We've had these complaints since long before iOS 10. My iPhone 4s took a terrible speed and stability hit overnight when I upgraded from iOS 8 -> iOS 9. But Apple's defined the conversation as being about slowing down iPhone 6 and newer with iOS 10. Is this just artful dodging?
The CIA World Factbook does recognize The West Bank as a distinct entity, just not under the name Palestine.
Groups that believe that the West Bank and Gaza are a part of Israel, such as the Jewish Virtual Library, place the percentage of Muslims in Israel at 20.7% of the total Israeli population.
The initial problem with both Voyager and Enterprise was the captains (or the actors hired to play them).
Archer - as portrayed by Scott Bakula - was too wishywashy, especially in the first seasons. He has a backbone one minute, then he doesn’t. He’s decisive, then he isn’t. The inconsistency in how he commanded the crew, in how he made decisions, was annoying, and made his character weak. He always seemed to be the wrong person at the wrong time.
Janeway - well, according to Kate Mulgrew’s portrayal - if a woman wants to command a starship, she has to speak like a man. Every time she would switch from a conversational voice to that attempt at a deep-throated captain’s voice, I winced. So unnatural, so unconvincing.
Each had good episodes.
Enterprise even had a few good ones in season one (the first P’Jem story, which helped paint the Vulcans as meddling puppet masters comes to mind.). One thing Enterprise gave us was a better understanding of the Andorrians (and Empress Sato).
Voyager was an anomaly of Star Trek in that some of it’s most promising episodes and ideas were in the first season (then abandoned or muted for whatever reason). The “One ship, two crews” theme should have been a goldmine of stories, but was quickly smothered. Neelix’s “they have such a beautiful ship. Why do they keep risking it?” [paraphrase] was spot on, and marked the point where the series abandoned originality and really became regular Trek. Voyager should have continually deteriorated so that even lessor threats would have real consequences, but it didn’t (how many shuttles did it have?). I don’t know what to make of Seven of Nine - a late addition designed to drive ratings. Her story arc took too much time in the show and in the end belittled the Borg (and by association, Picard and Sisko).
They were all flawed, even TOS, and the new one will be too. But hopefully it will be Trek at its heart and not JJ-Trek.
I'm currently teaching English in a rural secondary school in Namibia, and helping with the computer lab as I can. We're one of the lucky schools - we have internet access through a radio link and often have as many at 15 working computers (power supplies and monitors seem to have short lifespans out here).
All of our computers use Linux (either Open Lab or Edubuntu) as part of the SchoolNet distribution. The problem? Our computer curriculum is specifically designed with Microsoft products in mind (Office and Publisher) and the teachers here don't have enough of a background to transfer the learning objectives to Open Office in the classroom.
So MS (or whoever set the curriculum to MS products) has managed to create a situation where the teachers are actively campaigning against the free alternative. It's insidious and hard to fight.
Just saw Stewardesses in 3D on the weekend at a respectible rep cinema. Made in 1969 (go figure). Very humourous (usually unintentionally), no more pornographic than you'll see on TV in Toronto on a Friday night. Here's the IMDB link.
The poster to whom you were responding was referring to Zambia, not, as you thought, Zimbabwe. I am well aware of the politics of Zimbabwe, as my boss is from there and we discuss it frequently.
However, it does not change the fact that the country that refused aid specifically because it was GM was Zambia.
The problem lies with foreign subsidiaries of American firms. U.S. law claims to have authority to stop these subsidiaries (even those only partially owned by U.S. firms) from violating U.S. law. Hence some Canadian companies can't trade with Cuba, lest their executives get dragged into U.S. court. If you are a Canadian (or probably other non-USians) who gets your internet access through a company that is even partially owned by the U.S. then actions such as this can affect you too. That global media consolidation will come back to bite us on the ass yet.
The truest form of democracy - One Man, One Vote. Bush is The Man and he gets to Vote.
I was fortunate to attend MacWorld Boston, in August of 1995. The conference coincided with the release of Windows 95.
Microsoft was there with one big-ass booth, completely devoid of spectators. It was the best short-cut to get to the "Windows 95 = Apple 84" t-shirts;-)
That makes Lucas, who showed no such restraint, all the more hypocritical and pretentious...
Am I missing something? If Lucas had argued for restraint, then done this kind of marketing, then yes, hypocritical would be the right word. Not sure how he's pretentious, either.
