I've always wanted to see one of the myriad Star Trek shows address the fact that the final step of teleportation is obliterating the original once the copy is confirmed successful. Anyone know of an episode where the writers acknowledge that there's a shredder sitting beneath the fax machine?
then why is it that that movies so often officially lose money?
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that so much of their production cost and payroll structure is based on a percentage of profits. Nope, nothing at all.
The 18.5 minutes of silence finally explained: Richard Nixon was reading "My Pet Goat".
Well, a copy of Alice's Restaurant *was* found in the White House attic when the Carter family moved in. It would be a better fit time-wise, and I think that would be quite likely to have been erased from the wiretaps.
Back in high school (late 80s) I installed car alarms and such as a side business. Naturally, my car, an '82 Audi 4000s, was my demo car. I had removed the lock plungers and replaced them with status LEDs, with the actual locks triggered by my remote (this was before remote locks were an OEM option).
I walked back to the parking deck after work one day, and it was a giant cop-fest. An entire row of cars was covered in that nasty black fingerprint powder. One car in the middle of that row was undusted: yep, the one that looked like a pain in the ass to break into.
I always explained it to clients this way: You can never make it theft-proof. Just make 'em work harder for yours than the other guy's. If they were willing to work for their money, they wouldn't be breaking into your car in the first place.
Sorry, guess my sarcasm didn't shine through. While I may not think much of the late Mr. Denver's vocal stylings, I don't claim to be offended by his lyrics in any way, shape or form (unless forced to listen, of course). I chose that as an obviously (or perhaps not) bland example solely for rhetorical purposes.
I say this is a slippery slope because it puts one more example into the public hivemind of gub'mint declining to sanction certain forms of expression as not having artistic merit. Not that I think it does, as I'd rather listen to John Denver than the crap in question, but fortunately for the rest of you it's not my place to choose for anybody but myself.
Its not censorship since they're not stopping anyone from listening to it, what they are doing is preventing a government sanction of ideas that the general public does not hold.
I feel that talk of "back home country roads" is a thinly veiled reference to racist moonshiners burning crosses on the front lawns of my people (never mind that I descended from said moonshiners on the paternal branch). So please make sure no John Denver CDs are distributed.
It's a bit misleading to say that iTMS and the iPod only work with each other. It is true that the iPod is the only portable device that will play songs purchased from iTMS, but in the other direction, the iPod will play MP3, WAV and AAC files, meaning that you can rather easily use Windows Media Player to rip a stack of John Denver CDs and dump the resulting MP3 files to the iPod just as if it were a Firewire hard drive (because it is).
Now as to the question of whether ripping all your CDs with WiMP or ripping John Denver CDs at all is the greater transgression of societal mores, well, I'll leave discussion of that to those who aren't stuck at work on a Sunday morning.
I have to say that none of them were engineered even as well as the PM8500. Which in and of itself was one of the most bone-headed piece of engineering as I have ever seen in all my days.
A friend of mine acquired one of them a few years back, and brought it to town for an install-fest when 10.1 came out... that has gotta be the coolest OldWorld Mac I've ever seen. My impression of it is that Apple engineers were working on the NewWorld designs, and were practicing their acrylic fabrication skills on the last generation of beige machines. So maybe a bit boneheaded internally, but that, the SE and the IIfx are the old school Macs I'd love to have in my collection fifty years from now.
Flatten and rebuild? Where I come from it's referred to as a Nuke-n-Pave, but I guess that's too intense a bit of imagery for you guys to be using in public.
...telling her she had won a trip for two to the ESPN Espy Awards show in Hollywood on July 14th. She sent me an IM about it, and I (rather condescendingly) informed her that she was almost certainly being spammed. Well, after going to espn.com and finding that the person listed in the email was really in their PR department, and contacting her through their 800 number, guess what?
I've been here 12 years and I still can't make myself say "karry-okey" when I mean karaoke. And if that's not a tip-of-the-iceberg kinda statement, well, then this post is ironic.
