If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions. (via http://friendfeed.com/bgolub...)
A little late on the info as I deleted this link last week at I was told I was pushing all of my FF to FB people were not happy.
- Ed Mason
why do you not post the link comments from friendfeed to the wall? just the links loses 80% of the value.
- Gregor J. Rothfuss
I'm tired the FriendFeed Facebook app. keeps asking me to fix "the problem" so it can post to my wall. I don't want it to post to my wall! Contacts on Facebook and FriendFeed are different types for me. On Facebook it's about being friends in real life, on FriendFeed it is about interests. At least that is how I use FF and FB. My Facebook friends would probably feel I was spamming uninteresting stuff if my FF posts where copied to FB (well, at least if I used FF so intensive as I want to:-))...
- Stig Nygaard
Please let us select what to publish on FB from FF? I'd rather have tweets not appear on FB, particularly as I post from Ping.fm to FB and Twitter.
- Kol Tregaskes
New publishing method? I hope nothing will change for those FF users who don't use Facebook. (am I alone here?)
- Olivia Lovag
from twhirl
I agree with Gregor ... By not having the comment sent with the link, it's just plain and boring and I'd rather just post directly to Facebook. Unfortunately, however, this would negate the very useful benefit of using the "Share on FriendFeed" bookmarklet.
- Dewade Fowler
I don't mind it publishing to my wall, but I don't want it to be my status update. It worked fine before y'all fixed it! (Go ahead. Roll your eyes.) ;)
- Shawn Zehnder Rossi
I get that cannot publish message all the time, because I specifically took away its permissions to publish to my wall. If the FF app gave me some sort of control over what it put on my wall, then I'd give it permissions to do so. As it stands, if everything I posted to FF made it to my FB wall, I'd be defriended by 90% of my friends rather quickly.
- Otto
Yay for new publishing methods! stream.publish FTW!
- Jesse Stay
I don't want to publish my friendfeed updates to facebook, they're too many. I blocked it and i'm always receiving error messages on facebook.
- Oscar
On the same environment, I saw that lite.facebook.com is fast as hell! With proxies, my comments gets directly inputted while FriendFeed takes a couple of seconds, one step at a time. And the message, as Oscar said, is always present if you decide to stop FriendFeed from posting to said service when you have the application on FB. It (script) thinks it wasn't decided, as if it was the...
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- Zu from AOD
Mine failed to post the most recent entry to my wall for unknown reasons. (I have it configured to use privatebrlewis@friendfeed rather than my regular brlewis ff account.)
- Bruce Lewis
I've uninstalled the FriendFeed application and now I cannot re-add it. I see the friendfeed app for a split second and then it reports an error.
- Erik Jacobs
Hacım, the search function is totally down, any news on that?
- mcd
"One of the more interesting memes to come out of 4chan are posts of rudimentary drawings of inventions or scenarios that, at first glance, seem to violate the laws of physics and allow for something supernatural to occur. One of the most common types of of these posts are ones related to “free energy” or perpetual motion. We’ve taken ten of these images and asked Steve Nelson, a Physics professor who holds a Ph. D. from Duke University in physics, to explain why these somewhat intuitive ideas fall flat in real life."
- AJ Batac :)
from Bookmarklet
That one is going downwind, not upwind. But yeah, cool stuff.
- Otto
They plan on using the same principle to make an upwind-travel vehicle: "Next summer - we go directly UP-wind faster than the wind." http://www.fasterthanthewind.org/
- Bruce Lewis
With so much personal data being kept on the cloud, including government and health records or your source code, do you have any concerns about it falling into the wrong hands? Do you think the cloud's benefits are outweighed by continuing security issues?
- Otto
Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
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- Tinfoil 2.0
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- Tinfoil 2.0
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- Zu from AOD
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rah-PM 2012
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- Tinfoil 2.0
805 comments!! I'm afraid to click on the more link....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nicholas, as long as it's not Mike, it's irrelevant.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I'm sad that Logical saw this Facebook status.
- Mike Nayyar
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky, lurking
Great experiment there, I'm somewhat scared opening the thread here. Funny thing, Even the explosion of words spawned through this, making it a wordle madness. http://www.wordle.net/gallery...
- Zu from AOD
I'm scared to expand the comment thread :)
- Roberto Bonini
There are few computers with the processing power capable of handling the comments in this thread. Except for, you know, quantum computers.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
i'm afraid to click on the link to see all comments. so i'm just typing this so another guy (or gal) can read it and comment to make this comment disappear.
