Disney has been making a lot of crap recently. I predict that the acquisition of Pixar by Disney will eventually cause Pixar's very enjoyable movies to turn to crap as well.
I may take a few years to remove all the originality and cleverness from Pixar, but I'm sure Disney is up to the task.
If the turnaround time is quick enough, I imagine that some individuals might only pay for tickets via SMS when they see the ticket controller coming towards them and ride free the rest of the time.
Maybe that's the case, but it belongs in the realm of philosophy (which can be quite interesting as well) rather than science. I can see no way to prove or disprove it through the use of scientific method.
As Botswana is a former British colony and is next door to South Africa, where English is commonly used, English is widely spoken in Botswana. No doubt there are many who don't speak English, but English texts would certainly be very useful there.
I have recently been looking into getting some kind of DVR for our living room and/or bedroom, and I don't think that DVR software is going to win out over DVR appliances such as Tivo anytime soon.
Ideally, I would like to have a device that is: cheap (I only want to spend more than $300), small (limited space near TV), quiet (I don't like to have noisy devices on all the time), and extensible (I like adding neat stuff like weather, games or my own custom programs).
Ideally, I would like a small, quiet computer that runs MythTV, which is incredibly extensible. However, building a small, quiet computer that runs MythTV takes lots of money to buy the small form factor equipment and the quiet power supplies, CPUs, hard drives, etc. I could use an old computer, but those are ugly, large, and rather noisy (too much fan and hard drive noise).
I find that Tivo, which is cheaper, provides everything except the extensibility. There is a beta of a Tivo API on sourceforge, which looks promising, but there aren't all the neat features and extensions yet, like one finds for MythTV. Tivo also isn't nicely upgradable, and the product lifetime service subscription needs to be paid again after an upgrade. On the other hand, I hear that Tivo has a software advantage over MythTV, where the UI is nicer and it does all sort of neat things for you.
So at the moment, although I would like a nice MythTV setup, I'm probably going to go with Tivo, primarily due to price/benefit ratio. I'm sure there are a lot of people who are in the same situation, so I don't see the DVR software gaining dominance until more hardware like the Mac Mini is available for a cheaper price.
I have heard rumors as to some Apple DVR hardware/software in the works. Anyone know about that?
In addition, the study of OSS gives insight into the development process. One can discuss the advantages of the OSS development process, the disadvantages, where OSS development can go wrong (lack of participation, fragmenting projects) and how projects learn to get around these problems.
For some reason, which I'm not entirely sure about, it's hot in all the underground systems I've been on. Most of my experiences with underground systems come from Stuttgart, Prague, and Budapest, and all those were much warmer than the surface. On a hot day in summer, you wanted to get out as quickly as possible, but it was nice in winter.
When you went to the exit/entrance escallators, you could feel a nice cool breeze coming down from the surface, but the stations still remained warm. My guess would be that the heat is generated by the train engines and has trouble escaping due to inadequate ventilation
I would personally use such a fast wireless network to stream movies and video around the house. My dream is to have a MythTV and file servers in the garage with nano-ITX or mini-ITX clients hooked up to the various TVs.
That would allow me to store DVD images, MPs, recorded TV shows, and software CD images on the servers, and make use of them from any computer or media center in the house.
Gigabit ethernet would be perfect for this, but installation would be incredibly difficult, if not impossible. My attic is so small and cramped that it's almost impossible to move around up there, and installing ethernet in the walls would be a monumental task.
So this 802.11i would give me a nice network and save me a huge amount of cost, time, and effort, since I wouldn't have to do wire installation.
It was indeed fortunate for Ford Motor Company that they paid their workers enough so that they could afford to by a Ford car: it ended up generating a lot of business for Ford.
Henry Ford, however, didn't pay well with the intention of making customers out of workers. When he came up with the concept of an assembly line, he found he couldn't keep workers around, because assembly line jobs were so incredibly boring. He was unable to keep any workers around, so he was forced to pay a huge wage to entice workers to stay at their jobs. In the process, he created more customers, but that was just a side effect.
My favorite happens to be Ritter Sport. Fortunately, I they sell this in some places in the United States now (for a significantly higher price than in Germany).
In California, wood and drywall structures are often preferred because they hold up to earthquakes pretty well. Brick and stone tends to collapse in an earthquake.
There are of course steel beam and concrete structures that supposedly hold out pretty well in earthquakes, but as you said, those are a lot more expensive than wood and drywall.
