As for your instruction '1', why do you need cool water if you're bringing it to the boil anyway?
I believe it impacts the flavor whether I'm brewing coffee or tea.
Hot water that is boiled tends to produce "flat" tasting brew, IMO. Cold water that is boiled produces a "sharper" taste, I think.
It may just be psychosomatic. But I have read in the book Uncommon Grounds and heard on Good Eats that the cold water is more oxygenated and that is what keeps the taste from being "flat".
The excess oxygen comes from the act of pouring the water, it's like whipping cream or butter. Cold water is able to hold that excess oxygen better than hot water. But if you let the cool water sit for too long after pouring it from the tap it will loose this excess oxygen.
I have done a blind taste test with my friend's help and was able to pick out the coffee (a Sumatran arabica) made with cold water. The same for tea (a Chinese green). I'm not going to go into our methods, but if you want to know I'll tell you.
Speaking of pissing and how much liquid a body can hold...
Does anyone else here time themselves while urinating?
I started timing myself after a long movie where I drank a large pop (~30-40oz.), refilled and drank it, and then didn't go to the bathroom until two hours later. It was a very long piss.
I find my average to be 12-15 seconds. My longest was 43 seconds, again after a long movie with lots of cola involved.
This isn't a flame, troll, or whatever. I'm just amazed that my body can hold three times the amount it usually takes to make me urinate without my kidneys or bladder popping out my back.
If 12-15 seconds worth of urine is enough to fill my bladder and make me go to the bathroom, where does my body find room for 2-3 times that amount?
Are these 40oz. plus cups two- or three-pissers? Meaning you end up going to the bathroom a few times before you can actually finish the thing?
If your coffee is bitter and rancid you are drinking poorly prepared coffee made from old, poor quality grounds.
As a service to humanity, here is how to make coffee the correct way:
Bring cool, pure water to a boil, 6oz per serving.
Measure out fresh, whole coffee beans from your airtight container: 2 tablespoons per serving. Grind them for 5 seconds in an electric grinder and dump the grounds in your press pot.
Remove the water from the heat and let cool until just below boiling, about 15 seconds. Pour the water onto the grounds in the press pot.
Let the coffee brew for 3-5 minutes. Press the strainer down and pour yourself a cup of good coffee.
Three Notes:
You can get good, whole beans from Community Coffee. Whereever you get them from, keep them in an airtight container make sure they are arabica, not robusto.
You can get an 8 cup (48oz.) press pot from most discount and department stores for $10-$15. It makes much better coffee than drip machines.
I make 12oz every morning that I take to work following this method. It takes 5 minutes, literally. That's faster than all of several machines I've owned and my coworkers are jealous of my superior smelling and tasting coffee.
CD-RW won't replace the floppy until it is unecessary to use a 3rd party utility to write and delete from it.
Maybe it's changed in Windows XP or MacOS X. But for Windows 2000 and Redhat Linux 7.2 I have to install and run a separate program and laboriously pick out which files I want to burn and finally say "go".
I don't care if it's the OS writer's fault, the BIOS writer's fault, or whose fault it is. It's ludicrous that I can't simply type "copy foo.txt d:" the way I can type "copy foo.txt a:"! CD-RW drives have been out for years, get your shit together people.
I've been trying to convert my company over to strictly CD-RW since we've had several disastors where the only copy of important data was on a floppy. (I know, I know, but users are users.) It's been completely unsuccesful because the burning programs aren't integrated with the OS the way floppy drivers are. Don't get me started on the burning program's horrible interfaces if you have anything else you want to do today.
Until I can pop in my cd-rw, click-and-drag my files onto it, and pop it out to be used anywhere a cd can be -- without having to go through a 3rd program -- I and everyone else will still have a use for floppies.
I think that for a web developer, knowledge in client side scripting should be moved up on the priority notches. Am I alone in this?
Absolutely agreed!!
From a "consumer" perspective, there are way too many sites out there that go to the server to update the page after an action. So much can be done with really very simple CSS and DOM manipulation.
I mean, it's easier code to write, it'll work with very little platform-specific tweaking, and it's a better experience for the consumer since it's faster to download the code and update the page. Why isn't it being done?
