they can tap and eavesdrop our computers and telephone conversations. This is more or less covered under their definition of hacking. So it's okay when they do it (no warrant, wasn't it?) but can carry a life sentence if someone else does it. Way to be free. I'm getting rapidly sick of this. people wonder why I get so frustrated after I read the paper....
that the first thing that came to my mind when he said "awaiting an airtight case" was "why is it in court?"
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heh....well, in the main I agree with you. DC101 was amazing back when they were an independent station. but they are getting better, and I admit Elliot is growing on me. maybe I'm just numbing myself to the situation but......I listen to CDs more than anything and Elliot just to have something to keep me awake on the way to work.
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actually, elliot also plays "mary mac" - my personal favorite. They played most of the songs off welbilt's album a week ago and had them in studio last week. I look forward to more of the same in the future.
One clearchannel station that plays "good" music.
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DC101 in the MD/DC/VA area plays decent music. sure, it's mostly the same corporate jam it down your throat rock that we've all gotten used to, but they've started playing a lot of songs by "Carbon Leaf", an independent band, and they sponsor unsigned local bands for a lot of the shows they put on. Welbilt is a pretty good band that just opened their Chili cookoff. anyway, I guess what I'm saying is that individual stations have more say in their programming that it at first appears.
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Those developments, and video on demand in particular, had the potential of endangering the lucrative retail home video market in much the same way that the free downloading of songs eventually hurt the music business.
ah. what I find so weird about this quote is that the ONLY way MP3s have hurt the music industry is by the RIAA's alienation of consumers. I enjoyed the rest of the article, though...
heh....while I agree with you, I do know some people who run a version of timeslips (a time tracking and billing program) from windows 3.1, primarily because the later versions are so unreliable and complicatedly copy-protected as to be nearly unusable.
It interesting. One might consider my transfer from CS a failure. I consider it a decision that I really don't want to spend my life coding. I'm really not that interested in it. On the other hand, I like people I work well with people, and I tend to have good communication and problem solving skills. I graduate at the end of the summer, and I'm looking forward to an opportunity that lets me take the tech people that I understand and alleviate some of the anguish that occurs due to the typical PHB. That's just my 2cents.
I think that americans are unfairly thought of as either a) the cause of the problem for the rest of the world or b) don't care about this problem for the rest of the world. Most of us who are aware of the problem are quite irritated with the idea of regional encoding. I don't know anyone at all who says "regional encoding? no, that's a good idea". I've personally been quite vocal about disliking the whole concept. and so yes, every time a movie is released in the US before somewhere else (which is almost always) I imagine the frustration of others. and I can imagine it quite well, as the shoe is on the other foot more than you might think. Harry Potter, for instance, was released in England first. There are still a considerable number of BOOKS (Terry pratchett) that have only been published in europe. If I want them, I have to pay at least $10 more per book for what is , in the US, a six dollar paperback. I'm very frustrated. gave up and bought some of them from england a while ago, but the extra $30 is too much. had to buy the "The Last Hero" special edition version for what I would normally have considered way too much...anyway, I just want to point out that it works both ways more often than you think and that we're not all a bunch of insensitive clods who don't care about y'all.
this is true, but I'd like to point out that the cars started out running on the normal "roads" used by carts. it's like any standard computer upgrade path. you make something new that works on the existing infrastructure. then lots of people convert and you say "OH! it would work so much better (or, "newer versions will only work on...) this new kind of infrastructure". so they pay for the new one, and then connecting them is a breeze. so, if we had something that worked alongside cars, and people started switching, we could then move to a new kind of "road", eventually. but no one is willing to say "oh, okay, we're going to build this HUGE infrastructure that's going to cost billions for public transportation that no one is going to take care of (the problem of the "commons") with no guarantee that they're even going to use it....It'd work in a) a completely and utterly free market or b) a dictatorship style government. I can't see it working here. not that I wouldn't like it to. though I do like driving.....anyway. I'll stop rambling now.
this isn't a new "concept", but I find it interesting that something that always seemed (to me) to be one of those sci-fi concepts that was, while not impossible, very very improbable due the the immense infrastructure required - to see this now actually being discussed as a possibility. it's actually quite interesting.
It's amazing I haven't seen more people mention
python. I actually got them the hard way, 2 dvd's at a time (and started with VHS, had to go back and get the first four sets of dvd's at once) , so I've got a whole shelf of the flying circus episodes, then I have the "life of python" set which includes a ton of documentaries plus one of the German episodes, then this year the python live set came out which has most of their live stuff plus the other german episode. add to that the special editions of life of brian and holy grail and some edition of meaning of life (my least favorite python thing ever, but I had to complete the set) and I'm ready for the greatest "Pythonathon" (I came up with that name before Comedy Central did! I swear!) of all time. All I need now is a 100 or so dvd changer.
no, unfortunately, they're not (exagerrated, that is.)
