I'm supposed to believe a story like this coming from a user with a six-digit Slashdot ID? Likely story. Tell your grandpa you're done taking dictation for the day.
Your statement is one of the stranger things I've ever heard. Yeast is certainly involved in the fermentation process of wine, but they quickly die after consuming most of the inherent sugar in the grape juice and fall to the bottom of the vat. The dead yeast cells are collectively referred to as the lees and wine is, after fermentation is finished, racked off of the lees, leaving them behind.
There should be absolutely no active yeast in a bottle of wine. That is an undesirable trait to say the least. Vintners either let the yeast die naturally, or kill them by adding alcohol (to make fortified wines) or by chilling the fermentation vat (to produce dessert wines, before the yeasts consume all the sugar) - all before bottling. The only kind of wine that ends up with any yeast cells in the bottle is sparkling wine, which can accept a dose of yeast cells and sugar immediately before corking, which produces the CO2 that leaves the wine under pressure, but even those yeast cells die out shortly after bottling.
Unless you can bring me some hardcore scientific literature backing up your bizarre claim I'm going to just have to pretend you don't know what you're talking about. I'll start by saying that in my defense I just finished reading _To Cork or Not To Cork_ by George M. Taber which is nothing but a lengthy discussion about how wine ages and which closures are appropriate for proper aging. Not once in that book does it discuss wine in bottle aging due to active yeasts.
Your question mentioned graphic design, which I think in some ways may be a bit off. That's an area in which I think Illustrator and its brethren are more important. However, I can answer the photographer's version of PSvsGIMP. I'm not a professional photographer in that no one is yet paying me to live and breathe photography, yet that's what I do. To save you trying to dig up my info here's a link to my vanity site: http://klophoto.com/
Okay, so having established (hopefully!) that I know what I'm talking about, the reason I don't - and CAN'T - use GIMP is the lack of adjustment layers. Over 75% of what I do involves adjustment layers. They allow you to make changes to things like levels, curves, channel mixer, and much more for part of the image or the entire thing (based on masking). The reason they're so wonderful is that they're continually editable. That means no stepping back if I adjust one, then the other, and decide it's not exactly what I wanted. Also, they're layers, so I don't have to flatten an image to adjust the overall curves.
I've looked in the past and there was a lot of discussion regarding GIMP's lack of adjustment layers. I'm sure someone has said it more eloquently than I, but this is my two cents. Hope it helped.
Man, I saw the words 'edit post' in the URL to that story and I got all excited, thinking about how I was gonna go change it to reference Apple products like the Apple Post-It Notes and the iBrator and the iZune or whatever... then once I found out I couldn't edit the post I got all sad.
Then I started thinking about the iBrator and Ellen Fleiss again and all was well.
The release of Transit was brought up to the Portland LiveJournal community with mixed responses. I know personally that it totally munged my daily commute. Some say it's not showing theirs accurately while others say it's given some good suggestions.
So... jury is still out. Guess I've brought nothing new to the table here.
Insiders warned that anticipation may continue to build for months as the company perfects the product.
In other words, "by the time you realize it's not going to happen (because no one has yet given Jobs a lobotomy) hopefully you'll forget we're the ones who said it."
What's with all these sissies complaining about traffic moving into the 3rd dimension? That's no problem! I'm so psyched for this shit I'm not gonna calm down until I can move my car in FOUR dimensions!
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But what's the strangest place you've ever read Slashdot from?
I was going to suggest they use the proper English, "What's the strangest place from which you have ever read Slashdot?" but... I then realized if I did that I'd have my head up my ass.
For your average Slashdot poster that's more of the standard place from which to post.
Just in case you're reading a story this old... sorry, I have run out of invites. If you still must have one, send me an email and next round I'll try to hook you up.
I'm really not sure where I stand in this fight here. Wait, no... I know where I stand - I'm a screaming Gmail fan.
I have a friend who has a paid Yahoo! account and I sent him an invite while he was over at my place. He logged in to Yahoo! to retrieve the invite (which of course had been placed in the Spam folder, but that's neither here nor there). When he finally found it and got signed up he couldn't stop talking about how cool Gmail was, how fast it was, thanks a lot for the invite, etc. etc.
