If Lucas shows us a Vader suit in Episode 3 that we haven't seen before, then we must assume the lame Episode 4 suit was an upgrade. This "new" suit had better be a clunky piece o' crap, for the sake of continuity.
I downloaded the 45.3MB zipped trailer. Then I had to unzip the 46.3MB Quicktime file and delete the zip file. Wow, they saved a whole megabyte in the transfer. Is their bandwidth savings worth the hoops they make their customers jump through?
As a new parent, I appreciate getting the whole story compressed into a trailer. It will be several years before I step foot into a theatre again, and DVD rentals will be few and far between.
...the government doesn't give a damn about the homeless. It's not about to spend millions upon millions of dollars to track their walking habits.
Come on, you can spoof a better idea than this.
Nonono, you misunderstood. I didn't mean "assembled outside the United States for import and sale to Americans." I meant designed, built, and used by people outside the United States.
I'm interested in quality strollers from the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Most everything you can buy in America is homogenized. Little variation. Little innovation.
I can. Many people look at Google as an authoritative source. Hence, the gripes you hear about businesses who are made or broken by their Google search result rankings. Now we have Froogle. The danger is worsened even more if people view Froogle as authoritative. Last week I was searching for non-U.S. made baby strollers. I found strollers using normal Google that I couldn't find in Froogle. The only thing I trust Froogle for is to view quick thumbnails of products. For most of my product searches I must rely on complex queries to bypass the senseless froth I see rising to Google's surface more and more these days.
My one wish for Google is for it to face stiff competition. I look forward to anyone who can topple Google with a better engine.
We, as consumers, vote with our dollars. When you buy a movie ticket you are telling Hollywood, "I like this movie, please make more like it." Anyone sickened by the Passion craze now has the option to send an alternate message to Hollywood.
I'm talking about instituting a statewide sales tax. I will tell my new Oregon brothers and sisters that we need the tax to brace our schools against state funding cuts. "It's for the children," I'll say. Once I have that door open, I'll have you suckers paying 10% on every dollar by the end of the decade. Mouahahahahaha!
None of your wacky ideas apply to the California community I live in. But thanks for the wonderful tips; I'll share them with my new Oregon neighbors. We'll pave the state. It will be beautiful.
Please qualify alarmist claims, such as "the simple act of selecting the message activates the code." Ummm, using what e-mail program? Or, what feature of your e-mail program must be activated to make you susceptible?
I use Pegasus and generally yawn at these "don't even open the e-mail" warnings, because they never apply to me.
Kids aren't turning to video games because they're more compelling that television. Oh, wait, yes they are. TV programming has lousy, just like motion pictures in the last few years.
Hmmm, fake reality TV show or video game. It's a no brainer.
I quit because my new boss had no prior experience managing staff, she ran out everyone I enjoyed working with, and by the end she had me doing her work -- without credit and without regard to my own projects. I joined a nonprofit that pays less, provides no benefits and is not stable. One year later, I'm VERY happy because I'm now allowed to pursue my work unhindered by incompetence or politics.
People stay in crappy jobs because they feel trapped without options. If you suck, maybe that's true. Mostly though, people just lack confidence in their own abilities, trapped in the prison of their own minds.
Ya, I own one of these mice. I'm not clear on why this story is appearing again, or how this "new" mouse is new. For what it's worth, I cannot use the mouse for day-to-day use because the mouse is not wide enough for me. I quickly got hand cramps clutching it.
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Science is not about announcing suspicions and hopes. Science is not public relations. You're trumpeting a bastardization of science.
Is this what passes for NASA news now? Everything is "may have," or "could be," or "might be." Will we get follow-up reports when they do the testing to confirm the news is, "is not," "could not," and "no bloody chance?"
Broadband is unproven. IMHO, the test isn't its functionality. The test is whether it achieves widespread adoption among its intended audience. Proponents have dared to define that audience as everyone, at least in the U.S. Yet, pesky issues such as means and price remain unresolved.
A severe limitation is pairing Internet service with cable or phone service. There are people who cannot afford cable, so paying for basic cable *and* Internet is a barrier to entry. Likewise, more and more people are abandoning landlines in favor of mobile phones. Where does that leave DSL?
I'd like to dump my cable modem because I'm required to pay for basic cable, even though I don't own a TV. I'd like to avoid DSL because it's cheaper and more convenient to use a cell phone. (Or, at worst, pay for local phone service and use phone cards for long distance.) I'd like a third alternative for broadband where the ISP is only an ISP, not hawking other wares on the side.
No, not at all. I'm not saying I don't need Internet access. I do, but not broadband. Nor do I need HDTV, because I don't own a TV. Yet, I pay for basic cable because the cable company is my ISP. (I can't get DSL.) The last thing I want or need is to pay higher monthly fees to finance broadband and HDTV for everyone else.
It's funny that you'd compare the telephone to an unproven technology. How many years have we been hearing about the broadband revolution? If anything, the buzz has been that people are not happy, and many completely unwilling, to pay extra for broadband. IMHO, the promise of broadband is the second bubble that is going to burst. Sure, it's the future, but the future isn't all it's cracked up to be.
That's fine, but if all I want is a meager transfer speed, I end up paying for your high-use needs in the form of higher monthly bills. The cable company will increase rates all around to finance this new "service."
As someone who no longer watches TV, and only grudgingly pays for a cable modem, it'll take a lot of convincing that I should spend any of my money to increase the GIGO throughput to my house.
