The Ricky Gervais podcast is the only one I listen to! Like blogs, the vast majority of podcasts are complete cack. The Ricky Gervais one though is brilliant! That's pissed me right off:(
Come on now. They're hardly truly unbiased but they're certainly not in cahoots with Al-Queada!
I think the whole term, biased/unbiased, is silly anyway because one man's straight-down-the-middle reporting is another man's dirty commie rant. Calling a news outlet biased or unbiased usually tells more about the person describing the news outlet. Most, if not all, news outlets are biased because they are either privately owned (so they report according to their owners' interests) or publicly owned (so they report according to their governments' interests). It seems to me that the BBC and The Irish Times are the only ones that seem to be pretty unbiased, or at least air views from multiple points.
Why are people so afraid to be political? I mean, I can understand it if people just don't care but it seems that people are positively trying to avoid any kind of political discourse whatsoever.
Plus, why is using reports on Al Jezeera a low point? I have heard this from many other news sources. This is a legitimate news item. Al Jezeera are not a bunch of terrorists. It may surprise you to find out that they are a relatively respectful news outlet. Check out the Wikipedia article on them.
I got my first computer when I started college all the way back in the year 2000. It was a 1GHz, errr, CPU with 64MB of RAM (which I later upgraded to 512), a video card with 16MB of RAM and a HD with 15GB capacity. It was a shit, noisy computer. Actually, I dunno why I'm talking in the past tense, it's in the room next to mine, happily chugging away with Ubuntu on it....
Furthermore a study showed that on average the viewers of the John Stewart show (liberal) were better educated and made more money then the viewers of Bill Oreilly.
I am aware of this study. It did not say that viewers of The Daily Show were generally more educated than viewers of The O'Reilly Factor. It did find that viewers of The Daily Show knew more about the news items which were covered by The Daily Show than viewers did about the news items which were covered by The O'Reilly Show.
The point of this study was that a comedy show taught its viewers more about what was going on and it seemed to have more journalist integrity than a news show. It did not point out that 'Liberals' were somehow more educated than 'Conservatives'.
'Liberals', aka Democrats are just as bad as 'Conservatives', aka Republicans. This was Jon Stewart's point when he made his appearance on Crossfire.
Remember, if somebody votes Republican they are not a conservative. They are a Republican. Likewise, if somebody votes Democrat, they are not a liberal. They are a Democrat. "Republican" and "Democrat" are two political ideologies, much like conservative or liberal. As such the Republicans do not represent conservatism, nor do the Democrats represent liberalism.
I couldn't agree more! The Republican and Democrat parties are very similar in their actions. It seems that the Republican party is slightly more power hungry than the democrat party. I don't see any great ideology difference in these two parties like I do in the difference between Libertarianism, Communism or even Anarchy.
But does it beat out Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond and Star Trek: TNG/DS9/Voyagerand even ER? Absolutely.
Well Friends was an ok comedy series that ran too long but the rest of those shows are a pocks on the face of humanity! If Aliens ever try to destroy Earth, it will because they saw the awful atrocities that we humans watch on TV. Please don't try and sell a show on the basis that it's not as bad as the reason why we should all be annihilated...
BTW, you're probably right about the slick talking stuff. I generally don't like that. Unless it's a piss take and even then I find it a bit too much. Maybe that's why the only Sci Fi TV programme I ever liked was Red Dwarf which was decidedly not slick:)
To be honest I hated the 'slick talk' element. You know, when they're doing something like docking the ship, they'd shout out all these stupid things like "Boo ya!". I mean, if this is meant to be the future then things like docking a spaceship would be the most hum drum of tasks. Especially to a flight crew. Could you imagine the crew of a freight ship today acting like this?
Plus I thought that the characters were all pretty one dimensional. After a few minutes of seeing each character, you can sum up all the different little cliches that make them up.
One of my mates showed me an episode or two of this. He was enthusing about it, saying how amzing it was. I thought it was pretty shit. Maybe it's because I generally don't like Sci-Fi but the show really was bad. The dialog was, for want of a better word, shallow and tacky. That 'western style' guitar music was really fucking annoying too. There wasn't even that much action in it!
It might sound like I'm trolling here but I honestly am not. I'd like someone to tell me what's good about that show. Maybe I'm missing the show's point or something?
The Windows speculation was a tiny part of the article which was the first ever review of an Intel based consumer Mac. If you had read the article or even had read the full article summary, you would have known this.
