It wasn't linked to. Sure I could do the AC's work (by the way...were you the AC that posted it?), and google it myself, which I did, and it turns out it's a subscriber only article.
It says nothing about 100 milligrams.
Sorry, but in the AC's post there are several references to "100 g", which seemed like quite a lot, and since everything else was in mg it made sense that it probably should have been mg rather than g. Apparently he/she meant ug, but don't give me shit because someone (you?) can't be bothered to proofread the post.
If you can't tell the difference between a milligram and a microgram, you have no business in a lab.
1) I can tell the difference perfectly when it's written properly 2) When the fuck did anyone say anything about me working in a lab? I'm a computer programmer.
I agree. Mileage is exactly what I thought the article was about when I read the title. Acceleration? I never thought for a SECOND that there was ANY question about that, as the gas engine is totally decoupled from the drivetrain. What an utterly worthless article.
I never said irony was or wasn't a grammar issue. "Grammar Nazi" is similar to a job title. My job title is "Programmer/Analyst" not "Systems Administrator", but that doesn't mean I don't go into the server room to reboot a system when it's down and nobody else is on site to resolve it.
So, with that said, I'm now going to classify you as a grammar Nazi, too.
WTF is your point? If you can add #6 to a system like I described, you can just as well add it to a system that does nothing but live playback. Shit, my TV doesn't record content, yet somehow I've managed to find a way to record content that comes across my TV, and I didn't even need a federally sized budget to accomplish it.
the image should NEVER be stored, only fed live to a screen where the agent gets to make a call on pulling the person aside or not.
Well, I wouldn't say live feed. Ideally, I can justify the system working as follows. 1) Person walks through scanner...scanner records video 2) Scanner sends video to monitoring station 3) Employee running can watch the video. If they think they see something, they can pause the video, zoom in and look more carefully at the suspicious area, etc. 4) Employee either signals OK or NOT OK. The act of signaling deletes the video from memory and also notifies the Employee at the scanner to either let the person go or direct them to secondary inspection.
So, cell phones protect from alzheimers? The condition that (among other effects) causes people to forget things ? I find that quite ironic, considering that it seems 99% of people forget how to drive when they're on one.
P.S. At least I think that's irony. Every time I think I've got it down, someone shows me a new rule for what is or isn't irony. My apologies to the grammar Nazis in advance if I have it wrong.
Really? You just have to match parts together for a PC.
LOL. Yeah sure. Is your power supply powerful enough for the hardware you chose? Does it have the right connector for the high end graphics card you might have bought? Do you know to install the standoffs in the case first rather than trying to screw the motherboard right to the backplane (shorting it out in the process)? Do you know whether your core i7 needs the 1366 pin socket or the 1156? Do you need DDR2 or DDR3? Does the brand of memory you bought have a compatability issue with your motherboard? Are you aware that the memory sockets on your motherboard are actually supposed to take a lot of force to insert, and that you aren't going to break it? Are you aware that you shouldn't touch the top of the cpu or the thermal paste? Do you know how to hookup all the pin headers on the case...even the ones that are poorly labeled on a lot of cases (ie: do you know whether that white arrow on the plastic means positive or negative, or that it's alright that your 2 wires for your power led connect to the header that's typically diagramed as a 3 wire connector and you should just ignore the middle connector)? That's just the beginning of the implied knowledge you don't even think about but the average person would have no clue.
Leaky faucet? Is it the rings, something rusted through, do you know where the water shut-offs are, do you know what wrench to use for what nuts (they aren't labeled like the inside of a PC).
The shutoff is right below the sink or toilet in 99% of houses. You grab it with your hand and turn it. It's very familiar because in most cases it looks exactly like the shutoff valve you've got on the outside of your house where the hose connects. Most faucets are either 1) remove a screw, remove a handle, remove another screw, slide out the cartridge or the shutoff assembly, or 2) remove a screw , remove the handle, unscrew the cap, take out the ball and springs.
Then you just take that up to the hardware store, match up the parts to the identical ones, take it home, and put it back together in the reverse of the above steps. There's usually only a few types for kits for each brand, and most hardware stores have a guy that knows all about plumbing. Most of them will even help you switch the washers in store if you need help. Most repair kits will have instructions right on the back, just in case you get the slightest bit confused. But it's not that complicated at all. The first time I replaced a leaking faucet, I was 16, had never touched plumbing in my life, and I managed to replace it easily, and I didn't even have to look in a repair book (the public internet didn't even exist). But if even a single part of the above is at all confusing, you can buy one of those DIY books that covers dozens of household repairs. Those books will generally tell you how to repair just about any type of faucet, and they'll do in int about 3 pages of pictures with maybe 2 paragraphs of text.
