No kidding. I work at a FedExKinko's, and we flat out tell customers that we can't color match, because what you see on the screen is not always going to look the same on the prints. Especially in the case of our oversize color printer, where MS's default blue (on the screen) comes out as purple on the paper. Fortunately, it's only on the color oversize printer, which is made by HP, which does this. The XEROX based color copiers we have print it as blue. Not the exact same shade of blue, of course, but it's not purple.
No.... if the supply is low because of unexpected production problems, then sales could be lower then expected. There is a vast difference between "We can't keep them in stock because they're insanely popular" and "We can't keep them in stock because only 10 are produced a week".
Yes, it tends to be good for demand to exceed supply, because it creates increased desire for the product. But if you have to wait several weeks to get it at all, not because you don't have the money for it, but because of a poor marketing decision to not have enough supply, it turns people off.
You were just fired? Our project manager would kill us, and dance around our bones, singing "Hallelujah". And then expect us to be on time again next morning.
You mean, after Moscow (which wasn't really the capital of Russia at the time; St. Petersburg was) had been stripped of pretty much all supplies by the Russians, and was possibly set on fire by the Russians so as not to provide shelter either? Oh, and let's not forget the asylum inmates that were turned out on the streets by the Russians.
It wasn't just the winter that did Napoleon's "Grand Army" in.
No shit. Wait for patch day on any major MMORPG, and watch thousands of people bitch about the order servers come back up in, or minor changes to classes, or whatever. You'd think someone was turning their dog into stew or something...
Has the U.S. officially recognized Taiwan as an independent country?
Has the U.S. officially recognized Tibet as an illegally occupied country?
Bitching about what Google or MSN are doing while sitting on those two questions... well, I'm inclined to ignore the bluster of our elected pompous asses.
Similar case near here... burglar tries breaking in through roof access, slips, falls, busts his ass. Broken leg, various bruises and lacerations. He tries to sue the business owner for... whatever. The judge looks at him and says "You want to sue for injuries incurred during the commission of a felony?" The crook says yes. The judge lets him, and the crooks own testimony about what he was doing becomes part of the court record for the criminal case.
Hrm... good point... I daresay that it would be hard to PVP the SGC, considering the iris blocks invading forces... although I wouldn't put it past some dick on a PVP server handing over his IDC to the System Lords...
Yeah, but WoW only has two playable factions. It's not like you can be a goblin and work for the Steamwheedle Cartel. Admittedly, that would be very cool....
It could be argued that the Tok'ra are default members of the SGC. I mean, I can't recall an episode where the Tok'ra were the main feature and the members of the SGC were the sideline. Even the episodes that focused on Jacob Carter weren't solely Tok'ra.
The Unas are technologically underdeveloped. The Nox are too powerful. (They are one of the four races originally in the great treaty.) And the Re'tu... okay, not only can they be invisible _all the time_, which is very unbalancing, but they loathe the Goa'uld, and don't feel that friendly towards humans either. A faction within the Re'tu tried to destroy SGC once.
Frankly, I hope this lives up to all the potential hype, even though I would probably want to start as a Goa'uld.
Or, they could, you know, quit blocking the formation of the.xxx TLD. Because, then, you know, we could have all the porn sites migrate to the.xxx TLD, and then have a simple software filter solution.
But, you know, that would be much more effective at stopping minors from seeing porn, and wouldn't actually get anyone re-elected on the basis of that tired old chestnut "It's for the children!". And we can't have simple, obvious solutions. Not from the government.
The obvious solution to make Google even more beloved among geeks (and to give the Bush administration the digitus impudicus) would be to start deleting the search results once they are no longer needed. Say, possibly on a weekly or daily basis?
"Gee, I'm sorry Mr. Intrusive Government Agent. We don't actually keep those records any more."
Anyway, it just smacks of something that the ACLU would love to be involved with.
Or, and this is a bit more likely then everyone who got a new mp3 player/iPod for Christmas, how many of them already had mp3s, iTunes files, or whatever before they got this?
Really, is it that hard to imagine that some people didn't pay to download songs because they already had some music to put on their iPod?
BLACK KNIGHT: I shall sue. ARTHUR: What? BLACK KNIGHT: I shall sue. ARTHUR: I have no quarrel with you, good Sir Knight, but I will not pay a license fee for free software. BLACK KNIGHT: I move for no man. ARTHUR: So be it!
