But i would rather have a series with good plot, good arc, and good storie, than a mini series. Just because i get more with a series.
Completely correct. I don't want four more episodes, I want four more years. I'm glad Farscape will get the chance to finish the show, but in many ways, I'm sad too. Without an actual end, it is possible to imagine how things would play out. But once they write the ending, it really will be over. How many years before the next truly excellent Sci-fi? And when it comes it, what are the chances it will be allowed to thrive? I guess I just have mixed feelings about the miniseries concept.
That's a good deal. I have comcast internet service without cable TV service. And of course, there is zero competition in my area (unless you consider sattelite to be competition).
Prohibition was a failure because when something most people want is outlawed, most people become outlaws. And because legit businesses can't supply illegal products, prohibitions will always give a boost to illegitimate business enterprises no matter how strong the economy is.
Laws do eventually bend to the will of the people if those laws visibly impact day to day life in a manner most people see as negative. The frightening laws are the ones that are draconian, but not so draconian that they get elimintated.
I'm not disagreeing with you that the OJ thing was a fiasco. However, courts don't find people "innocent". In the last few years, it seems that news organizations have been using the "pleaded innocent" phrase over and over. Even NPR. Nobody pleads innocent, they plead "not guilty". In terms of a verdict, the jury gets to chose "guilty" or "not guilty". A not guilty verdict simply means that the state failed to prove that defendant was guilty. It does not mean that the person is innocent, just that guilt was not proven, i.e., "not guilty".
I know news organizations think people are too stupid to understand the phrase "not guilty". I don't think that's the case though. If you describe the quality of a restaraunt using words such as
bad - not bad - good
People will easily understand that "not bad" doesn't mean the place is great. It just means it doesn't suck. "Guilty - not guilty - innocent" works the same way.
Having said that, I believe both OO and MS Office have features that are used by so few that not havign them wouldn't hurt either.
About 1993 or 94, I picked up "Lotus Write". It was $50 and had everything I needed... and a bit I didn't (e.g., putting graphics in boxes in the text etc.). It formatted documents great w/ all the basics: columns, margins, footnotes, bold/italic/underline, center, left, justified etc. etc. What it really had that was great, and better than Office or OO.o even, was a really easy outlining feature - great for taking notes in class. You could pop into any level with the F keys (tab shift-tab would go sequentially). Anyway, setting up the outlining to your personal preference was way easier than with either MS or Open office.
I think it came on one or two 3.5" flopies. Adobe Type Manager came on an extra disc. It's all I needed then, and truth is, all I need now... if only there was a linux version.
I'm still very much in the learning stages regarding anagama kilns, and merely a hobbyist potter, but you might find this interesting. Email me if you want to fire sometime (pacific northwest region).
Hey, as a potter, you're probably getting a few handfuls more radiation than the general populace just by virtue of your glaze materials.
Nice call! In fact, half the reason I built an anagama was so I could give up glazing - I've never enjoyed that part. The other half is satisfaction of my pyromaniac urges with a socially acceptable activity.
As a motorcycle rider, I can tell you that the increase in safety margins she enjoys riding on empty roads is probably 1000 times greater than the increased health risk the radiation poses. That's not all that clear. Look at it this way - "cell phone chatting back seat kid swatting speeding paying no attention to anyone else cause I have the biggest SUV in town" type drivers are a much greater risk than elevated radiation levels. On a bike, she's definitely safer in the Dead Zone than in a poplulated zone.
On a side note, women who ride motorcycles (as driver not passenger) are undeniably the most alluring of all. I'm in love!
Wouldn't it be fun, a little device that intercepts all calls and says:
"All telephone conversations with Joe Blow are monitored. If you do not agree to these terms, hang up now. If you would like to be connected to Joe Blow, press '1' now".
If nothing else, it would virtually eliminate machine dialed calls from getting through.
Let me guess, you're a transplant from Arizona. Here in the Pacific Northwest, I can't think of a single connifer that requires fire to spit seeds from cones. Douglas fir, hemlock, western red cedar, spruce - none of these need fire to drop seeds.
