Actually, most of the issues with teflon are related to the fact that while teflon is supposedly safe to 400f, many pans reach as high as 500f at parts. That unfortunately leads to teflon breakdown. There was a recent serious of tests in Cooks Illustrated amoung other places.
Of course, I don't understand the fuss with teflon in the first place. My 'dupont teflon stain-free' carpet stains the worst (compared to the the previous one that was a super cheapie). My stain-free dockers with teflon have more coffee stains than my woolen trousers do, and teflon 'non-stick' cookware is typically worse than the stainless I usually use.
I use an iPod Mini with Grado 125s (which are quite large headphones) with no difficulty at all. Typically, I have the volume set to about 10-12%, and about 20% is my pain threshold (though my wife listens at about 40%). Perhaps if you are into loud, large headphones you should consider a headphone amp?
Of course, if Wal-Mart can't purchase from cheap Chinese sweat shops (going back to the original ideal, perhaps?) then they will be forced to purchase from other cheap sweat shops. Oh noes.
-WS
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I found a lot of Parisians were thin, but I attributed that to the doggie-doo dodging and the fact that the metro is like a high-intensity step aerobics course:)
-WS
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Please don't forget one other major factor -
Food used to be fairly simple. Thousands of years of grains/meats/herbs combined with moderately low heat on an individual basis. Modern food processing (for those of us that eat in such countries) involves food processes, chemicals, and techniques that we certainly did not evolve for. High fructose corn syrup in almost everything (hamburger buns? WTF?), foods created by superheating and injecting gases, and foods assembled in a laboratory are definately a curve ball.
I doubt anyone would drink soda if they actually had to form it from its core components. I can handle cooking steak, pastries, etc. I know how to grow/hunt the ingredients for most foods. Where does one hunt the wild aspartame? How do you go about making msg? If you had to do it in your kitchen, would you even bother?
Also, my pet theory is that humans are designed to be social eaters (sharing the kill, the harvest, etc). Company makes foods better. Ever smell a McDonald's burger that smells as good as a backyard barbecue one? Now, however, a lot of people wolf down their food by themselves in the car, or while working. They don't stop to pay attention to it, and they also frequently ingest several hundred calories of soda while eating.
I tried to go here - apparently this new game is some sort of exciting experiment. There doesn't appear to *be* an eve-online, according to my browsers:)
I am a fan of certain blended scotch/whiskey, but nothing beats a good single malt when I want to just enjoy my senses... a nice glass of scotch, a deep leather chair, just the right music, a good book, and about 3 hours with no kids:)
Agilent, formerly the *real* H-P makes the most reliable medical equipment I have ever seen. Yes, units come and go, but you'd be hard pressed to walk into an ICU and not find several screens perched on top of Agilent/HP devices. They practically own the market.
When my kid had cancer, I actually gave him some distraction by looking at all the machines he was hooked up to. I'd talk to him about them, and help him feel more confident about what he was going through.
I never saw a single machine that had MS Windows, though there were 2 OS/2 Warp 4 machines used in the radiology group.
Ironically, this was taken not as a warning, but as a comfort to most medieval knights. They, like the vikings, preferred this as a means of death to sickness, etc. Hence the use of swords when executing nobility.
There were certainly issues with body weight (or at least distribution)- we frequently had to put cement bags or gravel in the bed to make it up the icy/snowy hills leading to our ranch at the time. The rear wheels simply wouldn't hold otherwise.
Actually, that is an interesting point - as I would identify mostly as a Theravada Buddhist myself (as well as a Mac user) we could certainly have some interesting fun arguing this one - not as much the place Jobs holds in this, but certainly the place things like iPods and such should hold.
Here's another reason it's BS for those gullible people out there:
The hard deck is typically 1000 feet AGL, and "fly-bys" of a school below that would probably result in issues
I subscribe (print + online) to the OC Register. The online site is very nice, and the subscriber site is page by page, article by article. The TOC is quite nice, and the comics are perfect. You can see the whole paper at a glance, or (at least in Firefox and Safari) mouse over any article, picture, comic, or ad and see it blown up in standard plain text or image format.
