You vastly overestimate the extent to which most viewers are willing to deal with a computer to watch TV programs. Granted, there's a growing segment of the population (mostly young and/or geeks, i.e. the all-lower-case-typing crowd) who will deal with those services just to avoid paying to watch ads, but they are far from the norm.
People will pay or watch commercials, but not both. They learned their lessons from the move to cable TV.
Except that they still pay for cable TV and they still watch commercials on it. If anyone's learned a lesson from the move to cable TV it's the networks learning that people will do both.
So if it adds some content to Just Plain Hulu, but meanwhile doesn't include all of the content from Just Plain Hulu, wouldn't that it make it "Hulu Plus Or Minus"?
Trying to learn to write with your non-dominant hand is going to be an exercise in frustration (especially if you're right handed, because it's a very left-brain activity). But there are other skills that are much easier to pick up. For a while I was in the habit of drawing (in pencil) with my right hand, and wielding my eraser (often semi-precision work itself) with the left. (That was before I switched to stylus and tablet, where using the eraser is just a matter of squeezing the stylus a little harder.)
While it wasn't as severe as this sounds, I injured my drawing hand back when I was in art school, which made holding a pencil (or pretty much any other tool) problematic for several weeks. While I was waiting for the right hand to recover, I gave the left a shot. It was difficult and frustrating, because I couldn't control it well enough for detailed work. But that doesn't have to be a liability. This might be a good opportunity to try setting aside the right-handed stylus death-grip (like I have), and try some more loose and expressive approaches to image making with the left hand, or holding the stylus another way and using the wrist instead of the fingers to control it. Maybe even mess around with traditional media like paint and brushes, or charcoal, which lend themselves to that kind of intentional sloppiness. It's a great excuse to try something different for a while.
I disagree. Art is not about precision. And I'm speaking here as an anal-retentive pixel-by-pixel neat freak myself when it comes to art. But I know there's more to it than that. Sloppiness can lead to expressiveness, and that's an important element to art. Taken to its extreme you get Pollack or Kandinsky, but you also get Matisse and Monet and Schiele and Toulouse-Lautrec. None of them used tools that emphasized precision (I refer to the process of painting in oils as "drawing with a mop"), and each one was a strong artist.
Serious question: Is the "drunken office holiday party" really a common thing? I've worked at a few places that had dubious Christmas "parties" (e.g. a bunch of food in the break room, a catered dinner, or gift-exchange games) but in 25 years in the working world, I've never seen an office party with sexual shenanigans or drunken antics like you see on sitcoms (or read about on/.) It thought they'd died off around the time shag carpeting did.
The entire insurance industry is based on the principle of retaliation against customers who cost the company money and rewards for those who dutifully pay more than they claim. Any statistical basis they can use to figure out which customer is which ahead of time... they'll use. The only ones they (usually) won't use are those prohibited by law; instead they look for some other factor that correlates strongly, and use that instead. So if they aren't allowed to use race, they'll use neighborhood... if they aren't allowed to use neighborhood, they'll look for something else. Maybe ISP, or IP address block, or OS, or.... browser. They don't care, as long as there's a good correlation. It's not that they hate Firefox users, any more than they hate people of a particular race or ethnic group or neighborhood or religion or credit score or driving record... they just don't care. Like any "good capitalist" they want to maximize profit.
I have two completely different pairs of generic off-the-shelf leather gloves. They're a bit klutzier than bare fingers - they're gloves, after all - but they both work well enough with my iPhone. I figure it's because skin has similar electrical properties to... skin. Or am I just really lucky that these work somehow?
It's not as bad as going back to the Dark Ages. More like the 1890s but with women's suffrage. Or if we're lucky it'll only be like going back to the 1950s.
"Kim" is even more common a surname in Korea than "Smith" is in English-speaking countries,. It's held by about 1/5 of the population, and if you were to put all of the Kims, Lees, and Parks together, you'd have nearly half of all Koreans right there.
No they won't. First the lackeys will just take it out on the travellers (as they're already doing, judging from TFA). And if they eventually get sick of it and quit, the TSA will find new lackeys. It's hardly the worst job to be found in most cities, so there will always be a supply of people willing to get in out of the weather, stop doing physical labor, and/or get away from hazardous/noxious materials.
For an encore, he'll be setting up "Drop Dead" sites around the city. These will be little knobs mounted to walls, for anonymous people to "share" biological materials by walking up to them and licking them.
The law (which he probably didn't write) says that accountability starts at four years old. The child was four. What else was the judge supposed to do?
Exercise judicial review of incompetent legislation? Exercise judicial assessment of a meritless suit?
The position of "judge" is not a clerical one, tasking the person to do whatever they're assigned to do. As the title implies, it's a job that calls for the exercise of "judgment".
Slashdot Mirror
It may surprise you to learn that sometimes technology isn't the solution.
One might argue that Guernsey hugs the coast of France close enough to count as "crossing the Channel".
If I hadn't made the whole thing up, that is, in a somewhat feeble joke on the notion of a "winged person".
TFA calls him "the first winged person to make a successful crossing of the Channel".
