The Doctrine of First Sale covers sale and lending of ones own property. Therefore, used CDs (and DVDs) are perfectly legal. (And so are libraries...before the Doctrine of First Sale libraries were technically illegal!) It is only the sale of NEW CDs/DVDs that earns the MAFIAA their cut. So if you don't want to take the radical step of not purchasing music or movies, ever, this is the perfect solution.
Buy it used. Then rip, mix, burn...for your own personal consumption, of course...
As of Leopard, Mac OS X is UNIX. Linux is a UNIX-like operating system without Open Group certification. Before Leopard, Mac OS X was a UNIX-like operating system without Open Group certification.
You can build an R2D2 droid for cheaper. You might wind up sinking a couple of grand into it if you want it to be fully functional, and it will pretty much be a radio controlled puppet and not a genuine robot, but you'll have a lot more fun with it. Besides, one of those radio controlled R2 units won't bluescreen on you (sorry...give you a "stop error") like this steaming hunk of XP-powered cybertrash.
Keep an eye on http://www.astromech.net/ because right now the site is down for retooling. These guys haven't been "foxed" by Lucasfilm, though...they exhibited at Celebration IV and have Lucas' blessing along the same lines as the 501st and the Rebel Legion. The site had tons of plans and tutorials about droid building. Too bad they aren't keeping the old site up in the interim...sigh.
He's in a "safe district." It always votes Democratic. He was elected with an 80% majority last time around. There has never been a credible challenge to him, whether Democratic, Republican or third party.
I oughta know. I live in his district.
I'd challenge the bastard in the primary but I don't have the money to do it.
No love for Jules from Pulp Fiction in that list! I'm disappointed. Clearly his tagline of biblical proportions counts as the most badass of all badass bible verses:
Jules: There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.
Then again, Cracked has always been the lamer's answer to Mad. Even though both have deteriorated considerably, they have diminished in stature in proportion to one another.
"I want more life, father" was the line as it was shown in test marketing. It also appears in the notorious "70mm Workprint" version, aka "The Nuart Version" which will finally be available to the public on Disk 5 of the uber leet briefcase version. "I want more life, fucker" is my preference. But Ridley Scott made the call on this one. He believes the scene hangs together better when the whole religious/father-son aspect of the scene remains intact. It was not a bowdlerization. The cut made for TV has Batty saying "I want more life."
This was an artistic decision. Not a bid for a reconsideration of the MPAA rating. The theatrical release is still considered a hard-R, 25 years later.
The newest release of the Original Trilogy has the Laserdisc (Letterboxed, non-anamorphic) version of the last pre-SE release of each film, in more or less theatrical versions. It's on the bonus disc. Yes, Han shoots first. No, there is no CGI Jabba getting his tail stepped on by Han. It's the movie as I remember it from my childhood, and I love it. You even get the Yub Yub song at the end of Return of the Jedi. You have to take the good with the bad.
If Lucas did what Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner: The Final Cut, he would have just cleaned some of the FX shots up to get rid of wires and matte lines, scanned each frame at 4K lines of resolution per frame and FX shots at 8K of resolution, and tidied up some edits. Instead, Lucas puked CGI garbage all over the Original Trilogy to make it harmonize better with things he had in mind for the Prequels. Ridley Scott did this out of respect for his film and for his fans. Lucas tagged all over his film for one thing only: the Benjamins.
And yes, Benjamins in this case also means Benjamin Q. Public, age 8.
I still am a partisan against voiceovers in Blade Runner. But that's one beautiful rejoinder from Deckard to Batty's classic soliloquy. And dig what Gaff says at the end.
There are going to be some pretty spectacular fan-edits out there once this is out. It might wind up being that people can choose the edit of Blade Runner they prefer.
This is the secret to why immigrant Asian children have been outperforming Anglo children in school. The idea that hard work = good results is something very ingrained in cultures influenced by Confucianism. You work hard to get good grades to please your parents, and the Ancestors. If it takes burning midnight oil, if it takes going to cram school, whatever it takes, you do it. And if you fail, you do it again and again until you succeed.
