Not strictly on-topic, but as lots of people posted about the whole converting blood-borne glucose into electricity thing... Woudn't having some device consume some of the glucose in your blood for its power then make _you_ feel rundown/lower in energy generally?
I mean seriously, what are Canonical smoking? They really expect us to actually use Unity?
Its the biggest pile of crap and largest setback of basic usability I've seen since Vista came out.
Just the pain you have to go through to find an app you want to launch is an exercise i futility and a perfect example of what NOT to do in basic user-interface design.
I can't believe that some reviews of Unity out there are actually positive.
I'd be REALLY interested to know how they prove beyond doubt that the car-sized object detected was necessarily your car if the photo was taken 50 ft away.
>> I think the mean speed at which people travel during a year is almost certainly higher now than it has been in the past.
Maybe globally but not in the US. All the anal (and wrong) do-gooders that keep lowering speed limits in the name of safety and the growing numbers of (often prius) drivers that do 30 mph in the fast lane are together doing a great job of bringing city and urban road use to a standstill.
As someone who loves flying/skydiving/ultralighting/hanggliding, , I gotta ask... what makes you so afraid?
Did you not know that a commercial airliner is statistically one of the most safe places you can be anywhere? (its even about 10x safer than being in your own home).
Ther needs to be a followup. The option to make kids aware of the existence of alternatives to the mainstream thinking is great, however there now needs to be constant checking to make sure it stays balanced, otherwise this opportunity will get hijacked by radical teachers to only teach a wildly unbalanced personal agenda.
To make a real difference, the first thing to do would be to get rid of the stupid political-correctness around obesity and stop acting like its some accident of birth.
The condition is self-inflicted and a direct result of extreme gluttony. Morbidly obese people are not "large" or "big-boned". Its not a physical disability, other than maybe mental. It shouldn't be "OK" to be fat and proud.
We need to stop socially rewarding extreme self-indulgent behavior such as handing out disabled parking stickers to 400lb lardbuckets that can't control their own greed.
Your stats do disprove the op's claim that 227 was decidedly underweight for 6'8. However I'm not clear why a normal weight for someone with less muscles than an athlete is more.
>> anyone looking at me could tell you that I'm decidedly underweight at that point.
sorry but 227 at 6'8 is not underweight or even close. You hit the nail on the head though, Most americans can't even tell what normal weight looks like any more.
Honestly, I can't think why we shouldn't allow stupid people to suffer the consequences of their own actions. As long as the government keeps them in diapers, they won't ever learn to grow up.
Read your own citation. That's just the cost of the missiles. It pales into insignificance when put alongside the cost of the ships and people to deploy them, and all the other miltiary activities around Libya.
I think the argument goes something like the internet enables or even promotes individuals to commit moral sin, that may even be perceived as OK/culturally acceptable. I mean you can't argue that pron, piracy etc. has become way more frequent, convenient and anonymously available since the advent of the internet.
In most people's houses in the US, the only tangible difference between a streaming TV show and a broadcast TV show is that the signal uses different protocols. They even both come over the same cable from the same provider.
My actual TV (samsung LN52A750) is really a computer. it has an ethernet connector and apparently runs some form of Linux. An iPad (not that I would ever own one) is more locked-down and DRM-ridden than my TV actually.
Apparently you won't even be able to save the show on the iPad for later viewing, just view it in your own home. _Exactly_ identical to your TV service other than its on demand.
Probably not many, because the millions of people in the world that are involved in developing for and/or just using Linux probably wouldn't consider wasting money on an ipad in the first place, as its comparative lack of functionality would be too much of a downgrade.
Not even close. Try again when you can install Linux on your iPad or even any apps you want from anywhere you want, including ones you write yourself. IT also needs to be capable of typing 100+ WPM on it. A miniature tactile-less graphic on a touch screen isn't gonna cut it. Also it needs to be able to play 3D hardware-intensive games like crysis 2 or Unreal tournament with all the eye-candy, fast enough to be able to win against someone using a desktop with a keyboard and mouse. Until then, for me at least, tablets are a useless overpriced gimmick. I predict it will stay that way for a very long time.
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Not strictly on-topic, but as lots of people posted about the whole converting blood-borne glucose into electricity thing...
Woudn't having some device consume some of the glucose in your blood for its power then make _you_ feel rundown/lower in energy generally?
SyFy needs to die, to get out of the way for an actual Sci-Fi channel.
As long as SyFy is around, it sends to wrong message to the clueless cable execs that "proper" SciFi isn't popular.
I mean which moron exec decided lame ghost-chasing and horror have any place on a Sci-Fi channel? I want names/email addresses.
I mean seriously, what are Canonical smoking?
They really expect us to actually use Unity?
