This is a paper on the subject. The only thing that differentiates this from crackpot science is that it is testable. The authors won an award from AIAA for suggesting a method for testing the theory. There is no reason to believe that the theory won't be falsified.
No they dont. Nor do they taste like chocolate, raspberries or broccoli. Really wine has 5 basic flavorings: 1) rotten grape 2) alcohol 3) wooden barrel 4) cork 5) mold
The thing is, the LCD display cannot display 1024x768. It really has only one resolution. So thats why its important, and after paying 3 grand for a screen, getting cards that can drive it right is worth it.
A while ago I was trying to build a machine that could run my 30" cinema display at full native resolution (2560x1600) in 3D. Surprisingly difficult to figure it out partly because of the terminology. To run at that resolution, the card must be 'dual link' which is different from 'dual cards in SLI configuration' and they may actually be mutually exclusive features.
I got dual nvidia 7800 GTX KO's in SLI configuration and it works great(even though the builder said it probably wouldn't)! I can run games like GuildWars and *upcoming beta product* at full resolution with excellent frame rates.
Using IP addresses as an identifier is useless for tracking. All you need to do is change your IP address occasionly by causing your ISP to give you a new IP address via DHCP. Takes seconds to do. Today's hardware lets you change your MAC address on the fly too, so changing that gets you a new hardware and IP address at the same time, takes seconds to do and there is no way to track it.
I started taking glucosamine and chondroitin to see if it would help a problem in my neck, and was amazed to find that my fingers felt like they had been hit with dollop of WD-40. Pain that I had sublminated was suddenly gone, and I can now do things that used to cause me agony, like hold a bowling ball or open a jar. I recommend anyone who uses a computer all day long even if they don't notice any pain try this stuff for a week and see whether it makes a difference.
I saw my first homemade robot well before the PC ever came out. It was made by a guy with only rudimentary electronics skill; he used a blow torch as a soldering iron. The thing didn't do much, drove around and moved its arm up and down and it had a great gripping arm. But from what I see on this page, it did a lot more than this "robot" from the year 2005 can do. Is this thing anything more than a very expensive remote-control car minus the remote? I don't see any reference to sensors and feedback. Without some sort of sensor/feedback mechanism, some sort of intelligent behavior, I wouldnt call it a robot.
Homeland security has a website called www.ready.gov that has built a whole website about preparing for emergencies. They also have an Emergency Financial First Aid Kit that includes a nice form that consolidates all the personal information you might need in order to get financial services in an emergency.
After getting the basic emergency kit ready, fill out and print this form and put it in your kit. Then, encrypt it and put save on internet, maybe mail it to your gmail account.
English has no fixed grammar. The language is organic. What does this mean? It means that there are no fixed rules that define proper sentence structure, instead it is a fuzzy set. The set changes with each new speaker.
If there is no grammar for English, then what is it that your teachers taught you in grammer school? Simply this: Class. Thats right, what you are learning when you study grammar is social cueing that signals what social class you belong too. This works both ways; the 'educated elite' have a set of rules that distinguish them from the riff raff, but also, there are tribes that speak pidgin in order to distinguish their culture from the dominant one.
The stories they publish are claptrap. They make it interesting, and write so laymen can understand, but fundamentally, what they publish is science fiction.
There is a way to fix security problems on end-user machines completely. The solution is to keep the operating system and applications on read-only media. The end-user operating system of the future should be designed around this idea, and they should reboot from readonly media on a regular basis, this way viruses cannot spread and worms cannot get a foothold. Its doable. Its feasable. Its the future, once engineers really decide to solve the problem.
First to be clear, pro-biotics help digest milk, I did not say anything about lactase; his description fit my diagnosis better than sudden loss/regain of lactose tolerance.
Next, as to the question of why bacteria matter, the answer is co-evolution. Yogurt, one of the first milk products used by humans, is essentially a bacteria colony. It just so happens that those bacteria digest milk, and that process helps humans digest milk. If those bacteria didnt have this effect, milk would never have become a human food source in the first place. [It is important to note that milk consumption is fairly recent in human history, probly because proper handling which allowed the 'good' bacteria to live while the 'bad' bacteria was avoided required some special cultural circumstances.]
It is highly likely that what you actually experienced was missing "friendly bacteria" or pro-biotics that help humans digest milk. Milk products usually contain a these in small amounts; this explains why you were able to digest milk again after consuming it for a while, you had built up good colonies in your digestive tract. Lots of people have stomach, mouth, and fungus problems of various natures which they try to treat with symptoms with pepto-bismal and other over the counter drugs when they would do much better to go out an eat yogurt every day for a week. Yogurt is high in friendly bacteria and will fix many symptoms you may have had for years. One big cause of losing your friendly bacteria is taking anti-biotics. Some people take anti-biotics and struggle with intestinal and fungus problems for years because their friendlies have been wiped out by the anti-biotics. Doctors rarely prescribe yogurt with anti-biotic, but next time ask your doctor if taking pro-biotics is a good idea, and he will probably say yes. Why they don't bring it up on thier own has always been a mystery to me.
