I don't know enough about the subject to provide much detail in this response, but....
Several hundred years ago they added all sorts of new markings to the Torah in order to disambiguate similar words since the original Hebrew is written entirely in consonants. Slightly later there were more markings added under some of the characters which act as a checksum to ensure accuracy when copying. It seems that talmudic (?) law may have some say in what can be done to a Torah and have it remain Kosher...
I would generally tend to disagree with the premise of your argument based on a few simple reasons...
1. "Race" is not any sort of scientifically recognized term for subdividing within a species. So arguing that one thing is a "race" and another is not is ultimately a fruitless endevour...
That's because most human variation falls within, not between populations. About 85% of all genetic variation can, on average, be found within any local population, be they Swedes, Kikuyu, or Hmong. About 94% can be found within any continental population, consistent with what the Rosenberg Science study found. In fact, there are no characteristics, no traits, not even one gene that turns up in all members of one so-called race yet is absent from others.
2. Nearly all of my Jewish acquaintences draw a distinction between those people who are "ethnic jews" and "religious jews". Which seems to account for a strong self identification as being a distinct "ethnic group" not necessarily defined by a religous dogma or other codified belief structure...
By slightly over 3 to 1, Israeli Jews choose the ethnic Jew (43%) over the religious practitioner (13%). However, another 32% of Israeli Jews find both equally Jewish. Therefore, even in Israel, a country with strict adherence to Jewish law, nearly half of Israeli Jews would consider someone without a Jewish mother as Jewish. The question of "who is a Jew" has been the center of debate recently, with the Orthodox establishment only recognizing someone as Jewish who was born to a Jewish mother (or converted by a Orthodox Rabbi)
Normally I wouldn't even stick my foot in the door at commenting on a thread such as this which is guranteed to draw more flames than most, but I'd be hard pressed to believe that anyone can really come up with any evidence contrary to either of those two points. I mean heck, even the Israeli "right of return" is based largely on blood lines (Jewish mothers have Jewish children, regardless of their religion...) and not faith...
I'm still waiting for the single button phone. It seems to me a single "IBM nipple" style directional controller is all my phone really needs. All the directory editing can eb accomplished on a PC and transferred via cable or bluetooth or heck even XML via WAP for a centralized phone directory. So I should be able to press down to scroll down through entries, press up to scroll up through entries, hold button for x seconds to dial entry and again to to disconnect. The screen just needs to be a simple two color backlit LCD... In th case a number is to be dialed directly or a phone tree is encoutered there could be an on screen number pad displayed which could be navigable with the single control.
I'd trade 90% of the functions on my phone for 2 weeks of standby battery life...
I just reread your post and I mis-understood you the first time, I see now that you are proposing finding high priced games to buy cheaply and then resell, Very enterprising, but I think the effort vs. profit may be a bit high for my taste.. Maybe next time I get laid off:)
I'm not saying people haven't paid that much before, I'm just saying that there is at least 1 copy that is "buy it now" priced at 49.95USD plus shipping... I'm sure it's not the first one that low and it certainly won't be the last...
Sounds like some people still haven't figured out ebay... Several copies of chrono trigger available right now all for under 50.00USD some as low as 20USD
I hate to be another me too, but when PacMan came out it was soo popular that the coin boxes had to be emptied hourly and they could be found at every bar, convenience store, and theater. If that isn't a mass marketed product then I don't know what is...
From what I've read the HP models that are effected by this expiring cartridge BS don't seem to be able to report ink levels, page counts, or any other extended printer info when used on a non-bidirectional parallel port.
YMMV, I have no personal experience with these products or this particular hack.
Hmm.. I'm not sure that your contention that a cappucino should be served in a clear glass mug, that it should contain equal parts espresso, foam and milk, nor that your proportions for a macchiatto are correct.
Not only, from my personal research done while writing a paper concerning many aspects of coffee from growing, proccessing, and roasting to drink preperation and social aspects of "coffee culture", as well as my personal experience as a barrista for 2 years. But, in my travels in Italy I never once experienced either a Cappuccino that was server in a clear glass mug nor a macchiatto that was made with less than what appeared to be a metric ton of foam atop a small portion (perhaps two short pulls) of espresso and served in a large bowl like ceramic cup.
