If potato chips are junk food, then so is a baked potato -- a potato is a potato. Grease with french fries or chips, butter with baked, no difference.
Meanwhile, I've never had a weight problem except the two years I was on Paxil and gained 40 pounds, and lost most of it despite trying not to when I stopped. Maybe this mathematician should add drugs to the equation. There's a woman that I see in the bar once in a while who used to be a crackhead. After stopping the crack she went from rail-thin to overweight in six months. And the number of drugs folks take today, and the number of new different drugs, especially prescription drugs is far more than in the '70s. No crack cocaine, no SSRIs, no ADD drugs (they hadn't even categorized ADD) etc. Pot makes some people fat and lots more folks are smoking it today. Rather than blaming "too much food" (I never knew many folks going hungry when I was a kid) maybe they should look at today's drug intake.
The "there couldn't be any fast food if food was expensive" in TFS is completely bogus. McDonald's has been around since 1940, Pizza Hut since 1958, long before they stopped paying farmers not to grow food and long before the obesity "epidemic". And when I was ten in 1962, a McDonald's hamburger, fries, and small coke was thirty two cents. How is that "expensive"? You'll pay ten times that much for the same thing today.
His history omits an important variable -- exports. After the government stopped paying farmers to not grow food, we started exporting so much that ADM's slogan is now "breadbasket to the world". We're not eating more because more's available, most of the extra food is being exported. It also neglects the size of soda, a small coke at McDonalds today is bigger than a large coke was in the sixties. Lots of caloric intake with nothing to curb hunger, a sure-fire way to obesity.
It also doesn't explain why poor people are more obese than middle class people. He would probably say "food stamps" but he'd be wrong. Poor folks are fat because cheap food is fattening --five pounds of potatos is only two bucks, TV dinners 89 cents, while expensive foods usually are far less fatteniing. Poor folks can't afford McDonalds very often, a small order of fries (1/3 of a potato) is a buck twenty while a five pound bag of raw potatos is only eighty cents more. Add a quarter pounder and a cole, and you'll pay the same price as two dozen burger patties and a loaf of bread at WalMart.
I'm sure the guy's maths are correct, but he's a mathematician, not a nutritionist, biologist, medical doctor, sociologist, or historian. A study like this would need input from all those fields and probably more to have any meaning. You don't ask a geologist about solar flares, after all.
Twenty years isn't too long. There should be no such thing as software patents, software can be protected by copyright. The trouble with patents are that they're granted for obvious things, and cost way too much to obtain.
I'd like to see copyright shortened to 20 years and noncommercial copying be deemed noninfringing. At least you don't need an army of lawyers to get one, just the $35 dollar fee to register them.
Because the shrinking middle class is one of this country's biggest problems, an Romney and his ilk are a huge part of why the problem exists in the first place. Romney's ilk's creed is in fact "more for me, fuck society."
I'm not the AC you responded to, but I agree 25 years is reasonable. However, today's penalties are as insane as today's copyright lengths. Look at the difference between a music pirate and a music thief.
The theif steals a CD from walmart, and whether or not he ever intends to listen to it, walamart is out the price of the CD. If caught, it's a misdemeanor and he'll pay a few hundred bucks in fines.
The pirate downloads a song, and if he listens to it and likes it he's likely to buy the CD. Whether or not he listens to it, nobody has lost anything. And if he's caught it's going to cost him thousands.
I have no clue how shortening copyright periods to sanity would prompt the AC to buy new movies.
Lobbying for laws has always been 'a business model'
That's true, but it shouldn't even be possible.
One might also well argue that being backed into the corner they're in is not solely their own doing.
Not by me it couldn't. The music industry freaked out over Napster instead of using it to their advantage. P2P is great advertising, but the industry had to protect itself -- from their independant competetion, who had only the internet. RIAA labels have radio and TV. Had they embraced P2P and used it to sell CDs, using their marketers to convince the public that CDs were superior to downloads (not hard to do, they are superior) they would never have gotten into that mess.
The MPAA is making the same kind of stupid mistakes. Had DVDs and BluRays been without DRM and the movie started as soon as you put the thing in the drive, they would be superior to the download because you have an automatic backup copy. As it is, pirated movies are superior to most DVDs because DVDs have stupid unskippable FBI warnings and often stupid unskippable trailers and stupid, worthless animated menuus before you see the movie.
As to whether they should take a revenue cut... I don't believe they 'should'. That implies direction from above. I believe that if people buy their merchandise less, revenue cuts will follow.