[clang clang clang] [ARTHUR files a countersuit for four patents the BLACK KNIGHT is infringing upon]
ARTHUR: Now stand aside, you litigous adversary. BLACK KNIGHT: 'Tis but a scratch! ARTHUR: A scratch?! You have no evidence of infringement! BLACK KNIGHT: Yes I do. ARTHUR: Well, show me then. I'm going to file another motion for discovery! BLACK KNIGHT: I've had worse. ARTHUR: Liar! BLACK KNIGHT: Come on, you pansy!
[clang clang clang] [ARTHUR chops off the BLACK KNIGHT's lawsuit at the knees]
ARTHUR: Victory is mine! BLACK KNIGHT: It's just a flesh wound! [headbutts ARTHUR] I'm invincible! ARTHUR: You're a looney! BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, all right, pay me $100M and we'll call it a draw. ARTHUR: Come, Patsy. [clip clop, clip clop] BLACK KNIGHT: Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
Okay, true... it just seems like every year I hear about some football or baseball team owner bitching about the host city not wanting to buy a new stadium (in some cases for no other reason that the old stadium has lost the 'new car' smell), so I'm a little touchy about mega-billionaires trying to soak taxpayers to pay for a new stadium when, in Allen's case, he could probably just ask Bill Gates to check behind the couch cushions and find $300 mil to fund the damn thing.
But hey, I'm more of a Steelers fan then a Seahawks fan. (Actually, I'm more of a Dolphins fan then a Seahawks fan, and I )^$#'ing hate the Dolphins.)
Okay, then if he's a mega-billionaire, and paid for the cost of the election and many millions for a media campaign... why the hell didn't he just pay for the stadium himself?
The RIAA and MPAA will still continue to lack a clue as how to effectively deal with P2P (this assumes that there is a way to do so, which, you know, there might not be). The lawsuits filed against Sony might be resolved in 2006, but depending on how many states follow Texas' lead, it could be years...
And if it's anything like 2005, someone will develop and release the newest and greatest P2P application which will be the 'best thing evar!!!1' until the RIAA and MPAA pollute it six months after release. Lawsuits against the creators of P2P apps will continue. And by mid-March, the RIAA will shoot itself in the foot again by filing a lawsuit against someone else's grandma, 12-year old child, or, just for a change of pace, a handicapped person. They will continue to garner more ill will then the MPAA, simply because of their continued stupidity.
Wow... that's got to be the most moronic thing I've ever seen moderated as insightful.
1) Freedom of speech only applies to the government restricting my speech. If I am engaged in a conversation with a person or persons who are not employed by the government and they tell me to shut up, it's not an abridgement of my freedom of speech. Even regardless of that, freedom of speech is not, and has never been absolute. You cannot spuriously yell "Fire!" in a crowded business and expect to avoid any legal problems later on by claiming your rights to free speech.
2) When it becomes a televised news broadcast, standards of journalistic integrity apply. (Unless we're talking about FOX news or The Daily Show.) Further, the legal departments of news agencies tend to be rather upset when the talking heads deliberately provoke lawsuits.
3) In any case, there must be a balance between the freedom of speech and the responsibility to use that freedom wisely.
Actually, under the current DC chronology (post-Crisis, post-Zero Hour, pre-Infinite Crisis), Superman did not start gaining his super abilities until his adolescent years, and most of his powers started out much weaker then they are depicted now. Basically, as he grew up, he got stronger, tougher, etc.
So, a human-Kryptonian hybrid would likely follow the same pattern, not developing any super-powers until adolescence at best. (Of course, it all depends on who writes it.)
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No kidding. I work at a FedExKinko's, and we flat out tell customers that we can't color match, because what you see on the screen is not always going to look the same on the prints. Especially in the case of our oversize color printer, where MS's default blue (on the screen) comes out as purple on the paper. Fortunately, it's only on the color oversize printer, which is made by HP, which does this. The XEROX based color copiers we have print it as blue. Not the exact same shade of blue, of course, but it's not purple.
No.... if the supply is low because of unexpected production problems, then sales could be lower then expected. There is a vast difference between "We can't keep them in stock because they're insanely popular" and "We can't keep them in stock because only 10 are produced a week".
