Which is a shame, because Jack really had the potential to not be like that, and wasn't in the first season. When "The Others" got introduced, they warped Jack into a crazy person and never brought him down to earth.
Lost is the prime example of why good extended-length narrative shows should never be put in so heavy an ad-based medium. TNT and USA-level should be the closest these kinds of shows ever get to network. Lost should have been on Showtime. It would have been completed already.
I seriously doubt Ubuntu makes hardware more fragile, but I'm also basing it completely off my own experience. I have three machines - Windows, Mac, and my Linux box - Windows is being fixed, Mac just got fixed, and I couldn't fuckin' break my Linux box if I tried. It's a tank.
I would've liked to have had a little more information on the ones to trust.
For obvious reasons, I can see why they may want to avoid 'outing' those who are involved in payola, but it would be nice to get a few more names from the article on who we can legitimately trust.
However, then this begs the question - who is responsible for measuring the weight that each site holds in terms of their karma score? How do we decide that a +50 karma on Slashdot outweighs a -100 karma on another site (let's say Digg)?
In devaluing the weight of some sites, you may alienate them and they won't want to participate in the system, should such a system require participation to work. I mean, I sure believe that Slashdot would be held to higher esteem than GameFAQs, but would the people who frequent GameFAQs - or its owners - be willing to accept that?
I mean, it's one thing to deal with Dan Brown - a hack who clearly wrote a novel through his publisher's marketing team - but another to deal with the thoughts of Karl Marx, whether those thoughts are trash or treasure in your mind.
The point being that doctors tell her she's imagining it. That's the impetus for doing the double-blind study. If physicians are saying it's not possible, well, your little experiment in your home isn't going to convince them. They'll say, "oh, that's cute," and then move along to referring you to a psychiatrist.
A novelist - the type who aren't looking for a paycheck, which I believe is the type you're referring to - does it out of a sense of art. It's work, but it's not viewed upon as a hobby or something to do. The passion comes out of a need to communicate a thought, feeling, agenda, whatever, and to do so in a way that is not just entertaining, but digestible.
As for the rest of your analogies, either they're fine with me or I just am not involved in that sort of thing to be the judge of it, but being a major MMO player (and knowing people who're like South Koreans to Starcraft with their MMOs), the two things are worlds apart. Unless you're doing, like, slash fiction. Then maybe you're right.
Basically, what you're saying is that trusting the monitor for photography/illustrations is the equivalent of trusting the LCD monitor on your DVX-100B camera to be white balanced exactly the way it'll be on the television.
Even more extreme, really, since you're translating from monitor to physical document, as opposed to me trusting from monitor to... well... another monitor.
I do have to say good on the judge for at least admitting this. It suggests to me that he's at least seeking to understand before making a ruling, rather than having his own opinion on what something is and then ruling based on some ill-conceived notion of the Tubes.
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Around The Horn needs to be converted for use in a political format.
That's pretty much the equivalent of letting a guy who stole from someone go free because the victim shot someone else.
This is why I never invite PoliSci majors to a party.
That song suddenly took a dark turn.
Lost is the prime example of why good extended-length narrative shows should never be put in so heavy an ad-based medium. TNT and USA-level should be the closest these kinds of shows ever get to network. Lost should have been on Showtime. It would have been completed already.
If you wiretap illegal outlaws, only outlaws will wiretap illegals.
Good God, man, you let that into your home?
OJ.
Stranger things have happened.
I seriously doubt Ubuntu makes hardware more fragile, but I'm also basing it completely off my own experience. I have three machines - Windows, Mac, and my Linux box - Windows is being fixed, Mac just got fixed, and I couldn't fuckin' break my Linux box if I tried. It's a tank.
For obvious reasons, I can see why they may want to avoid 'outing' those who are involved in payola, but it would be nice to get a few more names from the article on who we can legitimately trust.
Ugh, that sounds like a good idea on paper, but do we really want the opinions of most GameFAQs and Myspace users to count for something?
In devaluing the weight of some sites, you may alienate them and they won't want to participate in the system, should such a system require participation to work. I mean, I sure believe that Slashdot would be held to higher esteem than GameFAQs, but would the people who frequent GameFAQs - or its owners - be willing to accept that?
Ring finger longer than index. I absolutely suck at math.
An actual, serious, well-thought out and well-read discussion here? What the eff?
I mean, it's one thing to deal with Dan Brown - a hack who clearly wrote a novel through his publisher's marketing team - but another to deal with the thoughts of Karl Marx, whether those thoughts are trash or treasure in your mind.
So, no, it's not silly at all to suggest it, sir.
Black Jauer is not pleased with his cancellation.
As for the rest of your analogies, either they're fine with me or I just am not involved in that sort of thing to be the judge of it, but being a major MMO player (and knowing people who're like South Koreans to Starcraft with their MMOs), the two things are worlds apart. Unless you're doing, like, slash fiction. Then maybe you're right.
Granted, that may explain everything, but that's an awfully big part of Internet usage being declared dead.
More like bringing a penis to a gunfight.
Even more extreme, really, since you're translating from monitor to physical document, as opposed to me trusting from monitor to... well... another monitor.
Isn't that why we bought Nevada? For Vegas and volatile chemical dumps?
Holy shit, did it really take that long to get to this?
Most people keep the incumbent because they haven't done anything to screw things up royally. When that happens, you get the 2006 elections.
Just because I want something different than the incumbent doesn't mean I want to deal with the bullshit the opponent's feeding me.
I do have to say good on the judge for at least admitting this. It suggests to me that he's at least seeking to understand before making a ruling, rather than having his own opinion on what something is and then ruling based on some ill-conceived notion of the Tubes.