In general, green tea tends to bring out more bitterness if you use too hot water. 135-170 seems the best for green tea types. Of course, the more delicate the tea, the cooler the water. For example, I love drinking matcha in a tea ceremony. We use bamboo whisks, along with tepid (135-140F) water.
Now, black tea is the one you want hot water for. 190-205 is the best, as is fairly short steeping time. These can get rather powerful and bitter quick if you dont pull out in 2.5-3 minutes. One tea that even 2 minutes is too long for is lapsang sotchung. Everybody talks about "cigarette butt coffee" at Sbux, but sotchung IS burnt... well, smoked actually. Even a minute is too long steeping for even me (and I drink long shots all the time- long as 2x the time it should normally take).
One tea, if you can find it, is a black-like tea from north India called Nilgiri. At first, I thought it was a synthesis of black and green, but is true black. If you use a decent amount in a french press and brew it as you would coffee, then add equal part water, and then chill it and pour it over ice as it makes the best iced tea I've ever tasted. Because it is a green-like black, I'd recommend around 180F for the water.. I tried 200F and it had that burnt taste.
We live betewwn two cities: Columbus Indiana and Bloomington Indiana. We are a quarter mile from a major highway that we know has fiber up and down.
That fastest we can get is 4KB/s. Dial up. That's it. No DSL option. No Cable option. There's some god-awful satellite internet but the quota is 5GB/month with hideous overages.
I work at Starbucks. In fact, I worked there this morning from 5am to noon. I've worked there for a few years, so I know what Im doing there.
Our coffee is between 190F-200F. We only hold it for 30 minutes, and it's warmed during that time. Also, when telling customers how to brew coffee, we recommend 190-200F, unlike green tea, coffee needs very hot water to unlock the flavor. However, we steam lattes only to 180 before giving dire warnings to customers who want hotter. Ill usually say "Grande SCALDING mocha" or something to warn the drinker.
Ill say this: only a moron puts a boiling cup of X liquid between their legs. Everybody knows coffee is SUPPOSED to be hot. Now, however, lid deign does indeed suck, and fair to sue over. Especially how many lids crack at Sbux. During rush (7-9 am), I perhaps, deal with around 10 defective lids. They could easily cause insta-burning spill.
I support companies who treat users like paying customers. If you treat me like a thief, I have no reason to disappoint.
Paying for software that treats you like a thief encourages them to make more software that treats you the same. I, instead, want to punish these companies. I do so by pirating this software and sharing it to anybody who wants to play.
Also, Im in the USA. Working around problems in games (DRM so it works on my computer) is illegal. Pirating is illegal. So, in order to get it working, Im breaking the law... Why buy then?
I strongly support Linux and good companies who treat us right. We do need copyright so that we encourage makers to keep making. We dont need businesses that treat us like thieves.
Vista with no service pack had explicitly that problem. If you happened to use the network for any reason, Vista was plagued with slow speeds. How slow??
Now, as per the troll article, it took 23(?) minutes? Well, 17MB/(11.5KB/s)= 24.6 minutes . Not so far off, is it? I mean, how can a company in the scale of Microsoft not create a network of Vista boxes and just do some gaming and file transfer and just test them?
Guess what? I wont bite, nor will many many people. In fact, i'll help people pirate heavy DRM encrusted gunk, though I'd rather go towards Free Software.
---Like i paid for Stardock games because they have no DRM. FALSE
Stardock is DRM free, until you update. Then it adds DRM. Bait and switch at best.
---don't regret paying EA for a good game.
that's arguable. games that do not play fairly effortlessly arent worth it. Especially the "3 use limit".
---Using illegal copies extensively makes them more nervous and introduce more dangerous DRM.
Everything that is made can be unmade. Every security system can be inspected for holes to exploit. Especially, when an encryption scheme involves giving the user the encrypted data and key, and withholding the key makes no security. Security that also involves purely with obfuscation also leads down a pointless path riddled with harassment to legitimate users.
In the Windows world: if you want a good game experience, use pirated disks that patch around anti-user gunk. Patching around the gunk is illegal anyways, why not go the whole way and just download the stuff?
I use their ideas on how I can make it for myself, cause Ill know I cant afford it. Thinking how I could implement it in Open Source stuff, here's what I come up with.
