The food industry's first priority is not our health, it's their bottom line. Most of us are also suckers for this, often measuring the value of food solely by price. It would be expecting too much to hope that the cheapest food is reasonably healthy, and of course it isn't. Breakthroughs that extend the shelf life of fresh food cheaply would be huge.
I won't address the other things you listed, but this is demonstrably false with a trip to the store. What foods are the cheapest? If you go by price per calorie, rice, dry beans, and oatmeal are champions. Peanuts also do very well. Unless you have a severe allergy, all of these foods are much better for you than potato chips and double cheese burgers.
I am not sure if the US/Russia difference you mentions matters more than the house/apartment difference. The vast majority of apartment buildings I've visited or lived in the US, with more than half a dozen units, had large cold and hot supplies, so no single individual could exhaust the supply. Some of them would run short of hot water a little at rush times in the morning before typical work hours, but that seems to be less and less common as larger buildings switch over to on demand heating, instead of tank based heating.
This probably varies a bit more by region or building type within the US. In every apartment building where I've ever lived, each apartment has had individual water heaters. In the dormitories where I lived during undergrad, the hot water was centralized. All of these were below the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Mississippi.
Shooting once or twice is still enough to make being a burglar or robber a quite unhealthy business in average (if you believe in the self-defense shit).
This sentence here by itself is enough to show that you don't really know much about guns or their usage or effectiveness. That makes it less surprising that you hate them so much.
I don't think that the point of Kuhn and Polanyi's work was that these paradigm shifts are attributable to a single event or single person. The point is that they represent a substantial departure from/replace the working models used before them. If I recall correctly, a big part of the idea, as well, is that these for these revolutions to happen, the older generation of scientists have to die off. This process will necessarily take a fair amount of time.
Keep reading the article. The father claims that they would remove the RFID from her badge only if they ceased criticizing the program and publicly endorsed it or something.
If she had just gone along with that offer, plenty of other folks would be complaining about her not standing up for her principles.
Seriously, go back and read what the founding fathers had to say and look hard at what they did.
They understood that creating a monied aristocracy was a terrible thing and their taxation policies and ideologies reflected that.
Weren't the founding fathers mostly wealthy land and slave owners?
I don't think I'm seeing your point.
Caveat: I wasn't part of this project, and don't entirely know what their purpose was or what exactly they meant to communicate by saying that participants at the receiving location could "control the stream interactively." I'm guessing it just means start, stop, pause, fast forward, and rewind or something.
You can't just say, "Oh, I can buy an h.264 encoder chip for $10." I mean, you can say it, but it doesn't tell us anything. There are tons of different h.264 encoders of varying qualities, targeted to different applications, and with different design tradeoffs. I cannot say anything about the specifications of these particular h.264 encoders to which you refer, except that encoding to h.264 does not guarantee any particular level or performance or quality.
UltraGrid claims to be designed for very low latency. That by itself strongly favors MJPEG encoding over h.264. H.264 is dependent upon latency in order to get most of its benefits.
To put it another way, how is encoding one of these 8K HD videos that much different to encoding 16 separate HD videos, each being a crop of the whole?
It's not significantly different, except that there is a slight savings on overhead. G.P. is being kind of weird, and assuming that the higher resolution display would mean that a higher proportion of the 8K image would be stationary, or something.
You can open them up and clean them out pretty quickly and easily, though.
Tangential, but interesting: My current "regular use" NES (Yes, I still play it regularly) is one I found in a gutter in 1998. It works great, though I finally replaced the 72-pin adapter a couple of years ago.
My alarm clock is a cheap digital wristwatch. No cables to fumble with, ever, and I can put in a battery and not worry about it again for five years. If I knock it off my nightstand, it's none the worse for wear.
The atari VCS has no frame buffer. Each rectangular pixel is calculated in realtime as the screen is drawn. It is tied very closely to the way that CRT screens draw their picture. They scan left-to-right (depending on perspective) drawing complete horizontal lines from top to bottom of the screen. If I recall correctly, the standard background in one of these games could be up to 40 blocks wide.
