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This would require us to put a plane up with 200 ipads on board and have some pilot fly it until it drops out of the sky. Good pilots are rare and sacrificing people for testing planes is a really sucky proposition just to see if you can play farmville while in the air. You could ask that the plane fly without a pilot on board, but that would require the manufacture of some sort of autonomatic pilotation device and given how we don't even have self-driving cars, I don't see it happening any time soon.
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...and a pretty darn good study-for-exams enhancer, some say :)
Reminded me of that episode as well, one of my favorite and so very apt with regards too this subject. One hand we want enhanced humans and on another we want machines but control of them. Bit like Surrogates http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/ would be the balance.
That's awesome, now put a link to a license that legally defines how can one use them, to avoid legal confusions.

May I suggest CC http://creativecommons.org/ ? :)
Yeah it pisses me off when people don't follow those rules. None of the rule is even remotely annoying, but when not followed, annoys everybody else.

Besides, most of those are actually useful. When you take the plane enough times, there's always one that will shake very heavily without warning due to unexpected turbulences that the stabilization software couldn't counter and pilots didn't foresee.

Heck during those, all the stuff flies around and if you're walking around (or even sitted without seat bealt) you wont only hurt yourself but others as well.
You have a flawed understanding of how your cells consume glucose.

Lactic acid it not produced in any significant quantity during 'normal operation' of your body.

Your cells break down glucose into a molecule called pyruvate in a process called 'glycolysis'. This yields some 'energy' (in the form of ATP). This process requires some energy, so the net gain is only two ATP. It also requires a couple NAD- ions, which pick up some spare hydrogen protons that get kicked out. Those NAD- get turned into NADH, are are used later in the process (and turned back into NAD-, so they can facilitate more 'glycolysis').

If the cell has enough oxygen, it can then oxidize the pyruvate in the Citric Acid Cyle (aka the TCA cycle, aka the Kreb's cycle), gaining many times more ATP (34, in total).

If, however, the cell doesn't have enough oxygen, it can't run the TCA cycle. This isn't a big deal in the short term. Your cells can keep running through that glycolosis process to produce energy as long as they have enough glucose to break down, and enough NAD- to grab protons. The glucose isn't generally a problem. Your body keeps a fair amount of it in the blood, and the liver can release more pretty easily.

The problem is the limited number of NAD- ions in your cells. Once those are used up, glycolosis stops. Fortunately, your cells can 'free them up' by using them to turn pyruvate into lactate. This produces the 'milk acid' you talk about, but it frees up the NAD- for more glycolosis. The cell hangs on to the lactate for a while in the hopes of getting more oxygen it can use to turn it back into pyruvate and run it through the TCA cycle, and if that doesn't happen, it eventually diffuses out into the blood where it ends up in the liver, which uses it to build up its glycogen stores for the next time there's a sudden demand for a lot of glucose.

So, in short, unless you're exercising hard, your body will have no trouble meeting its oxygen demand, and no lactic acid will be produced. This has been an overly simplified (but mostly accurate) description of this process. I'd encourage you to do your own research to learn more (the search terms 'cellular respiration' 'glycolosis' and 'citric acid cycle' should all be useful)
I've disabled all extensions, and the same thing happens. In fact, there's also a warning that "This site is attempting to download multiple files. Do you want to allow this?"

I'm on Mountain Lion, Chrome Version 23.0.1271.101

Edited to add: This happens on page load, before there is any interaction with the page.
In this case the interesting part was that they actually showed that a cellphone can cause interference with some instruments. They dug up some old instruments, put them in a Faraday cage, called a cellphone and the needles in the instruments moved like crazy. So we now know the root of the problem.

Then they showed that in a modern plane that shouldn't happen. And that wasn't scientific at all. But the point is that we know what the issue is and how to solve it (shielding), that modern planes already implement the solution and that the only thing left is to explore the issue a little further and publish it in a way that both the public and the regulatory agencies can digest and apply.
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I found this 2005 paper from NASA's Langley Research Center [1]. The report says that the data "confirms this expectation [of interference] with alarming clarity", though it is completely based off crew reports attributing a problem to a device in use. It also uses data from 1986-1999, both airplanes and devices have improved a lot since.

In addition, most of the incidents in the annual report on electronic devices [2] are of the kind "passenger X refused to turn off his mobile phone / [random problem here] crew suspects passenger in the bathroom using his laptop as culprit".

Why can't gov. agencies or airplane manufacturers create an test that mimicks real-world conditions and put a definitive end to the question?

[1] http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2005023...

[2] http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/docs/rpsts/ped.pdf
When self driving cars become ubiquitous over the next decade, we will see the end of taxi, bus, truck, and limo drivers, parking lot attendants, and valets.
Your description was likely copy pasted from the Apple app store to Google Play.

