It's defined in the customary way -- As anything which runs contrary to the listener's political views, or is said by someone whom they personally dislike.
The way the article describes it, this is just an algorithm which counts how closely the speaker's diction and delivery match those used by McCain and assigns a value for the McCaininess of the speech. Calling it "spin" is, well, an interesting spin.
In addition to the obvious mythological reference, which has nothing to do with Tolkien, the Hebrew word 'Golem' means 'fool', 'stupid' or 'clueless'. So, with that in mind, the review can be read as "If a stupid, clueless fool had a computer, this would be it."
The only way you could praise it more would be to say that it has "more schmaltz for your schlemiel".
Sounds more like Microsoft just wanted an excuse to get rid of everyone but the best and start anew.
Just think of it as a morale building exercise, and try not to consider that more than half of you will have pink slips waiting on your desks when this meeting is over.
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If my Wii breaks, I can buy a new one and use all the same games without calling EA and begging for their kindness.
I see that you haven't purchased any games from Wii-ware or the Virtual Console. If you have, and you just "buy a new Wii" when your current one breaks, then you're going to be in for a rather big and unpleasant surprise.
Emeril wasn't a geek lust object, but his show was cancelled while it was still quite popular so that the Food Network could replace him with a number of very similar shows with bland hosts who were willing to work for cheap and put out for FN management. The similarities to Mythbusters are actually much stronger for Emeril Live than for any of the other shows I listed.
Just point at the screen and say "Enhance this part!" There you go. If there's something in the way, like a rock, tree, or the roof of a building, just say "Enhance it again" and you'll get all the resolution you need.
Boot him where? Without Adam Savage "Mythbusters" loses quite a bit of its' luster. I would be willing to bet "Mythbusters" is one of Discovery Channel's more popular shows.
Right. And no network would dare cancel a show that people around here like. That's why shows like Firefly, Emeril Live and Stargate SG-1, to say nothing of Jericho, Babylon 5, Futurama, Family Guy, and The Office, have been airing non-stop on their original networks for years.
And let's not even mention how Star Trek is still on the air fourty years later.
Foggon believes that the unit's years of experience in unearthing evidence from everything from 186s to MacBooks will mean it will have a key role to play in any central UK e-crime policing unit.
186s? That will come in very handy if they happen to catch a criminal mastermind happens to be carrying around a BBC Master 512, Tandy 2000 or Wang Office Assistant in his pocket.
You did not seriously think that people sit there and wait for a rip to finish do you?
No, I think that people have other things to do. Like actually leave the house, use the computer for other things besides encoding media, or even (gasp!) turning the thing off.
And all of those take place in real time that isn't measured in imaginary numbers.
Therefore time SPENT by me to rip = 6 seconds.
Uh huh. And time SPENT by me to receive a PhD in nuclear physics is really less than a minute, since all I have to do was accept a piece of paper and shake some old guy's hand, right?
You still haven't explained how it can take only six seconds for you to "put the disc in the media center I built" and then "walk by and grab the disc off the tray and put it in my library".
Unless you also built a stasis booth into your living room there's going to be a little bit more time in between those two events.
So you're saying that introducing competition into a market which was otherwise a monopoly and reducing the cost to produce a product will not lead to reduced prices? I find that hard to believe.
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If only there was some way to solve that problem... I'm sure that somebody must be working on this somewhere.
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It's defined in the customary way -- As anything which runs contrary to the listener's political views, or is said by someone whom they personally dislike.
The way the article describes it, this is just an algorithm which counts how closely the speaker's diction and delivery match those used by McCain and assigns a value for the McCaininess of the speech. Calling it "spin" is, well, an interesting spin.
And the use of a different name implies that it is not.
And yes, you have.
Or that James Randi knows that the book he is holding is really a cook book.
You may want to look that word up some time.
In addition to the obvious mythological reference, which has nothing to do with Tolkien, the Hebrew word 'Golem' means 'fool', 'stupid' or 'clueless'. So, with that in mind, the review can be read as "If a stupid, clueless fool had a computer, this would be it."
The only way you could praise it more would be to say that it has "more schmaltz for your schlemiel".
It would deal with it within twenty two minutes, and end with everyone standing very still while the credits rolled.
Let's say that you really could tell the future. Wouldn't there be an easier way to get a couple million dollars?
City IT department run by clueless morons. City shocked. Film at Eleven.
Didn't everybody within a hundred kilometer radius of The City know this long ago?
True, but when NASA returns to the moon they're gonna party like it's Space 1999.
Just think of it as a morale building exercise, and try not to consider that more than half of you will have pink slips waiting on your desks when this meeting is over.
I see that you haven't purchased any games from Wii-ware or the Virtual Console. If you have, and you just "buy a new Wii" when your current one breaks, then you're going to be in for a rather big and unpleasant surprise.
Hey, get out of my kitchen, kid.
Emeril wasn't a geek lust object, but his show was cancelled while it was still quite popular so that the Food Network could replace him with a number of very similar shows with bland hosts who were willing to work for cheap and put out for FN management. The similarities to Mythbusters are actually much stronger for Emeril Live than for any of the other shows I listed.
But does it also have electronic ECM counter-measures to prevent criminals and thieves from stealing your PIN number?
Just point at the screen and say "Enhance this part!" There you go. If there's something in the way, like a rock, tree, or the roof of a building, just say "Enhance it again" and you'll get all the resolution you need.
If that isn't good enough for you then maybe you could create a GUI interface using Visual Basic to do the job for you.
Would TV lie to me about this kind of thing?
...Which is why nobody in the USA will ever buy anything other than a Chevy Aveo, since any other car will just cost them more money.
Gotcha.
Right. And no network would dare cancel a show that people around here like. That's why shows like Firefly, Emeril Live and Stargate SG-1, to say nothing of Jericho, Babylon 5, Futurama, Family Guy, and The Office, have been airing non-stop on their original networks for years.
And let's not even mention how Star Trek is still on the air fourty years later.
186s? That will come in very handy if they happen to catch a criminal mastermind happens to be carrying around a BBC Master 512, Tandy 2000 or Wang Office Assistant in his pocket.
No, I think that people have other things to do. Like actually leave the house, use the computer for other things besides encoding media, or even (gasp!) turning the thing off.
And all of those take place in real time that isn't measured in imaginary numbers.
Uh huh. And time SPENT by me to receive a PhD in nuclear physics is really less than a minute, since all I have to do was accept a piece of paper and shake some old guy's hand, right?
You still haven't explained how it can take only six seconds for you to "put the disc in the media center I built" and then "walk by and grab the disc off the tray and put it in my library".
Unless you also built a stasis booth into your living room there's going to be a little bit more time in between those two events.
However, every few years it is guaranteed to be taken over by a new bunch of idiots.
Are you trying to say that it doesn't mean "bloated, ineffectual, resource hogging security software"? Maybe I have just been spelling it wrong.
So you're saying that introducing competition into a market which was otherwise a monopoly and reducing the cost to produce a product will not lead to reduced prices? I find that hard to believe.
And, hey, it's only fifteen hundred pounds, so it still costs more than most gamer's computers.
Yeah, so 1 USD = 1.044 CAD. But what kind of twisted math takes us from that equation to 20 USD = 24 CAD?