this is really bad news to the TV people, I think, for betamax is vastly superior in quality compared to VHS.
No it's not.
Even if you accepted the fact that Beta was superior to VHS, which many people would disagree with, you'd have a hard time finding even a rabid beta fan who claims it was VASTLY superior. I mean, VASTLY? Come on, that's ridiculous.
Beta lost because of technical inferiority; it just couldn't record enough for people's tastes, and the nebulous clearer image just didn't make up for that fact.
And Copernicus was a high-ranking churchman who didn't suffer from his beliefs. I'm not blaming Galileo for getting in trouble (and even then he wasn't really punished that bad; for disobeying direct orders of the Church he was under house arrest for a while), but he really did rub people the wrong way.
There's nothing wrong in testing in general, but the standardized tests that the whole standards group likes to tout don't encourage any deep understanding of the subject. It's short-term memorization, and it's no wonder that people forget what they learn.
Those students you had probably learned algebra fine; and could do it for a few weeks after learning it. Then the knowledge is gone.
Give me a break. "Standards" is just another way of saying "hey, instead of funding public schools sufficiently let's threaten the teachers".
All these idiotic standards movements have done is make sure children spend all their time preparing themselves for tests. Of course they do better at the tests, but they don't learn anything else.
It's only the people that continue to whine about the 2000 election (get a clue, it's now 2002) whine about Bush's financial past.
Hahaha...you right wing nutjobs would be talking CONSTANTLY about it if what happened to Gore had happened to Bush. You'd be constructing crazy conspiracies, you'd be calling for independent prosecutors, you'd be whining and snivelling on every right-wing talk show in the country and you know it. So spare me the idiotic "get over it" comment. Goddamn hypocrites.
Problem is they've tried desperately to base a "community" on a simple webcomic, and it's just too thin to do that. I mean, why not base a "community" around a brand of oatmeal, or TV Guide, or another piece of life's minutae?
Well, granted Forest Park makes up a good deal of the canopy, but it's by no means all of it. The neighborhoods between the J and the park (Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, etc) have their own share of trees. Many blocks are almost completely covered, with a large tree every 2 or 3 houses. Even the areas whose view is blocked by the park are relatively tree-filled. South is of course less arboreal, but it's not too bad, and after a little while you'll hit the wilderness-filled Jamaica Bay. My original point was that you can't judge the city by lower Manhattan (which with Battery Park isn't really that bad either).
First of all, New York doesn't have nearly the sprawl a lot of cities do, mainly because the boroughs are built primarily on a series of islands that limit the soulless overbuilding you find most places. Sprawl isn't densely packed buildings; it's constant development outwards of strip malls, ugly housing, and too many roads.
Granted, Manhattan has little greenspace other than Central Park, but there is some; there are several parks, and the northern edge of Manhattan Island (the Inwood section) is actually very pleasant, with impressive views of the palisades and a lot of parkland.
You're also ignoring the outer boroughs, which make up most of the population. Brooklyn and Queens have plenty of backyards and parks. The next time you're in New York and want to see what I mean, take the elevated J train towards Jamaica, and look north. Queens is almost a forest, with a VAST canopy of trees with the occasional house and building poking out.
The Bronx, despite its reputation, has some of the loveliest sections of the city, with extensive parkland, beautiful old houses, and the Zoo and Botanical Gardens (both very sizeable). The Bronx also has, I believe, a little old-growth forest that has never been built on.
Staten Island is for the most part suburban, though admittedly the landfill probably doesn't qualify as greenspace.
As for the recycling issue, it didn't quite happen that way. What basically happened is the city realized that a) they were losing a lot of money recycling plastic and glass, and b) most of it was ending up in landfills anyway. They're planning to revamp and reintroduce it next year, and we still recycle newspapers and cans. Personally I think it's better to admit something's failed so we'll have to deal with it, rather than give people the illusion that they're recycling and just throw the stuff in a hole.
