I know I am probibly going to get modded down for this, but there are serious mistakes in this movie, and they were willfully made. For a comprehensive list of the problems with this movie, check out this. Mod me down if you are afraid of the truth, but this needs to be mentioned.
I have to agree with hkroger here. I am *very* leery about buying anything on ebay because of all of the fraud that occurs on the site. My gf recently had great lucking finding a pair of Lands End shoes on there that she's been quite happy with, but I still treat this as the exception rather then the rule.
The worst part of Jersey is the north. I dont live there, but further south. The area is nice, and most other things are reasonable. Just car insurance rates are absurd. Remember, not all of Jersey is like Newark. Just like not all of New York State is like New York City.
New Jersey is more expensive then you think. I recently moved here for a consulting job after I got my Master's degree, and am barely scraping by. It's less expensive then Boston (where I was going to school) for housing and other such expenses, but stuff like car insurance is insane. I pay more for 6 months of car insurance in Jersey then my friends in other states pay for an entire year of insurance!
So just keep in mind that not all Standard of Living costs are readily visible.
There was an article in a recent issue of wired discussing this. The showed how a Celine Dion CD is now louder then a Van Halen cd released in the late 80's because the average "loudness" has been increased so much between then and now. Had a nifty little image showing exactly what you describe.
Just one comment about your post: Even today, the only people who fly faster then sound on a regular basis are Air Force pilots in their jets. As far as I know, with the retiring of the concorde, there are no passenger jets that fly faster then sound during normal flight.
Finding his address won't be hard. The author of the article practically gave it out already. In the article you have the spammer's full name, and the county real estate office where the address can be found. Obviously the author is not too fond of spammers either:)
Grok does not mean to drink. If I remember correctly, the phrase used in the book is something along the lines of "to drink from the cup of understanding". In other words, to grok something is to understand it totally. While the original use in this discussion may have been not strictly accurate, your definition of the word is even more off. If you haven't already, I highly suggest you read Stranger In A Strange Land, it is a very good book.
CSM mentioned that towards the end of the episode. He said something along the lines of "...the date so feared the mayans that they stopped their calendar then". Not a word-for-word quote, but that was the general idea. Makes an interesting connection.
I sent a similar letter, and got the exact same response, word for word, from a different customer service agent. They don't even bother to consider your problem, just offer a stock response when they see what you are complaining about, and move on. I've definitely shopped there for the last time.
I can see this from both sides of the fence, as I am currently both a student and a teacher. (TA'ing to pay for grad school) While students may spend days studying for an exam, they only have a few exams to take. Grading a large number of exams can take days to do properly, including deciding how to handle all the interesting and unusual ways students manage to answer simple questions.
They're not doing quite the same thing, though. Granted, they are actually listening to input from their customers for a change. But they are not giving said customers access to the source code to allow them to fix the bugs themselves. So they are not using outside developers, as you suggest. Instead, they just are just trying to be more responsive to their customers now.
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I think you would have to be certifiable in the first place to want to program in visual basic!
There have already been enough problems with the space station. This is the last thing we need. I hope Boeing is going to have to suffer the loss on this one since it was due to their stupidity.
I think you're way off there. I lived in a dorm last year, and even though my school had 4 T-1's for their internet pipelines, the speeds weren't always that fast, especially at peak usage. I agree that ISDN is not worth the money, but that technology is obsolete anyway. I live in an apartment now, and am anxiously awaiting roadrunner service in this area (only a few months now! But they've been saying that for 6 months now). I am more than willing to pay an extra $40 a month to get faster net access that doesn't tie up the phone line. As it is, my roommate and I share a 33.6 modem connection through a linux gateway. I miss the speeds of living on campus, but the independence of having my own apartment is more then worth it. And with roadrunner coming here, it will be the best of both worlds.
The best way to avoid motion sickness with this movie is just to sit towards the back of the theater. That way you can still see the wall around the screen, and your body won't get as confused about what is actually happening.
As for clerks, I agree with you. That was another very good independent film. I was pleasantly surprised when a friend of mine had me watch the movie.
Are you sure you were watching Blair Witch? There was *no* music in the entire movie. And the whole point of the movie was that you never saw anything. The movie let your imagination go wild on what was actually out there. I know I left the movie a lot more scared then when I went in there. I thought that this was a great movie, definitly one of the best independent films I had ever seen.
The thing about the moving of the camera is that you just can't sit too close to the screen. I went to see the movie on friday, and I was about five rows from the back of the theater. That way I was able to watch the movie bouncing around, and still know I wasn't moving. The reason people get sick from this movie is that they sit too close, and all their eyes see is the jittery camera, while their ears tell them that they aren't moving.
