a wee while ago , i (for the sake of experimentation) was able to play 4 160 kb/sec mp3's on a k5 133 with 16 meg ram simutainiously using mpg123. 5 made the sound "skip" or whatever the technicle term is , must of been just a wee bit to much:) So any modern processor will be fine for decoding speed.
"Also, your wheels would only continue accelerating if you held down the gas pedal-- and I think the data would make it pretty clear it was due to hydroplaning-- if you start hydroplaning are you gonna hold down the accelerator and keep your car at redline with the wheels spinning like crazy, or are you going to take your foot off the gas? Keep in mind 5 seconds of data is logged."
Of course i would put my foot down while hydroplaning. Also while on ice or gravle or in any situation where traction has become a problem. Thats how you gain traction. It also helps to point the wheels in the direction you want the car to head.
quite possible , the minced chicken is "massaged" at the plant where the nuggets are made. basicly put in a tumble drier like contraption with this gelatonous stuff , which "fluffs" the chicken up to up to twice its weight. um its like water and shit. I dont know hat it is , but i have preformed the procedure. Maybe a proper bucther can elaborate:)
>By the time a chicken hits your plate it has been de-beaked, pumped with hormones
I have never personnally seen any birds being de-beaked although i have heard of it being done. it is a complete waste of time. It is also only done to caged layers , not meat chickens. Now the hormone issue. How the fuck do you administer hormones to 10,000 + birds? With a little siringe and a fuck load of time? Do you no how much that would cost? in man hours? in chemicles (probably not that much)? Well we could put those hormones in their food. so okay we have birds that are way overdosing on them , and some birds that get fuck all of them (peaking order and all). Then we get all the dead birds , or uneadible meat , resulting from growth that is to fast which causes tumors. Of course there are hormones in chickens , they occur naturally. I have lived , and worked , a chicken farm for the last 15 years. I have personnally made their feed , and i can tell you it consists of nothing more than crushed wheat and barly. oh , the layers get cloraphle , it makes their eggs yellower.
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no. Meat chickens are both sex's. The males grow faster , but trust me , they are both. When we grow the chickens , we sometime seperate the males from the females (actualy we buy them pre - sexed , but they are in the same shed with a partition) If we think that we may need bigger chickens for a certain market. You may be thinking of the layers , of course they are all femal.
In new zealand , over the last 7 or 8 years , there has been a move by farmers to catch the chickens in a diferent manner. Instead of grabbing the little fuckers by the feet , we now catch them by their bodies , basicly putting both hands around their bodies over the wings , and lifting them up that way. You can catch 2 birds at once via this method , you just push them together side by side. They are as placid as pudding when using this method , and its just as fast:) I assume that the industry world wide is moving to this method , i can only speak for nz. Any fellow chicken farmers/geeks out there can back me up? But i want this chicken catching machine , it looks fucking cool >8)
scary. he was in world war 2 , although the stories are dramatised. simple writing but very effective. you can go from his unit drinking to fughting in like 1 page. dosent glorify war or the nazis at all , after reading any of his books you'll never want to go to war , or go to war yourself
I have done both. I was engineering for only 8 months where i built and modified irrigation gates , augers and various other industrial and farming equipment , using all sorts of machinery , plasma cutters , welders , gas plants etc.... I then went on to do a Bsc Computer Science. Programming is very much engineering , at least i used the same analitical skills to solve problems. The way i aproach problems in building some engineering project is the same way i approach programming problems , which is the same way my lecturers approached programming problems and they have done no engineering. So yes good programmers are engineers.
i have seen a lot of "fps" style guis , you fly around a deskspace thingy and the windows just hang around in the air. there is some cool stuff to play with but i always thought that they were just to complicated....
anyway , i thought well if theyer to complicated , just restrict what you can do to make them less complicated , and after some thought i came up with this :
instead of a desktop , you have a big sphere. your head is positioned in the middle of the sphere. the mouse looks up,down,left,right like a fps game (but can rotate all the way around (scarey floating head:) )) but you cant move around. the "crosshair" is your pointer , the "windows" curve to the sphere (maybe) , and everything else is the same.
maybe also a modifyer would toggle between "looking around mode" and "oldschool pointer moving around the veiw mode" so your not always looking around. i like the idea of say having 2-3 windows open and focusing on another just by looking away , or "turning around".