You need 2 projectors with a infrared tracking system. I'd use a wiimote for basics, and its cheap. Now, take the table and mount the 2 projectors inside pointing up. Now, here comes the tricky part: how do we display both images? Simple: Polarization. We put a horiz on projector 1 and a vert on projector 2. Big deal..right? We have 2 images polarized. Now, we need a spinning polarized filter so it tricks the eyes as they say to see 2 images.
Problem: In order to get decent framerates from these surfaces, we need to spin at 2x the framerate for 1. If we want 30fps on the table, we need a 60fps spinning filter. Ok.. 60fps*60 = 3600RPM. Damn. That's why they used a polarized lcd screen, because it can just do 60Hz or higher natively without spinning stuff.
Nah.. Groundtroops wouldn't be the ones to benefit from this that much..
This stuff would be at the local command, with sensors giving accurate realtime data. One could zoom in and see all soldiers and vehicles overlaid atop satellite surveillance maps.
With that, one could SEE the battlefield realtime... It would be a sight to see. And one then would have the ability for UWB viewing of camera data on vehicles and those soldiers with cameras. I get goosebumbs thinking of this sort of pervasive implementation....
If MS is wasting any resources, they are doing so by not leveraging their current projects and products. They've been in business for 20+ years and hundreds of thousands of packages for X86 MS platforms. Instead, they choose to throw away all that collaborative (and competitive work) to create a kludge called Surface.
Ill explain. We in that weird wired west called Linux has a thing called XWindows. It can do over-network window drawing, remote logins, full 3D, and a bunch of other stuff. It had multiple inputs, but the same way that MS and Apple handles them. 3 mice = mouse on crack. 3 Keyboards = whbfqhwbfqwiufqrif. Well, a group of smart input guys found that one could make an extension for XWindows called MPX, short for Multiple Pointer Xserver. Instead of crack-mouse or jibberish-keyboard, one can have up to 16 independent mice and 16 independent keyboard inputs.
There's a caveat: One needs MPX aware software to _properly_ utilize the multiple inputs. That's the downside. Th upside is that MPX aware Xserver DEFAULTS to a non-MPX model in that everything is used to running in. So that means all your older programs will work 100% without modifications. The only real mods required is Compiz (for 3D windows and desktop effects), Gnome, KDE, and XFCE (the rest are choices in windowing environment).
Linux devs can make things work for backards compatibility. Why cant MS do the same?
We still have yet to create a society that trumps their ideals...
They even had a lottery for public servants! Damn.. Even we have problems with corruption due to them, as the ones that _want_ to get in do so on thirsts for power.
They all end up as wormfood anyways. There's nothing special about their blood or some "mandate from the heavens" garbage. They popped out of a female's pussy and they end in the grave. Whoop-de-fuck.
Accepting the idea such as royalty goes traditionally in the belief of "philosopher rulers" who choose the best for everyone. When they die, they get somebody worse off. When they die, you get crony dicatorism. We all can see what that behaves like by looking at Burma.
Perhaps they're taking hints from OSX, KDE and Gnome. It'd be a positive thing. Now, for some commentary on their new features..
--HomeGroup. This essentially turns all the Windows 7 PCs on the home network into a combined pool of data and files
I could easily see how one could do something similar on Linux vis automounter and Samba. DHCP could report the client list to Samba, which attempts to use a specially set password to mount other computers. From then, users would have rights as their own user, granting only rights that they natively have. This would provide security along with a standard solution that all Samba-speaking machines could use.
The only gripe with that setup is that data goes from A to server to B, rather than A to B directly, with the server mediating connections. However, I think this could be made around if we allow direct mediation like FTP can be set up for (Server says send file from B to A).
--HomeGroup is its ability to automatically detect when your work laptop, for instance, is being used in the home.
Network profiles would be much more handy, so one could choose which profile where one is. Also, CUPS is much better than the windows counterpart, as it announces service. Announcement is so much more handy in that regard, because so many devices and OSes speak that. Windows is the odd one out, yet again, unless you go through the "advanced configs".
--Music and video streaming
Arguably, Linux already supports this via multiple protocols. If your client computer is beefy enough, one can "stream" the video from the server. Or, if the client is a low-powered machine, you could use a combination of a sound daemon and X to do the heavy lifting. I would say that there might not be enough bandwidth for raw video via X, but it IS compressed somewhat. X settings are easier, at least in my experience. The sound is more tricky.