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Unfortunately it's so butt ugly that you'll likely get on a government watch list.

I really wish I made that last part up.

http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/2010/5/11/the-casio-f91w-digita...
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I appreciate that consideration. I guess that was my effort to offer constructive criticism as far as scope goes.
I found a better solution was to just work from home and go for a run around the local park.
Like the design.
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Awesome idea. I was thinking that I needed something like this just this past weekend. I was working on a demo for my iPhone and the product actually works, but it was pouring rain all weekend in SF so I couldn't go outside and take a good pic.

Adding a few more devices or even shots with multiple devices would be a great addition, but the core concept is great.
An asteroid didn't destroy civilization yesterday. Therefore, it follows that an asteroid will never destroy our civilization.

I'm not a fan of "turn off all electronics" policy either, but your statement is just plain silly.
>put your sock (a long one!) over your pant leg on the chain side

Better to just buy a pair of light-reflecting velcro strips. They sell them for just this purpose. I always find that somehow my pant leg comes out of the sock and catches on something.

I concur about toeclips - not necessary at all for normal commuting in the first place.
Staring is how we learn. Yes, it's uncomfortable for the one being stared at, but if they truly want anyone to understand their condition they'll first have to accept that being different means being the focus of attention.
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That would be a sound cloud issue, no?
Try this FPS demo

It's an interesting demo, but all it really proves as far as viability goes is that today's web apps could keep up with what id and co were producing on the desktop more than a decade ago. There is a long way from that to running a AAA quality FPS in-browser.

Apart from high performance apps, the top 10 successful tech businesses in the last 10 years have been web apps.

I'm curious about what measure you're using there.

Looking at the data from the Fortune Global 500 for 2012[1]:

The most profitable tech companies are mostly in hardware and/or consultancy: Apple, IBM, Samsung...

The only primarily software company that keeps up with Apple is Microsoft, coming in at numbers 3 and 4 respectively (both at 20-something billion USD in profits).

The top primarily web company is Google, coming in at number 18 with under $10B, still nothing to be sneezed at of course but in no danger of walking away with the prize any time soon.

The web company you mentioned, Facebook, isn't in the same division in financial terms. Nor are the likes of Salesforce.com or the assorted darlings of the web app world.

Imagine Facebook launching as a desktop app. You buy a CD at Target, and install it, connect, and type in the app to communicate. It's a laughable idea.

Why can't I just do what I do with most other desktop software today: buy it on-line, download the installer, and run it?

[1] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/
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At least then they'd be consistent. If the rule were something like "Your hands must be empty during taxi, takeoff, and landing", that could be defended as ensuring attentiveness and reducing the chance of random crap being thrown about the cabin in case of sudden movement.

Not gonna happen, though. The FAA's constant waffling on the reasons has completely annihilated any respect anyone might have ever had for the rule.
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> At the moment performance is not great, even by Pi standards. The SDCard runs in 1bit 25mhz mode, and I believe the caches are disabled or set to write though

While I'm curious, this sounds like a bout of a bummer.

I think I'll wait a little bit longer ;)
This is great for the iOS ecosystem (until an alternative pops up, but hopefully the community will be splintered).
The science, roughly speaking, doesn't exist. In fitness, the coverage of science is generally very poor, and the wisdom and experience of trainers is valued over the few, usually poorly-designed small-n papers that exist.
It happens to me on Windows also, and the particular copy I was using is my sandboxed Chrome with no plugins (for sites I'm not sure of). It happened as the page was loading, I immediately got a DL requestor, and the same warning message. That pretty much had me closing the window ASAP.
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the title of the post is annoying the fuck out of me, because it perpetuates the same shallow bullshit that she has to fight against.
> In other words, I do what I think is sensible, reasonable.

Do you ignore medical advice because it is delivered by a nurse or CNA instead of the doctor himself? The CNA doesn't have experience prescribing medication, and is simply "parroting" information from the doctor. Does that make it less valid?

Are you an electrical engineer with experience in RF interference and complex avionics? No? Then you have no more knowledge of the situation than the hostess "parroting" instructions. Any rationalization you have is simply an excuse for being impatient.

Also, I hate everyone who grabs their bag immediately and stands up in the aisle. You realize we have another five minutes before the door opens, right?

tl;dr: You're kinda an entitled jerk on airplanes, which is one of the reasons I absolutely hate flying. For whatever reason, people like to pretend that they are god's gift to man when flying on an airplane.
With one app, I remember a stink being raised over them not having a trial for their game. It was Infinite Flight, a flight simulator app. The developers announced the game on reddit, and many of the comments were related to not having a trial for a game which cost a few dollars rather than 99c. The developers mentioned they did not include a trial because they were afraid people outside their target audience would try it, realize it's a flight simulator and not a traditional game, and leave poor ratings based on misconceptions.

