Man, I hope the Mac nostalgia-trippers get something analogous to DOS users' DOSBox. Full emulation; your programs will run on any platform the emulator can be compiled on---they will never die.
If only it would run Carmageddon. I have such fond memories of that game.
Ha. Score!Stewing, boiling, or poaching are done at or below 100C (212F); cooking at this low temperature creates negligible amounts of the chemicals. Me and my trusty bottle of Steel Reserve/can of peach nectar/apple juice are good to go!
Cooking meat at high temp and grilling can create changes in the meat.
Good changes or bad changes? Chemically speaking, what sorts of changes? Cooking meat is a very old tradition, probably as old as fire. Was it a bad idea all along? And how do certain methods of cooking create these changes; do others create difference changes?
As a recent devotee of poached chicken and fish (it's not namby-pamby! it's a perfectly manly way of cooking, like frying but with beer instead!), I really am curious.
Oh, come on. You're arguing against the original question by shooting down my analogy. I mentioned a system which is unpredictable short-range temporally (the weather), but is, we think, predictable long-range temporally (global weather). To demonstrate that predictability can work like this, I described a system which is unpredictable short-range spatially (a single car) but predictable long-range spatially (the entire city's traffic).
Do you see why the analogy I made was valid, and the one you did wasn't?
As a layperson in the field of climate anything, I can't speak to the reliability of evidence about long-term, ongoing climate change.
I can tell you that an argument like "we can't predict this system on a microscopic level, so we clearly can't even begin to predict it on a macroscopic level" is ridiculous. It's chaotic on the short-term, but long term trends certainly can emerge.
Consider a city. Looking down from a satellite, choose a random car in the city, and try to predict its movements. Not very easy. But predict the movements of the cars in the city as a whole, as people arrive from suburbs in the morning and return to them at night? Much easier.
It's a nice sound-bite argument, but it's really goddamned tired. Put it down and think of a new argument against man-made, man-reversible climate change.
Ah, and one of the arguments is that the world economy will destroy itself if an alternative to cheap gasoline isn't found. No wacky environmentalists needed for that outcome.
Activists: 1-2-3-4! To magic pants, we say 'no more!'. Management: They've sent the naked hippie brigade! Oh noes! Activists: 2-4-6-8! We don't want to grey-goo-ate! Management: And they're equipped with terrible rhymes! Terrible, terrible rhymes of woe! We can't counter such an assault---Johnson, remove your nanopants! Clerk: Huh?
Yeah, but then we could run out and say "NANOTECH IS NOT GRAY GOO!". I mean, not any more than physics is a doomsday bomb. So then the protesters are not only silly, but they're flat-out wrong.
Well, yeah, but most companies don't decide to go head-to-head in a sector where there is established market dominance. Photoshop is the image editing application; you'd be insane to make a business plan around "wean people from Photoshop". Open source apps can make themselves known as alternatives, because they don't need a particular critical mass to be worth it to write. (Linux vs Windows for the desktop, GIMP vs Photoshop for editing, Firefox vs IE for browsing.)
It smacks of Microsoft taking a significant loss up front in order to achieve market dominance later on.
All that, of course, is only if they're actually going to try and sell this, and thus compete with Photoshop, instead of making it an improved version of Paint, so it's actually useful.
Ah, you got there first. Nothing quite like the dumbfounded expression of a supervisor being told that "no, you didn't actually need to buy Acrobat Pro to make a PDF version of that spreadsheet".
I guess I picked up the habit of driving a used car from my parents, who, as long as I can remember, have driven used cars that they bought outright. My car cost as much as six months of payments on a moderately priced new car, and it's given me more than a year of faithful service. I can't imagine blowing a huge amount of cash on an upgrade that amounts to basically "looks shinier". I have all the car I want or need, thank you very much.
Start trolling your local noncompetitive martial arts and fencing groups. Geeks like those. (Though I my jujutsu club was heavily loaded with jocks. Perhaps something with less contact.)
Not every geek looks like a geek. You notice the greasy dude in the Fett shirt and penguin hat that hasn't been washed since the Reagan administration because you think he's a geek---what else could he be? But you'd be surprised. Some of us can blend into a crowd. (Well, except for the paleness. But your star burns!)
That quote's not from George Washington, not precisely. It's from the Treaty of Tripoli, which was passed under John Adams, and I don't think it was credited as having been written by any one government figure of the time. That said, it was quite unanimously accepted.
"What is PHP" is the sort of question that a reference work is designed to answer. "So, what are some folks' real-world experiences with PHP, and how did it change your job?" isn't.
No, no. Standard practice is to just send them to Wikipedia or a google search to demonstrate that the information they seek is quite readily available, and make the original poster feel kinda dumb, while not wasting time on rewriting an intro paragraph and therefore handing a victory to a possible troll.
