The article fails to mention that Bruce Wayne must have a really amazing accountant. Think about it -- the guy's pretty much an embezzler. All that Wayne Industries equipment and capital that has to "disappear" every year with no one being the wiser. Also, where in a town as corrupt as Gotham are you going to find a contractor discreet enough to trust with the job of turning the cave under Wayne manor into a crimefighting lair. Or is the construction industry the one part of Gotham that isn't mobbed up?
Once you get past those obstacles -- someone to build it and someone to cover up the fact that you paid for it -- you're in business. Oh, and Alfred (in the comics) is trained in battlefield surgery. Most real butlers aren't, so you probably want a pretty good (and tight-lipped) doctor too.
No description of a good Rube Goldberg device is complete without the phrase "...which scares the chicken, who lays an egg, which rolls down a tube..."
No two coutries with a McDonald's in them have ever gone to war.
Yet, does anyone seriously claim that McDonald's has that much control over world events?
Yes and no. Thomas Friedman, I believe, put forth that idea years ago... but later admitted that it isn't true (after all, 19 McDonalds-laden NATO members bombed the crap out of Serbia, which has McDonalds). Interesting idea, Tom, but doesn't really pan out.
You are right that he wasn't saying that the presence of McDonalds prevented war between countries. It was, however, Friedman's thesis that the factors that led these countries to get a McDonalds did have an effect on whether they became embroiled in international conflict. Which is much more sound reasoning. He was just wrong, is all.
I use Bookmarks Synchronizer too, and I love it... as long as I remember to upload and download my bookmarks. The only option for automatically synchronizing is upon launch or close of the browser, which I rarely do. I can see the allure of a bookmarks store which is readily accessible, in exactly the same form, everywhere.
Jesus. How would you like to be the cop whose job is to sit there and edit out the victims from dozens of kiddie-porn photos -- you'd have to look at it for hours.
Problem is, how many neophyte computer users are left?
I work tech support, and I had the same question for the first couple of weeks of this job.
In this, as in most things:), Slashdot users have a skewed perspective. They know computers, inside and out, and it is a fair assumption that many if not all of the people they know know computers inside and out. But there are a lot of people out there -- even (and this shocked me) young people -- who don't have the first clue about how to use the machine.
Do I think the one-button mouse is necessarily more appropriate for them? Well, I'm not really in a position to say. The company I work for only makes one-button mice. So I won't comment.
I don't know why people are criticizing or mocking this development. The robot soldiers are badly needed. Our troops are stretched too thin in Central Asia and can use all the help they can get in their search for John bin Conner.
Earlier in his career, a native Texan opponent defeated him by emphasing W's outsider status and Yale connections. After that W remade himself into cowboy.
I've heard that before, but I can't find what race it refers to. Are you sure that story doesn't refer to the elder Bush?
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PSP is also the name of a handheld video game system that's out in Japan and will see a release in North America and Europe within the next few months.
Ah, that explains a lot. I was wondering a couple years ago why there was suddenly so much buzz among gamers about an old IBM machine which used microchannel architecture and never caught on...
The article only briefly mentions response time -- doesn't explain it. Response time was the reason I returned the LCD I bought and went back to my CRT -- DVD playback was awful. I imagine there are people who don't notice it, just as there are people who are more sensitive to lower CRT refresh rates, but it was hellish for me.
Actually, if the W3 had a 50 million dollars prize for the first fully CSS1+2+3 compliant browser, people would fall over themselves to build the browser.
Well, yes, but I'd still rather my money went to a private army, pouring across the land, enforcing browser compliance and the separation of content from presentation.
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How do you propose they do that? Imposing fines? What can they do besides endorse something?
Put a Paypal link on the W3C site, so web standards buffs can donate to the cause of forming a private army for the W3C. Then, finally, this organization can have some enforcement power.
That's really the only thing missing from the web-standards "revolution": Lots and lots of bloodshed.
I'm reasonably certain that the very day I took the pill, I'd be mistakenly charged with murder and sentenced to life without parole. And the camera would pan to Rod Serling...
My question is this: In 1983 (or 84, judging by the Mac) Bill Gates and Microsoft were on the rise, but in the computer industry. Outside the computer industry (oh, yeah, and Wall Street), people wouldn't have known who he was. So what was Teen Beat's interest? Not a movie star. Not on TV. Not, for several years yet, the richest guy on the block. So what's the story?
Point is Toy Story III is 0wn3D by Disney, and unless Pixar make it without Buzz, Woody and anybody appeared in the first episode, Disney can, and will, go it alone.
I believe they also wouldn't have the rights to the title. So they would have a sequel with a different title and none of the same characters.
And, I hate to say it, but installing PHP is one of my least favorite things to do, along with stabbing my eyes out with a rusty knife.
