A lot of this boils down to personal reasons, and not hard facts.
1. Battery life: I used to take 12-14 hour flights and the iPod battery was enough. Why? Because I didn't listen to music for 12 hours straight, dummy! I ate, watched movies, talked to the fellow next to me, slept, etc.
2. Jogging with hard drive based player is not cool: Erm, jogging with ANY music device isn't cool, it's STUPID. Excellent way to get run down. And if you're using a treadmill, I would suggest that the impact from the ground is less severe than asphalt. In any event, I have an original iPod and jogging on a treadmill has never hurt it. Now the darn thing is outdated, I want a NEW iPod, so maybe I wish the hard drive WOULD die to force me to buy a new one.
3. Yes, it is expensive.
4. It plays music. It's not a high quality recorder. Did anyone ever want to use their cassette for high quality recording of band sets? I, for one, don't need devices that do 6 things in a mediocre way. I like the iPod cause it does one thing VERY WELL. I didn't buy it for breakout, either, by the way.
5. Obviously, as a Mac user iTunes store is enough for me. It is lacking in selection but the other stores won't have the titles I want, either. For the time being, those eclectic bands and hard to find releases will still be CD purchases for me.
When I'm paying for music, I want to know that I have choices today and in the future.
I don't know how old Dave Fester is, but I think he must be younger than me. My wonderful history of "choices" in music media has scattered thousands of 78's, 8-tracks, LP's and cassettes around landfills and flea markets in the United States.
Luckily, no mini-discs mixed in there. Haven't gotten rid of my CD's yet. But my point is this: if anyone thinks that Apple or Microsoft has come up with a permanent, non-supersedable solution to music distribution, they're wrong.
Things are going to change and digitalization of music is not going to eliminate that change, but perhaps only increase the rate of change. Therefore, rather than worrying about choices and being locked out of things, why not choose a convenient, affordable and elegant solution. For me, it is the iPod and iTunes in almost every regard except for a dearth of artists I am interested in.
But guess what? Most mainstream music stores don't carry the artists I am interested in, either. So I am willing to wait for iTunes to expand its catalog. If that doesn't happen, I'll just have to keep buying CD's on Amazon and other sites until there is a better solution or new medium.
You may find it interesting, but anyone who follows "end of the world" panics would now that the end of the world has been predicted for many, many other time periods besides 2013/2014.
Unfortunately, even a broken watch tells the right time twice a day (a pre-digital metaphor).
University funds may be in the billions but that still doesn't mean that an institution can spend wildly on each and every project. Once principles start being eaten up instead of income from funds, the future of programs, departments and infrastructure can be endangered.
The variety of expenses involved in running a university and the range of fluctuation of those costs means that budgets have to be conservative to guarantee that tuitions will only rise by modest amounts while services supplied remains constant.
I won't comment on the major part of your troll. However, you misunderstand the term hong cha or "red tea." It doesn't necessarily have to brew up red to be brewed correctly, just as a lot of green tea doesn't necessarily look very green when it is brewed correctly.
Chinese names like this have to be taken with a grain of salt, otherwise all non-Chinese "foreigners" really would have "golden hair."
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Well said. I should note, however, that this "Chinese" curse May you live in interesting times is in all likelihood the invention of Western writers.
There is no Chinese equivalent that I've ever found and others have noted the same.
The success of Blade Runner, though, has nothing to do with fidelity to the text nor with the quality of the dialog. Scott had the foresight to obsessively construct a viable world and to put it in the background.
Anyone today who goes to the trouble that Scott did usually highlights their work, like in Minority Report, a film you didnt see. It constantly screams "Look at me, I'm technology!"
I think much of the impetus for girl-oriented gaming zines and sites does come from the violent, mail-oriented nature of a large percentage of the games out there.
Your own experience with your daughters largely supports this idea. The point is NOT that boys also enjoy Tetris etc., it's that these games are different from most of the offerings and girls can enjoy them.
But anecdotal support is going to be largely irrelevant here--lots of people probably know girls/women who love blasting their way through some FPS. On the whole, though, I think it's clear that most gaming is produced by boys for boys. Notice the use of the word "most."
