Tragically, very little of his comics work is in print in the US and/or in English. But that hasn't stopped people here (especially artists) from learning of his brilliance.
Well, it's already too late for the centennial of the 1911 revolution establishing the Republic of China, but they still have plenty of time for the centennial of the 1949 revolution and the People's Republic of China.
At a past job we used planets until we got to URANUS, and the techs started snickering too much. {sigh}
When we purchased two new systems which would run alongside a legacy system called CASPER, I proposed naming the new machines YAHWEH and JESUS. Unfortunately my boss got the joke*, so it didn't happen.
The first, most obvious thing to do is to ask your IT department, your boss, or whomever is responsible for communicating policy to you, what you're allowed to do with it. If they say "No personal use at all," then don't use it for anything personal. Full stop. Get a smart phone or tablet. If they say "limited personal use is OK, but you're responsible for the integrity of the machine", then don't do anything stupid with it, which includes anything NSFW or something you wouldn't want your boss to know about. Ask them if the computer has spying software installed. If they're that serious about wanting you to never check your personal e-mail on it, then they'll want you to know that, and will probably acknowledge that they're using it. Granted there are some people who deliberately give their employees enough rope to hang themselves with [waves to former employer], but most are more interested in getting you to follow policy in the first place, not firing you for violating it after the fact.
The other thing to do is honor whatever constraints they've put on the machine. If they've made you a non-power-user, then don't try to install software on it, even if you know how. If they've disabled the USB ports or booting from external devices, then don't try to get into the BIOS and turn them on. Basically, anything you do to try to outsmart the techs, even if you succeed at it – especially if you succeed – will just piss them off, and they'll throw the full force of the company's official policy at you out of spite.
As someone who has two capital letters in his surname, and routinely has to nag people to honor his wishes to capitalize it that way, I am curious why you think it's any of your business how they choose to capitalize the name of their museum.
I am a strong advocate of standard grammar for the sake of clarity. Using the correct spelling of its or it's makes it clearer and easier to understand a sentence. It serves a useful purpose, and that's why we have it. However, that isn't applicable here; PostNatural is at least as clear in its meaning as Postnatural would be. Grammar for its own sake is just a hallmark of the insecure and uncreative. Kindly give it a rest.
Language evolves as surely as species do; intercaps are simply another instance of that phenomenon. If this particular mutation of the language has adaptive value, it will survive and become more commonplace (which it seems to be doing). If for some reason it did not, it would die out all on its own. We don't need a Grammar Goddess to declare which adaptations should live and which should die as part of some Intelligent Design.
Seriously, what kind of fucking moron thinks that the government should ban something just because it "sends the wrong message"? So do action movies, romantic comedies, reality TV shows, and all political advertisements. Do you have to have a particular kind of brain damage to think that A) banning it would work, and B) it would not have harmful consequences to our society to give the government that power?
I just wish American voters would stop voting based on their pocketbooks and vote instead on policies. Regardless of whether the change is for the better or not, dumping the current president just because the economy is in trouble is short-sighted and more than a little superstitious, like killing the high priest when the crops fail. Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush were not responsible for the economic problems during their terms, and shouldn't have been blamed for failing to "fix" them in less than four years. Likewise with Barack Obama.
But thanks (in part) to campaign slogans such as "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" and campaign strategies such as "the economy, stupid", voters who don't have firm convictions about political philosophy, or a good understanding of political issues, are brainwashed to think that the president is in charge of what's really a decentralized market-based economy, and that replacing him with someone else will somehow change everything.
If you've been doing your job properly and documenting everything, you don't need to do anything but hand that documentation - and the passwords - over to your successor, and give him a tour (and map) of the physical environment. If not... except to get phone calls.
This is just part of the Republican Party's unconscious effort to self-destruct. Ever since the Tea-Bag/Libertarian crowd became the moving force in the party, supplanting the Chamber of Commerce types who were in charge for most of the 20th century, it's been infected with a kind of political rabies. Not only are they lashing out with no rhyme or reason, it's affected the Theocratic Right as well. Whether they can be successful in this election and/or recover for 2014/2016 depends on whether the Chamber CEOs can reassert control.
We have car alarms, but they're mostly used by self-centered pricks who don't notice or care that the alarm is being set off by the wind or passing trucks every 5-50 minutes, so no one else pays attention to them either.
We do have CCTV, but not so much as in Orwell's United Kingdom. There are actually entire city blocks which are not under any kind of surveillance at all!
Most audiences above the age of 6 just want to be told a story, not to direct it themselves. There just isn't a demand for choose-your-own-adventure storytelling.
Furthermore, there's little excess supply of it because how many writers want to tell stories that way? When I sit down to write a story, it's because I have a plot in mind for it, or at the least a character arc in which the protagonist begins at point A and ends at point Z. The possible detours off to M, Q, and V... just don't interest me.
