First water, now rocks that you can burn to get oxygen. All we need now is a monkey and some sausage vines. "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" is beginning to look more and more plausible.
You're right about Perian and QT Player, but it unfortunately cannot handle alternate audio tracks. I have a few mkv files that have commentary tracks embedded, and QT Player freaks out and only plays that track with no way to turn it off. So it's still VLC for me.
As if it somehow matters whether or not other presidents have done it. If it was wrong before, it's wrong now. Torture is torture. Civil rights are civil rights.
I suppose that since others have committed murder before, It's okay if I go out and kill someone.
At the risk of sounding like a fanboy, I have to point out that, technically, the PowerPC chip was superior. The problem was that Motorola and IBM weren't pushing its development fast enough for Apple to stay ahead in the race. The PPC developers were turning more towards embedded and specialized uses and were less interested in in developing the chips that Apple needed. Intel has no such problems, and so the switch made sens from an economic standpoint.
Don't get me wrong, I think Intel's current line of Core 2 chips are great. They're far more efficient, powerful, and cool than the Pentiums that PPCs were historically pitted against. But a RISC-based chip would still, all things being equal, be better.
And, for the record, OS9 was okay, but had a shit-ton of problems, It was certainly better than Win 3.11 and Win95. Beyond that I really can't say.
Hmm. I have no trouble at all using the scrollwheel to precisely select the song that I want while jogging or riding my bike. Guess it's a matter of taste, although I think more people fall into my camp than yours. No evidence to back that up; it's just a feeling.
Funny thing is, I think all of that actually happened. Or perhaps you knew that and were directly referencing the TNG episode "Parallels." (God, I sound like a geek. Wait a minute. ..)
Remember the evil, hairy Riker who tries to blow up Worf's shuttle before he can pass through the temporal anomaly? What you described sounds exactly like what he went through. Would have been cool to actually see the events that drove him to that end.
I remember playing games like Bionic Commando and Rygar. They took so long to beat that we ended up leaving the NES on overnight sometimes, praying that it wouldn't glitch up before we came back to finish the game. Those were the days.
It's absolutely cheaper. You pay for all of that processing, you know. I may not be able to pull up the statistics to prove it at the moment, but I know from years of experience that I can make most homecooked meals more cheaply that their boxed counterparts. The reason most people think this cannot be done, I believe, is that the homecooked version are not usually done in such small portions. When I make soup, I don't make just enough for one person, I make 2 to 4 gallons. I eat enough for me and whomever else I'm serving, then I freeze the rest, which provides me with many more meals in the future. The initial investment may be more, but the actual cost per serving is much, much lower. If you're a man alone, this might seem like too much effort, but it's how you feed a family.
Some meals take a lot of time, yes, but many don't. And we should also be differentiating prep time from cook time. Prep time is all about effort, while cook time is just waiting. For dishes with long cook time, like stews and some roasts, there's my favorite invention, the slow-cooker (or Crock-Pot). Just dump in your ingredients in the morning before work, and when you get home you have a meal for the whole family. I frequently do this, and I assure you that you can feed several people this way with very little money and almost no actual prep time. And the cooker itself is pretty inexpensive, too (particularly as a one-time expenditure).
It just goes to show that, in the kitchen, there's always a way.
Actually, broccoli for four people at $3, especially as a complement to a larger meal, is pretty cheap and reasonable. Add that to the beans and rice, and you're still feeding the family at under $2 per person. And you're feeding them well.
There's also sweet potatoes; cheap and extremely healthy.
How is that a contradiction? He hates Coke with corn syrup, and he likes coke with cane sugar which, presumably, is what the kosher version is made with. I got it.
Right on about Boylan's. They sell it across the street from me and I love it. I still try to limit my intake of it, of course, but I don't feel so guilty about drinking it, and it doesn't leave that sticky, syrupy feeling in my mouth.
As for Jones, I don't know about where you live, but here all Jones soda being sold is made with HFCS. I checked again just a few days ago.
Interesting. I've always used 1 part balsamic vinegar to 3 parts extra virgin olive oil, plus a tablespoon of mustard to emulsify and keep it from separating (plus some seasoning, of course.) It seems to me that equal parts vinegar to oil might be a bit tart. No?
I'm probably the lone dissenter here, but aside from the doctor episode, every one of those episodes you mentioned was fantastic. I particularly liked the boxing epidode; I thought it gave some wonderful character insights. I don't know what you guys are looking for in a sci-fi drama. Maybe you just like stuff to blow up. As far as I'm concerned, season three was damn near flawless.
Sort of like cramming an entire season of Farscape into a two-hour movie? What a rip, good though the movie was. Perhaps Moore can get his last chapter out in a final miniseries. I kind of like the idea of capping the series with a miniseries on each end.
Hmmm. That's definitely a matter of opinion. I thought that the boxing episode was absolutely fantastic. In fact, the only episode last season that I didn't care much for was the episode with Helo and the bad doctor. I loved the character episodes, even the one about Adama and his dead wife. I think the show is at its best when it deals with its characters on a personal level. Sure, I like seeing shit blow up as much as the next guy, and the first four episodes of the season were virtual pants-wetters. But there are plenty of us who love the more human episodes just as much, if not more. I though that season three was the best one yet.
But it also says "without the authority of the copyright owner," which I'm pretty sure Apple has. So, once again, this lawsuit is meaningless because the DMCA doesn't say you have to use DRM, just that you can't go around it without the owner's permission.
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First water, now rocks that you can burn to get oxygen. All we need now is a monkey and some sausage vines. "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" is beginning to look more and more plausible.
