Even when he was out of the loop on TNG, Roddenberry still managed to screw with early Ron Moore screenplays like The Bonding, loudly insisting that "children in the 24th century wouldn't morn their parent's death."
Apparently he forgot about the TOS episode "And the Children Shall Lead" when he said that. It was one of Freiberger's episodes, so I guess he could argue that he wasn't too involved.
I remember reading about it in Starlog magazine a year or two after the first movie came out (although it was told as Vader falling into a volcano after fighting Obi-Wan), and the story of the Emperor being a senator that maneuvered himself into unlimited power was in the prologue to the original movie's novelization back in 1977.
I actually didn't have much of a problem with the cast of the sequels, with the notable exceptions of Jake Lloyd, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, and Ahmed Best. In fairness to them though, it would have been hard for anyone to pull off the insipid dialog they were often given - in particular the love scenes with Anakin and Padme were just painful to watch, as was any scene with Jar Jar. I did think that Ewan McGregor and Ian McDiarmid were outstanding in all three, though.
Of course, your real point seems to be that the plural of anecdote is not data, which is true.
Exactly. Incidentally, most of my machines have Thermaltake supplies - I'm not one to skimp on parts either. I'm still not getting where Apple thought $400 was an appropriate price for a 350 watt supply though.
Almost all of my co-workers with PC's have suffered fan failures, power supply failures, etc etc and gone through at least one replacement cycle in that time.
On the flip side, I've had:
2000 Mac Pro - drive failure, power supply failure (and Apple wanted $400 for the replacement supply)
2001 iMac - CD-ROM failure
2004 iBook - 2x power supply failures
2008 MacBook - power supply failure, and a PMU firmware issue that Apple denied yet quietly fixed a few weeks later
In contrast, over the last 20 years I've owned seven PCs, five of which I built myself. One drive failure, one power supply failure, and no other issues to speak of.
I'm not an Obama fan, and I'm certainly not a Holder fan. However, if Holder's actions result in eliminating most of the bogus seizures that have been going on, I'll be more than happy to give him due credit for it.
Concealed carry also means lower powered, lower caliber and lower capacity weapons.
Not in the least. I often carry a Glock 30 (.45 caliber, 10 round standard magazine) and one or two additional magazines, or a Glock 26 (smaller 9mm with the same capacity, but it kicks more sharply so I don't carry it as often as the 30). The only time it's ever come up was after I'd gotten rear-ended and politely notified the cop that I was armed, to which he expressed quite a bit of surprise since he hadn't had a clue. With the right holster and belt, anything within reason (i.e. not a S&W.500 or Desert Eagle) isn't terribly difficult to keep concealed.
Physicians don't do diagnoses like they used to. They look at you, consider your condition for all of 5 seconds, and prescribe whatever will get you out of their hair.
Until I moved a couple of years ago, I had a doctor that was the exact opposite. It wasn't unusual for him to spend half an hour going over things with me, and he also practiced what he preached - the guy was in his 60s, but didn't smoke and was ridiculously fit. He was also almost always behind on his appointment schedule, but I cut him a lot of slack because he actually did spend time with his patients and was truly interested in their health.
They were quite loud, especially on takeoff. I had the good fortune to live in Bangor, ME in the late 70's, and occasionally they would stop there to refuel, or if weather in Boston or New York was bad.
It couldn't be that those pompous assholes are not trying to be pompous at all, and are actually just human beings attempting to demonstrate relevant value and what they can bring to your organization could it?
It could be, but part of what experience brings is knowing how to deal with people in this environment. I don't know you, and can't say anything regarding what you know or don't know, but it's easy to try too hard and to come across as being a prima donna even if that wasn't the intent. Interviews aren't just about technical skills - they're also about evaluating how well the candidate will integrate with the team and the company in general. Perceived arrogance turns a lot of people off, recruiters included.
If the ISP is throttling certain services to speeds lower than what the customer is paying for, that is fraud and should already be covered by existing consumer protection laws.
It should be, but it's a damned hard thing to prove without comprehensive traffic analysis and the ISPs know this. Your ISP is going to point the finger at Netflix for the slow speeds (because their own VoD services work just fine, thank you), and to their service commitment that says "best effort", and the combination of those two claims is going to get you effectively shot down in court if you don't have anything else concrete. Most people aren't going to spend the time and money pursuing such a claim for a $50/month account.