Again, its not just "my logic". Forestry is a science that's hundreds of years old. In North America, outside the unique ecosystem of the Pacific Northwest/Cascadia, where do trees live to 400 years?
Ever play the game of "go". The best boards are made of "kaya", a Japanese connifer. For the grain to be right, it takes 500 year old trees.
Hey - I'm not even a forester and I could come up with a non Pacific Northwest multihundred year old tree. If you want to start betting that old trees are anomolous to this region, let's get a botanist involved. Bring your car title!
Yeah, except I do live "on the west side of Cascadia" you speak of
In that case, why don't you stop at the rest area going northbound on I-5 near smokey point. Go stand inside the stump there - you know, the one with the cutout big enough to drive pickup through. Or go into the mountains and look at all the old growth stumps surrounded by second growth. Somehow, even without misguided fire supression, those old trees grew and covered everything. They didn't dissapear because people supressed forest fires.
And I think it is a bit of miscalculation to use the phrase "puny little region" when referring to the temperate forests west of the Cascades and Sierras. Really, you should be looking at this as a region extending from N. CA deep into Alaska - a couple thousand miles at least. Oh and let's not forget that like the PNW, Chile also has temperate rain forests. In fact, our own PNW homegrown Trillium Corporation is busy cutting them down right now.
In any event, your notion that the reason we don't have lot's of 400 year old trees around, is because for the last 100 years we've been fighting fires is simply preposterous. We don't have the around because we cut them all down.
Evolution is nice and I use it daily. One thing I would like to see though, is the ability for users who use the same computer to share and update each others calendars. I've done half this myself with a script that copies our calendars, uses sed to delete the top junk on one and the bottom junk on another, and cat to glue them together at the cuts. At least we can view a calendar of our shared jobs this way. But, I can't change my partner's calender easily from evolution. I suppose I'll make up a php form to add events, but it sure would be a lot simpler if Evolution just let you do this directly.
Here's one point. On page two, MS claims Office is better OO.o because of the document recovery featue. This is complete BS.
In my previous job, I once last 6 hours of writing because my computer crashed and when word restarted, the automatic backup recovery crashed. In essence, I lost whole damn paper.
OO.o has an "autosave" feature, which, if I recall correctly, Word doesn't use in favor of the document recovery procedure. So, even if OO.o crashes, and its document recovery fails, you will never lose more than X minutes of work (I have it set at 3 minute intervals) because the file is actually written every X minutes. So, at the $30/hr plus benefits I got at my old job, it's fair to say that Office cost my employer over $180 for that single crash. If I had lost 3 minutes of work as would have happened with OO.o, my employer would have lost $1.50 worth of my time. Clearly, MS Office is more expensive in ways other than just product cost.
I didn't know this. I just tried it out and holy-cow, that's cool! Just drag and drop a file - easier then ssh to poke around, then scp the file to get it. neat!
Do later versions of Mozilla have "Allow images from this server"?
Yes. I'm using 1.4 (so behind the times aren't I?). There are radio buttons for "no imgages, images from originating server only, all images" as well as a "manage permissions" button where you can set up special image rules on a site by site basis.
Here is a rough translation of the trailer by my girlfriend. Note, dialogue is in italics. Translator comments in "[]". No real attempt has been made to clean up the Japanese English into English English... expect some "all your base are belong to us" type phrasing. -------
OPENING (dark blue, guy in center): ** "Here..."
Redish scene:
** "Let me present one result [alternatively: effect]"
Graphic Shochiku
Street Parade scene
Cell picture
Man Speaking
** "Its name is Shinzocybo [New type of manufactured cell]..."
Vats of red liquid
** "[What is] this? Well [as in 'good'], till here made [You have accomplished much]
Two men, one in suit, one scruffy
** "I heard your wife was sick"
A few different scenes through to Motorcycle:
** "What is Luna going to do" [double meaning, could also be "what are you going to do with Luna"]
I've tried to get that stupid partition back on an ancient Compaq (p133) three times or so - it just doesn't work out for some reason. I don't really understand the logic of taking the BIOS information out of ROM and puting it on a hard disk. It just causes problems, and now, Compaq has all these archives of software it maintains so people can try to fix their machines and that costs something. Bigger still in terms of cost - I doubt I'm the only one who has been bitten by this - as a result of their setup, I will never even consider a Compaq (nametag still around or all HP now?). The store would have to have a big sign over it saying "BIOS 100% on board". I'm just glad I learded this lesson on a worthless old computer someone gave me to play with. Anyway, with the potential lost sales, I'm sure there are no savings.
