How would it be "less useful" for widescreen movies? You'll have some letterbox matting to compensate for the aspect ratio difference...that's about it. It will play movies. It will play widescreen movies. It just won't play them edge-to-edge on the screen.
Not only that, but the Mr. Blue, Mr. Orange, etc. shtick is lifted directly from "The Taking of Pelham 123".
Treating "originality" as a sacred goal is a one-way ticket to getting nothing accomplished. This isn't to say that we should be openly plagiarizing, but that a narrow-minded focus on originality itself will only lead to frustration.
Since when is second-person narrative (in and of itself) necessary to make a book "more of a literary novelty than a good novel"?
So, I guess writers like Italo Clavino ("If On A Winter's Night A Traveller"), Jay McInnery ("Bright Lights, Big City"), and Günter Grass ("Cat and Mouse") just wrote "novelties" then?
RIM's support for OSX is hideously outdated. It's basically a set of bandage solutions so that you can do the minimum amount of syncing and media management...but not at the same time.
The author of the review makes it hard for me to take him, the book, or his review seriously for the following reasons:
- he is incapable of using an apostrophe.
- independent of the book's context, he uses language which displays an existing bias (or, perhaps "hatred" is a better word) against the subject matter ("EBM shows that homeopathy and other bogus cures are of no value").
- the intent of the review (I can't speak of the book as I haven't read it) seems to be nothing more than "all alternative medicine and their practitioners are dirty cheats. All of them".
- the comparison to the current economic crisis which bookends the review is rather thin and clumsy.
Yup. They allowed the Reform Party members to hold dual membership in either party, so when it came time to vote on the merger, Reformers could double-dip while the PCP'ers were stuck with one vote.
I stood as a delegate to stop the merger. It was u-g-l-y.
Actually the current ruling party is less than five years old. They have no resemblance to or relationship with the former Progressive Conservative Party.
...a prescient computer/AI that is powerful enough to steer a ship and intelligently communicate with its crew, but goes murderously insane once it's given two competing directives.
If you're really concerned about civil rights in Canada, the Ontario Court of Appeal just approved the use of evidence obtained through flagrant police misconduct. The Appeal court upheld a trial judge's decision to admit evidence found in a vehicle - despite the judge's finding that the officer had no legal grounds to stop the vehicle, seriously infringed the man's Charter rights and misled a court while trying to justify his actions. You're not seeing the big picture here: TV cop shows. For years we've had to struggle with continuity issues when scripting the behaviour of TV cops - "whaa whaa, real cops can't do that because it's against the law!" - well now it is. Solid entertainment is on it's way!
look at michael vick, or oj simpson: because they played well at a game they should be excused for their character issues? Fischer didn't murder two people, nor did he train dogs to brutally kill each other. You are comparing someone who was verbally spiteful to people who willingly spilled blood. There is more than a semantic difference.
Kasparov is allied with NBP (National Bolshevisk Party - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bolshevik_Party) - it's known for its racist and nationalistic (and occasionally antisemic) rhetoric. Proof please. I can find no such association outside of message-board gossip. What I can find (http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2329) is that the NBP may have been responsible for assaulting Kasparov at a rally. That said, if you can provide something that backs-up what you're saying, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
Your Netflix rental history isn't as helpful for a nosey insurance company looking to drop policyholders with genetic predisposition for expensive illnesses. So you haven't rented Showgirls, have you?
One of the big boys is going to come a 'callin: MS, Apple, or IBM. Good-bye "Reiser FS", hello "insert MarketingSpeak here" (I'm thinking someting inoffensive and corporate, like "YouFS" or "MSRULZ4VR").
As much as I'm drooling at the prospect of upgrading to Dapper (Kubuntu), I can't understand why they keep pushing Adept as a package manager. Using the version shipped with 5.10, it seems like a defanged Synaptic...without the ability to see what files are installed with packages (which is helpful when you're trying to troubleshoot). Has Adept improved since then?
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How would it be "less useful" for widescreen movies? You'll have some letterbox matting to compensate for the aspect ratio difference...that's about it. It will play movies. It will play widescreen movies. It just won't play them edge-to-edge on the screen.
Not only that, but the Mr. Blue, Mr. Orange, etc. shtick is lifted directly from "The Taking of Pelham 123".
Treating "originality" as a sacred goal is a one-way ticket to getting nothing accomplished. This isn't to say that we should be openly plagiarizing, but that a narrow-minded focus on originality itself will only lead to frustration.
Since when is second-person narrative (in and of itself) necessary to make a book "more of a literary novelty than a good novel"?
So, I guess writers like Italo Clavino ("If On A Winter's Night A Traveller"), Jay McInnery ("Bright Lights, Big City"), and Günter Grass ("Cat and Mouse") just wrote "novelties" then?
RIM's support for OSX is hideously outdated. It's basically a set of bandage solutions so that you can do the minimum amount of syncing and media management...but not at the same time.
The author of the review makes it hard for me to take him, the book, or his review seriously for the following reasons:
- he is incapable of using an apostrophe.
- independent of the book's context, he uses language which displays an existing bias (or, perhaps "hatred" is a better word) against the subject matter ("EBM shows that homeopathy and other bogus cures are of no value").
- the intent of the review (I can't speak of the book as I haven't read it) seems to be nothing more than "all alternative medicine and their practitioners are dirty cheats. All of them".
- the comparison to the current economic crisis which bookends the review is rather thin and clumsy.
Gordon Freeman, ladies and gentlemen. Put your hands together.
Yup. They allowed the Reform Party members to hold dual membership in either party, so when it came time to vote on the merger, Reformers could double-dip while the PCP'ers were stuck with one vote.
I stood as a delegate to stop the merger. It was u-g-l-y.
Actually the current ruling party is less than five years old. They have no resemblance to or relationship with the former Progressive Conservative Party.
"Both Parties"?
In Canada?
He/she must mean "the two that get elected", as opposed to "all of them".
...a prescient computer/AI that is powerful enough to steer a ship and intelligently communicate with its crew, but goes murderously insane once it's given two competing directives.
Mod above "totally underrated"
Car Wars...screw D&D, that was cool. And then, you know, we all found girls and stuff...but still. Car Wars rocked.
Okay - rule #1 for a manifesto: take a bloody look at it first before posting.
One of the big boys is going to come a 'callin: MS, Apple, or IBM. Good-bye "Reiser FS", hello "insert MarketingSpeak here" (I'm thinking someting inoffensive and corporate, like "YouFS" or "MSRULZ4VR").
The female test subjects who went on to bear children jealously kept their offspring on their backs as they foraged for proteins in the forest.
Dude - you've got to stop watching Cronenberg films.
As much as I'm drooling at the prospect of upgrading to Dapper (Kubuntu), I can't understand why they keep pushing Adept as a package manager. Using the version shipped with 5.10, it seems like a defanged Synaptic...without the ability to see what files are installed with packages (which is helpful when you're trying to troubleshoot). Has Adept improved since then?
"we may have to meet these bug-eyed freaks sometime in our lifetime"
Dare to dream. Personally, I say we drop everything and try to make the reception on cell phones better.
This is sooo not off-topic.
...just kidding - I realise it couldn't spread that far. Now, Etobicoke - *they* have something to cheer about!
ahhh...I stand corrected then. Thanks for the context.