If I notice 'em, I go to the manager afterwards and ask for a refund. You'd be surprised how many theaters have "if you are not happy with your movie..." policies. I explain that the print was visible distorted and ask for a refund. I've gotten three so far.
A dozen different operating systems can display PDFs with no problem, but the Kindle only supports them "through conversion" and makes no guarantees about whether they will work or not. I know, because a Kindle that supported PDFs would be something I would buy. The support is just not there.
Oh, and you have to pay for each PDF you want to try to display because only Amazon can upload it to your Kindle for you. Sure, it's only 10 cents each, but why should I have to pay?
Yeah, and the cool thing is that all of the technical documents and papers I have saved as.pdfs can be easily uploaded to it and displayed cause otherwise it'd be a useless...
Cutting NASA Budgets? NASA got an extra billion in the Obama stimulus package.
...which was less than Amtrak got. Or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Not to mention $20 billion for a national health registry, $6 billion for cable modems to farmers...
Hell, the program to give away digital converter coupons so people could watch TV got more money than NASA.
Kinda like the 'Year of Desktop Linux'! When the predictions for the current year don't pan out, wait! *NEXT* year is going to be the year of desktop Linux!
Or the old quote that "practical fusion power is always 10 years in the future."
Science isn't a science at all. By that I mean the scientific method has not been derived through observation, experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.
Well but to derive it you'd have to apply the method to itself...recursion error! recursion error! all units relate! norman, coordinate!
Yeah, like I said - pop band. They're just the Backstreet Boys with a different sound. Oooooh, they use 'metal' guitars and rap a little. Yeah, they're quite the groundbreaking revolutionaries. Same schtick as New Kids On The Block, just with a different color of varnish (black and grey, because they have so much angst, the poor suffering guys...)
Yes, somewhat...I mean, I'd prefer Linkin Park was locked up in Gitmo and their records were seized by US Marshals and buried in Yucca Mountain. THAT would be a GREAT use of my tax dollars. But just harassing them and making their life miserable is at least progress.
You should frequent people outside of IT a bit more...
You should frequent people who don't use $20 notes as cigarette papers. A p4 with 1.5gb ram is an impressive computer in some low-income circles.
Um, dude? That's what he's saying. Parent said a P4 with 1.5GB RAM is below most people's standards, and CorporateTroll corrected him. Now you're giving CT a hard time because...you can't read?
In light of this, your mocking tone is honestly mysterious to me.
Almost as mysterious as the idea that the military industrial complex is something that the media "almostnevertalks about". And that was after spending 30 seconds on Google News.
it results in a very powerful entity that the media almost never talks about which is known as the military-industrial complex.
Bwwwwwwaaaaahahahahaha! A term invented by, wait, who was it...oh yeah, the President of the United States and transmitted and quoted and written about ad nauseum.
Ya.. maybe you should have voted for McCain.. the same guy that said on during his nomination acceptance speech that he would vote against any bill that was filled with pork.
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After seeing this movie, anyone who thinks it's a turkey is either a moron or saw a different movie than I did
I guess lots of people saw a different movie than you.
This movie deserves the videogame it got.
I'm not talking about the cigarette burns. I'm talking about the 'Coded Anti-Piracy' dots that denote what theatre the cam was used in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coded_Anti-Piracy
If I notice 'em, I go to the manager afterwards and ask for a refund. You'd be surprised how many theaters have "if you are not happy with your movie..." policies. I explain that the print was visible distorted and ask for a refund. I've gotten three so far.
World peace will happen. http://p5y.org/ [p5y.org] It's simple.
That has to be the silliest thing I've ever read. It makes the Communist Party look like hard-nosed pragmatists.
Well, democratic underground and boingboing - with unimpeachable sources like that...
On another subject, I am the only one who thinks of 'kindling' whenever I hear of this device?
Exactly. I hear about the Kindle and I think about book burning.
It does support PDF and plaintext:
Um, no it doesn't...
Kindle (AZW), TXT, Audible (formats 4, Audible Enhanced (AAX)), MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; PDF, HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion.
