A 0-0 tie is many things, but thrilling is not one of them. At least not to me. The fact that a ref can wave off a goal without even being required to say what the penalty is, is also quite staggering. If not for the shot clock, then basketball would probably be more like soccer. (At least it was back in the day which why they instituted it.)
I grew up watching football, but played soccer for several years. Football was exciting, interesting, and engaging. I played soccer because it was what parents signed their kids up to do, and once my parents realized I wasn't into it, I stopped playing. It's just boring. Passing the ball back and forth over the same middle of the field is not particularly engaging, nor is it "chess on grass." If you want chess on grass, than you should be watching football, not soccer. Soccer is more like checkers on grass.
Having said that, its clear that there are nuances in soccer that you appreciate which I just don't. I know I pick up nuances in baseball that are lost to many average fans. Even so, I have tried to watch soccer and appreciate the nuances, and it's just not enough. It's very difficult to go backwards in terms of sophistication, or perhaps complexity would be a better word; and having learned as much about those things in football, it is difficult to find the same pleasure in soemthing so much more simplistic.
Between Football, Basketball, Hockey, and Baseball, Baseball is definitely the slowest. However, there is a crescendo of sorts with every pitch. The focus increases, players ready themselves, and so on. Same with Football. There's a sense of tension before every play. (Same I noticed in catching a Rugby the other day.) Basketball doesn't have quite the tension, but there's enough back and forth and a shot clock that the action is always happening. Same with Hockey. Hockey has the same low scores as Soccer, but the back and forth is faster and with where more physicality it's more intense. Soccer just doesn't have that. It just doesn't. I have honestly tried to wath during each of the last 3 World Cups, and it's just lacking the tension and rhythm of the others.
My point (Love that I earned a -1 Flamebait for it!) is that the steadiness of the vuvuzela proves Soccer's dullness. If it was more engaging and interesting, you wouldn't notice it. Just like you're more likely to be distracted whilst trying to read a dry, dull text book than reading some good Heinlein or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I wonder if people would hate on vuvuzelas less if Soccer was actually interesting to watch? It seems like the final proof that soccer really is more boring. In Basketball, Baseball, Football, and Hockey there is a rhythm to the cheering, varying with the action on the field. An hour and a half or more of droning, monotone cheering seems indicative that nothing happening on the field is worth changing the tempo.
only "a large truck going by" if you're not really that close to the epicenter...
Or it could just be that we've been through larger ones. Once you've been through 6 and above earthquakes, you really just don't notice the 5's anymore.
the guy that wrote Sunshine (which was a modern day masterpiece) is certainly a good choice.
Compared to what? The Island? The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still was far better. Sunshine relied on far to many cliches. Perhaps what made it so dissappointing is that you could see the areas in which a much better film could've been made, but instead went the Hollywood route. This does not, frankly, bode well.
About 10% of the text has been incorrectly converted and the formatting hasn't been preserved.
What did you expect? I've been in the legal field for 10 years and have seen OCR progress substantially during that time. However, 10% error rate is still very common with scanned docs and unless you are looking at the original image, all the formatting is lost. This is with the best OCR engines in the industry!
Maybe you should actually know something about the particular field before you judge?
I sometimes wonder why Apple hasn't moved away from it's exclusive relationship with AT&T. I do wonder how Apple would spin if it were opened to other carriers and they all experienced the drop call issue?
AFAIK, the easy part is generating the smell. The difficult part is how to move from one smell to another. Once the speakers stop, the sounds waves stop propogating almost immediately. But a smell will still be lingering. I believe they tried this with some movie houses back in the 50's (billed as Smell-O-Vision probably:-) and they just couldn't get one smell out of the theatre in time for the next one.
I'm also pretty sure I don't want to think about how some web sites would actually use such technology for generating a profit.