You're right about Perian and QT Player, but it unfortunately cannot handle alternate audio tracks. I have a few mkv files that have commentary tracks embedded, and QT Player freaks out and only plays that track with no way to turn it off. So it's still VLC for me.
Serving bacon to a Musilm isn't torture. . . it's just rude.
As if it somehow matters whether or not other presidents have done it. If it was wrong before, it's wrong now. Torture is torture. Civil rights are civil rights.
I suppose that since others have committed murder before, It's okay if I go out and kill someone.
Yes, this is still possible. The parent (or the parent's wife) was not doing it correctly.
At the risk of sounding like a fanboy, I have to point out that, technically, the PowerPC chip was superior. The problem was that Motorola and IBM weren't pushing its development fast enough for Apple to stay ahead in the race. The PPC developers were turning more towards embedded and specialized uses and were less interested in in developing the chips that Apple needed. Intel has no such problems, and so the switch made sens from an economic standpoint.
Don't get me wrong, I think Intel's current line of Core 2 chips are great. They're far more efficient, powerful, and cool than the Pentiums that PPCs were historically pitted against. But a RISC-based chip would still, all things being equal, be better.
And, for the record, OS9 was okay, but had a shit-ton of problems, It was certainly better than Win 3.11 and Win95. Beyond that I really can't say.
Not that there isn't a certain amount of truth in some of what you say, buy I have to ask:
Played Metroid lately?
Or Slashdot, for that matter.
Hmm. I have no trouble at all using the scrollwheel to precisely select the song that I want while jogging or riding my bike. Guess it's a matter of taste, although I think more people fall into my camp than yours. No evidence to back that up; it's just a feeling.
Actually, you can't achieve anywhere near the same precision with standard buttons as you can with a scrollwheel.
You're no fun.
Funny thing is, I think all of that actually happened. Or perhaps you knew that and were directly referencing the TNG episode "Parallels." (God, I sound like a geek. Wait a minute. . .)
Remember the evil, hairy Riker who tries to blow up Worf's shuttle before he can pass through the temporal anomaly? What you described sounds exactly like what he went through. Would have been cool to actually see the events that drove him to that end.
I remember playing games like Bionic Commando and Rygar. They took so long to beat that we ended up leaving the NES on overnight sometimes, praying that it wouldn't glitch up before we came back to finish the game. Those were the days.
It's absolutely cheaper. You pay for all of that processing, you know. I may not be able to pull up the statistics to prove it at the moment, but I know from years of experience that I can make most homecooked meals more cheaply that their boxed counterparts. The reason most people think this cannot be done, I believe, is that the homecooked version are not usually done in such small portions. When I make soup, I don't make just enough for one person, I make 2 to 4 gallons. I eat enough for me and whomever else I'm serving, then I freeze the rest, which provides me with many more meals in the future. The initial investment may be more, but the actual cost per serving is much, much lower. If you're a man alone, this might seem like too much effort, but it's how you feed a family.
Some meals take a lot of time, yes, but many don't. And we should also be differentiating prep time from cook time. Prep time is all about effort, while cook time is just waiting. For dishes with long cook time, like stews and some roasts, there's my favorite invention, the slow-cooker (or Crock-Pot). Just dump in your ingredients in the morning before work, and when you get home you have a meal for the whole family. I frequently do this, and I assure you that you can feed several people this way with very little money and almost no actual prep time. And the cooker itself is pretty inexpensive, too (particularly as a one-time expenditure).
It just goes to show that, in the kitchen, there's always a way.
Actually, broccoli for four people at $3, especially as a complement to a larger meal, is pretty cheap and reasonable. Add that to the beans and rice, and you're still feeding the family at under $2 per person. And you're feeding them well.
There's also sweet potatoes; cheap and extremely healthy.
How is that a contradiction? He hates Coke with corn syrup, and he likes coke with cane sugar which, presumably, is what the kosher version is made with. I got it.
Right on about Boylan's. They sell it across the street from me and I love it. I still try to limit my intake of it, of course, but I don't feel so guilty about drinking it, and it doesn't leave that sticky, syrupy feeling in my mouth.
As for Jones, I don't know about where you live, but here all Jones soda being sold is made with HFCS. I checked again just a few days ago.
Interesting. I've always used 1 part balsamic vinegar to 3 parts extra virgin olive oil, plus a tablespoon of mustard to emulsify and keep it from separating (plus some seasoning, of course.) It seems to me that equal parts vinegar to oil might be a bit tart. No?
Not likely, but he's set up pretty well to run it with Bootcamp or Parallels.
I'm probably the lone dissenter here, but aside from the doctor episode, every one of those episodes you mentioned was fantastic. I particularly liked the boxing epidode; I thought it gave some wonderful character insights. I don't know what you guys are looking for in a sci-fi drama. Maybe you just like stuff to blow up. As far as I'm concerned, season three was damn near flawless.
Sort of like cramming an entire season of Farscape into a two-hour movie? What a rip, good though the movie was. Perhaps Moore can get his last chapter out in a final miniseries. I kind of like the idea of capping the series with a miniseries on each end.
Hmmm. That's definitely a matter of opinion. I thought that the boxing episode was absolutely fantastic. In fact, the only episode last season that I didn't care much for was the episode with Helo and the bad doctor. I loved the character episodes, even the one about Adama and his dead wife. I think the show is at its best when it deals with its characters on a personal level. Sure, I like seeing shit blow up as much as the next guy, and the first four episodes of the season were virtual pants-wetters. But there are plenty of us who love the more human episodes just as much, if not more. I though that season three was the best one yet.
But it also says "without the authority of the copyright owner," which I'm pretty sure Apple has. So, once again, this lawsuit is meaningless because the DMCA doesn't say you have to use DRM, just that you can't go around it without the owner's permission.