So, why can't Fox News criticize people in a biased way, too, and believe [insert news agency] over [insert another news agency]?
Agreed, Olbermann is not a newscaster. But MSNBC thinks he is:
Keith Olbermann is host of “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” “Countdown,” a unique newscast that counts down the day’s top stories with Keith’s particular wit and style, telecasts weeknights, 8-9 p.m. ET on msnbc.
Ah, yes. The very unbiased Media Matters for America.
Why is it that on the front page of a "media watchdog" site, everybody listed is conservative and/or Republican and/or a conservative organization? Beck, Rove, Limbaugh, Palin, Washington Post, Fox News, Robertson, Fox, "the conservative media's increasingly lame attacks," etc. What, they can't find ANYTHING in mainstream news media outlets that tend towards more liberal viewpoints to criticize? How about someone like... Reid or Pelosi, who continually misrepresent facts? Instead, MMA appears to take more issue with outraged conservatives that are less than polite. Reid can compare conservatives to pro-slavery people and that's ok, but if conservatives get upset about it and call Reid a name, that's not ok?
I personally dislike the stupid namecalling two-year-old-attitude that apparently everybody in Congress has (not really, but it seems like it). I also am frustrated by the lies and deceptions given by politicians. And I'm annoyed that Congress's approval rating is so low and yet nobody seems to want to vote anyone new in. But MMA is hardly an unbiased site and appears to definitely have a vested interest in trying to get rid of conservative viewpoints and opinions:
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
And it's rather telling that you don't think CNN/MSNBC give opinions in their news. Have you heard of a guy by the name of Keith Olbermann?
Some music - like, say, Bing Crosby or Nat King Cole - seems to have lasted a lot longer than, say, the Rolling Stones even... and the Stones were on the famous end of that era, there were plenty of a-few-year-famous bands. On the other hand, acoustic/traditional/"classical"/"serious" music is still going... even music from a long time ago.
Sure, I think electronic music likely will end up having its place... and with most "pop" music in any time period, most of it will be forgotten. But I think "new" and "unique" and "cool" is sometimes mistaken for quality. I think a lot of electronic music has very little quality, very little thought, very little... eh, for lack of a better word, humanity.
Actually, I have a completely honest question, because I don't listen to a whole lot of electronic music (mainly because I haven't heard a whole lot that I like. I liked "Angel" on the album Mezzanine by... by a band I forgot the name of, ha...): is musical comedy in any electronic music of today? As in comedy expressed entirely in the music, not lyrics/acting....
There is no control-freak network provider to blame there. Why doesn't open source take over then?
There is a scapegoat for every problem. Microsoft, vendor lock-ins, corporations, bad managers, bad employees, government, society, temporary insanity, depression, depression medication, education, teachers, family, finances...
Not to say we can't perhaps put our finger on real problems that prevent open source from "taking over," but just saying that one can reason and argue for a whole lot of perceived problems that may not actually be the reason.
Do you think they intend to torture consumers until they buy the device? Or something like that?
And force authors to use that publisher? Why not just self-publish using PDFs? Many authors could do that, you know. And if you get so outraged at publishers and the way they treat their authors, then maybe don't read the authors that consent to dealing with those publishers (probably for monetary gain, I suppose?).
I don't know how Hearst is going to MAKE everyone pay for a costly e-reader.
Physical instruments are limited by physics and their design. Electronic instruments don't have such a narrow limitation as the types of notes available are not dictated by the materials and shape of the electronic instrument.
Understood, but electronic instruments sound different, too. I'm not sure I like the electronic sound - for all applications, at any rate - as opposed to the acoustic sound.
Musical creation becomes limited only by what the mind can conceive
Unless you want the sound of the acoustic instrument in a live performance... I haven't heard very many electronic instruments that actually sound very much like a live acoustic performance using traditional instruments.
... it does seem like a cool project for learning to program a multimedia app for the iPhone.
That said, why is it that people say things like this?
You could get skilled with the piano after years of practice, but imagine how good you’d be at playing an instrument you invented.
Yippee, you "invented" an instrument (what?). That means nothing, actually, in terms of skill, since a lot of skill at playing... traditional, instruments, at any rate, has to do more with finger dexterity and the like, not knowing how the instrument works. Many skilled instrumental repair shops cannot play the instrument amazingly, even if they know more about it than the players that come in.
I kinda get the feeling that "electronic" instruments are seen as replacing traditional/acoustic instruments, at least in the minds of geeks/young people. I disagree.:)
Live Mesh, is pretty cool.. Live Writer is actually quite good, IMO, and produces very clean HTML (at least, in my brief tests with it with Wordpress... a custom install, too, with a custom theme and everything; integrated just fine and was a very good WYSIWYG editor). Skydrive - 25gb for free - isn't too shabby, either. I don't like hotmail, but it has sure been around for a while. Bing is actually pretty nice for some things. Microsoft's birds-eye-view is sometimes very useful, and it looks like they are doing a street view now, too.
