I think the extent to which people "snack" has a lot to do with how they're wired, above the neck and below.
Actually, I read an interersting study (sorry, no link available) that measured brain activity during eating...
It seems that fat people have more activity in the brain's pleasure centre when they eat.. which suggested that food might simply "taste better" to them. If so, it follows that they might have a harder time limiting their food intake.
Use the timings on the instructions as a guide only.
THE PERFORMANCE OF MICROWAVE OVENS REALLY DOES VARY.
Actually, it not just microwaves, but almost all (consumer) convection ovens aren't exact.
In my old apartment, my wife kept wondering why everything she baked/roasted never turned out properly - so after watching the good eats pork ribs episode, I put a reliable thermometer in the oven - turns out it was out by almost 60 degrees!
An interesting aside - we just bought a house, and I wanted to see how far out the oven temperature was (it's an old oven, probably 20 or 30 years old), and (amazingly enough) it was almost exact!
I *hate* Iron Chef. Next to Emeril, it's the worst show on Food Network.
Seems to me that speaking on behalf of "all geeks" would be MUCH more arrogant than Alton making a joke of the answer (and it was a joke - perhaps you need to check the permissions on your/dev/senseofhumor )
When reading this, I couldn't help but hear the voice of AB in my head, reciting the answers in the same way he delivers the little tidbits of info on "Good Eats"
Yup.. me too.. (Course maybe it helped that I just watched the salad episode..)
ask Microsoft what happens if you deviate from the standard
A better question might be "Ask someone impartial what happens when a company makes a deliberately incompatable version, and tries to pass it off as the real thing, using the registered trademark."
And the answer would be "you get slapped with a lawsuit for trademark infringement" - which is exactly what SHOULD happen.
You don't have to know too much about the way computers work to know that replacing your power suppy with a bigger beefier one will in no noticable way effect your processing power.
Well, this IS/... most of the people here still believe that raw CPU MHz is how you measure processor performance.
TLC has a new show starting soon that may be intersting to see. With the original girl host from Junkyard Wars and, I think I saw him, Henry Rollins. I guess we'll see.
Some friends and I were discussing entering for this - some of the designs on the website were pretty cool, but nobody I know figured it would be an indoor event (which it looks like from the trailer I saw..)
Yes, like Junkyard Wars, Cathy Rogers is producing/hosting this one as well (which explains why she's not hosting the current JW season.)
And YES! Henry Rollins!
When I saw Henry Rollins in the trailer, I thought - WOW - they really know how to pick a co-host..
You'd think they'd be smart enough to not send spam to any 'webmaster@' addresses, since whoever gets mail to that address has the greatest chances of being someone is willing and able to block their messages from getting to ALL the other users at that domain
I believe you're thinking of postmaster@, not webmaster.
Webmaster is the person who runs the website.
Postmaster is the person who runs the mail server.
In small orgs, they're frequently the same person, but not always.
They say in the message boards that it si because not enough people buy it.
Doesn't make any sense to me. I can't download it, I can't try it out... if I can't try it out, I won't buy it. I'm not gonna shell out cash for something without knowing what it's like - especially when there's freely downloadable alternatives.
I've bought Slackware (multiple versions, from Slackware 96 through to 8.1), and it's well worth the money.. during the time it wasn't up to snuff for Desktop use, I bought Mandrake.. both distros were downloaded first, and bought later.
They also say that they want 100,000 users in 3 months.
And I want a toilet made out of solid gold, but some things just aren't in the cards.
If they want to increase their user base, they need to make ISO's available for download.
Suggestion #1: Don't make people click through layers to get what they want
Make that #2.
Suggestion #1 should be: DON'T BE A 'TARD AND REDIRECT SOMEONE TO WWW.MACROMEDIA.COM IF YOUR BRAIN-DEAD JAVASCRIPT DOESN'T DETECT A FLASH PLUG-IN - ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ALREADY HAVE THE PLUGIN INSTALLED
To the Band: I'm always looking for new music, especially independant bands (that's where most of the 'innovation' in music comes from today), and I buy direct from indie band's websites frequently.
I tried going to your website, expecting to see what you're all about, and maybe being able to sample some of your music - if it was good I'd have no problem buying some CD's, and if very good, some other merchandise.
Instead, your web site tells me that you don't want me as a customer, because you sent me to another site, which has NOTHING to do with you
If you're looking to become more popular, don't send people away from your website.
I believe by the next Windows distro, we'll have security that will stand for something.
Except that you miss exactly what Valentine means:
Windows cannot be secure - MS has finally realized (and admitted) this.
Security is something that must be designed in from the beginning - it's not something that can be 'bolted on' after the product is finished, any more than you can make pudding, and decide you want it to be a house instead - you can't make a house out of pudding.
I think we can all agree that MSFT has succeeded in creating simple, easy-to-use products
You think wrong. I certainly wouldn't characterize MS products as easy-to-use. Easier than some other products, in some situations, perhaps.. but not easy.
