Yes...Lysol products, you bring up a good point. Who is to say those are any safer than half the "chemicals" everywhere. Just because it isn't something I eat doesn't mean its gonna kill my ass. And at the same time, if people really think that they can "stay ahead" of all the germs in their house, now that is hilarious.
In truth I imagine Dioxin is just like anything else, sure you can put up with a lot, but generally speaking too much of one thing usually isn't good for you. (Unless of course it is Slashdot)
Lastly
I haven't barely had a sniffle in over half a decade. SOMEONE at home is always sick.
Amen, same here...but I also maintain good Antivirus software...
I may not agree on everything this man said, and hell he wouldn't want me to. But he sure did nail some things right: Fear of Germs
Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you noticed this? The media constantly running stories about all the latest infections? Salmonella, E-coli, hanta virus, bird flu, and Americans will panic easily so everybody's running around scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs. It's ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths.
In prisons, before they give you lethal injection, they swab your arm with ALCOHOL. Wouldn't want some guy to go to hell AND be sick. Fear of germs, why these fuckin' pussies. You can't even get a decent hamburger anymore they cook the shit out of everything now 'cause everyone's afraid of FOOD POISONING! Hey, wheres you sense of adventure? Take a fuckin' chance will you? Hey you know how many people die of food poisoning in this country? Nine thousand, thats all, its a minor risk.
Take a fuckin' chance bunch of goddamn pussies. Besides, what d'ya think you have an immune system for? It's for killing germs! But it needs practice, it needs germs to practice on. So if you kill all the germs around you, and live a completely sterile life, then when germs do come along, you're not gonna be prepared. And never mind ordinary germs, what are you gonna do when some super virus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid shit?! I'll tell you what your gonna do... you're gonna get sick. You're gonna die and your gonna deserve it because you're fucking weak and you got a fuckin' weak immune system!
Let me tell you a true story about immunization ok. When I was a little boy in New York city in the nineteen-forties, we swam in the Hudson river. And it was filled with raw sewage! OK? We swam in raw sewage, you know, to cool off. And at that time the big fear was polio. Thousands of kids died from polio every year. But you know something? In my neighborhood no one ever got polio. No one! EVER! You know why? Cause WE SWAM IN RAW SEWAGE! It strengthened our immune system, the polio never had a prayer. We were tempered in raw shit! George Carlin
Disclaimer: I trusted Google on getting a "reliable" quote, I read most of it, but the typos made me twitch too
[1] Confidence interval to define what beyond a reasonable doubt is...
[2a] Poll people on various levels of hardcore pornography and lewd internet content anonymously of course...
[2b] Poll these same people on borderline content that is already considered acceptable on televisions to filter out biased idiots.
[3] Does it fit?
It may be science, but this is just phase 1 of testing...we then would need to study the effect on minors over a 20 year period to size up the effects: on many levels of dosages. Or perhaps we could just use rats?
Yessir, I for one have played Starcraft as a drinking game:
Lose a base: chug a 1/2 beer
Kill a base: drink
Lose a building that can train units, drink
Lose a SCV/Probe/Drone, drink. (cooldown: ~30 seconds)
Lose the match: chug a beer
Win the match: Victory beer
Ok, maybe Starcraft isn't the best of drinking games, but any shooter (you die: drink), etc.
As a healer in an mmorpg, every time someone in my responsible party dies, I drink...drink if you fail on a boss with less than 25% health, even more at 10%, etc. There are lots of ways to innovate, because yes, it is all about the alcohol:)
Your right, I mean honestly the fractals are "not needed". Of course what is sent to a monitor is not in JPEG format, but as many other comments have rightfully pointed out: the pixels on today's monitors are so close does it really matter anymore? Lastly the article seems to be discussing an image manipulation technique more than an actual "lcd display technique".
Perhaps M.Vick should have started betting on mouse-fights? I mean the kitties would approve...and they win the hearts and minds of the people you know.
You know my landlord! I swear the f***** takes his two Jerry-Rigged dishes, has his "friend" who doesn't know jack "service" the signal (which I believe is illegal to do that to an unwilling dish in all 50 states). The result, however, is just 2 direct tv boxes and analog cable for as many users as you can up the signal. Yes the signal is scratchy and hideous however, and the HD option is out the window.
A more relevant answer to your question, however, would be to get say 20 boxes...I dare say there are that many quality television channels anyway, and make your own broadcast, this is what they do in many institutions. Now one could hook up TV's with much less restriction...
They are the easiest to manipulate algorithmically.
