The only thing that sucks is Apple dropping OPENSTEP / Obj-C for Windows.
What in God's name are you talking about?
Back when Apple's aquisition of NeXT was first announced, Apple had indicated that they'd continue to support OPENSTEP Enterprise (the Windows implementation of OpenStep). But it was killed off pretty quick.
The first batch of the original 1989 pirate sets did have the firing cannons even in the US. My 6285 Black Seas Barracuda (awesome set) and 6270 Forbidden Island (not nearly as nice) both had them.
Later batches of those same sets had the disabled cannon, and later pirate sets (and the western sets) had the no-moving-parts cannon in their North American versions.
I'm 31 (32 in October) and grew up in southern California. Like most Americans my age, we learned to "print" in Kindergarten. (Well, I and many of my fellow students could already write our letters before we started school, but we were taught the "correct" way and had to practice it in Kindergarten and first grade.)
For you non-Americans who are still confused by the terminology, we use the word "print" to mean "write letters which look like Helvetica, but usually quite a bit messier." (Except for the lowercase "a"... I guess a font like Futura would be a bit closer to what we were taught.) So if you see "please print" on a form, that doesn't mean you should stick it in your printer. Just write using your best impression of a sans serif font.:-) They just want each letter written separately so the OCR software can tell where each letter begins and ends. Usually it's best to use all uppercase on forms, just in case their OCR software is dumb. (The US Postal Service has magic OCR which can read anything, whether typed, printed, or written in cursive. But other government agencies don't get to use the USPS's OCR, and typically have complete crap instead.)
In second grade we were taught to type. (Did anyone here else learn to type with the Wonderful World of PAWS on an Apple//e? That was the one where you had to type in order to get the cat across the screen so it could reach the ball of yarn, or whatever.) I don't think learning to type before learning cursive had any effect, but maybe it did. I don't know.
Finally, in third or fourth grade (I can't remember which) they taught us cursive (what the teachers called it) or handwriting (what most students called it). Ours was an old-fashioned loopy kind. I can't find any examples of it online, but it was written on a long green strip of plastic, mounted above the chalkboard in all of our classrooms. Some of the capital letters are different from any of the modern samples I can find in Google image search. All the modern samples I've seen have a separate crossbar on the capital "F", for example, whereas ours had the swoosh in the bottom left continue across the stem, like the ones in the Declaration of Independence. No wonder so many people get confused by my "F"s.. I hadn't realized that most people don't write them that way anymore. Note that not all of our letters looked like they were from the Declaration. We didn't have those funny tall "s"es, for example.:-)
After they taught us cursive, we were supposed to start using it (pretty much overnight) and write everything in cursive using ballpoint pen. (In the lower grades we had to print everything in pencil.) That abrupt transition is probably why people hate it. Imagine learning to type on qwerty for 3 years and then having to switch to dvorak overnight. (Or the opposite.. the direction doesn't matter, it's the abrupt switch which people hate.) We'd all have better handwriting if they'd teach us one system and stick with it.
Most of us sucked at it. Some of the girls practiced it nonstop and ended up with pretty nice handwriting (except for those stupid hearts on their "i"s and "j"s, of course). The other girls and nearly all of the boys never developed very good handwriting. The 4th-6th grade teachers all insisted that we'd never be allowed to print again and that it was vital that we improve our cursive. But of course at the junior high (7th & 8th grades) only about half of the teachers cared. And in high school almost no teacher required cursive (aside from English teachers on the verge of retiring), so at least half of us reverted to printing for tests and such. By my junior year of high school we were expected to type all of our papers anyway.
In college I reverted to printing. College caused my printing to mutate quickly, as speed gained importance, as well as the ability to write while not looking down at the paper. As a result, it is illegible to most peopl
Yeah, that's one of my biggest annoyances with C syntax. (I much prefer Perl's labelled loops, which allows the next/last/redo statements to indicate what scope should be exited.)
This is the language that thinks it's a good idea to redefine boolean to be YES and NO.
You do realize that Objective-C was designed before C had a boolean type, right? (C didn't have a standardized boolean type until C99, but Objective-C has been around since the mid-80s.) So they weren't redefining anything. Everyone else at that time was just using a char or int and had a "#define TRUE 1" at the top of their programs...
Well I also have a analog television set so I bought a converter box thinking that it would receive the same channels the digital television set did but it did not receive any channels at all.
