Eventually, it could be connected to a touch-screen computer that allows access to the entire Internet - including everything from nutritional information about the meal being cooked to weather and news reports - said Rutgers University researcher Kit Yam, who is helping to develop the technology. I really don't see the desire for a PC in my microwave. I just don't see the market for news and weather in a kitchen appliance.
But the part about tailoring the recipes for the specific microwave is nice. That "cooking times may vary" thing has always bugged me.
Is it me, or is Hasbro getting a little out of hand here? First Avalon Hill, then Microprose, now Wizards of the Coast, what's next, Atari? Oh yeah....
You mean, Wizards of the Coast? They bought out TSR a while back. Which just goes to show the lack of imagination in today's gaming populace. I remember when D&D, which was fueled by imagination, was king. Now M:TG, fueled by a rigid, non-imaginative system, and greed, was so much more successful that a young Wizards of the Coast was able to buy out TSR within a couple of years. It's a real sign of the times.
Actually, I would doubt he paid one red cent. In fact, the odds are, he might even have been paid for the experiment. From what I know about medical research, volunteers are hard to come by, and the only way they tend to get them is to pay, or offer the chance for something unbelieveable (e.g., sight to the blind). And I think I would have a pretty hard time with being deprived of my vision. An overwhelming percentage of sensory input is visual. I'd probably give it a go. At any rate, it's a super altruistic endeavor. Probably, he'll never have 20/20 vision, but his participation in the experiment paves the way for the future.
I can't say I agree. The familiarity of the setting may be a small contributing factor, but the thought of being unprepared in the woods is hardly as frightening as you make it sound. Especially when the thing you are afraid of is a witch for crying out loud. Now, Deliverance is a film that makes people really frightened about being alone in the middle of nowhere, and it's far more "real" and "believable" than BWP. To this day, I'm not comfortable driving down mountain roads at night alone...
Suspension of disbelief is a lot simpler when the whole premise isn't that it's "real". If the BWP hadn't been promoted as a true story, it would be easier to take it in and not analyze the parts that seem ridiculous and far from reality. But since they go to extremes to make the watcher want to believe it's real, all you can really think is "This has got to be the biggest bunch of bumbling idiots I have ever seen."
Oh, and it seems to me, that "film students making a documentary" would: a) Know how to use a camera. b) Attempt to present things in the clearest way they could
Any film student goes out of their way to improve the production quality of their work, because they know that it is what they will be evaluated on. I'm not saying that it should be studio-perfect, but I think some stability in a camera, at least most of the time, isn't all that much to ask for.
Yeah, that would be neat...except for the fact that outstanding Microsoft stock is literally worth 100 times what the Red Hat stock is worth, since there are so many more shares...stock price isn't really all that important, compared to the Market Cap. Although Red Hat is really making a name for itself today.
Yeah, Guinness in the bottle is an entirely different recipe than what you will get on draft here in the states. Notice that the bottles are Guinness EXTRA stout...which I understand is available on draft over in the isles.
Common names are used to navigate the Web today in the form of Centraal's RealNames, Netword's NetWords, America Online's KeyWords, Netscape Navigator's Smart Browsing and CompuServe's Go Words.
And we all know just how helpful and easy those are...
Seems more useful to build a quick site search. If you are looking for a 1996 Budget Report, there are bound to be a bunch of them on any decent sized company's intranet (i.e., one for each department, etc) so a CN solution could be painful ("Budget Report for 1996 for the Marketing Department" --oops, no, it's "Marketing Department 1996 Budget Report"...) but a site search would give you a whole set of choices right off. And it's a damn sight easier, too, than having to name all of your documents in every way that you think someone might try to access them...
Hmmm...in my bar, Guinness and Cider is called a Rotten Apple, which is pretty appropriate, I think, considering the combination of the apple cider with the sour flavor of Guinness (only sour beer I have ever found...wish there were more). And while in common parlance, cider often means non-alcoholic cider, in any bar in the states, you will get hard cider (usually around 5.5-6.5%). We always call bass and Cider a snakebite, and have them on the same twin tower tap for even mixing. And yes, black velvet is Guinness and Champagne. Actually, it's pretty damn marvelous.
Funny how the names are different everywhere you go...and how some people call Bass and Guinness "The original black and tan", even though black and tans (or half and halfs, as I understand the brits call them) are properly lager and stout, as in Harp and Guinness....
