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In my blog, I describe my use of BootIt Bare Metal to rapidly test installs of "semi-embedded" software I write that involve wrapping third-party installs of drivers as sub-installs. This will work only as long as BIOS's and Microsoft continue to support "legacy mode". I'm just hoping that the scientific & embedded world finishes moving to Linux before "legacy mode" disappears.

I thought I was alone in this until a few weeks ago I found a site called xkcdsucks, and it appears I'm not alone in thinking this.

Hey, look at me! My opinion is valid because I found a website that says the same thing.

I'm making a sig out of that.

I thought I was alone in this until a few weeks ago I found a site called xkcdsucks, and it appears I'm not alone in thinking this.

Hey, look at me! My opinion is valid because I found a website that says the same thing.

Randall Munroe is an embarrassing illustration of the mediocrity of the average modern nerd. He says nothing which isn't either cliche or oversimplified.

I thought I was alone in this until a few weeks ago I found a site called xkcdsucks, and it appears I'm not alone in thinking this.

In my experience, people who like to make claims that so and so is cliche or oversimplified are people who are just not smart enough to understand the art or the topic at hand. They think they understand it, but they don't.

Speaking of understanding things, xkcdsucks is a great example of Poe's Law. I really have no idea if those bloggers actually dislike xkcd or are huge fans making fun of people who complain about it. I mean, they complain about the lack of originality in Randall's stuff by making posts such as:

1224. What is even the point of this? F
1225. What is even the point of this? F
1226. What is even the point of this? F
1227. What is even the point of this? F
1228. What is even the point of this? F

And how long has writing existed for?

Randall Munroe is an embarrassing illustration of the mediocrity of the average modern nerd. He says nothing which isn't either cliche or oversimplified.

I thought I was alone in this until a few weeks ago I found a site called xkcdsucks, and it appears I'm not alone in thinking this.

Your personal taste can be different from mass appeal. But, unlike business practice, what harm does it do to simply appreciate the fact that you like things that other people don't like - and they'll like things you don't like?

Just like stand-up comedy, some artists may not do things you like ... but if they're just providing things that others enjoy, why attack it simply because you dislike it?

And how long has writing existed for?

Randall Munroe is an embarrassing illustration of the mediocrity of the average modern nerd. He says nothing which isn't either cliche or oversimplified.

I thought I was alone in this until a few weeks ago I found a site called xkcdsucks, and it appears I'm not alone in thinking this.

That works for governments as
well as it does for superiors in the work place. i

Somewhat more exciting recordings are the airchecks from the EBS Scare of 1971, when a NORAD telegrapher accidentally sent the "Duck and Cover" signal to every radio station in America, and the stations all read their pre-prepared "stand by for an Emergency Action Message from the President of the United States" script.

And here are recordings of the original, pre-recorded nuclear attack messages that would be played, one for if there was several hours warning, and one if there were only minutes warning.

Moore's law has allows us to double display densities nearly as fast as CPU and memory had been improving.

The addition of a simple lenticular or image mask can turn any LCD in to a glasses free display.
An additional increase in resolution will then turn this in to a multiview display.

A bit more resolution and a micro lens array can then create a light field display.
Beyond that is digital holography.

It's all fairly cut and dry, standards are already falling in place to accommodate and stream this level of video and even capture live video like this.

So any software developer that assumes we've hit the limit will looks as foolish as Bill Gates saying no one would ever need more then 640k of memory.

http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search?q=Lenticular
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/3D
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search?q=Multiview
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/Digital%20Holography

Moore's law has allows us to double display densities nearly as fast as CPU and memory had been improving.

The addition of a simple lenticular or image mask can turn any LCD in to a glasses free display.
An additional increase in resolution will then turn this in to a multiview display.

A bit more resolution and a micro lens array can then create a light field display.
Beyond that is digital holography.

It's all fairly cut and dry, standards are already falling in place to accommodate and stream this level of video and even capture live video like this.

So any software developer that assumes we've hit the limit will looks as foolish as Bill Gates saying no one would ever need more then 640k of memory.

http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search?q=Lenticular
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/3D
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search?q=Multiview
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/Digital%20Holography

Moore's law has allows us to double display densities nearly as fast as CPU and memory had been improving.