In most cases that's true, but with the MAFIAA they'll simply blame any losses on piracy and call for harsher legislation. With most movies selling for less than tapess use to cost cost to rent, the only reason to pirate is so you don't have to go through the hassle of ripping it or the aggravation of the stupid unskippables.
In short, the media industry looks like it's run by cocaine soaked mediocrities with no clue whatever.
I was wondering the same thing as hatta, your explanation makes sense. It also explains why Linux isn't supported -- most lay users don't even know Linux exists, and few Linux users would use this. I mean, we already have repositories, this "app market" is redundant.
A kid who spends large amounts of time watching tv doesn't do homework. The tv watching isn't the cause. A student who spends lots of time playing basketball and does no studying has the same result.
Then how did Shaquile O'neil get a PhD after retiring from pro basketball? Kids that don't do their homework in high school usually don't do well in college.
The guy has probably never had a good encounter with law enforcement and likely had some really bad ones. If he's black and from Chicago, he has very good reason to hate cops.
You should NOT be free to lie to me when selling me a product. Your rights end where mine begin. You should certainly noit have the right to defraud. That said, if they outlaw photoshop, advertisers have other sneaky tricks (like photorealistic paintings).
Exposure to TV/Computers is dangerous for kids because synapses develop incorrectly: Because of the incorrect audio/video synchronisation and the lack of feedback
But they'll have the feedback here, grandma and grandpa. This isn't a TV or computer, it's a picture phone. Completely different than what was studied.
I disagree, you should keep your wifi open if possible, with strong passwords on your wired network and a firewall between your network an modem. I'd leave my wifi open if my ISP's TOS didn't forbid it.
In fact, the nodular cast iron of which many engine parts are made, is itself a composite. The iron (a metal) contains nodules of graphite (carbon) which are roughly spherical and give it a combination of strength and ductility.
Correct but misleading. steel Iron is what melts out of the ore. From the supplied link:
Steel is an alloy made by combining iron and another element, usually carbon. When carbon is used, its content in the steel is between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Other alloying elements sometimes used are manganese, chromium, vanadium and tungsten.[1] Carbon and other elements act as a hardening agent, preventing dislocations in the iron atom crystal lattice from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of alloying elements and the form of their presence in the steel (solute elements, precipitated phase) controls qualities such as the hardness, ductility, and tensile strength of the resulting steel. Steel with increased carbon content can be made harder and stronger than iron, but such steel is also less ductile than iron.
Alloys with a higher than 2.1% carbon content are known as cast iron because of their lower melting point and good castability.[1] Steel is also distinguishable from wrought iron, which can contain a small amount of carbon, but it is included in the form of slag inclusions. Two distinguishing factors are steel's increased rust resistance and better weldability.
I had a couple of classes on this in college. Cast iron is indeed a composite, but iron itself is not.
Ballmer took the world's leading software company and.... did nothing with it. That's just not good.
As a Linux fan I have to disagree with you. It certainly was good! The less powerful Microsoft is, the better. Thank you, Mr Ballmer, for your pitiful performance! I hope Ballmer gets a raise.
50% troll, 50% insightful. I thought it was funny. It seems slashdot has been taken over by the Microsoft shills, anything remotely critical of Microsoft is modded "troll" (I had several of these abysmal mods yesterday in the thread about 30 new features in W8). Give it a rest, Ballmer.
Maybe you'll get four "underrated" mods and wind up with the coveted "+5 troll." I wish they'd bring back the old metamod system, this shit used to be rare. Now they'll mod you troll of flamebait for bashing Sony of all paople.
Hand-rendered artwork has been fooling people into thinking it was photography since before photography existed. I doubt CGI will ever replace photography completely, but I can see pro photographers needing to learn CGI.
Note the link is about photorealism, but artists have made paintings that you'd swear were photos since the ancient Roman times.
A photographer is a painter without eye-hand coordination. He needs the same compositional skills and knowledge of color, light, etc. that a painter does, but doesn't have to need the skill to render it by hand.
Offtopic: Can we please automatically delete all posts with links to my clean pc?
That's one of the things the little black flag is for -- flagging spam so the/. administrators can review and delete it. Just click the flag when you see spam.
Runs pretty nicely in Linux. It's a good deal faster than FF anyway.
How is it with Flash compared to FF? I'm using FF right now, and the Linux box is mostly used for radio and TV streams, most of which use flash. Which stopped working Sunday when I updated to 12.04...
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If potato chips are junk food, then so is a baked potato -- a potato is a potato. Grease with french fries or chips, butter with baked, no difference.
