Oh my god, you are so wrong.
I'm sorry you weren't impressed, but I couldn't deny the truth of HDTV once I got it working at home on our home theater system. HD is not tax-funded bullshit; it's the future of how we see broadcasts, period.
If you want to watch standard def, go ahead; when HD hits critical mass, SDTVs will be harder to buy, but you can buy an HDTV and then buy a downconverter to get your cherished standard def back, OK!
If you were not impressed by HD, then you either saw a flawed setup or you don't have very good eyesight.
Unfortunately, people seem to shun individual responsibility these days, so if I had to make a wager, I'd rather have safeties in place before letting individuals do whatever they want with whatever they want. Any tool can be used criminally. Unfortunately again, criminals have ruined and continue to ruin our freedom. I don't think it should be easy for anyone to get a gun. Half the people who drive today shouldn't be allowed to because they are reckless and endanger lives every time they take the car for a spin.;-P
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I got called for a job I was way overqualified for, but I went through with it anyway. The first part was an hour phone screening with someone from HR. After that, she emailed me a homework assignment debating such ponderous questions from AdWord clients as to why Google would accept pornographers' ads and not theirs. I spent several hours formulating a response based on legal arguments and so forth.
I got called in for a first interview, which went fine, including the real-time "test" that consisted of a series of stunningly general questions and some mock Q&As -- all canned material. I got called back for a second one, which was lame. These so-called "managers" had not read up on my CV because they asked me a lot of general questions to fish for something suspicious, and then two other employees came in to talk about their jobs but asked me nothing of relevance. Go figure.
At the end of four mind-numbing hours, I was walked to the HR area where someone whipped out a small T-shirt for me, and then I was ushered back to the waiting area. I was bored out of my mind and knew I was not going to get an offer for being overqualified as a writer and for not having the "OMG I'm so privileged to work here" puppy love look in my eyes.:-)
Um, where did you get your info? Halo was NOT a Mac-only game originally. Jason Jones had switched to the PC and was coding Halo on a PC. Second, MS didn't swallow Bungie, moron. Jason and Alex willingly sold their company to MS for the opportunity; it was a BUSINESS deal. Alex had been making other deals (hello, Take-Two Interactive) before the MS buyout. So please, don't spread Mac lore as truth. You weren't there to know what was going on inside the company.
Um, some of those people DO NOT want to be helped. They would rather sleep on the street and pander than clean up their act. The Chronicle did a special series on the hardcore homeless, and there are some homeless who refuse to accept a change, any change. The others can be helped, but tell me how the city is going to afford to buy/rent more space in a place like SF to put up more shelters... Have you seen rents lately? They're also on the way up. Have you seen how much commercial and residential property sells for in the city?
(real teachers don't teach, they get grunts to do it and are actually working on grant projects or university fundraising, those who can't, do teach)
Actually, real teachers teach. University professors are still required to teach a certain number of courses unless perhaps they are Nobel Laureates or have a contract to teach only graduate students/researchers or work with post-docs.
That's too broad and general because there are things such as consumer electronics that others cannot make in their own country due to historical and sociopolitical circumstances. I'm not saying they can't, but they don't for financial reasons. Most of our consumer electronics and parts come from a handful of countries; not every country can just go out and start producing these although many are certainly starting. Anyway, it's cheaper for them to import such goods from Asia or North America, and there's no direct problem with businesses trying to be cost-efficient although the social implications are far-reaching.
Hey! That was my point!:)
I don't want to badmouth too many people, but I left grad school because of those very people you point out. In fact, now that you mention it, it was at the DMV where I ran into one of those humorless people...he was arranging papers in line, but I knew he was trying to come up with his next big book.;)
The article did remind me of the Sokal hoax in Social Text. It's kind of funny in a way: As a former wannabe academic, I hated the increasingly dense and dogmatic "theories" forced down my throat; I went to grad school to read more literature, not more highfalutin, big-name profs. I got bored of it and tired of the humorless people in my department at Berkeley, so I left. Some years later, I couldn't even tell you the titles of those articles from lit crit journals. Only a handful of criticism books ever left a real impression on me, and not one of them was from the postmodernism school of thought. (Baudrillard was an easy read, but that type of lit crit is almost a self-parody.) I left without even understanding what the hell postmodernism really is -- how postmodern. But now I don't care much except when I see funny articles on the pomposity of literary critics! I lived it, so I know exactly what it's like to be twisted and perverted away from reading literature.
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Because it wasn't, and such acts aren't. Killing people swiftly and suddenly doesn't make killing better or morally acceptable.
Men can't think straight when they have hard-ons. Women were naturally selected to bear offspring and nurse them.
Um yeah, so Jesus himself was a self-important asshole according to your logic. Get over yourself.
HDTV is good for me. I love it!
