With gnome you need to press Ctrl-L or something just to get an address/location bar on nautilus.
And the devs say they think about usability. How usable and easy is that? That's just _stupid_. That's vi/wordstar "usability".
With Gnome, the devs tend to hide things away if they can't figure out where to put them.
I can _tolerate_ KDE's clutter, at least I can use the features while they are figuring out where better to put them later.
KDE still has a long way to go. Even after years of using KDE I still have difficulty distinguishing the KDE application icons in the taskbar - and it's not because they all start with K;). Somehow they aren't very distinct. Whereas on windows, the apps all look very very different - the email app looks different from notepad, which looks different from IE, which looks different from the various different IM clients, the ssh client etc.
And the way KDE orders tasks on the taskbar sucks- vertical then horizontal, they should do it the windows way- horizontal then vertical.
Sure KDE isn't perfect, but it looks like the devs are actually trying to head in _useful_ directions. Put most of the features where we can see them, then start arranging them in order of most used.
There are still a number of things I find easier to do in windows than on KDE, and done better by Windows (esp UI ease of use) than KDE but there are other things KDE does better (fish:// is nice:p ).
But I think you get the worst of both worlds with Gnome.
One of the best? Really? So what's their false positive and false negative rate?
So far in my experience RBLs have an unacceptably high false positive rate because of the way most of them work - they go by IP _ranges_.
My email provider doesn't block spam for me, they just give it a spam ranking. I then run my email through a bayes filter, if the ISP's ranking is high enough for my comfort or the bayes thingy thinks it's spam, then it's spam.
So far I've noticed only a few false positives (I scan very quickly through spam once in a long while - sorting by subjectline helps;) ). And even so they weren't really false positives - they were either spamlike emails from friends/relatives (who I whitelist), or one of those chain emails.
I once was on the verge of blacklisting one of my relatives who kept sending junk.
Since you are an ISP, why don't you as an ISP regularly set up a bunch of decoy email accounts and start signing them up for spam? You know the usual methods. Even better if you can get few people to donate their longtime spamridden email address and they can get everyone else to no longer send emails to them. Then any email that hits multiple accounts is most likely to be junk.
I'm sure gmail does some statistical stuff to filter out spam. I'm sure they can figure out which email accounts are "related" and which aren't. If lots of unrelated/unlinked accounts start getting very similar email that aren't from whitelists (mailing lists etc), then it's almost certainly spam.
It's easier for an ISP or large email provider to do such things than an individual user.
Huh? Who said anything about doing everything we can to keep smokers alive? D'oh, the whole point is smokers are supposed to die earlier!
We should help about as much as we do for nonsmokers, in fact we should help smokers a little bit more (given their greater contributions).
It's not "broken window" because smokers are about as productive as nonsmokers. It's just typical that they die earlier and after they start being less "productive".
"Goods that kill their users"?, tsk tsk. Seems you're just not thinking rationally.
Tobacco isn't the only _legal_ product out there that shortens lifespans. Unhealthy food does. Alcohol abuse too often doesn't just kill the user - drunk driving, fights etc. Second-hand smoke is nothing in comparison.
What I'm saying is true. It may not be palatable to many, but it doesn't make it less true. You can stick to more palatable arguments like blackmarkets etc.
But it's easier to check whether what I'm saying is true or not than to prove the blackmarket etc stuff. You can get hard economic values. You already have tobacco tax/year.
The only tricky bit is people tend to count the medical costs of treating smoking related problems but conveniently _ignore_ the medical costs of treating nonsmokers for the X years more that the nonsmokers live AND that nonsmokers _eventually_die_,
You can see it all the time: "Yay, we save X billion/year in smoking related costs because smokers stopped smoking!" as if the nonsmokers just keep on living without incurring any costs, and then drop dead cleanly and far more cheaply than smokers. Take off the rose-tinted glasses and you'll see it's not true. Alzheimer's, cancer, stroke, you name it.
I know life is not about being "productive". But if you have healthcare/social security systems to maintain, you need to do some beancounting.
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Sure there are few genetic differences between one race and another race (and male and female for that matter).
But there are also few genetic differences between chimps and humans too, and those few differences make chimps very different from humans in our eyes.
Sure to an alien creature there might be no big difference between chimp, human or even ant - all are DNA based organisms and a subgroup of carbon based lifeforms.
