It took me about 20minutes of reading to confirm that living abroad has left some holes in my diet, and because of the mechanisms of vitamin D mentioned in the article, I've decided I need to pay a lot more attention to the local diet.
When I lived in the states, I was in Oklahoma and probably ate two or three bowls of cereal a day. Lots of milk. I am a cereal fanatic. As far as getting my vitamin d intake up, all the cereal coupled with the rest of the food I ate, the sunlight in Oklahoma, and being a cracker, I think I was probably okay.
Since coming to Japan, I get less sunlight for a variety of reasons and my dairy consumption has plummetted to near zero. If I get vitamin D fortified food, it's the half-and-half creamer in my coffee. At first when I read the article I was mildly alarmed for Japan since we eat almost no diary food over here, and I'm not sure if anything is vitamin d fortified, but then I read up on dietary sources of vitamin d and noticed that fish is generally a very good one.
I thought I was doing okay with the curry-rice, eggs, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, Wendies, and the karatama-don (fried chicken, egg, rice). I think I'm going to pay attention to what's keeping the locals alive and start taking more trips to the sushi shop instead of Wendies as well as replacing the chicken in my curry with squid and whatever other fish I can get to survive being simmered for an hour.
In the end it means more green tea at the sushi shop and fewer big-double-curry-cheeseburgers, so I guess it's better for me in a lot of ways to get over some of the diet changes. I've been here for months and will be here for more, so I should be getting used to things by now.
This is what all of us are thinking. Don't bother smothering your excitement in nerd lingo. You're just getting drunk tonight and masturbationalizing to the headline ^.^
About four months ago I walked out of an AU store on the corner of Teramachi Sanjo in Kyoto. The trip cost me about 5000yen (US$45 or so) up front for the phone and activation fees. I pay 4000Yen (~US$37) a month for, as far as I can tell, unlimited emails and free calls under ten minutes. The phone is a Casio W41CA and comes with English support for most of the software, which allows me to play music, listen to radio, watch tv, spend money (ez felica, aka ketai saifu), find where I'm at via GPS, search the web with an Opera browser (mostly to check stock prices), take and edit pictures etc (alarms, clocks, notepads, customizable led's that indicate who has sent me an email...on and on and on).
The standby screen (maybe only AU) is a flash animation of penguins doing everything from stretching in the morning to turning off the lights at night. Besides the thirty or so cartoons that exist to make my day better, the penguins also tell me when the battery is low, help send emails, and ride the subway with me. No, I'm not kidding. There are that many animations. The user interface is a subway map. And there are three other animation sets that I don't use. The phone is absolutely amazing from the software interface perspective, and the screen is more than sufficient to let that aspect show.
The buttons are very large, have a very easy to feel rounded rooftop shape, and are adjacent to each other so that I write emails faster with my ketai than with a keyboard. The directional button at the top has a nice ledge around it that makes it very easy to navigate from it back to the keypad. The body itself is a flip-spin phone where the top part becomes the screen for the camera. Again, there are some extra buttons that make the design as intuitive as a camera as it is as a phone. They also double as volume and track/frequency when the phone is used to play music. Although the frame did not seem to me to be as stout as I would have liked at first, I breakdance all the time and the phone isn't broken yet. Either I'm lucky or it's good enough.
Perhaps the best feature of the phone is the IR port. They are fairly ubiquitous, especially compared to the states where I didn't even have one, and having an IR port makes sharing numbers painless to the extent that if they existed in the states, World of Warcraft would be about as popular as LARPG's. Simply put, it makes social networking far easier.
Knowing what I know now about the iPhone and my Ketai, I not only choose my Ketai that cost me essentially jack shit, but can't help wondering wtf is going through Apple's collective brain. The iPhone is not designed like a phone. It has horrid buttons. In fact, if I had to email with touchscreen buttons, it would be half as fast and a hundred times more frustrating, as instead of using touch-finger coordination, it would be more like hand-eye coordination. The screen is always open. I guess I should just buy an iPhone Racket Jacket since that's the price of being cool enough to have a iPod that makes calls, but my phone is a hell of a lot easier to take care of. I can already feel myself being angry at an iPhone.
