I can't think of any others off the top of my head - I mean, there was the one where Bart had the "power" and turned Homer into a jack-in-the-box but I can't remember which Twilight Zone episode that was taken from.
We just got UpdateExpert(formerly called SPQuery). It's pretty sweet and much less of a pain than SMS - it doesn't require any client software, for one thing.
Of course, it costs money - there's always a downside:-)
(about $1600.00 for a 3-year subscription for 50 clients, I think)
Retief is quite a different character and the Retief books are quite different from the Miles books in that they are mostly political/diplomatic satire, rather than just straight out "smarter and funnier than average" space opera.
For one thing, Retief is only an anti-hero in that he is anti-establishment and unconventional in his methods. In all other ways (intelligence, style, confidence, etc.) he is far superior and in many ways more "heroic" than many regular heroes. Miles, OTOH, has to deal with tremendous physical setbacks from the beginning (not to mention tremendous self-doubt and anxiety that constantly threaten to overwhelm his intelligence and confidence - although he usually ends up winning that battle:-) )
I'm in complete agreement that there are many precedents for Bujold's type of anti-hero in SF (or lit in general) but I really don't see such a direct connection between Retief and Miles. I'm really just nitpicking because I have such a strong image of each in my mind and I don't really connect the two at all.
That said, I enjoy both - but I read each expecting (and getting) very different things:-)
IIRC, he talked about the origins of the term "avatar" somewhere in Snow Crash (author's note, forward, "thank you", whatever) and I'm quite sure he doesn't claim that Snow Crash is the first use of that term in that context.
My guess is that it has something to do with the international consipiracy to prolong the career of David Hasselhoff (see also: singing career, Germany, etc.)
OTOH, maybe people just like to watch hot babes running around in bathing suits:-)
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here goes the standard smart-aleck answer... Well, you could always try the yahoo listings:-)
note - I have yet to find a web-based TV listing I like (yahoo is the cleanest and fastest, but for some reason has the channel numbers wrong for my cable system).
Little logos are OK, but TNN has the worst on-screen logo of them all - they run a black bar all along the bottom of the screen that not only tells you it's TNN, but it tells you what program you are watching!
Now that might be useful if they just flashed it for a few seconds after coming back from commercial, but they leave it on the whole time the program is on.
Huh? You can make XP look (and "work") a lot like 2K if you want to. I'm not using XP every day but on the TechNet versions we got to test, that's the first thing I did to customize it. I wouldn't really call it a "huge amount of retraining".
Now going from 9x to NT/2K/XP, that takes some re-training:-)
Well, you could try reading them before passing such harsh judgement:-)
I read the first one and wasn't overly impressed, but the 2nd and 3rd ones are certainly a bit better. I wouldn't say they are on the same level of "quality" as the Narnia books, but they come close.
If you still want to be an arrogant prick and read the books, just do what I did and pick them up the original British english versions instead of the "translated" American ones:-)
Ravens...Poe...Baltimore... trading names would make it even sillier than it is now:-)
Although it's hard to imagine a sillier situation than the whole Colts/Browns/Ravens/"new" Browns saga.
I'm with you on the Colts name, however - I don't think pro sports leagues should allow teams to keep their names when they move - I mean, c'mon - Utah "Jazz"? Maybe they should incorporate the sarcastic quote marks on the jerseys. Then I would buy into the whole Utah "Jazz" thing. At least some teams these days do seem to be more into changing their identity in addition to their location - anyone remember the poor hartford whalers?:-)
In IE6, go to the "Tools" menu and select "Internet Options"
In the window that pops up, click on the "Advanced" tab
There are a ton of options here, scroll down to near the bottom - you should see a section of search options that are designated with magnifying glass icons
You should see something called "Search from the Address Bar" - under that you have a few options for this, I have "Do Not search from the Address Bar" selected - it seems to work pretty well
If you look here you might find a way to get IE to use a much better search engine for this kind of stuff (I haven't tried any of these tricks with IE6 so YMMV)
I agree - AOL/TW are a lot less "in-your-face" and they don't seem to have that desire for control that Microsoft seems to have - but they do have a far and wide reach:-)
Since you say M$ is in your face, can I assume you are using Windows?
If so, do you use AIM? How about ICQ? Use Netscape? How about Winamp? Ever visit CNN.COM? All the same company, basically:-)
My apologies if you are able to successfully avoid AOL/Time Warner in all of its many guises...for most of us it's not that easy (starting with my cable modem!)
That means if you use RoadRunner cable access (I'm talking USA here), you are basically an AOL customer (and I'll keep my RR up until the point they decide to make me use AOL as the front-end!)
Also - content. Time Warner provides a huge amount of content for all types of media. Maybe not so overwhelming on the web right now, but who knows what their plans are down the road?
