Really? I hated* The Pacific- apparently the Pacific campaign was primarily a few brief firefights, lots of R&R, psych stays, and sitting about in a camp.
I knew it was in trouble when the series started with all the home life stuff; Band of Brothers was about a group who were thrown together in jump school, and formed a camaraderie due to the trials they went through- and how astonishing those trials were.
The Pacific's message seemed to be "war is upsetting and some people had issues with it"./shrug. Maybe I just missed the point, but everyone I know who has seen both considered BoB astonishing, and Pacific was tedium to sit through.
In reading this I was wondering who could pull this off, and Clancy Brown hadn't even popped up on my radar, but I agree, he could do it quite well. Good call.
So you can run an 11 year old OS on an 11 year old computer?
Though I understand your point; sometimes the 'cutoffs' that Apple are quite arbitrary and irritating. I say this as the owner of a 1st gen Mac Pro, that while wonderfully functional in almost every way, cannot have an official video card upgrade, due to no firmware patch.
I slogged through Quicksilver (and I'm a big fan of his other, earlier works), and after it I couldn't touch another thing he wrote. It would spend 100 pages describing interesting events and people, then suddenly change gears into a completely different situation, where it would spend 100 pages getting interesting, then change gears and spend 100 pages...
The only consistent thing was a completely unsympathetic woman who would sell anyone and anything out for... something?
The whole thing seemed like 8 unrelated first chapters of novels set in a vaguely similar time, all of which didn't know anything about the other chapters. I actually own all three books in the Baroque Cycle, and Anathem, but I just cannot bring myself to consider the effort* and work* of reading them. That is sad, in my opinion.
I think the opposite- most programs I watch have 20-26 episodes, and for Daily Show and Colbert, I can BUY them for $10/mo (20 episodes). But a $1 rental*? That's somewhere between double to 10x what I'd be willing to play.
I was hoping for iTunes Pro, that would allow us hierarchies, tagging, etc. But I agree- iTunes desperately needs a fork into a lite and an heavy-duty version.
Oh, god, I would hate* your design of an iPad- bezel-less with integrated grabbing/standing bits? That would make me sad.
Not saying that all your ideas are bad; a reasonable mid-tower Mac with a replaceable video card in particular is a "WTF why does this not exist?" question...
It is very common in Canada to have visiting Europeans mention that on a visit to Toronto, they would like to take a quick trip to the Rocky Mountains... It's only an hour or two away, right?
Yeah I have to agree with this. Usually I like this guy's work, but this is just... yeah.
So a 1500km diameter moon which explodes has it's explosion massively influenced by a 50' deep trench- that's ok. But a 1500km diameter moon that we never see clearly or in detail cannot possibly have any* sort of structure, forcefield, energy conveyance system (it did* generate the entire system's power) that could create such an effect.
Basically it's "This fiction is completely valid and that one isn't because... well, um... the Death Star had all it's invisible pink unicorns stored under the trench, and we all know* how explosive those are!"
In fact, LightPeak does provide power; data goes over the fiber, and there is copper run alongside for powering external devices. It's right in the spec.
Because local parent Rodney P. says so! "I'm not saying it's because of the Wi-Fi because we don't know yet, but I've pretty much eliminated every other possible source."
See? He personally* tested all these things and therefore it's obviously* WiFi, since that's the only thing he's not 'qualified' to test.
Not to mention that the article is written in the most credulous way possible: "We have statistics that show that children, especially young children, are going to absorb much more radiation than older children and adults because of their thinner skulls and because the size of their brains more closely approximates the size of the wavelength being deployed," Clarke said.
and
'Claims by Health Canada that Wi-Fi is safe provided exposures to radiation are below federal guidelines are "outdated and incorrect," based on the growing number of scientific publications reporting adverse health and biological effects, Havas wrote.'
I'd love to see these studies, since I've been following this kind of BS for a couple years since my boss's wife convinced him that WiFi was doing various unspecified 'harms' to him. No proof anywhere, mind you- just a nebulous worry. So I've been keeping an eye on it, and as far as I've read, every study has refuted any WiFi/Health connection. Yet reading the article, there are a "growing number of scientific publications reporting adverse health and biological effects."
... and remember that school gates are made more dangerous by the proliferation of the parents doing the school run and parking their ma-hoo-sive chelsea tractors any-dam-where they please to drop off little Tarquin and Jocasta, who then miss out on the learning experience of walking to school with mum/dad and being shown how to cross the road, etc.
On my daily commute, I pass a schoolyard where the precious snowflakes are far, far more often than not jaywalked across the street rather than walk the 30 feet to a lighted crosswalk. What does that* teach the kids? A few seconds convenience is definitely more important than safety!
What if you absolutely, truly, 100% hate poking your eyes every day a few times? I tried contacts when I was about 20, and in almost every way they were fiddly, painful, irritating contrivances that had only one* advantage over glasses- they were easier to put my motorbike helmet on than the glasses.