But to us, there are significant differences.
Also: though the average specimens may not differ much in various parameters it's often not the average specimens of a group who are significant in many things. It's usually the ones at the extremes. Top 100 scientists, inventors, CEOs, dictators etc. The rest like you and me are just "fillers". Just a very few people own most of the wealth in the world.
So it's silly to say there's no such thing as "race". There are different breeds of dogs with different tendencies and characteristics, same species but still different. Similarly there are different human races/breeds but they are not as distinct as dog breeds - due to the breeding programs being a bit different;).
As for trying to wipe out a race without wiping out other races, the hybrids will probably still survive and there are plenty of hybrids. And what's the point of doing that in the first place? Humans have got to the stage where it is common for culture/religion/belief to supercede race as the most important marker.
Of course we are also getting close to the stage where a single average person can wipe out tens of thousands or even more people without having to collude with others. Currently it takes a number of people to agree to kill thousands. But if the average person gets access to more and more dangerous technologies, either the average person has to be a lot better or the paths technology takes should change.
So as technology "progresses", we should no longer be doing things merely because they can be done, we should start to spend a lot more thought on what should be done now, what might be best done later, and what might perhaps not be done at all or at least for the forseeable future.
Otherwise some idiot/nut will just push the big red "Kill Everybody" button the instant it is made.
Why do that? Govs can just stop being stupidly trying to ban people from smoking and just keep taxing tobacco heavily.
They should still keep educating them on the dangers of smoking and make it illegal for kids to start or be sold cigs to.
But other than that, if you know the dangers and you still like to smoke a few packs a day: "Thank you citizen for your contribution and sacrifice!"
If you die soon after your productive years or retirement, you are no longer a drag to healthcare - while there's your last 3 or so years where you'd be taking some money out, but your 30-50 years of tobacco tax should have paid for that and a lot more.
If you don't die soon after retirement but keep smoking, hey thanks for continuing to pay extra taxes after retirement!
I'm not a smoker, but I find it strange that so many Governments worry about aging populations on one hand but keep trying to stop smokers from smoking. No need to spend so much money preventing them from smoking. Heck, we'd be able to afford to give the long time smokers a special "Patriot" carton every year as a sign of appreciation.
I'm sure there are plenty of other similar ways to prop up the healthcare/social security system.
Doesn't seem to do much on my environment: Acrobat reader 4.0, IE6 (with active scripting off, active-x off, and set to download pdf instead of opening in browser).
Well the plant in Oregon contributes about 1 ton/year, and the rest of the US coal plants contribute about 48 tons/year.
China's coal plants contribute an estimated amount between 200 to 600 tons/year. But how much of that reaches the US? I'm sure a fair bit does, but if it's only 10% (there are other countries around China the mercury can spread to as well) then the bulk of the mercury in Oregon probably comes from Oregon or the rest of the USA.
It's interesting that their employees are so brainwashed/stupid that it appears they won't use the fire door even if: a) Their ankles get crushed and they need medical attention. b) Their wives are in labour c) Someone has a heart attack.
I'm fine with everyone getting to watch me and have recordings but ONLY if I get to watch _everyone_ else too and have access to the recordings. AND you should only have access to a recording if you are also being recorded and logged while accessing it;).
And that includes the politicians, the judges and the cops. Everyone gets to watch everyone else the same way, no more, no less.
If the politicians don't want to allow anyone and everyone to see the inside of their homes, then same goes for my home and everyone else.
If Mr Prime Minister/President doesn't want his journey through public areas recorded by cameras and viewable by everyone and anyone, then same for me and everyone else.
If you get to post embarassing videos of me on the internet, I get to do that too. Lets see if you never do anything embarassing or shameful or illegal or sinful in your life. I definitely won't be the first to "cast the stone" but here's to Mutually Assured Embarassment...
If you get to see me typing my passwords, then everyone should be able to see you watching me type my passwords;).
Not that most people would or should care. But if people think cams everywhere are such a great idea, this my opinion on how they should do them.
"Sometimes the vegetarians are unhappy because the simulation is too good"
Yeah. I won't be surprised if it grossed them out.
Get some visitors from overseas sometimes, and they are't vegetarians but they can't eat the chicken/fish/etc if they see the heads on the same plate as the rest of the animal.
