If you're not with them, you're against them, right? If you're not a supporter, you must be an objector. So... the objectors are... everyone else? When you look at it that way, three pages is an awfully short list.
Interestingly enough, it's probably more true than we realize. Consider the very small portion of the population that has a fetish for all things scatological. Given the fundamentally repulsive nature of the subject it's reasonable to assume that everyone else objects to all things scatological... even the people who make their living dealing with it and cleaning it up. Which probably explains why EA, Nintendo and Sony withdrew their support. At some point they facepalmed and muttered, "we don't need more of this shit."
There really ought to be an official term for "facepalmed and muttered we don't need more of this shit." There seems to be a lot of it going around these days. SonyPalmed? EAPalmed? VerizonPalmed? HPalmed? Wait, I think that one's trademarked, and well-defended through continued use.
Why can't we have BASIC on our phones? All I need is 5 lines of code to explain this:
5 LET S$=0000000000
10 DIAL S$
20 PLAY REFINANCE_SALES_PITCH.MP3
30 S$ = S$ + 1
40 GOTO 10
Can you imagine what the world would be like if people could do this? There would be computers calling all the time. You'd hang up on them but they wouldn't care, because they'd just move on to the next number, and some other computer would call you a few minutes later, also not caring that you hung up on them. The phone companies would grow fat off the revenues from all these calls, which would be paid for by the 1% of morons who actually bought something from our purely-hypothetical (fingerquote) ROBO DIALER (fingerquote).
A world like that would be totally insane. This is why we don't allow junk mail in the postal service. Can you imagine? Or self-aggrandizing sociopaths in Congress. We'd be in serious trouble... thank goodness we don't live in that world.
Actually, it would have been even better if it had been a Coke bottle from space that fell in Botswana (which borders Namibia). But I doubt many people would have gotten the reference.
My first thought was exactly the same as the previous two posts. Yet it's sad that the author could assume we all knew what a space ball was, but had to provide directions to help us locate a country that is larger than Texas. If only Mel Brooks had been a geography teacher.
.. to begin with. That's just incompetent management. I don't have the right to delete anyones video at whim either, so why should big companies.
UMG argued that any company that owns more than 110% of the creative works of the world should logically have the ability to delete whatever videos it wishes, and that there were at least 4 such companies. If you can convince them that you also own at least 110%, I'm sure they would be fine with giving you the sacred Deletion Suitcase.
...it's a fun book and you just might learn something.
Telling the slashdot crowd they might learn something from a "fun" book about sex is a little like telling Charlie Bucket he should press his face against the glass window of a candy shop because he might learn something about how much fun the rest of the world has enjoying something he will probably never have have. Unless he fishes around in the gutter and gets lucky. But that's just pure fantasy... it's like something Roald Dahl would write!
After their recent misstetp they'll likely be a bargain buy. Expect Verizon to only be interested in the technology, IP and media rights portfolio, while they ditch the people who are running the company.
I'm sure Verizon sees this as the next generation of cable companies. With Netflix being the only real player, this will put them ahead of their competitors in the cable company space (AT&T, Warner, etc.) whose on-demand services are still largely indistinguishable from on-demand 10 years ago. However, I would think that its media rights portfolio would be treated as a toxic asset... its cost is a liability that has thrown Netflix's future into question.
You know, it's bad enough that ISP's, Verizon definitely included, are using bandwidth caps now, which limits the attraction of a service like Netflix.
Verizon will then be able to get you both ways. The Verizon brand will charge you a fee when you exceed their bandwidth cap, and their new Netflix brand will charge you another fee for exceeding their bandwidth cap (which will surely be introduced when Verizon takes over. I can just see the Verizon execs looking over the Netflix books and saying, "you guys aren't charging by the gigabyte? Oh, this'll be an easy fix!") . Thus, the parent company gets to double dip. It's like printing your own money, only with the government's lobbyist-purchased blessing.
There's no good reason that EVERYONE can't be accommodated.
Oddly enough, Microsoft of all people managed to stumble upon this.
Actually, I would cite Microsoft as the prime example of how difficult, if not impossible, it is to accommodate everyone. Microsoft writes one operating system that is supposed to accommodate all the different manufacturers (which is part of the reason Windows has historically been so unstable and bloated) and "power users" (they couldn't fix security holes because that would break things people were using).