The effect you are talking about has been dubbed the Uncanny Valley. It was first discovered in the 70s in robot research. Essentially its an emotional effect where people are creeped out by a human image that is too close to real, but not perfectly realistic. More at the link!
the original Diablo laid down many of the rules for the hack and slash adventure genre
This is totally incorrect. Diablo is a direct rip-off of Rogue and its many clones including NetHack. All Diablo brought to the table was evolutionary graphics.
For years margarine were touted as a healthy alternative to butter. Decades later we find out that trans-fats in margarine is the main cause of several endemic conditions that, ironically, people were told butter caused.
Now the salient point here is to see why people thought margarine was safe; the ingredients used were already known to be safe food products. What they didn't know was that a chemical can be atom-for-atom the same as another, but its shape and chirality (handedness) can make them react differently. The way margarine was processed indiscriminately created versions of fats that appeared to be indentical to safe ones, but that were in fact were unhealthy isomers.
Should we not now be wary about engineered foods that seem to be 'better' than the natural product, but in fact have long term health effects like trans-fats have?
Antioxident quantity not valid for health benefits
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Antioxidents are a new fad, and while we might stipulate there is some validity to eating antioxidants, its a mistake to equate antioxidents in any particular food as being significant. The problem is that these studies never take into account total antioxidant intake in the diet. For example, while coffee and tea do have antioxidents in them, you'd have to drink dozens of gallons to equal what you get from a little bit of oregano (one of the foods with the highest antioxidant contant,far higher than blueberries). In fact, there are many many foods that have giant doses of antioxidents in them. If you look at your actual overall diet, it is unlikely that coffee would ever be a significant source of antioxidents. And if in fact it is, and you are concerned about antioxidents in your diet, you'd do better to add a higher source into your diets. For example, cherries, blueberries, dried plums, artichokes, russet potatoes, red cabbage, walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, cinnamon, and cloves.
The real story here is that new malware are not normally caught by antivirus programs until they are discovered and updated in the patch file. What percentage of malware have never been discovered before? How many of those are on your computer right now?
Nobody knows.
The only trustworthy solution to malware is a read-only system: the system and application partitions must not be modifiable without rigorous user-initiated discipline including disconnecting from the network and rebooting to a known-clean state.
This sounds crazy, but it is practicable. It requires some technology and some resetting of expectations. One way to think of it is how game systems like the PS/2 operate: you boot the system and save the data to removable media. There are no PS/2 viruses.
What I do today is re-dump my system partition image every couple of days. The image is highly compressed and the dump actually is actually faster than a virus scan. Now my system partition is perfectly organized. Whenever I want to install some new software, I disconnect from internet, re-dump, install the new software, and then re-image. Keeps the harddrive nice and organized. I put data files on removable media. Its remarkable how well this system works; and its great to have piece of mind that my system is not growing crufty over time.
Why would anyone pay for a suborbital flight when they expect the next version to be orbital? There will be a few no doubt who think its worthwhile to spend a hundred grand on an e-ticket to nowhere, but probably not enough to cover costs. Seems to me the whole idea of suborbital flight as a stepping stone to bigger things is a bad one. Its like expecting DOS to scale up to a multi-threaded multi-user graphical operating system. Maybe it can be done, but is the final product safe to use? Starting with technology designed from the ground up to do the mission makes a lot more sense to me.
You have NO IDEA who this person is coming out of the blue on internet. I would certainly think you were comprimising security even communicating with him. You need to talk to people in your own chain of command, not people you meet from an internet broadcast.
A friend has a huge database of songs he bought from iTunes and they all sound a little off to me. I thought it was the speakers, or the equalizer at first. But then I did a comparison of songs I had aquired by other means, and there is a definite difference in the sound quality; the itunes songs sound annoying (its hard to pin down exactly why, but its akin to sounding tinny). I even converted my songs to the itunes format thinking the format was the issue. But they still sound good, while the downloaded songs he downloaded on itunes still sound bad. Am I on crack or has anyone else noticed this?
Their is a programming model that must come out sometime soon; but its nothing like this article discusses. Chips are coming out that have multiple cores in them, but there is no good way to take advantage of them. To be clear: right now with only a handful of cores, the old chunky OS process model works fine. However, as the number of cores goes up, no current popular language or OS scales properly.
What we need is a parallel programming language that makes it easy and natural to take advantage of multi-core processors.
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This is a paper on the subject. The only thing that differentiates this from crackpot science is that it is testable. The authors won an award from AIAA for suggesting a method for testing the theory. There is no reason to believe that the theory won't be falsified.
some wines have a smooth, almond-like bouquet
No they dont. Nor do they taste like chocolate, raspberries or broccoli.