I still think it's a good idea for people who like eating animals to be more aware that they are actually eating some poor animal that was slaughtered. Rather than it "come from the supermarket in nice fillets".
Talking about nice fillets and "meat products"... Y'know the mechanical extraction of flesh from chickens/cows done in the US and some other western countries seems pretty unsanitary.
Over here the intact innards of chickens, cows etc (gizzards, liver etc) can be viably sold at a supermarkets, and chickens are often sold whole, all of which I think isn't such a bad thing. It means they're not just going to rip the carcass apart and spill everything everywhere and then put the pieces back together (with an "approved level" of shit + e.coli in it). I put it that people wouldn't have to cook their chicken/meat so thoroughly if it wasn't contaminated at the slaughterhouse/factory due to bad practices.
That said if almost every part and organ of a cow/chicken has a shelf price, what in the world do they have left to put into burger patties or sausages... Ick.
There's this: http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/fishadvice/advice. html
Let other people to eat the fishes which tend to accumulate more junk, while you eat the hopefully safer ones. When they start having problems, you stop eating fish:p.
Wow. Poor cat, was it like kept indoors all the time? If it wasn't I'd have thought it would go out for a bite or something;).
Well, the Indian and Chinese vegetarian cuisines are pretty developed (decadent even for the latter[1]), so you can get a variety - still doesn't seem _that_ healthy though. It's still a lot easier to get your amino acids, Omega 3 and B12 from fish and other animals.
[1] Why I say decadent: example Chinese vegetarian dishes available here: mutton curry, sweet and sour pork, fried fish in soy sauce.
All vegetarian. The "fish" even had a fake fish bone made from a piece of sugar cane, presumably so you can choke on it and sue them just like the real thing I guess (doh!). Fish skin is seaweed for the taste and texture. The pork is made from mushroom stalks. Not sure what the mutton is from. I've heard of vegetarian bacon and eggs too not sure how that was done.
That sort of thing doesn't really appeal to me - I'd rather have less "modified" vegetables if I'm having a vegetarian meal, and real meat if I want meat. Given the things they do to make the soy like the "real" thing, it's probably as unhealthy as eating the real thing if not worse;).
I've had a lasagne that used soft tofu instead of the soft cheese, and it actually tasted pretty good (I think it still had minced meat in it).
Yeah it's quite possible for cats to survive on special vegetarian diets too. That doesn't make those the best diets for them.
Have to say the Burger + Big Cola + Large Fries diet + snacks is worse;).
Still, I suspect that a diet of burgers (minus the TFAs) and plain water won't be that bad, and it's actually the large amounts of sugar water and fries that do most of the damage.
The Japanese in Japan live pretty long - and most of the guys smoke, drink beer, work long hours, don't exercise that much. The Japanese americans don't fare as well so it's probably diet or environment and not genetic.
From what I see, humans can survive[1] as vegetarians (they need to be careful to eat enough of X etc etc), but they thrive on fish.
So I think I'll keep eating fish as long as it doesn't have too much mercury in it ( drinking green tea is probably good for you too).
Trouble is we are running out of fish (modern fishing is _broken_. Look up "bycatch" - throwing away _dead/crippled_ 70-90% of what we catch is immoral), and our seas are getting more and more polluted. We need to be a LOT less wasteful.
[1] Being vegetarian is not "normal" for humans. You need special diets to do well - not as silly as those vegetarian diets cats but still silly nonetheless... It's not just for fun that chimps dig out termites and eat them.
Most types of vegetation aren't that nutrient dense - so strict herbivores have to spend a lot of time eating.
Because if _enough_ people realize Vista isn't really an upgrade and tell Dell, HP etc "Please Preload XP instead of Vista" when they buy a new computer and want Windows (yes there are still VALID reasons for using Windows), then the current Windows XP APIs could get locked into the market beyond even Microsoft's control.
Basically if they don't change things, and introduce new stuff like DirectX 10 etc and the APIs stay the same for too long they risk ending up like just another BIOS manufacturer.
This is because it becomes more and more likely that people will start providing compatible versions for Linux, OSX and so on. And then the market says no it has to be "Win XP compatible", and they can even say that to Microsoft;).
Then the scenario starts to look like when Intel tried to get everyone to leave the x86 and get on the Itanic, but then AMD presented a compatible path.
It is in the interest of Microsoft to break things slightly every few years. Not too much but enough (like boiling a frog). While BIOS selling is a valid business model it won't make Microsoft as much money.
