better question: why bother with the numerical rating he's going to give it an 8/10 and then end the review by saying, "Shadow is a 10/10 in my book." which is it: 8, or 10?
(BTW, Google doesn't rely "heavily" on AOL revenue - in 2004 it was about 10% of its revenue.)
are you kidding? 10% might not sound like much if it's in the form of a coupon for 10% off a gallon of milk. but 10% of your revenue from one customer? that's substantial, and not something a company just shrugs off if it happens to dry up. no, losing aol ca$h money wouldn't kill google in one fell swoop, but it wouldn't be trivial, either.
parent is being absurd.
how many cities in this country are 100% 'safe' from disasters? should people all abandon san francisco? an earthquake will hit the bay area again at some point. should we never again build a tall building for fear of terrorists? perhaps all floridians should be relocated? i seem to have noticed florida getting hit by a hurricane or two.
saying that new orleans should not be rebuilt is heartless and dumb. this is a major port city, which are built by water for a reason. (a port where the mississippi meets the gulf has a certain logic to it, no?)
besides which, it's a beautiful city. i'd say the best in the country. abandoning new orleans would be a loss for the entire world. a suggestion to relocate a city of 500,000 permanently is not 'insightful.'
wondering if this is starting right now, same as google talk. first i've heard of an alternate way to get a gmail account- no bumming an invite from a friend. (although at this point everyone basically has one or isn't interested in one. still an interesting change.)
from the introduction: "(who is currently "on-strike" or "locked-out", depending on your point of view)"
grammar aside, a strike vs. a lock-out is not simply a matter of opinion, although in some cases both can happen at the same time. (a strike is when the workers walk out, and a lock-out is when workers aren't allowed to work.) it's hard to tell which is which in this case, although the article made reference to both. clearly it started with workers going on strike. since the union is saying that management was trying to push through a non-negotiated contract, and since one of the accusations from management is that the website they're blocking was putting up pictures of scabs for the purpose of harrassment, it seems more likely that this is a strike only, and not a lock-out.
i think 1-3 alter the viewing of 4-6 in a pretty negative way, and not just because someone who started with ep. 1 might give up there and skip all the others!
i personally think that the narrative will be strongest for future audiences if they watch the films in order of production- 4-6, then 1-3. that way, nothing is spoiled for the (dramatically better) original trilogy. also in this order, the original trilogy won't be out-classed visually by the prequels.
i thought ep. III was fantastic- on par with the original trilogy. however, i think that much of its power plays on the fact that the audience already knows the future of anakin and obi-wan; it would probably not work nearly as well with an audience unfamiliar with the original trilogy.
so yeah- take the story in the order it was produced.
tiny-screen video playback may seem like a goofy novelty today, but i think it's more a question of 'when' rather than 'if' for ipod. i forget its name, but a video cellphone (for which your service would sell you the content) was pushed pretty heavily on tv for a while. we will eventually hit the point where the extra hardware to play video clips makes a trivial dent in prices. i think TFA hit it on the head when it suggested that a tiny video player would be about music vids and clips, not films, and i think at that angle it would find a ready market.
it works like this:
most major studios only hire guild-member directors for projects they've developed in-house. so rodriguez wouldn't be hired to do something like transformers. (although the DGA could always change their silly rules and allow for multiple directors, and then maybe rodriguez would rejoin.)
however, neither quentin tarantino nor george lucas are DGA members. this just means that they develop their own projects from start to finish, not that they're exiled from major studios or have any trouble finding work.
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better question: why bother with the numerical rating he's going to give it an 8/10 and then end the review by saying, "Shadow is a 10/10 in my book." which is it: 8, or 10?
apple store says 150 hours, not three.
are you kidding? 10% might not sound like much if it's in the form of a coupon for 10% off a gallon of milk. but 10% of your revenue from one customer? that's substantial, and not something a company just shrugs off if it happens to dry up. no, losing aol ca$h money wouldn't kill google in one fell swoop, but it wouldn't be trivial, either.
how many cities in this country are 100% 'safe' from disasters? should people all abandon san francisco? an earthquake will hit the bay area again at some point. should we never again build a tall building for fear of terrorists? perhaps all floridians should be relocated? i seem to have noticed florida getting hit by a hurricane or two. saying that new orleans should not be rebuilt is heartless and dumb. this is a major port city, which are built by water for a reason. (a port where the mississippi meets the gulf has a certain logic to it, no?)
besides which, it's a beautiful city. i'd say the best in the country. abandoning new orleans would be a loss for the entire world. a suggestion to relocate a city of 500,000 permanently is not 'insightful.'
wondering if this is starting right now, same as google talk. first i've heard of an alternate way to get a gmail account- no bumming an invite from a friend. (although at this point everyone basically has one or isn't interested in one. still an interesting change.)
from the introduction: "(who is currently "on-strike" or "locked-out", depending on your point of view)"
grammar aside, a strike vs. a lock-out is not simply a matter of opinion, although in some cases both can happen at the same time. (a strike is when the workers walk out, and a lock-out is when workers aren't allowed to work.) it's hard to tell which is which in this case, although the article made reference to both. clearly it started with workers going on strike. since the union is saying that management was trying to push through a non-negotiated contract, and since one of the accusations from management is that the website they're blocking was putting up pictures of scabs for the purpose of harrassment, it seems more likely that this is a strike only, and not a lock-out.
i think 1-3 alter the viewing of 4-6 in a pretty negative way, and not just because someone who started with ep. 1 might give up there and skip all the others! i personally think that the narrative will be strongest for future audiences if they watch the films in order of production- 4-6, then 1-3. that way, nothing is spoiled for the (dramatically better) original trilogy. also in this order, the original trilogy won't be out-classed visually by the prequels. i thought ep. III was fantastic- on par with the original trilogy. however, i think that much of its power plays on the fact that the audience already knows the future of anakin and obi-wan; it would probably not work nearly as well with an audience unfamiliar with the original trilogy. so yeah- take the story in the order it was produced.
tiny-screen video playback may seem like a goofy novelty today, but i think it's more a question of 'when' rather than 'if' for ipod. i forget its name, but a video cellphone (for which your service would sell you the content) was pushed pretty heavily on tv for a while. we will eventually hit the point where the extra hardware to play video clips makes a trivial dent in prices. i think TFA hit it on the head when it suggested that a tiny video player would be about music vids and clips, not films, and i think at that angle it would find a ready market.
it works like this: most major studios only hire guild-member directors for projects they've developed in-house. so rodriguez wouldn't be hired to do something like transformers. (although the DGA could always change their silly rules and allow for multiple directors, and then maybe rodriguez would rejoin.) however, neither quentin tarantino nor george lucas are DGA members. this just means that they develop their own projects from start to finish, not that they're exiled from major studios or have any trouble finding work.