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Low-Cal Diet Extends Life... As Long as You Don't Eat
There has been a lot of research recently showing that a restricted calorie diet can extend the lifespans of various creatures. Sadly, it seems that as soon as they start eating again, the benefits are lost.
I reclaim first post AS MINE ONLY
Diets which you do for a short period of time to lose weight before reverting to your normal eating habits just do not work. The only way to permanently lose weight is to change your lifestyle permanently -- what you eat and how much exercise you do.
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We all know that *BSD is dying, it almost goes without saying. Yes, ever hapless *BSD continues to be mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which *BSD is the worst off of an admittedly suffering *BSD community. The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The erosion of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of BSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major marketing surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes *BSD is already dead. It is a dead man walking.
Fact1: *BSD is dying
Fact2: *Linux is winning
BSD is dying.
Roark Meets Dent
True story this one... I recently bought a Mac Plus on eBay that had been used, placed back in its box and sat in storage six weeks after it was bought until I got hold of it. I picked it up, and it was -immaculate-. The screen and surrounds had no gunk or fluff, no dust inside the floppy drive, and the connectors on the rear were all shiny new. The keyboard looked immaculate - it hadn't been typed on enough to put any discernable shiny spots on it.
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When I powered it up it went *pop* and blew smoke up out its vents
Now, that was only a capacitor that had dried out, and all worked well when it was replaced, but I thought it fitting for this reply
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That was probably something in the power supply. You'll be lucky to find anything that old that'll repair it, but you might want to try www.shrevesystems.com. It's more likely you now have a clean new mac plus doorstop on your hands instead LALL
How about "fucking lame, but it frames the argument?"
Oops, I put the punctuation mark inside the parentheses. mY kidz be huked on fonix
> Correlation is not causation.
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-I like my women like I like my tea: green-