I've never thought that the track tests were especially biased (sometimes they have mentioned waiting for more favourable weather if they have a car that really has a chance of being up at the very top of the leaderboard, which would usually have far too much torque to be able to race well in the rain). Reviews, of course, how could any review be unbiased? But as for putting the same pro race driver in each car each week and sending him round the same track*, it doesn't seem that biased to me..?
* which admittedly has varying weather conditions, but they can't do much about that, and do note down if it's wet or especially hot for example.
Just watched it again, and it would be perfectly fine of them to pretend that it ran out of fuel to talk about charging it.
They also claim the motor overheated, which I didn't find hard to believe as I have an electric scooter which often does the same thing, but if they were just pretending when in fact the Tesla was fine even with crazy track driving, then they were being douches..
Their other claim was that the "brakes broke" on one of the cars. I'm not entirely sure about braking systems on electric vehicles, I would have thought it was mostly done with the motor, but maybe there are more conventional brakes in case of power failure that somehow locked up or something?
Overall the review seems very positive and wouldn't actually stop me buying one if I were someone who could afford it and wanted one.
Sure most of my Facebook friends are people I would never bother to talk to otherwise, but occasionally there is something worth "liking" or chiming in on. Also, it is great for organising stuff with everyday friends, or getting to know new people better. I prefer to go through my initial awkward/quiet phase with new people online, where I can get comfortable knowing that people actually are speaking to me because they want to, rather than just because we happen to be in the same physical location. Previously I used MSN for that, now it's generally Facebook.
People (and most importantly, women!) get to like me a lot faster when I get a chance to speak to them online rather than just in real life. I'm generally quite quiet with new people until I feel comfortable around them, and a lot of people take that to mean that I just don't want to speak to them, when in fact I'm just not sure if they actually want me speaking to them. Online, especially in non realtime chats, it's really easy to blow someone off - so if someone is speaking to you, you know they actually want to.
A lot of people (like me) also join and then never use it because they really just don't "get" it. I can already do something similar but more fun on Facebook.
I agree with your overall message, but you can still play games as well as doing all that. I do, and have all my life. Even when I was at my most addicted to games I'd still do other things. Even these days when I'm physically training 10 hours a week (on top of a 37.5 hours a week job), I still spend some evenings gaming or watching movies etc.
I don't play that much online anymore, but it is definitely enjoyable with the right group of people.
In the cheap tablet I had with Android 1.5 it had the option built in to spoof the browser ID as a desktop browser, it's a bit annoying that they seem to have removed that in the newer versions. I haven't looked at alternative browsers yet though, since sites tend to let you switch to "desktop" view with a setting on the site anyway.
I think they're out of options by now. Man I hate groupthink.. err.. I mean "culture", sometimes.. there are many aspects of Japanese culture that I find interesting and enjoyable, but a lot of the "honour" stuff has always seemed a bit much. Especially if it causes nuclear materials to blow around the rest of the world.
The YouTube app sometimes says "this content cannot be accessed on mobile". Interestingly I think it works fine on the actual YouTube site itself though, thanks to the Flash implementation in Android 2.2..
They were already my favourite company. If they pull this off it would be great:)
Since this service isn't available in the UK yet though, the news surrounding this just reminded me of the existence of Spotify and I've subscribed to it instead. I'm currently listening to the Smashing Pumpkins "Rarities and B-sides" collection that would have cost me £80 to buy on Amazon's MP3 store, and I could never justify the cost considering I have about half the tracks (and you can't buy them individually). Paying a subscription instead of regularly buying albums will save me a loooot of money overall..!
There's nothing inherently "more" fattening about dough than meat
Actually, there is. White flour has a very high glycemic index, meaning your body can digest it and turn it into blood sugar much faster than you can use it. In that case, your body has nothing to do but raise your insulin levels and store the energy as fat. Carbs with a lot of fiber digest slower, protein and fat digest more slowly, and therefore these things all work better for raising your blood sugar enough to make you feel good, but not quite so far that you are assured to go into fat storage mode.
I'm sorry, but this is the dangerous diet hoodoo that makes people stupid. 1 tbsp of mayonnaise = 90 calories of empty fat.
What is "empty" about fat. Fat is a very necessary part of your diet. Far more necessary than empty sugar or white flour for example. People are starting to talk about "good" fat these days, when the only type of fat that has clinically proven to be dangerous are trans-fats (ie certain fats, like the type you get in margarine, turn very easily into trans fats when frying and this is definitely bad).
