And while WereRabbit was a brilliant movie, Flushed away was really not.
Being English, I had a really good time watching both films. I love W&G, and thought Flushed Away had some really good humor. But I also know that British humor is not the same as American humor. Americans, for the most part, just don't get it. British humor's more subtle, and that doesn't sell to American audiances. That's probably what Dreamworks found. I want to see more Ardaman productions, W&G especially, so am a little sadened that Dreamworks is walking away, but I'd rather they did than get another Americanized abolishment like the HHG flick.
Lexar even makes a hardened case version that can be run over with a car.
They all can be run over by a car, it's whether they survive, that's the point. If it couldn't be run over by a car, I wouldn't expect it to fit in your pocket, either.
My wife sells on eBay. She has an assortment of items in auctions, and duplicates in the store. Frequently (usually) the auctions will bid higher than the store front. By skipping the store front, you may actually be paying more.
We have one of these at our local Pavillion's supermarket. They're a division of Vons, who are owned by Safeway. You can buy all your iPod stuff long after BestBuy and Radio Shack have shut for the night.
Funny thing is that the same machine started out selling general office stuff like ink jet cartridges, as well as a few iPod things. Then suddenly it was all iPod all the time.
In Windows you can use the runas command similar to su to give elevated privs to individual apps.
One of the problems with running apps with runas so they run in the administrator's account space is when it comes time to find a file. "My Documents" suddenly takes you to the Administrator's "My Documents", so you have to work your way round to where the user's documents are. It may not sound like much, but when Granny's looking for her documents, it's the family IT guy who gets the phone call.
I think you'll find that most of those pink shirt wearing men are already married, or in some kind of relationship. The female has given him the pink shirt to wear. I've never been cornered into wearing a pink shirt, but sure have ridden that bus.
If the distributors simulatneously released the video, then the cinemas could sell copies of the films at the concession stand. Loved the film then buy it on DVD, right there.
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I remember my cell phone in the morning exactly the same way I remember my wallet
Exactly! The phone goes in my pocket, every morning, along with the rest of the stuff, because it's always right there. Mornings when it isn't, it gets forgotten.
I'm not continuously receiving calls on the cell, so it's not constantly reminding me of its presence. I don't go to the cinema on any frequent basis, so there's no routine. Sometimes I remember to silence the thing, but if I'm racing accross the parking lot, after my wife, then it's not on my mind. Nowadays, they often have a reminder in the cinema before the film, and I'll silence the phone then.
Standard opperating procedure for my phone is to have it on progressive ring: It starts on vibrate, then starts ringing. Half the time, I don't even know it's ringing. A lot of phones don't have to ability to progress the ring. Most people can't figure out how to do it.
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I think you're using "forgetful" as a cop-out.
You know, some people have cells that are actually small enough to forget about? Not everyone is constantly thinking about the blessid thing.
My first MODEM was a 300 baud device for the C=64. I had a blast with that thing, dialing into the local BBS's. I was participating on the chat boards, downloading stories and pics. Of course, my parents weren't going to get a second phone line. No, they went from unlimited local service to pay-as-you-go service. That sucked, but that didn't stop me.
Yeah, it would be a problem if your habitation were hit by a meteor. Or at least, one of your least troublesome problems. The outrushing oxygen may rank higher.
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I disagree. I came to the US 13 years ago. I had just finished a PhD, which gave me certain specialized knowledge that my boss couldn't find in the US. However I didn't have much experience of programming to go with that knowledge.
Truely, you've just argued my point. You were swindled, my freind -- taken adavntage of. If you had specialized knowlege that was highly valuable to to the complany, you should've been compensated appropriately. Just because you couldn't code at the time, is not an excuse. They needed the information/skills you were in posession of, yet you were not appropriately rewarded.
I'd even argue that PHds, like yourself, should not be coding, unless you're building models. You should be sitting in a nice office, being allowed to think. Your brillant ideas should be documented, and handed down in understandable language for someone else to code or make applicaible use of.
I say again, you were duped. Either you knew of this all along, or are in denial.
Please don't take this as a flame. It isn't.
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Most H1B's are folks who've been in the workforce for a relatively shorter period of time. Most H1Bs are actually dual-status, which means they are applying for a Green Card while working as an H1B. Green Card processing typically takes 4-5 years. They are not classified as H1Bs once they get their Green Cards - which coincides with them acquiring additional experience and raises.