I got an e-mail from the Collector's Guild Official Fan Club about his death, including an obituary. very depressing.
on the other hand, I must say I prefer kidby to kirby, so as sad as it is, I'm glad that the future artwork will be kidby.
go to amazon.co.uk and purchase the special edition version.
hardbound cloth covered foil inlaid with one of those nifty ribbon things. absolutely BEAUTIFUL. I'm actually considering waiting until the paperback comes out to read it so I can leave this one in pristine condition.
Having portrayed one of, if not THE most hated character from TNG, do you regret taking the role? Are you irritated by how they handled your character?
nope....didn't know that. guess I've got a lot to learn about literary awards.
I truly enjoyed Harry Potter myself...
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I don't know about a Hugo, though, either. They're entertaining, original, well written stories (even for a "grown up" book). Many of the books I've read that were intended for a much older audience aren't as well written. So I would definitely think that it deserves awards...but I had always gotten the impression that Hugos were for hard Sci-Fi...am i wrong?
okay...interesting. by pattern, however, I mean internal to the string of digits...I still don't see that there
is one. not that I wouldn't like there to be, but I don't yet see it. with your second point (one that I admittedly don't fully grok as I didn't get to read the article...damn thing is slashdotted...) If we see that there is a pattern in the binary representation of pi...doesn't that indicate a pattern nonetheless??? why are we so...so...set on wanting our patterns to all show up in base 10? ----------------------------------------------
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predictable is not the same thing as having a pattern.
predictable (here) means, as someone else put it above, calculatable. just because there's a formula
to predict digits down the string doesn't mean it follow any pattern OTHER THAN THAT OF THE
FORMULA FROM WHICH IT IS DERIVED. pi is the output of a formula. it doesn't exist as a number in and of itself. it's derived from observation of other things - so maybe formula isn't a correct word there. but the point is, its ability to be predicted derives from its observable and formulaic nature, not from the fact that there is any INTERNAL pattern. which is what we're looking for. -------------------------------------------- --
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they can tap and eavesdrop our computers and telephone conversations. This is more or less covered under their definition of hacking. So it's okay when they do it (no warrant, wasn't it?) but can carry a life sentence if someone else does it. Way to be free.
I'm getting rapidly sick of this. people wonder why I get so frustrated after I read the paper....
try "don't want to", not "can't". believe me, I've bitched about this internally, and they really couldn't give a s**t.
that the first thing that came to my mind when he said "awaiting an airtight case" was "why is it in court?"
heh....well, in the main I agree with you. DC101 was amazing back when they were an independent station. but they are getting better, and I admit Elliot is growing on me. maybe I'm just numbing myself to the situation but......I listen to CDs more than anything and Elliot just to have something to keep me awake on the way to work.
actually, elliot also plays "mary mac" - my personal favorite. They played most of the songs off welbilt's album a week ago and had them in studio last week. I look forward to more of the same in the future.
DC101 in the MD/DC/VA area plays decent music. sure, it's mostly the same corporate jam it down your throat rock that we've all gotten used to, but they've started playing a lot of songs by "Carbon Leaf", an independent band, and they sponsor unsigned local bands for a lot of the shows they put on. Welbilt is a pretty good band that just opened their Chili cookoff. anyway, I guess what I'm saying is that individual stations have more say in their programming that it at first appears.
Quote:
Those developments, and video on demand in particular, had the potential of endangering the lucrative retail home video market in much the same way that the free downloading of songs eventually hurt the music business.
ah. what I find so weird about this quote is that the ONLY way MP3s have hurt the music industry is by the RIAA's alienation of consumers. I enjoyed the rest of the article, though...
heh....while I agree with you, I do know some people who run a version of timeslips (a time tracking and billing program) from windows 3.1, primarily because the later versions are so unreliable and complicatedly copy-protected as to be nearly unusable.
actually, interestingly enough, that's exactly what I've *been* doing...
It interesting. One might consider my transfer from CS a failure. I consider it a decision that I really don't want to spend my life coding. I'm really not that interested in it. On the other hand, I like people I work well with people, and I tend to have good communication and problem solving skills. I graduate at the end of the summer, and I'm looking forward to an opportunity that lets me take the tech people that I understand and alleviate some of the anguish that occurs due to the typical PHB. That's just my 2cents.
this is the man who created Thumb Wars...
I LOVED thumb wars. I bought the damn thing on DVD.
Why!? WHY did kung pow have to suck??!