Meanwhile, I've never had a weight problem except the two years I was on Paxil and gained 40 pounds, and lost most of it despite trying not to when I stopped. Maybe this mathematician should add drugs to the equation. There's a woman that I see in the bar once in a while who used to be a crackhead. After stopping the crack she went from rail-thin to overweight in six months. And the number of drugs folks take today, and the number of new different drugs, especially prescription drugs is far more than in the '70s. No crack cocaine, no SSRIs, no ADD drugs (they hadn't even categorized ADD) etc. Pot makes some people fat and lots more folks are smoking it today. Rather than blaming "too much food" (I never knew many folks going hungry when I was a kid) maybe they should look at today's drug intake.
The "there couldn't be any fast food if food was expensive" in TFS is completely bogus. McDonald's has been around since 1940, Pizza Hut since 1958, long before they stopped paying farmers not to grow food and long before the obesity "epidemic". And when I was ten in 1962, a McDonald's hamburger, fries, and small coke was thirty two cents. How is that "expensive"? You'll pay ten times that much for the same thing today.
His history omits an important variable -- exports. After the government stopped paying farmers to not grow food, we started exporting so much that ADM's slogan is now "breadbasket to the world". We're not eating more because more's available, most of the extra food is being exported. It also neglects the size of soda, a small coke at McDonalds today is bigger than a large coke was in the sixties. Lots of caloric intake with nothing to curb hunger, a sure-fire way to obesity.
It also doesn't explain why poor people are more obese than middle class people. He would probably say "food stamps" but he'd be wrong. Poor folks are fat because cheap food is fattening --five pounds of potatos is only two bucks, TV dinners 89 cents, while expensive foods usually are far less fatteniing. Poor folks can't afford McDonalds very often, a small order of fries (1/3 of a potato) is a buck twenty while a five pound bag of raw potatos is only eighty cents more. Add a quarter pounder and a cole, and you'll pay the same price as two dozen burger patties and a loaf of bread at WalMart.
I'm sure the guy's maths are correct, but he's a mathematician, not a nutritionist, biologist, medical doctor, sociologist, or historian. A study like this would need input from all those fields and probably more to have any meaning. You don't ask a geologist about solar flares, after all.
Twenty years isn't too long. There should be no such thing as software patents, software can be protected by copyright. The trouble with patents are that they're granted for obvious things, and cost way too much to obtain.
I'd like to see copyright shortened to 20 years and noncommercial copying be deemed noninfringing. At least you don't need an army of lawyers to get one, just the $35 dollar fee to register them.
Because the shrinking middle class is one of this country's biggest problems, an Romney and his ilk are a huge part of why the problem exists in the first place. Romney's ilk's creed is in fact "more for me, fuck society."
Wow, those were really bad examples he gave. They looked like covers to SF novels. But have a look at this and this.
They're paintings.
How does the interim solution get implemented if the machine won't boot?
External media. CD, USB, whatever is handy. That's another way Linux is ahead of Windows, you can usually fix an unbootable computer easily.
It's said that God created alcohol to keep the Irish from conquering the world.
You keep... missing... your... Target! -- james T Kirk, The Wrath of Khan. Oh, the evil geniuses in the entertainment industry! Just like Khan.
You get the depth of field you want by using the right f-stop. The wider the aperture, the narrower the depth of field.
I'm not the AC you responded to, but I agree 25 years is reasonable. However, today's penalties are as insane as today's copyright lengths. Look at the difference between a music pirate and a music thief.
The theif steals a CD from walmart, and whether or not he ever intends to listen to it, walamart is out the price of the CD. If caught, it's a misdemeanor and he'll pay a few hundred bucks in fines.
The pirate downloads a song, and if he listens to it and likes it he's likely to buy the CD. Whether or not he listens to it, nobody has lost anything. And if he's caught it's going to cost him thousands.
I have no clue how shortening copyright periods to sanity would prompt the AC to buy new movies.
Lobbying for laws has always been 'a business model'
That's true, but it shouldn't even be possible.
One might also well argue that being backed into the corner they're in is not solely their own doing.
Not by me it couldn't. The music industry freaked out over Napster instead of using it to their advantage. P2P is great advertising, but the industry had to protect itself -- from their independant competetion, who had only the internet. RIAA labels have radio and TV. Had they embraced P2P and used it to sell CDs, using their marketers to convince the public that CDs were superior to downloads (not hard to do, they are superior) they would never have gotten into that mess.
The MPAA is making the same kind of stupid mistakes. Had DVDs and BluRays been without DRM and the movie started as soon as you put the thing in the drive, they would be superior to the download because you have an automatic backup copy. As it is, pirated movies are superior to most DVDs because DVDs have stupid unskippable FBI warnings and often stupid unskippable trailers and stupid, worthless animated menuus before you see the movie.