I heartily concur with your comments about the Superman/Batman dichotomy. Superman is a tool; he's a gullible fool ready to swallow whichever ideology gets to him first. (For a rather well-done example, read Superman: Red Son, where Superman lands 12 hours later/earlier, crashes into the verdant farmlands of the central Ukraine; he grows up to defend truth, justice and the expansion of the Warsaw Pact. Bonus points for having Batman be a Russian terrorist fighting Superman's police state in a furry hat that somehow still has bat-ears.)
See, my idea is that heroes need to be nerfed. Star Trek ran into this problem, and had to pretend that lots of overpowered tech simply ceased to exist. Likewise, Superman has to be nerfed by making him exceedingly stupid, gullible, etc. Which is why Batman---who requires little to no nerfing, being a simple meat-and-water human like the rest of us---is so much more interesting. Well, when done right.
Not to give credence to the original commenter, but now that you've tooted your own horn to such an extent, aren't you going to grace us with your own theory?
I was thinking V for Vendetta, Cerebus (though Dave Sim has other issues with women), Sandman and Bone. What were you thinking of, for comics not involving big-titted naked ladies?
Oh, and especiallySandman Mystery Theater. Nobody's particularly good-looking in that.
This has been driving me nuts, off and on, for the last month or so: I remember reading an explanation of why one mouse move-click was equivalent to eighteen keystrokes from an experienced typist. It made impressive sense to me, and encouraged me to learn keyboard shortcuts even for most GUI applications.
I'm pretty sure the difference between average IQ and party affiliation is due in a large sense to racial disparity. Black folks skew Democrat, more than any other ethnic or racial group (well, Cuban exiles in Miami skew Republican, but that's local to there). For whatever reason you want to attribute, blacks do worse than whites on these tests.
For what it's worth, I am curious what the comparison would be based on party affiliation within the same ethnic/racial group.
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Man, I hope the Mac nostalgia-trippers get something analogous to DOS users' DOSBox. Full emulation; your programs will run on any platform the emulator can be compiled on---they will never die.
If only it would run Carmageddon. I have such fond memories of that game.
--grendel drago
Thanks for the info!
Ha. Score! Stewing, boiling, or poaching are done at or below 100C (212F); cooking at this low temperature creates negligible amounts of the chemicals. Me and my trusty bottle of Steel Reserve/can of peach nectar/apple juice are good to go!
--grendel drago
Cooking meat at high temp and grilling can create changes in the meat.
Good changes or bad changes? Chemically speaking, what sorts of changes? Cooking meat is a very old tradition, probably as old as fire. Was it a bad idea all along? And how do certain methods of cooking create these changes; do others create difference changes?
As a recent devotee of poached chicken and fish (it's not namby-pamby! it's a perfectly manly way of cooking, like frying but with beer instead!), I really am curious.
--grendel drago
Oh, come on. You're arguing against the original question by shooting down my analogy. I mentioned a system which is unpredictable short-range temporally (the weather), but is, we think, predictable long-range temporally (global weather). To demonstrate that predictability can work like this, I described a system which is unpredictable short-range spatially (a single car) but predictable long-range spatially (the entire city's traffic).
Do you see why the analogy I made was valid, and the one you did wasn't?
--grendel drago
As a layperson in the field of climate anything, I can't speak to the reliability of evidence about long-term, ongoing climate change.
I can tell you that an argument like "we can't predict this system on a microscopic level, so we clearly can't even begin to predict it on a macroscopic level" is ridiculous. It's chaotic on the short-term, but long term trends certainly can emerge.
Consider a city. Looking down from a satellite, choose a random car in the city, and try to predict its movements. Not very easy. But predict the movements of the cars in the city as a whole, as people arrive from suburbs in the morning and return to them at night? Much easier.
It's a nice sound-bite argument, but it's really goddamned tired. Put it down and think of a new argument against man-made, man-reversible climate change.
Ah, and one of the arguments is that the world economy will destroy itself if an alternative to cheap gasoline isn't found. No wacky environmentalists needed for that outcome.
--grendel drago
I can just imagine management.
Activists: 1-2-3-4! To magic pants, we say 'no more!'.
Management: They've sent the naked hippie brigade! Oh noes!
Activists: 2-4-6-8! We don't want to grey-goo-ate!
Management: And they're equipped with terrible rhymes! Terrible, terrible rhymes of woe! We can't counter such an assault---Johnson, remove your nanopants!
Clerk: Huh?
--grendel drago
Yeah, but then we could run out and say "NANOTECH IS NOT GRAY GOO!". I mean, not any more than physics is a doomsday bomb. So then the protesters are not only silly, but they're flat-out wrong.