I guess somebody recognized that the majority of phones in the states are horrible in comparison to what my 1800Yen (about $15) bought, and that having one gadget is easier than two. However, they completely missed the mark with flexibility. A phone has a complicated interface because there are more things to coordinate. A music player is simple because it doesn't need to be complex. Phones have enough buttons to act as music players no problem, but an iPod has nowhere near enough hardware to be useful as a phone interface. Thus we have the cop-out; instead of sacrificing the elegance of the clickwheel and admitting its defficiency with regard to being a phone interface, Apple has sacrificed utility.
The largest complaint I have is that Apple has simply introduced a gadget based
How many times have you heard it that humanity is irrational and then thought about creating a rational basis for thought? Every attempt to create a base justification inevitably involves choosing an arbitrary basis that is taken for granted. If you can't honor the concept of free will, then there is no mechanism for the conscious mind to accept that any basis is chosen, and irrationality is fundamentally irreconcilable. To the conscious mind, without free will, all justifications for any action are baseless and thus my suggestion to end this paradoxical indecision, though baseless, is also immune to any sort of rebutal. Of course this holds true everywhere else to and thereby defines all actions as moot.
By free will, humanity has irrationality as a starting point for logically resolving the goals logically derived from that basis. In short, without free will, humanity can't even have irrationality. We'd all be machines with no point to anything in our conscious minds. We may very well be machines, but my point is just that it's impossible for a human being to function entirely and not believe in free will at least somewhat.
r we still going to see final destination 3 tomorrow? i called you a little while ago and you didnt text me so i thought you might be feeling bad. get better *flowers xoxo*
And Intel chips don't run hot? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-726366834 6151253701&q=pentium+4
Intel has been screwing stuff up since the infamous FPU bug on the pentium. They even tried to cover it up. Later, they gave into customer demands and replaced the part that they shipped even after they were aware that it had a broken fpu. http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~dusko/cs63/fdiv.html
Most of the code that didn't function on AMD chips back in the day was on account of Intel intentionally hobbling code for AMD chips. http://www.betanews.com/article/Suit_Intel_Sabotag ed_Compiler_for_AMD/1121274628?do=reply&reply_to=7 1938
AMD is the only company innovating right now and the only one that has channel partners instead of victims. Intel is run by a marketing scumbag who only cares that people believe Intel chips are better instead of actually having advantages. Sure, they developed a lot of chips since the 8086, but their size has definitely gotten to them. Ironic that their ticket away from being a sole-source provider, AMD, who they later tried to crush by withdrawing 386 licensing, is now going to pawn them down to size.
Anyone wasting $9k on a so-called gaming computer ought to have enough sense to know that Intel chips are far lower bang for buck, require far more cooling, and have developed a habbit lately of being rushed out the door since Intel is desperately trying to at least look like they don't have an impossible ammount of catching up to do.
Dell would not have wasted their time acquiring Alienware if they didn't want to sell AMD. The Dell marketing machine is powerful enough to win the hearts of those dumb enough to buy gaming machines with Intel chips. Dell needs more than brand name to get the rest. Of course, the smartest people can put together their own rigs and don't pay a premium on parts just because of a snazzy case. And the true enthusiasts probably lean towards hacksaws and spray paint to achieve the individual effect.
And..self respecting gamers trust in the name of Intel! Whatever. Anyone idiotic enough to be cought buying an Intel gaming rig is stupid enough to be convinced by the XPS advertising campaign that Dell is indeed better than Alienware. This is about product. If Dell wanted idiots, they already had the Dell dude and everyone who bought a computer on account of him. Dell's going after the discriminating customers.
In other news, Alienware has aquired Dell's entire server devision and will ship four-way and two-way opteron systems within a few weeks.
