HFCS is the product of processing the corn after it's been harvested. It is completely independent/orthogonal to the practices that were used to grow the corn.
You could certainly make HFCS out of organic corn.
Whether or not the organic HFCS could be used in any products marked organic for human consumption is another matter.
The Monsanto GMO seeds are engineered specifically to allow for overspraying of pesticides. That's why the are called "roundup ready". It doesn't take a PhD in chemistry to realize that it might not be wise to ESCALATE pesticide use. We already have historical examples of such chemicals running amok in the environment and putting animals on the endangered species list.
Never mind the fact that WE will end up eating this stuff.
There's more to video than just a limited subset of one codec and one container format. People can and do accumulate video from a variety of sources. Some people might even have "legacy" video data of their own.
I weak x86 can handle software decoding for formats that ARM appliances can't cope with at all.
Nothing beats a PC for versatility and flexibility. It's a device in control of the end users. People who build HTPC software are also people that use HTPC software. This reflects in the gap between appliances and PC software.
Even if you use a modern ARM appliance, chances are that you will need a big fat noisy power hungry PC in order to smooth over the limitation of the appliance. Chances are that you will be running some user developed software on the appliance as well.
> Belief for a layperson is not only sufficient, it is necessary.
A layperson doesn't even have to care.
So "belief" becomes completely and entirely irrelevant.
I don't have to "believe" anything I can't trust by seeing examples of the given principles in action. I don't have to care. There won't be any inquisition to punish me for disinterest or even heresy.
Fortuntely, fundies are restricted to specious arguments these days.
I could take or leave evolution or whatever it's current state is.
You simply cannot say that of a "creationist".
This is the key difference between science and religion. The former allows for the "universe to change" and no one's head will explode nor will anyone be burned at the stake.
> Those who oppose legal abortion-on-demand, believe that person-hood starts with conception, which is scientifically and logically, a very defensible position.
Those that oppose legal abortion on these grounds have no clue. They have no understanding of the terms Zygote, Embryo, and Fetus.
They are also likely to be frightened of what an actual early term fetus looks like.
Nobody needs cable for religious nut channels. They are some of the strongest channels being broadcast. It's rather frustrating really. The major networks you can't get but the fundie and spanish channels all come in 5 by 5.
Regardless. If I am searching on a something, it is likely that I will be interested in supporters, detractors, and alternatives. Others might feel the same way and bias the raw search results accordingly.
That's not even getting into what Google might want to do for it's own benefit.
Instead of having a comprehensive "kids" or "sports" or "movies" package you have these channels littered throughout several service levels so that you have to subscribe to a lot of stuff just to get what you want.
Premium movie channels are the same way.
If you really want everything that cable has to offer, that's going to be a bit absurd.
> how many of you are accessing this web site through a Docsis modem right now?
I'm using the same modem I was 6 years ago.
So you want to give my local physical monopoly a medal for stagnating? I still won't buy their TV product because of there blatant anti-consumer approach.
They totally act like they don't need to compete for my business despite the fact that I am actually using a competitor anywhere I can.
If my local phone monopoly were less lame, I would have dropped my cable monopoly at the first opportunity.
They aren't "the establishment".
They are monopolies that should be considered intolerable in a free and capitalist society.
No. TNG is pretty still irrelevant here. It's newer than many of the relevant FCC rule changes.
Beyond that, it was never a prime time network show. That makes it even LESS relevant when making comparisons between it and any other real network show. There was less of it to cut out because it was created under a different set of rules.
That made it even less relevant when talking about syndication.
You really couldn't pick a less relevant example to compare to the original Star Trek.
> I'm trying to find out if GIMP and others can pull images from these FF cameras, can they work with RAW....
You shouldn't need a special application to pull an image off of a camera. That part at least should not require any special tools other than the Finder.
> If your clients work on Windows and you can best interact with them using that OS, then use that OS.
It depends.
On the other hand, desktop machines are now powerful enough that you can run multiple virtualized copies of Windows and not break a sweat. If you get to choose your own hardware and manage your own environment, you will probably even be more productive.
I can't see the busybodies as being terribly relevant here. If they weren't boycotting EA over some gay character, then they would find some other excuse. Fundies are very good at that sort of thing.
Violence. Sex. Magic. Role Playing.
Any of these are enough to get the busybodies in a boycotting mood. These are the same people that like to burn D&D manuals.
> The show creators compensate for the shorter run time by eliminating the 1.5 minute intros and 0.5 minute credits that were common in the old days.
No they don't. They cut out scenes from the middle of the episode.
Bringing up TNG or DS9 here is really stupid red herring since these shows are already newer than most of the relevant FCC rule changes regarding commercials.
Those are shows from the 90s that have little relevance for shows from the 50s,60s,70s and even 80s.
Slashdot Mirror
HFCS is the product of processing the corn after it's been harvested. It is completely independent/orthogonal to the practices that were used to grow the corn.
You could certainly make HFCS out of organic corn.
Whether or not the organic HFCS could be used in any products marked organic for human consumption is another matter.
The Monsanto GMO seeds are engineered specifically to allow for overspraying of pesticides. That's why the are called "roundup ready". It doesn't take a PhD in chemistry to realize that it might not be wise to ESCALATE pesticide use. We already have historical examples of such chemicals running amok in the environment and putting animals on the endangered species list.
Never mind the fact that WE will end up eating this stuff.
Extra helping of poison with your soy flour?
What about everything else?
There's more to video than just a limited subset of one codec and one container format. People can and do accumulate video from a variety of sources. Some people might even have "legacy" video data of their own.
I weak x86 can handle software decoding for formats that ARM appliances can't cope with at all.