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I know I am probibly going to get modded down for this, but there are serious mistakes in this movie, and they were willfully made. For a comprehensive list of the problems with this movie, check out this. Mod me down if you are afraid of the truth, but this needs to be mentioned.
I have to agree with hkroger here. I am *very* leery about buying anything on ebay because of all of the fraud that occurs on the site. My gf recently had great lucking finding a pair of Lands End shoes on there that she's been quite happy with, but I still treat this as the exception rather then the rule.
The worst part of Jersey is the north. I dont live there, but further south. The area is nice, and most other things are reasonable. Just car insurance rates are absurd. Remember, not all of Jersey is like Newark. Just like not all of New York State is like New York City.
New Jersey is more expensive then you think. I recently moved here for a consulting job after I got my Master's degree, and am barely scraping by. It's less expensive then Boston (where I was going to school) for housing and other such expenses, but stuff like car insurance is insane. I pay more for 6 months of car insurance in Jersey then my friends in other states pay for an entire year of insurance!
So just keep in mind that not all Standard of Living costs are readily visible.
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There was an article in a recent issue of wired discussing this. The showed how a Celine Dion CD is now louder then a Van Halen cd released in the late 80's because the average "loudness" has been increased so much between then and now. Had a nifty little image showing exactly what you describe.
Just one comment about your post: Even today, the only people who fly faster then sound on a regular basis are Air Force pilots in their jets.
As far as I know, with the retiring of the concorde, there are no passenger jets that fly faster then sound during normal flight.
Finding his address won't be hard. The author of the article practically gave it out already. In the article you have the spammer's full name, and the county real estate office where the address can be found. Obviously the author is not too fond of spammers either :)
Grok does not mean to drink. If I remember correctly, the phrase used in the book is something along the lines of "to drink from the cup of understanding". In other words, to grok something is to understand it totally. While the original use in this discussion may have been not strictly accurate, your definition of the word is even more off. If you haven't already, I highly suggest you read Stranger In A Strange Land, it is a very good book.
CSM mentioned that towards the end of the episode. He said something along the lines of "...the date so feared the mayans that they stopped their calendar then". Not a word-for-word quote, but that was the general idea. Makes an interesting connection.
I sent a similar letter, and got the exact same response, word for word, from a different customer service agent. They don't even bother to consider your problem, just offer a stock response when they see what you are complaining about, and move on. I've definitely shopped there for the last time.
I can see this from both sides of the fence, as I am currently both a student and a teacher. (TA'ing to pay for grad school) While students may spend days studying for an exam, they only have a few exams to take. Grading a large number of exams can take days to do properly, including deciding how to handle all the interesting and unusual ways students manage to answer simple questions.
They're not doing quite the same thing, though. Granted, they are actually listening to input from their customers for a change. But they are not giving said customers access to the source code to allow them to fix the bugs themselves. So they are not using outside developers, as you suggest. Instead, they just are just trying to be more responsive to their customers now.
I think you would have to be certifiable in the first place to want to program in visual basic!
There have already been enough problems with the space station. This is the last thing we need. I hope Boeing is going to have to suffer the loss on this one since it was due to their stupidity.
I think you're way off there. I lived in a dorm last year, and even though my school had 4 T-1's for their internet pipelines, the speeds weren't always that fast, especially at peak usage.
I agree that ISDN is not worth the money, but that technology is obsolete anyway.
I live in an apartment now, and am anxiously awaiting roadrunner service in this area (only a few months now! But they've been saying that for 6 months now). I am more than willing to pay an extra $40 a month to get faster net access that doesn't tie up the phone line. As it is, my roommate and I share a 33.6 modem connection through a linux gateway. I miss the speeds of living on campus, but the independence of having my own apartment is more then worth it. And with roadrunner coming here, it will be the best of both worlds.
The best way to avoid motion sickness with this movie is just to sit towards the back of the theater. That way you can still see the wall around the screen, and your body won't get as confused about what is actually happening.
As for clerks, I agree with you. That was another very good independent film. I was pleasantly surprised when a friend of mine had me watch the movie.
Are you sure you were watching Blair Witch? There was *no* music in the entire movie. And the whole point of the movie was that you never saw anything. The movie let your imagination go wild on what was actually out there. I know I left the movie a lot more scared then when I went in there. I thought that this was a great movie, definitly one of the best independent films I had ever seen.
The thing about the moving of the camera is that you just can't sit too close to the screen. I went to see the movie on friday, and I was about five rows from the back of the theater. That way I was able to watch the movie bouncing around, and still know I wasn't moving. The reason people get sick from this movie is that they sit too close, and all their eyes see is the jittery camera, while their ears tell them that they aren't moving.
I'm glad that the divx confusion will die down in the near future. I just wish I could afford a dvd player right now!