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
If anyone gets these emails in their gmail and got sick and tired of them like me, just press 'm' to mute the conversation (if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) (haha i got the last word)
- Daniel Morgan
No you just don't know I posted this.
- John D Reasor
cant the person that started this block the comments now? and thereby win.
- Morgan
If you can get buddy buddy with mike and figure out his schedule, you can prevent him from stopping the comments because you'll always be able to get the last word in. We must prevail for great justice!
- Jonathan Hardesty
That would be cheating, and he knows it :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
That's how the FriendFeed Mob rolls. :-D
- Steven Perez
from IM
you didn't disable the comments yet? you could comment and then do it and then you really would get the last word. but then again, that's cheating. and cheaters never prosper.
- Trish Haley
You're not supposed to make sense of it. It exits only as an opaque, monolithic data structure that is constantly being updated and evolving. ;)
- Tyson Key
Attempting to parse it in a manner that is not approved by FriendFeed, Inc may result in disruption of the space-time continuum, and a series of Bad Things(R) occurring.
- Tyson Key
not only does it make julian fries, but it slices and dices in in seconds. ORDER NOW and you'll get this special gift ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!!!11!!1ONE!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it not knowing what it was, and it'll keep on going no matter what just because this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it.....
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
welcome back my friends, to the thread that never ends, we're so glad you could attend, step inside, step inside.
- Mike Nencetti
MISSILES FOR ALL! Gun control is for unarmed wussies! Blow away comment limits! Damn the torpedoes! FULL STEAM AHEAD!!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
Test conducted to see how long this can last.
- Ashish
it'll never die, with all the wireless cards out there transmitting this, it'll reach alpha centuari in about 300 years.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
It's not because I'm a person who wants to have the last word, but just because you people keep me reminding that there are others that do want that very badly, that causes me to comment here once again. HI! I'M BETTER THAN MIKE NAYYAR!!!!!!! LOSER! :-)
- Ton Zijp
This IS the time and place to announce a gathering of the societal beginnings of the intrepid adventures of... Wait... sorry, this isn't the place? Oh, okay, I'll go back home then.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
I was able to expand this thread on my Droid incredible, and post this comment at the end. Nice test of Dolphin HD browser.(edit - I use the default FF web page.)
- Mike Nencetti
from Android
If I get the last word in, will I get .LAG's World Series tix???
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
It's been a while, Mr. LastWordThreat. I did some good things these recent months. Care to share some of your insights while you were on that trip? TLDR. 8) (2K+ comments is massive hehe, we're getting to your second b-day)
- Zu from AOD
All I want for Christmas are my two front teef.
- Mike Nayyar
Eventually, you will win. Because you're not married to this thread. But if you ever marry...your trend of always getting the last word will end. Painfully.
- Bubba Botts
This thread must go away!!! What if it kills FF!?
- SAM
this thread could go away right now. but you people keep posting comments...wait....didn't I just do the same thing? OK, nevermind. Long live this Thread!!!!
- Morgan
I heard Nayyar had to get in the The Last Word, always. I talked to the casting director, and Mike Nayyar got the lead in The Last Word.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
this is the last one -------------->>> WORD!
- .LAG liked that
Every middle brings another middle. When the world ends, will this comment be toward the end of the thread, or toward the beginning?
- John E. Bredehoft
You guys!!! This post will forever break FF if we're not careful.
- SAM
Yeah, we should all totally stop bumping this post.
- Slippy
I'm surprised Friendfeed can still expand this thread.
- Morton Fox
OMG, doesn't even want to image what would happen if Nayyar tried to use #fftop20. Actually I kind of do, but I bet it would be slow. Scores would be off the charts though.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Probably still under 9000, people should try harder.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
10 dkdir bakıyorum hala bakasım geliyor herhalde bu bir lanet ,vodooooo
- derya sertkan
10 sn gözünü ayırmadan bakınca kahkaha atıyorsun. deneyin :D
- Atakan Ka
çok ii yaaa :D bende aynı hareketi yapmaktan kendimi alamadım :D
- AyshA
Bir haftadır bu sahneler hangi bölümdeydi diye düşünüp duruyorum. Kirk ile McCoy'un iyice makaraya sardığı birkaç bölüm var ama hangileriydi acep?
