I'm starting to wonder whether people read anything besides the title of articles or websites. Alan Aragon had some very good "let's all calm down" points in his rebuttal to Lustig's lecture. However, neither he nor James Krieger disagree with the idea that sugar is very bad for you. They merely point out that Lustig focuses on fructose in some ways that don't apply to real world HFCS or sucrose intake. They also point out that he uses some absolute phrases like "fructose is absent in the Japanese diet". This is true, Lustig definitely overstated a lot of things. He's definitely angry at fructose because he works with obese children on a daily basis. He behaved like any biased human does when evidence all seems to line up - he exaggerated.
However, from my perspective, Aragon and Krieger mostly agree with Lustig's points of view. The fine distinctions do not "debunk" but strengthen and generalize Lustig's more informal presentation.
Now, it's up to us rational listeners and readers to sift through and sort out what a more objective truth is. Having done that with Lustig, Aragon, and Krieger's articles as well as based on my own research, I'd like to reaffirm: sugar is toxic. Sugar is not good for you, and should be eaten in small quantities. Fructose is worse than glucose. People who eat less sugar and less fructose, and exercise more, those people are healthier.
Michael Phelps would disagree. And as has been pointed out a lot on this thread, it's not a matter of quantity. It's sometimes good to watch the presentation before criticizing the title.
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Goodness gracious. As many people have stated, please watch the video before criticizing the title. He specifically makes the distinction between fructose and glucose. He argues the same point about glucose that you just did. He also does not call fructose a drug. He calls it a toxin. I have a feeling you'd agree that fructose isn't food after considering his presentation more carefully.
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Cute, but I think his presentation is worth more than uninformed denial. He makes a persuasive case that fructose metabolizes in a dramatically different, and potentially dangerous, way from, say, glucose. He's pointing out new and not so new research that predicts obesity more accurately than the lipid hypothesis. Especially in children. Considering the average age for obese and diabetic people is lower than 80-90 years, I'm scrutinizing his presentation before drinking any more orange juice:)
I fix my computers. My friends' computers. My parents' computers. My friends' parents' computers. I'm so sick of it even though I love computers. I don't love updating and patching and cleaning and defragmenting. I love writing software. So give me an operating system with vim, svn and firefox. Give all my computer troubled friends and relatives an operating system with just firefox. And watch how we can *finally* start taking advantage of technology instead of the other way around.
I'm not associated in any way, but the Aptera gets a reported 300 mpg. I agree that most hybrids are lacking. That VW 2-seater you mention sounds interesting, got a link?
I love my mouse. I play starcraft and it's great for that, and I customize it and make it do a lot of stuff. But some of the things on your list, I just couldn't let slide:
- scroll bars in programming are totally useless. Page Up / Page Down, various shortcuts in vim and Emacs make them basically obsolete. Interactive search and proper knowledge of navigation techniques including setting bookmarks in your code is WAAAY more efficient than scrolling
- select for cut/copy and paste. Try learning VIM, seriously.
- menu options. This is my biggest objection. Shortcuts!! In well designed menus they're listed right next to the menu item
- setting and going to bookmarks - firefox has a great way of handling this. You add keywords to your bookmarks and then just type them in. I got $10 that says I can Ctrl+L + + Enter faster than you can click on your bookmarks
IBM TrackPoint, great suggestion. It's not like other trackpoints, it feels great and once I got used to it, I became faster than with a mouse. For light scrolling/selecting, drag/dropping it's great. The other huge plus here is the renowned IBM keyboard which has been my favorite for years.
Logitech MX518 mouse. This thing was a workhorse for me on desktops before I fell in love with my T42p. BUT, and this is Huge, you have to set it up the way I do (just try it): - left side button 1 for [Ctrl] - left side button 2 for [Ctrl + Tab] - front middle button for [Space] - middle button (click wheel) for [Enter] - button behind click wheel (hard to hit) for [Backspace]
This configuration allows you to do really cool things like switch tabs in IDEs (Eclipse can be configured), Ctrl+Scroll to resize web text or documents in Office, Ctrl+Click to open links in new tabs, space and backspace for those rare times when you're editing with the mouse (skipping around the text at a pace that you would break your brain if you tried to simulate in VI), and as a plus space and backspace work for going back in browsers and paging down:)
Trackball - A good trackball has no match in my opinion. The $100 Kensington you find at Microcenter or other places is the bottom of the line as far as this is concerned, and I was really unhappy with the software.