Interestingly enough, as a 27-year-old software developer, I don't have a mobile phone, and several other software developers I know don't either.
I simply haven't felt the need to have one. It's not so important to me to be always near a phone. I'm usually near a landline at some point during the day, especially when I'm at home, and I just use that.
I imagine I'll find a use for one eventually, but until then, a mobile simply doesn't justify the extra cost to me.
I used to think that Polish was impossible to pronouce, but then I took a year of Polish language classes just for fun. I found that once you learn how the pronunciation works, reading Polish isn't so bad. (There's a lot of what I call "combo letters" that represent single sounds in Polish: cz, sz, dz, etc., and the letter "y" is actually a vowel: a short "i" in English) It can still be difficult at times, but not impossible.
One still runs into plenty of words that are hard to pronounce (the city of Szczebrzeszyn is my favorite), but it can be done. The two-letter "Szcz" combo (Sz = sh, and cz = ch ) that comes before some Polish words is particularly hard on my poor American tongue.
My Polish teacher also had us try to say a Polish tongue twister. That was impossible: the language is a tongue twister as it is without adding that.
In the latest Paper Mario game, Luigi appears at one point and gripes about how Mario always gets to do the cool stuff while Luigi stays at home.
So Luigi pretty much said "Screw Mario" (although in nicer words), and went out and found his own adventure with his own princess waiting to be rescued.
The title to this story on the main page, "Developers: Too Darned Big to Test?" seems to imply that developers are too corpulent to test. For a little while, I though I was about to read a story about developer obesity.
I had a good laugh at that one. Anyone else misinterpret that as well?
They were black and floppy, and came in their own cases. They were better than modern CDs because you didn't have to take them out of their case before you put them in the computer.
Now that would be an interesting form of democracy. You vote for politicians to come up with different programs, and then each person gets to vote for where their tax dollars go: a bit like allocating where your 401K money gets invested. The gun nuts can have their tax dollars go to the military, the geeks can have their tax dollars go towards NASA, and the hippies can have their tax dollars go towards environmental protection.
I imagined that there would be a lot of boring, yet essential for a smoothly running country, items that would be almost ignored under such a system.
I remember when the Gamecube came out and there was a rush to get it. I know some of my friends had trouble finding one. It sold out during its initial release, but it wasn't like the popularity of the PS2.
I think that the XBox came out around the same time, which got a bit more attention, although it didn't sell as well initially.
In Britain, there was also a hearth tax. You paid money for each fireplace you had.
Back in the days where income tax would have been very difficult to levy, as there was no way for the government to know how much people earned (income often came in the form of goods and livestock, like chickens, rather than cash), taxing the number of fireplaces was a decent way of taxing the wealthy more.
It was assumed that if you had more fireplaces, you had a bigger house, and therefore more money.
There was also a poll-tax, ("poll" originally meant "head" rather than "voting place") where there was a flat tax on each person in the household, payable by the head of the household. This could be rather burdensome on poor people, especially if they had sizable families.
The Prince of Hessen (in central Germany) raised money by drafting all the young men and selling them off to other countries as mercenaries. The term of service was something like 10 years, if I recall correctly. The young men being sold off as soldiers had no choice in the matter. That's why there were Hessian soldiers present at the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolution: the British had purchased them as mercenaries from Hessen and were using them in the colonies.
The Swiss used to be famous for their mercenaries as well. There wasn't much wealth in Switzerland at the times, so hiring the men out as mercenaries brought in needed cash. I believe, however, that unlike the poor fellows in Hessen, being a Swiss mercenary was voluntary.
German knights along the Rhine in the Middle Ages forced ships to pay money just for the privilege of sailing by their castle. Ships refusing to do so had the tendency to get confiscated. They earned the name "robber-knights" for that nice bit of extortion. So kids, remember that those romantic images of knights aren't all that accurate. They could often be greedy, violent thugs looking out for their own self-interests.
Those cash-strapped rulers came up with some imaginative ways of raising funds when they needed them. Sometimes people just had to bear it, and sometimes there were rebellions when the subjects felt that they were being taxed unfairly.
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Disney has been making a lot of crap recently. I predict that the acquisition of Pixar by Disney will eventually cause Pixar's very enjoyable movies to turn to crap as well.
I may take a few years to remove all the originality and cleverness from Pixar, but I'm sure Disney is up to the task.
If the turnaround time is quick enough, I imagine that some individuals might only pay for tickets via SMS when they see the ticket controller coming towards them and ride free the rest of the time.
