I agree with you that Family Guy is one of the smartest shows on television, but it is in no way subtle. Do you call the Kool-Aid Guy busting through a wall and yelling "OH YEAH!" subtle?
Let alone the best Family Guy line _ever_:
Chris (to twinkie) "I'm gonna turn you into poo!"
Welcome to/. - I can't be the only introvert. I do type, depending upon context 100-120 WPM. I rarely talk that fast. Nor do i talk as much as I type. Nor do I talk as often. YMMV
It's hardly a breakthrough in natural language processing to shift load onto the human by making them learn a new language. What do you think "typing" is but a specialized sign language? Making them learn a new language defeats the whole purpose and makes for a rather hollow victory.
Ecept that I can type faster then I can talk. Much like reading, when I type I don't have to 'sound it out' so I'm willing to bet that, also like reading, the control processes are different.
ill be saving lots of money by sticking with ad-busters "National Buy Nothing Day" on "black friday" and sticking up for our culture.
or whats left of it.
What's that? I thought youre (presumming a yank) 'culture' was built on the desire for a little bargain hunting. Heck I bet walmart even sells tea.
They can do whatever they want with their own search engine.
But what's happened is that, in part because they use it as an ad channel rather than a straightforward search engine
Well see the thing is they can't. At least not the way the world should work. If you use add dollars to fund a service then you've effectively entered into a service agreement with the user. You've _bought_ their (addvertising) attention and need to provide due cosideration. If you provide a service, in return for my add clicks, that doesn't meet the implied/implicit rhetoric then you've basically committed fraud. If you want to throw up some engine with no give or take, nothing required from the user what so ever (read: no adds, no personal info etc) then yeah, do whatever you want.
the OSDL, who are Torvalds' employer, will announce on Friday that the "OSDL has agreed...
Referring to organizations as plural is stilted, unpopular, and, in this case, inconsistent.
Get with the program. The OSDL is an organization that is responding to this situation.
Pfft it's "the OSDL, who art Torvalds' employer, will announce on Friday that the "OSDL hath agreed... "
Exactly. Any distribution "review" that even mentions the word "compile" gets an F- in my book. Why should I care that the reviewer can't build software from source? I want to hear about the software included in the distribution.
To rephrase slightly - "WTF should a distro install ever require any compilation (metadistros aside). The fact that it's all there, tested & packaged for you is what _should_ make it a distro"
As he describes it, it definately sounds like just One of Those Things that happens when you're adapting books to film.
It does make sense, though I certainly wasn't happy at first. The thing that caught me was his description of the general plots near the end of TTT and the beginning of ROTK. Personally, though I've read them all several times & enjoyed the audio books, I couldn't remember exactly where one finished and the other began. Certainly I have a rough idea and, if I rally thought about it, I could prob draw the line but in my head, my imaginiation, I don't think of the 3 as being three novels. Or 6 for that matter.
Disadvantages: no playlists, so you end up swapping CDRs quite often
I had the original Rio Volt (rebadged IRiver unit) and it played playlists. You put m3u's on the cd, and it' played them... after about 10 firmware revisions. When, after much abuse, it needed replacing I shopped for another. Unfortunately for the volt models available at the time you needed to get their 'high end' model (a sp250 i think) to duplicate the features of the original (namely flashable firmware & backlight). The cost, shopping locally, ended up being about 85% of a 5gb iPod.
I bought the iPod.
The only thing I miss is being able to simply drop in new batteries. OTOH the thing I love the most is not shopping for AA's anymore...
What I wasnt to know isn't whether or not SCO get's it's ass handed back on a silver platter in court but rather when McBride's gonna face charges of securities fraud. There just isn't any other way to explain SCO's recent actions. Pretty blatant pump & dump case, so where's the charges?
Think about it - when was the last time you actually *looked forward* to something on the radio? And when was the lst time on TV?
That's why I run an icecast station - if I want to hear it, it goes on the 'radio'.
More seriously, though, there is the odd radio program worth hearing. I try to catch Ideas on a regular basis. There's also stuff like PublicRadio that'll often air interesting stuff.
So why the mention of Bozeman? Are you refering to the Bozeman, MT, USA in which I now sit? (I know no other Bozeman.) It was a balmy -15F (-26C) here this morning. fiftyfly, why Bozeman?
Man I, for one, sure ain't thinkin' aboot hockey. It's fricken cold
So yeah, it's 2am and I'm checking a little weathernetwork just in case it's not too nasty out to go to the timmy's for a little coffee. The news is not good. Very not good. Ok, so -28 is bad but surely there's other people suffering bad weather too eh? So I check Calgary and it's -20. Hrmpf. weenies. Maybe Edmonton? -22. Well goodness... There's gotta be _somebody_ out there a little colder then hicksville^H^H^H^H^H^HOlds....
Grande Prairie: -18
High Level: -10
Whitehorse: -7
WTF?!?! What ever happened to simple arctic weather fronts? It's getting warmer the farther north I check...
Yellowknife: -15
Anchorage: +3
Rankin Inlet: -14
OMG. What is this? Anybody else feeling like the big guy upstairs slapped a 'kick me' sign on you back? Obviously this isn't just a cold front - all the damned cold got fed up with the north and came here. Man it's even only -7 in Winterpeg and only -17 in Churchill. They get polar bears in churchill. And it's 4 deg warmer in Rankin, more then 500km north.
