This is the second time/. has linked to a story that has mentioned Blalock's fan-disappointment with Enterprise. Did you catch her joke at the end of "Bound"? Perfect Vulcan register; really got the end-of-the-episode Spock jokes just right. If the writers gave her the material, she'd be fine.
The best part is that anyone who knows their name as "TigerDirect" is going to try "tigerdirect.com" first anyway; if you were using a search engine, you'd be looking for "computer components" or "bare bones systems".
Pierre Berton makes pretty much the same case regarding Arctic explorers in The Arctic Grail - those who studied the way the Inuit lived survived; those who wore silk shirts and took horses into the Arctic died.
Indeed, folks should read some of the nonsense that flowed from Hamilton's and Jefferson's pens - directed at each other. It was after putting up with 8 years of their bickering that Washington warned against partisanship - in a speech that was largely whipped into shape by Hamilton.
Civil contracts in societies where the leadership IS the religion is just as much a religious contract as it is civil.
So you're saying that in a theocracy, every time you buy lunch it's a sacrament? That's the consequence of this statement.
Before that (in the west at least, I don't know much about how marriage evolved in the east), marriage was an issue of the exchange of property which I don't think counts as a starting point.
You're redefining marriage for your own convenience. The "exchange of property" aspects coexist with Christian marriage ceremonies from the beginnings of Christianity well into our own century. Christianity picked up marriage solemnizations from the surrounding cultures; and in those cultures, solemnizations developed as a way of integrating marriage into the religious life of the community.
What about the human right to employ whom I please?
You mean the human right to only employe whites, because you do not please to hire blacks, Asians, Hispanics, or South Asians? No, that's not a human right.
Furthermore, even the creative products are well enough established on Windows that it's doubtful that Apple could afford to make them Mac-only. That would put Apple in the position of being a major Windows ISV.
Which would be only fair, as Microsoft is the major Macintosh ISV (if one could describe a company that sells an OS and also sells two platform versions of its flagship product as an ISV).
You don't think that comparing a beta of mapping software or personal webmail to a beta of a development environment is a little bit questionable? What I want to know is this: if Microsoft beta software is good enough for a production environment, when it hasn't finished with all those marvelous Microsoft checks and balances, why isn't FOSS eternally-beta software good enough for a production environment, where at least you know who is going to be reading your bug reports and may actually have some interaction with the developer (even if you're not the head of IT for a multi-billion dollar multinational)?
Don't you think that if you are going to require Slashdot readers to write out Content Scrambling System and Advanced Access Contant System, the least you could do is to write out Slashdot?
A brain the size of a planet, not a depression. And when he uses android, he means it in the wider sense (as in Star Wars), of an artifical, constructed life form, not in the specific and more correct sense of a biological construct. Besides, Marvin is constantly called a robot.
I thought that Karey Kirkpatrick was a Brit? Anyway, I doubt the problem is the screenwriter: even this reviewer says that many of the stuff that was bad in this version appears to be the result of ruthless editing. If he's referring to film editing and not script editing, well, that's Disney's fault (and look at some of the missing bits: for instance, the reference to the disproof of God; the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster and Eccentrica Gallumbits. It's celar that Disney is aiming at a "family movie" here.
The security thread was introduced in 1990. I have two 1995 series $2 bills in my hands, and they do not have security threads; no doubt the $2 bill was excluded from the change for the same reason the $1 bill was, and in addition because there are so few in circulation, relatively speaking, that there was no sense of a need to add the security thread. The $2 bill has not been discontinued.
For some reason, folks here in the US don't like coins - I think most people would be happy if all prices were in quarters so they didn't have to carry any dimes or nickels (and no-one actually keeps pennies - they just get tossed into a jar and rolled up and brought to the bank once a month; half-dollar coins are completely ignored). Don't look at me, I have plenty of Sacagawea dollars (they work well in Coke machines). I like the pound coin and the loonie. But no one here wants them. (And $2 bills are just as rare as $0.50 coins.)
A pod cast combines RSS, blogging, and mp3/aac: basically, an RSS feed reader picks up the URI for the mp3 file, downloads it automatically, then hands it off automatically to the music synching program which itself automatically synchs it to the player. The point is that once you subscribe to a podcast, it magically appears on your player the next time you synch the player after a new edition. The reason folks call it a "podcast" rather than just an "mp3cast" is because it is very easy for software on the client computer to stick something into iTunes for synchronization. So that's basically what Neuros wants: a program that will automatically download and synch mp3 files on a schedule.
