WEll, having owned an electric vehicle, I thought they were going to talk about the best and worst *types* of places to drive them i.e. highways vs city - short hops vs loong trips,.. Of course chargers are now more common, and mine being a bike was able to plug into house current.. but when you're stuck out in the middle of the highway there's not a lot of outlets available, tho..
Well, they could have saved a lot of money simply by having the effects studio make the image of the distant galaxy get smaller the closer you get.. too boring?
Or take it up with whatever alien species thought it was such a good idea to bioengineer humans by using Chimpanzee DNA as starter material. Chimps are miserable violent species that'll just as readily kill you and eat you raw, than befriend you. And, as seems likely, they added alien dna to chimp's, we lost all the natural bacterial and viral resistance, and physical strength inherent in terran species, in order to develop attributes suitable for interplanetary travel. And then they leave us earthbound. Great..
Sorry about the spooling arrears. Eye is bline. No, seriously, I have a progressive co-oedination issue. It makes it really hard to both type and spell at any rate faster than 15 cpm. Getting old sux.
We were always further down that path than America ever was. For most of our history we have noy even had a constitutionand our bill of "rights" laughably put, was written in the 1700s by the British, who we of course know care so vewry much about privacy and rights themselves, and kings in the 1700 even less so...Any PM could invoke martial law at any time for any reason throughout our history as Trudeau did in 1970 and we all did during the world wars, doing to the *canadian born* Japanese precisely what the Nazis did to the Jews. Only difference is we didn't gas them after stealing all their money and property, and then placing them in ghettos, just deported them after stealing all their money and property, and then placing them in ghettos.I grew up in a Canadian border citynext to some of the highest black concentrations in America, yet I never even saw a single African or JAmaican born or even Canadian born Black person for the first 20 years of my life. Apparently the human rights violations were so incredibly severe and obnoxious here that they actually were all "run out of town". A feat even the KKK was unable to accomplish in the south. We have had terrible police abuses here, right up until today, where we are still in the national news for corrupt or even perverted cops using their badges to get drugs sex and other favors. Rights here mean nothing. The ONLY advantage here has been internet freedom, freedom from some of the more heavy handed DMCA type scams by the majors, until Harper caved in and gave them even more than they asked for. A massive citizens protest consisting of MILLIONS of people didn't even get into the NEWS, owned as it is by only a couple of orgganizations. Same with all our broadcasting. A couple of controllers. Three ISPs, each with their own guaranteed territory to preventy ompetition. No waay to hold any elected official accountable. Hell, they can have an alcohol fuelled accident across the border, and even if they hold one of the top 20 jobs, all they have to do is say "I'm sorry I won't do it again" and no more is said about it.. If anyone dares complain they find their funding withdrawn. Can't be sure that's why the same gov't put M.A.D.D. out of theur officves the next year after. Just coincidence. right? No, friends, we already have a strong history here. no neew to follow after America's example. Only Grear Britain could possibly, in msny ways, equal, and even surpass us, since, after all, they were our source of inspiration as to how to defeat these peculiar thinking settlers in the new world.. Against King and Country and "individual" civil libertes? Migod.It's not even..well, rather.. er.. done. One shouldn't contemplate such things.. Rather a good snifter of triple aged Brandy, and reflections on Good King John's legacy;-)
Silly willy.. it's obvious. We let the gov't use their spy sattelites, confirmed bu several gov't funded telescopes and other surveillance devices, io then supply us with guaranteed legitimate evidence that a real invasion is occurring. If we have any doubt we can always seek the unbiased opinion of anyone at NASA or other heavily militarily funded organizations to give us the truth.
It's not just the alcohol. It's the Pubs. The lowering of inhibitions. The wine associations and brewer's organizations, In fact, all the things that are known to extend life expectancy. for just sttart
You have your facts right? Perhaps in Slovenia and parts of Turkey the access was bad, but Europe was always at least staying with the curve. Same with Canada, except we were first to have nationwide cable. Because the infrastructure was already in place. We had cable TV by the mid 70s everywhere. The last people I ever heard complain about crappy dial-up were Americans..
All jokes aside, maturation of this technique has huge ramifications for the treatment of diseases that are fundamentally due to misfolded proteins. Prion diseases, frightening as they are, might finally have a cure. I would dare say related disorders that involve plaque deposits such as Alzheimer's might also benefit from possible therapeutics.
And the ultra wealthy have a new way to reverse aging so they can stay young and stupid forever..
The wheel is set back from where the buttons traditionally are, so they sit directly under the first finger joint, and clicking a wheel also requires a great deal more force applied than a mouse button -understandably, since otherwise scrolling would be near impossible. I personally am happy with one, but I've noticed most, if not all, of the responses here have been in the order of "why do you need it anyways?" What's wrong with just helping the guy out? He wants a 3 button mouse, so help him find one. Sadly, I'm pretty sure that since they haven't made them for years, they probably don't make them with laser tracking.