I imagine there must be a good number of home brewers among the/. nerdus maximus population. If you have done any substantial home brewing (and by substantial I mean beyond the kits that even the malls have offered), you'll know that beer is indeed food.
It can be a wonderfully complex process and by learning it you are taking part in a time-honored tradition. Plus, you get cheap, good drink.
Currently I'm unemployed by choice. I'll bet this sounds stupid, but one of the reasons I'm reluctant to pursue my former career path (higher education administration) is that a jacket and tie are usually required dress.
One on hand it's no big deal, but on the other I really, really would prefer to wear khakis and a short sleeve button-down or polo shirt. I hate having to dress up! At my last job I gradually downshifted my dress code but that took a couple of years of inculcating my bosses to the change. It's going to be a bummer to start over again.
You will have to experiment with the suggestions posted as well as your own ideas.
I want to share my own, pathetic example with you, though. Most of my life has been plagued by severe procrastination, since around middle school, I think. High school was horrible--I can remember spending two days creating a chemistry lab notebook that I was supposed to have spent a whole semester on, just to give one instance.
In college, I eventually got worse and worse until I stopped attending classes (because I was so far behind) and failed an entire semester.
I worked in a restaurant full time for a year, and got re-admitted to school. I talked to a counselor and kind of worked things out, so I thought. Still, I had to continue working to support myself while going to classes part-time, so it took about 8 years to graduate.
I worked for a couple of years, which was no problem, then went back to school for my master's. Still okay.
Then I entered a Ph.D. program at Yale and it started again. Really bad. I never finished my dissertation because of the time wasted. There were other factors involved beyond my control, and to be honest I don't think I would have stayed in my field if I had completed the dissertation, but still the responsibility lies with me.
So now I'm unemployed (by choice, followed my girl to another state, leaving a good job where I was becoming miserable because I procrastinated at the parts of the job I didn't enjoy) and I'm trying to use the down time to do some writing, something I've always wanted to do but didn't have the courage.
I've got great starts on two projects that are wonderful ideas...essentially I'm halfway through them, and I'm stuck. Like a wall.
What's the lesson? I've bought every decent anti-procrastination book on the market, read them and tried to implement the suggestions. But I even procrastinate about that! I've done therapy, both group and individual. It was useful in many ways, but here I am, still stuck.
I think it may be chemical/biological. It is very, very difficult for me to concentrate on one thing for more than, say, fifteen minutes. Even reading has become harder, and I love to read more than anything else. Once I get a job I'm considering Prozac or something to see if it can take the edge off my tendency to be distracted.
I'm not lazy. I'm a hard worker and wherever I work I'm quickly valued for my contributions and innovations. In school I was regularly in the top 10% of the brightest students, except when it came time to follow through and produce. And still, I know that I've wasted years of my life. They're gone and nothing can bring them back.
So, I urge you to find out what the problem is and fix it, or try to fix it. Because the clock is ticking.
I was a teenager when this was pioneered. The popular term for this procedure has always seemed odd to me. As kids, the first thing that occured to us was that there were embryos growing in test tubes, waiting to be harvested.
I also think the initial public reaction was much along those lines, how it was something unholy and a Frankensteinian perversion of natural conception.
We've come a certain distance, I guess, but I won't say a long way, I don't think.
Where did someone suggest that the digitized images were meant as a "study bible"? This is a museum piece, that's the whole point, but it's a museum piece with much greater access now.
Even the average Latin student is not going to be able to read those digitized images or even the actual pages, given the typography.
Cross-referencing does not have to be done in the margins of a book. Do you know how many in-depth studies of texts are done in rare book rooms? Without drawing on the books?
If nothing else, making the GB more available will teach the average huckleberry that the bible wasn't written in english, lol.
Won't they sell you anything? I can't read Hungarian so I can't tell.
As far as everyone else is concerned, when there is enough profit in selling to people like you (people from Maine living in Hungary who want products from American online stores), it will happen. WWW is just a name; on-line stores have no obligation to be global. It's frustrating (I lived for a year in China and understand what it's like not to be able to get very simple things that make your life a lot easier but for some reason can't be found), but it's going to be a matter of some more time.
Don't know my comment is flamebait. I agree it's off-topic. I wasn't assuming that Karin is or is not a native English speaker/writer. I also wasn't being rude, offensive or degrading. I was trying to point out that "a hold of" is poor written English in this situation.
