(Cut to the office of the supreme commander. He is now nude behind his desk. A kidney bowl full of water is on desk; he is dabbing at himself with a sponge. The intercom buzzes. He switches it on.)
Voice: Still no sign of Captain Carpenter, sir... or Mr Neutron.
Commander: OK. We'll bomb Neutron out. Get me Moscow! Peking! and Shanklin, Isle of Wight!
(Cut to stock film of B52s on a bombing raid.)
Voice Over: And so the Great Powers and the people of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, drew their net in ever-tightening circles around the most dangerous threat to peace the world has ever faced. They bombed Cairo, Bangkok, Cape Town, Buenos Aires, Harrow, Hammersmith, Stephey, Wandsworth and Enfield... But always it was the wrong place.
(Cut to an area of smoking rubble. A van with the words 'US Air Force' on the side trundles through the rubble. It has a loudspeaker on the top of it.)
Loudspeaker: Sorry Enfield!... We apologize for any inconvenience caused by our bombing... sorry...
Voice Over: But what of Mr Neutron, the most fearfully dangerous man in the world! The man who could destroy entire galaxies with his wrist, the man who could tear fruit machines apart with his eyeballs... He had not been idle!
Clear, concise, and reasoned discussions are very much needed today.
For reasoned discussions you need objective, accurate data, of which isn't an abundance of in the battlefields, as it's mainly chaos. It's the same chaos that fuels injustice and revenge.
They didn't volunteer to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan.
and then get to wash their hands when innocents are killed.
That's military top-dog's responsibility. And the politicians' who don't push for "change". (In Vietnam a lot of people got away with fragging. Where was the hand of the law then? You know there aren't a lot of witnesses in a war zone, it's not the same as a crime in a city street.)
Hey, how did the draft prevent killing 4 million Vietnamese civilians?
That way you only made the ipad more attractive: see, there are a lot of free apps! So they'll get the money of hosting back several times through hardware sales.
Where did you get the idea that an iPad is supposed to be a replacement for a PC? The idea that Jobs is pushing is that the new ecosystem is casual computing for which a full-blooded PC or MacBook is overkill.
The only exception is gaming, and content creation like movies, music, and other such art.
And browsing the web... 1, Flash 2, HTML has changed quite a bit during the years (div tag e.g.) 3, watch movies (HD puts on quite a strain...) 4, even gmail will be sluggish on an old machine (Javascript, you know... )
The main reason that you have an app for everything in the Apple ecosystem, and the appliance status of Ipad is because that way content creators can better control consumption of content: no save page for offline viewing, everything is harder to pirate etc. That way they can lure in big publishers. On the other hand the amount of available content will lure in more users. And they're all locked to the Ipad. So Android is catering to a completely different market. (Traditional hackers/geeks.) And that's why they will coexist just fine. And that's why Apple's main competitor is the Kindle.
Cmon, I had a C64 with a mouse. (It was really nice for point-and-click LucasArts games and there was a music notation software that could use it as well; I don't remember an Office suit, but at the age of 6 it wasn't my main intrest).
The LD50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 40–60 mg (0.5-1.0 mg/kg) can be a lethal dosage for adult humans.[41][42] Nicotine therefore has a high toxicity in comparison to many other alkaloids such as cocaine, which has an LD50 of 95.1 mg/kg when administered to mice.
According to animal studies, taurine produces anxiolytic effect and may act as a modulator or anti-anxiety agent in the central nervous system.[44][45][46]
Nicotine does have cognitive enhancing effects and can also act as an anti-psychotic (in fact the only one that doesn't have potentially devastating side effects)
What about a taurine-magnesium mix? (And it's certainly healthier.)
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When I saw World of Goo first I thought it's just a BridgeBuilder clone, however with the elasticity, the ballons they spiced it up significantly.
If the customer's were the selfish Ayn-Randians, they wouldn't earn anything.
Oh, and Warzone2100 (failed commercially, gone opensource)
A lot of them started as failed commercial products (e.g. Firefox,Blender). Although I still not see how it'd be first. (BSD?, GNU/Linux?)
Oh, we just have to use Haskell, and the compiler will do the job! /ducks
You can't adopt if you're living in your mom's basement.
It's OK that it's recycled toilet paper, but WHY BROWN??!!!
[citation needed] (not that I like them, just for correctness)
(Cut to the office of the supreme commander. He is now nude behind his desk. A kidney bowl full of water is on desk; he is dabbing at himself with a sponge. The intercom buzzes. He switches it on.)
