He may be mediocre as a programmer, and let's face, if BASIC is you're favorite language then you probably are a mediocre programmer, but he was a ruthless businessman + 5. That's why MS is where it is today, because Bill is great at exploiting people, making deals, crushing competition, and making whatever dirty deals he needs to profit. He is the Anekin Skywalker of programming. Schooled in the art whilst young, then turned to the darkside by his naked greed and need to dominate others.
I've just finished watching his lifetime achivement for the first time as an adult, and I can honestly say it sucks and blows arse. Sure, he deserves credit for the fantastic THX quality of the films, that sound and imagery really was top drawer. It's a pity the films themselves stank so badly. Let me qualify my main gripes with them.
In Star Wars, Luke comes off as some petualant child who went to the sooky child school of acting. If was hard to get involved with his badly written character, and Han Solo come off as some sort of space hick. The only redeeming feature was a bra-less princess Laia.
Whilst watching the truly awful Return of the Jedi, I noticed that the characters seem to say all their actions and speak in pure exposition e.g. I'm going to go *there* and do *that*. This film is worse than pantomime.
Give George credit where credit is due, THX is great, the special effects are fab, but the acting, plot, and characters all stink.
I don't count embassies because although they are legally technically part of US soil, they are located in foreign countries. 911 was the first attack on American soil since Pearl Habour. I'm also not counting terrorism conducted by Americans on Americans e.g. Omaha
People cannot casually use heroin and still function normally. It's just plain not in the same league as alcohol and tobacco.
People can and do casually use heroin. It's particularly common in high finance. Stock traders are frequent users of these chemicals, and they still hold down their jobs and trade billions of dollars in market instruments.
f you've ever met a real cocaine or heroin addict (there is no such thing as a casual cocaine/heroin "user", only "addicts"), you'd see that it is not the same thing as alcohol at all. It takes over your life.
What you're talking about here is people who are addicted to the substance. This doesn't apply at all to casual users. Now, just because you personally haven't met a casual user, doesn't mean there aren't any. I can personally think of a half dozen people who have all casually used these drugs and are not addicts. There will always be a group of people who can't handle this stuff, and become addicts, but most of them are quite OK as long as you aren't a complete *tard. Most of these substances aren't anywhere near as addictive as the anti-drug people would have you believe.
Was anyone left alive to vote? I guess all those people who are now missing limbs and eyes and stuff will be given some assistance to fill out their ballots.
The key difference here being that Germany was *known* to be systematically killing an entire race or people and were moving onto other undesireables (foreigners, gypsies, artists, poor people, mentally ill, etc). They invaded Poland, bombed London, invaded France, and were rolling their way across Europe.
I don't know about you, but I can make a distinction between an isolated act of terrorism on US soil but a party as yet unproven, and the mass invasion of countries and genocide that was being undertaken by Germany.
Indeed. Release dates are incredibly hard to move, as any software developer could attest. The marketing and distribution machines are kicked into gear months in advance of shipping so it just isn't even remotely feasible to make the release earlier. They hold press conferences, make press releases, and have all the pressing and artwork issues to deal with. Nothing to see here folks, expect the release on the expected release date.
Yikes, you mean something like you get a chip implanted and then swear something along the lines of "I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all..."?
Because a 0.0 and a NULL aren't the same thing, especially when it comes to financial data.
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How do you represent the missing fields in a LEFT OUTER JOIN, you know, the ones that were implied to be NULL by their abscence. You need something to represent the abscence of data, and if you don't use NULL or other metadata you need to use a program assigned value...and that's even more hassle.
Furthermore, only a handful of viruses manage to run under WINE, as viruses can do some tricky stuff.
The WINE team are working hard every day to improve their compatibility with modern Windows viruses for the Windows enthusiast who insists *all* of their software runs.
Metric did manage to get a foothold here in "the rest of the world", it's mainly just the USA who are still on the imperial system. HDTV is catching on in Japan and they are already broadcasting anime in HDTV (Samurai 7, for the curious) so I suspect HDTV is simply not ready in the US. It's even worse here in Britain though...
"Now many die-hard music fans who were our loyal customers moved to such Web sites where they could buy what they want more easily at a cheaper price."