Not exactly. Guinness ships a "concentrate" to the states, which is "reconstituted" by the local breweries, I believe with a lager. This accounts for a large part of the difference between British Isles Guinness and Imported Guinness. And I believe that the bottled Guinness Extra Stout is in fact shipped in the bottles (but I am not sure about that one).
Stout, ale, lager, pilsner, etc. are essentially unrelated to alcohol content. It has to do with the brewing process. Stouts and ales are brewed at warmer temperatures (about room temperature or so), using ale yeast. Lagers and pilsners on the other hand, are brewed cold (around 40 degrees F) using a lager yeast, which is jsut a different kind of yeast that is active at a different temperature. These are generalizations, as steam ales are brewed with Lager yeast at ale temperatures, and of course there are other exceptions to the rule. Stouts tend to be more malty, in particular, they tend to include black patent and chocolate (named for the color, has nothing to do with chocolate) malts, which give them the dark color which people are used to. Guinness is unique inasmuchas every batch of Guinness is started with old, stale Guinness from a prior batch, kind of like sourdough bread. (No, don't ask where the first batch came from). It is also "carbonated" with a 75% CO2, 25% NO2 mixture, and poured through a microscreen in the tap head, which removes most of the larger, CO2 bubbles, and leaves only the tiny nitrous bubbles, leading to the popular cascade. Fact: ANY beer will cascade if poured using this gas mixture and process. Even Bud Light. We have tried it at our bar to prove someone wrong. I hope that was enlightening to SOMEONE, at least...
The clear move to me, would have been for the government to hit pepsi up for about 5,000 harriers. at this bargain basement price of $700,000. Think about it, it would cut the hell out of military spending, and the courts would put it through...Maybe they could even sell them off to foreign nations and make something on it...
What really bothers me is that section about "This is MY code. I OWN this company." All this after the supposed "altruistic" ideals of "information wants to be free" and the idea that NOBODY owns it. Seems like the author forgets all about that when there's money involved.
If you're going to claim to believe in something, stick to it. Either it's YOUR code or it isn't, but don't go and GPL code and then claim posession. The community appreciates GPL'd code, and that should be all the thanks you need. If you want to make money off of your code, copyright it and sell it. Otherwise, quit complaining.
I really don't get it. These new guns do nothing for me. I'll grant they have power, range, and volume on their side, but "look and feel" issues are what bother me. I remember good old entertech, the company that made ALL of the waterguns for a while, back in the day. They looked like guns, felt like guns, and some even sounded like guns. They even had a "water grenade" kit, that was a really cool take on water baloons. Nowadays, you can't wage war with a super soaker, they are more of a fun joke than anything else. I'm not saying I don't appreciate them at all, they just don't have the "love" that the old entertech guns had.
As far as confidential data goes, you are right. That's something that needs to be kept, as you say, "confidential". The issue here is that the company apparently gave said "confidential" data to sources that can't be trusted (clearly), to keep it secret. So some would say that the company ought to be a bit more careful in who they give that information to. Maybe a little internal security review is in order.
Is it really a problem if someone makes a derogatory statement about you, if they aren't even willing to attach it to themselves? There is no significance to such a statement, unless YOU are willing to put it there. And attempting to persecute the poster seems to be an admission that they might be close to the mark.
I think people need to grow up a little. "He said bad things about me" just sounds like whining to me. I would think that your entire worldly reputation could survive a few guys ragging on you on a Yahoo! message board, and if it can't, well, you've got some serious problems anyway.
You know, I hate to say it, but aside from moral impact, putting a man on the moon didn't _do_ anything for us. We just all felt good that there was a man on the moon for a few minutes. And it cost one hell of a lot of money to get him there. I think if NASA got a budget cut, they might start to think about what projects were useful, which ones weren't and how to do things in a cost-effective fashion. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with the space program, but I do have a problem with the space program wasting taxpayer's dollars that could show a lot more results if put into, say, education.
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You'll just have to deal with Microsoft holding the fact that you don't "own" a copy of their software over your head.
I feel I should point out that in accordance with modern EULAs, you never own a copy of their software. Just a license to use it.
Eventually, it could be connected to a touch-screen computer that allows access to the entire Internet - including everything from nutritional information
about the meal being cooked to weather and news reports - said Rutgers University researcher Kit Yam, who is helping to develop the technology.