I don't see what kind of "dirty" secret it is. Those same types of audiophiles work for every supercar manufacturer including Ferrari, Koenigsegg, McLaren etc, which ALL have an extensive amount of tweaking to get the "right" sound out of the engine, including every trick in the book...
Why did you sign a contract with a studio if you don't like the terms?
Er.. Need work? Like everybody else that aren't "big stars" we have to accept what we get, unless it's our own project, and are hardly in any position to negotiate royalties!
I'd like to add that nowhere was any hint that they'd be reissuing this stuff on dvd comps or streaming in the future. There was no real internet when I was involved in the film biz. The music unions, OTOH, have much better terms for reissues, and we even got a cut every year , even the most lowly of us, from the collected tape and CD surcharges.. If you wonder where it went, that's where, it was to poor and rich musicians alike , according to how much they worked.. NOT how much they earned. The fairest surchage in the world.
Why did you sign a contract with a studio if you don't like the terms?
Er.. Need work? Like everybody else that aren't "big stars" we have to accept what we get, unless it's our own project, and are hardly in any position to negotiate royalties!
As opposed to Steve Jobs, who was not an MBA, but a dreamer. But with money. Nothing is going to upset the apple cart (pun intended) as fast as a dreamer with money, and the success of the Apple 2 made it possible. They nearly lost it all , too, with the Lisa.. but that experience and UI design went to good use with the Mac.
As far as John Sculley.. ("d'ya want to make sugar water all the rest of your life?") Steve did admit "what can I say, I made a mistake"..but despite Sculley's disastrous leadership, IMHO, no, had he not gotten turfed we'd have had no "Next", therefore no OSX, and no post 1998 Apple rebound. And had he not returned, we'd probably had the return of Jean Luis Gassee, one of the the Sculley era Apple contemporaries (He was CEO of Apple France) who, along with Spindler, were mainly responsible for Apple's slide into the bargain bins of the department stores. And, not content with nearly running BeOS into the ground, he would have returned to Apple and done the same thing to it. I'm not saying that the Be OS wouldn't have been a wonderful basis for the new Apple Operating system. For several years I was a diehard devotee of Be (well, less than 2 years, actually, as it died hard and suddenly) With BeOS underpinnings, however, there's no question MacOS would have retained the "friendly" aura it always had with the classic desktop, and in all probability would even look the same, and even run the same apps but with more stability.. kind of like what A/UX promised but never really delivered. Actually, it makes me now wonder if Haiku has reached the practical daily user stage for an OS. Naw.. probably still not... Now if it can go a couple of weeks without my rebooting into MS or Apple.. or linux.. well..."that'll be the day. that I say good-bye";-)
I have been "whining" about precisely the same thing for several years now.. at least as far as the desktop software, in particular, the OS, is concerned. The "rot" started setting in around the time Steve Jobs got seriously ill, (Snow Leopard) and got really bad under Tim Cook. I simply cannot get around , efficiently, such a cumbersome OS.. EVERYTHING seems to need workarounds now, and it hampers my workflow. OTOH, I found Windows 7 to be a breeze to use, and for a diehard Macophile to say that (I've been using macs for 14 years) is worrisome. I don't know about Win8, nor do I want to, but perhaps Windows 9 is like 7. I'm not ready to switch though, because I still am using Snow Leopard as my maiin OS, which is the last one to support my years of investments in applications, many of which have not been upgraded by the developer as the constant changes by Apple were too hard to keep up with, so they folded. If pressed perhaps I'll switch to another unix-y like OS.. which would need to be Linux as there aren't a lot of consumer apps for QNX;-(
Oh, and I never could figure out why the birds kept flying into my trailer a couple of months out of the year.. it also happens to be when the blackberries are overripe. Hmmm...
Ooh, and what about tibetan "Crazy honey"? The birds will fight for a bite.. and the monkeys are really adept at finding it, even to the point of getting repeatedly stung. Of course monkeys are the biggest dope and boozers in the jungle, besides elephants... Perhaps the bigger the braincase, the more the need for it?
cool. then boycott copyrighted works and advocate for changing the law. don't steal. is that what you want to teach your kids?
YOU are missing the point in a big way. *I* am one of those people that the studios have been stealing from, and I can tell you, I don't like it. How is it that these people can suddenly milk my work, for big bucks, and yet claim that I do not deserve a cent off of it? And you expect me to enthusiastically support copyright laws that don't give a fuck about one of the original creators?
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WEll, having owned an electric vehicle, I thought they were going to talk about the best and worst *types* of places to drive them i.e. highways vs city - short hops vs loong trips,.. Of course chargers are now more common, and mine being a bike was able to plug into house current.. but when you're stuck out in the middle of the highway there's not a lot of outlets available, tho..
