With only seven options on the main menu, you think they could've fit it on to a single screen (settings is below the fold). This is the sort of crap that makes me not take Microsoft seriously. To quote SNL - "Who's the marketing genius who came up with that one?"
1) You're using an 11 step process that involves pre-warming your mug and a french press and calling other people snobs?
You're counting obtaining the materials, and preparing the required equipment for the next cup, and STFU as steps? You sir, are retarded.
2) According to "scientific testing", you get drastically reduced caffeine extraction at the temperatures you'd get from tap water. You need near boiling water (200 degrees) for the best flavor and caffeine extraction.
Ha ha. Okay - I don't see any reason to be a dick about this. You're calling me names instead of acknowledging that your coffee preparation is detailed enough to be worthy or more than three steps. I consider myself a coffee snob and my step by step wouldn't involve anything as detailed as mug warming. Face the facts dude, you're getting bent out shape about your coffee preparation. Whether you like or it, you're a coffee snob - you're just one that's completely unwilling to listen to other coffee snobs, because you're, like...cooler or something. Admit it, you're Emo.
RE: scientific charts Part of me wants to say "look up yourself, you're the naysayer - so prove me wrong." But whatever, here's one that maps the infusion of coffee solubles into water based off temperature and grind.
This should help you optimize your patented 11-step process to make your steps more efficient. That way, next time you post it, you won't have to defend the individual points.
1) You're using an 11 step process that involves pre-warming your mug and a french press and calling other people snobs?
You're counting obtaining the materials, and preparing the required equipment for the next cup, and STFU as steps? You sir, are retarded.
2) According to "scientific testing", you get drastically reduced caffeine extraction at the temperatures you'd get from tap water. You need near boiling water (200 degrees) for the best flavor and caffeine extraction.
This should help you optimize your patented 11-step process to make your steps more efficient. That way, next time you post it, you won't have to defend the individual points.
1) You're using an 11 step process that involves pre-warming your mug and a french press and calling other people snobs? 2) According to "scientific testing", you get drastically reduced caffeine extraction at the temperatures you'd get from tap water. You need near boiling water (200 degrees) for the best flavor and caffeine extraction.
The best thing you can do for your coffee drinking is to go to Sweet Maria's - a home coffee roasting/hobbyist site, that specializes in providing people the most/best ways to drink their coffee. I currently have the following brew devices in my house.
I guess this is what happens when you let drama people write a tech review. The final battle was Vista winning the hardware matchup (and the showdown) because:
a) OS X can run Vista in Parallels b) Apple hasn't committed to a timeline for the phase-out of PVCs from their products. Never mind that no other computer manufacturer has actually phased PVCs out - they've only committed to a timeline.
Notice that they didn't compare the same programs on similar hardware, or actually talk about the hardware.
Weapons are an easy target to expose hypocrisy. Property rights is where Texas excels at being free. Try cutting down a tree on your property in the San Fran Bay Area...and you'll see what I mean.
A lot of people have talked about iPod's prevelance in commercial culture in reference to the Zune, and this reminds me of something I heard about Intel as opposed to AMD recently.
Apparently, Intel pays a large percentage of any given computer manufacturer's advertising to throw up the "Intel inside" during a commercial or in a print ad. So, even though Dell uses AMD in a number of high-end products, you wouldn't know it from looking through Dell's marketing efforts, because quite a few of them are paid for using money from Intel.
One has to wonder if Apple isn't doing something similar. iPods do randomly show up in totally unrelated commercials. Given, they are much much cooler than to the average person than a microchip.
If the Zune flops, then they go into negotiations with the record companies with the ability to say "we've all you've got, we've made you this much money, and all your efforts to make money not using our method have failed"
I certainly understand the philosophical difference here, unfortunately, it runs aground the law. Maybe they need to draw their "business interest" back into the chosen norm of our laws rather than declaring it obsolete.
Each command was prefaced with "Computer", and seemed to have a common vocabulary to it.
They never said "Computer - what's up with that?" It was always "Computer - Find all data pertaining to [a specific event]". It seem what they had in fact mastered in the future was not only voice recognition, but also a common language programming and database system.
So, I notice how the article refers to Friendster as a "passing fad" but doesn't mention that MySpace "copied" Friendster feature for feature in the beginning.
I'm not sure - but I think you're joking. But then again I don't think you are.
These two products are not aimed at the same market. The UMPC (Origami) can't be used for any sort of robust computing. It's primary use would be e-mail/word processing/chat & that sort of simple productivity.