If you're saying that because it runs on Windows (for thick-client apps), you can point the finger at Apple just as much or more, too.
If you're talking about providing software for Windows or online services...
Hotmail
SkyDrive
Live Mesh (pretty cool, actually)
Live "Spaces" or whatever they are called
Windows Messenger
NetMeeting (I think?)
Microsoft LiveOffice or whatever it is called... Office Live...
Live Photo Gallery
MovieMaker
Live Writer (actually quite cool/useful)
Live Mail (I've heard this is actually a very good client)
...
Some of the above can be seen here. There services can be seen here. Zune is also free (the software, anyways). Media Player is free, I believe, and actually plays back better than iTunes on Windows, I think.
Somewhere along the line, someone didn't think this combustion engine automobile revolution through... yet it happened anyway just as the electric vehicle revolution might.
It happened, from what I remember, because of convenience and eventually being manufactured cheap enough.
It does not appear that electric vehicles are there yet.
But the paper appear to say that there is "not a significant difference" between those that are "religiously active" (or regularly attend religious services, or something like that) and those that don't.
Which, IMO, just means that most mainstream religious people are hypocrites...
Of course, if it actually WAS blackmail, I'm glad the blackmailer was stupid and I hope he gets caught.... one fewer blackmailer in the world seems like a good thing to me.
Ahh, another poor fool who thinks Tesla is about the environment. Hint: its a sports car with instant acceleration.
Oh, I have no doubts about that. But it gets tossed to the "green is a fad" crowd now and then as an example of a successful electric vehicle that is good for the environment, etc. IMO, it's trying to take advantage of a fad: give a cool sports car that gives celebrities the image they want... which, right now, is a feel-good "I'm Green!" image while not losing their "I'm rich and drive a cool sports car!" image.
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Granted, they are not biased nor neutral.
So, why can't Fox News criticize people in a biased way, too, and believe [insert news agency] over [insert another news agency]?
Agreed, Olbermann is not a newscaster. But MSNBC thinks he is:
Keith Olbermann is host of “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” “Countdown,” a unique newscast that counts down the day’s top stories with Keith’s particular wit and style, telecasts weeknights, 8-9 p.m. ET on msnbc.
Ah, yes. The very unbiased Media Matters for America.
Why is it that on the front page of a "media watchdog" site, everybody listed is conservative and/or Republican and/or a conservative organization? Beck, Rove, Limbaugh, Palin, Washington Post, Fox News, Robertson, Fox, "the conservative media's increasingly lame attacks," etc. What, they can't find ANYTHING in mainstream news media outlets that tend towards more liberal viewpoints to criticize? How about someone like ... Reid or Pelosi, who continually misrepresent facts? Instead, MMA appears to take more issue with outraged conservatives that are less than polite. Reid can compare conservatives to pro-slavery people and that's ok, but if conservatives get upset about it and call Reid a name, that's not ok?
I personally dislike the stupid namecalling two-year-old-attitude that apparently everybody in Congress has (not really, but it seems like it). I also am frustrated by the lies and deceptions given by politicians. And I'm annoyed that Congress's approval rating is so low and yet nobody seems to want to vote anyone new in. But MMA is hardly an unbiased site and appears to definitely have a vested interest in trying to get rid of conservative viewpoints and opinions:
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
And it's rather telling that you don't think CNN/MSNBC give opinions in their news. Have you heard of a guy by the name of Keith Olbermann?
I don't know... you could sue, though, if it was illegal... ;)
Hmmmm.
I'm not sure that's entirely the case.
Some music - like, say, Bing Crosby or Nat King Cole - seems to have lasted a lot longer than, say, the Rolling Stones even... and the Stones were on the famous end of that era, there were plenty of a-few-year-famous bands. On the other hand, acoustic/traditional/"classical"/"serious" music is still going... even music from a long time ago.
Sure, I think electronic music likely will end up having its place... and with most "pop" music in any time period, most of it will be forgotten. But I think "new" and "unique" and "cool" is sometimes mistaken for quality. I think a lot of electronic music has very little quality, very little thought, very little ... eh, for lack of a better word, humanity.
Actually, I have a completely honest question, because I don't listen to a whole lot of electronic music (mainly because I haven't heard a whole lot that I like. I liked "Angel" on the album Mezzanine by ... by a band I forgot the name of, ha...): is musical comedy in any electronic music of today? As in comedy expressed entirely in the music, not lyrics/acting....
Sometimes. hehe.
There is no control-freak network provider to blame there. Why doesn't open source take over then?
There is a scapegoat for every problem. Microsoft, vendor lock-ins, corporations, bad managers, bad employees, government, society, temporary insanity, depression, depression medication, education, teachers, family, finances...
