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When I was vegan, I was really watching what I ate, and I still wasn't getting something that I needed in my diet. As soon as I added dairy back in, I felt much healthier and had more energy. I was eating plenty of tofu, beans, and other vegan protein sources, so it wasn't just a lack of protein in general.
Looking back on when I was growing up, even that level of paying attention to what I ate would have been completely improbable. So unless a child's parents are going to micromanage their diet, it still seems too risky to me.
I do hope that after vat-grown meat becomes common the dairy industry moves to a similar model of not using actual cows to produce their product. They (well, most of them) already treat their animals like parts in a machine, so I imagine that a cyborg stomach/udder in a box with three ports (nutrients in, waste out, milk out) would make everyone involved happier.
As an aside, there's nothing about raising your child as a vegan which necessarily constitutes mistreatment.
That's technically true, but it's incredibly difficult to get consistently well-balanced nutrition out of a totally vegan diet. I was vegan for three years, and ended up going back to being a vegetarian because of the nutritional hassles.
While I think that raising children as vegan is a noble idea, it's not a risk I would take myself if I were a parent.
When he signed off on the cute car design that he had commissioned, he had the foresight not to name it something like the "Führerwagen".
But... think of the marketing possibilities. "Das ist mein krieg, das ist mein blut, das ist mein automobil". "Ein Reich, ein Volk, but many drivers wanted". Etc.
In addition to this point, very few companies (i.e. not Fortune 500's) either have data or IP worth stealing on executive's mobile phones or PDA's.
The entire content of their inboxes doesn't count as data worth stealing? What about the potential for shorting the company's stock and then using their device to send an email from their account that will make the value drop (if only briefly)?
MS's competitors now have the advantage from a good code bas[e].
Surely you jest. A few of the other major players aside, in the "enterprise" market (where, AFAIK, most of the profit is to be had) the vast majority of the code *and* support are at least ten times worse than what Microsoft provides.
MS has certainly made its share of mistakes (especially in the consumer market), but the quality of most software targeted at businesses by third parties is absolutely laughable.
The Windows database filesystem is something MS has been developing, announcing, and then killing off since the early 90s. It's sort of the Redmond equivalent of a phoenix, or maybe a Terminator.
At this point, I think they sort of *have* to announce it as a feature of every upcoming major version of Windows, only to cut it before the release of the OS. It's a tradition with almost 20 years behind it!
Wasn't there at least one short sci fi story about this? Someone gets rotated in the fourth dimension and comes back with their heart on the other side and severe gastrointestinal problems because all their molecules have different chirality.
I don't remember the details, but one of Rudy Rucker's 'ware series involves a character being flipped on the W-axis as you describe.
The borrower signed on the dotted line for their monthly obligations; they don't need the lender to tell them whether they can afford that.
Maybe you didn't catch any of the "seminars" that real estate and mortgage companies had going back in the early part of this decade. A friend of mine convinced me to go to one and this is what they tried to hammer into the audience for a couple of hours:
1 - Personal income always increases over time. 2 - The value of real estate always increases over time. 3 - ARMs are to the buyer's advantage (not the bank's), because no one lives in a house for more than five years anymore.
Therefore, everyone should spend as much money as possible on a mortgage, because they are guaranteed to come out ahead.
There were certainly some weasel words used that would probably get them out of any legal trouble for what they said, but that was the point they were trying to convey. And this was before the *really* dangerous types of loan came into play, like the ones where the monthly payment didn't even cover the interest.
I still believe that the buyers should be held accountable for the contracts they signed, but the real estate industry has only itself to thank for its shortsighted cannibalization of an entire market.
Apparently, the microphone in your phone (or any mic for that matter) disrupts the electricity in the wire whether it is being forced through (by a battery) or not.
A standard microphone is a tiny source of AC electricity. I think I can see how a device like you're describing would work - maybe such a thing could evolve out of the US military's "magnetic anomaly detector" equipment? - but I would have to see one for myself to believe it could reliably filter out all of the noise in a real-world environment.