Good god, how awful of our loyal customers to abandon our stores for the same product sold cheaper and with less hassle elsewhere. Let's hope the government bails out our failing model of selling.
So the answer is simple, make it easier and cheaper for people to buy in your store than online...or face bankruptcy.
I see plenty of them here in London, and they look ideal for our driving conditions. Even though I am quite tall I'd definitely consider getting a SMART car. Parking costs half as much, you can get into spots that a sedan can't, and you are much more nimble of our often congested streets. Many streets in London are single lane only and cars have to queue to pass each other.
Did Opera get them before or after the game Black & White, which also used gestures to do stuff. Bottom line, there's very little innovation in the world, and even stuff that looks innovative may simply have cribbed from a source you're not currently aware of. I tried Opera for about five minutes, then dumped it in favour of Firefox. It wasn't that anything was wrong with it, but there was no compelling features that made me think "I must use this browser, now".
Again, why does it matter to you who is making the music?
It doesn't matter to me who in particular makes the music and does the singing. What I want to hear is talented people, whether that be technical or creative based, performing an interesting piece of music. I want to hear the persons natural voice with all the character that brings in. People like Tom Waits for instance don't have a "pretty" voice, but it is full of character.
When I hear drums, I don't want to hear a quantised beat but rather the natural flair of the drummer playing on the track. I'd like to hear where he drags or pushes the beat, and be able to listen to that interact with the bass. Does it matter to me if the guitarists actually took 50 takes to get the track down? No, but it does in concert when I've paid £50 to see someone who can't play their instrument well enough to play their own songs.
Thanks to all the techniques being applied to the "music" these modern "musicians" are making we are getting to hear the least talented bunch of wankers ever perform on radio. Sure, the guy running Autotune and cutting up each drum hit in ProTools then aligning it to get the beat on time is talented...but the people on the cover of the disc aren't. I for one am sick to death of music where only vocoding the "artists" voice is enough to bring it into tune and make it worth listening to. Whatever happened to having actually talented people do the singing, even if they don't fit our modern ideas of beauty. Give me some Nina Simone over Britany any day.
Well, that's still a good 60 million or more people who actually voted for the robber president. So, the best you can say is that of the part of the population who could actually be bothered having a hand in your country's democratic election almost exactly half wanted him to rule. Since everyone was given the option to vote, barring some who's votes were discounted by the sheenanigans of your scheming/cheating president, we can only assume that the rest of the population would have voted similarly. It's a big enough poll sample to stand up to extrapolation.
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He may be mediocre as a programmer, and let's face, if BASIC is you're favorite language then you probably are a mediocre programmer, but he was a ruthless businessman + 5. That's why MS is where it is today, because Bill is great at exploiting people, making deals, crushing competition, and making whatever dirty deals he needs to profit. He is the Anekin Skywalker of programming. Schooled in the art whilst young, then turned to the darkside by his naked greed and need to dominate others.
He might not be an idiot, he may just be American. I hear they don't understand sarcasm over there ;->
Try looking for Xenix and Microsoft on google e.g. like this
In Star Wars, Luke comes off as some petualant child who went to the sooky child school of acting. If was hard to get involved with his badly written character, and Han Solo come off as some sort of space hick. The only redeeming feature was a bra-less princess Laia.
Whilst watching the truly awful Return of the Jedi, I noticed that the characters seem to say all their actions and speak in pure exposition e.g. I'm going to go *there* and do *that*. This film is worse than pantomime.
Give George credit where credit is due, THX is great, the special effects are fab, but the acting, plot, and characters all stink.
I don't count embassies because although they are legally technically part of US soil, they are located in foreign countries. 911 was the first attack on American soil since Pearl Habour. I'm also not counting terrorism conducted by Americans on Americans e.g. Omaha
People cannot casually use heroin and still function normally. It's just plain not in the same league as alcohol and tobacco.
People can and do casually use heroin. It's particularly common in high finance. Stock traders are frequent users of these chemicals, and they still hold down their jobs and trade billions of dollars in market instruments.
What you're talking about here is people who are addicted to the substance. This doesn't apply at all to casual users. Now, just because you personally haven't met a casual user, doesn't mean there aren't any. I can personally think of a half dozen people who have all casually used these drugs and are not addicts. There will always be a group of people who can't handle this stuff, and become addicts, but most of them are quite OK as long as you aren't a complete *tard. Most of these substances aren't anywhere near as addictive as the anti-drug people would have you believe.