Subject says it all. This should not be in a headline. This is filtering into written English but it is in a league with something like "should of," incorrect understanding of "should've" or "should have."
Better word choices: "get," "get hold of," "gain access to," "obtain," "acquire," etc.
I wouldn't criticize someone using it in a comment, but headlines need to be clear and concise.
There is no such thing as "UL approval": UL basically uses three terms, none of which are "approved":
1. Listing
2. Recognition
3. Classification
"UL Listing" requires submission of the whole product to UL for testing. What you describe in your first paragraph is a product that uses UL-recognized components, but itself is not UL-listed, nor can it legally claim to be.
In regard to your second point, I personally know a tiny, one-man company who has submitted his product to UL, developed product testing routines and gotten the product UL-listed. It wasn't a nightmare at all.
I think most of the posts (even those in jest) show what a lot of people already know: there is a serious problem on US highways with vehicles not leaving adequate distance in front of them.
Following closely to prevent someone "cutting in" is dangerous and illegal. If someone enters the space cushion you have left in front of your vehicle, then you have to slow down until you re-establish a safe zone. It's too bad for you if you think you're a road warrior and can't bear the idea of allowing a crappy driver to get in front of you.
Safe driving begins before you get in your vehicle: if you are in a mindset where you need to drive recklessly in order to shave five minutes off your driving time, you've already screwed up. Leave earlier or move closer to work. Take public transportation.
With all the attention paid over the last couple of decades to drunk driving, you would think that people might notice that the real deadly statistics come not from driving drunk but from driving itself. It is time when we Americans need to realize that the numbers of people killed on highways because of aggressive, irresponsible and careless behavior is no longer acceptable just to maintain our carefree, my car represents my Yankee Doodle individuality lifestyles.
1. I have NEVER seen anyone write MAC to refer to the Macintosh computer. I don't doubt you've seen it, but have you seen it so many times to warrent such an over-the-top outburst?
2. Your statement that this usage is the same as a white person using the word "nigger" is so outrageous I wonder if the whole mail is a troll.
I know of no Chinese word that translates into English as "interesting" that fits your description. Could you please provide the Chinese text or pinyin romanization for your example?
The "ancient Chinese" curse/adage "may you live in interesting times" has, in fact, never been found to originate in China. Chinese is filled with thousands of proverbs, but this isn't one of them. It was probably created by a western writer in the late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century.
Well put, but it's not just the professor: it's the students as well. When I was a teaching assistant at Yale, my office hours were always very busy; when I taught at another school, students only came before a big test, or towards the end of the semester.
Okay, the article was tongue-in-cheek, but I still have to take issue with its take on keeping the door closed.
1. Students often don't come to office hours.
2. Rather than sitting there waiting for Godot, I always tried to get some work done.
3. Depending on the hallway, noise can be very high; door closing may be the best solution.
4. A sign on the door indicating "Please knock" or clearly showing office hours should be enough impetus for an intelligent student not to hesitate from knocking.
Is lastest a new word? Perhaps it suggests that while an event is the latest in a series, it is also at the end of the series, and (in this case) the economic upturn is in sight?
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1. Battery life: I used to take 12-14 hour flights and the iPod battery was enough. Why? Because I didn't listen to music for 12 hours straight, dummy! I ate, watched movies, talked to the fellow next to me, slept, etc.
2. Jogging with hard drive based player is not cool: Erm, jogging with ANY music device isn't cool, it's STUPID. Excellent way to get run down. And if you're using a treadmill, I would suggest that the impact from the ground is less severe than asphalt. In any event, I have an original iPod and jogging on a treadmill has never hurt it. Now the darn thing is outdated, I want a NEW iPod, so maybe I wish the hard drive WOULD die to force me to buy a new one.
3. Yes, it is expensive. 4. It plays music. It's not a high quality recorder. Did anyone ever want to use their cassette for high quality recording of band sets? I, for one, don't need devices that do 6 things in a mediocre way. I like the iPod cause it does one thing VERY WELL. I didn't buy it for breakout, either, by the way.
