Neither major party candidate has mentioned addressing the crushing national debt or deficit spending. If I'm going to listen to platitudes, I want to hear about reducing spending and paying down the debt, not battles over who gets tax cuts.
I don't think that's going to be the case. Yes, we'll lose the tactile experience of flipping through boxes of albums (and let's face it, that has about a.01% success rate). But I've preserved digital data for quite a long time, and there's no reason my kids won't be able to browse music directories and share music from virtually 20-year-old music files.
I forgot Ratatoullie. It's up there too.
Nemo is still good after you've watched it 8 million times with a 3-year-old. That's the real test. Also I like Thomas Newman.
Yes, I saw it in the theater, and yes, I liked it, in fact was impressed by it. But it is not the best Pixar movie evarrrr, in fact I'd have to struggle to put it in the top three. The plot was pretty thin, and the characters were not terribly developed or memorable. But from an adult's perspective, and taking the movies as a whole (animation+story+characters), Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Cars were really my three favorites, not necessarily in that order.
Also the cute robot theme has been done before, and looked about the same then.
There's usually IT auditing and advisory positions to be found at the big 4 (PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ernst and Young, Deloitte, and KPMG), as well as second and third tier firms.
The purpose of the RIAA is to maintain its usefulness to the member firms. There must always be progress, or at least the appearance that the association is making it worthwhile to be a member.
Programming a VIC-20 in BASIC...and removing all the spaces to save a few bytes. Oh yeah, those were the days! Now we have terabyte drives. The mind boggles.
I've seen that, at a Coast Guard LORAN station in Alaska I got to tour years ago (1990?). The guy held a fluorescent tube next to the high-voltage power supply for the transmitter and it glowed pretty healthily, enough to show up in the picture I took of it.
I can't remember the name of this story, but the plot was that someone had invented a fast-time bubble...you got in it and time passed extremely fast for you on the inside, making the outside world appear to be frozen, or move very very slowly. Someone stole it and ran around killing people by shining a flashlight on them from inside the field, burning them to death.
I worked at Mcdonald's 18-20 years ago in the US, and it was the same way. Labor costs tightly controlled, so much so that occasionalyl in slow periods they asked you to clock out and take a break for a while.
I'm curious if they'll be able to see the Apollo landing sites. Have we had a look at them since we left? That would be the first place I'd visit if I landed on the moon - there ought to be some interesting data available from the materials left out in baking space for 30-odd years.
Wrong...my 1985 Mercedes 300D was completely mechanical. Mechanical fuel pump, mechanical injection, vacuum-operated shutoff. It would run with no power whatsoever once it was started.
Why yes, I can boast about my wealth and status through brand names:
Marantz: $2.50 at a garage sale.
Mercedes: $1500
Fiat: $800
LaserJet IIIsi: $100 from ebay
Bose speakers: free, snatched out of mid-arc to garbage.
Is there a difference in owning things only because one is wealthy, versus owning the same things only because one is intelligent?
The Internet caused a real breakthrough in fixing stuff for me - before, I'd have to find someone who knew more than I did, or hit the library, or just figure it out myself. Now I can find parts for my old Mercedes and my Fiat, repair the lawn mower, put a new power supply in my old LaserJet, recap my Marantz amplifier, refoam my Bose woofers - repair all nice old stuff that probably would have been tossed out without the ability to easily search for repair hints and sources of parts.
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I agree, it was a pretty good movie.
Neither major party candidate has mentioned addressing the crushing national debt or deficit spending. If I'm going to listen to platitudes, I want to hear about reducing spending and paying down the debt, not battles over who gets tax cuts.
It's spotty. But if you haven't seen the Windowlicker video yet, do so now (be aware though, probably NSFW for language and big booty action).
I have AT&T, and don't want an iPhone (well I do, but it doesn't really do what I need). No soup for me!
web-based == subscription model.
I don't think that's going to be the case. Yes, we'll lose the tactile experience of flipping through boxes of albums (and let's face it, that has about a .01% success rate). But I've preserved digital data for quite a long time, and there's no reason my kids won't be able to browse music directories and share music from virtually 20-year-old music files.
A friend of mine has a 1959 Lancia Flaminia that has windshield wipers on the inside back window, for defrosting.
I forgot Ratatoullie. It's up there too. Nemo is still good after you've watched it 8 million times with a 3-year-old. That's the real test. Also I like Thomas Newman.
Yes, I saw it in the theater, and yes, I liked it, in fact was impressed by it. But it is not the best Pixar movie evarrrr, in fact I'd have to struggle to put it in the top three. The plot was pretty thin, and the characters were not terribly developed or memorable. But from an adult's perspective, and taking the movies as a whole (animation+story+characters), Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Cars were really my three favorites, not necessarily in that order. Also the cute robot theme has been done before, and looked about the same then.
There's usually IT auditing and advisory positions to be found at the big 4 (PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ernst and Young, Deloitte, and KPMG), as well as second and third tier firms.
The purpose of the RIAA is to maintain its usefulness to the member firms. There must always be progress, or at least the appearance that the association is making it worthwhile to be a member.
Programming a VIC-20 in BASIC...and removing all the spaces to save a few bytes. Oh yeah, those were the days! Now we have terabyte drives. The mind boggles.
"Chair has moved 20 feet outside conference room window"
I've seen that, at a Coast Guard LORAN station in Alaska I got to tour years ago (1990?). The guy held a fluorescent tube next to the high-voltage power supply for the transmitter and it glowed pretty healthily, enough to show up in the picture I took of it.
Judge Matsch was the presiding judge at Timothy McVeigh's trial, if anyone remembers.
That's the one, thanks. Excellent story, I should get the collections and read the rest of them.
I can't remember the name of this story, but the plot was that someone had invented a fast-time bubble...you got in it and time passed extremely fast for you on the inside, making the outside world appear to be frozen, or move very very slowly. Someone stole it and ran around killing people by shining a flashlight on them from inside the field, burning them to death.
I worked at Mcdonald's 18-20 years ago in the US, and it was the same way. Labor costs tightly controlled, so much so that occasionalyl in slow periods they asked you to clock out and take a break for a while.
Forget the Geek Squad. And the blackjack.
Very interesting, thanks.
I'm curious if they'll be able to see the Apollo landing sites. Have we had a look at them since we left? That would be the first place I'd visit if I landed on the moon - there ought to be some interesting data available from the materials left out in baking space for 30-odd years.
Wrong...my 1985 Mercedes 300D was completely mechanical. Mechanical fuel pump, mechanical injection, vacuum-operated shutoff. It would run with no power whatsoever once it was started.
However I am not intelligent enough to ever remember line breaks. I am ashamed.
Why yes, I can boast about my wealth and status through brand names: Marantz: $2.50 at a garage sale. Mercedes: $1500 Fiat: $800 LaserJet IIIsi: $100 from ebay Bose speakers: free, snatched out of mid-arc to garbage. Is there a difference in owning things only because one is wealthy, versus owning the same things only because one is intelligent?
The Internet caused a real breakthrough in fixing stuff for me - before, I'd have to find someone who knew more than I did, or hit the library, or just figure it out myself. Now I can find parts for my old Mercedes and my Fiat, repair the lawn mower, put a new power supply in my old LaserJet, recap my Marantz amplifier, refoam my Bose woofers - repair all nice old stuff that probably would have been tossed out without the ability to easily search for repair hints and sources of parts.