A customer writing to a CEO for customer service is about on par with a 4 year old kid writing to Santa Claus for a toy fire truck. The only real difference is that the kid doesn't take every opportunity to whine about it when the letter isn't answered. Unless, of course, that kid was michael as a boy.;)
They turned the movie into a comic book on the big screen, there isn't much more to be said for it. Considering the final two parts of the trilogy were shot simultaneously, I wouldn't keep your hopes up too high for Revolutions. It's really a shame, the first movie had such an incredible impact on an unsuspecting audience.
In any case, the greatest disservice done to the Matrix films was announcing, well ahead of time, the two additional movies to make the trilogy. Along with the sudden expectation of something even GREATER than the first movie came a real plateau in the form of fans having to wait and wait for 2 & 3 to be released. I think things would be a little different had they just come out with no forewarning. At least then the high expectation factor would be offset by both surprise and excitement. Now we have little more than the same sort of hype, hype, hype, disappoint! momentum we had with Star Wars. No concept could possibly stand up to the amount of hype surrounding either franchise.
Thank god we haven't done this to LOTR. Of course, I guess it's hard to hype a story you already know the ending to.:D
At least that's what this well used hooka next to me says..
The website owners called you to let you know the Secret Service was lurking about? You may as well have just given your post the subject "The following is complete and utter bs". If the SS was after your information, not only would you not know about it, it's doubtful the website would even be given the opportunity to know who they were looking for. It'd be more like, "Hi, we're the Secret Service. Please exit the offices while we investigate." In other words, if they are going to investigate someone who expresses the sentiment of assissinating a rather important political figurehead, I don't think they are going to call ahead. Go away, troll.
Actually, the article doesn't say that excessive light kills people. You said that. Twice... even going so far as to snip some content out to enhance the point. Unless you are jumping all over the mention of increased risk for breast cancer for women who constantly work night shifts. I doubt you are referring to that, however, given your obvious disdain for sensationalism. The article, however, does suggest that constant and excessive amounts of light can adversely affect certain aspects of nature, especially those parts dependent on day and night cycles. I was going to say 'light cycle', but then I realized that this is/. and everyone would think I was talking about Tron (myself included).:)
You argue that the lack of light is a bigger issue than its abundance, even going so far as to cite a textbook reason for suicide to strengthen your stance. That's cool, until you realize that the 'lack of light' in mention is natural light. You can bathe a depressed individual in as much artificial light as you want... it isn't going to do much more than force them to squint while reaching for the razor blade. The only source of light that, IMO, really benefits mental health is that of the Sun. See, after growing up in Portland, OR, where seasonal depression is not only common, it is expected, you sorta develop a natural understanding of this matter. I don't mean to slam your post, not at all. I simply think that talking about the effects of artifical light in the context of an Alaskan summer, where sunlight is in abundance, not streetlamps, is like talking apples and oranges.
I agree with you that, to a certain degree, the article is playing on sensationalism to provoke a response. Can you blame them? Could you picture yourself trying to defend the findings of your research if those findings boiled down to "light is bad, mmkay?" I, for one, find the article incredibly fascinating. What a concept that something as passive as ambient light could have such monumental effects on nature! It shows me that with each new height we reach in modern technology and science, we still have (at best) an infantile perception of nature. In the end, I was sold enough to feel that this topic deserves further study, though I didn't necessarily buy the whole cow. In other words, I haven't reach over to turn off my desk lamp... yet.;)
For those of you (like myself) who had a difficult time reading the currency values without the appropriate commas, I'd like to present my contribution to the parent post:
I thought the idea here was keeping a low profile? God knows that anyone finding security holes in university software doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of scoring an A in gym. Think before you say these things, Mitch. Twenty points higher than me and he thinks a guy like that can ace gym?
If these phones can only communicate with one another, it won't matter what you do - area code or country code - both parties will have the same exact number format.
By the time that happens the ten bucks you wanna bet probably won't be worth a whole hell of a lot. We'll probably be using the Euro by then, anyway.;)
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Oh hey, don't mind me. I'm just counting all the different ways I'm learning to spell "intelligence"
Is it okay if I buy from the American manufacturer as long as the big screen TVs purchased by the employees are made in the same overseas sweatshop as your batteries?
