But why complain about it _here_, where it's _supposed_ to go? That's like going to a physics conference and complaining that academics focus too much on physics. If you're going to complain about general news media focusing on entertainment news, shouldn't you do that somewhere where general news media is focusing…
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I questioned it at first too for similar reasons, but it's from the writers themselves on the commentary track for the episode. I guess they could be remembering wrong, though?
Funny thing about the "George Bush Jr. and Jeb Bush" part: apparently, the writers didn't know that Bush actually did have a son named George, and the joke was supposed to be that Homer was so dumb as to try and trick Bush with a son that he didn't have. Which is hilarious in hindsight given how much bigger W got…
No, he was first involved in his parents' vaudeville act at 14 months - "began entertaining before he was 2 years old" - and started acting in movies at age 6.
It's not really lifted from FF12, it's lifted from Baldur's Gate 2; really, it's just a UI-light adaptation of the AI and command system from that game. Setting up NPC AI works almost exactly the way it worked in BG2, it's just expanded in what options you have as triggers and allows you to select specific abilities…
People have always done that, it's just more blatant on the Internet because you're seeing it coming from people literally around the world instead of just from people you happen to know in real life. It's not a new phenomenon at all, it's just more visible, which makes it seem like it's more common.
If it works out (and if it's an item that's popular enough in a given area that it fell under this system), it'll probably let them cut handling time down enough to make one-day shipping (maybe even same-day shipping depending on timing of orders) as cheap for them as two-day shipping is already.
Because this article is really mischaracterizing the plan. The idea is the vast majority of this "anticipatory shipping" is going to be Amazon sending stuff to _shipping hubs_ in advance based on buying patterns in the area around that hub. That way when one of those items is ordered in the area around that hub, the…
The demonstration of causation is exactly what is addressed in section 5B of the paper.
Did you read the actual study itself before you decided that? Because it doesn't claim that the show is the entire reason for all decline in the teen birth rate whatsoever.
@avclub-84ca205fe6bc691c41c3bfe5a2820a15:disqus There's some truth to that when discussing a character within the context of a narrative, although the writer still has total control over the narrative as a whole and so the writer's intentions should still be considered to some degree. But in this case, the character…
If you start selling your viral song, and you pay the RIAA the $450 certification fee plus whatever travel fees their auditor incurs, then yes, in theory you could.
They aren't adding up anything themselves; streaming sites have to submit their data to the RIAA to be counted the same way stores have to submit sales data, so assumedly it's on the streaming sites to handle multiple uploads like that.
Not according to DeCandidio, and you'd think if anyone would know, it'd be another Trek fiction author.
@avclub-8f5d52de325e27c15de41667d4d82f50:disqus Sorry to poke at this, but it's kind of a pet peeve of mine: that's a common misrepresentation and exaggeration of what Dunbar's number is, and that Cracked article that the term "monkeysphere" came from got it completely wrong. All Dunbar's number is is a limit on how…
The phrase "patent troll" has been around since 1993. It's only a year younger than "troll" in the internet sense.
Patent trolling doesn't mean people making false patent claims. It means people that take out legitimate patents with no intent of actually using or manufacturing them, purely in order to sue people that do try to. People that seek to make money off the patent through nothing but legal action rather than putting the…
@avclub-4f18f486a356810b3ef8008243bcba7a:disqus I don't think a patent troll has ever cooperated with China to continue a policy of state-sponsored censorship and suppression of unapproved information, for one. And the only reason Google stopped cooperating with China was because China started trying to hack them to…