Why do you believe that approaching aging as a multifaceted disease is the best approach? Considering that the human body is capable of creating young, non-damaged cells, i.e. through the reproductive process, does that not indicate that aging could be tied to a single genetic cause?
I think all of these "I don't think the kids can handle it" is selling them short. I'm sure that the adults of our childhood thought the same about a lot of us. If you think it's a classic and worth reading, give it to them and let them decide. Keep the others as back-up plans. The worst thing we can do is to dumb our kids down by dumbing down the knowledge we give them.
My ISP in Osaka recently sent me a letter that very specifically said that they neither tracked nor cared about what I did with my connection. There happens to be a twenty-year-old law on the books that prevents carriers from monitoring customers' communications, too.
They did ask that I try not to get caught doing anything illegal. Apparently, the worst that could happen is that I could have my contract terminated and be forced to sign with one of the at least two other fiber internet providers in this area.
I live in Japan, and recently my ISP told me specifically in a letter that they absolutely didn't track what I did and also didn't care - not to mention that there's a 20-year-old Japanese law that specifically bans spying on customers' communications that may actually cover this.
They did request that I try not to get caught doing anything illegal, though. They said the worst that could happen is that they would cancel my contract and I would be forced to go sign up with a different fiber internet provider (there are at least two others in Osaka).
No, that's gravity. I don't know about you, but I can't hear gravity. The only way I can hear vibrations is if there is an atmosphere for the vibrations to act upon.
Antitrust should definitely not be for punishing companies just because they do something that, while we don't like it, we're not actually being forced into taking part in. This is more like one of those "vote with your dollar" scenarios.
Even living a totally "natural" lifestyle can eventually result in cancer. Look at the ages at which it starts: usually after the normal prime of the human body's life.
We've extended our lives through improvements in lifestyle and medicine, but the fact of the matter is that our bodies were designed to wear out and their reliability rapidly declines after a certain age. It's not some amazing government/industrial/capitalistic conspiracy, it's life. Everyone dies sometime, it's just the cause that differs.
By the by, eating sugars isn't bad for you (they're kind of necessary, actually), it's too much sugar that's bad. Again, that's pretty much life all over: excess is usually unhealthy.
I was personally burned by GoDaddy when I did a search on a name, waited to purchase it, and then came back a week later to find out that GoDaddy itself had purchased it (using a "private" WHOIS registration). Thing of it is, the name only means something if you happen to be a speaker of Japanese. I hardly think that somebody working for GoDaddy in the southwestern United States would appreciate the significance. Of course, the name still remains unused, except to generate ad revenue by showing the GoDaddy "parked domain" page.
Even without that much effort, it's so rare for a fan to fail that I've never had to worry about it. What about keeping a few spares around for the one time every five years that a fan might quit without warning?
Course, by then, you've probably already bought a new computer, anyway...
Or we could smash a few ice comets into it, which would mean we don't have to give up our own water (which would screw up the environment worse, since the planet would have to readjust to the permanent loss).
If a person's ISP puts a monthly usage cap on their service and charges them overage, then you're costing them money. If you engage in illegal activities on their wi-fi network, then you may be setting them up to get their service canceled, or worse, since they're the ones who take official responsibility as the legitimate customer. If you decide to run a Bittorrent or two while you're at it, you degrade their paid-for internet experience with your bandwidth-hungry selfishness.
Finally, this is all ignoring the fact that their equipment is running off of electricity, which they are also paying for, and that by the watt/hour. At the very least, you should be just as guilty as if you were siphoning off water or electricity (the latter of which you actually are). Taking advantage of open wi-fi may be easy, but "easy" doesn't give you the moral high ground by any means.
I think they meant 25 hundred. The only place where rent is $25,000 is in the Colony in Malibu, where A-list actors live. Sting pays that kind of rent on his house there.
Mathematically precise, yes, but also incredibly impractical. The problem is that modeling anything sufficiently complex (like, say, a human body) procedurally is much more readily done using spline-based modeling AKA NURBs than trying to type it in by hand.
POV-Ray supports mesh-based objects as well, but then you lose exactly the advantage that you're looking for.
As far as game-engine graphics go, though, mesh-based modeling is still probably the easiest to optimize, when you can calculate exactly how many triangles you're pushing through, rather than mathematical formulae.