Installing PHP = not so easy. Learning PHP -- now that's where its strengths lie. I don't know much about the strengths and weaknesses of PHP vs. Perl as programming languages, but the learning curve for PHP is much lower.
PHP is understood by more people than Perl?!? Since when did PHP take these large grounds in popularity to overtake the most popular scripting language in history.
Well, Perl may be used by more people, but I wouldn't be surprised if more people understand PHP.
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Once you get past those obstacles -- someone to build it and someone to cover up the fact that you paid for it -- you're in business. Oh, and Alfred (in the comics) is trained in battlefield surgery. Most real butlers aren't, so you probably want a pretty good (and tight-lipped) doctor too.
It's also the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon after attaining enlightenment.
No description of a good Rube Goldberg device is complete without the phrase "...which scares the chicken, who lays an egg, which rolls down a tube..."
Well, one out of two ain't bad...
Yet, does anyone seriously claim that McDonald's has that much control over world events?
Yes and no. Thomas Friedman, I believe, put forth that idea years ago... but later admitted that it isn't true (after all, 19 McDonalds-laden NATO members bombed the crap out of Serbia, which has McDonalds). Interesting idea, Tom, but doesn't really pan out.
You are right that he wasn't saying that the presence of McDonalds prevented war between countries. It was, however, Friedman's thesis that the factors that led these countries to get a McDonalds did have an effect on whether they became embroiled in international conflict. Which is much more sound reasoning. He was just wrong, is all.
So you can have them for breakfast in the morning, duh!
Are serial burglars faster than the old parallel burglars?
I use Bookmarks Synchronizer too, and I love it... as long as I remember to upload and download my bookmarks. The only option for automatically synchronizing is upon launch or close of the browser, which I rarely do. I can see the allure of a bookmarks store which is readily accessible, in exactly the same form, everywhere.
That's got to mess you up.
I work tech support, and I had the same question for the first couple of weeks of this job.
In this, as in most things :), Slashdot users have a skewed perspective. They know computers, inside and out, and it is a fair assumption that many if not all of the people they know know computers inside and out. But there are a lot of people out there -- even (and this shocked me) young people -- who don't have the first clue about how to use the machine.
Do I think the one-button mouse is necessarily more appropriate for them? Well, I'm not really in a position to say. The company I work for only makes one-button mice. So I won't comment.
I don't know why people are criticizing or mocking this development. The robot soldiers are badly needed. Our troops are stretched too thin in Central Asia and can use all the help they can get in their search for John bin Conner.
I've heard that before, but I can't find what race it refers to. Are you sure that story doesn't refer to the elder Bush?
Ah, that explains a lot. I was wondering a couple years ago why there was suddenly so much buzz among gamers about an old IBM machine which used microchannel architecture and never caught on...
(Seriously, though... PSP is in the top four requests? Really?)
The article only briefly mentions response time -- doesn't explain it. Response time was the reason I returned the LCD I bought and went back to my CRT -- DVD playback was awful. I imagine there are people who don't notice it, just as there are people who are more sensitive to lower CRT refresh rates, but it was hellish for me.
Well, yes, but I'd still rather my money went to a private army, pouring across the land, enforcing browser compliance and the separation of content from presentation.
</hypocrisy. My own site uses table-based layouts>
Put a Paypal link on the W3C site, so web standards buffs can donate to the cause of forming a private army for the W3C. Then, finally, this organization can have some enforcement power.
That's really the only thing missing from the web-standards "revolution": Lots and lots of bloodshed.
I'm reasonably certain that the very day I took the pill, I'd be mistakenly charged with murder and sentenced to life without parole. And the camera would pan to Rod Serling...
"Hi, I'm from the IT department. I need to reset the router. Where is it located?"
My question is this: In 1983 (or 84, judging by the Mac) Bill Gates and Microsoft were on the rise, but in the computer industry. Outside the computer industry (oh, yeah, and Wall Street), people wouldn't have known who he was. So what was Teen Beat's interest? Not a movie star. Not on TV. Not, for several years yet, the richest guy on the block. So what's the story?
In the films, it did show (although very subtly) the ring changing sizes after it was removed from Sauron's gauntlet and held in Isildor's hand.
Installing PHP = not so easy.
Learning PHP -- now that's where its strengths lie. I don't know much about the strengths and weaknesses of PHP vs. Perl as programming languages, but the learning curve for PHP is much lower.
PHP is understood by more people than Perl?!? Since when did PHP take these large grounds in popularity to overtake the most popular scripting language in history.
Well, Perl may be used by more people, but I wouldn't be surprised if more people understand PHP.
How the hell do you Godwin a thread about a Perl book?
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