You must have severely misheard. Rickets are caused by Vitamin D deficiency. Being obssessed with macrobiotics can cause it. Not because whole wheat flour destroys Vitamin D.
I said "some nutricionists" said so. E.g. Loren Cordain. Here is one publication supporting his claims. I quote:
1. The plasma disappearance of 3H-labelled 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) was studied in healthy volunteers on normal and high-fibre diets, using 3H-labelled tracer doses given intravenously. 2. The mean (+/- SEM) plasma half-life in the high-fibre-diet group was 19.2 +/- 1.7 d, which was significantly shorter than in the group on normal diets (27.5 +/- 2.1 d, P less than 0.01). 3. This finding suggests that a high-fibre diet leads to enhanced elimination of 25(OH)D3 by an action within the intestinal lumen. This may involve interference with an enterohepatic circulation of the metabolite, perhaps by binding of 25(OH)D3 to dietary fibre. 4. The reduced plasma half-life of 3H-labelled 25(OH)D3 associated with a high-fibre diet may explain the development of vitamin D deficiency in Asian immigrants with normal exposure to u.v. light.
Which parts of Android are closed source? Closed hardware is unfortunately a feature of this market. The fact that cellphone operators love lock-in does not help either. Even if you try to get a laptop you often get a lot of lock-in.
I am against exclusive apps stores. iTunes store, Android Market... Why can't I select my own store of choice?
Babies that are given infant formula (one of the most complex and ever changing food products that exists) still don't thrive as well as babies that are breast-fed.
There has been a resurgence of breast-feeding for quite some time. But not every baby can be breast fed. Not all mothers can breast-feed their children even if they wanted to.
one of the way shelf life is improved is because the little creatures that feed off if it fail to thrive because the nutrients are just not there. If fungal spores refuse to consume it then what the fuck are we doing choosing it as our preferred type of bread? Shouldn't this be a hint?
I guess you never let a piece of white bread around long enough for it to get moldy. Try taking it out of the plastic bag and putting it in a dark place... Fungus eat basically anything with carbohydrates. There are some nutritionists who think whole grain wheat is bad for you and that it induces rickets in growing children by neutralizing necessary nutrients. Leavened bread also is usually enriched with folic acid while whole grain bread is not. I personally think whole grain bread tastes terrible, gives me stomachache, and do not care a damn about whole grains. Wheat has been genetically selected by mankind since the dawn of agriculture. It is hardly "natural". It is better to eat it than to starve though.
Margarine replaced butter during WWI because of wartime production restrictions. Hardly because it was considered healthier. It was readily available and cheaper than butter. I remember the relatively recent fad of it being so-called healthier when I was a kid. The small group of people who claimed it was healthier were usually the same shitheads who preferred whole grains, soya (blech) and macrobiotics in general. Now the talk is about "organics" and how it is better to use dung to fertilize fields, when dung has a high probability of propagating parasites across the food chain and causes acid rain. There is nothing wrong with using nitrogen fertilizer.
GMO is nothing but an extension of existing selective breeding practices done at least since the dawn of agriculture.
I am not in favor of cloning to be used in general in agriculture however. We have had enough issues with keeping bananas pest free. Banana trees are clones and it has nothing to do with GMO...
Stupid, stupid, stupid. The main selling point seems to be that it can run regular Linux apps. Which of course you would not want to do in the first place in devices with such a constrained screen size and different input methods. You are better off writing apps for that device instead. They should have just tried to improve Android instead.
Compare the cost of Mars Pathfinder ($280 million) with Mars Exploration Rover ($820 million). I won't even get into the figures for the next probes... There is a lot of bloat in NASA.
Ares I is not even half finished. The projections (nearly doubled since the initial estimate) are that it will cost NASA more than it cost the DoD to develop Atlas V and Delta IV. Both. Which is kinda ridiculous (TM).
The MS Access database engine is such a POS you could easily get something better. Especially from IBM the guys who invented SQL in the first place!
What MS Access does have is a nice graphical interface for building database apps. So it is that which needs to be done and is quite a decent amount of work.
It is often joked that a computer application has only reached maturity when it has its own built-in computer language. Emacs has EmacsLisp, AutoCAD has AutoLISP, GIMP has Script-Fu, so why should not Office have VBA? What I do agree thought is that scripts should not be bundled with the documents themselves. That opens a whole can of worms. But then again, HTML also can include embedded Javascript, so it is not as if Microsoft are the only ones guilty of this sin.
