In order to win an academy award, your movie must be seen by the people who vote on such things. It was customary to send these people a "screener", in other words, a copy of the movie (usually on DVD) that they can watch at their leisure. The MPAA, in an effort to reduce theft on the high seas and kidnapping, (yes, in addition to "piracy", they are now referring to "illegally abducted films"), had put a ban on screeners. This ban meant that the only way a movie could be seen by the voting membership was in the theatres. This would make the voting unfair, since foreign films, and indie films, and "art" films rarely make it into the local movie theatres. That ban has, in part, been lifted, freeing the way for quality movies to win the awards that would otherwise have been restricted to the mind numbing blockbuster.
It was, according to the dreaded pirate Bartholomew Roberts , "A merry life and a short one."
You mean there really was a "dread pirate Roberts"?
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Instead of just saying it, you should have done something about it. Imagine the riches you could be rolling around in if you had sold a revolutionary new filesystem to BillyBoy. Or imagine your name spoken with the same respect and awe as Torvalds, etc, if you open sourced it.
Only in America can businesses violate privacy, conduct "business" with little or no regard for the consumer, and still be considered legit by a select few.
Yes! In most places around the world, that's the government's job!
Probably, like most people I've seen read this topic (which, admittedly, is just me), he read as far as "Natalie Portman" and started reading the comments looking for the inevitable hot grits jokes, rather than reading the entire summary.
Here's how the summary looked to me:
[Blah Blah] Dub Updates
[blah blah]
[Blah blah] Disney [blah blah]premiered at the [blah blah] Film Festival. It will probably be the only theatrical showing [Blah blah blah blah] [blah blah blah]The cast includes Patrick Stewart, as well as Uma Thurman and, tentatively, Natalie Portman. [blah blah blah] [blah blah blah] [blah blah blah]
Does the name Kahn Noonian Singh ring a bell? Also, Picard had an Indian as chief engineer for a while. Come to think of it, there was a Chinese engineer as well.
On the other hand, it has taken them close to a thousand years to move from inventing the rocket to getting into space. So maybe the Chinese influx into Starfleet happens a century after Voyager returns home.
Just because a spacecraft has ablative shielding does not mean that can't be reusable. All it means is that the shielding needs to be replaced. They did this with one of the gemini capsules.
Personally, I think that the re-entry vehicle should be ablatively protected, with soft wings, ie a parafoil or parasail based system.
Voice of Fire is acrylic on canvas. It is a large, tall painting: 5.4 metres (almost 18 feet) high by 2.4 metres (or eight feet) wide. On it are painted three vertical -- "stripes" is the word favoured by the cartoonists, who had some fun contrasting it with a supposed "polka-dot" school, but I think that anyone who takes the trouble to engage with the painting will come to see them rather as "columns" -- of colour. The columns on either side are deep blue with a purplish cast (a combination of prussian blue and ultramarine). The central column is a very warm -- "fiery" I think must be the word -- cadmium red, approaching orange. The colour contrast is intense. The lines are rigidly straight, although the colours bleed slightly into one another. The texture is flat, but the white undercoat gives the colours intense luminosity. The painting envelopes you as you approach it. The price, $1.76 million.
Here's what you get when you let snootiness rule. $1.76 million spent on this!
Wesley: "To the pain" means the first thing you lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists, next your
nose. Humperdink: And then my tongue, I suppose, I killed you too quickly the last time, a mistake I don't mean to duplicate tonight. Wesley: I wasn't finished! The next thing you lose will be your left eye, followed by your right. Humperdink: And then my ears, I understand! Let's get on with it! Wesley: WRONG! Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shreik of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out "dear God, what is that thing?" will echo in your perfect ears. That is what "the pain" means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
We need to have a division of services. A broadband pipe service which is open to competition, but which is severely regulated in terms of compatibility (or a government monopoly perhaps), and a bunch of content provider services like TV, internet, phone, radio, etc. You choose which internet provider, which phone company, which TV channels you want.
The fact that the majority of potential customers do not wish to be informed is no excuse for sloppy OS design. Joe average doesn't know the internal operation of a deadbolt, but he does know how to lock and unlock his front door. He may not know how to tune an engine, rebuild a transmission, or do an oil change, but he doesn't need to know how in order to drive a car. All he needs to know is that there are routine maintenance things he needs to do, and if any of the warning lights come on, he needs to see a mechanic. There are plenty of ways computers can be made secure without overly complicating the user experience. Having said that however, the consumer must be trained to NOT to give his keys to strangers, to NOT ignore the warning lights, and to NOT forget the regular maintenance.
