You're not accomplishing much if you don't, either. What's more important is voting on issues. If the challenger to an incumbant is advocating on issues that you care about, and the incumbant disagrees with you on policy, vote for the challenger, and participate in public polls where possible.
Even if the challenger doesn't win, your vote will hopefully have contributed to a narrow margin. And narrow margins scare sensible incumbants into adjusting their policies.
The government doesn't want to hold us for 90 days before charging us. They voted on it, they don't want it. The prime minister wanted it. He couldn't convince the rest of the government that it was a good idea.
Good point...I forgot that distinction. It's worth noting that Tony Blair, up to this point, has largely been doing whatever Bush asks for.
Are you really so convinced that we are further along than you? Because of a few cameras and a failed attempt at passing a stupid law?
Not anymore. You have some good points.
Really, I can't wait to vote again. From copyright law to terrorism legislation, it's been crazy here for years.
You trust the system of a country with cameras on every corner, and a government that wants to hold you for 90 days so they have enough evidence to charge you with something?
Our judicial system on this side of the pond may have once been similar to yours, but you guys seem to be going down the 1984 route a lot faster than we are.
I tried one of those typing tutors, to see if I could improve my typing speed a bit. I found that my typing style differs from theirs. Some of their reaches just feel...unnatural.
Probably the wierdest thing, though, was the discovery that I'm not consistent as to which finger hits which key. I use all ten fingers, and which finger hits which key is a matter of where my hands are on the keyboard at the moment. (I don't hold my hands still.)
I would think that BMW dealerships would be able to service BMW autos, no?
Sure, the dealership will know how to service it, but that wasn't what I was referring to by "garages". I was referring to those independent garages where you can often get cheaper, better service. I don't take my 1991 Plymouth Voyager to a Chrysler dealership; They're booked solid and will want to replace half the car. I take it to a small guy on the outskirts of the city who comes up with cheaper solutions .
Oh, and fooey on FP. I really don't give a damn; it just happens more often because I'm a subscriber.
My laptop's battery system doesn't work, yet I still use it for movies and taking notes in class. I'd play games on it if it were fast enough.
Sure, you won't be able to use it in a car very long without an inverter, but you can use it anywhere else; including planes and trains with AC outlets.
In the case of comic licenses, the audience largely comprises of people who've read the comic books. When the movie doesn't measure up to the level of art the comics represent, that audience gets pissed off. They then go on recommending against seeing the movie.
This is even more true with video game licenses, which arguably have even larger target audiences than comic licenses.
What you're saying doesn't make business sense. Once a studio makes a profit on something, it's not going to spend those profits on anything that's not likely to turn further profit.
Now, for an independant filmmaker, it might happen. Those guys are more interested in the art of filmmaking than the profit. But big-name IP tends to get licensed to the big-named studios with big budgets, big interest in profit--and little interest in art.
I'm not saying it's impossible...I just take issue with your suggestion that it would only take "a little bit of effort." Putting only "a little bit of effort" into the making of any movie will give you something like Plan 9 from Outer Space. A cult hit, sure. But not particularly well-done, and not even worth an indepentant filmmaker's time.
You try taking a novel's complex plot, numerous complex characters, and subtle message and preserve it through the complex, expensive and draining movie-making process investing "the little time and energy it would take to do them right."
For a popular book, accomplishing that will net you a couple million viewers. Movies these days need to be watched by tens of millions of viewers to make a profit. You're not Gene Wilder, and the concept behind The Producers doesn't have many real-world implementations.
Like any other form of strong compression, moving a story from one medium to another results in data loss. The best movies are the ones written from scratch for the big screen.
The Quakeforge guys were talking about this five years ago.
Basically, you'd have different maps run on different servers, with a trigger brush forcing a clientside connect command to a different server. With the way Quake was set up, you wouldn't have needed an engine mod for this; just a few lines of additional QuakeC.
I still think it would have been fun.
The problem lies in tracking stats. (In Quake 1, just frag counts) It would have to be on a central server. But how do you ensure appropriate tracking in a pure open-source game? It would have been too difficult to prevent cheating without violating the open-source spirit.
In Firefox 1.5, the Open in New Window "link" doesn't appear to be a link at all. You can't get it to open in a new tab, either through middle- or right-clicking, or through configuring pop-ups.
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Geez. How does a guy take a bathroom break in that outfit?
If you make the shape less pronounced, it could look more like part of the waist than like genetelia.
You're not accomplishing much if you don't, either. What's more important is voting on issues. If the challenger to an incumbant is advocating on issues that you care about, and the incumbant disagrees with you on policy, vote for the challenger, and participate in public polls where possible.
Even if the challenger doesn't win, your vote will hopefully have contributed to a narrow margin. And narrow margins scare sensible incumbants into adjusting their policies.
The government doesn't want to hold us for 90 days before charging us. They voted on it, they don't want it. The prime minister wanted it. He couldn't convince the rest of the government that it was a good idea.