Oh my god, you are so wrong. I'm sorry you weren't impressed, but I couldn't deny the truth of HDTV once I got it working at home on our home theater system. HD is not tax-funded bullshit; it's the future of how we see broadcasts, period. If you want to watch standard def, go ahead; when HD hits critical mass, SDTVs will be harder to buy, but you can buy an HDTV and then buy a downconverter to get your cherished standard def back, OK! If you were not impressed by HD, then you either saw a flawed setup or you don't have very good eyesight.
Unfortunately, people seem to shun individual responsibility these days, so if I had to make a wager, I'd rather have safeties in place before letting individuals do whatever they want with whatever they want. Any tool can be used criminally. Unfortunately again, criminals have ruined and continue to ruin our freedom. I don't think it should be easy for anyone to get a gun. Half the people who drive today shouldn't be allowed to because they are reckless and endanger lives every time they take the car for a spin. ;-P
I got called in for a first interview, which went fine, including the real-time "test" that consisted of a series of stunningly general questions and some mock Q&As -- all canned material. I got called back for a second one, which was lame. These so-called "managers" had not read up on my CV because they asked me a lot of general questions to fish for something suspicious, and then two other employees came in to talk about their jobs but asked me nothing of relevance. Go figure.
At the end of four mind-numbing hours, I was walked to the HR area where someone whipped out a small T-shirt for me, and then I was ushered back to the waiting area. I was bored out of my mind and knew I was not going to get an offer for being overqualified as a writer and for not having the "OMG I'm so privileged to work here" puppy love look in my eyes. :-)
"I'm still waiting for that killer Firefox feature." Yeah, it's not Microsoft.
None of these was "ready." Remember EQ when it launched?
More myths again. For shame. Halo was not originally a Mac game nor was it born on the Mac. Christ, people, stop distorting the truth.
Uh, dude, I'm not a dude, and I like it when my panties ride up my ass, mkay?
No it was not demoed first on a Mac internally or externally.
Um, where did you get your info? Halo was NOT a Mac-only game originally. Jason Jones had switched to the PC and was coding Halo on a PC. Second, MS didn't swallow Bungie, moron. Jason and Alex willingly sold their company to MS for the opportunity; it was a BUSINESS deal. Alex had been making other deals (hello, Take-Two Interactive) before the MS buyout. So please, don't spread Mac lore as truth. You weren't there to know what was going on inside the company.
One of my cats wags her tail and plays fetch with small balls of aluminum foil I roll up.
Um, some of those people DO NOT want to be helped. They would rather sleep on the street and pander than clean up their act. The Chronicle did a special series on the hardcore homeless, and there are some homeless who refuse to accept a change, any change. The others can be helped, but tell me how the city is going to afford to buy/rent more space in a place like SF to put up more shelters... Have you seen rents lately? They're also on the way up. Have you seen how much commercial and residential property sells for in the city?
Grow up.
Nothing, but it should be FOXFIRE. :)
It's not a tax on the poor; they have a CHOICE to play or not to play. If we ended all state lottos, there'd be a national crisis.
(real teachers don't teach, they get grunts to do it and are actually working on grant projects or university fundraising, those who can't, do teach) Actually, real teachers teach. University professors are still required to teach a certain number of courses unless perhaps they are Nobel Laureates or have a contract to teach only graduate students/researchers or work with post-docs.
That's too broad and general because there are things such as consumer electronics that others cannot make in their own country due to historical and sociopolitical circumstances. I'm not saying they can't, but they don't for financial reasons. Most of our consumer electronics and parts come from a handful of countries; not every country can just go out and start producing these although many are certainly starting. Anyway, it's cheaper for them to import such goods from Asia or North America, and there's no direct problem with businesses trying to be cost-efficient although the social implications are far-reaching.
I'm a woman and I like these lights. There is a certain romantic atmosphere to the lighting. It's too bad the ugly sofa pattern destroys it.
Hey! That was my point! :)
I don't want to badmouth too many people, but I left grad school because of those very people you point out. In fact, now that you mention it, it was at the DMV where I ran into one of those humorless people...he was arranging papers in line, but I knew he was trying to come up with his next big book. ;)
The article did remind me of the Sokal hoax in Social Text. It's kind of funny in a way: As a former wannabe academic, I hated the increasingly dense and dogmatic "theories" forced down my throat; I went to grad school to read more literature, not more highfalutin, big-name profs. I got bored of it and tired of the humorless people in my department at Berkeley, so I left. Some years later, I couldn't even tell you the titles of those articles from lit crit journals. Only a handful of criticism books ever left a real impression on me, and not one of them was from the postmodernism school of thought. (Baudrillard was an easy read, but that type of lit crit is almost a self-parody.) I left without even understanding what the hell postmodernism really is -- how postmodern. But now I don't care much except when I see funny articles on the pomposity of literary critics! I lived it, so I know exactly what it's like to be twisted and perverted away from reading literature.