I think not, I have heard a lot of people make comparisons oh Star Wars to Authurian legend or Greek Mythos, but both of those genera have plenty of derivative work. All Lucas is doing by only allowing documentary or parody is basically making sure that Star Wars won't live on for any where near as long as King Arthur and his court or Homer and his great Odyssey.
135 billion really isn't that huge an amount of money when you consider, for example, what the US spends on cosmetics a year (something like 10-20 billion a year). So if woman just went without makeup for 10 years, we could have free unlimited power. Suffice to say over the long haul 135 billion is a drop in the bucket. The problem is getting someone to take responsiblity for the short term cost, but seeing as terms in office are 2-4 years it is probably too much to ask;)
Anything named the "Patriot Act" has to be bad for you. I personally am frightened everytime I hear the term "Homeland Security" reminds me too much of being in Nazi Germany, or Oceania.
Here is a link with a little more info, I personally don't think cabbage flavored ramen and weightlessness would really go together, but I am not Japanese. http://www.space.com/news/space_ram_020415.html
Personally I use my Sprint phone and get pretty damn good service, sure I get the occasional dropped call but overall the service is pretty much no worse then local service from GTE/Verizon, and you can't beat the price for LD. Though on the negative side I spend a lot of time irradiating my brain, no telling what that does to my memory.
This is somewhat off topic, but my question is what does your site www.seiu.org actually stand behind? Is there a page that clearly states your objectives? I see "current events", "get involved", "working family issues", but nothing that really states what your guys want and where you guys are going. This is only one/.'s opinion, but it seems a little more time spent on your message and content might be worth more time then prettying/messing it up with Flash.
I would be careful buying Flash on Ebay, there are a lot of people selling pirate versions as full blown, educational as full blown, etc etc.
Flash is ok for a small percentage of stuff, but with a little more effort most people could write their Flash apps in something Open/Free (as in beer).
The problem with the educational version of Macromedia's Flash and Shockwave is it pastes a "This is an education product" tag on everything you create. Granted you could hack that out, but I don't think doing so is exactly legal.
Have you ever actually used Lingo? It is a "natural english" programming language, and to anyone who has programmed "for real" it is a total nightmare. I would suggest you use some other method to conviegh you information, while Flash is pretty and all it is a quite honestly schlock. Maybe a little more info on what, how, and to whom you want to get information too, so we can better advise you.
I NEVER read my Bulk Mail folder (since it is ALL spam), so I missed this message from Yahoo on the privacy change. Going into my Bulk Mail folder now I see it. Sorta of a backhanded tactic though, to put the message somewhere no one will read it.
I had the same thing, was selling an old Sun monitor on Ebay, nice 21 inch color job with the little remote control. Well I posted it as a 21 inch monitor for a Sun workstation, including that it had a 13w3 connector and had the remote, and included a picture of the monitor with a closeup of the connector. Well some guy buys it, I ship it (cost like 50 bucks UPS, cause the damn thing wieghed 80 lbs). Well a week later I get a call cause it doesn't work with his PC, so I just told the guy hey, I told you it was for a Sun Workstation, you said you had one. He went off, about how I was scamming him, blah blah blah. I basically told the guy to F*** off and if he left negative feedback I would sue him for slander. Never heard from the dude again. My take on complaints is that most people are just morons and I bet a fair percentage of these complaints are because of how stupid people are.
You best bet for domestic purchases that are large is to involve the post office, send money orders via mail, and have all items sent via the same. In this case everything comes under the juridiction of the PostMaster General and Federal law. So you don't have to worry about prosecution over state lines and such cause the case is at the federal level. One the other hand if you use PayPal and UPS (or the equiv) you are stuck within the boundies of that, and with interstate commerce laws (which make prosecution much harder).
I was an Army brat and my mother was a horrible cook, so whenever I got to eat in the officers mess, or dad brought home some MRE's or whatever it was one hell of a treat. Nothing beats SOS for breakfast in the morning.
Quite honestly I understand what they are trying to do, keep goverment tech employees up to par with the rest of the industry since they are generally at least a couple steps behind the curl.
