No, what drives me nuts (former resident of LA) is when they do a car chase scene and you can tell that each shot was taken in a completely different area of the city.
I don't recall a film shot in LA that was supposed to take place somewhere else though.
I use AT&T Wireless, and their contract stipulates unlimited free INCOMING text messages. Kind of nice since the only incoming messages I get are SPAM.
Does anyone remember, back in the good ol' days (before Bush Jr.), when we walked uphill in the snow without shoes and we could joke with "about $1000 CAD, which is about 12 cents in the US".
Man I miss those days. Now when I say it my canadian cousins just bitchslap me.
apple has taken specific action to disallow real's DRM
Not necessarily. Perhaps Real's hack was relying on some bug in the code, or on some bit being 1 instead of 0, or who knows what. Someone changed something in the course of business-as-usual, with no intention of breaking Real. It may have only been later that they discovered that Real music no longer worked, at which point management's repsonse was "hell if I care!" and the "problem" wasn't fixed.
(offtopic: I'm reminded of Office Space where they say "well, we fixed the bug, so the problem will just sort itself out naturally. We like to avoid confrontation.")
Without Apple's equivalent of a halloween memo, you'll never know if this was malevolence, incompentence, or apathy.
I don't understand why everyone's so annoyed with star wars lego. Is it because star wars is no longer cool on slashdot? I agree that some of the smaller sets have more unique pieces that are less versatile. But has anyone tried looking at the Ultimate Collectors Series sets? Those more expensive sets with LOTS of little parts. No unique parts in that darth maul model or the star destroyer.
I don't have space in my apartment for real scale model building, so this is as close as I get and I don't mind it at all. Of course, those new designer sets look pretty cool too...
This doesn't solve a stereo issue, but here's what I do for audio. This is a good solution for an apartment, but not a house.
1) Powerbook + external MP3 HD in bedroom 2) Airport express connected to surround sound in living room. 3) Bluetooth enabled Sony T637 cell phone
Then I use a program called Romeo which turns my bluetooth cell phone into an iTunes remote control. Of course, this only works in the range of bluetooth, but it works GREAT.
Mac OS will still be more technically advanced than Longhorn.
Thanks to the time 2003-2006 where Apple developers can pick up Longhorn and betas and say "yeah, lets do that!". Meanwhile, Microsoft will swear that whatever additional features Apple puts in to OS X are "coming in the next version. 2012. We promise!" Apple isn't sitting on their thumbs while longhorn is being developed, I assure you.
The new apple PCs will only run at 3ghz or so, but will continue to completely school anything from Intel/Microsoft.
But as usual, this will only be for certain photoshop filters, applied in a particular order. Or when using GCC. Or when rendering a particular wireframe in 3-D using a particular program. Mac users will still not care. Trolls will still claim the tests were biased.
The OS will still comfortably run on an 800mhz G4
Provided your 800 MHz G4 also has whatever technologies Apple decided need to make the cutoff. Panther removed all computers without built-in USB, even if they have G3 processors. Next will be firewire. Then airport. Then airport extreme. Then fw800. Just wait.
Steve jobs will manage to create a pointing device with no buttons at all
By 2007, Jobs will have beaten his engineers so thoroughly that they will have no choice but to develop a telepathic interface to the OS. There's your no-button mouse right there! And this mac users will certainly claim its revolutionary!
I think rocket surgery is what Spock and McCoy did in Star Trek VI, where they hooked up tracking equipment to a torpedo. I believe the relevant quote was "Would you like to assist me in performing surgery on a photon torpedo? Fascinating!"
And thus we have the first documented use of rocket surgeons. 200 years from now.
Consulting isn't enough. What really seems to be the problem is that the resource pages keep changing the way they format their data, so it becomes impossible for a chatbot to parse without monthly updates. This week I can ask my chatbot for the score in Celebrity Jeapordy (Sean Connery wins with a wager of SUCK IT TREBEK!) and it'll return "Sean Connery won with $uckittrebek".
Next week, when I ask the same question, it'll return "href a=blahblahblah won with a score of $%d3b" because the site it references has changed its format. I seem to notice this problem with weather programs too.
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Yeah he's great until you tell him something new. Or until he goes to bed for the night.
As a young male US resident, I'm getting ready to jump ship the minute Dubya announces he's gonna restart the draft so that we can invade Syria.
;)
Yes, I know he said publicly that there would be no draft...of course that was only after his audience corrected him! Who's the flip-flopper now?
I heard that during Vietnam, the draft only took 19-year olds and never ran out. Can anyone confirm that?
No, what drives me nuts (former resident of LA) is when they do a car chase scene and you can tell that each shot was taken in a completely different area of the city.
I don't recall a film shot in LA that was supposed to take place somewhere else though.
I wasn't sure whether to say
a) "I am!"
or
b) These guys. (NOT SAFE FOR WORK)
I use AT&T Wireless, and their contract stipulates unlimited free INCOMING text messages. Kind of nice since the only incoming messages I get are SPAM.
Does anyone remember, back in the good ol' days (before Bush Jr.), when we walked uphill in the snow without shoes and we could joke with "about $1000 CAD, which is about 12 cents in the US".