The digital converter boxes only have over-the-air ATSC tuners. As far as I know, none of them have QAM tuners for the signals used by most cable TV providers. So a digital converter box does nothing useful when attached to cable. It's only for use with an antenna.
Although some older digital TVs have only ATSC tuners, many recent TVs include both QAM and ATSC tuners, allowing them to receive digital signals with either a cable connection or an antenna.
It's a similar situation to the 1980s, when some TVs had only VHF/UHF NTSC tuners, but some TVs were starting to include CATV tuners as well. (Marketing materials usually referred to such units as "cable-ready".)
Nope, it's not in Lisp anymore. They didn't want to spend the time porting all their Lisp stuff to the PS3 and they wanted to be able to use Sony's libraries easily (as well as share some of their code with others who aren't into Lisp) so they did this one in C++.
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So? Just enter the damn code again (select-play-select-3-0-select).. It still works in the latest software. (You just have to reenter the code every time your reboot.. but how often is that?)
And they need a web browser. My Wii is great, I can surf on my cell phone, why not a Tivo.
I never use the browser on my Wii... it sucks to use a web browser w/o a real keyboard. and the tivo remote would be a lot worse for page navigation than the wii remote. I'll just use my Wii (or my laptop) when I want to use the web in my living room.
They need two way Cable cards so I can do on demand.
I'm sure TiVo would love it (although Amazon's Unbox division wouldn't). But CableLabs has been dragging its feet on it (so there's no standard approved yet) and it will be a long time after the standard is complete before you see cable companies actually making cards available. And even then it may not be possible for TiVo to use them, given CableLabs' licensing terms.
They need Tivo to go on series 3.
As part of the TiVo HD announcement they said that they are working on TiVo to Go for Series 3.
They need extra storage enabled.
It already is. There's just no pretty GUI for it. Here's how to do it:
Connect an eSATA drive to the TiVo Series 3.
Reboot the TiVo.
Hold down the Pause button on the remote (be sure to have it pointed at the TiVo)
All 4 LEDs (two red, one yellow, one blue) are lit while it boots. At some point they all turn off except yellow. You can let go of the Pause button at this point.
Type "62" on the remote
The TiVo will now format the drive, and when it's done it will put up a message on the screen saying that the drive is being used.
I've added a 750 GB eSATA drive to my TiVo using this method, and now I have 1 TB of total storage.:-)
The old extras were nice, browsing PC pictures, adding games, browsing online audio channels, etc. More cool stuff like that would be good.
Yep, more stuff would be cool. They need more TiVocasts, and they could use some better games. The podcast player is pretty decent, and the picture/music sharing system works fine. They should get Apple to port iTunes, though.:-) (but their deal with Amazon Unbox might get in the way.)
The device doesn't work unless you pay $13.95 a month.
Well, strictly speaking, you can use it w/o paying the service fees.. you can use it like a VCR ("hey tivo, record channel 7 from 8 to 8:30") but that would defeat the purpose.
I'm happy enough with my TiVo to pay the fee. (and it's only $8.31/month for me.. I did a 3 year pre-paid plan at $299)
select, play, select, 3, 0, select... same as any other TiVo. It will stay in effect until you reboot (or you can enter the code again to disable it, but why would you want to do that?)
Japan has 500 yen coins, worth about $4.50, so ~ $5 coins are not unheard of.
The US had Half Eagle coins worth $5, so ~ $5 coins are not unheard of.
(And yes, we obviously had Eagles worth $10. And there was a Quarter Eagle worth $2.50, a Double Eagle worth $20, and there was even a $3 coin at one point.)
It's not like very many Americans are lining up to buy Japanese music that's not available overseas, but Terry Pratchett fans in the US were complaining for years about the way his novels were available exclusively in the UK for months before that got changed.
Do they get the original or a special US only version though?
Pratchett's current publisher in the US is HarperCollins.
Although the books are now released at approximately the same time in the US as in the UK (and in a few cases a few days before the UK!) they have different covers. (Many American fans order the books from Canadian bookstores in order to get the Paul Kidby covers.)
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Yes, QuickDraw is deprecated. But it's still used by quite a bit of common software. (Such as MS Office, or nearly anything from Adobe.)
