No! That isn't the purpose of the price. That's the purpose of the AT&T contract. The purpose of the price is to ensure that, when you see someone with an iPhone, you will realize how hip and important that very special person is.
In that case, crashing on Earth seems highly plausible only if they were actually aiming for a different planet, or more likely, a different star system.
...but the immigration bill has a very steep fine...
That the lawbreaker only has to pay if they want citizenship. If they are content as a non-citizen, they never have to pay the fine. This bill was a blanket forgiveness for the crime of illegally entering the United States. "Amnesty" is a perfectly good way to describe it.
Good God, I am so glad to hear that I'm not the only one that has the streetlight thing happen to them. I'd put it at about 5% also, but only when I'm on foot. Never happens when I'm biking.
One time back in college it happened when I was walking with my girlfriend. I said something to the effect of, "I always feel weird when that happens." She said she'd never had it happen to her before.
The most creepy was when it happened with three consecutive lights. I figured I was about 5 seconds away from being beamed back up to the mothership.
"Innocent until proven guilty" is still in play. What the OP was saying is, "Here is circumstantial evidence that strongly points toward 'guilty'." The onus is on Reiser to provide some plausible explanation other than "I killed my wife" which is where the evidence currently points. Circumstantial evidence may not strictly be considered proof, but circumstantial evidence with no explanation other than guilt can be considered Proof Beyond Reasonable Doubt.
I'll have to see Primer if you're comparing it favorably to 12 Monkeys. I loved the way time travel was portrayed. None of this, "You've changed the past and screwed up everything!" The past has already happened. We remember it happening the way it happened. You want to try to change the past? Guess what? You didn't. You've already grown up and lived in the results of any "changes" you might try to make.
The only problem with this view of time travel comes into play by traveling into the future, then returning. Now that you've seen the future, there's nothing you can to to change it. Because in a sense, it's already happened.
This thread in general, and your post in particular, has convinced me to both read the book and watch the movie again. I've got the book on my shelf, but I think I've only read it twice. The movie I've seen once in college, (about 9 years ago). I remember it seriously screwed with my mind, but I'm sure that's partially because I was watching it at 3:00 AM while coming down from a caffeine bender.
I'll have to go rent it and watch it sometime in the next couple of days. I'll just lay off the espresso beforehand.
I would suggest being positive and promoting IUMA and boycott the labels.
Happy to do the second, but have you tried going to iuma.com lately? According to the Wikipedia article, the site stopped accepting submissions in 2001, and disappeared from the web in early 2006.
I think that the parent posters aren't speculating on Microsoft having to open up any of their code. I read them as speculating on how it affects their nebulous claims of patent infringement in Linux. Basically, one can argue that they no longer can pursue patent infringement cases regarding code that they have distributed. IANAL and have no idea of the validity of this argument, but it certainly is intriguing. Anyone qualified to comment on this?
Probably because A) They needed a carrier to support their visual voice mail, and B) The $500 iPhone is the subsidized price and would be even more expensive without tying people to a contract.
I think he's referring to people on contracts with other carriers. I'm going to take a wild guess that Sprint isn't going to let you out of your current contract so you can buy a more expensive contract with ATT.
You can also see a retired SR-71 at the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS. I don't remember if you can actually touch it, (I think it's mounted too high to reach.) You can see a fairly tiny picture at http://www.cosmo.org/museum/ If you look at the photo of the facility at the top of the page, the SR-71 is in the right-most section with the slanted blue roof. That section was built specifically to house the Blackbird.
I can't recommend this place enough. If you are anywhere within 50 miles of Hutchinson, it's worth visiting. For a true space geek, skip the IMAX and planetarium shows and make sure you've got several hours to go through their Hall of Space museum. I've been through over a dozen times, and I'm still in awe every time I go.
Minor nitpick, but PocketTunes isn't freeware. It has been bundled with new Palms for awhile, but if it didn't come with your Palm, it's $19.99 for Basic and $39.99 for Deluxe. I checked because you got my hopes up when you called it "freeware".
Amen to this! I run dual monitors at home, and it's always a PITA to get it working. (Under linux, anyway. Under Windows it's 6 clicks.) The Ubuntu Forums have a guide that usually works, but the process is a lot more difficult than it should be. Plus it's different depending on whether you're using ATI, nVidia, or Intel video, and IIRC, for ATI it's different for the proprietary or open source drivers.
