"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won't believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!"
Just because our "route" resulted in our "life" situation, doesn't mean that other routes couldn't produce equally valid and viable "life" conditions. We're not that special.
I think it's more interesting to look at the trends. The murder rate in Atlanta has halved in the past 30 years, whereas the murder rate in London is five times what it was 30 years ago. The cameras aren't helping.
On the other hand, it does have one tremendous weakness that doesn't afflict music: consumers often watch films only once.
Really, if anyone should be working on a system to enable on-demand viewing of their intellectual property it should be the movie industry.
"quite good"! You've got be kidding. Shouldn't the drivers be rock solid golden? Isn't this how the whole Vista mess started with "quite good" drivers. I don't hate Microsoft, but it's painful watching them shoot themselves in the foot time and time again.
Tiny possibility of me winning the lottery as well.
Amazingly tiny probability that all airline pilots everywhere will simultaneously suffer heart attacks, causing all planes to crash. Here's a cool looking animation of them crashing, and just to emphasize the point, here's an animation of them not crashing.
Time Warner Cable in New York, has been doing this for ages. They compress the hell out of all the Fox-owned channels. Funny that, can't imagine why they'd do that! Any films that are on Fox that have lots of red or smokey scenes degrade into large unwatchable blocks of color. Always makes me wonder how much The Discovery Channel pays for what is quite obviously a large swatch of bandwidth.
Gattaca here we come!
"Save on post-natal care, genetically screen your unborn child for conditions that may affect your post-natal coverage". Offer not valid in ND, AK, and HI etc. etc.
Here you go with another well-intentioned, but poorly thought out piece of legislation. The kind of thing that they're trying to prevent is obviously repugnant, but, as with all government-driven restrictions on expression and speech, you end up casting the net far wider than anticipated. These things are much better left for the market place and society, in general, to sort out.
The nanny state grows larger every day!
As far as I can tell, any episode where Homer throttles Bart would fall foul of this, and who wants to miss out on the "Why you little..." sound bite?
It always seems like a good time to link to this essay, when everyone starts talking about the money model for recording artists.
From the essay: The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000 on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month. The next album will be about the same, except that the record company will insist they spend more time and money on it. Since the previous one never "recouped," the band will have no leverage, and will oblige. The next tour will be about the same, except the merchandising advance will have already been paid, and the band, strangely enough, won't have earned any royalties from their T-shirts yet. Maybe the T-shirt guys have figured out how to count money like record company guys. Some of your friends are probably already this fucked http://www.negativland.com/albini.html/
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Yes. I when I still had that, AND a job.
As I used to say "it was damn difficult to write, it should be bloody difficult to understand".
Absolutely agreed, and the Fermi paradox is an entertaining opportunity for "hypothesis play".
ack! Obviously should read "Feynman's License Plate Syndrome"
"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won't believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!"
Just because our "route" resulted in our "life" situation, doesn't mean that other routes couldn't produce equally valid and viable "life" conditions. We're not that special.
The air pressure and temperature however, would be unbearable at -3900m
That is special!
The Denon AK-DL1 is without doubt the winner in the bogus cable category. It's "uni-directional"! http://usa.denon.com/us/Product/Pages/Product-Detail.aspx?Catid=5840d55c-4077-4d9e-9421-36f204fb4587&SubId=85958de8-a123-4213-8ae1-bb6afaee9a97&ProductId=f7d26b3a-05a6-4724-a5c1-2a63642a6206
in other news: pope wears hat bear shits in wood etc etc
I think it's more interesting to look at the trends. The murder rate in Atlanta has halved in the past 30 years, whereas the murder rate in London is five times what it was 30 years ago. The cameras aren't helping.
On the other hand, it does have one tremendous weakness that doesn't afflict music: consumers often watch films only once.
Really, if anyone should be working on a system to enable on-demand viewing of their intellectual property it should be the movie industry.
"quite good"! You've got be kidding. Shouldn't the drivers be rock solid golden? Isn't this how the whole Vista mess started with "quite good" drivers. I don't hate Microsoft, but it's painful watching them shoot themselves in the foot time and time again.
Amazingly tiny probability that all airline pilots everywhere will simultaneously suffer heart attacks, causing all planes to crash. Here's a cool looking animation of them crashing, and just to emphasize the point, here's an animation of them not crashing.
I miss the BBC, where did it go?
Come on, don't be posting Daily Mail infuriate-o-grams as stories.
Hard to believe, looking at this, that there could ever be a shortage of anything.
Time Warner Cable in New York, has been doing this for ages. They compress the hell out of all the Fox-owned channels. Funny that, can't imagine why they'd do that! Any films that are on Fox that have lots of red or smokey scenes degrade into large unwatchable blocks of color. Always makes me wonder how much The Discovery Channel pays for what is quite obviously a large swatch of bandwidth.
Gattaca here we come!
"Save on post-natal care, genetically screen your unborn child for conditions that may affect your post-natal coverage".
Offer not valid in ND, AK, and HI etc. etc.
Glad to hear that Vista64's support is better than XP64, though I remain sceptical.
How or why is Vista's search better?
At least if you downgrade you can run Google Desktop, and a whole host of other programs and utilities that don't properly support XP 64bit.
Here you go with another well-intentioned, but poorly thought out piece of legislation. The kind of thing that they're trying to prevent is obviously repugnant, but, as with all government-driven restrictions on expression and speech, you end up casting the net far wider than anticipated. These things are much better left for the market place and society, in general, to sort out.
The nanny state grows larger every day!
As far as I can tell, any episode where Homer throttles Bart would fall foul of this, and who wants to miss out on the "Why you little..." sound bite?
It always seems like a good time to link to this essay, when everyone starts talking about the money model for recording artists.
From the essay:
The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000 on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month. The next album will be about the same, except that the record company will insist they spend more time and money on it. Since the previous one never "recouped," the band will have no leverage, and will oblige. The next tour will be about the same, except the merchandising advance will have already been paid, and the band, strangely enough, won't have earned any royalties from their T-shirts yet. Maybe the T-shirt guys have figured out how to count money like record company guys. Some of your friends are probably already this fucked
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html/
Anything that prevents Symantec's software from getting its evil little hooks into the OS has got to be a good thing, no?
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try the OED
A lame or crippled person or leg; a limp
"beautiful or attractive", in what language?