My grandma officially can use the Eee PC Xandros OS after trying for months and failing to feel like she could do anything in OSX. Now my parents have a spare rather new Macbook of some sort...hmm...
In other words, you'll burn more kilojoules at rest.
This is a myth that's been going around for quite some time. A more heavily muscled person doesn't burn any more calories at rest. The person can burn more calories while exercising due to the ability to lift/carry/etc against more resistance, thus using more energy, but there's absolutely no basis for claiming that a well muscled person burns more calories when sitting on the couch.
The simple truth is that Ted Stevens has been sent back repeatedly because he is effective at ensuring that Alaskans get overrun as little as possible by the Will of the People (who live SOMEWHERE ELSE), and that when they must bow to the Will of the People From Somewhere Else, that those peolpe pay mightily for the privilege. Ted Stevens has never pretended to have any other mission in the Senate, in fact.
Dear old Ted has been an Alaskan senator for a long time, during which Federal control over Alaska has escalated. He's good at telling you he fights for Alaskan autonomy, not actually doing it.
Incidentally: most of the charges in this case are bullshit, as anybody who thinks about it for a minute can tell you; in a state that is "sparsely populated", exactly how many choices of company do you have for things like home construction? Very few. Who benefits from legislation? Likewise very few people. There are not that many people in these circles; it's difficult to avoid "benefiting" one of them.
The charges revolve around Ted getting tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of goods and services for free. Is that normal? Does that sound legal to you?
Incidentally, I live in another state where people from the rest of the country are called "outsiders," and I've come to find that use of the term correlates very strongly to an inability to see things from other perspectives and think flexibly. The more you recognize that you live in a small part of a large continuum of geographical and cultural diversity, the less you'll fall into the sad trap of dividing the world into Us and Them.
A First World country is one that supports capitalism and the western world against the Soviet Union and its allies. So yeah, we're a semi-First World country now, since there's no Soviet Union to oppose.
"The tickets could be parceled out from a production company which gets a lot of say, ten of them. "
So they have no idea who is actually going to show up, thus negating their whole 'security' argument.
Yeah, the security argument looks like it's just an excuse in that case. Perhaps they just don't like people getting tickets without connections to the entertainment elite.
Never in my life have I encountered a serious situation where the system favors girls or women over me. Not in school, not in business, not in anything beyond women getting to order first in restaurants. While girls have very slightly higher average scores in grade school and a slight majority when it comes to overall university attendance, the "advantage" is both very small and in my opinion caused by the fact that most girl-focused subcultures are more compatible with academics than are those focused around boys.
I think that any blame in this imbalance has to fall on anti-intellectualism among boys.
Yeah, real equal. Women average better than men in most school subjects and more women than men go to university. There are loads of female dominated jobs and academic subjects, yet no affirmative action for us. When women want to work a 25 hr week in a career that's "rewarding", the feminists complain that women average lower salaries.
That's feminism: When men are doing better at something "Men and women are equals, the men must have had an unfair advantage!". When women are doing better, "Men and women have different brains and are good at different things!"
When will the geek community use their intelligence and realise when that they're being shafted?
It's sad that the woman died, but it really sounds to me like it's the result of her own poor decisions. She was the one driving the car. She was the one that made the choice to aid in his escape. Had she not made that poor choice, she'd be alive.
You must realize, though, that her "punishment" for helping him escape was far beyond the scope of her crime. I seriously doubt she could have possibly expected her husband to kill her and her child.
it still ends with the villain accomplishing his nefarious goal, in spite of studio pressure.
Awesome! Hopefully the ambiguity about whether or not he's a villain is still present. It would be pretty cool to have real Americans actually talk about moral relativism in response to a flashy movie. Batman may have just prompted some of that, but it's the kids' version compared to the Watchmen comic.
You don't think Google/Yahoo/etc can record your OpenID use it to connect your identity between sites? You realize that Brad Fitzpatrick created OpenID, right?
Seriously...with the internet being such a dangerous place for the average user. How in the freaking hell is a single sign on going to make it better? I mean really now this seems monumentally stupid.
The only purpose of the OpenID system is to help advertisers and the like track you more accurately. This was never meant to help users. As such, it's not the kind of thing that most Slashdot users will be ignorant enough to use, but it's our job to make sure all of our less informed acquaintances know not to sign up for this Big Brother tracking.
At least it isn't as bad as it was during the Depression. They made owning gold ILLEGAL back then. What a crock.
