I applaud Lucas for maintaining the significant point of continuity with the amputated hand. In "Star Wars II" (SW II), Count Dooku sliced off the right hand of Anakin, and Anakin (in turn) sliced off Luke's right hand. This act was a nice point of literary continuity.
Cutting off the right hand leaves only the left. Think Biblically for a moment about the "left-handed path". Or translate into Italian, "sinistra". It's symbolism of the encounter with the dark side, and provides a firm transitional moment. (I am by no means smart enough to have come up with this on my own - it has been widely discussed elsewhere.)
--which is STILL paying him deferred compensation.
Which is totally irrelevant because he gets deferred compensation whether he does them favors or tells them to stick a large object in a small orifice.
GWB doesn't email (for record-retention reasons discussed), and iirc Condi doesn't email too much either. Powell was a big emailer, and Karl Rove is too.
All companies large and small, and virutally all individuals in their private lives, have done illegal things of all sorts of magnitudes. Ever mow somebody's lawn for $20 and not reported it on your 1040? Tax evader! Ever download Metallica? Copyright infringer!
Now, I'm sure you're a complete angel and have never done anything even remotely illegal, but would you want every email you ever sent subject to court review?
And while we're playing conspiracy theorist and talking about cover-ups, let's talk about Vince Foster...
So on your idea, should Firefox ship with zero search engines enabled by default, or was the Google one OK? If Google is OK, then why? (If not Google, then which single engine should be "blessed"?) Shipping w/ zero built-in engines seems silly, and there is no logical reason to exclude others, especially the popular ones whose corporate masters support your project.
It was nice to actually use the same browser on my workstation, laptop, and linux box at work.
And that is the precise reason why firefox is good for a company like IBM. They have lots of different platforms running, (windows, linux, os2, aix, others I'm sure), and end-user support is a lot easier when they've got an application they can use across the board. Better for geeks, better for secretaries. (I know I have a hard time giving help for applications that I don't use myself, even if they are "standard". Sometimes the luser needs an explicit walkthrough procedure.)
What if there was clean-burning gasoline that only cost $0.02/gal? Booo-hooo Exxon goes out of business, and some Arab dictators need to figure out a different way to keep their kingdoms.
It is good for business because ALL THE OTHER BUSINESSES BESIDES THE PRODUCING INDUSTRY BENEFIT. With virtually free gasoline practically every product you buy will cost less. Software is a little like gasoline to many industries. Free software is a free public good that is non-scarce and infinitely divisible.
Is it good for the programmer job market? No. Tough titties, it's good for everybody else. Yours isn't the first industry to be decimated by progress.
stipulating a definition always tends to make things simpler, regardless.
my primary problem w/ your definition is that it uses the word "Creator" in a way that seems to me to be contrary to any previous definition. I can stipulate that "peanut butter sandwich" =df "pickles with wasabi", but that doesn't give me a useful definition.
So...er... Your premise is flawed.
FYI, a big component of Intelligent Design is logical criticism of evolution. A biggie is "irreducible complexity" - or the idea that there are some complex systems (ecosystems, organic systems, etc.) that could not have evolved gradually because each component is necessary for the system to exist and there is no benefit to a partial implementation of the system.
There are arguments back and forth on this issue, but if criticism based on logic is out of bounds or "pseudo science", then that doesn't say much about the scientific-ness of atheistic-evolution.
Enterprise does re-run on Fox. In my local lineup, UPN gets the first run on Friday night, then there is a UPN rerun Sunday evening, and a Fox rerun later Sunday evening.
And since UPN looks like crap on my cable system, I've taken to watching the Fox rerun on Sunday night, and on Fridays I either go to the bar or watch SciFi Channel.
Friday is a bad slot for any show. Trying to compete with SciFi Channel's Friday lineup for the geek audience is suicide.
One consumer will complain about the stuck pixel on their new laptop, immediately after complaining about the price of the laptop. You can't have both. As quality approaches "perfect", cost increases exponentially, for any product.
It would be nice to get one or the other though. Both flawed AND expensive is a real drag.
Netscape became a free as in beer product in the late 90's. (I recall downloading Communicator in 97 for free.) I would be interested to know what percent of Opera is free(w/ ads) vs paid. Konq is free. Safari is free to Mac users (right?). And all of these add up to about 10% of the browser "market", which is a pretty dysfunctional market since nobody really pays for browsers.
