I have been blogging on this as I find them,
my blog.
Business Week, Slate, Washington Post have all talked about Firefox in addtion to the computer press like Inforworld, E-week, etc.
My car is a 2003 Volkswagen Passat with the 4 cylinder 1.8L turbo. It is rated at 21 city and 30 highway. I have kept detailed records since I got it, and I have averaged 25 mpg. I have a mix of driving that is slightly more highway than city.
In recent long highway trips I have gotten 31-32 mpg. I have noticed a seasonal effect with poorer milage during the winter. Some weeks in the winter I will average only 22-23 mpg and during the spring it pops up to 27-28 mpg. The summer seems to be between spring and winter. If I was at home I could post the entire spreadsheet. That would be seriously geeky, but this is slashdot.
In general I have no complaints about the ratings. They have been a fairly good but not perfect predictor of my personal experience.
I watch Good eats for its science oriented explanations of cooking. I kept explaining all this great stuff to wife and she said when you are going to cook something. I started out slow. My first attempt was coffee. Our coffee maker never made good coffee. We switched to a a French press and ground our own beans. I can now make coffee that I can drink black which is how I prefer it.
Next I started using Alton's tricks for handling lettuce. He soaks it and dries it in a spinner. He then wraps it in paper towels and puts it in a Ziploc bag which has the air removed with a straw. It keeps great for a week in the refrigerator.
My most recent attempt is my most ambitious. I made a brisket. I had seen his chuck roast show and learned about braising. I attempted a chuck roast and screwed it up. The roast was larger than the recipe called for. I did not cook it long enough. When I made the brisket I did not even have an AB recipe, but I knew that I just had to
keep cooking low until it was tender. My family was quite impressed.
Disclaimer: I have used linux for 8 years, but my family wants windows so I am stuck supporting it.
I tend to agree. I have a new box with XP home for my family. The box sits behind the firewall of my router and is NATed. The whole family uses Mozilla 1.6. If they have to use IE because some website only works correctly for IE they almost as
cranky as me.
I have antivirus software which I run everyday. It has never found a single virus. The software is from Trend Micro and it offers me updates almost everyday which I accept so I suspect it is up to date and there are no viruses lurking uncaught on the machine.
When I attended Penn in the 70's, it was an excellent school but had not yet become the media darling (US News and World Reports rank #5) that it is today. Penn State was much more famous due to the football team, and in many circles still is today.
Many students wore t-shirts with the saying "Not Penn State", since a Penn shirt worn off campus frequently brought up the topic of how those Nittany Lions.
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A chip optimized to do QCD calculations (QCDOC QCD on Chip) has been developed and parallel computers using that chip are being built. More details can be found here. Machines are being built by the U.S., U.K. and Japan. The U.S. and Japaneese machines will be located at Brookhaven National Lab Computing Facilty which is close to Columbia University where the QCDOC was developed.
I have been blogging on this as I find them, my blog. Business Week, Slate, Washington Post have all talked about Firefox in addtion to the computer press like Inforworld, E-week, etc.
My car is a 2003 Volkswagen Passat with the 4 cylinder 1.8L turbo. It is rated at 21 city and 30 highway. I have kept detailed records since I got it, and I have averaged 25 mpg. I have a mix of driving that is slightly more highway than city.
In recent long highway trips I have gotten 31-32 mpg. I have noticed a seasonal effect with poorer milage during the winter. Some weeks in the winter I will average only 22-23 mpg and during the spring it pops up to 27-28 mpg. The summer seems to be between spring and winter. If I was at home I could post the entire spreadsheet. That would be seriously geeky, but this is slashdot.
In general I have no complaints about the ratings. They have been a fairly good but not perfect predictor of my personal experience.
Next I started using Alton's tricks for handling lettuce. He soaks it and dries it in a spinner. He then wraps it in paper towels and puts it in a Ziploc bag which has the air removed with a straw. It keeps great for a week in the refrigerator.
My most recent attempt is my most ambitious. I made a brisket. I had seen his chuck roast show and learned about braising. I attempted a chuck roast and screwed it up. The roast was larger than the recipe called for. I did not cook it long enough. When I made the brisket I did not even have an AB recipe, but I knew that I just had to keep cooking low until it was tender. My family was quite impressed.
Disclaimer: I have used linux for 8 years, but my family wants windows so I am stuck supporting it.
I tend to agree. I have a new box with XP home for my family. The box sits behind the firewall of my router and is NATed. The whole family uses Mozilla 1.6. If they have to use IE because some website only works correctly for IE they almost as cranky as me.
I have antivirus software which I run everyday. It has never found a single virus. The software is from Trend Micro and it offers me updates almost everyday which I accept so I suspect it is up to date and there are no viruses lurking uncaught on the machine.
When I attended Penn in the 70's, it was an excellent school but had not yet become the media darling (US News and World Reports rank #5) that it is today. Penn State was much more famous due to the football team, and in many circles still is today. Many students wore t-shirts with the saying "Not Penn State", since a Penn shirt worn off campus frequently brought up the topic of how those Nittany Lions.