"33 percent of Fox News viewers incorrectly believed it was true that the U.S. has found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction; only 11 percent of people who said they relied on PBS or NPR for news got this wrong. Thirty-five percent of the Fox viewers thought that world opinion favored the U.S. invasion of Iraq; only 5 percent of those who get their news from PBS or NPR had this misconception. And an overwhelming 67 percent of those who relied on Fox thought that the U.S. had found clear evidence that Saddam Hussein had worked closely with Al Qaeda; if you got your news from PBS/NPR, you had just a 16 percent chance of believing this falsehood."
Exactly. Most of the "benefits" of the DSK (Dvorak) keyboard are pure hype. Read and learn.
You should be concerned with the design of the keyboard as a whole, rather than the order of the keys.
>No, they ruled the local governments are better >judges of what's reasonable on a case-by-case basis
No, it goes much further than that. This is nationwide, fundamental change in both the reasons private property can be seized, and who decides it can be seized.
But big business will love it. After all, it's much cheaper to bribe government officials at the local level.
To quote from the SC's deserting opinion: "Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms."
This is actually a step backwards. Optical mouses freed us from having to use a mousepad. Now we not only have to use a mousepad again, we have to have it plugged in.
No thanks, I'll stick with an truly wireless mouse.
Exactly. This is pretty useless. What's the point of side-by-side comparisons when the thumbnails are too small to make anything out, and expanding them to full size makes side-by-side comparisons impossible? The authors really need to re-think this, if they want to present something useful.
Where's the simplicity? This has the same number of button (in pretty much the same configuration) as my LG VX6000 web-enabled camera phone.
With a screen this large, they should just have just had a basic 10 key dialer, and single "other stuff" button. Press that, and it activates the display in touch-screen mode. Simple menus could walk you through accessing other PIM-like tools. Simplicity isn't about what's on the phone, but how easy or difficult it is to use.
So that explains why George Peppard was carrying a samurai sword. Oh, wait. My mistake. He had a pair of six shooters.
Yes, I'm quite familiar with the origin of both "rip-offs". But your contention that Battle Beyond The Stars is based on The Seven Samurai is a bit like claiming that Space Balls is based on Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress.
Don't assume success to soon. Remember Private Parts, the Howard Stern movie? It opened HUGE, and did major box office for a couple of weeks. But once all his fans had seen it (sometimes twice), it's numbers dropped faster than one of his stripper guests dropping her top. What had been hailed as mega-hit actually ended up losing money.
The fact is, the average person has probably never even heard of the Firefly series. So while it may be a snap to get fans excited, it's going to have a really tough time crossing over to the mainstream audience.
Besides, isn't one space western enough?:)
Firefly was weak as a western, and bad as science fiction. But who knows? JW took his pretty bad movie (the original Buffy), and remade it into great television. Maybe he can to the opposite and remake his lukewarm series into a good movie.
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My favorite - the ability to remove certain Google search results, bases on their URL. Gets ride of those sites that I know require a subscription.
He was watching Lost in Space reruns the day they covered the difference between "its" and "it's" in school.
As the PIPA report (pdf) found, FOX makes you stupid.
Michael Bay? Michael "world's worst director" Bay? Well, this is guaranteed to be craptastic.
You'll have to forgive him. He can't help his grossly inaccurate views. He watches Fox News.
Exactly. Most of the "benefits" of the DSK (Dvorak) keyboard are pure hype. Read and learn. You should be concerned with the design of the keyboard as a whole, rather than the order of the keys.
Not boring.
>No, they ruled the local governments are better
>judges of what's reasonable on a case-by-case basis
No, it goes much further than that. This is nationwide, fundamental change in both the reasons private property can be seized, and who decides it can be seized.
But big business will love it. After all, it's much cheaper to bribe government officials at the local level.
To quote from the SC's deserting opinion:
"Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms."
If you're surprised at this, then you obviously haven't been paying attention.
No thanks, I'll stick with an truly wireless mouse.
Let's see, the Amiga was only about a decade ahead of its time (and could do things right out the box that Windows still can't get right).
Exactly. This is pretty useless. What's the point of side-by-side comparisons when the thumbnails are too small to make anything out, and expanding them to full size makes side-by-side comparisons impossible? The authors really need to re-think this, if they want to present something useful.
With a screen this large, they should just have just had a basic 10 key dialer, and single "other stuff" button. Press that, and it activates the display in touch-screen mode. Simple menus could walk you through accessing other PIM-like tools. Simplicity isn't about what's on the phone, but how easy or difficult it is to use.
the "running" scene in The Wizard of Speed and Time .
"Wired" may have just heard of this, but this story came out months ago. Just because "Wired" seems to be out of the loop, does /.?
Steven Kloves has written the screenplay for all 4 movies. He's the one, not the director, who has to pry the secrets from JKR.
Yes, I'm quite familiar with the origin of both "rip-offs". But your contention that Battle Beyond The Stars is based on The Seven Samurai is a bit like claiming that Space Balls is based on Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress.
The cost number you're looking at is the domestic pre-buget number. That's not the final cost.
Don't assume success to soon. Remember Private Parts, the Howard Stern movie? It opened HUGE, and did major box office for a couple of weeks. But once all his fans had seen it (sometimes twice), it's numbers dropped faster than one of his stripper guests dropping her top. What had been hailed as mega-hit actually ended up losing money. The fact is, the average person has probably never even heard of the Firefly series. So while it may be a snap to get fans excited, it's going to have a really tough time crossing over to the mainstream audience. Besides, isn't one space western enough? :)
I thought they already used this stuff to build the Tacomas Narrows Bridge.
Firefly was weak as a western, and bad as science fiction. But who knows? JW took his pretty bad movie (the original Buffy), and remade it into great television. Maybe he can to the opposite and remake his lukewarm series into a good movie.
No, just so entrenched in the tech world that they've lost touch with reality. The average person still has no idea what a jump drive is.
It was mostly a talking head (no, not the group), and didn't even appear to be entry discussed in the /. post.
The word you apparently were struggling to come up with when composing the article's title, but failed, was "individual". Better luck next time.
I'm curious. What color is the sky in your world?