One final tip: Change your Caps Lock key into a Ctrl key. Not if you use Emacs (shudder) though, that'll probably cause your fingers to bleed purple or something.
From what I understand, it basically runs a web server when you run Opera. One of the applications is a chat app. So anyone in Iran that's trying to organize could potentially use this. It is alpha quality so maybe save the chat pages locally from time to time. I have yet to try it, but it might just work. Good luck!
I am good with both. I use Vim on a daily basis and I've used every Visual Studio from 6.0 to 2008. I love Visual Studio's debugger and file management, integration of a wide array of tools for adding references and configuration and code generation and endless other things.
But when you're talking hard core file editing where you just wanna jump all over a few files and produce more than two thousand lines of code per day, Vim really shines. You have to be good at it though, it's not for the faint of heart. you have to remember how to set marks and use them and make use of all the registers and write regular expressions fluently. You have to know how to select paragraphs and matching brackets and find / jump to any part of the file very quickly. All this takes time to learn and it could be argued that it wastes more time than it saves. So I think what it comes back to is that it's a pleasure to use because it doesn't get in your way or freeze, and that makes all the difference.
For any Vim noobies reading this, I have four tips:
1. change your caps lock key into a ctrl key and use Ctrl + [ to get out of insert mode. 2. use v and V to enter visual mode and marvel at how convenient it is when you don't want to think about all the crazy ways to select text. 3. use ctags and read online guides for how to jump back and forth throughout your project by integrating with it. 4. check out command references online and use it a lot, it took me about a year to get decent with it.
I've also used Linux for a long time. Reading this list made me clear my mind of prejudice and think about the situation more critically. I believe the author hit upon points that are more serious than just "installation issues".
To me, the great thing about Linux right now is that it's relatively untied to requirements. Microsoft is basically a sophisticated slave to the millions of corporate and home users that it has to satisfy. But with Linux we have a chance to start fresh.
Reading this list shows me a clear path: As a community of users and developers, let's compile a list of meta-requirements and beautiful design principles. Let's take Linux and push it to the next level. More polished than Mac, more compatible than Windows, easier to use than the iPhone. Let's re-architect everything. Develop the last version of the current generations of software and seal the packages and builds and write obituaries on the maintainers' pages. Drop all that and let's come together to build the true next operating system. I humbly offer my services to this ambitious endeavor. But I'm much more hesitant to start piling on hacked code on top of hacked code to just barely squeeze Linux past forgiving, tech-savvy users' standards.
I had a good feeling, when I wrote that, that I was full of hot air. Thanks for providing the proof. I hope that the people below you are wrong and that Amazon will make it easier for authors to interface directly with the kindle. Furthermore, I hope that authors will then not just settle for their rightful $.20 (as much as my wallet would love that). But wouldn't that be amazing... $2 books and content at the touch of a button. And the e-ink technology will just keep getting better. Great times:)
Textbooks are expensive only in small part due to the hardcover / high quality paper they're printed on. The IP of the authors is what costs the most money.
Most likely the Kindle + e-versions of textbooks will be only slightly cheaper than paper textbooks. To really see the savings of the kindle you have to look deeper. Pens, paper, notebooks used to write notes on will be in some large part replaced by the annotation capabilities of the Kindle. Mobile internet for life is also something that people seem to underestimate. Furthermore, reducing paper waste seems to me by far the biggest cost reduction. It's just not one that we typically factor in when we're sliding our credit card.
Here's to a better world and better Kindles to come.
This new idiot is running the country by saying that we should all get up off our asses and run the country. So the fear is that *we* are the idiots, not them.