Couple that with the fact that unlike wearing glasses, every scrap of dust that the wind could pick up now blew straight into my eyes makes me wonder how anyone could wear contacts for any other reason than vanity.
There are no advantages of contacts over glasses whatever. I know, I've worn contacts before switching back to glasses. Other than vanity, of course.
FYI one of the least mentioned benefits to iPhones and iPads is the complete lack of shovel ware / trial ware heaped on on the devices by Telcos and hardware vendors... It is clean and consistent right out of the box.
Interestingly, they've actually gone a bit in the other direction- iPad's don't even ship with iBooks preinstalled- you have to go get it (free) from the App Store.
Really? You think that literally 50% of the population of the planet* is the potential market? I'd be amazed if 50% of the world makes enough money that the $550 price of the lowest iPad would be within reach- remember that the average income in the world is about $10k/year.
Where I live, they specifically changed the law to "Being the registered owner of a vehicle which (ran a red light)/(was speeding)", to enable just these shenanigans.
Well, in that scenario, at least the accident is a side-to-side clipping as opposed to a T-Bone head-on-to-side accident, so injuries and damage is mitigated. I've been directly behind a guy in that situation (if he hadn't been there I would have been the person she plowed into), and it was fender bender all around. The same cars in a T-bone situation would both have had to been towed and get extensive repairs.
How is your post relevant? No one is asking you to give your work away for free. You're just spouting exactly what ASCAP is saying- that anyone who doesn't fully support continual expansion of copyright and restrictions is demanding that all creative works be given away for free.
While I imagine there are a few loons saying that, what most of us are saying that DRM that trumps our RIGHTS is bad; that perhaps copyright should NOT be lifetime+75 years. How do you get "give away for free" from "perhaps copyright should be only (a very generous) 50 years?"
Personally, I find it very telling that you interpreted "They believed that some old man in the sky was watching them all the time." as a direct attack on Christianity.
Plus, if you honestly believe that some "serious Christians" don't functionally believe that there is a bearded old man "in the sky", you're deluding yourself. If you had said "very few" or "no informed" Christian believed it, you'd be on stronger ground.
I do hear the undertone of "Stop oppressing me!" from the Christian majority shouting out from your posts though.
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Really? I hated* The Pacific- apparently the Pacific campaign was primarily a few brief firefights, lots of R&R, psych stays, and sitting about in a camp.
/shrug. Maybe I just missed the point, but everyone I know who has seen both considered BoB astonishing, and Pacific was tedium to sit through.
I knew it was in trouble when the series started with all the home life stuff; Band of Brothers was about a group who were thrown together in jump school, and formed a camaraderie due to the trials they went through- and how astonishing those trials were.
The Pacific's message seemed to be "war is upsetting and some people had issues with it".
In reading this I was wondering who could pull this off, and Clancy Brown hadn't even popped up on my radar, but I agree, he could do it quite well. Good call.
So you can run an 11 year old OS on an 11 year old computer?
Though I understand your point; sometimes the 'cutoffs' that Apple are quite arbitrary and irritating. I say this as the owner of a 1st gen Mac Pro, that while wonderfully functional in almost every way, cannot have an official video card upgrade, due to no firmware patch.
I slogged through Quicksilver (and I'm a big fan of his other, earlier works), and after it I couldn't touch another thing he wrote. It would spend 100 pages describing interesting events and people, then suddenly change gears into a completely different situation, where it would spend 100 pages getting interesting, then change gears and spend 100 pages...
The only consistent thing was a completely unsympathetic woman who would sell anyone and anything out for... something? The whole thing seemed like 8 unrelated first chapters of novels set in a vaguely similar time, all of which didn't know anything about the other chapters. I actually own all three books in the Baroque Cycle, and Anathem, but I just cannot bring myself to consider the effort* and work* of reading them. That is sad, in my opinion.
I think the opposite- most programs I watch have 20-26 episodes, and for Daily Show and Colbert, I can BUY them for $10/mo (20 episodes). But a $1 rental*? That's somewhere between double to 10x what I'd be willing to play.
I was hoping for iTunes Pro, that would allow us hierarchies, tagging, etc. But I agree- iTunes desperately needs a fork into a lite and an heavy-duty version.
Oh, god, I would hate* your design of an iPad- bezel-less with integrated grabbing/standing bits? That would make me sad.
Not saying that all your ideas are bad; a reasonable mid-tower Mac with a replaceable video card in particular is a "WTF why does this not exist?" question...
Discovery's support of those shows in no way change the fact that he is, in fact, pretty demonstrably completely psycho.
It is very common in Canada to have visiting Europeans mention that on a visit to Toronto, they would like to take a quick trip to the Rocky Mountains... It's only an hour or two away, right?
