Too bad you're modded Flamebait. No one has been able to explain to me how Freeciv can copy Civilization without infringing upon any copyrights, either of the boardgame or the Sid Meier versions.
For Americans who don't get Canadian channels, Corner Gas is the first significantly successful Canadian-produced sitcom in decades. Its an ensemble cast, 'clean' humour (very little sexual innuendo), but very witty and intelligent. Set in small town Saskatchewan its very different than most US sitcoms which are typically family or big-city officeplace based. Interest by US networks is rising quickly as all the American import sitcoms have lost head-to-head (even against re-runs) -- Everyone Loves Raymond, Joey, and other insipid garbage. Unfortunately American Idol still beats it though...:(
I would be interested to compare how many operating systems updates were released for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Linux over the past two months... without getting into an argument over impact/criticality, I'm willing to bet there's been more than 8 fixes for each of those OSes in that timeframe.
As a point of reference, the average Firefly episode cost was about ~$8 million. Enterprise is somewhere round $4 million, I gather they cut it to ~$3m this season.
Firefly was great, but its a HUGE gamble for Fox to continue supporting that show if the inital ratings weren't strong from the start. Its about the money, not the quality for Fox (or any other TV network) unfortunately.
Deep down, ISPs know that widespread consumer adoption of high speed internet is ONLY fueled by three things: video, music, and games. Yes there's lots of legitimate uses for high speed, but tech-savy folks do not make up the lion's share of the consuming public.
The ~only~ major actress who I can think of who left Hollywood 'on top' by her own choice was Audrey Hepburn (ironically to whom Portman bears a striking resembelance). Grace Kelly was another possibility but she didn't leave Hollywood deliberately -- she found out after she was married that her husband (the recently departed Ranier of Monaco) refused to have her working outside of her station.
Ingrid Bergman, Donna Reed, Mary Tyler Moore, hell even JULIE ANDREWS have done topless work. It is a rare exception when an actress survives and entire career w/o barring flesh. Part of it is the nature of Hollywood (w/ corrupt casting system, agents, etc), part of it is because attractive women tend to be cast in sexualised roles, and part of it is, well, when you're rich and powerful you don't feel as constrained by the puritanical values so prevalent in the US. There's nothing wrong with natural, naked beauty.
Kubrick had the best commentary on this in Eyes Wide Shut. The big anticipated orgy sex-fest movie by Kubrick, right? Okay, show Kidman 100% naked at the start of the film with no context (and thus eliminating any sexual reference)...get it out of the way, then present a meaningful film. Slashdotters obsess about Portman because she's so far unobtainable, even in.jpg form.
There's lot of economically depressed cities in the US where the standard of living is a fraction of that in California, New York, Texas, etc. $15/hr in Boise is a good paycheque, whereas in NY City you couldn't afford a park space for an hour. Declining US $ + national interest + increasing oil prices (e.g. forcing you to minimise shipping costs) will lead to a rise in US manufacturing is my guess.
Look at select Honda and Toyota plants in the US and Canada... their quality of output is high and yet the companies are still able to compete via domestic industry. Ford, Chrystler, and GM are suffering because they're badly run companies, not because you can't be successful domestically.
Except she did film nude scenes for Closer, just upon the final cut was it edited out as the director did indeed agree that nudity was not essential to the plot...he just wasn't sure until he saw the final product.
#1 rule of Hollywood: every actress will eventually be featured topless, give or take 10-20 years.
Basically she has to get her career into a rut where she won't be getting any new roles or she's considered washed up...then it will be a bargaining chip to getting her next big project.
I hate spammers, I truly do. But for a crime in which a) nothing was physically damaged or destroyed, and b) no people or animals were harmed, I think this is appalling. Ruin him financially for his criminal commercial activity, but 9 years of hard time should be reserved for capital crimes in my mind. Physically removing him from society and suspending all of his personal rights for a good 10-20% of his lifespan (maybe more) is harsh.
I'm sure manslaughter convictions have been much, much, less severe on average.
Except we currently have a minority government, which means the Liberals have to tread very carefully to avoid losing the confidence of the house.
Also, given the latest sponsorship scandal (biggest scandal in Canadian politics in the last 10, maybe 20 years) the opposition parties will be looking for publically popular positions to use to 'gang up' on the ruling party.
This petition has some weight given its timing, and private member's bills have been known to successfully be passed...especially during minority governments.
All great ideas, however they also all have a significant impact to the day-to-day lives of Americans. People would need to change their behaviour in a deliberate way...these are intrusive solutions.
