I've seen news of reports on studies lately that show coffee is good for you. Is the green tea thing simply Asian folklore, or have there been scientific studies? The video you linked is suspect; it's a VIDEO. Do you have a link for those of us who can actually read, preferably from an.edu domain rather than a.org?
I find it amazing that anyone had to say it at all, it seems dirt simple to me. Even more amazing that there's any controversy; this is just logic and common sense in action.
"Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe unto you! For ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them." -- J.C.
How can coherency possibly be set free? You make no sense at all.
for a few seconds/minutes after it looses power
Oh, a non-reader. Sorry, I now see that you meant "lose". "Loose" means to set free. If it loosed power, that would be an electrical short. Your mistake completely changed the meaning of what you were trying to say. I suggest you read less internet and more edited and proofread books so you don't look so uneducated. To paraphrase Twain, an aliterate has no advantage over an illiterate.
That threw me at first, too, but judging from the rest of that comment, I think the AC just made a typo. It's the only thing that makes sense. He probably meant "The majority of Pirates pirate because they can't afford to buy the products," intended to spell "cant" without an apostrophe and didn't hit the T hard enough.
AC should get an account, he'll never see your response.
Long ago, towards the end of the last century, desktop computers were BYOD and Visicalc was the killer app.
Visicalc died a quarter century ago.
the desktop computer is precariously balanced on the edge of its extinction event
Office workers need big screens and good keyboards. The desktop's death has been greatly exaggerated; it's not going away any time soon. You sound like one of those guys in the '90s who said desktops would be the death of mainframes. Guess what? They're still for sale and used by the same companies who have always had them.
Home computer sales were a bubble. People bought them for the internet, and once you have one most people don't need another for years. Now everyone who wanted one has one. But desktop computers aren't likely to go away in the office.
There are at least four reasons most enterprises use Windows
Excel
Access (even though I hate that program)
PowerPoint
MS marketing
Ignorance of Linux's superiority
When I tell people there's a superior alternative to Windows they can get for free, I often hear "Is that legal??" Most non-nerds have never heard of Linux. It's not like you see ads for it on TV like you do MS and Apple ads.
You guys keep hyping W7's search, but I find it to be almost useless. In XP you had a lot more choices of how to search, the new search won't even let you hunt for a document by some of the wording in its text.
Are you guys part of MS's marketing department, or am I just doing it wrong?
I've been just "mcgrew" since I started making web pages in 1997. Googling "mcgrew" when Google first started had mcgrew.info about its third result. I was just mcgrew at k5 and I've been mcgrew at slashdot since some time last century. If you searched for "quake" in any of the engines before Google, a site of mine was one of the first results, and I was mcgrew there. Blues news occasionally had "mcgrew writes..." with a link to my Quake site. Planet Quake posted an editorial in 1998 I wrote under the name "mcgrew". McGrew is really my name.
Since you enlightened me about the German language, I'll assume German is your native tongue and enlighten you about English. "The idea is that sometimes professionals are thinking too specifically - they lose the ability to think outside the box."
Loosing the ability to think outside the box is setting the ability to think outside the box free, and I don't think that's what you meant. Most people on the internet are pretty aliterate (an aliterate is one who can read, but chooses not to).
What's unfair about someone that has worked all his life, invested wisely, saved, etc
That's not how one gets rich. Those things are usually necessary to become rich, but the biggest factor is dumb luck. The "wise investor" can be wiped out as easily as the foolish investor, and the fool can get lucky and pick a winner. And you have to have capital before you can invest it.
My late uncle became rich after WWII making medical prosthetics. Had he not been lucky enough to be born with high intelligence, creativity, eye-hand coordination; had he not been wounded abord ship, and had he not met his future partner (a born salesman) in the hospital, he would likely not have gotten rich. Having his wife come from a rich family didn't hurt, either. Nobody gets rich without knowing the right people, unless they win the lottery or something.
However, I do wish more people that were unhappy with those in power would go and vote and write in "no one" or some such nonsense. It wont have a bearing on who is elected - just like staying home - but it will at least let those that are elected and those that lost know that you are unhappy and not just lazy.
I usually vote either Green or Libbie. Some say the vote is wasted, but some of your friends and relatives smoke pot, and both major parties are against legalization. Why would you vote for a candidate who wants your loved ones imprisoned?
Since I live in Illinois, a vote for Romney or Obama will in truth be wasted, because it's pretty clear that Obama will win Illinois by a landslide. A vote for a green or a libbie is the only rational choice here. Since neither will win it doesn't matter what nutball they nominate; it's the same as voting "no one" or "mickey mouse".
Of course he isn't. He's a damned TROLL and you bit, and bit hard. You gave him exactly what he wanted, fool.
Even more foolish was the mod who moded your offtopic post up. Mods, please bury this entire offtopic flamebait troll thread! Modding up a biter makes the troll who he bites visible. Please stop!
