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Comment Try a few of them (Score 1) 350

by EdA (#39937055) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos?

When I got my first digital camera I sent about $10 worth of the same images to two vendors (Snapfish and Kodak) then I compared the results.
Kodak won hands down. I could have tried a larger set of services. Kodak had a scenario where you could pick up the prints at CVS or Walgreens with no shipping charges, but that ended I think. So you may want to take into account how to avoid shipping. /Ed
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Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat 210

Posted by timothy from the visit-the-chiba-clinic-for-an-upgrade dept.
ral writes "The human tongue can taste more than sweet, sour, salty, bitter and protein. Researchers have added fat to that list. Dr. Russell Keast, an exercise and nutrition sciences professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, told Slashfood, 'This makes logical sense. We have sweet to identify carbohydrate/sugars, and umami to identify protein/amino acids, so we could expect a taste to identify the other macronutrient: fat.' In the Deakin study, which appears in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Dr. Keast and his team gave a group of 33 people fatty acids found in common foods, mixed in with nonfat milk to disguise the telltale fat texture. All 33 could detect the fatty acids to at least a small degree."

Microsoft Demos Three Platforms Running the Same Game 196

Posted by Soulskill from the pick-up-and-play dept.
suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Engadget: "Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project (with 90% shared code) that plays on Windows with a keyboard, a Windows Phone 7 Series prototype device with accelerometer and touch controls, and the Xbox 360 with the Xbox gamepad. Interestingly, not only is the development cross-platform friendly, but the game itself (a simple Indiana Jones platformer was demoed) saves its place and lets you resume from that spot on whichever platform you happen to pick up."

Comment Unheated warehouse (Score 1) 1127

by EdA (#27561611) Attached to: Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In?

On my first business trip I went to Australia, left 90F weather for 45F. After 26 hours of travel I went right from the airport to the unheated warehouse where we were staging for a trade show.
Half of my equipment didn't show up so I had to recode my demo with the equipment that had arrived. The software package was buggy and if you did certain operations you'd lose your work.

The warehouse had 2 refrigerators, one with all beer. The other was all chocolate. /Ed

Comment ASIC guy's prespective... (Score 1) 531

by EdA (#25247047) Attached to: How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT?

I talked about the importance of studying Math and Science, defined what an engineer was and talked about the semiconductor revolution engulfing the planet...

I brought **loads** of props they could pass around the room:

1.) vacuum tube (I kept this), transistor, 1980's ASIC, 1990's ASIC, 2000's ASIC
2.) I talked about Moore's law and drew the shrinking linewidths compared to a human hair
3.) I bought a diskette, CD, DVD asking how much data they thought was on each and showed the amount on the board
4.) Showed them how they can count to 32 (0..31) on one hand
5.) Then I tied all of this stuff back to the things they know and love, iPods, cell phones, Gameboy's, etc.

But then again, I'm an ASIC guy. /Ed

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