The elegance of the daylight savings time extension would be that it would be unnoticeable to the average person. And as for complexity in reprogramming for daylight savings time, most of the logic already exists, -- its simply a parameter change (8mos vs 6mos). Y2k was different since it was systemic and integrated deeply into numerous devices.
Commoditised hardware, volume of available software, games. And for the office place where corporate IT considerations are even more important: an integrated product suite ranging from desktop OS through to mid-range servers, Outlook as the defacto calendaring solution in corporate circles, enterprise solutions w/ strong VAR support.
Also, Apple corporate sales force is also a joke -- arrogant if they're available, and poorly trained to 'play nicely' in an enterprise shared environment. At least in my experience. They poorly compete on price & volume discounts too.
I use Windows at home since its what I use at work, and I haven't seen a compelling reason to switch. I'd be much more likely to pick Mac if I was buying my first PC, but not if I wanted to play games.
Personally I suspect the US has not joined the international war crimes tribunal due to fears that the rest of the world would extradite Michael Bay, Joel Schumacher, and Jerry Bruckheimer for Crimes Against Humanity.
In fairness, they'd probably be acquitted since it would be impossible to find an impartial jury.
Heat exchange liquid coolers pumps are mounted on the top of the datacentre intended to cool about 6 fully loaded MVS systems in the late 1980s.
Oh, did I mention this was in Canada?
Christmas eve... -40C outside...liquid gell in the coolers begins to congeal in the exchangers on the roof, soon becoming a frozen block of ice. So guess what happens? Yes, 6 MVS systems fail in a cascade over about 20 minutes due to overheating... pages go out to datacentre staff like gangbusters on Christmas eve. Imagine at 11pm at night trying to explain to the bank president (CIO was out of town) why you're having overheating problems on the coldest day of the year!
The gist of the article is "i know a guy who told me what the secret testimony was". Most likely Gomery banned the publication of this information on the basis that it was unsubstantiated in court, and could be damaging to the Liberals even if untrue. For Slashdotters not familiar with the case, Gomery has been exceedingly level handed and fair and in fact if anything is more likely biased against the Liberals than not.
If all of this DOES turn out to be true I wouldn't be surprised, given that the advertisement scandal gets deeper and deeper every day, but I don't think this blogger amounts to much.
Before everyone starts yelling "too bad Canadians don't have the 4th amendment!" blah blah blah, just ask yourself how you'll feel when the next multiple-murderer gets off in the US due to jury tampering because of a Canadian publication.
This shouldn't be modded as +5 Funny, it should be modded as +5 Insightful.
They might not ship it as a new unit, but they will keep it onhand in their warranty bin...if someone's unit breaks for OTHER reasons and they're entitled for a replacement, guess what? "Refurbished" is an evil word in many circumstances.
Although I have not read his work, selecting "China Melville" as a pen-name suggests to me that your assessment is most likely correct. What was this guy thinking?
In related news, the heads for members of the boards of directors for the MPAA and RIAA all simultaneously exploded.
In well less than a decade 100mb attachments will be the minimum standard, at which point P2P and bittorrent will become afterhtoughts for trading of all but the largest files. With utilities like.RAR achives and SmartPAR I could breakup a DVD into 30 or 40 volumes and e-mail to my friends over the course of a day or so.
I'm not sure about the US, but in Canada all of these techniques (other than the ringtones) have been tried at some point... I have alot of albums from the mid-90s for widely-popular canadian bands that had these 'gimicks' intended to help them compete with American imports. To varying degrees they were successful, although I've seen very little of these types of incentives in recent years.
Examples: I Mother Earth "Scenery & Fish" had.mpegs of their latest videos, as did some of Sarah MacLachlan's CDs. I believe The Tea Party's "Alhambra" EP had videos but also.mp3 versions of their songs, and I've seen Tragically Hip and Blue Rodeo CDs come with band stickers inside the shrink-wrapped cases.
PS Perhaps I'm just getting older, but I haven't bought any popular music in recent years on CD since I think the quality has definitely declined and I've become more and more disgusted with the RIAA (and its Canadian equivalent CRIA) and don't want to fund their activites.
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Amateurs... its called "edlin".
(Yes, its a MS-DOS joke on slashdot. Consider it meta-humour)
Too bad you're modded Flamebait. No one has been able to explain to me how Freeciv can copy Civilization without infringing upon any copyrights, either of the boardgame or the Sid Meier versions.
