QT to MSVS2005: Why not go GTK+ vs. C# Express, both free
I agree, in part. But I don't think that the price on QT is too terribly bad. I've had to pay more for the tools I've needed to do various jobs. When it comes down to it, if you need the tool to do the job you want to do, you suck it up and buy it, assuming that it's the differnce between making money and not. And heck they even offer a program for small businesses and startups that knocks the price down a bit. I've seldom met a company that would let me purchase a machine at 50% discount because my company didn't gross 200 grand.
Besides, if they're starting up a company in the US, all of this stuff can probably be used as a tax advantage. If they don't know this, their CPA needs to kick some ass.
There was some guy in Alaska who bought a medical cyclotron not too long ago and Ancharge city officials freaked out, so I don't think they are too expensive. The physics involved is doable by an astute high-schooler who took physics, electronics and welding. A linear accelator of up to 250 Kev is trivial.
Yeah, I wouldn't think they would be very expensive, I mean much more powerful cyclotrons have been around since the 1920's. It's stone age stuff. But since hospital == $$$$$$$, I'd guess that anything designed to be used in a hospital is about 2-5 times as expensive as a more industrial equivalent.
When you consider that your average CRT TV is basically a ~20 keV linear accelerator, that's only about an order of magnitude off.
A small, portable solution would be a wonderful advance for rural hospitals and developing countries.
I don't know exactly how much an average PET scanner costs, maybe $1 million to $3 million? I'd think that a hospital with enough bones to buy a PET machine, and enough demand to have it make sense would also be stupid if they didn't get the cyclotron to go with it. I'm sure they can make it a tax advantage somehow anyway.
Oh, just what the U.S. needs: a way to secretly launch a nuclear warhead against an international target without the telltale rocket heat plume detectible by satellite. What are they calling it: a cold warhead?
As if launching a huge-ass rocket is the only way to deliver a nuke.
I admit my ignorance of any structure that will stand up to the accelerations/velocities applied to the kinds of masses they're talking about launching, whether straight-line or circular, for the time needed to achieve said velocities: Granted, 2 up to even 9 or 10 g is doable for awhile (see NASA's training centrifuge, for example) but is it scalable to escape velocities?
Keep in mind that this is not supposed to launch humans. But it WOULD be an awesome logisical tool for supporting humans launched into space by other means. For one, it would reduce the cost of launching raw materials and energy sources for producing space station parts in orbit.
Anyway, some air to air missiles are supposed to be able to turn such that they are exposed to 100-200 sustained gees.. But the problem is that they 1) use up tons of kinetic energy turning that fast, and may not be able to retain enough velocity to hit a fast target 2) they would basically never need to do that because there are no planes which could ever hope to move that fast, and as in #1 the missile wouldn't have enough velocity to hope to catch a plane that could move that fast anyway. So I hear most missiles are programmed to execute max 50 gee turns, because that's still much faster than a manned vehicle could hope to turn, and they'll still catch most any plane flying today.
Also, an F-15 airframe is supposed to be capable of a sustained 15 gees with a good load of arms, but that would incapacitate if not kill even the best trained humans.
This magnet structure would have to be pretty damn strong, no doubt, but I don't think it's outside of the realm of possibility. In fact, I'm sure the superconducting magnets and power supply to run it would be MUCH more of an engineering problem than the structure that holds it all together.
You don't need to fling the capsule upwards, you need to fling it horizontally such that it doesn't hit anything. To get into orbit you do not go "up", you go sideways as fast as you can. The advantages of being high up are:
Hey, as long as the government pays to replace our windows... and our ear drums.
Can we please put the blame where the blame belongs, namely on the modern trademark system?
Trademarks have now turned two cool, very useful and free projects against each other. And now, instead of doing some useful neat things, they have to waste time by acting like a couple of prison inmates--trying to figure out which one is the bitch. It was only a matter of time until the OSS community went into the trademark circle jerk head first. So stop acting like bitches.
Firefox: So they want to change a tiny graphic, big deal. If that's what gets them off, let 'em do it. It's impossible that anyone is going to think Debian is responsible for Firefox. Also, if Debian choses to excersize the rights given to them by the GPL, you guys have no right to demand that you directly receive any of their patches, because that's not the way it works.
