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Samara said:
Silk Soy Milk Question again: Does the Original Flavor taste any good? I always go for Vanilla/Chocolate, but Id like to try the original flavor.
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I like it. It's not as sweet as the vanilla for some reason, but it has the same listed ingredients, besides the vanilla flavoring.

Plain:
INGREDIENTS: All Natural Soymilk (Filtered Water, Whole Soybeans), All Natural Evaporated Cane Juice, Calcium Carbonate, Sea Salt, Natural Flavors, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D2, Riboflavin (B2), Vitamin B12.

Vanilla:
INGREDIENTS: All Natural Soymilk (Filtered Water, Whole Soybeans), All Natural Evaporated Cane Juice, Calcium Carbonate, Natural Vanilla Flavor, Sea Salt, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D2, Riboflavin (B2), Vitamin B12.
 
How would you make a survey absolutely anonymous? I am trying to compile a survey of very sensitive information. Stuff people might talk about to friends but wouldn't want to be public knowledge. This means that they would not answer to a complete stranger, or worse answer untruthfully. They also would not feel comfortable putting it in an email, and honestly I am not either. I want an anonymous survey so we can with the most scientific certainty determine that statistical information is true.

Respondents are college students at a fairly large school (10,000+) (working on it for school paper)
This is good because it means that a majority of respondents will be more than capable with technology and the internet.

The internet provides the ability to really try innovative methods to run anonymous surveys, and I want us to figure it out.

I was thinking maybe something with proxies? Would that be too complicated for a general survey?
 
Found the movie I was asking about earlier in this thread. Uncle Boonmee.

Now, for another movie I'm searching for:
I remember reading about a movie that was supposed "worse than 'The Room'" on here. The room the movie took place in was covered in paper, I believe. And it had some stupid fake tree with paper on it...
Anyone know what this movie was?
 
faridmon said:
Frence-GAF: I read somewhere that many people hate Anthony Gonzalez despite being M83 bbeing one of the most loved Electronic band? Is there truth to that and what is the reason for that? Is he douche?
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I never heard of that, and write/wrote for an electronic magazine...
 
Why do you ask? Isn't it benzyl (as in, not drinking-alcohol in any case, which is ethanol) anyway? Most alcohols evaporate easily in their pure form, but when they're mixed it's harder to judge.
 
Articate said:
Why do you ask? Isn't it benzyl (as in, not drinking-alcohol in any case, which is ethanol) anyway? Most alcohols evaporate easily in their pure form, but when they're mixed it's harder to judge.
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It's alcohol denat. it's some Diesel cologne I bought but I notice the label said 82% volume. That is a ridiculously high amount of alcohol in a bottle of EDT.
 
-viper- said:
It's alcohol denat. it's some Diesel cologne I bought but I notice the label said 82% volume. That is a ridiculously high amount of alcohol in a bottle of EDT.
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if it really is 82% alcohol of some form, then it evaporates quickly. Apparently you're not breaking any religious rules of any kind, if that's what you're wondering, seen how that's most of the questions that pop up if I try to google the matter.
 
Articate said:
if it really is 82% alcohol of some form, then it evaporates quickly. Apparently you're not breaking any religious rules of any kind, if that's what you're wondering, seen how that's most of the questions that pop up if I try to google the matter.
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I'm just worried that using something like that may damage the skin. I hope it doesn't cause cancer when you regularly use it D:

IF alcohol can damage you internally, would it be possible for it to damage you externally?
 
-viper- said:
IF alcohol can damage you internally, would it be possible for it to damage you externally?
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You'd really only have to worry about it possibly drying out your skin. Lotion or good soap would take care of that.
 
-viper- said:
I'm just worried that using something like that may damage the skin. I hope it doesn't cause cancer when you regularly use it D:

IF alcohol can damage you internally, would it be possible for it to damage you externally?
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Cancer? No. Damage your skin? Unlikely. Do you stop using it if you get a rash or dry skin by using it? Yes.

One can become allergic to perfume. I stopped using scented deoderant because it gave me a rash. Yes, I think alcohol can irritate the skin. If it does, you stop. You won't die from irritation of the skin, so not to worry. Alcohol vaporizes, which is part of a perfume probably to spread the scent. When it vaporizes, like sweat, it takes water with it, so it can dry out your skin. Of course, consider the health of your skin. We're not made to put all kinds of scents and perfumes on us every day of every week. I certainly don't wear cologne every day.
 
deodorants are worse. they contain aluminium chlorohydrate.

increased risk of breast cancer in women and possible link of dementia/alzheimer's disease.
 
Real quick:

I bought a new PC in December and have had the right speaker in two different speaker sets stop working. I don't have a sound card installed. Does this sound like bad luck or a bigger problem?
 
