Well. I was going to say that no, the situation described fixes both the size of the smaller circle and the larger circle, so you're silly.
And then I worked it out and got the same answer you did. So, uh, there you have it. (I get an inner circle of area 25*pi and an outer circle of area 50*pi.)
Yes, if you insist on reducing AD to a bare-bones description of the character types, and proudly ignore the unusual style, you'll conclude that it's just like any other sitcom. As I see it, though, the style -- which is fake documentary, not fake reality show -- allows the writers to use their narrator to operate at a stunning level of comedic efficiency; rather than spend 5 minutes establishing a misunderstanding in dialogue, the narrator can simply say "Michael thought that Lindsay meant X, but Lindsay was in fact referring to Y [insert ludicrous picture of pulled-out-writers'-ass past event]", and move on with the consequences of that. (And if anyone wants to wag a finger in my face and say "show, don't tell", in the manner of people who remember something they heard in a writing class, you can bite my shiny -- anyway.) In fact, if such a thing is possible, AD might be considered as a parody of a sitcom, in that I sometimes get the feeling that the writers are playing a joke on the audience, stopping occasionally to high-five each other after pulling a fast one on us.
"Obnoxious Boss" wasn't exactly a ripoff of "The Apprentice", but a parody/hoax, along the lines of "Joe Schmoe"; the name is a tipoff, as it alludes to "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance", another of the same genre from Fox.
Well, at this year's Infosecurity Europe, it was revealed that 92% of the 200 attendees surveyed would gladly trade enough information to steal their identities for a chance to win theater tickets.
It's 92% of a sample of 200 random Londoners, not 200 of the people who attended Infosecurity Europe.
You guys must be talking about the abridged editions; the unabridged audio edition is 15 CDs long. Amazon lists it as out of print, but that's why God made libraries.
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Tivo is better for consumers, more dumbed down than ReplayTV.
You've got an amazing amount of attitude packed into that one sentence. When you say scornfully it's better for "consumers"...well, who else is there to care about besides people who buy the machine? If you replace "consumers" with "users", which is the same set of people, it doesn't sound nearly so superior. And what, exactly, do you mean by "dumbed down"? It sounds overall like you're saying that ReplayTV is harder to use, and that's good.
Since this is appropriate thread for it: the company name is Procter and Gamble, not Proctor. This is surprising to people who know how to spell the word "proctor".
If the customers don't understand that the little cartoony "My Computer" actually represents their frickin' computer - the real problem is that they skew towards the left-hand side of the Bell Curve.
No. Allow me to suggest that you're so familiar with this convention that you've blocked out the fact that it makes no sense. My computer is an object that sits on my desk. Why does it have, within it, something else that's called "My Computer"? And why is "My Computer" also contained inside my desktop, when in fact the desktop is in fact part of the computer?
Tell me why you cried And why you lied to me Tell me why you cried And why you lied to me
Well I gave you everything I had But you left me sitting on my own Did you have to treat me oh so bad All I do is hang my head and moan
("Tell Me Why", Lennon/McCartney)
Seriously -- you've just rediscovered the anti-rock-and-roll routine of, I think, Steve Allen, in the 1950s. Of course pop music sounds dumb if you just write the words down! It was a silly point 50 years ago and it's still silly.
I'm actually rather excited to see what happens next. Maybe some kind of pay-per-show setup? We've already got that for movies, they'd just need to revamp the infrastructure and pricing a bit for normal shows, and LOSE THE COMMERCIALS. Maybe they'll produce shows straight to DVD? That would also be great, if priced reasonably.
And then the P2P fans will begin the chant: "Their business model is obsolete! Their business model is obsolete!"
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Another annoyance hit me, though I don't know what Tivo could have done about it: a show renamed. "Scientific American Frontiers with Alan Alda" got renamed to "Alan Alda's Scientific American Frontiers" (or something like that). I noticed I hadn't seen the show in many months, and one day I got curious and looked at the schedule to see what was running in its timeslot and.. argh, the same show (but Tivo doesn't magically know it's the same show). I don't have any idea how many eps I missed.
Actually, that's supposed to work, in that the series has a numeric "show id" which can remain the same even if the show is renamed. Obviously in this case somebody didn't do the right thing.
Unless you're reporting news in a time when the Federal government is controlled by Republicans, and you're trying to correctly describe the political positions of those Republicans, in which case "conservative" is going to be perfectly appropriate.
I'm having trouble seeing why slashdotters are having difficulty with the concept of "random". I don't tell them "Go into the voting booth and pull the lever you most feel like". It's got to be random -- the flip of a coin or the roll of a die. And yes, we spend some time on what that means and why it's important. (I teach physics and random processes are significant enough that I can justify to myself this digression.)
I, at least, understand the concept. I just don't believe that you can take someone who would not have otherwise voted, either because they're uninterested or lazy, and make them just barely interested and unlazy enough to act -- correctly -- on your random vote scheme.
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Exactly. Note that you have to go 2 links deep to figure this out, since GameSpot made the original error.
You think you're kidding. Accuweather, which derives its forecasts from raw data supplied to it by the National Weather Service, is pushing to stop the NWS from supplying its data to anyone who asks for free, as they do now.
Well. I was going to say that no, the situation described fixes both the size of the smaller circle and the larger circle, so you're silly.
And then I worked it out and got the same answer you did. So, uh, there you have it. (I get an inner circle of area 25*pi and an outer circle of area 50*pi.)
And have you seen the stuff "Uncle" Martin wears in the third season, which is in eye-popping 1960's TV color? That is one gay Martian.
What you're suggesting is like stating "How can we fix sharp objects so that people won't stab themselves with them?"
