Lemmings don't *think* they can walk on air, they *know* it the problem is, gravity doesn't agree with them (SAT time kids, lemmings::most MS techs as gravity::_______ ):-p
The racism is (as far as I know) always portrayed as wrong. Mile's problem with the Romulans, or the TNG episode about the "seeders" of life in the galaxy come to mind as great examples. The opinions of the officers when racist, are almost always shown in the course of the episodes to be wrong. Sure, the show isn't perfect, but particularly the original series was utterly groundbreaking in that area, and to pretend otherwise is foolish. Also AFAIK the first lesbian on screen kiss in scifi television was in DS9 (Jadzia and her former paramour - this is something that B5, for all it's incredibleness, never did)...
You forgot the 5 grand in insurance! Hell, my Stratus would be ~2500/yr in insurance if I had it regged independently to me (I'm under 25 and live in NYC), insurance on the 350Z is gonna be a bitch if he's not smart about it.
Because the laws in most of the US at least (I know, I know, the case is UK, but I can't talk from experience there) say that if someone doesn't defend their property rights to land (ie no trespassing signs, etc), and the general public becomes accustomed to walking on it, the land can be considered open for public use. Another poster on my comment said UK trespass laws are even looser than here, so I'd assume something of the same sort is true across the pond.
In addition to all the other points, the store doesn't even lock you into ipod use now if you buy the drm-free tracks that emi has. Apple has already shown it's willing to sell drmless music, so I think blame rests squarely on the record companies here for any itunes store lock-in. Apple certainly is no saint, but on this point you're wrong
Before anyone starts in with the "if the door is open, you can't go into someones house anyway" argument, I'm going to point out that most laptops these days auto connect to open connections, or at least do a popup that if the avg user isn't paying attention will connect them when they hit enter. Just like with property, than when rights aren't enforced long enough when people walk on it, it becomes public use land, the same is true of the wireless network. people leaving their networks with SSID broadcast no security is *not* the equivalent of an open, unlocked door on a residence, it's the equivalent of laying out all your stuff in the middle of the street with a sign that says "please take", or at least a path through their land that they never gated and never shooed anyone off of, it's for the public use at that point.
Wish the guy we had talk on campus was that geeky. Comes to a bloody engineering/science/comp school and talks about *solitaire* and how the cards scale for 2 hrs, I want those hours of my life back:-p!
Well, for one thing, if you're on disability, you're probably not regularly commuting long distances to work, knock a few thou off your expenses right there (chances are your taxes are lower and deductibles higher too). Also, I *did* say in large parts of the country, sure there are places you can, but most of them don't have a helluva lot of jobs. As for supporting people, sometimes the choice *isn't* yours: I know several people who, for whatever reasons are supporting their parents, grandparents, or siblings (and, particularly in the case of siblings, it's not that uncommon - particulary when we're talking about low wage jobs). I guess they could walk out, but it's not reasonable to expect that from people. Now I'm not entirely disagreeingwith you, I'm just saying, working for 6/hr to make ends meet is very, very hard, if not impossible, in most of the U.S.
I'd love to see you make ends meet in large parts of this country on ~12k a year (that'd be $6/hr, 8hrs a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year). While certainly most people *here* don't make anywhere near that little, a helluva lot of this country does. You can't support one person on that, let alone 3 or 4. even on 20 it's impossible, even on 40 it's insanely hard, if marginally possible. One income households are, and have been for a long time, a thing of the past for most of the country - high housing costs, expensive food, and the export of much of U.S. industry has taken care of that.
OK, maybe poorly spoken. I have no problem with the *country* (rural) which *is* the breadbasket of the US. I do, however, hate the suburbs (which do not feed the city btw). I've actually spent quite a lot of time on farms, did some work on a dairy farm a bit ago. I apologize for the house heifer comment, at least in regards to rural US. OTOH, the suburbs are useless IMHO:-p
I live in the heights, most of my friends live in Manhattan and I work there, I spend *far* more time in Manhattan than I do in Brooklyn (if you don't count sleeping). Never had a problem with either the trains or movies. Movies in Brooklyn, unless it's the big theatres like the UA in sheepshead bay *are* a PITA, OTOH, if you can't find tickets to a movie in Manhattan you're really not trying.