I don't think Dell would go so far out of their way to diversify their offerings just so they could throw it all away. If Dell wanted to sell Intel only, they had everything they needed already, and there would have been no point in the aquisition.
...exist to protect humankind from destruction. Experiments where output >> input with no explanation have an amazing potential to result in new Arizona beachfront property and still no explanation. I for one hope the next step into this effect is not too successful.
The laws of the universe have finally come out of hiding and revealed to us that energy is an illusion and the abundance thereof is merely the lack of any continents at rest.
Just out of curiosity, what does that temperature imply about the velocity of the atoms in order to have that kind of average KE? is it fast enough to have relativistic significance?
...play HDCP protected content at full resolution?
Intel, constructing and overcoming inconsequential technical herdles, one failed DRM implementation at a time.
It implies that millions of years ago, intelligent sharks decided to break their ocean bondages by entrusting man with a gene that would determine our facial features and give them an avenue to bombard us with subliminal pop-up ads that will someday drive us to take to the stars; among the species we will take with us to our new home: sharks.
This theory fully correlates with evidence that mankind has evolved into a society that craves iPods, has basic knowledge of celebrities, and possesses an insatiable desire to squash the cockroach/bomb Sadaam/catch Santa/raid the cookie factory.
I think that making the donations publicly has a positive impact on the society. A general sense of cynicism towards acts that would otherwise invite our appreciation is all that is expressed in criticism of giving publicly. I believe people condemn such acts because to donate challenges their worldview, that everyone is scrounging for as much as possible in order to keep themselves alive/ahead. Secretly, they grudge having gotten built into this mechanism by their own needs and desires. To suggest that someone has escaped this world creates a sense of jealousy in those who feel trapped by it. However, the fact remains that making large donations publicly does challenge the worldview of those who criticize it the most, and possibly it opens them up a bit to a general sense of humanity. For better or worse, visible donations do change us.
"...the confidentiality of your film is our first priority."
By "confidentiality", I'm sure they really meant "obliteration from existence." They only made copies so that more people could watch it and eventually come up with an asinine enough reason to rate it X.
Some woman is going to find a way to marry this guy while he's under and bleed him dry...unless of course there's a constitutional ammendment defining marriage as between a fully animate man and a fully animate woman.
It uses an AMD chip
AMD is eating Intel's lunch (though definitely not because of a $100 laptop with a $5 part)
He said Intel was also expanding an IT teacher training scheme it says has already reached three million schoolteachers worldwide to Sri Lanka, and praised local projects aimed at producing computer literacy. Some 90 percent of Sri Lankans were literate but only 10 percent computer literate, he said.
The IT teacher training scheme is primarily based in the US and Europe, where Intel pushes primarily to secure exclusive governmental contracts for machines powered by Intel chips. Intel doesn't giva a shit about Sri Lanka, much less the less publicized developing nations.
Open up your big heart, Craig. Tell us about how idiotic pushing for ubiquitous computer access is.
...we accidentally built a dyson sphere around the earth composed of solar panels. Artificial sunlight starting at just $3.27/GwH can now be ordered at nu-light.com
Even if the technology is found to be unable to produce sufficient amounts of energy to be valuable in that role, it could still be a great platform for studying fusion in the lab, and it could yield useful information for controlling fusion in the large scale research reactors that may eventually lead to scalable, cheap, and abundant energy production.
Dell is evaluating AMD products for their server lines, not pc's. The reason this seems a likely move is that AMD is releasing dual-core opterons on the 21st, the day of Intel's conference call. Intel hasn't roadmapped dual-core server chips for at least six months. Because of lower power consumption, savings on software licensing, and increased performance/footprint, AMD Opteron dual-core processors will definitely be advantageous to server customers. Whether or not those customers are brighter than "the average dell customer"...well, yeah.
Isn't it obvious that google is paid for by market researchers probing the minds of internet junkies and searching for a way to make money off of them?
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It took me about 20minutes of reading to confirm that living abroad has left some holes in my diet, and because of the mechanisms of vitamin D mentioned in the article, I've decided I need to pay a lot more attention to the local diet.
