That was my thought, merging at this point would just be confusing. However, changing LibreOffice to actually be the Latin root would be a welcome change, if only for the people who don't know that it isn't named after an astrological sign.
The same thing goes for the remastered version of the original Star Trek episodes on Bluray, you can see all sorts of things that you hadn't noticed before.
I disagree with that. It's more telling of the lack of concern for the people having to listen to the music. The fact that Vinyl is still around is much more telling, CDs did have an advantage over vinyl in terms of both quality and durability, but that all got pissed away so that albums could be made louder and louder. There's no particularly compelling reason to believe that vinyl actually sounds any better to your average consumer, even with good equipment. And most of the time they're using crap equipment anyways rendering the point moot.
Additionally, the fact that so many albums come with 10 crap tracks and maybe 2 good ones, if you're lucky, and usually it's more like 8 and 2, people probably wouldn't be buying MP3s in the numbers they are. Remember that you can't buy just one track off an album in CD format.
The Joker doesn't really have an origin. At least not one that's been agreed upon, it's changed several times and due to the nature of the character adding a new one every few years is reasonable. The Dark Knight did spend a bit on his origins, IIRC, at least one of the choices was in the film. But in general doing origins for a character that hasn't really got reliable origins in the series is a waste of time for something that's either not important to most viewers or going to piss off the comic fans who have a favorite one.
For well established franchises, I really don't get the point of doing the origins again. However for ones that are less known in the mainstream like Hellboy was, I think it makes sense. But it also depends how much there is to it, Spiderman doesn't deserve any origins more than a very quick bit, radioactive, spider, because quite frankly his origin sucked.
As far as I can tell that's how Amazon's Mechanical Turk works. I looked into it when it was new, but found that the prices were low enough that it was basically slave labor, so the only folks that are actually doing the work are either too stupid to know that they're being cheated or from some part of the world where a dollar a day is good money.
I don't think it's a valid analogy, doesn't Google's ToS have something to say about tricking people into clicking on your site? And if not, I'd be surprised how long until they add it. Trying to create a company on the basis of defrauding advertisers isn't something that screams good investment to me, but then again I don't own a Ferrari yet, so I could be wrong.
According to the wikipedia that fourth is TrekStor. Never heard of them myself. And if you're being somewhat more liberal with the term HDD, then there are others which deal exclusively in SSDs, which isn't what you were getting at, but should be imporatant in the future. With the list getting that short of manufacturers it's probably that we'll start to see stagnation. Whereas up until now it seems to mostly just be quality that's been suffering instead of performance and capacity.
Mergers haven't been about the consumer in a very long time. Chances are that if you're hearing about a merger and aren't deeply embedded in a regulatory agency or on Wall Street that it's not something that's going to be good for the consumers.
Mergers are like sending jobs offshore, it's got nothing to do with providing a better product or one that's cheaper, it's all about lining the pockets of the executives that did it.
My next HDD was probably going to be a Samsung, but mainly because only them and Seagate have had the stones lately to offer a 5 year warranty on their drives. That was a bit ago, but Seagate had that bad batch of 1tb drives so I'm not sure how much faith I have in them.
Hitachi GST is in the process of being acquired by WD, so if in the mean time Seagate is acquiring Samsung's HDD lines, then we've seen the amount of choice shrink greatly in only a few months.
I've done that in the past. The problem for some is that it can be a challenge to get the email set to something that you can't access, after validating the change. This is one of the nice things about disposable email addresses. You can use them for locking accounts that you can't help but unlock.
It's slightly more complicated than that. The factors you're pointing to are significant, but beyond that high stress and inadequate sleep are significant factors as well.
Thing is that you could say that about pretty much everything else you can consume as a part of your diet. With a possible exception for the water soluble vitamins, everything else definitely has serious negative consequences when taken in too large a quantity over too long a period of time. Some are even fatal over short periods.
It depends which sugar you're talking about, all sugars are not equal, despite what the ads might say. Some are absorbed more readily, and some require conversion to glucose to be of any particular use.
Toxicity is bullshit, OTOH being somewhat addictive to people isn't necessarily invalid. At least on the face of it some people have more difficulty saying know to sweets than others do so it's at least plausible. Consequently, I wouldn't toss that one out without more information.
I think that really goes for any specialist hobby or practice. You can usually tell a good camera shop by the amount of knowledge the sales people have about the craft.
I think the issue is as you put it that the standards have to be reasonable. It is typically legal to refuse to hire somebody that is overly qualified, which sucks, but unless the applicant can prove it was something else that is protected by law, there is no right to a job just by virtue of being the best qualified candidate.
That's a trick question, isn't it? Neither the Yellowstone Eruption nor the Meteorite could possibly have happened due to them being more than 4 thousand years ago.
Last time I was in BestBuy a couple years ago, I saw a couple turntables, it was like 2 or 3 of them that BestBuy had on display. If BestBuy carries them, then it shouldn't be too much of a hassle to track one down.
Honestly, the biggest thing to miss is being able to talk to somebody who actually cares about the music. Sure depending upon which store you could end up with comic book guy or the guys from Hi Fidelity telling you that whatever you're looking for sucks, but so much music is found through social means, it's just not the same looking through online listings.
Cracking down on the massive academic fraud and rampant plagiarism would probably go a long way towards earning a reputation for innovation. As would ending the practice of locking up academics for saying things that the government doesn't want heard.
Right now, we in the US are mostly coasting, but if the American exceptionalists and the conservatives could lighten up and allow things to sort themselves out we could still retain our leadership position on technology. Of course that would anger the creationists and the climate change skeptics.
