That's nothing but a new name for an age old process. The process of adding heat to reagents (a.k.a. cooking) is in itself a chemical process.
The whole "molecular gastronomy" trend is simply applying the same strategy to "warm" dishes.
...which is why I included it in quotes as well. Slapping lipstick on a pig does NOT make it Natalie Portman.
I have to say that this is why I like watching Alton Brown's Good Eats. He actually understands the science of cooking, and is able to explain how it works without turning off the average person.
I'm betting "molecular gastronomy" is going to REALLY take off within the next five years or so...
>Nonetheless, you seem to take offense at the term "disk" but not "drive", despite both of them being technically incorrect terms, both deriving from elements of motor driven rotational magnetic storage.
The meanings of the original terms are not in question.
Could you call it a "drive", since its primary storage medium is being driven by SOMEthing? Sure ya could, as I pointed out in earlier posts. That's what the big boys call it in all their literature.
Can you call it a "disk"? Well, no, and therein lies my problem. There's no disk to store data to.
Time and time again, I've watched ill-prepared technicians try to explain a concept to a customer. Around halfway through the discussion, the client will pipe up thusly:
"Oh, so you mean it works like THIS: {insert incorrect assumption here}!"
....and the tech/Geek Squad goof/nerd-in-name-only replies, "Yeah, that's close enough."
I'm sick of cleaning up after lazy ninnies like that. If you're not going to/can't explain a concept to the average user in a manner that's both correct and easy for them to understand, then just shush.
Please.
You're just making it harder on those of us that have to TRAIN these people.
This is going to be a Big Problem for all the artsy stoners.
Correction: This'll be a problem for the Yuppie stoners. The rest of the stoner crowd moved to other OSs long ago.
This problem, as much as I like to jeer at elitists, is not Mac-only... We just read how Vista freaks around the 16,384 file number when copying. I could rant about "flaws" like this in each of the "big three", Linux, OSX, and Windows. But I'm not. Why?
They're going to happen.
Folks, ya have to remember... At present, and especially commercially, "quality assurance" means jack when you have a set-in-stone release date. Whether it's vaporware like WinFS, or trying to sneak in some code before a freeze, rushing due to financial/time concerns are what's screwing product quality far more than who's making it.
I don't have kids, but I have had friends who have come close to (one girl at my school is known for having multiple abortions- that's also a freedom that's in danger in America, due to pro-life groups, that's not in China).
No, China goes the other way and forces abortions and sterilizations. Yeah, that's freedom.:P
My point exactly... people are going to call them disks... it's not so hard to accept that, even if it isn't correct, it's going to happen anyway. Like the most heavily practiced oxymoron I can think of, "American English". Like it or not, it's wrong, and it's in widespread use.
I can think of a number of racist terms that people use citing that same line. If it's incorrect, then stop spreading misinformation.
Try electric motors, the things they use, to, you know, spin the disks.
Flash drives don't have disks to spin, which was the whole point. They DO have drive circuits, h'wever. Do catch up, dear boy...
Do you think most people out there called the things "flash disks" are also editors on Wikipedia? Probably none.
Evidently there's at LEAST one, as a search on "flash disk" there redirects you to "flash drive".
How many vendors? Probably none.
If you'd looked, you'd have seen what the rest of us did. While Samsung may call it a drive, they're smart enough to know the Sheeple might call it a disk, and include metatags to suit the crawlers...
Also... it's not a "drive". The drive component refers to the motors that spin the disks... which don't exist. If you want to get picky about it.
Let's just say I'll be happy to concede the point when you can show me the motor that "drives" the "flash drive".
Any device made out of nanotechnology that serves the same function will be called a "disk drive" even if there's no disk in it.
Thinking like this is why we have customers bringing their PCs and calling the case a "hard drive". Ditto for those confusing "storage" with "memory". It's people like that what cause unrest...
It's a DRIVE, as there's nary a "disk" in sight. No motor or heavy magnets inside, either. These facts {and that it's not prone to servo/"moving parts"-type physical failures} places it in another category altogether.