My guess is that if it were to ever be used for anything like video compression or video capture that it would fail or perform very very badly. On the other hand - the mini has a higher RPM hard drive, it's got firewire input, and a processor that can handle video encoding/decoding with ease - making it ideal for the sort of media-centric computing that Apple is trying to push with its iLife & Pro Application software.
Coffee lovers have been trying to extoll the virtues of coffee for decades. In the 192x book "All About Coffee" (still considered the foremost book on the coffee trade), an entire chapter is devoted to the medical benefits of coffee, including quotes from doctors saying things like, "There is strong medical evidence suggesting that a cup of coffee a day is not only harmless, but a benefit to the fortitude and energy of the individual." This continues modernly, as many of you have noted above, with studies about the heart & the brain & worker productivity. Recently, I read an article claiming coffee drinkers were less likely to committ suicide - which is awesome, because I don't want to committ suicide.
On the other side are the green tea drinking, yoga people who think coffee ruins your nervous system, and vehemently attack it because they assume we are ignorant of what they think.
And let's face the facts - who cares? Life isn't living without coffee. If I found out that cofee was going to make me shit out my kidneys in 45 years - I'd probably drink more water and hope for the best.
Microsoft has never really been a company to take risks. They pump the totality into a market into they win. I guess you could say the Xbox & Xbox live was a risk if:
A) The gaming market had not been established for almost 30 years beforehand. B) Microsoft wasn't 2nd in the market right now.
To me the question isn't "who will win the gaming console battle" or "will Xbox live succeed". To me the question is really "whose vision will prevail in the home-computer-electronics-content merger" -- the players there being Sony, Microsoft, Apple, and the cable companies. Each having an upper hand in one area, but trying actively to get into the others.
MacOS concentrates on bling only - and this is where it fails - general users don't want zoom up icons, pan out desktops etc.
Have you ever used Mac OS? The bling is there, of course. But the Mac OS right now is considerably more robust (and predictable, for that matter) than Windows has ever been in its history.
This article is just an eloquent restatement of the obvious. This may have been interesting speculative article in 1998-99 when everyone else was saying this was going to happen.
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http://www.zunescene.com/zune2pics/zc1-380.jpg
With only seven options on the main menu, you think they could've fit it on to a single screen (settings is below the fold). This is the sort of crap that makes me not take Microsoft seriously. To quote SNL - "Who's the marketing genius who came up with that one?"
Zune. No grapes, no nuts. What's the deal?
So, if this attorney wins his lawsuit - does that mean I can sue FICO for my a credit rating?
Ha ha. Okay - I don't see any reason to be a dick about this. You're calling me names instead of acknowledging that your coffee preparation is detailed enough to be worthy or more than three steps. I consider myself a coffee snob and my step by step wouldn't involve anything as detailed as mug warming. Face the facts dude, you're getting bent out shape about your coffee preparation. Whether you like or it, you're a coffee snob - you're just one that's completely unwilling to listen to other coffee snobs, because you're, like...cooler or something. Admit it, you're Emo.
RE: scientific charts
Part of me wants to say "look up yourself, you're the naysayer - so prove me wrong." But whatever, here's one that maps the infusion of coffee solubles into water based off temperature and grind.
http://www.chemsoc.org/ExemplarChem/entries/2003/
This should help you optimize your patented 11-step process to make your steps more efficient. That way, next time you post it, you won't have to defend the individual points.
This should help you optimize your patented 11-step process to make your steps more efficient. That way, next time you post it, you won't have to defend the individual points.
Two things:
1) You're using an 11 step process that involves pre-warming your mug and a french press and calling other people snobs?
2) According to "scientific testing", you get drastically reduced caffeine extraction at the temperatures you'd get from tap water. You need near boiling water (200 degrees) for the best flavor and caffeine extraction.
The best thing you can do for your coffee drinking is to go to Sweet Maria's - a home coffee roasting/hobbyist site, that specializes in providing people the most/best ways to drink their coffee. I currently have the following brew devices in my house.
I roast my coffee with a $10 popcorn popper and get better tasting coffee than I can from any place in Austin.
Ugg -
I guess this is what happens when you let drama people write a tech review. The final battle was Vista winning the hardware matchup (and the showdown) because:
a) OS X can run Vista in Parallels
b) Apple hasn't committed to a timeline for the phase-out of PVCs from their products. Never mind that no other computer manufacturer has actually phased PVCs out - they've only committed to a timeline.
