They gave Dollhouse another season because although the people watching the show live were pretty low, the number of people watching the show on DVR, iTunes, and Hulu were big and kept growing. More importantly, Joss convinced them that he could do the show for less money, and had an episode that he'd basically put together for free to seal the deal.
Everyone says it's because Firefly turned out to be huge after the fact, but I doubt that would have swung the guys at Fox if they weren't able to see a real increase in the bottom line.
In Boston, if you were living car-free but needed to take frequent trips outside of T range, you'd be signing up for Zipcar. Costs less than a rental over time, and you're not paying for fuel. Total would be probably about 3k over a year rather than 7.8k.
The amount you pay in state and federal taxes isn't going to change based on which commuting option you take. So, they're treating it as a sunk cost in that comparison, which seems reasonable.
Your point about the cost of owning and maintaining the car would be a better one, but if I recall correctly, Google's cost values are based on allowable tax deductions (and as such are probably already on the low side).
I considered that as well when I was looking at the new shuffle specs. Unfortunately, a "short dongle", by its nature, forces the controls to be near the player body. If you're going to force that aspect of the design, you might as well put the controls on the player itself.
Apple clearly thought that the controls needed to be higher up on the body, closer to the user's head, and let that drive several decisions you disagree with.
The DOW was up 4000 pts from swearing in to when it was evident that Obama was going to win.
Not sure how you come up with those figures. A quick check of the Dow on January 19, 2001 shows that it closed at 10,587. The Dow's never been 4000 points higher than that -- the high point was October 2007. I'd venture you didn't think it was evident that Obama was going to win back then.
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Hopkins won because he was up against four lackluster performances, during a year when he was getting attention for two different films, and capping a 20-year career for which he'd often been praised but never been nominated. Plus, he managed to own a film for which he appeared in only 16 minutes of screen time.
Ledger's been nominated before, and as I said in an earlier comment, this is the wrong kind of film, the wrong kind of part, and the wrong time of year for a win. I think he'll get a nom out of sympathy, but there's gonna have to be a lot of crap this fall for him to actually win it.
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He is very good. As others have mentioned, he disappears completely into the role.
That said: no, I really doubt he's going to get an Oscar for this. It's the wrong kind of movie, the wrong kind of role, and it's coming out at the wrong time of year for that award. He might get a sympathy nomination, but the only way he'll win is if the supporting actor category during the fall and winter is surprisingly dead.
Hard for them to get in touch? You click on the "Street View Help" link on the street view, and there's a link right there for "Report inappropriate image". From there, you can click on the box that says "this image infringes on my privacy".
Perhaps, although since the lawsuit makes no mention of there being a "No Trespass" sign (even in the section that mentions laws of Trespass), I suspect there is no such sign, obscured by foliage or not.
And yet, I can take the PostgreSQL code, create some new extensions under the GPL, and then license the result as a GPL work. So, um, how again is the BSD license less free than GPL, if I can create a GPL'd work from it?
MIT lesson #1: Do not ever -- EVER -- let someone tell you that something is impossible. Always investigate for yourself first.
Note that MIT has just revised its financial aid policies, to allow for more financial aid and lower tuition costs for students whose families earn less money. So, ignore your mom and call them anyway. Even if you can't afford it, you should know what your target is if you're going to be approaching organizations and asking for scholarships.
And really, just apply anyway -- to a lot of different schools. Explain the situation as well as you can in a letter about your income sources. If and when you get in, see how much the different schools' aid packages are -- sometimes the schools with large endowments can surprise you.
The bars I see on the page, and the ones in the PDF file, correspond precisely to the numbers they show. I've confirmed this by building the graph in a separate spreadsheet and comparing them side-by-side.
What are you talking about? Assuming you're talking about the PDF on that page (since that's the only place I can find an IE bar), here's a little test for you. Go into your favorite spreadsheet. Type in all those numbers. Generate a graph. Compare it to the graph in the PDF.
For me, they look the same.
(And the difference between Firefox and Opera was 2.3 seconds, not 1.0. If you meant Firefox and IE, the difference was 0.4 seconds, not 1.0.)
Note that that story is talking about the fact that IE8 wasn't going to pass Acid2 out of the box, because IE8 was talking about requiring an extra document tag for standards compliance (which the Acid2 page wouldn't be adding). Since *this* story is talking about IE8 removing that requirement, the previous story is now moot.
People treat Overrated and Underrated as a form of meta-moderation; it's a reflection more on the moderation thus far than your comment. Here, it's probably someone saying that whoever modded your post "Insightful" when it provided no insight was being silly.
The concourse is where you have the space to perform the seating in parallel without squeezing everyone into a narrow aisle. Hence, the problem is far more tractable there.
Yeah? And who would you serve that order on, since Wikileaks won't tell you who their lawyer is or how/where to serve them?
Wikileaks' response made perfect sense to me -- effectively, they said that they're a multi-national organization (note the presence of the domain name in.be,.uk,.au,.cn, and.in, to name a few), so they need to know which URL was a problem in order to give you the contact info for the appropriate legal organization. BJB never responded. I'd call that acting without good faith.
The terms of the original gulf war cease fire agreement required him to do so.
No, it didn't. The terms of the cease-fire say that Iraq needed to come clean about its WMD activities, and places economic restrictions until such time. It did not say that the US could or should go in guns a-blazing unilaterally. Really. Read it for yourself.
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They gave Dollhouse another season because although the people watching the show live were pretty low, the number of people watching the show on DVR, iTunes, and Hulu were big and kept growing. More importantly, Joss convinced them that he could do the show for less money, and had an episode that he'd basically put together for free to seal the deal.