Not in the true sense of competition. On the economic front, they crushed their main opposition (Netscape) and relegated Opera (and any others that I can't think of) to a very minor role.
Their "competition" from Moz is a charity case from AOL, the Moz people, and maybe a few general-population contributors, with most outsiders contributing no more than bug reports. Opera is minor in the desktop market, being forced into embedded/portable stuff, and STILL has to give away an ad-supported version for free.
The long and the short of it is that nobody can make money on browsers, and MS can ensure that ninety-whatever percent of desktops have IE installed.
The quoted text says nothing about writing code. It is meant to be applicable to numerous different occupations.
That said, writing code can be like solving a puzzle - not necessarily heroic, but something that often demands the coder's full attention. I'm sure that different coding jobs can be more or less demanding, requiring differing levels of mental commitment.
The window thing could work. I'd do it if it were me, but it was my brother who ran into this problem. After they got past the whole "Federal regulation requires you to allow this despite the community rules" thing, the landlord was ok with the pole in the yard, but not with getting the line into the house. My brother ended up getting cable. He wants to move out within the year, so I doubt he'll be getting a dish even if he thinks the window thing could work.
Firefly was a love it or hate it. I heard a lot of hype about Firefly so I watched it 2 or 3 times. And hated it. I watched past the 1st ep to give it a fair chance - because every show has a bad episode now and again. Maybe I would have liked it more if the eps had been in the correct order. Maybe. But I doubt it.
This is true, but if ANY modifications need to be made to the house (such as getting the line in from the dish, which you have stuck in the yard on a pole because you can't mount it on the house), the landlord can nix it.
The sale price of used macs is not a good indicator of value. In two years I could almost buy ANOTHER beige box with what I saved in the first place by not buying a mac.
In fact, some time ago (a year or two?) I went to an estate auction to try to pick up an old G3 cheap. Wrong-O. At the preview they put up the original invoice for the machine. It went for more than the going price for that level of machine on ebay. It went for more than what a new mac would cost with OSX. People often don't think logically when buying used macs.
Save your money to pay for the service to watch whatever Star Trek incarnation comes along next.
Because this one doesn't suck. The next one will probably suck. If they're running out of scenarios for Trek (NextGen same as original premise, DS9 space station premise, VOY lost in space premise), then why force themselves into needing to create a new scenario?
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I was wondering how long that would take to show up in somebody's sig....
Cutting off the right hand leaves only the left. Think Biblically for a moment about the "left-handed path". Or translate into Italian, "sinistra". It's symbolism of the encounter with the dark side, and provides a firm transitional moment. (I am by no means smart enough to have come up with this on my own - it has been widely discussed elsewhere.)
Oh well, the story made it up at some point.
Which is totally irrelevant because he gets deferred compensation whether he does them favors or tells them to stick a large object in a small orifice.
GWB doesn't email (for record-retention reasons discussed), and iirc Condi doesn't email too much either. Powell was a big emailer, and Karl Rove is too.
All companies large and small, and virutally all individuals in their private lives, have done illegal things of all sorts of magnitudes. Ever mow somebody's lawn for $20 and not reported it on your 1040? Tax evader! Ever download Metallica? Copyright infringer!
Now, I'm sure you're a complete angel and have never done anything even remotely illegal, but would you want every email you ever sent subject to court review?
And while we're playing conspiracy theorist and talking about cover-ups, let's talk about Vince Foster...
So on your idea, should Firefox ship with zero search engines enabled by default, or was the Google one OK? If Google is OK, then why? (If not Google, then which single engine should be "blessed"?) Shipping w/ zero built-in engines seems silly, and there is no logical reason to exclude others, especially the popular ones whose corporate masters support your project.
And that is the precise reason why firefox is good for a company like IBM. They have lots of different platforms running, (windows, linux, os2, aix, others I'm sure), and end-user support is a lot easier when they've got an application they can use across the board. Better for geeks, better for secretaries. (I know I have a hard time giving help for applications that I don't use myself, even if they are "standard". Sometimes the luser needs an explicit walkthrough procedure.)
"butthead vendor" is kinda funny though... I like it.