The addition of a simple lenticular or image mask can turn any LCD in to a glasses free display.
An additional increase in resolution will then turn this in to a multiview display.

A bit more resolution and a micro lens array can then create a light field display.
Beyond that is digital holography.

It's all fairly cut and dry, standards are already falling in place to accommodate and stream this level of video and even capture live video like this.

So any software developer that assumes we've hit the limit will looks as foolish as Bill Gates saying no one would ever need more then 640k of memory.

http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search?q=Lenticular
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/3D
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search?q=Multiview
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/Digital%20Holography

Moore's law has allows us to double display densities nearly as fast as CPU and memory had been improving.

The addition of a simple lenticular or image mask can turn any LCD in to a glasses free display.
An additional increase in resolution will then turn this in to a multiview display.

A bit more resolution and a micro lens array can then create a light field display.
Beyond that is digital holography.

It's all fairly cut and dry, standards are already falling in place to accommodate and stream this level of video and even capture live video like this.

So any software developer that assumes we've hit the limit will looks as foolish as Bill Gates saying no one would ever need more then 640k of memory.

http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search?q=Lenticular
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/3D
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search?q=Multiview
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/Digital%20Holography

No, this has nothing to do with Aero. There are customisations that cannot be accomplished in Windows Vista or 7 even with Aero enabled. You still cannot get the same degree of fine-tuning in GUI adjustment with Windows Vista or 7 -- regardless of what "mode" (Aero, Basic, or Classic) -- as you could with XP. There is so much real estate wasted by "fluffy crap", particularly with Aero enabled, and you can't adjust most of it. For example, window border sizes -- even with the Border property set to 0 -- are still fat/wide compared to XP. And you still can't get a readable title bar (no matter what "mode" you use) if you use darker colours in your theme; you end up with this unreadable shit pile.

Microsoft did all this on purpose, and that's confirmed by their further removal of GUI adjustment capabilities in Windows 8, in addition to their own reps. stating public that they are intentionally doing away with such.

If I could get the same UI customisation capabilities in Windows Vista or 7 then I wouldn't be bitching. It's as sootman said -- Microsoft should have let alone many of the things that made XP sleek/convenient/fast and instead improved upon that, instead of doing things like screwing around with the GUI customisation capabilities (starting with Vista and progressively gotten more aggressive about removing such in 7 and especially 8). The GUI is just one of many things they've touched, but Windows is a GUI-based OS, and the GUI is the most important part. If it wasn't, you wouldn't see people complaining about the lack of Start button and related menus on 8.

If you really think you can get the same degree of control on 7, then you need to do exactly what I said in my previous post -- sit down with an XP machine (or in a VM) and try to get it to look the same, or even remotely the same. You can't. How do I know? Because at my past job (at/for Microsoft -- surprise!) we moved from XP to Vista to 7, and for the last 5 years I had to deal with the GUI idiocy. Five days a week I'd come home and feel relieved using my XP workstation, after 10 hours of tolerating a shitty UI. About the only thing I miss from 7 is the taskbar improvements (specifically the "Pinning" feature), although I loathe the fact that you cannot remove (not shorten, but completely remove) the "Show desktop" crap on the far right of the taskbar.

On the bright side, at least Windows 7 fixed this total catastrophy (one of the few things in XP that drives me insane, and the workarounds provided on that site don't actually fix the problem; it's also broken in Vista, just in a different way). When a mouse-driven OS can't even get mouse tracking correct, you have to wonder if the vendor even understands the technology they're trying to utilise/program for.

There are even things like this in Windows 7 which baffle the mind -- things you cannot unsee once you've seen them. And with regard to that one, I ask you: Microsoft has had 5 years to fix that, so why haven't they? How is it no one at the company noticed that problem, yet one random Internet guy managed to figure out the root cause?

So do not tell me "everything in 7 is great" -- the number of stupidities in 7, for me, easily outweighs the negatives in XP. The biggest, as I've demonstrated so far, is the GUI. If Microsoft had kept most of the 2K/XP GUI, as well as its adjustments/customisation capabilitie

The OP said they don't have all the original source photos.

