No, it is not. Surviving in space is far more easy than surviving on (among others): - the surface of Venus (extreme temperature and pressure, acid atmosphere) - the methane clouds of Jupiter (extreme gravity, pressure, radiation) - the bottom of Earth's oceans (extreme pressure, darkness, salt corrosion)
You probably had trouble coding back in the day due to all the pterodactyl attacks.
Nah, they couldn't get into the basement of my parents' cave. Bugs on the other hand were pretty fatal in those days.
Once I had a giant centipede crawling through my rock memory. Nasty critter, always trying to add random bytes. I attached my debugger stick and, after poking for its exact location, purged it with a rock-fill algorithm. I had to clean out my system for weeks after that. Since then I always lit up my fire wall to keep out the worms.
I like QC, but it is different from other web comics that either have a well-defined plot, or have discrete episodes with a joke or a twist, and maybe that's why some people don't like it.
QC is best described as a series of time slices in the lives of a few fictional persons. The story just flows from one strip to the next. Like life, there is no actual plot. Many of the scenes could easily happen in real life. The actual story is how the characters evolve over time and deal with day-to-day stuff.
The artwork also evolved a lot. It's easy to see this if you start at the beginning, and then jump ahead by half a year at a time. I find this sort of thing interesting, but some people might find it aesthetically lacking.
I second that third. I recently discovered Romantically Apocalyptic, and was blown away by the art (and the fact that they manage to create it so fast). The story is definitely... different. Surreal sometimes. But there is a story, and I'm curious where it will go next.
My point was that what you said was a hyperbole, just like the title of the article you linked. You made it appear that 60% of the world population can't drink milk, which is simply not true.
Adults keep producing lactase (the enzyme that breaks down lactose), but at lower levels than at infancy. This doesn't automatically cause lactose intolerance. Some people still produce high enough lactase levels, others can tolerate higher levels of undigested lactose.
Most of the discomfort occurs when certain bacteria break down the lactose and produce gases and raise the acidity in the bowels. There is a lot of variation in the strains of bacteria people carry, and the sensitivity they have for the activities of the bacteria. Another important factor is how much lactose was consumed.
In short: some people cannot process lactose but have no problems tolerating it, some have brief bouts of gases but don't even notice, some have some discomfort, some have serious discomfort. All of these are within that 60% figure you gave. But a large part of them have no problem drinking milk, certainly not in low quantities.
60% of the global population can't digest milk once they become adults.
No, 60% of the global population can't fully digest milk sugar (lactose), which only constitutes 5% of milk by weight. Of those people, many tolerate the undigested lactose to varying degrees, tied to geographical distribution of certain genes. The other components of milk (water, protein, fat, calcium) can be digested normally.
I don't think that less-than-or-greater-than would apply because the use of "lessthan" or "greaterthan" implies the presence of a partial ordering, and though words are ordered alphabetically, I am talking about inequality.
Most people around here know a bit of coding, and in (among others) BASIC, Pascal and SQL the <> operator means not-equal-to. The != comes from C-like languages.
Obviously not, as it is a different language. You would never mix English and German and say "free Gift" (note the capitalization, also the plural is Gifte).
B) Seriously, I am still lost by your comment... What exactly did I say that made you think this mattered?
Lol. It seems I misread your comment as saying: the device was specified at 25000 mAh, but you cannot find a battery that large anywhere. I missed the post at -1 in between that you were actually replying to.
Hint: 2 identical batteries of 12500 mAh plus some extra charging circuits equals 1 of 25000 mAh. Or did you think electric cars run on a single battery?
Hmmm, you're joking, but it could work: contaminate the rainforests with radioactive dust and maybe people would leave them alone. Not optimal for the wildlife and plants, but far better than no habitat at all...
Also there exist a number of HP emulations but I don't know if there are any for TI.
Try Andy Graph. It fully emulates a TI-82 -> TI-86 calculator. I stopped using my real TI calculator after I got this app. It used to be called Andy-86, but unfortunately doesn't come with TI ROMs anymore.
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the methane clouds of Jupiter
Make that the ammonia clouds. Apparently methane, while abundant, cannot condense into cloud droplets because the Jovian temperature is too high.
Space is far more hostile than any planet
No, it is not.
Surviving in space is far more easy than surviving on (among others):
- the surface of Venus (extreme temperature and pressure, acid atmosphere)
- the methane clouds of Jupiter (extreme gravity, pressure, radiation)
- the bottom of Earth's oceans (extreme pressure, darkness, salt corrosion)
So 60% of the world population has a milk allergy now? I don't think so...
You probably had trouble coding back in the day due to all the pterodactyl attacks.