This argument overlooks the fact that the H1-B program is designed to allow employers to aquire talent that isn't available within the US. That would mean that these people are valuable. They shouldn't be grunts, they should be people who poses detailed and specific information which wasn't avaible in an American candidate. That being the case, the H1-Bs should be appearing near the top of the pay curve, not the bottom.
the hardware specs don't list any network interface
You wouldn't want a network interface to complicate the installation now, would you? That 10GB disk may have all the useful information on the Internet already installed.
If your examples pass as proof for punk, metal is still on the radio thanks to artists like Pat Boone.
My thought exactly, but not nearly as funny. Too bad I didn't have any mod points. These bands aren't punk.
The rock stations only play classic rock. You'd never think there was a recent album from ZZ Top, would ya? It's damn good too, but it sure doesn't get any air play.
Okay, now you're comparing a $150 ink-jet to a $3,000 dye-sub. Outside of professional photo labs, who do you think has that kind of cash to throw around. Get serious. The $150 dye-subs are 4x6. Sure the general populace loves 4x6, but if you want a slightly bigger picture, you're hozed. Want to print text? You're hozed. It's a single use printer. Plus, they're even more expensive to run than ink-jets.
I live in a very dry climate and don't use my home printer all that often. Epson printer heads kept drying out/clogging = toss the whole printer.
This is exactly right. I've just given up fighting my Epson photo printer (780). I didn't print with it very often, but whenever I did, it took an hour to clear the print nozzels. Then I'd spend five minutes doing a print or two. It's just not worth the fuss and bother. I have an HP multi function unit for quick (non-photo) print jobs, and will probably use digital print labs from now on for photos.
The good word processors would allow you to tell them what the printer's control codes were. Back then, most printers had the codes listed in the appendix.
WordStar had a print driver that would backspace to achieve underline and bold, at the very worst.
Different effects (bold, underscore) were generally displayed as different colors or brightness.
I even had a word processor that could do all this on a Commodore 64, called PaperClip.
Yes, printer of yore were 9 or 15 pin. A lot of them did print truely horrible fonts, but a number were capabile of some nice output -- if you were willing to wait. The Apple Image Writer was no champion of high resolution output. It used the some 15 pin technology of those other printers, but the Mac used bitmap mode instead of text mode. The result was pretty equivilent. No unless you got the Laser Writer could you really start calling it desktop publishing.
You are right thought: The Mac was the first personal computer to enable the avaerage Joe to produce documents with multiple fonts, and embedded graphics. But by saying the other computers had nothing more than Notepad is a falacy. There were a great number of word processors, from Scripsit, to WordStar. You couldn't embed graphics, and everything was displayed in text mode; however, you could choose fixed pitch, variable pitch, italics, bold, superscripts and subscripts. Everything you need to actually write a document.
Apple Macintosh's two great advancements for the home computer were the GUI and desktop publishing.
Sadly, that 120 quid card would've cost you $120. My experience is that when they price something for the UK, they take the US dollar amount, and replace the dollar sign with a pound sign. It happens over and over again. Instead of selling $120 gadgets in the UK for £60, they screw the Briton.
In the US, the amount you get for unemployment depends on a couple of things: Which state you live in, and how much you earned. Different states have a maximum allowance. You receive a percentage of that maximum, depending on how much you paid in while you were working.
Here, in California, the maximum weekly is US$130, if I recall correctly. Not much better really, and it ain't cheap to live here.
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Being English, I had a really good time watching both films. I love W&G, and thought Flushed Away had some really good humor. But I also know that British humor is not the same as American humor. Americans, for the most part, just don't get it. British humor's more subtle, and that doesn't sell to American audiances. That's probably what Dreamworks found. I want to see more Ardaman productions, W&G especially, so am a little sadened that Dreamworks is walking away, but I'd rather they did than get another Americanized abolishment like the HHG flick.
That was the best post of the week. Thank you. Excellent sarcasm. If only I had points.
They all can be run over by a car, it's whether they survive, that's the point. If it couldn't be run over by a car, I wouldn't expect it to fit in your pocket, either.
My wife sells on eBay. She has an assortment of items in auctions, and duplicates in the store. Frequently (usually) the auctions will bid higher than the store front. By skipping the store front, you may actually be paying more.
We have one of these at our local Pavillion's supermarket. They're a division of Vons, who are owned by Safeway. You can buy all your iPod stuff long after BestBuy and Radio Shack have shut for the night.
Funny thing is that the same machine started out selling general office stuff like ink jet cartridges, as well as a few iPod things. Then suddenly it was all iPod all the time.
One of the problems with running apps with runas so they run in the administrator's account space is when it comes time to find a file. "My Documents" suddenly takes you to the Administrator's "My Documents", so you have to work your way round to where the user's documents are. It may not sound like much, but when Granny's looking for her documents, it's the family IT guy who gets the phone call.