Hello, ignorant user who modded me "overrated". Maybe you should research the topic before you assume I'm incorrect.
Higher bit depth increases the maximum difference in value between channels. This is simple math. This increases the colour space because it means that the brightest value for each channel can be set higher on the display system without making *everything* appear too bright/saturated.
Think of it this way - if I have only four bits per channel, then I only get 16 steps in between black and fully (red/green/blue). If I turn the brightness on my monitor up really high, then I can get bright colours, but *only* bright colours, because 1/16th of "really bright" is still "pretty bright". If I turn down the monitor brightness, then I can only get dim colours for the same reason.
Increased bit depth is good for gradients and reducing banding, but it also increases the colour space. Again, compare a 16-bit texture with a 24-bit texture.
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However, a larger bitdepth doesn't do anything for color space.
Actually, it does.
A higher bit depth means that the maximum contrast between channels is greater, *because* you have more resolution (or granularity, if you like) in each channel.
For a very obvious example of this, take a 24-bit RGB colour image and downconvert it to 16-bit. The difference between 8 bits per channel and 5 (or 6 for green, depending on the type of 16-bit encoding) is quite dramatic. It's why older 3D games tend to look washed out by comparison to newer ones.
Makes me wonder why so many Americans love Doctor Who.
I'm American, and I love Doctor Who because of the stories and the quirky British feel of the whole thing. I'm not sure any other culture could have come up with a series that bounces between funny, sad, and surreal constantly throughout an episode and doesn't fall on its face.
There have been one or two episodes I thought were weak, but that's true of any series. I wouldn't complain if the effects were better, but they're not a critical flaw any more than a stage play is critically flawed because the sets aren't good enough to use for a feature film.
Isn't the whole reason that various government entities in the US have effectively granted a monopoly to a private corporation (Underwriters Laboratories) to help ensure the safety of consumer products powered by electricity? Or is UL now as corporation-friendly as the Better (for) Businesses Bureau? What happened to the sorts of tests where devices were deliberately abused to make sure they failed in a way that didn't involve burning down the owner's home? Failing that, why is MS not building the heat equivalent of a circuit breaker into these PSUs? The possibility of corrupting the hard drive or whatever due to a non-graceful shutdown has to be less than the bad publicity caused by burning down customers' houses.
At least, that's so in my database. The user running on the web-side of my database can insert, update and select but can't delete (there is no reason to let them, if they want to deactivate an entry, there is a column 'active' for that).
SELECT * FROM syscolumns WHERE id = (SELECT id FROM sysobjects WHERE name = 'some_table') ORDER BY colorder
etc. You could probably even do it with one relatively complicated query of syscolumns to determine if the column is nullable and its data type, but I don't have time to try it out.
If you're using three applications for one task, then it's your application programmers that need to think about HI questions.
For developing a web application which talks to a SQL backend: Visual Studio on the middle monitor, Internet Explorer running the application on the right monitor, and SQL Management Studio on the left monitor.
For hacking PS2 games: PCSX2, WinHex, PS2Dis.
For working on music: Sonar, a wave editor, and a synth patch editor.
I doubt I'll find any software for those tasks that does as good a job as the three separate apps, let alone better.
Another thing I do at work is use the Minority Report method of moving apps around between monitors depending on what has my main attention versus other things I'm interested in - but not *as* interested in. So right now I have Outlook on my main monitor, Firefox on my left monitor, IE and IM on my right monitor. I might bring up Excel or Access on the right monitor depending on what I'm doing. I imagine that's more like what people use virtual desktops for, except that my "hotkey" is shifting my vision.
By the time GIMP catches up with Photoshop, Adobe will have added new improvements for GIMP to ape and the cycle will start all over. GIMP will NEVER be as good as Photoshop for professional use.
I used to think the same thing, but I've really not noticed a lot of new features starting with the CS series. Even the kludgey HDR wizard has basically remained the same throughout.
The GIMP has a *long* way to go, but IMO Adobe isn't going out of their way to keep in the lead. They also keep jacking up their prices.
