The official position of the church is that this dust is the manifestation of original sin. It is that which defeats innocence. If it is life by nature, then it must clearly be inherently evil.
The students aren't required to use Office 2007 at home, it's merely recommended.
The problem is, as it has been throughout history, people who don't know better take a "recommendation" from a percieved authority as a much stronger statement than just a "suggestion". Parents will pay for office because the school district "probably knows more than I do about this stuff" and then complain about how much it is costing them without considering that there might be an alternative. That's their problem. If they're willfully ignorant, unwilling to think for themselves, then they get to pay a premium to have others do their thinking for them.
Sample my fist you community theater reject! You know, I never knew why they were always digging on Ren Fests - then I went to one.
It's all true. Every damn thing they had to say about those things is true. They charge you money to get in, then make you pay more to be insulted by them. They call you a fool - and in some bizarre self-fulfilling causality loop they're right - 'cause you just paid upwards of $80 to eat fried dough (er, "peasants' bread"), drink mead you coulda bought yourself at the liquor store, and get called a fool.
Phantom (of Crank-whore): "Each of you will get into a space capsule..." Frightened Earth Gentlemen: "What??!?" "What's that??" Servo: "Oh, for crying out loud... EACH - OF - YOU - WILL - GET - INTO - A - SPACE - CAPSULE!"
Also from Prince of Space (Ah! Oh! Prince of Space?)
"A deadly exchange of film scratches!" "I'll throw my doll at you!" "Allow me to reiterate my previous assertion that neither myself nor my ship can be harmed by your weapons!"
Few episodes, however, can compare with the... Robot Holocaust. Somehow, when downloading and watching all the old episodes, I missed that one the first time around - so I had no clue what Mike was doing in ep. 201... But, man, that was good times, once I finally watched that one...
Oh, and perhaps my favorite Invention Exchange line of all time: from season 1... "YOUR MOTHER FLOSSES IN HELL! GAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Dr. Earhardt, wherever you are, I salute you and your fine contributions to evil science...
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This book is three years old, man - haven't people seen it by now?
It can be arranged. however, in return, like most musicians you will have to work the first dozen or so years of your life for virtually nothing, with no guarantee whatsoever of ever making a penny from any of it. Your point is that it was tough for them to get to that point, I guess?
So what? If they want to keep making money off their old songs they can keep performing them. If they want to capitalize further on their star status, they can write new songs, see if they've really got the jets to crank out more hits. Why should they have exclusive creative control of their old songs for such an absurdly long period? Why should anybody have to pay for the privilege to perform or use samples from a song that was written twenty years before they were born? And why, if an artist makes a deal such that their song is in part or in whole owned by their publisher, should that artist be stuck dealing with that one company for the rest of their lives?
If copyright were shorter, then those few really huge hits - the flukes, the abnormal cases where a song becomes tremendously popular, even if only briefly - would be less important, less valuable. Because hits are so valuable - not only in the short term, but for the whole life of the copyright - there's tremendous emphasis placed on finding them and bringing them to people's attention. This is why radio stations have such small collections of music in rotation - if there were too many new songs in rotation then no one song would get enough repeat play to get people's attention. If the big hits were less valuable, there could be more variety in the playlists - a larger number of less valuable songs. Instead of one musician being the "lottery winner" and being set for life, you might find ten, instead, making a steady living for several years from the success of their songs. More people could get "in" - they would have to, because without copyright providing this artificially high value for the extremely small number of hugely popular songs and granting record companies a century-long monopoly on the works they control, record companies would need to be more continuously refreshing their catalog, even if not all the strong pieces in their pieces are on the order of what today would be considered a hit. There would be more room for exploration, more room for risks. Lowering the stakes would open the doors to more work, and more interesting work. That's how I see it.
I figure Moore's "Law" only exists, only works, because we are and have been in a situation where there's a lot of potential for rapid growth and refinement.
Moore's "Law" is an estimation of how quickly that potential will be realized. But the apparent potential for new advances doesn't necessarily increase as fast as potential is realized - so I think there will be times when the potential for new developments becomes much more limited - this could be a result of market factors (for instance, if people just aren't buying faster hardware anymore) or limitations to the technology we're trying to use to solve the problem.