Eat as much as you want is a good way to do it. My flatmate has gone full atkins recently, and what he wants is often very little since protein and fat are so filling. Empty carbs make you crash and leave you craving more, but protein and fat are satisfying.
It is a bit of a paradox, but whenever I do think "okay I'll eat this white flour based product, how bad can it be?" I end up getting very sleepy (basically hypoglycemic) a few hours later. It passes after maybe 30 minutes, but it's very unpleasant. Now I don't think it affects most people quite as bad as me, but it does to an extent. Oftentimes I reckon when people are "tired" in the evening, it's actually a sugar crash.
Controlling calories is of course important, and eating a lot of fat at one time while also being sedentary can be as bad as eating sugar for storing fat, but different foods are treated differently by the body. Fat is much more likely to just pass through your body if you don't actually need it, whereas sugar is so easy to absorb that you will pretty much always absorb it. I definitely agree that the less you mess with your food before eating it, the better. We didn't evolve to handle all the crap that people constantly pump themselves with to try to make themselves feel better (while at the same time making themselves feel worse overall.. pretty much the same kind of thing as being addicted to caffeine).
I was starting to get slightly lumpy by the time I hit 25 (I'm tall so it's harder to notice), but I tried various things and when I read about the Atkins diet and ended up eating "low GI" food, I've been in great shape, and more importantly, I feel a lot better.
I'd eat a 12" pizza for one meal if it had a wholemeal base.
Chinese stir-fry is perfectly healthy, if you make it yourself at least and have wholemeal noodles or brown rice instead of normal noodles/white rice. Stuff like steamed dumplings would be fattening (because of the dough, not the meat), but it's okay to have that kind of thing every now and then.
Smoothies with oats in them are amazing btw:) As for dressing-less salad, why? Put as much mayonnaise and dressing on it as you want, you're not going to get fat. However, you only need a bit if you don't want to feel like you're eating a bowl of condiments.
The move controller isn't cheap, and is technically a better input device than the Wiimote. It's just a shame there haven't actually been any games for it worth buying (that I've noticed anyway).
Yarr. 3D doesn't hurt my head, nor do I usually get a sore head when I read in a car (it has happened once or twice, but it's definitely the exception). I dislike 3D because they charge extra for the tickets, yet a few minutes into the film I tend to forget it's even in 3D apart from on the odd "wave something toward the camera" moment.
I think 3D gaming on a proper home theater setup could be pretty cool (though I haven't tried it yet so I don't know how good it would be), but these days I kind of cringe when I hear an ad mentioning that a movie will be 3D. It should be irrelevant, yet it usually makes me think the movie will be some half-assed rush job with too much focus on waving things at the camera..
Yeah the "letting go" bit was a bit silly, considering the differences in a rotating mass in a 2D plane vs not-particularly rotating masses in 3D space.
So basically if we had something smaller than the earth moving around the sun at the same velocity as the Earth
You mean like the moon? Or an orbiting spacecraft or satellite?
Okay, I just looked it up and the Sun actually has twice the pull of gravity on the Moon than the Earth does, I really didn't expect that. Is it wrong that I always think of "space wars" when I think about gravity?
Hmm, okay, thanks. In the analogy the "just letting go" would be equivalent of sending the pebble off in the same direction the earth was moving at that point, but with a much larger velocity, so it was a pretty stupid analogy... and presumably firing perpendicular to our own velocity, away from the sun, would be a better idea.
Well I'm not a physicist, but based on the majority of the replies I got the last time I had a discussion on gravity, many posting Slashdotters are even less aware of what's really going on (though some agreed with me). If you'd care to point out any "wrong"ness I'd be extremely happy to be corrected, or to help you actually think beyond your first ever science lessons.
If we had such an air filter then they could just put it over Fukushima.
Also, what happens if the volcano erupts?
It's hard to tell if you were joking:p but heating nuclear material just makes it much more dangerous. Putting it into the sun is fine because it's so far away and any "toxic fumes" would just become a part of the sun and not be able to make their way back to Earth (unless there was a really crazy solar flare I suppose).
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I've never thought that the track tests were especially biased (sometimes they have mentioned waiting for more favourable weather if they have a car that really has a chance of being up at the very top of the leaderboard, which would usually have far too much torque to be able to race well in the rain). Reviews, of course, how could any review be unbiased? But as for putting the same pro race driver in each car each week and sending him round the same track*, it doesn't seem that biased to me..?
