He goes and knocks over a hospital on Ariel and makes off with loads of high priced medicine desperately needed on the frontier worlds.
If I remember the episode you're talking about correctly, the medicine they took wasn't going anywhere near any frontier world. It was going to stay in that hospital, where there was plenty left and what they took wouldn't make a dent in the hospital's supply. You also forget the episode where they steal the medicine that's actually going to be used on a frontier world, then they give it back even in the face of that one crime lord guy.
I don't remember the other episodes you mention well enough to comment. The DVDs are on the way, but the post office is taking their time...;)
Last weekend I was up in Vancouver for the Zombie Walk 2005. At one point we passed this H2. Under the windshield wiper was an American dollar bill with "gashole" Sharpied onto it. My camera was full by that point so I couldn't get a picture of it.:(
You know what? I really have no desire at all to re-face what I saw down there. It's not the combat, it's the results of combat. That guy's leg which now resides fifteen feet from the rest of his body. That kid with bubbling skin and a mutilated face from an IED.
I remember an old Gallagher sketch where he rolls out this door that he claims is to prevent theft. I can't find a picture of it, but it was about a foot wide, with a half circle on one side where the doorknob was placed. He demonstrated it by opening it up, squeezing through sideways, with his butt taking up the half circle.:)
10% in this case seems awfully high. Why can't you buy a mouse you like that happens to have a scroll wheel and just not use the scroll wheel? My car came with a cigarette lighter, but I don't smoke and it's impractical besides. So I freak out and complain to the manufacturer? No, I just forget it's there.
So wait, a control-click makes you take your hand off the keyboard?
And Apple realized that a small subset of its customers (power users) wanted extra functionality in their OS without having to add extensions to the interface like Kensington's old mouse software. Single-button is good from the UI standpoint of the novice user, but experienced users need more than that.
No one with more than a few days of computer experience has the slightest trouble with multi-button mice.
...
My wife is a novice user (she used to twist the mouse to move the arrow when she started using computers), but even she has grasped the concept of left and right buttons.
Statistics of small numbers (such as drawing conclusions from inadequate sample sizes).
I'm sure she's a very nice lady, but your wife is not a valid sample group.
How long have you worked computer technical support? Unless you're in a specialized support field, you will constantly get people confused by the concept of "right click" vs. "left click" when you try to give direction to them. A new user may right click a couple times when they first use a computer, but all they see is a big scary box filled with crazy words, not a context-specific list of commands. They then learn not to hit that side of the mouse and forget about it completely.
One last thing that I always wanted were "excuse me" lights. You know, for when you're the dick who cut someone else off (for a good reason, of course!).
Let's just assume for a minute that my original post was a serious question (which it is) and not a troll (which it isn't). Xiph chose to name each filetype after the name of the project, instead of let's say.vor for audio and.theo for video. That makes too much sense to me, unless of course those extensions are already taken.
Let's take the slippery slope to your suggestion above. Why not name every file with a.ext extension and let the OS do the rest "from the contents"? Seems to be a lot easier to me. Let's throw in some MIME types too.
I'm just saying that.ogg and Divx's.avi are needlessly confusing when simply selecting a unique extension could save headaches down the road.
Not everybody has that option, though. I know it's a small market, but for those of us stuck out here in Iraq, all we can get for DVDs is the finest Taiwan bootlegs from the Iraqi storefronts. Mail is three weeks each way, so Amazon or Netflix are impractical.
Older movies (a couple years old) are direct copies of the DVDs and thus DVD quality. But then there are the cams, copies of Hellboy, the Punisher, Kill Bill 2, movies that aren't out on DVD yet - or even in theaters, sometimes. Some are pretty good quality, some have popcorn and people laughing in the background (the Ladykillers) and are virtually unwatchable. Others have people getting up in the middle of the movie to go to the bathroom like in the Day After Tomorrow... though for that one they may have been leaving the theater entirely.
So yeah, I forgot what I was going to say originally, but not everyone has the option of getting pristine DVDs to use on their high-end systems. I don't blame you, I'm just envious.;)
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He goes and knocks over a hospital on Ariel and makes off with loads of high priced medicine desperately needed on the frontier worlds.
;)
If I remember the episode you're talking about correctly, the medicine they took wasn't going anywhere near any frontier world. It was going to stay in that hospital, where there was plenty left and what they took wouldn't make a dent in the hospital's supply. You also forget the episode where they steal the medicine that's actually going to be used on a frontier world, then they give it back even in the face of that one crime lord guy.
I don't remember the other episodes you mention well enough to comment. The DVDs are on the way, but the post office is taking their time...
