[...] and result in a disappointing display, particularly for a premium laptop.
Since when is the MacBook Air a premium laptop? It sure has a premium price. And it looks stylish. But that's it. You know what else is like that? An expensive whore "girlfriend".;) (Apple fans, stay with me!:)
I think Apple has done some cool things. But this (or the iPhone) is not one of them. The 18 bit display was the first hint.
It's more a EEE PC concurrent. Which means that it's useless for real full use, because of its slowness and lack of features (one example being Firewire). This is fully ok, if the laptop is really cheap. Unfortunately, that's where the MacBook Air fails. It's not cheap. It's really expensive (compared to the real market. Not to other overprices Apple products.)
I really wonder, how cool Apple's products would be, if they had concurrency in their own domain. If for example MacOS XI would have a HAL that would allow other companys to do the same with their systems. They would have to look good and have more features to have a chance, so Apple would have to add even more, thereby lowering the price to a realistic market level.
But you can literally cut them to the size you need them to be.
Another nice thing is that they are flexible. Imagine a watch made out of a sheet of a flexible display, a sheet of flexible electronics and a sheet of this polymer. That would be really cool.
Why does anyone still do banking via PIN/TAN or normal passwords? My chip-card reader did cost 30 and has a numeric keypad on it. I never have to input any banking data via anything other than that device, which goes straight to the Java applet via a public key encryption system, and then to the bank via FinTS.
I hope I can upgrade to a class 3 or 4 reader soon.
Maybe they just want to be sure to never see TEH GOATSE (again).
I'd recommend nuking australia from orbit, but they never listen.:( Besides: My death-to-ozone conspiracy will have the same effect is a few years anyway. MUHARHARHAR!! XD
I don't know where you're from, but I (in Germany) get a text message at the price of a minute of voice, and the first 50 in every month are included in the plan price.
In other countries it's much cheaper.
. . . Yeah. Other counties! Haven't you heard of them?;) . . . Are you French or American?;)
Whole grain is not significantly different from white grain as far as glycemic index is concerned.
I was talking about the glycemic load, which is not the glycemic index. The index is a pretty bad indicator, because it ignores how much carbohydrates actually are in the food.
The glycemic load of white grain bread is 38.8, and that of whole grain bread is 18. And pure white flour has a value of 60.8, while whole grain flour is at 22.4. This is a huge difference.
And for sugar to "eat up" B vitamins would require a significantly more complex sugar molecule than the ones which exist in real life.
It was simplified. It works like this: The body needs B vitamins to process sugar/starch/carbohydrates. While healthy food provides those vitamins, this stuff does not. White bread and similar sugar/starch products lack any essential b-vitamins. So the body does not only not get new vitamins for other uses. It also needs to take some more out of the reserves to process the starch/sugar.
As for raw food... I'm not about to waste my great^Nth grandfather's invention, a method for containing and preserving fire, by not cooking my food.
I agree. But the point is that you only need a bit of raw stuff. Most importantly: A bit of fresh wheat, ground right before you eat it, and not processed any further. (It's even healthier when germinated, but that's a bit too much work for me.) Then fresh fruits and plants (salad) should be no problem:) And raw meat... Well, your steak is probably red on the inside. Good salami and real raw ham are not heated too. There is more raw food than you may think. So eating your daily dosage is no problem. If you do some weight lifting, you probably eat curd with oat and fruits for breakfast. Mix in a bit of ground wheat. Eat a steak. Or some salad. Maybe an apple in between. And you're good enough.:)
Maybe those 100 just were a bit of exhibitionists.
I'd be filming me jacking off and making Goatse-like photos or use it as a "toilet cam" and send all this to a fake or prank contacts all day long, if I knew someone had to watch me and I would get a free and expensive electronics device for it to tinker with.;)
As a software developer I can use it test my mobile phone software on it. And for the real real calls, I'd use my old mobile phone.
But maybe I'm just a bit evil and sexually dirty sometimes. O:-)
Ah. Well, maybe for you actually protesting against "authorities" is a laughable veil. You're too much of a good slave.
I don't use it as a veil. I have thrown eggs on politicians, made a group of people chase a movie industry propaganda team out of a public place and destroy their stand and posters, helped people against some asshole companies acting as if they had more rights, and I'm generally not impressed by "authorities" without respect for the people "under" them. I denied a million Euro because I did not want to do something. It did not matter that it was completely harmless and irrelevant. If I don't want it, I don't want it. You can give me tons of money, torture me, and kill my family. I will not do it. Period.
But my brother told me that there are two kind of people. A few leaders, and many followers. Maybe I'm just the leader type and you're the follower type. He also told me, that both are essential for a working society. And I agree. They can follow me.;)))
@Moderators: Why did you mod him "Troll"? Because you disagreed? As far as I understand it, he did not hurt anyone, told no bullshit, and only expressed his opinion. You thinking that he's wrong does not give you the right to call him a troll. Or else, he could call all of you trolls too by definition.;) I like a good discussion.