I suggest you read it again. This isn't individuals buying a video and bringing it in for modding, it's a company buying videos in bulk, then selling modified. There is a difference.
You really don't see the difference? This isn't about the individual consumer, it's about companies editing then selling the edited works. Directors and producers already have to put up with editing for theatrical release, TV release, airline release, etc., but at least they're able to get some input into the process. Here some people they've never heard of have taken it on their own to distribute edited movies because some people are too uptight to deal with (gasp) nudity and (gasp) violence. If you wrote a book, and your publisher told you to take out a sex scene because they wanted to sell it at Wal-Mart, you'd probably do it, even if you didn't want to. But wouldn't you be furious if someone out in Utah took out a bunch more stuff out then republished it, without your permission or even knowledge?
Community colleges aren't MEANT to be universities; they're meant to fulfill a different function than 4 year colleges. And not all of them are striving to move to 4 years.
USA Today is sort of the everyman's paper, its more or less a recap of broad trends, and reports on older stories that might be impacting their more diverse readership.
It's for people that have an insatiable lust for pie charts.
Seriously, the only time I read USA Today is when I'm on the road, bored out of my skull, and the first rank of papers are unavailable. In a lot of out-of-the-way motels, there's only a choice between USA Today and the Smallville Shopper.
I haven't read any of Weber's stuff myself, but based on shelfspace, word-of-mouth, and rec.arts.sf.written I'd say right now he IS a huge name in sf. Not Asimov-huge, but easily among the most popular contemporary sf writers.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep, only slashdot readers would be so cynical as to not find this cool.
Cynical chic I guess; snipe at everything lest you be considered naive...
Ogg Vorbis? That's a novel interpretation of the word "standard"...
this is really bad news to the TV people, I think, for betamax is vastly superior in quality compared to VHS.
No it's not.
Even if you accepted the fact that Beta was superior to VHS, which many people would disagree with, you'd have a hard time finding even a rabid beta fan who claims it was VASTLY superior. I mean, VASTLY? Come on, that's ridiculous.
Beta lost because of technical inferiority; it just couldn't record enough for people's tastes, and the nebulous clearer image just didn't make up for that fact.
And Copernicus was a high-ranking churchman who didn't suffer from his beliefs. I'm not blaming Galileo for getting in trouble (and even then he wasn't really punished that bad; for disobeying direct orders of the Church he was under house arrest for a while), but he really did rub people the wrong way.
"Editor" isn't meant to be taken literally you know...
Why would I want to prevent the future from having the glory that is me?
There's nothing wrong in testing in general, but the standardized tests that the whole standards group likes to tout don't encourage any deep understanding of the subject. It's short-term memorization, and it's no wonder that people forget what they learn.
Those students you had probably learned algebra fine; and could do it for a few weeks after learning it. Then the knowledge is gone.
Give me a break. "Standards" is just another way of saying "hey, instead of funding public schools sufficiently let's threaten the teachers".
All these idiotic standards movements have done is make sure children spend all their time preparing themselves for tests. Of course they do better at the tests, but they don't learn anything else.
It's only the people that continue to whine about the 2000 election (get a clue, it's now 2002) whine about Bush's financial past.
Hahaha...you right wing nutjobs would be talking CONSTANTLY about it if what happened to Gore had happened to Bush. You'd be constructing crazy conspiracies, you'd be calling for independent prosecutors, you'd be whining and snivelling on every right-wing talk show in the country and you know it. So spare me the idiotic "get over it" comment. Goddamn hypocrites.
UF is not as amusing as it has been, but it's generally nice, intelligent and witty. What more do you need?
In a comic strip? How about ART?
Problem is they've tried desperately to base a "community" on a simple webcomic, and it's just too thin to do that. I mean, why not base a "community" around a brand of oatmeal, or TV Guide, or another piece of life's minutae?
