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MILWAUKEE – Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don’t burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm — a problem blamed for dozens of accidents and at least one death.
Struggled badly in my first Street Fighter 4 session on the PS3. I’m having some difficulty with the controller, but even trying out one of those Pro sticks didn’t help much. While the current gap is mostly muscle memory/reflexes, there’s also a huge (hundreds of hours) basic gameplay problem.
I played arcade mode for a bit and set the option to allow my game to be interrupted, but apparently did that the wrong way as seasoned vets were challenging me. Some of them were good sports and used some lame characters, but did pretty poorly overall.
I blame my 480p downsampling rig!
edit: add me as a ps3 modem buddy as “covener” obv.
With Reverse Panda Syndrome:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/giant-panda-genome/
The panda genome gives clues to understanding the panda’s strict bamboo diet. It turns out that pandas have mutations in two copies of a taste gene called T1R1, which encodes a protein that senses the savory taste of meats, cheeses, broths and other high-protein foods. These mutations may have robbed pandas of the ability to taste meat, pushing them toward their bamboo diet, the researchers suggest.
Pandas possess all the requisite genes for digesting meat, but none of the genes required for digesting bamboo, Wang and colleagues found. The researchers guess that pandas rely entirely on communities of gut microbes for extracting nutrients from bamboo.
Touching my stupid thinkpad volume keys had been boosting PCM mixer setting to 100%, which usually makes the system sound terrible. Stumbled on this Karmic bug/FAQ:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/420578
sudo sed -i.bak -e ’s/volume = merg/volume = ignore/’ /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/*analog*