Much much more. I don't want to give too many details. That's why most of the ideas are still secrets.;)
Let's just say: GUI Programs in the now known sense will be a thing of the past. The whole concept of a program with files and functions to manipulate it will be twisted until it's ripped apart. (This describes it very well without giving any real details.)
How is healthy food more expensive than bad food? Bad food is always processed food. Processing costs money. Always.
The only reasons you pay more, are that most products that are marketed as healthy actually aren't, and those that are healthy are not marketed, and that healthy stuff is produced in smaller quantities and sold by smaller shops. Those companies can't afford dump prices like that.
There is an easy rule for healthy food: Healthy = unprocessed. That's mostly it. And I mean really unprocessed. Like, raw plants, fruits, meats. The best conservation method for them is to (shock-)freeze them. A bit worse, but mostly acceptable are fermented foods. Like pickles, salami, (real!) cheese/yogurt, (real!) beer, and so on. (Pay attention to processed fakes, like, the most you can buy in a supermarket.) Then come cooked foods. Here the heat has destroyed and denaturalized much. But if it wasn't too hot and/or too long, much of it is still OK. For example (real) whole-grain bread (NOT pure starch like "Wonderbread") never reaches the temperature to destroy the b-vitamins at the inside, because it "sweats" and thereby cools itself in the oven.
Everything that's processed more should be avoided. Conserves, preparations and so on. Cake, cookies and so on mostly are conserves, because white flour is a (very unhealthy) conserve. Sugars are preparations (in the chemical sense) and are the worst of all. Fat is completely OK. As long as it's not saturated. You can recognize non-saturated fats/oils, because they have a higher liquidity. (This is why even the most natural margarine is often even worse than butter. They chemically saturate it, and then use more chemistry to add non-saturated fat to it. This process creates very unhealthy trans-fats.) The only problem with fat is the high energy density. So combine it with something with low energy density if your body does not need such a high energy level. (So if you're a hard working Eskimo, you can eat all the fat you want.;)
The trick with the carbohydrates is: The longer, the better. The easiest way is to use the glycemic load, because that value goes mostly parallel to the length of the molecules in the food. There are tables for this value. Glucose, sugar, starch and non-whole cereals are the worst. The sugar inside eats up all the b-vitamins and gives the body none. But they are essential for a working brain. And then they flood the body with too much energy for a too short time to be of use, and go straight to your fat pads. So it's the sugar that makes you fat and stupid. Don't let them fool you by telling you that the body converts any carbohydrates to sugar and sugar is the energy molecule of the body. They are right, but what they don't tell you is all the stuff above. Especially the part that it's too much for a too short time and about the missing b-vitamins wreaking havoc in your system.
For the rest: The more variations the better. That way you get all the vitamins, minerals, micronutrients, and even the non-researched/unknown stuff. (Yes, we still don't know everything, even if some people behave as if.)
You see. It's quite easy to eat healthy and cheap and tasty food. Just get your ass up and prepare it yourself from non-processed stuff.
Oh, and to all my fellow Slashdotters: If you're eating too much and move not enough, 99% of the time, this is a pure psychological problem. You replace food for sex, love or something different. Or you simply do is because you're used to it. You don't need a diet or sport. You need a therapy and then some time with something that can replace your replacement. And then a change in diet, some sport and a girlfriend.:)
P.S.: I know all this because I'm working on it right now...;)
I already use a better input system in my software. In my system, there is no testing phase. You just use the program, and it grows and shrinks with you. It's like having the best of vi (speed) and notepad (simplicity) at the same time.
But it does not even come close to my next project. And that's why I did not release it. Because after optimizing the input interface, I realized, that the usual graphical user interfaces are a total piece of crap. The most annoying part is that they are built like they are the biggest enemy of the keyboard. And you can basically combine all control elements (buttons, sliders, menus, labels) into one thing.
If it is ready for the world, I'll release it as open source... something like a windowing and (g)ui toolkit with the power of the pipe operator in bash... hard to describe.
I just have to finish my current game project first.
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[...] and result in a disappointing display, particularly for a premium laptop.
Since when is the MacBook Air a premium laptop? It sure has a premium price. And it looks stylish. But that's it. ;) (Apple fans, stay with me! :)
You know what else is like that? An expensive whore "girlfriend".
I think Apple has done some cool things. But this (or the iPhone) is not one of them.
The 18 bit display was the first hint.
It's more a EEE PC concurrent. Which means that it's useless for real full use, because of its slowness and lack of features (one example being Firewire).
This is fully ok, if the laptop is really cheap. Unfortunately, that's where the MacBook Air fails. It's not cheap. It's really expensive (compared to the real market. Not to other overprices Apple products.)