The UI accommodation mantra is this (with apologies to Abraham Lincoln): "You can fool all the people into thinking they have been accommodated some of the time, you can fool some of the people into thinking they have been accommodated all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time."
I struggled for nearly a half an hour the other day with an OSX machine. I wanted to add a new certificate to the system wide trusted roots. I have a pretty solid understanding of the functional elements of public key cryptography the stumbling block was entirely UI.
This isn't exactly something a typical user does every day (99% of the population will never do this, ever), therefore it's not one of those things that you're expected to intuitively figure out. This is like saying, "it took me nearly half an hour to figure out which wire I needed to splice to install a remote starter in my car. I have a pretty solid understanding of the functional elements of starters the stumbling block was entirely wiring." This is slashdot... we don't care if you RTFA, but for pete's sake, RTFM... better yet GTFM (Google The Freaking Manual).
We're not talking about Buzz Lightyear, Space Ranger.
USAF Space Command is responsible for military satellites that support other commands. For a while, it was also responsible for intercontinental ballistic missiles (Anyone remember War Games? Or Spies Like Us? "Do you know what those things can do? Suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro." Space Command was responsible for "those things" that the 1980s believed would bring about the end of the world.), but in recent years traded that responsibility for "cyber operations" (you know, the people who are watching the Chinese who are reading your email).
Allow me to explain what happened behind the scenes:
CSR Smithers: Sir, there's a man on the phone who says his daughter dropped her DSi in the toilet and he wants to know how to transfer the save data to the 3DS he's going to give her for Christmas. But there's no way to do that! What should I do? Supervisor Burns: Dear God! The child has heard that the iPhone is going to do everything our product does and more for less money, so she threw it in the toilet! But the parent hasn't figured this out yet... we have to keep him from returning his 3DS until Christmas. Find some used DSi and send it to him. CSR: But sir, it's out of warranty. Supervisor: Just send it!
"Security" = trying hard to make sure consumers can't jailbreak their own devices.
They were honest about the proprietary format being for security. They just left out the word "job" before security. Of course, the tighter we try to hold on to some things, the more forcefully they fly out of our grasp.
Sorry to break up this anti-mosquito party, but don't mosquitos serve a useful purpose in nature?
Yes, for some time now they have been effective at checking the uncontrolled population growth of a mammal that cuts down trees, pollutes the environment on an unprecedented scale, drives countless species to extinction and is the only animal with the capacity or need to watch Fox News.
It probably won't work anyway. Genetically modifying tiny pests so they no longer have wings doesn't necessarily make them go away... it just forces them to get creative.
I think that's the wrong response. Better response should be, why should the two categories be taxed at different rates? Another good question would be, why tax basic foods such as fruits and vegetables?
You're obviously not from the U.S. We believe in a link between taxation and representation (See Boston Tea Party). Many people think this means that if you are taxed, you must be represented, but it works the other way too. Since the majority of people register to vote as "Fruits" (people with outlandish ideas and little respect for the status quo) or "Vegetables" (unexciting people who seem to have a level of brain activity on par with a cucumber) and each of those groups is already represented by its own political party, it only made sense to tax them. Of course, one group believes everyone should be taxed equally (flat tax) and the other group believes in taxing at different rates (tax the rich). This is a constant source of ongoing debate, but most people believe that both fruits and vegetables should be taxed. There is a third group, known as the "nuts," who believe no one should be taxed, but no one takes them or Ron Paul seriously -- they serve mostly as diversionary entertainment when we get tired of hearing the fruits and veggies bicker.
I'm halfway through the new biography now, and based on what I've read so far, I'd venture a guess that if you held a seance and could channel Steve he would tell you that it cost humanity less to make a handicapped person struggle with an extra 25 minutes to get from the parking lot to the building than for him to take an extra minute getting to work to make his dent in the universe each day. "Was that handicapped person going to make the iPad happen? You're damned lucky I parked there every day. During my time at Apple I saved two years of wasted time by doing that. I would have been dead before we got the iPad to the public!"
He also had a tendency to completely ignore things he didn't like (critics, his out-of-wedlock daughter's existence, the fact that drinking carrot juice did not make him immune to BO, deadlines, his terminal cancer...). I'm sure he pulled into work every day, thought "there's a spot, right near the door," was not even conscious of the handicapped sign and pulled right in. It just so happened that the spots near the door that happened to be empty were the handicapped spots. If those had been occupied and a spot marked, "Reserved for Tim Cook," or "Electric Vehicles Only," or "Police Parking Only," it wouldn't have mattered. He would have parked because the spot was empty. And if his vehicle got towed he would have just called Smythe European and told them to have someone drive down Steven's Creek and deliver a new car to the campus in 15 minutes.