My point is this - don't think of them as just the company that sends out those CDs and has millions of customers paying them monthly fees - AOL/Time Warner is in many ways much bigger and more powerful than Microsoft. MSNBC? Pshaw. Ever hear of a little channel called CNN? Who do you think owns them?:-)
The literacy rate (according to the CIA factbook) in Afghanistan is about 30%. It doesn't matter what language the leaflets are in if only 30% of the people can ready any language (note - Arabic is not widely spoken in Afghanistan - they speak Pashtu, Dari, and a bunch of other local languages - although I suspect an Afghan who is literate can probably read some Arabic).
The food packets have drawings on them explaining what they are and that you are supposed to eat the contents:-)
Any leaflets would have drawings in addition to text as well. We are also broadcasting (in various language) over the radio from a C-130 flying over the country. This is probably the most effective psyops method, since plenty of people all around the country seem to have radios (note - I have heard this from various sources, but most recently there was an NPR story about the whole radio thing)
Well, considering that the pilot was written quite some time ago (and yes, I have a copy of the script that was downloaded well before 9/11), and I'm sure that they mean "cabal" --
(from m-w.com) Main Entry: cabal
Pronunciation: k&-'bäl, -'bal
Function: noun
Etymology: French cabale cabala, intrigue, cabal, from Medieval Latin cabbala cabala, from Late Hebrew qabbAlAh, literally, received (lore)
Date: 1614
: the artifices and intrigues of a group of persons secretly united to bring about an overturn or usurpation especially in public affairs; also : a group engaged in such artifices and intrigues
I'm running IE6 - when I went to a page on an infected server, IE asked me what I wanted to do with this "audio" file it thought I wanted to open then shut down (IE shut down, not anything else) when I told it NOT to open in the browser.
I think IE5.5 SP2 will do this as well - it's a MIME vulnerability that supposedly is fixed with these newer versions of IE (the vulnerability being that the file tells IE it is an audio file, but is actually executable)
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well, "To Serve Man" obviously
I can't think of any others off the top of my head - I mean, there was the one where Bart had the "power" and turned Homer into a jack-in-the-box but I can't remember which Twilight Zone episode that was taken from.
Nobody's watching college football? Sheesh! OK, so it's kind of a mini-marathon, but still...
If a Simpsons or Futurama marathon existed, I would watch it...wait a sec, I do have about 2.5 seasons of Futurama on tape
tv.yahoo.com says it's on that ABCFamily channel - Used to be FoxFamily I think? It does seem kind of an odd choice :-)
We just got UpdateExpert(formerly called SPQuery). It's pretty sweet and much less of a pain than SMS - it doesn't require any client software, for one thing.
Of course, it costs money - there's always a downside
(about $1600.00 for a 3-year subscription for 50 clients, I think)
Retief is quite a different character and the Retief books are quite different from the Miles books in that they are mostly political/diplomatic satire, rather than just straight out "smarter and funnier than average" space opera.
For one thing, Retief is only an anti-hero in that he is anti-establishment and unconventional in his methods. In all other ways (intelligence, style, confidence, etc.) he is far superior and in many ways more "heroic" than many regular heroes. Miles, OTOH, has to deal with tremendous physical setbacks from the beginning (not to mention tremendous self-doubt and anxiety that constantly threaten to overwhelm his intelligence and confidence - although he usually ends up winning that battle
I'm in complete agreement that there are many precedents for Bujold's type of anti-hero in SF (or lit in general) but I really don't see such a direct connection between Retief and Miles. I'm really just nitpicking because I have such a strong image of each in my mind and I don't really connect the two at all.
That said, I enjoy both - but I read each expecting (and getting) very different things
IIRC, he talked about the origins of the term "avatar" somewhere in Snow Crash (author's note, forward, "thank you", whatever) and I'm quite sure he doesn't claim that Snow Crash is the first use of that term in that context.
as long as you also have 4 controllers and a copy of Virtua Tennis any family would be happy!
My guess is that it has something to do with the international consipiracy to prolong the career of David Hasselhoff (see also: singing career, Germany, etc.)
OTOH, maybe people just like to watch hot babes running around in bathing suits
here goes the standard smart-aleck answer... Well, you could always try the yahoo listings
note - I have yet to find a web-based TV listing I like (yahoo is the cleanest and fastest, but for some reason has the channel numbers wrong for my cable system).
I think you mean Jango :-)
Google is your friend...
:-)
Troops
It's rather good
Little logos are OK, but TNN has the worst on-screen logo of them all - they run a black bar all along the bottom of the screen that not only tells you it's TNN, but it tells you what program you are watching!
Now that might be useful if they just flashed it for a few seconds after coming back from commercial, but they leave it on the whole time the program is on.
Huh? You can make XP look (and "work") a lot like 2K if you want to. I'm not using XP every day but on the TechNet versions we got to test, that's the first thing I did to customize it. I wouldn't really call it a "huge amount of retraining".