I think you'll find that most of those pink shirt wearing men are already married, or in some kind of relationship. The female has given him the pink shirt to wear. I've never been cornered into wearing a pink shirt, but sure have ridden that bus.
If the distributors simulatneously released the video, then the cinemas could sell copies of the films at the concession stand. Loved the film then buy it on DVD, right there.
Exactly! The phone goes in my pocket, every morning, along with the rest of the stuff, because it's always right there. Mornings when it isn't, it gets forgotten.
I'm not continuously receiving calls on the cell, so it's not constantly reminding me of its presence. I don't go to the cinema on any frequent basis, so there's no routine. Sometimes I remember to silence the thing, but if I'm racing accross the parking lot, after my wife, then it's not on my mind. Nowadays, they often have a reminder in the cinema before the film, and I'll silence the phone then.
Standard opperating procedure for my phone is to have it on progressive ring: It starts on vibrate, then starts ringing. Half the time, I don't even know it's ringing. A lot of phones don't have to ability to progress the ring. Most people can't figure out how to do it.
You know, some people have cells that are actually small enough to forget about? Not everyone is constantly thinking about the blessid thing.
My first MODEM was a 300 baud device for the C=64. I had a blast with that thing, dialing into the local BBS's. I was participating on the chat boards, downloading stories and pics. Of course, my parents weren't going to get a second phone line. No, they went from unlimited local service to pay-as-you-go service. That sucked, but that didn't stop me.
Yeah, it would be a problem if your habitation were hit by a meteor. Or at least, one of your least troublesome problems. The outrushing oxygen may rank higher.
Truely, you've just argued my point. You were swindled, my freind -- taken adavntage of. If you had specialized knowlege that was highly valuable to to the complany, you should've been compensated appropriately. Just because you couldn't code at the time, is not an excuse. They needed the information/skills you were in posession of, yet you were not appropriately rewarded.
I'd even argue that PHds, like yourself, should not be coding, unless you're building models. You should be sitting in a nice office, being allowed to think. Your brillant ideas should be documented, and handed down in understandable language for someone else to code or make applicaible use of.
I say again, you were duped. Either you knew of this all along, or are in denial.
Please don't take this as a flame. It isn't.
This argument overlooks the fact that the H1-B program is designed to allow employers to aquire talent that isn't available within the US. That would mean that these people are valuable. They shouldn't be grunts, they should be people who poses detailed and specific information which wasn't avaible in an American candidate. That being the case, the H1-Bs should be appearing near the top of the pay curve, not the bottom.
You find your taget, and buy a laser printer just like theirs and use it to commit the forgery. Then, you either swap the ROMs or the entire printer.
You wouldn't want a network interface to complicate the installation now, would you? That 10GB disk may have all the useful information on the Internet already installed.
My thought exactly, but not nearly as funny. Too bad I didn't have any mod points. These bands aren't punk.
The rock stations only play classic rock. You'd never think there was a recent album from ZZ Top, would ya? It's damn good too, but it sure doesn't get any air play.
The good word processors would allow you to tell them what the printer's control codes were. Back then, most printers had the codes listed in the appendix.
WordStar had a print driver that would backspace to achieve underline and bold, at the very worst.
Different effects (bold, underscore) were generally displayed as different colors or brightness.
I even had a word processor that could do all this on a Commodore 64, called PaperClip.
For a while, I used groff. Now, that was fun.
Yes, printer of yore were 9 or 15 pin. A lot of them did print truely horrible fonts, but a number were capabile of some nice output -- if you were willing to wait. The Apple Image Writer was no champion of high resolution output. It used the some 15 pin technology of those other printers, but the Mac used bitmap mode instead of text mode. The result was pretty equivilent. No unless you got the Laser Writer could you really start calling it desktop publishing.
You are right thought: The Mac was the first personal computer to enable the avaerage Joe to produce documents with multiple fonts, and embedded graphics. But by saying the other computers had nothing more than Notepad is a falacy. There were a great number of word processors, from Scripsit, to WordStar. You couldn't embed graphics, and everything was displayed in text mode; however, you could choose fixed pitch, variable pitch, italics, bold, superscripts and subscripts. Everything you need to actually write a document.
Apple Macintosh's two great advancements for the home computer were the GUI and desktop publishing.
There is an old Wired article that covers this: His real name is Mark Stephens.
Here, in California, the maximum weekly is US$130, if I recall correctly. Not much better really, and it ain't cheap to live here.