Been doing it for six years myself. Every time I'm over at a friend's house and they've got the TV on I'm reminded why I stopped watching. I have however bought the first season of MASH on DVD. With no commercials and the ability to turn off the laugh track it's worth every penny.
Clearly the stuff in the National Enquirer is the more trustworthy, because we know that everything said is grotesquely biased, absurdly sensationalistic, and of consistently low newsworthyness. With the WSJ, we can only hope that stories are unbiased, accurate, complete, and that there isn't a retraction printed in the next week or so. However, the WSJ has much greater credibility.
I've found that some of my best teachers -- in any subject, at any level -- have been those with learning disablities. They've had to find such a number of different ways to explain something to themselves that they're better prepaired to explain it to others. The people who got it on the first try never had to spend time finding another way around the problem. This is why people who are geniuses in their fields often make such horrible teachers.
So it's "those who have had to do more, should teach."
That's "suspension of disbelief." It's where you hold the disbelieving parties over the molten metal pit that the armless Terminator dropped into at the end of the last movie until they accept that Heytheyywould is going to make another unnecessary sequal.
I'd hazard a guess that "suspense of disbelief" would be something like From Hell where through out the movie you have the nagging feeling that you're not going to believe the ending.
Many manufacturers publish mean time before failure (MTBF) specs on thier hardware. Try a google search on MTBF and whatever piece of hardware you're looking for if the data isn't available on the manufacturer's web site.
"He added that Intel is aiming to have 25 times more transistors in processors than in current ones, running at 10 times the speed, yet with no increase in power."
I hope he meant "no increase in power consumption."
It's not a silly question. The vast majority of the United States reads popular fiction/non-fiction. Stephen King, Anne Rice, Tom Clancy, Robert Jordan. Biographies of today's "heros": Princess Diana, Oprah, Monica Lewinski.
Fifty years from now, most of us will be reading their decendents and I couldn't guess who they will be.
In classrooms we'll be reading "literature." Those we consider "great" now and those we'll come to believe were great. We'll keep reading people like Shakespear, Dickens, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Joyce. Literary immortals. And we'll tack on whomever we please.
Specialty genres rarely make the cut. From Romance to Travel to Science Fiction to How To books; fifty year old specimens of these are more often considered novelties than anything of merit.
My guesses for the next to join the immortals:
Kahlil Gibran
Ayn Rand
John Updike
Anne Frank (is she still alive?)
And about a thousand more I want to be on this list.
This isn't just a "who's your favorite writer" question. It's also a "whose books would you bring with you to a desert island" question. Who could you stand to read again and again, and get something new out of them with each read? Who of a genre could you recommend to a buddy who hates that genre? Who makes you love reading, not just reading them? And who would inspire you to write?
I was thinking "hey, why use Word 2K when we've got StarOffice" but then I tried looking up moron, retard, idiot, fool, etc in my copy of 6.0Beta. The results were incredibly familiar.
Nifty bit here about Canada's problems with video surveillance and their privacy laws. In short, they can monitor around the clock but only record "suspicious activity." I don't know how the face recognition technolgy would affect this. Any thoughts?
Big Evil Organization (tm) finds that Hacker Type Guy (tm) -- who got caught so we'll assume he weren't none too bright -- has comprimised site security. So, instead of giving him the whack on his ass that he deserves and fixing the problem they're gonna trump up obscene damages and demand equally obscene restitution. They intend to make this Hacker Type Guy (tm) another test case and set another prescedent. The Big Evil Organization will use this opportunity to scare off any potential Hacker Type Guys (tm) that might do something really nasty. Heh. Maybe they're gonna make the poor sap who discovered the "hole" pay for fixing it.
Feh. Does it look like I care if I'm being redundant? Or off topic?
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Been doing it for six years myself. Every time I'm over at a friend's house and they've got the TV on I'm reminded why I stopped watching. I have however bought the first season of MASH on DVD. With no commercials and the ability to turn off the laugh track it's worth every penny.
Clearly the stuff in the National Enquirer is the more trustworthy, because we know that everything said is grotesquely biased, absurdly sensationalistic, and of consistently low newsworthyness. With the WSJ, we can only hope that stories are unbiased, accurate, complete, and that there isn't a retraction printed in the next week or so. However, the WSJ has much greater credibility.
