Sounds like you need to get yourself some nice Belgian ales or German wheat beers. Many are naturally carbonated in the bottle (a.k.a. bottle conditioned) using live yeast. Swirl up the yeast sediment from the bottom of the bottle before you pour it into your glass, and you get to commit mass yeast murder with every sip!
I don't think it's particularly sick... just seriously warped. It's not like the beer is actually in contact with the innards of the animal, and you really should pour it into a glass before drinking it anyway. Though I suppose seeing a dead squirrel puking beer into your glass could be a little off-putting for some!:D
The Brewdog guys are nuts. They've been having a pissing match with another brewery for a couple of years now, where they're both trying to claim the title of "world's strongest beer". It is a bragging rights sort of thing... kind of like a $2,000 quad-SLI video card setup. I guess they just decided that their latest entry in the "beer strength wars" needed to have some very... *ahem*... "unique" packaging.
I've had some of their other (normal strength) beers before. I wasn't particularly impressed.
Actually, no. British cask conditioned ales have traditionally used a substance called isinglass as a clarifying agent. Isinglass is made from the swim bladders of fish. There are apparently also a few breweries that use oysters as an ingredient in Stout.
I was under the mistaken impression that LimeWire also provided some sort of search engine capability. So please disregard the part of my previous comment about jailing/fining the LimeWire developers.
I believe that LimeWire ought to be shut down, and anyone who profited from it should be fined and/or jailed. But the 1.5 trillion figure is just one more example of how the RIAA has totally lost it. (Perhaps I'm being overly generous here; did they ever have it?)
If they had even half a clue, they would realize that pulling stunts like this doesn't scare file sharers. Instead, it makes it harder for people to take the entertainment industry (and their pursuit of copyright infringers) seriously.
You'd think an Internet company that has been around as long as Yahoo! would understand how to code a proper CMS by now. IMO this is just further evidence that they will be joining the likes of Netscape and AOL in the dustbin of Internet has-beens sooner rather than later...
I scored pretty high, even though my answers were down the middle on most of the questions (I did not answer at either of the extremes for any of them), and I do not consider myself to be a particularly empathic person. Either the questionnaire is whacked, or we've got a generation of self-centered douchebags on our hands.
Where I work, we have used Python to create a regression and qualification testing framework for embedded avionics software. It has worked out exceptionally well. The testing framework was originally developed on Windows, but we are also porting it to Linux. (The Python parts are completely portable, of course... but because of the nature of the application we also had to create libraries in C to drive some specialized hardware, and the C modules do require some porting effort.)
Even if they didn't code this themselves, they should've audited the code for security flaws when they purchased the company. "Is the system master password stored securely?" is a pretty basic question to ask; you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out. It boggles the mind that this flaw was allowed to persist for nearly 10 years.
It is impossible to say what's right here without knowing a lot more about the situation. Are the libraries GPL or LGPL licensed? Are you merely linking with the libraries, or is this product a modified version of one or more of the libraries? Is it being distributed outside your employer's organization, or only being used internally?
This is exactly the sort of application where a "tried and true" solution (like a good ol' fashioned relational database) makes sense. Since the list is only updated by the TSA (and is treated as read-only by everyone else), using a traditional SQL database with simple synchronization/replication is a no brainer. You don't want to be reinventing the wheel, especially on critical infrastructure like this.
Given that a certification improves your own marketability, I would be willing to put in additional time studying on my own provided my employer pays for the certification exam and any training materials.
Much ado about nothing. It is ridiculous that anyone -- let alone someone at a major national publication -- would over-react like this.
To the editorial staff at Consumer Reports: I cancelled my subscription a few years ago; I was actually thinking about starting it up again, but on second thought never mind. Your job is to provide unbiased reviews of consumer products, not pass prudish, Puritanical moral judgments on an innocent and harmless ad.
To Microsoft: Nice try, but it still won't convince the "cool kids" that you're actually cool. Especially when you cave to someone like Consumer Reports that easily. Better luck next time.
Cool. I'd only been following the project sporadically since its announcement, and didn't realize that they'd been accepted for merge into the upstream code. Too bad about the GIL (but not surprising).
Google has been working on a version of Python that targets LLVM instead of the Python bytecode interpreter. They're also planning to attempt to tackle the GIL issue, but that may be wishful thinking...
OK, so there are "about 15" countries Google says they won't send your data to?