POV-Ray excels for creating pre-rendered animations. In that case, render engines such as LightWave, Renderman and mental ray all support subpixel tesselation of NURB objects, thus giving the user practically infinite detail within an easily managed modeling interface.
The productivity answer could more easily be defined as "are you capable of finding a replacement product?" rather than "can you continue to run Microsoft products?" If you tend to want to answer the latter question, then the entire experiment is a failure from the get-go.
If instead you find that you are able to get the same functionality out of your computer as you were before using software that performs the same tasks as their Microsoft counterparts, then what's the issue? From my perspective, Visio and ActiveX are niche applications that have zero impact on my computing, and are easily replaceable by a multitude of similar tools that are both reliable and sophisticated.
Ironically, I have many OSX-only applications that are the bread-and-butter of my job (computer animation and video). Unfortunately, with the exception of Blender, there are currently no open source alternatives that can replace them (and, yes, I have looked).
As for interoperability, nobody ever notices that I use NeoOffice for OSX to handle Word and Excel compatibility.
That's because governments don't believe it's good for the economy or its citizens to invoke mass unemployment policies that devastate thousands of families at a time. If you want to make things hurt where it counts, it would be far better to take away the golden parachute scheme instead.
Damn, it's not just me who thinks his metabolism started slowing down at thirty?:P Like I said, where I live promotes a certain built-in exercise necessity, but it's not as easy as it used to be to lose weight, so I exercise. That, and Japan's large at McDonald's is the small size in America, which helps. What can I say? I like it.
Thanks for the kudos. I sincerely wish everyone the best in overcoming this current cultural sickness, but it doesn't help if we don't call a spade a spade.
You have a good point. If algae are a way of recycling currently circulating carbon dioxide, then it could be considered at least a balanced method; after all, they literally can't release any more carbon than they take in.
Worst example of medical advice I ever heard of is when a doctor told my obese friend that he had "the right body weight for his metabolism". Talk about mealy-mouthed. I explained to my friend that your metabolism changes based on your body's needs, and that if he suddenly started being active, it would change.
The world *was* built for you, it's your culture of no exercise and bad diet that's to blame. Leave the United States and discover that almost everywhere else you go you will *never* see anybody as fat as they are in the United States, and what few fat people you find are more of the pleasantly plump variety, rather than the extremely obese.
Solution? Home-cooking and exercise. Having lived in Germany for two years and Japan for six, I now find that when I go home I can see the drastic difference between the two, both in portions and quality. Not to mention that the diets and lifestyles of both countries will naturally cause you to lose weight, because they're simply healthier. I lost 20 pounds coming to Japan alone (and no, I actually *do* like the food here).;) Something about having to commute almost two miles to work by bicycle every day, I suspect.
When you cook at home, you know what's going into the food, and you're only going to cook for yourself. Make the effort to go out and ride a bicycle for thirty minutes every other day (no coasting!) and you'll see a definite change over, say, a month.
Stop blaming everybody for discriminating against you and take control of your own life. Heaven forbid people should encourage you to improve your health, attractiveness, and lengthen your lifespan using exactly that body which god gave you, and without prescribing to some stupid standard of beauty. Do it for yourself and your family at the very least. No pills, just self-control and common sense. Even if your best still comes in at plump, good for you.
Actually, yes, it does. The carbon was previously locked in the biomass, hence not in the atmosphere; burning the biomass releases the carbon back into the atmosphere. It's exactly the same as traditional petroleum-based fuels, which all originally derived from biomass.
Reminds me of Vertigo, which I used in 1993, before Softimage 3 came along. Vertigo had great rendering and shading abilities, but its modeling system was horrendously difficult to learn and lacked decent macro abilities that we take for granted now (stretch, bend, etc.) In a way, a lot like Blender.
It's not that Blender's interface is a bad idea, it's just that much better paradigms have emerged in the past decade and it could stand to learn from them. It seems to be a foible of the FOSS movement, where "our way or the highway" is the motto and developers are unshakably convinced of how incredibly clever their way of doing things is, and telling anybody who disagrees that if they don't like it, they can write their own. (Certainly, you can't make everybody happy all of the time, but you can certainly learn from others once in a while, too).
Of course, it only works if the system comes pre-attached to somebody's.Mac account, which means the culprit will be easily trackable as well. Great if you're willing to basically sacrifice yourself for an arguably crappy photo op.
