I'd go for that, but then all the Stormtroopers would be Red. The New Jedi Order would only carry blue lightsabers, and characters would die only to return and die again.
Takashi Miike gets my vote, but I'd pretty much take anyone over Mad King George. Including Albert Pyun
Wait scratch that. If they let Uwe Boll get anywhere near SW I'll have to go out and buy myself a highpowered rifle.
The arguement is that its occasional portabilty. Move it from your desk to the occasional meeting down the hall etc.
Personally I think people who buy these things almost never move them off their desk. Its mostly just a space issue and looking cool.
I had an Alienware gaming laptop, great piece of hardware but I never took it anyway except the occasional Lan party, because it weighed almost 9 lbs and sounded like a jet engiine. After about a year I finally gave into common sense and sold it on Ebay for about 1/2 what I paid for it and bought me a decent refurbed system with twice the power and a Radeon 9800.
I'll hold out for a wearable gargoyle rig with HUD before I venture into the portable market again.
Because its easier to say. "I'll sign a renewal if it comes across my desk." When you fully know it never will than, actually actively saying "repeal that law."
Just letting it expire allows you to lean slightly either way depending on which side you're talking to.You can tell the bleeding hearts "Well, I was for it, but the bill didn't have the votes." And to the gun nuts you can say "The people didn't want the bill, so it wasn't renewed." The government knows how to protect its ass.
congressmen only care about what there constituents think when its re-election time. Where have you been. If the MPAA can buy enough votes it'll be in.
I'm not worried. They'll make it, we'll break it and the cycle continues.
Obviously the creationists want to use that by saying to the schools. "Since science is constantly evolving and testing itself why not teach "Intelligent Bollocks" in the classes and let the students compare the two. Obviously if evolution is as strong as the scientists say it is you've got nothing to worry about".
Thats it exactly. Science is hard. Its keeps changing. No one is right for very long. Religion is easy. Got a difficult question, dig around in the Bible for something that sounds nice and preface it with "The Bible teaches us...". You can prove just about every arguement. Give a bunch of pre-teens a choice between hard uncertain realities and quick easy answers and what do you think they'll choose? Religion is a dangerous phenomenon.
Because some lessons just have be learned the hard way.
If their goal is really to scrutinize the science for the betterment of all then great. But if what they'll really after (and what its sounds like) is to muddy the waters so much that creationism and "intelligent design" is the norm then it'll bite them in ass when all these mis-informed kids hit adulthood and and realize the world has left them behind.
Man, I don't even get why this is an issue. I grew in up in a very socially religious country. We had prayer 3 times a a day in a government run High School for God's sake, but I never heard once in a biology class talk about creationism.
Why can't they realize these are seperate issues? Why is time being spent rehashing 80 year old arguements?
Honestly since when are credentials a requirement for expressing an opinion? I don't believe I ever said either were not "sound engineering solutions", Not being an aerospace engineer I wouldn't know that.
You're absolutely right. Apollo worked, but so does the turboprop engine. Horses work too.Even coal burning locomotives. So why aren't they still in wide use?
Because someone found something that works better. Its called progress. Better, faster, cheaper.
I've no problem with sticking with what works, but do we just to stop looking when we think we've found it?
Either way Boeing seems to be going back to the Apollo with their design. Unless there's some impressive shit going on inside, I'm not impressed with their's either.
Nothing about this impresses me. The design being the biggest disapointment. Maybe its time to take bids from some of the new areospace startups instead of handing it off to old entrenched Boeing. Those dinosaurs look at space and all they see is nails, so of course they'd want to build the same old hammers.
I know that it is hard to break tradition by going with a PG-13 movie
Bullshit Marketing ploy. The little kiddies he obviously wrote Phantom Menace for 6 years ago are all now hitting their pubety years. You think these kids are going sit through another bloodless cute-fest? I think not. The real downfall of Star Wars was Lucas having kids. Instead of making movies he started telling bedtime stories...
I just waiting for him to go back in and have Han shoot first in his next SW re-release.