Well, granted Forest Park makes up a good deal of the canopy, but it's by no means all of it. The neighborhoods between the J and the park (Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, etc) have their own share of trees. Many blocks are almost completely covered, with a large tree every 2 or 3 houses. Even the areas whose view is blocked by the park are relatively tree-filled. South is of course less arboreal, but it's not too bad, and after a little while you'll hit the wilderness-filled Jamaica Bay. My original point was that you can't judge the city by lower Manhattan (which with Battery Park isn't really that bad either).
As a resident I have to speak up...
First of all, New York doesn't have nearly the sprawl a lot of cities do, mainly because the boroughs are built primarily on a series of islands that limit the soulless overbuilding you find most places. Sprawl isn't densely packed buildings; it's constant development outwards of strip malls, ugly housing, and too many roads.
Granted, Manhattan has little greenspace other than Central Park, but there is some; there are several parks, and the northern edge of Manhattan Island (the Inwood section) is actually very pleasant, with impressive views of the palisades and a lot of parkland.
You're also ignoring the outer boroughs, which make up most of the population. Brooklyn and Queens have plenty of backyards and parks. The next time you're in New York and want to see what I mean, take the elevated J train towards Jamaica, and look north. Queens is almost a forest, with a VAST canopy of trees with the occasional house and building poking out.
The Bronx, despite its reputation, has some of the loveliest sections of the city, with extensive parkland, beautiful old houses, and the Zoo and Botanical Gardens (both very sizeable). The Bronx also has, I believe, a little old-growth forest that has never been built on.
Staten Island is for the most part suburban, though admittedly the landfill probably doesn't qualify as greenspace.
As for the recycling issue, it didn't quite happen that way. What basically happened is the city realized that a) they were losing a lot of money recycling plastic and glass, and b) most of it was ending up in landfills anyway. They're planning to revamp and reintroduce it next year, and we still recycle newspapers and cans. Personally I think it's better to admit something's failed so we'll have to deal with it, rather than give people the illusion that they're recycling and just throw the stuff in a hole.
I suggest you read it again. This isn't individuals buying a video and bringing it in for modding, it's a company buying videos in bulk, then selling modified. There is a difference.
You really don't see the difference? This isn't about the individual consumer, it's about companies editing then selling the edited works. Directors and producers already have to put up with editing for theatrical release, TV release, airline release, etc., but at least they're able to get some input into the process. Here some people they've never heard of have taken it on their own to distribute edited movies because some people are too uptight to deal with (gasp) nudity and (gasp) violence. If you wrote a book, and your publisher told you to take out a sex scene because they wanted to sell it at Wal-Mart, you'd probably do it, even if you didn't want to. But wouldn't you be furious if someone out in Utah took out a bunch more stuff out then republished it, without your permission or even knowledge?
Some people like to think of the products or their creative work as more than just commodities.
Community colleges aren't MEANT to be universities; they're meant to fulfill a different function than 4 year colleges. And not all of them are striving to move to 4 years.
USA Today is sort of the everyman's paper, its more or less a recap of broad trends, and reports on older stories that might be impacting their more diverse readership.
It's for people that have an insatiable lust for pie charts.
Seriously, the only time I read USA Today is when I'm on the road, bored out of my skull, and the first rank of papers are unavailable. In a lot of out-of-the-way motels, there's only a choice between USA Today and the Smallville Shopper.
Actually, nethack for the mac does have an annoying interface. Or maybe I just hate playing it in a window.
That's it? That's not bad, only a 50% drop. I figured the pinball revenue would have been almost totally wiped out in that time period.
"Yeah, my 'ole man who works in a nucular plant sez so too." That's a correct sentence, right?
Is it used by the majority of English-speakers? Would most English speakers consider it a proper sentence? If so, then yes, it's proper.
I haven't read any of Weber's stuff myself, but based on shelfspace, word-of-mouth, and rec.arts.sf.written I'd say right now he IS a huge name in sf. Not Asimov-huge, but easily among the most popular contemporary sf writers.
Society as a whole sets the usage. If everyone calls cracking hacking, then the correct word is hacking.
Woo, a Stalin reference. I win.
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