> 'An average person could go to the store, buy some of this, and then bring it home and install it themselves,'
This is really a selling feature? Anyone can go to amazon.com, buy any one of a number of solar panel kits, get it delivered to their home, and install it themselves, with the panels inclined correctly to maximize exposure to the sun (unlikely using existing windows, which have different design considerations) and get the full output of a solar panel, not just 20%, and never have to leave their home. (Speaking from personal experience.)
Mind you, it might be interesting to build a house designed to maximize the use of the technology, for instance, big skylights that are also solar panels. But a film for existing windows? There are better solutions.
Well, you know, objectively his criticisms have merit. I felt that a lot of things in the latest movie made even less sense than Star Trek usually does, and I agree with a lot of the issues he describes.
On the other hand, the movie was *fun*. There wasn't a single endless discussion of diplomacy, time-wasting team meeting, heavy-handed philosophical lectures, and all the other stuff we had come to expect from Rick Berman's Star Trek franchise. For all its flaws, the movie had the *feel* of the original series, when star trekkin' was more about adventure and action than it was about policy.
Mind you, too little sense and too much action makes for a different kind of dullness, and the movie came perilously close to that. I hope they tighten up the story the next time around, and I think I've already read that they're going to lose the brewery, excuse me, engine room for the second film.
I think what it comes down to for many of us is that we were willing to overlook flaws this time for the sheer enjoyment of the first Star Trek movie in years that didn't make us want to stick a gun in our mouth. Abrams won't get such a pass on the sequel.
I'm wondering where the money goes. I could use another optical drive right now. Or does Hitachi-LG just pay it and then raise prices to compensate? That would make the score something like Hitachi-LG 0, government 1, users -1.
I'm thinking we should show solidarity by buying a massive number of these posters and hanging them up in our living and working quarters. Just to piss off the easily offended. Because it's our duty to piss them off. And it's so cute to watch them run around wringing their hands.
Upgrading to Firefox 7, riding it hard, lots of tabs and lots of complex content (in other words, my usual usage), I observe that nominal memory usage has dropped from an outrageous 2.1 Gbytes to a more sedate 500 Mbytes (nominal) on Windows 7, but I still get frequent hangs, causing the firefox window to go white when I try to click on a link. If I wait long enough, it'll come back. Chrome is still much snappier under the same conditions. So although FF appears to have improved some, it's still significantly slower. Add-ons are Noscript, Divx Web Player and Image Zoom.
...and it's almost excusable in BG's case, because the writers didn't have enough story for a four season show, and were essentially winging it at the end of the second season. And pulling it directly out of their arse by the beginning of the fourth. But Game of Thrones is from an actual series of books. You'd think... you know, never mind. Again, life is too short.
Who's to say what is legitimate? My mother has several "helper" apps installed on her PC right now that are known malware. I told her about it, showed her articles, but she *likes* her cute little animated cursor or talking pig or whatever it is. What do you do?
Parenthetically, Microsoft isn't just doing this to Google -- other products are also or have been mangled by the tool. I don't see any compelling evidence that M$ acted maliciously. Except of course for the standard maliciousness of choosing to test against their own products, and, you know, not anyone else's.
...I kept waiting for them to do something besides talk and have doggy sex... I mean, there's nothing wrong with either of those pastimes in moderation. I guess I didn't know what I was getting into. I was expecting, I dunno, Swords. And Sorcery. And strong characters. Not dressing up As the World Turns in cosplay and exposing an occasional breast to try to appeal to the husbands.
I think this is a bad trend, first started in the Battlestar Galactica reboot. The idea that tension is achieved by a lot of frowning and verbal threats, that minutia is the same as character development, that plot direction and consistency doesn't matter as long as you keep them talking talking talking and present one unresolved minor threat after another, keeping viewers hoping against hope that somehow they will eventually be shown how it all ties together. As this seems more and more unlikely as time goes on. It sucks. It's not interesting. And more importantly, it's crappy writing. Any character can make a bad decision, but like the "coincidence rule", behaving like a moron is a characteristic best used sparingly, lest your audience stop caring.