Or perhaps he simply considered his lack of compassion a handicap, which therefore entitled him to the spot.
The New York Times says deployed soldiers overseas cost us about $1 million per year, EACH.
Wikipedia says that as of Dec 2010 we had 103,700 personnel in Afghanistan alone.
What are we currently accomplishing in Afghanistan? I am not saying we're not accomplishing anything, and I'm not saying it's not important... but ask yourself, "is it worth $103.7 billion a year? Is it 9 times more important than the Energy Department's Office of Science, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the U.S. Geological Survey? Because we're spending 9 times as much on Afghanistan per year as we are on all of that combined.
Is $103.7 billion a year in Afghanistan keeping us safe? Or is it just giving us a reason to keep giving the Pakistanis money that they use to pay terrorists to attack us there so we'll keep giving them money? A strike team killed Bin Laden, not a 103,000-person army. A drone killed Awlaki in Yemen last month. Diplomacy and support killed Qaddafi today. As a superpower in the 21st century, huge combat forces don't win wars, they are political liabilities and drains on the economic strength of the country.
By giving the money back to the people, they will invest it in things that are important to them, which will spur innovation. That's the Republican Dream. Just think... we'll have an HP in a garage on every block! Millions of companies that had big plans and... oh wait... gave up on them.
When Paul was running for president, I saw an attractive woman in dark sunglasses standing on the median of a busy expressway during rush hour holding a sign that simply said, "Ron Paul for President." She was apparently enjoying herself, swaying back and forth a bit, and as I sat in traffic I thought this was a perfect representation of Ron Paul:
Looks good at first glance, but doesn't go any deeper than that
Screams "look at me" and really says nothing else
Middle of the road but not going anywhere or doing anything
Distracting people to disrupt the productive flow of things
Whenever I hear another ridiculous idea of Ron Paul's that plays to people's general discontent without offering any actual solutions, I think of that woman. He should really be on Wall Street leading the OWS protesters. He appeals to their message: "The only thing we agree on is that we're pissed off, and we have no solutions." He won't go, though, because then when he fails it would finally become apparent that it's not because people didn't understand what he was about... it's because they did.
There's a photo album attached to TFA, and one of the photos shows Woz sitting in a chair with the Segway (conveniently marked "Segway") standing by the wall in the background.
Nobody deserves to have to die — not Jobs, not Mr. Bill...
Interesting choice of words. I'm not sure if "Mr. Bill" is a reference to Bill Gates or Mr. Bill from Saturday Night Live. Because I actually think SNL's Mr. Bill does deserve to die. Have you seen what they do to that guy? Every episode they're either running him over or chopping off some body part... they should just let him rest in peace. And in pieces, in his case.
Of course, now this makes me wonder if SNL's Mr. Bill started out as someone's sick commentary on Mr. Gates. Perhaps the creator's computer blue-screened when Office tried to load Clippy, and he started composing these skits while he waited for the reboot. "It looks like you're trying to write a letter. What you do is-- OH NOOO... I got a paper cut and it severed my arm! Oh NOOOOO...."
The thing I have always appreciated about good science fiction is that it teaches us things about ourselves that other genres cannot. We all have our preconceived notions about ourselves and our situations, and we resist listening to anything that deviates from those notions. But when you watch good science fiction your brain tells you, "I'd never sit in The Busy Bee Cafe and let those cards dictate my life", so you let your guard down and enjoy a brief escape from reality. But at some point in the story you realize that you are watching yourself. What drew you to your science fiction roles?
After a few minutes of reading your Web site, I was struck by a sense that something was subtly not right. Then I realized You Capitalize The First Letter Of nearly Every Word Of Every Sentence Like It Is A Headline In A Newspaper (it's like an obsessive-compulsive variant of upstyle). It's significant because it's deliberate, more labor-intensive than typing in ALL CAPS, and it's painful to read. Perhaps you are poking fun at the pauses in the delivery of Kirk's lines by making every word seem like a new sentence. Perhaps if someone with more time on their hands than I were to string together every fifth non-capitalized first letter and reverse them they spell out some secret manifesto about getting a life. Perhaps it is an attempt to inflict mental anguish upon those obnoxious diehard fans who have hung on your every word for years. Please tell us, what is with this bizarre writing style? I'm honestly afraid to buy your new book for fear that it will be written the same way.