Nonetheless, Jobs used wording that implied massive (2-4X!) improvements in performance, which, surprise surprise, are clearly massive exaggerations and, in the context of comparing this year's Pentiums to last year's G5s, are actually covers for practical failure on their side.
Of course, the big boon that the Intel chips will bring will be to the Apple laptops and Mac Mini. If these benchmarks are anything to go by, benchmarks comparing the G4 powered PowerBook to the Intel Core Duo powered MacBook Pro should show a huge difference. Although, we'll have to wait and see.
Your post should be modded 100000000000 Insightful! I just figured out what RDF stands for! I've been reading this for the past few days and I thought that people were referencing to this RDF.
I think a lot of people will disable this purely because it's annoying looking. I disabled it (Menubar -> Edit -> Hide MiniStore) as soon as I saw it because it was taking up room on the iTunes window with information about the store which I don't use.
If this chick is doing a PhD on usability, then she probably knows tons about how to do an objective usability study. If she doesn't then people on Slashdot definitely won't:)
The information is already publicly available, this just means that the companies have to store this information a bit longer.
Does anyone think that their emails, internet browsing and phone conversations are private at all? We all know that emails can be easily intercepted by 3rd parties, someone's browsing can be easily tracked and phone conversations can be tapped.
While I do believe that Governments should be given as little power as possible, this measure doesn't really grant them any more power.
MTV2 is though, at least in Europe. They're nearly like MTV was when it first started out. I've discovered a lot of really good new bands (Bloc Party, Arcade Fire, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Willy Mason etc.) from watching it. Urge could be really cool if it were to provide content that's shown on MTV2.
It probably won't though. It'll probably offer shite popular music like Madonna and Brittany Spears.
I wouldn't buy it even if were cool 'cause of the DRM not being supported on the Mac and the fact that I can buy a CD with no DRM.
Dude, you're living in Iraq. If I were you, I'd be slightly more concerned about getting blown up or my head getting sawn off rather than my laptop getting infected with a virus.
I think you misinterpreted my post. I was not disputing the fact that Germans and French have (or use) the phrase.
My point is that Germans and French do not feel that they have to say "How are you" to pleasently enter a conversation. They usually launch right into it. They only ask how you are when they want to know. We say "How are you?" but we're not asking how the other person is. There is a difference in how we use the phrase.
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The Ricky Gervais podcast is the only one I listen to! Like blogs, the vast majority of podcasts are complete cack. The Ricky Gervais one though is brilliant! That's pissed me right off :(
Come on now. They're hardly truly unbiased but they're certainly not in cahoots with Al-Queada!
I think the whole term, biased/unbiased, is silly anyway because one man's straight-down-the-middle reporting is another man's dirty commie rant. Calling a news outlet biased or unbiased usually tells more about the person describing the news outlet. Most, if not all, news outlets are biased because they are either privately owned (so they report according to their owners' interests) or publicly owned (so they report according to their governments' interests). It seems to me that the BBC and The Irish Times are the only ones that seem to be pretty unbiased, or at least air views from multiple points.
You forgot this one.
Why are people so afraid to be political? I mean, I can understand it if people just don't care but it seems that people are positively trying to avoid any kind of political discourse whatsoever.
Plus, why is using reports on Al Jezeera a low point? I have heard this from many other news sources. This is a legitimate news item. Al Jezeera are not a bunch of terrorists. It may surprise you to find out that they are a relatively respectful news outlet. Check out the Wikipedia article on them.
I got my first computer when I started college all the way back in the year 2000. It was a 1GHz, errr, CPU with 64MB of RAM (which I later upgraded to 512), a video card with 16MB of RAM and a HD with 15GB capacity. It was a shit, noisy computer. Actually, I dunno why I'm talking in the past tense, it's in the room next to mine, happily chugging away with Ubuntu on it....
...is it Web 2.0 compliant?
You should count yourself lucky! These poor Googlers only get $1 a year!
Maybe you should just go straight to 9.0 although this new version is so advanced that it only runs on the latest version of Vista.
I am aware of this study. It did not say that viewers of The Daily Show were generally more educated than viewers of The O'Reilly Factor. It did find that viewers of The Daily Show knew more about the news items which were covered by The Daily Show than viewers did about the news items which were covered by The O'Reilly Show.