We think of it as a "Law" because it has been pretty reliable for a while now, but it's actually just a model that fits the current pattern of growth...
In the year 2015, when all new computers are portable, one man still works at a desk...
"Yippie-kai-yay, motherfucker!"
Die Hard Computer User. Rated PG.
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> Gillian Anderson has got to be pretty old by now. The fun may be > gone.
Nope. She was recently in a UK TV production of Bleak House.
She's certainly less gamine, but still *gorgeous*, at least to my taste (to me Sigourney Weaver's hotter in Alien Resurrection than the original).
Conrad Yeah, but in the original she wore flimsy 1970s underwear...
(Alien Resurrection should be considered a war crime. I don't care if there was no war on, they should declare one retroactively so they can classify it as a war crime...)
That's even worse than having a eunuch teach me about sex. I don't know... sometimes the viewpoint of a neutral observer can be just the thing you need.
...for varying values of 'Works' I like it, except for one thing -
We're talking about people using software made for Vista, on platforms other than Vista. So it would be more like you buy your game, and the system requirements state: "It just Works... (with Vista only)"
My feeling is that where requiring an upgrade of the operating system is nothing more than if(version="VISTA","Welcome","You're FUcked") then the companies should be charged with false advertising and fined millions. Here's the trick, though...
Saying a piece of software "works" under certain conditions isn't just a statement of technical possibility, it's a statement of confidence in that scenario. As in, how thoroughly was that combination of software tested.
The software companies aren't obligated to broaden their testing platform, or to allow people to run their software on platforms they didn't test for. (Regardless of disclaimers, doing things like that would cost them money, in the form of tech support calls asking how to get it working. The situation sucks from a user standpoint but it's not totally unreasonable...)
How is some dude objecting to a bad game review "relatedly" to the deal of Microsoft trying to use games to get people to switch to Vista, versus the people trying to circumvent the measures Microsoft has taken to that effect?
I mean, is it "relatedly" just because the game was mentioned, briefly, earlier in the article?
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The mods didn't get the joke, though. Figures.
The official position of the church is that this dust is the manifestation of original sin. It is that which defeats innocence. If it is life by nature, then it must clearly be inherently evil.
The problem is, as it has been throughout history, people who don't know better take a "recommendation" from a percieved authority as a much stronger statement than just a "suggestion". Parents will pay for office because the school district "probably knows more than I do about this stuff" and then complain about how much it is costing them without considering that there might be an alternative. That's their problem. If they're willfully ignorant, unwilling to think for themselves, then they get to pay a premium to have others do their thinking for them.
Reminds me of a bit they did in a lot of those kinds of shorts - the sentence completion gag...
Narrator: "Talented performers from all over the world..."
Crow: "could not be here tonight."
Narrator: "The grand spectacle of masterful figure skating..."
Servo: "is missing."
Reminds me of a little something called SPACOM...
"Cuts through this tomato like it was a tin can!"
"Snapples caps off of jugs, jars, and the baby!"
"And boy does it catch fish!"
It's all true. Every damn thing they had to say about those things is true. They charge you money to get in, then make you pay more to be insulted by them. They call you a fool - and in some bizarre self-fulfilling causality loop they're right - 'cause you just paid upwards of $80 to eat fried dough (er, "peasants' bread"), drink mead you coulda bought yourself at the liquor store, and get called a fool.
(Did you notice the peculiar indentations on their foreheads?)
(don't remember the exact lines here...)
Phantom (of Crank-whore): "Each of you will get into a space capsule..."
Frightened Earth Gentlemen: "What??!?" "What's that??"
Servo: "Oh, for crying out loud... EACH - OF - YOU - WILL - GET - INTO - A - SPACE - CAPSULE!"
Also from Prince of Space (Ah! Oh! Prince of Space?)
"A deadly exchange of film scratches!"
"I'll throw my doll at you!"
"Allow me to reiterate my previous assertion that neither myself nor my ship can be harmed by your weapons!"
Few episodes, however, can compare with the... Robot Holocaust. Somehow, when downloading and watching all the old episodes, I missed that one the first time around - so I had no clue what Mike was doing in ep. 201... But, man, that was good times, once I finally watched that one...