Really wine has 5 basic flavorings: 1) rotten grape 2) alcohol 3) wooden barrel 4) cork 5) mold
The thing is, the LCD display cannot display 1024x768. It really has only one resolution. So thats why its important, and after paying 3 grand for a screen, getting cards that can drive it right is worth it.
A while ago I was trying to build a machine that could run my 30" cinema display at full native resolution (2560x1600) in 3D. Surprisingly difficult to figure it out partly because of the terminology. To run at that resolution, the card must be 'dual link' which is different from 'dual cards in SLI configuration' and they may actually be mutually exclusive features.
I got dual nvidia 7800 GTX KO's in SLI configuration and it works great(even though the builder said it probably wouldn't)! I can run games like GuildWars and *upcoming beta product* at full resolution with excellent frame rates.
Just an FYI.
Using IP addresses as an identifier is useless for tracking. All you need to do is change your IP address occasionly by causing your ISP to give you a new IP address via DHCP. Takes seconds to do. Today's hardware lets you change your MAC address on the fly too, so changing that gets you a new hardware and IP address at the same time, takes seconds to do and there is no way to track it.
I started taking glucosamine and chondroitin to see if it would help a problem in my neck, and was amazed to find that my fingers felt like they had been hit with dollop of WD-40. Pain that I had sublminated was suddenly gone, and I can now do things that used to cause me agony, like hold a bowling ball or open a jar.
I recommend anyone who uses a computer all day long even if they don't notice any pain try this stuff for a week and see whether it makes a difference.
I saw my first homemade robot well before the PC ever came out. It was made by a guy with only rudimentary electronics skill; he used a blow torch as a soldering iron. The thing didn't do much, drove around and moved its arm up and down and it had a great gripping arm. But from what I see on this page, it did a lot more than this "robot" from the year 2005 can do.
Is this thing anything more than a very expensive remote-control car minus the remote? I don't see any reference to sensors and feedback. Without some sort of sensor/feedback mechanism, some sort of intelligent behavior, I wouldnt call it a robot.
"Oops I did it again" was originally recorded by Louis Armstrong.
Homeland security has a website called www.ready.gov that has built a whole website about preparing for emergencies. They also have an Emergency Financial First Aid Kit that includes a nice form that consolidates all the personal information you might need in order to get financial services in an emergency.
After getting the basic emergency kit ready, fill out and print this form and put it in your kit. Then, encrypt it and put save on internet, maybe mail it to your gmail account.
English has no fixed grammar. The language is organic. What does this mean? It means that there are no fixed rules that define proper sentence structure, instead it is a fuzzy set. The set changes with each new speaker.
If there is no grammar for English, then what is it that your teachers taught you in grammer school? Simply this: Class. Thats right, what you are learning when you study grammar is social cueing that signals what social class you belong too. This works both ways; the 'educated elite' have a set of rules that distinguish them from the riff raff, but also, there are tribes that speak pidgin in order to distinguish their culture from the dominant one.
The stories they publish are claptrap. They make it interesting, and write so laymen can understand, but fundamentally, what they publish is science fiction.
There are no read-write config files. Configuration can only be changed with a hardware switch after a clean boot, offline.
There is a way to fix security problems on end-user machines completely.
The solution is to keep the operating system and applications on read-only media. The end-user operating system of the future should be designed around this idea, and they should reboot from readonly media on a regular basis, this way viruses cannot spread and worms cannot get a foothold.
Its doable. Its feasable. Its the future, once engineers really decide to solve the problem.
First to be clear, pro-biotics help digest milk, I did not say anything about lactase; his description fit my diagnosis better than sudden loss/regain of lactose tolerance.
Next, as to the question of why bacteria matter, the answer is co-evolution. Yogurt, one of the first milk products used by humans, is essentially a bacteria colony. It just so happens that those bacteria digest milk, and that process helps humans digest milk. If those bacteria didnt have this effect, milk would never have become a human food source in the first place. [It is important to note that milk consumption is fairly recent in human history, probly because proper handling which allowed the 'good' bacteria to live while the 'bad' bacteria was avoided required some special cultural circumstances.]
It is highly likely that what you actually experienced was missing "friendly bacteria" or pro-biotics that help humans digest milk. Milk products usually contain a these in small amounts; this explains why you were able to digest milk again after consuming it for a while, you had built up good colonies in your digestive tract.
Lots of people have stomach, mouth, and fungus problems of various natures which they try to treat with symptoms with pepto-bismal and other over the counter drugs when they would do much better to go out an eat yogurt every day for a week. Yogurt is high in friendly bacteria and will fix many symptoms you may have had for years.
