More likely the opposite to a small extent. With the coupons, I got two from TigerDirect for $14 ($.01 and $6.99 S&H each), so I'm not anticipating a giant price drop outside of Goodwill and surplus stores. Work -- crappy downgrade to analog as expected. The wife never watches TV on her desktop anyway but with my old WinTV card she _could_. I figured the other one was a way to sell the 19" for $10. Been using MyThTV with an HD card for a couple years now anyway.
Monday through Friday are obviously for working. Friday and Saturday night are for partying or Chuck E Cheese with the kids, depending on fate, a little quality time with the significant other on Sunday morning (or church I suppose), the big game on Sunday afternoon and there you are: a hour of internet before preparing for another work week.
Aren't there plenty of movies that put the American rut in perspective?
Years ago, I wrote Saint Wellstone that I thought it was ridiculous that I could buy a DVD and be a felon for playing it on a linux machine. The reply I got from Saint Wellstone's office said the DMCA was a great thing and he would vote for it again if he had the chance. Just look at where the money comes from.
Well, not fine. But work, yes. It'll just downgrade to the sort of crappy a person is familiar with.
I got a couple as, first, an enticement for someone to buy my analog set, and, second, the wife isn't big on TV on her computer so it's good enough to give my old WinTV card a reason for existence when she isn't using it as an FM tuner.
So what's the Next Big Medium that has an intellectual price of admission?
Been there. Seen it before. Amateur radio was a nerd's kingdom in the 60s. Then came CB in the 70s, Good Buddy. Once you've paved the path, the idiots will get on it.
One of the goals of Reaganomics: treating tertiary education like a business instead of part of the commons.
Education isn't "free" anymore so why should knowledge be? And, honestly, under that ideology universities just have to survive and a lot of evils are spawned as a result.
My thoughts too. Examining the sample photo _very_ closely, I suppose someone might casually see shadow but we all know it's a bit of areola. It may be silly, but, hey, this is America. If I were Facebook's lawyer, I don't know that I could professionally say anything different.
When did whether it's "natural" play into American mores?
Keep on dreaming up excuses for OO failure. Pepole like software that is superior. AKA MS Office...
SNORT. Yeah, right. Can't be because a monopoly starts underpricing everybody else.
Trying to let that wound heal and shut up about the past but when I hear that attitude I have to bring up that our department fought our organization on the WordPerfect to Word 97 switch like trapped badgers. Started a campaign of circulating copies of one of the last WordPerfect Magazine articles, "The 500 things Office 97 Can't Do." Basically a detailed multi-page table.
I guess what ticks me off is that our taxes in the U.S. pay Microsoft for computers in the schools. As someone who went from DisplayWrite at work and a Commodore cartridge at home through WordPerfect, some OS/2 Describe at home, StarOffice back when it was the Java "desktop", OO.o, AbiWord and whatever editors is how a person can not be sarcastic that, Heaven forbid all to hell, a school should try to teach American children the versatility of generalization. How CRUEL! It's almost like making kids know two languages or something. Where in the world is _that_ done? And, yet, who are the first people to bitch that taxes for education are too high? I just tell myself the arena of public education isn't where the swift and the brave gravitate. Never has been, never will be.
Good. Can't wait. I'm more concerned about pedestrian safety having dodged many potentially fatal encounters. Know not one but two girls whose fathers were killed walking at a light or stop sign, in fact, so I'm quite militant about anything that FORCES people to be morally responsible when they drive.
However, they were ruled unconstitutional in Minnesota precisely because the driver couldn't be recognized. Looks like that can be changed. Great.
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Heh, heh. Well, I'd say Tistork's subject line is spot on, but there's the great melting pot for you. I quit reading newspapers years ago because they unreflectively mouth the Neocon Proto-Fascist line. Quit watching network news and listening to public radio and switched to the BBC and Paris for audio and video and the internet for print for that matter.
Met a proud liberal around the Reagan years who started a campaign of spray-painting "Lies" on our metro newspaper boxes. According to Tistork, he must have surely been one mixed up dude biting the hand that fed him the propaganda he should have so dearly loved.
Of course, their images were reconstructed from _dead_ people.
I often hear the maxim from SF writers that every book is allowed one miracle. Fringe started the series by holding that maxim down and stomping it to death.
In a world where many people speak two or three languages, it would be the ultimate crime to teach American children versatility. Frankly, it explains a damn lot about our culture.
I always keep in mind, back in the day, when the MAT was a grad admission test that the typical grad acceptance raw score for an education MA was literally _half_ that of a psych PhD grad acceptance. Don't expect high school teachers to be the brightest bulbs to have sat through four years of college.
"Even if we have fixed a big majority of the bugs from 5.0 some really critical ones still haven't been addressed."
That's the sort of attitude more than a few people still expect from this "open source stuff".
The pivotal thing about MySQL is that they released a Windows version early and it got on CDs bundled with a ton of programming books. In my opinion, that's why we are talking LAMP instead of LAPP.
