I once had a profession with a similar idea. He thinks that you should go to the University, buy all the required textbooks, and show up 4 years later to get your degree. One student asked him, "How will they know if you really read the books?" The professor replied, "They don't care now."
I wouldn't classify Numb3rs as any of those things. Scott isn't Kubrick. Scott will make mainstream movies and doesn't seem to have a problem with that. Scott kind of reminds me of Robert Redford in the sense that just about everyone thinks half his movies are good and half of them are crap but what constitutes the "good" half varies wildly from person to person depending on the type of movie they like. (But I think it's safe to say Andromeda always lands in Scott's "crap" half.)
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Oracle was wanting its own OS. Not the worst way to get one and not the worst OS to have.
How hard would it be to just calibrate per use? I know on things like a Palm Pilot you just touch three places and it's good to go. Why not do that for each voter (or at least offer it to each voter)?
If the submitter had bothered to RTFA, they'd realize that Microsoft actually recommends that the user nuke the Beta install from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
3) They'll act nonchalant about it but after a couple of weeks you'll be assigned to train a new guy to "help you out" with your day to day tasks. A couple of weeks after that, they'll hand you a nice pink slip of paper and thank you for your contributions to the company but inform you that your services are no longer required.
My personal rule for practical jokes is that they are fun provided nobody involved would mind being the victim. Based on what I'm reading, you're too thin skinned to enjoy them so I'd neither play one on you nor expect one from you. But there are plenty of people on this earth who don't associate a small joke at someone else's expense as abject humiliation or a sign that the victim is a moron. I've been on both ends of practical jokes. To me, being the occasional victim is worth the enjoyment others get from them. And pulling one off is worth the effort given the victim is a good sport about it.
That damn click is the most annoying part of ABC's streaming service. I hate sitting down to watch a show only to have to get up EVERY commercial break to click the damn Continue button. Yeah, I could get a wireless keyboard and mouse but I'd rather just use a service like Hulu that sanely integrates commercials.
The price of the licensing isn't the only thing to consider. The Wii media and drive are very similar to DVD specs but they are not DVDs. The most notable difference is that the data is read backwards. If Nintendo is going to sanction folks using the Wii to do something its hardware was never intended to do (run backwards for hours at a time), then a significant amount of QA time would have to go into making sure the unit isn't damaged in the process.
BAD CAR ANALOGY WARNING: I can run my car at 5000RPM but that doesn't mean I can keep on doing it day in and day out without any adverse effect.
Does running the Nintendo's laser backwards damage the unit in the long term? I don't know the answer to that but Nintendo probably doesn't either. And until they bother to spend the time and resources to find out, you're going to have to go out of your way to do it.
Which is exactly why we don't want the government doing the press any favors. It's going to be hard to get anything critical about the government from press that needs government favors to survive.
A fullback's running assignment is one of the most conceptually easy AIs to write. Run in front of the RB and knock as many people down as possible before they get to the RB (or until the RB passes you). If they can make a reasonably sane QB AI, they should have no problem with a decent FB.
As far as monopoly, the Madden fullback AI was a Rhodes Scholar compared to the fullback logic in the 2K games. At least the Madden FB doesn't go running off to the other side of the field based on how the D is stacked. And don't get me started on NCAA 2K2's misuse of the word "flex." Flex is not a damn blitz! Flex LBs are supposed to sit back and plug holes, not free-for-all the QB. And that's coming from someone who preferred the 2k series.
Oh, the humanity! Football games drive me nuts when the AI does stupid things no real person would ever do. Why the hell did my fullback just brush by the linebacker that's right in my RB's way?! Why can't I get my linebacker to stay in his lane on running plays?!
I'd love to see the difference in difficulty in Madden being the difference between playing a Jerry Glanville-coached team vs a Tom Landry-coached team. Instead, all increasing the difficulty does is make your opponents more talented but no smarter. Even on the highest difficulty, FBs don't understand their blocking assignments.
Not Vantage! They have a hole in them. The manufacturer knows about the hole in the filter and will do absolutely nothing to patch it. They consider it a "feature" instead of a bug. Yeah right...
"Unfortunately, it would have only been able to send messages to Princes in Nigeria, thus not being able to render them help in getting of the island."
Give the guy a break! He was already to the point of sending to SOMEONE. In a few days he probably could've sent an email to anyone. Too bad that idiot Gilligan knocked over and broke the Professor's coconut e-mailer. Funny how the idea was workable expect for one flaw not associated with the actual plan and instead of trying again they just abandoned it entirely.
