Even a simple color wipe or some effect across any object that needed highlighting would work. Just something to illustrate that it is indeed everywhere.
I don't know if it's been done (links are dead to me), but why not make Tux the face of Linux in an ad? Get a bunch of Tuxes made in various sizes (or digitally modelled) and show people doing things in their daily routine, with the penguins replacing phones, laptops, servers, embedded devices, etc. And at the end of the ad, the simple text: Linux, you're already using it.
I was in a car pulled over by the MPs in the civvie compound of CFB Trenton (Ontario, Canada) in the 90s. The reason we were pulled over? 41 in a 40 zone.
Also around that time, my friend almost ran over one of the MPs. The MP had parked his car facing traffic, high beams on, but neglected to turn on any other signaling lights to indicate it was a traffic stop. Then he stood in the middle of the lane halfway down the length of his car - completely invisible behind his headlights. All dark clothing, and not a reflective strip to be seen. He came about 2 feet from eating bumper.
I thought the whole point of music videos used to be that they were glorified ads to get you out there buying music and tickets to shows. Has that changed or have they forgotten?
I'd been looking forward to this game for a long time. And then the demo came out. It looks gorgeous, but like many others I had that damn floaty/lag effect on the controls. At the default joystick sensitivity it's like moving around in the game by handing the joystick to a friend and using verbal commands to negotiate the level. Once I cranked up the sensitivity to max the lag decreased, but did not disappear entirely. Best case is 1 or 2 tenths of a second. And in an FPS that's just not the kind of controls I want to use. If they are not going to fix it, that's fine. I don't *need* to buy the game. But considering how many people I saw commenting on the issue as well, I don't know how they can afford to just turn away sales like that.
Wonder if it would be a sensitivity to certain chemicals. Like the mercury in tuna. It's only in small amounts, but if it's an extreme sensitivity it might trigger something.
Has the doc tested you with different types of fiber? I can't remember if its the soluble or insoluble that can cause trouble in IBS. But if you've got IBS-C instead of D, it would be worth checking. Since fiber can actually make it worse, eating "healthy" can be brutal.
Oh, as an aside to this thread... Do you get colds or the flu? Oddly enough in all the times I've had these problems with my guts I've not had the flu once. And colds never last more than a couple of days, while my friends can hack for a couple of weeks.
I tracked down the list of things my nurse friend told me to take to the doc. He did pretty much all of them:
Patient fulfill ROME III criteria No Alarmsignals Blodtests: FBC,CRP, ALAT, bilirubins, bas.phosphatases, Albumine, TSH, calcium, celiac screening, lactase gene test. (apparently here in Canada the lactase test isn't done. Silly)
3 consecutive fecal samples for worm, ovaes and parasites. (doctor only did 1, but the thing about this test is that if it's a parasite they can shed in stages and you can miss it - Giardia symptoms are on the money with most IBS sufferers) Sigmoidoscopy with biopsy (this will come later)
hemoglobin checked, liver functions done, calcium levels, albumin, thyroid checked (this was because of constant exhaustion, and may not apply to you, but it was also a good indicator of my B12 deficiency), a check for celiac and a lactose intolerance check, allergy testing as well.
Last week I was in swallowing barium for a follow-through exam. The next stage in the process. Hope it works out for you. Having to live one's life around "toilet radius = 30 seconds" is no way to go on.
I was "diagnosed" with irritable bowel in '91. Basically the doctor listened to the symptoms and proclaimed that was it. I got scoped a little while later but he didn't see anything to prove him wrong.
So while it has gotten worse every year there was nothing that could really be done about it. The next family doctor I had just reiterated the first and said that there were no real effective treatments, just live with it and try to avoid triggers.
He retired and I have a new doctor now. Oddly enough, I started dating a nurse and she wrote down a whole battery of tests (that I was never given) and told me to take that to the new doctor. I did. Turns out it's not IBS after all. Now I'm going through more tests to find out why my white blood cell count is high, and B12 is low.