> That doesn't seem like enough. What will you do when those two characters are killed brutally and unexpectedly?
Um, you cheer? Go outside, smell the flowers, talk to your children?
If I buy the expansion pack, can I choose *which* two characters are killed brutally and unexpectedly? That would go a long way towards keeping my interest in replays.
I hope the game is better than the TV series. I tried to follow that for awhile but finally gave up in disgust. An R rated soap opera, the only connection to sword and sorcery being that the characters do medieval cosplay while they go on and on about nothing in particular. Every character is an absolute dick with the possible exception of Sean Bean's character and the younger daughter. The rest desperately need to die violently and it's frustrating to see them still breathing at the end of the episode.
Life is too short for mediocre television, and it was that in spades. That doesn't mean A Song of Ice and Fire is bad, just that the implementation is General Hospital with leather jerkins and occasional nudity.
> By what standard? My phone has twice that and I never even use half of it.
By the standard that your phone has twice that.:-) So does mine, and I do use it. (Not all users are a like.) In any case, *I'm* looking for a slate to replace the laptop I lug around, not just another device to prove my alpha-geekness, and as such it needs to meet certain requirements. In rule-of-thumb terms, it doesn't need to have the storage of my laptop, but it needs to have more storage than my phone. Or at least, replaceable storage.
> Meanwhile some clueless user just switched back to IE.
If your browser stops working (for whatever reason) and you switch to a browser that *does* work, I wouldn't call that "clueless". I'd call that "getting your work done".
I might call it "lacking in administration skills" but (this is something admins really need to learn) users have their own work to do. It's not their job, nor should it be, to know the inner workings of the OS.
Pragmatically, if this was easy to do, most of us would be out of a job.:-) Let us not bite the hands that shove cash in our pockets.
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> or have you not noticed those ridiculously large buildings in major metropolitan areas that are covered in tempered glass?
So... are you volunteering to install it yourself? Can I tape it? Sounds like a youtube classic in the making.
Did you read my entire article before responding?
> 'An average person could go to the store, buy some of this, and then bring it home and install it themselves,'
This is really a selling feature? Anyone can go to amazon.com, buy any one of a number of solar panel kits, get it delivered to their home, and install it themselves, with the panels inclined correctly to maximize exposure to the sun (unlikely using existing windows, which have different design considerations) and get the full output of a solar panel, not just 20%, and never have to leave their home. (Speaking from personal experience.)
Mind you, it might be interesting to build a house designed to maximize the use of the technology, for instance, big skylights that are also solar panels. But a film for existing windows? There are better solutions.
You know, I'll give Abrams one film without a message. After all the heavy handedness of the past several years, it was refreshing.
Well, you know, objectively his criticisms have merit. I felt that a lot of things in the latest movie made even less sense than Star Trek usually does, and I agree with a lot of the issues he describes.
On the other hand, the movie was *fun*. There wasn't a single endless discussion of diplomacy, time-wasting team meeting, heavy-handed philosophical lectures, and all the other stuff we had come to expect from Rick Berman's Star Trek franchise. For all its flaws, the movie had the *feel* of the original series, when star trekkin' was more about adventure and action than it was about policy.
Mind you, too little sense and too much action makes for a different kind of dullness, and the movie came perilously close to that. I hope they tighten up the story the next time around, and I think I've already read that they're going to lose the brewery, excuse me, engine room for the second film.
I think what it comes down to for many of us is that we were willing to overlook flaws this time for the sheer enjoyment of the first Star Trek movie in years that didn't make us want to stick a gun in our mouth. Abrams won't get such a pass on the sequel.
So, I'm guessing you didn't like the movie?
> One word: Monorail!
Ok, ... monorail.... monorail... um, monorail... Ok I don't get it. I haven't been to Disneyland in years.
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Profit!
I'm wondering where the money goes. I could use another optical drive right now. Or does Hitachi-LG just pay it and then raise prices to compensate? That would make the score something like Hitachi-LG 0, government 1, users -1.
> "We've become so politically correct that we've become politically wrong"
That's my new favorite phrase for this week. And it's only Monday.
