And you're trying to tell me that the one thing every animal on the planet does for survival (eat) is stressful? What the fuck was the point of evolution, then?
For evolution to work, you only need to live long enough to reproduce. Evolution doesn't care about you living to be 100 vs. only living to be 80.
I'm getting a little irked that people think a process that has been perfected by the hands of natural evolution is still stressful for us to accomplish. For those "scientists" that would say that: you're a god damned moron.
It's not so stressful that it will kill you before you are mature enough to reproduce, so evolution won't weed it out. Again, we're talking about extending human life FAR beyond the length needed to successfully reproduce.
It's the process in which we make most of our staple food that kills us. Hydrogenization. Look at good 'ol American Cheese. 2H away from plastic. Look at our non-local dairy milk, enough hydrogen to be utilized as a fuel. All this extra hydrogen isn't good for us, trust me.
Ah, you've just labeled yourself a kook. Hydrogen isn't bad for you. Hydrogenated oils, OTOH, probably are. When oil is (partially) hydrogenated, the chemical structure is changed - it becomes a trans-fatty acid. The trans- describes the location of the hydrogen atoms on the carbon chain. Your body cannot process these trans-fatty acids effectively. There are no known benefits to trans-fatty acids, which is why you won't see any recommended daily allowances for them. The data on the negative effects is still cloudy, but it's pretty clear you're better off without them than with.
Think I'm wrong? Look at the oldest man on the planet (119), looks like he's barely 60. His secret? Nothing but naturally grown and harvested food. This includes fruit and grains (who gives a damn about the starch), naturally raised and slaughtered meats, etc. etc.. Those are the things our bodies are "accustomed" to. What our bodies were meant to use as fuel.
First thing: anecdotes are not data. Second thing: how MUCH does he eat? I bet he doesn't stuff himself at every meal.
Don't put the spare boxes on the side, put them to work in the cluster! If your numbers say you need 100 machines to get the throughput you need, you buy 110, and if two or three die, you still have plenty of horsepower. You yank the dead machine out and repair it, everything else keeps chugging along, and then when you're ready to start the next job, you plug the repaired machine back in.
Many people are missing the point of CRON (calorie restricted, optimal nutrition) diets. The goal of these diets is not to make you skinny. The hypothesis is that even a skinny person who eats a LOT but exercises a LOT is still worse off than someone who just eats very little, even if they end up weighing the same. The idea is that the very processes of digestion is incredibly stressful on the human body, so if you minimize it, you can extend your lifespan.
If the domain does not exist, it has a forged From: header and is obviously spam.
NOT TRUE. This filter causes all sorts of problems for me. I have scripts running on client machines that send email when certain conditions are met. The customer's machine is on a private network behind a firewall. The mail appears to come from user@machine.domain.company.com - but there is no externally visible MX record for domain.company.com or anything in that subzone, so these messages all appear to be forged by this filter's reasoning. My company (and my cell provider) both use this dumb filter and therefore I can't get these messages unless I forge the from: address to meet their arbitrary definition of legitimacy. To do so, btw, requires either root (and I certainly don't want these ksh scripts running with privledges) or adding the user to sendmail's trusted user list - both pains in the ass.
This filter is completely ineffective anyway - if a spammer is forging his from: header, how hard is it to forge it to appear to be from a legitimate address? This filter actually *encourages* even more annoying behavior such as joe-jobbing (where spammers use innocent victims' real addresses as the from: address, generating tons of "user unknown" messages from AOL onto unsuspecting people).
and they last far longer in my camera than standard AAs do
Yeah, but on a dollar-per-milliamp-hour basis, lithiums are still much more expensive. They do have other advantages besides longer life, though. They perform much, much better in cold weather (i.e. sub-zero), which isn't much of a concern for a wireless desktop mouse, and they have a flatter discharge curve (i.e. they put out a near-constant voltage as they are used, while alkalines' output voltage declines faster as they are used). There is probably some voltage regulation circuitry in the mouse, though, so that isn't much of a concern, either. Neither of these really justify the increased cost for a wireless mouse.
The mouse requires lithium AAs, which are insanely expensive ($2.50 each, compared to maybe $0.30 for Alkalines), and not widely available (very few manufacturers are making these). Lithium AAs have a higher voltage than alkalines (1.8v vs. 1.5v), and NiMH rechargables are even lower (1.2-1.3v) so the chances of rechargables working well is VERY slim.