Then the next day Yahoo! upped their space for paid users to 2 gigs or whatever it was, and all the sudden he was gloating about "I have TWO gigs!".
Yeah, man. Two gigs of a service you were blasting yesterday for being slow and inferior. Whatever.
I guess the point is that to some extent these carrots are working, and they're able to make users forget their pain by offering more space.
I have faith that in time he'll remember how fast his Gmail account is and start moving over there. Our friends and family can be extracted from the dark side - it'll just take some work.
Oh, what? You don't have a Gmail account yet? Well, I gots four invites left - hit me up at kevinomara bat gmail mot com.
Alright, admit it - how many of you clicked on 1981 XXX-Rated Digital Watch (Caution: Explicit!) first thing? I know I sure did. In elementary school in the 80s this would have been worth far more than its weight in gold.
Man, this is why I have such trouble being a geek. From the article: "Open source products, including Linux, are very attractive development platforms with a low barrier to entry."
This entices me, but then I think I could just be spending time at the bar down the street, checking out the local girls with very attractive "development platforms" and low barriers to entry.
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I paid my $5 to sign up on MetaFilter and have been having rational troll-free discussions for years.
I'm supposed to believe a story like this coming from a user with a six-digit Slashdot ID? Likely story. Tell your grandpa you're done taking dictation for the day.
Your statement is one of the stranger things I've ever heard. Yeast is certainly involved in the fermentation process of wine, but they quickly die after consuming most of the inherent sugar in the grape juice and fall to the bottom of the vat. The dead yeast cells are collectively referred to as the lees and wine is, after fermentation is finished, racked off of the lees, leaving them behind.
There should be absolutely no active yeast in a bottle of wine. That is an undesirable trait to say the least. Vintners either let the yeast die naturally, or kill them by adding alcohol (to make fortified wines) or by chilling the fermentation vat (to produce dessert wines, before the yeasts consume all the sugar) - all before bottling. The only kind of wine that ends up with any yeast cells in the bottle is sparkling wine, which can accept a dose of yeast cells and sugar immediately before corking, which produces the CO2 that leaves the wine under pressure, but even those yeast cells die out shortly after bottling.
Unless you can bring me some hardcore scientific literature backing up your bizarre claim I'm going to just have to pretend you don't know what you're talking about. I'll start by saying that in my defense I just finished reading _To Cork or Not To Cork_ by George M. Taber which is nothing but a lengthy discussion about how wine ages and which closures are appropriate for proper aging. Not once in that book does it discuss wine in bottle aging due to active yeasts.
That's what my university used to do, but now instead of the yearly local auction they just put everything on http://govdeals.com/
So to the original poster I say: check govdeals for your university or state and see if they're not indeed auctioning them off.
The last Windows service pack I downloaded crashed my house, stole my computer, had sex with my wallet, and set my dog on fire.
I think I may have done it wrong.
Your question mentioned graphic design, which I think in some ways may be a bit off. That's an area in which I think Illustrator and its brethren are more important. However, I can answer the photographer's version of PSvsGIMP. I'm not a professional photographer in that no one is yet paying me to live and breathe photography, yet that's what I do. To save you trying to dig up my info here's a link to my vanity site:
http://klophoto.com/
Okay, so having established (hopefully!) that I know what I'm talking about, the reason I don't - and CAN'T - use GIMP is the lack of adjustment layers. Over 75% of what I do involves adjustment layers. They allow you to make changes to things like levels, curves, channel mixer, and much more for part of the image or the entire thing (based on masking). The reason they're so wonderful is that they're continually editable. That means no stepping back if I adjust one, then the other, and decide it's not exactly what I wanted. Also, they're layers, so I don't have to flatten an image to adjust the overall curves.
I've looked in the past and there was a lot of discussion regarding GIMP's lack of adjustment layers. I'm sure someone has said it more eloquently than I, but this is my two cents. Hope it helped.