Well, they could have saved a lot of money simply by having the effects studio make the image of the distant galaxy get smaller the closer you get.. too boring?
Or take it up with whatever alien species thought it was such a good idea to bioengineer humans by using Chimpanzee DNA as starter material. Chimps are miserable violent species that'll just as readily kill you and eat you raw, than befriend you. And, as seems likely, they added alien dna to chimp's, we lost all the natural bacterial and viral resistance, and physical strength inherent in terran species, in order to develop attributes suitable for interplanetary travel. And then they leave us earthbound. Great..
Sorry about the spooling arrears. Eye is bline. No, seriously, I have a progressive co-oedination issue. It makes it really hard to both type and spell at any rate faster than 15 cpm. Getting old sux.
We were always further down that path than America ever was. For most of our history we have noy even had a constitutionand our bill of "rights" laughably put, was written in the 1700s by the British, who we of course know care so vewry much about privacy and rights themselves, and kings in the 1700 even less so...Any PM could invoke martial law at any time for any reason throughout our history as Trudeau did in 1970 and we all did during the world wars, doing to the *canadian born* Japanese precisely what the Nazis did to the Jews. Only difference is we didn't gas them after stealing all their money and property, and then placing them in ghettos, just deported them after stealing all their money and property, and then placing them in ghettos.I grew up in a Canadian border citynext to some of the highest black concentrations in America, yet I never even saw a single African or JAmaican born or even Canadian born Black person for the first 20 years of my life. Apparently the human rights violations were so incredibly severe and obnoxious here that they actually were all "run out of town". A feat even the KKK was unable to accomplish in the south. We have had terrible police abuses here, right up until today, where we are still in the national news for corrupt or even perverted cops using their badges to get drugs sex and other favors. Rights here mean nothing. The ONLY advantage here has been internet freedom, freedom from some of the more heavy handed DMCA type scams by the majors, until Harper caved in and gave them even more than they asked for. A massive citizens protest consisting of MILLIONS of people didn't even get into the NEWS, owned as it is by only a couple of orgganizations. Same with all our broadcasting. A couple of controllers. Three ISPs, each with their own guaranteed territory to preventy ompetition. No waay to hold any elected official accountable. Hell, they can have an alcohol fuelled accident across the border, and even if they hold one of the top 20 jobs, all they have to do is say "I'm sorry I won't do it again" and no more is said about it.. If anyone dares complain they find their funding withdrawn. Can't be sure that's why the same gov't put M.A.D.D. out of theur officves the next year after. Just coincidence. right? No, friends, we already have a strong history here. no neew to follow after America's example. Only Grear Britain could possibly, in msny ways, equal, and even surpass us, since, after all, they were our source of inspiration as to how to defeat these peculiar thinking settlers in the new world.. Against King and Country and "individual" civil libertes? Migod.It's not even..well, rather.. er.. done. One shouldn't contemplate such things.. Rather a good snifter of triple aged Brandy, and reflections on Good King John's legacy ;-)
Silly willy.. it's obvious. We let the gov't use their spy sattelites, confirmed bu several gov't funded telescopes and other surveillance devices, io then supply us with guaranteed legitimate evidence that a real invasion is occurring. If we have any doubt we can always seek the unbiased opinion of anyone at NASA or other heavily militarily funded organizations to give us the truth.
It's not just the alcohol. It's the Pubs. The lowering of inhibitions. The wine associations and brewer's organizations, In fact, all the things that are known to extend life expectancy. for just sttart
Mobile broadband is much easier for the spooks to tap into. Probably why.
You have your facts right? Perhaps in Slovenia and parts of Turkey the access was bad, but Europe was always at least staying with the curve. Same with Canada, except we were first to have nationwide cable. Because the infrastructure was already in place. We had cable TV by the mid 70s everywhere. The last people I ever heard complain about crappy dial-up were Americans..
All jokes aside, maturation of this technique has huge ramifications for the treatment of diseases that are fundamentally due to misfolded proteins. Prion diseases, frightening as they are, might finally have a cure. I would dare say related disorders that involve plaque deposits such as Alzheimer's might also benefit from possible therapeutics.
And the ultra wealthy have a new way to reverse aging so they can stay young and stupid forever..
Why is 8GB overkill? I put at least 16 in anything I have control over.
Indeed. Can you really have *too much* RAM? Seriously?
Why not Meece?
The wheel is set back from where the buttons traditionally are, so they sit directly under the first finger joint, and clicking a wheel also requires a great deal more force applied than a mouse button -understandably, since otherwise scrolling would be near impossible. I personally am happy with one, but I've noticed most, if not all, of the responses here have been in the order of "why do you need it anyways?" What's wrong with just helping the guy out? He wants a 3 button mouse, so help him find one. Sadly, I'm pretty sure that since they haven't made them for years, they probably don't make them with laser tracking.
