My parents happily write math exams on a 486 running windows 3.11. They learned how to use wordperfect's "formula editor" and they've never feel the need to change their workflow. They have a notebook with win XP/linux that they use to browse the web and do some other stuff.
I for sure preffer having as much information as posible at "arm reach" and I can live with the inconvenient of some people misusing that information (even if they were a majority). I was just sayin' it's much easier to find examples of "google done right" than otherwise from users as it's easier to find rants about "google done bad" from doctors than any of them admiting a patient was right in the first place. The colour of the glass, you know.
While i might or might not agree with you, you shouldn't be taking the comments here as representative. No slashdotter is going to admit he googled his sympthoms, acted like a prick with his doc and later realized he was wrong all the time.
Spain is doing that already (I think it's a UE thing), don't know about the success rate of the program yet since it's kinda new but I see it as a good step.
2001-09-11 09:15:38 Arch [1376997] B ALPHA (27)Hey Honey! Can you bring some bagels when you get back? The pork chop is now crying about the World Trade Center plane crash. Geez! It is scray but no reason to cry. Talk to you later! I love you!
While your post is mostly well put together i'd like to comment on a few points:
1. No one will carry as less as 1% bodyfat and stay alive. Calipers just aren't trustworthy at those levels, misuse of them drive to those claims of even 0% bodyfat.
2. I hope that 10-30 hours per mucle pound was true. That figure might be somehow true for a new trainee who hasn't exerciced in years and whose body will be "shocked" with the new and unknown activity and so, forced to react quickly. Once you've been training for some time that's no longer true, your body adapts and it takes more time and effort to gain muscle. That's true even for pro bodybuilders, chemicals and genetic gifts included.
3. Most aerobic ex. won't do much to preserve muscle. Using muscles will (weight training). Both combined will drive you to lose fat and mantain/gain muscle if done properly.
all in all gain muscle while still losing bodyfat is one hell of an achievement futher than the first few weeks of diet/exercise. That's why bodybuilders (both pro, amateurs and hobbyists) switch their diets into "bulking" and "cutting" phases.
Cheers
I cannot be sure of it, but it seems plausible to me. We've got universal healthcare here in Spain too but considering how much % of the price of the box goes to taxes, and considering that the real percent of smokers who actually develop cancer...
Of course the angry-smokers factor is also a big one.
But that's enought off-topic, baning videogames is pretty stupid and useless.
True, perhaps "equivalent" is too strong. But they still get money for doing nothing and share little with those represented artists, so they have something in common.
Fact is that at least here in Spain are artists themselves and not only our RIAA equivalent (known as SGAE) who are screaming about piracy, which acording to those numbers, is an absolute nonsense. They might be brainwashed or something.
They will try to remove it and hurt themselves in the process.
I work in a R&D department focused on e/tele-care and application of technologies to disabled/elderly and this problem of tracking people who suffer dementia and/or alzheimer is not as easy as you can think. An alzheimer patient can (and will) want to scape from whereever he/she is and would know that "that thing on his/her wrist or ankle" avoids him/her from doing so even while he/she doesn't remember his/her own sons and daughters. Alzheimer is a hell of a disease.
You also might want to keep track of people with initial symptoms of dementia or people who can suffer from temporal disorientation. People who usually can develop a normal life so you don't want to stigmatize them with visible apparatus. There are psicologycal issues you have to keep in mind.
That been said i'd be more than happy reading any ideas you might have for a tracking system that works (we've already contact gtxcorp for a trial of their product).
Cheers.
so you're one of those retro computing snobs?
Come to today's world already, my turbo switches from 16 to 66Mhz!
And btw i tell you, these VESA cards are the next big thing.
And instead of creating one just bring a Neanderthal kid from his own time into an stasis bubble.
It's interesting how Asimov thought about such an experiment in "the ugly little boy" but didn't anticipate cloning.
I agree with you to some extent. I mostly don't touch my photos for anything else than sharp/saturation and such. Almost never touch the clone tool.
But PS/PS-like software, because its "easiness" is throwed as weapon against digital photography as a whole. I'm only trying to state that the physical support where light incides in the moment you take a picture (film, CCD/CMOS or whatever) is NOT important and it's not a sign of "puruty" by itself.
