It doesn't really matter why or if they consider themselves qualified. I could put out my own list of rankings too, if I felt like it. What's odd to me is why so many readers feel that US News is qualified to do so.
"We noticed that islands tend to have a lot of sand. We noticed that by placing your head in it, the tsunami would just pass by. We expect broader reaching applications of this new and valuable technology. Oh, and patent pending."
Google got those spam emails back in the early nineties too. Whereas we all just deleted the emails and chewed out our friends for sending them, google took the idea and ran with it. We now have our Beta Email Tracking Application. Does this mean Bill Gates will send Google $1000?
if they also taught a course on open-source economics. I.e., how you can make a successful business through the selling of services. It would be useful, since I get the impression that a lot of the folks who are open-source advocates really don't have much business sense. That's not meant as an insult--I know my business skills are mostly lacking. It's a big part of why I wouldn't start a business myself. It might have the added benefit of giving some of the commercial==closed-source people some ideas on where it can make sense to use open-source in their own businesses. I work with a guy who can't understand why anybody would ever contribute to open source. He sees it as people giving away valuable brain juice for free.
I remember my history books in elementary school stating with pride that the US and Canada had the longest unprotected border anywhere in the world. Things have certainly changed.
I like to do shiny side in, so that it reflects my brain waves back into my head. I figure it acts like a microwave oven, amplifying its power tremendously.
As I understand it there are a lot of those redundancies in English legalese. Consider "cease and desist" as another example. This is where my memory gets hazy regarding the book I read this in, but I believe it traces back to the roots of the British legal system. In those good ol' days the British gov't was conducted in French and/or Latin. There was an eventual transitional period where gov't and legal proceedings were handled in English as well as French/Latin. It seems reasonable that these redundant terms started more as side-by-side translations before becoming a single item in legalese.
Of course, as with most things I say, I could be 100% wrong. Feel free to correct me or ignore me altogether:)
Agreed. I'm sure this is a useful or interesting statistic for advertisers and such, but I'd be more interested in a weighted distribution. I.e., are a disproportionate number of 50+ y.o. TV watchers?
Coming up with a bad one-liner doesn't really make your point. It would be hard to sell another particularly successful well-made movie if it was described as "A tale of two ambiguously gay midgets who attempt to transport jewelry with the help of a band of merry men while trying to escape the clutches of the Black Riders. Also involves a flaming guy jumping off a cliff."
A better sales-pitch line for Little Miss Sunshine might be "A coming of age story on a roadtrip through the heartland of America where a young girl teaches us the beauty of being unique."
It's important to be able to summarize a script this way for the same reason it's important to keep your resume short--the person deciding whether or not to make YOUR movie is looking at hundreds of other scripts (or more likely that person's assistants). They don't have time to read every single script in detail to discover all the delightful nuance and wonderfully crafted characters you have created. You need something that will grab their attention out of all the other submissions so that they then devote their attention to your movie. Nobody says yes based off the one-liner. But they will say no.
If there was a poll among Americans asking if they felt that terrorism needed to be "managed or controlled" and if they wanted the government to do this managing, I bet the numbers would be similarly high. People aren't magically different across the globe. As long as the average individual isn't too badly off, they tend towards maintaining the status quo. In China this apparently gets translated to "I'm happy now. An influx of radical new ideas may upset this happiness. I'd rather things stay the way they are. The government needs to protect me from this." In the US this is "I'm happy now. An influx of radical terrorists may upset this happiness. I'd rather things stay the way they are. The government needs to protect me from this." You can substitute the fear du jour from almost any point in modern history with similar results.
I've always wondered if something like this was responsible for the Great Vowel Shift in Old English, which was a very large change in pronunciation in a very short time period. In addition to the vowels changing position in the mouth, structures like r(vowel) changed to (vowel)r. Compare the German brennen to the English burn. Perhaps this happened on a large scale with children feeling like this rolled off the tongue better along with a shorter lifespan in adults to reduce exposure to the adults' pronunciation. I could be completely out in left field, but it's fascinating to me, nonetheless.
We are only around 500-600 books right now, so admittedly it's a smaller issue than 3500, but Delicious Library software combined with what the submitter calls "soft alphabetizing" has worked well for us. We split fiction from non-fiction, then split non-fiction into sub categories. My wife and I each have a handful of categories that we are very interested in, so a dozen sub-categories combined with a general non-fiction catch-all makes most books easy to find. In fact, the only reason we use the software catalog is so we can loan out books to friends and family. What's the point of keeping hundreds or thousands of books, if they go unused? People are always borrowing books (and movies) and we don't have to worry about losing them. Or at least we know whose thumbs to break if the books don't come back.
It is made very clear in the EULA you have to agree to before purchasing the game--at least it has been on any game I've looked at. It would be nice if that were actually illegal, voiding that part of the EULA, but I'm not too optimistic.
That won't work in a place like NYC.
Cop: So where is the taxi we're looking for?
Cab Co. GPS operator: You see that spot where there isn't a taxi? That's our guy.
There's usually a both. Generally a cab fare will be something like $3.00 for the initial fare, then another $1.25/mile or something like that. Then they'll have a minimum $20/hr to cover them in case of heavy traffic.
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It doesn't really matter why or if they consider themselves qualified. I could put out my own list of rankings too, if I felt like it. What's odd to me is why so many readers feel that US News is qualified to do so.
But they don't float. Therefore NOT a witch. QED.
Search results for "web 2.0" are interesting too. The top three old results were
1) Netscape
2) Something called UnCoverWeb 2.0
3) Python
"We noticed that islands tend to have a lot of sand. We noticed that by placing your head in it, the tsunami would just pass by. We expect broader reaching applications of this new and valuable technology. Oh, and patent pending."