You have it backwards: some movies are released shortly before the Oscar balloting in an attempt to get nominated, because they're fresh in people's minds.
The nonsense about Oscars always going to blockbusters is just too stupid to be answered.
A friend of mine bitches about the Oscars because movies like The Hurt Locker, No Country For Old Men, and Crash win Best Picture instead of Trasformers, Night at the Museum, or Meet the Fockers, which did so much better at the box office. In other words, he complains that the Oscars are.... the Oscars. The Academy isn't interested in presenting awards for Best Screwball Comedy or Best Action Film. They aren't trying to re-reward financial or popular success. They're honoring what they consider achievements in acting, direction, etc. If you want an award for Best Science Fiction Film, look to the Saturns or Hugos.
The latest in the Thinkpad line suffer from the same trend that most standard laptops and desktops (and a lot of tablets) suffer from these days: widescreenitis. There's a reason that "legal-size" paper never caught on with artists: the aspect ratio is wrong for pretty much everything except movies.
"professional artists" are an even smaller subset of "art students".
Most people are students for 4-5 years of their adult lives, and then professionals for 40-50 years. Granted, not everyone who goes to art school goes on to get a job as a "professional artist" (it's a tough field, and some end up doing it part-time instead of full-time), but even in the arts the pros outnumber the students.
The screen was also a nice high-density LCD (not quite "retina", but this was a decade ago).
But it was only 10" diagonal, which is way too small to draw on (and the digitizers on them are glitchy). I have one, but it's something to use when I can't use my desktop with an Intuous tablet, not a serious art tool. By today's standards it's not only slow but overweight.
Cintiqs are nice for what they are, but the lack of portability kills them for a lot of working artists. It's like telling someone that a device is "like an iPad, but not portable". Ugh. The combination of a Cintiq + a laptop is clunky and awkward to carry around and use; you might as well just get one of those god-awful TabletPC "convertibles" with the rotate-and-flip screens. There have been a few Windows slates (i.e. no integrated keyboard) that are sort of suitable for use as a drawing tablet, but they suffer from small screens (the cult favorite HP TC1100 has a 10-inch display) and pre-iPad product design and engineering.
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Tragically, very little of his comics work is in print in the US and/or in English. But that hasn't stopped people here (especially artists) from learning of his brilliance.
Well, it's already too late for the centennial of the 1911 revolution establishing the Republic of China, but they still have plenty of time for the centennial of the 1949 revolution and the People's Republic of China.
At a past job we used planets until we got to URANUS, and the techs started snickering too much. {sigh}
When we purchased two new systems which would run alongside a legacy system called CASPER, I proposed naming the new machines YAHWEH and JESUS. Unfortunately my boss got the joke*, so it didn't happen.
*the Father, the Son, the Friendly Ghost
If I had users who were half as helpful in reporting problems as Mr Takei was in this instance, I might like my job.
The first, most obvious thing to do is to ask your IT department, your boss, or whomever is responsible for communicating policy to you, what you're allowed to do with it. If they say "No personal use at all," then don't use it for anything personal. Full stop. Get a smart phone or tablet. If they say "limited personal use is OK, but you're responsible for the integrity of the machine", then don't do anything stupid with it, which includes anything NSFW or something you wouldn't want your boss to know about. Ask them if the computer has spying software installed. If they're that serious about wanting you to never check your personal e-mail on it, then they'll want you to know that, and will probably acknowledge that they're using it. Granted there are some people who deliberately give their employees enough rope to hang themselves with [waves to former employer], but most are more interested in getting you to follow policy in the first place, not firing you for violating it after the fact.
The other thing to do is honor whatever constraints they've put on the machine. If they've made you a non-power-user, then don't try to install software on it, even if you know how. If they've disabled the USB ports or booting from external devices, then don't try to get into the BIOS and turn them on. Basically, anything you do to try to outsmart the techs, even if you succeed at it – especially if you succeed – will just piss them off, and they'll throw the full force of the company's official policy at you out of spite.
As someone who has two capital letters in his surname, and routinely has to nag people to honor his wishes to capitalize it that way, I am curious why you think it's any of your business how they choose to capitalize the name of their museum.
I am a strong advocate of standard grammar for the sake of clarity. Using the correct spelling of its or it's makes it clearer and easier to understand a sentence. It serves a useful purpose, and that's why we have it. However, that isn't applicable here; PostNatural is at least as clear in its meaning as Postnatural would be. Grammar for its own sake is just a hallmark of the insecure and uncreative. Kindly give it a rest.
Language evolves as surely as species do; intercaps are simply another instance of that phenomenon. If this particular mutation of the language has adaptive value, it will survive and become more commonplace (which it seems to be doing). If for some reason it did not, it would die out all on its own. We don't need a Grammar Goddess to declare which adaptations should live and which should die as part of some Intelligent Design.
We are sentient.
No, just the opinions that are wrong.