At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law
Close, but I don't think close enough actually invovke Godwin's Law. There might be an applicable corallary. I can't think of one right now...
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Its called advanced copies. Publishers usually send off a few to established reviewers.
A friend of my Mother used to work for the NY Times in their book review section so I have a number of advance copies of books. They usually look like something printed up at Kinkos, slightly smaller than a hardcover, stabled binding with a papercover and no, or black and white cover art. It usually comes with a disclaimer. "This does not represent the final work" etc.
I have an advance copy of Anne Rice's "Memnoch the Devil" with a duplicated page and some typos not in the first edition. I've always wondered if it was worth something.
There's a lot of hype around Mieville, that I don't understand
I read Perdido Street Station. I thought his mix of steampunk and fantasy was interesting and his writing style is good but the plot wasn't all that great, infact I mostly wanted to know more about the secondary characters and the other races than main story. Meiville seems to have a touch of literary ADD, he tosses a lot of interesting ideas in but doesn't flesh them out.
Yeah, you Canadians seem to think we Americans have it good, but when you factor in higher cost of living, expensive healthcare and myriad of other costs of aggravations of living in the US of A there's probably no big difference in how far that income goes.
I'm making 38k a year in the SF Bay Area, single with no real debt and can't afford a condo or even a car (male under 25 insurance rates are through the roof+gas+tolls+parking+inevitable tickets)
At 35k in Canada I'm sure you're living more comfortably than I do.
Its not criminal. If it were then the a Judge would issue a subpeana and the Uni would have no choice but to hand over the data.
As it is the RIAA's Lawyer SWAT team stepped up and said "We want their names." The Uni refused. The matter was taken to a civil court and a judge decide that the Uni didn't have to cooperate.
Score 1 for justice.
Let me be clear. The issue here isn't whether hulk and CadillacMan stole/unlawfully copied/legally through fair use copied something. The issue is whether or not the Uni has to hand over confidential data just because some corporation says so. I don't care what side of the copyright debate you're on its hard to see this as anything but a good.
I had a semi-serious rant about this very same thing, so while I agree with you, you have to give Apple credit for hitting exactly the market they aimed for. That's not an easy feat, even MS can't seem to copy that..
On the contrary the reason I like the commercial is how over the top it is. One one hand I feel offended that a pair of tits attached to annoying voice passes as a spokesperson, on the other hand I have to give them points for unabashedly appealing to the base instincts of their audience. Its like Howard Stern or those Coors commercials, the first couple times its hilarious and appalling just how absurd it is. They better not try to run a whole strings of these though, then it would just get stupid.
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Takashi Miike gets my vote, but I'd pretty much take anyone over Mad King George. Including Albert Pyun
Wait scratch that. If they let Uwe Boll get anywhere near SW I'll have to go out and buy myself a highpowered rifle.
Personally I think people who buy these things almost never move them off their desk. Its mostly just a space issue and looking cool.
I had an Alienware gaming laptop, great piece of hardware but I never took it anyway except the occasional Lan party, because it weighed almost 9 lbs and sounded like a jet engiine. After about a year I finally gave into common sense and sold it on Ebay for about 1/2 what I paid for it and bought me a decent refurbed system with twice the power and a Radeon 9800.
I'll hold out for a wearable gargoyle rig with HUD before I venture into the portable market again.
Just letting it expire allows you to lean slightly either way depending on which side you're talking to.You can tell the bleeding hearts "Well, I was for it, but the bill didn't have the votes." And to the gun nuts you can say "The people didn't want the bill, so it wasn't renewed." The government knows how to protect its ass.
I'm not worried. They'll make it, we'll break it and the cycle continues.
WTF?
Thats it exactly. Science is hard. Its keeps changing. No one is right for very long. Religion is easy. Got a difficult question, dig around in the Bible for something that sounds nice and preface it with "The Bible teaches us...". You can prove just about every arguement. Give a bunch of pre-teens a choice between hard uncertain realities and quick easy answers and what do you think they'll choose? Religion is a dangerous phenomenon.