I haven't had cable for over five years; it's just not worth the price these days. In 1980 when I first got cable, it was ten bucks a month for a dozen or so channels, including HBO. The cable channels had no commercials and didn't censor movies, and the picture was sharp and clear, no snow or ghosts.
Then they added more and more crap channels I'd never ever want to watch, cable channels started having commercials and many now have commercials at the bottom of the screen while the actual content is being played, programming on once-great channels plummeted in quality; Discovery used to be almost all science, and now is all "trick my truck" garbage. The history channel went from history to dreck like Ice Road Truckers. There are so many sports channels now that ESPN is showing poker and pool!
When OTA went digital and there was no longer any difference in picture quality between a cable and an antenna, and Hulu came about and the cable networks started putting content on the internet, the last reason to subscribe to cable went away.
I have a computer feeding my TV set, and antenna, paying forty bucks a month for a hundred channels of crap is just a stupid waste of money.
Almost everything I buy in the continental US is shipped/flown in
Most of your food is grown domestically, not just meat. Vegetable oil comes from corn, soybeans, or canola, all three of which we export megatons of, most vegetables are grown here as well.
Copper, gold, bauxite, and other mined materials also come from here. The US is blessed with an abundance of raw materials. Your wire and pipes are likely produced domestically (I used to work at that factory). "Japanese" and "Korean" autos are built in the US, as well as domestic models.
US manufacturing's death has been greatly exaggerated.
But only one tiny spot on Mars. If you're on the wrong hemisphere freezing and gasping for air, you're not going to see a thing. You're better off watching it live from Earth. Yes, it takes ten or twenty minutes for the signal to get here from Mars, depending on where the two planets' orbits are right now, but that's no different than the fact that the sunset you see from your porch is eight minutes late, and your view of Alpha Proxima is eight years late.
The time difference only matters to those controlling the equipment on the red planet.
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I've seen news of reports on studies lately that show coffee is good for you. Is the green tea thing simply Asian folklore, or have there been scientific studies? The video you linked is suspect; it's a VIDEO. Do you have a link for those of us who can actually read, preferably from an .edu domain rather than a .org?
I find it amazing that anyone had to say it at all, it seems dirt simple to me. Even more amazing that there's any controversy; this is just logic and common sense in action.
"Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe unto you! For ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them." -- J.C.
I think it's interesting only as a matter of curiosity at this point.
I really doubt that NASA's computers are running IBM-DOS 1.0...
SRAM looses coherency
How can coherency possibly be set free? You make no sense at all.
for a few seconds/minutes after it looses power
Oh, a non-reader. Sorry, I now see that you meant "lose". "Loose" means to set free. If it loosed power, that would be an electrical short. Your mistake completely changed the meaning of what you were trying to say. I suggest you read less internet and more edited and proofread books so you don't look so uneducated. To paraphrase Twain, an aliterate has no advantage over an illiterate.
It'd be quite entertaining if Scripps Local News did this entirely on purpose, to raise awareness of the abusability of these procedures.
It would be even more entertaining to see Scripps Local News bankrupted and its CEO in prison. NASA should sue.
That threw me at first, too, but judging from the rest of that comment, I think the AC just made a typo. It's the only thing that makes sense. He probably meant "The majority of Pirates pirate because they can't afford to buy the products," intended to spell "cant" without an apostrophe and didn't hit the T hard enough.
AC should get an account, he'll never see your response.
Especially after trying to drink quantum beer for a week.
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Long ago, towards the end of the last century, desktop computers were BYOD and Visicalc was the killer app.
Visicalc ran under CP/M. IBM was the reason for MS's dominance, because "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Lotus ran on Macs as well as IBMs.
Long ago, towards the end of the last century, desktop computers were BYOD and Visicalc was the killer app.
Visicalc died a quarter century ago.
the desktop computer is precariously balanced on the edge of its extinction event
Office workers need big screens and good keyboards. The desktop's death has been greatly exaggerated; it's not going away any time soon. You sound like one of those guys in the '90s who said desktops would be the death of mainframes. Guess what? They're still for sale and used by the same companies who have always had them.
Home computer sales were a bubble. People bought them for the internet, and once you have one most people don't need another for years. Now everyone who wanted one has one. But desktop computers aren't likely to go away in the office.
There are at least four reasons most enterprises use Windows
When I tell people there's a superior alternative to Windows they can get for free, I often hear "Is that legal??" Most non-nerds have never heard of Linux. It's not like you see ads for it on TV like you do MS and Apple ads.
You guys keep hyping W7's search, but I find it to be almost useless. In XP you had a lot more choices of how to search, the new search won't even let you hunt for a document by some of the wording in its text.
Are you guys part of MS's marketing department, or am I just doing it wrong?