Yes, if you have a single desktop (because in your mind it's still 1992 or something)
Why would I want multiple desktops? So that I can be even less aware of applications that aren't running in the foreground?
Not everyone's brain works the same way. You may like virtual desktops. I like having three physical monitors with one desktop that spans them so I can see at a glance all of the applications I'm using for a given task.
By default in XP the device will autorun. By default in Vista it will ask you if you would like to autorun.
Maybe that's true if you have the User Account Control incessant popups enabled. If you turn that off, then it will autorun USB storage devices just like XP, which is stupid. There is no good reason to autorun R/W media. I would argue there's no good reason to autorun read-only media either, but it's definitely true for R/W.
I accidentally infected my PC with what appeared to be a factory-installed worm on an LG UP3# player because of this. I have AVG Free installed, but I had its on-access scanner disabled at the time because I didn't think I did anything risky enough to warrant the performance hit. Now, of course, I have it turned on and disabled autorun in the registry.
The point of the "Right to bare arms" was to enable the formation of a Militia to oppose an unjust government... do you really thing this is possible with small arms?
Vietnam and Iraq are pretty solid evidence IMO that yes, small arms are enough to allow a determined population to pose a serious threat to a traditional military force.
I personally think it makes sense to draw the line between weapons that target (more or less) a single person by being pointed at them, and weapons that target multiple people by being pointed in a general direction and then e.g. exploding when they get there. Note that shotguns are in the former category (IMO) because the shot does not spread out nearly as much as some people might think.
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Use Wireshark or Microsoft NetMon 3 and watch the traffic as Flash or whatever plugin requests the video data. Copy and paste the real URL into a text file and make a link out of it. Save the text file as HTML. Open in Firefox. Right-click on the link and Save Target As...
When I was vegan, I was really watching what I ate, and I still wasn't getting something that I needed in my diet. As soon as I added dairy back in, I felt much healthier and had more energy. I was eating plenty of tofu, beans, and other vegan protein sources, so it wasn't just a lack of protein in general.
Looking back on when I was growing up, even that level of paying attention to what I ate would have been completely improbable. So unless a child's parents are going to micromanage their diet, it still seems too risky to me.
I do hope that after vat-grown meat becomes common the dairy industry moves to a similar model of not using actual cows to produce their product. They (well, most of them) already treat their animals like parts in a machine, so I imagine that a cyborg stomach/udder in a box with three ports (nutrients in, waste out, milk out) would make everyone involved happier.
As an aside, there's nothing about raising your child as a vegan which necessarily constitutes mistreatment.
That's technically true, but it's incredibly difficult to get consistently well-balanced nutrition out of a totally vegan diet. I was vegan for three years, and ended up going back to being a vegetarian because of the nutritional hassles.
While I think that raising children as vegan is a noble idea, it's not a risk I would take myself if I were a parent.
When he signed off on the cute car design that he had commissioned, he had the foresight not to name it something like the "Führerwagen".
But... think of the marketing possibilities. "Das ist mein krieg, das ist mein blut, das ist mein automobil". "Ein Reich, ein Volk, but many drivers wanted". Etc.
In addition to this point, very few companies (i.e. not Fortune 500's) either have data or IP worth stealing on executive's mobile phones or PDA's.
The entire content of their inboxes doesn't count as data worth stealing? What about the potential for shorting the company's stock and then using their device to send an email from their account that will make the value drop (if only briefly)?
MS's competitors now have the advantage from a good code bas[e].
Surely you jest. A few of the other major players aside, in the "enterprise" market (where, AFAIK, most of the profit is to be had) the vast majority of the code *and* support are at least ten times worse than what Microsoft provides.
MS has certainly made its share of mistakes (especially in the consumer market), but the quality of most software targeted at businesses by third parties is absolutely laughable.
Last I read the WinFS project is totally dead.
The Windows database filesystem is something MS has been developing, announcing, and then killing off since the early 90s. It's sort of the Redmond equivalent of a phoenix, or maybe a Terminator.
