And I for the life of me cannot figure out why 'I, Robot' the film is the geek community's favorite red-headed step-child
IMO, it's because it sucked relative to the books. I agree that it wasn't as bad as many people here are saying, but even a good 2 hour movie can't compare to an entire book of multiple good short stories. I suspect people who never read the book would have liked the movie better than those who have.
It's especially bad if one of the people is a heavy Coke drinker. The sound of the pop tops opening! The coughing when he swallows wrong! The loud burping!!
That may or may not be feasable for the OP. But it's not feasable for everyone. I live 15 miles from work. The direct route is down the highway. If I took a bike-friendly route it would be much longer than 15 miles, and a whole lot longer than the 30 minutes my commute takes by car.
Several times, you've mentioned "a nice suburban home with a green lawn and some elbow room from the neighbors" vs "stacked up in expensive and claustrophobic apartment complexes". What about a 3rd option?
I live in a decent house in the city. It has a green lawn and elbow room. Maybe not as much as the rich suburbanites, but I don't spend 2 hours mowing my lawn either. And it's certainly not claustophobic.
In ancient times, people actually did live in cities. Suburbs are relatively recent.
I didn't see any disruption of suppiles last summer. I did see a price bump, allegedly because of the hurricanes, but perhaps also because of greed. Likewise, I keep hearing about bombings in certain oil-rich areas, and the prices rise and fall, but the gas is always at the pumps.
I'm not saying we CAN'T have disruptions, but the fact is, we haven't really had any (at least outside a disaster zone like NOLA) since the 70's, and they were manufactured.
In the case of african-americans, they in general do considerably better than africans. Of course, environmental conditions in Africa are very sub-optimal, while there has been a small but significant amount of gene exchange between whites and africans in the US, making a straight comparison harder.
I'm sure a bunch of middle-class whites would outperform lower-class blacks on most tests. I'm equally sure that lower-class Americans (of any race) would outperform people who spent their formative years getting barely enough food to survive. It's very questionable how much influence genetics has on such tests.
We actually haven't changed. We have a limited number of people we associate with, probably about as many as fit in the old villages. The main difference is that we now ignore most strangers instead of killing and eating them. Unless they cut us off in traffic!
I had 2 seperate 1K wins at the casino. No paper trail (if you win $1200 you need to fill out paperwork, but my wins were just below that). If I kept the money in my house because I don't trust banks, and won 8 more times (unlikely, but I didn't expect the first 2 either), I'd have the 10K. All legal, above board, and no paper trail.
It's because there are a huge number of more insecure targets. If the market share of the Macs was 50%, Windows would still get most of the exploits, simply because it is easier to hack. OTOH, if all the Windows machines disappeared, then you WOULD see a whole slew of Mac exploits. Without low-hanging fruit, the hackers would target the next tempting target, and some of them would get in, especially if the WinLusers switched to the Mac.
I hope you realize that the doctor who's at 30% capacity will probably mistake a bad appendix for a kidney stone. Do you really want to be operated on by someone who's been awake for 36+ hours?
Microsoft DEFAULTS to running as root, so it's a de facto standard. Developers know it's a de facto standard so they code accordingly. That makes it a hassle to NOT run as root!
That's true until they raise the prices so high that ethanol is cheaper. Then they'll either lower the prices (making the customers happier) or DIE! There's a limit to how far you can screw the customer.
There probably are. And those idiots would be tossed in jail like any other violent criminal, and the news media would portray them as thugs. Does that happen to the Muslim rioters in their countries?
Seriously! Every computer I've bought since the Win95 days has had AOL. I bought a new box last month and IT had a great big AOL icon positioned where you couldn't miss it! In 2006!
The upgrade method from 95 to 98 was, stick the 98 CD in, boot it, and it would upgrade. About as easy as you could get. I don't know about the other upgrades you mention.
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There were 15+ minutes of commercials when I went to the movies. That was 4 years ago. I'm sure they've gotten worse since then.
IMO, it's because it sucked relative to the books. I agree that it wasn't as bad as many people here are saying, but even a good 2 hour movie can't compare to an entire book of multiple good short stories. I suspect people who never read the book would have liked the movie better than those who have.
