The question is, does a significant portion of the movie watching population care?
Judging by the number of HD televisions I've seen set to vertically stretch SD programming to fill the screen, I'm not to sure the general public will care.
Netflix may want to move to streaming exclusively, but I think that many of their customers will have differing ideas.
Actually I think Netflix is more interested in augmenting their current plans with a streaming only option. The summary is, well, contradictory to say the least. The second to last sentence which states that "it would even appear...to move all of its eggs..." Is followed up by, "Hastings indicated that perhaps as soon as later this year or sometime in 2010, Netflix might start offering online-streaming-only subscription plans". To me this doesn't sound like they're ireally in a hurry to implement this, let alone gearing up to dump the mailing service all together.
Personally I think Netflix may be jimping the shark here.
Because it's Microsoft, it's okay to pirate their software.
Oddly, there are a lot of people that seem to feel this way toward Microsoft. I know several people that I feel are rather honest law abiding type citizens that do. They are totally against any kind of software piracy, except for Microsoft products. They will gladly give out copies of any Microsoft products that they own or accept pirated copies. It's actually a little odd now that I think about it.
"The idea that you can whack your head hundreds of times in your life and knock yourself out and get up and be fine is gone,"... obviously has never met or seen a head trauma patient or, more easily/popularly, Mohammed Ali.
Very poor example, Muhammad Ali has Parkinson's. If you ever saw him box you'd know better. He was too quick back in his day, that most of his opponents were lucky if they could land a decent punch. AFAIK, he was never KO'ed and only ever lost by decision.
It can't be a law unless it can fit on one page, single sided, 12 point times-new-roman, double spaced.
I understand the sentiment, and totally agree with the idea of simplifying the laws. However this is too far of a swing in the opposite direction. The current systems makes it too easy to hide all kinds of pork and loopholes. But if we do an aboutface you are going to leave way too much open to interpretation, which could be just as bad or even worse in some cases.
There are still those who refer to as 3-mile-island as a "tragedy" and a "disaster" when in fact no one has been or ever will have been negatively affected by it. Aside those who experience the high electricity bills, and pollution side-effects, from abandoning nuclear energy over the hysteria.
I lived in the area when that occurred and I agree that only tragedy to the general public was a heightened fear of nuclear power. What I find interesting though is how the employees at TMI from that incident seem to be forgotten, or conveniently not mentioned. I dated a girl when I was in high school whose father was there during that time. He and quite a few of his coworkers who were dying from cancer received a fairly large chunk of change from their employer. So no, I wouldn't go so far as to say that no one was negatively affected.
Except the Japanese were putting out some negotiations via the russians to try to negotiate a peace settlement by early '44. By that point they had recognized that should everything continue, they were going to lose. Their negotiations were meant to save face at home by presenting a story about how they "hadn't really been totally defeated".
Perhaps the US didn't want the Japanese to be able to save face. Such things were considerably more important to the Japanese culture at the time, and still are today compared to the US. With the discontent of Germany after WWI with the Treaty of Versailles being a big factor in the start of WWII, I doubt the US wanted Japan to start WW3 in another 20 years or so.
The main sticking point was that they wanted to keep their current political structure, emperor and all. The main allies (The US especially) wanted an unconditional surrender. Hence the war continuing onwards.
Just because you're looking to surrender dosen't make you a spineless weenie. There is such a thing as recognizing when you're completely overmatched and needing to cut a deal...
I don't think the Japanese were completely over matched. Especially at the beginning of the war. A lot of the reason the US did as well as it did was due to nothing more than luck. Certainly not all allied victories were, but there were some very decisive battles that were mostly luck. I don't think the US wanted to have to deal with such a industrious and determined enemy again in the foreseeable future. I certainly agree that surrender on Japans terms would keep them from looking like "spineless weenies". However not allowing Japan to do so, was much more disgraceful to such an admirable people and was a way to avoid allowing them to dress their wounds and try again.
Besides, it's easy enough to leave that part out. Spin, spin, spin. Say, she was a military contractor who worked on the same project as Baltar. He thought they were in love. Turns out she was working to undermine Colonial defenses and probably cared nothing for him. Now he's the victim and no one can prove otherwise.>Tada! Spin control. Gotta love it.
