The Canola plant is a derivative of the Rapeseed plant. Rapeseed plants (the original source of canola oil) have high levels erucic acid, which is toxic in large amounts.
Erucic acid is not toxic. That's bunk science. Mustard oil is 42% erucic acid and it has been regularly consumed by Asian cultures for a long, long time with no ill effects.
"The effects of erucic acid from edible oils on human health are controversial. However no negative health effects have ever been documented in humans." from Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_oil
Erucic acid in food : A Toxicological Review and Risk Assessment . Technical report series No. 21; Page 4 paragraph 1
It's especially entertaining to hear friends whine that their music is all over p2p and then justify the thousands of dollars of pirated music software, effects plugins, and sound libraries on their PC's. They all have gigs of pirated music and movies as well. Gotta love humans!
There are sites like that. http://www.twitgrids.com/ sorts tweets into topics and filters out the crap (spam, self promotion, fake blogs, linkbait, etc.)
Also, the entire world does not live near a Microcenter.
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Pulseaudio has be perfect on Ubuntu Lucid. I'm as amazed any anyone. It was a total disaster for the longest time and then all of a sudden no more issues.
What about the rights of the person who created the ART of your event?
What about all of the code that I've created for my employers over the years? My programs are creative works and much of it is aesthetically beautiful. Where are my artists rights for that? Do I have rights over what my employers do with my CODE ART?
Works for hire are works for hire whether they're photos, poems, code, or plumping.
I'm not generally a big fan of eminent domain but I would like to see it used in this case to strip away whatever ownership this self important asshole is claiming.
It's interesting because Twitter is one of the Big Guys and it's cool to know what the Big Guys are up to. Also, a lot of us maintain Twitter based websites and/or apps.
I believe the point is the fact that they lied about the leak in the first place. Sure, this time it might be something like tritium, but whose to say at some later date it's not something worse? Why should anyone believe anything they say about the safety of their plant(s) if they're willing to lie under oath about something this minor?
Upper level management types are mostly all lying snakes. That's probably true across all industries. Does that mean that society should give up and not build/manufacture/do anything?
Typical feminist hypocrisy on **anything** that might appeal to heterosexual male sexuality, but that doesn't involve a "by your leave, your majesty" from a woman! It's ok for a woman to masturbate, use toys and sleep around. That's "empowering." A man does anything like that and he's "degrading women."
Apparently you didn't get the memo. All straight men are rapists and thus bad people.
I was actually taught that in my Freshmen Writing class at Carnegie Mellon University. The content of said "writing" class was in reality "gender studies" but no one seemed to care.
No instructor could ever get away with teaching intermediate Spanish instead of chip layout in a semiconductor design class...
You can insulate yourself from App Engine lock-in by developing your app for Django, which is then portable to a standard server if App Engine turns out to be a problem.
Frameworks suck a lot of performance out of Google AppEngine. The best way to code for GAE is learn Datastore, Memcache, and WSGI. That's the bare metal of GAE** and you'll get seriously better performance if you code intelligently to that versus Django, Pylons, Rails, etc. The ORM is what really kills you. Datastore is not a traditional relational database. You can pretend that it is but the performance penalties will kill you.
I did recently drop AE for one of my projects because their urlfetch service was returning odd results, and database operations were failing multiple times per day.
Datastore operations fail as a matter of design. You are expected to code such that their failure doesn't cripple your app. It's one of the concessions made to make it possible to have a geographically diverse, distributed, redundant, fault-tolerant data storage system. This falls under the "Datastore is not a traditional relational database thing..."
** Actually, you can make lower level RPCs into the infrastructure by looking through the source for the SDK but it's not going to get you better performance in general.
Be somewhat realistic. Not even Google provides unlimited storage space for their services.
Actually, Google's AppEngine does offer essentially unlimited disk, bandwidth, and processing power if you're willing to pay for it. The site in my sig can easily serve Slashdot sized traffic and then some. A properly coded AppEngine site actually gets faster the more traffic you get. More of your data is available in memcache vs datastore and the processing bit is spun up on more boxes.
