Thanks for being anal, by the way, it makes this place a bit more interesting.
If you are correct (honestly, haven't checked), and hops have been banned in ales, banned at various in the past, quite a few ales do in fact have hops.
I believe the main differentiator between lager beer and ale is the usage of bottom or top fermenting yeast and fermentation temperature.
Hops were added for flavor, but also as a desinfectant/perservative. If you can imagine things from 1487 til the near present weren't especially sanitary.
I suppose nowadays you can get away without adding hops. Most of what could spoil has been removed from the beer. As my home brewmeister says "It can't go bad, if it wasn't ever good!:)
Ryan
...living in Germany,
as my home brew meister says, you can do lots of things wrong, but you almost always get beer, and its almost always better homebrewed.
We are brewing from grain though, so I don't know how it is with extracts.
Ryan
I have to agree. What are the real theaters/cinemas nowadays?
My field of vision in my home is obstruction free (no heads), I watch on a large screen with better than cinema sound (no talking, no mobiles ringing), no one kicks me in the back.
For films where I like to be with rowdy friends - who yell at the screen in disbelief, etc, we can watch what we want, drink beers and booze.
I get what I want- I can watch what I want with as many people as I want. Okay, maybe streaming is not so great yet, but if I can buy a movie download before hand, it is just as good as a dvd I buy in the store.
Normal internet downloads, torrents and P2P are the distribution channels Hollywood have been trying to kill. As mentioned, production costs are reaching affordable levels for prosumers. Online distribution levels the playing field for artists wishing to access more than the festivals.
The question is whether studios realize that the battlefield for viewers is moving from the cinemas to the home.
Your are pointing to some sort of automated user preferences tracking and optimization for opening windows or filtering email. This still doesn't have much to do with AI in the OS, but more in the windows manager/desktop environment or individual applications.
AI in the OS might lead to a learning OS which optimizes and expands its own code base though. There needs to be a division between AI and (fuzzy)logic and were each of these components belong (OS or application).
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I'll invite him over for free sandwiches. He can even bring a homeless guy.
does he have to eat your sandwiches make or can he throw on some toppings of his own?
Thanks for being anal, by the way, it makes this place a bit more interesting. If you are correct (honestly, haven't checked), and hops have been banned in ales, banned at various in the past, quite a few ales do in fact have hops. I believe the main differentiator between lager beer and ale is the usage of bottom or top fermenting yeast and fermentation temperature.
...well not everyone uses plastic barrels and tubing http://bp2.blogger.com/_ptnXQueWpuI/SAz83HBwOMI/AAAAAAAAA60/fTKizPv78Sw/s320/IMG_5145.jpg Luckily I don't live in Alabama. No offense intended to Alabamians.
Hops were added for flavor, but also as a desinfectant/perservative. If you can imagine things from 1487 til the near present weren't especially sanitary. I suppose nowadays you can get away without adding hops. Most of what could spoil has been removed from the beer. As my home brewmeister says "It can't go bad, if it wasn't ever good! :)
Ryan
...living in Germany, as my home brew meister says, you can do lots of things wrong, but you almost always get beer, and its almost always better homebrewed. We are brewing from grain though, so I don't know how it is with extracts. Ryan
uh, you forgot one - slashdot posters ...
I have to agree. What are the real theaters/cinemas nowadays? My field of vision in my home is obstruction free (no heads), I watch on a large screen with better than cinema sound (no talking, no mobiles ringing), no one kicks me in the back. For films where I like to be with rowdy friends - who yell at the screen in disbelief, etc, we can watch what we want, drink beers and booze. I get what I want- I can watch what I want with as many people as I want. Okay, maybe streaming is not so great yet, but if I can buy a movie download before hand, it is just as good as a dvd I buy in the store. Normal internet downloads, torrents and P2P are the distribution channels Hollywood have been trying to kill. As mentioned, production costs are reaching affordable levels for prosumers. Online distribution levels the playing field for artists wishing to access more than the festivals. The question is whether studios realize that the battlefield for viewers is moving from the cinemas to the home.
Your are pointing to some sort of automated user preferences tracking and optimization for opening windows or filtering email. This still doesn't have much to do with AI in the OS, but more in the windows manager/desktop environment or individual applications. AI in the OS might lead to a learning OS which optimizes and expands its own code base though. There needs to be a division between AI and (fuzzy)logic and were each of these components belong (OS or application).
.....Oh, and only read email on the device in an opaque faraday cage, with a tinfoil hat.
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