I agree with this. I think big government is bad. But we can't make a transition from big government to no government in the present state. Consider doing this:
Follow us in this big government so that education and health care once again restores a level playing field among the citizens of the world. After that, we can once again attempt to co-exist peacefully without government meddling with these matters. But it would be unfair to embark on that journey now when 90% of us aren't wearing any clothes.
Here's the thing, and I'm sure others have said it:
He won as a beacon of hope. He's not going to take the world on his shoulder Atlas style, give it a good shaking and make all of us rich, healthy and happy. We have to do that for ourselves, with his help. His approval rating will hopefully follow the average of individual self-approval ratings across the globe. And that's the very Best thing we can hope for in a politician.
"but it doesn't do me any good, because my wife wants me to leave the phone at home with her"
Dude... have you considered that your wife wants you to get lost in the forest and not have any way to call out and die eaten by wild wolves like Gerald Ford and then she can claim the insurance money? Watch out...
well, for one, that's not fair since graphical sudo remembers your password for a configurable amount of time. Therefore it doesn't bother you for every action, just once for the likely duration of your administrative tasks. One of the ideas of interface design is to save your users as many clicks as possible. Sudo accomplishes that and gpedit will only downgrade security not alleviate clicks.
"can't say that makes much difference to me; I'm admin of my own computer"
Being an admin of the computer and being logged in is considered bad by any security specialist. That's the whole reason you get popups in vista, so that you're not always an admin, that's the whole point of the "security".
The expose clone is pretty cool, does it run fast? Still though, linux's cube desktop with beryl is cooler and more productive imho. I didn't know that you could write stuff on top of vista's UI, is this possible in Win XP?
thinks they can have a blog and thinks their opinion is worthwhile or insightful.
This has to be one of the worst reviews I've ever seen. Can anyone enlighten me to this guy's credentials and why he's an authority on the subject? This sentence I loved: "What I can say quite honestly is that there seem to be far fewer bugs in Vista then there were in XP when it was released". This is not a review, this is a poorly worded opinion. No facts, no bug reports, not even specific personal experiences, just like a whimsical sentence. Or the ever duplicitous: "If your PC is having a hard time running XP, it's not a good idea to upgrade. If your PC is running XP but it's sluggish then steer clear of Vista."
Ridiculous, we're slumping into a mediocre state of communication. Slashdot editors, don't indulge this crap, lazy language and fluffy blogs should be smitten into the lowest depths of the internet not pushed to the front page.
Here's a quick review of Vista that I believe conveys more than TFA. Windows 2003 is much faster on hardware with less than 4GB ram based on my own simple tests (browsing the hard drive, the network neighborhood, performing compilations, program startup times, etc.). Windows Vista has poor compatibility with any weird hardware. For example, my bluetooth drivers didn't work on my dell d820, the fingerprint device was impossible for me to configure. Games (like warcraft 3) and certain software installed but would not function. I had none of these problems with Windows 2003 on the same laptop (yes, that's a weird OS to run on a laptop). I was almost disappointed with the dual core machine until I put a slimmer OS on it and realized it was just the software making it slow.
Interface. It adds Windows Key + Tab 3d window switching. Let me tell you why this is horrible compared to OS X's expose or Linux' similar features. One reason is you can't see the window content while you're switching between tabs. The second is because it seems to completely consume all the graphics power of a GeForce 7400!! How can this simple feature that I can run in Linux on my Ti 4200 64MB graphics card be so much slower on such a much faster machine? Poor quality code and optimization is my only explanation. No thought was given to performance, this OS simply requires next-next gen hardware and will suck on anything else. Vista seems to have no other interface improvements. The close window, maximize and minimize window buttons on the window bar are smaller and harder to click. There is less space for window content based on the new window bar layout. The transparent window title bars add nothing to the experience and have been available in Linux for a few years.