Debian: The Firefox guys went the extra mile and gave us all this groovy software to play with. They even licensed it so it really is Free to those who want to use those rights. Is it really necessary to change the logo on their browser? It's pretty, and someone worked hard on it, afterall. What's the problem? It's not like you guys don't have your logo everywhere else. Would you also be inclined to replace the logos of all other Free software that you bundle with your distro?
Well, I'm wondering about that right now. I sell images online [gdargaud.net] and I'm in the process of editing two new CD compilations. The difference with before is that I now use digital which records the instant the image was taken. I'm not absolutely sure I want people to know exactly where I was every day of my life (or every day I use a camera). It's one thing to have your images made public, another one to have your whereabouts made public, although I can't really pinpoint a negative example.
If you're not comfortable with that sort of information going wherever you don't want it to go, there are a number of ways to go about stripping that info from whatever images you distribute. The one exception is that you're probably not going to strip it out of your RAW images, but then you probably don't distribute those, and you just wouldn't want to do that anyway. All that delicious information is only a google away.
I'd think most semi-serious digital photographers would realize that EXIFs are both there (the're very useful) and can be removed. If you're doing this as a semi-pro, file this in the TMYK bin.
Hey, that's just what we need to do. We need to engineer plants to secrete ethanol directly, so we can skip providing food for trillions of fungi. We can siphon it off just like maple syrup!
Muahaha!
Of course the damn government will have to come in and spoil our fun by requiring our vodka trees to output denatured vodka syrup.
Totally, and I'm almost 100% sure I read about this exact same concept in a Popular Science magazine about 15 years ago. I thought it was a joke back then, too.
You don't get your pay reduced or otherwise fined ***IF*** you can provide a theft report from the local police? I mean, that seems like a prudent thing, someone elses' expensive technology is in your hands. And if the employee is responsible for the theft, they're liable to be charged for false reporting on top of theft. In other words, not fun.
That should be enough of a deterrent to the casual office thief, erm, that is, the hapless and careless person who "loses" multi-thousand dollar devices entrusted to them by someone else, and people who really have had that property taken from them by a third party don't get screwed in the end.
Agreed. But still: Why would it stop acceleration when it has reached its that value? In other words: how is its terminal velocity calculated?
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No. What he posted was that he set it up so they can have their choice of programming while in hotels on the road.
To paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson, English, motherfucker, do you speak it? Or can you at least read it? 'Cause it sure dosen't seem like it. To wit, and quote Phillup (317168) "I actually built a mythbox specifically so I could record the kid's shows and edit out all the crap... now I can set them down and let them watch without the commercials." I don't know what part of that sentance indicates that his mythbox is used only for hotel rooms, and for noodling around in the minivan. Furthermore, to quote him leater in the thread "I can't cook dinner and watch the kids at the same time. And neither can you. So, yeah. Sometimes they get to watch the tube. If you don't like it... tough."
He can't watch the kids and cook macaroni and cheese simultaneously? Well blow me down, he must be one of the couple dozen people in the entire world who just can't multitask... I guess that must mean he's focused like a laser beam, ready to cut metal plates into tiny bits with sheer power of mental concentration... Right. I get the feeling that his statement "So, yeah. Sometimes they get to watch the tube." would be more accurately said "So, yeah. They spend most of their waking hours in front of the tube.", from his own anecdotal proof.
Bad behaviour in children is because something is wrong with the parent, 99.99% of the time. It's like on Supernanny, when the parents say "I just don't know why my child acts like a little demon, why he says I'm a fat bitch, and why he says he hates me... I think my kid has a chemical imbalance, and I just wish I could have a normal kid!", and Supernanny has them turned around in five minutes, and they act like normal kid towards other adults. If you think that children being upset because a commercial interrupts the Thomas the Tank Engine show is not indicative of something wrong, I'm sorry, for you, and any offspring you ever have, and anyone unfotrunate enough to ever be adjacent to them.
I certianly don't want to burn anyone at the stake for doing something wrong. Everyone screws up, it's a fact of life. Even the best screw up and do something stupid. All I want is for people to do something RIGHT once an a while, you know, just to mix it up, if for nothing else.
Ah, I see. So you're interpreting everyone's parenting skills based on your parents' lack thereof. This is not an intelligent debate, then, it's the personal crusade of one. Using the same basis for your argument, parents should also not play Yahtzee.