In short, I love it. I also like NYTimes. I don't mind registering, since they aren't there as a charity:)
I have a similar issue - SAP's NetWeaver Portal is IE only (and actually *is*, for admins). They use all kinds of stupid DOM tricks that simply don't work under firefox, and they don't even use them intelligently. They use it for a stupid right-click menu that shouldn't even have been implemented that way. Hello? Java? The whole thing requires Java 1.4.2_08 or higher anyway.
I'm pissed off about it, and I have opened SAP OSS notes regarding it:)
I do wish there was a way to get firefox to be more 'crapatible' so I didn't have to use IE at all. It's annoying, since most of the admins use Unix here. We have to run an IE session just for this.
I'm unfamiliar with 11.4, but 10.4 has this feature:)
I actually use a mac pro keyboard at home on my macs, as well as at work on my sun boxes. It seems to work just fine everywhere. On the cheesy windows box at work, I simply remap the "apple" key to the windows control key, so that the apple+c apple+v apple+t stuff all works properly. I then remap the control key to the "windows" key, so the win+r win+e type stuff works easily.
The only difficulty I hit with that one is if I am using VNC to go to a mac box from windows, where those keys just don't work properly anyways.
Ironically, I was a huge fan of e-books when the trend started. I have *purchased* nearly 50 books in MS lit format... unfortunately, the DRM finally got to the point that I stopped entirely.
In the early edition readers and the first books, you could copy and paste (screen by screen) until you got the whole book. I did this in order to read my books on my handheld, which was 1 version older than the DRM on the ebooks.
When the newer readers came out (and I didn't fork over $650 for a new handheld, and chose to change desktop software) I lost access to 100% of my content. The few books I didn't 'back up' are now completely lost to me. I would have to purchase a PC with Windows or a new Pocket PC handheld to read them.
With iTunes, you at *least* can burn your stuff to a CD that plays everywhere. There are *no* options with the DRM ebooks.
So I got a library card, and I downloaded Project Gutenberg. I guess sometimes you have to take a step back if you want to keep moving forward.
Riiiiight. Well, I live in California, and I don't really notice marijuana being illegal. Heck, half the people I see surfing, skating, and working at local stores are stoned most of the time. The other half most likely take a shower occasionally. At times the smell of pot is so bad, you wonder if they even notice it. It does *not* smell like cigarette smoke.
Oh, and what does a "head shop" that specializes in "smoke accessories" and has a massive painting of marijuana on the wall sell? -WS
That's probably true. It's certainly a good reason.
I know my personal interest in games/gaming has been waning of late. I played with the PSP and the XBox 360 but just couldn't find any games that really made me go "Wow!" the way some of the PS2, N64, NES, and older PC games did. World of Warcraft is pretty nice, but I still use it mainly as something to do while chatting with friends.
I kinda miss the excitement I had at playing things like Devil May Cry (1), Frogger, etc. The new stuff is about as interesting as a hollywood flick, and not much more interactive in some cases.
I think he's saying "Why can't you get OpenOffice (equiv) for XBOX?" Which is a good question. Why don't all computers come with a BASIC interpretor anymore?
I looked at this issue on a thread a long time ago, and I'll restate it here - people don't care about computers anymore. I don't know why. My kids have access to gaming and coding technology I would have killed for, and they don't even care. They don't even play computer games much anymore - they're simply not interested. What the heck happened?
Game Informer this month released the 'statistic' that 78% of teenagers were becoming "less interested" in gaming. Anyone know if this is an actual trend? I thought gaming was on the rise. Computer Science certainly doesn't seem to be.
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You know, I'm starting to agree with that sentiment. I never seriously considered Ogg or anything like that before but I will start to do so.
:)
Time to take technology out of the hands of corporations and give it back to the inventors
-WS
You do if you live in LA :)
Actually, most of the issues with teflon are related to the fact that while teflon is supposedly safe to 400f, many pans reach as high as 500f at parts. That unfortunately leads to teflon breakdown. There was a recent serious of tests in Cooks Illustrated amoung other places.
