Of course, you need to be more specific regarding how it breaks with Firefox installed. That link, though, is to #1 item when I googled "xps viewer firefox problems". You've just got me curious:)
Using Firefox would have prevented it and still spared the needless expense of fashionable but mediocre and overpriced hardware for basic office minion tasks.
Well, when you have over a billion people, you can spare a few for testing purposes. Besides, what's worse? Starving to death sooner (not to say they're actually starving) or feeling fuller/richer and having something maybe happen later? Short vs long term considerations all around, really.
Curious question, though. Will the GMO companies try to replicate MS's "success" in terms of getting mindshare through piracy?
There are safe GM foods that have been feeding people for hundreds of years, but it only takes one to go wrong that will cause even the safe GM foods to banned.
I think the issue is that the old fashion way of genetic modification, or selective breeding, is more tried, true and gradual. Gene splicing and such, however, has more potential for "now that's interesting" events. Given that we're always finding new things that are good or bad in our foods, this is an understandable concern.
Oh, absolutely. I'm a touch typist and have longer than average fingers. In this case, though, it's more a problem with the form factor than pricing. I'm rather curious if you've hit onto a niche market for people with similarly proportioned hands as yours. Make a list of everything annoying for you to use and you might have a good start on a fortune. I'd like my 10% cut in karma points, please. Maybe I'll do the same and we can race to the first million.
Many contemporary netbook models run Windows XP or Windows 7 which has forced the specifications, and price, upwards. Many, he said, now cost at least £350, a figure close to that for a more capable full-size laptop.
I wonder if licensing costs will be enough of a factor to help edge linux back (or get manufacturer support increased) onto netbooks. It seems XP was ok, but I'm curious what the price difference is for a crippled windows 7 install. I've seen returns on those netbooks because the buyer couldn't change the background!
Mmm... Easier to understand english. I like how it mentions the blood thinning and known effects of ginkgo. I still think that the study's specificness needs to be taken into account for the effectiveness and the next test adjusted around that. To me, it's the same as saying an anti-wrinkle cream had "no discernible effect" on a one year old baby, thus was useless. Maybe try it on a different group? Again, that particular cream might be useless on 80 year olds as well, but at least then it takes age and it's characteristics into consideration.
Still, at least they're trying. I hate it when people blindly believe or dismiss herbal remedies. Some work, some don't. Find out why:)
Actually, I was thinking something a bit different, but similar. Sometimes the fun happens in the preparation of the product rather than raw ingredient. What part of the plant was used? When the supplement standardizes specific components, are those the right ones? Do those components need other factors in a specific ratio and minimum amounts to be effective? Maybe the effects only work on Asians (given that lactose intolerance can be generalized by geographic/racial backgrounds, maybe that's not so far fetched).
Not to say that ginkgo's hype isn't overdone tremendously, or that this report isn't spot on, but the news reports of the test aren't quite right either.
The primary outcome analysis from the Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory (GEM) study, the largest completed randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled dementia prevention trial to date,1 found that G biloba, 120 mg twice daily, was not effective in reducing the incidence of Alzheimer dementia or dementia overall.
Beyond consideration of a clinical dementia outcome, however, it is possible that G biloba may have had more subtle, therapeutic effects on the rate of cognitive change. Specifically, G biloba may have prevented or delayed age-related changes in individuals with normal cognition, or G biloba may have slowed the rate of decline in those characterized as having mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Indeed, in the United States and particularly in Europe, G biloba is perhaps the most widely used herbal treatment consumed specifically to prevent age-related cognitive decline.2 Putative mechanisms of action on brain functioning include vascular effects such as cerebral vasorelaxation and reduction of blood viscosity,3-4 reduction of oxygen free radicals,5 and neurotransmitter system effects.6-7 Moreover, some in vitro studies indicate that G biloba may inhibit amyloid aggregation, suggesting another mechanism of preventing or delaying cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer disease.