Yep. At the rate I build up email, it's going to be practical infinity: after 6 months, "You are currently using 28 MB (2%) of your 1259 MB." If they raise it by 1 GB a year, I will never run out of space.
A few more interesting bits in *Stand on Zanzibar*: at a party, one of the couples are talking about seeing what they think is a nice new apartment block going up in a convenient place, and are disabused: it was a new prison. In Boston, about 10 years ago, there seemed to be a nice new apartment block going up on Nashua Street (near the Boston Garden and North Station, and not far from Mass General). I heard more than one person make pretty much the same comment, that it might be a good place to check out for housing. Turned out it was a replacement for the Suffolk County Jail.
*Stand On Zanzibar* imagines a war in "Isola," a recently-admitted American state (seems almost like it's based on the Phillipines or Northern Marianas) where there's an insurgency who specialize in terrorist attacks both in Isola and in the US, and the country is highly polarized over the war.
You obviously haven't read both. I have. Bradbury imagines a room with four-wall television showing realistic soap operas or maybe reality shows which (combined with medication) serves to monopolize the lives of some people (e.g., Montag's wife). Brunner imagines a television system where many shows and nearly all commercials have a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, whose appearance can be customized either with generic images (same body type, complexion, hair and eye color, etc.) or with your own image (suitably idealized). These are very different concepts, and Bradbuy's, while certainly relevant to today's world, is not relevant to this story.
have read *Stand on Zanzibar*. The last line of *Stand on Zanzibar* is "Christ, what an imagination I've got!" and it's Slashdot-relevant, as is the pivotal line in the book, a quotation from Lewis Carroll, "What I say three times is true." If you've read the book you'll realize that my posting above, applied to this story, in a way conveys the tone of the book.
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc. I'll bet the majority of them also eat Doritos. Does that mean Doritos turns people into pedophiles?
This is the second time /. has linked to a story that has mentioned Blalock's fan-disappointment with Enterprise. Did you catch her joke at the end of "Bound"? Perfect Vulcan register; really got the end-of-the-episode Spock jokes just right. If the writers gave her the material, she'd be fine.
The best part is that anyone who knows their name as "TigerDirect" is going to try "tigerdirect.com" first anyway; if you were using a search engine, you'd be looking for "computer components" or "bare bones systems".
Pierre Berton makes pretty much the same case regarding Arctic explorers in The Arctic Grail - those who studied the way the Inuit lived survived; those who wore silk shirts and took horses into the Arctic died.
Indeed, folks should read some of the nonsense that flowed from Hamilton's and Jefferson's pens - directed at each other. It was after putting up with 8 years of their bickering that Washington warned against partisanship - in a speech that was largely whipped into shape by Hamilton.
Civil contracts in societies where the leadership IS the religion is just as much a religious contract as it is civil.
So you're saying that in a theocracy, every time you buy lunch it's a sacrament? That's the consequence of this statement.
Before that (in the west at least, I don't know much about how marriage evolved in the east), marriage was an issue of the exchange of property which I don't think counts as a starting point.
You're redefining marriage for your own convenience. The "exchange of property" aspects coexist with Christian marriage ceremonies from the beginnings of Christianity well into our own century. Christianity picked up marriage solemnizations from the surrounding cultures; and in those cultures, solemnizations developed as a way of integrating marriage into the religious life of the community.
Or is it "something almost but not entirely unlike tea?"
You do realize that you are making a moral relativist defense of Christianity, right?
Marriage pre-exists Christianity. Indeed, civil marriage pre-exists religious solemnizations of marriage, which pre-exist Christianity and Judaism.
Marriage was always a civil contract; the solemnization of marriages as religious sacraments comes much later.
What about the human right to employ whom I please?
You mean the human right to only employe whites, because you do not please to hire blacks, Asians, Hispanics, or South Asians? No, that's not a human right.
Furthermore, even the creative products are well enough established on Windows that it's doubtful that Apple could afford to make them Mac-only. That would put Apple in the position of being a major Windows ISV.
Which would be only fair, as Microsoft is the major Macintosh ISV (if one could describe a company that sells an OS and also sells two platform versions of its flagship product as an ISV).