Yeah I have to agree with this. Usually I like this guy's work, but this is just... yeah.
So a 1500km diameter moon which explodes has it's explosion massively influenced by a 50' deep trench- that's ok. But a 1500km diameter moon that we never see clearly or in detail cannot possibly have any* sort of structure, forcefield, energy conveyance system (it did* generate the entire system's power) that could create such an effect.
Basically it's "This fiction is completely valid and that one isn't because... well, um... the Death Star had all it's invisible pink unicorns stored under the trench, and we all know* how explosive those are!"
In fact, LightPeak does provide power; data goes over the fiber, and there is copper run alongside for powering external devices. It's right in the spec.
September 25th, 2010, is the last recorded Code 187 (MDK) in San Angelas according to Lenina Huxley.
Maybe not hypocritical, but still damned uninformed.
Yeah! "Tom" (if that's your real* name) up there in the GP is clearly in the pocket of Big-WiFi!
I've heard he's a witch too.
Because local parent Rodney P. says so! "I'm not saying it's because of the Wi-Fi because we don't know yet, but I've pretty much eliminated every other possible source."
See? He personally* tested all these things and therefore it's obviously* WiFi, since that's the only thing he's not 'qualified' to test.
Not to mention that the article is written in the most credulous way possible: "We have statistics that show that children, especially young children, are going to absorb much more radiation than older children and adults because of their thinner skulls and because the size of their brains more closely approximates the size of the wavelength being deployed," Clarke said.
and
'Claims by Health Canada that Wi-Fi is safe provided exposures to radiation are below federal guidelines are "outdated and incorrect," based on the growing number of scientific publications reporting adverse health and biological effects, Havas wrote.'
I'd love to see these studies, since I've been following this kind of BS for a couple years since my boss's wife convinced him that WiFi was doing various unspecified 'harms' to him. No proof anywhere, mind you- just a nebulous worry. So I've been keeping an eye on it, and as far as I've read, every study has refuted any WiFi/Health connection. Yet reading the article, there are a "growing number of scientific publications reporting adverse health and biological effects."
On my daily commute, I pass a schoolyard where the precious snowflakes are far, far more often than not jaywalked across the street rather than walk the 30 feet to a lighted crosswalk. What does that* teach the kids? A few seconds convenience is definitely more important than safety!
What if you absolutely, truly, 100% hate poking your eyes every day a few times? I tried contacts when I was about 20, and in almost every way they were fiddly, painful, irritating contrivances that had only one* advantage over glasses- they were easier to put my motorbike helmet on than the glasses.
Couple that with the fact that unlike wearing glasses, every scrap of dust that the wind could pick up now blew straight into my eyes makes me wonder how anyone could wear contacts for any other reason than vanity.
There are no advantages of contacts over glasses whatever. I know, I've worn contacts before switching back to glasses. Other than vanity, of course.
FYI one of the least mentioned benefits to iPhones and iPads is the complete lack of shovel ware / trial ware heaped on on the devices by Telcos and hardware vendors... It is clean and consistent right out of the box.
Interestingly, they've actually gone a bit in the other direction- iPad's don't even ship with iBooks preinstalled- you have to go get it (free) from the App Store.
Really? You think that literally 50% of the population of the planet* is the potential market? I'd be amazed if 50% of the world makes enough money that the $550 price of the lowest iPad would be within reach- remember that the average income in the world is about $10k/year.
Saying the iPad is "just" a large iPod Touch is very much like saying that a car is "just" a couple of motorcycles welded together.
I dunno about "unwarranted"...
Where I live, they specifically changed the law to "Being the registered owner of a vehicle which (ran a red light)/(was speeding)", to enable just these shenanigans.
Well, in that scenario, at least the accident is a side-to-side clipping as opposed to a T-Bone head-on-to-side accident, so injuries and damage is mitigated. I've been directly behind a guy in that situation (if he hadn't been there I would have been the person she plowed into), and it was fender bender all around. The same cars in a T-bone situation would both have had to been towed and get extensive repairs.
How is your post relevant? No one is asking you to give your work away for free. You're just spouting exactly what ASCAP is saying- that anyone who doesn't fully support continual expansion of copyright and restrictions is demanding that all creative works be given away for free.
While I imagine there are a few loons saying that, what most of us are saying that DRM that trumps our RIGHTS is bad; that perhaps copyright should NOT be lifetime+75 years. How do you get "give away for free" from "perhaps copyright should be only (a very generous) 50 years?"
Personally, I find it very telling that you interpreted "They believed that some old man in the sky was watching them all the time." as a direct attack on Christianity.
Plus, if you honestly believe that some "serious Christians" don't functionally believe that there is a bearded old man "in the sky", you're deluding yourself. If you had said "very few" or "no informed" Christian believed it, you'd be on stronger ground.
I do hear the undertone of "Stop oppressing me!" from the Christian majority shouting out from your posts though.