That's not even getting into the global, private network your app is served through. It's something to behold. All of your data travels over big fat private pipes until it's at a Google datacanter that's ~1 hop from the user. You know how fast www.google.com loads? That's how fast your site will load no matter where the user is located, North America, Australia, Europe, Asia. It's kick ass.
The more technically inclined European users all think my site is hosted in Europe. The truth is I have no idea "where" my site is hosted. Is it hosted everywhere or nowhere? Very Zen.
Traditional hosting is dead to me (and I love it!).
I see a lot of posts suggesting that he start writing real programs. That's good advice, but it might not answer the question. The submitter says he works as a security guard. As such, sitting focused at a laptop writing code might not be an option.
Are you kidding me? It is possible to write programs without a laptop or any computer at all. I used to do it when I was bored in Middle School which was 98% of the time. All you need is your brain, some notebooks, and a bunch of pencils.
First, think about the overall design of the program. Sketch out the general structure using pictures, flowcharts, pseudocode, English, whatever. Figure out the data structures and algorithms needed. "Code" from the top down. When you get to interesting or challenging methods write them out in detail. For the others you can write the signature and a description of what they do, just like Javadoc.
When you're "done" analyze the design as a whole. Think about what you could do better. Maybe redesign it a different way.
A few hundred hours of this will make you a far better designer than if you had jumped right in writing code on a computer.
If you get married without one you could be condemning yourself to a life of slavery and/or misery far worse than you can possibly imagine.
She's the love of your life and you can't imagine living without her? Well people change and shit happens. Such is life. About 40% of all marriages end in divorce in the US. Don't think it can be everyone else but you. Fatal mistake...
The only reason the loyalty was misplaced was because the CEO screwed them. Had he honored their commitment and worked as hard as possible to save the company and then paid them back dues + bonus/stock their loyalty would have been dead on. Unfortunately they worked for a douchebag. I'm the first person to have no loyalty for a large mega corp but small shops require it. We can't function without the employees giving a damn about the company and the company can't function without giving a damn about their employees.
But how do they know the CEO is a good guy? What is he's a psychopath and the poor worker bee have no hope of discovering in time?
Also, you don't need the CEO to be a bad guy for him to do shitty stuff. Even good people end up looking out for themselves and their immediate families in the end. If it's balls to the walls does Mr. Good and Honorable CEO put a priority on taking care of his worker bees or assuring that he can continue to provide food and shelter for his wife and kids? Human nature and personal experience tells me it will be the latter.
Designing and or building something does not make you an engineer! Is the guy at Quiznos as sandwich engineer because be designs sandwiches? Are you an engineer because you design computer programs? See the similarity?
For the most part CS people have no idea what they're missing versus someone with a real engineering degree. I took classes in both Computer Science and Computer Engineering in college. The CS department was in the College of Sciences. The Computer Engineering department was in the College of Engineering. The two colleges (and their associate programs) could not have been more different. The CS program felt very much like Math or Physics. The CE program felt like EE or MechE. This is not a subtle thing...the differences permeate the students' education from day one!
This is completely backwards. It is hard drives which fail without warning.
I hate to break it to you but SSDs also fail without warning and go completely dead. Visit the PC Enthusiast forums and do some searches. 100% dead SSDs are very common despite their short time in the market. It's scary how many of these things are going belly up after only months of use.
Platter based disks and SSDs both have big complex controller boards and those controllers are subject to failure. The only thing you're missing with SSDs is the risk of mechanical failure. If a platter based disk is treated properly through it's lifetime there is little risk of mechanical failure until it is quite old.
I was going to grab a few 30GB SSDs when they dropped south of $100 but the failure rate has caused me to put my plans on hold. I'm going with 500GB per platter mechanicals for the time being. RAID a couple and you have sequential rates in the ballpark of the affordable SSDs.