I think that americans are unfairly thought of as either a) the cause of the problem for the rest of the world or b) don't care about this problem for the rest of the world. Most of us who are aware of the problem are quite irritated with the idea of regional encoding. I don't know anyone at all who says "regional encoding? no, that's a good idea". I've personally been quite vocal about disliking the whole concept. and so yes, every time a movie is released in the US before somewhere else (which is almost always) I imagine the frustration of others. and I can imagine it quite well, as the shoe is on the other foot more than you might think. Harry Potter, for instance, was released in England first. There are still a considerable number of BOOKS (Terry pratchett) that have only been published in europe. If I want them, I have to pay at least $10 more per book for what is , in the US, a six dollar paperback. I'm very frustrated. gave up and bought some of them from england a while ago, but the extra $30 is too much. had to buy the "The Last Hero" special edition version for what I would normally have considered way too much...anyway, I just want to point out that it works both ways more often than you think and that we're not all a bunch of insensitive clods who don't care about y'all.
this is true, but I'd like to point out that the cars started out running on the normal "roads" used by carts. it's like any standard computer upgrade path. you make something new that works on the existing infrastructure. then lots of people convert and you say "OH! it would work so much better (or, "newer versions will only work on...) this new kind of infrastructure". so they pay for the new one, and then connecting them is a breeze. so, if we had something that worked alongside cars, and people started switching, we could then move to a new kind of "road", eventually. but no one is willing to say "oh, okay, we're going to build this HUGE infrastructure that's going to cost billions for public transportation that no one is going to take care of (the problem of the "commons") with no guarantee that they're even going to use it. ...It'd work in a) a completely and utterly free market or b) a dictatorship style government. I can't see it working here. not that I wouldn't like it to. though I do like driving.....anyway. I'll stop rambling now.
this isn't a new "concept", but I find it interesting that something that always seemed (to me) to be one of those sci-fi concepts that was, while not impossible, very very improbable due the the immense infrastructure required - to see this now actually being discussed as a possibility. it's actually quite interesting.
It's amazing I haven't seen more people mention
python. I actually got them the hard way, 2 dvd's at a time (and started with VHS, had to go back and get the first four sets of dvd's at once) , so I've got a whole shelf of the flying circus episodes, then I have the "life of python" set which includes a ton of documentaries plus one of the German episodes, then this year the python live set came out which has most of their live stuff plus the other german episode. add to that the special editions of life of brian and holy grail and some edition of meaning of life (my least favorite python thing ever, but I had to complete the set) and I'm ready for the greatest "Pythonathon" (I came up with that name before Comedy Central did! I swear!) of all time. All I need now is a 100 or so dvd changer.
no, unfortunately, they're not (exagerrated, that is.)
I got an e-mail from the Collector's Guild Official Fan Club about his death, including an obituary. very depressing.
on the other hand, I must say I prefer kidby to kirby, so as sad as it is, I'm glad that the future artwork will be kidby.
go to amazon.co.uk and purchase the special edition version.
hardbound cloth covered foil inlaid with one of those nifty ribbon things. absolutely BEAUTIFUL. I'm actually considering waiting until the paperback comes out to read it so I can leave this one in pristine condition.
unfortunately, skipstone breaks with quicktime installed...
even though mozilla works fine.
Having portrayed one of, if not THE most hated character from TNG, do you regret taking the role? Are you irritated by how they handled your character?
The Clear Channel people in my area told their DJ's that it's an FCC ban.
nope....didn't know that. guess I've got a lot to learn about literary awards.
I don't know about a Hugo, though, either. They're entertaining, original, well written stories (even for a "grown up" book). Many of the books I've read that were intended for a much older audience aren't as well written. So I would definitely think that it deserves awards...but I had always gotten the impression that Hugos were for hard Sci-Fi...am i wrong?
okay...interesting. by pattern, however, I mean internal to the string of digits...I still don't see that there is one. not that I wouldn't like there to be, but I don't yet see it. with your second point (one that I admittedly don't fully grok as I didn't get to read the article...damn thing is slashdotted...) If we see that there is a pattern in the binary representation of pi...doesn't that indicate a pattern nonetheless??? why are we so...so...set on wanting our patterns to all show up in base 10?
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
predictable is not the same thing as having a pattern. predictable (here) means, as someone else put it above, calculatable. just because there's a formula to predict digits down the string doesn't mean it follow any pattern OTHER THAN THAT OF THE FORMULA FROM WHICH IT IS DERIVED. pi is the output of a formula. it doesn't exist as a number in and of itself. it's derived from observation of other things - so maybe formula isn't a correct word there. but the point is, its ability to be predicted derives from its observable and formulaic nature, not from the fact that there is any INTERNAL pattern. which is what we're looking for.- --
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.