They may not have sold many $50 Castle posters, but there have been 4 NYT Bestseller novels that have spun off from the series, a couple of graphic novels, etc... So they have certainly expanded the market beyond purely the TV show and the advertising scheduled around it.
BTW the Richard Castle novels have been a pretty good read for a ghost written novel that loosely echoes a TV series. I quite enjoy seeing the parody characters interact like shadow puppets of their 'Real Life' counterparts.
You can pick what is popular to a specific demographic - technically literate time shifters who may or may not be prepared to pay for content. You probably won't find a lot of "Celebrity Diving" popping up in the torrent feeds.
The Neilsen rating are largely used to assess the value to advertising blocks - which is what drives the price networks are prepared to pay to run a given show in a given timeslot which in turn affects whether the producers think it's worthwhile to continue making the show.
As someone who is nominally christian and was raised in a strongly christian household I agree with the point above.
My biggest issue with organised Christian religion today is the people who call themselves Christians and use it as an excuse to treat other people like crap. For example see treatment of LGBT, women's rights, religious freedoms for non-Christians, etc...
Especially egregious are those I call the 'one-hour-per-week-Christians' who seem to believe that because they happen to occupy a specific geographic location for one hour per week it excuses their immoral behaviour the rest of the week.
Also utilities, ISPs and similar organisations for web forms that probably don't really need java to do what they do (probably, it's possible they actually do).
I can't pay my credit card from Safari on my desktop Mac at home because it can't get past the balance calculation applet, but I can on my iPad iOS app.
I tried logging a ticket with my ISP the other day and their website said they don't support Safari, Firefox or Chrome - use IE, which isn't available for Mac OS and hasn't been for years (Note I used to be able to log faults through their website). I'm trying to log a fault at the exchange that causes random dropouts.
Does anyone else periodically feel like throwing their computer out the window with the constant nag screens to update Adobe Flash or Acrobat Reader that seem to appear every week or so.
As someone who has spent most of the last decade working as a Business Analyst I would say that you really don't understand what a BA does. In addition to your list I would include understanding business implications, critical thinking, attention to detail and problem solving. A co-worker of mine used to joke that 'we put the anal back into analyst'.
Over the years I have mentored a number of BAs whose attention to detail has been so incredibly bad that it has totally undermined the results of any analysis they have done, caused their employers to look unprofessional in front of their clients and resulted in more work for their peers when someone else has to come in and clean up their mess. These people generally go on to become consultants at big name firms and then have real BAs do the analysis for them.
The 'dole' is also a term used extensively in Australia for social security payments other than Old Age Pensions. As I understand it, qualifying immigrants (such as refugees) are eligible for social security payments immediately upon arrival - but I may be wrong and there may be a waiting period. They may also be eligible for Medicare immediately.
Coincidentally there is a bit of a fuss in the papers at present about skilled immigrant quotas vs. refugees who often arrive as 'illegal immigrants' via boats from SE Asia.
By far the largest pool of actual illegal immigrants are people who arrived by plane on tourist visa and overstayed their visa, generally they are from NZ or UK. Real refugees who we have an international obligation to accept under UN Humanitarian Charters we are signatories to are painted as 'jumping the queue' or 'potential terrorists'.
Many people who immigrate under the skilled worker visas have difficulties finding work in their are of expertise - try talking to a cab driver sometime and you will find they were probably an accountant or the like in the country they came from. One of the largest groups of imported skilled workers are doctors (most doctors near where I live seem to be over 60 or Indian or both.).
There has been a big fuss this week with a picket line at a local construction site where overseas workers have been brought in by helicopter to get them past the union protestors. They have also been extensively used by mining companies that run FIFO operations. I find it hard to believe that there really isn't competent local labour for these jobs given how many people have been laid off recently by a number of large industrial employers and that the construction industry is in a slump.
I spent over a month last year explaining to Optus that my 4G phone couldn't connect to the internet due to a random and unrequested change they had made to my account configuration at their end. (persistent PDP authentication error one week after getting new handset/contract)
No amount of SIM card replacements, handset changes or reprovisioning of the internet component of the account seemed to resolve it, though putting someone else's SIM card in my handset let it function perfectly.
In the end I had to get the Ombudsman involved to terminate the contract, went to Telstra (I feel dirty just saying that) and managed to get a functioning service.
It got to the point where everyone within a few desk's radius of mine at work was aware of the problem and I knew all the menu options to navigate the Optus support numbers because of their innate inability to return calls when they said they would and letting the issue drag on to the point of absurdity.
That said, the staff at the local Optus shop spent hours trying to resolve the issue, following through the diagnostic hoops they were asked by head office, while being unfailing polite in the face of an increasingly aggravated customer.
The full sized iPad slides into my day-to-day Hedgren bag. Neither would fit into my usual evening bag (but my phone and 'mens' wallet do). I'm not much of a handbag user.
I keep wondering what form factor people think these hybrid devices will take. Will the extra screen space fold out or pull out as a slide or scroll from the base device?
You could have some kind of origami where it collapses or expands based on your current use requirements. The would require the availability to fold the screen somehow.