They gave us two weeks to "remove" the watermarks, as if they were stuck on with bubble gum.

As if they're stuck on with bubble gum huh... because it's so hard to remove a watermark. You put the watermark on

in our own photo lab

and now you have to "remove" it and that's so fucking hard. Like you can't just upload the non-watermarked source photo.

It still takes a lot of time to process 40,000 pictures and re-upload them,

"To process" you mean uh... to ... do... all that stuff we already did, that's done. The raw image gets worked into a workable source image, which then gets watermarked and branded and whatnot. If you take your raw image, make a source image, watermark it, then throw out the source image or even dump the source and the raw image, you deserve to have to repeat work--one day the company will re-stylize their logo and you'll have to "process" all these images over again instead of looping a bash script that says "imagemagick --apply-this-logo-50x50-pixels-from-the-lower-right-at-45%-transparency $i" and getting coffee.

I'm sorry but I do stuff like this all the time. My time investment for hundreds of thousands of objects is often measured in seconds or minutes. Sometimes it's under 10 minutes for brand new processes to work on images, videos, etc.

I like how you say "to process" without really specifying what that means. Like some girl I went to high school with told me it was going to take her 11 hours to resize (simple scale by 50% or to a maximum size) a few hundred images for the magazine she worked with. In 8 minutes I had read the ImageMagick manual page, sent her instructions to install Cygwin, and a short bash script to iterate through an entire directory tree and create an identical tree of image files scaled to the specified parameters. She ran it and spent the rest of the day chatting on Facebook, then left early.

You talk like you have to re-process negatives into print photographs all over. You're just making up problems and writing a sob story, or you're too retarded to do your job in any competent manner. Also you're not "relinquishing copyright" and you didn't "copyright" any images, because copyright is automatic. You are giving a license to use images a certain way.

Excuse me, sir, but your "joke" is not only funny, it's racist. And your use of the grocer's apostrophe shows that you are an uneducated moron who shouldn't be posting at a site where the commenters are presumed to be literate. Please go away, 4chan might be right for you.

Google uses ECDHE which makes their encryption dramatically more secure than the vast majority of others.

Companies like that hand you a long form with lots of fine print, relying on the fact that most people will never bother to read them. But that means people aren't really agreeing to them, either. If there is not mutual understanding, there is no binding contract.

So back to my original point: the paper is not the contract. The agreement is the contract. The paper is merely evidence of it. They don't get to have that both ways. If they didn't read my amendment, then they didn't agree and there is no contract.

You instructors did not teach you this.

Your conclusion is shockingly wrong.

You need to stop spouting egregiously wrong bullshit on Slashdot before someone files a complaint with your state's disciplinary officials. They won't care that YANAL; they will care that you're practicing law very badly without a license.

I'm all out of fucks to give. Will you accept a rats's ass???

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/16/dirty-little-secret-orange-juice-is-artificially-flavored-to-taste-like-oranges.aspx
http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows/how-do-they-do-it/videos/how-do-they-do-it-how-is-orange-juice-made.htm
http://www.foodrenegade.com/secret-ingredient-your-orange-juice/
http://organicplanet.blogspot.com/2011/08/citricy-secrets-truth-about-orange.html
http://gizmodo.com/5981057/the-secret-algorithm-that-controls-everything-about-orange-juice

You mean like this guy?

Thanks for the fershlugginer jog to the memory, "Nature's."

In the US anyway, TV weather persons don't do their own forecasts - they rely on their local National Weather Service reports. And those are based on actual meteorologists looking at what the US's GFS says, as well as the European ECMWF, and combining it with their own experience regarding what the models tend to get right/wrong locally.

UW's professor Cliff Mass has written, many times, about the problems with US weather prediction. The computers they rely on are old and less powerful than the European ones - plus it's exacerbated by the US NWS having a broader mandate, so the computers they do have are used to run several other types of simulations in addition to the standard weather models.

This purchase is definitely good news.