It's (relatively) straightforward to shift those 40 blocks up or down by just not turning them on until a particular scanline. You can't do this with horizontal location, and horizontal positions have to be able to be calculated down to the cycle. This is really hard to do.
You also can't change a sprite's color on a single scanline, and the hardware was never originally intended to support multi-color sprites. That only works due to a hack.
To be fair, the lockout chip was removed from the design in the NES 2 (actually, the NES-101).
But yeah, as I posted previously, the lockout chip is not really a big deal, and disabling it is not the panacea everyone seems to claim it is.
Also, if you install a new 72-pin connector, don't be surprised if the games only work when not pushed down the first several times you use it.
The need to blow air into cartridges on the original NES was a result of DRM.
No, seriously.
That's a bit of a stretch. The ZIF connector and dusty contacts are the primary culprits in the "need" to blow on NES carts. Sure, the CIC chip causes problems on occasion, but it's not nearly the culprit people make it out to be. You can't blame the CIC, for example, when you get vertical lines on the edges of all of the on-screen sprites, and most of the blinking-light errors just turn into solid light errors once you disable the lockout chip.
I have two NES systems, one with a disabled lockout chip and one without. The primary difference I notice is that disabling the lockout chip meant I no longer have to pull tricks with the reset button to get my pirate famicom multicart to work.
Where are you guys going to movies anyway?? I can't think of a single instance where a movie I've been to was interrupted by someone on a cell phone.
I can't think of a single instance I've been to a movie in the past five years that didn't feature at LEAST the distraction of someone's bright phone screen while they were texting in the theater.
There's no actual evidence about the idea that the "eye of the needle" was any historical gate. That interpretation doesn't seem to show up until over a thousand years later.
There are, however, non-biblical Jewish scriptures from around the fourth century or so which use similar terms, but with an elephant in place of the camel to describe something impossible.
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I won't address the other things you listed, but this is demonstrably false with a trip to the store. What foods are the cheapest? If you go by price per calorie, rice, dry beans, and oatmeal are champions. Peanuts also do very well. Unless you have a severe allergy, all of these foods are much better for you than potato chips and double cheese burgers.
I am not sure if the US/Russia difference you mentions matters more than the house/apartment difference. The vast majority of apartment buildings I've visited or lived in the US, with more than half a dozen units, had large cold and hot supplies, so no single individual could exhaust the supply. Some of them would run short of hot water a little at rush times in the morning before typical work hours, but that seems to be less and less common as larger buildings switch over to on demand heating, instead of tank based heating.
This probably varies a bit more by region or building type within the US. In every apartment building where I've ever lived, each apartment has had individual water heaters. In the dormitories where I lived during undergrad, the hot water was centralized. All of these were below the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Mississippi.
Shooting once or twice is still enough to make being a burglar or robber a quite unhealthy business in average (if you believe in the self-defense shit).
This sentence here by itself is enough to show that you don't really know much about guns or their usage or effectiveness. That makes it less surprising that you hate them so much.
I don't think that the point of Kuhn and Polanyi's work was that these paradigm shifts are attributable to a single event or single person. The point is that they represent a substantial departure from/replace the working models used before them. If I recall correctly, a big part of the idea, as well, is that these for these revolutions to happen, the older generation of scientists have to die off. This process will necessarily take a fair amount of time.
Keep reading the article. The father claims that they would remove the RFID from her badge only if they ceased criticizing the program and publicly endorsed it or something. If she had just gone along with that offer, plenty of other folks would be complaining about her not standing up for her principles.
Not only that, but what about the compilation albums? Weren't they just an attempt to sell more records with minimal work? How were they put together?
Have they actually done any compilation albums? I'm not aware of one, and TFA seems to agree.
Seriously, go back and read what the founding fathers had to say and look hard at what they did. They understood that creating a monied aristocracy was a terrible thing and their taxation policies and ideologies reflected that.
Weren't the founding fathers mostly wealthy land and slave owners? I don't think I'm seeing your point.