I believe they eventually broke down and released a trial, but it does underscore the point that trials are very much encouraged on Windows Phone coupled with the idea that sometimes not having a trial can be for good reasons.
In general, rules either exist for the benefit of an individual or of society in general.

If you think the rules that benefit society in general do not apply to you simply because you disagree with them then you are nothing more than a common arsehole.
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>I expect that most of the people in charge of the Republican Party are emotionally committed to the idea that they're the "good guys" in an important fight. That doesn't mean that they don't have a price, just that it would tend to be very high

Huh? I expect the very opposite. That the scum of the earth is what gets involved into politics AND reaches the higher echelons of both parties. Greedy, power-hungry, amoralistic people. If they had those kinds of "ideals" they left them behind far before they progressed into the party ranks.

It's not like congressmen historically gave us any reason to think otherwise...
I understand what you mean, but I'm certainly a person who had terrible posture and a super tight posterior chain. A program of getting to full squats (took me years!) has really helped my situation.

Now I round my squats at 1.5x bodyweight, but not before... working on it.
Yes well aware of that :)
...and it's slow to develop or even dream to sometime gain approval for using this for enhancing because of two big side-effects: 1. virus induced immune responses gone awry, and 2. cancer - any-time you copy/paste things around the genome you risk knocking off a tumor suppressor gene or turn up the expression of an oncogene (this is basically a show-stopper for Bourne-like largescale genome editing, and if you read about the first gene therapy trials you'll find out about leukemia in patients - even a 1% risk of inducing cancer would be too much, and if you try and do things like gene therapy to slow aging that percent will go up...)

Anyway, the point was that a breakthrough eliminating either (1) or (2), that could act like an accelerator or catalyst to the whole field of research, could happen in a military research program and stay "under lock" for decades instead of all benefiting from it as a result of such a worldwide bioenhancements cold-war...
I apologize if my comment came off as brash. I've had limited experience with Tumblr but my bias is the result of me taking a small subsection of it and extrapolating the (not great) experience with it to the whole of Tumblr.

To address your second point, we're now thinking up ways of how to engage users more into posting content on our site.
Templer looks like something I could understand - I am not a programmer.

Suppose I had a tree of html snippets built up over time, and I added a new snippet and then issued the templer command. Would the html files of unchanged snippets have been 'touched'? Would 'assets' be re-copied?

I use lftp to selectively upload pages and their associated assets to a remote server.

I'm attempting to find something better than the bash script hacks I currently use...
Maybe code-wise but it makes the given URL look bad.
Why can't you test the plane with 200 ipads on the ground?
Repetitive strain injury is caused by repetitive motions (hence the name), not life stress.
That's strange, I have never seen it happen. Could you please give me the URL it happens on for you? Thanks.
>The ire here is because the FAA's rules have no intelligence behind them.

Well, I suggest that the ire is more that "I think the rule is ridiculous and I want to use my device anyway."

They do have intelligence behind them in the form of raw physics.

>Science doesn't add up. Try again.

Sorry, but science does in fact add up. Radio signals are important for an airplane to navigate. iPads and other PEDs can cause interference. How do you explain that to the typical passenger? Perhaps they take a different tack to get the different behavior.
I had to buy gold to buy things in the game I needed. Like ISO8 Goo to do special missions to win a special limited edition super hero, buy better weapons, or ISO8 gems to make my super heroes better.

It is hard to explain, but in order to play the game better you need to keep buying stuff. Zynga games are like that as well. If you don't buy stuff then you suffer in the game and other players can beat you up better.
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> What about devices that don't have an "off"? I've gotten into more than one argument (and nearly ejected from a plane) over a Kindle, since even when "off" there's still text on the screen.

Push and hold the button for at least 4 (6?) seconds.

> It took the words of about 4 other passengers to convince the FA she needs to educate herself about e-ink.

What's the equivalent to Skitt's Law when it's not about grammar?

(Skitt's Law: "Any post pointing out a mistake in grammar will have an error" (but he wrote it much more elegantly than I have here.)
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The answer everyone always gives is oversaturation, but I dunno about that. Personally I think that the novelty of the experience just wore off, and given the investment that people had to make, not just in plastic instruments but in living room space, it became harder to keep them coming back for more (especially buying a new version of the software every year). The recession hitting in 2008 certainly didn't help, especially given that the games are expensive; fall 2008 (RB2, GHWT) turned on in retrospect to be about the peak of the genre.

