I grudgingly agree. The ratings for Jersey Shore and Dancing with the Stars pretty much bears out your point. Any quality TV show with anything akin to a plot device usually dies within the first season. Wrestling however seems to have found a permanent home on our airwaves.
gimp2 (gmp) pronunciation Slang.
n.
A limp or a limping gait.
A person who limps.
intr.v., gimped, gimping, gimps.
To walk with a limp.
http://www.answers.com/topic/gimp
We refurbish about 400 computers a year and give them to disadvantaged kids in the Central Texas area. Maybe 1/5th of them are children with physical maladies of one form or another. Try presenting a 12 year old child in leg braces a program called "Teh GIMP" and then tell me it doesn't matter.
Our custom distro has dropped GIMP in favor of Pinta. I'd rather offend a few software purists over the use of a Mono app then a child relegated to prosthetics the rest of her life.
At least the US military hasn't adopted Linux App naming habits...Guayadeque - Choqok - Kazehakase - ZynAddSubFX, etc. Of course, having spent two decades in the US Army, I never did find them using an acronym within a acronym like they do with Gimp. GNU Image Manipulation Program.
eight survivors battle both a group of armed men in decontamination suits and their own disintegrating psyches
It was the Frictional Games Penumbra and Amnesia
Summer Glau, the unpredictable River Tam in Firefly, has proven to be the kiss of death for any show she works. Her latest role as "Orwell" in The Cape pretty much morphed this from theory to fact.
Although I like Summer Glau, she brings dark clouds of doubt to any project she works on. However, I do think her role in Firefly was legitimate...Firefly was the victim of network morons. And I think she's hot...in a waif-ish, I-want-to-do-my-best-friend's-sister sort of way.
Hands in the cookie jar and all that...
BOA mastered the art of manipulating debit card charges to insure that the maximum amount of overdraft charges were assessed to you. Instead of recording your transactions in real time, they waited until 8 pm EST to do their math. Let's say you had 210.00 dollars in your account that day, but mistakenly charged 225.00 in multiple transactions, they would debit the largest charges first allowing many of the smaller ones to put you over. @ 35.00 for each overdraft, BOA made billions, thus satisfying stockholders with easy and massive profit. Sure Wells Fargo and BOA were busted for it and there was a lot of noise from the Gubment about civil and federal charges but in the end, the story died. This leak about this particular issue isn't a surprise. BOA is a greasy bunch. Along with the Congressmen that protect them.
That's exactly the case. Even if Linux could cure Diabetes, most people would suffer with the pain and shots. Unless it's kids. Kids don't care. All they want is a way to interface their computers. Adults...? Pass the insulin.
Starting in 1968, I became a music consumer. My first purchase? A 45 record of "Proud Mary". Over the years, I gathered a collection of over 500 albums and not only became a fan of the music, but of the album art. Much of which I still own today. Over the years, and starting in the late 90's, I couldn't help but notice the lousy quality of music being sold. My "base" music became all I really listened to. Sure, I painstakingly recorded much of what I had on vinyl to cassette tape to make my music portable but tape hiss and noise annoyed me greatly...to the point of spending 600 bucks on a DBX noise reduction device. Once CD's became the norm, I started buying them to replace my vinyl.
When the RIAA started suing their customers, It enraged me. I knew nothing of Napster or Audio Galaxy, but I learned quickly. The majority of my music today remains those hundreds of old MP3's I pirated back in the early 2000's. I haven't bought music since, but I probably wouldn't have anyway. The fact is the RIAA lawsuits stimulated me to stop "upgrading" my music collection and begin pirating it.
I'm just wondering how many other people did the same thing.
But it is even easier to exploit stupid users than it is to exploit Windows.
Statistically speaking, and not to be unkind...isn't there a symbiotic relationship between the two already?
Ever went into Best Buy and looked at their prices? They are the tech store for the masses. People who buy their tech stuff from Best Buy et al will subscribe to expired AV software, they will purchase anything the computer tells them to purchase. As long as people refuse to take responsibility for maintaining their own machines or learning about them, stores like Best Buy will charge retail + 20% because of an uneducated consumer.
Personally, I hope they remain uneducated. I will put a child through college cleaning up their trashed computer this year.
I like early adopters...and I like to see lots of them. Their purchases fund the efforts to upgrade the device with improvements. By the time that cycle ends, other competitors have entered the market and I can purchase a better product at a lower price.
I don't think having people gouging out their eyes with grapefruit spoons is the best way to handle this.
I don't know...all it took for me to break out the spoons was the last LOLcats email I received
Count your blessings they did not name it something more goofy then plod out an acronym that is far worse...