In my experience I've never had to disconnect the second monitor during install, though. The second monitor just displays a clone until I configure it. (Either that or the green light just flashes because the default resolution is usually higher than my antique 15" LCD will display.) That may depend on the video card, though.
It would also be very nice if you could easily force full screen apps (ie. most games) to run on just 1 monitor instead of splitting across the two.
Geez... I'm really sorry if my post came off as defending Hollywood accounting, because that's the last thing I intended. Wow, I feel like I need a shower just thinking about it. As bad as Forrest Gump (the book) was, I feel that Winston Groom should have been fairly paid out of the profits from the movie. Just like Peter Jackson should have been fairly paid for LOTR.
Actually, now that I think about it, if Groom would have gotten a fair share from the Gump movie, maybe he wouldn't have written Gump & Co to cash in on the movie's success. I guess it's nice to think somewhere exists a parallel universe with honest Hollywood accounting that was spared that steaming pile of literary crap.
And if anyone thinks I'm exaggerating how bad that book was, here's a short spoiler: Forrest joins the space program and ends up captured by cannibals. He has to keep beating their chief in chess so they won't eat him. If you still want to read it, go ahead. You've been warned.
Having read "Gump and Co.", I'd say we didn't miss much. I thought it was clearly an attempt to cash in on the success of the movie. And later, having read "Forrest Gump", I gained a full understanding of why "Gump and Co." was so bad. It was because the scriptwriters for "Forrest Gump" took a mediocre book about an interesting idea for a character, and turned it into an incredibly good movie, but nobody took "Gump and Co." and turned it into something tolerable.
"Forrest Gump" is on my short list of book-movie translations where movie>book. The other two on my list are Last of the Mohicans and Fight Club. The difference being that the other books on the list were actually good.
Actually, I loved MI3. The animation was great, the voice acting was superb, and I loved the music. (I taught my daughter the "Monkey In My Pocket" song when she was about 3.) I also thought the Guybrush character in MI3 seemed much more consistent with MI1 than MI2 did - MI3 seemed to do a much better job of capturing the "pirate wannabe" persona. I realize that a lot of die-hard Monkey Island fans consider MI3 the point where the series started to decline, and they're certainly entitled to their opinion. (But they're wrong:-)
MI4 was a big disappointment, though. It felt very much like a case of, "We did this in 3D because we could, and everyone else is doing 3D." Not that there's anything wrong with 3D Adventure Games -- Grim Fandango was absolutely amazing. But because of the writing, not because it was 3D. (And for the anal-retentive, yes, I know GF used 2D backgrounds.)
Like a lot of/.ers, I really miss LucasArts making adventure games. I loved their philosophy of mostly logical puzzles and not killing me every time I clicked on the wrong pixel. I was glad to see TellTale pick up Sam and Max, although I haven't had a chance to play it yet. But I really miss the glory days of Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, and The Dig.
Frankly, I believe Sony in this case. Getting the algorythim right for this would be tough. It woudn't surprise me if the one MS made is currently ineffective. It will take time to find a better one.
How freakin' long was Vista in development? How many times was it delayed? If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but it's not like they haven't had time to get it right.
Having seen some of the legal maneuvers they've tried, I'd have to question whether they really have the best lawyers money can buy. I think the term "legal thugs" is more appropriate. Their lawyers are very good at intimidating the average person. Kind of like a Central Park mugger is very good at intimidating the average person. But that mugger is not a skilled fighter by any means. Just big and scary enough that the average person will hand over their wallet.
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The control-a thing bugs me too, but it's almost as fast to hit home, shift-end (or vice-versa) to select everything in a line.
That behavior is also the default behavior in KDE. (At least with every distro I've tried.) It's also the first thing I change.
Please don't confuse the two.
In that case, crashing on Earth seems highly plausible only if they were actually aiming for a different planet, or more likely, a different star system.
That the lawbreaker only has to pay if they want citizenship. If they are content as a non-citizen, they never have to pay the fine. This bill was a blanket forgiveness for the crime of illegally entering the United States. "Amnesty" is a perfectly good way to describe it.
One time back in college it happened when I was walking with my girlfriend. I said something to the effect of, "I always feel weird when that happens." She said she'd never had it happen to her before.
The most creepy was when it happened with three consecutive lights. I figured I was about 5 seconds away from being beamed back up to the mothership.