I really don't see the desire for a PC in my microwave. I just don't see the market for news and weather in a kitchen appliance.
But the part about tailoring the recipes for the specific microwave is nice. That "cooking times may vary" thing has always bugged me.
Is it me, or is Hasbro getting a little out of hand here? First Avalon Hill, then Microprose, now Wizards of the Coast, what's next, Atari? Oh yeah....
You mean, Wizards of the Coast? They bought out TSR a while back. Which just goes to show the lack of imagination in today's gaming populace. I remember when D&D, which was fueled by imagination, was king. Now M:TG, fueled by a rigid, non-imaginative system, and greed, was so much more successful that a young Wizards of the Coast was able to buy out TSR within a couple of years. It's a real sign of the times.
Actually, I would doubt he paid one red cent. In fact, the odds are, he might even have been paid for the experiment. From what I know about medical research, volunteers are hard to come by, and the only way they tend to get them is to pay, or offer the chance for something unbelieveable (e.g., sight to the blind). And I think I would have a pretty hard time with being deprived of my vision. An overwhelming percentage of sensory input is visual. I'd probably give it a go. At any rate, it's a super altruistic endeavor. Probably, he'll never have 20/20 vision, but his participation in the experiment paves the way for the future.
I can't say I agree. The familiarity of the setting may be a small contributing factor, but the thought of being unprepared in the woods is hardly as frightening as you make it sound. Especially when the thing you are afraid of is a witch for crying out loud. Now, Deliverance is a film that makes people really frightened about being alone in the middle of nowhere, and it's far more "real" and "believable" than BWP. To this day, I'm not comfortable driving down mountain roads at night alone...
Suspension of disbelief is a lot simpler when the whole premise isn't that it's "real". If the BWP hadn't been promoted as a true story, it would be easier to take it in and not analyze the parts that seem ridiculous and far from reality. But since they go to extremes to make the watcher want to believe it's real, all you can really think is "This has got to be the biggest bunch of bumbling idiots I have ever seen."
Oh, and it seems to me, that "film students making a documentary" would:
a) Know how to use a camera.
b) Attempt to present things in the clearest way they could
Any film student goes out of their way to improve the production quality of their work, because they know that it is what they will be evaluated on. I'm not saying that it should be studio-perfect, but I think some stability in a camera, at least most of the time, isn't all that much to ask for.
Yeah, that would be neat...except for the fact that outstanding Microsoft stock is literally worth 100 times what the Red Hat stock is worth, since there are so many more shares...stock price isn't really all that important, compared to the Market Cap. Although Red Hat is really making a name for itself today.
Yeah, Guinness in the bottle is an entirely different recipe than what you will get on draft here in the states. Notice that the bottles are Guinness EXTRA stout...which I understand is available on draft over in the isles.
Seems more useful to build a quick site search. If you are looking for a 1996 Budget Report, there are bound to be a bunch of them on any decent sized company's intranet (i.e., one for each department, etc) so a CN solution could be painful ("Budget Report for 1996 for the Marketing Department" --oops, no, it's "Marketing Department 1996 Budget Report"...) but a site search would give you a whole set of choices right off. And it's a damn sight easier, too, than having to name all of your documents in every way that you think someone might try to access them...
Hmmm...in my bar, Guinness and Cider is called a Rotten Apple, which is pretty appropriate, I think, considering the combination of the apple cider with the sour flavor of Guinness (only sour beer I have ever found...wish there were more). And while in common parlance, cider often means non-alcoholic cider, in any bar in the states, you will get hard cider (usually around 5.5-6.5%). We always call bass and Cider a snakebite, and have them on the same twin tower tap for even mixing. And yes, black velvet is Guinness and Champagne. Actually, it's pretty damn marvelous.
Funny how the names are different everywhere you go...and how some people call Bass and Guinness "The original black and tan", even though black and tans (or half and halfs, as I understand the brits call them) are properly lager and stout, as in Harp and Guinness....
Not exactly. Guinness ships a "concentrate" to the states, which is "reconstituted" by the local breweries, I believe with a lager. This accounts for a large part of the difference between British Isles Guinness and Imported Guinness. And I believe that the bottled Guinness Extra Stout is in fact shipped in the bottles (but I am not sure about that one).