And finally, yeah perhaps I'm too stupid to figure out how to put the BIOS partition back on the drive. Google, howtos, redos, whatever - hasn't worked for me. And that's not the point - the point is that I'll never buy a Compaq and when friends ask me about computers - first thing I say is "Don't get a Compaq, it'll be nightmare if the HD goes".
Actually, looks like 2000 will just about make it to the level of 1900 by decade's end. In other words, 2000-2010 is going to be a serious valley. Must be all the reality programming.
I've heard this a couple times and it doesn't sit right. It finally dawned on me: the Xbox was just another late entry game console. We've had game consoles since the 80s - even before Atari there was Pong. So here, Microsoft is losing money on a variation of an age old product. Compare that to a robot who can play a musical instrument. That's really new. Honda's and Toyota's robots are breaking into new areas. Microsoft's Xbox is nothing but an unprofitable underpowered computer that can play games and videos. That isn't very amazing and it certainly doesn't cause it to be worthy of being included in examples of "research that doesn't pay now but might pay in the future".
You may not get to set your own hours when you work for yourself... in a sense at least. I "work" much more than I used to when I was a wage slave - the difference is that now, I like my working situation so much, it doesn't feel like working at all. So, while I "work" more, it feels much closer to "play". It's been well over a year since I faced the intense Monday morning bitterness. Every day feels like Saturday and I love it.
And another thing: most of the pre-built digital frame companies charge a monthly service fee in order to download new content. So not only do you have to pay for the frame itself, you have to keep paying in order to use it!
Wow - that practically took my breath away - brilliantly devious. I've never looked at these but I would have assumed that they would have a serial or USB connector and just plug into your computer. But having to pay to transfer data? Considering all the people who will do anything to show off pictures of their kids and aren't that computer savvy, I bet they've made more on the transfer service than on the devices.
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Completely correct. I don't want four more episodes, I want four more years. I'm glad Farscape will get the chance to finish the show, but in many ways, I'm sad too. Without an actual end, it is possible to imagine how things would play out. But once they write the ending, it really will be over. How many years before the next truly excellent Sci-fi? And when it comes it, what are the chances it will be allowed to thrive? I guess I just have mixed feelings about the miniseries concept.
That's a good deal. I have comcast internet service without cable TV service. And of course, there is zero competition in my area (unless you consider sattelite to be competition).
My bill is $55/month.
Prohibition was a failure because when something most people want is outlawed, most people become outlaws. And because legit businesses can't supply illegal products, prohibitions will always give a boost to illegitimate business enterprises no matter how strong the economy is.
Laws do eventually bend to the will of the people if those laws visibly impact day to day life in a manner most people see as negative. The frightening laws are the ones that are draconian, but not so draconian that they get elimintated.
I'm not disagreeing with you that the OJ thing was a fiasco. However, courts don't find people "innocent". In the last few years, it seems that news organizations have been using the "pleaded innocent" phrase over and over. Even NPR. Nobody pleads innocent, they plead "not guilty". In terms of a verdict, the jury gets to chose "guilty" or "not guilty". A not guilty verdict simply means that the state failed to prove that defendant was guilty. It does not mean that the person is innocent, just that guilt was not proven, i.e., "not guilty".