The plans were not lost. It is just they are nearly useless. Imagine trying to build today an IBM 7090 computer with core memory and vacuum tubes from schematics.
Ares I is nowhere near a Saturn V to cost what it did. Compare what they achieved for Ares with what SpaceX did with way less resources: SpaceX has designed three engines (Merlin, Kestrel, Draco) plus several variations of these engines which would be considered work that would take years at regular NASA contractors (compare time schedule for Merlin regen engine with RS-68 regen).
SpaceX has also launched Falcon 1 and will launch Falcon 9 years before Ares I is supposed to get a launch. They have also done a test of the Falcon 9 first stage engines before Ares I did test its supposedly simpler 5 segment SRB. The cost for all this was about an order of magnitude less than what Ares I has cost so far.
The problem with the Saturn V is that it was too expensive. That was the reason for canceling it in the first place. After over 40 years most of the component manufacturers are probably gone. New manufacturing standards, environmental standards, etc, mean you would have to reverse engineer it piece by piece, which would cost only slightly less than making an entirely new design. IMO they never should have built Shuttle, but made downscaled versions of Saturn V using the same components (e.g. engines). Saturn V was too big and still is. But the time for that has come and gone.
Ares I is a turd. Ares I-X is an exercise in public relations. None of the components in Ares I-X is supposed to be used in Ares I. The first stage is a regular SRM with a dummy segment, and the entire second stage is a dummy. It looks pretty in pictures, but it cannot launch anything into orbit.
8 years is enough. It is about the time they took to design and build Saturn V with all the trimmings for a lunar launch. So much for CAD, CAM, etc making design to manufacturing faster....
No they did not. Obviously you are confusing it with the composite liquid oxygen which they did manage to do. But the temperature of liquid oxygen is way higher, and hence easier to handle, than liquid hydrogen.
No, it is you who don't understand. A scramjet has a low thrust-to-weight ratio, which means to get up to speed takes a lot longer than a rocket. It also only works in the atmosphere. At those speeds you will need cooling for the entire skin of the vehicle. Which means you will lose a lot of payload just for that cooling system which wouldn't be necessary if you had a rocket where you want to get out of the atmosphere as soon as possible.
The X-51 gets to Mach 7+. NASP (X-30) would get to higher speeds by employing a vapourware airframe cooling system which no one ever got to work. Also notice NASP was supposed to use a composite LH2 tank (using even cooler slush LH2 no less!) while for X-33, done years later, noone could manufacture such a tank. NASP was a collection of vapourware items. You couldn't get it to work on schedule for all the money in the world.
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I said "some nutricionists" said so. E.g. Loren Cordain. Here is one publication supporting his claims. I quote:
1. The plasma disappearance of 3H-labelled 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) was studied in healthy volunteers on normal and high-fibre diets, using 3H-labelled tracer doses given intravenously. 2. The mean (+/- SEM) plasma half-life in the high-fibre-diet group was 19.2 +/- 1.7 d, which was significantly shorter than in the group on normal diets (27.5 +/- 2.1 d, P less than 0.01). 3. This finding suggests that a high-fibre diet leads to enhanced elimination of 25(OH)D3 by an action within the intestinal lumen. This may involve interference with an enterohepatic circulation of the metabolite, perhaps by binding of 25(OH)D3 to dietary fibre. 4. The reduced plasma half-life of 3H-labelled 25(OH)D3 associated with a high-fibre diet may explain the development of vitamin D deficiency in Asian immigrants with normal exposure to u.v. light.
I am against exclusive apps stores. iTunes store, Android Market... Why can't I select my own store of choice?
Thought so.
There has been a resurgence of breast-feeding for quite some time. But not every baby can be breast fed. Not all mothers can breast-feed their children even if they wanted to.
one of the way shelf life is improved is because the little creatures that feed off if it fail to thrive because the nutrients are just not there. If fungal spores refuse to consume it then what the fuck are we doing choosing it as our preferred type of bread? Shouldn't this be a hint?
I guess you never let a piece of white bread around long enough for it to get moldy. Try taking it out of the plastic bag and putting it in a dark place... Fungus eat basically anything with carbohydrates. There are some nutritionists who think whole grain wheat is bad for you and that it induces rickets in growing children by neutralizing necessary nutrients. Leavened bread also is usually enriched with folic acid while whole grain bread is not. I personally think whole grain bread tastes terrible, gives me stomachache, and do not care a damn about whole grains. Wheat has been genetically selected by mankind since the dawn of agriculture. It is hardly "natural". It is better to eat it than to starve though.