It's killing me because I cannot find an neat article explaining this, but I heard once that might not always be true. Take for example your standard compressed image: a JPEG. At the most basic of sense we have a lot of painful null-spaces and matrix operations here, but what if we instead varied maybe 3/4 of the pixels? We could then use these original (isolated) pixels as a point of reference, sort of like a linked list, with 1/3 donuts pixels surrounding this main pixel. Alternate the initial angles of these donixels "viewing angles", contrast, etc, and we have something that could potentially compete mathematically. When the new image is rendered, it is stored as the main pixel with other pixels stored as almost a "child" of the main pixel only by how they are offset: arbitrary - {X=500,Y=200,R=[0-3]}
In the end its the same number of pixels, just as a nested array allowing for different shapes/etc.
Disclaimer: I do not pretend this to be an actual science or applied theory, I just remember hearing it and thought you might find it interesting as I did:)
It is nice to the websites in which we are linking (the Slashdot effect can be taxing), and not every user views Slashdot from a computer or high-speed internet connection, [insert joke here about portable devices].
I used to, but it was too annoying to turn off. I have a few "installations/run settings" on my browser, but my no script browser session is tied in with my no cookies, activex (or COM for you MS people haha), etc. Good point though:)
To correctly link to a text only version, use the MySlate feature found here, select your story, press view story, and link the new link. That way thousands of users will not have to press "cancel print".
I sir refuse to accept that society is inherently ignorant, however stupid it may seem, and we must accept that conclusion.
I refuse to accept that an oil company or a car manufacturer is solely to blame, blame cannot ever be shifted.
The fact is, when you are referring to our lifestyles, is that everyone screwed up. erroneus, I do applaud your ability to see that other are to blame, but the masses are not mindless drones as we would be taught to believe. The truth is, as put by my next door neighbor, age 85 who works at a factory:
(paraphrase)
I do not give a damn what people tell me I need to drive, I drive a pickup. Why you may ask, because I damn well feel like it and its damn useful when I need to haul shit.
You know, in the end we can all say we wouldn't have driven SUV's if SUV's were not made, but to me that is on the same line of "guns kill people". No in truth people kill people, just by their chosen medium. SUV's could have been replaced by something else, who knows...but the culture would have SUV's become popular because of the convenience they provide. If your going to generalize towards a culture, lets just say we have too much money and are lazy, I will not argue with that:)
it does make it less likely that it will be sent live by accident - and even if it is, there's no chance of actually offending anyone.
True story. Those who know how to properly translate Latin to English, etc usually are not the those who are capable or willing to make an online translator. Google translate doesn't do Latin right? - at least it didn't many years ago when I was in high school!
This time maybe they shouldn't outsource the project to Mattel.
Outsource the risk of being wrong then write it off...where have I seen this before? Or we could just take a whole bunch of predictions and package them together, they can't all be wrong right?
Sir, we have detected that you've been visiting the site http://www.brains4zombies.com/ 50 times in the past week...Can you please eat this cookie to confirm your identity?
But really this brings the fundamental question, if eating brains warrants a zombie-tag as one could call it...and Twitter is a waste of brain cells, could it be Twitter is just a zombie-host? This would bring about a whole new set of issues, I for one being a fan of cutting the damn annoying service off, permanently.
Natural Gas doesn't pollute as much, they generate 3,000 MWh for 400 Simoleons. (0.13/MWh)
That is not enough power for our cities! I think we would need quite a bit of these plants and of course parks to mitigate the effects! Now if your considering this on a region basis, this shouldn't even be an issue because pollution can disappear over borders completely.
Yes I concur...up in my apartment back at school, I get dial-up speeds from 4:00pm to 10:30pm. If I need to download a large file, I schedule it for 3:00am (to be kind to everyone else)...but the point is the ISP my landlord buys is clearly cheating him. I've seen the switchboard data!
Oddly enough I think the best way to "measure" an ISP would be with a poll: which ISP seems to piss off more of its users on a regular basis? If I can never find a good ISP, at least help me avoid the really bad ones!
Slashdot Mirror
Yes I am fully aware of that. I was merely remarking on the irony of obsessing about such a prevalent substance: germs are everywhere you know?
:)
Yes...Lysol products, you bring up a good point. Who is to say those are any safer than half the "chemicals" everywhere. Just because it isn't something I eat doesn't mean its gonna kill my ass. And at the same time, if people really think that they can "stay ahead" of all the germs in their house, now that is hilarious.
In truth I imagine Dioxin is just like anything else, sure you can put up with a lot, but generally speaking too much of one thing usually isn't good for you. (Unless of course it is Slashdot)
Lastly
I haven't barely had a sniffle in over half a decade. SOMEONE at home is always sick.