I haven't seen any Ginkgo tablets or information saying it's supposed to be any good for Alzheimer's. The study does not cover younger people, rather just the old. And that's fine in context. Ginkgo will not help people overcome cognitive issues due to Alzheimer's or advanced age. Great. Save money. At least it's not contributing to a bad life. Again, the studies only show that's it's not effective in these cases, not that it's never effective.
As always, science is all about how you split the hair, and there's nothing wrong with that when presented as such. "Common sense", while a potentially helpful myth, also told us the world was flat and that we couldn't fly. Picking apart the myths and truths of ginkgo will help in finding something that does what the marketers advertise, even if it leads back to just sipping ginkgo tea in a garden.
The key is not to Go Big, or Go Small, or Go Bare Metal, it is to go where their interest lies. If they really want to know about electron migration through a solid state material, Hell, go for it. But if they are interested in how to generate a web page, that's where you start.
I'll 2nd this and lament my lack of mod points to numerically bestow positive reinforcement upon you.
How are they auditing the code of the closed source apps they're using? If there are steps in place, use those as a minimum. If there aren't, then how's the blind faith of using those programs different than what's needed for open source?
Please mod this up. Sites catering to video game players (WoW for myself) have unwittingly served up hacked ads in the past. While the end user was generally at fault for not keeping their system up to date on patches the ad companies must share in the blame too. Either they didn't secure their own boxes or didn't have steps in place to ensure they weren't serving up malicious code. If you were to combine compromised ad servers with an unpatched update, then everybody is screwed.
We didn't believe in global warming back there either.
Really fun sex acts get banned too...
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Bed Jumping Banned
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So much for my "circus clown and trapeze artist" themed roleplay this weekend. I wonder if our sexually active gymnast population is going to take this lying down.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/56926-problem-loading-xps-documents.html
:)
Of course, you need to be more specific regarding how it breaks with Firefox installed. That link, though, is to #1 item when I googled "xps viewer firefox problems". You've just got me curious
I hear the Chinese have one of those...
Using Firefox would have prevented it and still spared the needless expense of fashionable but mediocre and overpriced hardware for basic office minion tasks.
let's not forget that in the 'old way' of genetic modification it wasn't possible to make your potatoes part moth
Oh, well, that sucks then.
Well, when you have over a billion people, you can spare a few for testing purposes. Besides, what's worse? Starving to death sooner (not to say they're actually starving) or feeling fuller/richer and having something maybe happen later? Short vs long term considerations all around, really.
Curious question, though. Will the GMO companies try to replicate MS's "success" in terms of getting mindshare through piracy?
Interestingly enough, they weren't meant to go in your ears >.>
There are safe GM foods that have been feeding people for hundreds of years, but it only takes one to go wrong that will cause even the safe GM foods to banned.
I think the issue is that the old fashion way of genetic modification, or selective breeding, is more tried, true and gradual. Gene splicing and such, however, has more potential for "now that's interesting" events. Given that we're always finding new things that are good or bad in our foods, this is an understandable concern.
Our Apple Certified Genius Ninjas have your IP address and are on their way over to assist.
The bees have also been known to search out flowering plants utilized to make various illicit drugs and poisons.
No reliable reports of Al Queda links yet.
Funny how many former Soldiers, Sailors and Marines I've met who say they should have signed up for the Air Force specifically because of that.
I'll take one of these. http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml
Oh, absolutely. I'm a touch typist and have longer than average fingers. In this case, though, it's more a problem with the form factor than pricing. I'm rather curious if you've hit onto a niche market for people with similarly proportioned hands as yours. Make a list of everything annoying for you to use and you might have a good start on a fortune. I'd like my 10% cut in karma points, please. Maybe I'll do the same and we can race to the first million.
Many contemporary netbook models run Windows XP or Windows 7 which has forced the specifications, and price, upwards. Many, he said, now cost at least £350, a figure close to that for a more capable full-size laptop.