There's a few ways to get remote sound. One is to use PulseAudio, and follow the instructions here. They work fine. Also, another choice, if your program is ESD aware, you can use a syntax to target output at a certain server. In fact, I can play MP3s like that on my DS vis the command:
It's a bit more of a setup, but Linux can either process the video locally OR remotely. I dont think Windows can do that.
As for the touch-interface, it looks a lot better than what Linux _currently_ offers, however MPX is a big thing to watch, considering is in the main X.org package. MPX is a multi-point server extension that allows up to 16 mice and 16 keyboard inputs, WHILE keeping backward compatibility with non-MPX-aware apps. This is a biggie, as MS could only figure out how to do multi-point and multi-touch with a special OS only for MP programs. All it takes now is Gnome, KDE, and Compiz to natively communicate with MPX so that we can realize the future of Linux over input development.
Add this to the Wiimote, light-pens, and a downward-facing projector, we could create a touch surface for 1000$ or less, and multi-pointer to boot. Things in Linux sure are picking up...
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I ended up taking the semester off for financial reasons, so Im now working a bit more. However, Im working all shifts, including our over night.
The nice thing is I had today off :) And even on early mornings, I routinely stay up to about midnight, because I can always get sleep after my shift.
My mistake.. Nilgiri is from south India.
It depends...
In general, green tea tends to bring out more bitterness if you use too hot water. 135-170 seems the best for green tea types. Of course, the more delicate the tea, the cooler the water. For example, I love drinking matcha in a tea ceremony. We use bamboo whisks, along with tepid (135-140F) water.
Now, black tea is the one you want hot water for. 190-205 is the best, as is fairly short steeping time. These can get rather powerful and bitter quick if you dont pull out in 2.5-3 minutes. One tea that even 2 minutes is too long for is lapsang sotchung. Everybody talks about "cigarette butt coffee" at Sbux, but sotchung IS burnt... well, smoked actually. Even a minute is too long steeping for even me (and I drink long shots all the time- long as 2x the time it should normally take).
One tea, if you can find it, is a black-like tea from north India called Nilgiri. At first, I thought it was a synthesis of black and green, but is true black. If you use a decent amount in a french press and brew it as you would coffee, then add equal part water, and then chill it and pour it over ice as it makes the best iced tea I've ever tasted. Because it is a green-like black, I'd recommend around 180F for the water.. I tried 200F and it had that burnt taste.
We live betewwn two cities: Columbus Indiana and Bloomington Indiana. We are a quarter mile from a major highway that we know has fiber up and down.
That fastest we can get is 4KB/s. Dial up. That's it. No DSL option. No Cable option. There's some god-awful satellite internet but the quota is 5GB/month with hideous overages.
I work at Starbucks. In fact, I worked there this morning from 5am to noon. I've worked there for a few years, so I know what Im doing there.
Our coffee is between 190F-200F. We only hold it for 30 minutes, and it's warmed during that time. Also, when telling customers how to brew coffee, we recommend 190-200F, unlike green tea, coffee needs very hot water to unlock the flavor. However, we steam lattes only to 180 before giving dire warnings to customers who want hotter. Ill usually say "Grande SCALDING mocha" or something to warn the drinker.
Ill say this: only a moron puts a boiling cup of X liquid between their legs. Everybody knows coffee is SUPPOSED to be hot. Now, however, lid deign does indeed suck, and fair to sue over. Especially how many lids crack at Sbux. During rush (7-9 am), I perhaps, deal with around 10 defective lids. They could easily cause insta-burning spill.
Stupid observation equals a stupid answer.
If service is bad, dump service. If you are not responsible for policy decision, bring it to who is.
This applies to any non-monopoly. Google is not a monopoly in the cloud (vapor) business, nor are they in the app business.
Most likely it's the time for node crash detection and load balancing to take effect.
If service is that bad or intermittent, nobody would buy service there.
You realize that the trade imbalance is in OUR favor?
The T-bills are only promises to pay them. BTW, what happens if the USA defaults on a foreign enemy in presence of wartime?
I can mail a doc file that looks legit, smells legit, scans legit, and hits a buffer overflow in a specific part of the parser that runs a trojan.
You wouldn't know.
No. By far, the most tragic happening of a human is that we die.
20, 50, 100 years of happenings, memories.. All erased, with none ever being recoverable.
That is a horrible thing that needs to be stopped at all costs, unless the person willfully chooses to do so. That being said, I am a Singultarian.