Why does your church care? All of these methods are merely transport mechanisms for the same natural fertilization process that you seem to be okay with. Pardon my french, but isn't that basically what the penis does? I fail to see any relevance between your post and this entire discussion.
Windows makes heavy use of globally unique identifiers (GUIDs). Generate a GUID per machine and use that same GUID every time an error report is submitted. With such limited information, MS can still track each report per machine without infringing on your privacy. Of course, the default method of generating GUIDs uses your MAC address, so one would hope they are using a method by which the GUID is perhaps a one way hash of information unique to a single machine with the idea that the number will always be unique without any part of the result capable of being traced back to the source.
Of course, this fails to mention the obvious: Regardless of the information sent to Microsoft, you are still connecting to their servers. I would call an IP address personally identifiable information, in any case.
I had sat here and typed out a fairly well thought out response until I came to the realization that I'm arguing with a person who can't let go of a one-liner stereotype.
I'm sorry Lars, but this is a pointless debate. Not only did you choose to express your views using an amusingly self-contradictory generalism, you took offense to an opposing view and immediately assumed you were being personally attacked.
At this point I think the only person you should carry on this discussion with would be Freud.
That is because I didn't feel it necessary to single out any, well, specific generalization. I think my point clearly was that any generalization is a little on the lame side. You know, generally speaking.
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A customer writing to a CEO for customer service is about on par with a 4 year old kid writing to Santa Claus for a toy fire truck. The only real difference is that the kid doesn't take every opportunity to whine about it when the letter isn't answered. Unless, of course, that kid was michael as a boy. ;)
I'd much rather see it play soccer *with* an Aibo.
Speaking of off topic, when do we get a "-1, Irrelevant" mod, huh?
Wtf does that link have to do with blacklisting?
(Hmm, the capital 'W' should satisfy the grammar nazis, but what will the acronymn nazis think?)
I bet if you told me your sex and hair color I could draw a perfect picture of what you look like. Heck, don't even tell me the gender. ;)
They turned the movie into a comic book on the big screen, there isn't much more to be said for it. Considering the final two parts of the trilogy were shot simultaneously, I wouldn't keep your hopes up too high for Revolutions. It's really a shame, the first movie had such an incredible impact on an unsuspecting audience.
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In any case, the greatest disservice done to the Matrix films was announcing, well ahead of time, the two additional movies to make the trilogy. Along with the sudden expectation of something even GREATER than the first movie came a real plateau in the form of fans having to wait and wait for 2 & 3 to be released. I think things would be a little different had they just come out with no forewarning. At least then the high expectation factor would be offset by both surprise and excitement. Now we have little more than the same sort of hype, hype, hype, disappoint! momentum we had with Star Wars. No concept could possibly stand up to the amount of hype surrounding either franchise.
Thank god we haven't done this to LOTR. Of course, I guess it's hard to hype a story you already know the ending to.
At least that's what this well used hooka next to me says..
...but at the same time consider shooting up one of the back street boys up there for the money.
Don't be so quick to judge. We don't have any proof that they ever intended to return him.
I paid $129 for the full version of OS X. You paid $299 for the full version of Windows2000 Professional.
I paid $129 for the full version of Jaguar. You paid $399 for the full version of WindowsXP Professional.
I will pay $129 for the full version of Panther. You will pay >$399 for the full version of Longhorn Professional.
Continuing...
I will pay $800 for a new PC. You will take out a second mortgage.
The website owners called you to let you know the Secret Service was lurking about? You may as well have just given your post the subject "The following is complete and utter bs". If the SS was after your information, not only would you not know about it, it's doubtful the website would even be given the opportunity to know who they were looking for. It'd be more like, "Hi, we're the Secret Service. Please exit the offices while we investigate." In other words, if they are going to investigate someone who expresses the sentiment of assissinating a rather important political figurehead, I don't think they are going to call ahead. Go away, troll.