Margarine replaced butter during WWI because of wartime production restrictions. Hardly because it was considered healthier. It was readily available and cheaper than butter. I remember the relatively recent fad of it being so-called healthier when I was a kid. The small group of people who claimed it was healthier were usually the same shitheads who preferred whole grains, soya (blech) and macrobiotics in general. Now the talk is about "organics" and how it is better to use dung to fertilize fields, when dung has a high probability of propagating parasites across the food chain and causes acid rain. There is nothing wrong with using nitrogen fertilizer.
GMO is nothing but an extension of existing selective breeding practices done at least since the dawn of agriculture.
I am not in favor of cloning to be used in general in agriculture however. We have had enough issues with keeping bananas pest free. Banana trees are clones and it has nothing to do with GMO...
Darwin is "open source" as long as no one tries to make a competing distro. Just look at the history of projects such as OpenDarwin.
"Grand Central" already had existing OSS alternatives such as Intel Threaded Building Blocks.
XQuartz sounds like something just so they can get more apps. Nice for them and their users.
PS: VxWorks sucks.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. The main selling point seems to be that it can run regular Linux apps. Which of course you would not want to do in the first place in devices with such a constrained screen size and different input methods. You are better off writing apps for that device instead. They should have just tried to improve Android instead.
Ares I is not even half finished. The projections (nearly doubled since the initial estimate) are that it will cost NASA more than it cost the DoD to develop Atlas V and Delta IV. Both. Which is kinda ridiculous (TM).
The USA also spends more on space if you combine NASA, DoD, NRO expenditures than the rest of the world combined.
What MS Access does have is a nice graphical interface for building database apps. So it is that which needs to be done and is quite a decent amount of work.
I concur with your Gnumeric love.
There, fixed that.
It is often joked that a computer application has only reached maturity when it has its own built-in computer language. Emacs has EmacsLisp, AutoCAD has AutoLISP, GIMP has Script-Fu, so why should not Office have VBA? What I do agree thought is that scripts should not be bundled with the documents themselves. That opens a whole can of worms. But then again, HTML also can include embedded Javascript, so it is not as if Microsoft are the only ones guilty of this sin.
There is enough water. It is just that most of it is salty. You can grow crops without using land... ever heard of hydroponics?
Or use Qt.
I would not considering Tahiti was a French colony and Vichy France was a puppet state for Nazi Germany.
The plans were not lost. It is just they are nearly useless. Imagine trying to build today an IBM 7090 computer with core memory and vacuum tubes from schematics.
SpaceX has also launched Falcon 1 and will launch Falcon 9 years before Ares I is supposed to get a launch. They have also done a test of the Falcon 9 first stage engines before Ares I did test its supposedly simpler 5 segment SRB. The cost for all this was about an order of magnitude less than what Ares I has cost so far.
The problem with the Saturn V is that it was too expensive. That was the reason for canceling it in the first place. After over 40 years most of the component manufacturers are probably gone. New manufacturing standards, environmental standards, etc, mean you would have to reverse engineer it piece by piece, which would cost only slightly less than making an entirely new design. IMO they never should have built Shuttle, but made downscaled versions of Saturn V using the same components (e.g. engines). Saturn V was too big and still is. But the time for that has come and gone.
Ares I is a turd. Ares I-X is an exercise in public relations. None of the components in Ares I-X is supposed to be used in Ares I. The first stage is a regular SRM with a dummy segment, and the entire second stage is a dummy. It looks pretty in pictures, but it cannot launch anything into orbit.
8 years is enough. It is about the time they took to design and build Saturn V with all the trimmings for a lunar launch. So much for CAD, CAM, etc making design to manufacturing faster....
You mean ULA, Arianespace and ILS.
NASP was vapourware.
Scramjets are useless for space vehicles.
The X-51 gets to Mach 7+. NASP (X-30) would get to higher speeds by employing a vapourware airframe cooling system which no one ever got to work. Also notice NASP was supposed to use a composite LH2 tank (using even cooler slush LH2 no less!) while for X-33, done years later, noone could manufacture such a tank. NASP was a collection of vapourware items. You couldn't get it to work on schedule for all the money in the world.