That ban was unconstitutional, of course. Not that that's stopped the federal government from doing whatever the hell they wanted since the Lincoln administration.
If you'd seen The Dark Knight, you'd have seen this trailer.
Not yesterday in the theater I visited in the midwest.
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Oh, certainly. I've read plenty of the very good Batman comics. I meant that the cadence of his voice and the way he moved made me think he had watched and listened to the animated Hammill Joker.
Well, kinda...
Ledger's Joker is based more on the comic series which always had the Joker as more of a psychotic than a jokester. Perhaps it was the Adam West series's softening of the character that gave the Joker that impression in the general public. In the 70's when the Joker became even a bit more grittier, and through the Dark Knight and similar gn's, the "darkening" of the Batman universe came to influence Dini, etc. in how they developed the character for TAS, though a bit softer still since it was a kids show.
Ledger's version is easily the closest to the original Joker concept of a true psychotic criminal, one who not only revels in his own altered version of the world, but finds the humor in the differences of what is considered our normal and what he considers normal, and uses that humor as part of his villainy. Nicholson's Joker, while following closely to The Killing Joke origin of the Joker (and in my mind a weak cause for the level of the Joker's psychosis as required for the original character), was more along the lines of the 50's and 60's prankster Joker.
Either way, it will take a lot to find another actor who can come close to bringing the Joker to life in the same way Ledger did.
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Ledger's Joker seems to have been based on Mark Hammill's Joker in the edgier of the animated episodes/movies.
You don't seem to know much about the modern Olympics. They're entirely a political. The sports are literally an excuse for an international gathering, and the Olympic committee specifically states that their primary goals in selecting locations are all political. This isn't a bad thing, but it means you should keep in mind that the sports have always been just an excuse, nothing more.
Actually, the one thing I find more interesting than anything else, is the amount of political activism from people who usually aren't involved in politics. This is the first time the Olympics has been so closely related to politics, whether it's the world's economic markets, the Tibetan question, the Falun Gong, the freedom of press, pollution, hydroelectric dams, minority rights, the value of the Yuan, the students sent to "spy" on the West, the practice of eating dogs in Beijing restaurants, the policing of the internet, or something else.
This is the first time in history where basically NONE of the news regarding Olympics has actually been about the Olympics themselves, but rather about how the host country is evil. Admittedly, many of these issues are real issues that need to be dealt with, but the ferocity with which the international press is attacking everything related to Olympics right now is probably unheard of in history -- I don't even know is the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany Olympics faced such an onslaught from media and citizens alike.
What I'm really interested in seeing is how many of these issues will continue to be relevant as soon as the Olympics moves to a different country with exactly the same problems, like, say, Russia. This will show whether this is the result of the rising political consciousness worldwide, or simply a display of international power struggle and political pressure.
How many people will attack the Russian Olympic torch demanding freedom for Chechnya? Will the German government put the Chechen flag on the parliament building while the torch is passing through Berlin? Will the pollution in Moscow make bigger headlines than the athletes themselves? Will we read about the assassinations of journalists or attacks against minorities in every bigger Russian city?
If the whole world sees American athletes dressed up with goofy masks, they will see the USA as a bunch of sissies, especially if the Chinese -don't-.
I just spent some time in Bavaria, where I kept running into 100+ groups of Chinese tourists. In the beautiful, perfectly clear air of the Bavarian countryside, nearly everyone, from the 10 year old kids to the 70 year old adults, wore breathing masks.
A number of our observations (including an accelerating universe) fit within that model.
Only on the thought experiment level. Cosmologists aren't blissfully unaware of such theories. Rather, these theories don't fit ALL of the data. Yes, the big bang may be a big misconception, but it's currently the best supported theory.
I'd expect to see extrapolations to realistic distances before you start to claim things like "Making a video of Earth from so far away helps the search for other life-bearing planets in the Universe". - that's a bold claim, after all.
That's not a remotely bold claim. Variations in brightness and spectrum from the sun glint and the Moon's transit of Earth should be similar to that seen any virtually any distance. I think that the article's scope went over your head a bit - it's assumed that the reader understands that any extra-solar planets in an image will be contained in a single pixel.
Why not a huge granite sculture of a human skull with thee eye sockets?
One of the official goals of the Yucca Mountain warning project is to prevent extra-terrestrials from accidental exposure (seriously). I don't think three eye sockets would necessarily mean much in that case.
The few dozen Mac users I've known over the years (those who repeatedly buy Macs, not just one before switching to something else) are all either grandparents or students who share one trait: lack of computer savvy. If you don't know what you're doing but want to be able to send email, a Mac is a common choice.