I know news organizations think people are too stupid to understand the phrase "not guilty". I don't think that's the case though. If you describe the quality of a restaraunt using words such as
- bad - not bad - good
People will easily understand that "not bad" doesn't mean the place is great. It just means it doesn't suck. "Guilty - not guilty - innocent" works the same way.About 1993 or 94, I picked up "Lotus Write". It was $50 and had everything I needed
I think it came on one or two 3.5" flopies. Adobe Type Manager came on an extra disc. It's all I needed then, and truth is, all I need now
I'm still very much in the learning stages regarding anagama kilns, and merely a hobbyist potter, but you might find this interesting. Email me if you want to fire sometime (pacific northwest region).
- Hey, as a potter, you're probably getting a few handfuls more radiation than the general populace just by virtue of your glaze materials.
Nice call! In fact, half the reason I built an anagama was so I could give up glazing - I've never enjoyed that part. The other half is satisfaction of my pyromaniac urges with a socially acceptable activity.As a motorcycle rider, I can tell you that the increase in safety margins she enjoys riding on empty roads is probably 1000 times greater than the increased health risk the radiation poses. That's not all that clear. Look at it this way - "cell phone chatting back seat kid swatting speeding paying no attention to anyone else cause I have the biggest SUV in town" type drivers are a much greater risk than elevated radiation levels. On a bike, she's definitely safer in the Dead Zone than in a poplulated zone.
On a side note, women who ride motorcycles (as driver not passenger) are undeniably the most alluring of all. I'm in love!
Wouldn't it be fun, a little device that intercepts all calls and says:
"All telephone conversations with Joe Blow are monitored. If you do not agree to these terms, hang up now. If you would like to be connected to Joe Blow, press '1' now".
If nothing else, it would virtually eliminate machine dialed calls from getting through.
Let me guess, you're a transplant from Arizona. Here in the Pacific Northwest, I can't think of a single connifer that requires fire to spit seeds from cones. Douglas fir, hemlock, western red cedar, spruce - none of these need fire to drop seeds.
- Again, its not just "my logic". Forestry is a science that's hundreds of years old. In North America, outside the unique ecosystem of the Pacific Northwest/Cascadia, where do trees live to 400 years?
Ever play the game of "go". The best boards are made of "kaya", a Japanese connifer. For the grain to be right, it takes 500 year old trees.Hey - I'm not even a forester and I could come up with a non Pacific Northwest multihundred year old tree. If you want to start betting that old trees are anomolous to this region, let's get a botanist involved. Bring your car title!
In that case, why don't you stop at the rest area going northbound on I-5 near smokey point. Go stand inside the stump there - you know, the one with the cutout big enough to drive pickup through. Or go into the mountains and look at all the old growth stumps surrounded by second growth. Somehow, even without misguided fire supression, those old trees grew and covered everything. They didn't dissapear because people supressed forest fires.
And I think it is a bit of miscalculation to use the phrase "puny little region" when referring to the temperate forests west of the Cascades and Sierras. Really, you should be looking at this as a region extending from N. CA deep into Alaska - a couple thousand miles at least. Oh and let's not forget that like the PNW, Chile also has temperate rain forests. In fact, our own PNW homegrown Trillium Corporation is busy cutting them down right now.
In any event, your notion that the reason we don't have lot's of 400 year old trees around, is because for the last 100 years we've been fighting fires is simply preposterous. We don't have the around because we cut them all down.
Evolution is nice and I use it daily. One thing I would like to see though, is the ability for users who use the same computer to share and update each others calendars. I've done half this myself with a script that copies our calendars, uses sed to delete the top junk on one and the bottom junk on another, and cat to glue them together at the cuts. At least we can view a calendar of our shared jobs this way. But, I can't change my partner's calender easily from evolution. I suppose I'll make up a php form to add events, but it sure would be a lot simpler if Evolution just let you do this directly.
Or maybe we all should start sending CDRs to the military. It's free, can't be any sort problem accepting freebies.
Here's one point. On page two, MS claims Office is better OO.o because of the document recovery featue. This is complete BS.
In my previous job, I once last 6 hours of writing because my computer crashed and when word restarted, the automatic backup recovery crashed. In essence, I lost whole damn paper.
