They don't really do tours, unless you know someone. Our office is near Pixar and this summer they needed access to some of our parking spaces for some of the construction they have been doing. They gave us a tour in return. It was neat and it went a long way to make up for the self-absorbed attitude exhibited by most of the Pixels. (That's what we call Pixar people, though sometimes we call them Pixies). It even took an edge off the irritation we had after the two months of pile driving, and the months and months of construction noise (which are ongoing as I type, beep beep beep beep, oh for god's sake! if your gonna idle that truck, take it out of reverse!!!)
When I saw this I thought, "hey maybe it's time to get a ps3." But are you saying that some PS3s won't play PS2 games!!? That would be a deal breaker for me.
It seems that people rarely complain about the proprietary engine/drive-by-wire/etc. management software in their car, unless it breaks
Actually the engine management software is most cars is modifiable. I can even get my car programed with multiple engine management programs that I can switch between using the buttons on the cruise control stalk. Multiple programs might include a performance program for fun, a crippled program for valet parking, and the standard program for when you take your car in for service. Your statement above just indicates that you aren't a car enthusiast.
Admittedly car computers are different. That computer isn't networked and it's job is to get the right amount of gas into the cylinder at the right time and fire the spark at the right time. Phones are more meta tools. A phone these days is a map, a communications device, a camera, and nearly anything else a creative person might make of it. That's why we care about openness because we understand that the potential of these new phones will only be discovered by persistent innovation.
Wow! [sarcasm]nicely said[/sarcasm]. I apologize if some of this is hard to for follow since English clearly isn't your native language.
I didn't make an accusation. I voiced a suspicion, or to phrase it another way, I made a hypothesis. It seemed to me that no explanation has satisfactorily explained the problem. When there is no current satisfactory answer to a question, posing hypotheses is a useful thing to do.
What is your attachment to this issue? Why get so emotional? Do you have some sort of vested interest? Are you financially tied in some way to GM crops?
Same-as, as far as I'm concerned. I'd easily kill one hundred to save my own kid. Color me weird, but there it is.
I'm a father and can empathize with parts of that. I would be willing to kill people who were trying to hurt my son. But to kill random innocents?
Are you really saying that you'd be willing to murder 100 people to "save" your child? Or perhaps you are saying that you would stand aside and let 100 random people die rather than taking a small risk that involved you and your child to save those people?
Personally I find those positions to be disgusting or cowardly. I hope you are never presented with such a decision, because your child would then have to live with "my dad the murderer" or "my dad the coward."
no I don't care to, that would seem too much like work. I note that your statement is equally unsupported. Since bee colonies are moved from crop to crop so frequently I have to wonder how you are so sure. I was merely suggesting a line of inquiry, you are making a categorical statement.
Obviously correlation does not equal causation. But when you have a major mystery like this and there is an apparent correlation then it ought to be investigated. Regardless I hope the problem is understood sooner rather than later.
Wait, so it isn't God's vengeance for Bee homosexuality?
No. No. No. This is about Bee polygamy. You should always get your "offensive in the sight of GOD" sin right before you go on a smear campaign. Having all your distorted facts in a row is critical in preventing the liberal mainstream media from painting you as a nutcase.
From the beginning of this I have thought that genetically engineered crops must have something to do with this. In many cases the crops are "roundup resistant" which in practice means that lots and lots of roundup is sprayed on them. In other cases crops have been designed to excrete pesticides. Lots of toxic chemical and plants that are by nature insecticidal can't be healthy for pollinators. Hey but who's gonna believe little tin-foil hat wearing me when ADM, supermarket to the world, and Monsanto say otherwise.
Do you immediately ditch all your friends the instant they do something against your wishes?
No one would sign up a real friend as a member of an organization of pedophiles. That's way beyond "against you wishes" it's a malicious attack plain and simple. If I found out someone did that to me, I would be shocked. After getting out of the group, I would denounce them harshly on their wall and on mine, to warn others and to protect myself. Then I absolutely would "defriend" them. I'd also consider a defamation of character suit. There is only one label in our society that is more damaging and more sticky than "pedophile" and that is "terrorist." A person like Mark Zuckerberg who is famous and has ample access to the press can laugh it off. But very few people have that sort of power.
Remember that fellow a few years back who had possession company laptop that was all infected and also had kiddie porn hidden on the hard drive? He was fired and persecuted for a few years before finally being exonerated. I expect the case would have turned out very differently had it been discovered that he was a member of the NAMBLA Facebook group. Each and every one of you reading this is just a few jpgs, and some unlucky turn of events from being a registered sex offender for the rest of your life.