As for simple? Have you seen MS Word lately? Bloated with dozens upon dozens of feeatures that nobody uses - you categorize that as simple?
whether you like it or not, there is no easier OS
Spoken like someone who's never tried any other OS.
Ever try MacOS?
How about Amiga?
VMS? Anything besides Linux and Windows?
As an advanced user, I find Linux MUCH easier to use than Windows, because everything is laid out as I expect. I used Windows before I used Linux, and most of the learning curve I experienced came from attempting to do things the Windows way - but after one or two times, I realized that the best way to learn a task was to ask myself "if I had designed this system, how would I implement it?" - and all of a sudden, everything became easy.
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Extending the technology by introducing the Doctor in Voyager seemed okay, but then extending to other "photonic life"
I stopped watching when Bill Gates "downloaded" the Doctor from the ship.
Jebus H Christ, he was a computer program
Apparently the writers couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that copying electronic information doesn't destroy it.
Perhaps they believe that once they install something on their computer, they have to throw the CD away, because the program isn't on the CD anymore?
The crew of the Enterprise goes back to an earlier century on Earth, to make sure that history happens as it should ("S.T. IV: The Voyage Home")
I'm sorry, but was this some unreleased "director's cut" I was unaware of?
They go back in time, but it didn't have anything to do with making sure that history wasn't changed..
Generations didn't have anything about a megalomaniac wanting to seize the power of life itself, he just wanted to get back to his happy place..
(Amazing Quantum Man has already touched on the TMP "tech more advanced than ethichs", so I'll leave that out)
I think the article author needs to actually WATCH some of these films, before writing about them.
What the people want is free music
Uhh, no.
What the people want is easy access to music, and the ability to sample.
I think the extent to which people "snack" has a lot to do with how they're wired, above the neck and below.
Actually, I read an interersting study (sorry, no link available) that measured brain activity during eating...
It seems that fat people have more activity in the brain's pleasure centre when they eat.. which suggested that food might simply "taste better" to them. If so, it follows that they might have a harder time limiting their food intake.
Use the timings on the instructions as a guide only.
THE PERFORMANCE OF MICROWAVE OVENS REALLY DOES VARY.
Actually, it not just microwaves, but almost all (consumer) convection ovens aren't exact.
In my old apartment, my wife kept wondering why everything she baked/roasted never turned out properly - so after watching the good eats pork ribs episode, I put a reliable thermometer in the oven - turns out it was out by almost 60 degrees!
An interesting aside - we just bought a house, and I wanted to see how far out the oven temperature was (it's an old oven, probably 20 or 30 years old), and (amazingly enough) it was almost exact!
Is it possible to lavaify rock in a convection oven?
No. Convection ovens just don't get hot enough.
here in Iowa, there's not much lava. Can I make my own?
If this story is correct, then you just might be able to, using a microwave oven.
all geeks love Iron Chef
/dev/senseofhumor )
Are you talking about Alton, or FortKnox?
I *hate* Iron Chef. Next to Emeril, it's the worst show on Food Network.
Seems to me that speaking on behalf of "all geeks" would be MUCH more arrogant than Alton making a joke of the answer (and it was a joke - perhaps you need to check the permissions on your
When reading this, I couldn't help but hear the voice of AB in my head, reciting the answers in the same way he delivers the little tidbits of info on "Good Eats"
Yup.. me too.. (Course maybe it helped that I just watched the salad episode..)
ask Microsoft what happens if you deviate from the standard
A better question might be "Ask someone impartial what happens when a company makes a deliberately incompatable version, and tries to pass it off as the real thing, using the registered trademark."
And the answer would be "you get slapped with a lawsuit for trademark infringement" - which is exactly what SHOULD happen.
How do you make a PC go faster by applying more power?
The same way superman makes room-temperature water freeze by blowing on it.
You don't have to know too much about the way computers work to know that replacing your power suppy with a bigger beefier one will in no noticable way effect your processing power.
/. .. most of the people here still believe that raw CPU MHz is how you measure processor performance.
Well, this IS
TLC has a new show starting soon that may be intersting to see. With the original girl host from Junkyard Wars and, I think I saw him, Henry Rollins. I guess we'll see.
That would be Full Metal Challenge!
Some friends and I were discussing entering for this - some of the designs on the website were pretty cool, but nobody I know figured it would be an indoor event (which it looks like from the trailer I saw..)
Yes, like Junkyard Wars, Cathy Rogers is producing/hosting this one as well (which explains why she's not hosting the current JW season.)
And YES! Henry Rollins!
When I saw Henry Rollins in the trailer, I thought - WOW - they really know how to pick a co-host..
if they can call mopping a floor a sport (curling) then they can call battlebots a sport!
First of all: I don't know who 'they' are, but nobody I know considers curling to be a sport.
Curling is a game.
