Houses built of wood 100's of years ago are still standing and our wood products now are much stronger/better.
I don't think that's true. An architect friend of mine once mentioned (and I'm quoting from memory so I'll have to paraphrase) that houses built in the 20's will last for 110 years, in the 50s for 80 years, 70s for 50 years and most modern houses 30 years. It was something like that... the upshot is that housing material is worse and construction is shoddier than in the past.
I think you meant kooks. Whether or not they supplement their day jobs by appearing on the Iron Chef or some other program is beside the point.
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Amazon doesn't even come close to having everything. If you want everything go to the Advanced Book Exchange online. Thousands of independent booksellers all over the world. That's everything my friend.
and starts mining, imagine the space race this will create.
That will be a good thing, as far as I'm concerned. We'll be that much closer to the next step - getting to Mars in our lifetime - something which I've begun to doubt recently.
WTF is wrong with SUV's? What if you have a person who drives his/her SUV to the office each day and back, assuming the office is a 10 mile drive - and what if you have someone in a more fuel efficient car driving 70 miles and back each day to the office. Who's burning the most gas?
he would call for increases in the price of oil-based products Thankfully, we have a free market here and this inane drivel will never be taken seriously.
Bob Slydell: If you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door--that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh--after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
I wish they would make a mini-series of I. Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. Or perhaps televise the script based on I, Robot that Robert Heinlen wrote. More Asimov Now!
Agreed. Personally, I don't think the last 3 books in the Dune series can even be considered sequels in the sense that we are usually familiar with. They are mark an almost completely different shift in style. I mean, it's not so much like a Robert Jordan series, where the author keeps cranking them out, for who knows what reason, and extending the same basic plot over 10 books... the dune sequels are just different. That's not much of a review I guess, but the first time I read them, I disliked them, the second time around, I enjoyed them. I think anyone will agree though that the first book was the best.
The worldwide standard of living does not improve. It moves toward equilibrium. In first world countries like ours, the standard goes down. In third world countries like India, the standard will go up as more multi-billion dollar contract come in. Surely it's not so good if you're a member of the country headed on the way down, is it?
Thanks for the follow up. That site is pretty useful. The info it gives on white balance and blooming/chromatic aberration, are both useful, and are primarily what has concerned me about digital photography. Unfortunately, all the good shots seem to be in poor or extreme lighting conditions:)
since you seem to have experience with high end digital cameras, perhaps you could answer a question for me - what is the light latitude on your EOS-1D? I have a Leica Digilux 4 megap., which takes good quality shots, but like most prosumer digital camers I've shot with, it can't handle tricky lighting situations. for example, if 3/4 of the frame is extremely bright, and the the balance is dim, it won't do it perfectly, at least not to the level that I can with my Minolta Maxxum 9 film counterpart. That's the problem I see with most digital cameras in the 500-1500 range these days. Anything higher I haven't used, but I've always wondered whether it was the same or not.
I haven't shopped for DVD players here, so I can't give you the price, but I assume they would be cheaper than what we're used to. Electronics can be (generally) purchased at a good price here. eg., you can get an external 30 gb usb hdd for about 40 US
Also, the vcds/dvds aren't targeted at the tourists, imho, as there are very few in this area.
If you go to Shenzhen, just keep going until you reach Hong Kong:) There's seriously not much here to see. Or if you want to go somewhere for the weekend, try finding a chinese travel agent and getting a ticket for Shanghai. You can usually go round trip for under 1100 rmb, not too bad.
To put it into perspective, in there city I work, Shenzhen which is considered a pretty good place for tech jobs most jr. programmers make the equivalent of around $200 US per month. That's considered damn good wage too. Menial labor (waiter/ess in a high class restaurant) is about 10 yuan a day (1.20 US). How many of these people can afford to pay 25-30 US per DVD do you think? Or pay 3-5 US to watch a movie in the theatre? Even the street price of a VCD (about 10 yuan) is above what most people here can afford. For movie execs to say they lose money in Asia is just a line of pure bullshit. They don't even have a market here! There's no way the vast majority of the people here can afford to pay western prices. It's laughable. And Shenzhen has a much higher standard of living than the rest of China and even most of Asia, save perhaps HK, Shanghai and one or two other places.