On the other hand if FB is prompted to disable this "feature" after this incident I have to thank the person who did it to Mr. Zuckerberg.
I like how this is almost exactly what Blizzard did early on in WOW's development. IIRC, As an anti-poopsocking measure, they would start giving you XP penalties as time went on; you'd start out earning 100% XP, but then if you played for long enough you would slowly get penalties until you were only earning 50% XP. You had to log off and wait a couple of hours to get back to earning 100% XP.
Was that in English? poopsocking? sounds like a registerable sex offense. XP penalties, that's what you pay when you buy and PC and then install linux in place of windows? Let's see if I can use IIRC in a sentence... I get IIRC'd when people use absurd jargon.
Come on all 3d movies suck royally. The illusion breaks down constantly, and reminds you about 5 times per minute that "hey you're watching a 3d movie!!"
The illusion breaks down at the edge of the screen, especially when an image that is supposed to be in front of the plane of the screen intersects with the edge.
The illusion breaks down when you get that choppiness from panning or from an object moving quickly from side to side.
The illusion breaks down every time there is a bright consistent background (like sky) and the screen itself becomes visible as an unmoving texture right in the middle of the depth of field.
The illusion breaks down whenever something is too close and your eyes have to strain because the focal distance is still the distance of the screen but your eyes are crossed looking at something that appears to be in the next row forward.
I hate 3d movies. I think they absolutely ruin the movie going experience so I am completely unsurprised that Lucas is going to do this to the Star Wars films.
Lets do the Mona Lisa in 3d, and howabout Starry Night.
This has been the most discouraging thing about linux for me. The constant radical updates. I think the self-imposed 6 month version "upgrade" schedule has become a sickness. They feel like they have to do something radical to get that "new and improved" shine every time. I was just starting to get the hang of kubuntu. I was using my son's computer as a sort of test bed, and it was going well. I was seriously considering that my next pc would be based on kubuntu. Then kde4 came along and I'm faced with a totally different interface. I never recovered. Now my son's computer sits there unused because I can't even navigate the damn windows.
Hey developers, here's a hint: if useability is your goal don't radically change it every few versions. Once you find something that works well, stick with it and refine it. Make it faster. Add thoughtful things to make it a bit better. When was the last time that OSX had a radical interface change? Well I hear the iTunes was a big departure, and everyone hates it! I'm afraid that the year of linux on the desktop was about 2007. If you blinked you missed it.
You are jumping to unjustified conclusions. You can correctly conclude that he does not often use his phone to talk to his friends but there are many people out there that would rather talk in person than on a phone. Perhaps most of his conversations with friends go like this, "Hey it's me. I'll be there at about 6. See ya then."
1. Write book the military doesn't want seen in public
2. Publish
3. Let Pentagon buy up entire printing
4. Keep making more printings for them to buy
5. PROFIT!!!
Usually there are multiple causes as well as contributing factors.
But that isn't the case here. This is a set of serial failures. Had ANY one of these many steps been done right there would have been no disaster. The implication of this is that it wasn't about any one specific cause, it is about a full scale systemic failure. Every person in the whole chain of fault is the direct cause of this disaster and should be facing charges of manslaughter and whatever other charges might apply.
I think it's just an admission by governments that speed limits aren't actually there for safety so much as to raise funds. If the road is safe enough to drive on at 90mph for $25, it's safe enough to drive on at 90mph for free.
Well it may be safe for a well maintained 2005 BMW 5 Series, or even for a 2004 VW GTI to haul ass down I80 through Nevada at 90. But a 1985 Chrysler Lebaron at anywhere near that speed (at nearly any speed for that matter) is a threat to anyone in it or near it. That's why the law would require inspection first. Of course I can't believe that the permits would be granted in a rational fashion.
It's a sort of paint program but that's a poor description. Once you run it each key on the keyboard does something different. (you have to do something like crtl-q Q to quit). So your toddler can hammer on the keyboard and play with the mouse with zero chance of messing anything up. It's fun for kids and grownups. It unfortunately only runs on PCs.
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They don't really do tours, unless you know someone. Our office is near Pixar and this summer they needed access to some of our parking spaces for some of the construction they have been doing. They gave us a tour in return. It was neat and it went a long way to make up for the self-absorbed attitude exhibited by most of the Pixels. (That's what we call Pixar people, though sometimes we call them Pixies). It even took an edge off the irritation we had after the two months of pile driving, and the months and months of construction noise (which are ongoing as I type, beep beep beep beep, oh for god's sake! if your gonna idle that truck, take it out of reverse!!!)
especially if it is old enough to play PS2 games
When I saw this I thought, "hey maybe it's time to get a ps3." But are you saying that some PS3s won't play PS2 games!!? That would be a deal breaker for me.
