play on any player that supports AAC. I only buy the Plus stuff already because it's higher quality, but I get most of my music from amazon.
Here is a partial list of devices that support AAC: PS3 PSP sony walkman and sony phones from ericsson nseries phones from nokia Android-based phones Wii Nintendo DSi
Wii controllers don't work with PS3s. Garmin gps units don't work with tomtom software. canon printer software won't run epson printers. Do I need to go on?
People seem to conflate "trying to make a buck" with anti-competitive practices. We have to draw the line somewhere. The ITMS/iPod franchise is not in itself anti-competitive any more than an auto dealership is- you can buy more than one make of car from one and you can have your car worked on by other mechanics.
I wasn't talking about sex, I was jokingly implying that getting someone pregnant was somehow equivalent to being strangled with wire in that they would both ruin your life.
Ah, just reading your post brought me back to the good old days when things seemed so much more innocent.
I was just thinking how it's funny that video games and rap have followed a similar trajectory following technology and social currents.
Back when I was a kid-
Rap- i said a hip hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, a you dont stop the rock it to the bang bang boogie -Sugarhill "Gang"
Games- Doom had floating eyeballs. Wolfenstein had nazis. Even the versions of street fighter that had gratuitous fountains of "blood" seem tame today.
Now this is what we have-
Rap- I could be waitin, camped out in yo' car, in the backseat with some fuckin chickenwire, soon as you hit the backstreet I jump up like Jack-in-the-Box, strangle the shit out yo' ass -dmx
Games- You can get women pregnant.
I'm scared to think of what we'll have in ten years.
I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but here goes:
Why is MS so invested in IE's marketshare? It's free. It's a free browser. So are FF and chrome and others. Why is there such competition to spread a free browser's marketshare (non-ad-supported browsers, I should say).
Windows running FF= MS has your money Windows running IE= MS has your money
Can anyone explain this to me without turning it into a philosophical open-source tangent? I know why WE support open-source, secure browsers. Now what does MS stand to gain pushing IE? Is it just 'growing the brand'?
"I just had this conversation with my wife! I was all like, I don't like chocolate ice cream, and she's all like, I have these friends who aren't kids and they DO like chocolate ice cream, and I'm like: Oh snap! What would possess a person to like chocolate ice cream when I, a respected member of the ice cream community, do not? The only explanation is that people with different tastes than me are either less intelligent or less mature than me."
The problem is that you're treating people's personal tastes in communication and entertainment in terms of logic (don't forget that FB, twitter, etc. serve an entertainment purpose). Your mistake- and maybe I'm wrong, who knows- is that you think that if two people are smart enough and mature enough, they'll eventually come to agree on things (everything?). You remind me of an older gent that I work with who harangues the guys in the shop who play WoW for "not achieving anything" while he spends his weekends putzing around on a motorcycle or fishing.
Pointless. You could put 1 billion people on a scale and have them all memorize data as fast as they could and the weight won't change (correcting for evaporation, etc.).
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Running gag on MST3K (can't remember which episode this was; it was when Mike turned into a crow-bot and received advice from crow):
"...And every four years, your voice will inexplicably change..."
You can turn it into something funny or you can act ashamed of it and get canceled. Voice change is not a death sentence for a show.
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The voices are fantastic, but I watch Futurama because it has some of the best writers working in animation. Seriously, when a show is that PhD- and Master's-heavy, AND they're all huge nerds, the show just has to be great.
All of the writers are probably still working separately on various projects, but Futurama let them all work *together* on something exponentially better than the sum of its parts.
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Maybe, but are they going to have fewer accidents per billing period? Right now, they get paid every month (or six months). In the new system they would get paid by the mile, which might equalize the costs quite a bit. Probably not in anyone's favor, though, since you know damned well that they won't reduce rates for the safer driver.
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Hmmm. You mention evolution, but how often have mammals had 8-gray doses as an evolutionary pressure?
Wait and see.
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Er... yeah... My point was that it's already flying, it already HAS been flying, for years- and producing valuable science and experience. Your contention, that it was an expensive six years, ignores the previous years that it has been habitable prior to 2010.
And don't call me tard, tard.