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --Harry Morris Warner, 1927.
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." --Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943.
"Governments that rely on free open source software will put their country's and their citizens' data in harm's way." --W. Russell Jones, 2004
Develop a VR headset? Are you kidding? Why, that would take a hundred thousand dollars, or maybe even two hundred thousand dollars, or even a lot, lot less. No, let's spend tens of millions of dollars on the real tower. Yeah, let's do that.
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If Lucas shows us a Vader suit in Episode 3 that we haven't seen before, then we must assume the lame Episode 4 suit was an upgrade. This "new" suit had better be a clunky piece o' crap, for the sake of continuity.
I downloaded the 45.3MB zipped trailer. Then I had to unzip the 46.3MB Quicktime file and delete the zip file. Wow, they saved a whole megabyte in the transfer. Is their bandwidth savings worth the hoops they make their customers jump through?
As a new parent, I appreciate getting the whole story compressed into a trailer. It will be several years before I step foot into a theatre again, and DVD rentals will be few and far between.
...the government doesn't give a damn about the homeless. It's not about to spend millions upon millions of dollars to track their walking habits. Come on, you can spoof a better idea than this.
I'm interested in quality strollers from the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Most everything you can buy in America is homogenized. Little variation. Little innovation.
I can. Many people look at Google as an authoritative source. Hence, the gripes you hear about businesses who are made or broken by their Google search result rankings. Now we have Froogle. The danger is worsened even more if people view Froogle as authoritative. Last week I was searching for non-U.S. made baby strollers. I found strollers using normal Google that I couldn't find in Froogle. The only thing I trust Froogle for is to view quick thumbnails of products. For most of my product searches I must rely on complex queries to bypass the senseless froth I see rising to Google's surface more and more these days.
My one wish for Google is for it to face stiff competition. I look forward to anyone who can topple Google with a better engine.
The Capitol Steps take swipes at Washington and world leaders.
We, as consumers, vote with our dollars. When you buy a movie ticket you are telling Hollywood, "I like this movie, please make more like it." Anyone sickened by the Passion craze now has the option to send an alternate message to Hollywood.
I'm talking about instituting a statewide sales tax. I will tell my new Oregon brothers and sisters that we need the tax to brace our schools against state funding cuts. "It's for the children," I'll say. Once I have that door open, I'll have you suckers paying 10% on every dollar by the end of the decade. Mouahahahahaha!
None of your wacky ideas apply to the California community I live in. But thanks for the wonderful tips; I'll share them with my new Oregon neighbors. We'll pave the state. It will be beautiful.
I use Pegasus and generally yawn at these "don't even open the e-mail" warnings, because they never apply to me.
Too late. We're committed. We are going to infect Oregon with our strange California customs and crazy California beliefs.
Don't blame me; I'm moving to Oregon.
Hmmm, fake reality TV show or video game. It's a no brainer.
People stay in crappy jobs because they feel trapped without options. If you suck, maybe that's true. Mostly though, people just lack confidence in their own abilities, trapped in the prison of their own minds.
Ya, I own one of these mice. I'm not clear on why this story is appearing again, or how this "new" mouse is new. For what it's worth, I cannot use the mouse for day-to-day use because the mouse is not wide enough for me. I quickly got hand cramps clutching it.
Science is not about announcing suspicions and hopes. Science is not public relations. You're trumpeting a bastardization of science.
Is this what passes for NASA news now? Everything is "may have," or "could be," or "might be." Will we get follow-up reports when they do the testing to confirm the news is, "is not," "could not," and "no bloody chance?"
A severe limitation is pairing Internet service with cable or phone service. There are people who cannot afford cable, so paying for basic cable *and* Internet is a barrier to entry. Likewise, more and more people are abandoning landlines in favor of mobile phones. Where does that leave DSL?
I'd like to dump my cable modem because I'm required to pay for basic cable, even though I don't own a TV. I'd like to avoid DSL because it's cheaper and more convenient to use a cell phone. (Or, at worst, pay for local phone service and use phone cards for long distance.) I'd like a third alternative for broadband where the ISP is only an ISP, not hawking other wares on the side.
No, not at all. I'm not saying I don't need Internet access. I do, but not broadband. Nor do I need HDTV, because I don't own a TV. Yet, I pay for basic cable because the cable company is my ISP. (I can't get DSL.) The last thing I want or need is to pay higher monthly fees to finance broadband and HDTV for everyone else. It's funny that you'd compare the telephone to an unproven technology. How many years have we been hearing about the broadband revolution? If anything, the buzz has been that people are not happy, and many completely unwilling, to pay extra for broadband. IMHO, the promise of broadband is the second bubble that is going to burst. Sure, it's the future, but the future isn't all it's cracked up to be.
That's fine, but if all I want is a meager transfer speed, I end up paying for your high-use needs in the form of higher monthly bills. The cable company will increase rates all around to finance this new "service."
As someone who no longer watches TV, and only grudgingly pays for a cable modem, it'll take a lot of convincing that I should spend any of my money to increase the GIGO throughput to my house.
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." --Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943.
"Governments that rely on free open source software will put their country's and their citizens' data in harm's way." --W. Russell Jones, 2004
Develop a VR headset? Are you kidding? Why, that would take a hundred thousand dollars, or maybe even two hundred thousand dollars, or even a lot, lot less. No, let's spend tens of millions of dollars on the real tower. Yeah, let's do that.