How many doctors have you seen regarding the diagnosis? Out of all the tests I was given, I only had to pay $60 for one (Canada), but if you're in the US I'm thinking it would be about 3 grand for all of em. Parasites, white blood cells, full blood workup, the whole bit.
IBS is the diagnosis they give when they don't want to work for a real cause.
Wouldn't the capacitors be an issue on a TV that old? It's pretty common for old tube amps and pre-amps to have all the capacitors replaced by the audiophiles that buy them on ebay. I sold an old tube pre-amp, and the guy said that if they don't replace them outright they'll hook up lightbulbs in series and slowly power up the device, using the lights to verify if the electrolytes are still good.
You don't need fish tape. An old car aerial or a dollar-store fishing road will do the trick. It doesn't require that much expertise either. Anyone can learn to wire and crimp network cable in about 5 minutes without knowing the technical details. All they need is the color map and good cable (the kind where the colors are easy to determine. I've wired some cheap crap before where the color variation was white and sorta-white with the occasional tiny mark of color) You can get a decent crimping tool for under 30 dollars these days. They used to run around 100 or more for a good one. Mine was 90 bucks when I got it. Same model goes for just over 30 today.
Anyway, buy some fine, strong twine or nylon fishing line, and prerun the wiring that way. Then just pull the cable through. You can get the low-voltage hardware boxes (orange rectangular wall boxes) for a couple of bucks. They don't require a stud as they have a plastic flap that flips out and anchors to the drywall as you turn the screws. So you can place the box anywhere really and then just mount a faceplate on it.
There is a time investment, but even a total beginner can usually wire a house in a weekend if they have the wire, boxes, and tools on hand. (and a good idea of where the central wiring is going to radiate from)
Excellent choices. I was trying to think of a good Jet, and couldn't come up with one. I'd imagine they'd try and stick Samuel L. Jackson in the role just because Jet is a "gruff badass". But Brown would be perfect for the role. And Adrian Brody is the only person I can see filling the physical description and being able to carry off that friendly/sardonic attitude of Spikes. I think Dakota Fanning could probably pull off Edward, since she's one of the most versatile child actors around. But if they could find a newcomer to pull of that sweet/insane character that would be cool. But really, a live action Bebop will not live up to the expectations of the fans that have grown around the show in the last 10 years since it aired.
I've raised silkworms in captivity (as lizard food) and you really need to be anal about it. They are very easily killed by contamination of their living environment, so the paste that you make from the powered mulberry leaves must be changed constantly. Their waste, which would normally drop off the bush they inhabit needs to fall away from ther eating area, so it's common to raise them on a layer eighth or quarter inch wire mesh ("hardware cloth") so that the waste falls away. They create a lot of waste too. Luckily it's tiny dry pellets and doesn't smell bad. One mistake though and you can end up with a lot of dead silkworms. Once you've eaten some and set the rest aside to pupate they'll spin the cocoons and around 3 weeks later the moths will appear. I've never seen one fly (or even attempt to) so I don't know if it's been bred out of them by domestication. They're surprisingly cute. Once they lay the eggs you collect them, and keep them in a fridge for at least a month. This prepares the eggs for hatching, and then you can incubate them at around room temperature. At any stage they're pretty easy to kill off, so hopefully the astronauts would have multiple generations in "refridgeration stasis" for recovery of the food suppy.
Also, as far as I know they only eat mulberry leaves, so it's either grow those in space or take a lot of powder up with you.
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Even a simple color wipe or some effect across any object that needed highlighting would work. Just something to illustrate that it is indeed everywhere.
Yup, consider the idea Open Source :)
I don't know if it's been done (links are dead to me), but why not make Tux the face of Linux in an ad?
Get a bunch of Tuxes made in various sizes (or digitally modelled) and show people doing things in their daily routine, with the penguins replacing phones, laptops, servers, embedded devices, etc.