What is it that makes 'em so wicked? The massive firepower? The vaguely human-like form? The juvenile fantasy of blowing shit up in a big way for the fun of it? The sharp angles and "future" look they sport?
Damn they're cool. Who hasn't seen one and wished they could be piloting one of those things.
They'd make a great commuter vehicle. I wouldn't have to worry about pricks cutting me off and sideswiping me anymore. No parking spots? Just vaporize a couple lowly cars to make a space.
And how amazing is it his young daughters find it cool, and he games with other women? There is hope for humanity, and this is proof.
Completely wiping my disks at work (writing psuedo-random data to disk three times followed by writing all 0's) takes over two hours on my 40GB ATA100 drive.
On a 1TB disk the wipe wouldn't get very far during a FBI raid before the plug was pulled.
A better solution to quick wipe a disk that size would be to use a very high power electro-magnet.
And that brings up another point, how long does it take to access data on any given part of the disk? Unless there is some huge advance in access speed 1TB on a disk isn't terribly useful.
You? I don't know you, but if you aren't a US Senator or CEO of a Fortune 500 company your complaint will be ignored and/or tossed in the trash before it's read.
The US? Why wouldn't they back up one of their major industries?
China and Taiwan? They are on thin ground in the WTO as it is. They know the risk of the US throwing its weight around is more dangerous than some lost profits to licensing fees.
So I just don't see a complaint being filed let alone having any effect on the issue.
The MPAA will see to it that customs holds these at the border, and the parties hoping to receive the shipment will be tossed in the slammer.
Basically, these will be considered controlled substances like drugs and whoever's trying to get ahold of one will be treated as a narcotics dealer/user.
I'm not sure what the chances are you'll even see this. 450 posts and the ones modded up are pretty negative. Oh well. ..
I'm currently rolling custom built machines for our 200 systems network. Oh, and I'm the only tech here. I do the servers, network, help desk planning, everything.
My place is a non-profit where a very small, chaotic budget. I'm never sure exactly when I'll have money to spend or how much. For strange reasons, when we go to spend money we have to go through a maze to buy complete equipment, but components are no problem. We couldn't buy a new company car, but we could buy all the parts to put a car together ourselves. Same goes for computers.
The savings we've seen building ourselves are huge. Adding the costs of the pieces and my time spent planning, building, and supporting these systems it is still cheaper than OEM systems and a support contract. A+ certified techs are a dime a dozen, so support of these wintel systems isn't really a factor if I were to leave. (They'd have to get a half dozen to do what I'm doing by myself in 40 hours a week, plus an MCSE and a CCNA, so I'm not worried about job security).
Here are some tips:
1) Plan out your configuration and use it for the next year. The most important component is the motherboard. It should be able to accept more RAM and a faster CPU than you are going to use initially. Spend lots of time developing a stable, user-friendly software config (OS and apps). As you need to replace systems throughout the year, use this config. After six months update the config with a faster CPU, more RAM, and maybe a larger HD. Update your software config with patches, fixes, stuff like that now also. At the year mark you can plan your new config.
2) Integrated components are your friend. I like the nVidia nForce boards because they have the (good) sound, video, and network integrated. Also, if one manufacturer stops making your board, you should be able to switch to another manufacturer but still use the same drivers. Very important for ghosting!
3) You really don't need the management software for 60 computers. That stuff is usually designed (and priced) for enterprises with several hundred if not thousands of systems. You should be able to keep most of that stuff in your head and in a small text-file database. Learn a little Python/tk and you can even build your own front end to the text-file. Cool!
4) Develop a relationship with a couple local component vendors, and a couple Internet vendors and have them bid for any purchase more than a couple grand. You'll definetely save money this way, especially if they know they are bidding and not just giving a price quote. I've saved thousands of dollars on a single purchase this way. Also, after a while the local guys will probably be able to send a couple guys your way to help out every once-in-a-while when you get swamped or stuck as a thank you for your business. Very Cool!
Following these tips, you only have four platforms to work with, you've saved money, you know exactly what you are working with, and you get a sense of pride from creating something from your own two hands.
I really can't recommend this approach highly enough.
I've been tempted several times to turn in an employer.
I have never worked for someone who didn't have at least one "pirated" copy of Microsoft software.