Actually, most of the differences between the two systems stem from the fact that the british changed the definitions of several of their units _after_ we had declared our independence. Back in 1776 they used the units which we use today.
yes, we've modified units as well since that time, but nearly all of the changes were the tiny ones involved in making them based on SI units (such as changing the definition of the inch such that 1 in == 2.54 cm)
I just hit F9 and counted.. I have 20 windows open at the moment, four of which are browser windows with multiple tabs. (3-10 tabs each)
six windows on my left monitor, 14 on the right
the left monitor tends to have stuff that is always open in the background.. (iChat and iTunes and such) the right is where I have the windows which I'm actively using (terminals, browsers, editors)
Safari is written in a combination of both C++ (for the KHTML bits) and Objective-C (for the GUI stuff).
And switching it to use garbage-collected Obj-C would involve a bit of work, so I doubt it'll happen soon.
"Center" is the older spelling! Here's what the OED has to say about it:
The prevalent spelling from 16th to 18th c. was center, in Shakespeare, Milton, Boyle, Pope, Addison, etc.; so the early dictionaries, Cotgr. ('centre, F., a center'), Cockeram, Phillips, Kersey, and all the thirty editions of Bailey 1721-1802; but the technical volume of Bailey (Vol. II.) 1727-31 and the folio 1730-36, have centre; 'an interleaved copy of the folio of 1730 was the foundation of Johnson's Dictionary', which followed it in spelling centre; this has been generally adopted in Great Britain, while center is the prevalent spelling in the United States.
So "center" was still the predominant spelling even in British usage during the 18th century. The switch to the French spelling "centre" happened too late for us to switch. (But since Canada continued to be British territory for so much longer, they got the new spelling. Although in my experience, Canadians tend to use both interchangeably.)
Consistency. We have "-er" words. You have "-er" and "-re". How is that easier?
US spelling tends to use more Latin word endings than French endings. While the Roman word was neuter rather than masculine (so they spelled it "centrum") if it had been masculine, it probably would have been "center". (It certainly wouldn't have been "centre"). Yes, British usage is fairly consistent (using "-re" for Latin 2nd declension neuter words which ended in "-rum") but in American usage you don't have to know whether the Latin word was masculine or neuter... it's "-er" either way. And although I think learning Latin is very good for one's understanding of English (and it's "color", damnit, even the Romans spelled it correctly;-) I don't realistically expect most people to learn it.
Note that in the case of "color" (and other "-or/-our" words) the "-our" spelling was in fact in place prior to the 18th century. (With the curious exception of "honor", which continued to be spelled either with or without the 'u'.) Even Noah Webster himself used "colour" in early editions of his dictionary. It wasn't until he switched to the older Roman spelling that the US dropped the 'u'. Yay, Webster.
The Wikipedia article on the differences between American and British English is quite fascinating. The notes on how Canadian and Australian usage are interesting, as it can seem quite random.
Note that I use British punctuation rules for handling punctuation which occurs near quote marks. The American style (which finally seems to be losing hold) is simply illogical.
Izze is sold by some supermarkets (such as Safeway/Vons/whatever it is in your area) and other stores. It's not too expensive when I buy it at Vons (especially if it's on sale) but I occasionally pay a somewhat ridiculous $2/bottle at a store two blocks from where I work, just because it's more convenient.
Izze is great stuff. The grapefruit is my favorite, but the pear flavor is pretty good too.
yeah, I really like the "connect the arrow" optical scan system. We used to use it here in San Bernardino County, California, but they've switched to a stupid touch screen system. I used the touch screen system once, but now I always request an absentee ballot.. they still use the optical scan system for those.
We use pencil (with smaller arrows, I guess) for ours, not Sharpie.. perhaps in order to make the ballot fit on a reasonable number of sheets of paper.
The gubernatorial recall election a few years ago was sort of funny.. they put all 240 or so candidates on a single side of a single giant piece of paper. That thing was huge. First the yes/no question, then the "pick one of these" question. I think there were a few propositions on the back, which most people seemed not to notice. That was before they went to touch-screen for non-absentee voters.. I wonder whether the touch screen system would be able to handle that.
I'm not sure why it was all on one sheet, rather than spread out. (Our ballots in most elections are multiple pages. senator or president or whatever on one page, state offices on another, then a page with county or city elections, then a few pages of school board, community college district, etc. then a few pages of propositions, and maybe some county measures as well.) Perhaps there's some law about putting all the candidates for a particular election on one sheet or something.
"The Constitution does not guarantee the right to travel by any particular form of transportation."
Time to get out the horse and buggy, with that federal logic...
who says you have the right to travel by horse and buggy, either? What's to stop them from requiring an ID for every form of transportation? No individual form is guaranteed, so therefore there's no guarantee that any form is.
