The study made me think whether some other drink would work as well (or better)? Fruit juice, cocoa, tea, even plain water? What's the secret component(s)?
As the text also notes:
"The mechanism by which coffee protects against risk of death — if indeed the finding reflects a causal relationship — is not clear, because coffee contains more than 1,000 compounds that might potentially affect health," said Freedman.
Coffee is known to be rich in antioxidants, so that could be one sporadic blind guess. But yeah.
he didn't need bittorrent, all he had to do was go to a mirror site that didn't have bandwidth issues. Bittorrent can be usefull but speed is not one of the things it excels at.
Why is he modded down? Aaargh! Using torrent for downloading a Linux distro is way overengineering the problem. The image servers are usually behind quite fat pipes and you can easily find one that saturates your connection.
The simple fact is that we, as a people, have stated we refuse to accept the terms, conditions, and prices associated with Media (same as human's have done since the beginning of time when facing an injustice); now, we're just in the end-game of waiting for common sense to finally win out, once again.... Rinse, Lather, Repeat.
We don't need Pirate Bay for that. Just not buying stuff would be enough.
Unlike with Internet Explorer, if the Linux community feels strongly about this, they could always do their own fork. So stop bitching and start coding.
It's still a bit too trivial issue to start a fork. Those resources could be used simply directly to improve the original Firefox Linux support.
There's already too much silly stuff like distros not agreeing on desktop environment or packaging format, LibreOffice/OpenOffice, etc. Maybe a fork is sometimes needed, but these are just politics, the focus should be on creating good and useful open source software.
Also very important is to note that the traditional main problems of Windows - sluggishness, crashes, poor security - have been improved by heaps and Linux or Mac do not give that much advantage in those areas anymore.
Anyway, I relied on that most of us could figure out what the article is about, especially when there's the picture, and you can click to the English version of the article.
Exactly. While Steve hasn't changed the world and Windows is still a toy OS, under his supervision Windows has become again quite nice and clean, usable package.
Fun fact: in Finland, Ballmer's nickname is sometimes "Pallomeri".
No it isn't.:) It's in the same ballpark than a 15" 1024x768, pixel size being around 0.3 mm. You would have to double the pixel density for it to be good for an e-reader.
It's just a shame that both parties are throwing rocks over the border, yet not coming to a common agreement.
1) Media companies and artists do not adopt business models that would better suit this day
2) Pirates are constantly inventing new ways to keep the warez flowing
I'm personally generally an anti-piracy guy - I want to support entertainment industry to keep them creating more entertainment. The current situation is just kind of problematic...
I really hate the 1990 DOS command prompt. Can we please have a modern command prompt in the year 2012? A modern cmd prompt is: any true type font, any size also full size, completition of commands with tab key, searchable history of cmds, different background, different text color, etc. For an example of a modern cmd prompt, see Konsole (KDE).
There is PowerShell, but when I started to think about it, it could be a cool hack to have a virtual machine running Linux + sshd, to which you connect locally with PuTTY. In the VM there is some Windows folder shared through guest additions.
The meme about waiting for the first Service Pack might not apply any more. At least for Windows 7 the SP1 was mostly just a security fix wrap-up, the initial release felt and operated mostly the same.
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The study made me think whether some other drink would work as well (or better)? Fruit juice, cocoa, tea, even plain water? What's the secret component(s)?
As the text also notes:
"The mechanism by which coffee protects against risk of death — if indeed the finding reflects a causal relationship — is not clear, because coffee contains more than 1,000 compounds that might potentially affect health," said Freedman.
Coffee is known to be rich in antioxidants, so that could be one sporadic blind guess. But yeah.
Cool.
One could still think that the time would have come to suck it up and pay the cost for a bigger upgrade, just to not be using ancient systems forever.
How can I nuke my G+ account? I searched for the option some days ago but couldn't really find it.
I once saw someone misread that as "religion" and he started explain the limitation as some kind of religion issue. :P
he didn't need bittorrent, all he had to do was go to a mirror site that didn't have bandwidth issues. Bittorrent can be usefull but speed is not one of the things it excels at.
Why is he modded down? Aaargh! Using torrent for downloading a Linux distro is way overengineering the problem. The image servers are usually behind quite fat pipes and you can easily find one that saturates your connection.
The simple fact is that we, as a people, have stated we refuse to accept the terms, conditions, and prices associated with Media (same as human's have done since the beginning of time when facing an injustice); now, we're just in the end-game of waiting for common sense to finally win out, once again.... Rinse, Lather, Repeat.
We don't need Pirate Bay for that. Just not buying stuff would be enough.
Ok, but I still suspect it would not be feasible in terms of investing brain power, releasing products, setting up companies, believing in something.
This is my prediction too. Even if the period was 10 years, it would be problematic. It would not be feasible to invest on many things anymore.
I have also pondered if they have ways to protect against scams.
No comment on that, but this Kickstarter is quite interesting service. It seems to have been around for years, but has really got some wind lately.
Unlike with Internet Explorer, if the Linux community feels strongly about this, they could always do their own fork. So stop bitching and start coding.
It's still a bit too trivial issue to start a fork. Those resources could be used simply directly to improve the original Firefox Linux support.
There's already too much silly stuff like distros not agreeing on desktop environment or packaging format, LibreOffice/OpenOffice, etc. Maybe a fork is sometimes needed, but these are just politics, the focus should be on creating good and useful open source software.
Also very important is to note that the traditional main problems of Windows - sluggishness, crashes, poor security - have been improved by heaps and Linux or Mac do not give that much advantage in those areas anymore.
Fun fact: most of us can't read Finnish.
Fun fact: then you suck. ;)
Anyway, I relied on that most of us could figure out what the article is about, especially when there's the picture, and you can click to the English version of the article.
Exactly. While Steve hasn't changed the world and Windows is still a toy OS, under his supervision Windows has become again quite nice and clean, usable package.
Fun fact: in Finland, Ballmer's nickname is sometimes "Pallomeri".
Cool idea!
75 ppi is just fine for an e-reader.
No it isn't. :) It's in the same ballpark than a 15" 1024x768, pixel size being around 0.3 mm. You would have to double the pixel density for it to be good for an e-reader.
Have you noticed how this Hugh Pickens guy never ceases to post these long, well-written articles. :) Maybe some newspaper hires him, too.
Seconded. Just sell the stuff DRM-free with reasonable prices and easy payment, profit.
Good point, too.
It's just a shame that both parties are throwing rocks over the border, yet not coming to a common agreement.
1) Media companies and artists do not adopt business models that would better suit this day
2) Pirates are constantly inventing new ways to keep the warez flowing
I'm personally generally an anti-piracy guy - I want to support entertainment industry to keep them creating more entertainment. The current situation is just kind of problematic...
I see this as a positive thing. It is retarded to look at the world through Linux-glasses only.
At some point you might not have even that, as we look at the plans MS had for the ARM platform.
I really hate the 1990 DOS command prompt. Can we please have a modern command prompt in the year 2012? A modern cmd prompt is: any true type font, any size also full size, completition of commands with tab key, searchable history of cmds, different background, different text color, etc. For an example of a modern cmd prompt, see Konsole (KDE).
There is PowerShell, but when I started to think about it, it could be a cool hack to have a virtual machine running Linux + sshd, to which you connect locally with PuTTY. In the VM there is some Windows folder shared through guest additions.
The meme about waiting for the first Service Pack might not apply any more. At least for Windows 7 the SP1 was mostly just a security fix wrap-up, the initial release felt and operated mostly the same.