You don't think that comparing a beta of mapping software or personal webmail to a beta of a development environment is a little bit questionable? What I want to know is this: if Microsoft beta software is good enough for a production environment, when it hasn't finished with all those marvelous Microsoft checks and balances, why isn't FOSS eternally-beta software good enough for a production environment, where at least you know who is going to be reading your bug reports and may actually have some interaction with the developer (even if you're not the head of IT for a multi-billion dollar multinational)?
Don't you think that if you are going to require Slashdot readers to write out Content Scrambling System and Advanced Access Contant System, the least you could do is to write out Slashdot?
A brain the size of a planet, not a depression. And when he uses android, he means it in the wider sense (as in Star Wars), of an artifical, constructed life form, not in the specific and more correct sense of a biological construct. Besides, Marvin is constantly called a robot.
I thought that Karey Kirkpatrick was a Brit? Anyway, I doubt the problem is the screenwriter: even this reviewer says that many of the stuff that was bad in this version appears to be the result of ruthless editing. If he's referring to film editing and not script editing, well, that's Disney's fault (and look at some of the missing bits: for instance, the reference to the disproof of God; the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster and Eccentrica Gallumbits. It's celar that Disney is aiming at a "family movie" here.
The security thread was introduced in 1990. I have two 1995 series $2 bills in my hands, and they do not have security threads; no doubt the $2 bill was excluded from the change for the same reason the $1 bill was, and in addition because there are so few in circulation, relatively speaking, that there was no sense of a need to add the security thread. The $2 bill has not been discontinued.
For some reason, folks here in the US don't like coins - I think most people would be happy if all prices were in quarters so they didn't have to carry any dimes or nickels (and no-one actually keeps pennies - they just get tossed into a jar and rolled up and brought to the bank once a month; half-dollar coins are completely ignored). Don't look at me, I have plenty of Sacagawea dollars (they work well in Coke machines). I like the pound coin and the loonie. But no one here wants them. (And $2 bills are just as rare as $0.50 coins.)
A pod cast combines RSS, blogging, and mp3/aac: basically, an RSS feed reader picks up the URI for the mp3 file, downloads it automatically, then hands it off automatically to the music synching program which itself automatically synchs it to the player. The point is that once you subscribe to a podcast, it magically appears on your player the next time you synch the player after a new edition. The reason folks call it a "podcast" rather than just an "mp3cast" is because it is very easy for software on the client computer to stick something into iTunes for synchronization. So that's basically what Neuros wants: a program that will automatically download and synch mp3 files on a schedule.
Fine. He didn't know Perl. Maybe he didn't even know *of* Perl or wasn't sure. Then why did he authoritatively reply?
RadioShack Syndrome. Put someone behind the counter of a retail electronics store and he loses all sense of his own limitations.
Yep. At the rate I build up email, it's going to be practical infinity: after 6 months, "You are currently using 28 MB (2%) of your 1259 MB." If they raise it by 1 GB a year, I will never run out of space.
Yeah, you wouldn't want to have all user information in one place, like /user/username or /home/username ... (obscurity is never security.)
A few more interesting bits in *Stand on Zanzibar*: at a party, one of the couples are talking about seeing what they think is a nice new apartment block going up in a convenient place, and are disabused: it was a new prison. In Boston, about 10 years ago, there seemed to be a nice new apartment block going up on Nashua Street (near the Boston Garden and North Station, and not far from Mass General). I heard more than one person make pretty much the same comment, that it might be a good place to check out for housing. Turned out it was a replacement for the Suffolk County Jail.
*Stand On Zanzibar* imagines a war in "Isola," a recently-admitted American state (seems almost like it's based on the Phillipines or Northern Marianas) where there's an insurgency who specialize in terrorist attacks both in Isola and in the US, and the country is highly polarized over the war.
You obviously haven't read both. I have. Bradbury imagines a room with four-wall television showing realistic soap operas or maybe reality shows which (combined with medication) serves to monopolize the lives of some people (e.g., Montag's wife). Brunner imagines a television system where many shows and nearly all commercials have a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, whose appearance can be customized either with generic images (same body type, complexion, hair and eye color, etc.) or with your own image (suitably idealized). These are very different concepts, and Bradbuy's, while certainly relevant to today's world, is not relevant to this story.
have read *Stand on Zanzibar*. The last line of *Stand on Zanzibar* is "Christ, what an imagination I've got!" and it's Slashdot-relevant, as is the pivotal line in the book, a quotation from Lewis Carroll, "What I say three times is true." If you've read the book you'll realize that my posting above, applied to this story, in a way conveys the tone of the book.