Security. Every time you want to do something that takes administrative access Vista throws two popup boxes in your face. One to elevate your access to Admin and one to make sure you initiated the action. 1.) This is not security, this is blaming the user if he makes a mistake after being driven batty by this annoying feature. 2.) There should be only one popup box that handles both of these questions, user interface design 101. Disable the popups and you lose the whole "security"
Please, correct me if I'm wrong on any of the above. But don't speak up if you have never used other operating systems or if you're just shouting opinion.
I asked Eva Vertes about this. She thinks the drug is interesting but she did mention that clinical trials on humans often have different results than trials with rodents or cell cultures. I for one think the funding thing is BS, if they want funding, I'm sure there are plenty willing to cure friggin cancer!
I won't make fun of Mr. Gray because I don't find his situation funny. But don't be disgusted at people laughing at the situation. He made major contributions to the SQL language (co-founded it basically) and SELECT statements along with his unknown location can provide hours of entertainment for part of the/. crowd. Just because he's dying I don't see why people should stop making jokes. Jokes are a way to cope with grief. And as far as dying, people are dying all over the place, being consumed be flames, having heart attacks, eaten by polar bears, starving to death. Life is life, death is part of it, learn to relax and stop being so disgusted by everything, it's not going to help you cope with your own demise.
Here's hoping that Mr. Gray comes out of the big oceans safe and sound. I saw his talk on astronomy's use of SQL at Cornell and even though I didn't understand the syntax at the time I'll always remember it as an inspiration to explore data manipulation and analysis that seems impossible at first. Big up yo' self:)
"In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The Senate, therefore, ought to be this body."
The founding fathers were elitist and out for the interest of the wealthy. A truly fair government would allow everyone to have an opinion. You seem to regard common people as ignorant and stupid. There is something to be said for the indoctrination of a specific set of values that a "higher" education instills upon its subjects. I am college educated and I can see the prejudice in me. Think about the fact that many of the brilliant people in our time and in the past are not products of an educational system. Most of the efficient slaves of this elaborate elitist system we live in are however.
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I'm starting to wonder whether people read anything besides the title of articles or websites. Alan Aragon had some very good "let's all calm down" points in his rebuttal to Lustig's lecture. However, neither he nor James Krieger disagree with the idea that sugar is very bad for you. They merely point out that Lustig focuses on fructose in some ways that don't apply to real world HFCS or sucrose intake. They also point out that he uses some absolute phrases like "fructose is absent in the Japanese diet". This is true, Lustig definitely overstated a lot of things. He's definitely angry at fructose because he works with obese children on a daily basis. He behaved like any biased human does when evidence all seems to line up - he exaggerated.
However, from my perspective, Aragon and Krieger mostly agree with Lustig's points of view. The fine distinctions do not "debunk" but strengthen and generalize Lustig's more informal presentation.
Now, it's up to us rational listeners and readers to sift through and sort out what a more objective truth is. Having done that with Lustig, Aragon, and Krieger's articles as well as based on my own research, I'd like to reaffirm: sugar is toxic. Sugar is not good for you, and should be eaten in small quantities. Fructose is worse than glucose. People who eat less sugar and less fructose, and exercise more, those people are healthier.
Michael Phelps would disagree. And as has been pointed out a lot on this thread, it's not a matter of quantity. It's sometimes good to watch the presentation before criticizing the title.
Goodness gracious. As many people have stated, please watch the video before criticizing the title. He specifically makes the distinction between fructose and glucose. He argues the same point about glucose that you just did. He also does not call fructose a drug. He calls it a toxin. I have a feeling you'd agree that fructose isn't food after considering his presentation more carefully.
Cute, but I think his presentation is worth more than uninformed denial. He makes a persuasive case that fructose metabolizes in a dramatically different, and potentially dangerous, way from, say, glucose. He's pointing out new and not so new research that predicts obesity more accurately than the lipid hypothesis. Especially in children. Considering the average age for obese and diabetic people is lower than 80-90 years, I'm scrutinizing his presentation before drinking any more orange juice :)
I fix my computers. My friends' computers. My parents' computers. My friends' parents' computers. I'm so sick of it even though I love computers. I don't love updating and patching and cleaning and defragmenting. I love writing software. So give me an operating system with vim, svn and firefox. Give all my computer troubled friends and relatives an operating system with just firefox. And watch how we can *finally* start taking advantage of technology instead of the other way around.