Hard to tell, but it's good to see that normal people (not just us geeks) are choosing to go with a different OS
Most of the Mac owners I know are normal people. Either students that got an imac laptop from their school, older people who wanted an easy to use computer, or an artist (musician, photographer, graphic designer, etc.) who wanted a powerful machine that wouldn't get infected with a ton of spyware and viruses in a week.
None of the Mac owners I know (besides myself) are very tech savvy, they just know that their iPod works great, their PC is always infected with "viruses" (usually some spyware they installed cause it promised free smileys), and their friend's Mac never has any problems. Personally I didn't buy a Mac just for a different OS. If I want to toy around in something other than Windows, I just go install Linux on whatever old computers are lying around the house. I bought the Mac specifically for Aperture, and Final Cut Pro since I do a lot of photography and video work. I know there exists open source software or expensive Windows software to do that stuff, it's just none of it is as powerful or easy to use as the Mac versions. I don't need Mac OS to have a stable computer, I just like the software that exists for the Mac.
It's got a whole new set of user interface controls that are unarguably worse than what they replaced, and you can't go back. There's no "go back to menus" option: you can bring them back, sort of, in some applications... but not all.
I'm not sure what you mean. You can run a UI that's pretty much identical to XP if you want, though to do so you'll need to dedicate about 5 minutes to internet searches to find the free tools to do things like restoring normal menus and the XP style buttons (like the navigate up one directory button). I installed Vista a couple months ago, set it up to work like Win2k in about 20 minutes, and since then I've slowly been relaxing some of my objections to new UI elements.
Like XP, Vista by default has some different UI elements when compared to the previous Windows release. I'm finding that some of the Vista changes, unlike XP's, are actually worth using (the breadcrumbs thing is actually not bad, while the "common tasks" crap in XP never was worthwhile).
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My grandma officially can use the Eee PC Xandros OS after trying for months and failing to feel like she could do anything in OSX. Now my parents have a spare rather new Macbook of some sort...hmm...
If you're in it for the calories, you might as well jog(which burns 286 calories per half hour) as opposed to sex(which burns 173 per half hour).
That's not very impressive sex.
In other words, you'll burn more kilojoules at rest.
This is a myth that's been going around for quite some time. A more heavily muscled person doesn't burn any more calories at rest. The person can burn more calories while exercising due to the ability to lift/carry/etc against more resistance, thus using more energy, but there's absolutely no basis for claiming that a well muscled person burns more calories when sitting on the couch.
The simple truth is that Ted Stevens has been sent back repeatedly because he is effective at ensuring that Alaskans get overrun as little as possible by the Will of the People (who live SOMEWHERE ELSE), and that when they must bow to the Will of the People From Somewhere Else, that those peolpe pay mightily for the privilege. Ted Stevens has never pretended to have any other mission in the Senate, in fact.
Dear old Ted has been an Alaskan senator for a long time, during which Federal control over Alaska has escalated. He's good at telling you he fights for Alaskan autonomy, not actually doing it.
Incidentally: most of the charges in this case are bullshit, as anybody who thinks about it for a minute can tell you; in a state that is "sparsely populated", exactly how many choices of company do you have for things like home construction? Very few. Who benefits from legislation? Likewise very few people. There are not that many people in these circles; it's difficult to avoid "benefiting" one of them.
The charges revolve around Ted getting tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of goods and services for free. Is that normal? Does that sound legal to you?
Incidentally, I live in another state where people from the rest of the country are called "outsiders," and I've come to find that use of the term correlates very strongly to an inability to see things from other perspectives and think flexibly. The more you recognize that you live in a small part of a large continuum of geographical and cultural diversity, the less you'll fall into the sad trap of dividing the world into Us and Them.
A First World country is one that supports capitalism and the western world against the Soviet Union and its allies. So yeah, we're a semi-First World country now, since there's no Soviet Union to oppose.
"The tickets could be parceled out from a production company which gets a lot of say, ten of them. "
So they have no idea who is actually going to show up, thus negating their whole 'security' argument.
Yeah, the security argument looks like it's just an excuse in that case. Perhaps they just don't like people getting tickets without connections to the entertainment elite.
Never in my life have I encountered a serious situation where the system favors girls or women over me. Not in school, not in business, not in anything beyond women getting to order first in restaurants. While girls have very slightly higher average scores in grade school and a slight majority when it comes to overall university attendance, the "advantage" is both very small and in my opinion caused by the fact that most girl-focused subcultures are more compatible with academics than are those focused around boys.
