While gifs didn't go away, the outcry did establish PNG as a widely supported web image format. Unfortunately, PNGs don't do animations. The patents on GIFs expired before an alternative could be established... much like MP3s. These days, HTML5 video is starting to obsolete the gif for those little animations, because videos can be much smaller.
It's a ridiculous claim, of course. Plug a whole bunch of data into a computer, and some kind of pattern will always appear out of it, no matter what, but it's just incidental. See:
It's a question of internal damage, which just happens to be far less common than external damage (i.e. punctures, cracked sidewalls, etc). The driver might have hit a curb pretty hard, or failed to add air (driving on it while letting the pressure get very low). Other options are mishandling by the tire seller/installer, or just a rare manufacturing defect. Also a slim chance that a nail puncture was incorrectly patched, or a hundred other uncommon possibilities.
Fatbergs only seem like a huge problem, because they're new. After a while, strategies and equipment for dealing with them will be developed, and they'll be just another minor maintenance task. How about a steady trickle of Draino to dissolve blockages before they grow large? How about a pressure washer to make short work of breaking them up once they've gotten out of control? Long-term, designing sewer systems with obstacles that will help to break up any obstructions before they grow large, may eliminate the maintenance issue entirely.
DirecTV dishes were designed and constructed by experts, to exacting tolerances based on proper radio frequency engineering principals. Just picking a random sized dish, and mounting the receiver any old distance from it, is not going to give you good results. In this case, the dish is far too small for the frequencies being used, and WiFi should really have a 1-meter C- band dish for good signal gain. And there too, precisely mounting your antenna is critical. This strainer is probably only behaving as a simple reflector. And piece of metal behind your antenna will about double your signal. Something like chicken wire behind an AP would likely do just as well.
Peltier devices are terribly inefficient air conditioners, so they generate even more heat for the little cold they put out. Being wearable, that heat is going to be released very close to your body. If the wind blows the wrong way, all that heat will come back into your face. And they really need a fan to function, so it won't be silent at all.You know what would work a whole lot better for any given amount of battery power in 99% of situations??? Fans just blowing ambient air over your skin. A much better cooling design would be one of those blue ice pack things, in an insulated box, with a temperature controlled damper and fan blowing the cold air on you. You have to throw it in your freezer to recharge, but it would actually be able to do a decent job, unlike this concept.If you really seriously needed active cooling, you'd go with either the common chemical ice packs as needed, or cans of highly compressed gas with temperature regulators. Liquid nitrogen would of course be an excellent choice, but even simple computer blowers or hairspray cans demonstrate the same cooling effect when they are discharged.
Peltier devices are terribly inefficient air conditioners, so they generate even more heat for the little cold they put out. Being wearable, that heat is going to be released very close to your body. If the wind blows the wrong way, all that heat will come back into your face. And they really need a fan to function, so it won't be silent at all.You know what would work a whole lot better for any given amount of battery power in 99% of situations??? Fans just blowing ambient air over your skin. A much better cooling design would be one of those blue ice pack things, in an insulated box, with a temperature controlled damper and fan blowing the cold air on you. You have to throw it in your freezer to recharge, but it would actually be able to do a decent job, unlike this concept.If you really seriously needed active cooling, you'd go with either the common chemical ice packs as needed, or cans of highly compressed gas with temperature regulators. Liquid nitrogen would of course be an excellent choice, but even simple computer blowers or hairspray cans demonstrate the same cooling effect when they are discharged.
Neatorama.com has been broken for 49 days now. Now that SSL is required, the improperly installed SSL certificate is causing problems. See, only the neatorama.com certificate was installed into the server, while two other (Root and Intermediate) certificates which are required, were not properly installed in the chain.
Most people won't notice this, because their browsers have picked up those intermediate certificates on other, properly configured sites, and will quitely use those in the background.
You can verify this problem by running "firefox --ProfileManager," to create a new (blank) profile, and going straight to neatorama.com before any other sites. You'll get a certificate error. You can also run "wget" or "curl" on https://www.neatorama.com which return certificate error messages.