Snellville, GA did the same thing and it really pisses me off. I wouldn't mind them taking the cameras down for legal or ethical issues but to take them down because they're working? That's almost as bad as the politicians complaining that tax revenue gained from tobacco sales is down because the increased taxes are actually getting people to stop or at least cut down on smoking (which was the stated purpose of such taxes in the first place).
"Why the heck does anyone buy electronics from brick and mortar stores any more?"
Someone else mentioned it above but to be very clear: return policy. Sure warranty is nice but just taking the damn thing back and getting another one is nicer. I buy all of my major electronics at Sams Club. Computers have 6 month return policy. Other electronics can be taken back at ANY time. I bought a fairly pricey portable DVD player there that crapped out on me after 8 months. I took it back and got another brand player with no problem. Just keep the receipt...
Oh, and you can buy online at Sams Club but last I checked you cannot return the item to the store and shipping is pretty pricey. That may have changed.
No, but it's made pretty plain that these doctors work only on the one or two cases House takes at a time (with the notable exception of Foreman's clinical trial and the occasional clinic duty) and that there are sometimes large gaps between the last patient and the next one where the doctors do little to nothing.
"However their decision to keep him saves how many lives?"
Their decision to keep House and tie up a staff of 3-4 other doctors will have saved about 110 people by the end of Season 5. That's a rough count. There have been episodes where House saves more than one person and at least two where a lesser team probably might've solved the problem and House's team missed something simple. 110 people in 5 years payrolling a staff of 4-5 of the best and brightest doctors out there. What else could those doctors have been doing in that time (or other doctors being paid from the same funding)? I don't see a contradiction between the "correct business decision" and the "right thing" in House's case.
He actually has 5 prosthetic USB keys for his fingers and when he finds them all he'll learn that he's really a robot sent back in time to resurrect the human race after an alien invasion and radioactive plague.
"One popular one at my unit was to send the newbie out to get Diesel Sparkplugs for one of our diesel trucks."
Back when I managed a pizza joint, we did stuff like that. If we poked a hole in the pizza dough, we'd have a newbie get us a dough repair kit from the walk-in cooler. When one of our new guys couldn't find it and didn't catch on, we told him we were really low on dough and really needed one. We sent him to Dominos telling him they'd have one we could borrow. Dominos called us to let us know they told him they were out of dough repair kits. They sent him to Pizza Hut. The lady at Pizza Hut was not amused and called us and griped about it.
We also did "inventory." We'd all act like we were counting things like pizza boxes, dough, etc. The new guy got put in charge of counting pepperonis. Everyone came up with an "easy" way of counting them. Mine was to tell him to make stacks of 10 and then counts those stacks. My old boss got out a small postal scale and told him to weigh 30 of them and then get the right number by weighing them in batches using the 30's weight as a base. the joke was that you couldn't fit many on the scale at a time. While he was doing that, we'd go outside for a smoke.
Then there was the meat straw. Everyone who had a drink in the kitchen had to have a lid and straw on it. When someone wasn't looking, we'd take their drink and stuff the lower end of their straw with pre-cooked ground beef. They'd come back and take a sip thinking there was just some ice stuck in the straw. Then they'd get a mouth full of meat straw.
Not to go on for too long, but we also did hot change for the delivery guys. You gave each delivery guy a certain amount of bills and coins to make change on a delivery (not that they ever needed to). I'd stick the change on a pan and run it through the oven. Then I'd dump the change onto the counter. I'd act busy and tell the guys I just left their change on the counter and to go ahead on their routes. New guys always fell for the hot change.
If there were a Pushing Daisies-specifc strike I'd agree with you but Daisies wasn't the only show hit by the strike. All scripted shows were. The ratings did tank in the second season but it was only continuing a very linear slide started in Season 1.
Yes it was a Friday night show. I used to crack jokes about my fellow high schoolers who stayed home Friday nights to watch the X-Files. At some point it moved to Sunday because in college I can remember the Sunday Night Football fans trying to beat the X-Files fans to the only big screen TV in our dormatory.
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I once had a profession with a similar idea. He thinks that you should go to the University, buy all the required textbooks, and show up 4 years later to get your degree. One student asked him, "How will they know if you really read the books?" The professor replied, "They don't care now."