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Ummm... It's not 2010 yet, and the thing is already flying with people in it. 6 years=fail. Try again.
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were you to raise ten generations of rats in a 1-g centerfuge and ten generations on Earth if the centerfuge rats would be healthy by comparison.
Errrr.... I hope that's a typo, but 1 G *is* earth gravity. Your control and your test group are the same, bud.
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The shuttle does science in a mini-hotel. The real heavy lifting costs considerably less than your quote. The shuttle allows us the flexibility and facilities to learn *what to do* with the cheaper launch capabilities out there. The U.S. and Russia are not the only space powers...
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If the russians had done the whole moon thing, we would have done the whole LEO thing except with 10X the warheads. I mean really, you want to send something up out of earth's gravity well into the moon's gravity well, and then back to earth? Do you have any idea how much more energy it takes to get to the moon vs. LEO? The moon is not, like, LEO plus 10 miles- It is a big deal.
Granted, having LEO nukes would have made the cold war WAY too tense for my comfort, so I'm glad it didn't happen.
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Healthcare would be much less expensive if we paid for poor people's visits to their GP instead of the ER. I know it hurts some people to "pay someone's way", but one way or the other we are paying for life-saving medical care. I'd prefer to pay a $30 prescription and a $100 consultation rather than a $1,000 ER bill. I hate people but I'm willing to pay taxes that ensure everyone's continued life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Even if that person is lazy, or congenitally ill, or if maybe that person used to be just like me but they got laid off and their situation went from bad to worse due to no fault of their own. Shit happens.
Unemployment shouldn't be a death sentence.
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There is a billboard on my way to work (northern minnesota) that says "Palin for president '12"
It just went up. I almost cried.
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I'm pretty sure that money only covers R&D of the engine, not the ship or actual production of engines.
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What's so special about tigers that makes them more important than all the other species that we've hunted to extinction?
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You go first. Seriously. Go kill yourself and reduce the burden on the planet. Put your money where your mouth is. If you have kids, kill them too. And everyone you love. No? You don't want to? Then go fuck yourself. I'm sick of people like you who project their own feelings of shame and inadequacy on the entire population.
Have a great day,
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How is this system any different than the diesel-electric systems that have been used on locomotives for decades?
I understand that batteries will be used- The old diesel-electric submarines used that system before WWII.
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Yeah. I don't think IE counts as an antitrust violation. Windows in and of itself is not anti-competitive. MS's business practices are worth looking into, but that has little to do with the actual products. And iPods are not browsers.
If apple pulled a bait-and-switch with lockin, then yes that would be a problem. The only apple is doing, as far as I can see, is not actively supporting their direct competition. You want a good example of lockin? Try using sony's minidisc players with your existing music collection. Or try using your sony flac files on an ipod or a zune or whatever.
Your last statistics are a non-sequitur. If amazon's service was number one, I imagine you'd be saying the same thing about them. Any time any company is number one in rank, market cap, or popularity, slashdot's pack of little dogs goes snarling after it, without regard to past experience, business knowledge, common sense, or context.
But don't let that stop you, AC.
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You can still listen to ITMS music on your pre. You can still listen to amazon mp3's on your ipod.
The only thing broken now is that iTunes won't recognize the pre as an ipod (oh, maybe because the pre isn't an ipod) meaning that itunes won't automatically sync calendars, contacts, new music, etc. You can still do those things manually just like with every other phone, every other phone that no one ever talks about because NO ONE writes software for their phone/device that explicitly supports their COMPETITOR's products.
I'm halfway through the comments in here and I think I'm done reading. It's like walking down the corridor of a mental asylum- paranoia, delusions of grandeur, dogmatism, and the guy bashing his head into the wall. Yeah, brother, you show apple who's boss by buying a Palm instead of an iPhone! Yeah! Ok now let's see how well iPhones work with Palm software...
-b
So can you put a toyo denso alternator off a honda into your late-model ford truck? WHY THE HELL NOT!!! Down with honda and ford for breaking interoperability between their own damned products!
And for some damned reason I want to put a frigidaire icemaker into my kenmore refrigerator but I CAN'T! Fie on kenmore! Fie on frigidaire! Don't even get me started on trying to use garmin gps's on tomtom software!
