Soy is used in bean curd/tofu, which is nice in stir fries/miso soup etc. Also plenty of Thai/chinese sauces, desserts etc.
Wheat germ is used in bread production - better for you than white bread, more flavour etc.
Other meat substitues: plenty, but I especially like seitan, which is essentially gluten and makes a really realistic meat (pork, I guess) - handy for stir fries. Great texture.
> You don't see the guys at Fermi or LHC spewing these nonsense.
Those guys are technicians, aren't they? They get to prove or disprove the really smart guys work, right? ie is there Hawking radiation or not. And get that copper shielding clean - they big guys are coming round later.
I've been to Atlanta, and let me tell you - burning's too good for it! What do people do there? It's just roads and shopping malls. Downtown is too scary - it seems to be entirely peopled with black drug addicts and crazy people. This was after we'd been told to avoid the area by literally everyone we met. "It can't be that bad", we thought. It took less than 1 minute before we rolled up the windows and checked the doors of our car were locked, and less than 10 more before we decided to leave, never to return.
come on guys - it starts next week! Think you'll be ready? Don't give me that fucking wobbly head bullshit - I want a straight answer - yes or no? No, I'm not going to bribe you. No, I don't want to hear about 'different standards of health and cleanliness in the west'. You need to provide hotels with the basics like running water, floors and beds free from dog shit etc.
And then, instead of going `control-d` to create a bookmark, simply connect to the other server from behind a corporate firewall and fireup a html editor...
> speaking only for myself here; as I have grown older and experienced some tragic moments, I genuinely have empathy for others, who have to go through some of the > obstacles and misfortunes of life.
At the same time, I have a powerful visual imagination, so when I first read about this I could help both visualising the situation, and laughing aloud at it.
> I also suspect that there are a lot of other human beings who think this way as well.
No, you should think platform first if you want to do stuff other than write apps, or if you want to write apps which are not allowed on your platform, or using Flash, or if you're not able to sell apps outside of some `big brother` system, or if you don't want the possibility of whatever rules are in place suddenly changing in a way which now prevents you to sell an app you've spent a fair amount of time and money developing and getting approved. Pretending that the platforms are the same and you just sort of casually consider it at a later stage isn't very wise in this case (it might work for windows vs linux vs mac).
> You have no idea how many children our men & women in the military help/rescue/save the life of every single day in a theater like Afghanistan or Iraq.
It's not a 'theater' - it's a foreign country which the American military have invaded, are occupying against the wishes of the majority of citizens there, are getting killed in, and will leave under fire having achieved nothing. I don't care about booby-trapped this, children that. The 'insurgants' are doing exactly what American citizens would do if another country were occupying them. You'd hear the mexicans (for example) bleating about how the American 'insurgents' are killing them with booby trapped bombs etc. Give it up, nobody cares - you're going to lose, so just give it up already and get out.
In a similar situation, the same motherboards/code used to be used for all of a range of CD players (for example). A cheaper one had no remote, and could pretty much just play/pause/stop/rewind/review, but if you bought a `replacement` remote control unit for a more expensive unit, it would let you use all the other feature (ie not just remote control, but programming tracks, dividing up tracks into units of 45/60 mins etc etc). I imagine the same is true of most other consumer electronics (tv, microwave, etc etc) but just that it's not really possible to `unlock` those extra features.
> this is an aggressive marketing strategy from MS that makes game developpers stick to Redmond and turn their backs on linux.
No, it's because most people have Windows, so there's next to no money in doing Linux versions of games. There's no conspiracy, it's all about market share.
> The pace of OS development has created a moving target for handset makers, carriers, developers and users alike.
Develop for 1.6. All the others are minor upgrades. It gets users excited, but offers little to developers. If you think you need the new features, then go for it, but watch your user base. What's the altenative? Waiting a year+ between releases? Then you would be fragmenting the OSes, as there would be a meaningful difference in APIs etc.
Manufacturers do stuff like Sense etc because the Android looks a bit boring. Apparently google are going to fix that. A bigger problem is users getting all excited about the next version of Android when it's released at a Google conference, then wait a month or so for the manufacturers to do a version for their phones, then wait another 2 or 3 months for Orange (for example) to fuck it all up with their crapware. Google would do well to insist that manufacturers must allow people to put 'vanilla' versions of their OS on, and manufacturers could do the same to the networks. What does Orange get, exactly, out of making me wait ages for a version of HTC's 2.2 release for the Desire just so they can put demo versions of commercial games, crappy little map apps etc etc on? I don't understand.
> it seems tough to get a smartphone these days to last a day without charging.