It is from the same dictionary that defines "innovate" as "1 - To buy producers of competitive products. 2 - To use massive market share and obscure protocol definitions to nullify cross platform portability. 3 - To market a bug fix as a new platform by changing the packaging and boot screens to reflect the year of the release."
As to why, that's fairly easy. The price of their stock has skyrocketed since they started this fiasco. Stockholders who are selling off stock they bought a year ago are making money hand over fist. If they do eventually prove their case, every single linux supplier would have to either shut down, pay licensing fees , or quickly come up with a SCO-free distribution. It's all "Show me the money", and the longer they can keep the ball in the air, the more money they make.
Which brings me to my question. I've heard that in the US, there is the concept of the right to a speedy trial. In other words, they can't just hold things up forever. This SCO thing has been going on for quite a while now, and I don't think any of it has made it into a courtroom. What is the hold up? Why aren't IBM, Redhat, et al clammoring for a court date?
"But as I sit here today, I don't have a single blister on my hands," he said. "Because now we're designing the whole board in CAD."
I didn't realize the world of the professional draftsman was so hazardous. They never warned us about that in highschool.
This of course begs the question: if they can sell DVDs profitably in India for the equivilant for $6 US, why are we paying $29 for the same thing.
They could sell it profitably here for $6 as well. But, they could sell it *more profitably* at $29. ("The best deal is the one that brings the most profit." - Rule of acquisition #2).
Having said that, why do we pay $29 for a $6 item? Ignorance, Apathy, and Laziness. People either don't know, don't care, or could be bothered to get the thing for less.
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In order to win an academy award, your movie must be seen by the people who vote on such things. It was customary to send these people a "screener", in other words, a copy of the movie (usually on DVD) that they can watch at their leisure. The MPAA, in an effort to reduce theft on the high seas and kidnapping, (yes, in addition to "piracy", they are now referring to "illegally abducted films"), had put a ban on screeners. This ban meant that the only way a movie could be seen by the voting membership was in the theatres. This would make the voting unfair, since foreign films, and indie films, and "art" films rarely make it into the local movie theatres. That ban has, in part, been lifted, freeing the way for quality movies to win the awards that would otherwise have been restricted to the mind numbing blockbuster.
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No wonder you're misfiring, that's an IP4 address
How do you get DSL without a land line?
Um... No, there was no Black Bart in the Princess Bride.
It was, according to the dreaded pirate Bartholomew Roberts , "A merry life and a short one."
You mean there really was a "dread pirate Roberts"?
Instead of just saying it, you should have done something about it. Imagine the riches you could be rolling around in if you had sold a revolutionary new filesystem to BillyBoy. Or imagine your name spoken with the same respect and awe as Torvalds, etc, if you open sourced it.
Only in America can businesses violate privacy, conduct "business" with little or no regard for the consumer, and still be considered legit by a select few.
Yes! In most places around the world, that's the government's job!
The judge involved ... has dismissed the case with prejudice, which means that all of the spammers arguments were denied.
I guess there are some things in life that are just plain wrong.
Probably, like most people I've seen read this topic (which, admittedly, is just me), he read as far as "Natalie Portman" and started reading the comments looking for the inevitable hot grits jokes, rather than reading the entire summary.
Here's how the summary looked to me:
[Blah Blah] Dub Updates
[blah blah]
[Blah blah] Disney [blah blah]premiered at the [blah blah] Film Festival. It will probably be the only theatrical showing
[Blah blah blah blah]
[blah blah blah]The cast includes Patrick Stewart, as well as Uma Thurman and, tentatively, Natalie Portman. [blah blah blah]
[blah blah blah]
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IE will let you use other internet services other than HTTP. FTP comes to mind. You can also type in telnet://
Does the name Kahn Noonian Singh ring a bell? Also, Picard had an Indian as chief engineer for a while. Come to think of it, there was a Chinese engineer as well.
On the other hand, it has taken them close to a thousand years to move from inventing the rocket to getting into space. So maybe the Chinese influx into Starfleet happens a century after Voyager returns home.