Voice: Still no sign of Captain Carpenter, sir... or Mr Neutron.
Commander: OK. We'll bomb Neutron out. Get me Moscow! Peking! and Shanklin, Isle of Wight!
(Cut to stock film of B52s on a bombing raid.)
Voice Over: And so the Great Powers and the people of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, drew their net in ever-tightening circles around the most dangerous threat to peace the world has ever faced. They bombed Cairo, Bangkok, Cape Town, Buenos Aires, Harrow, Hammersmith, Stephey, Wandsworth and Enfield... But always it was the wrong place.
(Cut to an area of smoking rubble. A van with the words 'US Air Force' on the side trundles through the rubble. It has a loudspeaker on the top of it.)
Loudspeaker: Sorry Enfield!... We apologize for any inconvenience caused by our bombing... sorry...
Voice Over: But what of Mr Neutron, the most fearfully dangerous man in the world! The man who could destroy entire galaxies with his wrist, the man who could tear fruit machines apart with his eyeballs... He had not been idle!
(Continued...)
Clear, concise, and reasoned discussions are very much needed today.
For reasoned discussions you need objective, accurate data, of which isn't an abundance of in the battlefields, as it's mainly chaos. It's the same chaos that fuels injustice and revenge.
What they have volunteered to do.
They didn't volunteer to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan.
and then get to wash their hands when innocents are killed.
That's military top-dog's responsibility. And the politicians' who don't push for "change". (In Vietnam a lot of people got away with fragging. Where was the hand of the law then? You know there aren't a lot of witnesses in a war zone, it's not the same as a crime in a city street.)
Hey, how did the draft prevent killing 4 million Vietnamese civilians?
That way you only made the ipad more attractive: see, there are a lot of free apps! So they'll get the money of hosting back several times through hardware sales.
So the obvious step is to increase the sample size.
Where did you get the idea that an iPad is supposed to be a replacement for a PC? The idea that Jobs is pushing is that the new ecosystem is casual computing for which a full-blooded PC or MacBook is overkill.
Maybe he RTFA?
Hey, just imaginge: software developers using Visual Studio that runs on the cloud!
The only exception is gaming, and content creation like movies, music, and other such art.
And browsing the web ... ...) ... )
1, Flash
2, HTML has changed quite a bit during the years (div tag e.g.)
3, watch movies (HD puts on quite a strain
4, even gmail will be sluggish on an old machine (Javascript, you know
The MPEG-LA has insinuated for some time that it is impossible to build any video codec without infringing on at least some of their patents.
Then I guess it's time for some anti-trust litigation ...
So what Apple is doing is practically soft DRM. That way they can avoid bad publicity and remain Slashdot compatible.
The main reason that you have an app for everything in the Apple ecosystem, and the appliance status of Ipad is because that way content creators can better control consumption of content: no save page for offline viewing, everything is harder to pirate etc. That way they can lure in big publishers. On the other hand the amount of available content will lure in more users. And they're all locked to the Ipad. So Android is catering to a completely different market. (Traditional hackers/geeks.) And that's why they will coexist just fine. And that's why Apple's main competitor is the Kindle.
If you have a look at the Wikipedia page of taurin, only positive effects are listed, and they're all sourced.
It helps with brain function, is antioxidant, helps protein digestion and muscle development etc.
I'm a bit mystified as to how you figure my post to be "total BS" since you refuted nothing that I said.
You said
1, taurine doesn't have anti-psychotic effect
2, nicotine isn't toxic
I refuted these.
... the microbes will eat all our oil!
On a similar note: do you have any idea what happens to heavy metals? And how the biosphere gets rid of it
Cmon, I had a C64 with a mouse. (It was really nice for point-and-click LucasArts games and there was a music notation software that could use it as well; I don't remember an Office suit, but at the age of 6 it wasn't my main intrest).
Sorry, but that's total BS.
Wikipedia:
The LD50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 40–60 mg (0.5-1.0 mg/kg) can be a lethal dosage for adult humans.[41][42] Nicotine therefore has a high toxicity in comparison to many other alkaloids such as cocaine, which has an LD50 of 95.1 mg/kg when administered to mice.
According to animal studies, taurine produces anxiolytic effect and may act as a modulator or anti-anxiety agent in the central nervous system.[44][45][46]
Nicotine does have cognitive enhancing effects and can also act as an anti-psychotic (in fact the only one that doesn't have potentially devastating side effects)
What about a taurine-magnesium mix? (And it's certainly healthier.)