I find that those "snobby coffee shops" often have spent so much time codifying how things should be, that they seem to neglect to actually ensure that their techniques were accurate(true to the origin) to begin with...
As to your contention about how "sweet" espresso should be. In Italy it usually served with two lumps of turbonado sugar and a twist of lemon zest. The roast often does have a carmel like flavor cue, but the sweetness of a traditional espresso is usually from the sugar added after the shots are pulled...
Yeah, that's one of my peeves. I always have to make sure I order my espresso as short pulls otherwise less informed barristas are always trying to "be nice" by giving me a longer shot.
Luckily, most of the high volume Starbucks are switching to automated espresso machines which always pull a regular shot as long as they are correctly calibrated regularly.
Hmm, it seems a quick coffee lesson is in order...
Cappucino - generally speaking a cappucino is espresso and equal portions foam and steamed milk. A smaller cup say 12.oz is generally made with 2 shots of espresso.
Machiato - is espresso with foam and no steamed milk. These tend to be made with more espresso in my experience, but not necessarily extra shots, but sometimes longer shots...
Latte - is espresso and steamed wilk topped with a small dollop of foam. These tend to be made with shorter espresso shots, but the number tends to be 1-2 shots per 12oz of completed drink.
When ordering cappucinos a good barrista should serve it as outlined above, 50/50 foam/steamed milk. If you wish for more foam and less milk it is usually (although dialectical differences in some regions may cause confusion) apropriate to ask for it more "dry" and if less foam and more milk is desired usually it is requested as "wet". If you want less foam and not more milk, then perhaps ordering a smaller size would suit you better. At any rate Starbucks does have one thing going for it that most small cafes do not have, customer comment cards. These cards are submitted to the corporate office which can request retraining for less than competent barristas and further more, if you are totally unsatisfied with your drink simply asking for a complimentary drink coupon from the supervisor in the store will usually be met with a warm apology and a coupon for any free drink at any Starbucks.
As for all the comments about how "burnt" or "over roasted" Starbucks coffee tastes, I'd like to point out that chains like Peets which are direct competitors to Starbucks roast all of their beans darker than comparable varieties from Starbucks. If anything I'd say that some of *bucks lighter blends could do with a bit more of a roast, especially some of the latin American blends which seem to taste a bit too bright on the palate.
Lets not forget also that less than 20 years ago the standard American cup of joe was comprised largely of freeze dried instant coffee made primarily from low grade robusto beans and was stored in non-purged cans where the oils from the coffee were free to go rancid on store shelves and in warehouses for months, years, or decades before being brewed.
Alas, I must confess I did work for Starbucks for a short time, but was and am and avid coffee fan prior to my engagement there. I did find that the training was adequate and the methods of preperation were well in line with everything I had read prior to my employment. As for the comment about the machines being dirty I encourage you to fill out a comment card if this has been your experience; In the store that I supervised, all machines were stripped and cleaned at the end of the night, tested for appropriate temperature and pressure several times during the shifts and regularly adjusted by qualified professionals.
YMMV
It never ceases to amaze me how people bag on Starbuck's coffee so much. I find that most of the competitors' coffee is over roasted and either brewed watery to compensate or just served up syruppy think like roof tar. Starbucks employs some of the most highly trained buyers and roasters in the coffee industry and consistantly brings a greater variety of quality beans to the public than was previously available without living in a major metropolitan and having a good sense of where to look.
My only problem with starbucks is the number of wierd nutmeg/eggnog/carmel/fudge "latte" creations they serve means that many times the barrista serving you is not going to be accustomed to making proper espresso beverages such as a plain ol' macchiato or cappucino. But, then again they are just meeting a demand. If the American palate increasingly demands sweater richer flavours to satisfy an unhealthy desire to get fat, bloated, and lazy it's just business providing products which meet that demand.
