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Comment Re:Apps (Score 1) 213

This. I use the incognito mode in Chrome to run my personal account and the main window to run my work account. Makes it pretty easy to use two at the same time, although incognito windows seem to share sessions so you can't run more than two just by opening extra incognito windows.

Incognito is also useful in development, when you want to log in as some test user to a system and then clear the cookies but be able to stay logged in as an admin user at the same time. Pretty much any case where you might want two sets of cookies, it comes in handy...

Comment Not a body double... (Score 1) 295

If you google around for "Skinny Steve", it turns out that they just edited his body to look smaller - he did his own movement for the "skinny" scenes because the directors couldn't find a double who moved similarly enough. Sample source: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43825044/ns/today-entertainment/t/brawny-captain-america-saved-skinny-steve/

Comment Re:A worthy effort (Score 1) 295

Er, my mistake, chess is not yet solved. But in any case, I think the evidence strongly suggests that with perfect play, white wins, and certainly my experience indicates that memorizing opening play leads to a degree of advantage that means you can't really seriously play the game without bothering to spend significant amounts of time memorizing. If it's your thing, go ahead, but I just got bored.

Comment Re:A worthy effort (Score 0) 295

Chess IS solved. That is indisputable. Otherwise, having some experience of the game myself, I decided long ago that it's dull. Once you master basic tactical play, then the game typically falls to whoever has the most extensive opening book memorization. Once I reached the stage where I could compete with 2000-ranked players, beating them if they slipped up on their openings (which occurred when I reached only about 1450 myself), I realized quickly that the memorization factor was the primary differentiator and I lost interest in the game entirely. Try go - it's a much better game, in my opinion, and requires much more imagination (and probably a higher IQ to play successfully) than chess.

Comment Re:And Up the Food Chain? (Score 3, Informative) 229

There is a journal article which discusses the acetaminophen toxicity in snakes and lizards. Apparently there are two theories - glutathione depletion leading to hepatic necrosis as you mentioned, or methemoglobinemia, which is apparently a condition where normal oxygen-carrying hemoglobin is replaced by methemoglobin, which does not carry oxygen and effectively causes death due to cellular oxgyen deprivation (I wonder if this would explain the findings of clear fluid in the lungs/trachea of the snakes/lizards they tested this on?). I'm not a doctor or a chemist, by the way, just found it interesting.

Comment Re:Wikileaks? (Score 1) 502

:)

So that's why I did a google search before posting here, and came up with various non-official websites saying more-or-less the same thing, plus there was this little blurb posted on the Twitter WikiLeaks profile on the 17th:

Real change begins Monday in the WashPost. By the years end, a reformation. Lights on. Rats out. 1:57 PM Jul 17th via HTC Peep

I think it's a reasonable thing to wonder.:) Of course, Wikileaks could have simply had advance notice of the story and nothing to do with its content.

Databases

Good Database Design Books? 291

OneC0de writes "I am the Director of IT for a small/medium sized marketing company, where I personally write the code that runs our applications. We use a variety of technology at our office, the majority of which rely on MS-SQL and MySQL databases. I am familiar with tables, SQL queries, and have a general understanding of how the SQL databases work. What I'm looking for is a good book, particularly a newer book, to explain general database design techniques, and maybe explain some relational tables. We have some tables that have million of rows, and I'd like to know the best method of designing these tables."

Comment Re:What's this "color" thing... (Score 1) 495

Eh, heard all this before. Initially I'm pretty sure color and sound (and movies themselves) sold on the basis of gimmickry before they really took off as solid art forms in themselves. My point is that it's pretty premature to judge and most of this is the same sort of reactionary ranting that leads to guys like Murdock going on about how they prefer their news on dead trees and so on. 3D will come into its own, in time, that's all I'm saying. People need to stop freaking out that it isn't all Citizen Kane yet.

Comment What's this "color" thing... (Score 1) 495

...that you youngsters are trying to add to my moving pictures? You already had to go and add sound to it, so I can hear all the yapping instead of the music, and now you want to add color? Damn it, I like me some intertitles. What's next? You'll try to add smell, or make it all Three-Dimensional or something, won't you? Or replace it all with something drawn by a com-PEW-ter. Get the hell away from my moving pictures, damn it. And GET OFF MY LAWN!!

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