Feeling that they should have been paying me closer to the national average as a System Administrator for Microsoft server and client software, I have been 'this' close to ratting to the BSA.
As soon as one of these organizations pays a "finder's fee", I'm am soooo there.
. ..if it took several weeks of continous processing power to check . ..
This is my point. Technology continuously advances, making what once took several weeks only take several seconds. The pseudo-anonymity we take for granted on the Internet now isn't inherent to the system; authentication as a real-life person could easily be required for access to the network.
And it won't be humans analyzing the bit stream, it'll bots with smart enough AI to know when something "bad" is being communicated. A flag will then be raised.
And after that flag is raised, it soon won't be humans who take immediate action, but more bots who can implement whatever punishment is necessary more quickly and efficiently.
If you are asking how bots can deal out "meat damage", that isn't necessarily the best punishment. Think about how difficult it would be to live with your bank account frozen, your utilities cut, or your records being "lost" in the various government systems.
It seems like science fiction now. I hope it stays that way.
. ..censorship as a contemporary idea is virtually impossible.
This is so untrue. So very, very untrue.
Mr. Katz, if you would read Professor Lessig's book _Code_, or even just think about this for a minute, you would realize that the technologies that enable unprecedented freedoms of communication also enable unprecedented censorship.
Technology makes it easier and easier to intercept communications and to punish those who initiated the communications and their intended recipients.
As a community, we (the well education, rich, techno-savvy, elite) like to think we have the moral high ground, and because we have the moral high ground we can sit back, complacent in the knowledge that the good guys always win. Or, we can sit back knowing "someone else" will take care of the problem.
That attitude will result in things getting worse before they get better, if they ever get better.
The lack of activism, the unwillingness to study the basics of law in our society, the hypocrisy, and the complacency shown by this community makes me very sad and I worry about the type of society in which my children will live.
The bottom line: censorship is more of a threat now than ever, and it is only vigilance and activism on our part that will stop it.
I would disagree with your stating the Internet doesn't affect my quality of life. I'm much better informed, more politically active, and make more money becuase of the Internet. I have new friends, and am able to better keep in touch with geographically distant friends and family. I have seen and read things online that I never would have been exposed to had it not been for the Internet.
While it is not a basic right, it does affect the quality of life.
Write to the President and your Congressional delegates and tell them about it!!!
Their staff is there to listen to your comments and respond to them. They do take your voice into account.
They like email more than letters since the anthrax scare.
Here's a like to this years budget in HTML and PDF: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2003/index. html
Send your comments to the President at this address: president@whitehouse.gov
Find your Senator at this page: http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cf m
And find their email address here: http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm
You can find, then write to your Representative here (this is very slick): http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Please, please, please take a more active role in the direction our national technology policies take. Keep an eye on http://www.eff.org/alerts/ for issues of which you should be aware. If we don't do it as technology professionals and enthusiasts, no one will.
. ..I'm all for increased computer accessibility, and this is an important step.
Everytime I'm out mountain biking, or inline skating, or kicking ass in a bar fight I worry about what I'll do if I break my arm or hand.
This technology isn't just for people with debilitating disease or amputees. It's for the punk who tried an eight foot jump on his cross country hardtail and bit it hard.
Here's an exercise for those of you reading this right now. Try to move to the last story without using your hands.
Anything that makes computers easier to use I'm all for.
I miss living in Washington, D.C. soooo much. There are little theatres all over the place there, 25 maybe 30 seats to a screen. It's like a private showing. And they get all these great small-release films. I'm sure this release of Metropolis will find its way there in a month or so.
So what do I do? I move to Minot, North Dakota to get married. There are 13 screens in the entire town, and five of them were showing Harry Potter for 7 weeks, three more were showing Monsters, Inc for 6 weeks. WTF?
Everything you've ever heard about North Dakota is true.
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As for your instruction '1', why do you need cool water if you're bringing it to the boil anyway?
I believe it impacts the flavor whether I'm brewing coffee or tea.
Hot water that is boiled tends to produce "flat" tasting brew, IMO. Cold water that is boiled produces a "sharper" taste, I think.
It may just be psychosomatic. But I have read in the book Uncommon Grounds and heard on Good Eats that the cold water is more oxygenated and that is what keeps the taste from being "flat".
