Type II isn't caused by a sedintary lifestyle either.
Troll aside, you're incorrectly generalizing your case to the rest of the population, and thus misinforming other people. Obesity does indeed strongly predispose one towards developing Type II diabetes, though it is neither always sufficient nor mandatory. If you are obese, you are at considerably greater risk of developing diabetes than if you were not. Just because you felt like you were getting enough exercise when you developed diabetes doesn't mean that sendentary habits can't cause diabetes in others. Also you never commented on whether you were obese at the time you developed diabetes.
Also, if you're going to accuse someone of attacking you, at least spell the latin correctly.
Really? How did you come to understand this? Did Hilf or anyone involved tell you? Did you observe the process? Or are you guessing based on all the MS flaming on Slashdot?
For crissakes, it's in the second sentence of the freaking summary:
Before you ask: Yes, Microsoft PR had a look at his answers before he sent them.
So save your sarcasm for when you actually bothered to read at least the summary.
Hilf's answers sound quite reasonable, something that most of us don't associate with Microsoft. I understand that his answered were cleared by MSFT public relations department, but that's not quite the same as saying that the company as a whole feels the same way he does. How much of this is just him and/or his department, and how much of this is truly the attitude of the company as a whole? A lot of what some of the other talking heads at Microsoft have been saying over the years is not only different, it's often completely counter to Hilf's views.
Japan and China both have rapidly aging populations.
Do you just make stuff up as you go along to prove your points? Per the CIA World Factbook, the US has 20.6% of its population 0-14 years of age, and 67% ages 15-64. China similarly has 21.4% ages 0-14 years and 71% ages 15-64. China is a younger country than the United States, and certainly younger than Europe.
Windows has a view option in Explorer that lists ONLY the filename (and extension, if you don't have it hidden) and a small version of the icon next to it, nothing else about the file.
I don't see that list view in Windows is such a great thing, and I've been using Windows since 2.0. List view in OS X gives you more information than Windows, but that's touted as a disadvantage? It doesn't cost you anything more. If you don't want to see the rest of the information, just resize the Window so that you don't have to be bothered by all that confusing date and size information. I always found the existence of both a "List" view and a "Details" view in Windows redundant.
You can also use Column view mode in OS X and again resize the window so that only shows you a list of files and small icons. Finder has some usability issues, but this isn't one of them as far as I'm concerned. And it beats the crap out of Explorer like a red-headed stepchild (no insult intended to those red-headed step-children here).
There's an opportunity here: Someone should make a SCO "wanted deck" of playing cards like they did for Saddam's buddies and sell them on ThinkGeek. Clearly Darl should be the Ace of Spades. The trouble is, I'm not sure there are 52 culprits. Still..
They could be just the trumps, like the cards in Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber.
Same thing with this guy. With a CS PhD, he is qualified for the interview. Whether he will get a job depends on how his performance at the interview is. Just a thought...
Did you even glance at Sorkin's full resume? I'm not in the industry, but holy crap some of the things he's worked on are amazing.
In the wide open west, our states are big enough to contain our cities, thankyouverymuch.
In the wide open west, our counties are big enough to contain your states. Brewster County, Texas is larger than Rhode Island, and Delware, and Connecticut, and almost as large as Massachussetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. Hell, it's more than twice as big than Rhode Island and Delaware put together.
And if you want to find a Movie Time your better off on yahoo than google...
Actually, not necessarily. Go to google and do a search on:
movies [your zip code]
The links to the movie titles and showtimes take me directly to the theater's page to buy tickets online. Yahoo doesn't link to the theater's page that way. Also, Google's is a text page, so it loads as fast as possible even on my Treo. Yahoo's page is typically loaded with graphics and animated advertisements. Also, Google lists more theaters in my area by default than does Yahoo.
My main problem with iTunes is how it likes to organise my music. I had a massive collection of MP3s long before iTunes came out and I organised my music into directories by type and by the name of the CD the music was from.