At this point, I think they sort of *have* to announce it as a feature of every upcoming major version of Windows, only to cut it before the release of the OS. It's a tradition with almost 20 years behind it!
Wasn't there at least one short sci fi story about this? Someone gets rotated in the fourth dimension and comes back with their heart on the other side and severe gastrointestinal problems because all their molecules have different chirality.
I don't remember the details, but one of Rudy Rucker's 'ware series involves a character being flipped on the W-axis as you describe.
The borrower signed on the dotted line for their monthly obligations; they don't need the lender to tell them whether they can afford that.
Maybe you didn't catch any of the "seminars" that real estate and mortgage companies had going back in the early part of this decade. A friend of mine convinced me to go to one and this is what they tried to hammer into the audience for a couple of hours:
1 - Personal income always increases over time.
2 - The value of real estate always increases over time.
3 - ARMs are to the buyer's advantage (not the bank's), because no one lives in a house for more than five years anymore.
Therefore, everyone should spend as much money as possible on a mortgage, because they are guaranteed to come out ahead.
There were certainly some weasel words used that would probably get them out of any legal trouble for what they said, but that was the point they were trying to convey. And this was before the *really* dangerous types of loan came into play, like the ones where the monthly payment didn't even cover the interest.
I still believe that the buyers should be held accountable for the contracts they signed, but the real estate industry has only itself to thank for its shortsighted cannibalization of an entire market.
Apparently, the microphone in your phone (or any mic for that matter) disrupts the electricity in the wire whether it is being forced through (by a battery) or not.
A standard microphone is a tiny source of AC electricity. I think I can see how a device like you're describing would work - maybe such a thing could evolve out of the US military's "magnetic anomaly detector" equipment? - but I would have to see one for myself to believe it could reliably filter out all of the noise in a real-world environment.
I believe the novelty is that the button is designed to have a range of inputs, yet still have a "click" on the high end.
Sounds like a $21 million idea if I've ever heard one!
Hello, ignorant user who modded me "overrated". Maybe you should research the topic before you assume I'm incorrect.
Higher bit depth increases the maximum difference in value between channels. This is simple math. This increases the colour space because it means that the brightest value for each channel can be set higher on the display system without making *everything* appear too bright/saturated.
Think of it this way - if I have only four bits per channel, then I only get 16 steps in between black and fully (red/green/blue). If I turn the brightness on my monitor up really high, then I can get bright colours, but *only* bright colours, because 1/16th of "really bright" is still "pretty bright". If I turn down the monitor brightness, then I can only get dim colours for the same reason.
Increased bit depth is good for gradients and reducing banding, but it also increases the colour space. Again, compare a 16-bit texture with a 24-bit texture.
However, a larger bitdepth doesn't do anything for color space.
Actually, it does.
A higher bit depth means that the maximum contrast between channels is greater, *because* you have more resolution (or granularity, if you like) in each channel.
For a very obvious example of this, take a 24-bit RGB colour image and downconvert it to 16-bit. The difference between 8 bits per channel and 5 (or 6 for green, depending on the type of 16-bit encoding) is quite dramatic. It's why older 3D games tend to look washed out by comparison to newer ones.
Full tab indentation has the side effect of forcing deeply nested code off the right side of the screen.
That seems to me like less of a concern now that we're well beyond needing an expansion card to get 80-column text instead of 40 on screen.
Makes me wonder why so many Americans love Doctor Who.
I'm American, and I love Doctor Who because of the stories and the quirky British feel of the whole thing. I'm not sure any other culture could have come up with a series that bounces between funny, sad, and surreal constantly throughout an episode and doesn't fall on its face.
There have been one or two episodes I thought were weak, but that's true of any series. I wouldn't complain if the effects were better, but they're not a critical flaw any more than a stage play is critically flawed because the sets aren't good enough to use for a feature film.
Most Americans think we spend a lot on foreign aid, but it's actually about 1% of the budget
1% of the budget is what got the US to the moon. It may be a small percentage of the budget, but it's certainly still "a lot" of money.