Open Source developers have made some horrendous choices in naming their apps. Trust me, I could sit here and offer dozens of examples but I will leave you with only one.
UCK. http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/146863
I'm just sayin'...
Depends on the psychological makeup of the individuals involved, the immediate threat and the underlying grievance. In a situation where your life and the life of those you care about are in jeopardy, self preservation kicks in and a trained individual will do what it takes to eliminate that immediate threat. In a combat unit, those within are not interviewed to see if there are any among them that might have issues with others, unless they are an elite unit such as The Seals or Rangers. This situation however cannot be likened or compared to a combat situation. These people are in proximity (in theory) to one another without relief. I suspect this sort of test is being done to gauge and identify the stresses involved and the reactions from each when they are presented. It is a social experiment as well as a scientific one. Of course, there is always the isolated cases of soldiers being "fragged" in combat for cowardice or consistantly putting other members of the unit in danger.
However, in space, no one can hear you silently plot to pull the air hose of the assbag in front of you.
"Usually under some law conserning disrupting traffic )"
While not the norm, my room mate was ticketed for "disrupting" traffic by driving along side a large truck in the left lane and matching speed due to cruise control. He had caused quite the bottle neck and seemed oblivious until a state trouper pulled him over and ticketed him.
I imagine if all the rage behind him could have been captured and focused, his car would have exploded by death beam.
I have family in Europe and some of them share the same TV preferences as I. I simply do the dirty work for them and get it from whatever source offers a good copy, upload it to my private server and then let them at it. Kind of a long way around but it works on a micro level. They watch the same shows I do within hours of me.
And they wonder why shutting down torrent sites is like a game of whack-a-mole. Dexter, SGU, Burn Notice and Fringe are usually available on btjunkie 8-12 hours after air time (PST). While it is a hassle to get a solid connection many times, fastpasstv has them within one to two hours after air time.
They are missing a huge revenue stream by not offering TV streaming in a timely manner. And Hulu? They are hand tied by their various agreements. Even Hulu Plus cannot offer fresh TV episodes with the speed of the aforementioned.
but they are extremally expensive per-prisoner, and taxpayers are loathe to see any money spent on helping the 'criminal scum.'
Yep...the best one could hope for is that one of these new members of the criminal element becomes a neighbor. I'll bet they wish the guy had more rehabilitation than criminal education then.
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I grudgingly agree. The ratings for Jersey Shore and Dancing with the Stars pretty much bears out your point. Any quality TV show with anything akin to a plot device usually dies within the first season. Wrestling however seems to have found a permanent home on our airwaves.
gimp2 (gmp) pronunciation Slang. n. A limp or a limping gait. A person who limps. intr.v., gimped, gimping, gimps. To walk with a limp. http://www.answers.com/topic/gimp
We refurbish about 400 computers a year and give them to disadvantaged kids in the Central Texas area. Maybe 1/5th of them are children with physical maladies of one form or another. Try presenting a 12 year old child in leg braces a program called "Teh GIMP" and then tell me it doesn't matter. Our custom distro has dropped GIMP in favor of Pinta. I'd rather offend a few software purists over the use of a Mono app then a child relegated to prosthetics the rest of her life.
At least the US military hasn't adopted Linux App naming habits...Guayadeque - Choqok - Kazehakase - ZynAddSubFX, etc. Of course, having spent two decades in the US Army, I never did find them using an acronym within a acronym like they do with Gimp. GNU Image Manipulation Program.
eight survivors battle both a group of armed men in decontamination suits and their own disintegrating psyches
It was the Frictional Games Penumbra and Amnesia
True
And Bernie Madoff could have made off with far more than he did, but he had ethics.
Summer Glau, the unpredictable River Tam in Firefly, has proven to be the kiss of death for any show she works. Her latest role as "Orwell" in The Cape pretty much morphed this from theory to fact. Although I like Summer Glau, she brings dark clouds of doubt to any project she works on. However, I do think her role in Firefly was legitimate...Firefly was the victim of network morons. And I think she's hot...in a waif-ish, I-want-to-do-my-best-friend's-sister sort of way.
And then you get canceled.
Hands in the cookie jar and all that... BOA mastered the art of manipulating debit card charges to insure that the maximum amount of overdraft charges were assessed to you. Instead of recording your transactions in real time, they waited until 8 pm EST to do their math. Let's say you had 210.00 dollars in your account that day, but mistakenly charged 225.00 in multiple transactions, they would debit the largest charges first allowing many of the smaller ones to put you over. @ 35.00 for each overdraft, BOA made billions, thus satisfying stockholders with easy and massive profit. Sure Wells Fargo and BOA were busted for it and there was a lot of noise from the Gubment about civil and federal charges but in the end, the story died. This leak about this particular issue isn't a surprise. BOA is a greasy bunch. Along with the Congressmen that protect them.
