The patterns that people see in those pictures are wholly dependent upon the number of pixels wide the image is. It is like the situation in Contact by Carl Sagan, when a pattern only appears in base-11 and a square is formed from the digits of pi. It would be interesting to experiment with different pixel widths and find other, perhaps clearer, patterns.
Don't make any CD's, at least for sale in record stores. CD sales are falling. How you make money is to release a few songs for free download on the internet. Spread hype: get a Myspace page, and get your name out. This will get people hooked on your music. Then offer the majority of your music as either pay for download or pay to have a CD shipped. The artist's biggest problem with this scheme is recording the music in the first place, but if done right, it is possible to become a paid artist without any contracts. Some are already doing this, but the only one I know of is KaW.
Insisting on a lossless format just makes you sound snobbish. Show me anyone who can tell the difference between a 256 Kbps MP3 or a 8 quality Ogg Vorbis and flac consistently, in any genre of music, and I will show you a DRM scheme that doesn't screw over legitimate users.
I have noticed that Linux (at least Ubuntu and Fedora Core) has a very strange learning curve. When it is freshly installed, it is ready to be used, and is extremely simple. Anyone who has used any graphical operating system could figure out how to work a fresh install of Ubuntu or Fedora Core.
But then you want to do something that doesn't come with the OS. Say you want Java for your web browser. You go online and find a tutorial, but then you need to learn how to work the terminal. You learn basic commands, and then move through the tutorial, which often does not work. You are expected to learn everything from reading man pages and waiting in help forums for a response.
Right at the get-go, Linux is easy, but you want to do anything interesting, and it becomes way to technical for the average user.
I'm at University here in SD, and indeed the law was specifically written to challenge Roe v. Wade. It was designed to provide almost no exceptions, the only significant one being an abortion is legal if it will save the mother's life. The law did pass the SD legislature, but it went to a popular vote last election day and lost, by about 55%-45%.
Host: So you don't like Microsoft Windows. Care to explain why?
Mac/Linux supporter: (Tosses chair at Microsoft supporter.)
Wait... There's a Microsoft supporter? Let me at 'im!
Unfortunately, the Ubuntu way of things also means not including proprietary media codecs by default, such as the very widely used mp3 format. Having a multimedia machine that is only capable of open media formats (without manually installing packages) will hurt its possibilities of reaching a wide audience.
I have passed through airport security, which uses magnetic induction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_detector wearing my insulin pump many times, and it still works fine.
Its on the market already, but not approved for use against cancer. Wouldn't the drug need to go through another round of FDA testing for its use against cancer?
Have/.ers ever taken any Science classes??? They teach you in 6th grade that nothing in science can be 'proven fact'. That is why parent is so wrong it hurts. The Earth-centered universe was a proven fact for centuries until a scientist disproved the theory. Global Warming, Evolution, and the Theory of Gravity are just Theories, and can be disproved. The title of this article is also funny, since it is obvious that Global Warming is a theory, it always will be.
Opinions are just that: opinions. Not everyone believes Mac OS X's UI is the best one out there. Using Mac OS X's UI will thus not suddenly make everything better. When I boot into Ubuntu using GNOME it looks and functions arguably better than the picture you linked to.
I have diabetes (type 1), and so does my brother. We have both had it for about 6 years.
What I want to make clear is the situation of your mother is not the norm for all diabetics. Both me and my brother maintain very good blood sugar levels, our Glycosylated Hemoglobin levels [Wikipedia.org] have been in the 6-8 levels all the time. He uses injections, I have an insulin pump. Actually, he has maintained better control than me.
Neither of us have had a severe insulin reaction (unable to self-treat), and neither of us have been above 500 mg/dl since we came out of the hospital. So it depends on the diabetic how drastic the problem is. It may also have something to do with the duration of having the disease.
Not that I'm saying this breakthrough is moot. I am definitely eagerly awaiting the day this comes out (almost as eager as I was the day Wii came out - jk).
But seriously, there are a lot of Christians out there that are nothing what you think of when you think of all the assholes ruining the name. Being one of those Christians, I hate the whole concept of this game. I hate that it is perpetuating the dreadful stereotype that all Christians are simply taking as fact anything their Pastor/Priest or a video game labeled 'Christian' is telling them.