Not to mention the fact that the chinese have had rockets for CENTURIES.
Just because a spacecraft has ablative shielding does not mean that can't be reusable. All it means is that the shielding needs to be replaced. They did this with one of the gemini capsules.
Personally, I think that the re-entry vehicle should be ablatively protected, with soft wings, ie a parafoil or parasail based system.
Voice of Fire is acrylic on canvas. It is a large, tall painting: 5.4 metres (almost 18 feet) high by 2.4 metres (or eight feet) wide. On it are painted three vertical -- "stripes" is the word favoured by the cartoonists, who had some fun contrasting it with a supposed "polka-dot" school, but I think that anyone who takes the trouble to engage with the painting will come to see them rather as "columns" -- of colour. The columns on either side are deep blue with a purplish cast (a combination of prussian blue and ultramarine). The central column is a very warm -- "fiery" I think must be the word -- cadmium red, approaching orange. The colour contrast is intense. The lines are rigidly straight, although the colours bleed slightly into one another. The texture is flat, but the white undercoat gives the colours intense luminosity. The painting envelopes you as you approach it. The price, $1.76 million.
Here's what you get when you let snootiness rule. $1.76 million spent on this!
Wesley: "To the pain" means the first thing you lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists, next your nose.
Humperdink: And then my tongue, I suppose, I killed you too quickly the last time, a mistake I don't mean to duplicate tonight.
Wesley: I wasn't finished! The next thing you lose will be your left eye, followed by your right.
Humperdink: And then my ears, I understand! Let's get on with it!
Wesley: WRONG! Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shreik of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out "dear God, what is that thing?" will echo in your perfect ears. That is what "the pain" means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
Like, maybe, Action!
Ontario drivers licenses have both a mag strip and a barcode.
According to Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson, it is a tea kettle.
We need to have a division of services. A broadband pipe service which is open to competition, but which is severely regulated in terms of compatibility (or a government monopoly perhaps), and a bunch of content provider services like TV, internet, phone, radio, etc. You choose which internet provider, which phone company, which TV channels you want.
The fact that the majority of potential customers do not wish to be informed is no excuse for sloppy OS design. Joe average doesn't know the internal operation of a deadbolt, but he does know how to lock and unlock his front door. He may not know how to tune an engine, rebuild a transmission, or do an oil change, but he doesn't need to know how in order to drive a car. All he needs to know is that there are routine maintenance things he needs to do, and if any of the warning lights come on, he needs to see a mechanic. There are plenty of ways computers can be made secure without overly complicating the user experience. Having said that however, the consumer must be trained to NOT to give his keys to strangers, to NOT ignore the warning lights, and to NOT forget the regular maintenance.
The wannabe admin who *is* the user?
It is from the same dictionary that defines "innovate" as "1 - To buy producers of competitive products. 2 - To use massive market share and obscure protocol definitions to nullify cross platform portability. 3 - To market a bug fix as a new platform by changing the packaging and boot screens to reflect the year of the release."
As to why, that's fairly easy. The price of their stock has skyrocketed since they started this fiasco. Stockholders who are selling off stock they bought a year ago are making money hand over fist. If they do eventually prove their case, every single linux supplier would have to either shut down, pay licensing fees , or quickly come up with a SCO-free distribution. It's all "Show me the money", and the longer they can keep the ball in the air, the more money they make.
Which brings me to my question. I've heard that in the US, there is the concept of the right to a speedy trial. In other words, they can't just hold things up forever. This SCO thing has been going on for quite a while now, and I don't think any of it has made it into a courtroom. What is the hold up? Why aren't IBM, Redhat, et al clammoring for a court date?
"But as I sit here today, I don't have a single blister on my hands," he said. "Because now we're designing the whole board in CAD."
I didn't realize the world of the professional draftsman was so hazardous. They never warned us about that in highschool.
This of course begs the question: if they can sell DVDs profitably in India for the equivilant for $6 US, why are we paying $29 for the same thing.
They could sell it profitably here for $6 as well. But, they could sell it *more profitably* at $29. ("The best deal is the one that brings the most profit." - Rule of acquisition #2).
Having said that, why do we pay $29 for a $6 item? Ignorance, Apathy, and Laziness. People either don't know, don't care, or could be bothered to get the thing for less.