I've been just "mcgrew" since I started making web pages in 1997. Googling "mcgrew" when Google first started had mcgrew.info about its third result. I was just mcgrew at k5 and I've been mcgrew at slashdot since some time last century. If you searched for "quake" in any of the engines before Google, a site of mine was one of the first results, and I was mcgrew there. Blues news occasionally had "mcgrew writes..." with a link to my Quake site. Planet Quake posted an editorial in 1998 I wrote under the name "mcgrew". McGrew is really my name.
McGrew is way too common for a trademark.
And it was funny. I'll bet Howard was on that team with the metric conversion fuckup.
However, ultimately, the reason many people will be watching is purely to be there if something goes wrong.
I hear ya! The only reason I go to the race track is to watch the horses crash.
This is old news. They took away mcgrew@gmail.com several years ago, and they didn't give a reason then, either.
Since you enlightened me about the German language, I'll assume German is your native tongue and enlighten you about English. "The idea is that sometimes professionals are thinking too specifically - they lose the ability to think outside the box."
Loosing the ability to think outside the box is setting the ability to think outside the box free, and I don't think that's what you meant. Most people on the internet are pretty aliterate (an aliterate is one who can read, but chooses not to).
What's unfair about someone that has worked all his life, invested wisely, saved, etc
That's not how one gets rich. Those things are usually necessary to become rich, but the biggest factor is dumb luck. The "wise investor" can be wiped out as easily as the foolish investor, and the fool can get lucky and pick a winner. And you have to have capital before you can invest it.
My late uncle became rich after WWII making medical prosthetics. Had he not been lucky enough to be born with high intelligence, creativity, eye-hand coordination; had he not been wounded abord ship, and had he not met his future partner (a born salesman) in the hospital, he would likely not have gotten rich. Having his wife come from a rich family didn't hurt, either. Nobody gets rich without knowing the right people, unless they win the lottery or something.
However, I do wish more people that were unhappy with those in power would go and vote and write in "no one" or some such nonsense. It wont have a bearing on who is elected - just like staying home - but it will at least let those that are elected and those that lost know that you are unhappy and not just lazy.
I usually vote either Green or Libbie. Some say the vote is wasted, but some of your friends and relatives smoke pot, and both major parties are against legalization. Why would you vote for a candidate who wants your loved ones imprisoned?
Since I live in Illinois, a vote for Romney or Obama will in truth be wasted, because it's pretty clear that Obama will win Illinois by a landslide. A vote for a green or a libbie is the only rational choice here. Since neither will win it doesn't matter what nutball they nominate; it's the same as voting "no one" or "mickey mouse".
Dear sir, are you fucking serious?
Of course he isn't. He's a damned TROLL and you bit, and bit hard. You gave him exactly what he wanted, fool.
Even more foolish was the mod who moded your offtopic post up. Mods, please bury this entire offtopic flamebait troll thread! Modding up a biter makes the troll who he bites visible. Please stop!
I haven't had cable for over five years; it's just not worth the price these days. In 1980 when I first got cable, it was ten bucks a month for a dozen or so channels, including HBO. The cable channels had no commercials and didn't censor movies, and the picture was sharp and clear, no snow or ghosts.
Then they added more and more crap channels I'd never ever want to watch, cable channels started having commercials and many now have commercials at the bottom of the screen while the actual content is being played, programming on once-great channels plummeted in quality; Discovery used to be almost all science, and now is all "trick my truck" garbage. The history channel went from history to dreck like Ice Road Truckers. There are so many sports channels now that ESPN is showing poker and pool!
When OTA went digital and there was no longer any difference in picture quality between a cable and an antenna, and Hulu came about and the cable networks started putting content on the internet, the last reason to subscribe to cable went away.
I have a computer feeding my TV set, and antenna, paying forty bucks a month for a hundred channels of crap is just a stupid waste of money.
Almost everything I buy in the continental US is shipped/flown in
Most of your food is grown domestically, not just meat. Vegetable oil comes from corn, soybeans, or canola, all three of which we export megatons of, most vegetables are grown here as well.
Copper, gold, bauxite, and other mined materials also come from here. The US is blessed with an abundance of raw materials. Your wire and pipes are likely produced domestically (I used to work at that factory). "Japanese" and "Korean" autos are built in the US, as well as domestic models.
US manufacturing's death has been greatly exaggerated.
But only one tiny spot on Mars. If you're on the wrong hemisphere freezing and gasping for air, you're not going to see a thing. You're better off watching it live from Earth. Yes, it takes ten or twenty minutes for the signal to get here from Mars, depending on where the two planets' orbits are right now, but that's no different than the fact that the sunset you see from your porch is eight minutes late, and your view of Alpha Proxima is eight years late.
The time difference only matters to those controlling the equipment on the red planet.