Up to about 2001-2002 I was a legitimate consumer, but when the trend of shafting legitimate consumers became the industry standards, I went 100% piracy.
My entire entertainment system is a lean, mean, swashbuckling, pirating machine. There is no hole in which to insert a physical media; why would I need a DVD or Blu-ray source, since I have no intention of buying any discs? DVD player went to the dump with my VHS.
Now my country does levy a blank CD tax...Oh yeah, I never buy any blank discs because EVERYTHING is on Hard drives or flash cards.
I'm laughing man, because I am so not legit.
Ok, queue up the haters, I don't give a shit what any of you think.
I have a close friend who did exactly the same thing. People keep asking him when he's going to get a bluray drive for his PC, "But they're only $60 now!" He just laughs...
I've never heard a native born American use the word "beer" as the plural form. When your average American is asked "How many beers did you drink?" they reply with the number of cans/bottle/glasses/etc not the number of distinct beer recipes they sampled that night. If buddy has consumed six bottles of Miller High Life and nothing else he will answer the question "How many beers did you drink?" with the reply "Six!" No normal American answers "One."
It is possible to get movie theater space on an airplane today. It's called first class and/or business class. What the hell is Kevin Smith doing in coach anyway?
Limewire!?!! You are not doing anyone a favor by installing Limewire. You might as well dump a load of viruses and trojans on their machine while you're at it. Also, send their name and address to the RIAA along with a list of files downloaded.
Have some mercy! Set the girl up on a good private BT tracker with a decent BT-only client.
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The Canola plant is a derivative of the Rapeseed plant. Rapeseed plants (the original source of canola oil) have high levels erucic acid, which is toxic in large amounts.
Erucic acid is not toxic. That's bunk science. Mustard oil is 42% erucic acid and it has been regularly consumed by Asian cultures for a long, long time with no ill effects.
"The effects of erucic acid from edible oils on human health are controversial. However no negative health effects have ever been documented in humans." from Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_oil
Erucic acid in food : A Toxicological Review and Risk Assessment . Technical report series No. 21; Page 4 paragraph 1
http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/_srcfiles/Erucic%20acid%20monograph.pdf
When you need a 3rd party download from CPAN to do objects right there is something wrong with your language.
with 2TB hard disks going for $99.
Link please.
It's especially entertaining to hear friends whine that their music is all over p2p and then justify the thousands of dollars of pirated music software, effects plugins, and sound libraries on their PC's. They all have gigs of pirated music and movies as well. Gotta love humans!
There are sites like that. http://www.twitgrids.com/ sorts tweets into topics and filters out the crap (spam, self promotion, fake blogs, linkbait, etc.)
-1, Poor Language Skills
The word you were looking for is moot not mute.
Also, the entire world does not live near a Microcenter.
Pulseaudio has be perfect on Ubuntu Lucid. I'm as amazed any anyone. It was a total disaster for the longest time and then all of a sudden no more issues.
What about the rights of the person who created the ART of your event?
What about all of the code that I've created for my employers over the years? My programs are creative works and much of it is aesthetically beautiful. Where are my artists rights for that? Do I have rights over what my employers do with my CODE ART?
Works for hire are works for hire whether they're photos, poems, code, or plumping.
I'm not generally a big fan of eminent domain but I would like to see it used in this case to strip away whatever ownership this self important asshole is claiming.
It's interesting because Twitter is one of the Big Guys and it's cool to know what the Big Guys are up to. Also, a lot of us maintain Twitter based websites and/or apps.
I believe the point is the fact that they lied about the leak in the first place. Sure, this time it might be something like tritium, but whose to say at some later date it's not something worse? Why should anyone believe anything they say about the safety of their plant(s) if they're willing to lie under oath about something this minor?
Upper level management types are mostly all lying snakes. That's probably true across all industries. Does that mean that society should give up and not build/manufacture/do anything?