Caveat: I wasn't part of this project, and don't entirely know what their purpose was or what exactly they meant to communicate by saying that participants at the receiving location could "control the stream interactively." I'm guessing it just means start, stop, pause, fast forward, and rewind or something. You can't just say, "Oh, I can buy an h.264 encoder chip for $10." I mean, you can say it, but it doesn't tell us anything. There are tons of different h.264 encoders of varying qualities, targeted to different applications, and with different design tradeoffs. I cannot say anything about the specifications of these particular h.264 encoders to which you refer, except that encoding to h.264 does not guarantee any particular level or performance or quality. UltraGrid claims to be designed for very low latency. That by itself strongly favors MJPEG encoding over h.264. H.264 is dependent upon latency in order to get most of its benefits.
To put it another way, how is encoding one of these 8K HD videos that much different to encoding 16 separate HD videos, each being a crop of the whole?
It's not significantly different, except that there is a slight savings on overhead. G.P. is being kind of weird, and assuming that the higher resolution display would mean that a higher proportion of the 8K image would be stationary, or something.
Decoding is much, much easier than encoding.
They've been training for this for years. The original project was supposed to take place back in 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurm:_Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth
You can open them up and clean them out pretty quickly and easily, though. Tangential, but interesting: My current "regular use" NES (Yes, I still play it regularly) is one I found in a gutter in 1998. It works great, though I finally replaced the 72-pin adapter a couple of years ago.
My alarm clock is a cheap digital wristwatch. No cables to fumble with, ever, and I can put in a battery and not worry about it again for five years. If I knock it off my nightstand, it's none the worse for wear.
Is your friend's great grandmother Besse Cooper?
640 kiloHours should be enough for anyone.
The atari VCS has no frame buffer. Each rectangular pixel is calculated in realtime as the screen is drawn. It is tied very closely to the way that CRT screens draw their picture. They scan left-to-right (depending on perspective) drawing complete horizontal lines from top to bottom of the screen. If I recall correctly, the standard background in one of these games could be up to 40 blocks wide. It's (relatively) straightforward to shift those 40 blocks up or down by just not turning them on until a particular scanline. You can't do this with horizontal location, and horizontal positions have to be able to be calculated down to the cycle. This is really hard to do. You also can't change a sprite's color on a single scanline, and the hardware was never originally intended to support multi-color sprites. That only works due to a hack.
To be fair, the lockout chip was removed from the design in the NES 2 (actually, the NES-101). But yeah, as I posted previously, the lockout chip is not really a big deal, and disabling it is not the panacea everyone seems to claim it is. Also, if you install a new 72-pin connector, don't be surprised if the games only work when not pushed down the first several times you use it.
The need to blow air into cartridges on the original NES was a result of DRM.
No, seriously.
That's a bit of a stretch. The ZIF connector and dusty contacts are the primary culprits in the "need" to blow on NES carts. Sure, the CIC chip causes problems on occasion, but it's not nearly the culprit people make it out to be. You can't blame the CIC, for example, when you get vertical lines on the edges of all of the on-screen sprites, and most of the blinking-light errors just turn into solid light errors once you disable the lockout chip. I have two NES systems, one with a disabled lockout chip and one without. The primary difference I notice is that disabling the lockout chip meant I no longer have to pull tricks with the reset button to get my pirate famicom multicart to work.
http://nesdev.com/ Formerly nesdev.parodius.com This and Zophar are the who main places to go.
That "brmmmmmm" is annoying as hell during a quiet scene in a movie theater.
Where are you guys going to movies anyway?? I can't think of a single instance where a movie I've been to was interrupted by someone on a cell phone.
I can't think of a single instance I've been to a movie in the past five years that didn't feature at LEAST the distraction of someone's bright phone screen while they were texting in the theater.
Where are you buying 192kHz audio? I think maybe you're confusing 192kHz with 192kbps.
No, when they advertise unlimited bandwidth, what they mean is that they don't put any limits on it.
I don't think you understand what "bandwidth" means.
There's no actual evidence about the idea that the "eye of the needle" was any historical gate. That interpretation doesn't seem to show up until over a thousand years later. There are, however, non-biblical Jewish scriptures from around the fourth century or so which use similar terms, but with an elephant in place of the camel to describe something impossible.
I know it's just a joke, but it's worth pointing out that "theorem" and "theory" are not synonymous.