Set your moderation threshold higher. It won't block all of them, but if you're only looking at Score:3 items, you won't see a lot of the redundant nonsense. Of course, if I had done the same, I would have missed this little meta-gem of a post...
Well, as much as AOL sucks, it's still around and generating millions of dollars of revenue every day. Calling them--or RIM--a footnote is maybe a bit sensational.
Or you'd be gaining a passive-aggressive loser who doesn't know how to deal with problems head-on. Maybe it's this kind of mentality which has kept RIM from evolving as fast as they should.
As I tweeted yesterday, RIM's response should have been, 'We were caught with our pants down. The bozos are getting the golden chute. We'll be back, or die trying.'
It's been done more recently in Lady Gaga's labs. I saw this video on YouTube (can't find the link, damnit!) where a guy has Born This Way playing in the background, and he's singing over the various sections with songs like "Vogue", "Express Yourself" and "Waterfalls". There are about a half-dozen hits from the last 20 years (mostly by Madonna) compressed into that song.
Sigh. I once wrote a web-based payroll system for a large temp agency. Dozens of offices in six or eight states, so it was no small matter. They even upped the bid to get higher priority in my queue (I had to push back some other projects), and I didn't even walk away with six figures. I guess my integrity outweighs my business sense. $600M indeed.
They're still privately held, so we don't know numbers, but they're certainly selling some advertising. Whether the revenues are on par with the VC valuation of the company is a big mystery, but there are definitely real, paying customers.
You laugh, but a decade ago, I was asking the folks at my local gym why the friction-based exercise equipment was plugged into the wall. When you're riding an exercycle, you're generating electricity. Same with ellipticals and that ilk. They laughed at me.
Now, most of those machines are free-standing and running on human power only. Give it another few years and they'll be providing enough power via efficiency gains to power machines that don't get anything from the user, like the treadmills. Heck, even those could probably be redesigned to get some energy out of the user's movements.
It's not inconceivable to think that with efficient enough machines, and with shifts in our culture, we might find that people are buying exercise machines for their home to allow them to stay in shape while reducing their power bills. It's not going to replace that reactor nor that coal plant, but it'll do something.
Of course the right-wingers will try to portray them as socialist and wasteful, counting every ounce of energy used in the creation and distribution of those machines against the gains they provide. They'll say that they're useless because they don't make enough of an impact, but then they'll also decry them as job killers because the power industry will be irreparably harmed by their use. Fuckers. I hate them already.
My wife used to knock over her iBook all the time. When we got a dog, it fell off the coffee table twice as often. We replaced it with a MacBook some time back, and it's only hit the ground once in like five years. With a kid having been added to the mix since then, that number would have been a lot worse without the magnetic plug.
Of course, the kid has come pretty close to doing some other things. He went through a phase of being fascinated by watching water pour over different things.
Not that I'm supporting this patent, but it could be possible that Apple has documented evidence of working on this patent well prior to any of Han's evidence. I'm not a patent lawyer, but it's my understanding that the patent award isn't solely based on the filing date, but rather the "date of the invention". So if you invented something in 2001 and filed in 2007, someone who talks about it in 2006 isn't creating prior art.
My understanding is that the filing date can be many years after the invention date, although as soon as a product using that invention is released in the wild (by the inventor or someone else) the clock begins ticking, and they have a year to file.
Well, I'm right so often, statistically speaking, I've got to be wrong some time. Might as well be now. Your actual citation definitely beats out my imagined one.
Never saw the alternate ending, but I did remember thinking it was interesting that Neville *didn't* see the care that the zombie leader felt for the female. He was ascribing animalistic drives to them and decrying their lack of humanity, when there was obviously something else going on.
That being said, I agree with you that the alternate ending you describe was not as good, and probably would have ruined the movie for me.
He chose to die because he'd lost everything he loved, and the only thing left for him to do was to cure the plague. Sure, he also wanted to act as bait to ensure that the greatest possible number of zombies died with him so there was a tactical reason for that, but you're absolutely right, it was a suicide.
For rational people, suicide never makes sense. But that was the beauty of this movie. For a high-budget, name-brand flick, it allowed the hero to commit, even to the depravity of insane, senseless desires.
Thanks... but I'm not sure I'd call anything you clean by soaking in H2SO4 "easy to clean". I wouldn't even know where to get sulphiric acid. Was that a typo, a joke, or something else? Hell, H2SO4 is, IIRC, the only acid known to etch glass. I can't imagine why you'd have to soak anything in that.
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Set your moderation threshold higher. It won't block all of them, but if you're only looking at Score:3 items, you won't see a lot of the redundant nonsense. Of course, if I had done the same, I would have missed this little meta-gem of a post...
Well, as much as AOL sucks, it's still around and generating millions of dollars of revenue every day. Calling them--or RIM--a footnote is maybe a bit sensational.