I work in Shenzhen (north of Hong Kong) and I've seen the movie out for just over a week now on some of the outside stalls. Okay, put it this way. I'm flying into New Zealand next week to see the LOTR:TT. I'm not about to watch it on a VCD. But imagine the temptation. Every evening after work, I think, tonight I could see the two towers. It could be tonight. It's tough I tell you.
[quote] They represent nothing more than a free website.[/quote] vast majority of websites are free. CNN is a free website for example. So is NY Times and BBC. Heck, even the FCC is a free website. If by free you mean non-profit, I can't see what there is too demean about that. Of course, I see the point you're trying to get at. You'd like everything to be corporate/controlled by big business and nuts to the little guy, or in your words "sustainable". If all REAL PEOPLE wanted what you want, why does Disney et al have to fight so hard (and underhandedly) to get their legislation passed?
[quote] We do not want to live in the world DigitalConsumer.dot is trying to create for us, where we are all artist/waiters [/quote] so...the site is run by 2.com millionaires but they want everyone to become artists/waiters? Can you explain this bit of logic to me? The difference between a waiter and a millionaire.... seems vast. Almost as vast as the difference bewteen an artist with soul and a lawyer without.
DON'T SELL OUT TO LAWYERS WHO NEGLECT TO MENTION THEY REPRESENT VAST CORPORATE INTERESTS!
dude... I don't see how you can complain. Alex Proyas would be perfect for this kind of sci-fi movie. My first choice would be Ridley Scott (Blade runner, Alien) but Proyas will do a good job as well. I'm a little surprised with Will Smith, but he's a versatile actor and probably looking for a new script that has a high potential for sequels. I imagine if Proyas shoots even a moderately successful sci-fi flick, some of the other robot movies will go into the works as well.
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Houses built of wood 100's of years ago are still standing and our wood products now are much stronger/better.
... the upshot is that housing material is worse and construction is shoddier than in the past.
I don't think that's true. An architect friend of mine once mentioned (and I'm quoting from memory so I'll have to paraphrase) that houses built in the 20's will last for 110 years, in the 50s for 80 years, 70s for 50 years and most modern houses 30 years. It was something like that
weren't usually total cooks
I think you meant kooks. Whether or not they supplement their day jobs by appearing on the Iron Chef or some other program is beside the point.
Amazon doesn't even come close to having everything. If you want everything go to the Advanced Book Exchange online. Thousands of independent booksellers all over the world. That's everything my friend.
and starts mining, imagine the space race this will create. That will be a good thing, as far as I'm concerned. We'll be that much closer to the next step - getting to Mars in our lifetime - something which I've begun to doubt recently.
WTF is wrong with SUV's? What if you have a person who drives his/her SUV to the office each day and back, assuming the office is a 10 mile drive - and what if you have someone in a more fuel efficient car driving 70 miles and back each day to the office. Who's burning the most gas?
he would call for increases in the price of oil-based products
Thankfully, we have a free market here and this inane drivel will never be taken seriously.
OTOH, you do (or did) used to see a lot of novels written in english with french and/or latin added here and there.
The BSA has no legal authority. I'm sure you know this. Just do a search on /. to find the link about this.
Bob Slydell: If you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door--that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh--after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
sweet icon...i'm all for it
I wish they would make a mini-series of I. Asimov's Foundation Trilogy.
Or perhaps televise the script based on I, Robot that Robert Heinlen wrote.
More Asimov Now!
Agreed. Personally, I don't think the last 3 books in the Dune series can even be considered sequels in the sense that we are usually familiar with. They are mark an almost completely different shift in style. I mean, it's not so much like a Robert Jordan series, where the author keeps cranking them out, for who knows what reason, and extending the same basic plot over 10 books ... the dune sequels are just different. That's not much of a review I guess, but the first time I read them, I disliked them, the second time around, I enjoyed them. I think anyone will agree though that the first book was the best.
The worldwide standard of living does not improve. It moves toward equilibrium. In first world countries like ours, the standard goes down. In third world countries like India, the standard will go up as more multi-billion dollar contract come in.
Surely it's not so good if you're a member of the country headed on the way down, is it?