It seems that people rarely complain about the proprietary engine/drive-by-wire/etc. management software in their car, unless it breaks
Actually the engine management software is most cars is modifiable. I can even get my car programed with multiple engine management programs that I can switch between using the buttons on the cruise control stalk. Multiple programs might include a performance program for fun, a crippled program for valet parking, and the standard program for when you take your car in for service. Your statement above just indicates that you aren't a car enthusiast.
Admittedly car computers are different. That computer isn't networked and it's job is to get the right amount of gas into the cylinder at the right time and fire the spark at the right time. Phones are more meta tools. A phone these days is a map, a communications device, a camera, and nearly anything else a creative person might make of it. That's why we care about openness because we understand that the potential of these new phones will only be discovered by persistent innovation.
Don't take your guns to town, son.
Leave your guns at home, bill.
Don't take your guns to town.
Microsoft just doesn't make my blood boil the way they used to.
You must not use the newer versions of their office suite on a regular basis.
Wow! [sarcasm]nicely said[/sarcasm]. I apologize if some of this is hard to for follow since English clearly isn't your native language.
I didn't make an accusation. I voiced a suspicion, or to phrase it another way, I made a hypothesis. It seemed to me that no explanation has satisfactorily explained the problem. When there is no current satisfactory answer to a question, posing hypotheses is a useful thing to do.
What is your attachment to this issue? Why get so emotional? Do you have some sort of vested interest? Are you financially tied in some way to GM crops?
Dew not truss your spill chucker, you're spill chucker makes ewe seam like an ill iterate fuel.
Dew knot truss you're spill chucker, you're spill chucker makes ewe seam like an ill iterate fuel.
There I fixed that for you.
Same-as, as far as I'm concerned. I'd easily kill one hundred to save my own kid. Color me weird, but there it is.
I'm a father and can empathize with parts of that. I would be willing to kill people who were trying to hurt my son. But to kill random innocents?
Are you really saying that you'd be willing to murder 100 people to "save" your child? Or perhaps you are saying that you would stand aside and let 100 random people die rather than taking a small risk that involved you and your child to save those people?
Personally I find those positions to be disgusting or cowardly. I hope you are never presented with such a decision, because your child would then have to live with "my dad the murderer" or "my dad the coward."
no I don't care to, that would seem too much like work. I note that your statement is equally unsupported. Since bee colonies are moved from crop to crop so frequently I have to wonder how you are so sure. I was merely suggesting a line of inquiry, you are making a categorical statement.
Obviously correlation does not equal causation. But when you have a major mystery like this and there is an apparent correlation then it ought to be investigated. Regardless I hope the problem is understood sooner rather than later.
Wait, so it isn't God's vengeance for Bee homosexuality?
No. No. No. This is about Bee polygamy. You should always get your "offensive in the sight of GOD" sin right before you go on a smear campaign. Having all your distorted facts in a row is critical in preventing the liberal mainstream media from painting you as a nutcase.
From the beginning of this I have thought that genetically engineered crops must have something to do with this. In many cases the crops are "roundup resistant" which in practice means that lots and lots of roundup is sprayed on them. In other cases crops have been designed to excrete pesticides. Lots of toxic chemical and plants that are by nature insecticidal can't be healthy for pollinators. Hey but who's gonna believe little tin-foil hat wearing me when ADM, supermarket to the world, and Monsanto say otherwise.
Do you immediately ditch all your friends the instant they do something against your wishes?
No one would sign up a real friend as a member of an organization of pedophiles. That's way beyond "against you wishes" it's a malicious attack plain and simple. If I found out someone did that to me, I would be shocked. After getting out of the group, I would denounce them harshly on their wall and on mine, to warn others and to protect myself. Then I absolutely would "defriend" them. I'd also consider a defamation of character suit. There is only one label in our society that is more damaging and more sticky than "pedophile" and that is "terrorist." A person like Mark Zuckerberg who is famous and has ample access to the press can laugh it off. But very few people have that sort of power.
Remember that fellow a few years back who had possession company laptop that was all infected and also had kiddie porn hidden on the hard drive? He was fired and persecuted for a few years before finally being exonerated. I expect the case would have turned out very differently had it been discovered that he was a member of the NAMBLA Facebook group. Each and every one of you reading this is just a few jpgs, and some unlucky turn of events from being a registered sex offender for the rest of your life.
On the other hand if FB is prompted to disable this "feature" after this incident I have to thank the person who did it to Mr. Zuckerberg.
