It's not the environment, it's the way Slash evolved. I've got a similar problem at my job; our web product started small, at a time when we were a smaller company without the 'Design and Plan and Review first, then Build it' mentality. Then it got big and popular, and lots of new stuff was grafted on, and there was never any time to rebuild it with a proper design.
I've read the Slash book, and looked at the code a bit, and I can see that the same thing happened. Just like with my product, Slash needs a proper redesign and a complete rewrite. That's a LOT of work, but once it's done, any future large-scale changes to the output will be much simpler to implement.
This bit of film is just a tiny bit of the evidence supporting the existence of one or more species of large primates surviving in remote locations. If it's real, and this guy is just trying to make a buck (wouldn't be the first time) then it's a great bit of film. If it's not real, that's ok, it's not a critical piece of evidence.
Check out http://www.bfro.net/ for an idea of the scope of evidence for this creature.
Remember, mountain gorillas, bonobos, and plenty of other large animals were all thought to be myths before they were 'discovered' by western scientists. Now that we've figured out where they live, and the fact that they tend to stay in one spot, we've been able to study them in detail. Someday, we'll figure out a way to track and study these new primates too.
Not only will TDP allow us to make new oil from any organic waste (from farm waste to that big plastic box you're looking at) but it'll be a fraction of the current cost, too. In the article they state that oil can be produced for US$8 to US$12 a barrel, but todays price is about $30/barrel. Even the long-term post-WWII average is $15-$19/barrel.
http://www.wtrg.com/prices.htm
The company building these TDP plants is currently building a large-scale plant in Japan. The Japanese don't have their own oil sources, but I expect that they'll convert completely over to manufactured oil as soon as they can, so they can stop importing oil, and may even become an exporter.
Actually, they simulated a plane hit for the biggest planes of the time, which were smaller than the ones that hit the WTC. They probably estimated less fuel, too.
The girders were insulated; the design called for asbestos, which was used most of the way up. Midway through construction the use of asbestos was outlawed, and a less effective insulation was used for the top half/third of the towers. It's likely that the towers would have stood much longer if asbestos had been used all the way up, though the structural damage caused by the planes might have led to eventual failure.
If the towers stood long enough for the fire to be brought under control, it might have been possible to rescue anyone who survived the smoke above the impacts. It might have been possible to reinforce the structure, too, before it collapsed. Then again, maybe they would have collapsed anyway, just a bit later.
Green tea has a bit more in it than ground up leaves; there's all kinds of stuff western nutritionist haven't identified, patented, marked-up, and bottled yet. The decaffiniation process might wipe a lot of that stuff out, though.
I think the soda brand is named Diet Rite; I don't have any in my fridge at the moment, so I can't check. It's available in New Jersey, but maybe not elsewhere.
You might also check out the Atkins website; they've got a lot of products that are pretty good, though often pricey. Contrary to what most people believe about Atkins, the most beneficial aspect of the Atkins diet is cutting out the sugar and other carbs that cause insulin spikes. So the website sells lots of stuff that is low-glycemic, without really bad substitutes like Nutrasweet.
No, I don't work for them or anything, I just read about nutrition a lot.
The gallon of water is fine (spread through the day, I hope) but the gallon of milk and gallon of juice are bad. In particular, the juice is nearly as bad as soda; it's full of sugar.
Consider this: one orange has water, sugar (fructose), fiber, and vitamins (mostly in the pulp.) If you eat an orange, you feel happy. To make a glass of orange juice, you have to squeeze SIX oranges, which keeps the water and sugar, but loses most or all of the fiber and vitamins. So you're basically drinking flat orange soda.
Milk isn't much better, especially the low-fat/non-fat stuff. It's full of lactose, which is another sugar, and without the fat it's much less satisfying, so you drink more of it. I'm assuming you're not a baby cow, so milk is a questionable part of your diet anyway.
Water is good, green tea is awesome, and you can get it caffene-free. There's also a brand of soda that is made with sucralose, which your body can't process, so it doesn't cause an insulin spike like most sugars do. I wouldn't drink gallons of it, but sometimes it's nice to have something carbonated, and seltzer can get boring.
Yeah, cookies are sent back only to the domain they came from. Here's the trick, which I assume is what C|Net has patented: the cookie from each domain contains a unique userid. Each domain maps that userid to whatever other information it can gather from that user. Sooner or later, the user might enter an email address, real name, address, or something like that, which will connect the userid to an actual identification of a person.
Now, the trick is that all of C|Net's domains share the same back-end database for storing userids, and once the person is identified, all the userids that person has collected in cookies are linked together. C|Net can now tell that user#14353234 on builder.com is the same person as user#6329234 on shopper.com, and can target advertising according to those two profiles. Later, C|Net might discover that this is also the same person as user#1235234 on news.com, and user#4323423 on games.com, and so on.