Good point...I forgot that distinction. It's worth noting that Tony Blair, up to this point, has largely been doing whatever Bush asks for.
Are you really so convinced that we are further along than you? Because of a few cameras and a failed attempt at passing a stupid law?
Not anymore. You have some good points.
Really, I can't wait to vote again. From copyright law to terrorism legislation, it's been crazy here for years.
You trust the system of a country with cameras on every corner, and a government that wants to hold you for 90 days so they have enough evidence to charge you with something?
Our judicial system on this side of the pond may have once been similar to yours, but you guys seem to be going down the 1984 route a lot faster than we are.
Have you actually observed any of them? :)
So if someone can't find their cell phone, how long should they look for it before reporting it stolen?
So maybe it's not the keyboard that's the problem, it's the mouse?
I've heard more stories about elbow trouble from gamers than I've heard about carpal tunnel from anyone else.
I got a life once. It bit me, so I sent it back.
I tried one of those typing tutors, to see if I could improve my typing speed a bit. I found that my typing style differs from theirs. Some of their reaches just feel...unnatural.
Probably the wierdest thing, though, was the discovery that I'm not consistent as to which finger hits which key. I use all ten fingers, and which finger hits which key is a matter of where my hands are on the keyboard at the moment. (I don't hold my hands still.)
I've been using computers frequently since 1992. Mostly keyboard work. Usually for more than six or seven hours at a time. Every day.
And my hands feel fine.
You take what you can...there were no choices involved.
But how do you get motive kinetic energy from a boiler?
Steam engines use boilers to produce steam, which goes through one of several possible devices to get useful mechanical energy.
Hm. Good point.
Looking at a list of technologies which are part of the Prius, there's a lot in there that the average service tech will have to grow accustomed to.
I would think that BMW dealerships would be able to service BMW autos, no?
Sure, the dealership will know how to service it, but that wasn't what I was referring to by "garages". I was referring to those independent garages where you can often get cheaper, better service. I don't take my 1991 Plymouth Voyager to a Chrysler dealership; They're booked solid and will want to replace half the car. I take it to a small guy on the outskirts of the city who comes up with cheaper solutions .
Oh, and fooey on FP. I really don't give a damn; it just happens more often because I'm a subscriber.
I figured they were just using the part that draws mechanical energy from steam, bypassing the boiler stage. That's how I'd do it.
...with practically no downside.
Additional moving parts, and servicability? How many modern garages know how to service a steam engine?
My laptop's battery system doesn't work, yet I still use it for movies and taking notes in class. I'd play games on it if it were fast enough.
Sure, you won't be able to use it in a car very long without an inverter, but you can use it anywhere else; including planes and trains with AC outlets.
In the case of comic licenses, the audience largely comprises of people who've read the comic books. When the movie doesn't measure up to the level of art the comics represent, that audience gets pissed off. They then go on recommending against seeing the movie.
This is even more true with video game licenses, which arguably have even larger target audiences than comic licenses.
What you're saying doesn't make business sense. Once a studio makes a profit on something, it's not going to spend those profits on anything that's not likely to turn further profit.
Now, for an independant filmmaker, it might happen. Those guys are more interested in the art of filmmaking than the profit. But big-name IP tends to get licensed to the big-named studios with big budgets, big interest in profit--and little interest in art.
I'm not saying it's impossible...I just take issue with your suggestion that it would only take "a little bit of effort." Putting only "a little bit of effort" into the making of any movie will give you something like Plan 9 from Outer Space. A cult hit, sure. But not particularly well-done, and not even worth an indepentant filmmaker's time.
You try taking a novel's complex plot, numerous complex characters, and subtle message and preserve it through the complex, expensive and draining movie-making process investing "the little time and energy it would take to do them right."
For a popular book, accomplishing that will net you a couple million viewers. Movies these days need to be watched by tens of millions of viewers to make a profit. You're not Gene Wilder, and the concept behind The Producers doesn't have many real-world implementations.
Like any other form of strong compression, moving a story from one medium to another results in data loss. The best movies are the ones written from scratch for the big screen.
And not a nerdy, wannabe coder who doesn't always wash, and is easily amused.
Er...oops.
The Quakeforge guys were talking about this five years ago.
Basically, you'd have different maps run on different servers, with a trigger brush forcing a clientside connect command to a different server. With the way Quake was set up, you wouldn't have needed an engine mod for this; just a few lines of additional QuakeC.
I still think it would have been fun.
The problem lies in tracking stats. (In Quake 1, just frag counts) It would have to be on a central server. But how do you ensure appropriate tracking in a pure open-source game? It would have been too difficult to prevent cheating without violating the open-source spirit.
It depends on your definition of "North Pole" ...Magnetic North? Geographical North? Coldest northern point?
All three are different places.
In Firefox 1.5, the Open in New Window "link" doesn't appear to be a link at all. You can't get it to open in a new tab, either through middle- or right-clicking, or through configuring pop-ups.