A scroll form factor loses one of the benefits of the current table design, which is the rigidity of the screen to be used as a touch interface without deforming under pressure or flexing if held with one hand.
The problem I have with audiobooks, and especially with the concept of listening to them while driving is the amount of mental bandwidth required to actually listen to them and follow the story/argument/whatever.
Radio is generally disposable noise you can ignore and what follows is still comprehensible. Listening to a book requires comparable attention to reading it. Not good if you are in traffic. And if you aren't really paying attention to it - why bother? Listen to music instead.
Content and presentation is generally separate communication layers, however there are special cases such as information design where the presentation is the content (really good infographics).
Everyone would benefit from learning the difference between content and presentation and how to read complex infographics because corporations use them to lie to us all the time, whether through the use of misleading axis scales or misrepresentative sample sizes (serving size vs. contents of package anyone).
Teaching people how to read and interpret these things would lead to a more informed populace.
Ultimately LaTeX, Libre Office or even the dreaded MS Office are just tools. Teach the theory behind the tools first.
But it had a jellyfish PB5x0 as the leet hackers laptop, so it must be awesome. (Of course when things got serious he spray painted it, including the keyboard, just to show how serious he was).
Good UI design is about using the appropriate interface for the task at hand. For a 'production line' fast food ordering system, touchscreen GUIs make perfect sense and are possibly the optimal solution (until we think of something better), but they wouldn't be as effective for programming or network configuration.
Some tasks require a higher level of choices to be available to the operator than a pre-selected list of graphically represented scripted functions can efficiently display. Whether there is branching logic, contextual menus are potentially a good alternative.
Neither design choice (CLI vs. GUI) is right or wrong in all use cases.
I would speculate that Cheney does have a pulse, even if it is triggered mechanically, as a pulse is the rhythmic pumping of blood around the circulatory system to oxygenate the organs and extremities.
It might be very rapid and fairly flat (or slow and big), but it would still be there and measurable.
I know that when in hospital recently my pulse was monitored by a finger sensor that simply clipped on. So they can measure some degree of blood pressure variation from a finger.
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They may not have sold many $50 Castle posters, but there have been 4 NYT Bestseller novels that have spun off from the series, a couple of graphic novels, etc... So they have certainly expanded the market beyond purely the TV show and the advertising scheduled around it.
BTW the Richard Castle novels have been a pretty good read for a ghost written novel that loosely echoes a TV series. I quite enjoy seeing the parody characters interact like shadow puppets of their 'Real Life' counterparts.
You can pick what is popular to a specific demographic - technically literate time shifters who may or may not be prepared to pay for content. You probably won't find a lot of "Celebrity Diving" popping up in the torrent feeds.
The Neilsen rating are largely used to assess the value to advertising blocks - which is what drives the price networks are prepared to pay to run a given show in a given timeslot which in turn affects whether the producers think it's worthwhile to continue making the show.
I played Dungeons and Dragons back before it was cool.
Just saw your sig file - D&D is/was cool? When. I have to tell the rest of my party.
(Both myself and my husband have been playing since the original boxed set.)
As someone who is nominally christian and was raised in a strongly christian household I agree with the point above.
My biggest issue with organised Christian religion today is the people who call themselves Christians and use it as an excuse to treat other people like crap. For example see treatment of LGBT, women's rights, religious freedoms for non-Christians, etc...
Especially egregious are those I call the 'one-hour-per-week-Christians' who seem to believe that because they happen to occupy a specific geographic location for one hour per week it excuses their immoral behaviour the rest of the week.
Mildly amusing given a large percentage of Femdom pron comes out of Germany.
You know what they say about guys with big feet...
Or a petrified Natalie Portman.
A number of bank sites also use java applets
This.
Also utilities, ISPs and similar organisations for web forms that probably don't really need java to do what they do (probably, it's possible they actually do).
I can't pay my credit card from Safari on my desktop Mac at home because it can't get past the balance calculation applet, but I can on my iPad iOS app.
I tried logging a ticket with my ISP the other day and their website said they don't support Safari, Firefox or Chrome - use IE, which isn't available for Mac OS and hasn't been for years (Note I used to be able to log faults through their website). I'm trying to log a fault at the exchange that causes random dropouts.
Does anyone else periodically feel like throwing their computer out the window with the constant nag screens to update Adobe Flash or Acrobat Reader that seem to appear every week or so.
Citrix for remote access to work. :(
As someone who has spent most of the last decade working as a Business Analyst I would say that you really don't understand what a BA does. In addition to your list I would include understanding business implications, critical thinking, attention to detail and problem solving. A co-worker of mine used to joke that 'we put the anal back into analyst'.
Over the years I have mentored a number of BAs whose attention to detail has been so incredibly bad that it has totally undermined the results of any analysis they have done, caused their employers to look unprofessional in front of their clients and resulted in more work for their peers when someone else has to come in and clean up their mess. These people generally go on to become consultants at big name firms and then have real BAs do the analysis for them.