Man, I saw the words 'edit post' in the URL to that story and I got all excited, thinking about how I was gonna go change it to reference Apple products like the Apple Post-It Notes and the iBrator and the iZune or whatever ... then once I found out I couldn't edit the post I got all sad.
Then I started thinking about the iBrator and Ellen Fleiss again and all was well.
I'm assuming there aren't any +5 comments yet because everyone is still busy R'ing TFA, right?
The release of Transit was brought up to the Portland LiveJournal community with mixed responses. I know personally that it totally munged my daily commute. Some say it's not showing theirs accurately while others say it's given some good suggestions.
... jury is still out. Guess I've brought nothing new to the table here.
So
FTI:
I've seen what we're architecting.
Architect...ing? Maybe I've not had enough coffee this morning but this is by far the most odd verbing I've seen lately.
From TFA:
Insiders warned that anticipation may continue to build for months as the company perfects the product.
In other words, "by the time you realize it's not going to happen (because no one has yet given Jobs a lobotomy) hopefully you'll forget we're the ones who said it."
That's what I^Hthe other guy was doing too. Why don't we just cut out the middlemen? Bots all around the table!
Do you find you have problems keeping the whole Dewey Decimal system straight? What do you think about their licensing fees?
Pardon me - hold on a second.
What?
Oh. Libertarian. My bad.
Unfortunately there isn't a good way to search for URL strings like this:
2 6b 40f-c8a84ba388
... EVERYONE will have Gmail!
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-e00073f786-289e
But once someone figures out a way
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What's with all these sissies complaining about traffic moving into the 3rd dimension? That's no problem! I'm so psyched for this shit I'm not gonna calm down until I can move my car in FOUR dimensions!
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Regarding the article line:
... I then realized if I did that I'd have my head up my ass.
But what's the strangest place you've ever read Slashdot from?
I was going to suggest they use the proper English, "What's the strangest place from which you have ever read Slashdot?" but
For your average Slashdot poster that's more of the standard place from which to post.
Just in case you're reading a story this old ... sorry, I have run out of invites. If you still must have one, send me an email and next round I'll try to hook you up.
I have a friend who has a paid Yahoo! account and I sent him an invite while he was over at my place. He logged in to Yahoo! to retrieve the invite (which of course had been placed in the Spam folder, but that's neither here nor there). When he finally found it and got signed up he couldn't stop talking about how cool Gmail was, how fast it was, thanks a lot for the invite, etc. etc.
Then the next day Yahoo! upped their space for paid users to 2 gigs or whatever it was, and all the sudden he was gloating about "I have TWO gigs!".
Yeah, man. Two gigs of a service you were blasting yesterday for being slow and inferior. Whatever.
I guess the point is that to some extent these carrots are working, and they're able to make users forget their pain by offering more space.
I have faith that in time he'll remember how fast his Gmail account is and start moving over there. Our friends and family can be extracted from the dark side - it'll just take some work.
Oh, what? You don't have a Gmail account yet? Well, I gots four invites left - hit me up at kevinomara bat gmail mot com.
The Yahoo suit claims that Eric Head, along with his father and brother...
Please tell me that they're named Dick Head and Shit Head so I can know that I've been yelling the right names at my computer screen this whole time.
Cypak says the card's encryption can't be copied or broken...
...
AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
*whew*! I needed that.
Jesus, it takes all that hardware just to do a Google image search nowadays? Talk about bloat ...
Alright, admit it - how many of you clicked on 1981 XXX-Rated Digital Watch (Caution: Explicit!) first thing? I know I sure did. In elementary school in the 80s this would have been worth far more than its weight in gold.
"Open source products, including Linux, are very attractive development platforms with a low barrier to entry."
This entices me, but then I think I could just be spending time at the bar down the street, checking out the local girls with very attractive "development platforms" and low barriers to entry.
It's only fitting that one of the entries should have a typo, eh?
He's just gonna pass your ideas (posted in a public forum) over to his old pal and ex-coworker Bezos at Amazon.
Next thing you know, Amazon has a patent on hoverlink-shopping-preview technology and we get a double-dup posting from Taco about it.
Do you really want that?