Maybe this is the remake. They're coming out faster than ever.
It's especially bad if one of the people is a heavy Coke drinker. The sound of the pop tops opening! The coughing when he swallows wrong! The loud burping!!
I don't know how my cubemates could stand it.
Or worse, in the White House!
I never heard of that! Of course, where I live, the mailbox is on my porch. I walk farther to my car than I do to the mailbox.
That may or may not be feasable for the OP. But it's not feasable for everyone. I live 15 miles from work. The direct route is down the highway. If I took a bike-friendly route it would be much longer than 15 miles, and a whole lot longer than the 30 minutes my commute takes by car.
Several times, you've mentioned "a nice suburban home with a green lawn and some elbow room from the neighbors" vs "stacked up in expensive and claustrophobic apartment complexes". What about a 3rd option?
I live in a decent house in the city. It has a green lawn and elbow room. Maybe not as much as the rich suburbanites, but I don't spend 2 hours mowing my lawn either. And it's certainly not claustophobic.
In ancient times, people actually did live in cities. Suburbs are relatively recent.
I didn't see any disruption of suppiles last summer. I did see a price bump, allegedly because of the hurricanes, but perhaps also because of greed. Likewise, I keep hearing about bombings in certain oil-rich areas, and the prices rise and fall, but the gas is always at the pumps.
I'm not saying we CAN'T have disruptions, but the fact is, we haven't really had any (at least outside a disaster zone like NOLA) since the 70's, and they were manufactured.
I'm sure a bunch of middle-class whites would outperform lower-class blacks on most tests. I'm equally sure that lower-class Americans (of any race) would outperform people who spent their formative years getting barely enough food to survive. It's very questionable how much influence genetics has on such tests.
We actually haven't changed. We have a limited number of people we associate with, probably about as many as fit in the old villages. The main difference is that we now ignore most strangers instead of killing and eating them. Unless they cut us off in traffic!
I wouldn't mind paying for my winnings, as long as I could also deduct my losings, which even with those big wins is a lot larger.
But it would help if there was a snowball's chance of a Libertarian actually WINNING something. :(
I'm screwed either way. If I keep my shoes on, I'm a suspected terrorist, and if I take them off, I'm arrested for possesion of WMDs!
I had 2 seperate 1K wins at the casino. No paper trail (if you win $1200 you need to fill out paperwork, but my wins were just below that). If I kept the money in my house because I don't trust banks, and won 8 more times (unlikely, but I didn't expect the first 2 either), I'd have the 10K. All legal, above board, and no paper trail.
To prove it, I'll post my real name & address on Slashdot:
First Name: Cro
Last Name: Magnon
Address: 1234 Inna Cave Dr.
It's because there are a huge number of more insecure targets. If the market share of the Macs was 50%, Windows would still get most of the exploits, simply because it is easier to hack. OTOH, if all the Windows machines disappeared, then you WOULD see a whole slew of Mac exploits. Without low-hanging fruit, the hackers would target the next tempting target, and some of them would get in, especially if the WinLusers switched to the Mac.
I hope you realize that the doctor who's at 30% capacity will probably mistake a bad appendix for a kidney stone. Do you really want to be operated on by someone who's been awake for 36+ hours?
Microsoft DEFAULTS to running as root, so it's a de facto standard. Developers know it's a de facto standard so they code accordingly. That makes it a hassle to NOT run as root!
The worst WINDOWS malware I've seen was from Symantec!
That's true until they raise the prices so high that ethanol is cheaper. Then they'll either lower the prices (making the customers happier) or DIE! There's a limit to how far you can screw the customer.
True, but I could say the same about Yahoo.
There probably are. And those idiots would be tossed in jail like any other violent criminal, and the news media would portray them as thugs. Does that happen to the Muslim rioters in their countries?
Seriously! Every computer I've bought since the Win95 days has had AOL. I bought a new box last month and IT had a great big AOL icon positioned where you couldn't miss it! In 2006!
The upgrade method from 95 to 98 was, stick the 98 CD in, boot it, and it would upgrade. About as easy as you could get. I don't know about the other upgrades you mention.