My wife and her High School friends use Facebook to stay in touch. Which seems to primarily revolve around sending drinks to each other. Transparency and reachability are certainly good, but, it does make you wonder how many people are going to send "buttery nipples" to the White House, and if that is actually a good thing or not.
That's also assuming there are no miniature's involved! I've played Warhammer 40k with friends, but there's no way I can afford my own army anytime soon.
If WE didn't rely so much on imports and exports I would agree. But that is a far larger question, and pirates are but a small factor in that discussion.
You know, cops also are paid no matter where they are stationed, so why not put a trained cop in every car on the road?
I'm pretty sure if one freeway accoutns for most of the crime in their jurisdiction, the police will figure out a way to assign their forces there. There are only so many merchant vessels going around the East coast of Africa at any given time. I think the limitations probably have more to do with our forces being so heavily committed on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I guess I saw the long sex scene as excessive because it didn't really do anything to expand the story forward after the initial part of it. In other words, it could have conveyed just as much even if it was half or a third as long. I didn't think the violence was all that excessive, but I did think it somewhat blurred the lines of "super hero." They were costumed humans, not super-freaks of nature AFAIK, so in that regard some of the violence might have been considered from a suspension of belief point of view.
Agreed. My family hasn't read the GN and they were all dissappointed. I've read it, so I tracked things a bit better, but I still thought the pacing was too slow for a movie. In fact on the ride home we spent more time talking about Dragonball Z because of its movie poster than we did about Watchmen.
I could be wrong, but I thought Larry Ellison was also very much a thin client fan. Maybe this will be the first step towards a return to centralization. You can sell it as offering greater security, increased in productivity since people won't be able to add their own software, and since the system is tweaked to the Oracle Uber-Server you can market the ability of everyone using shared real-time information.
I remember reading either comments or journals about that here that Oracle would be a good fit for buying Sun. So how is that slashdotters, slashdotters FFS!, could see this coming but Balmer couldn't. He should either fire himself or start reading the frontpage. At -1.
A paralegal I worked with was sent to do a document review at a Client's industrial site. She was in a small, metal shack filled with boxes of old documents. While she was working away, half a dozen guys in full hazmat suits came in. They were as shocked to see her as she was to see them since the building was condemned and they were there to clean it out!
The billionth download will be for the iFart which, after their loss in court will invalidate the sale. Since Apple will have provided some, but not all of said, "Motherlode" when this occurs, a litigation will ensue between customer 1,000,000,000 and customer 1,000,000,001 after the iFart app was remotely deleted retroactively.
Pull-my-finger will join the fray as well, suing Apple for providing so much publicity for the now gone iFart and thereby disciminating against their valiant legal efforts. By bizzare coincidence it is discovered that both of the litigating customers are deaf and, on this single issue, join forces to sue Apple under the ADA for providing thousands of hours of music to which they cannot listen. These litigations end up dividing enough of Apple's legal team that Psystar is able to win a narrow victory allowing it to produce Apple clones at a significant savings to consumers.
Since this coincides with the acknowledge of Microsoft that Windows 7 does in fact cause computers to literally, not figuratively, explode; the sudden upsurge of Windows refugees migrates to Psystar's cheaper alternative. This Golden opportunity lost, Apple tries to weather storm by moving the decimal on iTunes to the end of the 9 and hoping that no one notices.
Alas for them an astute slashdot reader notices and in a display of real time new rarely seen before, or even since, it hits the front page within minutes of being discovered. Within even their own fondest followers now disenchanted, Apple finally succumbs, and only Psystar is left to carry what is left of its iBanner.
And to think that all the millionth burger eater at McDonald's got was food poisoning.
Very much so. And, if its photocopies of photocopies, then you start running into other OCR issues as well. Like anything else it just a tool which is sometimes helpful, but has its limitations. Depending on the volume though I'd think it would be easy enough even in Access or the OO equivilant to create a coding template with the Binder number and tab (assuming it's already so organized) and then the author, title, date, publication, and key words.
I'm sure there's an undergrad somewhere who'd like a semester long "internship!"
OCR certainly requires work if you need it to be completely accurate. In practice, speaking as a paralegal who's overseen the OCR'ing of millions of pages, it's just not a reasonable expectation. If you can supplement it with coding, in this case keyword tags, date, author, publication and title would build a pretty strong database. If he's looking to do that already, then whatever OCR you get is gravy. Some is better than none.
You don't see Steve Jobs with sweaty underarms, do you?
That's why he always wears black: there's not enough contrast to see it;-) Apple certainly has a far better marketing department, and they've gone to great lengths to not only play up their image, but to tie their products to that image; but once you're beyond that they are every bit as deceptive and secretive as Microsoft. They've essentially convinced an entire class of consumers to think that they are "different" from everyone else when they really just aren't. The inferiority comes from reacting vehemently over any thing that is said along those lines, which is why, like my initial post, this will be modded down to -1 TROLL in no time.
Figure out which of the three you enjoy using the most and then specialize on that one. This is something you are going to be doing day in and day out, so do the one you'd most like to spend your time doing. There are jobs for all of them out there. As long as you like what you do, and that comes across, you'll be fine with any of them.
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That would certainly explain why the previous administration avoided it.
My wife and her High School friends use Facebook to stay in touch. Which seems to primarily revolve around sending drinks to each other. Transparency and reachability are certainly good, but, it does make you wonder how many people are going to send "buttery nipples" to the White House, and if that is actually a good thing or not.
suppose we'll have to wait and see what gets flagged as "inappropriate."
Two words: Ann Coulter.
