I tried changing the wallpaper on my brother-in-law's Windows 8 laptop the other day. So I downloaded a picture, and opened it after it finished downloading. The picture loaded in the OS' default image viewer. I saw the picture appear, full-screened, and with no interface. I tried right-clicking the picture. That didn't give me a menu, but an interface did fade into appearance. I promptly saw an option to "Set as."
I clicked it, thinking: "Surely this will let me set the image as the wallpaper", but I was given just two options: set as lockscreen (IT'S A LAPTOP!), and set as 'app tile'
I immediately closed the window since the option I wanted wasn't there--no wait, actually I didn't close it. There was no UI option to close this fullscreen picture. I alt-tabbed back to the desktop. I found the picture again, right clicked it, and went to the "open with" option. There were like 5 image viewers that came with Windows to choose from. I chose the old "Windows Photo Viewer" and set it as the default so this madness won't happen again.
If he gets any cross pollination from other farmers using monsanto seeds, he'll get sued again. And he will lose. Farmers always lose these lawsuits where their fields got cross-pollinated by patented genes.
The farmer should just use non-Monsanto seeds that can be reused every year.
Oh wait, Monsanto will sue you if you get cross pollination from your neighbor, nevermind.
I guess if you're a farmer, you either pay Monsanto's yearly protection money or.... not be a farmer anymore. That's a pretty sweet gig they have going.
Meat is expensive. You don't feel it on your wallet, but that is because of massive government subsidies. Everything from the immense amount of water the animals need, to the their food (corn) is subsidized. If it weren't, there would be no such thing as dollar menus at fast food chains (at least with any meat).
The fact is, meat is cheaper now than ever before because vegetables (corn) are cheaper now than ever before. It all comes down to energy. When converting the energy of the food the cow eats (grass at first, then corn to fatten it up quickly), only 10% of that energy gets converted into biomass. The rest is lost to entropy.
Meat will always be less efficient than vegetables for feeding people. That's just how it is due to the laws of physics. You could give a cow an acre of grass to convert into cow protein, or you can use that acre to grow edible plants for food; the latter will yield 10x more food.
I like driving. Something is just so relaxing, yet fun, about cruising down a light traffic highway with my music playing.
Sadly, that's only a tiny portion of the driving I ever do. Most of it is spent in a congested commute, 5 days a week. I'd *love* to be able to just let my car take me to and from work as I browse Slashdot on my phone.
A self driving car would give me a precious 40-50 minutes of extra free time.
T-Mobile, in effect, didn't change anything by starting this "No contract" campaign. Things still work the same. The key difference is after the two year subsidy is paid off, your phone bill goes down. This is in contrast to the other carriers, who keep charging the exact same even after the phone has been paid off.
So really, this whole thing is just a way for T-Mobile to easily communicate that advantage to the customers, because most of them never think about their bill paying for the phone subsidy.
When it comes to body parts, the liver is second only to the brain in complexity. It's not just about detoxifying stuff as a lot of people think. It performs some 500 functions throughout the body. It touches virtually every metabolic process in your body, in some way. So complex is it, it's the only organ in humans that is capable of self-regeneration. As little as 25% of one can regrow into a whole liver. The fact that it was deemed worthy of regenerative abilities compared to all other organs in the body is a testament to its importance.
Not many people seem to know this, but most deforestation occurs so that there is grazing land for cattle, than for wood and paper.
And in a double whammy effect, the billions of cows we've bred around the world produce a "shit ton" (hah!) of methane; a greenhouse gas 20x more potent than CO2.
I love my prepaid plan from T-Mobile. 30 bucks for unlimited data (throttled after 5GB) , unlimited texts, and 100 min. Additional minutes are 10 cents a minute, so I keep my account "prefunded" with like 15 bucks in case I need a couple extra hours of talk.
The plan isn't for everyone, but with my Nexus 4 I couldn't be happier. I envy no one.
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Didn't that come out like 12 years ago?
It's safe to say that Google acted wisely when they bought YouTube, despite the fact that it was losing money (and continued to for a few years).
I wonder how things have turned out if MS bought YouTube instead?
"Quantum computer", "Google, NASA", "Artificial Intelligence", "Lab"
Man, there's nothing in this story that doesn't sound awesome.
That's not Google's doing. It's the video uploader that chooses whether to allow mobile views or not.
That you're seeing about 1% of the potential of a brand new type of technology that's still in beta testing.
So when I saw this, I thought to myself "Oh wow, did Microsoft just out-nerd Google? I'm impressed."
But then when it was pointed out that this coincides with the latest Star Trek movie, I realized: "Oh, it's a marketing gimmick. I see."
Everything in normal.
The problem is that a person doesn't even know they can start typing to search for stuff. There are no visual cues for that.