Changing the oil, gotta make sure you know which is the oil pan under the car, the proper nut to remove, get the right oil filter, know how to use an oil filter wrench given most newer cars, know how much oil your car takes and how to fill it... they certainly take just as much knowledge. You just take what you know for granted.
I don't want to go through the whole faucet explanation again, but 95% of that is documented in the owners manual, the guy at the auto parts store will tell you exactly what parts you need (you don't even need to know what make or model your car is...just give him your registration and he can most likely look it up from the vin), and any auto parts store will sell a book that explains the simple process in less than 2 pages (mostly pictures).
I learned to change the oil in 9th grade, almost 20 years ago. Every single car since then has been exactly the same, so it's a process that never changes (except for some high end foreign cars that make it really difficult). Compare that to computers, where the parts/connectors/etc change every few years.
That one comes with a cooling fan, and from what I've heard there's a good chance you'll probably need it for the dual core model. But I think the single core is cool enough based one what I've read.
See, that's funny to me because changing oil, painting a house, or fixing a leaking faucet take FAR less knowledge and ability than assembling a computer. Hell....my WIFE changes the oil on the car.
An Ion based system can run a mythtv frontend with 1080p video and provide 1080i deinterlacing that is superior in quality to the software deinterlacing you can get off of a Core 2 Duo, and the Ion system does it with CPU >90% idle and about a 25 watt power draw for the whole system.
For a particular store? What if I don't know where they'll want to spend it? A preloaded credit card that they can spend anywhere? Yeah, sorry but they generally charge a fee to purchase one. There's also the fact that they CAN'T be spent anywhere...still plenty of places that don't take credit/debit. And what if they choose to save the money for a downpayment on a house or something? A gift card isn't much use there either.
Heck, even if they did say they were looking forward to it, in my life I've said "I'm going to kill [person]" hundreds of times. It's not a threat of any kind. It's just venting anger.
Yeah,but search for that phrase in quotes. Altavista gives you no results. Bing gives you.....this thread on slashdot. Perhaps the GP was making a subtle remark about how some search engines index more quickly than others (counting on the fact that Bing would most likely index it shortly after he hit submit).
It figures....I thought about this a long time before submitting and couldn't come up with anything. As soon as I submit, it dawned on me that each multiple of 25 actually counts as an extra 5, though the multiples of 100 already exhibit the extra 5. So we get 25, 50, 75, 125, 150, 175, 225, 250, and 275 giving 9 more zeros. 2 left to go. 125 and 250 also count as a third 5, so that's our last two.
At first I thought the number was wrong because of all the zeros at the end, then it quickly dawned on me that with all the 10s and 5s you should expect a bunch of zeros. However, trying to verify the quantity of zeros, I'm having trouble figuring out where they come from (I double checked with perl's Math::BigInt library, and your number is correct...or at least the quantity of zeros is).
There are 74 zeros there. Obviously we can expect 1 zero for each multiple of 10 we multiply by (so that's 30 zeros), plus 100, 200, and 300 each give an additional 0 (thats 3 more zeros). We also get a zero for each 5 that's multiplied by a 2, 4, 6, or 8, though we're limited by the number of 5's so it doesn't matter which number you choose (that gives us 30 more zeros).
So, we've got 30 + 3 + 30 = 63 zeros. Where do the other 11 come from? I'm feeling kind of dumb about it (probably overlooking something very obvious), but I just can't figure it out.
They're 100% in the right for banning modded consoles. Basically you can play your pirated games or you can play on Live, but not both with the same console.
Well, I haven't actually seen this confirmed in a media source, but I've read that people were banned for performing an unofficial hard drive upgrade. MS charges an insane amount for a larger HD for the 360, but people have found you can buy specific model drives, image the new drive with the proper firmware, and swap it into the HD case. That way you get a bigger HD for $50 instead of $200. This has no effect on a persons ability to do anything with the console except have a bigger hard drive (no copying games or anything). The only thing that is different, which allows MS to detect this, is that the firmware has an embedded serial number, which MS can detect remotely and validate. Since the firmware was imaged from a legit 360 hard drive, your HD firmware will have the same serial number as the drive the firmware was imaged from.
If these reports I've read are actually true (and not a case of a pirate simply CLAIMING that a HD upgrade was all they did), then I don't think that's 100% in the right at all. It affects nothing except for their ability to strongarm you out of an expensive HD upgrade. No piracy issue, and no compromising the quality of other people's online experience.
