Yeah. I bought an Asus Eee 900 recently for $440, and read one of the Tor free PDFs on it. It made a nice reader. Telling the PDF reader to rotate into landscape and turning it on the side puts one page at a time on the screen, and you get none of the refresh issues you have with eInk, and all on a device that is light and has good battery life. I took it with me on vacation and not only used it as a reader, but also to check google maps for directions to restaurants, etc. The only downside was the screen can't be read in direct sunlight.
In my mind, until a reader has real support for PDFs (i.e. displays them natively) and pages in a 250 msecs, I'm not interested.
In regards to #3: Normally, the body continually tears down muscle using a substance called myostatin. The damage from exercise produces other hormones that cause the muscle to rebuild stronger. Animals (and humans) who do not have to ability to produce myostatin end up with massive muscles regardless of exercise. It is this hormone that causes muscles to atrophy, not exercise.
Since there are two children who have this condition, we have at least two human models to see how people react. So far, the only serious side effect is a fast metabolism and massive appetite, which likely explains why this condition was selected against in precivilized humans.
This is already happening. Cheap food in the Western world is the sort of high calorie food that makes you fat and the poor can't afford gym memberships. Because of this, the poor tend to be fatter and in worse shape.
The threat probably isn't credible...but one reason the cops may show up is to determine this. One reason why anonymous threats may need to be taken seriously is that it is hard to tell whether the anonymous person has the power to make good on the threat.
If you said "I am going to sodomize John Roberts", you would fully expect to see law enforcement at your door. It's not a matter of slander or libel. It's a matter of a threat of physical violence.
Dear sir, if you find my posts funny, please mark them funny so that I know you got the joke and don't think you got confused and took me serious.
I don't give a fuck about karma. Anyone willing to make the effort can have theirs pegged at the cap if they wanted, anyway. (Karma whores don't deserve it, and those that don't care about karma and just post things that are interesting and informative are always at the cap anyway.)
You've been able to play Amazon Unbox videos for quite a while now, but until now, you went to Amazon, and to it to download to your Tivo. I personally think that is easier than going through the remote.
I have a couple games for the Playstation Eye. They show really well why gesture recognition won't replace mice any time soon. Ignoring the fact that gesture recognition has no where near the accuracy, it's just plain tiring to be holding your hands up for more than twenty minutes.
Touchcreens just aren't accurate enough for real computers. They are used for things like phones because there's no convenient way to put a mouse on a phone.
The success of the Wii suggests that the perhaps the sorts of games that Slashdotters and hardcore gamers think are good don't actually move consoles as well.
Or more common: if the code that is supposed to check for the CD is broken, and fails on some CD drives. That's happened to me at least three times. One reason I gave up on PC gaming.
I'm not so sure. One the last major hike I took, my GPS claimed I was did 18 mph at one point, and later briefly teleported over the Pacific ocean for a couple minutes and then back again.
You mean, you know of a way to transfer all your files and settings from one Windows machine to another running non-identical hardware as a one step process using a single cable?
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Let's see...for inability to use Wiki, you lose half of all nerd points and for inability to use Google, you lose the rest.
Yeah. I bought an Asus Eee 900 recently for $440, and read one of the Tor free PDFs on it. It made a nice reader. Telling the PDF reader to rotate into landscape and turning it on the side puts one page at a time on the screen, and you get none of the refresh issues you have with eInk, and all on a device that is light and has good battery life. I took it with me on vacation and not only used it as a reader, but also to check google maps for directions to restaurants, etc. The only downside was the screen can't be read in direct sunlight.
In my mind, until a reader has real support for PDFs (i.e. displays them natively) and pages in a 250 msecs, I'm not interested.
Note: Go to a high end (read: more expensive) gym. No time limits. No waiting for machines.
Of course, the really rich have their own equipment and personal trainers.
In regards to #3: Normally, the body continually tears down muscle using a substance called myostatin. The damage from exercise produces other hormones that cause the muscle to rebuild stronger. Animals (and humans) who do not have to ability to produce myostatin end up with massive muscles regardless of exercise. It is this hormone that causes muscles to atrophy, not exercise.
Since there are two children who have this condition, we have at least two human models to see how people react. So far, the only serious side effect is a fast metabolism and massive appetite, which likely explains why this condition was selected against in precivilized humans.
This is already happening. Cheap food in the Western world is the sort of high calorie food that makes you fat and the poor can't afford gym memberships. Because of this, the poor tend to be fatter and in worse shape.
The threat probably isn't credible...but one reason the cops may show up is to determine this. One reason why anonymous threats may need to be taken seriously is that it is hard to tell whether the anonymous person has the power to make good on the threat.
If you said "I am going to sodomize John Roberts", you would fully expect to see law enforcement at your door. It's not a matter of slander or libel. It's a matter of a threat of physical violence.
Threats are illegal, though.
Dear sir, if you find my posts funny, please mark them funny so that I know you got the joke and don't think you got confused and took me serious.
I don't give a fuck about karma. Anyone willing to make the effort can have theirs pegged at the cap if they wanted, anyway. (Karma whores don't deserve it, and those that don't care about karma and just post things that are interesting and informative are always at the cap anyway.)
You've been able to play Amazon Unbox videos for quite a while now, but until now, you went to Amazon, and to it to download to your Tivo. I personally think that is easier than going through the remote.
Well, it's great for a game machine, just like touch screens are great for phones. for a general purpose PC...not so much.
I have a couple games for the Playstation Eye. They show really well why gesture recognition won't replace mice any time soon. Ignoring the fact that gesture recognition has no where near the accuracy, it's just plain tiring to be holding your hands up for more than twenty minutes.
Touchcreens just aren't accurate enough for real computers. They are used for things like phones because there's no convenient way to put a mouse on a phone.
The success of the Wii suggests that the perhaps the sorts of games that Slashdotters and hardcore gamers think are good don't actually move consoles as well.
If by "refuse to help", you mean "send massive aid shipments under threat of u-boat attacks, then yes, the US refused to help before Pearl Harbor.
Or more common: if the code that is supposed to check for the CD is broken, and fails on some CD drives. That's happened to me at least three times. One reason I gave up on PC gaming.
If only there were a way to create some way of making some sort of text that, when clicked, took you directly to the post.
I'm not so sure. One the last major hike I took, my GPS claimed I was did 18 mph at one point, and later briefly teleported over the Pacific ocean for a couple minutes and then back again.
The Mac transfers everything regardless of whether the software saved things in "normal" locations.
That doesn't transfer all your settings. It's also not a one-step process.
If we all had 8 fingers, then 10% would be a 10th of 100.
You mean, you know of a way to transfer all your files and settings from one Windows machine to another running non-identical hardware as a one step process using a single cable?
Do tell...
It all depends on how successful the format is. It's trivial to read a CD, and that is twenty-five year old tech.
It will end. It is just a question of when.
The last time there was a move to fight the two-party system, people voted for Nader and Bush won.