Our hope at Harmonix was that before that curve of interest fell off, we'd latch onto another curve by making Rock Band be a core way that people experienced rock music in general; you would expect that your favorite group would release a Rock Band version of their new single, and they'd expect that they'd have to do it to satisfy their fans, and it would become sort of self-sustaining. That was one big idea behind Rock Band Network. In retrospect it failed to accomplish that, but I think it was a really good try to keep the genre sustainable for more than a few years.

Note that we still make money from selling downloadable content; there are thousands of downloadable songs available, and of course sales have gone down some since the good old days, but they're still a money-maker. So people are still playing it.
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And I bet that word sounds odd to some native Spanish speakers, and they object to it on etymological grounds. Just like decimate.
I'm pleased that it seems understandable.

Templer has two modes of operation:

1. Files are processed/copied from beneath the input tree to the output tree.

2. Files are worked on "in-place".

In the latter case only files that need to be rebuilt are ever touched/modified/updated.

The same applies with the "input/ -> output/" mode of operation, but there is the caveat that I expect people run "make clean", or similar, every now and again. If you didn't, if you just re-ran it every now and again only the things that had changed, or were missing, would be updated.

(Assets are actually copied each time, if you're not running in-place, but we use tar to do it intelligently, so timestamps, etc wouldn't be changed unnecessarily.)
I totally disagree. The quote marks around the words "World's Ugliest Woman" indicate that this was an actual opinion that someone expressed but that it isn't necessarily a fact. That's really the point of the story, how she dealt with the hurtful comments of others.
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"Ugliness" is always from a given perspective and usually says more about the biases of the person holding the view than about the person in question.

This woman is remarkable given the challenges she has had to face. I hope she continues to educate those with small minded opinions.
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We've had autonomous aircraft for years.

But no, this would only require having a plane on the ground, 200 mobile devices and monitoring the plane's systems. A crash need not be part of the test. Thank god you're not heading the FDA, that would be genocide.
That's not true. Yes, there are plenty of areas that have limited research or small studies but overall there is more than enough to form scientifically based methods of fitness. The best trainers know this and base their methods on research and adjust as new research is published.

Perhaps this is what you meant and just didn't word it well.
Just signed up, really love the design both front end and once logged in however I'm not really sure what to do with it?

So you can tag stuff (granted, quite useful) and search tags? Is this more useful that googling what you want/need?
>Radio signals are important for an airplane to navigate. iPads and other PEDs can cause interference.

Science does not work that way.

Where is the proof of any such interference being caused on an average plane?

You mean the FAA couldn't organize some kind of test of cellphones given 10+ years to do so?

Why aren't the devices that already exist and are already transmitting not causing harmful interference? (And if you don't think they exist, I've got this bridge...)
Has anyone successfully fixed the computer guy posture? I see a lot of prescriptions and speculation (Yoga, Egoscue, Alexander Technique, weightlifting plans, stretching/foam rolling, etc) but zero evidence. At least some empirical evidence with documented workouts and continuous before/after photos would be nice.

Also this PDF just ripped images off the Internet. I recognized some of them from youtube videos and books I have. The fact this was hastily put together is another reason to question its accuracy or the (uncredited) author's authority on the subject.
No doc, no README ? it's maybe too early to promote it.
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At first I didn't know what the site was about. There is no introduction or tagline to make it clear. And while the layout looks somewhat Bootstrappy it is not responsive at all. It scales very poorly to the point that the navigation slides away to the right as I resize my window. I wouldn't introduce a new site without first making it responsive. It does look like you've got some decent content, so you're off to a good start in that regard. It just needs to work on any size display.
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Barrel rolls are low G maneuvers so properly executed they shouldn't cause any of those things. My memory had the barrel roll as a 1G maneuver but wikipedia tells me it gets up to 2-3g (probably to enter/exit the maneuver). Were you thinking of an aileron roll?

I mean, if a 707 could do it safely in 1955[1] modern airliners should do just fine.

(not that I support routine barrel rolls on airliners...)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaA7kPfC5Hk
I like this analogy. OS X is therefore like English; an utterly alien world, colonized by a descendent of the original.
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One more reason why we love Breezi so much since the very beginning. Keep the great works guys! You're amazing.

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What amazing strength she shows. I find such strength very attractive, and I doubt I am alone. I wonder if people are born with such strength, or if we could all have it if we needed it (and perhaps with helpful guidance).
All that does on mine is cause it to reboot. Might be because it's jailbroken and running funky code.
Some great ideas there. Agree about complexity - its usually a sign of something dodgy being hidden.

Perhaps a flash raid 1 device would suffice?