Typical feminist hypocrisy on **anything** that might appeal to heterosexual male sexuality, but that doesn't involve a "by your leave, your majesty" from a woman! It's ok for a woman to masturbate, use toys and sleep around. That's "empowering." A man does anything like that and he's "degrading women."
Apparently you didn't get the memo. All straight men are rapists and thus bad people.
I was actually taught that in my Freshmen Writing class at Carnegie Mellon University. The content of said "writing" class was in reality "gender studies" but no one seemed to care.
No instructor could ever get away with teaching intermediate Spanish instead of chip layout in a semiconductor design class...
You can insulate yourself from App Engine lock-in by developing your app for Django, which is then portable to a standard server if App Engine turns out to be a problem.
Frameworks suck a lot of performance out of Google AppEngine. The best way to code for GAE is learn Datastore, Memcache, and WSGI. That's the bare metal of GAE** and you'll get seriously better performance if you code intelligently to that versus Django, Pylons, Rails, etc. The ORM is what really kills you. Datastore is not a traditional relational database. You can pretend that it is but the performance penalties will kill you.
I did recently drop AE for one of my projects because their urlfetch service was returning odd results, and database operations were failing multiple times per day.
Datastore operations fail as a matter of design. You are expected to code such that their failure doesn't cripple your app. It's one of the concessions made to make it possible to have a geographically diverse, distributed, redundant, fault-tolerant data storage system. This falls under the "Datastore is not a traditional relational database thing..."
** Actually, you can make lower level RPCs into the infrastructure by looking through the source for the SDK but it's not going to get you better performance in general.
The production site in my sig runs entirely on AppEngine.
Be somewhat realistic. Not even Google provides unlimited storage space for their services.
Actually, Google's AppEngine does offer essentially unlimited disk, bandwidth, and processing power if you're willing to pay for it. The site in my sig can easily serve Slashdot sized traffic and then some. A properly coded AppEngine site actually gets faster the more traffic you get. More of your data is available in memcache vs datastore and the processing bit is spun up on more boxes.
That's not even getting into the global, private network your app is served through. It's something to behold. All of your data travels over big fat private pipes until it's at a Google datacanter that's ~1 hop from the user. You know how fast www.google.com loads? That's how fast your site will load no matter where the user is located, North America, Australia, Europe, Asia. It's kick ass.
The more technically inclined European users all think my site is hosted in Europe. The truth is I have no idea "where" my site is hosted. Is it hosted everywhere or nowhere? Very Zen.
Traditional hosting is dead to me (and I love it!).
I see a lot of posts suggesting that he start writing real programs. That's good advice, but it might not answer the question. The submitter says he works as a security guard. As such, sitting focused at a laptop writing code might not be an option.
Are you kidding me? It is possible to write programs without a laptop or any computer at all. I used to do it when I was bored in Middle School which was 98% of the time. All you need is your brain, some notebooks, and a bunch of pencils.
First, think about the overall design of the program. Sketch out the general structure using pictures, flowcharts, pseudocode, English, whatever. Figure out the data structures and algorithms needed. "Code" from the top down. When you get to interesting or challenging methods write them out in detail. For the others you can write the signature and a description of what they do, just like Javadoc.
When you're "done" analyze the design as a whole. Think about what you could do better. Maybe redesign it a different way.
A few hundred hours of this will make you a far better designer than if you had jumped right in writing code on a computer.
ATTENTION UNMARRIED 20 SOMETHINGS!!!
This is why a prenuptial agreement is a must!
If you get married without one you could be condemning yourself to a life of slavery and/or misery far worse than you can possibly imagine.
She's the love of your life and you can't imagine living without her? Well people change and shit happens. Such is life. About 40% of all marriages end in divorce in the US. Don't think it can be everyone else but you. Fatal mistake...