This is nothing new; people figured out that cookies could be abused this way pretty soon after they were introduced. (Actually, it was probably right after the 'only to same domain' restriction was added.) I've known about the method for a while, but I can't claim awareness of it prior to 1996.
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Nice, but irrelevant. How do you test the browser-specific templates?
It's not the environment, it's the way Slash evolved. I've got a similar problem at my job; our web product started small, at a time when we were a smaller company without the 'Design and Plan and Review first, then Build it' mentality. Then it got big and popular, and lots of new stuff was grafted on, and there was never any time to rebuild it with a proper design.
I've read the Slash book, and looked at the code a bit, and I can see that the same thing happened. Just like with my product, Slash needs a proper redesign and a complete rewrite. That's a LOT of work, but once it's done, any future large-scale changes to the output will be much simpler to implement.
This bit of film is just a tiny bit of the evidence supporting the existence of one or more species of large primates surviving in remote locations. If it's real, and this guy is just trying to make a buck (wouldn't be the first time) then it's a great bit of film. If it's not real, that's ok, it's not a critical piece of evidence.
Check out http://www.bfro.net/ for an idea of the scope of evidence for this creature.
Remember, mountain gorillas, bonobos, and plenty of other large animals were all thought to be myths before they were 'discovered' by western scientists. Now that we've figured out where they live, and the fact that they tend to stay in one spot, we've been able to study them in detail. Someday, we'll figure out a way to track and study these new primates too.
Not only will TDP allow us to make new oil from any organic waste (from farm waste to that big plastic box you're looking at) but it'll be a fraction of the current cost, too. In the article they state that oil can be produced for US$8 to US$12 a barrel, but todays price is about $30/barrel. Even the long-term post-WWII average is $15-$19/barrel.
http://www.wtrg.com/prices.htm
The company building these TDP plants is currently building a large-scale plant in Japan. The Japanese don't have their own oil sources, but I expect that they'll convert completely over to manufactured oil as soon as they can, so they can stop importing oil, and may even become an exporter.
Actually, they simulated a plane hit for the biggest planes of the time, which were smaller than the ones that hit the WTC. They probably estimated less fuel, too. The girders were insulated; the design called for asbestos, which was used most of the way up. Midway through construction the use of asbestos was outlawed, and a less effective insulation was used for the top half/third of the towers. It's likely that the towers would have stood much longer if asbestos had been used all the way up, though the structural damage caused by the planes might have led to eventual failure. If the towers stood long enough for the fire to be brought under control, it might have been possible to rescue anyone who survived the smoke above the impacts. It might have been possible to reinforce the structure, too, before it collapsed. Then again, maybe they would have collapsed anyway, just a bit later.
Green tea has a bit more in it than ground up leaves; there's all kinds of stuff western nutritionist haven't identified, patented, marked-up, and bottled yet. The decaffiniation process might wipe a lot of that stuff out, though.
I think the soda brand is named Diet Rite; I don't have any in my fridge at the moment, so I can't check. It's available in New Jersey, but maybe not elsewhere.
You might also check out the Atkins website; they've got a lot of products that are pretty good, though often pricey. Contrary to what most people believe about Atkins, the most beneficial aspect of the Atkins diet is cutting out the sugar and other carbs that cause insulin spikes. So the website sells lots of stuff that is low-glycemic, without really bad substitutes like Nutrasweet.
No, I don't work for them or anything, I just read about nutrition a lot.
The gallon of water is fine (spread through the day, I hope) but the gallon of milk and gallon of juice are bad. In particular, the juice is nearly as bad as soda; it's full of sugar.
Consider this: one orange has water, sugar (fructose), fiber, and vitamins (mostly in the pulp.) If you eat an orange, you feel happy. To make a glass of orange juice, you have to squeeze SIX oranges, which keeps the water and sugar, but loses most or all of the fiber and vitamins. So you're basically drinking flat orange soda.
Milk isn't much better, especially the low-fat/non-fat stuff. It's full of lactose, which is another sugar, and without the fat it's much less satisfying, so you drink more of it. I'm assuming you're not a baby cow, so milk is a questionable part of your diet anyway.
Water is good, green tea is awesome, and you can get it caffene-free. There's also a brand of soda that is made with sucralose, which your body can't process, so it doesn't cause an insulin spike like most sugars do. I wouldn't drink gallons of it, but sometimes it's nice to have something carbonated, and seltzer can get boring.
Now, the trick is that all of C|Net's domains share the same back-end database for storing userids, and once the person is identified, all the userids that person has collected in cookies are linked together. C|Net can now tell that user#14353234 on builder.com is the same person as user#6329234 on shopper.com, and can target advertising according to those two profiles. Later, C|Net might discover that this is also the same person as user#1235234 on news.com, and user#4323423 on games.com, and so on.
This is nothing new; people figured out that cookies could be abused this way pretty soon after they were introduced. (Actually, it was probably right after the 'only to same domain' restriction was added.) I've known about the method for a while, but I can't claim awareness of it prior to 1996.
Doug.