The excess oxygen comes from the act of pouring the water, it's like whipping cream or butter. Cold water is able to hold that excess oxygen better than hot water. But if you let the cool water sit for too long after pouring it from the tap it will loose this excess oxygen.
I have done a blind taste test with my friend's help and was able to pick out the coffee (a Sumatran arabica) made with cold water. The same for tea (a Chinese green). I'm not going to go into our methods, but if you want to know I'll tell you.
Speaking of pissing and how much liquid a body can hold...
Does anyone else here time themselves while urinating?
I started timing myself after a long movie where I drank a large pop (~30-40oz.), refilled and drank it, and then didn't go to the bathroom until two hours later. It was a very long piss.
I find my average to be 12-15 seconds. My longest was 43 seconds, again after a long movie with lots of cola involved.
This isn't a flame, troll, or whatever. I'm just amazed that my body can hold three times the amount it usually takes to make me urinate without my kidneys or bladder popping out my back.
If 12-15 seconds worth of urine is enough to fill my bladder and make me go to the bathroom, where does my body find room for 2-3 times that amount?
Are these 40oz. plus cups two- or three-pissers? Meaning you end up going to the bathroom a few times before you can actually finish the thing?
Just curious.
If your coffee is bitter and rancid you are drinking poorly prepared coffee made from old, poor quality grounds.
As a service to humanity, here is how to make coffee the correct way:
- Bring cool, pure water to a boil, 6oz per serving.
- Measure out fresh, whole coffee beans from your airtight container: 2 tablespoons per serving. Grind them for 5 seconds in an electric grinder and dump the grounds in your press pot.
- Remove the water from the heat and let cool until just below boiling, about 15 seconds. Pour the water onto the grounds in the press pot.
- Let the coffee brew for 3-5 minutes. Press the strainer down and pour yourself a cup of good coffee.
Three Notes:His emphasizing key points makes it very easy to skim the article, get the gist, and get on with your life.
Get a clue. I wish more sites would follow his lead.
CD-RW won't replace the floppy until it is unecessary to use a 3rd party utility to write and delete from it.
Maybe it's changed in Windows XP or MacOS X. But for Windows 2000 and Redhat Linux 7.2 I have to install and run a separate program and laboriously pick out which files I want to burn and finally say "go".
I don't care if it's the OS writer's fault, the BIOS writer's fault, or whose fault it is. It's ludicrous that I can't simply type "copy foo.txt d:" the way I can type "copy foo.txt a:"! CD-RW drives have been out for years, get your shit together people.
I've been trying to convert my company over to strictly CD-RW since we've had several disastors where the only copy of important data was on a floppy. (I know, I know, but users are users.) It's been completely unsuccesful because the burning programs aren't integrated with the OS the way floppy drivers are. Don't get me started on the burning program's horrible interfaces if you have anything else you want to do today.
Until I can pop in my cd-rw, click-and-drag my files onto it, and pop it out to be used anywhere a cd can be -- without having to go through a 3rd program -- I and everyone else will still have a use for floppies.
From a "consumer" perspective, there are way too many sites out there that go to the server to update the page after an action. So much can be done with really very simple CSS and DOM manipulation.
I mean, it's easier code to write, it'll work with very little platform-specific tweaking, and it's a better experience for the consumer since it's faster to download the code and update the page. Why isn't it being done?
The real problem is getting the axis of evil to use blue lasers while the allies use red lasers.
Go Joe!
Man I love mechs.
What is it that makes 'em so wicked? The massive firepower? The vaguely human-like form? The juvenile fantasy of blowing shit up in a big way for the fun of it? The sharp angles and "future" look they sport?
Damn they're cool. Who hasn't seen one and wished they could be piloting one of those things.
They'd make a great commuter vehicle. I wouldn't have to worry about pricks cutting me off and sideswiping me anymore. No parking spots? Just vaporize a couple lowly cars to make a space.
And how amazing is it his young daughters find it cool, and he games with other women? There is hope for humanity, and this is proof.
CDex does not work well at all on Windows 2000 or XP (Home or Pro).
Slow encoding, random crashes, etc. plague it.
I've tried it many, many times using different configurations of Win2k and XP and various aspi drivers to the same effect.
This is using 1.40 release.
Right, but how long would that wipe take?
