why is this the most important election of our lifetime(s)?
because the next president will appoint 3, possibly 4, supreme court justices. now, the court is pretty balanced with a good mix of conservative and liberal judges. the next president will have the power to either keep and disrupt the balance.
That was kind of my point - they were putting their own spin on the situation, claiming that they didn't try to steamroll Katie Jones. I thought it was interesting (and telling) they decided to include that.
According to the press release, no such demand was ever made: In addition, it was erroneously reported recently that Plume
had asked its attorney to attempt to buy the web site Katie.com from domain owner Katie
Jones. This is absolutely not true.
Well, considering they didn't air the pilot (which set up the story, explained the characters and the universe) until the end, and the people who watched the show were able to catch on pretty quickly, I think we'll be ok. Even though it will be a story accessible to people who haven't seen the show, I have complete confidence in Joss's ability to not underestimate his audience. He doesn't dumb stuff down or give people time to catch on - he dumps you in the middle and expects the audience to be smart enough to figure it out. You don't have to know what a story is going to be about at the beginning to enjoy it - it's what you learn by the end that matters.
Reviewers do their work for free, but editors and editors-in-chief are paid. And, even relatively small journals have a good size administrative staff (10-12 people) on hand to manage author submissions, distributing papers for peer review, subscriptions, and all sorts of other stuff. Software to manage papers is expensive because it's to specialized, and many journals still fed-ex papers around the world to get copies to reviewers. So, you're looking at running an entire business based off of subscription and author fees. So, the charges might sounds exhorbitant to you, but think how many subscriptions it takes to keep a dozen people on salary.
Also, the popular blogs are the aggregators (like/.) to which the article refers. If someone goes to the trouble of bringing together lots of different, interesting ideas, and presents them in a clear, clever way, they've succeeded in adding value to the ideas. So, why bother going to the source?
I would also recommend Katherine Neville's The Eight. It's a different subject matter (a mystical chess set once owned byb Charlemagne), but it combines history and fact and legend in a way that builds a really intriguing story.
True - I wasn't terribly surprised with the glaring errors, but I was hoping for better. And, yes, I saw plenty of errors in TDVC, but the story and the plot points were much richer and interesting, even though they were wrong.
Digital Fortress was a very fast read. Much like The Da Vinci Code, it's a well-paced, by-the-books thriller that fans of the genre will find entertaining. But, the technical mistakes are so glaringly bad, that I just spent most of the book being annoyed. I thought a book with cryptography as a plot point would be interesting and maybe even challenging, but there's nothing about cryptography anywhere. There's only a giant brute-force-and-ignorance hammer, no real problem solving. It really surprised me how off he was with some of the plot points and technical aspects since TDVC was so well researched. If you liked TDVC, skip DF
first, you need to get a french press. personally, i like the desk press (www.porterproducts.com/products.php) which is a french press/coffee mug-in-one. then, go to a good coffee roasting company (i.e. not starbucks) and pick something out. fyi, the lighter the roast, the more caffeine in the bean. get them to grind it for you and tell them it's for a french press. your coffee machine at work probably despenses hot water, so you're all set. better than drip, way better than instant, and you can make it right at your desk.
A couple of days ago, the following message showed up on Friendster:
We're working on it!
We wanted to let you know what we're working on here at Friendster. As many of you have pointed out, site performance for Friendster isn't exactly where any of us would like for it to be. Rest assured. Site performance is our number one priority.
The team here is also working on making changes to the system to meet the needs of our growing community, including new and improved features. We're not ready to show and tell yet. But we'll let you know as soon as we are.
In the meantime, you can help us by sending your suggestions for how to make things better at feedback@friendster.com.
According to Academy rules, to qualify for consideration a feature-length motion picture must have a running length of more than 40 minutes and have been exhibited theatrically on 35mm or 70mm film, or in a qualifying digital format. The films must open in a commercial theater, for paid admission, in Los Angeles County between January 1, 2003, and midnight December 31, 2003, and run for seven consecutive days. Since Big Fish opened in New York and LA on December 7, it's set for this year's Oscars.
I think it was completely Oscar-y. Unfortunately, I don't think the Oscars have room for more than one little, quirky movie, and Lost In Translation totally nailed it. Yes, In America is an independent film too, but it's more a look-at-the-human-condition type movie, and doesn't really fall into the same category. I'm definitely pulling for Big Fish in the adapted screenplay category, and I think it has a shot at that, mostly because the story itself is so good and compelling.
Even though this has been dubbed "the year of the female director," i don't think she'll get best director. Coppola will get Best Screenplay, and Best Director will either go to Peter Jackson or Clint Eastwood. As good as Lost in Translation is, its strength lies more in the script and in the performances.
Eric Idle: "Bring out your dead, bring out your dead."
EETimes: "here I have one for you"
Bluetooth: "I'm not dead yet!"
EETimes"You will be soon."