And at the end of the ad, the simple text:
Linux, you're already using it.
They could save a few steps and just ban Kevin Bacon.
I was in a car pulled over by the MPs in the civvie compound of CFB Trenton (Ontario, Canada) in the 90s. The reason we were pulled over? 41 in a 40 zone.
Also around that time, my friend almost ran over one of the MPs. The MP had parked his car facing traffic, high beams on, but neglected to turn on any other signaling lights to indicate it was a traffic stop. Then he stood in the middle of the lane halfway down the length of his car - completely invisible behind his headlights. All dark clothing, and not a reflective strip to be seen. He came about 2 feet from eating bumper.
I thought the whole point of music videos used to be that they were glorified ads to get you out there buying music and tickets to shows.
Has that changed or have they forgotten?
Launching tomorrow: weedBay!
Or whenever I get around to it...
I know a couple of girls who can lick that up for you...
All three things you mention are region restrictive for content.
That makes them useless to the majority of the world.
Chewbacca, Endor.
Case closed.
Wow. Who did you go to Sunday School with? The 'Children of the Corn'?
Your god is a psychopath.
IQs don't mean much.
I have an IQ of 159 and I'm a friggin' idiot.
I'd been looking forward to this game for a long time. And then the demo came out.
It looks gorgeous, but like many others I had that damn floaty/lag effect on the controls. At the default joystick sensitivity it's like moving around in the game by handing the joystick to a friend and using verbal commands to negotiate the level.
Once I cranked up the sensitivity to max the lag decreased, but did not disappear entirely. Best case is 1 or 2 tenths of a second. And in an FPS that's just not the kind of controls I want to use.
If they are not going to fix it, that's fine. I don't *need* to buy the game. But considering how many people I saw commenting on the issue as well, I don't know how they can afford to just turn away sales like that.
Why do I feel like I'm going to see this plagiarized in a blog and posted as Science on Digg later today?
Are Hot Grits some kind of newfangled restrain device?
Really? I have a six digit ICQ number that starts with a 1. I'll sell it to your for only 250,000 in internet dollars.
Can I use those at Best Buy?
Wonder if it would be a sensitivity to certain chemicals. Like the mercury in tuna. It's only in small amounts, but if it's an extreme sensitivity it might trigger something.
Has the doc tested you with different types of fiber? I can't remember if its the soluble or insoluble that can cause trouble in IBS. But if you've got IBS-C instead of D, it would be worth checking.
Since fiber can actually make it worse, eating "healthy" can be brutal.
Oh, as an aside to this thread...
Do you get colds or the flu? Oddly enough in all the times I've had these problems with my guts I've not had the flu once. And colds never last more than a couple of days, while my friends can hack for a couple of weeks.
I tracked down the list of things my nurse friend told me to take to the doc. He did pretty much all of them:
Patient fulfill ROME III criteria No Alarmsignals Blodtests: FBC,CRP, ALAT, bilirubins, bas.phosphatases, Albumine, TSH, calcium, celiac screening, lactase gene test. (apparently here in Canada the lactase test isn't done. Silly)
3 consecutive fecal samples for worm, ovaes and parasites. (doctor only did 1, but the thing about this test is that if it's a parasite they can shed in stages and you can miss it - Giardia symptoms are on the money with most IBS sufferers) Sigmoidoscopy with biopsy (this will come later)
hemoglobin checked, liver functions done, calcium levels, albumin, thyroid checked (this was because of constant exhaustion, and may not apply to you, but it was also a good indicator of my B12 deficiency), a check for celiac and a lactose intolerance check, allergy testing as well.
Last week I was in swallowing barium for a follow-through exam. The next stage in the process. Hope it works out for you. Having to live one's life around "toilet radius = 30 seconds" is no way to go on.
I was "diagnosed" with irritable bowel in '91. Basically the doctor listened to the symptoms and proclaimed that was it. I got scoped a little while later but he didn't see anything to prove him wrong.
