I just thought I'd mention that for me personally, not only do I
not do cable, I don't do netflix. Between stuff like youtube,
crunchyroll, and miscellanious sites like gooddrama.to, I can't
imagine where I would get the time to look at anything else.
I expect that I could spend the next ten years trying to cover
what happened with asian television in the last year, and by then
there'll be another ten years of material.
Plus there's the project of looking over the (admittedly low
quality) versions of 60s television up on youtube ("The
Champions", "The Persuaders", "Colonel Bleep", "The Green
Hornet"...), and the various random movies from the 30s/40s
(e.g. Charlie Chan).
On the other hand, if anyone has a good source of bollywood
material on-line, I'd be interested in hearing about it...
Data Science is a collection of highly scientific techniques for
convincing companies your ads are totally worth buying. The
truly advanced forms of Data Science are capable of convincing
companies that their impression that they're losing money on your
ads is completely mistaken.
Occam's Razor is more like "thou shalt not multiply entities unnecessarily". Translating that to "simple is best" is an over-simplification.
You might try reading the link I posted.
Once again, you're trying to make a plausibility argument based
on the scale of the potential players, but that says nothing
about which player actually made which moves.
"What would be the benefit to them?"
Gee, I dunno, what good would it be to anyone to have a US
President in their pocket? Particularly if the US had been
getting snarky about their military expansion.
And by the way, the phrase "inside job" has been contaminated
by our friends the 9/11 truthers. If you don't want to sound
like a conspiracy freak with a weak understanding of evidence and
a weaker grasp of reality, you don't want to borrow their
dog-whistles.
I'm inclined to give the Russians-are-behind-it theory some
creedence because of multiple things I've been hearing about for
some time throughout the election season-- e.g. the Trump server
that had been talking to Russia until he was asked about it,
after which it stopped. There are also multiple ties between
Trump's folks and the Russians, which you would know about if you
were paying any attention to the news.
Occam's Razor says you don't understand Occam's Razor very well:
RAZING_CONSPIRACY
What you're actually making is a plausibility argument based on a
(dubious) claim that Russia's resources are too limited to have
any effect in this realm.
If you wanted to make the point that multiple different player's
are out there astroturfing as web surfers-- including, for
example, Hillary's Brock puppets who were such a joy to deal with
during the Democratic primary-- you would certainly be correct.
He's always been available-- they could come to talk to him at
the embassy, interview him on the phone, or whatever. He just
won't go where it's easy for the US to grab him, which is not at
all an unrealistic fear at this point.
A modest proposal: if we're the good guys, we shouldn't go around
acting like the bad guys in a cold war spy novel.
That's how I'm currently handling full-screen javascript pop-ups
(sign up for our newsletter!). If enough of us learn to hit
control-w fast, maybe they'll get the message.
Breathless green-booster headlines will dominate a full 68.9% of
all internet traffic, and 44.2% of all boring newspaper editorials
will consist of musing about why no one seems to be taking the
green-booster stories quite so seriously any more-- strange,
considering they haven't turned out to be completely baseless fantasies more than
about 66% of the time (an accuracy rate better than reportage on other news subjects by
more than a factor of two!). This would be the leading subject
for sententious discussion, except that it's edged out by musing
about how it is we let Miami disappear under water, and how it is
possible Ivanka Trump got elected president.
I suppose it stands to reason that someone must still care about
Hollywood movies, but I can't figure out why... they just seem
like an un-ending meh-fest to me. When I see one that doesn't
completely suck that's a remarkable surprise.
Me, I think Hollywood was doomed when the international market
took off, and they dropped writing dialog in favor of doing stuff
that would translate more easily.
I would rather watch the trashiest of Japanese anime, the
dorkiest Bollywood film, or the slowest Korean comedy-drama than
pretty much anything Hollywood comes up with.
Yeah, that's it: don't abuse the automatic update channel, and
people maybe people won't shut them off. And abuse means pushing
your fabulous new design changes because you're too lazy to
figure out how to support multiple versions of the UI.
(I'm not a Windows user, but I've been tortured enough by Firefox
UI changes to understand the dynamic.)