Kudos on that sentiment! I feel the exact same way. I can't remember that last time I listened to a commercial radio station because of how terrible it has become, but that hardly makes me want to pay money to avoid it. I just listen to NPR, local public, and college radio stations and eventually when enough other like minded people also start avoiding commercial radio like the plague then companies like clearchannel will lose their ass when all their advertisers pull out. There will be a vacuum in the market again to make something that people will actually listen to and then radio listeners will be rewarded with the competition that a free market allows.
You should be able to setup alsa with asound server to accept connections from non-local source addresses, then it's just a matter of broadcasting via IP... I personally have used netjuke to implement remote music control and it worked great, I was able to use an old dual ppro 200 with a gig of ram to server as many as 12 different streams (never tested more than that). This program would allow for you to use the "local" playback option to output to some sort of middle man program that would broadcast to asound daemons over 802.11 and if you wanted to listen to a different stream in a different room it also supports direct streaming of several music formats and I believe also supports on the fly transcoding in newer versions.
This is one of the conclusions that was suggested in "Cosmic Serpent" by Jeremy Narby. Interstingly, the book is about how the native peoples of South America use psychadelic shamanism to form a picture of reality and how much of what they describe as having been learned while in drug induced states has later (much later) been discovered through advanced western science. Fer instance some South American shaman claim to able to see the shape of dna inside a plant or animal while on ayahuasca and further more they then describe how flashing lights between cells communicate different information at a cellular level. It is a very interesting read and has created quite a stir in my circle of friends that has read it.
We used to "open" them in Jr. High by striking the dial at a sharp downward angle with a normal red brick... Not sure if actually breaks the mechanism or just pops the shackle past the detent that holds it in place, but it worked every time and usually popped the lock with a single strike.
I made the mistake of looking for info on the sourceforge page linked in the headline. After locating the wiki I found all the info I needed... Too bad it won't work in my situation since the first 8 gigs of my hard drive won't read meaning the IPOD won't boot any OS from the HD since it's firmware tells it to start looking at the begining of the disk, nto the begining of the first partition...
C'est La Vie
Their FAQ seems to be missing a serious question...
Can I install this on my ipod without using a mac runnning osX?
I'd be interested to check out their project, especially since a big drop fuxored my ipod hd requiring me to custom partition around the corruption in order to even use it as a small firewire drive. But, if I have to get access to somethign that boots osX just to install linux on my ipod I just don't think it's gonna happen.
You'd think that they'd make the installer run under linux..
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I don't know enough about the subject to provide much detail in this response, but.... Several hundred years ago they added all sorts of new markings to the Torah in order to disambiguate similar words since the original Hebrew is written entirely in consonants. Slightly later there were more markings added under some of the characters which act as a checksum to ensure accuracy when copying. It seems that talmudic (?) law may have some say in what can be done to a Torah and have it remain Kosher...
1. "Race" is not any sort of scientifically recognized term for subdividing within a species. So arguing that one thing is a "race" and another is not is ultimately a fruitless endevour...
2. Nearly all of my Jewish acquaintences draw a distinction between those people who are "ethnic jews" and "religious jews". Which seems to account for a strong self identification as being a distinct "ethnic group" not necessarily defined by a religous dogma or other codified belief structure...Normally I wouldn't even stick my foot in the door at commenting on a thread such as this which is guranteed to draw more flames than most, but I'd be hard pressed to believe that anyone can really come up with any evidence contrary to either of those two points. I mean heck, even the Israeli "right of return" is based largely on blood lines (Jewish mothers have Jewish children, regardless of their religion...) and not faith...
I'm still waiting for the single button phone. It seems to me a single "IBM nipple" style directional controller is all my phone really needs. All the directory editing can eb accomplished on a PC and transferred via cable or bluetooth or heck even XML via WAP for a centralized phone directory. So I should be able to press down to scroll down through entries, press up to scroll up through entries, hold button for x seconds to dial entry and again to to disconnect. The screen just needs to be a simple two color backlit LCD... In th case a number is to be dialed directly or a phone tree is encoutered there could be an on screen number pad displayed which could be navigable with the single control. I'd trade 90% of the functions on my phone for 2 weeks of standby battery life...