Its the biggest pile of crap and largest setback of basic usability I've seen since Vista came out.
Just the pain you have to go through to find an app you want to launch is an exercise i futility and a perfect example of what NOT to do in basic user-interface design.
I can't believe that some reviews of Unity out there are actually positive.
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I'd be REALLY interested to know how they prove beyond doubt that the car-sized object detected was necessarily your car if the photo was taken 50 ft away.
You can bet it was a word document.
I blame Microsoft for the retarded design of all their applications, including Word.
It must work well!
I can't remember the name of a single person that had the electric chair.
>> I think the mean speed at which people travel during a year is almost certainly higher now than it has been in the past.
Maybe globally but not in the US. All the anal (and wrong) do-gooders that keep lowering speed limits in the name of safety and the growing numbers of (often prius) drivers that do 30 mph in the fast lane are together doing a great job of bringing city and urban road use to a standstill.
As someone who loves flying/skydiving/ultralighting/hanggliding, , I gotta ask... what makes you so afraid?
Did you not know that a commercial airliner is statistically one of the most safe places you can be anywhere? (its even about 10x safer than being in your own home).
Ther needs to be a followup.
The option to make kids aware of the existence of alternatives to the mainstream thinking is great, however there now needs to be constant checking to make sure it stays balanced, otherwise this opportunity will get hijacked by radical teachers to only teach a wildly unbalanced personal agenda.
To make a real difference, the first thing to do would be to get rid of the stupid political-correctness around obesity and stop acting like its some accident of birth.
The condition is self-inflicted and a direct result of extreme gluttony. Morbidly obese people are not "large" or "big-boned". Its not a physical disability, other than maybe mental. It shouldn't be "OK" to be fat and proud.
We need to stop socially rewarding extreme self-indulgent behavior such as handing out disabled parking stickers to 400lb lardbuckets that can't control their own greed.
Your stats do disprove the op's claim that 227 was decidedly underweight for 6'8. However I'm not clear why a normal weight for someone with less muscles than an athlete is more.
>> anyone looking at me could tell you that I'm decidedly underweight at that point.
sorry but 227 at 6'8 is not underweight or even close.
You hit the nail on the head though, Most americans can't even tell what normal weight looks like any more.
me, for one.
Honestly, I can't think why we shouldn't allow stupid people to suffer the consequences of their own actions.
As long as the government keeps them in diapers, they won't ever learn to grow up.
Read your own citation. That's just the cost of the missiles. It pales into insignificance when put alongside the cost of the ships and people to deploy them, and all the other miltiary activities around Libya.
I think the argument goes something like the internet enables or even promotes individuals to commit moral sin, that may even be perceived as OK/culturally acceptable.
I mean you can't argue that pron, piracy etc. has become way more frequent, convenient and anonymously available since the advent of the internet.
In most people's houses in the US, the only tangible difference between a streaming TV show and a broadcast TV show is that the signal uses different protocols. They even both come over the same cable from the same provider.
My actual TV (samsung LN52A750) is really a computer. it has an ethernet connector and apparently runs some form of Linux. An iPad (not that I would ever own one) is more locked-down and DRM-ridden than my TV actually.
Apparently you won't even be able to save the show on the iPad for later viewing, just view it in your own home. _Exactly_ identical to your TV service other than its on demand.
I really don't see what all the fuss is about.
you chose AMD for GPGPU? wow. why?
I thought nVidia are REALLY ahead on GPGPU, what with CUDA and all the other stuff that AMD don't have.
Citation needed that a citation is needed
Don't forget the state of AMDs Linux drivers compared to nVidias.
I primarily use Linux of my desktop (I only boot windows for windows games that refuse to run under wine or a VM).
Because of AMDs crappy Linux drivers I won't ever consider purchasing any AMD GPU regardless of its price/performance vs nVidia under windows.
Probably not many, because the millions of people in the world that are involved in developing for and/or just using Linux probably wouldn't consider wasting money on an ipad in the first place, as its comparative lack of functionality would be too much of a downgrade.
Not even close.
Try again when you can install Linux on your iPad or even any apps you want from anywhere you want, including ones you write yourself.
IT also needs to be capable of typing 100+ WPM on it. A miniature tactile-less graphic on a touch screen isn't gonna cut it.
Also it needs to be able to play 3D hardware-intensive games like crysis 2 or Unreal tournament with all the eye-candy, fast enough to be able to win against someone using a desktop with a keyboard and mouse.
Until then, for me at least, tablets are a useless overpriced gimmick. I predict it will stay that way for a very long time.
>> How do Americans put up with this crap, when other countries pay so, so much less for mobile?
Because the US government and legal system are for sale to the highest bidder, so the US system only works on the behalf of the big corporations.
...and is also a perfect example of the quality of grammar taught at American schools.