A dozen different operating systems can display PDFs with no problem, but the Kindle only supports them "through conversion" and makes no guarantees about whether they will work or not. I know, because a Kindle that supported PDFs would be something I would buy. The support is just not there.
Oh, and you have to pay for each PDF you want to try to display because only Amazon can upload it to your Kindle for you. Sure, it's only 10 cents each, but why should I have to pay?
Yeah, and the cool thing is that all of the technical documents and papers I have saved as .pdfs can be easily uploaded to it and displayed cause otherwise it'd be a useless...
Oh wait. Never mind.
But the scripting community has moved on,
"The scripting community"...that has to be the funniest phrase I've heard in a long time.
I would always favor social welfare over a space plane in this decade.
That's worked so well for the last 4 decades, so why not.
Cutting NASA Budgets? NASA got an extra billion in the Obama stimulus package.
...which was less than Amtrak got. Or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Not to mention $20 billion for a national health registry, $6 billion for cable modems to farmers...
Hell, the program to give away digital converter coupons so people could watch TV got more money than NASA.
In 10 years? I'm not sure that the younger generation of developers is going to stick with a local copy of emacs.
No, they'll want an online copy of emacs. And of course, with the 10Gbps fiber we'll all have by then, it'll only take a half hour to load.
Kinda like the 'Year of Desktop Linux'! When the predictions for the current year don't pan out, wait! *NEXT* year is going to be the year of desktop Linux!
Or the old quote that "practical fusion power is always 10 years in the future."
Science isn't an exact science
Science isn't a science at all. By that I mean the scientific method has not been derived through observation, experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.
Well but to derive it you'd have to apply the method to itself...recursion error! recursion error! all units relate! norman, coordinate!
Yeah, like I said - pop band. They're just the Backstreet Boys with a different sound. Oooooh, they use 'metal' guitars and rap a little. Yeah, they're quite the groundbreaking revolutionaries. Same schtick as New Kids On The Block, just with a different color of varnish (black and grey, because they have so much angst, the poor suffering guys...)
Dude, you're getting excited about a pop band. That's like saying you want to beat someone up because they insulted Hannah Montana.
I hope you were sarcastic... Or else...
Yes, somewhat...I mean, I'd prefer Linkin Park was locked up in Gitmo and their records were seized by US Marshals and buried in Yucca Mountain. THAT would be a GREAT use of my tax dollars. But just harassing them and making their life miserable is at least progress.
No problem. Of course, now you're morally obligated to jump on a grenade for me someday.
You should frequent people outside of IT a bit more...
You should frequent people who don't use $20 notes as cigarette papers. A p4 with 1.5gb ram is an impressive computer in some low-income circles.
Um, dude? That's what he's saying. Parent said a P4 with 1.5GB RAM is below most people's standards, and CorporateTroll corrected him. Now you're giving CT a hard time because...you can't read?
In light of this, your mocking tone is honestly mysterious to me.
Almost as mysterious as the idea that the military industrial complex is something that the media "almost never talks about". And that was after spending 30 seconds on Google News.
it results in a very powerful entity that the media almost never talks about which is known as the military-industrial complex.
Bwwwwwwaaaaahahahahaha! A term invented by, wait, who was it...oh yeah, the President of the United States and transmitted and quoted and written about ad nauseum.
Wait...are my tax dollars going to bug and harass the bejesus out of Linkin Park?
Sweet! Finally something useful is being done with them.
Actually, she is not the problem. It is the Religious Right Wing nuts that are the majority of those that fight against vaccines.
No, mostly it's the granola left. Let's all just be natural...
What, you've never anthropomorphized your palm, maybe as Jemma Jameson?
Who's Jemma Jameson? One of the Jem'Hadar?
Ya.. maybe you should have voted for McCain.. the same guy that said on during his nomination acceptance speech that he would vote against any bill that was filled with pork.
No he didn't. Presidents don't vote.
Sparc is dieing.
Hmmm, I thought they made chips on wafers, not dies.
Of course, it doesn't matter since Sparc is dying.