Just imagine everyone's surprise when all the entrants turn in the exact same process.
Chorizoflu?
That's also assuming there are no miniature's involved! I've played Warhammer 40k with friends, but there's no way I can afford my own army anytime soon.
If WE didn't rely so much on imports and exports I would agree. But that is a far larger question, and pirates are but a small factor in that discussion.
You know, cops also are paid no matter where they are stationed, so why not put a trained cop in every car on the road?
I'm pretty sure if one freeway accoutns for most of the crime in their jurisdiction, the police will figure out a way to assign their forces there. There are only so many merchant vessels going around the East coast of Africa at any given time. I think the limitations probably have more to do with our forces being so heavily committed on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I guess I saw the long sex scene as excessive because it didn't really do anything to expand the story forward after the initial part of it. In other words, it could have conveyed just as much even if it was half or a third as long. I didn't think the violence was all that excessive, but I did think it somewhat blurred the lines of "super hero." They were costumed humans, not super-freaks of nature AFAIK, so in that regard some of the violence might have been considered from a suspension of belief point of view.
Agreed. My family hasn't read the GN and they were all dissappointed. I've read it, so I tracked things a bit better, but I still thought the pacing was too slow for a movie. In fact on the ride home we spent more time talking about Dragonball Z because of its movie poster than we did about Watchmen.
Umm, because slashdotters are smarter than Ballmer?
Individually or collectively?
I could be wrong, but I thought Larry Ellison was also very much a thin client fan. Maybe this will be the first step towards a return to centralization. You can sell it as offering greater security, increased in productivity since people won't be able to add their own software, and since the system is tweaked to the Oracle Uber-Server you can market the ability of everyone using shared real-time information.
"I saw *that* coming."
I remember reading either comments or journals about that here that Oracle would be a good fit for buying Sun. So how is that slashdotters, slashdotters FFS!, could see this coming but Balmer couldn't. He should either fire himself or start reading the frontpage. At -1.
A paralegal I worked with was sent to do a document review at a Client's industrial site. She was in a small, metal shack filled with boxes of old documents. While she was working away, half a dozen guys in full hazmat suits came in. They were as shocked to see her as she was to see them since the building was condemned and they were there to clean it out!
The billionth download will be for the iFart which, after their loss in court will invalidate the sale. Since Apple will have provided some, but not all of said, "Motherlode" when this occurs, a litigation will ensue between customer 1,000,000,000 and customer 1,000,000,001 after the iFart app was remotely deleted retroactively.
Pull-my-finger will join the fray as well, suing Apple for providing so much publicity for the now gone iFart and thereby disciminating against their valiant legal efforts. By bizzare coincidence it is discovered that both of the litigating customers are deaf and, on this single issue, join forces to sue Apple under the ADA for providing thousands of hours of music to which they cannot listen. These litigations end up dividing enough of Apple's legal team that Psystar is able to win a narrow victory allowing it to produce Apple clones at a significant savings to consumers.
Since this coincides with the acknowledge of Microsoft that Windows 7 does in fact cause computers to literally, not figuratively, explode; the sudden upsurge of Windows refugees migrates to Psystar's cheaper alternative. This Golden opportunity lost, Apple tries to weather storm by moving the decimal on iTunes to the end of the 9 and hoping that no one notices.
Alas for them an astute slashdot reader notices and in a display of real time new rarely seen before, or even since, it hits the front page within minutes of being discovered. Within even their own fondest followers now disenchanted, Apple finally succumbs, and only Psystar is left to carry what is left of its iBanner.
And to think that all the millionth burger eater at McDonald's got was food poisoning.
Too mcuh open, ungaurded land. All it takes is a cut sopmewhere along hundreds of miles of cable to wreak havoc.
Always wondered if Saddam knew about the movie before he died. It does make you wodner what he thought about his cultural status in the US;-)
Very much so. And, if its photocopies of photocopies, then you start running into other OCR issues as well. Like anything else it just a tool which is sometimes helpful, but has its limitations. Depending on the volume though I'd think it would be easy enough even in Access or the OO equivilant to create a coding template with the Binder number and tab (assuming it's already so organized) and then the author, title, date, publication, and key words.
I'm sure there's an undergrad somewhere who'd like a semester long "internship!"
OCR certainly requires work if you need it to be completely accurate. In practice, speaking as a paralegal who's overseen the OCR'ing of millions of pages, it's just not a reasonable expectation. If you can supplement it with coding, in this case keyword tags, date, author, publication and title would build a pretty strong database. If he's looking to do that already, then whatever OCR you get is gravy. Some is better than none.
You don't see Steve Jobs with sweaty underarms, do you?
That's why he always wears black: there's not enough contrast to see it;-) Apple certainly has a far better marketing department, and they've gone to great lengths to not only play up their image, but to tie their products to that image; but once you're beyond that they are every bit as deceptive and secretive as Microsoft. They've essentially convinced an entire class of consumers to think that they are "different" from everyone else when they really just aren't. The inferiority comes from reacting vehemently over any thing that is said along those lines, which is why, like my initial post, this will be modded down to -1 TROLL in no time.
Meh. Apple is basically just Microsoft with an inferiority complex.
Collect the reward.
Indeed. I thought the bigger story here is: Mississippi has traffic lights.
Figure out which of the three you enjoy using the most and then specialize on that one. This is something you are going to be doing day in and day out, so do the one you'd most like to spend your time doing. There are jobs for all of them out there. As long as you like what you do, and that comes across, you'll be fine with any of them.
When I say it aloud I say "satellite" as "sa-TUH-lite" which makes the meter match a bit better.