- Zafer Emecan
"Recent political events have once again brought the “Mormons aren’t Christians,” “Mormons are a cult” epithets into the national spotlight. In his “On Faith” commentary this week, Church Public Affairs managing director Michael Otterson suggests why people make such claims and shares his own experience of being labeled not Christian. Otterson says one problem is that half the U.S. population knows very little about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
- Louis Gray
As an atheist, I must say that watching religious people debate how their nonsense beliefs should be labeled is infinitely amusing. It's like watching sci-fi nerds debate Kirk vs. Picard.
- Otto
Wonder if Jesse Stay is behind this marketing campaign. http://mormon.org/people/ Really interesting and well done for the most part. [I still think all these religions are arguing over details of Gods that don't really exist. Sorry, but Mary was NOT a virgin...]
- The Ghost of Library Past
"A 36-year-old Texas man has pleaded not guilty to battery charges after allegedly attacking his estranged wife for failing to "Like" a status update he posted to Facebook."
- SteVe C
from Bookmarklet
This is why I hate tumblr. Followed that reblogged item back through like 30 layers to find it at http://thefreakiam.tumblr.com/post..., where it was originally posted 2 weeks ago.. but with no link to the original. Finally found it at http://www.unfriendable.com/view..., on page 38 of that site. Tumblr sucks at attribution, but clearly rules at content theft.
- Otto
i do believe "OHHHHH SNAP!" is an appropriate response here.
- tiffany
Tiffany: 'Ohhhh SNAP!' is correct...one gold star for you!
- Morgan
Otto, the image is clearly stamped with that website on it, right at the bottom. And a google reverse image search points at same site. Much faster than digging through 30 layers of Tumblr and coming up empty handed.
- April
I like Adam Ant, but Unobtainium just for the number of time it's been used without any solid lore behind it.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I'm a geek baby! Jimminy, yeah, my friend is a huge fan of the movie The Core and didn't realize it was in Avatar too. :P
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
My favorite memory of Unobtainium was Alex getting completely offended by the very idea of it. I'm still maintaining a 5-8% LOL over that.
- Akiva
It's actually a whole class of issues, this is just one possible way to exploit it. Basically, the problem has to do with how Windows loads DLLs. When searching for a DLL, Windows has the current directory in the search path. So if you have an application trying to load a DLL that isn't on the system, and you're opening a file in an untrusted shared directory, and the DLL is in there, then it'll get loaded instead. So you put your exploit code in that DLL.
- Otto
Notepad in particular is loading the shdocvw.dll file, which is a part of internet explorer. That DLL loads a file called "ieshims.dll", which doesn't exist on most systems. However the failure to load the file doesn't affect it, and so it continues normally. Thus, if you make an exploit DLL, call it ieshims.dll, place it in a directory with a text file, and then get somebody to open your share and open the text file, then the exploit DLL can be loaded.
- Otto
Bottom line is that this is basically a vulnerability introduced into Windows by Internet Explorer. IE's overly tight integration with the operating system and use of the COM components from it everywhere make this sort of exploit possible. It's not just Notepad that's vulnerable, it's any program that uses IE components, basically. On a larger scale, the DLL loading mechanism in...
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- Otto
"Paul Carr, one of our columnists who was hired for his grandstanding ways, has decided to fall on his own sword and quit very publicly on TechCrunch. I believe this is the second or third time he’s quit in public in the past couple weeks. I keep losing count. He thinks he is somehow being loyal to Mike and standing up for the editorial independence of the site. But he is not. He is just grandstanding. Paul’s resignation post reads like the brave stand of a man of principle. But the truth is that Paul doesn’t really know what he is talking about. And he certainly doesn’t speak for TechCrunch. He is not even a full-time employee. I tried to reach out to him and was hoping to have an honest conversation about his future (or lack thereof) at TechCrunch. Instead, he blindsided me with his post by publishing it as I was boarding a plane. At any other publication, Paul would have been fired long ago. And his post would be taken down. But I will let it stand. When Paul was hired, he was...
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- Winckel
from Bookmarklet
very messy. I think it reflects badly on Techcrunch, on Arrington and Schonfeld
- Winckel
They always do this BS on a Friday. So predictable.
- Trish R
Not to mention it reflects badly on AOL and Huffington, since this little kerfluffle is happening on their watch. Or should I say...drama?
- Dennis Jernberg
Ethanol fumes. You can tell by the blue color of the flame.
- Otto
A friend of mine does this demonstration from time to time. It looks great in person!
- Brian Johns
It's pretty easy to do, actually. Get a bit under half a shot of Everclear, pour into a bottle, then rotate the bottle to cover as much of the inside as possible. Set it down, then light it. Be real careful, and go on the lighter side of the half a shot. Adding too much can lead to burning broken glass in your face. Use a room temp bottle too.