When I lived in the states, I was in Oklahoma and probably ate two or three bowls of cereal a day. Lots of milk. I am a cereal fanatic. As far as getting my vitamin d intake up, all the cereal coupled with the rest of the food I ate, the sunlight in Oklahoma, and being a cracker, I think I was probably okay.
Since coming to Japan, I get less sunlight for a variety of reasons and my dairy consumption has plummetted to near zero. If I get vitamin D fortified food, it's the half-and-half creamer in my coffee. At first when I read the article I was mildly alarmed for Japan since we eat almost no diary food over here, and I'm not sure if anything is vitamin d fortified, but then I read up on dietary sources of vitamin d and noticed that fish is generally a very good one.
I thought I was doing okay with the curry-rice, eggs, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, Wendies, and the karatama-don (fried chicken, egg, rice). I think I'm going to pay attention to what's keeping the locals alive and start taking more trips to the sushi shop instead of Wendies as well as replacing the chicken in my curry with squid and whatever other fish I can get to survive being simmered for an hour.
In the end it means more green tea at the sushi shop and fewer big-double-curry-cheeseburgers, so I guess it's better for me in a lot of ways to get over some of the diet changes. I've been here for months and will be here for more, so I should be getting used to things by now.
This is what all of us are thinking. Don't bother smothering your excitement in nerd lingo. You're just getting drunk tonight and masturbationalizing to the headline ^.^
Going to Marz!
(((((^.^)
About four months ago I walked out of an AU store on the corner of Teramachi Sanjo in Kyoto. The trip cost me about 5000yen (US$45 or so) up front for the phone and activation fees. I pay 4000Yen (~US$37) a month for, as far as I can tell, unlimited emails and free calls under ten minutes. The phone is a Casio W41CA and comes with English support for most of the software, which allows me to play music, listen to radio, watch tv, spend money (ez felica, aka ketai saifu), find where I'm at via GPS, search the web with an Opera browser (mostly to check stock prices), take and edit pictures etc (alarms, clocks, notepads, customizable led's that indicate who has sent me an email...on and on and on).
The standby screen (maybe only AU) is a flash animation of penguins doing everything from stretching in the morning to turning off the lights at night. Besides the thirty or so cartoons that exist to make my day better, the penguins also tell me when the battery is low, help send emails, and ride the subway with me. No, I'm not kidding. There are that many animations. The user interface is a subway map. And there are three other animation sets that I don't use. The phone is absolutely amazing from the software interface perspective, and the screen is more than sufficient to let that aspect show.
The buttons are very large, have a very easy to feel rounded rooftop shape, and are adjacent to each other so that I write emails faster with my ketai than with a keyboard. The directional button at the top has a nice ledge around it that makes it very easy to navigate from it back to the keypad. The body itself is a flip-spin phone where the top part becomes the screen for the camera. Again, there are some extra buttons that make the design as intuitive as a camera as it is as a phone. They also double as volume and track/frequency when the phone is used to play music. Although the frame did not seem to me to be as stout as I would have liked at first, I breakdance all the time and the phone isn't broken yet. Either I'm lucky or it's good enough.
Perhaps the best feature of the phone is the IR port. They are fairly ubiquitous, especially compared to the states where I didn't even have one, and having an IR port makes sharing numbers painless to the extent that if they existed in the states, World of Warcraft would be about as popular as LARPG's. Simply put, it makes social networking far easier.
Knowing what I know now about the iPhone and my Ketai, I not only choose my Ketai that cost me essentially jack shit, but can't help wondering wtf is going through Apple's collective brain. The iPhone is not designed like a phone. It has horrid buttons. In fact, if I had to email with touchscreen buttons, it would be half as fast and a hundred times more frustrating, as instead of using touch-finger coordination, it would be more like hand-eye coordination. The screen is always open. I guess I should just buy an iPhone Racket Jacket since that's the price of being cool enough to have a iPod that makes calls, but my phone is a hell of a lot easier to take care of. I can already feel myself being angry at an iPhone.