I really wonder, how cool Apple's products would be, if they had concurrency in their own domain. If for example MacOS XI would have a HAL that would allow other companys to do the same with their systems. They would have to look good and have more features to have a chance, so Apple would have to add even more, thereby lowering the price to a realistic market level.
Popular among those who moved out and that you know. :)
What about the others?
No, it's Falkor!
I'm intrigued... tell me more...
What about my married?
Because I can't see your married. Where did you hide it?
-- A formed babby
But you can literally cut them to the size you need them to be.
Another nice thing is that they are flexible. Imagine a watch made out of a sheet of a flexible display, a sheet of flexible electronics and a sheet of this polymer. That would be really cool.
You're right. I hang my head in shame.
(In realty I'm mostly Luxemburgish, with a Afghani father, living in Germany 2/3 of my life. No idea what rules apply to me. ;)
Why does anyone still do banking via PIN/TAN or normal passwords? My chip-card reader did cost 30 and has a numeric keypad on it. I never have to input any banking data via anything other than that device, which goes straight to the Java applet via a public key encryption system, and then to the bank via FinTS.
I hope I can upgrade to a class 3 or 4 reader soon.
What? That Slashdot gets funnier? $deity forbid!
Phone... shaking...? For... features...? Is that what they call it nowadays? ;)
...to my karma. ;)
If only they knew, that I posted it as a joke, because unlike some other folks, I actually know that it's a funny stereotype.
Maybe they just want to be sure to never see TEH GOATSE (again).
I'd recommend nuking australia from orbit, but they never listen. :(
Besides: My death-to-ozone conspiracy will have the same effect is a few years anyway. MUHARHARHAR!! XD
Funny thing is: There are actually plastics that are conductive. PVC is not one of them though. ;)
I don't know where you're from, but I (in Germany) get a text message at the price of a minute of voice, and the first 50 in every month are included in the plan price.
In other countries it's much cheaper.
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Yeah. Other counties! Haven't you heard of them?
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Are you French or American?
Dek uur deeewww!!!
Whole grain is not significantly different from white grain as far as glycemic index is concerned.
I was talking about the glycemic load , which is not the glycemic index . The index is a pretty bad indicator, because it ignores how much carbohydrates actually are in the food.
The glycemic load of white grain bread is 38.8, and that of whole grain bread is 18. And pure white flour has a value of 60.8, while whole grain flour is at 22.4. This is a huge difference.
And for sugar to "eat up" B vitamins would require a significantly more complex sugar molecule than the ones which exist in real life.
It was simplified. It works like this: The body needs B vitamins to process sugar/starch/carbohydrates. While healthy food provides those vitamins, this stuff does not. White bread and similar sugar/starch products lack any essential b-vitamins. So the body does not only not get new vitamins for other uses. It also needs to take some more out of the reserves to process the starch/sugar.
As for raw food... I'm not about to waste my great^Nth grandfather's invention, a method for containing and preserving fire, by not cooking my food.
I agree. But the point is that you only need a bit of raw stuff. Most importantly: A bit of fresh wheat, ground right before you eat it, and not processed any further. (It's even healthier when germinated, but that's a bit too much work for me.) :) :)
Then fresh fruits and plants (salad) should be no problem
And raw meat... Well, your steak is probably red on the inside. Good salami and real raw ham are not heated too.
There is more raw food than you may think.
So eating your daily dosage is no problem. If you do some weight lifting, you probably eat curd with oat and fruits for breakfast. Mix in a bit of ground wheat. Eat a steak. Or some salad. Maybe an apple in between. And you're good enough.
Hey, that's not funny! "KZ-Manager" was a very evil game!
Eww... your sexual fantasies about two-headed humans are disgusting... :P
Maybe those 100 just were a bit of exhibitionists.
I'd be filming me jacking off and making Goatse-like photos or use it as a "toilet cam" and send all this to a fake or prank contacts all day long, if I knew someone had to watch me and I would get a free and expensive electronics device for it to tinker with. ;)
As a software developer I can use it test my mobile phone software on it. And for the real real calls, I'd use my old mobile phone.
But maybe I'm just a bit evil and sexually dirty sometimes. O:-)
Ah. Well, maybe for you actually protesting against "authorities" is a laughable veil. You're too much of a good slave.
I don't use it as a veil. I have thrown eggs on politicians, made a group of people chase a movie industry propaganda team out of a public place and destroy their stand and posters, helped people against some asshole companies acting as if they had more rights, and I'm generally not impressed by "authorities" without respect for the people "under" them. I denied a million Euro because I did not want to do something. It did not matter that it was completely harmless and irrelevant. If I don't want it, I don't want it. You can give me tons of money, torture me, and kill my family. I will not do it. Period.