Of course, I don't understand the fuss with teflon in the first place. My 'dupont teflon stain-free' carpet stains the worst (compared to the the previous one that was a super cheapie). My stain-free dockers with teflon have more coffee stains than my woolen trousers do, and teflon 'non-stick' cookware is typically worse than the stainless I usually use.
Teflon sucks. It's nonsense.
-WS
So the internet is basically Tatooine? That rocks!
-WS
Actually, I do it to flag as "hey, cool blog". :)
-WS
I use an iPod Mini with Grado 125s (which are quite large headphones) with no difficulty at all. Typically, I have the volume set to about 10-12%, and about 20% is my pain threshold (though my wife listens at about 40%). Perhaps if you are into loud, large headphones you should consider a headphone amp?
-WS
Of course, if Wal-Mart can't purchase from cheap Chinese sweat shops (going back to the original ideal, perhaps?) then they will be forced to purchase from other cheap sweat shops. Oh noes.
-WS
I found a lot of Parisians were thin, but I attributed that to the doggie-doo dodging and the fact that the metro is like a high-intensity step aerobics course :)
-WS
Please don't forget one other major factor -
Food used to be fairly simple. Thousands of years of grains/meats/herbs combined with moderately low heat on an individual basis. Modern food processing (for those of us that eat in such countries) involves food processes, chemicals, and techniques that we certainly did not evolve for. High fructose corn syrup in almost everything (hamburger buns? WTF?), foods created by superheating and injecting gases, and foods assembled in a laboratory are definately a curve ball.
I doubt anyone would drink soda if they actually had to form it from its core components. I can handle cooking steak, pastries, etc. I know how to grow/hunt the ingredients for most foods. Where does one hunt the wild aspartame? How do you go about making msg? If you had to do it in your kitchen, would you even bother?
Also, my pet theory is that humans are designed to be social eaters (sharing the kill, the harvest, etc). Company makes foods better. Ever smell a McDonald's burger that smells as good as a backyard barbecue one? Now, however, a lot of people wolf down their food by themselves in the car, or while working. They don't stop to pay attention to it, and they also frequently ingest several hundred calories of soda while eating.
Just my two bits.
-WS
I tried to go here - apparently this new game is some sort of exciting experiment. There doesn't appear to *be* an eve-online, according to my browsers :)
-WS
I am a fan of certain blended scotch/whiskey, but nothing beats a good single malt when I want to just enjoy my senses... a nice glass of scotch, a deep leather chair, just the right music, a good book, and about 3 hours with no kids :)
-WS
Holy crap that's funny!!
-WS
Agilent, formerly the *real* H-P makes the most reliable medical equipment I have ever seen. Yes, units come and go, but you'd be hard pressed to walk into an ICU and not find several screens perched on top of Agilent/HP devices. They practically own the market.
When my kid had cancer, I actually gave him some distraction by looking at all the machines he was hooked up to. I'd talk to him about them, and help him feel more confident about what he was going through.
I never saw a single machine that had MS Windows, though there were 2 OS/2 Warp 4 machines used in the radiology group.
-WS
Ironically, this was taken not as a warning, but as a comfort to most medieval knights. They, like the vikings, preferred this as a means of death to sickness, etc. Hence the use of swords when executing nobility.
-WS
There were certainly issues with body weight (or at least distribution)- we frequently had to put cement bags or gravel in the bed to make it up the icy/snowy hills leading to our ranch at the time. The rear wheels simply wouldn't hold otherwise.
-WS
I agree entirely. My family camped and hiked for ages before SUVs.
:)
Of course, what we had were Jeeps, International Scouts, and Pickup Trucks
-WS
Actually, that is an interesting point - as I would identify mostly as a Theravada Buddhist myself (as well as a Mac user) we could certainly have some interesting fun arguing this one - not as much the place Jobs holds in this, but certainly the place things like iPods and such should hold.