So while it has gotten worse every year there was nothing that could really be done about it. The next family doctor I had just reiterated the first and said that there were no real effective treatments, just live with it and try to avoid triggers.
He retired and I have a new doctor now. Oddly enough, I started dating a nurse and she wrote down a whole battery of tests (that I was never given) and told me to take that to the new doctor. I did. Turns out it's not IBS after all. Now I'm going through more tests to find out why my white blood cell count is high, and B12 is low.
How many doctors have you seen regarding the diagnosis? Out of all the tests I was given, I only had to pay $60 for one (Canada), but if you're in the US I'm thinking it would be about 3 grand for all of em. Parasites, white blood cells, full blood workup, the whole bit.
IBS is the diagnosis they give when they don't want to work for a real cause.
Wouldn't the capacitors be an issue on a TV that old? It's pretty common for old tube amps and pre-amps to have all the capacitors replaced by the audiophiles that buy them on ebay.
I sold an old tube pre-amp, and the guy said that if they don't replace them outright they'll hook up lightbulbs in series and slowly power up the device, using the lights to verify if the electrolytes are still good.
You don't need fish tape. An old car aerial or a dollar-store fishing road will do the trick.
It doesn't require that much expertise either. Anyone can learn to wire and crimp network cable in about 5 minutes without knowing the technical details. All they need is the color map and good cable (the kind where the colors are easy to determine. I've wired some cheap crap before where the color variation was white and sorta-white with the occasional tiny mark of color)
You can get a decent crimping tool for under 30 dollars these days. They used to run around 100 or more for a good one. Mine was 90 bucks when I got it. Same model goes for just over 30 today.
Anyway, buy some fine, strong twine or nylon fishing line, and prerun the wiring that way. Then just pull the cable through. You can get the low-voltage hardware boxes (orange rectangular wall boxes) for a couple of bucks. They don't require a stud as they have a plastic flap that flips out and anchors to the drywall as you turn the screws. So you can place the box anywhere really and then just mount a faceplate on it.
There is a time investment, but even a total beginner can usually wire a house in a weekend if they have the wire, boxes, and tools on hand. (and a good idea of where the central wiring is going to radiate from)
Excellent choices. I was trying to think of a good Jet, and couldn't come up with one. I'd imagine they'd try and stick Samuel L. Jackson in the role just because Jet is a "gruff badass". But Brown would be perfect for the role.
And Adrian Brody is the only person I can see filling the physical description and being able to carry off that friendly/sardonic attitude of Spikes.
I think Dakota Fanning could probably pull off Edward, since she's one of the most versatile child actors around. But if they could find a newcomer to pull of that sweet/insane character that would be cool.
But really, a live action Bebop will not live up to the expectations of the fans that have grown around the show in the last 10 years since it aired.
I've raised silkworms in captivity (as lizard food) and you really need to be anal about it. They are very easily killed by contamination of their living environment, so the paste that you make from the powered mulberry leaves must be changed constantly. Their waste, which would normally drop off the bush they inhabit needs to fall away from ther eating area, so it's common to raise them on a layer eighth or quarter inch wire mesh ("hardware cloth") so that the waste falls away. They create a lot of waste too. Luckily it's tiny dry pellets and doesn't smell bad.
One mistake though and you can end up with a lot of dead silkworms.
Once you've eaten some and set the rest aside to pupate they'll spin the cocoons and around 3 weeks later the moths will appear. I've never seen one fly (or even attempt to) so I don't know if it's been bred out of them by domestication. They're surprisingly cute.
Once they lay the eggs you collect them, and keep them in a fridge for at least a month. This prepares the eggs for hatching, and then you can incubate them at around room temperature.
At any stage they're pretty easy to kill off, so hopefully the astronauts would have multiple generations in "refridgeration stasis" for recovery of the food suppy.
Also, as far as I know they only eat mulberry leaves, so it's either grow those in space or take a lot of powder up with you.