The simple fact is that Christians have the same average intelligence as everyone else, and a significant portion of us don't hate Muslims or homosexuals. Any Christian with the brains to think for himself will hate this game.
But being one of those Christians, I say let Wal-Mart sell it. There probably is a significant number of dumbass Christians who will buy this game, and we shouldn't say what a company can/can't sell within the boundaries of the law.
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The patterns that people see in those pictures are wholly dependent upon the number of pixels wide the image is. It is like the situation in Contact by Carl Sagan, when a pattern only appears in base-11 and a square is formed from the digits of pi. It would be interesting to experiment with different pixel widths and find other, perhaps clearer, patterns.
Don't make any CD's, at least for sale in record stores. CD sales are falling. How you make money is to release a few songs for free download on the internet. Spread hype: get a Myspace page, and get your name out. This will get people hooked on your music. Then offer the majority of your music as either pay for download or pay to have a CD shipped. The artist's biggest problem with this scheme is recording the music in the first place, but if done right, it is possible to become a paid artist without any contracts. Some are already doing this, but the only one I know of is KaW.
Well, someone tell Blizzard to fix the security vulnerability in StarCraft!
Of course, the picture that was called up was This one, so I can see why it generated so many system calls.
Insisting on a lossless format just makes you sound snobbish. Show me anyone who can tell the difference between a 256 Kbps MP3 or a 8 quality Ogg Vorbis and flac consistently, in any genre of music, and I will show you a DRM scheme that doesn't screw over legitimate users.
I have noticed that Linux (at least Ubuntu and Fedora Core) has a very strange learning curve. When it is freshly installed, it is ready to be used, and is extremely simple. Anyone who has used any graphical operating system could figure out how to work a fresh install of Ubuntu or Fedora Core.
But then you want to do something that doesn't come with the OS. Say you want Java for your web browser. You go online and find a tutorial, but then you need to learn how to work the terminal. You learn basic commands, and then move through the tutorial, which often does not work. You are expected to learn everything from reading man pages and waiting in help forums for a response.
Right at the get-go, Linux is easy, but you want to do anything interesting, and it becomes way to technical for the average user.
Of course there aren't any smoking guns, guns weren't invented until much later. And plus, most Dinosaur's couldn't hold one in their hands either.
I'm at University here in SD, and indeed the law was specifically written to challenge Roe v. Wade. It was designed to provide almost no exceptions, the only significant one being an abortion is legal if it will save the mother's life. The law did pass the SD legislature, but it went to a popular vote last election day and lost, by about 55%-45%.
Unfortunately, the Ubuntu way of things also means not including proprietary media codecs by default, such as the very widely used mp3 format. Having a multimedia machine that is only capable of open media formats (without manually installing packages) will hurt its possibilities of reaching a wide audience.
I have passed through airport security, which uses magnetic induction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_detector wearing my insulin pump many times, and it still works fine.
Its on the market already, but not approved for use against cancer. Wouldn't the drug need to go through another round of FDA testing for its use against cancer?
Have /.ers ever taken any Science classes??? They teach you in 6th grade that nothing in science can be 'proven fact'. That is why parent is so wrong it hurts. The Earth-centered universe was a proven fact for centuries until a scientist disproved the theory. Global Warming, Evolution, and the Theory of Gravity are just Theories, and can be disproved. The title of this article is also funny, since it is obvious that Global Warming is a theory, it always will be.
Opinions are just that: opinions. Not everyone believes Mac OS X's UI is the best one out there. Using Mac OS X's UI will thus not suddenly make everything better. When I boot into Ubuntu using GNOME it looks and functions arguably better than the picture you linked to.
What I want to make clear is the situation of your mother is not the norm for all diabetics. Both me and my brother maintain very good blood sugar levels, our Glycosylated Hemoglobin levels [Wikipedia.org] have been in the 6-8 levels all the time. He uses injections, I have an insulin pump. Actually, he has maintained better control than me.
Neither of us have had a severe insulin reaction (unable to self-treat), and neither of us have been above 500 mg/dl since we came out of the hospital. So it depends on the diabetic how drastic the problem is. It may also have something to do with the duration of having the disease.
Not that I'm saying this breakthrough is moot. I am definitely eagerly awaiting the day this comes out (almost as eager as I was the day Wii came out - jk).