Nonsense. Maybe those emacs nutbars can be thought of as cult members, but those of us who use vi are simply intelligent, rational decision makers.
I want you to pull out a dictionary and look up "accept".
See that definition? Good. Remember it.
The word you were looking for is "except". No -ing either.
Tell me, do you program your computer in binary?
I've found that some of my best teachers -- in any subject, at any level -- have been those with learning disablities. They've had to find such a number of different ways to explain something to themselves that they're better prepaired to explain it to others. The people who got it on the first try never had to spend time finding another way around the problem. This is why people who are geniuses in their fields often make such horrible teachers.
So it's "those who have had to do more, should teach."
What's CCXML in base 10?
That's "suspension of disbelief." It's where you hold the disbelieving parties over the molten metal pit that the armless Terminator dropped into at the end of the last movie until they accept that Heytheyywould is going to make another unnecessary sequal.
I'd hazard a guess that "suspense of disbelief" would be something like From Hell where through out the movie you have the nagging feeling that you're not going to believe the ending.
what exactly is porn?
.xxx TLD would be used -- i.e. worldwide.
In fact, it makes it even more difficult because we need a definition that is acceptable everywhere the
we simply call it "happy time"
That's "happy hour," bub.
From 3p to 11p down at the local Golden Nugget.
Many manufacturers publish mean time before failure (MTBF) specs on thier hardware. Try a google search on MTBF and whatever piece of hardware you're looking for if the data isn't available on the manufacturer's web site.
"or is this going to be like the Cyrix chips that supposedly ran like their advertised clock speed, just no at their advertised clock speed"
You mean like AMD's whatever+ XP/MP chips?
"He added that Intel is aiming to have 25 times more transistors in processors than in current ones, running at 10 times the speed, yet with no increase in power."
I hope he meant "no increase in power consumption."
It's not a silly question. The vast majority of the United States reads popular fiction/non-fiction. Stephen King, Anne Rice, Tom Clancy, Robert Jordan. Biographies of today's "heros": Princess Diana, Oprah, Monica Lewinski.
Fifty years from now, most of us will be reading their decendents and I couldn't guess who they will be.
In classrooms we'll be reading "literature." Those we consider "great" now and those we'll come to believe were great. We'll keep reading people like Shakespear, Dickens, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Joyce. Literary immortals. And we'll tack on whomever we please.
Specialty genres rarely make the cut. From Romance to Travel to Science Fiction to How To books; fifty year old specimens of these are more often considered novelties than anything of merit.
My guesses for the next to join the immortals:
Kahlil Gibran
Ayn Rand
John Updike
Anne Frank (is she still alive?)
And about a thousand more I want to be on this list.
This isn't just a "who's your favorite writer" question. It's also a "whose books would you bring with you to a desert island" question. Who could you stand to read again and again, and get something new out of them with each read? Who of a genre could you recommend to a buddy who hates that genre? Who makes you love reading, not just reading them? And who would inspire you to write?
I seem to have drifted from my Subject:.
I was thinking "hey, why use Word 2K when we've got StarOffice" but then I tried looking up moron, retard, idiot, fool, etc in my copy of 6.0Beta. The results were incredibly familiar.
Nifty bit here about Canada's problems with video surveillance and their privacy laws. In short, they can monitor around the clock but only record "suspicious activity." I don't know how the face recognition technolgy would affect this. Any thoughts?
It's a dual fuel engine. The sucker runs on hydrogen and petrol. Do you even bother to read the bits you quote?
I had to look twice to see that Taco had corrupted Hemos.
Feh. Does it look like I care if I'm being redundant? Or off topic?
I don't see why anyone would be happy about a flood.
Well, if anyone's really interested. There's a copy of an uncorrected proof for sale on e-bay. It was at $51 when I last looked. The link is here
Goddamn, the film looks sweet.
Ick. AOL is helping to perpetuate MS's monopoly. Want to boycot.
Don't know if I can, the film is too smooth.
ahem
NEATO -- Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Observatory
Disclaimer: Is joke. Very Funny. You laugh now.
Mmmm. No flat tires playing in the woods. Yay.