Secondly: curling isn't mopping, it's sweeping (brooms, not mops.)
And thirdly: like golf, curling is a practical joke played by the Scottish on the rest of the world - the rest of the world just hasn't caught on yet.
How is it not a sport?
Do the players sweat?
No?
It's not a sport.
Preplanning and design combined with real time action and on your feet dynamic thinking.
That doesn't make it a sport.
If the participants don't exert themselves physically, it's not a sport, it's a game.
Figure skating is a sport.
Golf is a game.
Football (American and the real kind) is a sport.
Baseball is a game.
Battlebot participants don't exert themselves physically, so it's not a sport.
Innovative?
:o)
Maybe he works for Microsoft?
I've been using Cistron since 1997.. it's powerful, easy to configure, and stable (zero downtime since we installed it - including during upgrades.)
they make you feel comfortable but they don't do anything about the real problems.
I heartily disagree with you.
Theft of bandwidth is a real problem.
Harrassment is a real problem.
RBL's go a long way to solving these real problems for me.
So, exactly what real problems don't the blacklists address?
His mail server is an open relay, and he still doesn't realize it.
His mail problem is that he doesn't understand what an open relay really is.
He says "I block SOME relayed mail, so therefore my relay isn't completely open, so therefore it's not an open relay."
Well, if a door is ajar, are you going to argue that it's not open? If it's not closed, it's open.
Ok, so paypal sucks. Are there any good alternatives though?
Yes.
They are FDIC insured, so you have some recourse if they screw you.
Well then don't use them
It's that simple.
Yeah, that's great.
"You don't like Fat Tony's 200% monthly interest? Don't use it. It's that simple.
Last I checked loan sharking was illegal too.
If is REALLY is that simple, why do we need laws against that?
You'd think they'd be smart enough to not send spam to any 'webmaster@' addresses, since whoever gets mail to that address has the greatest chances of being someone is willing and able to block their messages from getting to ALL the other users at that domain
I believe you're thinking of postmaster@, not webmaster.
Webmaster is the person who runs the website.
Postmaster is the person who runs the mail server.
In small orgs, they're frequently the same person, but not always.
They say in the message boards that it si because not enough people buy it.
Doesn't make any sense to me. I can't download it, I can't try it out... if I can't try it out, I won't buy it. I'm not gonna shell out cash for something without knowing what it's like - especially when there's freely downloadable alternatives.
I've bought Slackware (multiple versions, from Slackware 96 through to 8.1), and it's well worth the money.. during the time it wasn't up to snuff for Desktop use, I bought Mandrake.. both distros were downloaded first, and bought later.
They also say that they want 100,000 users in 3 months.
And I want a toilet made out of solid gold, but some things just aren't in the cards.
If they want to increase their user base, they need to make ISO's available for download.
4. Open source development - probably starting with Python.
Dude, hate to break it to you, but someone already started Python
Suggestion #1: Don't make people click through layers to get what they want
Make that #2.
Suggestion #1 should be: DON'T BE A 'TARD AND REDIRECT SOMEONE TO WWW.MACROMEDIA.COM IF YOUR BRAIN-DEAD JAVASCRIPT DOESN'T DETECT A FLASH PLUG-IN - ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ALREADY HAVE THE PLUGIN INSTALLED
To the Band:
I'm always looking for new music, especially independant bands (that's where most of the 'innovation' in music comes from today), and I buy direct from indie band's websites frequently.
I tried going to your website, expecting to see what you're all about, and maybe being able to sample some of your music - if it was good I'd have no problem buying some CD's, and if very good, some other merchandise.
Instead, your web site tells me that you don't want me as a customer, because you sent me to another site, which has NOTHING to do with you
If you're looking to become more popular, don't send people away from your website.
I believe by the next Windows distro, we'll have security that will stand for something.
Except that you miss exactly what Valentine means:
Windows cannot be secure - MS has finally realized (and admitted) this.
Security is something that must be designed in from the beginning - it's not something that can be 'bolted on' after the product is finished, any more than you can make pudding, and decide you want it to be a house instead - you can't make a house out of pudding.
I think we can all agree that MSFT has succeeded in creating simple, easy-to-use products
You think wrong. I certainly wouldn't characterize MS products as easy-to-use. Easier than some other products, in some situations, perhaps.. but not easy.
As for simple? Have you seen MS Word lately? Bloated with dozens upon dozens of feeatures that nobody uses - you categorize that as simple?
whether you like it or not, there is no easier OS
Spoken like someone who's never tried any other OS.
Ever try MacOS?
How about Amiga?
VMS? Anything besides Linux and Windows?
As an advanced user, I find Linux MUCH easier to use than Windows, because everything is laid out as I expect. I used Windows before I used Linux, and most of the learning curve I experienced came from attempting to do things the Windows way - but after one or two times, I realized that the best way to learn a task was to ask myself "if I had designed this system, how would I implement it?" - and all of a sudden, everything became easy.