Not to say we can't perhaps put our finger on real problems that prevent open source from "taking over," but just saying that one can reason and argue for a whole lot of perceived problems that may not actually be the reason.
Comment? Can't we just call it trolling?
Sounds like it was a fairly nice place, based on the before-December-4th-troll reviews. :)
One stupid incident.
I don't think slashdot would likely be reporting on valid copyright/piracy cases now would they? Unless they were very high profile.
Yes, but they may not fit as well.
Do you think they intend to torture consumers until they buy the device? Or something like that?
And force authors to use that publisher? Why not just self-publish using PDFs? Many authors could do that, you know. And if you get so outraged at publishers and the way they treat their authors, then maybe don't read the authors that consent to dealing with those publishers (probably for monetary gain, I suppose?).
I don't know how Hearst is going to MAKE everyone pay for a costly e-reader.
Physical instruments are limited by physics and their design. Electronic instruments don't have such a narrow limitation as the types of notes available are not dictated by the materials and shape of the electronic instrument.
Understood, but electronic instruments sound different, too. I'm not sure I like the electronic sound - for all applications, at any rate - as opposed to the acoustic sound.
Musical creation becomes limited only by what the mind can conceive
Unless you want the sound of the acoustic instrument in a live performance... I haven't heard very many electronic instruments that actually sound very much like a live acoustic performance using traditional instruments.
I can say that you cannot push a car to its limits worrying about crashing.
But can you drive said car to its limits?
Or were you referring to pushcart driving/Cool Runnings? ;)
... it does seem like a cool project for learning to program a multimedia app for the iPhone.
That said, why is it that people say things like this?
You could get skilled with the piano after years of practice, but imagine how good you’d be at playing an instrument you invented.
Yippee, you "invented" an instrument (what?). That means nothing, actually, in terms of skill, since a lot of skill at playing ... traditional, instruments, at any rate, has to do more with finger dexterity and the like, not knowing how the instrument works. Many skilled instrumental repair shops cannot play the instrument amazingly, even if they know more about it than the players that come in.
I kinda get the feeling that "electronic" instruments are seen as replacing traditional/acoustic instruments, at least in the minds of geeks/young people. I disagree. :)
But you claimed that MS hadn't provided a service that was free, I thought?
What service has Microsoft provided to me that was Free? Besides Bing - which is only "blasted" because people don't like it as much as Google.
Everything else Microsoft has, I've had to pay for, so when it doesn't live up to its claims, I can bitch legit because I wasted my money.
(emphasis mine)
Live Mesh, is pretty cool.. Live Writer is actually quite good, IMO, and produces very clean HTML (at least, in my brief tests with it with Wordpress... a custom install, too, with a custom theme and everything; integrated just fine and was a very good WYSIWYG editor). Skydrive - 25gb for free - isn't too shabby, either. I don't like hotmail, but it has sure been around for a while. Bing is actually pretty nice for some things. Microsoft's birds-eye-view is sometimes very useful, and it looks like they are doing a street view now, too.
Everything?
If you're saying that because it runs on Windows (for thick-client apps), you can point the finger at Apple just as much or more, too.
If you're talking about providing software for Windows or online services...
Some of the above can be seen here. There services can be seen here. Zune is also free (the software, anyways). Media Player is free, I believe, and actually plays back better than iTunes on Windows, I think.
Nope. Nothing free!
Somewhere along the line, someone didn't think this combustion engine automobile revolution through... yet it happened anyway just as the electric vehicle revolution might.
It happened, from what I remember, because of convenience and eventually being manufactured cheap enough.
It does not appear that electric vehicles are there yet.
The Smart Fourtwo is about as small as you can go to pass muster on safety
I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those. Er, actually, on second thought... I probably would be caught dead.
Must be hard to edit something with an IP or timestamp looming above your edit like an umbrella... ;)
Doh. Accusation refuted and withdrawn.
Good point, but it does appear to be kept pretty secret, anyways. Not even any speculation from the DailyMail.
But the paper appear to say that there is "not a significant difference" between those that are "religiously active" (or regularly attend religious services, or something like that) and those that don't.
Which, IMO, just means that most mainstream religious people are hypocrites...
an anyone tell us what the article was?
Her name has not been released and is being kept secret. You should read the article :)
Of course, if it actually WAS blackmail, I'm glad the blackmailer was stupid and I hope he gets caught.... one fewer blackmailer in the world seems like a good thing to me.
Ahh, another poor fool who thinks Tesla is about the environment. Hint: its a sports car with instant acceleration.
Oh, I have no doubts about that. But it gets tossed to the "green is a fad" crowd now and then as an example of a successful electric vehicle that is good for the environment, etc. IMO, it's trying to take advantage of a fad: give a cool sports car that gives celebrities the image they want... which, right now, is a feel-good "I'm Green!" image while not losing their "I'm rich and drive a cool sports car!" image.
But that may just be me. :)