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If you're not with them, you're against them, right? If you're not a supporter, you must be an objector. So... the objectors are... everyone else? When you look at it that way, three pages is an awfully short list.
Interestingly enough, it's probably more true than we realize. Consider the very small portion of the population that has a fetish for all things scatological. Given the fundamentally repulsive nature of the subject it's reasonable to assume that everyone else objects to all things scatological... even the people who make their living dealing with it and cleaning it up. Which probably explains why EA, Nintendo and Sony withdrew their support. At some point they facepalmed and muttered, "we don't need more of this shit."
There really ought to be an official term for "facepalmed and muttered we don't need more of this shit." There seems to be a lot of it going around these days. SonyPalmed? EAPalmed? VerizonPalmed? HPalmed? Wait, I think that one's trademarked, and well-defended through continued use.
Why can't we have BASIC on our phones? All I need is 5 lines of code to explain this:
5 LET S$=0000000000
10 DIAL S$
20 PLAY REFINANCE_SALES_PITCH.MP3
30 S$ = S$ + 1
40 GOTO 10
Can you imagine what the world would be like if people could do this? There would be computers calling all the time. You'd hang up on them but they wouldn't care, because they'd just move on to the next number, and some other computer would call you a few minutes later, also not caring that you hung up on them. The phone companies would grow fat off the revenues from all these calls, which would be paid for by the 1% of morons who actually bought something from our purely-hypothetical (fingerquote) ROBO DIALER (fingerquote).
A world like that would be totally insane. This is why we don't allow junk mail in the postal service. Can you imagine? Or self-aggrandizing sociopaths in Congress. We'd be in serious trouble... thank goodness we don't live in that world.
Actually, it would have been even better if it had been a Coke bottle from space that fell in Botswana (which borders Namibia). But I doubt many people would have gotten the reference.
My first thought was exactly the same as the previous two posts. Yet it's sad that the author could assume we all knew what a space ball was, but had to provide directions to help us locate a country that is larger than Texas. If only Mel Brooks had been a geography teacher.
They still do, but only at Microsoft Store grand openings.
.. to begin with. That's just incompetent management. I don't have the right to delete anyones video at whim either, so why should big companies.
UMG argued that any company that owns more than 110% of the creative works of the world should logically have the ability to delete whatever videos it wishes, and that there were at least 4 such companies. If you can convince them that you also own at least 110%, I'm sure they would be fine with giving you the sacred Deletion Suitcase.
...it's a fun book and you just might learn something.
Telling the slashdot crowd they might learn something from a "fun" book about sex is a little like telling Charlie Bucket he should press his face against the glass window of a candy shop because he might learn something about how much fun the rest of the world has enjoying something he will probably never have have. Unless he fishes around in the gutter and gets lucky. But that's just pure fantasy... it's like something Roald Dahl would write!
After their recent misstetp they'll likely be a bargain buy. Expect Verizon to only be interested in the technology, IP and media rights portfolio, while they ditch the people who are running the company.
I'm sure Verizon sees this as the next generation of cable companies. With Netflix being the only real player, this will put them ahead of their competitors in the cable company space (AT&T, Warner, etc.) whose on-demand services are still largely indistinguishable from on-demand 10 years ago. However, I would think that its media rights portfolio would be treated as a toxic asset... its cost is a liability that has thrown Netflix's future into question.
You know, it's bad enough that ISP's, Verizon definitely included, are using bandwidth caps now, which limits the attraction of a service like Netflix.
Verizon will then be able to get you both ways. The Verizon brand will charge you a fee when you exceed their bandwidth cap, and their new Netflix brand will charge you another fee for exceeding their bandwidth cap (which will surely be introduced when Verizon takes over. I can just see the Verizon execs looking over the Netflix books and saying, "you guys aren't charging by the gigabyte? Oh, this'll be an easy fix!") . Thus, the parent company gets to double dip. It's like printing your own money, only with the government's lobbyist-purchased blessing.
It's software.
There's no good reason that EVERYONE can't be accommodated.
Oddly enough, Microsoft of all people managed to stumble upon this.
Actually, I would cite Microsoft as the prime example of how difficult, if not impossible, it is to accommodate everyone. Microsoft writes one operating system that is supposed to accommodate all the different manufacturers (which is part of the reason Windows has historically been so unstable and bloated) and "power users" (they couldn't fix security holes because that would break things people were using).