I didn't mean PS is over-hyped. I love the mere existence of digital photography because that precise reason: it has helped a lot of people approach themselves to photography at levels where you couldn't be twenty years ago not being a pro.
What i mean is that suddenly many old-time photographers point out to retouching as being the evil which will destroy "the essence of photography" when those techniques had been applied for ages.
What's the point? PS (or the gimp for that matter) only allows more people to alter photographs, anything you do with software can be done, and has been done many times, in a dark room.
I've had enough of theese "film-was-way-better" guys already.
I Agree. Coding a kernel is not trivial, we all know that. But sometimes it seems that core devs in Linux kernel are so self-sufficient they don't want anyone else really involved in the project. Or at least that's the opinion i've extracted along the years from mailing lists, interviews and whatnot. It's a luck they have been doing a good job until now.
You're right with the book tittle but in that book both "known universes" know about the other, and the existence of life in the other universe.
What i find interesting about that book is that Asimov speculated about universes with different natural/physic laws and the possible interactions between them. And he wrote it a few decades ago.
...i'd obbey anti-photo regulations in private property (museums, corporate buildings...whatever). Even if i know than most times it's not an issue of "flashes destroy artwork" What about flashless photo?, it's more an economic concern because they need to sell items in their shops. But anyway if it's private it's up to them.
What i can't stand is the paranoia about photographs in public places, excuse me sir, i'm on a public street and i'll take whichever pic i want. Carrying a dslr these days seems worse than carrying a damn weapon, a friend of mine while on the states was told to leave his cam before entering a building because it was considered "deadly weapon" god...a 70/200 is only deadly if you stick it up your arse. I'm not surprised bush thought there were WMDs in iraq knowing what's considered "deadly".
Anyway don't think it's just an US thing, i'm spanish and it also happens here, and it's worse with security guards going "out of their jurisdiction".
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My parents happily write math exams on a 486 running windows 3.11. They learned how to use wordperfect's "formula editor" and they've never feel the need to change their workflow. They have a notebook with win XP/linux that they use to browse the web and do some other stuff.
I for sure preffer having as much information as posible at "arm reach" and I can live with the inconvenient of some people misusing that information (even if they were a majority). I was just sayin' it's much easier to find examples of "google done right" than otherwise from users as it's easier to find rants about "google done bad" from doctors than any of them admiting a patient was right in the first place. The colour of the glass, you know.
While i might or might not agree with you, you shouldn't be taking the comments here as representative. No slashdotter is going to admit he googled his sympthoms, acted like a prick with his doc and later realized he was wrong all the time.
Spain is doing that already (I think it's a UE thing), don't know about the success rate of the program yet since it's kinda new but I see it as a good step.
2001-09-11 09:15:38 Arch [1376997] B ALPHA (27)Hey Honey! Can you bring some bagels when you get back? The pork chop is now crying about the World Trade Center plane crash. Geez! It is scray but no reason to cry. Talk to you later! I love you!
mmmmm bagels
While your post is mostly well put together i'd like to comment on a few points: 1. No one will carry as less as 1% bodyfat and stay alive. Calipers just aren't trustworthy at those levels, misuse of them drive to those claims of even 0% bodyfat. 2. I hope that 10-30 hours per mucle pound was true. That figure might be somehow true for a new trainee who hasn't exerciced in years and whose body will be "shocked" with the new and unknown activity and so, forced to react quickly. Once you've been training for some time that's no longer true, your body adapts and it takes more time and effort to gain muscle. That's true even for pro bodybuilders, chemicals and genetic gifts included. 3. Most aerobic ex. won't do much to preserve muscle. Using muscles will (weight training). Both combined will drive you to lose fat and mantain/gain muscle if done properly. all in all gain muscle while still losing bodyfat is one hell of an achievement futher than the first few weeks of diet/exercise. That's why bodybuilders (both pro, amateurs and hobbyists) switch their diets into "bulking" and "cutting" phases. Cheers
No 1 will also keep people away of roads on sunny days thus reducing pollution. win-win.~
Just imagine a beowulf cluster of those...
I cannot be sure of it, but it seems plausible to me. We've got universal healthcare here in Spain too but considering how much % of the price of the box goes to taxes, and considering that the real percent of smokers who actually develop cancer...
Of course the angry-smokers factor is also a big one.
But that's enought off-topic, baning videogames is pretty stupid and useless.