Maybe that's the case, but it belongs in the realm of philosophy (which can be quite interesting as well) rather than science. I can see no way to prove or disprove it through the use of scientific method.
We don't need no stinking orange badges!
As Botswana is a former British colony and is next door to South Africa, where English is commonly used, English is widely spoken in Botswana. No doubt there are many who don't speak English, but English texts would certainly be very useful there.
I have recently been looking into getting some kind of DVR for our living room and/or bedroom, and I don't think that DVR software is going to win out over DVR appliances such as Tivo anytime soon.
Ideally, I would like to have a device that is: cheap (I only want to spend more than $300), small (limited space near TV), quiet (I don't like to have noisy devices on all the time), and extensible (I like adding neat stuff like weather, games or my own custom programs).
Ideally, I would like a small, quiet computer that runs MythTV, which is incredibly extensible. However, building a small, quiet computer that runs MythTV takes lots of money to buy the small form factor equipment and the quiet power supplies, CPUs, hard drives, etc. I could use an old computer, but those are ugly, large, and rather noisy (too much fan and hard drive noise).
I find that Tivo, which is cheaper, provides everything except the extensibility. There is a beta of a Tivo API on sourceforge, which looks promising, but there aren't all the neat features and extensions yet, like one finds for MythTV. Tivo also isn't nicely upgradable, and the product lifetime service subscription needs to be paid again after an upgrade. On the other hand, I hear that Tivo has a software advantage over MythTV, where the UI is nicer and it does all sort of neat things for you.
So at the moment, although I would like a nice MythTV setup, I'm probably going to go with Tivo, primarily due to price/benefit ratio. I'm sure there are a lot of people who are in the same situation, so I don't see the DVR software gaining dominance until more hardware like the Mac Mini is available for a cheaper price.
I have heard rumors as to some Apple DVR hardware/software in the works. Anyone know about that?
In addition, the study of OSS gives insight into the development process. One can discuss the advantages of the OSS development process, the disadvantages, where OSS development can go wrong (lack of participation, fragmenting projects) and how projects learn to get around these problems.
Whatever happened to Jar-Jar? I was kinda hoping that Anakin would slice and dice him during his rampage, but the fate of Jar-Jar remained unknown.
For some reason, which I'm not entirely sure about, it's hot in all the underground systems I've been on. Most of my experiences with underground systems come from Stuttgart, Prague, and Budapest, and all those were much warmer than the surface. On a hot day in summer, you wanted to get out as quickly as possible, but it was nice in winter.
When you went to the exit/entrance escallators, you could feel a nice cool breeze coming down from the surface, but the stations still remained warm. My guess would be that the heat is generated by the train engines and has trouble escaping due to inadequate ventilation
I would personally use such a fast wireless network to stream movies and video around the house. My dream is to have a MythTV and file servers in the garage with nano-ITX or mini-ITX clients hooked up to the various TVs.
That would allow me to store DVD images, MPs, recorded TV shows, and software CD images on the servers, and make use of them from any computer or media center in the house.
Gigabit ethernet would be perfect for this, but installation would be incredibly difficult, if not impossible. My attic is so small and cramped that it's almost impossible to move around up there, and installing ethernet in the walls would be a monumental task.
So this 802.11i would give me a nice network and save me a huge amount of cost, time, and effort, since I wouldn't have to do wire installation.
That's because real Unix users view the geographical data using vi. They don't need any graphical sugar sucking down their processor cycles.
I'm currently in Pakistan, and I have to say that not having any Internet really sucks.
How am I going to read Slashdot now?
It was indeed fortunate for Ford Motor Company that they paid their workers enough so that they could afford to by a Ford car: it ended up generating a lot of business for Ford.
Henry Ford, however, didn't pay well with the intention of making customers out of workers. When he came up with the concept of an assembly line, he found he couldn't keep workers around, because assembly line jobs were so incredibly boring. He was unable to keep any workers around, so he was forced to pay a huge wage to entice workers to stay at their jobs. In the process, he created more customers, but that was just a side effect.
1)In Korea, only old people use robotic alarm clocks
But then the robotic alarm clocks eat the old people's medicine for fuel
My favorite happens to be Ritter Sport. Fortunately, I they sell this in some places in the United States now (for a significantly higher price than in Germany).
In California, wood and drywall structures are often preferred because they hold up to earthquakes pretty well. Brick and stone tends to collapse in an earthquake.