Bluetooth:"I think I am getting better"
EETimes"No you aren't"
Bluetooth:"I think I will take a walk"
Eric Idle: "Sir, I dont think we can take him in this condition."
The article is also mixing comic books and comic strips. Sure, stuff like Dilbert , User Friendly, The Boondocks, and Achewood work well on the web. They're short and easy to read. Most people who read comic books, however, relish the strip to the store, holding it in their hands, filling up the long white boxes...
"SCO is not the one that put its copyrighted System 5 source code into the GPL."
no, it's not "barely coherent." but, it is full of lawyer double-speak where he takes paragraphs to state the same sentence 8 different ways. plus, there's the comment about copying code into the GPL. heheh.
Well, the NYSE has tons of backup generators. A friend of mine just sent an email from the floor, and she reports that at least the AC and computers are working.
Guster's album Keep It Together was released on June 24. A couple of weeks before the release, songs from the album started popping up on Kazaa. It turns out one of the guys in the band and the sound engineer re-recorded versions of all of the songs, meowing on top of them, and then put them online. I guess they figured they could preempt anyone leaking the album by doing this, but they did it in a creative in funny way that a lot of the fans enjoyed. They're actually pretty funny and well done. Also, back in May they put up half of the album on their website anyway (streaming, no d/l) to give people a taste. I'm glad that there are musicians (even on a label - WB) that are willing to try to work with the system (instead of fighting it) in a way that can make them, the label, and the fans happy.
Not Computer Science, but the University Computing dept. Most will have recommendations for incoming students and information on connectivity issues. For example, my old school has such a page - http://computing.wlu.edu/students/guide/index.html. Also, you can often purchase computers through your school, with the major advantage being that the school provides tech support for free, and sometimes you can get a deal.
Other than that, I'd say no a palm and yes to a notebook.
"SCO's history of non-performance in the enterprise market is not only consistent from long before the beginning of IBM's involvement with Linux in 1999-2000, it predates the 1991 origin of Linux itself. SCO/Caldera's claim that IBM's behavior with regard to improving Linux's enterprise scalability did it harm should be evaluated in the light of the failure of both incarnations of SCO, over more than a decade before that, to even seriously attempt to be competitive in the enterprise market."
So, the most specific reference they've made to the infringed code - "very high-end enterprise-computing technologies" is one of the easiest to refute.
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why is this the most important election of our lifetime(s)?
because the next president will appoint 3, possibly 4, supreme court justices. now, the court is pretty balanced with a good mix of conservative and liberal judges. the next president will have the power to either keep and disrupt the balance.
That was kind of my point - they were putting their own spin on the situation, claiming that they didn't try to steamroll Katie Jones. I thought it was interesting (and telling) they decided to include that.
According to the press release, no such demand was ever made:
In addition, it was erroneously reported recently that Plume had asked its attorney to attempt to buy the web site Katie.com from domain owner Katie Jones. This is absolutely not true.
Well, considering they didn't air the pilot (which set up the story, explained the characters and the universe) until the end, and the people who watched the show were able to catch on pretty quickly, I think we'll be ok. Even though it will be a story accessible to people who haven't seen the show, I have complete confidence in Joss's ability to not underestimate his audience. He doesn't dumb stuff down or give people time to catch on - he dumps you in the middle and expects the audience to be smart enough to figure it out. You don't have to know what a story is going to be about at the beginning to enjoy it - it's what you learn by the end that matters.
Reviewers do their work for free, but editors and editors-in-chief are paid. And, even relatively small journals have a good size administrative staff (10-12 people) on hand to manage author submissions, distributing papers for peer review, subscriptions, and all sorts of other stuff. Software to manage papers is expensive because it's to specialized, and many journals still fed-ex papers around the world to get copies to reviewers. So, you're looking at running an entire business based off of subscription and author fees. So, the charges might sounds exhorbitant to you, but think how many subscriptions it takes to keep a dozen people on salary.
Also, the popular blogs are the aggregators (like /.) to which the article refers. If someone goes to the trouble of bringing together lots of different, interesting ideas, and presents them in a clear, clever way, they've succeeded in adding value to the ideas. So, why bother going to the source?
I would also recommend Katherine Neville's The Eight. It's a different subject matter (a mystical chess set once owned byb Charlemagne), but it combines history and fact and legend in a way that builds a really intriguing story.
True - I wasn't terribly surprised with the glaring errors, but I was hoping for better. And, yes, I saw plenty of errors in TDVC, but the story and the plot points were much richer and interesting, even though they were wrong.