Notice that they didn't compare the same programs on similar hardware, or actually talk about the hardware.
Weapons are an easy target to expose hypocrisy. Property rights is where Texas excels at being free. Try cutting down a tree on your property in the San Fran Bay Area...and you'll see what I mean.
"OMG...ponies, it might be a heritage tree"
Never mind that it might be a eucalyptus.
But Texas wants you anyway....
A lot of people have talked about iPod's prevelance in commercial culture in reference to the Zune, and this reminds me of something I heard about Intel as opposed to AMD recently.
Apparently, Intel pays a large percentage of any given computer manufacturer's advertising to throw up the "Intel inside" during a commercial or in a print ad. So, even though Dell uses AMD in a number of high-end products, you wouldn't know it from looking through Dell's marketing efforts, because quite a few of them are paid for using money from Intel.
One has to wonder if Apple isn't doing something similar. iPods do randomly show up in totally unrelated commercials. Given, they are much much cooler than to the average person than a microchip.
If the Zune flops, then they go into negotiations with the record companies with the ability to say "we've all you've got, we've made you this much money, and all your efforts to make money not using our method have failed"
I certainly understand the philosophical difference here, unfortunately, it runs aground the law. Maybe they need to draw their "business interest" back into the chosen norm of our laws rather than declaring it obsolete.
Each command was prefaced with "Computer", and seemed to have a common vocabulary to it.
They never said "Computer - what's up with that?" It was always "Computer - Find all data pertaining to [a specific event]". It seem what they had in fact mastered in the future was not only voice recognition, but also a common language programming and database system.
So, I notice how the article refers to Friendster as a "passing fad" but doesn't mention that MySpace "copied" Friendster feature for feature in the beginning.
This is the first time I've seen the Games section skin on the slashdot site.
The purple on this page is absolutely hideous. It's making mine eyes hurt.
I'm not sure - but I think you're joking. But then again I don't think you are.
These two products are not aimed at the same market. The UMPC (Origami) can't be used for any sort of robust computing. It's primary use would be e-mail/word processing/chat & that sort of simple productivity.
My guess is that if it were to ever be used for anything like video compression or video capture that it would fail or perform very very badly. On the other hand - the mini has a higher RPM hard drive, it's got firewire input, and a processor that can handle video encoding/decoding with ease - making it ideal for the sort of media-centric computing that Apple is trying to push with its iLife & Pro Application software.
Coffee lovers have been trying to extoll the virtues of coffee for decades. In the 192x book "All About Coffee" (still considered the foremost book on the coffee trade), an entire chapter is devoted to the medical benefits of coffee, including quotes from doctors saying things like, "There is strong medical evidence suggesting that a cup of coffee a day is not only harmless, but a benefit to the fortitude and energy of the individual." This continues modernly, as many of you have noted above, with studies about the heart & the brain & worker productivity. Recently, I read an article claiming coffee drinkers were less likely to committ suicide - which is awesome, because I don't want to committ suicide.
On the other side are the green tea drinking, yoga people who think coffee ruins your nervous system, and vehemently attack it because they assume we are ignorant of what they think.
And let's face the facts - who cares? Life isn't living without coffee. If I found out that cofee was going to make me shit out my kidneys in 45 years - I'd probably drink more water and hope for the best.
I seem to remember a time when yearly "Disney buys Apple" rumors would pop up.
Obviously, those were all wrong, so I'm going to assume this speculation is wildly off the mark.
More Social Welfare. Unbelievable!
Microsoft has never really been a company to take risks. They pump the totality into a market into they win. I guess you could say the Xbox & Xbox live was a risk if:
A) The gaming market had not been established for almost 30 years beforehand.
B) Microsoft wasn't 2nd in the market right now.
To me the question isn't "who will win the gaming console battle" or "will Xbox live succeed". To me the question is really "whose vision will prevail in the home-computer-electronics-content merger" -- the players there being Sony, Microsoft, Apple, and the cable companies. Each having an upper hand in one area, but trying actively to get into the others.
MacOS concentrates on bling only - and this is where it fails - general users don't want zoom up icons, pan out desktops etc.
Have you ever used Mac OS? The bling is there, of course. But the Mac OS right now is considerably more robust (and predictable, for that matter) than Windows has ever been in its history.
I had no trouble accessing msn.com on iCab on the mac, nor Netscape 4.74.
The only browser I was blocked on was Mozilla.
This article is just an eloquent restatement of the obvious. This may have been interesting speculative article in 1998-99 when everyone else was saying this was going to happen.