5. Obviously, as a Mac user iTunes store is enough for me. It is lacking in selection but the other stores won't have the titles I want, either. For the time being, those eclectic bands and hard to find releases will still be CD purchases for me.
When I'm paying for music, I want to know that I have choices today and in the future.
I don't know how old Dave Fester is, but I think he must be younger than me. My wonderful history of "choices" in music media has scattered thousands of 78's, 8-tracks, LP's and cassettes around landfills and flea markets in the United States.
Luckily, no mini-discs mixed in there. Haven't gotten rid of my CD's yet. But my point is this: if anyone thinks that Apple or Microsoft has come up with a permanent, non-supersedable solution to music distribution, they're wrong.
Things are going to change and digitalization of music is not going to eliminate that change, but perhaps only increase the rate of change. Therefore, rather than worrying about choices and being locked out of things, why not choose a convenient, affordable and elegant solution. For me, it is the iPod and iTunes in almost every regard except for a dearth of artists I am interested in.
But guess what? Most mainstream music stores don't carry the artists I am interested in, either. So I am willing to wait for iTunes to expand its catalog. If that doesn't happen, I'll just have to keep buying CD's on Amazon and other sites until there is a better solution or new medium.
Unfortunately, even a broken watch tells the right time twice a day (a pre-digital metaphor).
The variety of expenses involved in running a university and the range of fluctuation of those costs means that budgets have to be conservative to guarantee that tuitions will only rise by modest amounts while services supplied remains constant.
Chinese names like this have to be taken with a grain of salt, otherwise all non-Chinese "foreigners" really would have "golden hair."
There is no Chinese equivalent that I've ever found and others have noted the same.
The success of Blade Runner, though, has nothing to do with fidelity to the text nor with the quality of the dialog. Scott had the foresight to obsessively construct a viable world and to put it in the background.
Anyone today who goes to the trouble that Scott did usually highlights their work, like in Minority Report, a film you didnt see. It constantly screams "Look at me, I'm technology!"
Your own experience with your daughters largely supports this idea. The point is NOT that boys also enjoy Tetris etc., it's that these games are different from most of the offerings and girls can enjoy them.
But anecdotal support is going to be largely irrelevant here--lots of people probably know girls/women who love blasting their way through some FPS. On the whole, though, I think it's clear that most gaming is produced by boys for boys. Notice the use of the word "most."
It can be a wonderfully complex process and by learning it you are taking part in a time-honored tradition. Plus, you get cheap, good drink.
One on hand it's no big deal, but on the other I really, really would prefer to wear khakis and a short sleeve button-down or polo shirt. I hate having to dress up! At my last job I gradually downshifted my dress code but that took a couple of years of inculcating my bosses to the change. It's going to be a bummer to start over again.
I want to share my own, pathetic example with you, though. Most of my life has been plagued by severe procrastination, since around middle school, I think. High school was horrible--I can remember spending two days creating a chemistry lab notebook that I was supposed to have spent a whole semester on, just to give one instance.
In college, I eventually got worse and worse until I stopped attending classes (because I was so far behind) and failed an entire semester.
I worked in a restaurant full time for a year, and got re-admitted to school. I talked to a counselor and kind of worked things out, so I thought. Still, I had to continue working to support myself while going to classes part-time, so it took about 8 years to graduate.
I worked for a couple of years, which was no problem, then went back to school for my master's. Still okay.
Then I entered a Ph.D. program at Yale and it started again. Really bad. I never finished my dissertation because of the time wasted. There were other factors involved beyond my control, and to be honest I don't think I would have stayed in my field if I had completed the dissertation, but still the responsibility lies with me.
So now I'm unemployed (by choice, followed my girl to another state, leaving a good job where I was becoming miserable because I procrastinated at the parts of the job I didn't enjoy) and I'm trying to use the down time to do some writing, something I've always wanted to do but didn't have the courage.
I've got great starts on two projects that are wonderful ideas...essentially I'm halfway through them, and I'm stuck. Like a wall.
What's the lesson? I've bought every decent anti-procrastination book on the market, read them and tried to implement the suggestions. But I even procrastinate about that! I've done therapy, both group and individual. It was useful in many ways, but here I am, still stuck.