That's exactly the case. Even if Linux could cure Diabetes, most people would suffer with the pain and shots. Unless it's kids. Kids don't care. All they want is a way to interface their computers. Adults...? Pass the insulin.
yes, broken here.
When the RIAA started suing their customers, It enraged me. I knew nothing of Napster or Audio Galaxy, but I learned quickly. The majority of my music today remains those hundreds of old MP3's I pirated back in the early 2000's. I haven't bought music since, but I probably wouldn't have anyway. The fact is the RIAA lawsuits stimulated me to stop "upgrading" my music collection and begin pirating it.
I'm just wondering how many other people did the same thing.
But it is even easier to exploit stupid users than it is to exploit Windows. Statistically speaking, and not to be unkind...isn't there a symbiotic relationship between the two already?
""if it aint broken don't fix it" Should read... If it ain't broke, fix it until it is...
Ever went into Best Buy and looked at their prices? They are the tech store for the masses. People who buy their tech stuff from Best Buy et al will subscribe to expired AV software, they will purchase anything the computer tells them to purchase. As long as people refuse to take responsibility for maintaining their own machines or learning about them, stores like Best Buy will charge retail + 20% because of an uneducated consumer. Personally, I hope they remain uneducated. I will put a child through college cleaning up their trashed computer this year.
I like early adopters...and I like to see lots of them. Their purchases fund the efforts to upgrade the device with improvements. By the time that cycle ends, other competitors have entered the market and I can purchase a better product at a lower price.
I don't think having people gouging out their eyes with grapefruit spoons is the best way to handle this. I don't know...all it took for me to break out the spoons was the last LOLcats email I received
As soon as I get this 7th Chevron to lock, I'll go check some of them out. Or leak dna into infinity...it's a crapshoot
Count your blessings they did not name it something more goofy then plod out an acronym that is far worse... Open Source developers have made some horrendous choices in naming their apps. Trust me, I could sit here and offer dozens of examples but I will leave you with only one. UCK. http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/146863 I'm just sayin'...
We'll see the announcement for the resurrection of Firefly any day now...
Depends on the psychological makeup of the individuals involved, the immediate threat and the underlying grievance. In a situation where your life and the life of those you care about are in jeopardy, self preservation kicks in and a trained individual will do what it takes to eliminate that immediate threat. In a combat unit, those within are not interviewed to see if there are any among them that might have issues with others, unless they are an elite unit such as The Seals or Rangers. This situation however cannot be likened or compared to a combat situation. These people are in proximity (in theory) to one another without relief. I suspect this sort of test is being done to gauge and identify the stresses involved and the reactions from each when they are presented. It is a social experiment as well as a scientific one. Of course, there is always the isolated cases of soldiers being "fragged" in combat for cowardice or consistantly putting other members of the unit in danger. However, in space, no one can hear you silently plot to pull the air hose of the assbag in front of you.
"Usually under some law conserning disrupting traffic )" While not the norm, my room mate was ticketed for "disrupting" traffic by driving along side a large truck in the left lane and matching speed due to cruise control. He had caused quite the bottle neck and seemed oblivious until a state trouper pulled him over and ticketed him. I imagine if all the rage behind him could have been captured and focused, his car would have exploded by death beam.
I have family in Europe and some of them share the same TV preferences as I. I simply do the dirty work for them and get it from whatever source offers a good copy, upload it to my private server and then let them at it. Kind of a long way around but it works on a micro level. They watch the same shows I do within hours of me.
And they wonder why shutting down torrent sites is like a game of whack-a-mole. Dexter, SGU, Burn Notice and Fringe are usually available on btjunkie 8-12 hours after air time (PST). While it is a hassle to get a solid connection many times, fastpasstv has them within one to two hours after air time. They are missing a huge revenue stream by not offering TV streaming in a timely manner. And Hulu? They are hand tied by their various agreements. Even Hulu Plus cannot offer fresh TV episodes with the speed of the aforementioned.
but they are extremally expensive per-prisoner, and taxpayers are loathe to see any money spent on helping the 'criminal scum.' Yep...the best one could hope for is that one of these new members of the criminal element becomes a neighbor. I'll bet they wish the guy had more rehabilitation than criminal education then.