The point of this study was that a comedy show taught its viewers more about what was going on and it seemed to have more journalist integrity than a news show. It did not point out that 'Liberals' were somehow more educated than 'Conservatives'.
'Liberals', aka Democrats are just as bad as 'Conservatives', aka Republicans. This was Jon Stewart's point when he made his appearance on Crossfire.
I couldn't agree more! The Republican and Democrat parties are very similar in their actions. It seems that the Republican party is slightly more power hungry than the democrat party. I don't see any great ideology difference in these two parties like I do in the difference between Libertarianism, Communism or even Anarchy.
Well Friends was an ok comedy series that ran too long but the rest of those shows are a pocks on the face of humanity! If Aliens ever try to destroy Earth, it will because they saw the awful atrocities that we humans watch on TV. Please don't try and sell a show on the basis that it's not as bad as the reason why we should all be annihilated...
BTW, you're probably right about the slick talking stuff. I generally don't like that. Unless it's a piss take and even then I find it a bit too much. Maybe that's why the only Sci Fi TV programme I ever liked was Red Dwarf which was decidedly not slick
To be honest I hated the 'slick talk' element. You know, when they're doing something like docking the ship, they'd shout out all these stupid things like "Boo ya!". I mean, if this is meant to be the future then things like docking a spaceship would be the most hum drum of tasks. Especially to a flight crew. Could you imagine the crew of a freight ship today acting like this?
Plus I thought that the characters were all pretty one dimensional. After a few minutes of seeing each character, you can sum up all the different little cliches that make them up.
One of my mates showed me an episode or two of this. He was enthusing about it, saying how amzing it was. I thought it was pretty shit. Maybe it's because I generally don't like Sci-Fi but the show really was bad. The dialog was, for want of a better word, shallow and tacky. That 'western style' guitar music was really fucking annoying too. There wasn't even that much action in it!
It might sound like I'm trolling here but I honestly am not. I'd like someone to tell me what's good about that show. Maybe I'm missing the show's point or something?
The Windows speculation was a tiny part of the article which was the first ever review of an Intel based consumer Mac. If you had read the article or even had read the full article summary, you would have known this.
Of course, the big boon that the Intel chips will bring will be to the Apple laptops and Mac Mini. If these benchmarks are anything to go by, benchmarks comparing the G4 powered PowerBook to the Intel Core Duo powered MacBook Pro should show a huge difference. Although, we'll have to wait and see.
Your post should be modded 100000000000 Insightful! I just figured out what RDF stands for! I've been reading this for the past few days and I thought that people were referencing to this RDF.
I think a lot of people will disable this purely because it's annoying looking. I disabled it (Menubar -> Edit -> Hide MiniStore) as soon as I saw it because it was taking up room on the iTunes window with information about the store which I don't use.
Lay off the stiff stuff. said the bishop to the parish priest.
If this chick is doing a PhD on usability, then she probably knows tons about how to do an objective usability study. If she doesn't then people on Slashdot definitely won't :)
The information is already publicly available, this just means that the companies have to store this information a bit longer.
Does anyone think that their emails, internet browsing and phone conversations are private at all? We all know that emails can be easily intercepted by 3rd parties, someone's browsing can be easily tracked and phone conversations can be tapped.
While I do believe that Governments should be given as little power as possible, this measure doesn't really grant them any more power.
What's with this 'continuing' talk? They've always been doing this. It's what they initially set out to do.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
MTV2 is though, at least in Europe. They're nearly like MTV was when it first started out. I've discovered a lot of really good new bands (Bloc Party, Arcade Fire, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Willy Mason etc.) from watching it. Urge could be really cool if it were to provide content that's shown on MTV2.
It probably won't though. It'll probably offer shite popular music like Madonna and Brittany Spears.
I wouldn't buy it even if were cool 'cause of the DRM not being supported on the Mac and the fact that I can buy a CD with no DRM.
Dude, you're living in Iraq. If I were you, I'd be slightly more concerned about getting blown up or my head getting sawn off rather than my laptop getting infected with a virus.
How does the other 95% get their porn!?!?
I think you misinterpreted my post. I was not disputing the fact that Germans and French have (or use) the phrase.
My point is that Germans and French do not feel that they have to say "How are you" to pleasently enter a conversation. They usually launch right into it. They only ask how you are when they want to know. We say "How are you?" but we're not asking how the other person is. There is a difference in how we use the phrase.