* which admittedly has varying weather conditions, but they can't do much about that, and do note down if it's wet or especially hot for example.
Just watched it again, and it would be perfectly fine of them to pretend that it ran out of fuel to talk about charging it.
They also claim the motor overheated, which I didn't find hard to believe as I have an electric scooter which often does the same thing, but if they were just pretending when in fact the Tesla was fine even with crazy track driving, then they were being douches..
Their other claim was that the "brakes broke" on one of the cars. I'm not entirely sure about braking systems on electric vehicles, I would have thought it was mostly done with the motor, but maybe there are more conventional brakes in case of power failure that somehow locked up or something?
Overall the review seems very positive and wouldn't actually stop me buying one if I were someone who could afford it and wanted one.
The show where they made VW ads was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen :)
Sure most of my Facebook friends are people I would never bother to talk to otherwise, but occasionally there is something worth "liking" or chiming in on. Also, it is great for organising stuff with everyday friends, or getting to know new people better. I prefer to go through my initial awkward/quiet phase with new people online, where I can get comfortable knowing that people actually are speaking to me because they want to, rather than just because we happen to be in the same physical location. Previously I used MSN for that, now it's generally Facebook.
People (and most importantly, women!) get to like me a lot faster when I get a chance to speak to them online rather than just in real life. I'm generally quite quiet with new people until I feel comfortable around them, and a lot of people take that to mean that I just don't want to speak to them, when in fact I'm just not sure if they actually want me speaking to them. Online, especially in non realtime chats, it's really easy to blow someone off - so if someone is speaking to you, you know they actually want to.
A lot of people (like me) also join and then never use it because they really just don't "get" it. I can already do something similar but more fun on Facebook.
They are out of options of being able to approach the reactor site for any length of time without basically sentencing people to death.
I agree with your overall message, but you can still play games as well as doing all that. I do, and have all my life. Even when I was at my most addicted to games I'd still do other things. Even these days when I'm physically training 10 hours a week (on top of a 37.5 hours a week job), I still spend some evenings gaming or watching movies etc.
I don't play that much online anymore, but it is definitely enjoyable with the right group of people.
In the cheap tablet I had with Android 1.5 it had the option built in to spoof the browser ID as a desktop browser, it's a bit annoying that they seem to have removed that in the newer versions. I haven't looked at alternative browsers yet though, since sites tend to let you switch to "desktop" view with a setting on the site anyway.
I think they're out of options by now. Man I hate groupthink .. err.. I mean "culture", sometimes.. there are many aspects of Japanese culture that I find interesting and enjoyable, but a lot of the "honour" stuff has always seemed a bit much. Especially if it causes nuclear materials to blow around the rest of the world.
Why weren't the Godzilla fighting robots radiation hardened? That doesn't seem very clever.
For my opinion on that part of the summary, please see my sig.
Pointed that one out to my boss, I think he still uses it sometimes too :) Shame it runs Windows..
The YouTube app sometimes says "this content cannot be accessed on mobile". Interestingly I think it works fine on the actual YouTube site itself though, thanks to the Flash implementation in Android 2.2..
Damnit man, now what am I going to do with these Beatles songs that I've been converting into pig latin?! Uckfay ymay ifelay!
They were already my favourite company. If they pull this off it would be great :)
Since this service isn't available in the UK yet though, the news surrounding this just reminded me of the existence of Spotify and I've subscribed to it instead. I'm currently listening to the Smashing Pumpkins "Rarities and B-sides" collection that would have cost me £80 to buy on Amazon's MP3 store, and I could never justify the cost considering I have about half the tracks (and you can't buy them individually). Paying a subscription instead of regularly buying albums will save me a loooot of money overall..!
That's a very philosophical argument, that I doubt would hold up in court.
Otherwise you could just add slight reverb filters or something to playback of a pirated MP3 and it wouldn't count as copyright infringement any more.
What about RedTube, PornTube and all that kind of thing? Android has Flash, so I'm sure they'd work.
There's nothing inherently "more" fattening about dough than meat
Actually, there is. White flour has a very high glycemic index, meaning your body can digest it and turn it into blood sugar much faster than you can use it. In that case, your body has nothing to do but raise your insulin levels and store the energy as fat. Carbs with a lot of fiber digest slower, protein and fat digest more slowly, and therefore these things all work better for raising your blood sugar enough to make you feel good, but not quite so far that you are assured to go into fat storage mode.
