You're making the assumption that hormones applied to livestock have the desired effect at levels of parts per billion. I don't believe that to be true. Long-term, low-level exposure is not going to have the same effect, obviously, but that doesn't mean they're not going to have an effect.
That also ignores the class of chemicals which are used for other purposes, but which also mimic the effects of hormones.
"Without calibrated colours you can not do anything even if you had the best tools in the universe to alter your images."
Not true. Dan Margulis in Professional Photoshop shows how you can correct color in photos by using the color numbers you can get out of Photoshop. He's taught color blind people to correct color in photographs.
Personally, I often find it difficult to identify a color cast on even a calibrated monitor just by looking at it.
"And they were patting down a disabled WWII vet in a wheelchair."
While TSA and the whole airline security process is pretty much a joke, I see nothing wrong with random searches even if it inconveniences the occasional disabled WWII vet. If you exclude classes of people from airline security, that can certainly be used against you. For instance, if being a disabled WWII vet automatically gets you by security, then disabled WWII vets could be used to help smuggle weapons or bombs onto a plane.
Seppuku is Japanese but the Chinese have a long tradition of suicide to avoid disgrace, too. However, the Chinese never attached the ritual significance to it that the Japanese did.
In terms of network capacity, no, capacity on demand won't be there if everybody needs it.
In terms of server capacity, though, you can buy servers with additional CPU and memory which are not activated. Both Sun and IBM have programs where you buy a server with unlicensed CPUs and/or memory. If you need additional capacity down the line, they'll happily sell you either temporary or permanent licenses for the unlicensed CPUs and/or memory. Personally, I have more experience with this from the IBM side.
Does it make sense to use this? Got me. Obviously it's going to depend on your capacity needs. Personally, I suspect Sun and IBM use this more as a sales gimmick to get their higher end gear in the door. In the one situation where I've actually used it, the customer might have been better off using the full hardware from the start. But I imagine it could be useful in some situations.
I think it goes beyond predicting traffic. I did some work this year for a Large Retailer Which Shall Not Be Named. They bought a lot of hardware for a new code from an Outsourcing Vendor new platform from a Proprietary Unix Vendor. The new code has been problematic, but they spent a lot of time sorting through bugs and performance issues, including a ton of load testing.
My Large Retailer friends had problems on Black Friday, despite a ton of new hardware and extensive load testing. What they found was that at high loads with actual traffic they ran into both performance issues and bugs in the new code that they didn't encounter with simulated traffic. Additionally, they run a ton of back-end apps, which are pretty complex and difficult to test under simulated load, some of which caused problems under the high load.
In terms of hardware and bandwidth, though, they were fine.
"To put it more simply, the record companies must believe they are better off revenue-wise putting on copy protection."
I'm sure they believe this. This doesn't mean that they've actually given the evidence an honest look. All too often, the people who make the decisions see what they want to see and ignore everything else.
I tend to be much more productive at home than I am in the office. If I'm extremely busy, I find it's much better to stay home. The week before I went on vacation I stayed home, and I was working until my wife told me it was time to leave for the airport (and I gave my boss an update on where I was in the cab).
So today, when I'm posting on Slashdot? Yeah, I'm in the office.
Where did all the talented people at Xerox PARC get Xerox? The issue here isn't that Microsoft doesn't have talented people (it does), or that Microsoft doesn't have some innovative research products going (they do). The issue is: can they get this to market successfully? Their track record with projects outside their core area of expertise is not so great.
This is completely untrue. Chicago's O'Hare airport has an entire team of people devoted to maximizing lost luggage, average layover times, missed flights and the distance travellers have to runn between gates to catch planes. They have a difficult job to do, but they do it damn well.
If there will be a scientific experiment or scientific observation showing that change of the number of chromosomes on the individual level of a species of a sexually proliferating animal could spread and produce successful progeny then I am ready to remove this division line. So far I have seen no such evidence.
Take a look at Przewalski's Horse. From wikipedia: "Although the Przewalski's horse has 66 chromosomes, compared to 64 in a domestic horse, the Przewalski's horse and the domestic horse are the only equids that cross-breed and produce fertile offspring, possessing 65 chromosomes."