Here are a couple sites that identify the problem with the missing intermediate certificate chain:
I've surprised bobcats on several occasions, and can confidently say they act nothing like that. They hide as much as possible, then quietly dash off in a flash when the opportunity arises. A lot tougher than domestic cats, a little ball of muscle and teeth and claws, but still firmly in the hide and run school of self defense.
"the average American gets 45% of their daily calories from cooking oil"
Whoa there!!! That's a crazy number... We'd have to be hauling gallons of cooking oil from the grocery store.
Their source (pew research) claims we consume 400 calories of cooking oil daily, or 16% of the average American's daily calorie intake (2,500 calories). The 45% number is for ALL "REFINED oils", which is certainly not just cooking oil, but includes a vast swath of our foods
It strikes me that they're reversing cause and effect on practically everything they've listed. Of course the AVERAGE meal size is going to go up when larger numbers of people are overweight... Obviously larger, hungry people are going to order more food. All their numbers fall into the same trap.
As an alternative explanation, lifestyle change seems a good candidate. More people are working more hours, so they're eating more convenience foods, and more are working less labor-intensive jobs? so are getting less physical activity that would otherwise increase their base metabolism and keep their weight down. And this has a nasty feed-back loop, with heavier people less likely to get physical activity and more prone to over-eat even further. Just one possible explanation that doesnt demonize the usual suspects that are all too easy to villify.
Other causes of reduced physical activity could include increasing urbanization and densification, wide adoption of indoor climate control, and many, many more.
We could alternatively go with wider exposure to chemicals like pthalates (like BPA) which have a known causal relationship to weight gain as the sole (hypothetical) cause, fitting all the same data points with no trouble.
To really get some evidence requires forcing a single varible to change in a limited test group... Pick one portion of the US, and have all the fast food restaurants in the area increase their portion sizes, then see if obesity gets worse there, or does not. Without such rigor, all the statistics Vox and others in the media can come up with are just a lot of hot air that sheds no light on the problem.
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How about a steady trickle of Draino to dissolve blockages before they grow large? How about a pressure washer to make short work of breaking them up once they've gotten out of control? Long-term, designing sewer systems with obstacles that will help to break up any obstructions before they grow large, may eliminate the maintenance issue entirely.
In this case, the dish is far too small for the frequencies being used, and WiFi should really have a 1-meter C- band dish for good signal gain. And there too, precisely mounting your antenna is critical.
This strainer is probably only behaving as a simple reflector. And piece of metal behind your antenna will about double your signal. Something like chicken wire behind an AP would likely do just as well.
Most people won't notice this, because their browsers have picked up those intermediate certificates on other, properly configured sites, and will quitely use those in the background.
You can verify this problem by running "firefox --ProfileManager," to create a new (blank) profile, and going straight to neatorama.com before any other sites. You'll get a certificate error. You can also run "wget" or "curl" on https://www.neatorama.com which return certificate error messages.
Here are a couple sites that identify the problem with the missing intermediate certificate chain:
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=neatorama.com&latest
https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=neatorama.com
Whoa there!!! That's a crazy number... We'd have to be hauling gallons of cooking oil from the grocery store.
Their source (pew research) claims we consume 400 calories of cooking oil daily, or 16% of the average American's daily calorie intake (2,500 calories). The 45% number is for ALL "REFINED oils", which is certainly not just cooking oil, but includes a vast swath of our foods
As an alternative explanation, lifestyle change seems a good candidate. More people are working more hours, so they're eating more convenience foods, and more are working less labor-intensive jobs? so are getting less physical activity that would otherwise increase their base metabolism and keep their weight down. And this has a nasty feed-back loop, with heavier people less likely to get physical activity and more prone to over-eat even further. Just one possible explanation that doesnt demonize the usual suspects that are all too easy to villify.
Other causes of reduced physical activity could include increasing urbanization and densification, wide adoption of indoor climate control, and many, many more.
We could alternatively go with wider exposure to chemicals like pthalates (like BPA) which have a known causal relationship to weight gain as the sole (hypothetical) cause, fitting all the same data points with no trouble.
To really get some evidence requires forcing a single varible to change in a limited test group... Pick one portion of the US, and have all the fast food restaurants in the area increase their portion sizes, then see if obesity gets worse there, or does not. Without such rigor, all the statistics Vox and others in the media can come up with are just a lot of hot air that sheds no light on the problem.