That's not counting Hawkman's attempt in All-Star Comics #16, which was thwarted by the Luftwaffe, forcing him to land in Guernsey. :)
You vastly overestimate the extent to which most viewers are willing to deal with a computer to watch TV programs. Granted, there's a growing segment of the population (mostly young and/or geeks, i.e. the all-lower-case-typing crowd) who will deal with those services just to avoid paying to watch ads, but they are far from the norm.
Except that they still pay for cable TV and they still watch commercials on it. If anyone's learned a lesson from the move to cable TV it's the networks learning that people will do both.
So if it adds some content to Just Plain Hulu, but meanwhile doesn't include all of the content from Just Plain Hulu, wouldn't that it make it "Hulu Plus Or Minus"?
You know, all things considered, I'm not sure I want to trust a Google translation of the Spanish news article.
Trying to learn to write with your non-dominant hand is going to be an exercise in frustration (especially if you're right handed, because it's a very left-brain activity). But there are other skills that are much easier to pick up. For a while I was in the habit of drawing (in pencil) with my right hand, and wielding my eraser (often semi-precision work itself) with the left. (That was before I switched to stylus and tablet, where using the eraser is just a matter of squeezing the stylus a little harder.)
While it wasn't as severe as this sounds, I injured my drawing hand back when I was in art school, which made holding a pencil (or pretty much any other tool) problematic for several weeks. While I was waiting for the right hand to recover, I gave the left a shot. It was difficult and frustrating, because I couldn't control it well enough for detailed work. But that doesn't have to be a liability. This might be a good opportunity to try setting aside the right-handed stylus death-grip (like I have), and try some more loose and expressive approaches to image making with the left hand, or holding the stylus another way and using the wrist instead of the fingers to control it. Maybe even mess around with traditional media like paint and brushes, or charcoal, which lend themselves to that kind of intentional sloppiness. It's a great excuse to try something different for a while.
I disagree. Art is not about precision. And I'm speaking here as an anal-retentive pixel-by-pixel neat freak myself when it comes to art. But I know there's more to it than that. Sloppiness can lead to expressiveness, and that's an important element to art. Taken to its extreme you get Pollack or Kandinsky, but you also get Matisse and Monet and Schiele and Toulouse-Lautrec. None of them used tools that emphasized precision (I refer to the process of painting in oils as "drawing with a mop"), and each one was a strong artist.
Serious question: Is the "drunken office holiday party" really a common thing? I've worked at a few places that had dubious Christmas "parties" (e.g. a bunch of food in the break room, a catered dinner, or gift-exchange games) but in 25 years in the working world, I've never seen an office party with sexual shenanigans or drunken antics like you see on sitcoms (or read about on /.) It thought they'd died off around the time shag carpeting did.
The entire insurance industry is based on the principle of retaliation against customers who cost the company money and rewards for those who dutifully pay more than they claim. Any statistical basis they can use to figure out which customer is which ahead of time... they'll use. The only ones they (usually) won't use are those prohibited by law; instead they look for some other factor that correlates strongly, and use that instead. So if they aren't allowed to use race, they'll use neighborhood... if they aren't allowed to use neighborhood, they'll look for something else. Maybe ISP, or IP address block, or OS, or.... browser. They don't care, as long as there's a good correlation. It's not that they hate Firefox users, any more than they hate people of a particular race or ethnic group or neighborhood or religion or credit score or driving record... they just don't care. Like any "good capitalist" they want to maximize profit.
I have two completely different pairs of generic off-the-shelf leather gloves. They're a bit klutzier than bare fingers - they're gloves, after all - but they both work well enough with my iPhone. I figure it's because skin has similar electrical properties to... skin. Or am I just really lucky that these work somehow?
It's not as bad as going back to the Dark Ages. More like the 1890s but with women's suffrage. Or if we're lucky it'll only be like going back to the 1950s.
We don't need government divided for it to get nothing done. Just look at the past two years.
"But are Speaker-elect Boehner and his Republicans willing to cut defense spending?"
Not as long as their are military-industrial jobs programs in their districts. Which is why the Democrats aren't willing to do it either.
"Kim" is even more common a surname in Korea than "Smith" is in English-speaking countries,. It's held by about 1/5 of the population, and if you were to put all of the Kims, Lees, and Parks together, you'd have nearly half of all Koreans right there.
This is what happened to Steve Jobs recently, when he tried to carry-on his iNinja souvenirs in his private plane.
No they won't. First the lackeys will just take it out on the travellers (as they're already doing, judging from TFA). And if they eventually get sick of it and quit, the TSA will find new lackeys. It's hardly the worst job to be found in most cities, so there will always be a supply of people willing to get in out of the weather, stop doing physical labor, and/or get away from hazardous/noxious materials.
mod parent "+! Fabulous"
For an encore, he'll be setting up "Drop Dead" sites around the city. These will be little knobs mounted to walls, for anonymous people to "share" biological materials by walking up to them and licking them.
This is a law suit, not a criminal charge. The plaintiffs want money.
Exercise judicial review of incompetent legislation?
Exercise judicial assessment of a meritless suit?
The position of "judge" is not a clerical one, tasking the person to do whatever they're assigned to do. As the title implies, it's a job that calls for the exercise of "judgment".
Then I'm pretty sure that in 1928 she would have been arrested for public indecency. :)
"You've got to admit that the circumstances of the 9/11 incident were fairly suspicious."
No, I really don't.