For Americans who don't get Canadian channels, Corner Gas is the first significantly successful Canadian-produced sitcom in decades. Its an ensemble cast, 'clean' humour (very little sexual innuendo), but very witty and intelligent. Set in small town Saskatchewan its very different than most US sitcoms which are typically family or big-city officeplace based. Interest by US networks is rising quickly as all the American import sitcoms have lost head-to-head (even against re-runs) -- Everyone Loves Raymond, Joey, and other insipid garbage. Unfortunately American Idol still beats it though... :(
Its not called "March Madness" for nothing! :)
I would be interested to compare how many operating systems updates were released for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Linux over the past two months... without getting into an argument over impact/criticality, I'm willing to bet there's been more than 8 fixes for each of those OSes in that timeframe.
I will second your post... what does this site do that I can't manage via Evite or Yahoo Calendar? Or manually updating my Outlook calendar offline?
Sure, automated bookings and invites and calendaring online is nice and convenient, but $9/month is ridiculous.
As a point of reference, the average Firefly episode cost was about ~$8 million. Enterprise is somewhere round $4 million, I gather they cut it to ~$3m this season.
Firefly was great, but its a HUGE gamble for Fox to continue supporting that show if the inital ratings weren't strong from the start. Its about the money, not the quality for Fox (or any other TV network) unfortunately.
Deep down, ISPs know that widespread consumer adoption of high speed internet is ONLY fueled by three things: video, music, and games. Yes there's lots of legitimate uses for high speed, but tech-savy folks do not make up the lion's share of the consuming public.
The ~only~ major actress who I can think of who left Hollywood 'on top' by her own choice was Audrey Hepburn (ironically to whom Portman bears a striking resembelance). Grace Kelly was another possibility but she didn't leave Hollywood deliberately -- she found out after she was married that her husband (the recently departed Ranier of Monaco) refused to have her working outside of her station.
.jpg form.
Ingrid Bergman, Donna Reed, Mary Tyler Moore, hell even JULIE ANDREWS have done topless work. It is a rare exception when an actress survives and entire career w/o barring flesh. Part of it is the nature of Hollywood (w/ corrupt casting system, agents, etc), part of it is because attractive women tend to be cast in sexualised roles, and part of it is, well, when you're rich and powerful you don't feel as constrained by the puritanical values so prevalent in the US. There's nothing wrong with natural, naked beauty.
Kubrick had the best commentary on this in Eyes Wide Shut. The big anticipated orgy sex-fest movie by Kubrick, right? Okay, show Kidman 100% naked at the start of the film with no context (and thus eliminating any sexual reference)...get it out of the way, then present a meaningful film. Slashdotters obsess about Portman because she's so far unobtainable, even in
here will the world's workhouse be ? Africa ?
Buffalo, Detroit, Boise, Pittsburgh...
There's lot of economically depressed cities in the US where the standard of living is a fraction of that in California, New York, Texas, etc. $15/hr in Boise is a good paycheque, whereas in NY City you couldn't afford a park space for an hour. Declining US $ + national interest + increasing oil prices (e.g. forcing you to minimise shipping costs) will lead to a rise in US manufacturing is my guess.
Look at select Honda and Toyota plants in the US and Canada... their quality of output is high and yet the companies are still able to compete via domestic industry. Ford, Chrystler, and GM are suffering because they're badly run companies, not because you can't be successful domestically.
Except she did film nude scenes for Closer, just upon the final cut was it edited out as the director did indeed agree that nudity was not essential to the plot...he just wasn't sure until he saw the final product.
#1 rule of Hollywood: every actress will eventually be featured topless, give or take 10-20 years.
Basically she has to get her career into a rut where she won't be getting any new roles or she's considered washed up...then it will be a bargaining chip to getting her next big project.
I hate spammers, I truly do. But for a crime in which a) nothing was physically damaged or destroyed, and b) no people or animals were harmed, I think this is appalling. Ruin him financially for his criminal commercial activity, but 9 years of hard time should be reserved for capital crimes in my mind. Physically removing him from society and suspending all of his personal rights for a good 10-20% of his lifespan (maybe more) is harsh.
I'm sure manslaughter convictions have been much, much, less severe on average.
Remember you have to enable cheats first for fov 90 to work.
Something like 'cl_svcheats 1'.
Except we currently have a minority government, which means the Liberals have to tread very carefully to avoid losing the confidence of the house.
Also, given the latest sponsorship scandal (biggest scandal in Canadian politics in the last 10, maybe 20 years) the opposition parties will be looking for publically popular positions to use to 'gang up' on the ruling party.
This petition has some weight given its timing, and private member's bills have been known to successfully be passed...especially during minority governments.
All great ideas, however they also all have a significant impact to the day-to-day lives of Americans. People would need to change their behaviour in a deliberate way...these are intrusive solutions.