But even if the XP APIs aren't that great, Vista's new APIs offers no great improvements. Given Microsoft is either unable or uninterested in improving things significantly anymore (W2K was a big improvement, XP had some stuff), the industry should dethrone Microsoft from its controlling position.
We might as well permanently freeze those APIs and concentrate resources on innovation _elsewhere_ let MS Windows join the BIOS in the world of vestigal software.
This is a chance for a change, not a big chance but still a window of opportunity.
1) Is that someone your friend or your enemy? 2) This is Vista not some family heirloom.
If my enemy gave me a watch, I'd either give it back or get rid of it some other way. I'd probably not wear it just in case;).
If MS had given me one of those laptops to review I'd have poked around to see what Vista was, backed up the vista keys (and compressed drive image) for future use (might come in handy;) ). Then wipe and install another O/S for review and use.
There is no monopoly for search - there are plenty of alternative search engines out there. The day their searches don't work well enough for me is the day I switch to some other search engine.
I have switched from Infoseek to Altavista to Google. And many people did the same. There even was Hotbot.
This is why Google is flailing about providing all sorts of other services than search. Though search got them to number 1, it's a lot of work to stay there on just search alone. More work than Ebay, Amazon etc have to do - Ebay, Paypal piss off tons of customers and those customers keep coming back.
Y'know there's more of a monopoly/oligopoly[1] over who controls the USA though, and you guys should worry about that a lot more instead - it sure doesn't look like the voters are in control.
[1] depends on whether you think the US elections are diebolded or not.
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Heh sounds just as crappy as the windows registry editor to me:
c id=17471896
;). Somehow they aren't very distinct. Whereas on windows, the apps all look very very different - the email app looks different from notepad, which looks different from IE, which looks different from the various different IM clients, the ssh client etc.
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=215184&
With gnome you need to press Ctrl-L or something just to get an address/location bar on nautilus.
And the devs say they think about usability. How usable and easy is that? That's just _stupid_. That's vi/wordstar "usability".
With Gnome, the devs tend to hide things away if they can't figure out where to put them.
I can _tolerate_ KDE's clutter, at least I can use the features while they are figuring out where better to put them later.
KDE still has a long way to go. Even after years of using KDE I still have difficulty distinguishing the KDE application icons in the taskbar - and it's not because they all start with K
And the way KDE orders tasks on the taskbar sucks- vertical then horizontal, they should do it the windows way- horizontal then vertical.
Hey that sounds like Gnome and gconf to me!
c id=17471744
;).
:p ).
See here for someone saying how it's good(!):
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=215184&
Just substitute gnome for windows and gconf for regedit
For more look here: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
Sure KDE isn't perfect, but it looks like the devs are actually trying to head in _useful_ directions. Put most of the features where we can see them, then start arranging them in order of most used.
There are still a number of things I find easier to do in windows than on KDE, and done better by Windows (esp UI ease of use) than KDE but there are other things KDE does better (fish:// is nice
But I think you get the worst of both worlds with Gnome.
One of the best? Really? So what's their false positive and false negative rate?
;) ). And even so they weren't really false positives - they were either spamlike emails from friends/relatives (who I whitelist), or one of those chain emails.
So far in my experience RBLs have an unacceptably high false positive rate because of the way most of them work - they go by IP _ranges_.
My email provider doesn't block spam for me, they just give it a spam ranking. I then run my email through a bayes filter, if the ISP's ranking is high enough for my comfort or the bayes thingy thinks it's spam, then it's spam.
So far I've noticed only a few false positives (I scan very quickly through spam once in a long while - sorting by subjectline helps
I once was on the verge of blacklisting one of my relatives who kept sending junk.
Since you are an ISP, why don't you as an ISP regularly set up a bunch of decoy email accounts and start signing them up for spam? You know the usual methods. Even better if you can get few people to donate their longtime spamridden email address and they can get everyone else to no longer send emails to them. Then any email that hits multiple accounts is most likely to be junk.
I'm sure gmail does some statistical stuff to filter out spam. I'm sure they can figure out which email accounts are "related" and which aren't. If lots of unrelated/unlinked accounts start getting very similar email that aren't from whitelists (mailing lists etc), then it's almost certainly spam.
It's easier for an ISP or large email provider to do such things than an individual user.