USB connected flash memory is called a flash disk even today... etc
Not at almost every vendor I checked. Try entering "flash disk" at Wikipedia, and you'll be redirected to "flash drive". Most times, you'll see reporters making that mistake, but VERY few geeks... Just check your favorite search engine for the NUMBER of results for each term if you think I'm kiddin'.
Let's just say I'll be happy to concede the point when you can show me the "disk" in a "flash disk".
Who in their right f'ing mind would pay retirement or medical benefits for a "professional gamer" anyway? The Professional Gamer's Union?
There are a number of insurance and investment options available to the self-employed.
They ARE wasting their lives, they're just being paid to do it. You sound as if every bum on the street, prostitute, meth dealer, or prison inmate isn't wasting their lives because they get paid to do something vaguely resembling work.
Exactly! Why, these paid gamers should get jobs they really don't love to garner a mass of green pieces of paper the "normal" way! In fact, they should work SO hard, that they have a HUGE pile of the green paper! Yay, green paper!
{The problem remains, of course, that they're usually so busy working to GET the green paper that they really don't have time to enjoy the stuff they can trade it for until it's too late to really enjoy it.}
Feel free to make the green your first priority. Just don't assume it'll be *our* first priority.
I would guess that this new technology provides enough energy for a tram (in the U.S. we call them "light rail" or "trolleys") but not enough for a bus.
Actually, as indicated earlier, they've been testing systems in New York City using another regenerative braking system called HybriDrive from these folks...
No idea if the BAE system has the "70%" conversion rate of this one or not.
The labels are certainly not the only ones capable of making music, but they sure seem like they create the vast majority of the music that people think is valuable enough *to pay nothing for*.
The labels, as much as they'd like to indicate otherwise, don't create the music. They create the marketing. Should I be more impressed with an artists ability to create, or the record firms ability to try to pawn a crap sandwich as filet mignon?
Faith is the belief in the unprovable (or alternatively non-falsifiable).
That's right...and there's NO way to have "proof" of anything, even your senses. That's right, your "input", taken on faith every day, folks. Most people just never stop to think about it.
If you don't believe in "the answers" then you don't have faith.
I have what *I* believe are the answers. That doesn't mean I'm any more correct than Hawking's early theory on black holes. H'wever, as I tend to revise my beliefs on new input, I'm not as worried that I'll end up as raving a fundamentalist as this guy. You can be humble enough to admit that you, yourself, don't have all the answers...just the ones that best allow you to live your life as you see fit.
And on a side note, hypothetically, wouldn't an omnipotent being that desires NOT to have proof of itself generally get its way?
Each time it was related to the fact that the current UI for moderating is drop down menu (which is just fine) that applies whatever moderation is selected immediately upon being clicked (no fine).
How recent is this? Last I moderated, the choices were pull-down, but the "Moderate" button at the bottom of the page still needed to be clicked for the points to subtract.
If you admit that your religious beliefs are 'just' guesses, then by definition you don't have faith.
I'm saying that neither have all the answers, and am honest enough to admit it. I have faith. I just don't trumpet my belief set, insisting that anyone else not believing as I do is "clueless", "wrong", "deluded", or "ignoring evidence".
They are both guesses, but one group expects their guesses to be disproven while the other group can't stand the thought that their guesses might be wrong
Uh, I think you missed the sentence at the end of that paragraph that read:
However, most real agnostics and atheists I know will admit it's a guess either way, and as a Christian I need to honestly admit the same.
Trust me, not all Christians are as hard-headed as some of the noisy ones...
If you want to know how a system originated, you might carefully study its current state and the manner in which it develops over time, and thereby attempt to deduce by reason the state it would have occupied in the past. Or alternatively you might invoke God. One of these approaches is science, the other is not.