Taxes. Huge amounts.
True, perhaps "equivalent" is too strong. But they still get money for doing nothing and share little with those represented artists, so they have something in common.
Fact is that at least here in Spain are artists themselves and not only our RIAA equivalent (known as SGAE) who are screaming about piracy, which acording to those numbers, is an absolute nonsense. They might be brainwashed or something.
They will try to remove it and hurt themselves in the process. I work in a R&D department focused on e/tele-care and application of technologies to disabled/elderly and this problem of tracking people who suffer dementia and/or alzheimer is not as easy as you can think. An alzheimer patient can (and will) want to scape from whereever he/she is and would know that "that thing on his/her wrist or ankle" avoids him/her from doing so even while he/she doesn't remember his/her own sons and daughters. Alzheimer is a hell of a disease.
You also might want to keep track of people with initial symptoms of dementia or people who can suffer from temporal disorientation. People who usually can develop a normal life so you don't want to stigmatize them with visible apparatus. There are psicologycal issues you have to keep in mind.
That been said i'd be more than happy reading any ideas you might have for a tracking system that works (we've already contact gtxcorp for a trial of their product). Cheers.
Older assholes who think that because they learned Basic back in the 80's
I learned Basic in the 80's and I'm 28 years old, you insensitive clod!
that sounds cool, but how do you measure the fitness of a world, Its "aliveness"?. It's something to tink about, though.
so you're one of those retro computing snobs? Come to today's world already, my turbo switches from 16 to 66Mhz!
And btw i tell you, these VESA cards are the next big thing.
In soviet Russia Smileis patent YOU!
And instead of creating one just bring a Neanderthal kid from his own time into an stasis bubble.
It's interesting how Asimov thought about such an experiment in "the ugly little boy" but didn't anticipate cloning.
I agree with you to some extent. I mostly don't touch my photos for anything else than sharp/saturation and such. Almost never touch the clone tool.
But PS/PS-like software, because its "easiness" is throwed as weapon against digital photography as a whole. I'm only trying to state that the physical support where light incides in the moment you take a picture (film, CCD/CMOS or whatever) is NOT important and it's not a sign of "puruty" by itself.
I didn't mean PS is over-hyped. I love the mere existence of digital photography because that precise reason: it has helped a lot of people approach themselves to photography at levels where you couldn't be twenty years ago not being a pro.
What i mean is that suddenly many old-time photographers point out to retouching as being the evil which will destroy "the essence of photography" when those techniques had been applied for ages.
What's the point? PS (or the gimp for that matter) only allows more people to alter photographs, anything you do with software can be done, and has been done many times, in a dark room.
I've had enough of theese "film-was-way-better" guys already.
That's not a problem.
What i was trying to say is that from time to time there are news that could drive to think that core dev team is full of egoes.
And with 'luck' i was trying to say that I, as a linux user, am lucky that however they organize it works, wich is the whole point of it anyway.
I Agree. Coding a kernel is not trivial, we all know that. But sometimes it seems that core devs in Linux kernel are so self-sufficient they don't want anyone else really involved in the project. Or at least that's the opinion i've extracted along the years from mailing lists, interviews and whatnot. It's a luck they have been doing a good job until now.
You're right with the book tittle but in that book both "known universes" know about the other, and the existence of life in the other universe.
What i find interesting about that book is that Asimov speculated about universes with different natural/physic laws and the possible interactions between them. And he wrote it a few decades ago.
And of course, two is a stupid number.
...i'd obbey anti-photo regulations in private property (museums, corporate buildings...whatever). Even if i know than most times it's not an issue of "flashes destroy artwork" What about flashless photo?, it's more an economic concern because they need to sell items in their shops. But anyway if it's private it's up to them.
What i can't stand is the paranoia about photographs in public places, excuse me sir, i'm on a public street and i'll take whichever pic i want. Carrying a dslr these days seems worse than carrying a damn weapon, a friend of mine while on the states was told to leave his cam before entering a building because it was considered "deadly weapon" god...a 70/200 is only deadly if you stick it up your arse. I'm not surprised bush thought there were WMDs in iraq knowing what's considered "deadly".
Anyway don't think it's just an US thing, i'm spanish and it also happens here, and it's worse with security guards going "out of their jurisdiction".