--grendel drago
Well, yeah, but most companies don't decide to go head-to-head in a sector where there is established market dominance. Photoshop is the image editing application; you'd be insane to make a business plan around "wean people from Photoshop". Open source apps can make themselves known as alternatives, because they don't need a particular critical mass to be worth it to write. (Linux vs Windows for the desktop, GIMP vs Photoshop for editing, Firefox vs IE for browsing.)
It smacks of Microsoft taking a significant loss up front in order to achieve market dominance later on.
All that, of course, is only if they're actually going to try and sell this, and thus compete with Photoshop, instead of making it an improved version of Paint, so it's actually useful.
--grendel drago
Link me, I have no idea what you're talking about.
--grendel drago
Ah, you got there first. Nothing quite like the dumbfounded expression of a supervisor being told that "no, you didn't actually need to buy Acrobat Pro to make a PDF version of that spreadsheet".
--grendel drago
I guess I picked up the habit of driving a used car from my parents, who, as long as I can remember, have driven used cars that they bought outright. My car cost as much as six months of payments on a moderately priced new car, and it's given me more than a year of faithful service. I can't imagine blowing a huge amount of cash on an upgrade that amounts to basically "looks shinier". I have all the car I want or need, thank you very much.
--grendel drago
Start trolling your local noncompetitive martial arts and fencing groups. Geeks like those. (Though I my jujutsu club was heavily loaded with jocks. Perhaps something with less contact.)
Not every geek looks like a geek. You notice the greasy dude in the Fett shirt and penguin hat that hasn't been washed since the Reagan administration because you think he's a geek---what else could he be? But you'd be surprised. Some of us can blend into a crowd. (Well, except for the paleness. But your star burns!)
--grendel drago
That quote's not from George Washington, not precisely. It's from the Treaty of Tripoli, which was passed under John Adams, and I don't think it was credited as having been written by any one government figure of the time. That said, it was quite unanimously accepted.
More here.
--grendel drago
"What is PHP" is the sort of question that a reference work is designed to answer. "So, what are some folks' real-world experiences with PHP, and how did it change your job?" isn't.
--grendel drago
No, no. Standard practice is to just send them to Wikipedia or a google search to demonstrate that the information they seek is quite readily available, and make the original poster feel kinda dumb, while not wasting time on rewriting an intro paragraph and therefore handing a victory to a possible troll.
--grendel drago
I heartily concur with your comments about the Superman/Batman dichotomy. Superman is a tool; he's a gullible fool ready to swallow whichever ideology gets to him first. (For a rather well-done example, read Superman: Red Son, where Superman lands 12 hours later/earlier, crashes into the verdant farmlands of the central Ukraine; he grows up to defend truth, justice and the expansion of the Warsaw Pact. Bonus points for having Batman be a Russian terrorist fighting Superman's police state in a furry hat that somehow still has bat-ears.)
See, my idea is that heroes need to be nerfed. Star Trek ran into this problem, and had to pretend that lots of overpowered tech simply ceased to exist. Likewise, Superman has to be nerfed by making him exceedingly stupid, gullible, etc. Which is why Batman---who requires little to no nerfing, being a simple meat-and-water human like the rest of us---is so much more interesting. Well, when done right.
--grendel drago
Not to give credence to the original commenter, but now that you've tooted your own horn to such an extent, aren't you going to grace us with your own theory?
Kinda seems like your comment stopped mid-think.
--grendel drago
I was thinking V for Vendetta, Cerebus (though Dave Sim has other issues with women), Sandman and Bone. What were you thinking of, for comics not involving big-titted naked ladies?
Oh, and especially Sandman Mystery Theater. Nobody's particularly good-looking in that.
--grendel drago
Ha---that's nothing. I saw someone modded up to at least +4 for responding to himself with a caustic put-down of his own original post.
I replied, saying "Did you actually get modded up to +4 for pimp-slapping yourself?". He had.
--grendel drago
This has been driving me nuts, off and on, for the last month or so: I remember reading an explanation of why one mouse move-click was equivalent to eighteen keystrokes from an experienced typist. It made impressive sense to me, and encouraged me to learn keyboard shortcuts even for most GUI applications.
--grendel drago
I'm pretty sure the difference between average IQ and party affiliation is due in a large sense to racial disparity. Black folks skew Democrat, more than any other ethnic or racial group (well, Cuban exiles in Miami skew Republican, but that's local to there). For whatever reason you want to attribute, blacks do worse than whites on these tests.
For what it's worth, I am curious what the comparison would be based on party affiliation within the same ethnic/racial group.
--grendel drago
I have several hundred shots taken with a Dakota Digital that say 'have faith, pervo-padawan'.
--grendel drago
Yep, we're going to be seeing a whole lotta fresh amateur porn over at Livejournal from this. Man, I love PureDigital.
--grendel drago
Yeah, I'd prefer it if my fellow geeks didn't keep legitimizing this kind of shit. This counts as humor? Pfah.
--grendel drago