Completely wiping my disks at work (writing psuedo-random data to disk three times followed by writing all 0's) takes over two hours on my 40GB ATA100 drive.
On a 1TB disk the wipe wouldn't get very far during a FBI raid before the plug was pulled.
A better solution to quick wipe a disk that size would be to use a very high power electro-magnet.
And that brings up another point, how long does it take to access data on any given part of the disk? Unless there is some huge advance in access speed 1TB on a disk isn't terribly useful.
I'm guessing you are using Mozilla.
The link does the same thing to me when using 1.1alpha on Win2k SP2+ (My primary browser and platform).
Internet Explorer 6 follows the link with no problems.
So I'd say it's a browser issue and not a web page issue.
Who would file that complaint to the WTO?
You? I don't know you, but if you aren't a US Senator or CEO of a Fortune 500 company your complaint will be ignored and/or tossed in the trash before it's read.
The US? Why wouldn't they back up one of their major industries?
China and Taiwan? They are on thin ground in the WTO as it is. They know the risk of the US throwing its weight around is more dangerous than some lost profits to licensing fees.
So I just don't see a complaint being filed let alone having any effect on the issue.
We'll never see these players in the US.
The MPAA will see to it that customs holds these at the border, and the parties hoping to receive the shipment will be tossed in the slammer.
Basically, these will be considered controlled substances like drugs and whoever's trying to get ahold of one will be treated as a narcotics dealer/user.
My local Office Max has an inkjet printer for $20 in every weekly flier (after rebates and never the same brand).
When a cartridge runs out of ink I just throw the printer away and buy whatever $20 job they have this week.
Actually, this week they've dropped to $10 after rebate.
Let's see: $10 printer every three months or $150 printer + $50 cartridge every three months.
And the quality is fine for crappy web pics (even scanned pics folks send) and business letters.
http://www.5inch.com/ has incredibly sweet CD-R's for sale.
Maybe something like Hello or Punchcard is appropriate?
I'm not sure what the chances are you'll even see this. 450 posts and the ones modded up are pretty negative. Oh well. . .
I'm currently rolling custom built machines for our 200 systems network. Oh, and I'm the only tech here. I do the servers, network, help desk planning, everything.
My place is a non-profit where a very small, chaotic budget. I'm never sure exactly when I'll have money to spend or how much. For strange reasons, when we go to spend money we have to go through a maze to buy complete equipment, but components are no problem. We couldn't buy a new company car, but we could buy all the parts to put a car together ourselves. Same goes for computers.
The savings we've seen building ourselves are huge. Adding the costs of the pieces and my time spent planning, building, and supporting these systems it is still cheaper than OEM systems and a support contract. A+ certified techs are a dime a dozen, so support of these wintel systems isn't really a factor if I were to leave. (They'd have to get a half dozen to do what I'm doing by myself in 40 hours a week, plus an MCSE and a CCNA, so I'm not worried about job security).
Here are some tips:
1) Plan out your configuration and use it for the next year. The most important component is the motherboard. It should be able to accept more RAM and a faster CPU than you are going to use initially. Spend lots of time developing a stable, user-friendly software config (OS and apps). As you need to replace systems throughout the year, use this config. After six months update the config with a faster CPU, more RAM, and maybe a larger HD. Update your software config with patches, fixes, stuff like that now also. At the year mark you can plan your new config.
2) Integrated components are your friend. I like the nVidia nForce boards because they have the (good) sound, video, and network integrated. Also, if one manufacturer stops making your board, you should be able to switch to another manufacturer but still use the same drivers. Very important for ghosting!
3) You really don't need the management software for 60 computers. That stuff is usually designed (and priced) for enterprises with several hundred if not thousands of systems. You should be able to keep most of that stuff in your head and in a small text-file database. Learn a little Python/tk and you can even build your own front end to the text-file. Cool!
4) Develop a relationship with a couple local component vendors, and a couple Internet vendors and have them bid for any purchase more than a couple grand. You'll definetely save money this way, especially if they know they are bidding and not just giving a price quote. I've saved thousands of dollars on a single purchase this way. Also, after a while the local guys will probably be able to send a couple guys your way to help out every once-in-a-while when you get swamped or stuck as a thank you for your business. Very Cool!
