So it's even more unoriginal and cliched than I thought? Try the "Lion King 1 1/2 Drinking Game", wherein you take a drink for every cliche. Two drinks if you can identify another movie that the cliche is taken from. This will start you off: The phrase: "Dinner AND a show!" is stolen directly from "Ice Age", which probably lifted in from some other source.
Actually, I do have a 3 year old that laughs all the time, and I have never seen her laugh at scatalogical humor. She does relate to the copious amounts of screaming and running around in movies like Monsters Inc., and thinks anthropomorphisizing her teddy bear is one of the funniest things around (for some reason the bear likes to chase her around and kiss her). She also finds anything that gets a reaction out of her parents hilarious -- which is probably the reason most kids like scatalogical humor. Ever stop to think that if you didn't react to it, they wouldn't find it amusing? Humor is mostly learned, not innate, behaviour.
Laptops are both cheaper and more powerful. Get one with built in 802.11, add an AirPort/Linksys/Dlink/NetGear Access Point/Router for about $50, and you're all set.
Shrek was by DreamWorks. But I assume they must have gotten permission from Disney for all the obvious references to Disney characters and Disney themeparks... much of Shrek appears to be satirizing Disney.
While Pixar is amazing at what it does, it's no Disney. Unfortunately, lately Disney is no Disney either. Disney movies suck in comparison to Pixars. I'm sure Walt is spinning in his grave, especially now that Eisner has kicked out the last remaining relatives of Walt Disney, prefering to run Disney purely for bottom line profit, and not for the sake of creating art.
I don't know, but Larry Ellison is worth $50 billion, and he JUMPS at every chance for an interview. Perhaps Jobs is embarrased by his relative net worth?
If any of you are still wondering, just sit down and watch Lion King 1 1/2. Then compare it to Finding Nemo. Ask yourself: which is the better movie? Then ask yourself: How would Walt have felt about the character Poomba in the Lion King, whose defining characteristic is that he passes gas? (A LOT of gas). Methinks old Walt would not have approved of fart jokes, and furthermore that when you have to resort to scatalogical humor to intertain kids, it's a symptom that you've completely run out of good ideas. Shrek and Lilo and Stitch weren't as bad, but they too seemed to need to resort to scatalogical humor. The closest Pixar ever comes to scatalogical is in Monsters Inc, where I really cannot figure out where in the middle of the Himalayas the Abominable Snowman is getting lemon juice with which to make yellow snowcones...
Selling 1 license last week and 2 licenses this week would be a 100% increase. Selling 0 licenses last week and 1 license this week is an infinite percentage increase. I hope you pay somebody else to compute your taxes...
Isn't the imperfectability of formal systems what Goebel's Theorem points out? That you can't devise a useful language in which the sentence "This sentence is false" can be correctly evaluated?
Agreed; English is the second language of a majority of the people in the world, not the first. But I'm willing to bet that there are Cantonese and Mandarin speakers that find it easier to communicate with each other using English than their widely differing dialects.
English has become the Lingua Franca of anybody who wants to do business anywhere in the world (and if you know that "Lingua Fraca" literally translates to "French toungue" you'll see the irony in that.) So yes, in every country in Europe, anybody catering to tourists will speak at least broken English. In Amsterdam, it was hard to find anybody who did not speak English. I found one deli where the counter person adamantly insisted "I do not speak English!" thus forcing me to order the only thing I knew how to say in Dutch (a cheese sandwich). And a native who apparently spoke no English stopped to ask myself and my coworker (we both actually look Dutch) for directions. We pulled out a map and tried to help her, but after about 5 minutes she got frustrated and walked away...
So, you could use this for Peter Gabriel's "So", "Us", and "Up" albums, but it wouldn't work for Bear Vs. Shark's "Right Now, You're In The Best Of Hands. And If Everything Isn't Quite Right, You'll Know In a Hurry."? But seriously, if the playback equipment can read all the information off the media itself, do you really need that much information on the media packaging?
How does this stop anybody that wants to run 4.4 with Mandrake from installing it separately? Yes, this delays the Mandrake release, but the Mandrake should have settled the license issues before they upgraded to 4.4; then it wouldn't be necessary to roll back the changes.
More importantly, what would be Micrsoft's reaction if you sent them a note saying "By the way, do you guys know there is a buffer overflow problem in IE5?
My guess is they would say "We don't support IE5 amymore. Upgrade to IE6SP1". Followed by legal action against you for disclosing M$ trade secrets.
no security built into TCP/IP because there was no need for them. TCP/IP was not developed for academics, it's development was paid for by the Department of Defense, thus security was a consideration in the design of TCP/IP from day one. That is why TCP/IP was designed to dynamically reconfigure routing to work around failures, as opposed to SNA, in which the network was statically configured.
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So it's even more unoriginal and cliched than I thought? Try the "Lion King 1 1/2 Drinking Game", wherein you take a drink for every cliche. Two drinks if you can identify another movie that the cliche is taken from. This will start you off: The phrase: "Dinner AND a show!" is stolen directly from "Ice Age", which probably lifted in from some other source.
Let the market decide. It will. Sell short on Disney.