The UI accommodation mantra is this (with apologies to Abraham Lincoln): "You can fool all the people into thinking they have been accommodated some of the time, you can fool some of the people into thinking they have been accommodated all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time."
I struggled for nearly a half an hour the other day with an OSX machine. I wanted to add a new certificate to the system wide trusted roots. I have a pretty solid understanding of the functional elements of public key cryptography the stumbling block was entirely UI.
This isn't exactly something a typical user does every day (99% of the population will never do this, ever), therefore it's not one of those things that you're expected to intuitively figure out. This is like saying, "it took me nearly half an hour to figure out which wire I needed to splice to install a remote starter in my car. I have a pretty solid understanding of the functional elements of starters the stumbling block was entirely wiring." This is slashdot... we don't care if you RTFA, but for pete's sake, RTFM... better yet GTFM (Google The Freaking Manual).
OK, I'll bite.
We're not talking about Buzz Lightyear, Space Ranger.
USAF Space Command is responsible for military satellites that support other commands. For a while, it was also responsible for intercontinental ballistic missiles (Anyone remember War Games? Or Spies Like Us? "Do you know what those things can do? Suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro." Space Command was responsible for "those things" that the 1980s believed would bring about the end of the world.), but in recent years traded that responsibility for "cyber operations" (you know, the people who are watching the Chinese who are reading your email).
Allow me to explain what happened behind the scenes:
CSR Smithers: Sir, there's a man on the phone who says his daughter dropped her DSi in the toilet and he wants to know how to transfer the save data to the 3DS he's going to give her for Christmas. But there's no way to do that! What should I do?
Supervisor Burns: Dear God! The child has heard that the iPhone is going to do everything our product does and more for less money, so she threw it in the toilet! But the parent hasn't figured this out yet... we have to keep him from returning his 3DS until Christmas. Find some used DSi and send it to him.
CSR: But sir, it's out of warranty.
Supervisor: Just send it!
"Security" = trying hard to make sure consumers can't jailbreak their own devices.
They were honest about the proprietary format being for security. They just left out the word "job" before security. Of course, the tighter we try to hold on to some things, the more forcefully they fly out of our grasp.
Sorry to break up this anti-mosquito party, but don't mosquitos serve a useful purpose in nature?
Yes, for some time now they have been effective at checking the uncontrolled population growth of a mammal that cuts down trees, pollutes the environment on an unprecedented scale, drives countless species to extinction and is the only animal with the capacity or need to watch Fox News.
It probably won't work anyway. Genetically modifying tiny pests so they no longer have wings doesn't necessarily make them go away... it just forces them to get creative.
I think that's the wrong response. Better response should be, why should the two categories be taxed at different rates? Another good question would be, why tax basic foods such as fruits and vegetables?
You're obviously not from the U.S. We believe in a link between taxation and representation (See Boston Tea Party). Many people think this means that if you are taxed, you must be represented, but it works the other way too. Since the majority of people register to vote as "Fruits" (people with outlandish ideas and little respect for the status quo) or "Vegetables" (unexciting people who seem to have a level of brain activity on par with a cucumber) and each of those groups is already represented by its own political party, it only made sense to tax them. Of course, one group believes everyone should be taxed equally (flat tax) and the other group believes in taxing at different rates (tax the rich). This is a constant source of ongoing debate, but most people believe that both fruits and vegetables should be taxed. There is a third group, known as the "nuts," who believe no one should be taxed, but no one takes them or Ron Paul seriously -- they serve mostly as diversionary entertainment when we get tired of hearing the fruits and veggies bicker.
Thus endeth the lesson on American politics.
I'm halfway through the new biography now, and based on what I've read so far, I'd venture a guess that if you held a seance and could channel Steve he would tell you that it cost humanity less to make a handicapped person struggle with an extra 25 minutes to get from the parking lot to the building than for him to take an extra minute getting to work to make his dent in the universe each day. "Was that handicapped person going to make the iPad happen? You're damned lucky I parked there every day. During my time at Apple I saved two years of wasted time by doing that. I would have been dead before we got the iPad to the public!"