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I support companies who treat users like paying customers. If you treat me like a thief, I have no reason to disappoint.
Paying for software that treats you like a thief encourages them to make more software that treats you the same. I, instead, want to punish these companies. I do so by pirating this software and sharing it to anybody who wants to play.
Also, Im in the USA. Working around problems in games (DRM so it works on my computer) is illegal. Pirating is illegal. So, in order to get it working, Im breaking the law... Why buy then?
I strongly support Linux and good companies who treat us right. We do need copyright so that we encourage makers to keep making. We dont need businesses that treat us like thieves.
We dont.
American politicians and media conglomerates hate us. That includes Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and a slew of other minority parties.
This country is ownership taken to the extreme. There's no happy medium, so we break the law for our rights, because the law is wrong.
It needs not be said.
Vista with no service pack had explicitly that problem. If you happened to use the network for any reason, Vista was plagued with slow speeds. How slow??
"Moving 6 Gigs of data from my XP machine to the new Windows Vista Business box was going to take over 6 days (as reported by Vista itself)" It may once have ben a troll, but this is what helped the image of Vista = turd.
6GB/(6*24*60*60)=11.5KB/s
Now, as per the troll article, it took 23(?) minutes? Well, 17MB/(11.5KB/s)= 24.6 minutes . Not so far off, is it? I mean, how can a company in the scale of Microsoft not create a network of Vista boxes and just do some gaming and file transfer and just test them?
mmmMMMmmmm.. Does the DRM kool-aid taste good?
Guess what? I wont bite, nor will many many people. In fact, i'll help people pirate heavy DRM encrusted gunk, though I'd rather go towards Free Software.
---Like i paid for Stardock games because they have no DRM. FALSE
Stardock is DRM free, until you update. Then it adds DRM. Bait and switch at best.
---don't regret paying EA for a good game.
that's arguable. games that do not play fairly effortlessly arent worth it. Especially the "3 use limit".
---Using illegal copies extensively makes them more nervous and introduce more dangerous DRM.
Everything that is made can be unmade. Every security system can be inspected for holes to exploit. Especially, when an encryption scheme involves giving the user the encrypted data and key, and withholding the key makes no security. Security that also involves purely with obfuscation also leads down a pointless path riddled with harassment to legitimate users.
In the Windows world: if you want a good game experience, use pirated disks that patch around anti-user gunk. Patching around the gunk is illegal anyways, why not go the whole way and just download the stuff?
What you SHOULD have did:
Read the reviews warning you about Spore. Then IF you want to play, download the known good images off of ThePirateBay.org and crack them proper.
Instead, you paid them and screwed yourself. Congrats. Hope you dont use their forums, lest you get banned and can play shit.
No amount of software can 'fix' a server in which the power supply refuses to turn on.
That's a hardware problem. Seems it would indicate that 12v rails would be the way to go in the datacenter.
Not all of us are haters.
I use their ideas on how I can make it for myself, cause Ill know I cant afford it. Thinking how I could implement it in Open Source stuff, here's what I come up with.
You need 2 projectors with a infrared tracking system. I'd use a wiimote for basics, and its cheap. Now, take the table and mount the 2 projectors inside pointing up. Now, here comes the tricky part: how do we display both images? Simple: Polarization. We put a horiz on projector 1 and a vert on projector 2. Big deal..right? We have 2 images polarized. Now, we need a spinning polarized filter so it tricks the eyes as they say to see 2 images.
Problem: In order to get decent framerates from these surfaces, we need to spin at 2x the framerate for 1. If we want 30fps on the table, we need a 60fps spinning filter. Ok.. 60fps*60 = 3600RPM. Damn. That's why they used a polarized lcd screen, because it can just do 60Hz or higher natively without spinning stuff.
Yeah. Expensive.
Nah.. Groundtroops wouldn't be the ones to benefit from this that much..
This stuff would be at the local command, with sensors giving accurate realtime data. One could zoom in and see all soldiers and vehicles overlaid atop satellite surveillance maps.
With that, one could SEE the battlefield realtime... It would be a sight to see. And one then would have the ability for UWB viewing of camera data on vehicles and those soldiers with cameras. I get goosebumbs thinking of this sort of pervasive implementation....
If MS is wasting any resources, they are doing so by not leveraging their current projects and products. They've been in business for 20+ years and hundreds of thousands of packages for X86 MS platforms. Instead, they choose to throw away all that collaborative (and competitive work) to create a kludge called Surface.