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Why do you believe that approaching aging as a multifaceted disease is the best approach? Considering that the human body is capable of creating young, non-damaged cells, i.e. through the reproductive process, does that not indicate that aging could be tied to a single genetic cause?
I think all of these "I don't think the kids can handle it" is selling them short. I'm sure that the adults of our childhood thought the same about a lot of us. If you think it's a classic and worth reading, give it to them and let them decide. Keep the others as back-up plans. The worst thing we can do is to dumb our kids down by dumbing down the knowledge we give them.
My ISP in Osaka recently sent me a letter that very specifically said that they neither tracked nor cared about what I did with my connection. There happens to be a twenty-year-old law on the books that prevents carriers from monitoring customers' communications, too.
They did ask that I try not to get caught doing anything illegal. Apparently, the worst that could happen is that I could have my contract terminated and be forced to sign with one of the at least two other fiber internet providers in this area.
I live in Japan, and recently my ISP told me specifically in a letter that they absolutely didn't track what I did and also didn't care - not to mention that there's a 20-year-old Japanese law that specifically bans spying on customers' communications that may actually cover this.
They did request that I try not to get caught doing anything illegal, though. They said the worst that could happen is that they would cancel my contract and I would be forced to go sign up with a different fiber internet provider (there are at least two others in Osaka).
No, that's gravity. I don't know about you, but I can't hear gravity. The only way I can hear vibrations is if there is an atmosphere for the vibrations to act upon.
Antitrust should definitely not be for punishing companies just because they do something that, while we don't like it, we're not actually being forced into taking part in. This is more like one of those "vote with your dollar" scenarios.
Even living a totally "natural" lifestyle can eventually result in cancer. Look at the ages at which it starts: usually after the normal prime of the human body's life.
We've extended our lives through improvements in lifestyle and medicine, but the fact of the matter is that our bodies were designed to wear out and their reliability rapidly declines after a certain age. It's not some amazing government/industrial/capitalistic conspiracy, it's life. Everyone dies sometime, it's just the cause that differs.
By the by, eating sugars isn't bad for you (they're kind of necessary, actually), it's too much sugar that's bad. Again, that's pretty much life all over: excess is usually unhealthy.
I was personally burned by GoDaddy when I did a search on a name, waited to purchase it, and then came back a week later to find out that GoDaddy itself had purchased it (using a "private" WHOIS registration). Thing of it is, the name only means something if you happen to be a speaker of Japanese. I hardly think that somebody working for GoDaddy in the southwestern United States would appreciate the significance. Of course, the name still remains unused, except to generate ad revenue by showing the GoDaddy "parked domain" page.
Even without that much effort, it's so rare for a fan to fail that I've never had to worry about it. What about keeping a few spares around for the one time every five years that a fan might quit without warning?
Course, by then, you've probably already bought a new computer, anyway...
Or we could smash a few ice comets into it, which would mean we don't have to give up our own water (which would screw up the environment worse, since the planet would have to readjust to the permanent loss).
If a person's ISP puts a monthly usage cap on their service and charges them overage, then you're costing them money. If you engage in illegal activities on their wi-fi network, then you may be setting them up to get their service canceled, or worse, since they're the ones who take official responsibility as the legitimate customer. If you decide to run a Bittorrent or two while you're at it, you degrade their paid-for internet experience with your bandwidth-hungry selfishness.
Finally, this is all ignoring the fact that their equipment is running off of electricity, which they are also paying for, and that by the watt/hour. At the very least, you should be just as guilty as if you were siphoning off water or electricity (the latter of which you actually are). Taking advantage of open wi-fi may be easy, but "easy" doesn't give you the moral high ground by any means.
Holy frijoles. I stand corrected.
I think they meant 25 hundred. The only place where rent is $25,000 is in the Colony in Malibu, where A-list actors live. Sting pays that kind of rent on his house there.
There is also dismissal with prejudice.
Mathematically precise, yes, but also incredibly impractical. The problem is that modeling anything sufficiently complex (like, say, a human body) procedurally is much more readily done using spline-based modeling AKA NURBs than trying to type it in by hand.
POV-Ray supports mesh-based objects as well, but then you lose exactly the advantage that you're looking for.
As far as game-engine graphics go, though, mesh-based modeling is still probably the easiest to optimize, when you can calculate exactly how many triangles you're pushing through, rather than mathematical formulae.
POV-Ray excels for creating pre-rendered animations. In that case, render engines such as LightWave, Renderman and mental ray all support subpixel tesselation of NURB objects, thus giving the user practically infinite detail within an easily managed modeling interface.