I'm not associated in any way, but the Aptera gets a reported 300 mpg. I agree that most hybrids are lacking. That VW 2-seater you mention sounds interesting, got a link?
I love my mouse. I play starcraft and it's great for that, and I customize it and make it do a lot of stuff. But some of the things on your list, I just couldn't let slide:
- scroll bars in programming are totally useless. Page Up / Page Down, various shortcuts in vim and Emacs make them basically obsolete. Interactive search and proper knowledge of navigation techniques including setting bookmarks in your code is WAAAY more efficient than scrolling
- select for cut/copy and paste. Try learning VIM, seriously.
- menu options. This is my biggest objection. Shortcuts!! In well designed menus they're listed right next to the menu item
- setting and going to bookmarks - firefox has a great way of handling this. You add keywords to your bookmarks and then just type them in. I got $10 that says I can Ctrl+L + + Enter faster than you can click on your bookmarks
Here's my "elite" repertoire of mice:
IBM TrackPoint, great suggestion. It's not like other trackpoints, it feels great and once I got used to it, I became faster than with a mouse. For light scrolling/selecting, drag/dropping it's great. The other huge plus here is the renowned IBM keyboard which has been my favorite for years.
Logitech MX518 mouse. This thing was a workhorse for me on desktops before I fell in love with my T42p. BUT, and this is Huge, you have to set it up the way I do (just try it):
- left side button 1 for [Ctrl]
- left side button 2 for [Ctrl + Tab]
- front middle button for [Space]
- middle button (click wheel) for [Enter]
- button behind click wheel (hard to hit) for [Backspace]
This configuration allows you to do really cool things like switch tabs in IDEs (Eclipse can be configured), Ctrl+Scroll to resize web text or documents in Office, Ctrl+Click to open links in new tabs, space and backspace for those rare times when you're editing with the mouse (skipping around the text at a pace that you would break your brain if you tried to simulate in VI), and as a plus space and backspace work for going back in browsers and paging down :)
Trackball - A good trackball has no match in my opinion. The $100 Kensington you find at Microcenter or other places is the bottom of the line as far as this is concerned, and I was really unhappy with the software.
One final tip: Change your Caps Lock key into a Ctrl key. Not if you use Emacs (shudder) though, that'll probably cause your fingers to bleed purple or something.
Hey, here's a seemingly simple answer. Check out Opera Unite:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/an-introduction-to-opera-unite/
From what I understand, it basically runs a web server when you run Opera. One of the applications is a chat app. So anyone in Iran that's trying to organize could potentially use this. It is alpha quality so maybe save the chat pages locally from time to time. I have yet to try it, but it might just work. Good luck!
I am good with both. I use Vim on a daily basis and I've used every Visual Studio from 6.0 to 2008. I love Visual Studio's debugger and file management, integration of a wide array of tools for adding references and configuration and code generation and endless other things.
But when you're talking hard core file editing where you just wanna jump all over a few files and produce more than two thousand lines of code per day, Vim really shines. You have to be good at it though, it's not for the faint of heart. you have to remember how to set marks and use them and make use of all the registers and write regular expressions fluently. You have to know how to select paragraphs and matching brackets and find / jump to any part of the file very quickly. All this takes time to learn and it could be argued that it wastes more time than it saves. So I think what it comes back to is that it's a pleasure to use because it doesn't get in your way or freeze, and that makes all the difference.
For any Vim noobies reading this, I have four tips:
1. change your caps lock key into a ctrl key and use Ctrl + [ to get out of insert mode.
2. use v and V to enter visual mode and marvel at how convenient it is when you don't want to think about all the crazy ways to select text.
3. use ctags and read online guides for how to jump back and forth throughout your project by integrating with it.
4. check out command references online and use it a lot, it took me about a year to get decent with it.
I've also used Linux for a long time. Reading this list made me clear my mind of prejudice and think about the situation more critically. I believe the author hit upon points that are more serious than just "installation issues".