Amen, same here...but I also maintain good Antivirus software...
I may not agree on everything this man said, and hell he wouldn't want me to. But he sure did nail some things right:
Fear of Germs
Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you noticed this? The media constantly running stories about all the latest infections? Salmonella, E-coli, hanta virus, bird flu, and Americans will panic easily so everybody's running around scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs. It's ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths.
In prisons, before they give you lethal injection, they swab your arm with ALCOHOL. Wouldn't want some guy to go to hell AND be sick. Fear of germs, why these fuckin' pussies. You can't even get a decent hamburger anymore they cook the shit out of everything now 'cause everyone's afraid of FOOD POISONING! Hey, wheres you sense of adventure? Take a fuckin' chance will you? Hey you know how many people die of food poisoning in this country? Nine thousand, thats all, its a minor risk.
Take a fuckin' chance bunch of goddamn pussies. Besides, what d'ya think you have an immune system for? It's for killing germs! But it needs practice, it needs germs to practice on. So if you kill all the germs around you, and live a completely sterile life, then when germs do come along, you're not gonna be prepared. And never mind ordinary germs, what are you gonna do when some super virus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid shit?! I'll tell you what your gonna do ... you're gonna get sick. You're gonna die and your gonna deserve it because you're fucking weak and you got a fuckin' weak immune system!
Let me tell you a true story about immunization ok. When I was a little boy in New York city in the nineteen-forties, we swam in the Hudson river. And it was filled with raw sewage! OK? We swam in raw sewage, you know, to cool off. And at that time the big fear was polio. Thousands of kids died from polio every year. But you know something? In my neighborhood no one ever got polio. No one! EVER! You know why? Cause WE SWAM IN RAW SEWAGE! It strengthened our immune system, the polio never had a prayer. We were tempered in raw shit!
George Carlin
Disclaimer: I trusted Google on getting a "reliable" quote, I read most of it, but the typos made me twitch too
Sorry, I just like statistics:
[1] Confidence interval to define what beyond a reasonable doubt is...
[2a] Poll people on various levels of hardcore pornography and lewd internet content anonymously of course...
[2b] Poll these same people on borderline content that is already considered acceptable on televisions to filter out biased idiots.
[3] Does it fit?
It may be science, but this is just phase 1 of testing...we then would need to study the effect on minors over a 20 year period to size up the effects: on many levels of dosages. Or perhaps we could just use rats?
Yessir, I for one have played Starcraft as a drinking game:
Ok, maybe Starcraft isn't the best of drinking games, but any shooter (you die: drink), etc.
As a healer in an mmorpg, every time someone in my responsible party dies, I drink...drink if you fail on a boss with less than 25% health, even more at 10%, etc. There are lots of ways to innovate, because yes, it is all about the alcohol :)
Me too... I just was scrolling through and went, oh that's a big'un!
All I have to say is, at 5bph (beers per hour), 10fps does just fine for me!
The "but since I don't [insert something here] much so I'm not too worried." argument is dangerous:
"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
-Martin Niemöller
more information
Perhaps the example above is a bit extreme, but today liberties are not lost in large chunks, just inch-by-inch.
My first response to that would be: how good of quality really was the topic? - It was for freshman economics...probably Macroeconomics.
forwarding, re-tweeting, re-blogging, and re-posting
That was so "Web 2.0" as some dub it, we let all the bots do that now :)
Your right, I mean honestly the fractals are "not needed". Of course what is sent to a monitor is not in JPEG format, but as many other comments have rightfully pointed out: the pixels on today's monitors are so close does it really matter anymore? Lastly the article seems to be discussing an image manipulation technique more than an actual "lcd display technique".
Perhaps M.Vick should have started betting on mouse-fights? I mean the kitties would approve...and they win the hearts and minds of the people you know.
You know my landlord! I swear the f***** takes his two Jerry-Rigged dishes, has his "friend" who doesn't know jack "service" the signal (which I believe is illegal to do that to an unwilling dish in all 50 states). The result, however, is just 2 direct tv boxes and analog cable for as many users as you can up the signal. Yes the signal is scratchy and hideous however, and the HD option is out the window.
A more relevant answer to your question, however, would be to get say 20 boxes...I dare say there are that many quality television channels anyway, and make your own broadcast, this is what they do in many institutions. Now one could hook up TV's with much less restriction...
They are the easiest to manipulate algorithmically.