- Otto
I don't drink alcohol, but sometimes I think I should have a bottle of Everclear around the house just for fire demonstration purposes. That stuff isn't kidding around!
- Joe "Looptid" Pierce
The speed of sound is roughly one mile every five seconds. Why, then, during a thunderstorm, was I taught to count seconds between the lightning and the thunder to determine how many miles away the storm was? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
(Don't say it's the difference between the speed of light and the speed of sound, because the speed of light is basically instantaneous for storm distances.)
- Stephen Mack
from Bookmarklet
We were only taught to divide by three ;)
- Eivind
Divide by five is the way I learned it too. One mile every five seconds. Simple.
- Otto
Stephen, your version is less scary, as the storm seems further away (not that you have any conception of a 'mile' as a small child, but still...)
- Ken Gidley
Stephen, now have you ever used, or heard someone use, the word 'rancid'? Neither her or her fiance had even heard the term before.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
IIRC, speed of sound isn't actually a constant. it can vary slightly.
- Joe The Sausage
Joe, I think it is a constant, but the density of the medium of travel can influence the speed. And atmospheric conditions aren't constant. IIRC.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Surely the speed of sound is entirely dependent on the medium through which it travels, and thus not a constant? The speed of sound in a vacuum, for example, is approximately zero, whereas the speed of sound through salt water is over 1500metres/sec
- Slippy
If you don't believe in metres, vacuum and salt water speeds are similar.
- Neal Krummell
Speed of sound in air at sea level in dry air at 68F is 1126 f/s. 5280 f/m. 4.69 seconds for sound to travel 1 mile. So dividing by 5 is a close enough approximation.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Yeah, there's actually a lot of detail about the speed of sound in various mediums if you click through to the wiki article. :)
- Stephen Mack
Neal, if you don't believe in metres, you can always multiply by 3.28. And don't tell me you don't believe in feet. You only have to look at the ends of your legs for evidence of their existence ;-)
- Slippy
Jimminy, yes, Rancid's best song is "Ruby Soho."
- Stephen Mack
So bizarre I posted this on the first day to feature local thunder and lightning in at least 3 years...
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Shephen, I thought of you and counted to 20.
- Kevin Fox
I was taught to divide by 3 for miles. Then again, my mother always confused stuff.
- Anika
"Y'know the trick to making perfect rice? I'm talking real, clean white rice or brown rice.... none of that instant shit." - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"Here's the trick: YOU DON'T FUCKING TOUCH IT. YOU DON'T LOOK AT IT. DON'T PESTER IT. MAN YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT, BUT IF YOU DO YOU WILL. FUCK. IT. UP. Read the recipe on the back of the bag/box/etc, mix the ingredients in the order it tells you, and put on the stove. Then, DON'T FUCKING TOUCH IT. Keep the lid on, and time it exactly. Try to keep all utensils away from the rice pot. Having a fork nearby makes you want to prod the rice, which is bad. DON'T FUCKING TOUCH THE RICE. IT DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE PRODDED. When the timer goes off, YOU DON'T FUCKING TOUCH IT. YOU DON'T OPEN IT. YOU DON'T PROD IT. DON'T EVER TOUCH THE FUCKING RICE. Let it sit for 10 minutes! Always let it sit. This lets the starches firm up and the rice absorbs the last of the liquid. The sitting lets the rice settle down some, and it becomes that perfect rice consistency. Every. Fucking. Time. Mmmm warm rice : )"
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
from Bookmarklet
Yes, I know. I know, I've never cooked rice on the stove and have no plan to do so anytime soon. I just thought it was funny.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Or just date an Asian. :D I let The Boyfriend do all the rice-making. Primarily because he told me "White people rice is just sad."
- Hookuh Tinypants
Tinypants, I bet it's because white people touch the rice. :D
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I will openly admit that I am a rice whore. Even with a rice cooker, as soon as the timer dings, I'm in there prodding it with a fork because I just want me some rice! So yeah. I possess the White People Rice Impatience gene. :)
- Hookuh Tinypants
Oh man, I fucking love rice too. It's sinful or something. I know I'm supposed to mix it once before I cover it and I always use a see-through cover for the pot so I can spy it. :P
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
You know what I want right now for breakfast? Rice. *sigh*
- Hookuh Tinypants
I rarely do the exact timing thing because I rarely cook the same amount that's on the bag. The recipe on the bag is for 1 cup, but I seem to always need to make half a cup or two cups, which throws the timing off (no, you can't just half or double the time, I've discovered). I've gotten pretty good at guesstimating the time, though. I should probably let it sit for longer, though. I'm too impatient to EAT IT.