And you bet your ass the city won't lift a finger to fix anything unless they are generating revenue from it
Cities have something that private companies don't - a degree of accountability to the voters. Around here, if city-maintained infrastructure (water, sewer, etc.) went down and wasn't fixed within a very short time, the mayor, city manager, and city council would start hearing about it, and they're well aware that a substantial portion of the folks here do vote in local elections. If that's not the case where you live, you have larger problems than the city taking too long to fix stuff.
What GP has not mentioned is that someone has to own and maintain this "public" line and if it's the city, you bet your ass they are going to charge you for it one way or another.
I'm not sure I see a problem with that, so long as all ISPs are charged pole rent on an equal basis.
I think the copyright laws in the US need reform, but frankly if I were to write a book, I'd like my descendants to benefit for some while.
Your descendants' benefit has nothing to do with why we have copyright. The ONLY reason copyright exists is because it was thought to be good to encourage people to create more that would become part of society's culture and knowledge by giving them a *limited* period of time to exclusively profit from that creation. It was not intended to become a never-ending gravy train for the creator and his heirs.
Why is it considered fair to limit patents to 20 years, but not copyrights?
I have a Unicomp as well, but I still prefer the Model M because the Unicomp doesn't have the steel plate in the bottom, and to me doesn't feel quite as solid. The keys are great, though.
Cognex cameras are the bomb. Where I worked, we had one system that did QA on time-release tablets, and could analyze around 30-40 tablets/second. Only problem is Cognex is well aware of their reputation, and charges accordingly.
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Even when he was out of the loop on TNG, Roddenberry still managed to screw with early Ron Moore screenplays like The Bonding, loudly insisting that "children in the 24th century wouldn't morn their parent's death."
Apparently he forgot about the TOS episode "And the Children Shall Lead" when he said that. It was one of Freiberger's episodes, so I guess he could argue that he wasn't too involved.
I remember reading about it in Starlog magazine a year or two after the first movie came out (although it was told as Vader falling into a volcano after fighting Obi-Wan), and the story of the Emperor being a senator that maneuvered himself into unlimited power was in the prologue to the original movie's novelization back in 1977.
I actually didn't have much of a problem with the cast of the sequels, with the notable exceptions of Jake Lloyd, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, and Ahmed Best. In fairness to them though, it would have been hard for anyone to pull off the insipid dialog they were often given - in particular the love scenes with Anakin and Padme were just painful to watch, as was any scene with Jar Jar. I did think that Ewan McGregor and Ian McDiarmid were outstanding in all three, though.
Triple cheese burgers didn't start showing up at places like Wendy's until around 15 years ago as well.
Wendy's was selling triples back in 1985 when I was going to college, but the menu across the country sometimes varied (and still does).
At this rate, it won't be long before a Faraday cage becomes an option for your new home.
Of course, your real point seems to be that the plural of anecdote is not data, which is true.
Exactly. Incidentally, most of my machines have Thermaltake supplies - I'm not one to skimp on parts either. I'm still not getting where Apple thought $400 was an appropriate price for a 350 watt supply though.
Almost all of my co-workers with PC's have suffered fan failures, power supply failures, etc etc and gone through at least one replacement cycle in that time.
On the flip side, I've had:
2000 Mac Pro - drive failure, power supply failure (and Apple wanted $400 for the replacement supply)
2001 iMac - CD-ROM failure
2004 iBook - 2x power supply failures
2008 MacBook - power supply failure, and a PMU firmware issue that Apple denied yet quietly fixed a few weeks later
In contrast, over the last 20 years I've owned seven PCs, five of which I built myself. One drive failure, one power supply failure, and no other issues to speak of.
Of course.
Their "investigation" (and I use the term loosely) is already complete, they identified what went wrong, and fixed it, all in a matter of days?
I'm guessing they knew what went wrong shortly before the landing when they saw the telemetry indicating they were out of fluid.
that allowed a major mistake to make it into the design and not be detected during testing
This *was* detected during testing.
I'm not an Obama fan, and I'm certainly not a Holder fan. However, if Holder's actions result in eliminating most of the bogus seizures that have been going on, I'll be more than happy to give him due credit for it.
It can be difficult to get the cops to follow the law.
It can often be difficult to get the cops to even know the law.