Everyone says it's because Firefly turned out to be huge after the fact, but I doubt that would have swung the guys at Fox if they weren't able to see a real increase in the bottom line.
In Boston, if you were living car-free but needed to take frequent trips outside of T range, you'd be signing up for Zipcar. Costs less than a rental over time, and you're not paying for fuel. Total would be probably about 3k over a year rather than 7.8k.
The amount you pay in state and federal taxes isn't going to change based on which commuting option you take. So, they're treating it as a sunk cost in that comparison, which seems reasonable.
Your point about the cost of owning and maintaining the car would be a better one, but if I recall correctly, Google's cost values are based on allowable tax deductions (and as such are probably already on the low side).
Geez, man, your first version was fine. If it ain't broke...
Of course, since he actually raved about the movie, that kind of blows your entire argument out of the water, doesn't it?
I considered that as well when I was looking at the new shuffle specs. Unfortunately, a "short dongle", by its nature, forces the controls to be near the player body. If you're going to force that aspect of the design, you might as well put the controls on the player itself.
Apple clearly thought that the controls needed to be higher up on the body, closer to the user's head, and let that drive several decisions you disagree with.
Not to mention the anthrax attacks in Sep-Nov 2001, the Beltway Sniper, the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, the Unabomber, etc. etc.
To say we've only had one terrorist attack in the US requires a surprisingly limited definition of terrorism.
The DOW was up 4000 pts from swearing in to when it was evident that Obama was going to win.
Not sure how you come up with those figures. A quick check of the Dow on January 19, 2001 shows that it closed at 10,587. The Dow's never been 4000 points higher than that -- the high point was October 2007. I'd venture you didn't think it was evident that Obama was going to win back then.
Hopkins won because he was up against four lackluster performances, during a year when he was getting attention for two different films, and capping a 20-year career for which he'd often been praised but never been nominated. Plus, he managed to own a film for which he appeared in only 16 minutes of screen time.
Ledger's been nominated before, and as I said in an earlier comment, this is the wrong kind of film, the wrong kind of part, and the wrong time of year for a win. I think he'll get a nom out of sympathy, but there's gonna have to be a lot of crap this fall for him to actually win it.
He is very good. As others have mentioned, he disappears completely into the role.
That said: no, I really doubt he's going to get an Oscar for this. It's the wrong kind of movie, the wrong kind of role, and it's coming out at the wrong time of year for that award. He might get a sympathy nomination, but the only way he'll win is if the supporting actor category during the fall and winter is surprisingly dead.
Then you have grounds for a suit. But if you're not even going to exercise the due diligence to go that far? Sorry, I have no sympathy.
Hard for them to get in touch? You click on the "Street View Help" link on the street view, and there's a link right there for "Report inappropriate image". From there, you can click on the box that says "this image infringes on my privacy".
Three clicks, and no need for a lawsuit.
Perhaps, although since the lawsuit makes no mention of there being a "No Trespass" sign (even in the section that mentions laws of Trespass), I suspect there is no such sign, obscured by foliage or not.
And yet, I can take the PostgreSQL code, create some new extensions under the GPL, and then license the result as a GPL work. So, um, how again is the BSD license less free than GPL, if I can create a GPL'd work from it?
MIT lesson #1: Do not ever -- EVER -- let someone tell you that something is impossible. Always investigate for yourself first.
Note that MIT has just revised its financial aid policies, to allow for more financial aid and lower tuition costs for students whose families earn less money. So, ignore your mom and call them anyway. Even if you can't afford it, you should know what your target is if you're going to be approaching organizations and asking for scholarships.
And really, just apply anyway -- to a lot of different schools. Explain the situation as well as you can in a letter about your income sources. If and when you get in, see how much the different schools' aid packages are -- sometimes the schools with large endowments can surprise you.
The bars I see on the page, and the ones in the PDF file, correspond precisely to the numbers they show. I've confirmed this by building the graph in a separate spreadsheet and comparing them side-by-side.
Perhaps your eyes are playing tricks on you.
What are you talking about? Assuming you're talking about the PDF on that page (since that's the only place I can find an IE bar), here's a little test for you. Go into your favorite spreadsheet. Type in all those numbers. Generate a graph. Compare it to the graph in the PDF.
For me, they look the same.
(And the difference between Firefox and Opera was 2.3 seconds, not 1.0. If you meant Firefox and IE, the difference was 0.4 seconds, not 1.0.)
Note that that story is talking about the fact that IE8 wasn't going to pass Acid2 out of the box, because IE8 was talking about requiring an extra document tag for standards compliance (which the Acid2 page wouldn't be adding). Since *this* story is talking about IE8 removing that requirement, the previous story is now moot.
People treat Overrated and Underrated as a form of meta-moderation; it's a reflection more on the moderation thus far than your comment. Here, it's probably someone saying that whoever modded your post "Insightful" when it provided no insight was being silly.
The concourse is where you have the space to perform the seating in parallel without squeezing everyone into a narrow aisle. Hence, the problem is far more tractable there.
Wikileaks' response made perfect sense to me -- effectively, they said that they're a multi-national organization (note the presence of the domain name in
No, it didn't. The terms of the cease-fire say that Iraq needed to come clean about its WMD activities, and places economic restrictions until such time. It did not say that the US could or should go in guns a-blazing unilaterally. Really. Read it for yourself.
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Possibly because other operating system manufacturers actually do improve the speed of the OS on the same hardware from release to release?
It is possible to use the lessons learned from how the previous version is used and leverage that into speed improvements in the new system.