Here's the solution: Take the list of 203 sovereign states, and knock out the "about 15" that are on Google's "we don't like you, nyah nyah a boo boo" list. Presto, you now have the list of countries to which Google may send your data.
The geniuses at Yale couldn't figure this out? (I guess that isn't entirely surprising, given that they seem to be having trouble counting to 15...)
'everything' == 'things in the computer that you might want to know the size of'
This is a case where being pedantically correct does not outweigh the value of being consistent with what the majority of computer users are accustomed to seeing, and what apps which are not directly under Ubuntu's control will continue to do, even when running on Ubuntu.
They say they're doing this to reduce confusion. But unless they can get everyone else to change too (very unlikely), this will only add to the confusion. At least "everything is base 2 unless it is a drive capacity number from a hard drive vendor spec sheet" is a consistent and reasonably easy to understand rule, once you know it. Now the rule is going to be "everything is in base 2 unless it is a hard drive capacity number from a hard drive vendor spec sheet, or you're running Ubuntu, and using one of the applications (link to list of Ubuntu-ized apps here) that Ubuntu has patched to use base-10".
How does this help anyone?
And no, justifying it by saying "Apple does it" doesn't count. Apple and their fans represent a parallel reality that I don't particularly care to inhabit.
I've been considering switching from Ubuntu to Debian, or even -- God forbid, I despise RPM/yum -- back to Redhat/Fedora. This just one more push (albeit a fairly small one) in that direction.
Do any of these come with decent phono cartridges? I rather doubt it, especially at the low end of that range. If you're trying to get high-quality rips, you probably ought to be spending upwards of $75 for the cartridge alone... a nice mid-range Audio Technica or somesuch.
No, the gain level is not the only difference between a line and mic jack. PC mic jacks are mono only; you'll only get one channel of the stereo signal. And it'll probably still be overloaded and distorted, because line level is likely higher than the mic input expects even with the +20dB boost (which some soundcards don't even support) disabled.
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According to their web site, all of the animals used were road kill.
Sounds like you need to get yourself some nice Belgian ales or German wheat beers. Many are naturally carbonated in the bottle (a.k.a. bottle conditioned) using live yeast. Swirl up the yeast sediment from the bottom of the bottle before you pour it into your glass, and you get to commit mass yeast murder with every sip!
I don't think it's particularly sick... just seriously warped. It's not like the beer is actually in contact with the innards of the animal, and you really should pour it into a glass before drinking it anyway. Though I suppose seeing a dead squirrel puking beer into your glass could be a little off-putting for some! :D
The Brewdog guys are nuts. They've been having a pissing match with another brewery for a couple of years now, where they're both trying to claim the title of "world's strongest beer". It is a bragging rights sort of thing... kind of like a $2,000 quad-SLI video card setup. I guess they just decided that their latest entry in the "beer strength wars" needed to have some very... *ahem*... "unique" packaging.
I've had some of their other (normal strength) beers before. I wasn't particularly impressed.
Actually, no. British cask conditioned ales have traditionally used a substance called isinglass as a clarifying agent. Isinglass is made from the swim bladders of fish. There are apparently also a few breweries that use oysters as an ingredient in Stout.
(Replying to my own post...)
I was under the mistaken impression that LimeWire also provided some sort of search engine capability. So please disregard the part of my previous comment about jailing/fining the LimeWire developers.
I believe that LimeWire ought to be shut down, and anyone who profited from it should be fined and/or jailed. But the 1.5 trillion figure is just one more example of how the RIAA has totally lost it. (Perhaps I'm being overly generous here; did they ever have it?)
If they had even half a clue, they would realize that pulling stunts like this doesn't scare file sharers. Instead, it makes it harder for people to take the entertainment industry (and their pursuit of copyright infringers) seriously.
You'd think an Internet company that has been around as long as Yahoo! would understand how to code a proper CMS by now. IMO this is just further evidence that they will be joining the likes of Netscape and AOL in the dustbin of Internet has-beens sooner rather than later...
It was January, up in the mountains in Utah. There was probably a giant bank of plowed snow on that grassy strip.
It's still a stupid lawsuit, but there's a plausible explanation for why she would've chosen not to walk in the grass.
Yeah, I've often wondered whether the alleged rises in ADD and autism are just artifacts of changing methods used to diagnose them.