It's killing me because I cannot find an neat article explaining this, but I heard once that might not always be true. Take for example your standard compressed image: a JPEG. At the most basic of sense we have a lot of painful null-spaces and matrix operations here, but what if we instead varied maybe 3/4 of the pixels? We could then use these original (isolated) pixels as a point of reference, sort of like a linked list, with 1/3 donuts pixels surrounding this main pixel. Alternate the initial angles of these donixels "viewing angles", contrast, etc, and we have something that could potentially compete mathematically. When the new image is rendered, it is stored as the main pixel with other pixels stored as almost a "child" of the main pixel only by how they are offset: arbitrary - {X=500,Y=200,R=[0-3]}
In the end its the same number of pixels, just as a nested array allowing for different shapes/etc.
Disclaimer: I do not pretend this to be an actual science or applied theory, I just remember hearing it and thought you might find it interesting as I did :)
attempting to commit Manifest Destiny
Do not know if that is the right joke with a "Black hole".
I'd say we are more likely to have us go Supernova: we are much fatter this way and our glory will shine over many other planets!
It is nice to the websites in which we are linking (the Slashdot effect can be taxing), and not every user views Slashdot from a computer or high-speed internet connection, [insert joke here about portable devices].
I used to, but it was too annoying to turn off. I have a few "installations/run settings" on my browser, but my no script browser session is tied in with my no cookies, activex (or COM for you MS people haha), etc. Good point though :)
Mr. KDawson,
To correctly link to a text only version, use the MySlate feature found here, select your story, press view story, and link the new link. That way thousands of users will not have to press "cancel print".
thanks,
-Everyone
Link without the print:
http://www.slate.com/Apps/MySlate/action/read.aspx?action=read&ids=2259350&sortmethod=false
I sir refuse to accept that society is inherently ignorant, however stupid it may seem, and we must accept that conclusion.
I refuse to accept that an oil company or a car manufacturer is solely to blame, blame cannot ever be shifted.
The fact is, when you are referring to our lifestyles, is that everyone screwed up. erroneus, I do applaud your ability to see that other are to blame, but the masses are not mindless drones as we would be taught to believe. The truth is, as put by my next door neighbor, age 85 who works at a factory:
(paraphrase)
I do not give a damn what people tell me I need to drive, I drive a pickup. Why you may ask, because I damn well feel like it and its damn useful when I need to haul shit.
You know, in the end we can all say we wouldn't have driven SUV's if SUV's were not made, but to me that is on the same line of "guns kill people". No in truth people kill people, just by their chosen medium. SUV's could have been replaced by something else, who knows...but the culture would have SUV's become popular because of the convenience they provide. If your going to generalize towards a culture, lets just say we have too much money and are lazy, I will not argue with that :)
I be some user just entered
<script>
before a comment.
Control the content you control the users, right?
it does make it less likely that it will be sent live by accident - and even if it is, there's no chance of actually offending anyone.
True story. Those who know how to properly translate Latin to English, etc usually are not the those who are capable or willing to make an online translator. Google translate doesn't do Latin right? - at least it didn't many years ago when I was in high school!
"Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked."
This time maybe they shouldn't outsource the project to Mattel.
Outsource the risk of being wrong then write it off...where have I seen this before? Or we could just take a whole bunch of predictions and package them together, they can't all be wrong right?
You should move to Deer Park... none of that worry and fuss here!
Sir, we have detected that you've been visiting the site http://www.brains4zombies.com/ 50 times in the past week...Can you please eat this cookie to confirm your identity?
But really this brings the fundamental question, if eating brains warrants a zombie-tag as one could call it...and Twitter is a waste of brain cells, could it be Twitter is just a zombie-host? This would bring about a whole new set of issues, I for one being a fan of cutting the damn annoying service off, permanently.
Look...you mixing it all up!
Natural Gas doesn't pollute as much, they generate 3,000 MWh for 400 Simoleons. (0.13/MWh)
That is not enough power for our cities! I think we would need quite a bit of these plants and of course parks to mitigate the effects! Now if your considering this on a region basis, this shouldn't even be an issue because pollution can disappear over borders completely.
Source
In the end its all how we zone, not where our power comes from...
Yes I concur...up in my apartment back at school, I get dial-up speeds from 4:00pm to 10:30pm. If I need to download a large file, I schedule it for 3:00am (to be kind to everyone else)...but the point is the ISP my landlord buys is clearly cheating him. I've seen the switchboard data!
Oddly enough I think the best way to "measure" an ISP would be with a poll: which ISP seems to piss off more of its users on a regular basis? If I can never find a good ISP, at least help me avoid the really bad ones!