Following these tips, you only have four platforms to work with, you've saved money, you know exactly what you are working with, and you get a sense of pride from creating something from your own two hands.
I really can't recommend this approach highly enough.
I've been tempted several times to turn in an employer.
I have never worked for someone who didn't have at least one "pirated" copy of Microsoft software.
Feeling that they should have been paying me closer to the national average as a System Administrator for Microsoft server and client software, I have been 'this' close to ratting to the BSA.
As soon as one of these organizations pays a "finder's fee", I'm am soooo there.
Yes, I am an oportunistic bastard.
I finally get some moderator points, but it's on April 1. Damn it!
. . .if it took several weeks of continous processing power to check . . .
This is my point. Technology continuously advances, making what once took several weeks only take several seconds. The pseudo-anonymity we take for granted on the Internet now isn't inherent to the system; authentication as a real-life person could easily be required for access to the network.
And it won't be humans analyzing the bit stream, it'll bots with smart enough AI to know when something "bad" is being communicated. A flag will then be raised.
And after that flag is raised, it soon won't be humans who take immediate action, but more bots who can implement whatever punishment is necessary more quickly and efficiently.
If you are asking how bots can deal out "meat damage", that isn't necessarily the best punishment. Think about how difficult it would be to live with your bank account frozen, your utilities cut, or your records being "lost" in the various government systems.
It seems like science fiction now. I hope it stays that way.
. . .censorship as a contemporary idea is virtually impossible.
This is so untrue. So very, very untrue.
Mr. Katz, if you would read Professor Lessig's book _Code_, or even just think about this for a minute, you would realize that the technologies that enable unprecedented freedoms of communication also enable unprecedented censorship.
Technology makes it easier and easier to intercept communications and to punish those who initiated the communications and their intended recipients.
As a community, we (the well education, rich, techno-savvy, elite) like to think we have the moral high ground, and because we have the moral high ground we can sit back, complacent in the knowledge that the good guys always win. Or, we can sit back knowing "someone else" will take care of the problem.
That attitude will result in things getting worse before they get better, if they ever get better.
The lack of activism, the unwillingness to study the basics of law in our society, the hypocrisy, and the complacency shown by this community makes me very sad and I worry about the type of society in which my children will live.
The bottom line: censorship is more of a threat now than ever, and it is only vigilance and activism on our part that will stop it.
I would disagree with your stating the Internet doesn't affect my quality of life. I'm much better informed, more politically active, and make more money becuase of the Internet. I have new friends, and am able to better keep in touch with geographically distant friends and family. I have seen and read things online that I never would have been exposed to had it not been for the Internet.
While it is not a basic right, it does affect the quality of life.
Write to the President and your Congressional delegates and tell them about it!!!
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Their staff is there to listen to your comments and respond to them. They do take your voice into account.
They like email more than letters since the anthrax scare.
Here's a like to this years budget in HTML and PDF: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2003/index
Send your comments to the President at this address: president@whitehouse.gov
Find your Senator at this page: http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.c
And find their email address here: http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm
You can find, then write to your Representative here (this is very slick): http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Please, please, please take a more active role in the direction our national technology policies take. Keep an eye on http://www.eff.org/alerts/ for issues of which you should be aware. If we don't do it as technology professionals and enthusiasts, no one will.
. . .I'm all for increased computer accessibility, and this is an important step.
Everytime I'm out mountain biking, or inline skating, or kicking ass in a bar fight I worry about what I'll do if I break my arm or hand.
This technology isn't just for people with debilitating disease or amputees. It's for the punk who tried an eight foot jump on his cross country hardtail and bit it hard.
Here's an exercise for those of you reading this right now. Try to move to the last story without using your hands.
Anything that makes computers easier to use I'm all for.
The interactive demo is the best way to see what is new with this device.
I miss living in Washington, D.C. soooo much. There are little theatres all over the place there, 25 maybe 30 seats to a screen. It's like a private showing. And they get all these great small-release films. I'm sure this release of Metropolis will find its way there in a month or so.
So what do I do? I move to Minot, North Dakota to get married. There are 13 screens in the entire town, and five of them were showing Harry Potter for 7 weeks, three more were showing Monsters, Inc for 6 weeks. WTF?
Everything you've ever heard about North Dakota is true.