:)
Could be interesting
-WS
-WS
I subscribe (print + online) to the OC Register. The online site is very nice, and the subscriber site is page by page, article by article. The TOC is quite nice, and the comics are perfect. You can see the whole paper at a glance, or (at least in Firefox and Safari) mouse over any article, picture, comic, or ad and see it blown up in standard plain text or image format.
:)
In short, I love it. I also like NYTimes. I don't mind registering, since they aren't there as a charity
-WS
I have a similar issue - SAP's NetWeaver Portal is IE only (and actually *is*, for admins). They use all kinds of stupid DOM tricks that simply don't work under firefox, and they don't even use them intelligently. They use it for a stupid right-click menu that shouldn't even have been implemented that way. Hello? Java? The whole thing requires Java 1.4.2_08 or higher anyway.
:)
I'm pissed off about it, and I have opened SAP OSS notes regarding it
I do wish there was a way to get firefox to be more 'crapatible' so I didn't have to use IE at all. It's annoying, since most of the admins use Unix here. We have to run an IE session just for this.
-WS
I'm unfamiliar with 11.4, but 10.4 has this feature :)
I actually use a mac pro keyboard at home on my macs, as well as at work on my sun boxes. It seems to work just fine everywhere. On the cheesy windows box at work, I simply remap the "apple" key to the windows control key, so that the apple+c apple+v apple+t stuff all works properly. I then remap the control key to the "windows" key, so the win+r win+e type stuff works easily.
The only difficulty I hit with that one is if I am using VNC to go to a mac box from windows, where those keys just don't work properly anyways.
-WS
Ironically, I was a huge fan of e-books when the trend started. I have *purchased* nearly 50 books in MS lit format... unfortunately, the DRM finally got to the point that I stopped entirely.
In the early edition readers and the first books, you could copy and paste (screen by screen) until you got the whole book. I did this in order to read my books on my handheld, which was 1 version older than the DRM on the ebooks.
When the newer readers came out (and I didn't fork over $650 for a new handheld, and chose to change desktop software) I lost access to 100% of my content. The few books I didn't 'back up' are now completely lost to me. I would have to purchase a PC with Windows or a new Pocket PC handheld to read them.
With iTunes, you at *least* can burn your stuff to a CD that plays everywhere. There are *no* options with the DRM ebooks.
So I got a library card, and I downloaded Project Gutenberg. I guess sometimes you have to take a step back if you want to keep moving forward.
-WS
Riiiiight. Well, I live in California, and I don't really notice marijuana being illegal. Heck, half the people I see surfing, skating, and working at local stores are stoned most of the time. The other half most likely take a shower occasionally. At times the smell of pot is so bad, you wonder if they even notice it. It does *not* smell like cigarette smoke.
Oh, and what does a "head shop" that specializes in "smoke accessories" and has a massive painting of marijuana on the wall sell?
-WS
That's probably true. It's certainly a good reason.
I know my personal interest in games/gaming has been waning of late. I played with the PSP and the XBox 360 but just couldn't find any games that really made me go "Wow!" the way some of the PS2, N64, NES, and older PC games did. World of Warcraft is pretty nice, but I still use it mainly as something to do while chatting with friends.
I kinda miss the excitement I had at playing things like Devil May Cry (1), Frogger, etc. The new stuff is about as interesting as a hollywood flick, and not much more interactive in some cases.
-WS
I think he's saying "Why can't you get OpenOffice (equiv) for XBOX?" Which is a good question. Why don't all computers come with a BASIC interpretor anymore?
I looked at this issue on a thread a long time ago, and I'll restate it here - people don't care about computers anymore. I don't know why. My kids have access to gaming and coding technology I would have killed for, and they don't even care. They don't even play computer games much anymore - they're simply not interested. What the heck happened?
Game Informer this month released the 'statistic' that 78% of teenagers were becoming "less interested" in gaming. Anyone know if this is an actual trend? I thought gaming was on the rise. Computer Science certainly doesn't seem to be.
-WS
Actually, none of them really match yet. Perhaps someday :)
-WS