a seattle hospital administrator was overheard mumbling:
"There's an old saying in Seattle -- I know it's in California, probably in Seattle -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again!"
no doubt, sugar and lack of excercise are the real culprits.
that's why i said "tendency"
you can use sleep deprivation levels as a gauge, but it doesn't have to directly cause the diabetes itself.
so perhaps one can say that people who take in a lot of sugar and get no exercise have a higher probability of not getting quality sleep...and being diabetic.
get glasses just for computer work that don't have nearly the amount of correction of your general purpose glasses.
your regular glasses have a correction strength that allows you to resolve detail at a distance.
this amount of correction while good for driving, walking through a grocery store etc, is great for general stuff like that.
it's terrible for 10 hour days spent staring at an object 16 inches from your face.
if you are very nearsighted, your full strength normal prescription used to view a monitor for hours on end day after day will: -give you headaches -cause you to need ever increasing prescription strength -make near objects look smaller, most notably text -after a long day at the computer, blur your distance vision
if you have a weaker pair of "computer glasses" the text will immediately look normal sized again, give you less eye stress/headaches, and when you slip your normal pair of glasses back on to drive to starbucks, everything will look crystal clear.
ok ok. i keed i keed.
all joking aside, i really did just watch my first episode of firefly like 2 days ago.
episode 1.
i look forward to watching the rest.
Slashdot Mirror
Film at 11.
;-)
but only if you're running 64bit vista with hdcp hardware, otherwise your news clip will be time delayed by 1 hour, shown in 320x240.
in black and white only.
oh, and no audio.
have fun xp users!
Same with Scrappy Doo, he ruined everything.
He needed a blanket party.
mod me down for saying this, but I think that we need slashdot moderation monitoring.
The modding absolutely sucks of late. Even if the parent poster was off base, it wasn't that big a deal.
The stories are late and triple/quadruple posted, the moderation system is showing it's warts more and more, and frankly, I'm quite bored of slashdot.
I'm gonna go now. Perhaps I'll visit in a few months.
peace.
"I think deep down some Linux hacks don't want it to become mainstream."
It's more then some. And it's not that they don't want linux to become mainstream. They just don't care if it goes mainstream.
I won't admit it watching it, if you don't. :-)
uh huh.
"technology taking a back seat", went out the back window as soon as they took that interview...
what's more interesting to me is that usage of the term "jumps the shark" jumped the shark about 5 seconds after the phrase came into existance.
"jumping the shark"
that phrase is gay...all around.
and all folks still using it, should be fed 50 live hand grenades.
agreed. the headline made it sound like some inverse relationship existed, that was previously overlooked.
this topic will quickly spiral down to 'how big' a 'big thing' needs to be, in order to qualify as a 'big thing'.
i already see parent poster and grandparent defining 'big thing' differently.
it's not bad, just a product of language.
many discussions end up in definitional arguments.
ahhh. so unless someone catches EVERY BIG THING to come out, they are failures.
catching a single big thing in one's lifetime isn't enough.
ok if you say so.
I'm not a fan of Bill G. by the way.
"n a similar way to George Bushes war crimes are going to be tried. Or did I miss something?"
yea. you missed it when your brain short circuits every topic back to George Bush.
I'm not a fan of his either.
so are you trying to say that Bill Gates is an example of someone failing to see the next big thing?
If so, I find that pretty silly.
If anyone has ever seen the next big thing, Bill Gates certainly would be a candidate.
btw, there is no source for the quote you gave. (for the billionth time on slashdot)
a seattle hospital administrator was overheard mumbling:
"There's an old saying in Seattle -- I know it's in California, probably in Seattle -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again!"
no doubt, sugar and lack of excercise are the real culprits.
that's why i said "tendency"
you can use sleep deprivation levels as a gauge, but it doesn't have to directly cause the diabetes itself.
so perhaps one can say that people who take in a lot of sugar and get no exercise have a higher probability of not getting quality sleep...and being diabetic.
genetics is also a factor.
sleep deprived folks show a higher tendency for diabetes etc.
get glasses just for computer work that don't have nearly the amount of correction of your general purpose glasses.
your regular glasses have a correction strength that allows you to resolve detail at a distance.
this amount of correction while good for driving, walking through a grocery store etc, is great for general stuff like that.
it's terrible for 10 hour days spent staring at an object 16 inches from your face.
if you are very nearsighted, your full strength normal prescription used to view a monitor for hours on end day after day will:
-give you headaches
-cause you to need ever increasing prescription strength
-make near objects look smaller, most notably text
-after a long day at the computer, blur your distance vision
if you have a weaker pair of "computer glasses" the text will immediately look normal sized again, give you less eye stress/headaches, and when you slip your normal pair of glasses back on to drive to starbucks, everything will look crystal clear.
I've also used a wheel mouse with OS 9 with out special software. Right mouse button worked just fine.
j
"YOU'VE GOT JAIL!"
ok ok. i keed i keed. all joking aside, i really did just watch my first episode of firefly like 2 days ago. episode 1. i look forward to watching the rest.
I just watched my very first firefly.
after i put my pants out, i noticed that my underwear weren't to charred.
i got off lucky...
never use short URL services in Slashdot
;-)
ahhh, c'mon! what fun is that? =)
You gotta love the brave mods who click the blind link and boldly go where no goatse has gone!!!
The notebook I'm really drooling over...and honestly wondering if there are going to be some huge power/heat issues with:
Sager NP9750 (@ powernotebooks.com)
-amd athlon64 x2 4800
-2 gig ram
-7800gtx (mobile of course)
-100gb 7200rpm sata drive
-dual layer dvd burner
-gigabit ethernet nic
http://tinyurl.com/afcqu
This laptop is really over the top. $3330 maxed out the way i want it...yikes.
but my quick on the draw guess: it's the illusion of self-awareness.
some day the illusion will be so good, we'll have some difficult questions to deal with...
there isn't a single manufacturer that has open-source drivers with modern 3D acceleration capabilities.
pretty much sums it up. mod up.
autorun? ok. so we sue microsoft. ;-)
....must
....turn
....off
....the
....inter...net
!
my precious!
evil hobitses!
/me quickly opens 12 more firefox tabs
(heavy breathing)
(straining reaching)
(eyes watering)
(millimeters from powerbutton)
(hand shaking violently) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!