Huh? Who said anything about doing everything we can to keep smokers alive? D'oh, the whole point is smokers are supposed to die earlier!
We should help about as much as we do for nonsmokers, in fact we should help smokers a little bit more (given their greater contributions).
It's not "broken window" because smokers are about as productive as nonsmokers. It's just typical that they die earlier and after they start being less "productive".
"Goods that kill their users"?, tsk tsk. Seems you're just not thinking rationally.
Tobacco isn't the only _legal_ product out there that shortens lifespans. Unhealthy food does. Alcohol abuse too often doesn't just kill the user - drunk driving, fights etc. Second-hand smoke is nothing in comparison.
What I'm saying is true. It may not be palatable to many, but it doesn't make it less true. You can stick to more palatable arguments like blackmarkets etc.
But it's easier to check whether what I'm saying is true or not than to prove the blackmarket etc stuff. You can get hard economic values. You already have tobacco tax/year.
The only tricky bit is people tend to count the medical costs of treating smoking related problems but conveniently _ignore_ the medical costs of treating nonsmokers for the X years more that the nonsmokers live AND that nonsmokers _eventually_die_,
You can see it all the time: "Yay, we save X billion/year in smoking related costs because smokers stopped smoking!" as if the nonsmokers just keep on living without incurring any costs, and then drop dead cleanly and far more cheaply than smokers. Take off the rose-tinted glasses and you'll see it's not true. Alzheimer's, cancer, stroke, you name it.
I know life is not about being "productive". But if you have healthcare/social security systems to maintain, you need to do some beancounting.
Nah.
;).
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Sure there are few genetic differences between one race and another race (and male and female for that matter).
;).
But there are also few genetic differences between chimps and humans too, and those few differences make chimps very different from humans in our eyes.
Sure to an alien creature there might be no big difference between chimp, human or even ant - all are DNA based organisms and a subgroup of carbon based lifeforms.
But to us, there are significant differences.
Also: though the average specimens may not differ much in various parameters it's often not the average specimens of a group who are significant in many things. It's usually the ones at the extremes. Top 100 scientists, inventors, CEOs, dictators etc. The rest like you and me are just "fillers". Just a very few people own most of the wealth in the world.
So it's silly to say there's no such thing as "race". There are different breeds of dogs with different tendencies and characteristics, same species but still different. Similarly there are different human races/breeds but they are not as distinct as dog breeds - due to the breeding programs being a bit different
As for trying to wipe out a race without wiping out other races, the hybrids will probably still survive and there are plenty of hybrids. And what's the point of doing that in the first place? Humans have got to the stage where it is common for culture/religion/belief to supercede race as the most important marker.
Of course we are also getting close to the stage where a single average person can wipe out tens of thousands or even more people without having to collude with others. Currently it takes a number of people to agree to kill thousands. But if the average person gets access to more and more dangerous technologies, either the average person has to be a lot better or the paths technology takes should change.
So as technology "progresses", we should no longer be doing things merely because they can be done, we should start to spend a lot more thought on what should be done now, what might be best done later, and what might perhaps not be done at all or at least for the forseeable future.
Otherwise some idiot/nut will just push the big red "Kill Everybody" button the instant it is made.
Why do that? Govs can just stop being stupidly trying to ban people from smoking and just keep taxing tobacco heavily.
They should still keep educating them on the dangers of smoking and make it illegal for kids to start or be sold cigs to.
But other than that, if you know the dangers and you still like to smoke a few packs a day: "Thank you citizen for your contribution and sacrifice!"
If you die soon after your productive years or retirement, you are no longer a drag to healthcare - while there's your last 3 or so years where you'd be taking some money out, but your 30-50 years of tobacco tax should have paid for that and a lot more.
If you don't die soon after retirement but keep smoking, hey thanks for continuing to pay extra taxes after retirement!
I'm not a smoker, but I find it strange that so many Governments worry about aging populations on one hand but keep trying to stop smokers from smoking. No need to spend so much money preventing them from smoking. Heck, we'd be able to afford to give the long time smokers a special "Patriot" carton every year as a sign of appreciation.
I'm sure there are plenty of other similar ways to prop up the healthcare/social security system.
Doesn't seem to do much on my environment: Acrobat reader 4.0, IE6 (with active scripting off, active-x off, and set to download pdf instead of opening in browser).