The odd thing is that I've just discovered the Current. I live in Madison, but I go to Minneapolis a few times a year on business, and in June 89.3 was interfering with the signal for my iPod car radio adapter (usually set to 89.5). I haven't given it a try on the Internet, though.
No kidding! In Detroit, one or two of radio stations had "new wave" shows you could catch over the weekend. WABX was briefly an "alternative" station, before they changed formats. Close to the time I graduated, I discovered the Avondale high school radio station, which played a pretty wide range of material. I think that was about it
When I went away to college, it turned out conservative Cincinnati actually had a greatradio station, WOXY (AKA 97X), which has sadly left the airwaves in the last couple of years (although they're still alive on the web). 97X was even within walking distance of my dorm (albeit a long one). When I moved to Wisconsin after college I made a point of listening to WXRT on my way through Chicago, another great radio station.
3) Get me a decent word processor, and spreadsheet. NO Open Office is not it. AbiWord is actually pretty good for basic tasks, but fails for anything beyond that.
CrossOver Office works pretty well for me for Word and Excel. They're not perfect--I see the occasional weird little glitch, but they work well enough for my purposes.
What I need and don't have with a Linux desktop is Photoshop. I try the Gimp every now and then but it just doesn't work for me (poor LAB and CYMK support are the big ones).
Not only that, but the Half-Life engine itself was based on a highly-modified version of the original Quake engine. You know, Quake--the game ID did after Doom. I'm sure that had a lot to do with the fact that they encourage modding and user maps for Half-Life.
Which as you know is only needed for prepress work.
I find that CMYK and LAB support are both very important to me as a photographer, and I've never done any prepress work. For instance, I find CMYK useful for adjusting skin tones (see Dan Margulis' Professional Photoshop) and for adjusting shadow detail with the K channel. I also like to use the K channel for channel blending.
My wife had a pair of (cheap) knitting needles taken in the Toronto airport a couple of years ago. The guy who took them was both French Canadian and the only polite person in airport security I've ever met.
However, most of the time she doesn't have any problems with knitting needles on planes.
Since you cannot repeat evolution, it is technically not in the realm of science.
Huh? You can repeat (or duplicate) the observations used to make the theory of evolution, such as the fossil record, comparative anatomy, the geographical distribution of species and molecular genetics. Not being able to witness or repeat the whole shebang doesn't somehow invalidate it as science.
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That also ignores the class of chemicals which are used for other purposes, but which also mimic the effects of hormones.
Not true. Dan Margulis in Professional Photoshop shows how you can correct color in photos by using the color numbers you can get out of Photoshop. He's taught color blind people to correct color in photographs.
Personally, I often find it difficult to identify a color cast on even a calibrated monitor just by looking at it.
"And they were patting down a disabled WWII vet in a wheelchair."
While TSA and the whole airline security process is pretty much a joke, I see nothing wrong with random searches even if it inconveniences the occasional disabled WWII vet. If you exclude classes of people from airline security, that can certainly be used against you. For instance, if being a disabled WWII vet automatically gets you by security, then disabled WWII vets could be used to help smuggle weapons or bombs onto a plane.
Seppuku is Japanese but the Chinese have a long tradition of suicide to avoid disgrace, too. However, the Chinese never attached the ritual significance to it that the Japanese did.
"It's not rocket surgery."
I'm going to have to steal that line.
In terms of network capacity, no, capacity on demand won't be there if everybody needs it.
In terms of server capacity, though, you can buy servers with additional CPU and memory which are not activated. Both Sun and IBM have programs where you buy a server with unlicensed CPUs and/or memory. If you need additional capacity down the line, they'll happily sell you either temporary or permanent licenses for the unlicensed CPUs and/or memory. Personally, I have more experience with this from the IBM side.
Does it make sense to use this? Got me. Obviously it's going to depend on your capacity needs. Personally, I suspect Sun and IBM use this more as a sales gimmick to get their higher end gear in the door. In the one situation where I've actually used it, the customer might have been better off using the full hardware from the start. But I imagine it could be useful in some situations.
I think it goes beyond predicting traffic. I did some work this year for a Large Retailer Which Shall Not Be Named. They bought a lot of hardware for a new code from an Outsourcing Vendor new platform from a Proprietary Unix Vendor. The new code has been problematic, but they spent a lot of time sorting through bugs and performance issues, including a ton of load testing.