Hey, they can do whatever they want, but keeping the kids from getting rest for school by rattling dice around in a plastic cup for hours on end sure isn't the nicest thing to do, and if kids are disturbed by whatever their stupid parents do, they should go to the living room and take a crap on the carpet, or the next most expensive thing in the room after kindly asking for them to stop. They'll get the message eventually, even if they have to go to counseling so they can have a professional adult tell them that they're a bunch of shit for brains who only procreated because daddy had a 33% chance of finding the right hole.
For my final words, I'll say that making offspring is quite possibly the most powerful thing a human can do, it's a tremendous responsibility. It's a responsibility not just to your children, but to the entire world, to all of humanity... And if you don't do right by them, you deserve to be smote by the giant ethereal newspaper of naughtyness and have your snout rubbed in all you've done wrong.
Yeah, but he said his kids pitch a bitch fit when a commercial interrupts whatever programs his kids watch, and are immediately satiated when the program returns. I can infer that a) they either sit infront of the tube way too much, or b) his kids, whom probably most enjoy Teletubbies and Barney the Purple Dinosaur, are enraged at the socioeconomic ramifications of pushing Marlbros to kids in diapers like he would apparently like everyone to believe, and they're not simply kvetching because Dora The Explorer went away for a couple moments.
Seriously... He says he went to the effort to build a technological solution to this problem, including assembling and configuring a MythTV box, editing the shows, and purchasing a MediaGate player to keep the kids entertained whilst in transit.
I'm sorry. This is sad. With the amount of time and money he spent on this crap, he could have taken the kiddies outside to experience the Big Blue Room at that novel invention called "The Park", and could have used that time as good quality time, but instead he chose to further nurture this bond with the tele.
If I sound bitter, I am. I was raised in front of the TV. I had Sesame Street and Nintendo to entertain me whilst my parents and other guardians smoked up a storm and played Yahtzee till it was time to retire--at an hour that was arguably way past the time I should have been put to bed. Kids need interaction. They need to go outside, go play catch, go to the park, go to the pool, go to karate class, whatever, they need to go run around the yard like a little freak and have interaction...
But everyone wonders why they have to put kids on perscription drugs so they can calm down, everyone wonders why so many kindergartners have rolls of fat, everyone wonders why juvenile diabetes is growing in epedemic proportions, everyone wonders why more and more kids are becoming psychologically screwed up... If you tell me that allowing children to watch excessive amounts of TV isn't both physical and psychological neglect, I'll tell you that you're fuckin' nuts. The effects might not be as visible as bruises and scars, but there it is.
. Again, assuming no abuse, if someone didn't ask your opinion on parenting and you're not a blood relative, keeping yer yap out of their business is the polite and proper way to go.
Waaah. If you know something is fucked up, keeping your yap shut and hoping the problem will go away is the last thing anyone should do. Keeping your yap shut is among the worst of evils. People keping their yaps shut is responsible for so much bad stuff that could have otherwise been averted, it's quite impossible to even begin a list in this little box. But I guess we should stick our collective asses up in the air and hum the Star Spangled Banner so we can get gang-banged by the evil bastards out there, because they're the only ones who can be arsed to do something, or anything for that matter.
Quoted for truth. More parents need to stand up for the right to raise our kids as we friggin' see fit, assuming no abuse.
This assumes that some people don't consider the setting a kid in front of an idiot box a form of abuse. If all a kid does day in and day out is hang out with an electronic babysitter, it's not a healthy existence. I personally feel it's not much better than locking a kid in a closet and feeding him raw fish heads.
Plus, I just couldn't feel good about submitting suspected terrorists to some of the stuff on the boob toob.
There has never been a fair use right for any copyrighted material that worked that way. Say you had a book that you accidentally dropped in the bathtub and was ruined, or maybe it was in your bookbag that was stolen. You don't have some fair use right to another copy, whether a new paperback or a digital one, just because it wasn't your fault that you lost the original copy; it's tough luck, buy another book. In fact, with music, you actually have an extra *statutory* right -- the right to make a backup. You still can't photocopy or scan an entire book to make a "backup" of it!
What is the functional diffference to anyone if you paid for a work, then said work became unusable, and you subsequently obtain a replacement at no cost to yourself, and at no loss nor any gain to anyone else? The creators of the work were paid in full the price they asked, and both parties have what they expected. Equilibrium is preserved.