- Jandy
what Lix said - then leave, it has a warmer - also, don't wait 'til you're batsht hungry to prepare your food
- bob in SimCity
For a rice cooker you don't really have to worry about the time. You actually have to touch the rice before you start though. Level the rice off in the pot, stick your finger in to touch the top and fill the water until it's up to your first knuckle. Then start the cooker and don't touch it until about 5-10 minutes after it's done. DON'T FUCKING TOUCH IT UNTIL THEN. ;)
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I've never had too much trouble, but it is probably because I'm too lazy to mess with the rice while it is cooking. I'll admit to having a nice rice cooker now - so worth the money.
- Jennifer Dittrich
GODDAMN IT, I DIDN"T FUCKING TOUCH IT AND THE SHIT BOILED OVER!
- Ah... foiled again!
Sometimes I don't feel like a real Asian because I've never tried cooking rice over an open flame like my parents can. But a rice cooker certainly makes it brain dead simple. Ignore the recipe. Jimminy's method actually works really well, but sometimes you have to experiment with how much water you need, because it totally depends on your rice cooker.
- Victor Ganata
@Victor - I thought real Asians _only_ used rice cookers!
- Andrew C (✓)
Andrew, I thought so too, until I realized how badass it is to be able to cook rice without using any electricity miles from civilization :D It's pretty messy though. The pot is a real pain to cleanup afterward.
- Victor Ganata
Guess what I had for lunch...and dinner? Yup, yup....As for rice:water ratio, it also depends upon the type of rice grain....BTW, don't forget to take the pot of the flame, if open-flame cooking the rice. It gets really tough to wash the grime from the pot. :(
- CarlC
@Thomas - that page is one step behind! Induction rice cookers aren't the new hotness now, it's induction rice cookers _with pressure cooking_, which are supposed to get the rice done slightly faster.
- Andrew C (✓)
15 year old Panasonic (National) has performed well need to upgrade to this ^^^
- Thomas Page
Dayam... here I thought /I/ had a hardon for rice. You people scare me.
- Arlan K.
Soak your pot for at least 30 minutes & it'll be easy to clean. I laugh at soap ads trying to scare us with baked-on messes. Water: the universal solvent.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
The reddit comment thread is fairly hysterical. :)
- Ken Morley
I'd run in a hamster wheel than try to cook rice over an open flame. Using a rice cooker is too easy. There's a rice cup and lines in the pot to where the fill the water to. Add more water if you're cooking brown rice. I think the most important thing is to let it steam for 10 minutes after it's done cooking.
- Rodfather
I need to buy one but I'm not sure if they can handle that I add tomato sauce in with the water... TO THE GOOGLE TO RESEARCH!
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Lots of great ideas here, but they all result in the rice being all light, fluffy, and completely not sticking together in big lumps. Makes it hard to eat it with chopsticks. :-)
- Slippy
Slippy, then don't let it sit so long, after it's cooked. ;)
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Yeah, right, like I'm really gonna eat rice when I can just go get a burger.
- Slippy
No, I don't think he's like Zuckerburg. He doesn't actually kill it.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
every1 is really F'ed up if they cant cook rice.. its was easy as boiling water !
- Peter Dawson
No, it's easier than that. "Cheeseburger, large fries for me. Rice for the lady." Also, Peter, you may be able to cook rice, but it still takes you two goes to spell "as" right. :-D
- Slippy
No no, you mean field programmable gate arrays. They only call them PLDs because Xilinx has FPGAs sewn up. :) Trust me, Altera was BlueArc's first customer.
- Louis Gray
-----Original Message----- From: Dr. Francis B. Rang [mailto:brang@elcamino.edu] Sent: Sun 6/19/2011 7:32 AM Cc: Rang, Bernie Subject: Spanish 1 (Honors) textbook: Imágines The textbook should be available in the ECC bookstore. This edition is published for ECC and has the workbook bundled with the textbook. If you buy it on-line or from another vendor you will have to buy the workbook...
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- Tiddy Bott
from Android
i have loads of space in back. what do you use for strain relief on descending cables? i have a 24U rack (paltry compared to the average rack in a server or telecom install, i know).