It's easy - just use it as a phone. On stanby these things go for days. Because, you know, on standby all the flash, hi-def etc etc isn't going to make a blind bit of difference, because it's not being used.
> When the press interviews well-known scientists, it is customary to ask about what new things are coming in the next few years.
"So, this new computer...you're saying it's about the size of a piece of string"? Yeah, good old press, up to their usual high standards of technology reporting.
> Just the thought of dealing with any immigration authority in any country feels my heart with dread. It is one of the most demeaning and degrading experiences one can > have short of getting involved in the second oldest profession.
In the UK, that's why you'd do it, though. Get an English passport and you get to spend 10 mins queuing up and perhaps 1 minute maximum (for your whole family) answering questions, as opposed to a 30 min+ queue and some sort of anal probe when you get there.
> Because stealing a wallet is a criminal act and copyright infringement isn't? It's not about being on the "Internet", it's about stealing money vs. copying a song, > since the latter isn't a crime.
I'm not an expert in US laws, but isn't downloading copyrighted stuff illegal? (I'm from the UK, and even ripping a cd you bought to an iPod you bought for your own use is illegal!). Is uploading it? If we're talking about bittorrent then there's generally no distinction (the default is to upload as you download).
> You can ALWAYS tell when it's been used because the dark part of the picture is brighter than it should be in relation to the bright part of the picture.
No, you can't always tell, because it can be used to compensate for the limited dynamic range of most sensors to portray what the average human eye would be able to see if it were there.
> This is what HDR IS.
HDR "is" compensating for limited dynamic range. If you had more than 5 or so stops of light recoverable from your sensor you wouldn't need to use HDR.
It's more a plutocracy, if you look at who's in prison, who gets out of trouble when they're caught with drugs, who funds and benefits from lobbying etc etc.
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Soy is used in bean curd/tofu, which is nice in stir fries/miso soup etc. Also plenty of Thai/chinese sauces, desserts etc.
Wheat germ is used in bread production - better for you than white bread, more flavour etc.
Other meat substitues: plenty, but I especially like seitan, which is essentially gluten and makes a really realistic meat (pork, I guess) - handy for stir fries. Great texture.
> You don't see the guys at Fermi or LHC spewing these nonsense.
Those guys are technicians, aren't they? They get to prove or disprove the really smart guys work, right? ie is there Hawking radiation or not. And get that copper shielding clean - they big guys are coming round later.
I've been to Atlanta, and let me tell you - burning's too good for it! What do people do there? It's just roads and shopping malls. Downtown is too scary - it seems to be entirely peopled with black drug addicts and crazy people. This was after we'd been told to avoid the area by literally everyone we met. "It can't be that bad", we thought. It took less than 1 minute before we rolled up the windows and checked the doors of our car were locked, and less than 10 more before we decided to leave, never to return.
It's certainly an improvement on the fucking monkey they've had working on the stadia and hotels:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314976/COMMONWEALTH-GAMES-2010-Child-labourers-pictured-working-construction-sites.html
come on guys - it starts next week! Think you'll be ready? Don't give me that fucking wobbly head bullshit - I want a straight answer - yes or no? No, I'm not going to bribe you. No, I don't want to hear about 'different standards of health and cleanliness in the west'. You need to provide hotels with the basics like running water, floors and beds free from dog shit etc.
It would certainly be a lot funnier than anything that greasy fat fuck would ever come up with.
> The primary purpose of the device (the PSJailbreak) that started this is piracy
> they still share quite a bit of the piracy code.
lol! "the piracy code"!
> Worse, currently, all installable PS3 homebrew is developed with the leaked Sony SDK, which, in and of itself, is also piracy.
Wow - using an SDK is piracy? Is buying and playing a game using 'piracy code' also?
And then, instead of going `control-d` to create a bookmark, simply connect to the other server from behind a corporate firewall and fireup a html editor...
> speaking only for myself here; as I have grown older and experienced some tragic moments, I genuinely have empathy for others, who have to go through some of the
> obstacles and misfortunes of life.
At the same time, I have a powerful visual imagination, so when I first read about this I could help both visualising the situation, and laughing aloud at it.
> I also suspect that there are a lot of other human beings who think this way as well.
Likewise, clearly I wasn't the only one to laugh.
The official Facebook app for Android sucks, but there a quite a few alternatives.
No, you should think platform first if you want to do stuff other than write apps, or if you want to write apps which are not allowed on your platform, or using Flash, or if you're not able to sell apps outside of some `big brother` system, or if you don't want the possibility of whatever rules are in place suddenly changing in a way which now prevents you to sell an app you've spent a fair amount of time and money developing and getting approved. Pretending that the platforms are the same and you just sort of casually consider it at a later stage isn't very wise in this case (it might work for windows vs linux vs mac).