Apple invests heavily in marketing. The focus of their marketing is that they are a different company, and they target leftish artist, hipster types. They don't portray themselves as being far different from other companies interested only in the bottom dollar. We aren't surprised when a large company like Dell does business with a large factory in China that is plagued by suicides. We are surprised, not the/. crowd but consumers and their target base in general, that Apple is there, too. That's what makes the difference.
If Tiger Woods had portrayed himself and marketed himself as the "Bad Boy, Rockstar" of golf, the press related to his affairs would have been different. Because he had branded himself as the good, loving husband and a stand-up role model for children, the press latched onto it more because fo the hypocrisy.
The guy across the hall from in the dorm had an A500 that he was always toying with. He set me up with a copy of Deluxe Paint that he walked me through using. From then on most of my papers had a drawing on their title page, too.:-) Memories indeed!
I had an Amiga A1200 in college. It would send the fonts as images, so I got deskjet quality out of my uber-cheap dot-matrix. Of course it only printed a page a minute, so I would start it printing and finish getting ready for class. By the time I was done, it was, too:-)
Nah. The Angels just mis-intrepeted the cocktail napkin with God's first specs on it. Then they had to go back and create the same design with hardware instead of software.
I can't wait for the day when a nomination for the supreme court gets rejected because of his 13 year old rants about how "Xboxes are totally for fags and noobdy likes Xbxes but fanboys"
Or because of 14 year old self's Xbox Live login name...
"I see here you used to go by the alias, 'p00nhunter.' Now, can you please tell this committee what exactly a p00n is? And why you were hunting them?"
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A 0-0 tie is many things, but thrilling is not one of them. At least not to me. The fact that a ref can wave off a goal without even being required to say what the penalty is, is also quite staggering. If not for the shot clock, then basketball would probably be more like soccer. (At least it was back in the day which why they instituted it.)
I grew up watching football, but played soccer for several years. Football was exciting, interesting, and engaging. I played soccer because it was what parents signed their kids up to do, and once my parents realized I wasn't into it, I stopped playing. It's just boring. Passing the ball back and forth over the same middle of the field is not particularly engaging, nor is it "chess on grass." If you want chess on grass, than you should be watching football, not soccer. Soccer is more like checkers on grass.
Having said that, its clear that there are nuances in soccer that you appreciate which I just don't. I know I pick up nuances in baseball that are lost to many average fans. Even so, I have tried to watch soccer and appreciate the nuances, and it's just not enough. It's very difficult to go backwards in terms of sophistication, or perhaps complexity would be a better word; and having learned as much about those things in football, it is difficult to find the same pleasure in soemthing so much more simplistic.
Hmmmmmmmmm Bratwurst!
Between Football, Basketball, Hockey, and Baseball, Baseball is definitely the slowest. However, there is a crescendo of sorts with every pitch. The focus increases, players ready themselves, and so on. Same with Football. There's a sense of tension before every play. (Same I noticed in catching a Rugby the other day.) Basketball doesn't have quite the tension, but there's enough back and forth and a shot clock that the action is always happening. Same with Hockey. Hockey has the same low scores as Soccer, but the back and forth is faster and with where more physicality it's more intense. Soccer just doesn't have that. It just doesn't. I have honestly tried to wath during each of the last 3 World Cups, and it's just lacking the tension and rhythm of the others.
My point (Love that I earned a -1 Flamebait for it!) is that the steadiness of the vuvuzela proves Soccer's dullness. If it was more engaging and interesting, you wouldn't notice it. Just like you're more likely to be distracted whilst trying to read a dry, dull text book than reading some good Heinlein or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I wonder if people would hate on vuvuzelas less if Soccer was actually interesting to watch? It seems like the final proof that soccer really is more boring. In Basketball, Baseball, Football, and Hockey there is a rhythm to the cheering, varying with the action on the field. An hour and a half or more of droning, monotone cheering seems indicative that nothing happening on the field is worth changing the tempo.
only "a large truck going by" if you're not really that close to the epicenter...
Or it could just be that we've been through larger ones. Once you've been through 6 and above earthquakes, you really just don't notice the 5's anymore.