I've come across people who claim to be in severe pain but also claim to have allergies to aspirin, Tylenol, every single NSAID (Advil, Aleve, etc., etc., for the non-medical), Ultram, codeine, Vicodin (and every other hydrocodone product)...
Not everybody who makes that claim is a junkie, although it may well be >95%.
I'm among the <5%. A girlfriend and I narrowed it down way back when, but it's been years since I could remember which chemical. Turned out to be one of the inert binders in OTC analgasics. I'd taken various things all my life (although not often), then one night on a movie set some chick gave me some ibuprofen. Later that night, I learned how much fun anaphylactic shock can be.
Over the years I've tried (in small quantities and with appropriate precautions) just about every brand and mix of aspirin, acetominephin and ibuprofen you can buy in the South, including those nasty fucking BC and Goody powders. (Not sure about naproxen though, now that I think about it.)
Now days I use St. Joseph's baby aspirin for light use, and Jack Daniels grownup aspirin for the bigger jobs. I've actually got a prescription for Percoset sitting right here next to me, a souvenir of last week's dental adventure (was done under general, as Versed don't bother me none). Maybe I can trade it for a Gmail invite...
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If it doesn't take effect by November 2nd 2004, it's just posturing.
I've always wanted to see one of the myriad Star Trek shows address the fact that the final step of teleportation is obliterating the original once the copy is confirmed successful. Anyone know of an episode where the writers acknowledge that there's a shredder sitting beneath the fax machine?
Well, it's not like the Democrats haven't been terrorizing poor George Bush.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
then why is it that that movies so often officially lose money?
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that so much of their production cost and payroll structure is based on a percentage of profits. Nope, nothing at all.
The 18.5 minutes of silence finally explained: Richard Nixon was reading "My Pet Goat".
Well, a copy of Alice's Restaurant *was* found in the White House attic when the Carter family moved in. It would be a better fit time-wise, and I think that would be quite likely to have been erased from the wiretaps.
I think he's saying you can fold the screen in half, closing a book [...] Then you unfold it from the other side and it's magic.
Jacob's Laptop?
I think this is a typical result of strandards groups
Heh. How appropriate.
I don't know what, aside from a few very old printers and modems, you'd really miss as far as ADB serial goes
A good Kensington trackball will last a decade, and a good-sized Wacom table can easily be worth as much as your computer.
there were converters for most of these if you really wanted
Not if you're one of them freaks with a stability fetish.
Using Desktop Manager, transitions between virtual desktops was also incredibly smooth.
Dude, you sure about that? I can't imagine the Desktop Manager transitions (tried the cube yet?) being any smoother, and this is only a G4/533 tower.
Back in high school (late 80s) I installed car alarms and such as a side business. Naturally, my car, an '82 Audi 4000s, was my demo car. I had removed the lock plungers and replaced them with status LEDs, with the actual locks triggered by my remote (this was before remote locks were an OEM option).
I walked back to the parking deck after work one day, and it was a giant cop-fest. An entire row of cars was covered in that nasty black fingerprint powder. One car in the middle of that row was undusted: yep, the one that looked like a pain in the ass to break into.
I always explained it to clients this way: You can never make it theft-proof. Just make 'em work harder for yours than the other guy's. If they were willing to work for their money, they wouldn't be breaking into your car in the first place.
Plus IE is dependent upon Windows (Mac IE excepted) and integrates with MS Office and MS Money.
I think you misspelled "extinct" up there.
Let's all make sure we have a "folder" under "Favorites" where we'll store the URLs for root canal and colorectal exam specialists.
Well, as long as they're two separate doctors...
Sorry, guess my sarcasm didn't shine through. While I may not think much of the late Mr. Denver's vocal stylings, I don't claim to be offended by his lyrics in any way, shape or form (unless forced to listen, of course). I chose that as an obviously (or perhaps not) bland example solely for rhetorical purposes.