Have you actually looked at the iTunes preferences?
Under "Advanced", uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library". Just like magic, iTunes no longer rearranges your music files!
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I mean yeah, you could concievably rig your grow-room up with mylar over the walls, but is it really going to help that much more than the white plastic sheeting used by most of the grow-rooms I've seen?
The part you don't seem to understand is that it isn't necessarily to preserve heat that marijuana growers use mylar. It's to prevent excess heat from leaking out and showing up on overhead infrared cameras the DEA uses to find them. Buying once space blanket isn't going to attract attention. Buying 200 of them may be a a different matter entirely.
This is just one more sign that China should not be treated like Europe or the US.. Imagine if the US said that they were revamping thir policy around textiles and that no textiles could be purchased from outside the American industry. After all we are just trying to build an industry at home..
How ironic that you should use that as an example. The US just reinstated textiles quotas specifically against China to protect the crucial textile mill worker sector of our economy. China isn't doing anything that other nations aren't doing.
Part of what some people don't like is the Starship Trooper movie syndrome: everyone is beautiful, young, and hip. If you can tolerate that, then both are entertaining.
Well, to be fair, it's not as if the original BG was filled with fat, ugly people either. They didn't change it in the new show at all. Rather they are following the lead of the original series.
Looking at the stats, the Samsung 213T looks like a very nice LCD monitor. Still only a 500:1 contrast ratio (versus several thousand for a good CRT, and I have no idea how much the lighting argument can really play into this).
The ambient lighting thing is pretty big. My LCD monitors (Dell 2001 FP) seem to reflect considerably much less ambient light than my CRT (pretty good Hitachi 19" tube). I don't know why, but it's subjectively a large difference. In a bright room, the LCD has much better real world contrast than the CRT. In a pitch black room, the CRT wins, but that's not how I use my computer.
I really wish whoever had modded my previous post as 'Overrated' would simply have pressed 'Reply' instead.
I don't necessarily think an "Overrated" moderation should have been replaced by a reply instead. I don't know what your comment was moderated before the Overrated mod, but the mod probably just thought your post wasn't Insightful or not Insightful enough to warrant the score it had. Doesn't mean he hates you or disagrees with your question or your right to ask it, merely that he didn't think it was a particularly insightful question.
Yea, but can those cars only drive on 5% of the roads in the land?
Car vs computer is a terrible analogy. Please stop it.
I love how you used the car/computer analogy to illustrate your point, then told the parent poster to stop using them because they're not illustrative.
For an open source home designer, I think it would be a grand idea if somebody were to base one on one of the quake engines that have been open-sourced. It seems that the ideal engine to use would be the Q3 engine once id software GPLs the source (which ought to happen some time this year). Since there's already an open-source GUI designing tool, it sounds perfect.
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Troll aside, you're incorrectly generalizing your case to the rest of the population, and thus misinforming other people. Obesity does indeed strongly predispose one towards developing Type II diabetes, though it is neither always sufficient nor mandatory. If you are obese, you are at considerably greater risk of developing diabetes than if you were not. Just because you felt like you were getting enough exercise when you developed diabetes doesn't mean that sendentary habits can't cause diabetes in others. Also you never commented on whether you were obese at the time you developed diabetes.
Also, if you're going to accuse someone of attacking you, at least spell the latin correctly.
Capitalism: The cynic's economic system.
For crissakes, it's in the second sentence of the freaking summary:
So save your sarcasm for when you actually bothered to read at least the summary.
Hilf's answers sound quite reasonable, something that most of us don't associate with Microsoft. I understand that his answered were cleared by MSFT public relations department, but that's not quite the same as saying that the company as a whole feels the same way he does. How much of this is just him and/or his department, and how much of this is truly the attitude of the company as a whole? A lot of what some of the other talking heads at Microsoft have been saying over the years is not only different, it's often completely counter to Hilf's views.