> Because I can't help but think that this may be some sort of scheme to put OpenGL out of the picture....
If it's better than OpenGL, so what? May the best API win.
> Publishers don't get it.
The publishers who are still in business and doing well, you mean?
> You have no idea how many children our men & women in the military help/rescue/save the life of every single day in a theater like Afghanistan or Iraq.
It's not a 'theater' - it's a foreign country which the American military have invaded, are occupying against the wishes of the majority of citizens there, are getting killed in, and will leave under fire having achieved nothing. I don't care about booby-trapped this, children that. The 'insurgants' are doing exactly what American citizens would do if another country were occupying them. You'd hear the mexicans (for example) bleating about how the American 'insurgents' are killing them with booby trapped bombs etc. Give it up, nobody cares - you're going to lose, so just give it up already and get out.
In a similar situation, the same motherboards/code used to be used for all of a range of CD players (for example). A cheaper one had no remote, and could pretty much just play/pause/stop/rewind/review, but if you bought a `replacement` remote control unit for a more expensive unit, it would let you use all the other feature (ie not just remote control, but programming tracks, dividing up tracks into units of 45/60 mins etc etc). I imagine the same is true of most other consumer electronics (tv, microwave, etc etc) but just that it's not really possible to `unlock` those extra features.
> Or it blows up in your face, taking a small city with it.
So make it in the city you want to blow up.
Be good to yourselves....and each other.
> It won't do anything because Android isn't a tablet OS;
It's an OS on tablets - what's the difference?
> it was always meant for the phone.
That's not a difference!
Google should just give up on Chromium - it's no longer needed.
> this is an aggressive marketing strategy from MS that makes game developpers stick to Redmond and turn their backs on linux.
No, it's because most people have Windows, so there's next to no money in doing Linux versions of games. There's no conspiracy, it's all about market share.
> The pace of OS development has created a moving target for handset makers, carriers, developers and users alike.
Develop for 1.6. All the others are minor upgrades. It gets users excited, but offers little to developers. If you think you need the new features, then go for it, but watch your user base. What's the altenative? Waiting a year+ between releases? Then you would be fragmenting the OSes, as there would be a meaningful difference in APIs etc.
Manufacturers do stuff like Sense etc because the Android looks a bit boring. Apparently google are going to fix that. A bigger problem is users getting all excited about the next version of Android when it's released at a Google conference, then wait a month or so for the manufacturers to do a version for their phones, then wait another 2 or 3 months for Orange (for example) to fuck it all up with their crapware. Google would do well to insist that manufacturers must allow people to put 'vanilla' versions of their OS on, and manufacturers could do the same to the networks. What does Orange get, exactly, out of making me wait ages for a version of HTC's 2.2 release for the Desire just so they can put demo versions of commercial games, crappy little map apps etc etc on? I don't understand.
> it seems tough to get a smartphone these days to last a day without charging.
It's easy - just use it as a phone. On stanby these things go for days. Because, you know, on standby all the flash, hi-def etc etc isn't going to make a blind bit of difference, because it's not being used.
> When the press interviews well-known scientists, it is customary to ask about what new things are coming in the next few years.
"So, this new computer...you're saying it's about the size of a piece of string"? Yeah, good old press, up to their usual high standards of technology reporting.
> Just the thought of dealing with any immigration authority in any country feels my heart with dread. It is one of the most demeaning and degrading experiences one can > have short of getting involved in the second oldest profession.
In the UK, that's why you'd do it, though. Get an English passport and you get to spend 10 mins queuing up and perhaps 1 minute maximum (for your whole family) answering questions, as opposed to a 30 min+ queue and some sort of anal probe when you get there.
> Because stealing a wallet is a criminal act and copyright infringement isn't? It's not about being on the "Internet", it's about stealing money vs. copying a song,
> since the latter isn't a crime.
I'm not an expert in US laws, but isn't downloading copyrighted stuff illegal? (I'm from the UK, and even ripping a cd you bought to an iPod you bought for your own use is illegal!). Is uploading it? If we're talking about bittorrent then there's generally no distinction (the default is to upload as you download).
> You can ALWAYS tell when it's been used because the dark part of the picture is brighter than it should be in relation to the bright part of the picture.
No, you can't always tell, because it can be used to compensate for the limited dynamic range of most sensors to portray what the average human eye would be able to see if it were there.
> This is what HDR IS.
HDR "is" compensating for limited dynamic range. If you had more than 5 or so stops of light recoverable from your sensor you wouldn't need to use HDR.
It's more a plutocracy, if you look at who's in prison, who gets out of trouble when they're caught with drugs, who funds and benefits from lobbying etc etc.