When he gets off the plane at DIA, his first question is which way to north.
That's easy, and not very amazing. Look around and find the mountains outside through the window. Yeah, they're out there. Look directly at them. Take your left hand, and extend it leftwards, so that it's perpendicular to the mountains. Rotate your body to face in the direction your hand is pointing. You're now facing North.
There aren't Open Source marketing people? Developers give away their time and skill, why not marketers?
I think the difference is that it actually takes something special to be a programmer, and to use those skills to build something like MythTV, whereas most any humanoid can be a successful marketer.
For example, on Bourne Supremacy, on the fly you can have a video commentary track, where the director or producer will pop up as a picture-in-picture to give a face to the narration. Lots of very cool things along these lines will be coming in later titles, and its stuff you'd want to be able to access. And we're talking real-world titles - there are clearly the bits available to do it.
Yeah, that PIP stuff is bound to be incredibly useful! I mean, having the director pop up and tell you what stupid thing he was going after with this shot or that shot might take your attention off the nausea-inducing effects of watching Matt Damon long enough to realize that you're not infact strapped to a giant hydraulic jackhammer!
Seriously, you can strap me to a tiny boat heaving up and down 40 feet on the sea, while everyone else is puking, tumble me around in a small airplane, again, while everyone else is puking, throw me out of the plane, spin me around and around, and around on an office chair, fly me around a race track at 150MPH, make me watch a video of a twitchy teenager hopped up on Ritalin play an FPS game, etc... None of that bothers me.
That goddamned movie, however, that bothered me. The ride home was an interesting one, I'm not afraid to admit.
Dont forget the binoculars and a good tree to hide in
An' boy, I tell you what, we had to plant the gawdern tree 'an wait thirty years, all the while nurtirn 'an prunin' it all sneaky like 'fer we could even think about salkin'
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QT to MSVS2005: Why not go GTK+ vs. C# Express, both free
I agree, in part. But I don't think that the price on QT is too terribly bad. I've had to pay more for the tools I've needed to do various jobs. When it comes down to it, if you need the tool to do the job you want to do, you suck it up and buy it, assuming that it's the differnce between making money and not. And heck they even offer a program for small businesses and startups that knocks the price down a bit. I've seldom met a company that would let me purchase a machine at 50% discount because my company didn't gross 200 grand.
Besides, if they're starting up a company in the US, all of this stuff can probably be used as a tax advantage. If they don't know this, their CPA needs to kick some ass.
There was some guy in Alaska who bought a medical cyclotron not too long ago and Ancharge city officials freaked out, so I don't think they are too expensive. The physics involved is doable by an astute high-schooler who took physics, electronics and welding. A linear accelator of up to 250 Kev is trivial.
Yeah, I wouldn't think they would be very expensive, I mean much more powerful cyclotrons have been around since the 1920's. It's stone age stuff. But since hospital == $$$$$$$, I'd guess that anything designed to be used in a hospital is about 2-5 times as expensive as a more industrial equivalent.
When you consider that your average CRT TV is basically a ~20 keV linear accelerator, that's only about an order of magnitude off.
A small, portable solution would be a wonderful advance for rural hospitals and developing countries.
I don't know exactly how much an average PET scanner costs, maybe $1 million to $3 million? I'd think that a hospital with enough bones to buy a PET machine, and enough demand to have it make sense would also be stupid if they didn't get the cyclotron to go with it. I'm sure they can make it a tax advantage somehow anyway.
Oh, just what the U.S. needs: a way to secretly launch a nuclear warhead against an international target without the telltale rocket heat plume detectible by satellite. What are they calling it: a cold warhead?
As if launching a huge-ass rocket is the only way to deliver a nuke.
I admit my ignorance of any structure that will stand up to the accelerations/velocities applied to the kinds of masses they're talking about launching, whether straight-line or circular, for the time needed to achieve said velocities: Granted, 2 up to even 9 or 10 g is doable for awhile (see NASA's training centrifuge, for example) but is it scalable to escape velocities?
Keep in mind that this is not supposed to launch humans. But it WOULD be an awesome logisical tool for supporting humans launched into space by other means. For one, it would reduce the cost of launching raw materials and energy sources for producing space station parts in orbit.