Once these families get a dose of the self esteem ueber alles school of child rearing in the US, they tend to regress towards Anglo means after the second or third generation Asian-American children.
It's all about self-efficacy and internal locus of control. Self-esteem is about "I'm a worthwhile person because I'm me." Self-efficacy is more like "With enough effort, I can do anything I can set my mind to." A person with an internal locus of control blames "not enough practice" or "I didn't study like I should have" for failing a test. A person with an external locus of control thinks "I failed the test because I'm stupid" or "I failed the test because my teacher has it in for me."
Self-esteem, self-efficacy and locus of control are part of a bigger entity called one's self-concept. The individual parts that make up self-concept tend to get conflated, particularly in the case of those whose knowledge of psychology does not go beyond Psych 101 or High School psych courses. However, studies have shown that these are separate aspects of self-concept which can be experimentally manipulated and scientifically quantified.
1.) Back your Mac up before applying updates. Also run Disk Utility from the DVD and check the HD, and run Disk Utility from the HD and check your permissions, repairing if necessary. 2.) Never apply a point upgrade through Software Update. Download the combo updater and do the update separately. 3.) VMWare Fusion is your friend. Friends don't let friends dual-boot.
Actually it was the Clone Wars shorts that made me a fan again. Lucas basically kept his hands off, and allowed talented people like Genndy Tartakovsky and Paul Rudish to run the show. They brought the fun back. The problem with Episode I and Episode II was simple: they were no fun.
Episode III was redeemed by the fact that Lucas seemed to pay attention to some of the things Genndy and Paul were doing. There were still plenty of moments to wince at, but the good outweighed the bad. There was some legitimate fun in Episode III. Can't say that about the other two prequels.
Threepio and Artoo were intended to be the witnesses to the entire saga from the very beginning. As 'droids, they are basically immortal, so long as someone keeps replacing worn out parts. So, who else to take notes?
The Whills, the mysterious entities whose journal is the "source document" for the Star Wars saga, get the story from Artoo, according to some accounts of Lucas' original ideas.
They were inspired by the two bickering peasants in The Hidden Fortress, the Kurosawa chambara movie which inspired the original Star Wars movie.
Google Docs and Gmail both use HTTPS if you force it to. The easiest way to do so is use the Firefox plugin CustomizeGoogle. Hard way is to remember to type https:/// links to Gmail and Google Docs. Either way, you are golden.
My MacBook is the finest computer I've ever had. Ever. And it's a 2nd gen MacBook with the Core 2 Duo rather than Core Duo chip, so it actually can go on your lap in a pinch without giving your lap 3rd Degree Burns.
It's a year old and the battery life still kicks -- 3 hours at least. Gotta love it.
And this is the second time young Spock meets older Spock. Then again, whether the meeting was "canon" or not depends on your views on how canonical Star Trek: The Animated Series was.
Asus is the OEM for the MacBook. Would Apple screw over their supplier for their most lucrative product over a leak? Stay tuned...this could get gnarly.
You don't need to install the Logitech drivers to make your Logitech mouse work. The Marble Mouse is my pointing device of choice, and I have NEVER installed their drivers. Right click works, trackball scroll works, and that's with Mac OS X internal support. So the stupid little internal buttons don't work. BFD. I don't miss them.
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The Doctrine of First Sale covers sale and lending of ones own property. Therefore, used CDs (and DVDs) are perfectly legal. (And so are libraries...before the Doctrine of First Sale libraries were technically illegal!) It is only the sale of NEW CDs/DVDs that earns the MAFIAA their cut. So if you don't want to take the radical step of not purchasing music or movies, ever, this is the perfect solution.
Buy it used. Then rip, mix, burn...for your own personal consumption, of course...
You might want to check one last detail:
As of Leopard, Mac OS X is UNIX. Linux is a UNIX-like operating system without Open Group certification. Before Leopard, Mac OS X was a UNIX-like operating system without Open Group certification.
