No more ridiculous than the Friends actors wanting $1,000,000 an episode. I agree that these performers are paid way more than their contribution to society would seem to warrent, but that is what the market is willing to pay them (any conservitive capitalist care to mention the Law of Supply and Demand, or as I call it: The Law of Fear and Greed?).
I would say the voice actors are being underpaid now, in relation to the rest of the market. But, they need to understand they are only about half the talent (okay, maybe 60%). They are not doing the physical performance. Only the voice. Maybe they should get half of what an actor gets paid in a show thats been on for 15 years.
Oh, wait, there haven't been any sitcoms on for 15 years.
That is the one use of Excel that absolutly kills me. A form must be sent back to someone, right? How is the data logged? What is the mechinisim by which the data will be returned? The form must be capturing something. How are you going to report against it? You've got five hundred seperate worksheets to coorelate!
Again, its all a matter of scale. If you're going to be the only one using it, it works great. But when you get outside your personal bubble, that's where plain-old spreadsheet breaksdown.
If you are the only one using the data, then a spreadsheet is fine. Problems arise when that data must be shared by other people.
Let me give you an example. At work, we are currently testing our new CAD app. My boss hands me a list of 200 job numbers (containing drawings) and says: "Go forth, and make sure all these jobs will work under our new tool". I thought I was going to have enough time to do it all myself. So, I contiued to use the spreadsheet to keep up with the status of each job, as well as defects on those jobs.
Then, the deadline changed, and I needed to get other people to help me test. What's the situation now? I get a copy of the same spreadsheet back from 4 other people, with there changes. I have to sit down and coorelate all the changes into a single document so that I can give my boss a status (and don't tell me about 'Track Changes'. That shit sucks).
If I would have known in advance that others would need access to this data, I would have put it in a database, and let everyone update it through phpMyAdmin. Then, pulling status becomes as easy as one query.
The moral of the story: Use a spreadsheet for calculations or for private use. But, if the data must be used by others, for god's sake, use something more robust.
BTW: Rows and columns do not a database make.
I guess we can't just agree that all politicians are lieing, opportunistic-sacks of slack-jawed monkeys?
Sorry if I offeneded any monkeys with that comment. I ment no disrespect. Obviously, you are of much higher form of life than a politican.
So, the current president cannot take the blame for the current economic situation. That's the line I here from Republi-can'ts call the time. Blame Clinton! Its his fault that we are in a recession!
The parent post said 5-10 years. Okay. Explain this to me: How can Bush take credit for the economy "getting stronger" (his words)? Shouldn't you have to give Clinton credit for that?
I consider myself fairly liberal (in the American scence), but the older I get, the more I want the gov to just enforce the laws we do have.
I agree with the posters commnet: Stiffer penelties. But, we also need to realize that the current level of at which someone is considered drunk is NOT truely drunk for a large portion of people. In fact, the founder of MADD (Mothers against drunk driving) is kind of dis-heartened with the way this country is treating drunk drivers. Her intent was to never make it illegal to have a cocktail, and drive. She wanted to stop the true drukards from getting behind the wheel.
What I'm trying to say, in my rambling way, is that we should punish the true drunk drivers. And punish them hard. But, don't punish citizens who have never driven drunk (or, in the case of my state, arrest people for public intoxication because they where walking home! [why where they walking home? Because they where too drunk to drive! Give them some credit for knowing their limits!]
I know Fedora is supposed to be bleeding edge, but isn't including GNOME 2.5 (a development version) a little, un-savery? I would imagine they'd want to wait for the first release of 2.6, and go with 2.4 till then.
I would say that the world space agency's should work together on this. But, seeing how the ISS turned out (late, budget overruns, etc), perhaps its better if we all take a different path.
After all, competition is a good thing!
Weird. I always thought the Universe (or Multiverse, if you swing that way) was written in Perl. I mean, after all, how else can you explain:
A: It has its ugly moments. BUT
B: It just works.
Only a left-winger would say this. Analysis shows a perception among the center AND right that the news media tilts left. Be honest: you're just another left-winger.
Only because we've been listening to right wingers scream about a supposed liberal media for 40 something years. Just because someone screams something at the top of their lungs does not make it true. But, most people don't understand that. If they hear it enough, they think its true. That's why people will swear that urban legends are true.
The media is not liberal (as a whole). The media is not conservative (as a whole). Yes, there are wingers out there. FOX News, is obviously right wing, not centrist. Their only 'liberal', Alan Colmes, is a ultra-mild liberal. Really, he's just a centrist with liberal leanings. But the media as a whole serves one master: Its self. Its all about the Benjamins, folks.
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Actually, I think most 4 year olds have better comupter skills than the mass populace.
Maybe that's the angle OSS should take: Get Linux installed in all Fisher-Price and Playschool toys. Hook 'em young, I say.
There are plenty of people in urban America on dial-up. Its not as wide-spread as you seem think.
Disk space may not be a problem, but bandwidth still is. A vast majority of the world is still on dial-up, bub...
Yeah.. Everything is stored in Program Files. Except when things are put into C:\Windows\System32. Or the Registery.