I think that any blame in this imbalance has to fall on anti-intellectualism among boys.
Yeah, real equal. Women average better than men in most school subjects and more women than men go to university. There are loads of female dominated jobs and academic subjects, yet no affirmative action for us. When women want to work a 25 hr week in a career that's "rewarding", the feminists complain that women average lower salaries.
That's feminism: When men are doing better at something "Men and women are equals, the men must have had an unfair advantage!". When women are doing better, "Men and women have different brains and are good at different things!"
When will the geek community use their intelligence and realise when that they're being shafted?
It's sad that the woman died, but it really sounds to me like it's the result of her own poor decisions. She was the one driving the car. She was the one that made the choice to aid in his escape. Had she not made that poor choice, she'd be alive.
You must realize, though, that her "punishment" for helping him escape was far beyond the scope of her crime. I seriously doubt she could have possibly expected her husband to kill her and her child.
Oh, right. Nevermind.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these thing! Oh, right. Nevermind.
it still ends with the villain accomplishing his nefarious goal, in spite of studio pressure.
Awesome! Hopefully the ambiguity about whether or not he's a villain is still present. It would be pretty cool to have real Americans actually talk about moral relativism in response to a flashy movie. Batman may have just prompted some of that, but it's the kids' version compared to the Watchmen comic.
females carry cell phones in their handbags while males have no choice but putting it in their pockets
Female and male whats? Chimps? Or do you mean women and men, the words for human males and females?
Too bad nobody thought to use these for a PC game... a Watchmen American style RPG could be fun....
How about a Watchmen JRPG?
"DAMNIT, ADRIAN, YOU CAN'T CATCH BULLETS FIRED BY DRAGONS FROM ORBIT."
You don't think Google/Yahoo/etc can record your OpenID use it to connect your identity between sites? You realize that Brad Fitzpatrick created OpenID, right?
Seriously...with the internet being such a dangerous place for the average user. How in the freaking hell is a single sign on going to make it better? I mean really now this seems monumentally stupid.
The only purpose of the OpenID system is to help advertisers and the like track you more accurately. This was never meant to help users. As such, it's not the kind of thing that most Slashdot users will be ignorant enough to use, but it's our job to make sure all of our less informed acquaintances know not to sign up for this Big Brother tracking.
At least it isn't as bad as it was during the Depression. They made owning gold ILLEGAL back then. What a crock.
That ban was unconstitutional, of course. Not that that's stopped the federal government from doing whatever the hell they wanted since the Lincoln administration.
-jcr
Since before Washington.
If you'd seen The Dark Knight, you'd have seen this trailer.
Not yesterday in the theater I visited in the midwest.
Oh, certainly. I've read plenty of the very good Batman comics. I meant that the cadence of his voice and the way he moved made me think he had watched and listened to the animated Hammill Joker.
Well, kinda...
Ledger's Joker is based more on the comic series which always had the Joker as more of a psychotic than a jokester. Perhaps it was the Adam West series's softening of the character that gave the Joker that impression in the general public. In the 70's when the Joker became even a bit more grittier, and through the Dark Knight and similar gn's, the "darkening" of the Batman universe came to influence Dini, etc. in how they developed the character for TAS, though a bit softer still since it was a kids show.
Ledger's version is easily the closest to the original Joker concept of a true psychotic criminal, one who not only revels in his own altered version of the world, but finds the humor in the differences of what is considered our normal and what he considers normal, and uses that humor as part of his villainy.
Nicholson's Joker, while following closely to The Killing Joke origin of the Joker (and in my mind a weak cause for the level of the Joker's psychosis as required for the original character), was more along the lines of the 50's and 60's prankster Joker.
Either way, it will take a lot to find another actor who can come close to bringing the Joker to life in the same way Ledger did.
Ledger's Joker seems to have been based on Mark Hammill's Joker in the edgier of the animated episodes/movies.
You don't seem to know much about the modern Olympics. They're entirely a political. The sports are literally an excuse for an international gathering, and the Olympic committee specifically states that their primary goals in selecting locations are all political. This isn't a bad thing, but it means you should keep in mind that the sports have always been just an excuse, nothing more.
Actually, the one thing I find more interesting than anything else, is the amount of political activism from people who usually aren't involved in politics. This is the first time the Olympics has been so closely related to politics, whether it's the world's economic markets, the Tibetan question, the Falun Gong, the freedom of press, pollution, hydroelectric dams, minority rights, the value of the Yuan, the students sent to "spy" on the West, the practice of eating dogs in Beijing restaurants, the policing of the internet, or something else.