Actually, I'm kinda looking forward to: A-Team versus Starsky & Hutch in Hazard County: Jumping the Black Pearl
the guy that wrote Sunshine (which was a modern day masterpiece) is certainly a good choice.
Compared to what? The Island? The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still was far better. Sunshine relied on far to many cliches. Perhaps what made it so dissappointing is that you could see the areas in which a much better film could've been made, but instead went the Hollywood route. This does not, frankly, bode well.
About 10% of the text has been incorrectly converted and the formatting hasn't been preserved.
What did you expect? I've been in the legal field for 10 years and have seen OCR progress substantially during that time. However, 10% error rate is still very common with scanned docs and unless you are looking at the original image, all the formatting is lost. This is with the best OCR engines in the industry!
Maybe you should actually know something about the particular field before you judge?
Call me when it works on Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh.
But I thought this was the year that the PS3 caught up and pushed the Wii into irrelevance? I guess not yet...
They're obviously just trying to get into the Texas school book market.
I sometimes wonder why Apple hasn't moved away from it's exclusive relationship with AT&T. I do wonder how Apple would spin if it were opened to other carriers and they all experienced the drop call issue?
AFAIK, the easy part is generating the smell. The difficult part is how to move from one smell to another. Once the speakers stop, the sounds waves stop propogating almost immediately. But a smell will still be lingering. I believe they tried this with some movie houses back in the 50's (billed as Smell-O-Vision probably:-) and they just couldn't get one smell out of the theatre in time for the next one.
I'm also pretty sure I don't want to think about how some web sites would actually use such technology for generating a profit.
Then I realized that they had not, in fact, made a misteak.
Apple invests heavily in marketing. The focus of their marketing is that they are a different company, and they target leftish artist, hipster types. They don't portray themselves as being far different from other companies interested only in the bottom dollar. We aren't surprised when a large company like Dell does business with a large factory in China that is plagued by suicides. We are surprised, not the /. crowd but consumers and their target base in general, that Apple is there, too. That's what makes the difference.
If Tiger Woods had portrayed himself and marketed himself as the "Bad Boy, Rockstar" of golf, the press related to his affairs would have been different. Because he had branded himself as the good, loving husband and a stand-up role model for children, the press latched onto it more because fo the hypocrisy.
Same with Apple.
But what if the artist was the first Picasso?
Then it was probably a self-portait.
The guy across the hall from in the dorm had an A500 that he was always toying with. He set me up with a copy of Deluxe Paint that he walked me through using. From then on most of my papers had a drawing on their title page, too. :-) Memories indeed!
Cold. Fusion.
I had an Amiga A1200 in college. It would send the fonts as images, so I got deskjet quality out of my uber-cheap dot-matrix. Of course it only printed a page a minute, so I would start it printing and finish getting ready for class. By the time I was done, it was, too :-)
Good times!
Nah. The Angels just mis-intrepeted the cocktail napkin with God's first specs on it. Then they had to go back and create the same design with hardware instead of software.
Me and all the fruit bats, apparently!
And yet you only ever seem to hear about bats leaving there...
I can't wait for the day when a nomination for the supreme court gets rejected because of his 13 year old rants about how "Xboxes are totally for fags and noobdy likes Xbxes but fanboys"
Or because of 14 year old self's Xbox Live login name...
"I see here you used to go by the alias, 'p00nhunter.' Now, can you please tell this committee what exactly a p00n is? And why you were hunting them?"
Yep. They make life incredibly difficult on game store owners also. GW is basically the Apple of the tabletop gaming world.
This argument fails because Apple makes barely any profit on the App market itself.
Much in the same way that all the Spiderman movies, LoTR movies, and Avatar didn't make a profit either, right?
Well played!
You have my sympathies for having to research tax Law. I did a year stint doing Bankruptcy work and it was just awful.
Good luck with getting more of the work you want and, for all the grief I gave you, I'm pretty sure you're good at it.