Was anyone left alive to vote? I guess all those people who are now missing limbs and eyes and stuff will be given some assistance to fill out their ballots.
I don't know about you, but I can make a distinction between an isolated act of terrorism on US soil but a party as yet unproven, and the mass invasion of countries and genocide that was being undertaken by Germany.
Indeed. Release dates are incredibly hard to move, as any software developer could attest. The marketing and distribution machines are kicked into gear months in advance of shipping so it just isn't even remotely feasible to make the release earlier. They hold press conferences, make press releases, and have all the pressing and artwork issues to deal with. Nothing to see here folks, expect the release on the expected release date.
Yikes, you mean something like you get a chip implanted and then swear something along the lines of "I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all..."?
OMG, so what you're saying is the US government is actually the beast. Whew, I guess Microsoft will be pleased to hear they're off the hook for a bit.
Because a 0.0 and a NULL aren't the same thing, especially when it comes to financial data.
How do you represent the missing fields in a LEFT OUTER JOIN, you know, the ones that were implied to be NULL by their abscence. You need something to represent the abscence of data, and if you don't use NULL or other metadata you need to use a program assigned value...and that's even more hassle.
I guess you won't be voting then.
The WINE team are working hard every day to improve their compatibility with modern Windows viruses for the Windows enthusiast who insists *all* of their software runs.
Metric did manage to get a foothold here in "the rest of the world", it's mainly just the USA who are still on the imperial system. HDTV is catching on in Japan and they are already broadcasting anime in HDTV (Samurai 7, for the curious) so I suspect HDTV is simply not ready in the US. It's even worse here in Britain though...
Good god, how awful of our loyal customers to abandon our stores for the same product sold cheaper and with less hassle elsewhere. Let's hope the government bails out our failing model of selling.
So the answer is simple, make it easier and cheaper for people to buy in your store than online...or face bankruptcy.
I see plenty of them here in London, and they look ideal for our driving conditions. Even though I am quite tall I'd definitely consider getting a SMART car. Parking costs half as much, you can get into spots that a sedan can't, and you are much more nimble of our often congested streets. Many streets in London are single lane only and cars have to queue to pass each other.
Did Opera get them before or after the game Black & White, which also used gestures to do stuff. Bottom line, there's very little innovation in the world, and even stuff that looks innovative may simply have cribbed from a source you're not currently aware of. I tried Opera for about five minutes, then dumped it in favour of Firefox. It wasn't that anything was wrong with it, but there was no compelling features that made me think "I must use this browser, now".
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It doesn't matter to me who in particular makes the music and does the singing. What I want to hear is talented people, whether that be technical or creative based, performing an interesting piece of music. I want to hear the persons natural voice with all the character that brings in. People like Tom Waits for instance don't have a "pretty" voice, but it is full of character.
When I hear drums, I don't want to hear a quantised beat but rather the natural flair of the drummer playing on the track. I'd like to hear where he drags or pushes the beat, and be able to listen to that interact with the bass. Does it matter to me if the guitarists actually took 50 takes to get the track down? No, but it does in concert when I've paid £50 to see someone who can't play their instrument well enough to play their own songs.
Thanks to all the techniques being applied to the "music" these modern "musicians" are making we are getting to hear the least talented bunch of wankers ever perform on radio. Sure, the guy running Autotune and cutting up each drum hit in ProTools then aligning it to get the beat on time is talented...but the people on the cover of the disc aren't. I for one am sick to death of music where only vocoding the "artists" voice is enough to bring it into tune and make it worth listening to. Whatever happened to having actually talented people do the singing, even if they don't fit our modern ideas of beauty. Give me some Nina Simone over Britany any day.
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Well, that's still a good 60 million or more people who actually voted for the robber president. So, the best you can say is that of the part of the population who could actually be bothered having a hand in your country's democratic election almost exactly half wanted him to rule. Since everyone was given the option to vote, barring some who's votes were discounted by the sheenanigans of your scheming/cheating president, we can only assume that the rest of the population would have voted similarly. It's a big enough poll sample to stand up to extrapolation.