There are of course steel beam and concrete structures that supposedly hold out pretty well in earthquakes, but as you said, those are a lot more expensive than wood and drywall.
Interestingly enough, as a 27-year-old software developer, I don't have a mobile phone, and several other software developers I know don't either.
I simply haven't felt the need to have one. It's not so important to me to be always near a phone. I'm usually near a landline at some point during the day, especially when I'm at home, and I just use that.
I imagine I'll find a use for one eventually, but until then, a mobile simply doesn't justify the extra cost to me.
I get my news in the U.S. from National Public Radio, which broadcasts over FM. I've never been interested in listening to AM stations.
I used to think that Polish was impossible to pronouce, but then I took a year of Polish language classes just for fun. I found that once you learn how the pronunciation works, reading Polish isn't so bad. (There's a lot of what I call "combo letters" that represent single sounds in Polish: cz, sz, dz, etc., and the letter "y" is actually a vowel: a short "i" in English) It can still be difficult at times, but not impossible.
One still runs into plenty of words that are hard to pronounce (the city of Szczebrzeszyn is my favorite), but it can be done. The two-letter "Szcz" combo (Sz = sh, and cz = ch ) that comes before some Polish words is particularly hard on my poor American tongue.
My Polish teacher also had us try to say a Polish tongue twister. That was impossible: the language is a tongue twister as it is without adding that.
In the latest Paper Mario game, Luigi appears at one point and gripes about how Mario always gets to do the cool stuff while Luigi stays at home.
So Luigi pretty much said "Screw Mario" (although in nicer words), and went out and found his own adventure with his own princess waiting to be rescued.
The title to this story on the main page, "Developers: Too Darned Big to Test?" seems to imply that developers are too corpulent to test. For a little while, I though I was about to read a story about developer obesity.
I had a good laugh at that one. Anyone else misinterpret that as well?
Magnetized CDs? Yeah, I remember those!
They were black and floppy, and came in their own cases. They were better than modern CDs because you didn't have to take them out of their case before you put them in the computer.
Now that would be an interesting form of democracy. You vote for politicians to come up with different programs, and then each person gets to vote for where their tax dollars go: a bit like allocating where your 401K money gets invested. The gun nuts can have their tax dollars go to the military, the geeks can have their tax dollars go towards NASA, and the hippies can have their tax dollars go towards environmental protection.
I imagined that there would be a lot of boring, yet essential for a smoothly running country, items that would be almost ignored under such a system.
I remember when the Gamecube came out and there was a rush to get it. I know some of my friends had trouble finding one. It sold out during its initial release, but it wasn't like the popularity of the PS2.
I think that the XBox came out around the same time, which got a bit more attention, although it didn't sell as well initially.
In Britain, there was also a hearth tax. You paid money for each fireplace you had.
Back in the days where income tax would have been very difficult to levy, as there was no way for the government to know how much people earned (income often came in the form of goods and livestock, like chickens, rather than cash), taxing the number of fireplaces was a decent way of taxing the wealthy more.
It was assumed that if you had more fireplaces, you had a bigger house, and therefore more money.
There was also a poll-tax, ("poll" originally meant "head" rather than "voting place") where there was a flat tax on each person in the household, payable by the head of the household. This could be rather burdensome on poor people, especially if they had sizable families.
The Prince of Hessen (in central Germany) raised money by drafting all the young men and selling them off to other countries as mercenaries. The term of service was something like 10 years, if I recall correctly. The young men being sold off as soldiers had no choice in the matter. That's why there were Hessian soldiers present at the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolution: the British had purchased them as mercenaries from Hessen and were using them in the colonies.
The Swiss used to be famous for their mercenaries as well. There wasn't much wealth in Switzerland at the times, so hiring the men out as mercenaries brought in needed cash. I believe, however, that unlike the poor fellows in Hessen, being a Swiss mercenary was voluntary.
German knights along the Rhine in the Middle Ages forced ships to pay money just for the privilege of sailing by their castle. Ships refusing to do so had the tendency to get confiscated. They earned the name "robber-knights" for that nice bit of extortion. So kids, remember that those romantic images of knights aren't all that accurate. They could often be greedy, violent thugs looking out for their own self-interests.
Those cash-strapped rulers came up with some imaginative ways of raising funds when they needed them. Sometimes people just had to bear it, and sometimes there were rebellions when the subjects felt that they were being taxed unfairly.