Anyway, some air to air missiles are supposed to be able to turn such that they are exposed to 100-200 sustained gees.. But the problem is that they 1) use up tons of kinetic energy turning that fast, and may not be able to retain enough velocity to hit a fast target 2) they would basically never need to do that because there are no planes which could ever hope to move that fast, and as in #1 the missile wouldn't have enough velocity to hope to catch a plane that could move that fast anyway. So I hear most missiles are programmed to execute max 50 gee turns, because that's still much faster than a manned vehicle could hope to turn, and they'll still catch most any plane flying today.
Also, an F-15 airframe is supposed to be capable of a sustained 15 gees with a good load of arms, but that would incapacitate if not kill even the best trained humans.
This magnet structure would have to be pretty damn strong, no doubt, but I don't think it's outside of the realm of possibility. In fact, I'm sure the superconducting magnets and power supply to run it would be MUCH more of an engineering problem than the structure that holds it all together.
You don't need to fling the capsule upwards, you need to fling it horizontally such that it doesn't hit anything. To get into orbit you do not go "up", you go sideways as fast as you can. The advantages of being high up are:
Hey, as long as the government pays to replace our windows... and our ear drums.
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Can we please put the blame where the blame belongs, namely on the modern trademark system?
Trademarks have now turned two cool, very useful and free projects against each other. And now, instead of doing some useful neat things, they have to waste time by acting like a couple of prison inmates--trying to figure out which one is the bitch. It was only a matter of time until the OSS community went into the trademark circle jerk head first. So stop acting like bitches.
Firefox: So they want to change a tiny graphic, big deal. If that's what gets them off, let 'em do it. It's impossible that anyone is going to think Debian is responsible for Firefox. Also, if Debian choses to excersize the rights given to them by the GPL, you guys have no right to demand that you directly receive any of their patches, because that's not the way it works.
Debian: The Firefox guys went the extra mile and gave us all this groovy software to play with. They even licensed it so it really is Free to those who want to use those rights. Is it really necessary to change the logo on their browser? It's pretty, and someone worked hard on it, afterall. What's the problem? It's not like you guys don't have your logo everywhere else. Would you also be inclined to replace the logos of all other Free software that you bundle with your distro?
Nåhja, men hvis jeg alligevel er i færd med at bestille maskine kan jeg lige så godt bestille spil.
I think so too, but I find scratching just makes it worse.
The particular formulation of biodiesel I'm partial to is refered to colloquially as "Gouda."
Well heard! However, I actually receive fewer complaints when I "burn" ethanol as apposed to certian Dutchy Dairy Delicacies.
Well, I'm wondering about that right now. I sell images online [gdargaud.net] and I'm in the process of editing two new CD compilations. The difference with before is that I now use digital which records the instant the image was taken. I'm not absolutely sure I want people to know exactly where I was every day of my life (or every day I use a camera). It's one thing to have your images made public, another one to have your whereabouts made public, although I can't really pinpoint a negative example.
If you're not comfortable with that sort of information going wherever you don't want it to go, there are a number of ways to go about stripping that info from whatever images you distribute. The one exception is that you're probably not going to strip it out of your RAW images, but then you probably don't distribute those, and you just wouldn't want to do that anyway. All that delicious information is only a google away.
I'd think most semi-serious digital photographers would realize that EXIFs are both there (the're very useful) and can be removed. If you're doing this as a semi-pro, file this in the TMYK bin.
Hey, that's just what we need to do. We need to engineer plants to secrete ethanol directly, so we can skip providing food for trillions of fungi. We can siphon it off just like maple syrup!
Muahaha!
Of course the damn government will have to come in and spoil our fun by requiring our vodka trees to output denatured vodka syrup.
Bastards.
Totally, and I'm almost 100% sure I read about this exact same concept in a Popular Science magazine about 15 years ago. I thought it was a joke back then, too.
How about this:
You don't get your pay reduced or otherwise fined ***IF*** you can provide a theft report from the local police? I mean, that seems like a prudent thing, someone elses' expensive technology is in your hands. And if the employee is responsible for the theft, they're liable to be charged for false reporting on top of theft. In other words, not fun.
That should be enough of a deterrent to the casual office thief, erm, that is, the hapless and careless person who "loses" multi-thousand dollar devices entrusted to them by someone else, and people who really have had that property taken from them by a third party don't get screwed in the end.