The elegance of the daylight savings time extension would be that it would be unnoticeable to the average person. And as for complexity in reprogramming for daylight savings time, most of the logic already exists, -- its simply a parameter change (8mos vs 6mos). Y2k was different since it was systemic and integrated deeply into numerous devices.
Commoditised hardware, volume of available software, games. And for the office place where corporate IT considerations are even more important: an integrated product suite ranging from desktop OS through to mid-range servers, Outlook as the defacto calendaring solution in corporate circles, enterprise solutions w/ strong VAR support.
Also, Apple corporate sales force is also a joke -- arrogant if they're available, and poorly trained to 'play nicely' in an enterprise shared environment. At least in my experience. They poorly compete on price & volume discounts too.
I use Windows at home since its what I use at work, and I haven't seen a compelling reason to switch. I'd be much more likely to pick Mac if I was buying my first PC, but not if I wanted to play games.
Personally I suspect the US has not joined the international war crimes tribunal due to fears that the rest of the world would extradite Michael Bay, Joel Schumacher, and Jerry Bruckheimer for Crimes Against Humanity.
In fairness, they'd probably be acquitted since it would be impossible to find an impartial jury.
I can top that...
Heat exchange liquid coolers pumps are mounted on the top of the datacentre intended to cool about 6 fully loaded MVS systems in the late 1980s.
Oh, did I mention this was in Canada?
Christmas eve... -40C outside...liquid gell in the coolers begins to congeal in the exchangers on the roof, soon becoming a frozen block of ice. So guess what happens? Yes, 6 MVS systems fail in a cascade over about 20 minutes due to overheating... pages go out to datacentre staff like gangbusters on Christmas eve. Imagine at 11pm at night trying to explain to the bank president (CIO was out of town) why you're having overheating problems on the coldest day of the year!
The Catholic Church, actually Christianity, *IS* retcon. See: Zorastrianism, Hercules Myth, Judaism.
...more likely, 'attention whore'.
The gist of the article is "i know a guy who told me what the secret testimony was". Most likely Gomery banned the publication of this information on the basis that it was unsubstantiated in court, and could be damaging to the Liberals even if untrue. For Slashdotters not familiar with the case, Gomery has been exceedingly level handed and fair and in fact if anything is more likely biased against the Liberals than not.
If all of this DOES turn out to be true I wouldn't be surprised, given that the advertisement scandal gets deeper and deeper every day, but I don't think this blogger amounts to much.
Before everyone starts yelling "too bad Canadians don't have the 4th amendment!" blah blah blah, just ask yourself how you'll feel when the next multiple-murderer gets off in the US due to jury tampering because of a Canadian publication.
This is Slashdot...I'm sure a few people look at Nimoy and exclaim "GALVATRON!!!!"
This shouldn't be modded as +5 Funny, it should be modded as +5 Insightful.
They might not ship it as a new unit, but they will keep it onhand in their warranty bin...if someone's unit breaks for OTHER reasons and they're entitled for a replacement, guess what? "Refurbished" is an evil word in many circumstances.
Although I have not read his work, selecting "China Melville" as a pen-name suggests to me that your assessment is most likely correct. What was this guy thinking?
You don't have to be the fastest member of the crowd, just faster than the slowest member.
:)
Which is why I never, ever discourage someone from eating at McDonalds.
Obseity in others is your best defense mechanism.
...and can send attachments upto 20mb
.RAR achives and SmartPAR I could breakup a DVD into 30 or 40 volumes and e-mail to my friends over the course of a day or so.
Napster-mail!
In related news, the heads for members of the boards of directors for the MPAA and RIAA all simultaneously exploded.
In well less than a decade 100mb attachments will be the minimum standard, at which point P2P and bittorrent will become afterhtoughts for trading of all but the largest files. With utilities like
I'm not sure about the US, but in Canada all of these techniques (other than the ringtones) have been tried at some point... I have alot of albums from the mid-90s for widely-popular canadian bands that had these 'gimicks' intended to help them compete with American imports. To varying degrees they were successful, although I've seen very little of these types of incentives in recent years.
.mpegs of their latest videos, as did some of Sarah MacLachlan's CDs. I believe The Tea Party's "Alhambra" EP had videos but also .mp3 versions of their songs, and I've seen Tragically Hip and Blue Rodeo CDs come with band stickers inside the shrink-wrapped cases.
Examples: I Mother Earth "Scenery & Fish" had
PS Perhaps I'm just getting older, but I haven't bought any popular music in recent years on CD since I think the quality has definitely declined and I've become more and more disgusted with the RIAA (and its Canadian equivalent CRIA) and don't want to fund their activites.