I wouldn't classify Numb3rs as any of those things. Scott isn't Kubrick. Scott will make mainstream movies and doesn't seem to have a problem with that. Scott kind of reminds me of Robert Redford in the sense that just about everyone thinks half his movies are good and half of them are crap but what constitutes the "good" half varies wildly from person to person depending on the type of movie they like. (But I think it's safe to say Andromeda always lands in Scott's "crap" half.)
Oracle was wanting its own OS. Not the worst way to get one and not the worst OS to have.
How hard would it be to just calibrate per use? I know on things like a Palm Pilot you just touch three places and it's good to go. Why not do that for each voter (or at least offer it to each voter)?
If the submitter had bothered to RTFA, they'd realize that Microsoft actually recommends that the user nuke the Beta install from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
"Every time he thinks about Megan Fox, he thinks about his organ."
And then a kitten dies. Or is that hairy palms? Or going blind? Well, you get the idea...
3) They'll act nonchalant about it but after a couple of weeks you'll be assigned to train a new guy to "help you out" with your day to day tasks. A couple of weeks after that, they'll hand you a nice pink slip of paper and thank you for your contributions to the company but inform you that your services are no longer required.
My personal rule for practical jokes is that they are fun provided nobody involved would mind being the victim. Based on what I'm reading, you're too thin skinned to enjoy them so I'd neither play one on you nor expect one from you. But there are plenty of people on this earth who don't associate a small joke at someone else's expense as abject humiliation or a sign that the victim is a moron. I've been on both ends of practical jokes. To me, being the occasional victim is worth the enjoyment others get from them. And pulling one off is worth the effort given the victim is a good sport about it.
"That's because the majority of wii games are shit that SHOULDN'T turn a profit."
Hey, lay off or the Ninjabread Man will kick your ass!
On a more serious note, that's true of every single video game console ever made. The crap to good ratio is always excessively large.
Damn fat redneck sitting on the entrance to Zork...
Can't count how many times I tried different things before I realized I could just dump the rye on the plant. That "Course ya do!" still haunts me.
That damn click is the most annoying part of ABC's streaming service. I hate sitting down to watch a show only to have to get up EVERY commercial break to click the damn Continue button. Yeah, I could get a wireless keyboard and mouse but I'd rather just use a service like Hulu that sanely integrates commercials.
The price of the licensing isn't the only thing to consider. The Wii media and drive are very similar to DVD specs but they are not DVDs. The most notable difference is that the data is read backwards. If Nintendo is going to sanction folks using the Wii to do something its hardware was never intended to do (run backwards for hours at a time), then a significant amount of QA time would have to go into making sure the unit isn't damaged in the process.
BAD CAR ANALOGY WARNING:
I can run my car at 5000RPM but that doesn't mean I can keep on doing it day in and day out without any adverse effect.
Does running the Nintendo's laser backwards damage the unit in the long term? I don't know the answer to that but Nintendo probably doesn't either. And until they bother to spend the time and resources to find out, you're going to have to go out of your way to do it.
"Yes it is, but "balanced reporting" is a myth."
Which is exactly why we don't want the government doing the press any favors. It's going to be hard to get anything critical about the government from press that needs government favors to survive.
A fullback's running assignment is one of the most conceptually easy AIs to write. Run in front of the RB and knock as many people down as possible before they get to the RB (or until the RB passes you). If they can make a reasonably sane QB AI, they should have no problem with a decent FB.
As far as monopoly, the Madden fullback AI was a Rhodes Scholar compared to the fullback logic in the 2K games. At least the Madden FB doesn't go running off to the other side of the field based on how the D is stacked. And don't get me started on NCAA 2K2's misuse of the word "flex." Flex is not a damn blitz! Flex LBs are supposed to sit back and plug holes, not free-for-all the QB. And that's coming from someone who preferred the 2k series.
Oh, the humanity! Football games drive me nuts when the AI does stupid things no real person would ever do. Why the hell did my fullback just brush by the linebacker that's right in my RB's way?! Why can't I get my linebacker to stay in his lane on running plays?!
I'd love to see the difference in difficulty in Madden being the difference between playing a Jerry Glanville-coached team vs a Tom Landry-coached team. Instead, all increasing the difficulty does is make your opponents more talented but no smarter. Even on the highest difficulty, FBs don't understand their blocking assignments.
Not Vantage! They have a hole in them. The manufacturer knows about the hole in the filter and will do absolutely nothing to patch it. They consider it a "feature" instead of a bug. Yeah right...