I guess this is one of those rare cases where those of us on the west coast have the advantage. sports stuff is nearly always over before the sunday night lineup starts.:-).. I guess UPN and Enterporn was another similar case. (I remember hearing several complaints from people in the eastern time zone about UPN showing basketball or something instead of ST:E)
The west coast has to deal with a lot of really stupid crap, like tape-delaying the frickin oscars.. whenever that happens, they end up announcing results on the local news _before_ the event is aired on TV.. recently they seem to have figured that out and are showing it live. Or worse.. tape delaying shows which have call in segments, or other components which just don't work if it's not live. (yeah, like someone is going to remember to call in or participate in a web survey/chat/whatever 3 hours before the show airs.)
But as annoying as tape-delays are, they don't compare to not being able to see the show at all.
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What in God's name are you talking about?
Back when Apple's aquisition of NeXT was first announced, Apple had indicated that they'd continue to support OPENSTEP Enterprise (the Windows implementation of OpenStep). But it was killed off pretty quick.
You can swap arms if you're very careful, but if you don't do it just right they can break. The LEGO company doesn't consider them removable.
The first batch of the original 1989 pirate sets did have the firing cannons even in the US. My 6285 Black Seas Barracuda (awesome set) and 6270 Forbidden Island (not nearly as nice) both had them.
Later batches of those same sets had the disabled cannon, and later pirate sets (and the western sets) had the no-moving-parts cannon in their North American versions.
I'm 31 (32 in October) and grew up in southern California. Like most Americans my age, we learned to "print" in Kindergarten. (Well, I and many of my fellow students could already write our letters before we started school, but we were taught the "correct" way and had to practice it in Kindergarten and first grade.)
For you non-Americans who are still confused by the terminology, we use the word "print" to mean "write letters which look like Helvetica, but usually quite a bit messier." (Except for the lowercase "a" ... I guess a font like Futura would be a bit closer to what we were taught.) So if you see "please print" on a form, that doesn't mean you should stick it in your printer. Just write using your best impression of a sans serif font. :-) They just want each letter written separately so the OCR software can tell where each letter begins and ends. Usually it's best to use all uppercase on forms, just in case their OCR software is dumb. (The US Postal Service has magic OCR which can read anything, whether typed, printed, or written in cursive. But other government agencies don't get to use the USPS's OCR, and typically have complete crap instead.)
In second grade we were taught to type. (Did anyone here else learn to type with the Wonderful World of PAWS on an Apple //e? That was the one where you had to type in order to get the cat across the screen so it could reach the ball of yarn, or whatever.) I don't think learning to type before learning cursive had any effect, but maybe it did. I don't know.
Finally, in third or fourth grade (I can't remember which) they taught us cursive (what the teachers called it) or handwriting (what most students called it). Ours was an old-fashioned loopy kind. I can't find any examples of it online, but it was written on a long green strip of plastic, mounted above the chalkboard in all of our classrooms. Some of the capital letters are different from any of the modern samples I can find in Google image search. All the modern samples I've seen have a separate crossbar on the capital "F", for example, whereas ours had the swoosh in the bottom left continue across the stem, like the ones in the Declaration of Independence. No wonder so many people get confused by my "F"s.. I hadn't realized that most people don't write them that way anymore. Note that not all of our letters looked like they were from the Declaration. We didn't have those funny tall "s"es, for example. :-)
After they taught us cursive, we were supposed to start using it (pretty much overnight) and write everything in cursive using ballpoint pen. (In the lower grades we had to print everything in pencil.) That abrupt transition is probably why people hate it. Imagine learning to type on qwerty for 3 years and then having to switch to dvorak overnight. (Or the opposite.. the direction doesn't matter, it's the abrupt switch which people hate.) We'd all have better handwriting if they'd teach us one system and stick with it.
Most of us sucked at it. Some of the girls practiced it nonstop and ended up with pretty nice handwriting (except for those stupid hearts on their "i"s and "j"s, of course). The other girls and nearly all of the boys never developed very good handwriting. The 4th-6th grade teachers all insisted that we'd never be allowed to print again and that it was vital that we improve our cursive. But of course at the junior high (7th & 8th grades) only about half of the teachers cared. And in high school almost no teacher required cursive (aside from English teachers on the verge of retiring), so at least half of us reverted to printing for tests and such. By my junior year of high school we were expected to type all of our papers anyway.