Google got those spam emails back in the early nineties too. Whereas we all just deleted the emails and chewed out our friends for sending them, google took the idea and ran with it. We now have our Beta Email Tracking Application. Does this mean Bill Gates will send Google $1000?
if they also taught a course on open-source economics. I.e., how you can make a successful business through the selling of services. It would be useful, since I get the impression that a lot of the folks who are open-source advocates really don't have much business sense. That's not meant as an insult--I know my business skills are mostly lacking. It's a big part of why I wouldn't start a business myself. It might have the added benefit of giving some of the commercial==closed-source people some ideas on where it can make sense to use open-source in their own businesses. I work with a guy who can't understand why anybody would ever contribute to open source. He sees it as people giving away valuable brain juice for free.
I remember my history books in elementary school stating with pride that the US and Canada had the longest unprotected border anywhere in the world. Things have certainly changed.
I like to do shiny side in, so that it reflects my brain waves back into my head. I figure it acts like a microwave oven, amplifying its power tremendously.
Does anybody else smell bacon?
I think it's safe to say that if he didn't have an intimidating phone call with a bunch of lawyers before, he HAS now. :)
I have some Turkey, if you're interested.
are they frictionless?
Based on a couple of images, the farmer clearly didn't think so.
As I understand it there are a lot of those redundancies in English legalese. Consider "cease and desist" as another example. This is where my memory gets hazy regarding the book I read this in, but I believe it traces back to the roots of the British legal system. In those good ol' days the British gov't was conducted in French and/or Latin. There was an eventual transitional period where gov't and legal proceedings were handled in English as well as French/Latin. It seems reasonable that these redundant terms started more as side-by-side translations before becoming a single item in legalese.
Of course, as with most things I say, I could be 100% wrong. Feel free to correct me or ignore me altogether :)
Agreed. I'm sure this is a useful or interesting statistic for advertisers and such, but I'd be more interested in a weighted distribution. I.e., are a disproportionate number of 50+ y.o. TV watchers?
Coming up with a bad one-liner doesn't really make your point. It would be hard to sell another particularly successful well-made movie if it was described as "A tale of two ambiguously gay midgets who attempt to transport jewelry with the help of a band of merry men while trying to escape the clutches of the Black Riders. Also involves a flaming guy jumping off a cliff."
A better sales-pitch line for Little Miss Sunshine might be "A coming of age story on a roadtrip through the heartland of America where a young girl teaches us the beauty of being unique."
It's important to be able to summarize a script this way for the same reason it's important to keep your resume short--the person deciding whether or not to make YOUR movie is looking at hundreds of other scripts (or more likely that person's assistants). They don't have time to read every single script in detail to discover all the delightful nuance and wonderfully crafted characters you have created. You need something that will grab their attention out of all the other submissions so that they then devote their attention to your movie. Nobody says yes based off the one-liner. But they will say no.
If there was a poll among Americans asking if they felt that terrorism needed to be "managed or controlled" and if they wanted the government to do this managing, I bet the numbers would be similarly high. People aren't magically different across the globe. As long as the average individual isn't too badly off, they tend towards maintaining the status quo. In China this apparently gets translated to "I'm happy now. An influx of radical new ideas may upset this happiness. I'd rather things stay the way they are. The government needs to protect me from this." In the US this is "I'm happy now. An influx of radical terrorists may upset this happiness. I'd rather things stay the way they are. The government needs to protect me from this." You can substitute the fear du jour from almost any point in modern history with similar results.
I walk two miles to my favorite coffee shop every day. I exercise to pay for my binging :)
Maybe they were just trying to get linked on Slashdot. *shrug*
I've always wondered if something like this was responsible for the Great Vowel Shift in Old English, which was a very large change in pronunciation in a very short time period. In addition to the vowels changing position in the mouth, structures like r(vowel) changed to (vowel)r. Compare the German brennen to the English burn. Perhaps this happened on a large scale with children feeling like this rolled off the tongue better along with a shorter lifespan in adults to reduce exposure to the adults' pronunciation. I could be completely out in left field, but it's fascinating to me, nonetheless.
We are only around 500-600 books right now, so admittedly it's a smaller issue than 3500, but Delicious Library software combined with what the submitter calls "soft alphabetizing" has worked well for us. We split fiction from non-fiction, then split non-fiction into sub categories. My wife and I each have a handful of categories that we are very interested in, so a dozen sub-categories combined with a general non-fiction catch-all makes most books easy to find. In fact, the only reason we use the software catalog is so we can loan out books to friends and family. What's the point of keeping hundreds or thousands of books, if they go unused? People are always borrowing books (and movies) and we don't have to worry about losing them. Or at least we know whose thumbs to break if the books don't come back.
I didn't even manage to come up with the same description twice in a row to confirm the password. Forget about 3 months later...
Cromulent verbs like "embiggens?"
It is made very clear in the EULA you have to agree to before purchasing the game--at least it has been on any game I've looked at. It would be nice if that were actually illegal, voiding that part of the EULA, but I'm not too optimistic.
That won't work in a place like NYC. Cop: So where is the taxi we're looking for? Cab Co. GPS operator: You see that spot where there isn't a taxi? That's our guy.
There's usually a both. Generally a cab fare will be something like $3.00 for the initial fare, then another $1.25/mile or something like that. Then they'll have a minimum $20/hr to cover them in case of heavy traffic.
Agreed. It would be interesting to see the actual paper, since--based on what's in this article--they haven't seemed to uncover anything remarkable.