Problem #1: most goverment employees are not current in their skill sets, and are generally sub par in their abilities (hence the reason they work for the government, this isn't meant to apply to all government employees or be a flame, it is mearly a observation from my personal experiance). Suffice to say as a commercial company why would I want to hire (even temporarly) a sub par person with outdated knowledge who I am expected to train and then get rid of?
Problem #2: The goverment employees who are knowledgeable will probably not want to stay in their government jobs once they see what it is like to get paid more, work on new equipment and not deal with government buercarcy? Any decent people will probably not want to stay with the government for long after seeing greener pastures
Solution: Maybe the government should restructure itself, clean out the human refuse and bueracrcy and send people to training and become compeative, pay competive salaries, user modern equipment etc etc, rather then expect industry to train its people.
I tend to agree, this does seem like some crank shilling his wears. What is really funny is last time I checked pinhole glasses weren't the most legal thing. Sure they improve vision, but at the loss of field of view, since they basically do the same thing as squinting and we smarties on Slashdot all know how refraction effects light. Oh well hopefully the FDA will catch up with this site.
Did I miss something of has Slashdot become a site to start shilling bad science? Whoever posted this needs to get a clue. I doubt the medical establishment has a vested intrest in selling eyeware. Simply because there isn't a HUGE amount of money in it (we spend more on cosmetics as a race then we do on corrective lenses). But that point aside this post stinks of the owner of the site trying to sell his wares, or get a higher ranking in the search engines (which if one searchs for this myopia.org site one finds that it appeared as a domain on the scene about 9-01 or so and hence forth has posted in many a psuedo medical site to gain higher posting in google). But enough of my theories and opinions. I think the folks on Slashdot are wise enough to smell something that is more then a little off, least from where I stand.
Well, you can complain about it all you want, but personally if it creates more intresting in study of the solar system and gets the NASA budget bumped up a bit I am all for it.
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I think not, I have heard a lot of people make comparisons oh Star Wars to Authurian legend or Greek Mythos, but both of those genera have plenty of derivative work. All Lucas is doing by only allowing documentary or parody is basically making sure that Star Wars won't live on for any where near as long as King Arthur and his court or Homer and his great Odyssey.
135 billion really isn't that huge an amount of money when you consider, for example, what the US spends on cosmetics a year (something like 10-20 billion a year). So if woman just went without makeup for 10 years, we could have free unlimited power. Suffice to say over the long haul 135 billion is a drop in the bucket. The problem is getting someone to take responsiblity for the short term cost, but seeing as terms in office are 2-4 years it is probably too much to ask ;)
Anything named the "Patriot Act" has to be bad for you. I personally am frightened everytime I hear the term "Homeland Security" reminds me too much of being in Nazi Germany, or Oceania.
Here is a link with a little more info, I personally don't think cabbage flavored ramen and weightlessness would really go together, but I am not Japanese. http://www.space.com/news/space_ram_020415.html
http://www.chem.northwestern.edu/~lambert/index.ht ml
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/04/02041 2074739.htm
Along the same lines can someone out there recommend a GOOD color printer?
Personally I use my Sprint phone and get pretty damn good service, sure I get the occasional dropped call but overall the service is pretty much no worse then local service from GTE/Verizon, and you can't beat the price for LD. Though on the negative side I spend a lot of time irradiating my brain, no telling what that does to my memory.
Where do you stand on Doctors? And Interists/Residents?
They might have changed the config then, I had the educational version of Flash 4 and it had this big banner thing at the end.
Please drop the thread guys, I was wrong, flash isn't Lingo, I am sorry. My bad, Flash still is crap though.
This is somewhat off topic, but my question is what does your site www.seiu.org actually stand behind? Is there a page that clearly states your objectives? I see "current events", "get involved", "working family issues", but nothing that really states what your guys want and where you guys are going. This is only one /.'s opinion, but it seems a little more time spent on your message and content might be worth more time then prettying/messing it up with Flash.
I would be careful buying Flash on Ebay, there are a lot of people selling pirate versions as full blown, educational as full blown, etc etc.
Flash is ok for a small percentage of stuff, but with a little more effort most people could write their Flash apps in something Open/Free (as in beer).