The only reason the loyalty was misplaced was because the CEO screwed them. Had he honored their commitment and worked as hard as possible to save the company and then paid them back dues + bonus/stock their loyalty would have been dead on. Unfortunately they worked for a douchebag. I'm the first person to have no loyalty for a large mega corp but small shops require it. We can't function without the employees giving a damn about the company and the company can't function without giving a damn about their employees.
But how do they know the CEO is a good guy? What is he's a psychopath and the poor worker bee have no hope of discovering in time?
Also, you don't need the CEO to be a bad guy for him to do shitty stuff. Even good people end up looking out for themselves and their immediate families in the end. If it's balls to the walls does Mr. Good and Honorable CEO put a priority on taking care of his worker bees or assuring that he can continue to provide food and shelter for his wife and kids? Human nature and personal experience tells me it will be the latter.
Designing and or building something does not make you an engineer! Is the guy at Quiznos as sandwich engineer because be designs sandwiches? Are you an engineer because you design computer programs? See the similarity?
For the most part CS people have no idea what they're missing versus someone with a real engineering degree. I took classes in both Computer Science and Computer Engineering in college. The CS department was in the College of Sciences. The Computer Engineering department was in the College of Engineering. The two colleges (and their associate programs) could not have been more different. The CS program felt very much like Math or Physics. The CE program felt like EE or MechE. This is not a subtle thing...the differences permeate the students' education from day one!
This is completely backwards. It is hard drives which fail without warning.
I hate to break it to you but SSDs also fail without warning and go completely dead. Visit the PC Enthusiast forums and do some searches. 100% dead SSDs are very common despite their short time in the market. It's scary how many of these things are going belly up after only months of use.
Platter based disks and SSDs both have big complex controller boards and those controllers are subject to failure. The only thing you're missing with SSDs is the risk of mechanical failure. If a platter based disk is treated properly through it's lifetime there is little risk of mechanical failure until it is quite old.
I was going to grab a few 30GB SSDs when they dropped south of $100 but the failure rate has caused me to put my plans on hold. I'm going with 500GB per platter mechanicals for the time being. RAID a couple and you have sequential rates in the ballpark of the affordable SSDs.
My phone is only a phone and I like it that way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ATTtelephone-large.jpg
Up to about 2001-2002 I was a legitimate consumer, but when the trend of shafting legitimate consumers became the industry standards, I went 100% piracy. My entire entertainment system is a lean, mean, swashbuckling, pirating machine. There is no hole in which to insert a physical media; why would I need a DVD or Blu-ray source, since I have no intention of buying any discs? DVD player went to the dump with my VHS.
Now my country does levy a blank CD tax...Oh yeah, I never buy any blank discs because EVERYTHING is on Hard drives or flash cards. I'm laughing man, because I am so not legit.
Ok, queue up the haters, I don't give a shit what any of you think.
I have a close friend who did exactly the same thing. People keep asking him when he's going to get a bluray drive for his PC, "But they're only $60 now!" He just laughs...
and have a few beer
I've never heard a native born American use the word "beer" as the plural form. When your average American is asked "How many beers did you drink?" they reply with the number of cans/bottle/glasses/etc not the number of distinct beer recipes they sampled that night. If buddy has consumed six bottles of Miller High Life and nothing else he will answer the question "How many beers did you drink?" with the reply "Six!" No normal American answers "One."
It is possible to get movie theater space on an airplane today. It's called first class and/or business class. What the hell is Kevin Smith doing in coach anyway?
It's not 1920 anymore. There are 2.4 Ghz antennas that are the same size as a grain of Basmati rice.
Example: 2.2mm x 6.5mm 2.4GHz Ceramic Chip Antenna
Limewire!?!! You are not doing anyone a favor by installing Limewire. You might as well dump a load of viruses and trojans on their machine while you're at it. Also, send their name and address to the RIAA along with a list of files downloaded.
Have some mercy! Set the girl up on a good private BT tracker with a decent BT-only client.