Man I miss those days. Now when I say it my canadian cousins just bitchslap me.
Not necessarily. Perhaps Real's hack was relying on some bug in the code, or on some bit being 1 instead of 0, or who knows what. Someone changed something in the course of business-as-usual, with no intention of breaking Real. It may have only been later that they discovered that Real music no longer worked, at which point management's repsonse was "hell if I care!" and the "problem" wasn't fixed.
(offtopic: I'm reminded of Office Space where they say "well, we fixed the bug, so the problem will just sort itself out naturally. We like to avoid confrontation.")
Without Apple's equivalent of a halloween memo, you'll never know if this was malevolence, incompentence, or apathy.
I don't understand why everyone's so annoyed with star wars lego. Is it because star wars is no longer cool on slashdot? I agree that some of the smaller sets have more unique pieces that are less versatile. But has anyone tried looking at the Ultimate Collectors Series sets? Those more expensive sets with LOTS of little parts. No unique parts in that darth maul model or the star destroyer.
I don't have space in my apartment for real scale model building, so this is as close as I get and I don't mind it at all. Of course, those new designer sets look pretty cool too...
Yes, but it does affect local climates. If wind expends all its energy driving turbines, then it isn't available to push clouds around.
It may not drive up the average temperature worldwide, but I'd be open to the idea that its driven up temperatures in Livermore, CA.
This doesn't solve a stereo issue, but here's what I do for audio. This is a good solution for an apartment, but not a house.
1) Powerbook + external MP3 HD in bedroom
2) Airport express connected to surround sound in living room.
3) Bluetooth enabled Sony T637 cell phone
Then I use a program called Romeo which turns my bluetooth cell phone into an iTunes remote control. Of course, this only works in the range of bluetooth, but it works GREAT.
From what I understand, exit polls usually skew towards the democrats early in the day, because republicans vote later.
[sarcasm] It's because democrats are jobless pot-smoking hippies and republicans WORK for a living![/sarcasm]
I'm not saying the vote *couldn't* have been rigged by Diebold, I'm just saying that the change in exit polling doesn't necessarily indicate anything.
Ashcroft is never our friend. In addition to his bill-of-rights-squashing duties, he's just taken time to fight something we all hate.
The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.
"Yahoo intends to defend its First Amendment rights should a French court try to enforce French anti-hate laws"
I must have missed a day in Euro history. Does France have a first amendment that protects free speech?
Look folks, enforcing our laws in other countries isn't going to be any easier if we insist they have to NUMBER them the same way, too!
I wouldn't fucking know. My fucking parents won't let me listen to any fucking music that has the word "fuck" in it.
Excuse me, while I go smoke crack and smack some fuckin' hoes.
Well, today is Monday...so I'm guessing it will be cracked...wait for it...wait for it...
last week.
But this is masquerading as an Office component.
Yes it is. Most of us have taste.
Mac OS will still be more technically advanced than Longhorn.
Thanks to the time 2003-2006 where Apple developers can pick up Longhorn and betas and say "yeah, lets do that!". Meanwhile, Microsoft will swear that whatever additional features Apple puts in to OS X are "coming in the next version. 2012. We promise!" Apple isn't sitting on their thumbs while longhorn is being developed, I assure you.
The new apple PCs will only run at 3ghz or so, but will continue to completely school anything from Intel/Microsoft.
But as usual, this will only be for certain photoshop filters, applied in a particular order. Or when using GCC. Or when rendering a particular wireframe in 3-D using a particular program. Mac users will still not care. Trolls will still claim the tests were biased.
The OS will still comfortably run on an 800mhz G4
Provided your 800 MHz G4 also has whatever technologies Apple decided need to make the cutoff. Panther removed all computers without built-in USB, even if they have G3 processors. Next will be firewire. Then airport. Then airport extreme. Then fw800. Just wait.
Steve jobs will manage to create a pointing device with no buttons at all
By 2007, Jobs will have beaten his engineers so thoroughly that they will have no choice but to develop a telepathic interface to the OS. There's your no-button mouse right there! And this mac users will certainly claim its revolutionary!
I think rocket surgery is what Spock and McCoy did in Star Trek VI, where they hooked up tracking equipment to a torpedo. I believe the relevant quote was "Would you like to assist me in performing surgery on a photon torpedo? Fascinating!"
And thus we have the first documented use of rocket surgeons. 200 years from now.
or they could just get these guys to do it.
Consulting isn't enough. What really seems to be the problem is that the resource pages keep changing the way they format their data, so it becomes impossible for a chatbot to parse without monthly updates. This week I can ask my chatbot for the score in Celebrity Jeapordy (Sean Connery wins with a wager of SUCK IT TREBEK!) and it'll return "Sean Connery won with $uckittrebek".
Next week, when I ask the same question, it'll return "href a=blahblahblah won with a score of $%d3b" because the site it references has changed its format. I seem to notice this problem with weather programs too.
No Disassemble Johnny 5!
God that movie rocked.
Look at it the other way. For $50 less all you'd get is a crappy 512 MB. Or worse: A DELL!
That was joke.
What, like Carson Daly?