I don't see what kind of "dirty" secret it is. Those same types of audiophiles work for every supercar manufacturer including Ferrari, Koenigsegg, McLaren etc, which ALL have an extensive amount of tweaking to get the "right" sound out of the engine, including every trick in the book...
I thought it said "Steampunk" broadcasting... ;-(
Why did you sign a contract with a studio if you don't like the terms?
Er.. Need work? Like everybody else that aren't "big stars" we have to accept what we get, unless it's our own project, and are hardly in any position to negotiate royalties!
I'd like to add that nowhere was any hint that they'd be reissuing this stuff on dvd comps or streaming in the future. There was no real internet when I was involved in the film biz. The music unions, OTOH, have much better terms for reissues, and we even got a cut every year , even the most lowly of us, from the collected tape and CD surcharges.. If you wonder where it went, that's where, it was to poor and rich musicians alike , according to how much they worked.. NOT how much they earned. The fairest surchage in the world.
Why did you sign a contract with a studio if you don't like the terms?
Er.. Need work? Like everybody else that aren't "big stars" we have to accept what we get, unless it's our own project, and are hardly in any position to negotiate royalties!
Betcha he's turned the speaker volume waay down..
As opposed to Steve Jobs, who was not an MBA, but a dreamer. But with money. Nothing is going to upset the apple cart (pun intended) as fast as a dreamer with money, and the success of the Apple 2 made it possible. They nearly lost it all , too, with the Lisa.. but that experience and UI design went to good use with the Mac. As far as John Sculley.. ("d'ya want to make sugar water all the rest of your life?") Steve did admit "what can I say, I made a mistake"..but despite Sculley's disastrous leadership, IMHO, no, had he not gotten turfed we'd have had no "Next", therefore no OSX, and no post 1998 Apple rebound. And had he not returned, we'd probably had the return of Jean Luis Gassee, one of the the Sculley era Apple contemporaries (He was CEO of Apple France) who, along with Spindler, were mainly responsible for Apple's slide into the bargain bins of the department stores. And, not content with nearly running BeOS into the ground, he would have returned to Apple and done the same thing to it. I'm not saying that the Be OS wouldn't have been a wonderful basis for the new Apple Operating system. For several years I was a diehard devotee of Be (well, less than 2 years, actually, as it died hard and suddenly) With BeOS underpinnings, however, there's no question MacOS would have retained the "friendly" aura it always had with the classic desktop, and in all probability would even look the same, and even run the same apps but with more stability.. kind of like what A/UX promised but never really delivered. Actually, it makes me now wonder if Haiku has reached the practical daily user stage for an OS. Naw.. probably still not... Now if it can go a couple of weeks without my rebooting into MS or Apple.. or linux.. well..."that'll be the day. that I say good-bye" ;-)
I have been "whining" about precisely the same thing for several years now.. at least as far as the desktop software, in particular, the OS, is concerned. The "rot" started setting in around the time Steve Jobs got seriously ill, (Snow Leopard) and got really bad under Tim Cook. I simply cannot get around , efficiently, such a cumbersome OS.. EVERYTHING seems to need workarounds now, and it hampers my workflow. OTOH, I found Windows 7 to be a breeze to use, and for a diehard Macophile to say that (I've been using macs for 14 years) is worrisome. I don't know about Win8, nor do I want to, but perhaps Windows 9 is like 7. I'm not ready to switch though, because I still am using Snow Leopard as my maiin OS, which is the last one to support my years of investments in applications, many of which have not been upgraded by the developer as the constant changes by Apple were too hard to keep up with, so they folded. If pressed perhaps I'll switch to another unix-y like OS.. which would need to be Linux as there aren't a lot of consumer apps for QNX ;-(
Oh, and I never could figure out why the birds kept flying into my trailer a couple of months out of the year.. it also happens to be when the blackberries are overripe. Hmmm...
You mean a real "strawberry tree"? What are the fruits like? Good?
Ooh, and what about tibetan "Crazy honey"? The birds will fight for a bite.. and the monkeys are really adept at finding it, even to the point of getting repeatedly stung. Of course monkeys are the biggest dope and boozers in the jungle, besides elephants... Perhaps the bigger the braincase, the more the need for it?
"Low alcohol" fermented fruit? Musta not ever been in the jungle. Within a couple of really hot days it reaches 15 % w.v..
cool. then boycott copyrighted works and advocate for changing the law. don't steal. is that what you want to teach your kids?
YOU are missing the point in a big way. *I* am one of those people that the studios have been stealing from, and I can tell you, I don't like it. How is it that these people can suddenly milk my work, for big bucks, and yet claim that I do not deserve a cent off of it? And you expect me to enthusiastically support copyright laws that don't give a fuck about one of the original creators?