The auto industry has been pushing $30,000+ luxury cars, SUVs and pickups in 90% of their TV ads and now they want a bailout. Saying those ads aren't shaping taste is like saying Joe Camel didn't appeal to kids.
My wife and I don't have an desert shale roads, swamps or surreal explosive obstacle courses on the way to work and there are only the two of us in our household. Where is our $12,000 Euro-Ford? Well, Europe, I guess. So for consistency either give Tesla it's money if we give the other manufacturers money -- or screw 'em all. Doesn't matter. Really, what's the problem printing up a few more billion after the debacle of Fall, '08?
It's an improvement. Wasn't it 40% or so who thought they were watching hi def and weren't about three years ago?
A conversation aimed at Thanksgiving? I spent some time trying to explain to my aged parents that their "good" analog looked fuzzy to me now and and that, no, hi def wouldn't strain their eyes if they watched it closer than their customary 8-12 feet from their current 32". And I lost.
The old rule of thumb of course: "If you talk to God, you're pious. If God talks to you, you're schizophrenic."
And more generally, "If everybody else believes something, I'd be a damn fool not to believe it too." Good motto for fitting in. Never so comforting to visionaries.
Any academic discipline that has technical terms like "raw feelies" can't be all bad.
Sure, why not. Clear thinking will be at a premium in unraveling the mechanisms of cognition. And in AI, some people (COUGH, Kurzweil) seem to talk like sentience will spontaneously emerge if you can fill a large enough barrel with nanobots. More in the Hofstadter camp myself that building a mind is going to be a long slog through thick terrain.
When I was (more-or-less slowly) running marathons a QUARTER CENTURY AGO, it was clear on a personal level that literally "loosening up" before a run was a detrimental cause of pain and soreness. I was fortunate to attend a running "boot camp" of sorts for corporate fitness sloggers and they lined up a world-record 50K ultrarunner among the weekly speakers. She confirmed my suspicions by stating emphatically that she _never_ stretched before a run and always stretched _after_ a run.
Since then I have suspected that the limits are defined and refined in endurance sport and a lot of superstition is allowed to continue in coaching team sports because the results are more difficult to determine whether it has been in regard to heat training, electrolyte balance or stretching.
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More likely the opposite to a small extent. With the coupons, I got two from TigerDirect for $14 ($.01 and $6.99 S&H each), so I'm not anticipating a giant price drop outside of Goodwill and surplus stores. Work -- crappy downgrade to analog as expected. The wife never watches TV on her desktop anyway but with my old WinTV card she _could_. I figured the other one was a way to sell the 19" for $10. Been using MyThTV with an HD card for a couple years now anyway.
Monday through Friday are obviously for working. Friday and Saturday night are for partying or Chuck E Cheese with the kids, depending on fate, a little quality time with the significant other on Sunday morning (or church I suppose), the big game on Sunday afternoon and there you are: a hour of internet before preparing for another work week.
Aren't there plenty of movies that put the American rut in perspective?
Years ago, I wrote Saint Wellstone that I thought it was ridiculous that I could buy a DVD and be a felon for playing it on a linux machine. The reply I got from Saint Wellstone's office said the DMCA was a great thing and he would vote for it again if he had the chance. Just look at where the money comes from.
Well, not fine. But work, yes. It'll just downgrade to the sort of crappy a person is familiar with.
I got a couple as, first, an enticement for someone to buy my analog set, and, second, the wife isn't big on TV on her computer so it's good enough to give my old WinTV card a reason for existence when she isn't using it as an FM tuner.
So what's the Next Big Medium that has an intellectual price of admission?
Been there. Seen it before. Amateur radio was a nerd's kingdom in the 60s. Then came CB in the 70s, Good Buddy. Once you've paved the path, the idiots will get on it.
One of the goals of Reaganomics: treating tertiary education like a business instead of part of the commons.
Education isn't "free" anymore so why should knowledge be? And, honestly, under that ideology universities just have to survive and a lot of evils are spawned as a result.
My thoughts too. Examining the sample photo _very_ closely, I suppose someone might casually see shadow but we all know it's a bit of areola. It may be silly, but, hey, this is America. If I were Facebook's lawyer, I don't know that I could professionally say anything different.
When did whether it's "natural" play into American mores?
Keep on dreaming up excuses for OO failure. Pepole like software that is superior. AKA MS Office...
SNORT. Yeah, right. Can't be because a monopoly starts underpricing everybody else.
Trying to let that wound heal and shut up about the past but when I hear that attitude I have to bring up that our department fought our organization on the WordPerfect to Word 97 switch like trapped badgers. Started a campaign of circulating copies of one of the last WordPerfect Magazine articles, "The 500 things Office 97 Can't Do." Basically a detailed multi-page table.
I guess what ticks me off is that our taxes in the U.S. pay Microsoft for computers in the schools. As someone who went from DisplayWrite at work and a Commodore cartridge at home through WordPerfect, some OS/2 Describe at home, StarOffice back when it was the Java "desktop", OO.o, AbiWord and whatever editors is how a person can not be sarcastic that, Heaven forbid all to hell, a school should try to teach American children the versatility of generalization. How CRUEL! It's almost like making kids know two languages or something. Where in the world is _that_ done? And, yet, who are the first people to bitch that taxes for education are too high? I just tell myself the arena of public education isn't where the swift and the brave gravitate. Never has been, never will be.