Stout, ale, lager, pilsner, etc. are essentially unrelated to alcohol content. It has to do with the brewing process. Stouts and ales are brewed at warmer temperatures (about room temperature or so), using ale yeast. Lagers and pilsners on the other hand, are brewed cold (around 40 degrees F) using a lager yeast, which is jsut a different kind of yeast that is active at a different temperature. These are generalizations, as steam ales are brewed with Lager yeast at ale temperatures, and of course there are other exceptions to the rule. Stouts tend to be more malty, in particular, they tend to include black patent and chocolate (named for the color, has nothing to do with chocolate) malts, which give them the dark color which people are used to. Guinness is unique inasmuchas every batch of Guinness is started with old, stale Guinness from a prior batch, kind of like sourdough bread. (No, don't ask where the first batch came from). It is also "carbonated" with a 75% CO2, 25% NO2 mixture, and poured through a microscreen in the tap head, which removes most of the larger, CO2 bubbles, and leaves only the tiny nitrous bubbles, leading to the popular cascade. Fact: ANY beer will cascade if poured using this gas mixture and process. Even Bud Light. We have tried it at our bar to prove someone wrong. I hope that was enlightening to SOMEONE, at least...
These results are all well and good...but what happens when you get microsoft into the equation?
"love microsoft" returned 682 results,
while "hate microsoft" had 1754, 3 times as many
+heaven +microsoft gave 37714,
but +hell +microsoft gave 42855...
+calm +microsoft returned 8329,
and +angry +microsoft returned 18601, showing the effect MS has on tempers....
And finally...
+forgive +"Bill Gates" returned 1623,
but +kill +"Bill Gates" showed 44375....
Draw your own conclusions....
I just want to know when the Camry became a "real cool car".
The clear move to me, would have been for the government to hit pepsi up for about 5,000 harriers. at this bargain basement price of $700,000. Think about it, it would cut the hell out of military spending, and the courts would put it through...Maybe they could even sell them off to foreign nations and make something on it...
What really bothers me is that section about "This is MY code. I OWN this company." All this after the supposed "altruistic" ideals of "information wants to be free" and the idea that NOBODY owns it. Seems like the author forgets all about that when there's money involved.
If you're going to claim to believe in something, stick to it. Either it's YOUR code or it isn't, but don't go and GPL code and then claim posession. The community appreciates GPL'd code, and that should be all the thanks you need. If you want to make money off of your code, copyright it and sell it. Otherwise, quit complaining.
I really don't get it. These new guns do nothing for me. I'll grant they have power, range, and volume on their side, but "look and feel" issues are what bother me. I remember good old entertech, the company that made ALL of the waterguns for a while, back in the day. They looked like guns, felt like guns, and some even sounded like guns. They even had a "water grenade" kit, that was a really cool take on water baloons. Nowadays, you can't wage war with a super soaker, they are more of a fun joke than anything else. I'm not saying I don't appreciate them at all, they just don't have the "love" that the old entertech guns had.
As far as confidential data goes, you are right. That's something that needs to be kept, as you say, "confidential". The issue here is that the company apparently gave said "confidential" data to sources that can't be trusted (clearly), to keep it secret. So some would say that the company ought to be a bit more careful in who they give that information to. Maybe a little internal security review is in order.
Lucky for me, the emancipation proclamation came through just in time...*whew*
Is it really a problem if someone makes a derogatory statement about you, if they aren't even willing to attach it to themselves? There is no significance to such a statement, unless YOU are willing to put it there. And attempting to persecute the poster seems to be an admission that they might be close to the mark.
I think people need to grow up a little. "He said bad things about me" just sounds like whining to me. I would think that your entire worldly reputation could survive a few guys ragging on you on a Yahoo! message board, and if it can't, well, you've got some serious problems anyway.
Kind of redefines "Anonymous" if you can trace them and sue them, now doesn't it?
You know, I hate to say it, but aside from moral impact, putting a man on the moon didn't _do_ anything for us. We just all felt good that there was a man on the moon for a few minutes. And it cost one hell of a lot of money to get him there. I think if NASA got a budget cut, they might start to think about what projects were useful, which ones weren't and how to do things in a cost-effective fashion. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with the space program, but I do have a problem with the space program wasting taxpayer's dollars that could show a lot more results if put into, say, education.
It was clearly a figurative statement. If he had said "screw 'em", you wouldn't have said "I don't approve of casual sex", now would you.
Yeah, and the people who fought for the current policy will all go to see their "appropriate" films, so the relative rankings WOULD change...