The DC subway system is cleaner because it's useless for getting anywhere other than tourist spots, Europe has incredible inter-city trains, but even a system like Frankfurt's, which is excellent, doesnt go nearly as many places as the subway does...
I'll not get into the parking, though after many years of driving in the city, I'll say I'm pretty good at finding spots in Manhattan, especially early in the morning. I've definitely gotten a few tickets, but if I were more careful, I probably could have avoided most of them. Whether the GP, with a year in the city could do it... no idea.
The quite bars are a lot more fun, and once in a while hitting up the big clubs is definitely fun. I;ve always pretty much thought of them as, say, the observation deck on the WTC when it was there though, the kind of thing you do once in a while as a native, but really there as glitz for the tourists.
I know women who've been groped in malls in suburbia too. People suck, no matter where they are. learn how to carry yourself and you won't be bothered too much, wherever you go. There's always the chance you'll be bothered anywhere though, and I'll take some of the rougher neighborhoods in the Bronx, a known evil for me, over deserted truck stops or the 7-11 parking lot in a run down mill town (where I *have* been mugged also) any day.
I ten to try to avoid rush hour on the train, but as I said in my other post, I'd still rather the subway than the LIE:-p
Spoken by someone who, despite having 20 (I'll not argue claimed) years in the city, doesnt know it.
Real estate is a bitch, but it isn't quite as bad as people make it out to be. If you have a decent job, you can find a decent house. If you're lucky, like my family, you can find a great deal, just have to keep your eyes open (Brooklyn Heights, great deal, best neighborhood in the city). For that matter, my g/f lives a bit up from coney island, in a nice big house, and her neighborhood is nice and quite, if a bit far from the center of things.Also, at least I don't have to deal with a PITA homeowners association, and my apartment may lack the space of a suburban house, but the convenience of being in the city far more than makes up for it.
I've never had any problem getting move tickets. I go to movie openings and first day showings all the time with my friends, it's a question of calling up moviefone, seeing which of a dozen theatres are playing the movie, and deciding on a show time and a place. It's also nice to have the little theatres around that show random old movies and indies, or places like the ruben museum with their movies on friday nights, etc.
The people are no different from anywhere else, and I'll tell you, I'll take me and my cynical friends any day over the over-fed house-heifers of most of the rest of this country. And I honestly don't find the existence superficial, sounds like you go to the wrong spots. Try finding some quite pool halls or, gasp, friends houses, to hang in.
While I don't like Bloomberg's plan either (I drive across the Brooklyn Bridge and over to the holland or up the fdr to the gw way to often to be fond of it) to say that Manhattan traffic is fine is stretching it a bit. Ever had to drive up West in the middle of the day? The traffic could definitely be improved, and while most people in *manhattan* don't have cars, a helluva lot of us brooklinites do:-p.
The subway really is one of most impressive things in the world. I've been all over the world, and I've *never* seen another system that compares (and I've lived in NY for 20+ years myself). I can't imagine, say, living in DC and having the subway stop running at night. Hell, tonight I'll be going to hang out with a few friends, and I'll prolly head back to my place at ~3 or 4am, in no condition to drive if I wanted to. Thank god for the subway. I should also mention I go to *school* in the suburbs, and I'll take crowded subway trains over the "longest parking lot in the world" LIE or the "god, please don't make me drive on this at rush hour" throughway any day.
At some point I was a sperm in my father and an egg in my mother, does that mean that my mother is a murderer every month (or my father one, uh, I can assume more than that::shudder at the thought::)
First off it has to be big, to allow the artist to use it comfortably, but then the artist has to keep it clear of any clutter, less it mistake the clutter for fingers.
The "tagging" of items that TFA talked about might be useful in fixing that problem at least
...as rats are in Deng Lees
Until next year at least, they're actually redoing Roth Cafe - 'course I have no doubts the rats will persevere:-P
Another forumite on slashdot?
I've run into a few, I need to get a first post "4mites SOUND OFF" post on some/. article someday and see how many people respond.