Solar cells are getting more efficient. It is concievable that you will be able to generate enough power for your whole house and your cars from cheap organic solar panel on your roof in our lifetime. Couple this with an electrolysis machine and some underground hydrogen storage tanks, and you're all set.
Why relying on a single vendor for such an important aspect of the modern workplace is still considered an "enterprise approach" I'm not sure, but it is certainly true at many companies.
Ah, grasshopper, you've just labeled yourself a novice. The reason you're not sure why that's considered an enterprise approach is that you have no experience with enterprise-class operations. You can get a vendor to agree to all kinds of massive price reductions on hardware and, more-importantly, the margin-laden services contracts, by agreeing to standardize your entire operation around their products.
Instead of $ ps aux | grep foo | grep -v grep use $ ps aux | grep [f]oo The brackets will show up in the ps output but don't match your pattern, so your grep is automaticly excluded from your final output.
Actually, I like this idea. Since you buy them, you can pay cash, which means your cable company and blockbuster don't get to add more info to their profile of you. Since it is a DVD, you can still rewind/pause/replay scenes. It's not likely to be watch once, its more likely that the surface will dissolve after 48 hours or so.
Even worse, they act like they are doing consumers a favor by not spreading the information. The bad guys already know who the target is - they certainly don't get their info from MSNBC. Meanwhile, consumers who have cards from this retailer are oblivious to the fact that they are potentially vulnerable.
I don't think it is in anyone's best interests to hide the fact that beneath all the GUI's and other metaphors there is still a computer.
You don't think a CLI is just another way of hiding the innards?
Why I remember a golf cart that automatically started it's gasoline engine when I pressed the gas pedel.
Almost all gas-powered golf carts are like that. You don't want to leave a noisy gas engine running while players are trying to concentrate on making their putt. Now think about how annoying it would be to have to turn the start key 100 times per round.
For the ultimate ghetto rack, just get some of these bad boys and a few 2x4s and go to town.
they're called shelflinks, and they're just some little plastic things that turn 2x4s into big tinkertoys; they're specifically designed to make custom shelves easy.
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It makes sense that they would go back to a more figurative representation of the characters instead of continuing to pursue photorealism.
Once you can do photorealistic images (or even get close to it), what do you do next? We already know the answer, because it already happend in fine art. The greeks and romans perfected realistic sculpture, and all sculpture afterwards became more figurative (see byzantine and gothic sculpture). The renaissance artists perfected photorealsim through use of perspective techniques etc, and what followed?
OK, so we're not yet at real-time rendering of final fantasy-quality movies on our desktop, but it's just a matter of raw computing power at this point; there's no new conceptual territory to cover. Hardware will continue to advance, and we will eventually have realtime photorealistic rendering, but expect the mainstream game designers to go back to figurative representations, at least until the next big technology comes along (holographic games, anyone?)
Lots of atheletes can benefit from drugs in ways you wouldn't normally think of. Shooters, for example, have been caught taking drugs to lower their metabolisms so they can have steadier aim. Maybe for chess they will ban ginko biloba or even caffine.
Seti is not a true distributed system; the nodes dont communicate with each other, they only get data from a central server and submit results to that server.
Gee, just a massive DDoS against the US Government. Yeah, not malicious at all. I mean, even if you think this is a worthy social goal, you'd have to honestly believe your audience is a bunch of morons (ok, we are talking about Time magazine here, but still) to say that with a straight face.
Check out the romtec Trios. It switches between three drives at the push of a button, and has a saftey feature that prevents you from accidentily switching after boot-up. The only downside is you can't access the data on one drive if you boot from another.
They are called "shoshkeles" (i think it's yiddish for "annoying as hell"). You can read all about how great they are from the company that invented them:
These are flash-based ads that superimpose themselves directly over the viewed page and then merge into the page. Its hard to explain, just take a look. They're SO annoying that they will probably piss the "eyeballs" off so much that they will instantly decide to NOT buy the advertised product. Of couse, the copy here makes them sound like consumers can't get enough of them: "The graphic and audio elements create an intimate moment between targeted consumer and advertiser." Barf. Do they actually believe that? When was the last time you shared an "intimate moment" with an advertisement???
The Showtime example is the best, however. It is offered as an example of "geographically and demographically targeted" advertisement, but the ad is for a Showtime pay-per-view boxing event, and show on top of a WorldBook Encyclopedia entry for Boxing Day, which has nothing to do with the sport. How they managed to let this slip through on a list of hand-picked examples for potential advertisers amazes me.
Slashdot Mirror
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/prolian tstorage/rack-options/tft5600/index.html
It's a keyboard, pointer, and TFT display in a laptop-like package, and rackmountable.