Python is a "functional language", a la Scala or Haskell? Not even its creator believes that...

http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/04/origins-of-pythons-functional-features.html

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/09/anti-evil-maid.html

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/09/anti-evil-maid.html

Bring back the corner mailboxes so I can drop off outbound mail or just leave it to be picked up at the curb/cluster/whatever.

Up here the clusterboxes do double duty (at least for small pieces), so maybe you'll luck out too.

That's okay, I'm protected by the Zimmernado

it's web page is godd. i contact. Hastalik, salk, tedaviler

A lot of people in the US live in the so-called Goiter Belt, which is a band of the northernmost state (or two) of the US. Roughly speaking, the other states were once a vast inland ocean swamp, so the soil become infused with Iodine form the ocean. This gets into the water supply, with the result that Northern residents have far less Iodine in their diet than southern states.

Another source of Iodine used to be bread - Iodine was used as a dough conditioner in bread, so a little bit got into the food chain that way. Some of the effect we're seeing might also be due to the rise of manufactured bread in the US.

More recently, however, bread makers have started using Bromine instead of Iodine. Bromine binds to Iodine receptors so not only are we no longer getting Iodine from bread, we're less able to process the Iodine we do get.

There's also the question of how much Iodine we need to be healthy. There's good evidence for the minimum amount to prevent disease, but that may (and for those of you in the medical community, note that I'm saying "may") be lower than the optimum amount.

Note that doctors will tell you that 150ug is the maximum Iodine you should ever take (more would be toxic!) and yet occasionally use Iodine to enhance contrast in radiological studies, which puts as much as 20 mg in the blood stream. The RDA value is 100x less than used by doctors in some studies studies to treat disease.

There's also disagreement as to what the minimum daily intake should be.

We really should be studying these things. Unfortunately, a supplement that anyone could buy which will clear a patient's symptoms is incompatible with an expensive FDA-tested drug that requires office visits to administer. The medical community won't make money on supplements, so they aren't studied very well. There's enormous economic pressure against research into health (as opposed to research into disease).

Well, we upgraded to include a dynamic self-modifying portion, but there are some bugs; the basic self/non-self discrimination regularizer has a high tendency to cause wars over stupid things like who has the better facial hair. Unfortunately, the wide range of other regularizers—emotions, convictions, self-preservation, altruism, and the rest—aren't enough to completely repress this sort of thing. On the plus side they're now inventing new ones.

(In all seriousness, I think comparing the human species to an ensemble of classifiers is perhaps the most profound and interesting analogy ever made. The passing of genetic algorithms out of vogue in ML research reflects our own development of an advanced nervous system as an adaptable survival mechanism; culture, then, is the mass of concepts and rules we can integrate into our personal collections of weights to tune our nets to do specific things.)

Well, we upgraded to include a dynamic self-modifying portion, but there are some bugs; the basic self/non-self discrimination regularizer has a high tendency to cause wars over stupid things like who has the better facial hair. Unfortunately, the wide range of other regularizers—emotions, convictions, self-preservation, altruism, and the rest—aren't enough to completely repress this sort of thing. On the plus side they're now inventing new ones.

(In all seriousness, I think comparing the human species to an ensemble of classifiers is perhaps the most profound and interesting analogy ever made. The passing of genetic algorithms out of vogue in ML research reflects our own development of an advanced nervous system as an adaptable survival mechanism; culture, then, is the mass of concepts and rules we can integrate into our personal collections of weights to tune our nets to do specific things.)

Depends on what you mean by group outings, sports and exercize.
http://i0.wp.com/pennsicwp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/pennsic37_ammo_wagon.jpg

http://thebeatofyounglosangeles.blogspot.com/2011/04/check-it-quidditch-comes-to-la.html

So what are we going to do about it? Keep voting for republican bitches who have never met an out of control cop or prosecutor whose dick they wouldn't suck harder for being "tough on criminals"? Keep voting for liberal losers who aren't going to do a damn thing about out of control government?

Here's a good overview of why movies movies often suck.

Eat fruits and vegetables tied to longest lifetime
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - ingest fewer than 5 servings of fruit and vegetables
  day by day is connected with a better probability of dying early, in line with an outsizes study from Scandinavian nation.