That's better than "I am a sadistic pig and a rapist."
Since I don't think this meme is in the geek canon yet... read or watch "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."
I like how this is almost exactly what Blizzard did early on in WOW's development. IIRC, As an anti-poopsocking measure, they would start giving you XP penalties as time went on; you'd start out earning 100% XP, but then if you played for long enough you would slowly get penalties until you were only earning 50% XP. You had to log off and wait a couple of hours to get back to earning 100% XP.
Was that in English? poopsocking? sounds like a registerable sex offense. XP penalties, that's what you pay when you buy and PC and then install linux in place of windows? Let's see if I can use IIRC in a sentence... I get IIRC'd when people use absurd jargon.
/. just got much nerdier.
I think
Come on all 3d movies suck royally. The illusion breaks down constantly, and reminds you about 5 times per minute that "hey you're watching a 3d movie!!"
The illusion breaks down at the edge of the screen, especially when an image that is supposed to be in front of the plane of the screen intersects with the edge.
The illusion breaks down when you get that choppiness from panning or from an object moving quickly from side to side.
The illusion breaks down every time there is a bright consistent background (like sky) and the screen itself becomes visible as an unmoving texture right in the middle of the depth of field.
The illusion breaks down whenever something is too close and your eyes have to strain because the focal distance is still the distance of the screen but your eyes are crossed looking at something that appears to be in the next row forward.
I hate 3d movies. I think they absolutely ruin the movie going experience so I am completely unsurprised that Lucas is going to do this to the Star Wars films.
Lets do the Mona Lisa in 3d, and howabout Starry Night.
Would incorrectly listing a site as untrustworthy count as defamation?
This has been the most discouraging thing about linux for me. The constant radical updates. I think the self-imposed 6 month version "upgrade" schedule has become a sickness. They feel like they have to do something radical to get that "new and improved" shine every time. I was just starting to get the hang of kubuntu. I was using my son's computer as a sort of test bed, and it was going well. I was seriously considering that my next pc would be based on kubuntu. Then kde4 came along and I'm faced with a totally different interface. I never recovered. Now my son's computer sits there unused because I can't even navigate the damn windows.
Hey developers, here's a hint: if useability is your goal don't radically change it every few versions. Once you find something that works well, stick with it and refine it. Make it faster. Add thoughtful things to make it a bit better. When was the last time that OSX had a radical interface change? Well I hear the iTunes was a big departure, and everyone hates it! I'm afraid that the year of linux on the desktop was about 2007. If you blinked you missed it.
You don't have many friends do you?
You are jumping to unjustified conclusions. You can correctly conclude that he does not often use his phone to talk to his friends but there are many people out there that would rather talk in person than on a phone. Perhaps most of his conversations with friends go like this, "Hey it's me. I'll be there at about 6. See ya then."
This is gonna be really hard, but here it goes...
Yay Microsoft! Well done!
1. Write book the military doesn't want seen in public
2. Publish
3. Let Pentagon buy up entire printing
4. Keep making more printings for them to buy
5. PROFIT!!!
it's possibly the biggest change in the business of TV in 50 years, and frankly none of the TV networks seem to notice yet.
Uh, I'm pretty sure that NBC noticed. Hulu.
Usually there are multiple causes as well as contributing factors.
But that isn't the case here. This is a set of serial failures. Had ANY one of these many steps been done right there would have been no disaster. The implication of this is that it wasn't about any one specific cause, it is about a full scale systemic failure. Every person in the whole chain of fault is the direct cause of this disaster and should be facing charges of manslaughter and whatever other charges might apply.
I think it's just an admission by governments that speed limits aren't actually there for safety so much as to raise funds. If the road is safe enough to drive on at 90mph for $25, it's safe enough to drive on at 90mph for free.
Well it may be safe for a well maintained 2005 BMW 5 Series, or even for a 2004 VW GTI to haul ass down I80 through Nevada at 90. But a 1985 Chrysler Lebaron at anywhere near that speed (at nearly any speed for that matter) is a threat to anyone in it or near it. That's why the law would require inspection first. Of course I can't believe that the permits would be granted in a rational fashion.
Can this be the future of live show videos?"
Not until fans can hold cameras steady.
Chech out Pixel Whimsy
http://www.pixelwhimsy.com/
It's a sort of paint program but that's a poor description. Once you run it each key on the keyboard does something different. (you have to do something like crtl-q Q to quit). So your toddler can hammer on the keyboard and play with the mouse with zero chance of messing anything up. It's fun for kids and grownups. It unfortunately only runs on PCs.