Or you'd be gaining a passive-aggressive loser who doesn't know how to deal with problems head-on. Maybe it's this kind of mentality which has kept RIM from evolving as fast as they should.
As I tweeted yesterday, RIM's response should have been, 'We were caught with our pants down. The bozos are getting the golden chute. We'll be back, or die trying.'
I found the video I was talking about in the above post.
It's been done more recently in Lady Gaga's labs. I saw this video on YouTube (can't find the link, damnit!) where a guy has Born This Way playing in the background, and he's singing over the various sections with songs like "Vogue", "Express Yourself" and "Waterfalls". There are about a half-dozen hits from the last 20 years (mostly by Madonna) compressed into that song.
Citation?
Sigh. I once wrote a web-based payroll system for a large temp agency. Dozens of offices in six or eight states, so it was no small matter. They even upped the bid to get higher priority in my queue (I had to push back some other projects), and I didn't even walk away with six figures. I guess my integrity outweighs my business sense. $600M indeed.
I wonder if Dvorak himself has to pay for everything--or even anything--he reviews.
They're still privately held, so we don't know numbers, but they're certainly selling some advertising. Whether the revenues are on par with the VC valuation of the company is a big mystery, but there are definitely real, paying customers.
Thank you, thank you; I'll be here all week!
A taco shell script? Inconceivable!
Run/Stop - Restore.
Funny. But the dog is a 'he', not an 'it'.
You laugh, but a decade ago, I was asking the folks at my local gym why the friction-based exercise equipment was plugged into the wall. When you're riding an exercycle, you're generating electricity. Same with ellipticals and that ilk. They laughed at me.
Now, most of those machines are free-standing and running on human power only. Give it another few years and they'll be providing enough power via efficiency gains to power machines that don't get anything from the user, like the treadmills. Heck, even those could probably be redesigned to get some energy out of the user's movements.
It's not inconceivable to think that with efficient enough machines, and with shifts in our culture, we might find that people are buying exercise machines for their home to allow them to stay in shape while reducing their power bills. It's not going to replace that reactor nor that coal plant, but it'll do something.
Of course the right-wingers will try to portray them as socialist and wasteful, counting every ounce of energy used in the creation and distribution of those machines against the gains they provide. They'll say that they're useless because they don't make enough of an impact, but then they'll also decry them as job killers because the power industry will be irreparably harmed by their use. Fuckers. I hate them already.
We are in the digital millenium, which some felt required new laws for copyright. The content covered is not necessarily all digital.
That being said, in this case, once it was scanned, it became digital. And all the prepress on the magazine was probably digital.
My wife used to knock over her iBook all the time. When we got a dog, it fell off the coffee table twice as often. We replaced it with a MacBook some time back, and it's only hit the ground once in like five years. With a kid having been added to the mix since then, that number would have been a lot worse without the magnetic plug.
Of course, the kid has come pretty close to doing some other things. He went through a phase of being fascinated by watching water pour over different things.
Not that I'm supporting this patent, but it could be possible that Apple has documented evidence of working on this patent well prior to any of Han's evidence. I'm not a patent lawyer, but it's my understanding that the patent award isn't solely based on the filing date, but rather the "date of the invention". So if you invented something in 2001 and filed in 2007, someone who talks about it in 2006 isn't creating prior art.
My understanding is that the filing date can be many years after the invention date, although as soon as a product using that invention is released in the wild (by the inventor or someone else) the clock begins ticking, and they have a year to file.
Well, I'm right so often, statistically speaking, I've got to be wrong some time. Might as well be now. Your actual citation definitely beats out my imagined one.
Can't find the source, but I'm pretty sure they bought Han's company and hired Han. My understanding is that some portions of this patent are his.
I've got your patent *right* *here*.
Never saw the alternate ending, but I did remember thinking it was interesting that Neville *didn't* see the care that the zombie leader felt for the female. He was ascribing animalistic drives to them and decrying their lack of humanity, when there was obviously something else going on.
That being said, I agree with you that the alternate ending you describe was not as good, and probably would have ruined the movie for me.
He chose to die because he'd lost everything he loved, and the only thing left for him to do was to cure the plague. Sure, he also wanted to act as bait to ensure that the greatest possible number of zombies died with him so there was a tactical reason for that, but you're absolutely right, it was a suicide.
For rational people, suicide never makes sense. But that was the beauty of this movie. For a high-budget, name-brand flick, it allowed the hero to commit, even to the depravity of insane, senseless desires.
Thanks... but I'm not sure I'd call anything you clean by soaking in H2SO4 "easy to clean". I wouldn't even know where to get sulphiric acid. Was that a typo, a joke, or something else? Hell, H2SO4 is, IIRC, the only acid known to etch glass. I can't imagine why you'd have to soak anything in that.
Thanks for the pointer! Looking into the 555s now.