Gigglepoo said:
Real quick:

I bought a new PC in December and have had the right speaker in two different speaker sets stop working. I don't have a sound card installed. Does this sound like bad luck or a bigger problem?
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My experience is that usually it's the auxiliary cable going from the speakers to the computers. I don't have a sound card either, and my right speaker stopped working too. I replaced the auxiliary cable and it's fine now.
 
dudeworld said:
My experience is that usually it's the auxiliary cable going from the speakers to the computers. I don't have a sound card either, and my right speaker stopped working too. I replaced the auxiliary cable and it's fine now.
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yep this happened to me too, although in my case i simply wiggled the wire as i couldn't be bothered to buy another cable :P
 
-viper- said:
I'm just worried that using something like that may damage the skin. I hope it doesn't cause cancer when you regularly use it D:

IF alcohol can damage you internally, would it be possible for it to damage you externally?
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why not just spray on your clothes instead of skin?



How much does it usually cost to lease a car per month? Mostly for day to day job and errand driving? (never leased one before)
 
Insaniac said:
why not just spray on your clothes instead of skin?
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You'd need to be careful about that, wouldn't want to discolor any expensive fabric.

(probably only a concern for women)
 
ch0mp said:
Depending on resolution...
576 -8 feet
720 -6 feet
1080 -4 feet
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That seems to make sense if I'm reading text or something, but I don't see why I would watch a 720p movie from 6 feet away but a 1080p movie from 4 feet away. Oh well, I guess it's a matter of taste anyway. I used to sit 6 feet away from a 26" TV, and that felt about right, whereas some people sit 2 feet away from 30" computer monitors.
 
hey guys whats that website where it shows two movies and you pick your favorite out of the two and it comes up with a list of your favorite movies? i hope im specific enough.. i tried googling it but i am unsure what to google.
 
Trent Strong said:
That seems to make sense if I'm reading text or something, but I don't see why I would watch a 720p movie from 6 feet away but a 1080p movie from 4 feet away. Oh well, I guess it's a matter of taste anyway. I used to sit 6 feet away from a 26" TV, and that felt about right, whereas some people sit 2 feet away from 30" computer monitors.
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What he's quoting is what distance it takes to notice the difference.

That's all ridiculous though. The better the resolution, the farther away you can sit without giving up quality. 6~8 feet is just fine.
 
hubes said:
hey guys whats that website where it shows two movies and you pick your favorite out of the two and it comes up with a list of your favorite movies? i hope im specific enough.. i tried googling it but i am unsure what to google.
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Flickchart?
 
I've never designed a website before. Should I design the assets around a specific resolution or should I just make them at a higher resolution so they can easily be scaled down easily?
 
Shoogoo said:
http://www.epicurien.be/recettes-chocolats/caramels-au-chocolat-beurre.asp

Its more like chocolate flavoured caramels though

edit: and its in french too. If you want a translation, pm me.
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Google did a good enough job, thanks. Will see how it goes tonight.

parrotbeak said:
I'm not an expert on confections, but chocolate has a stronger flavor than caramel and has no specific texture. It's used to flavor different textures. Caramel has a specific range of textures (soft to hard), and to me most of the flavor comes from the texture, because it's just sugar heated.

Actually according to Wikipedia, typical caramel candy isn't heated high enough to caramelize, so much of the flavor would come from the butter and vanilla. Actual concentrated caramel is bitter and used as a flavoring and coloring agent in various foods, including some chocolates. Interesting, I didn't know that.
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I found something kind of like what I wanted..

Caramac is the brand name for a caramel flavoured bar manufactured by Nestlé. Originally it was launched by Mackintosh's (later Rowntree Mackintosh) in 1959. The name Caramac was derived from the syllabic abbreviation of caramel and Mackintosh.
Coloured pale yellow, the bar is divided into sections and made thin, so as to keep its sweet taste from becoming overbearing. The unique flavour is maintained using sweetened condensed milk, butter and various artificial flavourings, as well as sugar. It is packaged in a red and yellow wrapper.
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Zoe said:
What he's quoting is what distance it takes to notice the difference.

That's all ridiculous though. The better the resolution, the farther away you can sit without giving up quality. 6~8 feet is just fine.
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It's more like the minimum distance before you start to notice individual pixels.
 
Does anyone know Citi's credit card activation number? My aunt accidentally tore off the number on the credit card without activating it.
 
I really should know the answer to this, as it is part of what I do for a living - web design & development... and the statistics portion of the puzzle too. But I don't.

When I have multiple tabs open, sometimes I see events that makes a tab seem as if it is reloading in the background (or maybe just parts of the pages) without being told to do so. I am not hitting refresh or F5, but every once in awhile it will say "loading" where it should show the page's title tag. It's observable in Firefox on CNN.com, Boston.com and some Grind.tv pages - I'm sure there are thousands more if I can rattle a few off the top of my head like that. If I could catch it in the act, I could maybe see what's happening, but I never catch it... I found a page that's doing it for sure, right now, which is why I am finally posting to ask about this technology.