I guess somebody recognized that the majority of phones in the states are horrible in comparison to what my 1800Yen (about $15) bought, and that having one gadget is easier than two. However, they completely missed the mark with flexibility. A phone has a complicated interface because there are more things to coordinate. A music player is simple because it doesn't need to be complex. Phones have enough buttons to act as music players no problem, but an iPod has nowhere near enough hardware to be useful as a phone interface. Thus we have the cop-out; instead of sacrificing the elegance of the clickwheel and admitting its defficiency with regard to being a phone interface, Apple has sacrificed utility.
The largest complaint I have is that Apple has simply introduced a gadget based
How many times have you heard it that humanity is irrational and then thought about creating a rational basis for thought? Every attempt to create a base justification inevitably involves choosing an arbitrary basis that is taken for granted. If you can't honor the concept of free will, then there is no mechanism for the conscious mind to accept that any basis is chosen, and irrationality is fundamentally irreconcilable. To the conscious mind, without free will, all justifications for any action are baseless and thus my suggestion to end this paradoxical indecision, though baseless, is also immune to any sort of rebutal. Of course this holds true everywhere else to and thereby defines all actions as moot.
By free will, humanity has irrationality as a starting point for logically resolving the goals logically derived from that basis. In short, without free will, humanity can't even have irrationality. We'd all be machines with no point to anything in our conscious minds. We may very well be machines, but my point is just that it's impossible for a human being to function entirely and not believe in free will at least somewhat.
r we still going to see final destination 3 tomorrow? i called you a little while ago and you didnt text me so i thought you might be feeling bad. get better *flowers xoxo*
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"Do or do not. There is no try." - Little green man who obviousley used Jedi mind tricks
And Intel chips don't run hot?4 6151253701&q=pentium+4 g ed_Compiler_for_AMD/1121274628?do=reply&reply_to=7 1938
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-72636683
Intel has been screwing stuff up since the infamous FPU bug on the pentium. They even tried to cover it up. Later, they gave into customer demands and replaced the part that they shipped even after they were aware that it had a broken fpu.
http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~dusko/cs63/fdiv.html
Most of the code that didn't function on AMD chips back in the day was on account of Intel intentionally hobbling code for AMD chips.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Suit_Intel_Sabota
AMD is the only company innovating right now and the only one that has channel partners instead of victims. Intel is run by a marketing scumbag who only cares that people believe Intel chips are better instead of actually having advantages. Sure, they developed a lot of chips since the 8086, but their size has definitely gotten to them. Ironic that their ticket away from being a sole-source provider, AMD, who they later tried to crush by withdrawing 386 licensing, is now going to pawn them down to size.
Anyone wasting $9k on a so-called gaming computer ought to have enough sense to know that Intel chips are far lower bang for buck, require far more cooling, and have developed a habbit lately of being rushed out the door since Intel is desperately trying to at least look like they don't have an impossible ammount of catching up to do.
Dell would not have wasted their time acquiring Alienware if they didn't want to sell AMD. The Dell marketing machine is powerful enough to win the hearts of those dumb enough to buy gaming machines with Intel chips. Dell needs more than brand name to get the rest. Of course, the smartest people can put together their own rigs and don't pay a premium on parts just because of a snazzy case. And the true enthusiasts probably lean towards hacksaws and spray paint to achieve the individual effect.
And..self respecting gamers trust in the name of Intel! Whatever. Anyone idiotic enough to be cought buying an Intel gaming rig is stupid enough to be convinced by the XPS advertising campaign that Dell is indeed better than Alienware. This is about product. If Dell wanted idiots, they already had the Dell dude and everyone who bought a computer on account of him. Dell's going after the discriminating customers.
In other news, Alienware has aquired Dell's entire server devision and will ship four-way and two-way opteron systems within a few weeks.