Digital Fortress was a very fast read. Much like The Da Vinci Code, it's a well-paced, by-the-books thriller that fans of the genre will find entertaining. But, the technical mistakes are so glaringly bad, that I just spent most of the book being annoyed. I thought a book with cryptography as a plot point would be interesting and maybe even challenging, but there's nothing about cryptography anywhere. There's only a giant brute-force-and-ignorance hammer, no real problem solving. It really surprised me how off he was with some of the plot points and technical aspects since TDVC was so well researched. If you liked TDVC, skip DF
first, you need to get a french press. personally, i like the desk press (www.porterproducts.com/products.php) which is a french press/coffee mug-in-one. then, go to a good coffee roasting company (i.e. not starbucks) and pick something out. fyi, the lighter the roast, the more caffeine in the bean. get them to grind it for you and tell them it's for a french press. your coffee machine at work probably despenses hot water, so you're all set. better than drip, way better than instant, and you can make it right at your desk.
A couple of days ago, the following message showed up on Friendster:
We're working on it!
We wanted to let you know what we're working on here at Friendster. As many of you have pointed out, site performance for Friendster isn't exactly where any of us would like for it to be. Rest assured. Site performance is our number one priority.
The team here is also working on making changes to the system to meet the needs of our growing community, including new and improved features. We're not ready to show and tell yet. But we'll let you know as soon as we are.
In the meantime, you can help us by sending your suggestions for how to make things better at feedback@friendster.com.
yes, i'm in. shoot me an email and you can be too.
According to Academy rules, to qualify for consideration a feature-length motion picture must have a running length of more than 40 minutes and have been exhibited theatrically on 35mm or 70mm film, or in a qualifying digital format. The films must open in a commercial theater, for paid admission, in Los Angeles County between January 1, 2003, and midnight December 31, 2003, and run for seven consecutive days. Since Big Fish opened in New York and LA on December 7, it's set for this year's Oscars.
I think it was completely Oscar-y. Unfortunately, I don't think the Oscars have room for more than one little, quirky movie, and Lost In Translation totally nailed it. Yes, In America is an independent film too, but it's more a look-at-the-human-condition type movie, and doesn't really fall into the same category. I'm definitely pulling for Big Fish in the adapted screenplay category, and I think it has a shot at that, mostly because the story itself is so good and compelling.
Even though this has been dubbed "the year of the female director," i don't think she'll get best director. Coppola will get Best Screenplay, and Best Director will either go to Peter Jackson or Clint Eastwood. As good as Lost in Translation is, its strength lies more in the script and in the performances.
email me and i'll send you an invite.
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Eric Idle: "Bring out your dead, bring out your dead."
EETimes: "here I have one for you"
Bluetooth: "I'm not dead yet!"
EETimes"You will be soon."
Bluetooth:"I think I am getting better"
EETimes"No you aren't"
Bluetooth:"I think I will take a walk"
Eric Idle: "Sir, I dont think we can take him in this condition."
I think about a dozen episodes were made, though not all were aired. A DVD boxset of the complete series will be released on December 9.
The article is also mixing comic books and comic strips. Sure, stuff like Dilbert , User Friendly, The Boondocks, and Achewood work well on the web. They're short and easy to read. Most people who read comic books, however, relish the strip to the store, holding it in their hands, filling up the long white boxes...
"SCO is not the one that put its copyrighted System 5 source code into the GPL."
no, it's not "barely coherent." but, it is full of lawyer double-speak where he takes paragraphs to state the same sentence 8 different ways. plus, there's the comment about copying code into the GPL. heheh.
with the Sobig virus. all quarantined. mostly from faked microsoft.com addresses.
Well, the NYSE has tons of backup generators. A friend of mine just sent an email from the floor, and she reports that at least the AC and computers are working.
Guster's album Keep It Together was released on June 24. A couple of weeks before the release, songs from the album started popping up on Kazaa. It turns out one of the guys in the band and the sound engineer re-recorded versions of all of the songs, meowing on top of them, and then put them online. I guess they figured they could preempt anyone leaking the album by doing this, but they did it in a creative in funny way that a lot of the fans enjoyed. They're actually pretty funny and well done. Also, back in May they put up half of the album on their website anyway (streaming, no d/l) to give people a taste. I'm glad that there are musicians (even on a label - WB) that are willing to try to work with the system (instead of fighting it) in a way that can make them, the label, and the fans happy.
Not Computer Science, but the University Computing dept. Most will have recommendations for incoming students and information on connectivity issues. For example, my old school has such a page - http://computing.wlu.edu/students/guide/index.html . Also, you can often purchase computers through your school, with the major advantage being that the school provides tech support for free, and sometimes you can get a deal.
Other than that, I'd say no a palm and yes to a notebook.
from www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html:
"SCO's history of non-performance in the enterprise market is not only consistent from long before the beginning of IBM's involvement with Linux in 1999-2000, it predates the 1991 origin of Linux itself. SCO/Caldera's claim that IBM's behavior with regard to improving Linux's enterprise scalability did it harm should be evaluated in the light of the failure of both incarnations of SCO, over more than a decade before that, to even seriously attempt to be competitive in the enterprise market."
So, the most specific reference they've made to the infringed code - "very high-end enterprise-computing technologies" is one of the easiest to refute.