In college I reverted to printing. College caused my printing to mutate quickly, as speed gained importance, as well as the ability to write while not looking down at the paper. As a result, it is illegible to most peopl
Yeah, that's one of my biggest annoyances with C syntax. (I much prefer Perl's labelled loops, which allows the next/last/redo statements to indicate what scope should be exited.)
This is the language that thinks it's a good idea to redefine boolean to be YES and NO.
You do realize that Objective-C was designed before C had a boolean type, right? (C didn't have a standardized boolean type until C99, but Objective-C has been around since the mid-80s.) So they weren't redefining anything. Everyone else at that time was just using a char or int and had a "#define TRUE 1" at the top of their programs...
Well I also have a analog television set so I bought a converter box thinking that it would receive the same channels the digital television set did but it did not receive any channels at all.
The digital converter boxes only have over-the-air ATSC tuners. As far as I know, none of them have QAM tuners for the signals used by most cable TV providers. So a digital converter box does nothing useful when attached to cable. It's only for use with an antenna.
Although some older digital TVs have only ATSC tuners, many recent TVs include both QAM and ATSC tuners, allowing them to receive digital signals with either a cable connection or an antenna.
It's a similar situation to the 1980s, when some TVs had only VHF/UHF NTSC tuners, but some TVs were starting to include CATV tuners as well. (Marketing materials usually referred to such units as "cable-ready".)
Nope, it's not in Lisp anymore. They didn't want to spend the time porting all their Lisp stuff to the PS3 and they wanted to be able to use Sony's libraries easily (as well as share some of their code with others who aren't into Lisp) so they did this one in C++.
It's mentioned in this interview
So? Just enter the damn code again (select-play-select-3-0-select) .. It still works in the latest software. (You just have to reenter the code every time your reboot .. but how often is that?)
I never use the browser on my Wii... it sucks to use a web browser w/o a real keyboard. and the tivo remote would be a lot worse for page navigation than the wii remote. I'll just use my Wii (or my laptop) when I want to use the web in my living room.
I'm sure TiVo would love it (although Amazon's Unbox division wouldn't). But CableLabs has been dragging its feet on it (so there's no standard approved yet) and it will be a long time after the standard is complete before you see cable companies actually making cards available. And even then it may not be possible for TiVo to use them, given CableLabs' licensing terms.
As part of the TiVo HD announcement they said that they are working on TiVo to Go for Series 3.
It already is. There's just no pretty GUI for it. Here's how to do it:
I've added a 750 GB eSATA drive to my TiVo using this method, and now I have 1 TB of total storage. :-)
Yep, more stuff would be cool. They need more TiVocasts, and they could use some better games. The podcast player is pretty decent, and the picture/music sharing system works fine. They should get Apple to port iTunes, though. :-) (but their deal with Amazon Unbox might get in the way.)
Well, strictly speaking, you can use it w/o paying the service fees.. you can use it like a VCR ("hey tivo, record channel 7 from 8 to 8:30") but that would defeat the purpose.
I'm happy enough with my TiVo to pay the fee. (and it's only $8.31/month for me.. I did a 3 year pre-paid plan at $299)
select, play, select, 3, 0, select ... same as any other TiVo. It will stay in effect until you reboot (or you can enter the code again to disable it, but why would you want to do that?)
The US had Half Eagle coins worth $5, so ~ $5 coins are not unheard of.
(And yes, we obviously had Eagles worth $10. And there was a Quarter Eagle worth $2.50, a Double Eagle worth $20, and there was even a $3 coin at one point.)
Pratchett's current publisher in the US is HarperCollins.
Although the books are now released at approximately the same time in the US as in the UK (and in a few cases a few days before the UK!) they have different covers. (Many American fans order the books from Canadian bookstores in order to get the Paul Kidby covers.)
Yes, QuickDraw is deprecated. But it's still used by quite a bit of common software. (Such as MS Office, or nearly anything from Adobe.)
Actually, most of the differences between the two systems stem from the fact that the british changed the definitions of several of their units _after_ we had declared our independence. Back in 1776 they used the units which we use today.
yes, we've modified units as well since that time, but nearly all of the changes were the tiny ones involved in making them based on SI units (such as changing the definition of the inch such that 1 in == 2.54 cm)
I just hit F9 and counted.. I have 20 windows open at the moment, four of which are browser windows with multiple tabs. (3-10 tabs each) six windows on my left monitor, 14 on the right the left monitor tends to have stuff that is always open in the background.. (iChat and iTunes and such) the right is where I have the windows which I'm actively using (terminals, browsers, editors)
Safari is written in a combination of both C++ (for the KHTML bits) and Objective-C (for the GUI stuff). And switching it to use garbage-collected Obj-C would involve a bit of work, so I doubt it'll happen soon.
