Cut throat competition,like say Wal-Mart versus everybody else, leads to everybody concentrating on fewer "models" whose quality decreases as an unavoidable consequence of the price war, which means that after a while you can only get it in "medium" and it breaks or wears out quickly.
Here's a neat button and everytime you press it a bunch of cars with with flashing lights and screaming sirens will come zooming up to your house!
Reminds me of the diapers with the moisture sensors that played a little tune every time the kid needed changing, which was pretty often once the kids figured out how to make the music play. : - )
The doctor only "wins" if you pay in full and on time, which likelihood is reduced if you went into things thinking that the insurance company was going to pick up most of the expense.
Doctors and insurance companies are not "all in this together".
I'm no expert on Canadian anything, but I think this is not health insurance but disability insurance, kinda like AFLAC. It doesn't pay your medical bills, it replaces your income, although probably not all of it.
Maybe they are also planning on making it cheaper...
And they have personally assured me that they are fully committed to doing exactly that, just as soon as their sideline business in aviation gear for swine begins producing sufficient offsetting revenue.
Haven't read the book, but saw mention somewhere that the TV show isn't completely faithful to it, so that's not necessarily a spoiler.
About 2 episodes ago there was a flashback to an earlier localized blackout in Africa somewhere that showed some sort of tower,so apparently in the TV show the experiment is repeatable and not dependent on a co-incidental radiation.
I'm guessing the crows died from impact due to not flying after passing out, and it's because of their higher than average for a bird intelligence that they were also affected.
What I fear is that we won't be looking at extensions of Asimov's work, but candidates for screenplays for sequels/prequels to the Will Smith movie.
Kind of like how Eric von Lustbader's continuation of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series bears a lot more resemblance to the recent movies than to the three Cold War era books about a character who'd be pretty long in the tooth by now. Really, they read like auditions to be Matt Damon's new screen writer.
Speaking of which, will the new books be featuring Asimov's name on the cover in big print and Reichert's in much smaller letters?
I thought The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, written by Nicholas Meyer (credited by some with being the chief reason the even numbered Star Trek movies were better), was pretty good. It was an intelligent look from a different angle at the Holmes universe, and dealt with what nowadays would be the elephant in the room, Holmes's use of cocaine. Besides, anyone interested in Holmes would likely wonder about the results of putting him and Freud in the same room.
Most importantly, it wasn't just an attempt to get some more money and some more mileage out of the Holmes franchise by Doyle's descendants and some studio. At the time of its writing the most recent Holmes-based entertainment was pretty much the old Basil Rathbone movies. Meyer wasn't trying to surf a wave, he was acting out of a love for the original works. It was sort of fan fiction, but by a skilled professional.
I know they aren't your words, but it is "scrolling" as we know it that is counter-intuitive, at least to anyone who's ever seen actual scrolls, even if only in the movies.
Slashdot Mirror
Cut throat competition,like say Wal-Mart versus everybody else, leads to everybody concentrating on fewer "models" whose quality decreases as an unavoidable consequence of the price war, which means that after a while you can only get it in "medium" and it breaks or wears out quickly.
Here's a neat button and everytime you press it a bunch of cars with with flashing lights and screaming sirens will come zooming up to your house!
Reminds me of the diapers with the moisture sensors that played a little tune every time the kid needed changing, which was pretty often once the kids figured out how to make the music play. : - )
The revision to which I look forward is the hack that causes it to make very impolite comments to Mrs. Cleaver.
See: Recursive
"Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" - I'm sure that this was a Murdoch quote.
I'm sure it's been around longer than that, he probably just took it as a life motto.
Well, either that or "Never let a story get in the way of putting big ones on page 3".
The doctor only "wins" if you pay in full and on time, which likelihood is reduced if you went into things thinking that the insurance company was going to pick up most of the expense.
Doctors and insurance companies are not "all in this together".
I'm no expert on Canadian anything, but I think this is not health insurance but disability insurance, kinda like AFLAC. It doesn't pay your medical bills, it replaces your income, although probably not all of it.
WHOOOOOOOSHHHHHH!
... and what would the restrictions be for "derivative works"?
You have to support them until they turn 18.
They should trademark it as "4Skin".
Maybe they are also planning on making it cheaper...
And they have personally assured me that they are fully committed to doing exactly that, just as soon as their sideline business in aviation gear for swine begins producing sufficient offsetting revenue.
Nuke it from orbit and then see how soon their backup site with your backup data has you back online.
Shouldn't that be J Swift?
Unfortunately, for a lot of users, the difference between computers and magic is not apparent to them.
Nonsense. The difference is obvious. Magic is much more likely to work correctly much more often with much fewer unintended consequences.
Sure you can, just make them up! : - )
Despite this being Slashdot, when I first saw the headline about "anti-virus" products, I immediately thought "stuff like Tamiflu".
Haven't read the book, but saw mention somewhere that the TV show isn't completely faithful to it, so that's not necessarily a spoiler.
About 2 episodes ago there was a flashback to an earlier localized blackout in Africa somewhere that showed some sort of tower,so apparently in the TV show the experiment is repeatable and not dependent on a co-incidental radiation.
I'm guessing the crows died from impact due to not flying after passing out, and it's because of their higher than average for a bird intelligence that they were also affected.
Wonder if Flipper passed out as well. : - )
What if the fear they detect in you is the fear of missing your flight while you're held up trying to convince security that you aren't a threat?
Yeah, it's obviously a pre-emptive strike by crows on quantum physicists.
Isn't that part of the long range plot line of the TV show Flashforward ?
What I fear is that we won't be looking at extensions of Asimov's work, but candidates for screenplays for sequels/prequels to the Will Smith movie.
Kind of like how Eric von Lustbader's continuation of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series bears a lot more resemblance to the recent movies than to the three Cold War era books about a character who'd be pretty long in the tooth by now. Really, they read like auditions to be Matt Damon's new screen writer.
Speaking of which, will the new books be featuring Asimov's name on the cover in big print and Reichert's in much smaller letters?
I thought The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, written by Nicholas Meyer (credited by some with being the chief reason the even numbered Star Trek movies were better), was pretty good. It was an intelligent look from a different angle at the Holmes universe, and dealt with what nowadays would be the elephant in the room, Holmes's use of cocaine. Besides, anyone interested in Holmes would likely wonder about the results of putting him and Freud in the same room.
Most importantly, it wasn't just an attempt to get some more money and some more mileage out of the Holmes franchise by Doyle's descendants and some studio. At the time of its writing the most recent Holmes-based entertainment was pretty much the old Basil Rathbone movies. Meyer wasn't trying to surf a wave, he was acting out of a love for the original works. It was sort of fan fiction, but by a skilled professional.
But this is Slashdot!
We have to have a car analogy!
They already look the way that they do *and* they're called naked mole rats.
On top of that they should get cancer?
I know they aren't your words, but it is "scrolling" as we know it that is counter-intuitive, at least to anyone who's ever seen actual scrolls, even if only in the movies.
I think that's not the IP address for the Motorola ( try http://192.168.100.1/ ), but for a Linksys wireless router, like say a WRT54G.