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Tofu - does it make sense?
All this worry about the risks of tofu. Gee - there are hundreds of foods - including Western, mainstream ones - that if you eat excessively will cause you problems. Life's too short to worry about this stuff. -
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Recommend me a good photography forum
DPReview is a bit snobby and there are snarky but ignorant people. Someone once posted a really good explanation - from a signal / image processing point of view - of why more megapixels doesn't necessarily mean more noise at the same spatial scale. The people that didn't understand it kept... -
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Is there a quick and easy way to archive email?
You should try to determine if you are accesing your webmail through POP3 or IMAP. If you are using IMAP, you will need to find a way to copy them off the server before deleting them in Outlook Express. If you delete them now, they disappear forever. Try searching for offline IMAP Outlook... -
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Tofu - does it make sense?
I just stick to authentic tofu dishes from Chinese or other Asian restaurants. They can do all sorts of stuff with it: There's a tofu desert that's a bit sweet with very soft tofu. There's slightly fried tofu which is flavoured with some sauce and spices. It's one of my favourite dishes... -
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Web host advice, please.
What are your real bandwidth and storage needs? I use A Small Orange (ASO). They have a Tiny plan that starts at $25 per year (150 MB storage, 4.5 GB bandwidth, unlimited databases, email accounts, subdomains, etc.) There's a $50 a year Small plan (750 MB storage, 15 GB bandwidth) as well in... -
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I graduate from college tomorrow! Whoohoo!
It's always best to get experience while in school. I just finished grad school and I'm finishing up a contract to take my research to the next level. Once that's done, I'll need to get a permanent job. If it wasn't for the fact that I've got a couple years of experience in my field throughout... -
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Alternative .pdf readers?
I use a combination of Sumatra PDF and Foxit since they're both good at different tasks. I prefer Foxit over Adobe or Sumatra as a normal PDF reader but the reason I use Sumatra PDF as well is because I make PDFs in LaTeX with TeXnicCenter. The latest Sumatra integrates with TeXnicCenter and... -
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Military warns oil could start running short by 2015
By the way, considering US only oil is kind of short sighted. Other countries use oil too, and in fact, with the move of manufacturing to other countries, US has actually displaced some of it's consumption to other countries. What this means is that even if you have enough oil to meet your daily... -
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Military warns oil could start running short by 2015
Read the USGS link. There's 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of "technically recoverable" oil. The rest of the "2 trillion" in that email is not accessible to current technology. Oh, by the way, 4.3 billion barrels will last the US about 7 months if you extract it fast enough to meet daily demand. But... -
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This is making my head go tilt
Any attempt at drilling is basically a useless gesture. You can drill to high heavens and it will not be enough to cover the projected energy requirements. Not to mention that it's extremely expensive to do offshore drilling. I'd much rather see that money invested in nuclear power and an... -
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Earth Hour
It's not just climate change that's the issue. There's also peak oil, which is actually an even worse problem. It doesn't get a lot of press now when the oil prices are low, but everyone should be aware that there's only a finite amount of that stuff. More importantly, it's getting harder to... -
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Trespassers
You can go pretty fast on a bicycle. Even though the line won't sever your head, it can give you a serious neck injury or knock you off the bike, causing you to break your neck from the fall or giving you head trauma. As an example of how a seemingly minor bicycle mishap can have severe... -
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Using a 500W Halogen worklight to keep ice off my car
While that might be true in money terms, it's not so straightforward to compare in energy terms. Gasoline and electricity come from two vastly different production paths. 1 L of gasoline took energy to dig out of the ground as crude oil, energy to process into a refined product and energy to... -
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Stargate Universe opinions.
It's FTL but not hyperspace. That's all you need to know. In-universe, there have already been multiple ways to go FTL: by Stargate, by hyperdrive and by wormhole drive. Destiny's FTL is just one more type. Compare to Star Trek: There's warp drive, transwarp, quantum slipstream, subspace... -
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Stargate Universe opinions.
There aren't going to be any humans in SGU. All of the aliens in the first season will be CG according to actor interviews. RDA had foot surgery recently. Hard to keep in shape if you can't move around. Will be explained in a few episodes, according to producers. There have always been 9... -
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Things that drove you nuts when you were younger,
I'm the opposite. Ever since I published a paper where I ran out of letters of the English and Greek alphabets for variables, I've developed some kind of aversion to working out math by hand. -
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Stargate Universe opinions.
SGU is a breath of fresh air after 12 years of action / adventure and especially welcome after the last 3 seasons of Atlantis. It's not without it's flaws and there are characters and developments I don't like (the ancient communication stones need to be eliminated) but at least it's... -
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File Sync Software Reccomendations
I use Unison for / between systems that I own: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ -
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File back-up small?
The thing that gets said on CPF ("One is none, etc.") is a little different for data backup. Not only do you need more than one backup, it needs to be in more than one location and on more than one type of media.