I'm sorry, but this is the dangerous diet hoodoo that makes people stupid. 1 tbsp of mayonnaise = 90 calories of empty fat.
What is "empty" about fat. Fat is a very necessary part of your diet. Far more necessary than empty sugar or white flour for example. People are starting to talk about "good" fat these days, when the only type of fat that has clinically proven to be dangerous are trans-fats (ie certain fats, like the type you get in margarine, turn very easily into trans fats when frying and this is definitely bad).
Eat as much as you want is a good way to do it. My flatmate has gone full atkins recently, and what he wants is often very little since protein and fat are so filling. Empty carbs make you crash and leave you craving more, but protein and fat are satisfying.
It is a bit of a paradox, but whenever I do think "okay I'll eat this white flour based product, how bad can it be?" I end up getting very sleepy (basically hypoglycemic) a few hours later. It passes after maybe 30 minutes, but it's very unpleasant. Now I don't think it affects most people quite as bad as me, but it does to an extent. Oftentimes I reckon when people are "tired" in the evening, it's actually a sugar crash.
Controlling calories is of course important, and eating a lot of fat at one time while also being sedentary can be as bad as eating sugar for storing fat, but different foods are treated differently by the body. Fat is much more likely to just pass through your body if you don't actually need it, whereas sugar is so easy to absorb that you will pretty much always absorb it. I definitely agree that the less you mess with your food before eating it, the better. We didn't evolve to handle all the crap that people constantly pump themselves with to try to make themselves feel better (while at the same time making themselves feel worse overall.. pretty much the same kind of thing as being addicted to caffeine).
I was starting to get slightly lumpy by the time I hit 25 (I'm tall so it's harder to notice), but I tried various things and when I read about the Atkins diet and ended up eating "low GI" food, I've been in great shape, and more importantly, I feel a lot better.
I'd eat a 12" pizza for one meal if it had a wholemeal base.
Chinese stir-fry is perfectly healthy, if you make it yourself at least and have wholemeal noodles or brown rice instead of normal noodles/white rice. Stuff like steamed dumplings would be fattening (because of the dough, not the meat), but it's okay to have that kind of thing every now and then.
Smoothies with oats in them are amazing btw :) As for dressing-less salad, why? Put as much mayonnaise and dressing on it as you want, you're not going to get fat. However, you only need a bit if you don't want to feel like you're eating a bowl of condiments.
The move controller isn't cheap, and is technically a better input device than the Wiimote. It's just a shame there haven't actually been any games for it worth buying (that I've noticed anyway).
Yarr. 3D doesn't hurt my head, nor do I usually get a sore head when I read in a car (it has happened once or twice, but it's definitely the exception). I dislike 3D because they charge extra for the tickets, yet a few minutes into the film I tend to forget it's even in 3D apart from on the odd "wave something toward the camera" moment.
I think 3D gaming on a proper home theater setup could be pretty cool (though I haven't tried it yet so I don't know how good it would be), but these days I kind of cringe when I hear an ad mentioning that a movie will be 3D. It should be irrelevant, yet it usually makes me think the movie will be some half-assed rush job with too much focus on waving things at the camera..
Yeah the "letting go" bit was a bit silly, considering the differences in a rotating mass in a 2D plane vs not-particularly rotating masses in 3D space.
So basically if we had something smaller than the earth moving around the sun at the same velocity as the Earth
You mean like the moon? Or an orbiting spacecraft or satellite?
Okay, I just looked it up and the Sun actually has twice the pull of gravity on the Moon than the Earth does, I really didn't expect that. Is it wrong that I always think of "space wars" when I think about gravity?
Hmm, okay, thanks. In the analogy the "just letting go" would be equivalent of sending the pebble off in the same direction the earth was moving at that point, but with a much larger velocity, so it was a pretty stupid analogy... and presumably firing perpendicular to our own velocity, away from the sun, would be a better idea.
Well I'm not a physicist, but based on the majority of the replies I got the last time I had a discussion on gravity, many posting Slashdotters are even less aware of what's really going on (though some agreed with me). If you'd care to point out any "wrong"ness I'd be extremely happy to be corrected, or to help you actually think beyond your first ever science lessons.
If we had such an air filter then they could just put it over Fukushima.
Also, what happens if the volcano erupts?
It's hard to tell if you were joking :p but heating nuclear material just makes it much more dangerous. Putting it into the sun is fine because it's so far away and any "toxic fumes" would just become a part of the sun and not be able to make their way back to Earth (unless there was a really crazy solar flare I suppose).