You can build an R2D2 droid for cheaper. You might wind up sinking a couple of grand into it if you want it to be fully functional, and it will pretty much be a radio controlled puppet and not a genuine robot, but you'll have a lot more fun with it. Besides, one of those radio controlled R2 units won't bluescreen on you (sorry...give you a "stop error") like this steaming hunk of XP-powered cybertrash.
Keep an eye on http://www.astromech.net/ because right now the site is down for retooling. These guys haven't been "foxed" by Lucasfilm, though...they exhibited at Celebration IV and have Lucas' blessing along the same lines as the 501st and the Rebel Legion. The site had tons of plans and tutorials about droid building. Too bad they aren't keeping the old site up in the interim...sigh.
He's in a "safe district." It always votes Democratic. He was elected with an 80% majority last time around. There has never been a credible challenge to him, whether Democratic, Republican or third party.
I oughta know. I live in his district.
I'd challenge the bastard in the primary but I don't have the money to do it.
Then again, Cracked has always been the lamer's answer to Mad. Even though both have deteriorated considerably, they have diminished in stature in proportion to one another.
Oh, but it's SOOOOO funny! I'm a Blade Runner fan and I thought that was hilarious.
"I want more life, father" was the line as it was shown in test marketing. It also appears in the notorious "70mm Workprint" version, aka "The Nuart Version" which will finally be available to the public on Disk 5 of the uber leet briefcase version. "I want more life, fucker" is my preference. But Ridley Scott made the call on this one. He believes the scene hangs together better when the whole religious/father-son aspect of the scene remains intact. It was not a bowdlerization. The cut made for TV has Batty saying "I want more life."
This was an artistic decision. Not a bid for a reconsideration of the MPAA rating. The theatrical release is still considered a hard-R, 25 years later.
The newest release of the Original Trilogy has the Laserdisc (Letterboxed, non-anamorphic) version of the last pre-SE release of each film, in more or less theatrical versions. It's on the bonus disc. Yes, Han shoots first. No, there is no CGI Jabba getting his tail stepped on by Han. It's the movie as I remember it from my childhood, and I love it. You even get the Yub Yub song at the end of Return of the Jedi. You have to take the good with the bad.
If Lucas did what Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner: The Final Cut, he would have just cleaned some of the FX shots up to get rid of wires and matte lines, scanned each frame at 4K lines of resolution per frame and FX shots at 8K of resolution, and tidied up some edits. Instead, Lucas puked CGI garbage all over the Original Trilogy to make it harmonize better with things he had in mind for the Prequels. Ridley Scott did this out of respect for his film and for his fans. Lucas tagged all over his film for one thing only: the Benjamins.
And yes, Benjamins in this case also means Benjamin Q. Public, age 8.
There was one good line in that freaking voiceover. Just one. Here it is:
Sushi. That's what my ex-wife called me. Cold fish.
There is another voiceover, however, and you will become acquainted with it in a whole movie's worth of deleted scenes. It's not bad.
Here, let me link you to something on YouTube:
Alternate version of Batty's death scene.
I still am a partisan against voiceovers in Blade Runner. But that's one beautiful rejoinder from Deckard to Batty's classic soliloquy. And dig what Gaff says at the end.
There are going to be some pretty spectacular fan-edits out there once this is out. It might wind up being that people can choose the edit of Blade Runner they prefer.
I am awaiting my 5 disk set breathlessly.
If the Producers continue to drag out the Writer's Guild strike, you might just get your wish. After American Idol finishes its run, of course.
Oh, so you worked on the project.
Can Sage do everything SPSS can do? If so, I am SO there.
And 6.) You've been Slashdotted. I'd love to see your research, but I can't get to it.
Oh well, have a nice day.
Watching cute bunnies and teddy bears has the same exact effect.
Well then, I suppose you've never seen the Happy Tree Friends, then.
This is the secret to why immigrant Asian children have been outperforming Anglo children in school. The idea that hard work = good results is something very ingrained in cultures influenced by Confucianism. You work hard to get good grades to please your parents, and the Ancestors. If it takes burning midnight oil, if it takes going to cram school, whatever it takes, you do it. And if you fail, you do it again and again until you succeed.