I don't think Dell would go so far out of their way to diversify their offerings just so they could throw it all away. If Dell wanted to sell Intel only, they had everything they needed already, and there would have been no point in the aquisition.
On second thought, this is why we need research labs on the moon or mars.
...exist to protect humankind from destruction. Experiments where output >> input with no explanation have an amazing potential to result in new Arizona beachfront property and still no explanation. I for one hope the next step into this effect is not too successful.
The laws of the universe have finally come out of hiding and revealed to us that energy is an illusion and the abundance thereof is merely the lack of any continents at rest.
Just out of curiosity, what does that temperature imply about the velocity of the atoms in order to have that kind of average KE? is it fast enough to have relativistic significance?
...play HDCP protected content at full resolution? Intel, constructing and overcoming inconsequential technical herdles, one failed DRM implementation at a time.
It implies that millions of years ago, intelligent sharks decided to break their ocean bondages by entrusting man with a gene that would determine our facial features and give them an avenue to bombard us with subliminal pop-up ads that will someday drive us to take to the stars; among the species we will take with us to our new home: sharks. This theory fully correlates with evidence that mankind has evolved into a society that craves iPods, has basic knowledge of celebrities, and possesses an insatiable desire to squash the cockroach/bomb Sadaam/catch Santa/raid the cookie factory.
I think that making the donations publicly has a positive impact on the society. A general sense of cynicism towards acts that would otherwise invite our appreciation is all that is expressed in criticism of giving publicly. I believe people condemn such acts because to donate challenges their worldview, that everyone is scrounging for as much as possible in order to keep themselves alive/ahead. Secretly, they grudge having gotten built into this mechanism by their own needs and desires. To suggest that someone has escaped this world creates a sense of jealousy in those who feel trapped by it. However, the fact remains that making large donations publicly does challenge the worldview of those who criticize it the most, and possibly it opens them up a bit to a general sense of humanity. For better or worse, visible donations do change us.
"...the confidentiality of your film is our first priority."
By "confidentiality", I'm sure they really meant "obliteration from existence." They only made copies so that more people could watch it and eventually come up with an asinine enough reason to rate it X.
Some woman is going to find a way to marry this guy while he's under and bleed him dry...unless of course there's a constitutional ammendment defining marriage as between a fully animate man and a fully animate woman.
I was going to mod you down, but I thought it was just hillarious that you couldn't even pull off a talentless display of douchebagness.
AMD is eating Intel's lunch (though definitely not because of a $100 laptop with a $5 part)
The IT teacher training scheme is primarily based in the US and Europe, where Intel pushes primarily to secure exclusive governmental contracts for machines powered by Intel chips. Intel doesn't giva a shit about Sri Lanka, much less the less publicized developing nations.
Open up your big heart, Craig. Tell us about how idiotic pushing for ubiquitous computer access is.
I don't know what precedents they were planning to use to legitimize this joke, but DO NOT let them have the precedence of smilie patents!
...we accidentally built a dyson sphere around the earth composed of solar panels. Artificial sunlight starting at just $3.27/GwH can now be ordered at nu-light.com
Holy shit! do DVD's ever suck!!!
Even if the technology is found to be unable to produce sufficient amounts of energy to be valuable in that role, it could still be a great platform for studying fusion in the lab, and it could yield useful information for controlling fusion in the large scale research reactors that may eventually lead to scalable, cheap, and abundant energy production.
Dell is evaluating AMD products for their server lines, not pc's. The reason this seems a likely move is that AMD is releasing dual-core opterons on the 21st, the day of Intel's conference call. Intel hasn't roadmapped dual-core server chips for at least six months. Because of lower power consumption, savings on software licensing, and increased performance/footprint, AMD Opteron dual-core processors will definitely be advantageous to server customers. Whether or not those customers are brighter than "the average dell customer"...well, yeah.
Isn't it obvious that google is paid for by market researchers probing the minds of internet junkies and searching for a way to make money off of them?
Until they need some health, and I need a cheap trick :)
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