The 'dole' is also a term used extensively in Australia for social security payments other than Old Age Pensions. As I understand it, qualifying immigrants (such as refugees) are eligible for social security payments immediately upon arrival - but I may be wrong and there may be a waiting period. They may also be eligible for Medicare immediately.
Coincidentally there is a bit of a fuss in the papers at present about skilled immigrant quotas vs. refugees who often arrive as 'illegal immigrants' via boats from SE Asia.
By far the largest pool of actual illegal immigrants are people who arrived by plane on tourist visa and overstayed their visa, generally they are from NZ or UK. Real refugees who we have an international obligation to accept under UN Humanitarian Charters we are signatories to are painted as 'jumping the queue' or 'potential terrorists'.
Many people who immigrate under the skilled worker visas have difficulties finding work in their are of expertise - try talking to a cab driver sometime and you will find they were probably an accountant or the like in the country they came from. One of the largest groups of imported skilled workers are doctors (most doctors near where I live seem to be over 60 or Indian or both.).
There has been a big fuss this week with a picket line at a local construction site where overseas workers have been brought in by helicopter to get them past the union protestors. They have also been extensively used by mining companies that run FIFO operations. I find it hard to believe that there really isn't competent local labour for these jobs given how many people have been laid off recently by a number of large industrial employers and that the construction industry is in a slump.
As someone who is short, overweight and female - I'm screwed when it comes to salary negotiations and generally have to rely on skill.
I spent over a month last year explaining to Optus that my 4G phone couldn't connect to the internet due to a random and unrequested change they had made to my account configuration at their end. (persistent PDP authentication error one week after getting new handset/contract)
No amount of SIM card replacements, handset changes or reprovisioning of the internet component of the account seemed to resolve it, though putting someone else's SIM card in my handset let it function perfectly.
In the end I had to get the Ombudsman involved to terminate the contract, went to Telstra (I feel dirty just saying that) and managed to get a functioning service.
It got to the point where everyone within a few desk's radius of mine at work was aware of the problem and I knew all the menu options to navigate the Optus support numbers because of their innate inability to return calls when they said they would and letting the issue drag on to the point of absurdity.
That said, the staff at the local Optus shop spent hours trying to resolve the issue, following through the diagnostic hoops they were asked by head office, while being unfailing polite in the face of an increasingly aggravated customer.
Yes, it's retina, as in seeing.
The full sized iPad slides into my day-to-day Hedgren bag. Neither would fit into my usual evening bag (but my phone and 'mens' wallet do). I'm not much of a handbag user.
I keep wondering what form factor people think these hybrid devices will take. Will the extra screen space fold out or pull out as a slide or scroll from the base device?
You could have some kind of origami where it collapses or expands based on your current use requirements. The would require the availability to fold the screen somehow.
A scroll form factor loses one of the benefits of the current table design, which is the rigidity of the screen to be used as a touch interface without deforming under pressure or flexing if held with one hand.
I'm amused that they think a grappling hook is 'everyday gear'. For my halfling daggermaster rogue perhaps, but not so much for me.
The problem I have with audiobooks, and especially with the concept of listening to them while driving is the amount of mental bandwidth required to actually listen to them and follow the story/argument/whatever.
Radio is generally disposable noise you can ignore and what follows is still comprehensible. Listening to a book requires comparable attention to reading it. Not good if you are in traffic. And if you aren't really paying attention to it - why bother? Listen to music instead.
Content and presentation is generally separate communication layers, however there are special cases such as information design where the presentation is the content (really good infographics).
Everyone would benefit from learning the difference between content and presentation and how to read complex infographics because corporations use them to lie to us all the time, whether through the use of misleading axis scales or misrepresentative sample sizes (serving size vs. contents of package anyone).
Teaching people how to read and interpret these things would lead to a more informed populace.
Ultimately LaTeX, Libre Office or even the dreaded MS Office are just tools. Teach the theory behind the tools first.
But it had a jellyfish PB5x0 as the leet hackers laptop, so it must be awesome. (Of course when things got serious he spray painted it, including the keyboard, just to show how serious he was).
Good UI design is about using the appropriate interface for the task at hand. For a 'production line' fast food ordering system, touchscreen GUIs make perfect sense and are possibly the optimal solution (until we think of something better), but they wouldn't be as effective for programming or network configuration.
Some tasks require a higher level of choices to be available to the operator than a pre-selected list of graphically represented scripted functions can efficiently display. Whether there is branching logic, contextual menus are potentially a good alternative.
Neither design choice (CLI vs. GUI) is right or wrong in all use cases.
The 'tit' is the entire breast, the 'teat' is just the nipple.
Given the US hysteria regarding nipples it's no wonder they are unfamiliar with the use of the word teat.
I would speculate that Cheney does have a pulse, even if it is triggered mechanically, as a pulse is the rhythmic pumping of blood around the circulatory system to oxygenate the organs and extremities.
It might be very rapid and fairly flat (or slow and big), but it would still be there and measurable.
I know that when in hospital recently my pulse was monitored by a finger sensor that simply clipped on. So they can measure some degree of blood pressure variation from a finger.