I don't think there are too many societies currently that would buy into that kind of spin. He'd be up against the wall in most countries within the week I think.
No, XP was a fairly major merge of the NT and 9X product lines. It had some pretty major teething problems because of it. Later service packs have corrected most of the problems, which is the big problem facing Microsoft. XP is finally a fairly stable operating system. If they could have fixed the 'everyone runs as root' problem inherited when they had to have backwards compatibility with Windows 9X it would have been really good.
Actually that sounds like a very good description of 2000 to me.
Ooops. Did Zathrus say that outloud? Much apologizings. Zathras frustrated. If move to EU, Zathras become socialist. If move to U.S., Zathras become socialist. Either way, it is not good for Zathras.
yea, that was 1960. and the Nedelin disaster was an ICBM test; it was not space-related.
so far NASA astronauts have a mortality rate of 4.1% (17 deaths), whereas only 4 Russian cosmonauts have died, which is 0.9% of all the cosmonauts launched.
Really? ICBM's aren't space related? Back in the 1950's and 1960's I'd say they were very related. The Redstone rocket that the US used for the first manned missions was also a ballistic missile.
I also didn't realize that in order for it to count as a space program related death the dead had to be actual astronauts or cosmonauts. I guess if you don't fall into one of those two categories you can't die of a space related death. I suppose the 48 that died in explosion at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in 1980 don't count either or the 9 others that died there in 1973.
I'd say that US engineering isn't quite as dismal as the AC states.
That's right..as opposed to oh so superior American Engineering that results in lots of good TV coverage of shuttles blowing up and burning up every few years.
Yes, as opposed to how many non-televised Soviet space related accidents? Including the one that killed 126 people in 1960.
You have two choices in hard drives: "Western Digital" and "Other". You are playing Russian Roulette with your data if you choose "other".
It's interesting that you say that. Since everyone is sharing anecdotal evidence I might as well throw in my two cents because I've had the exact opposite experience as you apparently.
Over the last 15 or so years I've only had one WD drive that didn't fail out of well over a dozen. I will say that WD has been great about replacing drives that were under warranty. I had one that died within weeks of purchase and then the replacement died within days so they upgraded the replacement to a larger and faster model drive. While I haven't been impressed with their drives, their customer service has been great.
I have four of the IBM DeskStars which I ran for close to 6 years. When one of them finally developed the death click I pulled them all. The other three are in a box and still work the last time I checked.
Out of the hand full of Maxtors that I've had, IME, they didn't seem to hold up very well. I believe that I currently have one in use.
I'm currently running twelve Seagate drives with a mix of SCSI, IDE, and SATA. The oldest is probably pushing 13 years at this point (Nothing critical on it). I don't recall any Seagate drives failing in the past, so I tend to prefer them.
I really wish that Quantum and especially Micropolis were still around. I have some 15 year old SCSI 7200 RPM drives made my Micropolis that still work fine and still sound like a jet when they spin up. I have a SCSI Quantum drive that is a couple of years older that also works.
A gauntlet is "a heavy glove, often armored" or "a glove with a heavy cuff covering part of the arm." To throw down the gauntlet is to challenge someone; to pick up the gauntlet is to accept someone's challenge.
A gantlet is "a lane between two lines of people armed with staves or whips, through which someone being punished is forced to run while being clubbed or whipped by the people on either side" (run the gantlet) and, figuratively, "any series of trials and difficulties."
Grumble grumble...
If it's important enough to use "must" twice before running it, it can be spelled "gauntlet". I'm not sure what the rule is if "must" is used thrice though.
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The power source is already there for a really large magnifying glass.
The question is, does a significant portion of the movie watching population care?
Judging by the number of HD televisions I've seen set to vertically stretch SD programming to fill the screen, I'm not to sure the general public will care.
Netflix may want to move to streaming exclusively, but I think that many of their customers will have differing ideas.
