h.264 is a codec, not a file format, so you can (now) have h.264 encoded Flash videos in addition to h.264 encoded AVIs, MOVs, etc., which doesn't really help you to decide on a format. FYI.
> A level between 40 and 80 is healthy, anything above 80 is unhealthy
40?! You're nuts. If you're below 50, you need to get some orange juice in your body ASAP. Between 80-110 is normal (closer to 80 is better, though). In fact, from the article you linked to, "A measurement of 40 is grounds for an immediate trip to the hospital." Really low glucose levels are more immediately dangerous (easily fatal) than high ones. Consistently high ones will destroy your body in ways you don't want to think about (blindness and limb amputation is common, among many other things).
If you go above, I think, 245 or so, your body goes into 'ketoacidosis' and starts eating itself and the chemical Acetone (nail polish remover) winds up in your bloodstream. I can tell you from personal experience that this feels about as good as it sounds.
When you start talking standards and you gather a group of browser/client makers to discuss new standards, you really do need to have the giant on the block represented. Otherwise, you get a set of standards that run the real possibility of being ignored, or worse, supplanted by the giant's idea.
And how would this be different from the Web standard MS *has* participated in? I know it sounds like I'm joking, but sadly, I'm really not.
The trouble is that making hydrogen requires more energy than the hydrogen so produced can provide.
Indeed, that is currently so, but many technologies are in development to change that. Sure, for now, the Hydrogen Economy is a myth, but I doubt it will remain so.
There are other big (huge, even) problems with Hydrogen as fuel for automobiles, though. The biggest of these remaining problems are storage and distribution. Each of these is a massive hurdle to have to overcome, but I think the onboard storage problem will be handled satisfactorily with upcoming technology.
Distribution, however, that could get pretty ugly, and will require the cooperation of government and industry, which is rarely cheap or efficient, and seemingly never without graft. I like the Powerball technology, which, though inefficient on the surface, can reuse the stuff (Borax? I forget) the Hydrogen
bonds. The resulting solid material is then *very* safe for cheap transport. This gets around the whole financial and regulatory mess of setting up pipelines. Safe Hydrogen LLC is developing a hydrogen 'slurry' that could be transported using the existing gasoline infrastructure, but I've not yet read much about it.
You might also want to consider Computer Engineering, if you can hack it (so to speak). Don't limit yourself to software! Play with circuits and robots, etc. If I was able to go back in time and change my educational direction, that's what I'd do (assuming I didn't fall to the lure of some of my other interests like architecture or photography).
If you like the idea of varied kinds of work, a CE degree has it all over CS and IT.
I thought the decision to use a design team they hired away from Play-Skool was brilliant, man, a true stroke of genius! And removing features IE6 had (* hack) was also much appreciated by the developersdevelopersdevelopers.
And the Outlook 2007 team - what brilliant people they are, too - removing abilities Outlook 2003 had for a 'consistent' HTML renderer base - fantastic move. You know, avoiding the *obvious* move of using the more-capable Outlook 2003 HTML renderer in Word 2007, instead of what they did (using the less-capable HTML renderer from Word) - that takes real vision.
I think it's *great* that Microsoft hires retarded software developers, really I do. They've got bills to pay just like everyone else, right?
I don't install.NET in the first place, thus (hopefully) not requiring any patches to said.NET. My machine thus remains much, much faster. The instant you install.NET, your machine will be slower. The more.NET applications you install, your machine will be slower. That's my own experience, anyway, on multiple machines. So, yay me!:)
> The moon is a harsh mistress is a perfect demonstration of why regulation is key to human survival, on top of a really outstanding story.
Wow. Yeah, it's a really outstanding story (and my favourite of Heinlein's work), but if you think that book demonstrations that *regulation* is the key to human survival, I think you missed the entire point of the story.
And I think I'd also have to take issue with your assessment of Heinlein as 'right wing,' but that would depend entirely on your definition of right wing. Certainly he was *extremely* liberal in social matters (much more so than most people assume).
I also like the name is made up of the letters of the four bases that make up DNA (AGCT). I dunno if that was a coincidence or not, but it's pretty nifty either way.
The biggest difference between the gate system and Trek's teleporters is the distance involved. That and the creators.
Whereas, the biggest difference between Star Trek and Stargate SG-1 is that Star Trek stole from westerns, and Stargate SG-1 stole from every sci-fi show that's ever been shown. (I'm not saying they did it badly, though.)
Good point. Anyone know what the user agent string is for iPhone/Safari? That way we can detect these morons and do unpleasant things to their "user experience.":)
No no no, the way to do it is to make a box formed from Twinkies. Those things'll stop anything. As an added benefit, you'll still have a tasty snack around in thirty years.
Keep in mind, there are those of us who consider the definition of a planet as wrong, and the 'reclassification' as merely an attempt to exclude Pluto as a planet for the sake of scientific contrariness.
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h.264 is a codec, not a file format, so you can (now) have h.264 encoded Flash videos in addition to h.264 encoded AVIs, MOVs, etc., which doesn't really help you to decide on a format. FYI.
This means they're one step closer to creating Dark Angel, which I think we can all agree, is vastly more important. :)
> A level between 40 and 80 is healthy, anything above 80 is unhealthy
40?! You're nuts. If you're below 50, you need to get some orange juice in your body ASAP. Between 80-110 is normal (closer to 80 is better, though). In fact, from the article you linked to, "A measurement of 40 is grounds for an immediate trip to the hospital." Really low glucose levels are more immediately dangerous (easily fatal) than high ones. Consistently high ones will destroy your body in ways you don't want to think about (blindness and limb amputation is common, among many other things).