Am I that worried that Livejournal doesn't want to be associated with you? No. Many sane people, you know, the kinds who don't have to make up a semi-Japanese word to describe their sexual perversions, do not want to be associated with you. I wouldn't be touching your business with a ten-foot pole...
Unfortunately for LJ (or, actually, sixapart), a *large* percentage of their user base is the fan fic population. In the same way myspace was built by music, LJ was built by fan fic. Unlike myspace, their original clientèle still dominate. LJ's gonna loose *a lot* of business from this if they don't fix it - fast. It'd be like/. doing a mass deletion of users supporting OSS.
Funny you should mention that. At the Science Fiction Forum at Stony Brook University, there was a fire a while ago, burned a large portion of the collection. One of the few books spared was Fahrenheit 451, there's a small blurb about it on the 4m's site.
Hey, I'm 21 and *I* thought "man I'm old". My first comp had a 500MB HD (I remember getting our first cd drives in the house and being amazed that the discs held more than my HD). We had far older machines in the house at the time too. My SE has this gigantic outboard scsi disk on it right now that holds a whopping 20MBs,and we had several older machines both at home and at school that used 2 floppies and no HD:-p.
Developers still code to a platform, it's just an OS or a toolkit now, as opposed to specific hardware (though they do that too with SSE and such). Machines have gotten more complex, more needs to be abstracted out to allow the platform to reasonably workable with. This is not just with the IT industry btw, it happened with textiles, farming, boat building, etc. As an industry gains levels of complexity, the ability (and need) to work with the lowest layers become less. There's always a place for those who can work with the low level stuff, but the abstraction makes things simpler for many other things.
The same thing was true of Farscape. Incredibly high rated show, solid cast, cost waaaay too much to produce. That said, I think *this* final season is more B5-esque. They had a story to tell, they told it, let's give the show a real end.
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Amen, there's nothing like coming home after a weekend and finding that on my Mac Pro, with 5GB of ram, firefox is using 4.5GBs of that :-p
Nicely done, I'd mod you up if I had any points :-)
Lemmings don't *think* they can walk on air, they *know* it the problem is, gravity doesn't agree with them (SAT time kids, lemmings::most MS techs as gravity::_______ ):-p
The racism is (as far as I know) always portrayed as wrong. Mile's problem with the Romulans, or the TNG episode about the "seeders" of life in the galaxy come to mind as great examples. The opinions of the officers when racist, are almost always shown in the course of the episodes to be wrong. Sure, the show isn't perfect, but particularly the original series was utterly groundbreaking in that area, and to pretend otherwise is foolish. Also AFAIK the first lesbian on screen kiss in scifi television was in DS9 (Jadzia and her former paramour - this is something that B5, for all it's incredibleness, never did)...
You forgot the 5 grand in insurance! Hell, my Stratus would be ~2500/yr in insurance if I had it regged independently to me (I'm under 25 and live in NYC), insurance on the 350Z is gonna be a bitch if he's not smart about it.
Because the laws in most of the US at least (I know, I know, the case is UK, but I can't talk from experience there) say that if someone doesn't defend their property rights to land (ie no trespassing signs, etc), and the general public becomes accustomed to walking on it, the land can be considered open for public use. Another poster on my comment said UK trespass laws are even looser than here, so I'd assume something of the same sort is true across the pond.
In addition to all the other points, the store doesn't even lock you into ipod use now if you buy the drm-free tracks that emi has. Apple has already shown it's willing to sell drmless music, so I think blame rests squarely on the record companies here for any itunes store lock-in. Apple certainly is no saint, but on this point you're wrong
Before anyone starts in with the "if the door is open, you can't go into someones house anyway" argument, I'm going to point out that most laptops these days auto connect to open connections, or at least do a popup that if the avg user isn't paying attention will connect them when they hit enter. Just like with property, than when rights aren't enforced long enough when people walk on it, it becomes public use land, the same is true of the wireless network. people leaving their networks with SSID broadcast no security is *not* the equivalent of an open, unlocked door on a residence, it's the equivalent of laying out all your stuff in the middle of the street with a sign that says "please take", or at least a path through their land that they never gated and never shooed anyone off of, it's for the public use at that point.