Thanks for the follow up. :)
That site is pretty useful. The info it gives on white balance and blooming/chromatic aberration, are both useful, and are primarily what has concerned me about digital photography. Unfortunately, all the good shots seem to be in poor or extreme lighting conditions
since you seem to have experience with high end digital cameras, perhaps you could answer a question for me -
what is the light latitude on your EOS-1D? I have a Leica Digilux 4 megap., which takes good quality shots, but like most prosumer digital camers I've shot with, it can't handle tricky lighting situations. for example, if 3/4 of the frame is extremely bright, and the the balance is dim, it won't do it perfectly, at least not to the level that I can with my Minolta Maxxum 9 film counterpart. That's the problem I see with most digital cameras in the 500-1500 range these days. Anything higher I haven't used, but I've always wondered whether it was the same or not.
Of course there's another option. *Don't use EULAed software.*
Hey Taco, how about a Im/practical subject mod?
That way I could mod the above post, +5 Impractical
because while neogotiating might work, sitting in a tree does work, and anyone can do it.
I haven't shopped for DVD players here, so I can't give you the price, but I assume they would be cheaper than what we're used to. Electronics can be (generally) purchased at a good price here. eg., you can get an external 30 gb usb hdd for about 40 US
Also, the vcds/dvds aren't targeted at the tourists, imho, as there are very few in this area.
If you go to Shenzhen, just keep going until you reach Hong Kong :) There's seriously not much here to see.
Or if you want to go somewhere for the weekend, try finding a chinese travel agent and getting a ticket for Shanghai. You can usually go round trip for under 1100 rmb, not too bad.
4 billion people in China? Official figures place it much lower at ~1.3b IIRC.
To put it into perspective, in there city I work, Shenzhen which is considered a pretty good place for tech jobs most jr. programmers make the equivalent of around $200 US per month. That's considered damn good wage too. Menial labor (waiter/ess in a high class restaurant) is about 10 yuan a day (1.20 US). How many of these people can afford to pay 25-30 US per DVD do you think? Or pay 3-5 US to watch a movie in the theatre? Even the street price of a VCD (about 10 yuan) is above what most people here can afford.
For movie execs to say they lose money in Asia is just a line of pure bullshit. They don't even have a market here! There's no way the vast majority of the people here can afford to pay western prices. It's laughable.
And Shenzhen has a much higher standard of living than the rest of China and even most of Asia, save perhaps HK, Shanghai and one or two other places.
I work in Shenzhen (north of Hong Kong) and I've seen the movie out for just over a week now on some of the outside stalls.
Okay, put it this way. I'm flying into New Zealand next week to see the LOTR:TT. I'm not about to watch it on a VCD.
But imagine the temptation. Every evening after work, I think, tonight I could see the two towers. It could be tonight. It's tough I tell you.
Politicians wonder why people don't trust them. This is exactly why
I don't think they wonder. I just don't think they care...
yea, except their email server is down for mainteance, and anything you send 'em will get bounced back...
nice thought though.
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.com millionaires but they want everyone to become artists/waiters? Can you explain this bit of logic to me? The difference between a waiter and a millionaire .... seems vast. Almost as vast as the difference bewteen an artist with soul and a lawyer without.
In reference to your email archived here
http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?n
regarding your remarks about DigitalConsumer:
[quote] They represent nothing more than a free website.[/quote]
vast majority of websites are free. CNN is a free website for example. So is NY Times and BBC. Heck, even the FCC is a free website. If by free you mean non-profit, I can't see what there is too demean about that. Of course, I see the point you're trying to get at. You'd like everything to be corporate/controlled by big business and nuts to the little guy, or in your words "sustainable". If all REAL PEOPLE wanted what you want, why does Disney et al have to fight so hard (and underhandedly) to get their legislation passed?
[quote] We do not want to live in the world DigitalConsumer.dot is trying to create for us, where we are all artist/waiters [/quote]
so...the site is run by 2
DON'T SELL OUT TO LAWYERS WHO NEGLECT TO MENTION THEY REPRESENT VAST CORPORATE INTERESTS!
dude... I don't see how you can complain. Alex Proyas would be perfect for this kind of sci-fi movie. My first choice would be Ridley Scott (Blade runner, Alien) but Proyas will do a good job as well.
I'm a little surprised with Will Smith, but he's a versatile actor and probably looking for a new script that has a high potential for sequels. I imagine if Proyas shoots even a moderately successful sci-fi flick, some of the other robot movies will go into the works as well.