Well, there's that shorter life expectancy. Not third world standards, but noticeably shorter than ours. Japan is a pretty old population though.
Do you just make stuff up as you go along to prove your points? Per the CIA World Factbook, the US has 20.6% of its population 0-14 years of age, and 67% ages 15-64. China similarly has 21.4% ages 0-14 years and 71% ages 15-64. China is a younger country than the United States, and certainly younger than Europe.
But at least we have a "devise" society!
I don't see that list view in Windows is such a great thing, and I've been using Windows since 2.0. List view in OS X gives you more information than Windows, but that's touted as a disadvantage? It doesn't cost you anything more. If you don't want to see the rest of the information, just resize the Window so that you don't have to be bothered by all that confusing date and size information. I always found the existence of both a "List" view and a "Details" view in Windows redundant.
You can also use Column view mode in OS X and again resize the window so that only shows you a list of files and small icons. Finder has some usability issues, but this isn't one of them as far as I'm concerned. And it beats the crap out of Explorer like a red-headed stepchild (no insult intended to those red-headed step-children here).
They could be just the trumps, like the cards in Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber.
Did you even glance at Sorkin's full resume? I'm not in the industry, but holy crap some of the things he's worked on are amazing.
In the wide open west, our counties are big enough to contain your states. Brewster County, Texas is larger than Rhode Island, and Delware, and Connecticut, and almost as large as Massachussetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. Hell, it's more than twice as big than Rhode Island and Delaware put together.
There is a way to use menus without a mouse:
System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts > Keyboard Navigation > Move focus to the menu bar.
You can change the short cut key to any key or combination you like.
Actually, not necessarily. Go to google and do a search on:
movies [your zip code]
The links to the movie titles and showtimes take me directly to the theater's page to buy tickets online. Yahoo doesn't link to the theater's page that way. Also, Google's is a text page, so it loads as fast as possible even on my Treo. Yahoo's page is typically loaded with graphics and animated advertisements. Also, Google lists more theaters in my area by default than does Yahoo.
Have you actually looked at the iTunes preferences?
Under "Advanced", uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library". Just like magic, iTunes no longer rearranges your music files!
The part you don't seem to understand is that it isn't necessarily to preserve heat that marijuana growers use mylar. It's to prevent excess heat from leaking out and showing up on overhead infrared cameras the DEA uses to find them. Buying once space blanket isn't going to attract attention. Buying 200 of them may be a a different matter entirely.
How ironic that you should use that as an example. The US just reinstated textiles quotas specifically against China to protect the crucial textile mill worker sector of our economy. China isn't doing anything that other nations aren't doing.
Well, to be fair, it's not as if the original BG was filled with fat, ugly people either. They didn't change it in the new show at all. Rather they are following the lead of the original series.
No, more like: Linux: Hey, where the hell does this go?
No mod points today, but you'd get a +1 insightful if I had my mod points from yesterday.
Obviously, he's a citizen from the enlightened country of New Mexico!
The ambient lighting thing is pretty big. My LCD monitors (Dell 2001 FP) seem to reflect considerably much less ambient light than my CRT (pretty good Hitachi 19" tube). I don't know why, but it's subjectively a large difference. In a bright room, the LCD has much better real world contrast than the CRT. In a pitch black room, the CRT wins, but that's not how I use my computer.
I don't necessarily think an "Overrated" moderation should have been replaced by a reply instead. I don't know what your comment was moderated before the Overrated mod, but the mod probably just thought your post wasn't Insightful or not Insightful enough to warrant the score it had. Doesn't mean he hates you or disagrees with your question or your right to ask it, merely that he didn't think it was a particularly insightful question.
Well, he did use the Encheferizer.
I love how you used the car/computer analogy to illustrate your point, then told the parent poster to stop using them because they're not illustrative.
Not sure what you're talking about. Chat windows do not steal focus in OSX. Almost nothing steals focus in OSX.
I'd do it, but I'm not a coder. :(