Nah, they couldn't get into the basement of my parents' cave. Bugs on the other hand were pretty fatal in those days.
Once I had a giant centipede crawling through my rock memory. Nasty critter, always trying to add random bytes. I attached my debugger stick and, after poking for its exact location, purged it with a rock-fill algorithm. I had to clean out my system for weeks after that. Since then I always lit up my fire wall to keep out the worms.
Other fun comics:
- Channelate
- Optipess
- Antics
- Toon Hole
I like QC, but it is different from other web comics that either have a well-defined plot, or have discrete episodes with a joke or a twist, and maybe that's why some people don't like it.
QC is best described as a series of time slices in the lives of a few fictional persons. The story just flows from one strip to the next. Like life, there is no actual plot. Many of the scenes could easily happen in real life. The actual story is how the characters evolve over time and deal with day-to-day stuff.
The artwork also evolved a lot. It's easy to see this if you start at the beginning, and then jump ahead by half a year at a time. I find this sort of thing interesting, but some people might find it aesthetically lacking.
I second that third.
I recently discovered Romantically Apocalyptic, and was blown away by the art (and the fact that they manage to create it so fast).
The story is definitely... different. Surreal sometimes. But there is a story, and I'm curious where it will go next.
My point was that what you said was a hyperbole, just like the title of the article you linked. You made it appear that 60% of the world population can't drink milk, which is simply not true.
Adults keep producing lactase (the enzyme that breaks down lactose), but at lower levels than at infancy. This doesn't automatically cause lactose intolerance. Some people still produce high enough lactase levels, others can tolerate higher levels of undigested lactose.
Most of the discomfort occurs when certain bacteria break down the lactose and produce gases and raise the acidity in the bowels. There is a lot of variation in the strains of bacteria people carry, and the sensitivity they have for the activities of the bacteria. Another important factor is how much lactose was consumed.
In short: some people cannot process lactose but have no problems tolerating it, some have brief bouts of gases but don't even notice, some have some discomfort, some have serious discomfort. All of these are within that 60% figure you gave. But a large part of them have no problem drinking milk, certainly not in low quantities.
No, 60% of the global population can't fully digest milk sugar (lactose), which only constitutes 5% of milk by weight.
Of those people, many tolerate the undigested lactose to varying degrees, tied to geographical distribution of certain genes.
The other components of milk (water, protein, fat, calcium) can be digested normally.
Prototypes even in 2005: http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/adrian-cheok-making-a-huggable-internet .
Yup. Prior art in 2006: http://www.mytware.com/ .
That'd be relevant if the bit pattern 0x00 could not possibly be interpreted as, say, 1.
It could, but no sane cpu or programming language would.
That would be funny if the range of an unsigned 8-bit integer wasn't [0, 255] ...
enjoy the end of the world
I will, if I'm still around in a few billion years ;-)
Cheers
I don't think that less-than-or-greater-than would apply because the use of "lessthan" or "greaterthan" implies the presence of a partial ordering, and though words are ordered alphabetically, I am talking about inequality.
Most people around here know a bit of coding, and in (among others) BASIC, Pascal and SQL the <> operator means not-equal-to. The != comes from C-like languages.
so is it necessary to disavow that meaning?
Obviously not, as it is a different language. You would never mix English and German and say "free Gift" (note the capitalization, also the plural is Gifte).
B) Seriously, I am still lost by your comment... What exactly did I say that made you think this mattered?
Lol. It seems I misread your comment as saying: the device was specified at 25000 mAh, but you cannot find a battery that large anywhere.
I missed the post at -1 in between that you were actually replying to.
Just like the point of jumping was to do scissors kicks to the neck. Cause that's just awesome.
That triggered the following image in my head, which I subsequently found on Google.
Kinda like rule 43, but with Norris instead.
In short this is NOT the end of the Mayan Calendar.
True. It already ended centuries ago, after their culture was forgotten and their calendar was replaced by the Gregorian one.
Hint: 2 identical batteries of 12500 mAh plus some extra charging circuits equals 1 of 25000 mAh. Or did you think electric cars run on a single battery?
They're race stripes and obviously make the suit move faster.
Just a hunch: under your fingers maybe?
Hmmm, you're joking, but it could work: contaminate the rainforests with radioactive dust and maybe people would leave them alone. Not optimal for the wildlife and plants, but far better than no habitat at all...
Also there exist a number of HP emulations but I don't know if there are any for TI.
Try Andy Graph. It fully emulates a TI-82 -> TI-86 calculator. I stopped using my real TI calculator after I got this app.
It used to be called Andy-86, but unfortunately doesn't come with TI ROMs anymore.
at least we know how the world ends
Have you tried turning it off and on again?