Way back near the end of his Sandman run, Neil Gaiman showed us what he thought of us fans with "Nybbas the Spider". He may have thought this was a cute bit of nose-thumbing at us obnoxious fanboys or some-such, but me, I concluded he was in over his head and had no idea what to do with the vein of material he had been mining, and I pretty much ignored him ever since [1]. Far be it from me to deny him his freedom to experiment, but why would I bother with those experiments compared to the millions of others out there in the world?
Amanda Palmer has done an excellent job of showing the potential for crowd-funding, provided you happen to be a pretty
young woman who's weirdly extroverted and enjoys telling heart-warming, personal stories to an audience of thousands of people.
[1] Actually, there was a movie with a Gaiman script out some years back that I actually went to see, because it also had Dave McKean artwork... I remember thinking "Well, Dave McKean held up his end.".
Yes: without a comparison to to other populations, we can't know
what this number means. Depending on the test, maybe I can't
reliably write "compilable code": mostly I let the compiler tell
me if it's compilable, and if not I fix it.
A few year back, I noticed that whenever I pointed out the
obvious-- Amazon is an evil company that deserves to be
boycotted for a half-dozen different reasons-- people like this
started coming out of the woodwork, talking up the wonders of
epublishing on Amazon and how some friend of theirs has made
just gazillions doing it.
I see the appeal of a centralized Bay Area urban-management
agency (though I have to say I expect in practice it would be
infiltrated and subverted by the people it's supposed to
regulate, much like the SF Planning Department)-- since that's
not even on the horizon yet, what else might happen?
I sometimes think that what the South Bay really needs is for
companies like Google to make up their minds to steam-roller the
local government-- if you look at the playbook of the big sports
teams, for example, they get whatever they want just by hinting
that they're going to move to another city.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll buy that, but if you can find one person who doesn't want to see Deka Wanko then there is no hope for humanity.
I don't want to cause your brain to melt, but there is actually more going on in Asia than just anime.
And the actual point is that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in Hollywood. Or even at the BBC.
I just thought I'd mention that for me personally, not only do I not do cable, I don't do netflix. Between stuff like youtube, crunchyroll, and miscellanious sites like gooddrama.to, I can't imagine where I would get the time to look at anything else.
I expect that I could spend the next ten years trying to cover what happened with asian television in the last year, and by then there'll be another ten years of material.
Plus there's the project of looking over the (admittedly low quality) versions of 60s television up on youtube ("The Champions", "The Persuaders", "Colonel Bleep", "The Green Hornet"...), and the various random movies from the 30s/40s (e.g. Charlie Chan).
On the other hand, if anyone has a good source of bollywood material on-line, I'd be interested in hearing about it...
It gives us an excuse to bitch about stuff that we hate.
(3) And must include 300k of Javascript libraries.
Data Science is a collection of highly scientific techniques for convincing companies your ads are totally worth buying. The truly advanced forms of Data Science are capable of convincing companies that their impression that they're losing money on your ads is completely mistaken.
Occam's Razor is more like "thou shalt not multiply entities unnecessarily". Translating that to "simple is best" is an over-simplification. You might try reading the link I posted.
Once again, you're trying to make a plausibility argument based on the scale of the potential players, but that says nothing about which player actually made which moves.
Gee, I dunno, what good would it be to anyone to have a US President in their pocket? Particularly if the US had been getting snarky about their military expansion.
And by the way, the phrase "inside job" has been contaminated by our friends the 9/11 truthers. If you don't want to sound like a conspiracy freak with a weak understanding of evidence and a weaker grasp of reality, you don't want to borrow their dog-whistles.
I'm inclined to give the Russians-are-behind-it theory some creedence because of multiple things I've been hearing about for some time throughout the election season-- e.g. the Trump server that had been talking to Russia until he was asked about it, after which it stopped. There are also multiple ties between Trump's folks and the Russians, which you would know about if you were paying any attention to the news.
Occam's Razor says you don't understand Occam's Razor very well: RAZING_CONSPIRACY
What you're actually making is a plausibility argument based on a (dubious) claim that Russia's resources are too limited to have any effect in this realm.
If you wanted to make the point that multiple different player's are out there astroturfing as web surfers-- including, for example, Hillary's Brock puppets who were such a joy to deal with during the Democratic primary-- you would certainly be correct.
Yes, Snowden shoulda let 'em through him uin solitary for years just like Bradley Manning.
Call them cowards if you like, the actual question is did they tell us something we deserved to know about what our own government was hiding from us?