I say this is a slippery slope because it puts one more example into the public hivemind of gub'mint declining to sanction certain forms of expression as not having artistic merit. Not that I think it does, as I'd rather listen to John Denver than the crap in question, but fortunately for the rest of you it's not my place to choose for anybody but myself.
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Its not censorship since they're not stopping anyone from listening to it, what they are doing is preventing a government sanction of ideas that the general public does not hold.
I feel that talk of "back home country roads" is a thinly veiled reference to racist moonshiners burning crosses on the front lawns of my people (never mind that I descended from said moonshiners on the paternal branch). So please make sure no John Denver CDs are distributed.
Slippery slopes are fun, whee!!!
It's a bit misleading to say that iTMS and the iPod only work with each other. It is true that the iPod is the only portable device that will play songs purchased from iTMS, but in the other direction, the iPod will play MP3, WAV and AAC files, meaning that you can rather easily use Windows Media Player to rip a stack of John Denver CDs and dump the resulting MP3 files to the iPod just as if it were a Firewire hard drive (because it is).
Now as to the question of whether ripping all your CDs with WiMP or ripping John Denver CDs at all is the greater transgression of societal mores, well, I'll leave discussion of that to those who aren't stuck at work on a Sunday morning.
I have to say that none of them were engineered even as well as the PM8500. Which in and of itself was one of the most bone-headed piece of engineering as I have ever seen in all my days.
A friend of mine acquired one of them a few years back, and brought it to town for an install-fest when 10.1 came out... that has gotta be the coolest OldWorld Mac I've ever seen. My impression of it is that Apple engineers were working on the NewWorld designs, and were practicing their acrylic fabrication skills on the last generation of beige machines. So maybe a bit boneheaded internally, but that, the SE and the IIfx are the old school Macs I'd love to have in my collection fifty years from now.
So you're saying that if 99% of the users do it the wrong way, then that majority makes the wrong thing right?
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That is a very ironic bit of reasoning, considering the sentiment expressed in your
Flatten and rebuild? Where I come from it's referred to as a Nuke-n-Pave, but I guess that's too intense a bit of imagery for you guys to be using in public.
Thus there is an inconguity between the anticipated actions of the author and the actions in reality. This is a perfect example of irony.
Of course, if you're gonna go all pedantic on the pedants, a quick spellcheck might be in order.
More likely.
...telling her she had won a trip for two to the ESPN Espy Awards show in Hollywood on July 14th. She sent me an IM about it, and I (rather condescendingly) informed her that she was almost certainly being spammed. Well, after going to espn.com and finding that the person listed in the email was really in their PR department, and contacting her through their 800 number, guess what?
That was the coolest hotel I've ever stayed in. The show sucked, but the view from the room almost made up for it.
Just thought I'd offer up my contribution to the anti-USAPATRIOT Act meme:
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Join us down here south of the Manson-Nixon line.
I've been here 12 years and I still can't make myself say "karry-okey" when I mean karaoke. And if that's not a tip-of-the-iceberg kinda statement, well, then this post is ironic.
Not everybody who makes that claim is a junkie, although it may well be >95%.
I'm among the <5%. A girlfriend and I narrowed it down way back when, but it's been years since I could remember which chemical. Turned out to be one of the inert binders in OTC analgasics. I'd taken various things all my life (although not often), then one night on a movie set some chick gave me some ibuprofen. Later that night, I learned how much fun anaphylactic shock can be.
Over the years I've tried (in small quantities and with appropriate precautions) just about every brand and mix of aspirin, acetominephin and ibuprofen you can buy in the South, including those nasty fucking BC and Goody powders. (Not sure about naproxen though, now that I think about it.)
Now days I use St. Joseph's baby aspirin for light use, and Jack Daniels grownup aspirin for the bigger jobs. I've actually got a prescription for Percoset sitting right here next to me, a souvenir of last week's dental adventure (was done under general, as Versed don't bother me none). Maybe I can trade it for a Gmail invite...