The problem with the educational version of Macromedia's Flash and Shockwave is it pastes a "This is an education product" tag on everything you create. Granted you could hack that out, but I don't think doing so is exactly legal.
Have you ever actually used Lingo? It is a "natural english" programming language, and to anyone who has programmed "for real" it is a total nightmare. I would suggest you use some other method to conviegh you information, while Flash is pretty and all it is a quite honestly schlock. Maybe a little more info on what, how, and to whom you want to get information too, so we can better advise you.
http://www.xemu.org/mirrors/adam/
http://www.xemu.org/mirrors/spambot_trap.html
I NEVER read my Bulk Mail folder (since it is ALL spam), so I missed this message from Yahoo on the privacy change. Going into my Bulk Mail folder now I see it. Sorta of a backhanded tactic though, to put the message somewhere no one will read it.
I had the same thing, was selling an old Sun monitor on Ebay, nice 21 inch color job with the little remote control. Well I posted it as a 21 inch monitor for a Sun workstation, including that it had a 13w3 connector and had the remote, and included a picture of the monitor with a closeup of the connector. Well some guy buys it, I ship it (cost like 50 bucks UPS, cause the damn thing wieghed 80 lbs). Well a week later I get a call cause it doesn't work with his PC, so I just told the guy hey, I told you it was for a Sun Workstation, you said you had one. He went off, about how I was scamming him, blah blah blah. I basically told the guy to F*** off and if he left negative feedback I would sue him for slander. Never heard from the dude again. My take on complaints is that most people are just morons and I bet a fair percentage of these complaints are because of how stupid people are.
You best bet for domestic purchases that are large is to involve the post office, send money orders via mail, and have all items sent via the same. In this case everything comes under the juridiction of the PostMaster General and Federal law. So you don't have to worry about prosecution over state lines and such cause the case is at the federal level. One the other hand if you use PayPal and UPS (or the equiv) you are stuck within the boundies of that, and with interstate commerce laws (which make prosecution much harder).
I was an Army brat and my mother was a horrible cook, so whenever I got to eat in the officers mess, or dad brought home some MRE's or whatever it was one hell of a treat. Nothing beats SOS for breakfast in the morning.
Quite honestly I understand what they are trying to do, keep goverment tech employees up to par with the rest of the industry since they are generally at least a couple steps behind the curl.
Problem #1: most goverment employees are not current in their skill sets, and are generally sub par in their abilities (hence the reason they work for the government, this isn't meant to apply to all government employees or be a flame, it is mearly a observation from my personal experiance). Suffice to say as a commercial company why would I want to hire (even temporarly) a sub par person with outdated knowledge who I am expected to train and then get rid of?
Problem #2: The goverment employees who are knowledgeable will probably not want to stay in their government jobs once they see what it is like to get paid more, work on new equipment and not deal with government buercarcy? Any decent people will probably not want to stay with the government for long after seeing greener pastures
Solution: Maybe the government should restructure itself, clean out the human refuse and bueracrcy and send people to training and become compeative, pay competive salaries, user modern equipment etc etc, rather then expect industry to train its people.
.I tend to agree, this does seem like some crank shilling his wears. What is really funny is last time I checked pinhole glasses weren't the most legal thing. Sure they improve vision, but at the loss of field of view, since they basically do the same thing as squinting and we smarties on Slashdot all know how refraction effects light. Oh well hopefully the FDA will catch up with this site.
Did I miss something of has Slashdot become a site to start shilling bad science? Whoever posted this needs to get a clue. I doubt the medical establishment has a vested intrest in selling eyeware. Simply because there isn't a HUGE amount of money in it (we spend more on cosmetics as a race then we do on corrective lenses). But that point aside this post stinks of the owner of the site trying to sell his wares, or get a higher ranking in the search engines (which if one searchs for this myopia.org site one finds that it appeared as a domain on the scene about 9-01 or so and hence forth has posted in many a psuedo medical site to gain higher posting in google). But enough of my theories and opinions. I think the folks on Slashdot are wise enough to smell something that is more then a little off, least from where I stand.
Well, you can complain about it all you want, but personally if it creates more intresting in study of the solar system and gets the NASA budget bumped up a bit I am all for it.