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Actually, the article doesn't say that excessive light kills people. You said that. Twice... even going so far as to snip some content out to enhance the point. Unless you are jumping all over the mention of increased risk for breast cancer for women who constantly work night shifts. I doubt you are referring to that, however, given your obvious disdain for sensationalism. The article, however, does suggest that constant and excessive amounts of light can adversely affect certain aspects of nature, especially those parts dependent on day and night cycles. I was going to say 'light cycle', but then I realized that this is /. and everyone would think I was talking about Tron (myself included). :)
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You argue that the lack of light is a bigger issue than its abundance, even going so far as to cite a textbook reason for suicide to strengthen your stance. That's cool, until you realize that the 'lack of light' in mention is natural light. You can bathe a depressed individual in as much artificial light as you want... it isn't going to do much more than force them to squint while reaching for the razor blade. The only source of light that, IMO, really benefits mental health is that of the Sun. See, after growing up in Portland, OR, where seasonal depression is not only common, it is expected, you sorta develop a natural understanding of this matter. I don't mean to slam your post, not at all. I simply think that talking about the effects of artifical light in the context of an Alaskan summer, where sunlight is in abundance, not streetlamps, is like talking apples and oranges.
I agree with you that, to a certain degree, the article is playing on sensationalism to provoke a response. Can you blame them? Could you picture yourself trying to defend the findings of your research if those findings boiled down to "light is bad, mmkay?" I, for one, find the article incredibly fascinating. What a concept that something as passive as ambient light could have such monumental effects on nature! It shows me that with each new height we reach in modern technology and science, we still have (at best) an infantile perception of nature. In the end, I was sold enough to feel that this topic deserves further study, though I didn't necessarily buy the whole cow. In other words, I haven't reach over to turn off my desk lamp... yet.
For those of you (like myself) who had a difficult time reading the currency values without the appropriate commas, I'd like to present my contribution to the parent post:
,, yada yada yada? yada , yada yada ,,.
, yada yada (some math) ,
That's odd. I always just assumed that it was a zero. I think I'll continue with that assumption. :)
I thought the idea here was keeping a low profile? God knows that anyone finding security holes in university software doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of scoring an A in gym. Think before you say these things, Mitch. Twenty points higher than me and he thinks a guy like that can ace gym?
If these phones can only communicate with one another, it won't matter what you do - area code or country code - both parties will have the same exact number format.
By the time that happens the ten bucks you wanna bet probably won't be worth a whole hell of a lot. We'll probably be using the Euro by then, anyway. ;)
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Something tells me that if the truth is actually a trail of money I'm probably gonna like it.
In that case, maybe we should take it easy on our politicians. I mean, after all, they're only out there chasing the truth, right? =P
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Is it okay if I buy from the American manufacturer as long as the big screen TVs purchased by the employees are made in the same overseas sweatshop as your batteries?
...and how you'd think all honest politicians would be working to make sure computerized voting systems are open source...
I'm sure they are doing just that. But just like with any team that has exactly zero memebers, progress is a little slow.
If you were stuck on a deserted island with Ginger and Mary Ann, how sincere would *your* efforts to get off the island really be?
Why does your church care? All of these methods are merely transport mechanisms for the same natural fertilization process that you seem to be okay with. Pardon my french, but isn't that basically what the penis does? I fail to see any relevance between your post and this entire discussion.
Simple:
Windows makes heavy use of globally unique identifiers (GUIDs). Generate a GUID per machine and use that same GUID every time an error report is submitted. With such limited information, MS can still track each report per machine without infringing on your privacy. Of course, the default method of generating GUIDs uses your MAC address, so one would hope they are using a method by which the GUID is perhaps a one way hash of information unique to a single machine with the idea that the number will always be unique without any part of the result capable of being traced back to the source.
Of course, this fails to mention the obvious: Regardless of the information sent to Microsoft, you are still connecting to their servers. I would call an IP address personally identifiable information, in any case.
I had sat here and typed out a fairly well thought out response until I came to the realization that I'm arguing with a person who can't let go of a one-liner stereotype.
I'm sorry Lars, but this is a pointless debate. Not only did you choose to express your views using an amusingly self-contradictory generalism, you took offense to an opposing view and immediately assumed you were being personally attacked.
At this point I think the only person you should carry on this discussion with would be Freud.
C'est la vie.
For Pete's sake man don't encourage them!
That is because I didn't feel it necessary to single out any, well, specific generalization. I think my point clearly was that any generalization is a little on the lame side. You know, generally speaking.