OO.o has an "autosave" feature, which, if I recall correctly, Word doesn't use in favor of the document recovery procedure. So, even if OO.o crashes, and its document recovery fails, you will never lose more than X minutes of work (I have it set at 3 minute intervals) because the file is actually written every X minutes. So, at the $30/hr plus benefits I got at my old job, it's fair to say that Office cost my employer over $180 for that single crash. If I had lost 3 minutes of work as would have happened with OO.o, my employer would have lost $1.50 worth of my time. Clearly, MS Office is more expensive in ways other than just product cost.
I didn't know this. I just tried it out and holy-cow, that's cool! Just drag and drop a file - easier then ssh to poke around, then scp the file to get it. neat!
- Do later versions of Mozilla have "Allow images from this server"?
Yes. I'm using 1.4 (so behind the times aren't I?). There are radio buttons for "no imgages, images from originating server only, all images" as well as a "manage permissions" button where you can set up special image rules on a site by site basis.Here is a rough translation of the trailer by my girlfriend. Note, dialogue is in italics. Translator comments in "[]". No real attempt has been made to clean up the Japanese English into English English ... expect some "all your base are belong to us" type phrasing. ..."
..."
-------
OPENING (dark blue, guy in center):
** "Here
Redish scene:
** "Let me present one result [alternatively: effect]"
Graphic Shochiku
Street Parade scene
Cell picture
Man Speaking
** "Its name is Shinzocybo [New type of manufactured cell]
Vats of red liquid
** "[What is] this? Well [as in 'good'], till here made [You have accomplished much]
Two men, one in suit, one scruffy
** "I heard your wife was sick"
A few different scenes through to Motorcycle:
** "What is Luna going to do" [double meaning, could also be "what are you going to do with Luna"]
I just can't get this all to post, read the rest here.
Even my girlfriend thought that was funny!
The day it's proven that having getting a blow job by a chubby intern directly resulted in the deaths of many people.
I've tried to get that stupid partition back on an ancient Compaq (p133) three times or so - it just doesn't work out for some reason. I don't really understand the logic of taking the BIOS information out of ROM and puting it on a hard disk. It just causes problems, and now, Compaq has all these archives of software it maintains so people can try to fix their machines and that costs something. Bigger still in terms of cost - I doubt I'm the only one who has been bitten by this - as a result of their setup, I will never even consider a Compaq (nametag still around or all HP now?). The store would have to have a big sign over it saying "BIOS 100% on board". I'm just glad I learded this lesson on a worthless old computer someone gave me to play with. Anyway, with the potential lost sales, I'm sure there are no savings.
And finally, yeah perhaps I'm too stupid to figure out how to put the BIOS partition back on the drive. Google, howtos, redos, whatever - hasn't worked for me. And that's not the point - the point is that I'll never buy a Compaq and when friends ask me about computers - first thing I say is "Don't get a Compaq, it'll be nightmare if the HD goes".
Actually, looks like 2000 will just about make it to the level of 1900 by decade's end. In other words, 2000-2010 is going to be a serious valley. Must be all the reality programming.
I've heard this a couple times and it doesn't sit right. It finally dawned on me: the Xbox was just another late entry game console. We've had game consoles since the 80s - even before Atari there was Pong. So here, Microsoft is losing money on a variation of an age old product. Compare that to a robot who can play a musical instrument. That's really new. Honda's and Toyota's robots are breaking into new areas. Microsoft's Xbox is nothing but an unprofitable underpowered computer that can play games and videos. That isn't very amazing and it certainly doesn't cause it to be worthy of being included in examples of "research that doesn't pay now but might pay in the future".
As the saying goes:
You may not get to set your own hours when you work for yourself
Wow - that practically took my breath away - brilliantly devious. I've never looked at these but I would have assumed that they would have a serial or USB connector and just plug into your computer. But having to pay to transfer data? Considering all the people who will do anything to show off pictures of their kids and aren't that computer savvy, I bet they've made more on the transfer service than on the devices.
Ralph Benson was on his way to world domination. However, rather than doing the traditional 2, 3, and 4, he chose this less effective path:
2. Murder tax man
3. Get caught
4. Go to prison.