Well the plant in Oregon contributes about 1 ton/year, and the rest of the US coal plants contribute about 48 tons/year.
China's coal plants contribute an estimated amount between 200 to 600 tons/year. But how much of that reaches the US? I'm sure a fair bit does, but if it's only 10% (there are other countries around China the mercury can spread to as well) then the bulk of the mercury in Oregon probably comes from Oregon or the rest of the USA.
It's interesting they mention "power plants in China" as an example.
Does that mean more than 1700 pounds of mercury a year deposited in Oregon come from power plants in China?
It's interesting that their employees are so brainwashed/stupid that it appears they won't use the fire door even if:
a) Their ankles get crushed and they need medical attention.
b) Their wives are in labour
c) Someone has a heart attack.
And so on.
Teach it tricks? Most people have difficulty eating an animal once they've given it a "proper name".
I'm fine with everyone getting to watch me and have recordings but ONLY if I get to watch _everyone_ else too and have access to the recordings. AND you should only have access to a recording if you are also being recorded and logged while accessing it ;).
;).
And that includes the politicians, the judges and the cops. Everyone gets to watch everyone else the same way, no more, no less.
If the politicians don't want to allow anyone and everyone to see the inside of their homes, then same goes for my home and everyone else.
If Mr Prime Minister/President doesn't want his journey through public areas recorded by cameras and viewable by everyone and anyone, then same for me and everyone else.
If you get to post embarassing videos of me on the internet, I get to do that too. Lets see if you never do anything embarassing or shameful or illegal or sinful in your life. I definitely won't be the first to "cast the stone" but here's to Mutually Assured Embarassment...
If you get to see me typing my passwords, then everyone should be able to see you watching me type my passwords
Not that most people would or should care. But if people think cams everywhere are such a great idea, this my opinion on how they should do them.
"Sometimes the vegetarians are unhappy because the simulation is too good"
Yeah. I won't be surprised if it grossed them out.
Get some visitors from overseas sometimes, and they are't vegetarians but they can't eat the chicken/fish/etc if they see the heads on the same plate as the rest of the animal.
I still think it's a good idea for people who like eating animals to be more aware that they are actually eating some poor animal that was slaughtered. Rather than it "come from the supermarket in nice fillets".
Talking about nice fillets and "meat products"... Y'know the mechanical extraction of flesh from chickens/cows done in the US and some other western countries seems pretty unsanitary.
Over here the intact innards of chickens, cows etc (gizzards, liver etc) can be viably sold at a supermarkets, and chickens are often sold whole, all of which I think isn't such a bad thing. It means they're not just going to rip the carcass apart and spill everything everywhere and then put the pieces back together (with an "approved level" of shit + e.coli in it). I put it that people wouldn't have to cook their chicken/meat so thoroughly if it wasn't contaminated at the slaughterhouse/factory due to bad practices.
That said if almost every part and organ of a cow/chicken has a shelf price, what in the world do they have left to put into burger patties or sausages... Ick.
Don't know.
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:p.
There's this:
http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/fishadvice/advice
Let other people to eat the fishes which tend to accumulate more junk, while you eat the hopefully safer ones. When they start having problems, you stop eating fish
Wow. Poor cat, was it like kept indoors all the time? If it wasn't I'd have thought it would go out for a bite or something ;).
;).
Well, the Indian and Chinese vegetarian cuisines are pretty developed (decadent even for the latter[1]), so you can get a variety - still doesn't seem _that_ healthy though. It's still a lot easier to get your amino acids, Omega 3 and B12 from fish and other animals.
[1] Why I say decadent: example Chinese vegetarian dishes available here: mutton curry, sweet and sour pork, fried fish in soy sauce.
All vegetarian. The "fish" even had a fake fish bone made from a piece of sugar cane, presumably so you can choke on it and sue them just like the real thing I guess (doh!). Fish skin is seaweed for the taste and texture. The pork is made from mushroom stalks. Not sure what the mutton is from. I've heard of vegetarian bacon and eggs too not sure how that was done.
That sort of thing doesn't really appeal to me - I'd rather have less "modified" vegetables if I'm having a vegetarian meal, and real meat if I want meat. Given the things they do to make the soy like the "real" thing, it's probably as unhealthy as eating the real thing if not worse
I've had a lasagne that used soft tofu instead of the soft cheese, and it actually tasted pretty good (I think it still had minced meat in it).