Now going from 9x to NT/2K/XP, that takes some re-training
If you see people wearing kilts and holding wooden shields and lightsabers, then you don't have the "real" trailer :-)
It is fun to figure out where all the clips came from, though.
Well, you could try reading them before passing such harsh judgement :-)
:-)
I read the first one and wasn't overly impressed, but the 2nd and 3rd ones are certainly a bit better. I wouldn't say they are on the same level of "quality" as the Narnia books, but they come close.
If you still want to be an arrogant prick and read the books, just do what I did and pick them up the original British english versions instead of the "translated" American ones
Ravens...Poe...Baltimore... trading names would make it even sillier than it is now
Although it's hard to imagine a sillier situation than the whole Colts/Browns/Ravens/"new" Browns saga.
I'm with you on the Colts name, however - I don't think pro sports leagues should allow teams to keep their names when they move - I mean, c'mon - Utah "Jazz"? Maybe they should incorporate the sarcastic quote marks on the jerseys. Then I would buy into the whole Utah "Jazz" thing. At least some teams these days do seem to be more into changing their identity in addition to their location - anyone remember the poor hartford whalers?
In IE6, go to the "Tools" menu and select "Internet Options"
In the window that pops up, click on the "Advanced" tab
There are a ton of options here, scroll down to near the bottom - you should see a section of search options that are designated with magnifying glass icons
You should see something called "Search from the Address Bar" - under that you have a few options for this, I have "Do Not search from the Address Bar" selected - it seems to work pretty well
If you look here you might find a way to get IE to use a much better search engine for this kind of stuff (I haven't tried any of these tricks with IE6 so YMMV)
Easy enough, no?
I agree - AOL/TW are a lot less "in-your-face" and they don't seem to have that desire for control that Microsoft seems to have - but they do have a far and wide reach :-)
I did say (I'm talking USA here) :-)
I do realize AOL and CNN aren't that big outside the US - but Time Warner does produce a lot of content - ever watch American movies?
Since you say M$ is in your face, can I assume you are using Windows?
If so, do you use AIM? How about ICQ? Use Netscape? How about Winamp? Ever visit CNN.COM? All the same company, basically
My apologies if you are able to successfully avoid AOL/Time Warner in all of its many guises...for most of us it's not that easy (starting with my cable modem!)
Don't forget it's AOL/Time Warner now.
That means if you use RoadRunner cable access (I'm talking USA here), you are basically an AOL customer (and I'll keep my RR up until the point they decide to make me use AOL as the front-end!)
Also - content. Time Warner provides a huge amount of content for all types of media. Maybe not so overwhelming on the web right now, but who knows what their plans are down the road?
My point is this - don't think of them as just the company that sends out those CDs and has millions of customers paying them monthly fees - AOL/Time Warner is in many ways much bigger and more powerful than Microsoft. MSNBC? Pshaw. Ever hear of a little channel called CNN? Who do you think owns them?
A couple of things.
The literacy rate (according to the CIA factbook) in Afghanistan is about 30%. It doesn't matter what language the leaflets are in if only 30% of the people can ready any language (note - Arabic is not widely spoken in Afghanistan - they speak Pashtu, Dari, and a bunch of other local languages - although I suspect an Afghan who is literate can probably read some Arabic).
The food packets have drawings on them explaining what they are and that you are supposed to eat the contents
Any leaflets would have drawings in addition to text as well. We are also broadcasting (in various language) over the radio from a C-130 flying over the country. This is probably the most effective psyops method, since plenty of people all around the country seem to have radios (note - I have heard this from various sources, but most recently there was an NPR story about the whole radio thing)
Well, considering that the pilot was written quite some time ago (and yes, I have a copy of the script that was downloaded well before 9/11), and I'm sure that they mean "cabal" --
(from m-w.com)
Main Entry: cabal
Pronunciation: k&-'bäl, -'bal
Function: noun
Etymology: French cabale cabala, intrigue, cabal, from Medieval Latin cabbala cabala, from Late Hebrew qabbAlAh, literally, received (lore)
Date: 1614
: the artifices and intrigues of a group of persons secretly united to bring about an overturn or usurpation especially in public affairs; also
: a group engaged in such artifices and intrigues
then, yes, it's just a coincidence
I'm running IE6 - when I went to a page on an infected server, IE asked me what I wanted to do with this "audio" file it thought I wanted to open then shut down (IE shut down, not anything else) when I told it NOT to open in the browser.
I think IE5.5 SP2 will do this as well - it's a MIME vulnerability that supposedly is fixed with these newer versions of IE (the vulnerability being that the file tells IE it is an audio file, but is actually executable)
I think you better call some kid in Australia collect and ask him to check on this for you.