Not to mention that a civil case doesn't allow for double jeopardy, i.e. you can win the case and still get sued again for the exact same thing.
The productivity answer could more easily be defined as "are you capable of finding a replacement product?" rather than "can you continue to run Microsoft products?" If you tend to want to answer the latter question, then the entire experiment is a failure from the get-go.
If instead you find that you are able to get the same functionality out of your computer as you were before using software that performs the same tasks as their Microsoft counterparts, then what's the issue? From my perspective, Visio and ActiveX are niche applications that have zero impact on my computing, and are easily replaceable by a multitude of similar tools that are both reliable and sophisticated.
Ironically, I have many OSX-only applications that are the bread-and-butter of my job (computer animation and video). Unfortunately, with the exception of Blender, there are currently no open source alternatives that can replace them (and, yes, I have looked).
As for interoperability, nobody ever notices that I use NeoOffice for OSX to handle Word and Excel compatibility.
That's because governments don't believe it's good for the economy or its citizens to invoke mass unemployment policies that devastate thousands of families at a time. If you want to make things hurt where it counts, it would be far better to take away the golden parachute scheme instead.
Damn, it's not just me who thinks his metabolism started slowing down at thirty? :P Like I said, where I live promotes a certain built-in exercise necessity, but it's not as easy as it used to be to lose weight, so I exercise. That, and Japan's large at McDonald's is the small size in America, which helps. What can I say? I like it.
Thanks for the kudos. I sincerely wish everyone the best in overcoming this current cultural sickness, but it doesn't help if we don't call a spade a spade.
You have a good point. If algae are a way of recycling currently circulating carbon dioxide, then it could be considered at least a balanced method; after all, they literally can't release any more carbon than they take in.
Worst example of medical advice I ever heard of is when a doctor told my obese friend that he had "the right body weight for his metabolism". Talk about mealy-mouthed. I explained to my friend that your metabolism changes based on your body's needs, and that if he suddenly started being active, it would change.
The world *was* built for you, it's your culture of no exercise and bad diet that's to blame. Leave the United States and discover that almost everywhere else you go you will *never* see anybody as fat as they are in the United States, and what few fat people you find are more of the pleasantly plump variety, rather than the extremely obese.
;) Something about having to commute almost two miles to work by bicycle every day, I suspect.
Solution? Home-cooking and exercise. Having lived in Germany for two years and Japan for six, I now find that when I go home I can see the drastic difference between the two, both in portions and quality. Not to mention that the diets and lifestyles of both countries will naturally cause you to lose weight, because they're simply healthier. I lost 20 pounds coming to Japan alone (and no, I actually *do* like the food here).
When you cook at home, you know what's going into the food, and you're only going to cook for yourself. Make the effort to go out and ride a bicycle for thirty minutes every other day (no coasting!) and you'll see a definite change over, say, a month.
Stop blaming everybody for discriminating against you and take control of your own life. Heaven forbid people should encourage you to improve your health, attractiveness, and lengthen your lifespan using exactly that body which god gave you, and without prescribing to some stupid standard of beauty. Do it for yourself and your family at the very least. No pills, just self-control and common sense. Even if your best still comes in at plump, good for you.
Actually, yes, it does. The carbon was previously locked in the biomass, hence not in the atmosphere; burning the biomass releases the carbon back into the atmosphere. It's exactly the same as traditional petroleum-based fuels, which all originally derived from biomass.
Reminds me of Vertigo, which I used in 1993, before Softimage 3 came along. Vertigo had great rendering and shading abilities, but its modeling system was horrendously difficult to learn and lacked decent macro abilities that we take for granted now (stretch, bend, etc.) In a way, a lot like Blender.
It's not that Blender's interface is a bad idea, it's just that much better paradigms have emerged in the past decade and it could stand to learn from them. It seems to be a foible of the FOSS movement, where "our way or the highway" is the motto and developers are unshakably convinced of how incredibly clever their way of doing things is, and telling anybody who disagrees that if they don't like it, they can write their own. (Certainly, you can't make everybody happy all of the time, but you can certainly learn from others once in a while, too).
Of course, it only works if the system comes pre-attached to somebody's .Mac account, which means the culprit will be easily trackable as well. Great if you're willing to basically sacrifice yourself for an arguably crappy photo op.