Isn't the whole reason that various government entities in the US have effectively granted a monopoly to a private corporation (Underwriters Laboratories) to help ensure the safety of consumer products powered by electricity? Or is UL now as corporation-friendly as the Better (for) Businesses Bureau?
What happened to the sorts of tests where devices were deliberately abused to make sure they failed in a way that didn't involve burning down the owner's home?
Failing that, why is MS not building the heat equivalent of a circuit breaker into these PSUs? The possibility of corrupting the hard drive or whatever due to a non-graceful shutdown has to be less than the bad publicity caused by burning down customers' houses.
At least, that's so in my database. The user running on the web-side of my database can insert, update and select but can't delete (there is no reason to let them, if they want to deactivate an entry, there is a column 'active' for that).
SELECT * FROM syscolumns WHERE id = (SELECT id FROM sysobjects WHERE name = 'some_table') ORDER BY colorder
UPDATE some_table SET col1 = 0, col2 = NULL, col3 = NULL, col4 = ''
etc. You could probably even do it with one relatively complicated query of syscolumns to determine if the column is nullable and its data type, but I don't have time to try it out.
If you're using three applications for one task, then it's your application programmers that need to think about HI questions.
For developing a web application which talks to a SQL backend: Visual Studio on the middle monitor, Internet Explorer running the application on the right monitor, and SQL Management Studio on the left monitor.
For hacking PS2 games: PCSX2, WinHex, PS2Dis.
For working on music: Sonar, a wave editor, and a synth patch editor.
I doubt I'll find any software for those tasks that does as good a job as the three separate apps, let alone better.
Another thing I do at work is use the Minority Report method of moving apps around between monitors depending on what has my main attention versus other things I'm interested in - but not *as* interested in. So right now I have Outlook on my main monitor, Firefox on my left monitor, IE and IM on my right monitor. I might bring up Excel or Access on the right monitor depending on what I'm doing. I imagine that's more like what people use virtual desktops for, except that my "hotkey" is shifting my vision.
Open Image Studio is my vote for a name. Or just Image Studio.
This gets my vote. It also fits in nicely with "Inkscape".
By the time GIMP catches up with Photoshop, Adobe will have added new improvements for GIMP to ape and the cycle will start all over. GIMP will NEVER be as good as Photoshop for professional use.
I used to think the same thing, but I've really not noticed a lot of new features starting with the CS series. Even the kludgey HDR wizard has basically remained the same throughout.
The GIMP has a *long* way to go, but IMO Adobe isn't going out of their way to keep in the lead. They also keep jacking up their prices.
Yes, if you have a single desktop (because in your mind it's still 1992 or something)
Why would I want multiple desktops? So that I can be even less aware of applications that aren't running in the foreground?
Not everyone's brain works the same way. You may like virtual desktops. I like having three physical monitors with one desktop that spans them so I can see at a glance all of the applications I'm using for a given task.
By default in XP the device will autorun. By default in Vista it will ask you if you would like to autorun.
Maybe that's true if you have the User Account Control incessant popups enabled. If you turn that off, then it will autorun USB storage devices just like XP, which is stupid. There is no good reason to autorun R/W media. I would argue there's no good reason to autorun read-only media either, but it's definitely true for R/W.
I accidentally infected my PC with what appeared to be a factory-installed worm on an LG UP3# player because of this. I have AVG Free installed, but I had its on-access scanner disabled at the time because I didn't think I did anything risky enough to warrant the performance hit. Now, of course, I have it turned on and disabled autorun in the registry.
The point of the "Right to bare arms" was to enable the formation of a Militia to oppose an unjust government ... do you really thing this is possible with small arms?
Vietnam and Iraq are pretty solid evidence IMO that yes, small arms are enough to allow a determined population to pose a serious threat to a traditional military force.
So where exactly do we draw the line?
I personally think it makes sense to draw the line between weapons that target (more or less) a single person by being pointed at them, and weapons that target multiple people by being pointed in a general direction and then e.g. exploding when they get there. Note that shotguns are in the former category (IMO) because the shot does not spread out nearly as much as some people might think.