- Joe The Sausage
Word on the street you got something to show me Magical, colorful, Mr. Mystery I'm intrigued for a peek heard it's fascinating Come on, baby, let me see what you're hiding underneath
- Lnorigb
from FFHound!
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. Rita Mae Brown
- Cristo
"A lot of global warming deniers try very hard to connect global warming to the Sun. [...] The problem here is two fold: there doesn't appear to be a large variation in Earth's temperatures with solar activity*, and also that temperatures are rising extremely rapidly in the past 100 years, when solar activity has been relatively normal."
- Andrew C (✓)
from Bookmarklet
"I researched this quite a bit for my book, "Death from the Skies!" It seems like an amazing idea, and well worth investigating, that cosmic rays could affect us so much that our weather might change due to them! But what I found then, as it still seems true at least for now, is that if cosmic rays do have an effect, it's very small, and not nearly enough to account for either the suddenness or the amount of rise in temperatures the Earth has seen in the past century."
- Andrew C (✓)
Once again, Phil Plait does more to convince me that he's wrong than anybody has ever done to convince me Global Warming is wrong. Seriously, he's a terrible writer. His grandiose (and frankly idiotic) claims are easily disproven by simple common sense. Global Warming may indeed be perfectly real, but I will never have any respect for Phil Plait's badly written words on the matter.
- Otto
I love when common sense beats science!
- Andrew C (✓)
But seriously, which parts of these particular 'grandiose (and frankly idiotic) claims' are disproven by common sense?
- Andrew C (✓)
Phil Plait doesn't practice science. He practices the art of spin. Seriously, he takes these studies and spins their results to fit into his worldview. That's all he ever does; it permeates his written work. Instead of simply taking the facts of this study at its face value, he spins it into "but this can't possibly affect global warming, mostly because I say so". The study itself is...
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- Otto
He's not alone in this, BTW. I see this sort of thing all the time in studies of one sort or another, where the scientists add their own interpretation of the results to the abstract. Sometimes they are matter of fact about it, but sometimes they're clearly pursuing an agenda. I just hate people with agendas, especially those that try to mask their agendas as "doing science".
- Otto
How can "not enough aerosols" not have been part of the study itself when he was quoting from the study's own abstract?
- Andrew C (✓)
I believe I stated as much about "abstracts" just above your post. Spin is spin, regardless if he's making his own or quoting somebody else's.
- Otto
Wow. Now "However, even with the large enhancements in rate due to ammonia and ions, atmospheric concentrations of ammonia and sulphuric acid [i.e. aerosols] are insufficient to account for observed boundary-layer nucleation." is [the authors' own] spin rather than a statement of fact. Well-played.
- Andrew C (✓)
Also, I'm still waiting for those simple common sense disproofs of Plait's claims here.
- Andrew C (✓)
Hey, you know, keep on waiting. Maybe one day you'll figure them out.
- Otto
Yeah, I figured you were making your own grandiose bluffs there; I just didn't think you'd fold so quickly.
- Andrew C (✓)
No, I'm just not going to play that game. I'm not interested in having a debate or conversation with you. I said what I wanted to say and that's that. Agree, or disagree, it makes no difference to me. I just wanted to point out that Phil Plait isn't the grand-master-final-argument that you and so many others seem to think he is. He's an overbearing pompous ass, and not a good source to lean on to many people.
- Otto
I'm not leaning on Plait as a guru on all matters here, but considering his argument _on this topic_, your claims have been completely awful: they hinge on how bad Plait is rather than anything he said, you're unable to back anything up, and you refuse to address the substance of the cosmic ray/cloud forming argument. It's pure ad hominem.
- Andrew C (✓)
And in the future I will weigh /your/ arguments less, since by your logic, someone who makes grandiose claims that are easily disproven is someone to generally distrust.
- Andrew C (✓)
Yep. It is ad-hominem. I fail to see where I claimed otherwise. However, don't bother about weighing my arguments less. You'll never see them again after this. *blocked*
- Otto
"Puerto Rico's Anthony Weiner is much more thrilling than ours: Last week, images from Puerto Rican senator and GOP cheerleader Roberto Arango's alleged profile on gay hook-up app Grindr surfaced. When a Puerto Rican TV show confronted him, Arango neither confirmed nor denied making the profile but offered this excuse: "You know I've been losing weight. As I shed that weight, I've been taking pictures. I don't remember taking this particular picture but I'm not gonna say I didn't take it. I'd tell you if I remembered taking the picture but I don't." "
- Tudor Bosman
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