I'm thinking we should show solidarity by buying a massive number of these posters and hanging them up in our living and working quarters. Just to piss off the easily offended. Because it's our duty to piss them off. And it's so cute to watch them run around wringing their hands.
You know, it's not necessary to buy HBO just to be depressed. If I wanted to be depressed, I'd just stay at work.
Upgrading to Firefox 7, riding it hard, lots of tabs and lots of complex content (in other words, my usual usage), I observe that nominal memory usage has dropped from an outrageous 2.1 Gbytes to a more sedate 500 Mbytes (nominal) on Windows 7, but I still get frequent hangs, causing the firefox window to go white when I try to click on a link. If I wait long enough, it'll come back. Chrome is still much snappier under the same conditions. So although FF appears to have improved some, it's still significantly slower. Add-ons are Noscript, Divx Web Player and Image Zoom.
Look, I don't care what your mom says -- life is not a soap opera.
So, in that respect one could say it's like the game, without the do-overs...
That should have been, "minutia and endless repetition".
Who's to say what is legitimate? My mother has several "helper" apps installed on her PC right now that are known malware. I told her about it, showed her articles, but she *likes* her cute little animated cursor or talking pig or whatever it is. What do you do?
Parenthetically, Microsoft isn't just doing this to Google -- other products are also or have been mangled by the tool. I don't see any compelling evidence that M$ acted maliciously. Except of course for the standard maliciousness of choosing to test against their own products, and, you know, not anyone else's.
I think this is a bad trend, first started in the Battlestar Galactica reboot. The idea that tension is achieved by a lot of frowning and verbal threats, that minutia is the same as character development, that plot direction and consistency doesn't matter as long as you keep them talking talking talking and present one unresolved minor threat after another, keeping viewers hoping against hope that somehow they will eventually be shown how it all ties together. As this seems more and more unlikely as time goes on. It sucks. It's not interesting. And more importantly, it's crappy writing. Any character can make a bad decision, but like the "coincidence rule", behaving like a moron is a characteristic best used sparingly, lest your audience stop caring.
> That doesn't seem like enough. What will you do when those two characters are killed brutally and unexpectedly?
Um, you cheer? Go outside, smell the flowers, talk to your children?
If I buy the expansion pack, can I choose *which* two characters are killed brutally and unexpectedly? That would go a long way towards keeping my interest in replays.
Sorry, I didn't like the TV series.
I hope the game is better than the TV series. I tried to follow that for awhile but finally gave up in disgust. An R rated soap opera, the only connection to sword and sorcery being that the characters do medieval cosplay while they go on and on about nothing in particular. Every character is an absolute dick with the possible exception of Sean Bean's character and the younger daughter. The rest desperately need to die violently and it's frustrating to see them still breathing at the end of the episode.
Life is too short for mediocre television, and it was that in spades. That doesn't mean A Song of Ice and Fire is bad, just that the implementation is General Hospital with leather jerkins and occasional nudity.
Not that I'm opinionated or anything.
> 8GB is miserly?
> By what standard? My phone has twice that and I never even use half of it.
By the standard that your phone has twice that. :-) So does mine, and I do use it. (Not all users are a like.) In any case, *I'm* looking for a slate to replace the laptop I lug around, not just another device to prove my alpha-geekness, and as such it needs to meet certain requirements. In rule-of-thumb terms, it doesn't need to have the storage of my laptop, but it needs to have more storage than my phone. Or at least, replaceable storage.
> Meanwhile some clueless user just switched back to IE.
If your browser stops working (for whatever reason) and you switch to a browser that *does* work, I wouldn't call that "clueless". I'd call that "getting your work done".
I might call it "lacking in administration skills" but (this is something admins really need to learn) users have their own work to do. It's not their job, nor should it be, to know the inner workings of the OS.
Pragmatically, if this was easy to do, most of us would be out of a job. :-) Let us not bite the hands that shove cash in our pockets.
Yes, but it doesn't have an SD card slot and not much memory. Without the Amazon Cloud behind it, storage is a bit miserly. My phone has more.