This is the first time in history where basically NONE of the news regarding Olympics has actually been about the Olympics themselves, but rather about how the host country is evil. Admittedly, many of these issues are real issues that need to be dealt with, but the ferocity with which the international press is attacking everything related to Olympics right now is probably unheard of in history -- I don't even know is the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany Olympics faced such an onslaught from media and citizens alike.
What I'm really interested in seeing is how many of these issues will continue to be relevant as soon as the Olympics moves to a different country with exactly the same problems, like, say, Russia. This will show whether this is the result of the rising political consciousness worldwide, or simply a display of international power struggle and political pressure.
How many people will attack the Russian Olympic torch demanding freedom for Chechnya? Will the German government put the Chechen flag on the parliament building while the torch is passing through Berlin? Will the pollution in Moscow make bigger headlines than the athletes themselves? Will we read about the assassinations of journalists or attacks against minorities in every bigger Russian city?
I don't know, but I'm waiting with interest.
If the whole world sees American athletes dressed up with goofy masks, they will see the USA as a bunch of sissies, especially if the Chinese -don't-.
I just spent some time in Bavaria, where I kept running into 100+ groups of Chinese tourists. In the beautiful, perfectly clear air of the Bavarian countryside, nearly everyone, from the 10 year old kids to the 70 year old adults, wore breathing masks.
A number of our observations (including an accelerating universe) fit within that model.
Only on the thought experiment level. Cosmologists aren't blissfully unaware of such theories. Rather, these theories don't fit ALL of the data. Yes, the big bang may be a big misconception, but it's currently the best supported theory.
I'd expect to see extrapolations to realistic distances before you start to claim things like "Making a video of Earth from so far away helps the search for other life-bearing planets in the Universe". - that's a bold claim, after all.
That's not a remotely bold claim. Variations in brightness and spectrum from the sun glint and the Moon's transit of Earth should be similar to that seen any virtually any distance. I think that the article's scope went over your head a bit - it's assumed that the reader understands that any extra-solar planets in an image will be contained in a single pixel.
Why not a huge granite sculture of a human skull with thee eye sockets?
One of the official goals of the Yucca Mountain warning project is to prevent extra-terrestrials from accidental exposure (seriously). I don't think three eye sockets would necessarily mean much in that case.
The few dozen Mac users I've known over the years (those who repeatedly buy Macs, not just one before switching to something else) are all either grandparents or students who share one trait: lack of computer savvy. If you don't know what you're doing but want to be able to send email, a Mac is a common choice.
Hard to tell, but it's good to see that normal people (not just us geeks) are choosing to go with a different OS
Most of the Mac owners I know are normal people. Either students that got an imac laptop from their school, older people who wanted an easy to use computer, or an artist (musician, photographer, graphic designer, etc.) who wanted a powerful machine that wouldn't get infected with a ton of spyware and viruses in a week.
None of the Mac owners I know (besides myself) are very tech savvy, they just know that their iPod works great, their PC is always infected with "viruses" (usually some spyware they installed cause it promised free smileys), and their friend's Mac never has any problems. Personally I didn't buy a Mac just for a different OS. If I want to toy around in something other than Windows, I just go install Linux on whatever old computers are lying around the house. I bought the Mac specifically for Aperture, and Final Cut Pro since I do a lot of photography and video work. I know there exists open source software or expensive Windows software to do that stuff, it's just none of it is as powerful or easy to use as the Mac versions. I don't need Mac OS to have a stable computer, I just like the software that exists for the Mac.
It's got a whole new set of user interface controls that are unarguably worse than what they replaced, and you can't go back. There's no "go back to menus" option: you can bring them back, sort of, in some applications... but not all.
I'm not sure what you mean. You can run a UI that's pretty much identical to XP if you want, though to do so you'll need to dedicate about 5 minutes to internet searches to find the free tools to do things like restoring normal menus and the XP style buttons (like the navigate up one directory button). I installed Vista a couple months ago, set it up to work like Win2k in about 20 minutes, and since then I've slowly been relaxing some of my objections to new UI elements.
Like XP, Vista by default has some different UI elements when compared to the previous Windows release. I'm finding that some of the Vista changes, unlike XP's, are actually worth using (the breadcrumbs thing is actually not bad, while the "common tasks" crap in XP never was worthwhile).