Wish the guy we had talk on campus was that geeky. Comes to a bloody engineering/science/comp school and talks about *solitaire* and how the cards scale for 2 hrs, I want those hours of my life back :-p!
Well, for one thing, if you're on disability, you're probably not regularly commuting long distances to work, knock a few thou off your expenses right there (chances are your taxes are lower and deductibles higher too). Also, I *did* say in large parts of the country, sure there are places you can, but most of them don't have a helluva lot of jobs. As for supporting people, sometimes the choice *isn't* yours: I know several people who, for whatever reasons are supporting their parents, grandparents, or siblings (and, particularly in the case of siblings, it's not that uncommon - particulary when we're talking about low wage jobs). I guess they could walk out, but it's not reasonable to expect that from people. Now I'm not entirely disagreeingwith you, I'm just saying, working for 6/hr to make ends meet is very, very hard, if not impossible, in most of the U.S.
I'd love to see you make ends meet in large parts of this country on ~12k a year (that'd be $6/hr, 8hrs a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year). While certainly most people *here* don't make anywhere near that little, a helluva lot of this country does. You can't support one person on that, let alone 3 or 4. even on 20 it's impossible, even on 40 it's insanely hard, if marginally possible. One income households are, and have been for a long time, a thing of the past for most of the country - high housing costs, expensive food, and the export of much of U.S. industry has taken care of that.
OK, maybe poorly spoken. I have no problem with the *country* (rural) which *is* the breadbasket of the US. I do, however, hate the suburbs (which do not feed the city btw). I've actually spent quite a lot of time on farms, did some work on a dairy farm a bit ago. I apologize for the house heifer comment, at least in regards to rural US. OTOH, the suburbs are useless IMHO :-p
I live in the heights, most of my friends live in Manhattan and I work there, I spend *far* more time in Manhattan than I do in Brooklyn (if you don't count sleeping). Never had a problem with either the trains or movies. Movies in Brooklyn, unless it's the big theatres like the UA in sheepshead bay *are* a PITA, OTOH, if you can't find tickets to a movie in Manhattan you're really not trying.
The DC subway system is cleaner because it's useless for getting anywhere other than tourist spots, Europe has incredible inter-city trains, but even a system like Frankfurt's, which is excellent, doesnt go nearly as many places as the subway does...
I'll not get into the parking, though after many years of driving in the city, I'll say I'm pretty good at finding spots in Manhattan, especially early in the morning. I've definitely gotten a few tickets, but if I were more careful, I probably could have avoided most of them. Whether the GP, with a year in the city could do it... no idea. The quite bars are a lot more fun, and once in a while hitting up the big clubs is definitely fun. I;ve always pretty much thought of them as, say, the observation deck on the WTC when it was there though, the kind of thing you do once in a while as a native, but really there as glitz for the tourists. I know women who've been groped in malls in suburbia too. People suck, no matter where they are. learn how to carry yourself and you won't be bothered too much, wherever you go. There's always the chance you'll be bothered anywhere though, and I'll take some of the rougher neighborhoods in the Bronx, a known evil for me, over deserted truck stops or the 7-11 parking lot in a run down mill town (where I *have* been mugged also) any day. I ten to try to avoid rush hour on the train, but as I said in my other post, I'd still rather the subway than the LIE :-p
Spoken by someone who, despite having 20 (I'll not argue claimed) years in the city, doesnt know it.
:-p.
Real estate is a bitch, but it isn't quite as bad as people make it out to be. If you have a decent job, you can find a decent house. If you're lucky, like my family, you can find a great deal, just have to keep your eyes open (Brooklyn Heights, great deal, best neighborhood in the city). For that matter, my g/f lives a bit up from coney island, in a nice big house, and her neighborhood is nice and quite, if a bit far from the center of things.Also, at least I don't have to deal with a PITA homeowners association, and my apartment may lack the space of a suburban house, but the convenience of being in the city far more than makes up for it.