It's definitely doing something like what I am talking about here on this page about a professional athlete's battle with an injury, and again it happens very quickly. I'm not sure if it's refreshing the whole page or just the following items:
-favicon, swap-in, swap out
-page title
-maybe H1
-definitely banner advertisements

Apart from the curiosity of how it's doing this, I am even more interested in knowing if there have been cases where they are using these reload actions and are falsifying information about the visit. Is it as simple as a meta-refresh? I had no idea meta-refresh could work across whole minutes. Within the browser's process, is it instantiating a second visit, second session, or something else. Maybe I am trying to read tea leaves here but it's very distracting and makes me wonder what's going on in the background. And again, what are they doing with that data.

I've worked with some of these snake oil SEO consulting companies and heard their suggestions, but I've worked a few good ones too.
I've heard stuff like "this campaign will give you 10,000 impressions per month." It costs $XYZ dollars". Things really change when we're talking about ads being served on a page doing auto refresh stuff in the background and your target never sees the ad. Anyway.

I get the sense that it's not malicious, but only because it's happening on legit sites. If it was on some crap site I stumbled upon, I'd be saying "oh shit, should have upgraded to that Web Safety thing in Avast." In other words it seems shady, but I bet there's a reason to do it. Looking forward to any hints, and any answers. I've got nothing.

Thanks,
AA

EDIT: Wow that went long. Sorry.
I just sat with that athlete's page open, so that tab had focus (ruling out a theory I had that if the tab had focus, it wouldn't happen) and after about 2 minutes it did happen. I don't know what's going on. It doesn't blank the browser and reload everything, but it's definitely grabbing content and plopping it on the page - at the very least ads. Also the page has no meta-refresh code so it must be Ajax calls, right?
 
I'm having a hard time remembering a series of YouTube videos done by this one guy. He usually did those elevator videos where he would surprise unexpected people such as him exercising with equipment, having a party in it, et cetera. Also a video of him rushing in a store with a ton of people in costumes partying and one with him dressing as Mario in a go kart.
 
DJ Crimson said:
I'm having a hard time remembering a series of YouTube videos done by this one guy. He usually did those elevator videos where he would surprise unexpected people such as him exercising with equipment, having a party in it, et cetera. Also a video of him rushing in a store with a ton of people in costumes partying and one with him dressing as Mario in a go kart.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MytfhzcSF-Y
 
Ave22 said:
On Facebook, why can I see status updates (just friend updates though) from people I'm not friends with?
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What, why can you see status uptades by friends you're not friends with? it's the "(just friend updates though)" that confuses me.

Are they posts where other people tag some of your friends? People posting on your friends' wall? Are you talking about the news feed?
 
Ave22 said:
It's a person's friend updates that I'm seeing. "X is now friends with A, B, C"
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Are you seeing who your friend is friending? Or someone random? Have you had him as a friend? Common friends?

I dunno, I'd probably not care and/or blocked the feeds from reaching my news-feed
 
Ave22 said:
On Facebook, why can I see status updates (just friend updates though) from people I'm not friends with?
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Happens to me with one guy that I tried adding as a friend a long while ago, never accepted or rejected me.
 
TacticalFox88 said:
Anyone got a pic of the drawing where the guy is leaning back from the computer as if being recoiled from shock with a slight frown on his face?
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Does anyone know of software that can take two images and interpolate them both into a new image? Sort of like a morph effect. Something that could be used, for example, to take a 12 FPS .gif and make it into a 24 FPS .gif by doubling the amount of frames.

Something that can simulate this perhaps?
 
Mechanical Snowman said:
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Does anyone know of software that can take two images and interpolate them both into a new image? Sort of like a morph effect. Something that could be used, for example, to take a 12 FPS .gif and make it into a 24 FPS .gif by doubling the amount of frames.

Something that can simulate this perhaps?
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YES! Thank you. :D
 
Friends listed in my contacts for my Live email account say they've been getting unwanted emails sent to them from me. Whats the best way to remove whatever is causing this issue?
 
Writing an abstract for an English paper: Do I have to put down the resources I'll be using? the professor didn't say that he wanted me to but he didn't say that he didn't want me to either
 
Want to buy a new 500GB HDD for my PC to install Windows 7 and the fact that my current HDD is loud as fuck. What should I look for when buying a HDD? Not looking for top of the line by any means
 
lightless_shado said:
Writing an abstract for an English paper: Do I have to put down the resources I'll be using? the professor didn't say that he wanted me to but he didn't say that he didn't want me to either
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You should not have to write down the resources you've used in the abstract, but of course you'll write them down in the final paper. Or are you simply handing in the abstract before the paper? In that case, you might as well put them down as it most likely won't hurt you.
 
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