They probably loved their jobs. Add to that management telling you the money's going to drop any day and that once you start in those kind of situations it's real hard to stop. You don't want to be the guy who does all the work and then quits before it pays off.
I've worked for a few small film companies that went out of business, and there's always been a definite sense that the money is only days away.
that's how they used to do it on the old variety shows. the cast would just turn out to the camera and talk about ovaltine, or Milton Berle (I think) would sing about texaco as part of the show.
I did a creative writing workshop with fourth graders who all had laptops. It was great that I could read their writing, but overall, I think the effects were negative.
Spell check was really intrusive. Kids want to spell right and they'd waste tons of time on spelling.
Also, the delete key enabled them to destroy work beyond the possibility of recovery. In groups without computers, a crossed out page or ripped up notebook can still be transcribed. By the time I could reenforce that what they'd written was great... it was already gone.
It practically ruins the movie! In the first half of the movie Owen Wilson sports a shiny perlescent lip gloss that practically glows. That and the crusty base that is literally sloughing off both his and David Keith's faces throughout the picture is a terrible distraction from an otherwise good film.
Yes, but I can only piss in my own soup. I can write kernel patches till the cows come home but they're not gonna get accepted because they'd be bad patches.
Better I can check the recipe than have some chef in the kitchen secretly adding special sauce.
I'm pretty sure that surgery is open source to a degree. Surgical techniques are published and not patentable so, theoretically, anyone could read up and make suggestions. Sadly, you have to have a license to try most of that stuff on people.
I also don't think there's anything stopping anyone from studying the specs to their buicks and designing a better fuel injector. Again, you could keep the design open to anyone who wanted to help/modify.
What you're suggesting is that open source means grabbing someone's computer out of their hands so you can get to work.
My old man teaches 5th grade in maine. Their network (sAD 40 I believe) has been down for pretty much the last year and a half because there's nobody there to keep the trains moving. My dad certainly can't help. On his salary he can't afford to upgrade his 386.
Supporting this thing's going to be a nightmare. I spent some time in a school with laptops. Not a class period went by when the class wasn't paralyzed by some technical problem. 5 to 10 minutes of boot time at the top of a 40 minute class...ugh.
I believe the Kaiser played the "Coward" card during WWI. The danger of this type of propaganda is that if your opponent proves braver than you said it shakes the trust of the people. It remains to be seen whether or not the mujahidin are as cowardly as they keep saying. Let's hope so, then this thing can be over.
It seems to me that the detonation of all the hydrogen fuel at once is unlikely. I don't think there would be enough oxygen present, especially in the relatively contained environment of a couple of floors. The explosion would be big, but I think it would burn iself out in a less catastrophic fashion.
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No. It's Super Mario bad.
They probably loved their jobs. Add to that management telling you the money's going to drop any day and that once you start in those kind of situations it's real hard to stop. You don't want to be the guy who does all the work and then quits before it pays off.
I've worked for a few small film companies that went out of business, and there's always been a definite sense that the money is only days away.
that's how they used to do it on the old variety shows. the cast would just turn out to the camera and talk about ovaltine, or Milton Berle (I think) would sing about texaco as part of the show.
I did a creative writing workshop with fourth graders who all had laptops. It was great that I could read their writing, but overall, I think the effects were negative.
Spell check was really intrusive. Kids want to spell right and they'd waste tons of time on spelling.
Also, the delete key enabled them to destroy work beyond the possibility of recovery. In groups without computers, a crossed out page or ripped up notebook can still be transcribed. By the time I could reenforce that what they'd written was great... it was already gone.
Give me Elijah over the godawful paintings on the covers of my 1993 paperback editions any day.
I have been using gabber to connect with mostly msn messenger people for about 5 months. During that time it's worked flawlessly for me.
It practically ruins the movie! In the first half of the movie Owen Wilson sports a shiny perlescent lip gloss that practically glows. That and the crusty base that is literally sloughing off both his and David Keith's faces throughout the picture is a terrible distraction from an otherwise good film.
luckily will and grace was a rerun. it's the only reason I won that battle.
Yes, but I can only piss in my own soup. I can write kernel patches till the cows come home but they're not gonna get accepted because they'd be bad patches.
Better I can check the recipe than have some chef in the kitchen secretly adding special sauce.
I'm pretty sure that surgery is open source to a degree. Surgical techniques are published and not patentable so, theoretically, anyone could read up and make suggestions. Sadly, you have to have a license to try most of that stuff on people.
I also don't think there's anything stopping anyone from studying the specs to their buicks and designing a better fuel injector. Again, you could keep the design open to anyone who wanted to help/modify.
What you're suggesting is that open source means grabbing someone's computer out of their hands so you can get to work.
My old man teaches 5th grade in maine. Their network (sAD 40 I believe) has been down for pretty much the last year and a half because there's nobody there to keep the trains moving. My dad certainly can't help. On his salary he can't afford to upgrade his 386.
Supporting this thing's going to be a nightmare. I spent some time in a school with laptops. Not a class period went by when the class wasn't paralyzed by some technical problem. 5 to 10 minutes of boot time at the top of a 40 minute class...ugh.
I believe the Kaiser played the "Coward" card during WWI. The danger of this type of propaganda is that if your opponent proves braver than you said it shakes the trust of the people. It remains to be seen whether or not the mujahidin are as cowardly as they keep saying. Let's hope so, then this thing can be over.
Let's just vent the tanks to power the plane. That way we can use a deliciously inert fuel and I reckon it'll keep the beverages properly chilled.
It seems to me that the detonation of all the hydrogen fuel at once is unlikely. I don't think there would be enough oxygen present, especially in the relatively contained environment of a couple of floors. The explosion would be big, but I think it would burn iself out in a less catastrophic fashion.
What about the Disney store in this guy's district?