Seriously, what kind of fucking moron thinks that the government should ban something just because it "sends the wrong message"? So do action movies, romantic comedies, reality TV shows, and all political advertisements. Do you have to have a particular kind of brain damage to think that A) banning it would work, and B) it would not have harmful consequences to our society to give the government that power?
Ah, so this is just "the whole power grid is going to explode and we'll be back to 1900 again" Y2K doomsaying again. Got it.
Has plumbing really become dependent on electronic control systems? Or does this phenomenon somehow affect gravity too?
I just wish American voters would stop voting based on their pocketbooks and vote instead on policies. Regardless of whether the change is for the better or not, dumping the current president just because the economy is in trouble is short-sighted and more than a little superstitious, like killing the high priest when the crops fail. Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush were not responsible for the economic problems during their terms, and shouldn't have been blamed for failing to "fix" them in less than four years. Likewise with Barack Obama.
But thanks (in part) to campaign slogans such as "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" and campaign strategies such as "the economy, stupid", voters who don't have firm convictions about political philosophy, or a good understanding of political issues, are brainwashed to think that the president is in charge of what's really a decentralized market-based economy, and that replacing him with someone else will somehow change everything.
If you've been doing your job properly and documenting everything, you don't need to do anything but hand that documentation - and the passwords - over to your successor, and give him a tour (and map) of the physical environment. If not... except to get phone calls.
This is just part of the Republican Party's unconscious effort to self-destruct. Ever since the Tea-Bag/Libertarian crowd became the moving force in the party, supplanting the Chamber of Commerce types who were in charge for most of the 20th century, it's been infected with a kind of political rabies. Not only are they lashing out with no rhyme or reason, it's affected the Theocratic Right as well. Whether they can be successful in this election and/or recover for 2014/2016 depends on whether the Chamber CEOs can reassert control.
I believe I qualified my statement to refer to audiences above the age of 6. :)
"Don't you guys have alarms and CCTV over there?"
We have car alarms, but they're mostly used by self-centered pricks who don't notice or care that the alarm is being set off by the wind or passing trucks every 5-50 minutes, so no one else pays attention to them either.
We do have CCTV, but not so much as in Orwell's United Kingdom. There are actually entire city blocks which are not under any kind of surveillance at all!
Most audiences above the age of 6 just want to be told a story, not to direct it themselves. There just isn't a demand for choose-your-own-adventure storytelling.
Furthermore, there's little excess supply of it because how many writers want to tell stories that way? When I sit down to write a story, it's because I have a plot in mind for it, or at the least a character arc in which the protagonist begins at point A and ends at point Z. The possible detours off to M, Q, and V... just don't interest me.
You have it backwards: some movies are released shortly before the Oscar balloting in an attempt to get nominated, because they're fresh in people's minds.
The nonsense about Oscars always going to blockbusters is just too stupid to be answered.
The notion that "do it electronically" would solve counterfeiting is the sort of thing I wouldn't expect to see parroted on Slashdot.
A friend of mine bitches about the Oscars because movies like The Hurt Locker, No Country For Old Men, and Crash win Best Picture instead of Trasformers, Night at the Museum, or Meet the Fockers, which did so much better at the box office. In other words, he complains that the Oscars are.... the Oscars. The Academy isn't interested in presenting awards for Best Screwball Comedy or Best Action Film. They aren't trying to re-reward financial or popular success. They're honoring what they consider achievements in acting, direction, etc. If you want an award for Best Science Fiction Film, look to the Saturns or Hugos.
I volunteer to run the internet.
The latest in the Thinkpad line suffer from the same trend that most standard laptops and desktops (and a lot of tablets) suffer from these days: widescreenitis. There's a reason that "legal-size" paper never caught on with artists: the aspect ratio is wrong for pretty much everything except movies.
Most people are students for 4-5 years of their adult lives, and then professionals for 40-50 years. Granted, not everyone who goes to art school goes on to get a job as a "professional artist" (it's a tough field, and some end up doing it part-time instead of full-time), but even in the arts the pros outnumber the students.
The screen was also a nice high-density LCD (not quite "retina", but this was a decade ago).
But it was only 10" diagonal, which is way too small to draw on (and the digitizers on them are glitchy). I have one, but it's something to use when I can't use my desktop with an Intuous tablet, not a serious art tool. By today's standards it's not only slow but overweight.
Cintiqs are nice for what they are, but the lack of portability kills them for a lot of working artists. It's like telling someone that a device is "like an iPad, but not portable". Ugh. The combination of a Cintiq + a laptop is clunky and awkward to carry around and use; you might as well just get one of those god-awful TabletPC "convertibles" with the rotate-and-flip screens. There have been a few Windows slates (i.e. no integrated keyboard) that are sort of suitable for use as a drawing tablet, but they suffer from small screens (the cult favorite HP TC1100 has a 10-inch display) and pre-iPad product design and engineering.
"Art students" tend to turn into "professional artists" and spend more time (and money) as such than they do as students.