Actually I think Netflix is more interested in augmenting their current plans with a streaming only option. The summary is, well, contradictory to say the least. The second to last sentence which states that "it would even appear...to move all of its eggs..." Is followed up by, "Hastings indicated that perhaps as soon as later this year or sometime in 2010, Netflix might start offering online-streaming-only subscription plans". To me this doesn't sound like they're ireally in a hurry to implement this, let alone gearing up to dump the mailing service all together.
Personally I think Netflix may be jimping the shark here.
More like the summary screwed the pooch.
Personally, I blame Barney.
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Too bad they didn't have this for Rosanne Barr when she sang the national anthem years ago.
Since XBox was missing from the summery, does it mean that no one believes anything Microsoft says anymore? For shame.
So you're saying that he got Parkinson's from being hit too much?
Second.
Because it's Microsoft, it's okay to pirate their software.
Oddly, there are a lot of people that seem to feel this way toward Microsoft. I know several people that I feel are rather honest law abiding type citizens that do. They are totally against any kind of software piracy, except for Microsoft products. They will gladly give out copies of any Microsoft products that they own or accept pirated copies. It's actually a little odd now that I think about it.
"The idea that you can whack your head hundreds of times in your life and knock yourself out and get up and be fine is gone,"... obviously has never met or seen a head trauma patient or, more easily/popularly, Mohammed Ali.
Very poor example, Muhammad Ali has Parkinson's. If you ever saw him box you'd know better. He was too quick back in his day, that most of his opponents were lucky if they could land a decent punch. AFAIK, he was never KO'ed and only ever lost by decision.
Imagine a Beowul... oh, never mind.
You'd probably need one to calculate the electric bill.
Refrigerators use the refrigeration cycle to move hat from one place to another.
So that's where the term "Hat Trick" comes from. I've always wondered about that.
Even Better, how about this:
It can't be a law unless it can fit on one page, single sided, 12 point times-new-roman, double spaced.
I understand the sentiment, and totally agree with the idea of simplifying the laws. However this is too far of a swing in the opposite direction. The current systems makes it too easy to hide all kinds of pork and loopholes. But if we do an aboutface you are going to leave way too much open to interpretation, which could be just as bad or even worse in some cases.
2009, the year of the linux desktop!
I can't believe that it took over an hour before someone posted that.
There are still those who refer to as 3-mile-island as a "tragedy" and a "disaster" when in fact no one has been or ever will have been negatively affected by it. Aside those who experience the high electricity bills, and pollution side-effects, from abandoning nuclear energy over the hysteria.
I lived in the area when that occurred and I agree that only tragedy to the general public was a heightened fear of nuclear power. What I find interesting though is how the employees at TMI from that incident seem to be forgotten, or conveniently not mentioned. I dated a girl when I was in high school whose father was there during that time. He and quite a few of his coworkers who were dying from cancer received a fairly large chunk of change from their employer. So no, I wouldn't go so far as to say that no one was negatively affected.
Peace is the result of completely removing your enemy. Sad, but true.
There, fixed that for you...
Not really. We tend to create enemies if none exist.
Except the Japanese were putting out some negotiations via the russians to try to negotiate a peace settlement by early '44. By that point they had recognized that should everything continue, they were going to lose. Their negotiations were meant to save face at home by presenting a story about how they "hadn't really been totally defeated".
Perhaps the US didn't want the Japanese to be able to save face. Such things were considerably more important to the Japanese culture at the time, and still are today compared to the US. With the discontent of Germany after WWI with the Treaty of Versailles being a big factor in the start of WWII, I doubt the US wanted Japan to start WW3 in another 20 years or so.
The main sticking point was that they wanted to keep their current political structure, emperor and all. The main allies (The US especially) wanted an unconditional surrender. Hence the war continuing onwards.
Just because you're looking to surrender dosen't make you a spineless weenie. There is such a thing as recognizing when you're completely overmatched and needing to cut a deal...
I don't think the Japanese were completely over matched. Especially at the beginning of the war. A lot of the reason the US did as well as it did was due to nothing more than luck. Certainly not all allied victories were, but there were some very decisive battles that were mostly luck. I don't think the US wanted to have to deal with such a industrious and determined enemy again in the foreseeable future. I certainly agree that surrender on Japans terms would keep them from looking like "spineless weenies". However not allowing Japan to do so, was much more disgraceful to such an admirable people and was a way to avoid allowing them to dress their wounds and try again.
