Well, I for one am shocked to learn that kids who grow up in shitty neighborhoods, with shitty parents, hanging around and bunch of drug dealers and gangbangers are more likely to turn to a life of crime than a kid who grows up in the affluent suburbs with attentive and caring parents. The hell you say!
No problem. Store them in a vault with 10 plates of instructions for building a DVD player and 100 plates showing how to crack the various layers of annoying DRM that have been added by the Hollywood studios.
Hold up there! Most museums and libraries are non-profits that do this sort of stuff as a public service and WANT the general public to have as much access as possible to their material (that's what Wikipedia is talking about when they mention partnering with other museums and libraries). They make their money through donations, admissions, and selling physical goods in the museum gift shop.
The NPG is acting here more like a for-profit company. They're basically holding these original works hostage (without rewarding the ORIGINAL creators anything for their derivative works, I might add) and objecting when anyone else dares tread on their moneymakers.
That would be pretty typical in show business. A major motion picture can have a HUGE box office and still mysteriously show no profit when it comes time to give out the money to the people with "points" in the movie. Peter Jackson had to sue New Line to get his fair share of the The Lord of the Rings movies, after they tried this with him (and he won).
I'm arguing that it was Cold War tensions that fueled the space race. For the race to have continued, the Soviets would have had to keep pushing back (they basically called a space race ceasefire with the end of their moon program), and the tensions would have increased much higher than they did. At some point, it had to come to an end. It's nice to kid ourselves and think the space race was all about the zeal for exploration and knowledge and all that (what the politicians on both sides certainly CLAIMED), but the truth is that it was basically a giant pissing contest. Without Sputnik it never would have started, without either the U.S. or Soviets blinking it never would have ended.
The whole thing was fueled by the ongoing Cold War pissing contest. Continuation of the space race would have meant dealing with the ever-increasing tension of the Cold War. So I'm sad we never got our cities on the moon, but it's a damn good trade-off for not having to worry so much about all-out nuclear war.
If that's the case, you'd be better just keep your mouth shut. Because, if you tell them that, you're first going to have to explain the concept of "browser" to them, then you're going to have to explain why you didn't make it look "marvelous" in IE too, then you're going to have to explain to them why they should keep employing you.
Some of us do real web design for real clients. Tell a client that the site you've designed is only going to look good in Firefox and they're going to tell you "goodbye."
They'll be almost as unable to communicate in our modern language as that poor iceman they thawed out in Colorado back in 1999. He'd been frozen in the ice for over two years. Poor bastard didn't even realize that flannel was no longer cool.
Actually, I think they give out psychology Ph.D.'s in cereal boxes (and judging by most of them I've known, probably only the cereal boxes at asylums).
You lie! I distinctly remember the Soviets invading back in the 80's. And it didn't even take our army to defeat them, just Patrick Swayze and a plucky bunch of teenagers.
The only sane response to this travesty against the U.S. is to steal "The Office," remake it into a big budget American version and run it into the ground until no one is watching!
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Well, I for one am shocked to learn that kids who grow up in shitty neighborhoods, with shitty parents, hanging around and bunch of drug dealers and gangbangers are more likely to turn to a life of crime than a kid who grows up in the affluent suburbs with attentive and caring parents. The hell you say!
Do you hear that whooshing sound?
No problem. Store them in a vault with 10 plates of instructions for building a DVD player and 100 plates showing how to crack the various layers of annoying DRM that have been added by the Hollywood studios.
Hold up there! Most museums and libraries are non-profits that do this sort of stuff as a public service and WANT the general public to have as much access as possible to their material (that's what Wikipedia is talking about when they mention partnering with other museums and libraries). They make their money through donations, admissions, and selling physical goods in the museum gift shop.
The NPG is acting here more like a for-profit company. They're basically holding these original works hostage (without rewarding the ORIGINAL creators anything for their derivative works, I might add) and objecting when anyone else dares tread on their moneymakers.
I have DVD's in my collection now older than 12 years old and they work fine. Maybe they mean recordable discs?
John Titor told us.
That would be pretty typical in show business. A major motion picture can have a HUGE box office and still mysteriously show no profit when it comes time to give out the money to the people with "points" in the movie. Peter Jackson had to sue New Line to get his fair share of the The Lord of the Rings movies, after they tried this with him (and he won).
I'm arguing that it was Cold War tensions that fueled the space race. For the race to have continued, the Soviets would have had to keep pushing back (they basically called a space race ceasefire with the end of their moon program), and the tensions would have increased much higher than they did. At some point, it had to come to an end. It's nice to kid ourselves and think the space race was all about the zeal for exploration and knowledge and all that (what the politicians on both sides certainly CLAIMED), but the truth is that it was basically a giant pissing contest. Without Sputnik it never would have started, without either the U.S. or Soviets blinking it never would have ended.
It certainly didn't come standard on MY Toyota. My car won't even beep when I've left the lights on by mistake.
The whole thing was fueled by the ongoing Cold War pissing contest. Continuation of the space race would have meant dealing with the ever-increasing tension of the Cold War. So I'm sad we never got our cities on the moon, but it's a damn good trade-off for not having to worry so much about all-out nuclear war.
Not to worry, South Carolina is sending Mark Sanford to Alaska's rescue, just as soon as they can find him!
If that's the case, you'd be better just keep your mouth shut. Because, if you tell them that, you're first going to have to explain the concept of "browser" to them, then you're going to have to explain why you didn't make it look "marvelous" in IE too, then you're going to have to explain to them why they should keep employing you.
Some of us do real web design for real clients. Tell a client that the site you've designed is only going to look good in Firefox and they're going to tell you "goodbye."
And that is pretty much a deal breaker for any real world web designer.
Great idea, though. I hope MS implements it in future versions of IE.
You leave Linux out of this, mister!
They'll be almost as unable to communicate in our modern language as that poor iceman they thawed out in Colorado back in 1999. He'd been frozen in the ice for over two years. Poor bastard didn't even realize that flannel was no longer cool.
Oh yes, because console gamers are all idiots, as opposed to the brilliant minds who sit around grinding for 20 hours a day on WoW.
Next stop, convincing Adobe to stop releasing all their documents in that damn pdf format!
No more childish than MS bashing.
Actually, I think they give out psychology Ph.D.'s in cereal boxes (and judging by most of them I've known, probably only the cereal boxes at asylums).
USA hasn't been in a war since the civil war.
You lie! I distinctly remember the Soviets invading back in the 80's. And it didn't even take our army to defeat them, just Patrick Swayze and a plucky bunch of teenagers.
If you'll agree to tell Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow that they're not British, you've got a deal!
The only sane response to this travesty against the U.S. is to steal "The Office," remake it into a big budget American version and run it into the ground until no one is watching!
Google good, Apple good, Linux god.
The more relevant quote would seem to be (note the use of the word NONnegligible here):
We find that very large amounts of wind power can produce nonnegligible climatic change at continental scales.