To me, the great thing about Linux right now is that it's relatively untied to requirements. Microsoft is basically a sophisticated slave to the millions of corporate and home users that it has to satisfy. But with Linux we have a chance to start fresh.
Reading this list shows me a clear path: As a community of users and developers, let's compile a list of meta-requirements and beautiful design principles. Let's take Linux and push it to the next level. More polished than Mac, more compatible than Windows, easier to use than the iPhone. Let's re-architect everything. Develop the last version of the current generations of software and seal the packages and builds and write obituaries on the maintainers' pages. Drop all that and let's come together to build the true next operating system. I humbly offer my services to this ambitious endeavor. But I'm much more hesitant to start piling on hacked code on top of hacked code to just barely squeeze Linux past forgiving, tech-savvy users' standards.
I had a good feeling, when I wrote that, that I was full of hot air. Thanks for providing the proof. I hope that the people below you are wrong and that Amazon will make it easier for authors to interface directly with the kindle. Furthermore, I hope that authors will then not just settle for their rightful $.20 (as much as my wallet would love that). But wouldn't that be amazing... $2 books and content at the touch of a button. And the e-ink technology will just keep getting better. Great times :)
Textbooks are expensive only in small part due to the hardcover / high quality paper they're printed on. The IP of the authors is what costs the most money.
Most likely the Kindle + e-versions of textbooks will be only slightly cheaper than paper textbooks. To really see the savings of the kindle you have to look deeper. Pens, paper, notebooks used to write notes on will be in some large part replaced by the annotation capabilities of the Kindle. Mobile internet for life is also something that people seem to underestimate. Furthermore, reducing paper waste seems to me by far the biggest cost reduction. It's just not one that we typically factor in when we're sliding our credit card.
Here's to a better world and better Kindles to come.
wish i could mod this up - well said
This new idiot is running the country by saying that we should all get up off our asses and run the country. So the fear is that *we* are the idiots, not them.
nice dude! Here's to four years of uninterrupted prosperity in the area of writing software in virtual machines :)
I agree with this. I think big government is bad. But we can't make a transition from big government to no government in the present state. Consider doing this:
Follow us in this big government so that education and health care once again restores a level playing field among the citizens of the world. After that, we can once again attempt to co-exist peacefully without government meddling with these matters. But it would be unfair to embark on that journey now when 90% of us aren't wearing any clothes.
Here's the thing, and I'm sure others have said it:
He won as a beacon of hope. He's not going to take the world on his shoulder Atlas style, give it a good shaking and make all of us rich, healthy and happy. We have to do that for ourselves, with his help. His approval rating will hopefully follow the average of individual self-approval ratings across the globe. And that's the very Best thing we can hope for in a politician.
Here's to a renewed effort!
at least we can't accuse them of buying stupid shit
* ducks *
"but it doesn't do me any good, because my wife wants me to leave the phone at home with her"
Dude... have you considered that your wife wants you to get lost in the forest and not have any way to call out and die eaten by wild wolves like Gerald Ford and then she can claim the insurance money? Watch out...
well, for one, that's not fair since graphical sudo remembers your password for a configurable amount of time. Therefore it doesn't bother you for every action, just once for the likely duration of your administrative tasks. One of the ideas of interface design is to save your users as many clicks as possible. Sudo accomplishes that and gpedit will only downgrade security not alleviate clicks.
"can't say that makes much difference to me; I'm admin of my own computer"
Being an admin of the computer and being logged in is considered bad by any security specialist. That's the whole reason you get popups in vista, so that you're not always an admin, that's the whole point of the "security".
The expose clone is pretty cool, does it run fast? Still though, linux's cube desktop with beryl is cooler and more productive imho. I didn't know that you could write stuff on top of vista's UI, is this possible in Win XP?
thinks they can have a blog and thinks their opinion is worthwhile or insightful.