Agreed. But still: Why would it stop acceleration when it has reached its that value? In other words: how is its terminal velocity calculated?
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No. What he posted was that he set it up so they can have their choice of programming while in hotels on the road.
To paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson, English, motherfucker, do you speak it? Or can you at least read it? 'Cause it sure dosen't seem like it. To wit, and quote Phillup (317168) "I actually built a mythbox specifically so I could record the kid's shows and edit out all the crap... now I can set them down and let them watch without the commercials." I don't know what part of that sentance indicates that his mythbox is used only for hotel rooms, and for noodling around in the minivan. Furthermore, to quote him leater in the thread "I can't cook dinner and watch the kids at the same time. And neither can you. So, yeah. Sometimes they get to watch the tube. If you don't like it... tough."
He can't watch the kids and cook macaroni and cheese simultaneously? Well blow me down, he must be one of the couple dozen people in the entire world who just can't multitask... I guess that must mean he's focused like a laser beam, ready to cut metal plates into tiny bits with sheer power of mental concentration... Right. I get the feeling that his statement "So, yeah. Sometimes they get to watch the tube." would be more accurately said "So, yeah. They spend most of their waking hours in front of the tube.", from his own anecdotal proof.
Bad behaviour in children is because something is wrong with the parent, 99.99% of the time. It's like on Supernanny, when the parents say "I just don't know why my child acts like a little demon, why he says I'm a fat bitch, and why he says he hates me... I think my kid has a chemical imbalance, and I just wish I could have a normal kid!", and Supernanny has them turned around in five minutes, and they act like normal kid towards other adults. If you think that children being upset because a commercial interrupts the Thomas the Tank Engine show is not indicative of something wrong, I'm sorry, for you, and any offspring you ever have, and anyone unfotrunate enough to ever be adjacent to them.
I certianly don't want to burn anyone at the stake for doing something wrong. Everyone screws up, it's a fact of life. Even the best screw up and do something stupid. All I want is for people to do something RIGHT once an a while, you know, just to mix it up, if for nothing else.
Ah, I see. So you're interpreting everyone's parenting skills based on your parents' lack thereof. This is not an intelligent debate, then, it's the personal crusade of one. Using the same basis for your argument, parents should also not play Yahtzee.
Hey, they can do whatever they want, but keeping the kids from getting rest for school by rattling dice around in a plastic cup for hours on end sure isn't the nicest thing to do, and if kids are disturbed by whatever their stupid parents do, they should go to the living room and take a crap on the carpet, or the next most expensive thing in the room after kindly asking for them to stop. They'll get the message eventually, even if they have to go to counseling so they can have a professional adult tell them that they're a bunch of shit for brains who only procreated because daddy had a 33% chance of finding the right hole.
For my final words, I'll say that making offspring is quite possibly the most powerful thing a human can do, it's a tremendous responsibility. It's a responsibility not just to your children, but to the entire world, to all of humanity... And if you don't do right by them, you deserve to be smote by the giant ethereal newspaper of naughtyness and have your snout rubbed in all you've done wrong.
Yeah, but he said his kids pitch a bitch fit when a commercial interrupts whatever programs his kids watch, and are immediately satiated when the program returns. I can infer that a) they either sit infront of the tube way too much, or b) his kids, whom probably most enjoy Teletubbies and Barney the Purple Dinosaur, are enraged at the socioeconomic ramifications of pushing Marlbros to kids in diapers like he would apparently like everyone to believe, and they're not simply kvetching because Dora The Explorer went away for a couple moments.
Seriously... He says he went to the effort to build a technological solution to this problem, including assembling and configuring a MythTV box, editing the shows, and purchasing a MediaGate player to keep the kids entertained whilst in transit.
I'm sorry. This is sad. With the amount of time and money he spent on this crap, he could have taken the kiddies outside to experience the Big Blue Room at that novel invention called "The Park", and could have used that time as good quality time, but instead he chose to further nurture this bond with the tele.
If I sound bitter, I am. I was raised in front of the TV. I had Sesame Street and Nintendo to entertain me whilst my parents and other guardians smoked up a storm and played Yahtzee till it was time to retire--at an hour that was arguably way past the time I should have been put to bed. Kids need interaction. They need to go outside, go play catch, go to the park, go to the pool, go to karate class, whatever, they need to go run around the yard like a little freak and have interaction...