...and I believe the other poster's point was this:
While science has some really interesting guesses about the origins of the universe, as does religion, the simple fact remains that they're BOTH guesses. True, it's more systematic with science. However, most real agnostics and atheists I know will admit it's a guess either way, and as a Christian I need to honestly admit the same.
I doubt however, that DRM would be considered 'content'.
If it's in the box when you bought it, it's "content". IANAL, but if it's encoded in a tiny pit, with value to either you or the distributor, it's content.
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..and the obligatory Futurama quote of the day:
Fry: "What's it called now?"Farnsworth: "Urectum."
Thanks for the setup!
The whole "molecular gastronomy" trend is simply applying the same strategy to "warm" dishes.
...which is why I included it in quotes as well. Slapping lipstick on a pig does NOT make it Natalie Portman.
Paris Hilton, maybe, but not Portman.
I have to say that this is why I like watching Alton Brown's Good Eats. He actually understands the science of cooking, and is able to explain how it works without turning off the average person.
I'm betting "molecular gastronomy" is going to REALLY take off within the next five years or so...
The meanings of the original terms are not in question.
Could you call it a "drive", since its primary storage medium is being driven by SOMEthing? Sure ya could, as I pointed out in earlier posts. That's what the big boys call it in all their literature.
Can you call it a "disk"? Well, no, and therein lies my problem. There's no disk to store data to.
Time and time again, I've watched ill-prepared technicians try to explain a concept to a customer. Around halfway through the discussion, the client will pipe up thusly:
"Oh, so you mean it works like THIS: {insert incorrect assumption here}!"
....and the tech/Geek Squad goof/nerd-in-name-only replies, "Yeah, that's close enough."
I'm sick of cleaning up after lazy ninnies like that. If you're not going to/can't explain a concept to the average user in a manner that's both correct and easy for them to understand, then just shush.
Please.
You're just making it harder on those of us that have to TRAIN these people.
Correction: This'll be a problem for the Yuppie stoners. The rest of the stoner crowd moved to other OSs long ago.
This problem, as much as I like to jeer at elitists, is not Mac-only... We just read how Vista freaks around the 16,384 file number when copying. I could rant about "flaws" like this in each of the "big three", Linux, OSX, and Windows. But I'm not. Why?
They're going to happen.
Folks, ya have to remember... At present, and especially commercially, "quality assurance" means jack when you have a set-in-stone release date. Whether it's vaporware like WinFS, or trying to sneak in some code before a freeze, rushing due to financial/time concerns are what's screwing product quality far more than who's making it.
No, China goes the other way and forces abortions and sterilizations. Yeah, that's freedom. :P
I can think of a number of racist terms that people use citing that same line. If it's incorrect, then stop spreading misinformation.
Try electric motors, the things they use, to, you know, spin the disks.Flash drives don't have disks to spin, which was the whole point. They DO have drive circuits, h'wever. Do catch up, dear boy...
Evidently there's at LEAST one, as a search on "flash disk" there redirects you to "flash drive".
How many vendors? Probably none.If you'd looked, you'd have seen what the rest of us did. While Samsung may call it a drive, they're smart enough to know the Sheeple might call it a disk, and include metatags to suit the crawlers...
Also... it's not a "drive". The drive component refers to the motors that spin the disks... which don't exist. If you want to get picky about it. Let's just say I'll be happy to concede the point when you can show me the motor that "drives" the "flash drive".Ya want positive or negative drive?
Thinking like this is why we have customers bringing their PCs and calling the case a "hard drive". Ditto for those confusing "storage" with "memory". It's people like that what cause unrest...
It's a DRIVE, as there's nary a "disk" in sight. No motor or heavy magnets inside, either. These facts {and that it's not prone to servo/"moving parts"-type physical failures} places it in another category altogether.
USB connected flash memory is called a flash disk even today... etcNot at almost every vendor I checked. Try entering "flash disk" at Wikipedia, and you'll be redirected to "flash drive". Most times, you'll see reporters making that mistake, but VERY few geeks... Just check your favorite search engine for the NUMBER of results for each term if you think I'm kiddin'.