I scored pretty high, even though my answers were down the middle on most of the questions (I did not answer at either of the extremes for any of them), and I do not consider myself to be a particularly empathic person. Either the questionnaire is whacked, or we've got a generation of self-centered douchebags on our hands.
(Yes, my student days were well before 2000...)
Where I work, we have used Python to create a regression and qualification testing framework for embedded avionics software. It has worked out exceptionally well. The testing framework was originally developed on Windows, but we are also porting it to Linux. (The Python parts are completely portable, of course... but because of the nature of the application we also had to create libraries in C to drive some specialized hardware, and the C modules do require some porting effort.)
Even if they didn't code this themselves, they should've audited the code for security flaws when they purchased the company. "Is the system master password stored securely?" is a pretty basic question to ask; you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out. It boggles the mind that this flaw was allowed to persist for nearly 10 years.
It is impossible to say what's right here without knowing a lot more about the situation. Are the libraries GPL or LGPL licensed? Are you merely linking with the libraries, or is this product a modified version of one or more of the libraries? Is it being distributed outside your employer's organization, or only being used internally?
This is exactly the sort of application where a "tried and true" solution (like a good ol' fashioned relational database) makes sense. Since the list is only updated by the TSA (and is treated as read-only by everyone else), using a traditional SQL database with simple synchronization/replication is a no brainer. You don't want to be reinventing the wheel, especially on critical infrastructure like this.
This is, after all, the same company that brought you the "we own your PC" DRM rootkit.
Given that a certification improves your own marketability, I would be willing to put in additional time studying on my own provided my employer pays for the certification exam and any training materials.
Much ado about nothing. It is ridiculous that anyone -- let alone someone at a major national publication -- would over-react like this.
To the editorial staff at Consumer Reports: I cancelled my subscription a few years ago; I was actually thinking about starting it up again, but on second thought never mind. Your job is to provide unbiased reviews of consumer products, not pass prudish, Puritanical moral judgments on an innocent and harmless ad.
To Microsoft: Nice try, but it still won't convince the "cool kids" that you're actually cool. Especially when you cave to someone like Consumer Reports that easily. Better luck next time.
Cool. I'd only been following the project sporadically since its announcement, and didn't realize that they'd been accepted for merge into the upstream code. Too bad about the GIL (but not surprising).
Google has been working on a version of Python that targets LLVM instead of the Python bytecode interpreter. They're also planning to attempt to tackle the GIL issue, but that may be wishful thinking...
OK, so there are "about 15" countries Google says they won't send your data to?
Here's the solution: Take the list of 203 sovereign states, and knock out the "about 15" that are on Google's "we don't like you, nyah nyah a boo boo" list. Presto, you now have the list of countries to which Google may send your data.
The geniuses at Yale couldn't figure this out? (I guess that isn't entirely surprising, given that they seem to be having trouble counting to 15...)
'everything' == 'things in the computer that you might want to know the size of'
This is a case where being pedantically correct does not outweigh the value of being consistent with what the majority of computer users are accustomed to seeing, and what apps which are not directly under Ubuntu's control will continue to do, even when running on Ubuntu.
They say they're doing this to reduce confusion. But unless they can get everyone else to change too (very unlikely), this will only add to the confusion. At least "everything is base 2 unless it is a drive capacity number from a hard drive vendor spec sheet" is a consistent and reasonably easy to understand rule, once you know it. Now the rule is going to be "everything is in base 2 unless it is a hard drive capacity number from a hard drive vendor spec sheet, or you're running Ubuntu, and using one of the applications (link to list of Ubuntu-ized apps here) that Ubuntu has patched to use base-10".
How does this help anyone?
And no, justifying it by saying "Apple does it" doesn't count. Apple and their fans represent a parallel reality that I don't particularly care to inhabit.
I've been considering switching from Ubuntu to Debian, or even -- God forbid, I despise RPM/yum -- back to Redhat/Fedora. This just one more push (albeit a fairly small one) in that direction.
Do any of these come with decent phono cartridges? I rather doubt it, especially at the low end of that range. If you're trying to get high-quality rips, you probably ought to be spending upwards of $75 for the cartridge alone... a nice mid-range Audio Technica or somesuch.
No, the gain level is not the only difference between a line and mic jack. PC mic jacks are mono only; you'll only get one channel of the stereo signal. And it'll probably still be overloaded and distorted, because line level is likely higher than the mic input expects even with the +20dB boost (which some soundcards don't even support) disabled.