Although (to burn some karma), having just watched all of the movies with my kids, I don't think Revenge of the Sith was all that loathsome. Jar Jar finally recedes into the background, and Anakin's transformation into Darth Vader essentially for fear of asking forgiveness doesn't make for a bad parable, at least by Hollywood standards.
Anyway, it's interesting to see at what ages kids like the different episodes. My son really loved the original with Luke the best until he saw Anakin at roughly the same age. My daughter liked Return of the Jedi best, so yes the cute Ewoks worked fine at making a family movie.
Not idiots, but ignorant. You can't blame them for that.
Yes you can. People can chose to get informed, at which point they will no longer be ignorant. On the other hand, an idiot can't change their mental ability, and as such they are blameless for their handicap.
I agree. I recently bought an HD-DVD player. Prior to doing so, I had actually told Netflix that I had both types of players, and had been keeping track of which of the movies I watched were available in what format. By a fair margin, there were more Blu-Ray than HD-DVD movies that I wanted to watch, but the price of Blu-Ray was too high for me to justify the cost during a format war.
After Christmas, I was able to pick up the HD-DVD player for $165. At that price I figured what the heck... there may be more Blu-Ray movies, but there are enough HDDVDs to make it interesting. I'll watch the HD-DVD movies I want to see now, and when a Blu-Ray player hits a similar price, I'll start watching those too.
Just a nitpick, but the DeTomaso had a Ford engine. Also, the 351 (5.7L) is based on the small block. A big block V8 would be the 390 or 427. Otherwise great post.
Taking a course on compilers is probably the best way to improve your programming skills. You will learn exactly how your high level instructions map into assembly. Especially if you cover optimizations, you'll get a much better idea of how to write efficient code. Secondly, a course in modern chip design can be very useful so you know about how caches, branches, etc will effect your code.
Whats so difficult to remember? Units are nothing but contants, you need to look them up anyway. I have a hard time thinking that metric is "better", its just different. This becomes especially obvious when you talk time and temperature. Why don't you see people telling you the'll meet you in 3 kiloseconds, or that the heater is broken and it won't keep the room above 285 kelvin?
I'll second (or third) the Dell option. I just had exactly this same besel problem on my 2y10mo old Inspiron, and they fixed it no questions asked
No questions asked was probably a good thing, since it was caused by my cat sleeping on the LCD while I had it proped open to keep the cat from closing the lid and putting the laptop to sleep.:)
I've always thought Dells we like (old school) Cadillacs. Expensive and no parts interchangabity, but built like a tank.
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I think you have a point there.
Although (to burn some karma), having just watched all of the movies with my kids, I don't think Revenge of the Sith was all that loathsome. Jar Jar finally recedes into the background, and Anakin's transformation into Darth Vader essentially for fear of asking forgiveness doesn't make for a bad parable, at least by Hollywood standards.
Anyway, it's interesting to see at what ages kids like the different episodes. My son really loved the original with Luke the best until he saw Anakin at roughly the same age. My daughter liked Return of the Jedi best, so yes the cute Ewoks worked fine at making a family movie.
Not idiots, but ignorant. You can't blame them for that.
Yes you can. People can chose to get informed, at which point they will no longer be ignorant. On the other hand, an idiot can't change their mental ability, and as such they are blameless for their handicap.
I agree. I recently bought an HD-DVD player. Prior to doing so, I had actually told Netflix that I had both types of players, and had been keeping track of which of the movies I watched were available in what format. By a fair margin, there were more Blu-Ray than HD-DVD movies that I wanted to watch, but the price of Blu-Ray was too high for me to justify the cost during a format war.
After Christmas, I was able to pick up the HD-DVD player for $165. At that price I figured what the heck... there may be more Blu-Ray movies, but there are enough HDDVDs to make it interesting. I'll watch the HD-DVD movies I want to see now, and when a Blu-Ray player hits a similar price, I'll start watching those too.
The Chieftains are signed with Sony.
Uh, try:
1. Fuel prices rise.
2. Plane and SUV use decreases dramamtically.
3. Fuel demand decreases.
4. Plane and SUV use increase dramatically.
5. Goto 1
IANAP either, but I think the idea is that these energies were seen when the universe was very young, so yet they are discoveries.
> Noise pollution should be outlawed.
But I see you don't have a problem with EM pollution.
Honestly, I don't think escalation is the answer.
Just a nitpick, but the DeTomaso had a Ford engine. Also, the 351 (5.7L) is based on the small block. A big block V8 would be the 390 or 427. Otherwise great post.
Taking a course on compilers is probably the best way to improve your programming skills. You will learn exactly how your high level instructions map into assembly. Especially if you cover optimizations, you'll get a much better idea of how to write efficient code. Secondly, a course in modern chip design can be very useful so you know about how caches, branches, etc will effect your code.
Whats so difficult to remember? Units are nothing but contants, you need to look them up anyway. I have a hard time thinking that metric is "better", its just different. This becomes especially obvious when you talk time and temperature. Why don't you see people telling you the'll meet you in 3 kiloseconds, or that the heater is broken and it won't keep the room above 285 kelvin?
I'll second (or third) the Dell option. I just had exactly this same besel problem on my 2y10mo old Inspiron, and they fixed it no questions asked
:)
No questions asked was probably a good thing, since it was caused by my cat sleeping on the LCD while I had it proped open to keep the cat from closing the lid and putting the laptop to sleep.
I've always thought Dells we like (old school) Cadillacs. Expensive and no parts interchangabity, but built like a tank.