And yet, the safety razor was invented, and hugely alleviates the problem of slicing one's own face while shaving.
Just because you can't think of a solution doesn't mean the problem is stupid.
Yes, if you insist on reducing AD to a bare-bones description of the character types, and proudly ignore the unusual style, you'll conclude that it's just like any other sitcom. As I see it, though, the style -- which is fake documentary, not fake reality show -- allows the writers to use their narrator to operate at a stunning level of comedic efficiency; rather than spend 5 minutes establishing a misunderstanding in dialogue, the narrator can simply say "Michael thought that Lindsay meant X, but Lindsay was in fact referring to Y [insert ludicrous picture of pulled-out-writers'-ass past event]", and move on with the consequences of that. (And if anyone wants to wag a finger in my face and say "show, don't tell", in the manner of people who remember something they heard in a writing class, you can bite my shiny -- anyway.) In fact, if such a thing is possible, AD might be considered as a parody of a sitcom, in that I sometimes get the feeling that the writers are playing a joke on the audience, stopping occasionally to high-five each other after pulling a fast one on us.
But if you don't like it, you don't like it.
"Obnoxious Boss" wasn't exactly a ripoff of "The Apprentice", but a parody/hoax, along the lines of "Joe Schmoe"; the name is a tipoff, as it alludes to "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance", another of the same genre from Fox.
Well, at this year's Infosecurity Europe, it was revealed that 92% of the 200 attendees surveyed would gladly trade enough information to steal their identities for a chance to win theater tickets.
It's 92% of a sample of 200 random Londoners, not 200 of the people who attended Infosecurity Europe.
You guys must be talking about the abridged editions; the unabridged audio edition is 15 CDs long. Amazon lists it as out of print, but that's why God made libraries.
And, inevitably:
"Blah, blah, blah, Ginger."
No, the TV movie of Dr. Strange used that title. Never heard of the other one, though -- interesting.
Tivo is better for consumers, more dumbed down than ReplayTV.
You've got an amazing amount of attitude packed into that one sentence. When you say scornfully it's better for "consumers"...well, who else is there to care about besides people who buy the machine? If you replace "consumers" with "users", which is the same set of people, it doesn't sound nearly so superior. And what, exactly, do you mean by "dumbed down"? It sounds overall like you're saying that ReplayTV is harder to use, and that's good.
Urban legend articles often have names attached, which proves nothing.
But in this case, there's video of the woman and 3 kids and pictures of the 4 robbers, so I'm going to go with "true".
Since this is appropriate thread for it: the company name is Procter and Gamble, not Proctor. This is surprising to people who know how to spell the word "proctor".
Robots of Dawn, the third Bailey/Olivaw book, is early 1980s, but The Naked Sun, which first explores Solaria in detail, is from the 1950s.
It's Schwarzen egger; which is "blackened [as by the sun] plowman".
If the customers don't understand that the little cartoony "My Computer" actually represents their frickin' computer - the real problem is that they skew towards the left-hand side of the Bell Curve.
No. Allow me to suggest that you're so familiar with this convention that you've blocked out the fact that it makes no sense. My computer is an object that sits on my desk. Why does it have, within it, something else that's called "My Computer"? And why is "My Computer" also contained inside my desktop, when in fact the desktop is in fact part of the computer?
And so...business is starting to tell buyers "Your business model is obsolete because of technology, and there's nothing you can do about it!"
Hey file sharers, how's that shoe when it's on the other foot?
Also, the plural of Nazi is Nazis, not Nazi's.
Tell me why you cried
And why you lied to me
Tell me why you cried
And why you lied to me
Well I gave you everything I had
But you left me sitting on my own
Did you have to treat me oh so bad
All I do is hang my head and moan
("Tell Me Why", Lennon/McCartney)
Seriously -- you've just rediscovered the anti-rock-and-roll routine of, I think, Steve Allen, in the 1950s. Of course pop music sounds dumb if you just write the words down! It was a silly point 50 years ago and it's still silly.
I'm actually rather excited to see what happens next. Maybe some kind of pay-per-show setup? We've already got that for movies, they'd just need to revamp the infrastructure and pricing a bit for normal shows, and LOSE THE COMMERCIALS. Maybe they'll produce shows straight to DVD? That would also be great, if priced reasonably.
And then the P2P fans will begin the chant: "Their business model is obsolete! Their business model is obsolete!"
Another annoyance hit me, though I don't know what Tivo could have done about it: a show renamed. "Scientific American Frontiers with Alan Alda" got renamed to "Alan Alda's Scientific American Frontiers" (or something like that). I noticed I hadn't seen the show in many months, and one day I got curious and looked at the schedule to see what was running in its timeslot and.. argh, the same show (but Tivo doesn't magically know it's the same show). I don't have any idea how many eps I missed.
Actually, that's supposed to work, in that the series has a numeric "show id" which can remain the same even if the show is renamed. Obviously in this case somebody didn't do the right thing.
Unless you're reporting news in a time when the Federal government is controlled by Republicans, and you're trying to correctly describe the political positions of those Republicans, in which case "conservative" is going to be perfectly appropriate.
One I haven't seen mentioned yet:
Inevitable Illusions : How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds
by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
I'm having trouble seeing why slashdotters are having difficulty with the concept of "random". I don't tell them "Go into the voting booth and pull the lever you most feel like". It's got to be random -- the flip of a coin or the roll of a die. And yes, we spend some time on what that means and why it's important. (I teach physics and random processes are significant enough that I can justify to myself this digression.)
I, at least, understand the concept. I just don't believe that you can take someone who would not have otherwise voted, either because they're uninterested or lazy, and make them just barely interested and unlazy enough to act -- correctly -- on your random vote scheme.