I don't think there are too many societies currently that would buy into that kind of spin. He'd be up against the wall in most countries within the week I think.
No, XP was a fairly major merge of the NT and 9X product lines. It had some pretty major teething problems because of it. Later service packs have corrected most of the problems, which is the big problem facing Microsoft. XP is finally a fairly stable operating system. If they could have fixed the 'everyone runs as root' problem inherited when they had to have backwards compatibility with Windows 9X it would have been really good.
Actually that sounds like a very good description of 2000 to me.
Sig Heil!
Ooops. Did Zathrus say that outloud? Much apologizings. Zathras frustrated. If move to EU, Zathras become socialist. If move to U.S., Zathras become socialist. Either way, it is not good for Zathras.
Very sad, but at least there is symmetry.
yea, that was 1960. and the Nedelin disaster was an ICBM test; it was not space-related.
so far NASA astronauts have a mortality rate of 4.1% (17 deaths), whereas only 4 Russian cosmonauts have died, which is 0.9% of all the cosmonauts launched.
Really? ICBM's aren't space related? Back in the 1950's and 1960's I'd say they were very related. The Redstone rocket that the US used for the first manned missions was also a ballistic missile.
I also didn't realize that in order for it to count as a space program related death the dead had to be actual astronauts or cosmonauts. I guess if you don't fall into one of those two categories you can't die of a space related death. I suppose the 48 that died in explosion at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in 1980 don't count either or the 9 others that died there in 1973.
I'd say that US engineering isn't quite as dismal as the AC states.
That's right..as opposed to oh so superior American Engineering that results in lots of good TV coverage of shuttles blowing up and burning up every few years.
Yes, as opposed to how many non-televised Soviet space related accidents? Including the one that killed 126 people in 1960.
http://www.leechvideo.com/video/view2470454.html
Criminals get dumber and dumber.
If he was not such a retard he'd just sign up with bogus accounts and write the reviews himself, from a public library terminal.
Actually I think they are getting smarter and smarter.
It's just the ones that don't learn that get caught.
You have two choices in hard drives: "Western Digital" and "Other". You are playing Russian Roulette with your data if you choose "other".
It's interesting that you say that. Since everyone is sharing anecdotal evidence I might as well throw in my two cents because I've had the exact opposite experience as you apparently.
Over the last 15 or so years I've only had one WD drive that didn't fail out of well over a dozen. I will say that WD has been great about replacing drives that were under warranty. I had one that died within weeks of purchase and then the replacement died within days so they upgraded the replacement to a larger and faster model drive. While I haven't been impressed with their drives, their customer service has been great.
I have four of the IBM DeskStars which I ran for close to 6 years. When one of them finally developed the death click I pulled them all. The other three are in a box and still work the last time I checked.
Out of the hand full of Maxtors that I've had, IME, they didn't seem to hold up very well. I believe that I currently have one in use.
I'm currently running twelve Seagate drives with a mix of SCSI, IDE, and SATA. The oldest is probably pushing 13 years at this point (Nothing critical on it). I don't recall any Seagate drives failing in the past, so I tend to prefer them.
I really wish that Quantum and especially Micropolis were still around. I have some 15 year old SCSI 7200 RPM drives made my Micropolis that still work fine and still sound like a jet when they spin up. I have a SCSI Quantum drive that is a couple of years older that also works.
Arrrrgggghhhh! From Bartleby.com:
A gauntlet is "a heavy glove, often armored" or "a glove with a heavy cuff covering part of the arm." To throw down the gauntlet is to challenge someone; to pick up the gauntlet is to accept someone's challenge.
A gantlet is "a lane between two lines of people armed with staves or whips, through which someone being punished is forced to run while being clubbed or whipped by the people on either side" (run the gantlet) and, figuratively, "any series of trials and difficulties."
Grumble grumble ...
If it's important enough to use "must" twice before running it, it can be spelled "gauntlet". I'm not sure what the rule is if "must" is used thrice though.