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Never watched it. But I recently watched the seasons of "The IT Crowd" that are on NetFlix. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I am glad that they ended "The IT Crowd" while it was good.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Although I used to love this show, this is totally insane! I really hate greed, and this almost makes me want NOT to watch the show, ever!! :unwell:
Also if I remember it right, they had to do the pilot episode again due to the so called "characters' emotions" were not proper during the first shoot. Aslo Kaley couldn't even get Penny's role out of her first audition.
Granted they have improved a lot since then, but it's still insane given that there are a lot many other fields like firefighers, cops, soldiers, teachers who do not get that much pile of money but they still do their jobs which are undoubtedly much more needed to the country..
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
modified 4-Aug-14 21:37pm.
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Agent__007 wrote: other fields like firefighers, cops, soldiers, teachers who do not get that much pile of money
I understand where you are coming from, but this point of view is rather naïve. I've learned that in modern society, you get paid based upon how easily you are replaced, not based upon how valuable your service is. Firefighters and cops perform necessary services, but individually they are easy to replace. The actors on that show are NOT easy to replace because theirs is a rare skill.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: because theirs is a rare skill.
they are now famous and changing the characters in a show costs a lot of money (think useless merch) and can drastically reduce an audience.
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There's also a "superstar effect" in some industries (such as TV, sports, and mobile apps). In these industries, the cost of making a product for one person, a hundred people, or a million people is roughly the same. Even when other workers enter the market to compete, they have a hard time making money despite the total money in the market being so big.
In the case of the Big Bang Theory, the audience being huge gives the market a lot of money, the popularity of the show gives the show a lot of the market, and the tight connection of the actors' performance with the popularity of the show gives them a lot of negotiating power for the show's money.
In the case of firefighters, cops, soldiers, and teachers, there are hard limits on how many people they can serve at a time, limiting the amount they can gain from the superstar effect.
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I love the show but commercials make it unwatchable, but we haven't had cable here for over a year.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Netflix.
If it is not streaming. I don't watch it. Pretty reasonable.
What we got here is a failure to communicate
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We've got Netflix but haven't seen BBT, I'll have to look again. Thanks
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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My wife and I enjoy the show for different reasons. I see the 'geek' humour because I am one.
My wife says, and I quote, "I married Sheldon, gave birth to Amy Farrah Fowler and Bernadette is moving in." (Her niece just moved to our area to go to college)
So, my wife uses the show to understand her family.
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I don't know how many times I have started VLC player on one screen to start playing a full screen game and have the video stop but the sound continue.
Or
How many times using Youtube while playing a game I have to alt tab out of the game to change the song and then wait as the game loaded back into memory.
The windows desktop can only focus on one app at a time and this sucks.
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Every single Windows Metro app running maintains focus so;
If I put on Hyper for Youtube and play Civilization 5 for Windows 8, the above problem does not exist, I can move the mouse over to Hyper for youtube while my game continues to play.
Only Windows 8... and Linux distro
modified 7-Aug-14 0:13am.
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Seriously. Give it a rest already. We get it - you like Windows 8. Now please. Stop[^].
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Most people don't know it can do that.
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You can do exactly the same with a Linux distro.
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I heard Windows 9 fixes this issue.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If they put metro abilities into the desktop - that would be amazing, but I fear this ability will be lost when metro apps are placed into the desktop - which goes back to the one focus model, and considering the life cycle management of every app for the desktop I would say that it would be impossible to make happen without making every app in existence to stop being compatible with Windows.
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RyanDev wrote: Windows 9
 +5!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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ColborneGreg wrote: alt tab out of the game to change the song and
Wouldn't it be easier to just set it up so you didn't have to "change the song" at all? Perhaps you should seek a tool that lets you play more than one song at a time.
And presumably the game you are playing doesn't use sound to any purpose.
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It was an example of an issue not an end result.
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So...what you are saying is that it's a solution to a non-existent problem?
Yep. Windows 8 is indeed that.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I just didn't want to go into great detail and thought that was an easier example to demonstrate my point.
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More Info[^]
If this is true...
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Was it bacon grease?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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