deadmansshoes

While short snippets of code to illustrate a point are useful, I find the reams of pages devoted to entire sample programs pointless. When does anyone have the time or incliniation to go the an associated website download and compile code, whilst reading a book?

I also see little point in reading a book on a subject until you've at least played with the technology yourself.

We need some more secret sauce. Put this mayonnaise in the sun!

And add to that the cost of paying a provider for 3G Internet connection every month, and the allure of a phone that lasts for a week and can make calls and send texts shines through.

Doesn't that just lead to bad, untrained customer support? I'd rather speak to someone who knew how to answer a question.

Yes but those executions weren't a ridiculous attempt to appease some "sun god" - many of the those executed in England were witches.

As to the comment above - are you suggesting the Spanish deliberately spread diseases? It seems a little unfair to accuse the Spanish invaders of bio-warfare.

My point being, writing off any news bias as irrelevant as Qatari politics has no influence on the world stage is ridiculous as Qatar are moving towards centre stage.

A tiny emirate who's leaders just managed to acquire the world's biggest sporting event, and are trying to buy one of Europe's best known football teams.

Does pip install required Windows binaries like easy_install?

Why would anyone would be afraid of looking silly by asking a technical question, while at the same time calling themselves Googlers and Nooglers?

But the best film of the trilogy was Empire Strikes Back - at $25M.

"And, sure enough, she did."

What is this? A Mr Men story?

Other generations in history probably had more chance of the real thing.

The author is in a big jeep and is too tight to call a breakdown service.

When someone does stop he breaks their tire iron, lets them buy a new one, accepts their food and water, and offers a token $20 dollars as compensation?

Maybe today you, tomorrow me was said with a hint or sarcasm (although in a daytime TV movie script like this I dount it).

It would be more likely your friend has gluten intolerance - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatitis_herpetiformis

If this is the case then cutting down on cereals would be standard medical advice rather than a wonder effect of an unsound diet.

- You need to be off grains. Permanently. Forever. Sorry, but they are toxic. That means no bread, no pasta, no oatmeal, etc.

- No legumes, with the exception of white rice.

- No milk forever

- But do take other supplements.

So just the crazy pills then?

He contradicts his argument in the first paragraphs.

1) Obese people tend to be weight stable for long periods of their life, just like lean people. So when they’re weight stable, the obese and overweight are obviously in energy balance.

2) If you gain 40 pounds of fat over 20 years, that’s an average of two pounds of excess fat accumulation every year. Since a pound of fat is roughly equal to 3500 calories, this means you accumulate roughly 7000 calories worth of fat every two years. Divide that 7000 by 365 and you get the number of calories of fat you stored each day and never burned roughly 19 calories.

It's a good job Germany don't follow anglo-saxon policies...

You should be more careful about using the word "People" with its connotations of common and of the masses (as distinguished from the nobility)..etc. etc. ;-)

So innocent until proven huilty has now become guilty, proved innocent, but found guilty anyway.

In the example there is one technology briefly reffered to and then ignored - desktop apps. For recording and editing music why limit yourself to a browser or browser plug-in?

Ah ok. Sounds interesting.

There is a difference between working on company projects in your free time and working on an opensource or personal project, or occasionally reading a programming book.

Whilst the second is likely to provide benefits to your employer, your primary motivator is for personal gain.

There are hundreds of games that revolve around stories, and always have been. Not sure what is so special about the OP's approach.

i-tunes seemingly has to have a new update and install every time I open it, so I'd question how much "perfection" goes into the releases of Appl software.

I would have thought the main reason for changing dentist is when moving to another area.

Cognitive dissonance? Cognitive cacophony.

For a moment there I thought you were asking if Babbage had a blog...

It does if you are stuck in traffic waiting for the accident to be cleared.

Sorry but that whole exchange seems like this (skip to 8 mins in) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTBE_ykam4

He sounds like an arrogant toerag. I'd pass on all details to the police.

On a recent visit to the states I got to try out Netflix, and on being told you could watch any film you wanted was very impressed.

Turned out there are only certain categories of film (i.e. the ones that would be on daytime tv..) you can watch on "freeplay" and anything good you have to wait for a DVD in the post.

No wonder its cheap. Was still better than the adverts every 8 mins while watching Rambo on a cable channel though.

Do you have any links?

The article suggests you won't be able to swim so struggling to take your clothes off seems like very bad advice.

Several layers of clothes, and even a semi-waterproof jacket or anorak will trap water - and air which would help with bouyancy.

A fraction of a degree could be all important - there is a tipping point where a fraction means living or dying.