Once these families get a dose of the self esteem ueber alles school of child rearing in the US, they tend to regress towards Anglo means after the second or third generation Asian-American children.
It's all about self-efficacy and internal locus of control. Self-esteem is about "I'm a worthwhile person because I'm me." Self-efficacy is more like "With enough effort, I can do anything I can set my mind to." A person with an internal locus of control blames "not enough practice" or "I didn't study like I should have" for failing a test. A person with an external locus of control thinks "I failed the test because I'm stupid" or "I failed the test because my teacher has it in for me."
Self-esteem, self-efficacy and locus of control are part of a bigger entity called one's self-concept. The individual parts that make up self-concept tend to get conflated, particularly in the case of those whose knowledge of psychology does not go beyond Psych 101 or High School psych courses. However, studies have shown that these are separate aspects of self-concept which can be experimentally manipulated and scientifically quantified.
Legitimate mastery experiences do far more to improve self-efficacy, and in turn, improve self-concept, than all the unearned praise you can lavish on someone. It is worth noting that Nathaniel Branden never published any peer-reviewed research on any of his ideas, and that most of them came from his guru Ayn Rand, who never took a psych course in her life, much less a philosophy course. Branden did receive a BA and an MA from accredited schools of psychology, although his doctorate came from a questionable, non-accredited source.
1.) Back your Mac up before applying updates. Also run Disk Utility from the DVD and check the HD, and run Disk Utility from the HD and check your permissions, repairing if necessary.
2.) Never apply a point upgrade through Software Update. Download the combo updater and do the update separately.
3.) VMWare Fusion is your friend. Friends don't let friends dual-boot.
Actually it was the Clone Wars shorts that made me a fan again. Lucas basically kept his hands off, and allowed talented people like Genndy Tartakovsky and Paul Rudish to run the show. They brought the fun back. The problem with Episode I and Episode II was simple: they were no fun.
Episode III was redeemed by the fact that Lucas seemed to pay attention to some of the things Genndy and Paul were doing. There were still plenty of moments to wince at, but the good outweighed the bad. There was some legitimate fun in Episode III. Can't say that about the other two prequels.
Threepio and Artoo were intended to be the witnesses to the entire saga from the very beginning. As 'droids, they are basically immortal, so long as someone keeps replacing worn out parts. So, who else to take notes?
The Whills, the mysterious entities whose journal is the "source document" for the Star Wars saga, get the story from Artoo, according to some accounts of Lucas' original ideas.
They were inspired by the two bickering peasants in The Hidden Fortress, the Kurosawa chambara movie which inspired the original Star Wars movie.
over insecure connections (no https)
Wrong!
Google Docs and Gmail both use HTTPS if you force it to. The easiest way to do so is use the Firefox plugin CustomizeGoogle. Hard way is to remember to type https:/// links to Gmail and Google Docs. Either way, you are golden.
Wow. It took 80 some-odd posts before someone made an Evangelion reference.
And a constant temperature of 98.6F would not be a great environment for servers.
My MacBook is the finest computer I've ever had. Ever. And it's a 2nd gen MacBook with the Core 2 Duo rather than Core Duo chip, so it actually can go on your lap in a pinch without giving your lap 3rd Degree Burns.
It's a year old and the battery life still kicks -- 3 hours at least. Gotta love it.
And this is the second time young Spock meets older Spock. Then again, whether the meeting was "canon" or not depends on your views on how canonical Star Trek: The Animated Series was.
Asus is the OEM for the MacBook. Would Apple screw over their supplier for their most lucrative product over a leak? Stay tuned...this could get gnarly.
You don't need to install the Logitech drivers to make your Logitech mouse work. The Marble Mouse is my pointing device of choice, and I have NEVER installed their drivers. Right click works, trackball scroll works, and that's with Mac OS X internal support. So the stupid little internal buttons don't work. BFD. I don't miss them.
"I'm a dinosaur...Somebody's been diggin' my bones..."