Not that I'm condoning it, but I think the reasoning there is DRM and maintaining a controlled path to the display. If you hacked the 360, you can compromise that path. Not sure that it makes sense, because I'd think anything you could do to the 360 to compromise it could just be done to the PC running WMC to begin with, but maybe that's not so. Maybe the 360 has some really weak ass DRM implementation that they are afraid you'll exploit.
No, it's in there somewhere. I don't remember how or where, but I do remember experimenting when I first got my xbox 360, and there is a media center setup screen where it asks you to input an auth code from WMC, and I remember going to my desktop, starting up WMC and authorizing the device and getting the code. I never used it beyond that, so I can't tell you exactly what it does, but it definitely has some sort of WMC interaction.
I've usually found that website to actually give pretty good answers to the problem. Granted, if google returns pages dealing with problems other than your own, yeah, that's not very helpful. However, I've generally found that if my search term is good enough to return meaningful results from other websites, the links to expertsexchange is usually as good, if not better, than a lot of other websites. You just need to know the "secret" that all of the answers are visible in plain text way down at the bottom of the page.
I work with a woman who was a neighbor of the Dividians at the time. Her telling of the story is that they were decent neighbors who didn't bother anyone.
I've read similar stories from the neighbors of serial killers. I'm not sure what the point is. For the same reason that "guilt by association" isn't valid, "innocent because the neighbor said so" doesn't carry much weight either.
So far, they've lived up to their promise : the light is almost EXACTLY like the light from an incandescent - low color temperature, lots of yellow, etc. They start up instantly, and of course use a fraction of the electricity.
nvision lights (they also go by the name ecosmart) are great. Inexpensive, instant on, they come in 3 color temperatures (I prefer the daylight color, myself), available in a variety of wattages (up to 150 watts equivalent), and can easily be found in any Home Depot.
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My god, your stupidity is mind-boggling
It wasn't linked to. Sure I could do the AC's work (by the way...were you the AC that posted it?), and google it myself, which I did, and it turns out it's a subscriber only article.
Sorry, but in the AC's post there are several references to "100 g", which seemed like quite a lot, and since everything else was in mg it made sense that it probably should have been mg rather than g. Apparently he/she meant ug, but don't give me shit because someone (you?) can't be bothered to proofread the post.
1) I can tell the difference perfectly when it's written properly
2) When the fuck did anyone say anything about me working in a lab? I'm a computer programmer.
I agree. Mileage is exactly what I thought the article was about when I read the title. Acceleration? I never thought for a SECOND that there was ANY question about that, as the gas engine is totally decoupled from the drivetrain. What an utterly worthless article.
What's the difference? Do you not realize what peanut flour is? It's a cooking ingredient for crying out loud. Now reread what you posted.
"We used a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenge"
Food! They baked the peanut flour into food and fed it too them. Also, the quantity should have been a clue. Try inhaling 100mg of peanut protein.
Nice. Now please explain what in that study had to do with peanut dust or smell. The summary talks about skin contact. Please try again.
I never said irony was or wasn't a grammar issue. "Grammar Nazi" is similar to a job title. My job title is "Programmer/Analyst" not "Systems Administrator", but that doesn't mean I don't go into the server room to reboot a system when it's down and nobody else is on site to resolve it.
So, with that said, I'm now going to classify you as a grammar Nazi, too.
WTF is your point? If you can add #6 to a system like I described, you can just as well add it to a system that does nothing but live playback. Shit, my TV doesn't record content, yet somehow I've managed to find a way to record content that comes across my TV, and I didn't even need a federally sized budget to accomplish it.
the image should NEVER be stored, only fed live to a screen where the agent gets to make a call on pulling the person aside or not.
Well, I wouldn't say live feed. Ideally, I can justify the system working as follows.
1) Person walks through scanner...scanner records video
2) Scanner sends video to monitoring station
3) Employee running can watch the video. If they think they see something, they can pause the video, zoom in and look more carefully at the suspicious area, etc.
4) Employee either signals OK or NOT OK. The act of signaling deletes the video from memory and also notifies the Employee at the scanner to either let the person go or direct them to secondary inspection.
So, cell phones protect from alzheimers? The condition that (among other effects) causes people to forget things ? I find that quite ironic, considering that it seems 99% of people forget how to drive when they're on one.
P.S. At least I think that's irony. Every time I think I've got it down, someone shows me a new rule for what is or isn't irony. My apologies to the grammar Nazis in advance if I have it wrong.
