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Is one cup of good, black coffee in the morning all that harmful?-superboyac (April 22, 2013, 03:26 PM)-40hz (April 22, 2013, 03:48 PM)
Well, it's late afternoon here and I'm now sitting quietly sipping a fresh cup of my favorite afternoon blend: Gevalia's exquisite Cafe Sperl while reluctantly thinking that I really do need to cut down on my coffee consumption in general - and my caffeine intake specifically.Is one cup of good, black coffee in the morning all that harmful? That's my current schedule, and I like it a lot. I love drinking coffee in the morning before doing anything. I used to drink 30+ ounces a day, but that was bad (coffee headaches).
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'Problem' is I don't do drugs. And I don't even drink that often. Plus, I no longer smoke (clean for 13 years this year!) ...so right now a good cup of coffee is about the only indulgence I still permit myself.
I'm afraid if I curtail coffee too much I'll risk losing my main rationalization for living.
(Note: Switching to a decaf blend isn't the simple answer either. I've tried many, and there's a noticeable difference in flavor. And unfortunately, on blindfold tests (I told you I tried! I really did!) I've ended up favoring the caffeinated blends almost single every time.)-40hz (April 22, 2013, 03:21 PM)
The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard "had his own quite peculiar way of having coffee," according to the biographer Joakim Garff. "Delightedly he seized hold of the bag containing the sugar and poured sugar into the coffee cup until it was piled up above the rim. Next came the incredibly strong, black coffee, which slowly dissolved the white pyramid." Then he gulped the whole thing down in one go.
Thanks, great advance so far.this is what i do also so far, just vst's. you don't want to consider reaper? are you already experienced with FL or presonus? i've been playing around with reaper's midi tools. they say cubase has the best midi features, so i wanted to compare. i found reaper very good with midi, i have no real complaints i can think of. if there are specific midi things you are interested in, let me know, and i'll tell you how good/bad reaper is at it.
I was planning to use FL studio, or presonus studio one.
I will use VSTs only, no external audio recording.
I'd like to have the best midi sequencer and piano roll I can find.
My main concern is that performance inside the virtual machine may not be that great. For a start, 3D accel would not work, or not work well, so all the compiz/unity stuff is out. I'm thinking 12.04 with unity 2D.
How's win 8 under a vm? looks like is has less graphic stuff on the window decorations, may perform well...-urlwolf (April 14, 2013, 03:13 PM)
Wow, how revealing.-Renegade (April 02, 2013, 08:35 AM)
There's some truth to that. There was a story of a GE lightbulb that had burned for something like 20 years. It became a minor attraction in the town it was in. When it finally failed, it was returned to GE, who desperately wanted to know why.
The analysis determined that too much tungsten (about 4X) had been applied to the filament inside the bulb due to a random glitch in the manufacturing process. This extra tungsten significantly extended the service life of the bulb.
GE's official conclusion: The bulb burned that long because it was..."defective."
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Seems that being defective has little to do with function and everything to do with form. Since the bulb was "out of spec" it was therefor "defective" QED as far as the manufacturing engineers were concerned.
-40hz (April 02, 2013, 08:53 AM)
Any chance of making it slightly bigger?
-40hz (March 26, 2013, 03:37 PM)
If you're planning on using WebDrive to do file synchronization with a remote server, I can no longer recommend it.That's crazy! I wonder if it is due to copyright or legal issues.
For reasons completely unfathomable to me, last week WebDrive decided that it would redownload EVERY file EVERY time it connects, rendering it completely unusable as a file synchronization tool. Your mileage may very but the app went from essential to useless for me overnight.-mouser (March 16, 2013, 09:16 AM)
I think a lot of this IP protectionism is indicative of a loss of confidence on the part of many. The only people that try (in my experience) to wring every last nickel out of everything they come up with are the people who fear their creativity is a finite resource. That they only have so much originality in them - and once it's gone, it's gone.Good point. That's how I feel about it also. I also feel that a lot of creative people, either due to ignorance or intentional lying, are not aware of how they copy others for their own creativity. It's a messy argument, and definitely not legally sound in any way, but in my mind it's impossible to create something new that is not built upon the generations of creativity that came before it. There may be a new twist or a new element, but to argue that you came up with the whole thing is impossible for me to accept. All my favorite people, those that are called "the geniuses" by most, whenever I study them, I find clear cut examples of who they learned their craft from. If someone asked me about ANYTHING I've done, i can tell you almost exactly where each element is inspired from.
I've had more of my own original work (ideas, words, music) than I can shake a stick at "appropriated" by others over the years. Does it ever bother me? Maybe a little every so often. (Mostly when I'm feeling very tired or am unusually short on sleep.) But so what? I'm a clever chap who doesn't mind working. Nor do I ever plan on retiring. I'll just write new stuff. I'm never one to be at a loss for ideas - or come up short on creativity.
So pilfer away AFAIC. There's plenty more where that came from.-40hz (March 13, 2013, 09:00 PM)
So i just got this thing, and it's incredible. $30, mind you.OK...just noticed some buggy behavior with this device. the orientation can reverse it seems randomly and there is a fn-esc combo key that is supposed to fix it and it hasn't really worked for me. also at times, the mouse will be going spazzy all over the place (uncontrollable). So I would NOT at this point recommend it as a replacement for the reliable logitech and gyration, but merely a backup or cheap alternative.
http://www.amazon.co...Remote/dp/B006OW1J1M (see attachment in previous post)
Let me tell you what this thing can do:
--full air mouse, meaning you wave your hand around in the air and move the mouse. Super smooth, plug and play. Why am I making a big deal? The only other ones that we are aware of from the big companies are Logitech and Gyration, and they cost over $100. This is an incredible deal.
--It has a full keyboard. amazing.
--turn it over, on the other side, it has a simple setup for a TV replacement remote, it can learn IR commands.
--the usb receiver is hidden inside. lovely.
--exact size of an iphone.
--rechargeable with a regular, non-proprietary usb cable.
--replaceable battery
--works on windows, and android!
This is amazing to me. Maybe I'm over-sensitive to things like this, but it reveals a few things to me. How stupid and ignorant most of my country (US) is to the technology available, especially regarding what things should cost, how easy they should be to use, how simple doesn't necessarily mean better, and better doesn't necessarily mean more complicated, how strong the marketing of the more popular brands are, etc etc. Also, how held back the US technology experience is because of legal/political issues, and how little people realize this. If I hear one more person show amazement by whatever new feature the iphone can do, i will throw up.-superboyac (March 09, 2013, 06:34 PM)
best of all - sell your own product.Yes.-40hz (March 10, 2013, 08:14 AM)
I own a $$ Gyration set. It is pretty amazing even if I primarily bought it for the to-die-for keyboard.It totally works at least half as good. The gyration stuff is better built and probably more ergonomically comfortable. Their stuff is great. Logitech's MX Air mouse is also fantastic. And yes, it probably is a product of some sort of slave labor (I even looked up the company's info online, and you can see the conveyer belt booths and factory environment
If this puppy works even half as good as that it's worth double the asking price imho.
Thanks for sharing!-40hz (March 09, 2013, 06:50 PM)
).How does that work with Android? Does it use Bluetooth?I believe it does somehow. Crazy eh? I really don't know at this point, haven't been able to test that out, but others have and say it works. I have another media player device coming ($60) that's an Android device and I'll try it out on that.-Deozaan (March 09, 2013, 08:28 PM)