"Innocent until proven guilty" is still in play. What the OP was saying is, "Here is circumstantial evidence that strongly points toward 'guilty'." The onus is on Reiser to provide some plausible explanation other than "I killed my wife" which is where the evidence currently points. Circumstantial evidence may not strictly be considered proof, but circumstantial evidence with no explanation other than guilt can be considered Proof Beyond Reasonable Doubt.
The only problem with this view of time travel comes into play by traveling into the future, then returning. Now that you've seen the future, there's nothing you can to to change it. Because in a sense, it's already happened.
I'll have to go rent it and watch it sometime in the next couple of days. I'll just lay off the espresso beforehand.
Happy to do the second, but have you tried going to iuma.com lately? According to the Wikipedia article, the site stopped accepting submissions in 2001, and disappeared from the web in early 2006.
I know that my favorite ISP, "Linksys" would never rat me out to the RIAA
I think that the parent posters aren't speculating on Microsoft having to open up any of their code. I read them as speculating on how it affects their nebulous claims of patent infringement in Linux. Basically, one can argue that they no longer can pursue patent infringement cases regarding code that they have distributed. IANAL and have no idea of the validity of this argument, but it certainly is intriguing. Anyone qualified to comment on this?
Probably because A) They needed a carrier to support their visual voice mail, and B) The $500 iPhone is the subsidized price and would be even more expensive without tying people to a contract.
I think he's referring to people on contracts with other carriers. I'm going to take a wild guess that Sprint isn't going to let you out of your current contract so you can buy a more expensive contract with ATT.
I can't recommend this place enough. If you are anywhere within 50 miles of Hutchinson, it's worth visiting. For a true space geek, skip the IMAX and planetarium shows and make sure you've got several hours to go through their Hall of Space museum. I've been through over a dozen times, and I'm still in awe every time I go.
Minor nitpick, but PocketTunes isn't freeware. It has been bundled with new Palms for awhile, but if it didn't come with your Palm, it's $19.99 for Basic and $39.99 for Deluxe. I checked because you got my hopes up when you called it "freeware".
In my experience I've never had to disconnect the second monitor during install, though. The second monitor just displays a clone until I configure it. (Either that or the green light just flashes because the default resolution is usually higher than my antique 15" LCD will display.) That may depend on the video card, though.
It would also be very nice if you could easily force full screen apps (ie. most games) to run on just 1 monitor instead of splitting across the two.
Actually, now that I think about it, if Groom would have gotten a fair share from the Gump movie, maybe he wouldn't have written Gump & Co to cash in on the movie's success. I guess it's nice to think somewhere exists a parallel universe with honest Hollywood accounting that was spared that steaming pile of literary crap.
And if anyone thinks I'm exaggerating how bad that book was, here's a short spoiler: Forrest joins the space program and ends up captured by cannibals. He has to keep beating their chief in chess so they won't eat him. If you still want to read it, go ahead. You've been warned.
"Forrest Gump" is on my short list of book-movie translations where movie>book. The other two on my list are Last of the Mohicans and Fight Club. The difference being that the other books on the list were actually good.
Uncultured philistine! Everyone knows you spread butter with a butter knife. You spread jam with a jam knife. Hence the name.
MI4 was a big disappointment, though. It felt very much like a case of, "We did this in 3D because we could, and everyone else is doing 3D." Not that there's anything wrong with 3D Adventure Games -- Grim Fandango was absolutely amazing. But because of the writing, not because it was 3D. (And for the anal-retentive, yes, I know GF used 2D backgrounds.)
Like a lot of /.ers, I really miss LucasArts making adventure games. I loved their philosophy of mostly logical puzzles and not killing me every time I clicked on the wrong pixel. I was glad to see TellTale pick up Sam and Max, although I haven't had a chance to play it yet. But I really miss the glory days of Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, and The Dig.
How freakin' long was Vista in development? How many times was it delayed? If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but it's not like they haven't had time to get it right.
What do you mean, "next"? Now that 3/4 of TV is "reality" shows, scripts are few and far between.
To extend my analogy a bit, NYCL and those like him would be the civic-minded black belt that shows up in the middle of the mugging attempt.
Having seen some of the legal maneuvers they've tried, I'd have to question whether they really have the best lawyers money can buy. I think the term "legal thugs" is more appropriate. Their lawyers are very good at intimidating the average person. Kind of like a Central Park mugger is very good at intimidating the average person. But that mugger is not a skilled fighter by any means. Just big and scary enough that the average person will hand over their wallet.