That's like saying Program Files is the same thing as /usr. Stop being so obtuse.
First 5 minutes: Completely unpredictable setup for main plot
Next 16 minutes: Main plot.
Last 5 minutes: Plot resolution.
Its a proven formula!
After all, what would you expect from the Americal Idol and Survivor generation?
I would say the voice actors are being underpaid now, in relation to the rest of the market. But, they need to understand they are only about half the talent (okay, maybe 60%). They are not doing the physical performance. Only the voice. Maybe they should get half of what an actor gets paid in a show thats been on for 15 years.
Oh, wait, there haven't been any sitcoms on for 15 years.
What self-respecting ST fan doesn't know the ROA?
Is it possible to mod the story as funny?
That is the one use of Excel that absolutly kills me. A form must be sent back to someone, right? How is the data logged? What is the mechinisim by which the data will be returned? The form must be capturing something. How are you going to report against it? You've got five hundred seperate worksheets to coorelate!
Again, its all a matter of scale. If you're going to be the only one using it, it works great. But when you get outside your personal bubble, that's where plain-old spreadsheet breaksdown.
If you are the only one using the data, then a spreadsheet is fine. Problems arise when that data must be shared by other people. Let me give you an example. At work, we are currently testing our new CAD app. My boss hands me a list of 200 job numbers (containing drawings) and says: "Go forth, and make sure all these jobs will work under our new tool". I thought I was going to have enough time to do it all myself. So, I contiued to use the spreadsheet to keep up with the status of each job, as well as defects on those jobs. Then, the deadline changed, and I needed to get other people to help me test. What's the situation now? I get a copy of the same spreadsheet back from 4 other people, with there changes. I have to sit down and coorelate all the changes into a single document so that I can give my boss a status (and don't tell me about 'Track Changes'. That shit sucks). If I would have known in advance that others would need access to this data, I would have put it in a database, and let everyone update it through phpMyAdmin. Then, pulling status becomes as easy as one query. The moral of the story: Use a spreadsheet for calculations or for private use. But, if the data must be used by others, for god's sake, use something more robust. BTW: Rows and columns do not a database make.
Mabye they could buy Yahoo!s spam filetering tech. When I used Yahoo! mail, I found it to be rather good.
I guess we can't just agree that all politicians are lieing, opportunistic-sacks of slack-jawed monkeys? Sorry if I offeneded any monkeys with that comment. I ment no disrespect. Obviously, you are of much higher form of life than a politican.
So, the current president cannot take the blame for the current economic situation. That's the line I here from Republi-can'ts call the time. Blame Clinton! Its his fault that we are in a recession! The parent post said 5-10 years. Okay. Explain this to me: How can Bush take credit for the economy "getting stronger" (his words)? Shouldn't you have to give Clinton credit for that?
What drives me crazy is, that in my state, I can't by alchohl on Sunday! What possible purpose does that serve?
I agree with the posters commnet: Stiffer penelties. But, we also need to realize that the current level of at which someone is considered drunk is NOT truely drunk for a large portion of people. In fact, the founder of MADD (Mothers against drunk driving) is kind of dis-heartened with the way this country is treating drunk drivers. Her intent was to never make it illegal to have a cocktail, and drive. She wanted to stop the true drukards from getting behind the wheel.
What I'm trying to say, in my rambling way, is that we should punish the true drunk drivers. And punish them hard. But, don't punish citizens who have never driven drunk (or, in the case of my state, arrest people for public intoxication because they where walking home! [why where they walking home? Because they where too drunk to drive! Give them some credit for knowing their limits!]
Does a Star Wars pun really rate that high of a mod?
Tomorrow? How about next week.
I know Fedora is supposed to be bleeding edge, but isn't including GNOME 2.5 (a development version) a little, un-savery? I would imagine they'd want to wait for the first release of 2.6, and go with 2.4 till then.
I'll take the heroin... You can keep the machine gun. (probably not a good idea for me to have a machine gun when I'm on the shit, anyway).
I can't imagine any civilized western society having a law such as that (I beileive you, it just confounds the mind). How did we get to this point?
I would say that the world space agency's should work together on this. But, seeing how the ISS turned out (late, budget overruns, etc), perhaps its better if we all take a different path. After all, competition is a good thing!
Weird. I always thought the Universe (or Multiverse, if you swing that way) was written in Perl. I mean, after all, how else can you explain: A: It has its ugly moments. BUT B: It just works.
Only a left-winger would say this. Analysis shows a perception among the center AND right that the news media tilts left. Be honest: you're just another left-winger. Only because we've been listening to right wingers scream about a supposed liberal media for 40 something years. Just because someone screams something at the top of their lungs does not make it true. But, most people don't understand that. If they hear it enough, they think its true. That's why people will swear that urban legends are true. The media is not liberal (as a whole). The media is not conservative (as a whole). Yes, there are wingers out there. FOX News, is obviously right wing, not centrist. Their only 'liberal', Alan Colmes, is a ultra-mild liberal. Really, he's just a centrist with liberal leanings. But the media as a whole serves one master: Its self. Its all about the Benjamins, folks.