Really? You just have to match parts together for a PC.
LOL. Yeah sure. Is your power supply powerful enough for the hardware you chose? Does it have the right connector for the high end graphics card you might have bought? Do you know to install the standoffs in the case first rather than trying to screw the motherboard right to the backplane (shorting it out in the process)? Do you know whether your core i7 needs the 1366 pin socket or the 1156? Do you need DDR2 or DDR3? Does the brand of memory you bought have a compatability issue with your motherboard? Are you aware that the memory sockets on your motherboard are actually supposed to take a lot of force to insert, and that you aren't going to break it? Are you aware that you shouldn't touch the top of the cpu or the thermal paste? Do you know how to hookup all the pin headers on the case...even the ones that are poorly labeled on a lot of cases (ie: do you know whether that white arrow on the plastic means positive or negative, or that it's alright that your 2 wires for your power led connect to the header that's typically diagramed as a 3 wire connector and you should just ignore the middle connector)? That's just the beginning of the implied knowledge you don't even think about but the average person would have no clue.
Leaky faucet? Is it the rings, something rusted through, do you know where the water shut-offs are, do you know what wrench to use for what nuts (they aren't labeled like the inside of a PC).
The shutoff is right below the sink or toilet in 99% of houses. You grab it with your hand and turn it. It's very familiar because in most cases it looks exactly like the shutoff valve you've got on the outside of your house where the hose connects. Most faucets are either
1) remove a screw, remove a handle, remove another screw, slide out the cartridge or the shutoff assembly, or
2) remove a screw , remove the handle, unscrew the cap, take out the ball and springs.
Then you just take that up to the hardware store, match up the parts to the identical ones, take it home, and put it back together in the reverse of the above steps. There's usually only a few types for kits for each brand, and most hardware stores have a guy that knows all about plumbing. Most of them will even help you switch the washers in store if you need help. Most repair kits will have instructions right on the back, just in case you get the slightest bit confused. But it's not that complicated at all. The first time I replaced a leaking faucet, I was 16, had never touched plumbing in my life, and I managed to replace it easily, and I didn't even have to look in a repair book (the public internet didn't even exist). But if even a single part of the above is at all confusing, you can buy one of those DIY books that covers dozens of household repairs. Those books will generally tell you how to repair just about any type of faucet, and they'll do in int about 3 pages of pictures with maybe 2 paragraphs of text.
Changing the oil, gotta make sure you know which is the oil pan under the car, the proper nut to remove, get the right oil filter, know how to use an oil filter wrench given most newer cars, know how much oil your car takes and how to fill it... they certainly take just as much knowledge. You just take what you know for granted.
I don't want to go through the whole faucet explanation again, but 95% of that is documented in the owners manual, the guy at the auto parts store will tell you exactly what parts you need (you don't even need to know what make or model your car is...just give him your registration and he can most likely look it up from the vin), and any auto parts store will sell a book that explains the simple process in less than 2 pages (mostly pictures).
I learned to change the oil in 9th grade, almost 20 years ago. Every single car since then has been exactly the same, so it's a process that never changes (except for some high end foreign cars that make it really difficult). Compare that to computers, where the parts/connectors/etc change every few years.
That one comes with a cooling fan, and from what I've heard there's a good chance you'll probably need it for the dual core model. But I think the single core is cool enough based one what I've read.
See, that's funny to me because changing oil, painting a house, or fixing a leaking faucet take FAR less knowledge and ability than assembling a computer. Hell....my WIFE changes the oil on the car.
An Ion based system can run a mythtv frontend with 1080p video and provide 1080i deinterlacing that is superior in quality to the software deinterlacing you can get off of a Core 2 Duo, and the Ion system does it with CPU >90% idle and about a 25 watt power draw for the whole system.
Marshmallows are made with gelatin, which is made from meat.
Wow. Now that I know marshmallows are meat, I need to go rearrange the food groups on my dietary chart. My dinner plans have changed!!!!
Saying "I'm going to kill Bob" is a threat against Bob, period. Especially when there was no ...
So we have varying levels of absolutes now?
For a particular store? What if I don't know where they'll want to spend it?
A preloaded credit card that they can spend anywhere? Yeah, sorry but they generally charge a fee to purchase one. There's also the fact that they CAN'T be spent anywhere...still plenty of places that don't take credit/debit. And what if they choose to save the money for a downpayment on a house or something? A gift card isn't much use there either.