I just reread your post and I mis-understood you the first time, I see now that you are proposing finding high priced games to buy cheaply and then resell, Very enterprising, but I think the effort vs. profit may be a bit high for my taste.. Maybe next time I get laid off :)
I'm not saying people haven't paid that much before, I'm just saying that there is at least 1 copy that is "buy it now" priced at 49.95USD plus shipping... I'm sure it's not the first one that low and it certainly won't be the last...
Sounds like some people still haven't figured out ebay... Several copies of chrono trigger available right now all for under 50.00USD some as low as 20USD
I hate to be another me too, but when PacMan came out it was soo popular that the coin boxes had to be emptied hourly and they could be found at every bar, convenience store, and theater. If that isn't a mass marketed product then I don't know what is...
RTFA, "on Wednesday AOL will release".....
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From what I've read the HP models that are effected by this expiring cartridge BS don't seem to be able to report ink levels, page counts, or any other extended printer info when used on a non-bidirectional parallel port.
YMMV, I have no personal experience with these products or this particular hack.
The fix is quite simple for parallel based printers one simply has to turn off bidirectional comm for the parallel port. voila!
Hmm.. I'm not sure that your contention that a cappucino should be served in a clear glass mug, that it should contain equal parts espresso, foam and milk, nor that your proportions for a macchiatto are correct.
Not only, from my personal research done while writing a paper concerning many aspects of coffee from growing, proccessing, and roasting to drink preperation and social aspects of "coffee culture", as well as my personal experience as a barrista for 2 years. But, in my travels in Italy I never once experienced either a Cappuccino that was server in a clear glass mug nor a macchiatto that was made with less than what appeared to be a metric ton of foam atop a small portion (perhaps two short pulls) of espresso and served in a large bowl like ceramic cup.
I find that those "snobby coffee shops" often have spent so much time codifying how things should be, that they seem to neglect to actually ensure that their techniques were accurate(true to the origin) to begin with...
As to your contention about how "sweet" espresso should be. In Italy it usually served with two lumps of turbonado sugar and a twist of lemon zest. The roast often does have a carmel like flavor cue, but the sweetness of a traditional espresso is usually from the sugar added after the shots are pulled...
Yeah, that's one of my peeves. I always have to make sure I order my espresso as short pulls otherwise less informed barristas are always trying to "be nice" by giving me a longer shot. Luckily, most of the high volume Starbucks are switching to automated espresso machines which always pull a regular shot as long as they are correctly calibrated regularly.
Bah, slashdot borked my post, the cappucino definition should say "a smaller cup say, less than 12oz..."
Hmm, it seems a quick coffee lesson is in order...
Cappucino - generally speaking a cappucino is espresso and equal portions foam and steamed milk. A smaller cup say 12.oz is generally made with 2 shots of espresso.
Machiato - is espresso with foam and no steamed milk. These tend to be made with more espresso in my experience, but not necessarily extra shots, but sometimes longer shots...
Latte - is espresso and steamed wilk topped with a small dollop of foam. These tend to be made with shorter espresso shots, but the number tends to be 1-2 shots per 12oz of completed drink.
When ordering cappucinos a good barrista should serve it as outlined above, 50/50 foam/steamed milk. If you wish for more foam and less milk it is usually (although dialectical differences in some regions may cause confusion) apropriate to ask for it more "dry" and if less foam and more milk is desired usually it is requested as "wet". If you want less foam and not more milk, then perhaps ordering a smaller size would suit you better. At any rate Starbucks does have one thing going for it that most small cafes do not have, customer comment cards. These cards are submitted to the corporate office which can request retraining for less than competent barristas and further more, if you are totally unsatisfied with your drink simply asking for a complimentary drink coupon from the supervisor in the store will usually be met with a warm apology and a coupon for any free drink at any Starbucks.
As for all the comments about how "burnt" or "over roasted" Starbucks coffee tastes, I'd like to point out that chains like Peets which are direct competitors to Starbucks roast all of their beans darker than comparable varieties from Starbucks. If anything I'd say that some of *bucks lighter blends could do with a bit more of a roast, especially some of the latin American blends which seem to taste a bit too bright on the palate.