To quote Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
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We've had these complaints since long before iOS 10. My iPhone 4s took a terrible speed and stability hit overnight when I upgraded from iOS 8 -> iOS 9. But Apple's defined the conversation as being about slowing down iPhone 6 and newer with iOS 10. Is this just artful dodging?
The US doesn't recognize Palestine.
The CIA World Factbook does recognize The West Bank as a distinct entity, just not under the name Palestine.
Groups that believe that the West Bank and Gaza are a part of Israel, such as the Jewish Virtual Library, place the percentage of Muslims in Israel at 20.7% of the total Israeli population.
And how do you know they are not Muslim?
The summery said Israeli not Palestinian. The Jews wouldn't allow Muslims into their country.
According to the CIA world factbook, 17.5% of Israelis are Muslim.
The initial problem with both Voyager and Enterprise was the captains (or the actors hired to play them).
Archer - as portrayed by Scott Bakula - was too wishywashy, especially in the first seasons. He has a backbone one minute, then he doesn’t. He’s decisive, then he isn’t. The inconsistency in how he commanded the crew, in how he made decisions, was annoying, and made his character weak. He always seemed to be the wrong person at the wrong time.
Janeway - well, according to Kate Mulgrew’s portrayal - if a woman wants to command a starship, she has to speak like a man. Every time she would switch from a conversational voice to that attempt at a deep-throated captain’s voice, I winced. So unnatural, so unconvincing.
Each had good episodes.
Enterprise even had a few good ones in season one (the first P’Jem story, which helped paint the Vulcans as meddling puppet masters comes to mind.). One thing Enterprise gave us was a better understanding of the Andorrians (and Empress Sato).
Voyager was an anomaly of Star Trek in that some of it’s most promising episodes and ideas were in the first season (then abandoned or muted for whatever reason). The “One ship, two crews” theme should have been a goldmine of stories, but was quickly smothered. Neelix’s “they have such a beautiful ship. Why do they keep risking it?” [paraphrase] was spot on, and marked the point where the series abandoned originality and really became regular Trek. Voyager should have continually deteriorated so that even lessor threats would have real consequences, but it didn’t (how many shuttles did it have?). I don’t know what to make of Seven of Nine - a late addition designed to drive ratings. Her story arc took too much time in the show and in the end belittled the Borg (and by association, Picard and Sisko).
They were all flawed, even TOS, and the new one will be too. But hopefully it will be Trek at its heart and not JJ-Trek.
I'm currently teaching English in a rural secondary school in Namibia, and helping with the computer lab as I can. We're one of the lucky schools - we have internet access through a radio link and often have as many at 15 working computers (power supplies and monitors seem to have short lifespans out here).
All of our computers use Linux (either Open Lab or Edubuntu) as part of the SchoolNet distribution. The problem? Our computer curriculum is specifically designed with Microsoft products in mind (Office and Publisher) and the teachers here don't have enough of a background to transfer the learning objectives to Open Office in the classroom.
So MS (or whoever set the curriculum to MS products) has managed to create a situation where the teachers are actively campaigning against the free alternative. It's insidious and hard to fight.
Just saw Stewardesses in 3D on the weekend at a respectible rep cinema. Made in 1969 (go figure). Very humourous (usually unintentionally), no more pornographic than you'll see on TV in Toronto on a Friday night. Here's the IMDB link.
circumstances as you described. The farmer has his own web site now.
Wow, my first slashdot flame war...
The poster to whom you were responding was referring to Zambia, not, as you thought, Zimbabwe. I am well aware of the politics of Zimbabwe, as my boss is from there and we discuss it frequently.
However, it does not change the fact that the country that refused aid specifically because it was GM was Zambia.
Take your own advice and read before you post.
The country that refused food aid wasn't Zimbabwe, it was Zambia.
See here.
The truest form of democracy - One Man, One Vote. Bush is The Man and he gets to Vote.
Microsoft was there with one big-ass booth, completely devoid of spectators. It was the best short-cut to get to the "Windows 95 = Apple 84" t-shirts ;-)
They generally took it in good spirits.
That makes Lucas, who showed no such restraint, all the more hypocritical and pretentious...
Am I missing something? If Lucas had argued for restraint, then done this kind of marketing, then yes, hypocritical would be the right word. Not sure how he's pretentious, either.
To quote Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
Or is that "inconceivable?"