But everyone wonders why they have to put kids on perscription drugs so they can calm down, everyone wonders why so many kindergartners have rolls of fat, everyone wonders why juvenile diabetes is growing in epedemic proportions, everyone wonders why more and more kids are becoming psychologically screwed up... If you tell me that allowing children to watch excessive amounts of TV isn't both physical and psychological neglect, I'll tell you that you're fuckin' nuts. The effects might not be as visible as bruises and scars, but there it is.
. Again, assuming no abuse, if someone didn't ask your opinion on parenting and you're not a blood relative, keeping yer yap out of their business is the polite and proper way to go.
Waaah. If you know something is fucked up, keeping your yap shut and hoping the problem will go away is the last thing anyone should do. Keeping your yap shut is among the worst of evils. People keping their yaps shut is responsible for so much bad stuff that could have otherwise been averted, it's quite impossible to even begin a list in this little box. But I guess we should stick our collective asses up in the air and hum the Star Spangled Banner so we can get gang-banged by the evil bastards out there, because they're the only ones who can be arsed to do something, or anything for that matter.
Quoted for truth. More parents need to stand up for the right to raise our kids as we friggin' see fit, assuming no abuse.
This assumes that some people don't consider the setting a kid in front of an idiot box a form of abuse. If all a kid does day in and day out is hang out with an electronic babysitter, it's not a healthy existence. I personally feel it's not much better than locking a kid in a closet and feeding him raw fish heads.
Plus, I just couldn't feel good about submitting suspected terrorists to some of the stuff on the boob toob.
There has never been a fair use right for any copyrighted material that worked that way. Say you had a book that you accidentally dropped in the bathtub and was ruined, or maybe it was in your bookbag that was stolen. You don't have some fair use right to another copy, whether a new paperback or a digital one, just because it wasn't your fault that you lost the original copy; it's tough luck, buy another book. In fact, with music, you actually have an extra *statutory* right -- the right to make a backup. You still can't photocopy or scan an entire book to make a "backup" of it!
What is the functional diffference to anyone if you paid for a work, then said work became unusable, and you subsequently obtain a replacement at no cost to yourself, and at no loss nor any gain to anyone else? The creators of the work were paid in full the price they asked, and both parties have what they expected. Equilibrium is preserved.
Yeah, well, it made good sense last night!
When he gets off the plane at DIA, his first question is which way to north.
That's easy, and not very amazing. Look around and find the mountains outside through the window. Yeah, they're out there. Look directly at them. Take your left hand, and extend it leftwards, so that it's perpendicular to the mountains. Rotate your body to face in the direction your hand is pointing. You're now facing North.
What you need to do is take him to Florida.
There aren't Open Source marketing people? Developers give away their time and skill, why not marketers?
I think the difference is that it actually takes something special to be a programmer, and to use those skills to build something like MythTV, whereas most any humanoid can be a successful marketer.
For example, on Bourne Supremacy, on the fly you can have a video commentary track, where the director or producer will pop up as a picture-in-picture to give a face to the narration. Lots of very cool things along these lines will be coming in later titles, and its stuff you'd want to be able to access. And we're talking real-world titles - there are clearly the bits available to do it.
Yeah, that PIP stuff is bound to be incredibly useful! I mean, having the director pop up and tell you what stupid thing he was going after with this shot or that shot might take your attention off the nausea-inducing effects of watching Matt Damon long enough to realize that you're not infact strapped to a giant hydraulic jackhammer!
Seriously, you can strap me to a tiny boat heaving up and down 40 feet on the sea, while everyone else is puking, tumble me around in a small airplane, again, while everyone else is puking, throw me out of the plane, spin me around and around, and around on an office chair, fly me around a race track at 150MPH, make me watch a video of a twitchy teenager hopped up on Ritalin play an FPS game, etc... None of that bothers me.
That goddamned movie, however, that bothered me. The ride home was an interesting one, I'm not afraid to admit.
if Clippy dangles his participle in front of me, I'm cutting it off!
So would that make it a passed participle?
*giggles like a little girl*
Dont forget the binoculars and a good tree to hide in
An' boy, I tell you what, we had to plant the gawdern tree 'an wait thirty years, all the while nurtirn 'an prunin' it all sneaky like 'fer we could even think about salkin'