What do they care. Wonderful thing about still being a virtual desktop monopoly. Am I wrong?
Good. Can't wait. I'm more concerned about pedestrian safety having dodged many potentially fatal encounters. Know not one but two girls whose fathers were killed walking at a light or stop sign, in fact, so I'm quite militant about anything that FORCES people to be morally responsible when they drive.
However, they were ruled unconstitutional in Minnesota precisely because the driver couldn't be recognized. Looks like that can be changed. Great.
Heh, heh. Well, I'd say Tistork's subject line is spot on, but there's the great melting pot for you. I quit reading newspapers years ago because they unreflectively mouth the Neocon Proto-Fascist line. Quit watching network news and listening to public radio and switched to the BBC and Paris for audio and video and the internet for print for that matter.
Met a proud liberal around the Reagan years who started a campaign of spray-painting "Lies" on our metro newspaper boxes. According to Tistork, he must have surely been one mixed up dude biting the hand that fed him the propaganda he should have so dearly loved.
Oh, I don't know. Now I'd say for $150 you could probably find a local linux enthusiast who would set you up really nicely.
Of course, their images were reconstructed from _dead_ people.
I often hear the maxim from SF writers that every book is allowed one miracle. Fringe started the series by holding that maxim down and stomping it to death.
In a world where many people speak two or three languages, it would be the ultimate crime to teach American children versatility. Frankly, it explains a damn lot about our culture.
I always keep in mind, back in the day, when the MAT was a grad admission test that the typical grad acceptance raw score for an education MA was literally _half_ that of a psych PhD grad acceptance. Don't expect high school teachers to be the brightest bulbs to have sat through four years of college.
Remember, managers don't have to know anything about their field; they just need to know "management stuff".
So how did the internet do in stopping Bush and the Iraq war?
Sounds like yet another Nobel Prize winner musing outside his specialty.
and the U.S. ranks 36th in freedom of the press this year. An improvement actually.
A coincidence nobody wanted to talk about this before the the election? Sure, Sunshine.
"Even if we have fixed a big majority of the bugs from 5.0 some really critical ones still haven't been addressed."
That's the sort of attitude more than a few people still expect from this "open source stuff".
The pivotal thing about MySQL is that they released a Windows version early and it got on CDs bundled with a ton of programming books. In my opinion, that's why we are talking LAMP instead of LAPP.
The auto industry has been pushing $30,000+ luxury cars, SUVs and pickups in 90% of their TV ads and now they want a bailout. Saying those ads aren't shaping taste is like saying Joe Camel didn't appeal to kids.
My wife and I don't have an desert shale roads, swamps or surreal explosive obstacle courses on the way to work and there are only the two of us in our household. Where is our $12,000 Euro-Ford? Well, Europe, I guess. So for consistency either give Tesla it's money if we give the other manufacturers money -- or screw 'em all. Doesn't matter. Really, what's the problem printing up a few more billion after the debacle of Fall, '08?
It's an improvement. Wasn't it 40% or so who thought they were watching hi def and weren't about three years ago?
A conversation aimed at Thanksgiving? I spent some time trying to explain to my aged parents that their "good" analog looked fuzzy to me now and and that, no, hi def wouldn't strain their eyes if they watched it closer than their customary 8-12 feet from their current 32". And I lost.
What is left?
And what is the dust?
Perhaps of more pragmatic interest are the drives the first emergent consciousness will have been given. And whether it has an opposable thumb.
Seriously. If HP is going to play the abused housewife to Microsoft's wife beater and they don't come up with an intervention, screw 'em.
The old rule of thumb of course: "If you talk to God, you're pious. If God talks to you, you're schizophrenic."
And more generally, "If everybody else believes something, I'd be a damn fool not to believe it too." Good motto for fitting in. Never so comforting to visionaries.
Any academic discipline that has technical terms like "raw feelies" can't be all bad.
Sure, why not. Clear thinking will be at a premium in unraveling the mechanisms of cognition. And in AI, some people (COUGH, Kurzweil) seem to talk like sentience will spontaneously emerge if you can fill a large enough barrel with nanobots. More in the Hofstadter camp myself that building a mind is going to be a long slog through thick terrain.
When I was (more-or-less slowly) running marathons a QUARTER CENTURY AGO, it was clear on a personal level that literally "loosening up" before a run was a detrimental cause of pain and soreness. I was fortunate to attend a running "boot camp" of sorts for corporate fitness sloggers and they lined up a world-record 50K ultrarunner among the weekly speakers. She confirmed my suspicions by stating emphatically that she _never_ stretched before a run and always stretched _after_ a run.
Since then I have suspected that the limits are defined and refined in endurance sport and a lot of superstition is allowed to continue in coaching team sports because the results are more difficult to determine whether it has been in regard to heat training, electrolyte balance or stretching.