Oh, and perhaps my favorite Invention Exchange line of all time: from season 1...
"YOUR MOTHER FLOSSES IN HELL! GAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Dr. Earhardt, wherever you are, I salute you and your fine contributions to evil science...
This book is three years old, man - haven't people seen it by now?
So what? If they want to keep making money off their old songs they can keep performing them. If they want to capitalize further on their star status, they can write new songs, see if they've really got the jets to crank out more hits. Why should they have exclusive creative control of their old songs for such an absurdly long period? Why should anybody have to pay for the privilege to perform or use samples from a song that was written twenty years before they were born? And why, if an artist makes a deal such that their song is in part or in whole owned by their publisher, should that artist be stuck dealing with that one company for the rest of their lives?
If copyright were shorter, then those few really huge hits - the flukes, the abnormal cases where a song becomes tremendously popular, even if only briefly - would be less important, less valuable. Because hits are so valuable - not only in the short term, but for the whole life of the copyright - there's tremendous emphasis placed on finding them and bringing them to people's attention. This is why radio stations have such small collections of music in rotation - if there were too many new songs in rotation then no one song would get enough repeat play to get people's attention. If the big hits were less valuable, there could be more variety in the playlists - a larger number of less valuable songs. Instead of one musician being the "lottery winner" and being set for life, you might find ten, instead, making a steady living for several years from the success of their songs. More people could get "in" - they would have to, because without copyright providing this artificially high value for the extremely small number of hugely popular songs and granting record companies a century-long monopoly on the works they control, record companies would need to be more continuously refreshing their catalog, even if not all the strong pieces in their pieces are on the order of what today would be considered a hit. There would be more room for exploration, more room for risks. Lowering the stakes would open the doors to more work, and more interesting work. That's how I see it.
I figure Moore's "Law" only exists, only works, because we are and have been in a situation where there's a lot of potential for rapid growth and refinement.
Moore's "Law" is an estimation of how quickly that potential will be realized. But the apparent potential for new advances doesn't necessarily increase as fast as potential is realized - so I think there will be times when the potential for new developments becomes much more limited - this could be a result of market factors (for instance, if people just aren't buying faster hardware anymore) or limitations to the technology we're trying to use to solve the problem.
We think of it as a "Law" because it has been pretty reliable for a while now, but it's actually just a model that fits the current pattern of growth...
In the year 2015, when all new computers are portable, one man still works at a desk...
"Yippie-kai-yay, motherfucker!"
Die Hard Computer User. Rated PG.
> gone.
Nope. She was recently in a UK TV production of Bleak House.
She's certainly less gamine, but still *gorgeous*, at least to my taste (to me Sigourney Weaver's hotter in Alien Resurrection than the original).
Conrad Yeah, but in the original she wore flimsy 1970s underwear...
(Alien Resurrection should be considered a war crime. I don't care if there was no war on, they should declare one retroactively so they can classify it as a war crime...)
You win. That comic rocks way harder than VGCats...
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We're talking about people using software made for Vista, on platforms other than Vista. So it would be more like you buy your game, and the system requirements state:
"It just Works... (with Vista only)"
"What this indicates, so far, is that US sales of digital music will be growing at an estimated rate of 28% in 2008,"
OK, so CD sales are on the rise, then... good...
"however physical sales will drop even further, resulting in a net overall decline."
So there's an overall decline in net music sales... Must be tough times for the iTunes store.
Saying a piece of software "works" under certain conditions isn't just a statement of technical possibility, it's a statement of confidence in that scenario. As in, how thoroughly was that combination of software tested.
The software companies aren't obligated to broaden their testing platform, or to allow people to run their software on platforms they didn't test for. (Regardless of disclaimers, doing things like that would cost them money, in the form of tech support calls asking how to get it working. The situation sucks from a user standpoint but it's not totally unreasonable...)
How is some dude objecting to a bad game review "relatedly" to the deal of Microsoft trying to use games to get people to switch to Vista, versus the people trying to circumvent the measures Microsoft has taken to that effect?
I mean, is it "relatedly" just because the game was mentioned, briefly, earlier in the article?
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