Lets not forget also that less than 20 years ago the standard American cup of joe was comprised largely of freeze dried instant coffee made primarily from low grade robusto beans and was stored in non-purged cans where the oils from the coffee were free to go rancid on store shelves and in warehouses for months, years, or decades before being brewed.
Alas, I must confess I did work for Starbucks for a short time, but was and am and avid coffee fan prior to my engagement there. I did find that the training was adequate and the methods of preperation were well in line with everything I had read prior to my employment. As for the comment about the machines being dirty I encourage you to fill out a comment card if this has been your experience; In the store that I supervised, all machines were stripped and cleaned at the end of the night, tested for appropriate temperature and pressure several times during the shifts and regularly adjusted by qualified professionals.
YMMV
It never ceases to amaze me how people bag on Starbuck's coffee so much. I find that most of the competitors' coffee is over roasted and either brewed watery to compensate or just served up syruppy think like roof tar. Starbucks employs some of the most highly trained buyers and roasters in the coffee industry and consistantly brings a greater variety of quality beans to the public than was previously available without living in a major metropolitan and having a good sense of where to look. My only problem with starbucks is the number of wierd nutmeg/eggnog/carmel/fudge "latte" creations they serve means that many times the barrista serving you is not going to be accustomed to making proper espresso beverages such as a plain ol' macchiato or cappucino. But, then again they are just meeting a demand. If the American palate increasingly demands sweater richer flavours to satisfy an unhealthy desire to get fat, bloated, and lazy it's just business providing products which meet that demand.
Kudos on that sentiment! I feel the exact same way. I can't remember that last time I listened to a commercial radio station because of how terrible it has become, but that hardly makes me want to pay money to avoid it. I just listen to NPR, local public, and college radio stations and eventually when enough other like minded people also start avoiding commercial radio like the plague then companies like clearchannel will lose their ass when all their advertisers pull out. There will be a vacuum in the market again to make something that people will actually listen to and then radio listeners will be rewarded with the competition that a free market allows.
my first instinct is that you are correct.
You should be able to setup alsa with asound server to accept connections from non-local source addresses, then it's just a matter of broadcasting via IP... I personally have used netjuke to implement remote music control and it worked great, I was able to use an old dual ppro 200 with a gig of ram to server as many as 12 different streams (never tested more than that). This program would allow for you to use the "local" playback option to output to some sort of middle man program that would broadcast to asound daemons over 802.11 and if you wanted to listen to a different stream in a different room it also supports direct streaming of several music formats and I believe also supports on the fly transcoding in newer versions.
This is one of the conclusions that was suggested in "Cosmic Serpent" by Jeremy Narby. Interstingly, the book is about how the native peoples of South America use psychadelic shamanism to form a picture of reality and how much of what they describe as having been learned while in drug induced states has later (much later) been discovered through advanced western science. Fer instance some South American shaman claim to able to see the shape of dna inside a plant or animal while on ayahuasca and further more they then describe how flashing lights between cells communicate different information at a cellular level. It is a very interesting read and has created quite a stir in my circle of friends that has read it.
I'm not trying to spam or anything, but I just dropped you a gmail invite... check it out if you want, but I too prefer yahoo mail :)
We used to "open" them in Jr. High by striking the dial at a sharp downward angle with a normal red brick... Not sure if actually breaks the mechanism or just pops the shackle past the detent that holds it in place, but it worked every time and usually popped the lock with a single strike.
I made the mistake of looking for info on the sourceforge page linked in the headline. After locating the wiki I found all the info I needed... Too bad it won't work in my situation since the first 8 gigs of my hard drive won't read meaning the IPOD won't boot any OS from the HD since it's firmware tells it to start looking at the begining of the disk, nto the begining of the first partition... C'est La Vie
Their FAQ seems to be missing a serious question... Can I install this on my ipod without using a mac runnning osX? I'd be interested to check out their project, especially since a big drop fuxored my ipod hd requiring me to custom partition around the corruption in order to even use it as a small firewire drive. But, if I have to get access to somethign that boots osX just to install linux on my ipod I just don't think it's gonna happen. You'd think that they'd make the installer run under linux..