Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester Macoy never had any decent scripts to work with
Actually, some of the greatest scripts imo were Peter Davison stories -- Planet of Fire, Caves of Androzani, Earthshock, Resurrection of the Daleks, the black guardian stories, all were enjoyable to me, anyway.
Colin Baker got the crap scripts. McCoy had some real dogs (Paradise Towers may be the worst of the worst) and a couple decent ones.
Judging by the article, not only is journalism dead, but it's also arrogant about being dead. The greatest criticism Engberg had was that blogs released TRUE information that the smarter, better people at the networks were hiding from the nwashed masses. Why? Because we, the ignorant citizens of the US, can't be trusted to use this information correctly or to understand the explanations of the "experts." What utter crap. Even if the exit polls are completely inaccurate, the raw numbers should have been freely available to everyone instead of hoarded by the corporate media conglomerates.
I'm afraid you're wrong there - most beer in the US is around 4-5.5% alcohol (although I can't vouch for the water content of the beers around Times Square). Only in Utah are you limited to 3.2% beer (ok, also the grocery stores in Colorado and a few other unenlightened places). Even Coors Light (which I hope is not what you were drinking) is usually 4.2%. Look here for a summary: http://www.realbeer.com/edu/health/calories.php
As for your level of inebriation, it must've been the time zone difference.
I'm actually most impressed by the technology involved in the television coverage. First, you've got about about 20 cameras on bicycles, showing images at race level (almost what the cyclists see themselves). They send the pictures to helicopters overhead, which in turn send the images to satellites. Let's also not forget the cameras on the helicopters themselves, and the beautiful display of flying and camera ability that brings gorgeous and rock-steady shots of 170 bicyclists zipping through fields of sunflowers.
Add to that GPS transmitters on every bike, which brings instant results at the end of the race to the 100th of a second, and (this year on OLN) up-to-the-second time gaps among the groups on the road (this'll really shine when they hit the mountains).
All this, plus entertaining commentary, live worldwide.
I agree this is pretty trivial. All it really says is that Mozart uses repetition as a tool more than Schoenberg. Pretty obvious. Also, trying to extrapolate to all atonal music from Schoenberg isn't really valid -- there may be much more repetition in other atonal composers' works but not in Schoenberg's because he was partially composing to prove a point about tonality.
And (from my reading many years ago) I don't actually think that Lerdahl & Jackendoff actually described anything like what an experienced listener experiences when listening to music. But it was an interesting exercise in what happens when Chomskian linguistics meets music theory.
What? The post above is absolute drivel. Congress has plenty of power to overturn Betamax. The Supreme court in Betamax was interpreting a statute. If Congress then changes the statute, of course it can reverse the Supreme Court's decision. It happens all the time.
I remember being REALLY disappointed when I got that stupid thing for Christmas.
"Innovation" indeed. This is the stupidest cel phone add-on yet. I hated the thing when I was 11, so I really can't see who would want this on their phone.
Now, if it had a smoke-signal device, THAT would be innovation.
These "college students" forgot one thing. They need to tweak that trigger angle. Never wait til the pitcher's completely empty to order the next one. Sheesh. Kids these days . . .
Option for slashdot shut-ins: call the reference desk.
Which calls to mind that it was surprising the author didn't appear to be using the services of a reference librarian (on at least one question there was a false start with the wrong source). This is the sort of thing that they're there for.
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Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester Macoy never had any decent scripts to work with
Actually, some of the greatest scripts imo were Peter Davison stories -- Planet of Fire, Caves of Androzani, Earthshock, Resurrection of the Daleks, the black guardian stories, all were enjoyable to me, anyway.
Colin Baker got the crap scripts. McCoy had some real dogs (Paradise Towers may be the worst of the worst) and a couple decent ones.
Speaking of 2004's jokes, In Soviet Russia, depleted ISS rations eat you.
Judging by the article, not only is journalism dead, but it's also arrogant about being dead. The greatest criticism Engberg had was that blogs released TRUE information that the smarter, better people at the networks were hiding from the nwashed masses. Why? Because we, the ignorant citizens of the US, can't be trusted to use this information correctly or to understand the explanations of the "experts." What utter crap. Even if the exit polls are completely inaccurate, the raw numbers should have been freely available to everyone instead of hoarded by the corporate media conglomerates.
I'm afraid you're wrong there - most beer in the US is around 4-5.5% alcohol (although I can't vouch for the water content of the beers around Times Square). Only in Utah are you limited to 3.2% beer (ok, also the grocery stores in Colorado and a few other unenlightened places). Even Coors Light (which I hope is not what you were drinking) is usually 4.2%. Look here for a summary: http://www.realbeer.com/edu/health/calories.php As for your level of inebriation, it must've been the time zone difference.
Oops, meant cameras on "motorcycles," not "bicycles." Brain-finger interface not functional.
I'm actually most impressed by the technology involved in the television coverage. First, you've got about about 20 cameras on bicycles, showing images at race level (almost what the cyclists see themselves). They send the pictures to helicopters overhead, which in turn send the images to satellites. Let's also not forget the cameras on the helicopters themselves, and the beautiful display of flying and camera ability that brings gorgeous and rock-steady shots of 170 bicyclists zipping through fields of sunflowers.
Add to that GPS transmitters on every bike, which brings instant results at the end of the race to the 100th of a second, and (this year on OLN) up-to-the-second time gaps among the groups on the road (this'll really shine when they hit the mountains).
All this, plus entertaining commentary, live worldwide.
I agree this is pretty trivial. All it really says is that Mozart uses repetition as a tool more than Schoenberg. Pretty obvious. Also, trying to extrapolate to all atonal music from Schoenberg isn't really valid -- there may be much more repetition in other atonal composers' works but not in Schoenberg's because he was partially composing to prove a point about tonality. And (from my reading many years ago) I don't actually think that Lerdahl & Jackendoff actually described anything like what an experienced listener experiences when listening to music. But it was an interesting exercise in what happens when Chomskian linguistics meets music theory.
What? The post above is absolute drivel. Congress has plenty of power to overturn Betamax. The Supreme court in Betamax was interpreting a statute. If Congress then changes the statute, of course it can reverse the Supreme Court's decision. It happens all the time.
I remember being REALLY disappointed when I got that stupid thing for Christmas. "Innovation" indeed. This is the stupidest cel phone add-on yet. I hated the thing when I was 11, so I really can't see who would want this on their phone. Now, if it had a smoke-signal device, THAT would be innovation.
Software patents couldn't shut the website down. It took slashdot to do that.
These "college students" forgot one thing. They need to tweak that trigger angle. Never wait til the pitcher's completely empty to order the next one. Sheesh. Kids these days . . .
Option for slashdot shut-ins: call the reference desk. Which calls to mind that it was surprising the author didn't appear to be using the services of a reference librarian (on at least one question there was a false start with the wrong source). This is the sort of thing that they're there for.