One big cause of losing your friendly bacteria is taking anti-biotics. Some people take anti-biotics and struggle with intestinal and fungus problems for years because their friendlies have been wiped out by the anti-biotics. Doctors rarely prescribe yogurt with anti-biotic, but next time ask your doctor if taking pro-biotics is a good idea, and he will probably say yes. Why they don't bring it up on thier own has always been a mystery to me.
The effect you are talking about has been dubbed the Uncanny Valley. It was first discovered in the 70s in robot research. Essentially its an emotional effect where people are creeped out by a human image that is too close to real, but not perfectly realistic. More at the link!
the original Diablo laid down many of the rules for the hack and slash adventure genre
This is totally incorrect. Diablo is a direct rip-off of Rogue and its many clones including NetHack. All Diablo brought to the table was evolutionary graphics.
Don't get to uptight about explaining to the ladies that men look at porn online, they have a darker secret.
The fact most men are blind to is that the ladies have online boyfriends they chat with all day long.
For years margarine were touted as a healthy alternative to butter. Decades later we find out that trans-fats in margarine is the main cause of several endemic conditions that, ironically, people were told butter caused.
Now the salient point here is to see why people thought margarine was safe; the ingredients used were already known to be safe food products. What they didn't know was that a chemical can be atom-for-atom the same as another, but its shape and chirality (handedness) can make them react differently. The way margarine was processed indiscriminately created versions of fats that appeared to be indentical to safe ones, but that were in fact were unhealthy isomers.
Should we not now be wary about engineered foods that seem to be 'better' than the natural product, but in fact have long term health effects like trans-fats have?
Antioxidents are a new fad, and while we might stipulate there is some validity to eating antioxidants, its a mistake to equate antioxidents in any particular food as being significant. The problem is that these studies never take into account total antioxidant intake in the diet.
For example, while coffee and tea do have antioxidents in them, you'd have to drink dozens of gallons to equal what you get from a little bit of oregano (one of the foods with the highest antioxidant contant,far higher than blueberries). In fact, there are many many foods that have giant doses of antioxidents in them. If you look at your actual overall diet, it is unlikely that coffee would ever be a significant source of antioxidents. And if in fact it is, and you are concerned about antioxidents in your diet, you'd do better to add a higher source into your diets.
For example, cherries, blueberries, dried plums, artichokes, russet potatoes, red cabbage, walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, cinnamon, and cloves.
The real story here is that new malware are not normally caught by antivirus programs until they are discovered and updated in the patch file. What percentage of malware have never been discovered before? How many of those are on your computer right now?
Nobody knows.
The only trustworthy solution to malware is a read-only system: the system and application partitions must not be modifiable without rigorous user-initiated discipline including disconnecting from the network and rebooting to a known-clean state.
This sounds crazy, but it is practicable. It requires some technology and some resetting of expectations. One way to think of it is how game systems like the PS/2 operate: you boot the system and save the data to removable media. There are no PS/2 viruses.
What I do today is re-dump my system partition image every couple of days. The image is highly compressed and the dump actually is actually faster than a virus scan. Now my system partition is perfectly organized. Whenever I want to install some new software, I disconnect from internet, re-dump, install the new software, and then re-image. Keeps the harddrive nice and organized. I put data files on removable media. Its remarkable how well this system works; and its great to have piece of mind that my system is not growing crufty over time.
Why would anyone pay for a suborbital flight when they expect the next version to be orbital? There will be a few no doubt who think its worthwhile to spend a hundred grand on an e-ticket to nowhere, but probably not enough to cover costs.
Seems to me the whole idea of suborbital flight as a stepping stone to bigger things is a bad one. Its like expecting DOS to scale up to a multi-threaded multi-user graphical operating system. Maybe it can be done, but is the final product safe to use? Starting with technology designed from the ground up to do the mission makes a lot more sense to me.
You have NO IDEA who this person is coming out of the blue on internet. I would certainly think you were comprimising security even communicating with him.
You need to talk to people in your own chain of command, not people you meet from an internet broadcast.
A friend has a huge database of songs he bought from iTunes and they all sound a little off to me. I thought it was the speakers, or the equalizer at first.
But then I did a comparison of songs I had aquired by other means, and there is a definite difference in the sound quality; the itunes songs sound annoying (its hard to pin down exactly why, but its akin to sounding tinny).
I even converted my songs to the itunes format thinking the format was the issue. But they still sound good, while the downloaded songs he downloaded on itunes still sound bad.
Am I on crack or has anyone else noticed this?
Their is a programming model that must come out sometime soon; but its nothing like this article discusses. Chips are coming out that have multiple cores in them, but there is no good way to take advantage of them. To be clear: right now with only a handful of cores, the old chunky OS process model works fine. However, as the number of cores goes up, no current popular language or OS scales properly.
What we need is a parallel programming language that makes it easy and natural to take advantage of multi-core processors.