But my brother told me that there are two kind of people. A few leaders, and many followers. Maybe I'm just the leader type and you're the follower type. He also told me, that both are essential for a working society. And I agree. They can follow me. ;)))
@Moderators: Why did you mod him "Troll"? Because you disagreed? As far as I understand it, he did not hurt anyone, told no bullshit, and only expressed his opinion. You thinking that he's wrong does not give you the right to call him a troll. Or else, he could call all of you trolls too by definition. ;) I like a good discussion.
Much much more. I don't want to give too many details. That's why most of the ideas are still secrets. ;)
Let's just say: GUI Programs in the now known sense will be a thing of the past. The whole concept of a program with files and functions to manipulate it will be twisted until it's ripped apart. (This describes it very well without giving any real details.)
Because there is one problem: I'm pretty sure they would ;)
1. misunderstand much of it, and
2. then blame me for it being bad.
I'll release if when it's done... (which will be *before* Duke Nukem Forever ;)
Damnit. I meant "because that value goes mostly anti-parallel to the length of the molecules in the food".
How is healthy food more expensive than bad food?
Bad food is always processed food. Processing costs money. Always.
The only reasons you pay more, are that most products that are marketed as healthy actually aren't, and those that are healthy are not marketed,
and that healthy stuff is produced in smaller quantities and sold by smaller shops. Those companies can't afford dump prices like that.
There is an easy rule for healthy food: Healthy = unprocessed.
That's mostly it. And I mean really unprocessed. Like, raw plants, fruits, meats. The best conservation method for them is to (shock-)freeze them.
A bit worse, but mostly acceptable are fermented foods. Like pickles, salami, (real!) cheese/yogurt, (real!) beer, and so on. (Pay attention to processed fakes, like, the most you can buy in a supermarket.)
Then come cooked foods. Here the heat has destroyed and denaturalized much. But if it wasn't too hot and/or too long, much of it is still OK. For example (real) whole-grain bread (NOT pure starch like "Wonderbread") never reaches the temperature to destroy the b-vitamins at the inside, because it "sweats" and thereby cools itself in the oven.
Everything that's processed more should be avoided. Conserves, preparations and so on. Cake, cookies and so on mostly are conserves, because white flour is a (very unhealthy) conserve. Sugars are preparations (in the chemical sense) and are the worst of all. ;)
Fat is completely OK. As long as it's not saturated. You can recognize non-saturated fats/oils, because they have a higher liquidity. (This is why even the most natural margarine is often even worse than butter. They chemically saturate it, and then use more chemistry to add non-saturated fat to it. This process creates very unhealthy trans-fats.)
The only problem with fat is the high energy density. So combine it with something with low energy density if your body does not need such a high energy level. (So if you're a hard working Eskimo, you can eat all the fat you want.
The trick with the carbohydrates is: The longer, the better. The easiest way is to use the glycemic load, because that value goes mostly parallel to the length of the molecules in the food. There are tables for this value.
Glucose, sugar, starch and non-whole cereals are the worst. The sugar inside eats up all the b-vitamins and gives the body none. But they are essential for a working brain.
And then they flood the body with too much energy for a too short time to be of use, and go straight to your fat pads. So it's the sugar that makes you fat and stupid.
Don't let them fool you by telling you that the body converts any carbohydrates to sugar and sugar is the energy molecule of the body. They are right, but what they don't tell you is all the stuff above. Especially the part that it's too much for a too short time and about the missing b-vitamins wreaking havoc in your system.
For the rest: The more variations the better. That way you get all the vitamins, minerals, micronutrients, and even the non-researched/unknown stuff. (Yes, we still don't know everything, even if some people behave as if.)
You see. It's quite easy to eat healthy and cheap and tasty food. Just get your ass up and prepare it yourself from non-processed stuff.
Oh, and to all my fellow Slashdotters: If you're eating too much and move not enough, 99% of the time, this is a pure psychological problem. You replace food for sex, love or something different. Or you simply do is because you're used to it. You don't need a diet or sport. You need a therapy and then some time with something that can replace your replacement. And then a change in diet, some sport and a girlfriend. :)
P.S.: I know all this because I'm working on it right now... ;)
I already use a better input system in my software. In my system, there is no testing phase. You just use the program, and it grows and shrinks with you. It's like having the best of vi (speed) and notepad (simplicity) at the same time.
But it does not even come close to my next project. And that's why I did not release it.
Because after optimizing the input interface, I realized, that the usual graphical user interfaces are a total piece of crap. The most annoying part is that they are built like they are the biggest enemy of the keyboard. And you can basically combine all control elements (buttons, sliders, menus, labels) into one thing.
If it is ready for the world, I'll release it as open source... something like a windowing and (g)ui toolkit with the power of the pipe operator in bash... hard to describe.
I just have to finish my current game project first.