It is good for business because ALL THE OTHER BUSINESSES BESIDES THE PRODUCING INDUSTRY BENEFIT. With virtually free gasoline practically every product you buy will cost less. Software is a little like gasoline to many industries. Free software is a free public good that is non-scarce and infinitely divisible.
Is it good for the programmer job market? No. Tough titties, it's good for everybody else. Yours isn't the first industry to be decimated by progress.
my primary problem w/ your definition is that it uses the word "Creator" in a way that seems to me to be contrary to any previous definition. I can stipulate that "peanut butter sandwich" =df "pickles with wasabi", but that doesn't give me a useful definition.
So...er... Your premise is flawed.
FYI, a big component of Intelligent Design is logical criticism of evolution. A biggie is "irreducible complexity" - or the idea that there are some complex systems (ecosystems, organic systems, etc.) that could not have evolved gradually because each component is necessary for the system to exist and there is no benefit to a partial implementation of the system. There are arguments back and forth on this issue, but if criticism based on logic is out of bounds or "pseudo science", then that doesn't say much about the scientific-ness of atheistic-evolution.
-BA Philosophy, Political Science, U Rochester.
And since UPN looks like crap on my cable system, I've taken to watching the Fox rerun on Sunday night, and on Fridays I either go to the bar or watch SciFi Channel.
Friday is a bad slot for any show. Trying to compete with SciFi Channel's Friday lineup for the geek audience is suicide.
(apologies to Spinal Tap)
Pittsburgh has terrible traffic patterns. I've heard that the 'Burgh is the largest city that does not have a "beltway".
I'm inclined to see that (possibly) as foreign aid, but there is something about it that tastes bad to me.
My fav was 'cederom' (accents in there, iirc). They took an English acronym (CD-ROM) and made it exactly the same thing, only French.
It would be nice to get one or the other though. Both flawed AND expensive is a real drag.
Netscape became a free as in beer product in the late 90's. (I recall downloading Communicator in 97 for free.) I would be interested to know what percent of Opera is free(w/ ads) vs paid. Konq is free. Safari is free to Mac users (right?). And all of these add up to about 10% of the browser "market", which is a pretty dysfunctional market since nobody really pays for browsers.
Their "competition" from Moz is a charity case from AOL, the Moz people, and maybe a few general-population contributors, with most outsiders contributing no more than bug reports. Opera is minor in the desktop market, being forced into embedded/portable stuff, and STILL has to give away an ad-supported version for free.
The long and the short of it is that nobody can make money on browsers, and MS can ensure that ninety-whatever percent of desktops have IE installed.
That said, writing code can be like solving a puzzle - not necessarily heroic, but something that often demands the coder's full attention. I'm sure that different coding jobs can be more or less demanding, requiring differing levels of mental commitment.
The window thing could work. I'd do it if it were me, but it was my brother who ran into this problem. After they got past the whole "Federal regulation requires you to allow this despite the community rules" thing, the landlord was ok with the pole in the yard, but not with getting the line into the house. My brother ended up getting cable. He wants to move out within the year, so I doubt he'll be getting a dish even if he thinks the window thing could work.
Firefly was a love it or hate it. I heard a lot of hype about Firefly so I watched it 2 or 3 times. And hated it. I watched past the 1st ep to give it a fair chance - because every show has a bad episode now and again. Maybe I would have liked it more if the eps had been in the correct order. Maybe. But I doubt it.
This is true, but if ANY modifications need to be made to the house (such as getting the line in from the dish, which you have stuck in the yard on a pole because you can't mount it on the house), the landlord can nix it.
HA! Love it.
Also, minimize the number of 90-degree angles in your conduit.
In fact, some time ago (a year or two?) I went to an estate auction to try to pick up an old G3 cheap. Wrong-O. At the preview they put up the original invoice for the machine. It went for more than the going price for that level of machine on ebay. It went for more than what a new mac would cost with OSX. People often don't think logically when buying used macs.
Save your money to pay for the service to watch whatever Star Trek incarnation comes along next.
Because this one doesn't suck. The next one will probably suck. If they're running out of scenarios for Trek (NextGen same as original premise, DS9 space station premise, VOY lost in space premise), then why force themselves into needing to create a new scenario?