If their goal is really to scrutinize the science for the betterment of all then great. But if what they'll really after (and what its sounds like) is to muddy the waters so much that creationism and "intelligent design" is the norm then it'll bite them in ass when all these mis-informed kids hit adulthood and and realize the world has left them behind.
Man, I don't even get why this is an issue. I grew in up in a very socially religious country. We had prayer 3 times a a day in a government run High School for God's sake, but I never heard once in a biology class talk about creationism.
Why can't they realize these are seperate issues? Why is time being spent rehashing 80 year old arguements?
Honestly since when are credentials a requirement for expressing an opinion? I don't believe I ever said either were not "sound engineering solutions", Not being an aerospace engineer I wouldn't know that.
I count 16 Apollo missions with 3 deaths.
and 113 Space Shuttle missions with 14 deaths.
so tell me. Which is deadlier?
Because someone found something that works better. Its called progress. Better, faster, cheaper.
I've no problem with sticking with what works, but do we just to stop looking when we think we've found it?
Either way Boeing seems to be going back to the Apollo with their design. Unless there's some impressive shit going on inside, I'm not impressed with their's either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Boeing-CEV-Conc ept.jpg
Nothing about this impresses me. The design being the biggest disapointment. Maybe its time to take bids from some of the new areospace startups instead of handing it off to old entrenched Boeing. Those dinosaurs look at space and all they see is nails, so of course they'd want to build the same old hammers.
Bullshit Marketing ploy. The little kiddies he obviously wrote Phantom Menace for 6 years ago are all now hitting their pubety years. You think these kids are going sit through another bloodless cute-fest? I think not. The real downfall of Star Wars was Lucas having kids. Instead of making movies he started telling bedtime stories...
I just waiting for him to go back in and have Han shoot first in his next SW re-release.
At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law Close, but I don't think close enough actually invovke Godwin's Law. There might be an applicable corallary. I can't think of one right now...
A friend of my Mother used to work for the NY Times in their book review section so I have a number of advance copies of books. They usually look like something printed up at Kinkos, slightly smaller than a hardcover, stabled binding with a papercover and no, or black and white cover art. It usually comes with a disclaimer. "This does not represent the final work" etc.
I have an advance copy of Anne Rice's "Memnoch the Devil" with a duplicated page and some typos not in the first edition. I've always wondered if it was worth something.
I read Perdido Street Station. I thought his mix of steampunk and fantasy was interesting and his writing style is good but the plot wasn't all that great, infact I mostly wanted to know more about the secondary characters and the other races than main story. Meiville seems to have a touch of literary ADD, he tosses a lot of interesting ideas in but doesn't flesh them out.
I am where I am because thats where the job (and school) is, yet I can barely afford to be where I am. Its a vicious cycle.
I'm making 38k a year in the SF Bay Area, single with no real debt and can't afford a condo or even a car (male under 25 insurance rates are through the roof+gas+tolls+parking+inevitable tickets)
At 35k in Canada I'm sure you're living more comfortably than I do.
As it is the RIAA's Lawyer SWAT team stepped up and said "We want their names." The Uni refused. The matter was taken to a civil court and a judge decide that the Uni didn't have to cooperate.
Score 1 for justice.
Let me be clear. The issue here isn't whether hulk and CadillacMan stole/unlawfully copied/legally through fair use copied something. The issue is whether or not the Uni has to hand over confidential data just because some corporation says so. I don't care what side of the copyright debate you're on its hard to see this as anything but a good.
Could it be that theft is a stepping to to smoking the weed?
The plot thickens...
Really? When we start executing people on the streets for Jaywalking, then I'll buy your line.
I had a semi-serious rant about this very same thing, so while I agree with you, you have to give Apple credit for hitting exactly the market they aimed for. That's not an easy feat, even MS can't seem to copy that..
Either way I find it far less controversial and creepy than those Burger King commercials.
Fully loaded with passengers and cargo this plane is more fuel effecient than most on the market and even most cars for that matter. check it out
I hope they sell, can't wait to ride in one.