My Large Retailer friends had problems on Black Friday, despite a ton of new hardware and extensive load testing. What they found was that at high loads with actual traffic they ran into both performance issues and bugs in the new code that they didn't encounter with simulated traffic. Additionally, they run a ton of back-end apps, which are pretty complex and difficult to test under simulated load, some of which caused problems under the high load.
In terms of hardware and bandwidth, though, they were fine.
"To put it more simply, the record companies must believe they are better off revenue-wise putting on copy protection."
I'm sure they believe this. This doesn't mean that they've actually given the evidence an honest look. All too often, the people who make the decisions see what they want to see and ignore everything else.
I tend to be much more productive at home than I am in the office. If I'm extremely busy, I find it's much better to stay home. The week before I went on vacation I stayed home, and I was working until my wife told me it was time to leave for the airport (and I gave my boss an update on where I was in the cab).
So today, when I'm posting on Slashdot? Yeah, I'm in the office.
Where did all the talented people at Xerox PARC get Xerox? The issue here isn't that Microsoft doesn't have talented people (it does), or that Microsoft doesn't have some innovative research products going (they do). The issue is: can they get this to market successfully? Their track record with projects outside their core area of expertise is not so great.
We'll see, though.
"If only we'd listened to the only two Democrat presidents during the Cold War..."
You mean Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Carter?
This is completely untrue. Chicago's O'Hare airport has an entire team of people devoted to maximizing lost luggage, average layover times, missed flights and the distance travellers have to runn between gates to catch planes. They have a difficult job to do, but they do it damn well.
Take a look at Przewalski's Horse. From wikipedia: "Although the Przewalski's horse has 66 chromosomes, compared to 64 in a domestic horse, the Przewalski's horse and the domestic horse are the only equids that cross-breed and produce fertile offspring, possessing 65 chromosomes."
The odd thing is that I've just discovered the Current. I live in Madison, but I go to Minneapolis a few times a year on business, and in June 89.3 was interfering with the signal for my iPod car radio adapter (usually set to 89.5). I haven't given it a try on the Internet, though.
When I went away to college, it turned out conservative Cincinnati actually had a greatradio station, WOXY (AKA 97X), which has sadly left the airwaves in the last couple of years (although they're still alive on the web). 97X was even within walking distance of my dorm (albeit a long one). When I moved to Wisconsin after college I made a point of listening to WXRT on my way through Chicago, another great radio station.
Ah, the good old days--when were they again?
CrossOver Office works pretty well for me for Word and Excel. They're not perfect--I see the occasional weird little glitch, but they work well enough for my purposes.
What I need and don't have with a Linux desktop is Photoshop. I try the Gimp every now and then but it just doesn't work for me (poor LAB and CYMK support are the big ones).
Not only that, but the Half-Life engine itself was based on a highly-modified version of the original Quake engine. You know, Quake--the game ID did after Doom. I'm sure that had a lot to do with the fact that they encourage modding and user maps for Half-Life.
Yes. "Chicken toppings" came later.
I find that CMYK and LAB support are both very important to me as a photographer, and I've never done any prepress work. For instance, I find CMYK useful for adjusting skin tones (see Dan Margulis' Professional Photoshop) and for adjusting shadow detail with the K channel. I also like to use the K channel for channel blending.
Photoshop costs about $649 list price. It's the CS3 suite that costs a couple grand, depending on which version of the thousand versions you get.
Crap, that reminds me--I gotta do some backups.
My wife had a pair of (cheap) knitting needles taken in the Toronto airport a couple of years ago. The guy who took them was both French Canadian and the only polite person in airport security I've ever met.
However, most of the time she doesn't have any problems with knitting needles on planes.
Don't most people tend to buy a stock on the way down, too?
"Ah, Enron is finally back in the buy range! I'll buy a thousand shares."
Because the purpose of SNL's parodies is to make fun of the ads or the products, not to make money by selling another product.
Huh? You can repeat (or duplicate) the observations used to make the theory of evolution, such as the fossil record, comparative anatomy, the geographical distribution of species and molecular genetics. Not being able to witness or repeat the whole shebang doesn't somehow invalidate it as science.