I've never had any problem getting move tickets. I go to movie openings and first day showings all the time with my friends, it's a question of calling up moviefone, seeing which of a dozen theatres are playing the movie, and deciding on a show time and a place. It's also nice to have the little theatres around that show random old movies and indies, or places like the ruben museum with their movies on friday nights, etc.
The people are no different from anywhere else, and I'll tell you, I'll take me and my cynical friends any day over the over-fed house-heifers of most of the rest of this country. And I honestly don't find the existence superficial, sounds like you go to the wrong spots. Try finding some quite pool halls or, gasp, friends houses, to hang in.
While I don't like Bloomberg's plan either (I drive across the Brooklyn Bridge and over to the holland or up the fdr to the gw way to often to be fond of it) to say that Manhattan traffic is fine is stretching it a bit. Ever had to drive up West in the middle of the day? The traffic could definitely be improved, and while most people in *manhattan* don't have cars, a helluva lot of us brooklinites do
The subway really is one of most impressive things in the world. I've been all over the world, and I've *never* seen another system that compares (and I've lived in NY for 20+ years myself). I can't imagine, say, living in DC and having the subway stop running at night. Hell, tonight I'll be going to hang out with a few friends, and I'll prolly head back to my place at ~3 or 4am, in no condition to drive if I wanted to. Thank god for the subway. I should also mention I go to *school* in the suburbs, and I'll take crowded subway trains over the "longest parking lot in the world" LIE or the "god, please don't make me drive on this at rush hour" throughway any day.
At some point I was a sperm in my father and an egg in my mother, does that mean that my mother is a murderer every month (or my father one, uh, I can assume more than that ::shudder at the thought::)
First off it has to be big, to allow the artist to use it comfortably, but then the artist has to keep it clear of any clutter, less it mistake the clutter for fingers.
The "tagging" of items that TFA talked about might be useful in fixing that problem at least
...as rats are in Deng Lees :-P
/. article someday and see how many people respond.
Until next year at least, they're actually redoing Roth Cafe - 'course I have no doubts the rats will persevere
Another forumite on slashdot?
I've run into a few, I need to get a first post "4mites SOUND OFF" post on some
Am I that worried that Livejournal doesn't want to be associated with you? No. Many sane people, you know, the kinds who don't have to make up a semi-Japanese word to describe their sexual perversions, do not want to be associated with you. I wouldn't be touching your business with a ten-foot pole...
/. doing a mass deletion of users supporting OSS.
Unfortunately for LJ (or, actually, sixapart), a *large* percentage of their user base is the fan fic population. In the same way myspace was built by music, LJ was built by fan fic. Unlike myspace, their original clientèle still dominate. LJ's gonna loose *a lot* of business from this if they don't fix it - fast. It'd be like
Funny you should mention that. At the Science Fiction Forum at Stony Brook University, there was a fire a while ago, burned a large portion of the collection. One of the few books spared was Fahrenheit 451, there's a small blurb about it on the 4m's site.
How long is the pipeline? Is it insanely long a la NetBurst?
Isn't IBM one of the proponents of hypertransport, a la AMD64...? In that case, I seriously doubt a long pipeline here
Hey, I'm 21 and *I* thought "man I'm old". My first comp had a 500MB HD (I remember getting our first cd drives in the house and being amazed that the discs held more than my HD). We had far older machines in the house at the time too. My SE has this gigantic outboard scsi disk on it right now that holds a whopping 20MBs,and we had several older machines both at home and at school that used 2 floppies and no HD :-p.
Developers still code to a platform, it's just an OS or a toolkit now, as opposed to specific hardware (though they do that too with SSE and such). Machines have gotten more complex, more needs to be abstracted out to allow the platform to reasonably workable with. This is not just with the IT industry btw, it happened with textiles, farming, boat building, etc. As an industry gains levels of complexity, the ability (and need) to work with the lowest layers become less. There's always a place for those who can work with the low level stuff, but the abstraction makes things simpler for many other things.
The same thing was true of Farscape. Incredibly high rated show, solid cast, cost waaaay too much to produce. That said, I think *this* final season is more B5-esque. They had a story to tell, they told it, let's give the show a real end.
Just wanted to say, threads like this are why I come to /. :-p