Reprobates of Unusual Size? I don't believe they exist.
Just washed your hands and can't do a thing with 'em, eh? :-)
Now the mall has the 30.06 "no gun of any kind, including licensed concealed carry" posted at all the entries.
I always thought the Texas statute number was quite ironic.
Concealed carry also means lower powered, lower caliber and lower capacity weapons.
.500 or Desert Eagle) isn't terribly difficult to keep concealed.
Not in the least. I often carry a Glock 30 (.45 caliber, 10 round standard magazine) and one or two additional magazines, or a Glock 26 (smaller 9mm with the same capacity, but it kicks more sharply so I don't carry it as often as the 30). The only time it's ever come up was after I'd gotten rear-ended and politely notified the cop that I was armed, to which he expressed quite a bit of surprise since he hadn't had a clue. With the right holster and belt, anything within reason (i.e. not a S&W
Physicians don't do diagnoses like they used to. They look at you, consider your condition for all of 5 seconds, and prescribe whatever will get you out of their hair.
Until I moved a couple of years ago, I had a doctor that was the exact opposite. It wasn't unusual for him to spend half an hour going over things with me, and he also practiced what he preached - the guy was in his 60s, but didn't smoke and was ridiculously fit. He was also almost always behind on his appointment schedule, but I cut him a lot of slack because he actually did spend time with his patients and was truly interested in their health.
They were quite loud, especially on takeoff. I had the good fortune to live in Bangor, ME in the late 70's, and occasionally they would stop there to refuel, or if weather in Boston or New York was bad.
It couldn't be that those pompous assholes are not trying to be pompous at all, and are actually just human beings attempting to demonstrate relevant value and what they can bring to your organization could it?
It could be, but part of what experience brings is knowing how to deal with people in this environment. I don't know you, and can't say anything regarding what you know or don't know, but it's easy to try too hard and to come across as being a prima donna even if that wasn't the intent. Interviews aren't just about technical skills - they're also about evaluating how well the candidate will integrate with the team and the company in general. Perceived arrogance turns a lot of people off, recruiters included.
If the ISP is throttling certain services to speeds lower than what the customer is paying for, that is fraud and should already be covered by existing consumer protection laws.
It should be, but it's a damned hard thing to prove without comprehensive traffic analysis and the ISPs know this. Your ISP is going to point the finger at Netflix for the slow speeds (because their own VoD services work just fine, thank you), and to their service commitment that says "best effort", and the combination of those two claims is going to get you effectively shot down in court if you don't have anything else concrete. Most people aren't going to spend the time and money pursuing such a claim for a $50/month account.
And you bet your ass the city won't lift a finger to fix anything unless they are generating revenue from it
Cities have something that private companies don't - a degree of accountability to the voters. Around here, if city-maintained infrastructure (water, sewer, etc.) went down and wasn't fixed within a very short time, the mayor, city manager, and city council would start hearing about it, and they're well aware that a substantial portion of the folks here do vote in local elections. If that's not the case where you live, you have larger problems than the city taking too long to fix stuff.
What GP has not mentioned is that someone has to own and maintain this "public" line and if it's the city, you bet your ass they are going to charge you for it one way or another.
I'm not sure I see a problem with that, so long as all ISPs are charged pole rent on an equal basis.
I think the copyright laws in the US need reform, but frankly if I were to write a book, I'd like my descendants to benefit for some while.
Your descendants' benefit has nothing to do with why we have copyright. The ONLY reason copyright exists is because it was thought to be good to encourage people to create more that would become part of society's culture and knowledge by giving them a *limited* period of time to exclusively profit from that creation. It was not intended to become a never-ending gravy train for the creator and his heirs.
Why is it considered fair to limit patents to 20 years, but not copyrights?
Mine is one of the black ones, but you're probably right - I haven't taken mine apart.
I have a Unicomp as well, but I still prefer the Model M because the Unicomp doesn't have the steel plate in the bottom, and to me doesn't feel quite as solid. The keys are great, though.
Cognex cameras are the bomb. Where I worked, we had one system that did QA on time-release tablets, and could analyze around 30-40 tablets/second. Only problem is Cognex is well aware of their reputation, and charges accordingly.
Large / medium business, sure. But a household of 4-6 people?
I don't really think the service is aimed at residential customers, not at $400/month. That's dirt cheap for businesses though.