If you go above, I think, 245 or so, your body goes into 'ketoacidosis' and starts eating itself and the chemical Acetone (nail polish remover) winds up in your bloodstream. I can tell you from personal experience that this feels about as good as it sounds.
Cuz I'm pretty sure Merry and Pippin would not be pleased by this...
Microkernels are the wave of the future.
:)
And always will be.
When you start talking standards and you gather a group of browser/client makers to discuss new standards, you really do need to have the giant on the block represented. Otherwise, you get a set of standards that run the real possibility of being ignored, or worse, supplanted by the giant's idea.
And how would this be different from the Web standard MS *has* participated in? I know it sounds like I'm joking, but sadly, I'm really not.
The trouble is that making hydrogen requires more energy than the hydrogen so produced can provide.
Indeed, that is currently so, but many technologies are in development to change that. Sure, for now, the Hydrogen Economy is a myth, but I doubt it will remain so.
There are other big (huge, even) problems with Hydrogen as fuel for automobiles, though. The biggest of these remaining problems are storage and distribution. Each of these is a massive hurdle to have to overcome, but I think the onboard storage problem will be handled satisfactorily with upcoming technology.
Distribution, however, that could get pretty ugly, and will require the cooperation of government and industry, which is rarely cheap or efficient, and seemingly never without graft. I like the Powerball technology, which, though inefficient on the surface, can reuse the stuff (Borax? I forget) the Hydrogen
bonds. The resulting solid material is then *very* safe for cheap transport. This gets around the whole financial and regulatory mess of setting up pipelines. Safe Hydrogen LLC is developing a hydrogen 'slurry' that could be transported using the existing gasoline infrastructure, but I've not yet read much about it.
I think, with current gas prices vs. price of cubic zirconia, you're fuel is in greater danger now than with fuel cells made using this technology.
Just make sure you don't leave an ink jet cartridge in your car in plain view of passers by.
You might also want to consider Computer Engineering, if you can hack it (so to speak). Don't limit yourself to software! Play with circuits and robots, etc. If I was able to go back in time and change my educational direction, that's what I'd do (assuming I didn't fall to the lure of some of my other interests like architecture or photography).
If you like the idea of varied kinds of work, a CE degree has it all over CS and IT.
I thought the decision to use a design team they hired away from Play-Skool was brilliant, man, a true stroke of genius! And removing features IE6 had (* hack) was also much appreciated by the developersdevelopersdevelopers.
And the Outlook 2007 team - what brilliant people they are, too - removing abilities Outlook 2003 had for a 'consistent' HTML renderer base - fantastic move. You know, avoiding the *obvious* move of using the more-capable Outlook 2003 HTML renderer in Word 2007, instead of what they did (using the less-capable HTML renderer from Word) - that takes real vision.
I think it's *great* that Microsoft hires retarded software developers, really I do. They've got bills to pay just like everyone else, right?
The correct term is 'solid-core', not 'solid-state', FYI.
I don't install .NET in the first place, thus (hopefully) not requiring any patches to said .NET. My machine thus remains much, much faster. The instant you install .NET, your machine will be slower. The more .NET applications you install, your machine will be slower. That's my own experience, anyway, on multiple machines. So, yay me! :)
> The moon is a harsh mistress is a perfect demonstration of why regulation is key to human survival, on top of a really outstanding story.
Wow. Yeah, it's a really outstanding story (and my favourite of Heinlein's work), but if you think that book demonstrations that *regulation* is the key to human survival, I think you missed the entire point of the story.
And I think I'd also have to take issue with your assessment of Heinlein as 'right wing,' but that would depend entirely on your definition of right wing. Certainly he was *extremely* liberal in social matters (much more so than most people assume).
Au contraire - Gartner Group just released a study which concluded MS Water(tm) was not, in fact, wet*, unlike GNU/Water or H2O-BSD.
(*) MS Water(tm) tested at temperatures below 0 degrees C and above 100 degrees C, GNU/Water and H2O-BSD tested between 0 degrees C and 100 degrees C.
I also like the name is made up of the letters of the four bases that make up DNA (AGCT). I dunno if that was a coincidence or not, but it's pretty nifty either way.
Ridley Scott not that long ago confirmed that Decker was a replicant
That's good news - uncork a new model for them to use in making Indy 4.
Dude, get a clue - it's *all* ball-bearings, now!
>> Sheesh! Some people will contrive almost any excuse to turn the subject to George W. Bush.
> Why? Is there a better explanation for why the WMDs in Iraq were not found? They were simply teleported away!
Actually, since they haven't yet been observed, they can be considered to both be there AND not be there.
Well, that's what Rummie told me, anyway.
The biggest difference between the gate system and Trek's teleporters is the distance involved. That and the creators.
Whereas, the biggest difference between Star Trek and Stargate SG-1 is that Star Trek stole from westerns, and Stargate SG-1 stole from every sci-fi show that's ever been shown. (I'm not saying they did it badly, though.)
Good point. Anyone know what the user agent string is for iPhone/Safari? That way we can detect these morons and do unpleasant things to their "user experience." :)
My congratulations on a truly stellar joke!
No no no, the way to do it is to make a box formed from Twinkies. Those things'll stop anything. As an added benefit, you'll still have a tasty snack around in thirty years.
"Inflammable means flammable? What a country!"
Please make arrangements to have the vehicle moved off of city property as soon as possible or we will have to start fining you $50/day.
Backdated to 50 years ago, plus inflation.
And interest.
Keep in mind, there are those of us who consider the definition of a planet as wrong, and the 'reclassification' as merely an attempt to exclude Pluto as a planet for the sake of scientific contrariness.