...and they're being brought to trial for it, not being sent to the Gulag.
Your issue is...?
...The Empire Strikes Back, which many people regard as the best in the series...
Blasphemy.
I agree, $21 is a lot for a book.
Last weekend I was up in Vancouver for the Zombie Walk 2005. At one point we passed this H2. Under the windshield wiper was an American dollar bill with "gashole" Sharpied onto it. My camera was full by that point so I couldn't get a picture of it. :(
We have always been able to own things from Eurasia.
You know what? I really have no desire at all to re-face what I saw down there. It's not the combat, it's the results of combat. That guy's leg which now resides fifteen feet from the rest of his body. That kid with bubbling skin and a mutilated face from an IED.
No thanks. I'll deal with it.
I remember an old Gallagher sketch where he rolls out this door that he claims is to prevent theft. I can't find a picture of it, but it was about a foot wide, with a half circle on one side where the doorknob was placed. He demonstrated it by opening it up, squeezing through sideways, with his butt taking up the half circle. :)
Any game that fat old men can play should never be mentioned in the same breath as football.
I can't figure out how to say that in two breaths.
I was going to say play any sport, but rugby works too.
That should be "Do I freak out..."
10% in this case seems awfully high. Why can't you buy a mouse you like that happens to have a scroll wheel and just not use the scroll wheel? My car came with a cigarette lighter, but I don't smoke and it's impractical besides. So I freak out and complain to the manufacturer? No, I just forget it's there.
So wait, a control-click makes you take your hand off the keyboard?
And Apple realized that a small subset of its customers (power users) wanted extra functionality in their OS without having to add extensions to the interface like Kensington's old mouse software. Single-button is good from the UI standpoint of the novice user, but experienced users need more than that.
...tell me how to select multiple files which are not adjacent in the window without using the keyboard...
How do you do the same task in Windows Explorer without using the keyboard?
No one with more than a few days of computer experience has the slightest trouble with multi-button mice.
...
My wife is a novice user (she used to twist the mouse to move the arrow when she started using computers), but even she has grasped the concept of left and right buttons.
Logical fallacy #8:
Statistics of small numbers (such as drawing conclusions from inadequate sample sizes).
I'm sure she's a very nice lady, but your wife is not a valid sample group.
How long have you worked computer technical support? Unless you're in a specialized support field, you will constantly get people confused by the concept of "right click" vs. "left click" when you try to give direction to them. A new user may right click a couple times when they first use a computer, but all they see is a big scary box filled with crazy words, not a context-specific list of commands. They then learn not to hit that side of the mouse and forget about it completely.
(and no, I'm not a shill. Just sharing what worked for me)
;)
Exactly what a schill would say.
Can I still be Garth?
You learn something new every day. I think I should be ashamed since my aunt has lived in Australia since the 70s... ;)
Wouldn't 'not specified' be closer to bisexual? Just curious... (and no, not like that :P)
Rhymes with 'glossy'? That's how I pronounce it...
One last thing that I always wanted were "excuse me" lights. You know, for when you're the dick who cut someone else off (for a good reason, of course!).
We have those, they're called 'turn signals'.
And in other similar to Google news...
Let's just assume for a minute that my original post was a serious question (which it is) and not a troll (which it isn't). Xiph chose to name each filetype after the name of the project, instead of let's say .vor for audio and .theo for video. That makes too much sense to me, unless of course those extensions are already taken.
.ext extension and let the OS do the rest "from the contents"? Seems to be a lot easier to me. Let's throw in some MIME types too.
.ogg and Divx's .avi are needlessly confusing when simply selecting a unique extension could save headaches down the road.
Let's take the slippery slope to your suggestion above. Why not name every file with a
I'm just saying that
Sounds like a usability problem the project could have prevented from the beginning, like Divx.
Not everybody has that option, though. I know it's a small market, but for those of us stuck out here in Iraq, all we can get for DVDs is the finest Taiwan bootlegs from the Iraqi storefronts. Mail is three weeks each way, so Amazon or Netflix are impractical.
;)
Older movies (a couple years old) are direct copies of the DVDs and thus DVD quality. But then there are the cams, copies of Hellboy, the Punisher, Kill Bill 2, movies that aren't out on DVD yet - or even in theaters, sometimes. Some are pretty good quality, some have popcorn and people laughing in the background (the Ladykillers) and are virtually unwatchable. Others have people getting up in the middle of the movie to go to the bathroom like in the Day After Tomorrow... though for that one they may have been leaving the theater entirely.
So yeah, I forgot what I was going to say originally, but not everyone has the option of getting pristine DVDs to use on their high-end systems. I don't blame you, I'm just envious.