This has to be one of the worst reviews I've ever seen. Can anyone enlighten me to this guy's credentials and why he's an authority on the subject? This sentence I loved: "What I can say quite honestly is that there seem to be far fewer bugs in Vista then there were in XP when it was released". This is not a review, this is a poorly worded opinion. No facts, no bug reports, not even specific personal experiences, just like a whimsical sentence. Or the ever duplicitous: "If your PC is having a hard time running XP, it's not a good idea to upgrade. If your PC is running XP but it's sluggish then steer clear of Vista."
Ridiculous, we're slumping into a mediocre state of communication. Slashdot editors, don't indulge this crap, lazy language and fluffy blogs should be smitten into the lowest depths of the internet not pushed to the front page.
Here's a quick review of Vista that I believe conveys more than TFA. Windows 2003 is much faster on hardware with less than 4GB ram based on my own simple tests (browsing the hard drive, the network neighborhood, performing compilations, program startup times, etc.). Windows Vista has poor compatibility with any weird hardware. For example, my bluetooth drivers didn't work on my dell d820, the fingerprint device was impossible for me to configure. Games (like warcraft 3) and certain software installed but would not function. I had none of these problems with Windows 2003 on the same laptop (yes, that's a weird OS to run on a laptop). I was almost disappointed with the dual core machine until I put a slimmer OS on it and realized it was just the software making it slow.
Interface. It adds Windows Key + Tab 3d window switching. Let me tell you why this is horrible compared to OS X's expose or Linux' similar features. One reason is you can't see the window content while you're switching between tabs. The second is because it seems to completely consume all the graphics power of a GeForce 7400!! How can this simple feature that I can run in Linux on my Ti 4200 64MB graphics card be so much slower on such a much faster machine? Poor quality code and optimization is my only explanation. No thought was given to performance, this OS simply requires next-next gen hardware and will suck on anything else. Vista seems to have no other interface improvements. The close window, maximize and minimize window buttons on the window bar are smaller and harder to click. There is less space for window content based on the new window bar layout. The transparent window title bars add nothing to the experience and have been available in Linux for a few years.
Security. Every time you want to do something that takes administrative access Vista throws two popup boxes in your face. One to elevate your access to Admin and one to make sure you initiated the action. 1.) This is not security, this is blaming the user if he makes a mistake after being driven batty by this annoying feature. 2.) There should be only one popup box that handles both of these questions, user interface design 101. Disable the popups and you lose the whole "security"
Please, correct me if I'm wrong on any of the above. But don't speak up if you have never used other operating systems or if you're just shouting opinion.
I asked Eva Vertes about this. She thinks the drug is interesting but she did mention that clinical trials on humans often have different results than trials with rodents or cell cultures. I for one think the funding thing is BS, if they want funding, I'm sure there are plenty willing to cure friggin cancer!
I won't make fun of Mr. Gray because I don't find his situation funny. But don't be disgusted at people laughing at the situation. He made major contributions to the SQL language (co-founded it basically) and SELECT statements along with his unknown location can provide hours of entertainment for part of the /. crowd. Just because he's dying I don't see why people should stop making jokes. Jokes are a way to cope with grief. And as far as dying, people are dying all over the place, being consumed be flames, having heart attacks, eaten by polar bears, starving to death. Life is life, death is part of it, learn to relax and stop being so disgusted by everything, it's not going to help you cope with your own demise.
:)
Here's hoping that Mr. Gray comes out of the big oceans safe and sound. I saw his talk on astronomy's use of SQL at Cornell and even though I didn't understand the syntax at the time I'll always remember it as an inspiration to explore data manipulation and analysis that seems impossible at first. Big up yo' self
actually, James Madison himself said:
"In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The Senate, therefore, ought to be this body."
The founding fathers were elitist and out for the interest of the wealthy. A truly fair government would allow everyone to have an opinion.
You seem to regard common people as ignorant and stupid. There is something to be said for the indoctrination of a specific set of values that a "higher" education instills upon its subjects. I am college educated and I can see the prejudice in me. Think about the fact that many of the brilliant people in our time and in the past are not products of an educational system. Most of the efficient slaves of this elaborate elitist system we live in are however.