Heck, even if they did say they were looking forward to it, in my life I've said "I'm going to kill [person]" hundreds of times. It's not a threat of any kind. It's just venting anger.
Yeah,but search for that phrase in quotes. Altavista gives you no results. Bing gives you.....this thread on slashdot. Perhaps the GP was making a subtle remark about how some search engines index more quickly than others (counting on the fact that Bing would most likely index it shortly after he hit submit).
Not likely, but possible.
It figures....I thought about this a long time before submitting and couldn't come up with anything. As soon as I submit, it dawned on me that each multiple of 25 actually counts as an extra 5, though the multiples of 100 already exhibit the extra 5. So we get 25, 50, 75, 125, 150, 175, 225, 250, and 275 giving 9 more zeros. 2 left to go. 125 and 250 also count as a third 5, so that's our last two.
That was a fun and pointless exercise.
At first I thought the number was wrong because of all the zeros at the end, then it quickly dawned on me that with all the 10s and 5s you should expect a bunch of zeros. However, trying to verify the quantity of zeros, I'm having trouble figuring out where they come from (I double checked with perl's Math::BigInt library, and your number is correct...or at least the quantity of zeros is).
There are 74 zeros there. Obviously we can expect 1 zero for each multiple of 10 we multiply by (so that's 30 zeros), plus 100, 200, and 300 each give an additional 0 (thats 3 more zeros). We also get a zero for each 5 that's multiplied by a 2, 4, 6, or 8, though we're limited by the number of 5's so it doesn't matter which number you choose (that gives us 30 more zeros).
So, we've got 30 + 3 + 30 = 63 zeros. Where do the other 11 come from? I'm feeling kind of dumb about it (probably overlooking something very obvious), but I just can't figure it out.
They're 100% in the right for banning modded consoles. Basically you can play your pirated games or you can play on Live, but not both with the same console.
Well, I haven't actually seen this confirmed in a media source, but I've read that people were banned for performing an unofficial hard drive upgrade. MS charges an insane amount for a larger HD for the 360, but people have found you can buy specific model drives, image the new drive with the proper firmware, and swap it into the HD case. That way you get a bigger HD for $50 instead of $200. This has no effect on a persons ability to do anything with the console except have a bigger hard drive (no copying games or anything). The only thing that is different, which allows MS to detect this, is that the firmware has an embedded serial number, which MS can detect remotely and validate. Since the firmware was imaged from a legit 360 hard drive, your HD firmware will have the same serial number as the drive the firmware was imaged from.
If these reports I've read are actually true (and not a case of a pirate simply CLAIMING that a HD upgrade was all they did), then I don't think that's 100% in the right at all. It affects nothing except for their ability to strongarm you out of an expensive HD upgrade. No piracy issue, and no compromising the quality of other people's online experience.
Not that I'm condoning it, but I think the reasoning there is DRM and maintaining a controlled path to the display. If you hacked the 360, you can compromise that path. Not sure that it makes sense, because I'd think anything you could do to the 360 to compromise it could just be done to the PC running WMC to begin with, but maybe that's not so. Maybe the 360 has some really weak ass DRM implementation that they are afraid you'll exploit.
No, it's in there somewhere. I don't remember how or where, but I do remember experimenting when I first got my xbox 360, and there is a media center setup screen where it asks you to input an auth code from WMC, and I remember going to my desktop, starting up WMC and authorizing the device and getting the code. I never used it beyond that, so I can't tell you exactly what it does, but it definitely has some sort of WMC interaction.
I've usually found that website to actually give pretty good answers to the problem. Granted, if google returns pages dealing with problems other than your own, yeah, that's not very helpful. However, I've generally found that if my search term is good enough to return meaningful results from other websites, the links to expertsexchange is usually as good, if not better, than a lot of other websites. You just need to know the "secret" that all of the answers are visible in plain text way down at the bottom of the page.
I work with a woman who was a neighbor of the Dividians at the time. Her telling of the story is that they were decent neighbors who didn't bother anyone.
I've read similar stories from the neighbors of serial killers. I'm not sure what the point is. For the same reason that "guilt by association" isn't valid, "innocent because the neighbor said so" doesn't carry much weight either.
So far, they've lived up to their promise : the light is almost EXACTLY like the light from an incandescent - low color temperature, lots of yellow, etc. They start up instantly, and of course use a fraction of the electricity.
nvision lights (they also go by the name ecosmart) are great. Inexpensive, instant on, they come in 3 color temperatures (I prefer the daylight color, myself), available in a variety of wattages (up to 150 watts equivalent), and can easily be found in any Home Depot.