Actually, I do have a 3 year old that laughs all the time, and I have never seen her laugh at scatalogical humor. She does relate to the copious amounts of screaming and running around in movies like Monsters Inc., and thinks anthropomorphisizing her teddy bear is one of the funniest things around (for some reason the bear likes to chase her around and kiss her). She also finds anything that gets a reaction out of her parents hilarious -- which is probably the reason most kids like scatalogical humor. Ever stop to think that if you didn't react to it, they wouldn't find it amusing? Humor is mostly learned, not innate, behaviour.
Have a baby. That will cure you of your gaming addiction permanently -- or at least for the next 18 years.
Laptops are both cheaper and more powerful. Get one with built in 802.11, add an AirPort/Linksys/Dlink/NetGear Access Point/Router for about $50, and you're all set.
Shrek was by DreamWorks. But I assume they must have gotten permission from Disney for all the obvious references to Disney characters and Disney themeparks... much of Shrek appears to be satirizing Disney.
Well, yes, technically it approaches an infinite percentage increase as last weeks licenses approach zero... but it is still not 100% increase!
While Pixar is amazing at what it does, it's no Disney. Unfortunately, lately Disney is no Disney either. Disney movies suck in comparison to Pixars. I'm sure Walt is spinning in his grave, especially now that Eisner has kicked out the last remaining relatives of Walt Disney, prefering to run Disney purely for bottom line profit, and not for the sake of creating art.
I don't know, but Larry Ellison is worth $50 billion, and he JUMPS at every chance for an interview. Perhaps Jobs is embarrased by his relative net worth?
If any of you are still wondering, just sit down and watch Lion King 1 1/2. Then compare it to Finding Nemo. Ask yourself: which is the better movie? Then ask yourself: How would Walt have felt about the character Poomba in the Lion King, whose defining characteristic is that he passes gas? (A LOT of gas). Methinks old Walt would not have approved of fart jokes, and furthermore that when you have to resort to scatalogical humor to intertain kids, it's a symptom that you've completely run out of good ideas. Shrek and Lilo and Stitch weren't as bad, but they too seemed to need to resort to scatalogical humor. The closest Pixar ever comes to scatalogical is in Monsters Inc, where I really cannot figure out where in the middle of the Himalayas the Abominable Snowman is getting lemon juice with which to make yellow snowcones...
I assume this is part of the new Ashcroft "Use a chemistry set, go to jail!" initiative?
But for certain, the slowest growing Linux distro is the SCO "All your code base are belong to us!" Linux.
Selling 1 license last week and 2 licenses this week would be a 100% increase. Selling 0 licenses last week and 1 license this week is an infinite percentage increase. I hope you pay somebody else to compute your taxes...
Isn't the imperfectability of formal systems what Goebel's Theorem points out? That you can't devise a useful language in which the sentence "This sentence is false" can be correctly evaluated?
Agreed; English is the second language of a majority of the people in the world, not the first. But I'm willing to bet that there are Cantonese and Mandarin speakers that find it easier to communicate with each other using English than their widely differing dialects.
English has become the Lingua Franca of anybody who wants to do business anywhere in the world (and if you know that "Lingua Fraca" literally translates to "French toungue" you'll see the irony in that.) So yes, in every country in Europe, anybody catering to tourists will speak at least broken English. In Amsterdam, it was hard to find anybody who did not speak English. I found one deli where the counter person adamantly insisted "I do not speak English!" thus forcing me to order the only thing I knew how to say in Dutch (a cheese sandwich). And a native who apparently spoke no English stopped to ask myself and my coworker (we both actually look Dutch) for directions. We pulled out a map and tried to help her, but after about 5 minutes she got frustrated and walked away...
So, you could use this for Peter Gabriel's "So", "Us", and "Up" albums, but it wouldn't work for Bear Vs. Shark's "Right Now, You're In The Best Of Hands. And If Everything Isn't Quite Right, You'll Know In a Hurry."? But seriously, if the playback equipment can read all the information off the media itself, do you really need that much information on the media packaging?
Uh, perhaps protowings do not fossilize very well? Are there samples of amber going back 400 million years that we should be looking in?
How does this stop anybody that wants to run 4.4 with Mandrake from installing it separately? Yes, this delays the Mandrake release, but the Mandrake should have settled the license issues before they upgraded to 4.4; then it wouldn't be necessary to roll back the changes.
You do need an actual special reason for flying the plane Does "because my neighbors pissed me off" count?
Using the correct datatype (unsigned int) would have been better. Too bad there are no unsigned ints in Java...
My guess is they would say "We don't support IE5 amymore. Upgrade to IE6SP1". Followed by legal action against you for disclosing M$ trade secrets.
Ah yes... why do the English drink warm beer? Refrigeration by Lucas!
no security built into TCP/IP because there was no need for them. TCP/IP was not developed for academics, it's development was paid for by the Department of Defense, thus security was a consideration in the design of TCP/IP from day one. That is why TCP/IP was designed to dynamically reconfigure routing to work around failures, as opposed to SNA, in which the network was statically configured.
I hope the estate of John Cage is getting royalties for the silence... they would all seem to be infringing on the copyright for 4'33".