All I can say is there's gonna be on pissed off guy if it doesn't hit the forecasted +6 on sunday.
I wish I could say the above is a little satire, but it's NOT. It's not even like I'm really far north either, being smack inbetween Edmonton & Calgary. Expedia says only 906km from Bozeman.
Chemo is extraordinarily unpleasant, but it does have a proven track record...
Problem is, for many cancers, the track record isn't significantly better then no treatment at all and save for a few (non melanoma skin cancers, for example) the track records aren't even good. To make things worse, when quoting sucess rates, deaths due to anything other then the cancer are often recorded as 'sucesses', or dropped, instead of failures. So dieing of pneumonia from your chemo isn't (and I hate to generalize here) always recorded as a cancer death thought, clearly, it is. In short chemo's success rate is low - _really_ low. Given how terribly bad it can be I think I'd rather save my hundreds of thousands of dollars and spent my last weeks on a beach somewhere.
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regardless of whether virii is right or not the octopus is still an exception to the rule as stated
Welcome to /. - I can't be the only introvert. I do type, depending upon context 100-120 WPM. I rarely talk that fast. Nor do i talk as much as I type. Nor do I talk as often. YMMV
To rephrase slightly - "WTF should a distro install ever require any compilation (metadistros aside). The fact that it's all there, tested & packaged for you is what _should_ make it a distro"
It does make sense, though I certainly wasn't happy at first. The thing that caught me was his description of the general plots near the end of TTT and the beginning of ROTK. Personally, though I've read them all several times & enjoyed the audio books, I couldn't remember exactly where one finished and the other began. Certainly I have a rough idea and, if I rally thought about it, I could prob draw the line but in my head, my imaginiation, I don't think of the 3 as being three novels. Or 6 for that matter.
I had the original Rio Volt (rebadged IRiver unit) and it played playlists. You put m3u's on the cd, and it' played them... after about 10 firmware revisions. When, after much abuse, it needed replacing I shopped for another. Unfortunately for the volt models available at the time you needed to get their 'high end' model (a sp250 i think) to duplicate the features of the original (namely flashable firmware & backlight). The cost, shopping locally, ended up being about 85% of a 5gb iPod.
I bought the iPod.
The only thing I miss is being able to simply drop in new batteries. OTOH the thing I love the most is not shopping for AA's anymore...
So as long as I don't ripple more then, say, a couple hundred mil I should be fine?
What I wasnt to know isn't whether or not SCO get's it's ass handed back on a silver platter in court but rather when McBride's gonna face charges of securities fraud. There just isn't any other way to explain SCO's recent actions. Pretty blatant pump & dump case, so where's the charges?
That's why I run an icecast station - if I want to hear it, it goes on the 'radio'.
More seriously, though, there is the odd radio program worth hearing. I try to catch Ideas on a regular basis. There's also stuff like Public Radio that'll often air interesting stuff.
you're right, and I should def take a little more time posting.
It's the closest state capital
They're not, for the most part. It's just that the local weath is much colder then average.
Why, as a matter of fact... :)
So yeah, it's 2am and I'm checking a little weathernetwork just in case it's not too nasty out to go to the timmy's for a little coffee. The news is not good. Very not good. Ok, so -28 is bad but surely there's other people suffering bad weather too eh? So I check Calgary and it's -20. Hrmpf. weenies. Maybe Edmonton? -22. Well goodness... There's gotta be _somebody_ out there a little colder then hicksville^H^H^H^H^H^HOlds....
- Grande Prairie: -18
- High Level: -10
- Whitehorse: -7
WTF?!?! What ever happened to simple arctic weather fronts? It's getting warmer the farther north I check...- Yellowknife: -15
- Anchorage: +3
- Rankin Inlet: -14
OMG. What is this? Anybody else feeling like the big guy upstairs slapped a 'kick me' sign on you back? Obviously this isn't just a cold front - all the damned cold got fed up with the north and came here. Man it's even only -7 in Winterpeg and only -17 in Churchill. They get polar bears in churchill. And it's 4 deg warmer in Rankin, more then 500km north.All I can say is there's gonna be on pissed off guy if it doesn't hit the forecasted +6 on sunday.
I wish I could say the above is a little satire, but it's NOT . It's not even like I'm really far north either, being smack inbetween Edmonton & Calgary. Expedia says only 906km from Bozeman.
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Problem is, for many cancers, the track record isn't significantly better then no treatment at all and save for a few (non melanoma skin cancers, for example) the track records aren't even good. To make things worse, when quoting sucess rates, deaths due to anything other then the cancer are often recorded as 'sucesses', or dropped, instead of failures. So dieing of pneumonia from your chemo isn't (and I hate to generalize here) always recorded as a cancer death thought, clearly, it is. In short chemo's success rate is low - _really_ low. Given how terribly bad it can be I think I'd rather save my hundreds of thousands of dollars and spent my last weeks on a beach somewhere.
Wow - a story submission that actually ensure we know wtf they're talking about! joy!