Yes, it tends to be good for demand to exceed supply, because it creates increased desire for the product. But if you have to wait several weeks to get it at all, not because you don't have the money for it, but because of a poor marketing decision to not have enough supply, it turns people off.
Kierthos
You were just fired? Our project manager would kill us, and dance around our bones, singing "Hallelujah". And then expect us to be on time again next morning.
You mean, after Moscow (which wasn't really the capital of Russia at the time; St. Petersburg was) had been stripped of pretty much all supplies by the Russians, and was possibly set on fire by the Russians so as not to provide shelter either? Oh, and let's not forget the asylum inmates that were turned out on the streets by the Russians.
It wasn't just the winter that did Napoleon's "Grand Army" in.
Kierthos
No shit. Wait for patch day on any major MMORPG, and watch thousands of people bitch about the order servers come back up in, or minor changes to classes, or whatever. You'd think someone was turning their dog into stew or something...
Kierthos
More hypocrisy:
Has the U.S. officially recognized Taiwan as an independent country?
Has the U.S. officially recognized Tibet as an illegally occupied country?
Bitching about what Google or MSN are doing while sitting on those two questions... well, I'm inclined to ignore the bluster of our elected pompous asses.
Kierthos
Similar case near here... burglar tries breaking in through roof access, slips, falls, busts his ass. Broken leg, various bruises and lacerations. He tries to sue the business owner for... whatever. The judge looks at him and says "You want to sue for injuries incurred during the commission of a felony?" The crook says yes. The judge lets him, and the crooks own testimony about what he was doing becomes part of the court record for the criminal case.
Oh, and he lost the civil suit.
Kierthos
Hrm... good point... I daresay that it would be hard to PVP the SGC, considering the iris blocks invading forces... although I wouldn't put it past some dick on a PVP server handing over his IDC to the System Lords...
Kierthos
Yeah, but WoW only has two playable factions. It's not like you can be a goblin and work for the Steamwheedle Cartel. Admittedly, that would be very cool....
Kierthos
It could be argued that the Tok'ra are default members of the SGC. I mean, I can't recall an episode where the Tok'ra were the main feature and the members of the SGC were the sideline. Even the episodes that focused on Jacob Carter weren't solely Tok'ra.
The Unas are technologically underdeveloped. The Nox are too powerful. (They are one of the four races originally in the great treaty.) And the Re'tu... okay, not only can they be invisible _all the time_, which is very unbalancing, but they loathe the Goa'uld, and don't feel that friendly towards humans either. A faction within the Re'tu tried to destroy SGC once.
Frankly, I hope this lives up to all the potential hype, even though I would probably want to start as a Goa'uld.
Kierthos
No, no... dogs can't. Cows can't. Cat's won't. Why should cats bother when people will do everything for them?
Kierthos
Or, they could, you know, quit blocking the formation of the .xxx TLD. Because, then, you know, we could have all the porn sites migrate to the .xxx TLD, and then have a simple software filter solution.
But, you know, that would be much more effective at stopping minors from seeing porn, and wouldn't actually get anyone re-elected on the basis of that tired old chestnut "It's for the children!". And we can't have simple, obvious solutions. Not from the government.
Kierthos
The obvious solution to make Google even more beloved among geeks (and to give the Bush administration the digitus impudicus) would be to start deleting the search results once they are no longer needed. Say, possibly on a weekly or daily basis?
"Gee, I'm sorry Mr. Intrusive Government Agent. We don't actually keep those records any more."
Anyway, it just smacks of something that the ACLU would love to be involved with.
Kierthos
You're correct. In reference to the current administration, we should be using "stupidest".
Kierthos
Or, and this is a bit more likely then everyone who got a new mp3 player/iPod for Christmas, how many of them already had mp3s, iTunes files, or whatever before they got this?
Really, is it that hard to imagine that some people didn't pay to download songs because they already had some music to put on their iPod?
Kierthos
If we're doing Monty Python references:
SCO as the Black Knight, Linux users as Arthur.
BLACK KNIGHT: I shall sue.
ARTHUR: What?
BLACK KNIGHT: I shall sue.
ARTHUR: I have no quarrel with you, good Sir Knight, but I will not pay a license fee for free software.
BLACK KNIGHT: I move for no man.
ARTHUR: So be it!
[clang clang clang]
[ARTHUR files a countersuit for four patents the BLACK KNIGHT is infringing upon]
ARTHUR: Now stand aside, you litigous adversary.