Disclosure: I work for HP.
Turdware.
I reside in arkansas, but my mailserver is located in california. Does this law apply to mail sent to me?
And you're trying to tell me that the one thing every animal on the planet does for survival (eat) is stressful? What the fuck was the point of evolution, then?
For evolution to work, you only need to live long enough to reproduce. Evolution doesn't care about you living to be 100 vs. only living to be 80.
I'm getting a little irked that people think a process that has been perfected by the hands of natural evolution is still stressful for us to accomplish. For those "scientists" that would say that: you're a god damned moron.
It's not so stressful that it will kill you before you are mature enough to reproduce, so evolution won't weed it out. Again, we're talking about extending human life FAR beyond the length needed to successfully reproduce.
It's the process in which we make most of our staple food that kills us. Hydrogenization. Look at good 'ol American Cheese. 2H away from plastic. Look at our non-local dairy milk, enough hydrogen to be utilized as a fuel. All this extra hydrogen isn't good for us, trust me.
Ah, you've just labeled yourself a kook. Hydrogen isn't bad for you. Hydrogenated oils, OTOH, probably are. When oil is (partially) hydrogenated, the chemical structure is changed - it becomes a trans-fatty acid. The trans- describes the location of the hydrogen atoms on the carbon chain. Your body cannot process these trans-fatty acids effectively. There are no known benefits to trans-fatty acids, which is why you won't see any recommended daily allowances for them. The data on the negative effects is still cloudy, but it's pretty clear you're better off without them than with.
Think I'm wrong? Look at the oldest man on the planet (119), looks like he's barely 60. His secret? Nothing but naturally grown and harvested food. This includes fruit and grains (who gives a damn about the starch), naturally raised and slaughtered meats, etc. etc.. Those are the things our bodies are "accustomed" to. What our bodies were meant to use as fuel.
First thing: anecdotes are not data. Second thing: how MUCH does he eat? I bet he doesn't stuff himself at every meal.
Don't put the spare boxes on the side, put them to work in the cluster! If your numbers say you need 100 machines to get the throughput you need, you buy 110, and if two or three die, you still have plenty of horsepower. You yank the dead machine out and repair it, everything else keeps chugging along, and then when you're ready to start the next job, you plug the repaired machine back in.
Many people are missing the point of CRON (calorie restricted, optimal nutrition) diets. The goal of these diets is not to make you skinny. The hypothesis is that even a skinny person who eats a LOT but exercises a LOT is still worse off than someone who just eats very little, even if they end up weighing the same. The idea is that the very processes of digestion is incredibly stressful on the human body, so if you minimize it, you can extend your lifespan.
If the domain does not exist, it has a forged From: header and is obviously spam.
NOT TRUE. This filter causes all sorts of problems for me. I have scripts running on client machines that send email when certain conditions are met. The customer's machine is on a private network behind a firewall. The mail appears to come from user@machine.domain.company.com - but there is no externally visible MX record for domain.company.com or anything in that subzone, so these messages all appear to be forged by this filter's reasoning. My company (and my cell provider) both use this dumb filter and therefore I can't get these messages unless I forge the from: address to meet their arbitrary definition of legitimacy. To do so, btw, requires either root (and I certainly don't want these ksh scripts running with privledges) or adding the user to sendmail's trusted user list - both pains in the ass.
This filter is completely ineffective anyway - if a spammer is forging his from: header, how hard is it to forge it to appear to be from a legitimate address? This filter actually *encourages* even more annoying behavior such as joe-jobbing (where spammers use innocent victims' real addresses as the from: address, generating tons of "user unknown" messages from AOL onto unsuspecting people).
and they last far longer in my camera than standard AAs do
Yeah, but on a dollar-per-milliamp-hour basis, lithiums are still much more expensive. They do have other advantages besides longer life, though. They perform much, much better in cold weather (i.e. sub-zero), which isn't much of a concern for a wireless desktop mouse, and they have a flatter discharge curve (i.e. they put out a near-constant voltage as they are used, while alkalines' output voltage declines faster as they are used). There is probably some voltage regulation circuitry in the mouse, though, so that isn't much of a concern, either. Neither of these really justify the increased cost for a wireless mouse.
The mouse requires lithium AAs, which are insanely expensive ($2.50 each, compared to maybe $0.30 for Alkalines), and not widely available (very few manufacturers are making these). Lithium AAs have a higher voltage than alkalines (1.8v vs. 1.5v), and NiMH rechargables are even lower (1.2-1.3v) so the chances of rechargables working well is VERY slim.