I wonder if licensing costs will be enough of a factor to help edge linux back (or get manufacturer support increased) onto netbooks. It seems XP was ok, but I'm curious what the price difference is for a crippled windows 7 install. I've seen returns on those netbooks because the buyer couldn't change the background!
It said "think", not "act".
Mmm... Easier to understand english. I like how it mentions the blood thinning and known effects of ginkgo. I still think that the study's specificness needs to be taken into account for the effectiveness and the next test adjusted around that. To me, it's the same as saying an anti-wrinkle cream had "no discernible effect" on a one year old baby, thus was useless. Maybe try it on a different group? Again, that particular cream might be useless on 80 year olds as well, but at least then it takes age and it's characteristics into consideration.
:)
Still, at least they're trying. I hate it when people blindly believe or dismiss herbal remedies. Some work, some don't. Find out why
You might find "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" by Michael Pollan interesting if you followed that line of thought.
Not to say that ginkgo's hype isn't overdone tremendously, or that this report isn't spot on, but the news reports of the test aren't quite right either.
The primary outcome analysis from the Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory (GEM) study, the largest completed randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled dementia prevention trial to date,1 found that G biloba, 120 mg twice daily, was not effective in reducing the incidence of Alzheimer dementia or dementia overall.
Beyond consideration of a clinical dementia outcome, however, it is possible that G biloba may have had more subtle, therapeutic effects on the rate of cognitive change. Specifically, G biloba may have prevented or delayed age-related changes in individuals with normal cognition, or G biloba may have slowed the rate of decline in those characterized as having mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Indeed, in the United States and particularly in Europe, G biloba is perhaps the most widely used herbal treatment consumed specifically to prevent age-related cognitive decline.2 Putative mechanisms of action on brain functioning include vascular effects such as cerebral vasorelaxation and reduction of blood viscosity,3-4 reduction of oxygen free radicals,5 and neurotransmitter system effects.6-7 Moreover, some in vitro studies indicate that G biloba may inhibit amyloid aggregation, suggesting another mechanism of preventing or delaying cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer disease.
I haven't seen any Ginkgo tablets or information saying it's supposed to be any good for Alzheimer's. The study does not cover younger people, rather just the old. And that's fine in context. Ginkgo will not help people overcome cognitive issues due to Alzheimer's or advanced age. Great. Save money. At least it's not contributing to a bad life. Again, the studies only show that's it's not effective in these cases, not that it's never effective.
As always, science is all about how you split the hair, and there's nothing wrong with that when presented as such. "Common sense", while a potentially helpful myth, also told us the world was flat and that we couldn't fly. Picking apart the myths and truths of ginkgo will help in finding something that does what the marketers advertise, even if it leads back to just sipping ginkgo tea in a garden.
The key is not to Go Big, or Go Small, or Go Bare Metal, it is to go where their interest lies. If they really want to know about electron migration through a solid state material, Hell, go for it. But if they are interested in how to generate a web page, that's where you start.
I'll 2nd this and lament my lack of mod points to numerically bestow positive reinforcement upon you.
That's a great follow up line of thinking for folks that flipped the initial question. No mod points, though :(
How are they auditing the code of the closed source apps they're using? If there are steps in place, use those as a minimum. If there aren't, then how's the blind faith of using those programs different than what's needed for open source?
Please mod this up. Sites catering to video game players (WoW for myself) have unwittingly served up hacked ads in the past. While the end user was generally at fault for not keeping their system up to date on patches the ad companies must share in the blame too. Either they didn't secure their own boxes or didn't have steps in place to ensure they weren't serving up malicious code. If you were to combine compromised ad servers with an unpatched update, then everybody is screwed.
We didn't believe in global warming back there either.
So much for my "circus clown and trapeze artist" themed roleplay this weekend. I wonder if our sexually active gymnast population is going to take this lying down.
I know dairy farmers use the gases from their cows for heating and such. I wonder if the pig farmers will start doing the same.