Ill explain. We in that weird wired west called Linux has a thing called XWindows. It can do over-network window drawing, remote logins, full 3D, and a bunch of other stuff. It had multiple inputs, but the same way that MS and Apple handles them. 3 mice = mouse on crack. 3 Keyboards = whbfqhwbfqwiufqrif. Well, a group of smart input guys found that one could make an extension for XWindows called MPX, short for Multiple Pointer Xserver. Instead of crack-mouse or jibberish-keyboard, one can have up to 16 independent mice and 16 independent keyboard inputs.
There's a caveat: One needs MPX aware software to _properly_ utilize the multiple inputs. That's the downside. Th upside is that MPX aware Xserver DEFAULTS to a non-MPX model in that everything is used to running in. So that means all your older programs will work 100% without modifications. The only real mods required is Compiz (for 3D windows and desktop effects), Gnome, KDE, and XFCE (the rest are choices in windowing environment).
Linux devs can make things work for backards compatibility. Why cant MS do the same?
And what do you say about the Greeks?
We still have yet to create a society that trumps their ideals...
They even had a lottery for public servants! Damn.. Even we have problems with corruption due to them, as the ones that _want_ to get in do so on thirsts for power.
I'll 1up yours.
Fuck all royalty everywhere.
They all end up as wormfood anyways. There's nothing special about their blood or some "mandate from the heavens" garbage. They popped out of a female's pussy and they end in the grave. Whoop-de-fuck.
Accepting the idea such as royalty goes traditionally in the belief of "philosopher rulers" who choose the best for everyone. When they die, they get somebody worse off. When they die, you get crony dicatorism. We all can see what that behaves like by looking at Burma.
The value of these files are 0. After all, the only cost is the first copy. After that, its worthless.
Its easier to make such a broad law and selectively prosecute targets.
It works for the drug industry and it also works for the music industry.
Perhaps they're taking hints from OSX, KDE and Gnome. It'd be a positive thing. Now, for some commentary on their new features..
--HomeGroup. This essentially turns all the Windows 7 PCs on the home network into a combined pool of data and files
I could easily see how one could do something similar on Linux vis automounter and Samba. DHCP could report the client list to Samba, which attempts to use a specially set password to mount other computers. From then, users would have rights as their own user, granting only rights that they natively have. This would provide security along with a standard solution that all Samba-speaking machines could use.
The only gripe with that setup is that data goes from A to server to B, rather than A to B directly, with the server mediating connections. However, I think this could be made around if we allow direct mediation like FTP can be set up for (Server says send file from B to A).
--HomeGroup is its ability to automatically detect when your work laptop, for instance, is being used in the home.
Network profiles would be much more handy, so one could choose which profile where one is. Also, CUPS is much better than the windows counterpart, as it announces service. Announcement is so much more handy in that regard, because so many devices and OSes speak that. Windows is the odd one out, yet again, unless you go through the "advanced configs".
--Music and video streaming
Arguably, Linux already supports this via multiple protocols. If your client computer is beefy enough, one can "stream" the video from the server. Or, if the client is a low-powered machine, you could use a combination of a sound daemon and X to do the heavy lifting. I would say that there might not be enough bandwidth for raw video via X, but it IS compressed somewhat. X settings are easier, at least in my experience. The sound is more tricky.
There's a few ways to get remote sound. One is to use PulseAudio, and follow the instructions here. They work fine. Also, another choice, if your program is ESD aware, you can use a syntax to target output at a certain server. In fact, I can play MP3s like that on my DS vis the command:
mplayer -ao esd:ip_address_of_ds music.mp3
Found here.
It's a bit more of a setup, but Linux can either process the video locally OR remotely. I dont think Windows can do that.
As for the touch-interface, it looks a lot better than what Linux _currently_ offers, however MPX is a big thing to watch, considering is in the main X.org package. MPX is a multi-point server extension that allows up to 16 mice and 16 keyboard inputs, WHILE keeping backward compatibility with non-MPX-aware apps. This is a biggie, as MS could only figure out how to do multi-point and multi-touch with a special OS only for MP programs. All it takes now is Gnome, KDE, and Compiz to natively communicate with MPX so that we can realize the future of Linux over input development.
Add this to the Wiimote, light-pens, and a downward-facing projector, we could create a touch surface for 1000$ or less, and multi-pointer to boot. Things in Linux sure are picking up...