There's not a SINGLE "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these" comment yet? What the hell is going on here???
Solar cells are getting more efficient. It is concievable that you will be able to generate enough power for your whole house and your cars from cheap organic solar panel on your roof in our lifetime. Couple this with an electrolysis machine and some underground hydrogen storage tanks, and you're all set.
The correct question is "do we really need software for voting?"
It's a simple case of inappropriate use of technology.
Ah, grasshopper, you've just labeled yourself a novice. The reason you're not sure why that's considered an enterprise approach is that you have no experience with enterprise-class operations. You can get a vendor to agree to all kinds of massive price reductions on hardware and, more-importantly, the margin-laden services contracts, by agreeing to standardize your entire operation around their products.
Instead of
$ ps aux | grep foo | grep -v grep
use
$ ps aux | grep [f]oo
The brackets will show up in the ps output but don't match your pattern, so your grep is automaticly excluded from your final output.
Actually, I like this idea. Since you buy them, you can pay cash, which means your cable company and blockbuster don't get to add more info to their profile of you. Since it is a DVD, you can still rewind/pause/replay scenes. It's not likely to be watch once, its more likely that the surface will dissolve after 48 hours or so.
Even worse, they act like they are doing consumers a favor by not spreading the information. The bad guys already know who the target is - they certainly don't get their info from MSNBC. Meanwhile, consumers who have cards from this retailer are oblivious to the fact that they are potentially vulnerable.
You don't think a CLI is just another way of hiding the innards?
Why I remember a golf cart that automatically started it's gasoline engine when I pressed the gas pedel.
Almost all gas-powered golf carts are like that. You don't want to leave a noisy gas engine running while players are trying to concentrate on making their putt. Now think about how annoying it would be to have to turn the start key 100 times per round.
PS: wtf is this doing in the "censorship" category? Someone's failure to be an effective marketer/hype generator is not censorship.
For the ultimate ghetto rack, just get some of these bad boys and a few 2x4s and go to town.
they're called shelflinks, and they're just some little plastic things that turn 2x4s into big tinkertoys; they're specifically designed to make custom shelves easy.
Once you can do photorealistic images (or even get close to it), what do you do next? We already know the answer, because it already happend in fine art. The greeks and romans perfected realistic sculpture, and all sculpture afterwards became more figurative (see byzantine and gothic sculpture). The renaissance artists perfected photorealsim through use of perspective techniques etc, and what followed?
OK, so we're not yet at real-time rendering of final fantasy-quality movies on our desktop, but it's just a matter of raw computing power at this point; there's no new conceptual territory to cover. Hardware will continue to advance, and we will eventually have realtime photorealistic rendering, but expect the mainstream game designers to go back to figurative representations, at least until the next big technology comes along (holographic games, anyone?)
Lots of atheletes can benefit from drugs in ways you wouldn't normally think of. Shooters, for example, have been caught taking drugs to lower their metabolisms so they can have steadier aim. Maybe for chess they will ban ginko biloba or even caffine.
Seti is not a true distributed system; the nodes dont communicate with each other, they only get data from a central server and submit results to that server.
Gee, just a massive DDoS against the US Government. Yeah, not malicious at all. I mean, even if you think this is a worthy social goal, you'd have to honestly believe your audience is a bunch of morons (ok, we are talking about Time magazine here, but still) to say that with a straight face.
Check out the romtec Trios. It switches between three drives at the push of a button, and has a saftey feature that prevents you from accidentily switching after boot-up. The only downside is you can't access the data on one drive if you boot from another.
http://www.unitedvirtualities.com/shoshkeles.htm
These are flash-based ads that superimpose themselves directly over the viewed page and then merge into the page. Its hard to explain, just take a look. They're SO annoying that they will probably piss the "eyeballs" off so much that they will instantly decide to NOT buy the advertised product. Of couse, the copy here makes them sound like consumers can't get enough of them: "The graphic and audio elements create an intimate moment between targeted consumer and advertiser." Barf. Do they actually believe that? When was the last time you shared an "intimate moment" with an advertisement???
The Showtime example is the best, however. It is offered as an example of "geographically and demographically targeted" advertisement, but the ad is for a Showtime pay-per-view boxing event, and show on top of a WorldBook Encyclopedia entry for Boxing Day, which has nothing to do with the sport. How they managed to let this slip through on a list of hand-picked examples for potential advertisers amazes me.