Eat fruits and vegetables tied to longest lifetime
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - ingest fewer than 5 servings of fruit and vegetables day by day is connected with a better probability of dying early, in line with an outsizes study from Scandinavian nation.
fruit and vegetables

Eat fruits and vegetables tied to longest lifetime
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - ingest fewer than 5 servings of fruit and vegetables
  day by day is connected with a better probability of dying early, in line with an outsizes study from Scandinavian nation.
Go to:http://actionstime.blogspot.com/2013/07/eat-fruits-and-vegetables-tied-to.html

Built-in feature using hardware-hardened (VTx and IOMMU) disposable virtual machines. Process is described here: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2013/02/converting-untrusted-pdfs-into-trusted.html

somewhat east of Pocatello, Idaho looks like right in the middle of this:
http://ddrevival.blogspot.com/2007/03/yellowstone-supereruption_6320.html

The entire US is overdue for a Category 3, not just New York.

A quick google search...
http://images.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&q=category+3+landfall+USA

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bJhUmJyxrQs/ULy7NL1QbAI/AAAAAAAACQw/RlSJLqrsz5Y/s1600/hurrdrou0613.jpg

looks promising.

Anyway. Pretty obv been awfully lucky recently.

NSFW: http://isnsfw.blogspot.com/2011/10/whats-difference-between-me-and.html

What was he supposed to do? It's not his fault Apple makes such sexy hardware.

Get an iBurka?

Yeah, right. And most of all you didn't ever realize your huge delusion about never doing those things.

I know you can not ever accept this, and I understand that, but I'm going to say it anyway:
The USA has been nearly constantly at war for nearly its whole existence, at least since the civil war.
When I learned one thing, then that there is no such thing as a war without torture and rape and pillaging and concentration camps and just complete falling apart of all higher human values. Because my dad is a war reporter, I've seen the insides of every important war of the last 3 decades. There has been no exception. Perverse sexual torture games in concentration games are *the* staple of every war. Spying is a *must*. Oppression is part of the *definition* of war.

No, that doesn't make you "bad" humans. Because then, all humans and in fact all life-forms and hence nature itself would be "bad" and "evil". The only reason most other animals and even plants don't do it, is because they *can't*. Nature has no concept of morals.

The bad thing is to elevate yourselves over others based on a pure delusion. Yes, most of us readily do that too. But since "bad" by definition means "self-harmful" (where in most societies, notably with the exception of the USA and a bit Europe, "self" also means "my society/community" to some extend), and delusions always mean a lack of information and hence some self-harm, this is always a bad thing, even for the least-servant life-form.

According to pretty much every "average person", who would gladly murder a murderer, torture a torturer, and terrorize a terrorist, it surprisingly is.
Becoming the thing you hate doesn't seem to be an issue.

Then again, I'm no psychopath, have a brain, *and* actually use it... so I don't know.

better pic here: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tHu6VH9pm6E/SsoHiBSPxwI/AAAAAAAADsI/YevIgOLxjpE/s320/DSCN9980+copy.jpg

FWIW I prefer the "chinese" brussel sprouts (aka "choy tham"). They look like this cooked: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vLGu3WWT2eg/TIk5YiQBu7I/AAAAAAAAPic/z-R6sec4Kn0/s400/2010-09-94.jpg
More leafy - not round.

Maybe you can try stir fried brussel sprouts. Lightly fry them (with garlic, add soy sauce to taste) so they are still a bit crunchy. Some brussel sprouts are really too bitter... But the others are quite nice.

Read Yoshinori Matsunobu's blog:

http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/

At least, read his first post and view the slide deck:

http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2009/04/mastering-art-of-indexing-slides.html

Read Yoshinori Matsunobu's blog:

http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/

At least, read his first post and view the slide deck:

http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2009/04/mastering-art-of-indexing-slides.html

Some people have other ideas.

Not really, that's a lovely media graphic and all, but the proper placement of the batteries is shown here, here and here

Anyhow, the batteries are kept below the passenger compartment, and the damage appears to be along the top of the fuselage (just in front of the vertical stabiliser) - I can see no visible visible damage around the area of the aft batteries.

Footage of starboard side
Footage of port side