(It's always fun having an "anonymous coward" call someone a coward.)
He's always been available-- they could come to talk to him at the embassy, interview him on the phone, or whatever. He just won't go where it's easy for the US to grab him, which is not at all an unrealistic fear at this point.
A modest proposal: if we're the good guys, we shouldn't go around acting like the bad guys in a cold war spy novel.
That's how I'm currently handling full-screen javascript pop-ups (sign up for our newsletter!). If enough of us learn to hit control-w fast, maybe they'll get the message.
The goal of ad-blocking is to keep from being irritated by morons who have you confused with an idiot who can be sold to by being irritated.
Wouldn't it be cool if Firefox 55 was "ask to activate"?
Breathless green-booster headlines will dominate a full 68.9% of all internet traffic, and 44.2% of all boring newspaper editorials will consist of musing about why no one seems to be taking the green-booster stories quite so seriously any more-- strange, considering they haven't turned out to be completely baseless fantasies more than about 66% of the time (an accuracy rate better than reportage on other news subjects by more than a factor of two!). This would be the leading subject for sententious discussion, except that it's edged out by musing about how it is we let Miami disappear under water, and how it is possible Ivanka Trump got elected president.
I suppose it stands to reason that someone must still care about Hollywood movies, but I can't figure out why... they just seem like an un-ending meh-fest to me. When I see one that doesn't completely suck that's a remarkable surprise.
Me, I think Hollywood was doomed when the international market took off, and they dropped writing dialog in favor of doing stuff that would translate more easily.
I would rather watch the trashiest of Japanese anime, the dorkiest Bollywood film, or the slowest Korean comedy-drama than pretty much anything Hollywood comes up with.
Yeah, that's it: don't abuse the automatic update channel, and people maybe people won't shut them off. And abuse means pushing your fabulous new design changes because you're too lazy to figure out how to support multiple versions of the UI.
(I'm not a Windows user, but I've been tortured enough by Firefox UI changes to understand the dynamic.)
Way back near the end of his Sandman run, Neil Gaiman showed us what he thought of us fans with "Nybbas the Spider". He may have thought this was a cute bit of nose-thumbing at us obnoxious fanboys or some-such, but me, I concluded he was in over his head and had no idea what to do with the vein of material he had been mining, and I pretty much ignored him ever since [1]. Far be it from me to deny him his freedom to experiment, but why would I bother with those experiments compared to the millions of others out there in the world?
Amanda Palmer has done an excellent job of showing the potential for crowd-funding, provided you happen to be a pretty young woman who's weirdly extroverted and enjoys telling heart-warming, personal stories to an audience of thousands of people.
[1] Actually, there was a movie with a Gaiman script out some years back that I actually went to see, because it also had Dave McKean artwork... I remember thinking "Well, Dave McKean held up his end.".
It's got some competition in New York, Florida, and DC.
Well, maybe if they're organic sterling lenses.
But what if they switch to a gluten-free diet?
And what about that zombie movie "Meltdown"? Any power source that can lead to movies like that is just too dangerous.
Thankfully, no one ever does movies about solar-powered zombies.
One of the things you might conclude from this business is that you shouldn't put the Army in charge when you want things done cleanly.
Another thing you might conclude is that every slogan that draws a comparison to Chernobyl is grossly inflammatory and can be safely ignored.
"... make Chernobyl look like picnic."
Yes: without a comparison to to other populations, we can't know what this number means. Depending on the test, maybe I can't reliably write "compilable code": mostly I let the compiler tell me if it's compilable, and if not I fix it.
A few year back, I noticed that whenever I pointed out the obvious-- Amazon is an evil company that deserves to be boycotted for a half-dozen different reasons-- people like this started coming out of the woodwork, talking up the wonders of epublishing on Amazon and how some friend of theirs has made just gazillions doing it.
I see the appeal of a centralized Bay Area urban-management agency (though I have to say I expect in practice it would be infiltrated and subverted by the people it's supposed to regulate, much like the SF Planning Department)-- since that's not even on the horizon yet, what else might happen?
I sometimes think that what the South Bay really needs is for companies like Google to make up their minds to steam-roller the local government-- if you look at the playbook of the big sports teams, for example, they get whatever they want just by hinting that they're going to move to another city.
They're not really up to the Computology level yet, they should start out with Computonetics.