Yeah it's quite possible for cats to survive on special vegetarian diets too. That doesn't make those the best diets for them.
;).
Have to say the Burger + Big Cola + Large Fries diet + snacks is worse
Still, I suspect that a diet of burgers (minus the TFAs) and plain water won't be that bad, and it's actually the large amounts of sugar water and fries that do most of the damage.
The Japanese in Japan live pretty long - and most of the guys smoke, drink beer, work long hours, don't exercise that much. The Japanese americans don't fare as well so it's probably diet or environment and not genetic.
From what I see, humans can survive[1] as vegetarians (they need to be careful to eat enough of X etc etc), but they thrive on fish.
So I think I'll keep eating fish as long as it doesn't have too much mercury in it ( drinking green tea is probably good for you too).
Trouble is we are running out of fish (modern fishing is _broken_. Look up "bycatch" - throwing away _dead/crippled_ 70-90% of what we catch is immoral), and our seas are getting more and more polluted. We need to be a LOT less wasteful.
[1] Being vegetarian is not "normal" for humans. You need special diets to do well - not as silly as those vegetarian diets cats but still silly nonetheless... It's not just for fun that chimps dig out termites and eat them.
Most types of vegetation aren't that nutrient dense - so strict herbivores have to spend a lot of time eating.
And if you're not keep eating those nutty animals? ;)
Sorry, it seems most people prefer "popular wrong answers" to correct answers.
;).
That's why you have: C, C++, and George W Bush.
Why I care?
;).
Because if _enough_ people realize Vista isn't really an upgrade and tell Dell, HP etc "Please Preload XP instead of Vista" when they buy a new computer and want Windows (yes there are still VALID reasons for using Windows), then the current Windows XP APIs could get locked into the market beyond even Microsoft's control.
Basically if they don't change things, and introduce new stuff like DirectX 10 etc and the APIs stay the same for too long they risk ending up like just another BIOS manufacturer.
This is because it becomes more and more likely that people will start providing compatible versions for Linux, OSX and so on. And then the market says no it has to be "Win XP compatible", and they can even say that to Microsoft
Then the scenario starts to look like when Intel tried to get everyone to leave the x86 and get on the Itanic, but then AMD presented a compatible path.
It is in the interest of Microsoft to break things slightly every few years. Not too much but enough (like boiling a frog). While BIOS selling is a valid business model it won't make Microsoft as much money.
But even if the XP APIs aren't that great, Vista's new APIs offers no great improvements. Given Microsoft is either unable or uninterested in improving things significantly anymore (W2K was a big improvement, XP had some stuff), the industry should dethrone Microsoft from its controlling position.
We might as well permanently freeze those APIs and concentrate resources on innovation _elsewhere_ let MS Windows join the BIOS in the world of vestigal software.
This is a chance for a change, not a big chance but still a window of opportunity.
And that's why I care.
1) Is that someone your friend or your enemy?
;).
;) ). Then wipe and install another O/S for review and use.
2) This is Vista not some family heirloom.
If my enemy gave me a watch, I'd either give it back or get rid of it some other way. I'd probably not wear it just in case
If MS had given me one of those laptops to review I'd have poked around to see what Vista was, backed up the vista keys (and compressed drive image) for future use (might come in handy
There is no monopoly for search - there are plenty of alternative search engines out there. The day their searches don't work well enough for me is the day I switch to some other search engine.
I have switched from Infoseek to Altavista to Google. And many people did the same. There even was Hotbot.
This is why Google is flailing about providing all sorts of other services than search. Though search got them to number 1, it's a lot of work to stay there on just search alone. More work than Ebay, Amazon etc have to do - Ebay, Paypal piss off tons of customers and those customers keep coming back.
Y'know there's more of a monopoly/oligopoly[1] over who controls the USA though, and you guys should worry about that a lot more instead - it sure doesn't look like the voters are in control.
[1] depends on whether you think the US elections are diebolded or not.
"We do that so that people won't play it all day long"
:p.
Yeah so people will play/buy some other console instead
Well here's a tip: just keep your mouth shut and most of your brain off while watching movies.
It's useful to condition people to just sit by passively watch things go wrong apathetically or even enjoy the experience.
Now all you need to do is be voted in and you'll be part of the show.