Let's just say I'll be happy to concede the point when you can show me the "disk" in a "flash disk".
"Hey, what's that whirring sound?"
"It's the founding father this programming language is named after...spinning in his grave..."
...and 22 Acacia Avenue being an Iron Maiden song.Good catch! You get the bonus brownie: I also use 1313 Mockingbird Lane as an alternate street...
Ye gads, it's fun to skew marketing.
There are a number of insurance and investment options available to the self-employed.
They ARE wasting their lives, they're just being paid to do it. You sound as if every bum on the street, prostitute, meth dealer, or prison inmate isn't wasting their lives because they get paid to do something vaguely resembling work.Exactly! Why, these paid gamers should get jobs they really don't love to garner a mass of green pieces of paper the "normal" way! In fact, they should work SO hard, that they have a HUGE pile of the green paper! Yay, green paper!
{The problem remains, of course, that they're usually so busy working to GET the green paper that they really don't have time to enjoy the stuff they can trade it for until it's too late to really enjoy it.}
Feel free to make the green your first priority. Just don't assume it'll be *our* first priority.
Actually, as indicated earlier, they've been testing systems in New York City using another regenerative braking system called HybriDrive from these folks...
No idea if the BAE system has the "70%" conversion rate of this one or not.
Agreed, and I've never given them my real info. *I* know I'm not ripping 'em off, and so feel no reason to jump through hoops clueless suits create.
Somewhere, in a marketing database somewhere, sits:
Elmer Fudd
22 Acacia Avenue
San Antonio, RI, 90210
Wow. All we got in San Antonio was a hard to find party in a back room with around 8-10 people. Where do we apply for swag?!?
What makes you think I didn't include songwriters in the "artist" category...?
As for the performers? Look up performing arts for an idea of why people would consider them "artists".
The labels, as much as they'd like to indicate otherwise, don't create the music. They create the marketing. Should I be more impressed with an artists ability to create, or the record firms ability to try to pawn a crap sandwich as filet mignon?
...At least until the Electoral College gets ahold of it...
Nope. Jus' doesn't tap the ol' tapioca tube like the old system does. I'm not saying it's bad, just not as intuitive.
That's right...and there's NO way to have "proof" of anything, even your senses. That's right, your "input", taken on faith every day, folks. Most people just never stop to think about it.
If you don't believe in "the answers" then you don't have faith.I have what *I* believe are the answers. That doesn't mean I'm any more correct than Hawking's early theory on black holes. H'wever, as I tend to revise my beliefs on new input, I'm not as worried that I'll end up as raving a fundamentalist as this guy. You can be humble enough to admit that you, yourself, don't have all the answers...just the ones that best allow you to live your life as you see fit.
And on a side note, hypothetically, wouldn't an omnipotent being that desires NOT to have proof of itself generally get its way?
How recent is this? Last I moderated, the choices were pull-down, but the "Moderate" button at the bottom of the page still needed to be clicked for the points to subtract.
I'm saying that neither have all the answers, and am honest enough to admit it. I have faith. I just don't trumpet my belief set, insisting that anyone else not believing as I do is "clueless", "wrong", "deluded", or "ignoring evidence".
Uh, I think you missed the sentence at the end of that paragraph that read:
However, most real agnostics and atheists I know will admit it's a guess either way, and as a Christian I need to honestly admit the same.Trust me, not all Christians are as hard-headed as some of the noisy ones...
...and I believe the other poster's point was this:
While science has some really interesting guesses about the origins of the universe, as does religion, the simple fact remains that they're BOTH guesses. True, it's more systematic with science. However, most real agnostics and atheists I know will admit it's a guess either way, and as a Christian I need to honestly admit the same.
Folks, I'm with Jubal Harshaw on this:
"Come Judgement Day, if they hold it, we may find that Mumbo JumboIf it's in the box when you bought it, it's "content". IANAL, but if it's encoded in a tiny pit, with value to either you or the distributor, it's content.
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