In Windows 7/Vista, the start menu shows you an input box--the closest element to the button, in fact--with "Search Programs and Files"
In Windows 8, the start menu shows you an entire screen's worth of distracting colors and movement, all contained within identical boxes.
I tried changing the wallpaper on my brother-in-law's Windows 8 laptop the other day. So I downloaded a picture, and opened it after it finished downloading. The picture loaded in the OS' default image viewer. I saw the picture appear, full-screened, and with no interface. I tried right-clicking the picture. That didn't give me a menu, but an interface did fade into appearance. I promptly saw an option to "Set as."
I clicked it, thinking: "Surely this will let me set the image as the wallpaper", but I was given just two options: set as lockscreen (IT'S A LAPTOP!), and set as 'app tile'
I immediately closed the window since the option I wanted wasn't there--no wait, actually I didn't close it. There was no UI option to close this fullscreen picture. I alt-tabbed back to the desktop. I found the picture again, right clicked it, and went to the "open with" option. There were like 5 image viewers that came with Windows to choose from. I chose the old "Windows Photo Viewer" and set it as the default so this madness won't happen again.
'Adagio For Strings' came up on my Pandora as I read the summary. Seems oddly appropriate.
If he gets any cross pollination from other farmers using monsanto seeds, he'll get sued again. And he will lose. Farmers always lose these lawsuits where their fields got cross-pollinated by patented genes.
The farmer should just use non-Monsanto seeds that can be reused every year.
Oh wait, Monsanto will sue you if you get cross pollination from your neighbor, nevermind.
I guess if you're a farmer, you either pay Monsanto's yearly protection money or.... not be a farmer anymore. That's a pretty sweet gig they have going.
Meat is expensive. You don't feel it on your wallet, but that is because of massive government subsidies. Everything from the immense amount of water the animals need, to the their food (corn) is subsidized. If it weren't, there would be no such thing as dollar menus at fast food chains (at least with any meat).
The fact is, meat is cheaper now than ever before because vegetables (corn) are cheaper now than ever before. It all comes down to energy. When converting the energy of the food the cow eats (grass at first, then corn to fatten it up quickly), only 10% of that energy gets converted into biomass. The rest is lost to entropy.
Meat will always be less efficient than vegetables for feeding people. That's just how it is due to the laws of physics. You could give a cow an acre of grass to convert into cow protein, or you can use that acre to grow edible plants for food; the latter will yield 10x more food.
They'll just feed the insects corn like everybody else.
That's really clever! No points to mod you up though, sorry :(
Can't you turn down the evil just a little bit?
I like driving. Something is just so relaxing, yet fun, about cruising down a light traffic highway with my music playing.
Sadly, that's only a tiny portion of the driving I ever do. Most of it is spent in a congested commute, 5 days a week. I'd *love* to be able to just let my car take me to and from work as I browse Slashdot on my phone.
A self driving car would give me a precious 40-50 minutes of extra free time.
I need mod points right now.
Yeah, exactly.
T-Mobile, in effect, didn't change anything by starting this "No contract" campaign. Things still work the same. The key difference is after the two year subsidy is paid off, your phone bill goes down. This is in contrast to the other carriers, who keep charging the exact same even after the phone has been paid off.
So really, this whole thing is just a way for T-Mobile to easily communicate that advantage to the customers, because most of them never think about their bill paying for the phone subsidy.
When it comes to body parts, the liver is second only to the brain in complexity. It's not just about detoxifying stuff as a lot of people think. It performs some 500 functions throughout the body. It touches virtually every metabolic process in your body, in some way. So complex is it, it's the only organ in humans that is capable of self-regeneration. As little as 25% of one can regrow into a whole liver. The fact that it was deemed worthy of regenerative abilities compared to all other organs in the body is a testament to its importance.
So yeah, take care of your liver.
...panting and sweating as you browse through my indexes.
In an effort to avoid confusion, MS should consider renaming it to "Window RT"
I can't wait to see Linus' potty mouth vs. Balmer's chair throwing.
Not many people seem to know this, but most deforestation occurs so that there is grazing land for cattle, than for wood and paper.
And in a double whammy effect, the billions of cows we've bred around the world produce a "shit ton" (hah!) of methane; a greenhouse gas 20x more potent than CO2.
I love my prepaid plan from T-Mobile. 30 bucks for unlimited data (throttled after 5GB) , unlimited texts, and 100 min. Additional minutes are 10 cents a minute, so I keep my account "prefunded" with like 15 bucks in case I need a couple extra hours of talk.
The plan isn't for everyone, but with my Nexus 4 I couldn't be happier. I envy no one.
They're by far the least evil of the major carriers in the US.