BLACK KNIGHT: 'Tis but a scratch!
ARTHUR: A scratch?! You have no evidence of infringement!
BLACK KNIGHT: Yes I do.
ARTHUR: Well, show me then. I'm going to file another motion for discovery!
BLACK KNIGHT: I've had worse.
ARTHUR: Liar!
BLACK KNIGHT: Come on, you pansy!
[clang clang clang]
[ARTHUR chops off the BLACK KNIGHT's lawsuit at the knees]
ARTHUR: Victory is mine!
BLACK KNIGHT: It's just a flesh wound!
[headbutts ARTHUR] I'm invincible!
ARTHUR: You're a looney!
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, all right, pay me $100M and we'll call it a draw.
ARTHUR: Come, Patsy. [clip clop, clip clop]
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
Okay, true... it just seems like every year I hear about some football or baseball team owner bitching about the host city not wanting to buy a new stadium (in some cases for no other reason that the old stadium has lost the 'new car' smell), so I'm a little touchy about mega-billionaires trying to soak taxpayers to pay for a new stadium when, in Allen's case, he could probably just ask Bill Gates to check behind the couch cushions and find $300 mil to fund the damn thing.
But hey, I'm more of a Steelers fan then a Seahawks fan. (Actually, I'm more of a Dolphins fan then a Seahawks fan, and I )^$#'ing hate the Dolphins.)
Kierthos
Okay, then if he's a mega-billionaire, and paid for the cost of the election and many millions for a media campaign... why the hell didn't he just pay for the stadium himself?
Kierthos
The RIAA and MPAA will still continue to lack a clue as how to effectively deal with P2P (this assumes that there is a way to do so, which, you know, there might not be). The lawsuits filed against Sony might be resolved in 2006, but depending on how many states follow Texas' lead, it could be years...
And if it's anything like 2005, someone will develop and release the newest and greatest P2P application which will be the 'best thing evar!!!1' until the RIAA and MPAA pollute it six months after release. Lawsuits against the creators of P2P apps will continue. And by mid-March, the RIAA will shoot itself in the foot again by filing a lawsuit against someone else's grandma, 12-year old child, or, just for a change of pace, a handicapped person. They will continue to garner more ill will then the MPAA, simply because of their continued stupidity.
Happy New Year.
Kierthos
Wow... that's got to be the most moronic thing I've ever seen moderated as insightful.
1) Freedom of speech only applies to the government restricting my speech. If I am engaged in a conversation with a person or persons who are not employed by the government and they tell me to shut up, it's not an abridgement of my freedom of speech. Even regardless of that, freedom of speech is not, and has never been absolute. You cannot spuriously yell "Fire!" in a crowded business and expect to avoid any legal problems later on by claiming your rights to free speech.
2) When it becomes a televised news broadcast, standards of journalistic integrity apply. (Unless we're talking about FOX news or The Daily Show.) Further, the legal departments of news agencies tend to be rather upset when the talking heads deliberately provoke lawsuits.
3) In any case, there must be a balance between the freedom of speech and the responsibility to use that freedom wisely.
Kierthos
Yeah, many people believe in Jesus. Lots of others believe in Mohammed. Some believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
None of that is science. It is religious belief. It should not be taught in science class.
IMAO, even if the majority of people believe something, it doesn't mean that something is right, accurate, or worthy of respect.
Kierthos
You do realize that I was talking about comic books, which are littered with hybrids of various aliens and humans?
Of course, you did. You were merely being snotty while hiding behind the cowardly, impotent, flatulent shell of an AC.
Kierthos
Actually, under the current DC chronology (post-Crisis, post-Zero Hour, pre-Infinite Crisis), Superman did not start gaining his super abilities until his adolescent years, and most of his powers started out much weaker then they are depicted now. Basically, as he grew up, he got stronger, tougher, etc.
So, a human-Kryptonian hybrid would likely follow the same pattern, not developing any super-powers until adolescence at best. (Of course, it all depends on who writes it.)
Kierthos
Hell, he should have used a computer at a FedExKinko's, and no one would have been able to prove it was him.
Kierthos
Heck, if her defense is that one of her kids' friends did it, then they're perfectly justified questions.
Do you have any children?
Do they bring their friends over a lot?
Do they use the computer when they're over?
Kierthos