Nothing beats a PC for versatility and flexibility. It's a device in control of the end users. People who build HTPC software are also people that use HTPC software. This reflects in the gap between appliances and PC software.
Even if you use a modern ARM appliance, chances are that you will need a big fat noisy power hungry PC in order to smooth over the limitation of the appliance. Chances are that you will be running some user developed software on the appliance as well.
There's a good reason that everyone says XBMC.
> Belief for a layperson is not only sufficient, it is necessary.
A layperson doesn't even have to care.
So "belief" becomes completely and entirely irrelevant.
I don't have to "believe" anything I can't trust by seeing examples of the given principles in action. I don't have to care. There won't be any inquisition to punish me for disinterest or even heresy.
Fortuntely, fundies are restricted to specious arguments these days.
I could take or leave evolution or whatever it's current state is.
You simply cannot say that of a "creationist".
This is the key difference between science and religion. The former allows for the "universe to change" and no one's head will explode nor will anyone be burned at the stake.
> Those who oppose legal abortion-on-demand, believe that person-hood starts with conception, which is scientifically and logically, a very defensible position.
Those that oppose legal abortion on these grounds have no clue. They have no understanding of the terms Zygote, Embryo, and Fetus.
They are also likely to be frightened of what an actual early term fetus looks like.
Group #2 is obsolete anyways since they mainly comprise really old shows that can be bought on physical disc very cheaply.
Kill off Group#2 channels and people can BUY the relevant shows and still come out ahead.
If I could pay $10 per channel for the ones I really want, I would probably still come out ahead.$5 per channel would be a total bargain.
OTOH, I know exactly what I watch. I can just query the database in the center of my PVR.
Cost more? Nonsense.
I could already dump cable now and pay less if only the streaming services carried enough content. That's pay per view prices.
You're just engaging in mindless pro-corporate fear mongering.
> Discovery, Syfy, etc would go away or refocus more on catering the lowest common denominator
Where have you been exactly?
That already happened.
The "tyranny of the majority" is already in full effect.
Nobody needs cable for religious nut channels. They are some of the strongest channels being broadcast. It's rather frustrating really. The major networks you can't get but the fundie and spanish channels all come in 5 by 5.
Compiz is fairly worthless when compared to more advanced video driver features and the ability to remain interoperable with other Unixen.
If I wanted MacOS, I would dust of my Mac and switch it on.
Regardless. If I am searching on a something, it is likely that I will be interested in supporters, detractors, and alternatives. Others might feel the same way and bias the raw search results accordingly.
That's not even getting into what Google might want to do for it's own benefit.
Even "basic" channels are based on tiers.
Instead of having a comprehensive "kids" or "sports" or "movies" package you have these channels littered throughout several service levels so that you have to subscribe to a lot of stuff just to get what you want.
Premium movie channels are the same way.
If you really want everything that cable has to offer, that's going to be a bit absurd.
> how many of you are accessing this web site through a Docsis modem right now?
I'm using the same modem I was 6 years ago.
So you want to give my local physical monopoly a medal for stagnating? I still won't buy their TV product because of there blatant anti-consumer approach.
They totally act like they don't need to compete for my business despite the fact that I am actually using a competitor anywhere I can.
If my local phone monopoly were less lame, I would have dropped my cable monopoly at the first opportunity.
They aren't "the establishment".
They are monopolies that should be considered intolerable in a free and capitalist society.
> Can anyone spare a netbook for an eight year old?
That's exactly what out-of-date hand-me-down hardware is for.
> What I meant was that almost no one is willing to take the time to learn everything a PC can do
You're basically arguing that no one is capable of using PCs.
I could just as easily be talking about using multiple monitors or a flatbed scanner here.
No. TNG is pretty still irrelevant here. It's newer than many of the relevant FCC rule changes.
Beyond that, it was never a prime time network show. That makes it even LESS relevant when making comparisons between it and any other real network show. There was less of it to cut out because it was created under a different set of rules.
That made it even less relevant when talking about syndication.
You really couldn't pick a less relevant example to compare to the original Star Trek.
> I'm trying to find out if GIMP and others can pull images from these FF cameras, can they work with RAW....
You shouldn't need a special application to pull an image off of a camera. That part at least should not require any special tools other than the Finder.
> You know that UAC thing people who use Windows like to complain about?
That would be the same UAC that was so annoying that people turned it off entirely. Some software vendors even recommended that you turn it off.
Using a platform because of it's "legacy application" support can be a double edged sword.
> If your clients work on Windows and you can best interact with them using that OS, then use that OS.
It depends.
On the other hand, desktop machines are now powerful enough that you can run multiple virtualized copies of Windows and not break a sweat. If you get to choose your own hardware and manage your own environment, you will probably even be more productive.
I can't see the busybodies as being terribly relevant here. If they weren't boycotting EA over some gay character, then they would find some other excuse. Fundies are very good at that sort of thing.
Violence. Sex. Magic. Role Playing.
Any of these are enough to get the busybodies in a boycotting mood. These are the same people that like to burn D&D manuals.
> The compression used for digital TV broadcast doesn't make sense over the internet.
Neither does Unicast TV in any form really.
You end up with the sort of extreme compromises implied by my original observations regarding BluRays and pristine network feeds.
> The show creators compensate for the shorter run time by eliminating the 1.5 minute intros and 0.5 minute credits that were common in the old days.
No they don't. They cut out scenes from the middle of the episode.
Bringing up TNG or DS9 here is really stupid red herring since these shows are already newer than most of the relevant FCC rule changes regarding commercials.
Those are shows from the 90s that have little relevance for shows from the 50s,60s,70s and even 80s.