He also had a tendency to completely ignore things he didn't like (critics, his out-of-wedlock daughter's existence, the fact that drinking carrot juice did not make him immune to BO, deadlines, his terminal cancer...). I'm sure he pulled into work every day, thought "there's a spot, right near the door," was not even conscious of the handicapped sign and pulled right in. It just so happened that the spots near the door that happened to be empty were the handicapped spots. If those had been occupied and a spot marked, "Reserved for Tim Cook," or "Electric Vehicles Only," or "Police Parking Only," it wouldn't have mattered. He would have parked because the spot was empty. And if his vehicle got towed he would have just called Smythe European and told them to have someone drive down Steven's Creek and deliver a new car to the campus in 15 minutes.
Or perhaps he simply considered his lack of compassion a handicap, which therefore entitled him to the spot.
What are we currently accomplishing in Afghanistan? I am not saying we're not accomplishing anything, and I'm not saying it's not important... but ask yourself, "is it worth $103.7 billion a year? Is it 9 times more important than the Energy Department's Office of Science, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the U.S. Geological Survey? Because we're spending 9 times as much on Afghanistan per year as we are on all of that combined.
Is $103.7 billion a year in Afghanistan keeping us safe? Or is it just giving us a reason to keep giving the Pakistanis money that they use to pay terrorists to attack us there so we'll keep giving them money? A strike team killed Bin Laden, not a 103,000-person army. A drone killed Awlaki in Yemen last month. Diplomacy and support killed Qaddafi today. As a superpower in the 21st century, huge combat forces don't win wars, they are political liabilities and drains on the economic strength of the country.
When Paul was running for president, I saw an attractive woman in dark sunglasses standing on the median of a busy expressway during rush hour holding a sign that simply said, "Ron Paul for President." She was apparently enjoying herself, swaying back and forth a bit, and as I sat in traffic I thought this was a perfect representation of Ron Paul:
Whenever I hear another ridiculous idea of Ron Paul's that plays to people's general discontent without offering any actual solutions, I think of that woman. He should really be on Wall Street leading the OWS protesters. He appeals to their message: "The only thing we agree on is that we're pissed off, and we have no solutions." He won't go, though, because then when he fails it would finally become apparent that it's not because people didn't understand what he was about... it's because they did.
There's a photo album attached to TFA, and one of the photos shows Woz sitting in a chair with the Segway (conveniently marked "Segway") standing by the wall in the background.
Interesting choice of words. I'm not sure if "Mr. Bill" is a reference to Bill Gates or Mr. Bill from Saturday Night Live. Because I actually think SNL's Mr. Bill does deserve to die. Have you seen what they do to that guy? Every episode they're either running him over or chopping off some body part... they should just let him rest in peace. And in pieces, in his case.
Of course, now this makes me wonder if SNL's Mr. Bill started out as someone's sick commentary on Mr. Gates. Perhaps the creator's computer blue-screened when Office tried to load Clippy, and he started composing these skits while he waited for the reboot. "It looks like you're trying to write a letter. What you do is-- OH NOOO... I got a paper cut and it severed my arm! Oh NOOOOO...."
The thing I have always appreciated about good science fiction is that it teaches us things about ourselves that other genres cannot. We all have our preconceived notions about ourselves and our situations, and we resist listening to anything that deviates from those notions. But when you watch good science fiction your brain tells you, "I'd never sit in The Busy Bee Cafe and let those cards dictate my life", so you let your guard down and enjoy a brief escape from reality. But at some point in the story you realize that you are watching yourself. What drew you to your science fiction roles?
After a few minutes of reading your Web site, I was struck by a sense that something was subtly not right. Then I realized You Capitalize The First Letter Of nearly Every Word Of Every Sentence Like It Is A Headline In A Newspaper (it's like an obsessive-compulsive variant of upstyle). It's significant because it's deliberate, more labor-intensive than typing in ALL CAPS, and it's painful to read. Perhaps you are poking fun at the pauses in the delivery of Kirk's lines by making every word seem like a new sentence. Perhaps if someone with more time on their hands than I were to string together every fifth non-capitalized first letter and reverse them they spell out some secret manifesto about getting a life. Perhaps it is an attempt to inflict mental anguish upon those obnoxious diehard fans who have hung on your every word for years. Please tell us, what is with this bizarre writing style? I'm honestly afraid to buy your new book for fear that it will be written the same way.
If anyone remembers the awesome time lapse video of the ESO's VLT at Paranal, here's a downloadable time lapse video of this telescope by the same guy. FYI: the VLT is at an altitude of about 2600m, this one is at about 5000m.
Works like a charm for me every time.