We spell it "center" for a few reasons:
"Center" is the older spelling! Here's what the OED has to say about it:
So "center" was still the predominant spelling even in British usage during the 18th century. The switch to the French spelling "centre" happened too late for us to switch. (But since Canada continued to be British territory for so much longer, they got the new spelling. Although in my experience, Canadians tend to use both interchangeably.)
Consistency. We have "-er" words. You have "-er" and "-re". How is that easier?
US spelling tends to use more Latin word endings than French endings. While the Roman word was neuter rather than masculine (so they spelled it "centrum") if it had been masculine, it probably would have been "center". (It certainly wouldn't have been "centre"). Yes, British usage is fairly consistent (using "-re" for Latin 2nd declension neuter words which ended in "-rum") but in American usage you don't have to know whether the Latin word was masculine or neuter ... it's "-er" either way. And although I think learning Latin is very good for one's understanding of English (and it's "color", damnit, even the Romans spelled it correctly ;-) I don't realistically expect most people to learn it.
Note that in the case of "color" (and other "-or/-our" words) the "-our" spelling was in fact in place prior to the 18th century. (With the curious exception of "honor", which continued to be spelled either with or without the 'u'.) Even Noah Webster himself used "colour" in early editions of his dictionary. It wasn't until he switched to the older Roman spelling that the US dropped the 'u'. Yay, Webster.
The Wikipedia article on the differences between American and British English is quite fascinating. The notes on how Canadian and Australian usage are interesting, as it can seem quite random.
Note that I use British punctuation rules for handling punctuation which occurs near quote marks. The American style (which finally seems to be losing hold) is simply illogical.
Keynote, not PowerPoint.
Izze is sold by some supermarkets (such as Safeway/Vons/whatever it is in your area) and other stores. It's not too expensive when I buy it at Vons (especially if it's on sale) but I occasionally pay a somewhat ridiculous $2/bottle at a store two blocks from where I work, just because it's more convenient.
Izze is great stuff. The grapefruit is my favorite, but the pear flavor is pretty good too.
yeah, I really like the "connect the arrow" optical scan system. We used to use it here in San Bernardino County, California, but they've switched to a stupid touch screen system. I used the touch screen system once, but now I always request an absentee ballot .. they still use the optical scan system for those.
.. perhaps in order to make the ballot fit on a reasonable number of sheets of paper.
.. they put all 240 or so candidates on a single side of a single giant piece of paper. That thing was huge. First the yes/no question, then the "pick one of these" question. I think there were a few propositions on the back, which most people seemed not to notice. That was before they went to touch-screen for non-absentee voters.. I wonder whether the touch screen system would be able to handle that.
We use pencil (with smaller arrows, I guess) for ours, not Sharpie
The gubernatorial recall election a few years ago was sort of funny
I'm not sure why it was all on one sheet, rather than spread out. (Our ballots in most elections are multiple pages. senator or president or whatever on one page, state offices on another, then a page with county or city elections, then a few pages of school board, community college district, etc. then a few pages of propositions, and maybe some county measures as well.) Perhaps there's some law about putting all the candidates for a particular election on one sheet or something.
who says you have the right to travel by horse and buggy, either? What's to stop them from requiring an ID for every form of transportation? No individual form is guaranteed, so therefore there's no guarantee that any form is.
I guess this is one of those rare cases where those of us on the west coast have the advantage. sports stuff is nearly always over before the sunday night lineup starts. :-) .. I guess UPN and Enterporn was another similar case. (I remember hearing several complaints from people in the eastern time zone about UPN showing basketball or something instead of ST:E)
.. recently they seem to have figured that out and are showing it live. Or worse .. tape delaying shows which have call in segments, or other components which just don't work if it's not live. (yeah, like someone is going to remember to call in or participate in a web survey/chat/whatever 3 hours before the show airs.)
The west coast has to deal with a lot of really stupid crap, like tape-delaying the frickin oscars.. whenever that happens, they end up announcing results on the local news _before_ the event is aired on TV
But as annoying as tape-delays are, they don't compare to not being able to see the show at all.
I guess we will have to sit and wait for the Intelligent Designer (don't use the G word!) to turn a zebra into cardamom.
Well, I guess the FSM would most likely turn it into oregano or something similarly suited for use in tomato sauce. Yum.
so all baptists are popes?