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That was my thought, merging at this point would just be confusing. However, changing LibreOffice to actually be the Latin root would be a welcome change, if only for the people who don't know that it isn't named after an astrological sign.
The same thing goes for the remastered version of the original Star Trek episodes on Bluray, you can see all sorts of things that you hadn't noticed before.
I disagree with that. It's more telling of the lack of concern for the people having to listen to the music. The fact that Vinyl is still around is much more telling, CDs did have an advantage over vinyl in terms of both quality and durability, but that all got pissed away so that albums could be made louder and louder. There's no particularly compelling reason to believe that vinyl actually sounds any better to your average consumer, even with good equipment. And most of the time they're using crap equipment anyways rendering the point moot.
Additionally, the fact that so many albums come with 10 crap tracks and maybe 2 good ones, if you're lucky, and usually it's more like 8 and 2, people probably wouldn't be buying MP3s in the numbers they are. Remember that you can't buy just one track off an album in CD format.
The Joker doesn't really have an origin. At least not one that's been agreed upon, it's changed several times and due to the nature of the character adding a new one every few years is reasonable. The Dark Knight did spend a bit on his origins, IIRC, at least one of the choices was in the film. But in general doing origins for a character that hasn't really got reliable origins in the series is a waste of time for something that's either not important to most viewers or going to piss off the comic fans who have a favorite one.
For well established franchises, I really don't get the point of doing the origins again. However for ones that are less known in the mainstream like Hellboy was, I think it makes sense. But it also depends how much there is to it, Spiderman doesn't deserve any origins more than a very quick bit, radioactive, spider, because quite frankly his origin sucked.
As far as I can tell that's how Amazon's Mechanical Turk works. I looked into it when it was new, but found that the prices were low enough that it was basically slave labor, so the only folks that are actually doing the work are either too stupid to know that they're being cheated or from some part of the world where a dollar a day is good money.
I don't think it's a valid analogy, doesn't Google's ToS have something to say about tricking people into clicking on your site? And if not, I'd be surprised how long until they add it. Trying to create a company on the basis of defrauding advertisers isn't something that screams good investment to me, but then again I don't own a Ferrari yet, so I could be wrong.
I'd be skeptical to, it implies that business intelligence exists in 2011.
Is that Mac or PC formatted?
According to the wikipedia that fourth is TrekStor. Never heard of them myself. And if you're being somewhat more liberal with the term HDD, then there are others which deal exclusively in SSDs, which isn't what you were getting at, but should be imporatant in the future. With the list getting that short of manufacturers it's probably that we'll start to see stagnation. Whereas up until now it seems to mostly just be quality that's been suffering instead of performance and capacity.
Mergers haven't been about the consumer in a very long time. Chances are that if you're hearing about a merger and aren't deeply embedded in a regulatory agency or on Wall Street that it's not something that's going to be good for the consumers.
Mergers are like sending jobs offshore, it's got nothing to do with providing a better product or one that's cheaper, it's all about lining the pockets of the executives that did it.
My next HDD was probably going to be a Samsung, but mainly because only them and Seagate have had the stones lately to offer a 5 year warranty on their drives. That was a bit ago, but Seagate had that bad batch of 1tb drives so I'm not sure how much faith I have in them.
Hitachi GST is in the process of being acquired by WD, so if in the mean time Seagate is acquiring Samsung's HDD lines, then we've seen the amount of choice shrink greatly in only a few months.
I've done that in the past. The problem for some is that it can be a challenge to get the email set to something that you can't access, after validating the change. This is one of the nice things about disposable email addresses. You can use them for locking accounts that you can't help but unlock.
It's slightly more complicated than that. The factors you're pointing to are significant, but beyond that high stress and inadequate sleep are significant factors as well.
Thing is that you could say that about pretty much everything else you can consume as a part of your diet. With a possible exception for the water soluble vitamins, everything else definitely has serious negative consequences when taken in too large a quantity over too long a period of time. Some are even fatal over short periods.
It depends which sugar you're talking about, all sugars are not equal, despite what the ads might say. Some are absorbed more readily, and some require conversion to glucose to be of any particular use.
Toxicity is bullshit, OTOH being somewhat addictive to people isn't necessarily invalid. At least on the face of it some people have more difficulty saying know to sweets than others do so it's at least plausible. Consequently, I wouldn't toss that one out without more information.
I think that really goes for any specialist hobby or practice. You can usually tell a good camera shop by the amount of knowledge the sales people have about the craft.
You didn't get yours?
I think the issue is as you put it that the standards have to be reasonable. It is typically legal to refuse to hire somebody that is overly qualified, which sucks, but unless the applicant can prove it was something else that is protected by law, there is no right to a job just by virtue of being the best qualified candidate.
That's a trick question, isn't it? Neither the Yellowstone Eruption nor the Meteorite could possibly have happened due to them being more than 4 thousand years ago.
Last time I was in BestBuy a couple years ago, I saw a couple turntables, it was like 2 or 3 of them that BestBuy had on display. If BestBuy carries them, then it shouldn't be too much of a hassle to track one down.
Honestly, the biggest thing to miss is being able to talk to somebody who actually cares about the music. Sure depending upon which store you could end up with comic book guy or the guys from Hi Fidelity telling you that whatever you're looking for sucks, but so much music is found through social means, it's just not the same looking through online listings.
Cracking down on the massive academic fraud and rampant plagiarism would probably go a long way towards earning a reputation for innovation. As would ending the practice of locking up academics for saying things that the government doesn't want heard.
Right now, we in the US are mostly coasting, but if the American exceptionalists and the conservatives could lighten up and allow things to sort themselves out we could still retain our leadership position on technology. Of course that would anger the creationists and the climate change skeptics.
Isn't that what UniBrows is for?