The current anti-male-pattern-baldness products interfere with the production or activity of 5-alpha-reductase to reduce the amount of testosterone converted into dihydrotestosterone. They are usually topical ointments that only affect hair follicles in the area of application. They do not promote hair growth, they merely disrupt the balding process. Since 5-alpha-reductase is localized in the scalp and the prostate, the application of 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors at other locations is pointless.
What really surprised me is that is favorite movie is Viva Zapata!, which happens to be entirely contrary to McCain's politics. John Steinbeck, the writer of the script, was even persecuted as a communist. I wonder how McCain feels about the EZLN.
In February of this year, a judge in the US issued a restraining order on the domain "wikileaks.org".
Dynadot shall immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting records for the wikileaks.org domain name and prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court.
This came around the time of an arson attack and a significant DDoS attack. Wikinews article
has anyone here actually ever tried to buy a laptop without an OS, it's pretty damn hard
In my experience it's pretty easy if you stay away from the big-name shops. Anyone who's not huge won't have a deal with Microsoft, and every license costs them, so they won't buy if they don't have to. Personally, I like Gen-X-PC. (shameful plug, no link. google it) They have a wide selection of blank and unbranded midrange to high-end laptops. When I bought mine last year, they were cheaper than Dell for equivalent specs.
If you're buying anything lower than midrange, then you might as well go into the ultramobile market, and most of those come with Linux already.
But of course we shouldn't have to deal with this. Hopefully as linux and other alternatives become more popular, and more areas begin to set legal precedent, we'll have better options.
They could have gone the minimalist (smart) route, like reddit, but they decided to use wide margins and pretty round shapes. To top it off they have annoying borders everywhere, styled buttons that fail to blend with the background, and a mysterious floating box on the left.
I still don't know what the hell that box is for. It did something crazy while I was typing and it's now across the top of the page.
The worst part is they didn't AJAX-ify the login system, which would have been the best thing they could do. While typing this comment, I clicked the "log in now" link, and it took me to a different page, obliterating my work. It's a good thing I expected that to happen. What it should have done is open an overlay where I could type my credentials, and then drop me back onto the reply page, instead of bringing me to the home page.
In short, Slashdot comments suck now. That's a real problem, because the comments are the only reason why most people read the site.
PS: Once I finished typing this, I tried clicking the "Options" button at the bottom, to see what it would do. To my surprise I was presented with an AJAX login box! Yay! However this was strange, because by this point I was already logged in. And it was half-offscreen because its distance from the top of the page is apparently fixed, and you're not allowed to scroll it or move it. Once I managed to log in, it reloaded the page and clobbered my comment once again. I still don't know what my options are.
There are laws against posessing certain types of content, that can be referenced with a URL, but there is no law saying it is illegal to access any URL.
Re:A physics card is just dual-core for the idiot
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I get the point of a PPU. But at this point brute force is cheaper and easier. CPUs do well enough at processing physics, and they are fast enough and cheap enough that it's smarter to run respectable physics code there instead of spending an extra $100 to $200 on an expansion card that provides almost zero gameplay enhancement. PPUs may have been a good idea ten or fifteen years ago when CPUs were slower, but game physics engines haven't improved significantly since 2003. Faster processors are available cheaper every day, and they only have to run physics code that ran well on even mediocre CPUs five years ago.
Improving game physics is now simply a matter of turning everything in the game world from a static object into a physics object, which will not even provide a significant gameplay improvement. Games like Crysis have nearly done it and they weren't even designed to run with a PPU.
A physics card is just dual-core for the idiot
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With dual-core coming standard now on all new PCs, and multi-core rapidly approaching, physics cards are done for. Graphics cards are still a good idea because the kind of calculations they do can be heavily hardware-optimized in a way that general purpose CPUs are not, but physics cards don't do anything a second (or fourth) full speed CPU isn't capable of doing better and faster.
If they wanted to do that, they would have contacted the students' parents. The school has no right to punish students for a possible "offense" that occurred outside of school grounds and hours.
The article even mentioned that some of the photos were taken during family vacations, which may have been in entirely different countries where the legal drinking age is lower. At least in the wedding pictures mentioned, one can be confident the students had their parents' supervision while drinking, which makes it entirely legal in most states. (I don't know about Minnesota, specifically.) An interviewed student said some of the pictures used against him were taken two years ago, before he even joined the sports team he is now being excluded from.
In any case, the school should not be allowed to punish the students for this kind of thing.
Your pupils try to limit light to a comfortable level, despite the relative brightness of your screen to the rest of the room. If you're looking at the screen they will re-size for maximum screen-reading ability. It's definitely easier on your eyes if your screen is not super bright, because they don't have to shrink so much and the letters are highly visible. For me, looking at a dark screen with just a few bright spots is way more pleasant, especially if I'm tired. It also allows your eyes to adjust more quickly to regular non-glowing surroundings if you need to look away.
Think of it this way: Would you rather stare into a flashlight that someone wrote on, or put the flashlight behind a cardboard cutout that someone stenciled words through?
No. Internet Explorer was "bundled" with Windows. A separate product, included at zero cost. Just as it was legally determined in the antitrust case. You know, the one they received no penalties from, despite the verdict against them.
Slashdot Mirror
http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/
It does work, just not the way you might expect.
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2068524&cid=35714252
The current anti-male-pattern-baldness products interfere with the production or activity of 5-alpha-reductase to reduce the amount of testosterone converted into dihydrotestosterone. They are usually topical ointments that only affect hair follicles in the area of application. They do not promote hair growth, they merely disrupt the balding process. Since 5-alpha-reductase is localized in the scalp and the prostate, the application of 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors at other locations is pointless.