The whole world is out to get me! Everyone is trying to make money! Except me, because everything I do is golden and altruistic and I'd continue to do my job even if I didn't get paid because I care that much! The Pre should be able to capitalize on itunes even though they shouldered none of the development, infrastructure, or support! Everyone should be able to use anything to do anything except make money! Oh wait the pre is printing money, I guess I don't like the pre now either.
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What is apple doing to stifle mp3 player manufacturers? What is apple doing to stifle online music stores?
There are tons of other players out there, and tons of other online music stores. Apple designed a wildly successful product with supporting software and services. Amazon mp3's work on iPods, and the itunes-plus music (which is most of the catalog) will play on any player that supports AAC. I only buy the Plus stuff already because it's higher quality, but I get most of my music from amazon.
Here is a partial list of devices that support AAC:
PS3
PSP
sony walkman and sony phones from ericsson
nseries phones from nokia
Android-based phones
Wii
Nintendo DSi
Here is a partial list of online music vendors that are compatible with ipods:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/free-music-for-your-ipod
rhapsody
amazon
lala.com
Wii controllers don't work with PS3s. Garmin gps units don't work with tomtom software. canon printer software won't run epson printers. Do I need to go on?
People seem to conflate "trying to make a buck" with anti-competitive practices. We have to draw the line somewhere. The ITMS/iPod franchise is not in itself anti-competitive any more than an auto dealership is- you can buy more than one make of car from one and you can have your car worked on by other mechanics.
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I wasn't talking about sex, I was jokingly implying that getting someone pregnant was somehow equivalent to being strangled with wire in that they would both ruin your life.
I gotta stop trying to be funny on slashdot.
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Ah, just reading your post brought me back to the good old days when things seemed so much more innocent.
I was just thinking how it's funny that video games and rap have followed a similar trajectory following technology and social currents.
Back when I was a kid-
Rap- i said a hip hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, a you dont stop the rock it to the bang bang boogie -Sugarhill "Gang"
Games- Doom had floating eyeballs. Wolfenstein had nazis. Even the versions of street fighter that had gratuitous fountains of "blood" seem tame today.
Now this is what we have-
Rap- I could be waitin, camped out in yo' car, in the backseat with some fuckin chickenwire, soon as you hit the backstreet I jump up like Jack-in-the-Box, strangle the shit out yo' ass -dmx
Games- You can get women pregnant.
I'm scared to think of what we'll have in ten years.
-b
I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but here goes:
Why is MS so invested in IE's marketshare? It's free. It's a free browser. So are FF and chrome and others. Why is there such competition to spread a free browser's marketshare (non-ad-supported browsers, I should say).
Windows running FF= MS has your money
Windows running IE= MS has your money
Can anyone explain this to me without turning it into a philosophical open-source tangent? I know why WE support open-source, secure browsers. Now what does MS stand to gain pushing IE? Is it just 'growing the brand'?
-b
"I just had this conversation with my wife! I was all like, I don't like chocolate ice cream, and she's all like, I have these friends who aren't kids and they DO like chocolate ice cream, and I'm like: Oh snap! What would possess a person to like chocolate ice cream when I, a respected member of the ice cream community, do not? The only explanation is that people with different tastes than me are either less intelligent or less mature than me."
The problem is that you're treating people's personal tastes in communication and entertainment in terms of logic (don't forget that FB, twitter, etc. serve an entertainment purpose). Your mistake- and maybe I'm wrong, who knows- is that you think that if two people are smart enough and mature enough, they'll eventually come to agree on things (everything?). You remind me of an older gent that I work with who harangues the guys in the shop who play WoW for "not achieving anything" while he spends his weekends putzing around on a motorcycle or fishing.
Different strokes.
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Perhaps the 4 year terms should be evaluated more closely, because society definitely moves more quickly than every 2 years.
That is exactly *why* our terms last longer than fads. If our terms were 6 months long, American Idol would be our presidential election.
Yes, world events change rapidly; however, the basic tenets of governance: Finance, diplomacy, law, ethics, etc- these change very slowly. In theory.
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Pointless. You could put 1 billion people on a scale and have them all memorize data as fast as they could and the weight won't change (correcting for evaporation, etc.).
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