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a wee while ago , i (for the sake of experimentation) was able to play 4 160 kb/sec mp3's on a k5 133 with 16 meg ram simutainiously using mpg123. 5 made the sound "skip" or whatever the technicle term is , must of been just a wee bit to much :) So any modern processor will be fine for decoding speed.
"Also, your wheels would only continue accelerating if you held down the gas pedal-- and I think the data would make it pretty clear it was due to hydroplaning-- if you start hydroplaning are you gonna hold down the accelerator and keep your car at redline with the wheels spinning like crazy, or are you going to take your foot off the gas? Keep in mind 5 seconds of data is logged."
Of course i would put my foot down while hydroplaning. Also while on ice or gravle or in any situation where traction has become a problem. Thats how you gain traction. It also helps to point the wheels in the direction you want the car to head.
quite possible , the minced chicken is "massaged" at the plant where the nuggets are made. basicly put in a tumble drier like contraption with this gelatonous stuff , which "fluffs" the chicken up to up to twice its weight. um its like water and shit. I dont know hat it is , but i have preformed the procedure. Maybe a proper bucther can elaborate :)
>By the time a chicken hits your plate it has been de-beaked, pumped with hormones
I have never personnally seen any birds being de-beaked although i have heard of it being done. it is a complete waste of time. It is also only done to caged layers , not meat chickens.
Now the hormone issue. How the fuck do you administer hormones to 10,000 + birds? With a little siringe and a fuck load of time? Do you no how much that would cost? in man hours? in chemicles (probably not that much)?
Well we could put those hormones in their food. so okay we have birds that are way overdosing on them , and some birds that get fuck all of them (peaking order and all). Then we get all the dead birds , or uneadible meat , resulting from growth that is to fast which causes tumors. Of course there are hormones in chickens , they occur naturally. I have lived , and worked , a chicken farm for the last 15 years. I have personnally made their feed , and i can tell you it consists of nothing more than crushed wheat and barly. oh , the layers get cloraphle , it makes their eggs yellower.
no. Meat chickens are both sex's. The males grow faster , but trust me , they are both. When we grow the chickens , we sometime seperate the males from the females (actualy we buy them pre - sexed , but they are in the same shed with a partition) If we think that we may need bigger chickens for a certain market. You may be thinking of the layers , of course they are all femal.
In new zealand , over the last 7 or 8 years , there has been a move by farmers to catch the chickens in a diferent manner. Instead of grabbing the little fuckers by the feet , we now catch them by their bodies , basicly putting both hands around their bodies over the wings , and lifting them up that way. You can catch 2 birds at once via this method , you just push them together side by side. They are as placid as pudding when using this method , and its just as fast :) I assume that the industry world wide is moving to this method , i can only speak for nz. Any fellow chicken farmers/geeks out there can back me up? But i want this chicken catching machine , it looks fucking cool >8)
scary. he was in world war 2 , although the stories are dramatised. simple writing but very effective. you can go from his unit drinking to fughting in like 1 page. dosent glorify war or the nazis at all , after reading any of his books you'll never want to go to war , or go to war yourself
i did. everyone i new did.
I have done both. I was engineering for only 8 months where i built and modified irrigation gates , augers and various other industrial and farming equipment , using all sorts of machinery , plasma cutters , welders , gas plants etc....
I then went on to do a Bsc Computer Science. Programming is very much engineering , at least i used the same analitical skills to solve problems. The way i aproach problems in building some engineering project is the same way i approach programming problems , which is the same way my lecturers approached programming problems and they have done no engineering. So yes good programmers are engineers.
i have seen a lot of "fps" style guis , you fly around a deskspace thingy and the windows just hang around in the air. there is some cool stuff to play with but i always thought that they were just to complicated....
:) )) but you cant move around. the "crosshair" is your pointer , the "windows" curve to the sphere (maybe) , and everything else is the same.
anyway , i thought well if theyer to complicated , just restrict what you can do to make them less complicated , and after some thought i came up with this :
instead of a desktop , you have a big sphere. your head is positioned in the middle of the sphere. the mouse looks up,down,left,right like a fps game (but can rotate all the way around (scarey floating head
maybe also a modifyer would toggle between "looking around mode" and "oldschool pointer moving around the veiw mode" so your not always looking around. i like the idea of say having 2-3 windows open and focusing on another just by looking away , or "turning around".
i hope i have made myself clear....
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