Wikipedia says it came out August 18
They were also giving out physical copies of it at Quakecon a couple weeks ago
This is part of a short documentary where they go out into the patch and trawl for plastic http://www.vbs.tv/watch/toxic/toxic-garbage-island-1-of-3
Quit stereotyping. Jesus is the tallest guy I know.
but the article is about transmission with visible light and this discussion has already been had in the thread above.
so quit being pedantic and either tell us why this is better or admit that it's worse
MEIN FÜHRER! I CAN WALK!
The two environments take entirely opposite approaches to design:
They are both an equally valid approach, but the target demographics are incompatible. It would be stupid to try and combine them.
What really surprised me is that is favorite movie is Viva Zapata!, which happens to be entirely contrary to McCain's politics. John Steinbeck, the writer of the script, was even persecuted as a communist. I wonder how McCain feels about the EZLN.
Next time, do them a favor and laugh in their face.
Coincidentally, the approval of OOXML by ISO was reported on April First.
Maybe they mixed them up at the secret government news factory.
In my experience it's pretty easy if you stay away from the big-name shops. Anyone who's not huge won't have a deal with Microsoft, and every license costs them, so they won't buy if they don't have to. Personally, I like Gen-X-PC. (shameful plug, no link. google it) They have a wide selection of blank and unbranded midrange to high-end laptops. When I bought mine last year, they were cheaper than Dell for equivalent specs.
If you're buying anything lower than midrange, then you might as well go into the ultramobile market, and most of those come with Linux already.
But of course we shouldn't have to deal with this. Hopefully as linux and other alternatives become more popular, and more areas begin to set legal precedent, we'll have better options.
Rant mode: ENGAGE
They could have gone the minimalist (smart) route, like reddit, but they decided to use wide margins and pretty round shapes. To top it off they have annoying borders everywhere, styled buttons that fail to blend with the background, and a mysterious floating box on the left.
I still don't know what the hell that box is for. It did something crazy while I was typing and it's now across the top of the page.
The worst part is they didn't AJAX-ify the login system, which would have been the best thing they could do. While typing this comment, I clicked the "log in now" link, and it took me to a different page, obliterating my work. It's a good thing I expected that to happen. What it should have done is open an overlay where I could type my credentials, and then drop me back onto the reply page, instead of bringing me to the home page.
In short, Slashdot comments suck now. That's a real problem, because the comments are the only reason why most people read the site.
PS: Once I finished typing this, I tried clicking the "Options" button at the bottom, to see what it would do. To my surprise I was presented with an AJAX login box! Yay! However this was strange, because by this point I was already logged in. And it was half-offscreen because its distance from the top of the page is apparently fixed, and you're not allowed to scroll it or move it. Once I managed to log in, it reloaded the page and clobbered my comment once again. I still don't know what my options are.
There are laws against posessing certain types of content, that can be referenced with a URL, but there is no law saying it is illegal to access any URL.
I get the point of a PPU. But at this point brute force is cheaper and easier. CPUs do well enough at processing physics, and they are fast enough and cheap enough that it's smarter to run respectable physics code there instead of spending an extra $100 to $200 on an expansion card that provides almost zero gameplay enhancement. PPUs may have been a good idea ten or fifteen years ago when CPUs were slower, but game physics engines haven't improved significantly since 2003. Faster processors are available cheaper every day, and they only have to run physics code that ran well on even mediocre CPUs five years ago.
Improving game physics is now simply a matter of turning everything in the game world from a static object into a physics object, which will not even provide a significant gameplay improvement. Games like Crysis have nearly done it and they weren't even designed to run with a PPU.
With dual-core coming standard now on all new PCs, and multi-core rapidly approaching, physics cards are done for. Graphics cards are still a good idea because the kind of calculations they do can be heavily hardware-optimized in a way that general purpose CPUs are not, but physics cards don't do anything a second (or fourth) full speed CPU isn't capable of doing better and faster.
If they wanted to do that, they would have contacted the students' parents. The school has no right to punish students for a possible "offense" that occurred outside of school grounds and hours.
The article even mentioned that some of the photos were taken during family vacations, which may have been in entirely different countries where the legal drinking age is lower. At least in the wedding pictures mentioned, one can be confident the students had their parents' supervision while drinking, which makes it entirely legal in most states. (I don't know about Minnesota, specifically.) An interviewed student said some of the pictures used against him were taken two years ago, before he even joined the sports team he is now being excluded from.
In any case, the school should not be allowed to punish the students for this kind of thing.
Because filtering out visible light is a good idea.
Lasers are made in frequencies all through the visual range. They can't block all of them without making the cockpit opaque.
Your pupils try to limit light to a comfortable level, despite the relative brightness of your screen to the rest of the room. If you're looking at the screen they will re-size for maximum screen-reading ability. It's definitely easier on your eyes if your screen is not super bright, because they don't have to shrink so much and the letters are highly visible. For me, looking at a dark screen with just a few bright spots is way more pleasant, especially if I'm tired. It also allows your eyes to adjust more quickly to regular non-glowing surroundings if you need to look away.
Think of it this way: Would you rather stare into a flashlight that someone wrote on, or put the flashlight behind a cardboard cutout that someone stenciled words through?
No. Internet Explorer was "bundled" with Windows. A separate product, included at zero cost. Just as it was legally determined in the antitrust case. You know, the one they received no penalties from, despite the verdict against them.
if those are haiku
then they fail at syllables
it's five-seven-five