I think it may be chemical/biological. It is very, very difficult for me to concentrate on one thing for more than, say, fifteen minutes. Even reading has become harder, and I love to read more than anything else. Once I get a job I'm considering Prozac or something to see if it can take the edge off my tendency to be distracted.
I'm not lazy. I'm a hard worker and wherever I work I'm quickly valued for my contributions and innovations. In school I was regularly in the top 10% of the brightest students, except when it came time to follow through and produce. And still, I know that I've wasted years of my life. They're gone and nothing can bring them back.
So, I urge you to find out what the problem is and fix it, or try to fix it. Because the clock is ticking.
I also think the initial public reaction was much along those lines, how it was something unholy and a Frankensteinian perversion of natural conception.
We've come a certain distance, I guess, but I won't say a long way, I don't think.
Even the average Latin student is not going to be able to read those digitized images or even the actual pages, given the typography.
Cross-referencing does not have to be done in the margins of a book. Do you know how many in-depth studies of texts are done in rare book rooms? Without drawing on the books?
If nothing else, making the GB more available will teach the average huckleberry that the bible wasn't written in english, lol.
Won't they sell you anything? I can't read Hungarian so I can't tell.
As far as everyone else is concerned, when there is enough profit in selling to people like you (people from Maine living in Hungary who want products from American online stores), it will happen. WWW is just a name; on-line stores have no obligation to be global. It's frustrating (I lived for a year in China and understand what it's like not to be able to get very simple things that make your life a lot easier but for some reason can't be found), but it's going to be a matter of some more time.
Don't know my comment is flamebait. I agree it's off-topic. I wasn't assuming that Karin is or is not a native English speaker/writer. I also wasn't being rude, offensive or degrading. I was trying to point out that "a hold of" is poor written English in this situation.
Better word choices: "get," "get hold of," "gain access to," "obtain," "acquire," etc.
I wouldn't criticize someone using it in a comment, but headlines need to be clear and concise.
1. Listing
2. Recognition
3. Classification
"UL Listing" requires submission of the whole product to UL for testing. What you describe in your first paragraph is a product that uses UL-recognized components, but itself is not UL-listed, nor can it legally claim to be.
In regard to your second point, I personally know a tiny, one-man company who has submitted his product to UL, developed product testing routines and gotten the product UL-listed. It wasn't a nightmare at all.
Nope, it's just you. He doesn't seem creepy at all.
Following closely to prevent someone "cutting in" is dangerous and illegal. If someone enters the space cushion you have left in front of your vehicle, then you have to slow down until you re-establish a safe zone. It's too bad for you if you think you're a road warrior and can't bear the idea of allowing a crappy driver to get in front of you.
Safe driving begins before you get in your vehicle: if you are in a mindset where you need to drive recklessly in order to shave five minutes off your driving time, you've already screwed up. Leave earlier or move closer to work. Take public transportation.
With all the attention paid over the last couple of decades to drunk driving, you would think that people might notice that the real deadly statistics come not from driving drunk but from driving itself. It is time when we Americans need to realize that the numbers of people killed on highways because of aggressive, irresponsible and careless behavior is no longer acceptable just to maintain our carefree, my car represents my Yankee Doodle individuality lifestyles.
2. Your statement that this usage is the same as a white person using the word "nigger" is so outrageous I wonder if the whole mail is a troll.
I know of no Chinese word that translates into English as "interesting" that fits your description. Could you please provide the Chinese text or pinyin romanization for your example?
The "ancient Chinese" curse/adage "may you live in interesting times" has, in fact, never been found to originate in China. Chinese is filled with thousands of proverbs, but this isn't one of them. It was probably created by a western writer in the late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century.
Well put, but it's not just the professor: it's the students as well. When I was a teaching assistant at Yale, my office hours were always very busy; when I taught at another school, students only came before a big test, or towards the end of the semester.
1. Students often don't come to office hours.
2. Rather than sitting there waiting for Godot, I always tried to get some work done.
3. Depending on the hallway, noise can be very high; door closing may be the best solution.
4. A sign on the door indicating "Please knock" or clearly showing office hours should be enough impetus for an intelligent student not to hesitate from knocking.
Is lastest a new word? Perhaps it suggests that while an event is the latest in a series, it is also at the end of the series, and (in this case) the economic upturn is in sight?