"Unfortunately, it would have only been able to send messages to Princes in Nigeria, thus not being able to render them help in getting of the island."
Give the guy a break! He was already to the point of sending to SOMEONE. In a few days he probably could've sent an email to anyone. Too bad that idiot Gilligan knocked over and broke the Professor's coconut e-mailer. Funny how the idea was workable expect for one flaw not associated with the actual plan and instead of trying again they just abandoned it entirely.
Snellville, GA did the same thing and it really pisses me off. I wouldn't mind them taking the cameras down for legal or ethical issues but to take them down because they're working? That's almost as bad as the politicians complaining that tax revenue gained from tobacco sales is down because the increased taxes are actually getting people to stop or at least cut down on smoking (which was the stated purpose of such taxes in the first place).
"Why the heck does anyone buy electronics from brick and mortar stores any more?"
Someone else mentioned it above but to be very clear: return policy. Sure warranty is nice but just taking the damn thing back and getting another one is nicer. I buy all of my major electronics at Sams Club. Computers have 6 month return policy. Other electronics can be taken back at ANY time. I bought a fairly pricey portable DVD player there that crapped out on me after 8 months. I took it back and got another brand player with no problem. Just keep the receipt...
Oh, and you can buy online at Sams Club but last I checked you cannot return the item to the store and shipping is pretty pricey. That may have changed.
No, but it's made pretty plain that these doctors work only on the one or two cases House takes at a time (with the notable exception of Foreman's clinical trial and the occasional clinic duty) and that there are sometimes large gaps between the last patient and the next one where the doctors do little to nothing.
"However their decision to keep him saves how many lives?"
Their decision to keep House and tie up a staff of 3-4 other doctors will have saved about 110 people by the end of Season 5. That's a rough count. There have been episodes where House saves more than one person and at least two where a lesser team probably might've solved the problem and House's team missed something simple. 110 people in 5 years payrolling a staff of 4-5 of the best and brightest doctors out there. What else could those doctors have been doing in that time (or other doctors being paid from the same funding)? I don't see a contradiction between the "correct business decision" and the "right thing" in House's case.
He actually has 5 prosthetic USB keys for his fingers and when he finds them all he'll learn that he's really a robot sent back in time to resurrect the human race after an alien invasion and radioactive plague.
"One popular one at my unit was to send the newbie out to get Diesel Sparkplugs for one of our diesel trucks."
Back when I managed a pizza joint, we did stuff like that. If we poked a hole in the pizza dough, we'd have a newbie get us a dough repair kit from the walk-in cooler. When one of our new guys couldn't find it and didn't catch on, we told him we were really low on dough and really needed one. We sent him to Dominos telling him they'd have one we could borrow. Dominos called us to let us know they told him they were out of dough repair kits. They sent him to Pizza Hut. The lady at Pizza Hut was not amused and called us and griped about it.
We also did "inventory." We'd all act like we were counting things like pizza boxes, dough, etc. The new guy got put in charge of counting pepperonis. Everyone came up with an "easy" way of counting them. Mine was to tell him to make stacks of 10 and then counts those stacks. My old boss got out a small postal scale and told him to weigh 30 of them and then get the right number by weighing them in batches using the 30's weight as a base. the joke was that you couldn't fit many on the scale at a time. While he was doing that, we'd go outside for a smoke.
Then there was the meat straw. Everyone who had a drink in the kitchen had to have a lid and straw on it. When someone wasn't looking, we'd take their drink and stuff the lower end of their straw with pre-cooked ground beef. They'd come back and take a sip thinking there was just some ice stuck in the straw. Then they'd get a mouth full of meat straw.
Not to go on for too long, but we also did hot change for the delivery guys. You gave each delivery guy a certain amount of bills and coins to make change on a delivery (not that they ever needed to). I'd stick the change on a pan and run it through the oven. Then I'd dump the change onto the counter. I'd act busy and tell the guys I just left their change on the counter and to go ahead on their routes. New guys always fell for the hot change.
If there were a Pushing Daisies-specifc strike I'd agree with you but Daisies wasn't the only show hit by the strike. All scripted shows were. The ratings did tank in the second season but it was only continuing a very linear slide started in Season 1.
Yes it was a Friday night show. I used to crack jokes about my fellow high schoolers who stayed home Friday nights to watch the X-Files. At some point it moved to Sunday because in college I can remember the Sunday Night Football fans trying to beat the X-Files fans to the only big screen TV in our dormatory.