As to whether they should take a revenue cut... I don't believe they 'should'. That implies direction from above. I believe that if people buy their merchandise less, revenue cuts will follow.
In most cases that's true, but with the MAFIAA they'll simply blame any losses on piracy and call for harsher legislation. With most movies selling for less than tapess use to cost cost to rent, the only reason to pirate is so you don't have to go through the hassle of ripping it or the aggravation of the stupid unskippables.
In short, the media industry looks like it's run by cocaine soaked mediocrities with no clue whatever.
I thought of some ideas in 30 seconds and I am an engineer with no creative ability.
An engineer with no creative abilities? How do you do your job?
I was wondering the same thing as hatta, your explanation makes sense. It also explains why Linux isn't supported -- most lay users don't even know Linux exists, and few Linux users would use this. I mean, we already have repositories, this "app market" is redundant.
Indeed. Why are the 1% and tea partiers so much against welfare for the poor, but fine with giving welfare to the rich?
BTW, I like that sig. Clever and true.
A kid who spends large amounts of time watching tv doesn't do homework. The tv watching isn't the cause. A student who spends lots of time playing basketball and does no studying has the same result.
Then how did Shaquile O'neil get a PhD after retiring from pro basketball? Kids that don't do their homework in high school usually don't do well in college.
The guy has probably never had a good encounter with law enforcement and likely had some really bad ones. If he's black and from Chicago, he has very good reason to hate cops.
In the name of what? Certainly not freedom.
You should NOT be free to lie to me when selling me a product. Your rights end where mine begin. You should certainly noit have the right to defraud. That said, if they outlaw photoshop, advertisers have other sneaky tricks (like photorealistic paintings).
That means I would stop using Microsoft and Apple (both have pushed updates that broke the computer). Then what would I do?
Well, I'd say Linux if I hadn't updated to 12.04 on Sunday and had Flash break.
Exposure to TV/Computers is dangerous for kids because synapses develop incorrectly: Because of the incorrect audio/video synchronisation and the lack of feedback
But they'll have the feedback here, grandma and grandpa. This isn't a TV or computer, it's a picture phone. Completely different than what was studied.
I disagree, you should keep your wifi open if possible, with strong passwords on your wired network and a firewall between your network an modem. I'd leave my wifi open if my ISP's TOS didn't forbid it.
With all the rage, its almost like your paying to view this
Timothy? Is that you?
In fact, the nodular cast iron of which many engine parts are made, is itself a composite. The iron (a metal) contains nodules of graphite (carbon) which are roughly spherical and give it a combination of strength and ductility.
Correct but misleading. steel Iron is what melts out of the ore. From the supplied link:
I had a couple of classes on this in college. Cast iron is indeed a composite, but iron itself is not.
Ballmer took the world's leading software company and.... did nothing with it. That's just not good.
As a Linux fan I have to disagree with you. It certainly was good! The less powerful Microsoft is, the better. Thank you, Mr Ballmer, for your pitiful performance! I hope Ballmer gets a raise.
50% troll, 50% insightful. I thought it was funny. It seems slashdot has been taken over by the Microsoft shills, anything remotely critical of Microsoft is modded "troll" (I had several of these abysmal mods yesterday in the thread about 30 new features in W8). Give it a rest, Ballmer.
Maybe you'll get four "underrated" mods and wind up with the coveted "+5 troll." I wish they'd bring back the old metamod system, this shit used to be rare. Now they'll mod you troll of flamebait for bashing Sony of all paople.
Damn but I hate astroturfing shills.
Hand-rendered artwork has been fooling people into thinking it was photography since before photography existed. I doubt CGI will ever replace photography completely, but I can see pro photographers needing to learn CGI.
Note the link is about photorealism, but artists have made paintings that you'd swear were photos since the ancient Roman times.
A photographer is a painter without eye-hand coordination. He needs the same compositional skills and knowledge of color, light, etc. that a painter does, but doesn't have to need the skill to render it by hand.
Offtopic: Can we please automatically delete all posts with links to my clean pc?
That's one of the things the little black flag is for -- flagging spam so the /. administrators can review and delete it. Just click the flag when you see spam.
Runs pretty nicely in Linux. It's a good deal faster than FF anyway.
How is it with Flash compared to FF? I'm using FF right now, and the Linux box is mostly used for radio and TV streams, most of which use flash. Which stopped working Sunday when I updated to 12.04...