10 ug of Synthroid 10 mg Lipitor 250 mg Caffeine (via coffee)
About an hour later I usually have some toast w/chunky PB made on 3-carb bread from a little bakery off 183 & Braker here in Austin. (Yea... yea... I know... But my TC is like 114 on Lipitor... My doc and I are still arguing as to why I'm even on it...)
The 8051 is still around too, and is still under active development. No more eprom programmers & UV erase lamps. They have 1 clock cores now, where 20Mhz = 20 MIPS. You can program them with a parallel port dongle. Some of the advanced ones program via a bootloader ROM. The AT89C51ED2... Hold reset, tap PSEN, release reset, and talk to it via the serial port. Atmel FLIP is available for Linux. GPL SDCC for C afectionados.
The Intel MCS-52 BASIC is available from numerous sites, one of which has enhanced it to work on a modern chip with internal RAM (like the above mentioned ED2). In 12 cycle mode, it can run 60Mhz. Try that with a Basic Stamp!
Then there's the AVR's. Better arch for C compilers, but single source.
Avoid PIC's. Their arch is straight from the mid 1970's. Not orthoganal at all, oddball word sizes, instruction extensions, and 10,000 different chips to choose form.
X11 was great back in 1990. But we've stuck with it for too long. The various widget sets built on top of it (motif/gtk/etc...) are just lipstick on the pig.
Look at OS X... Throw out X11. Implement a nice clean OO GUI desktop, and add a rootless X11 compatability layer back in for the legacy apps.
2. Stop developing drugs for stupid shit. Yes, lots of people have Type2 diabetes. We already have a cure for that; a treadmill. Stop wasting money to develop a drug *just* to make money off a stupid disease.
Flamebait!
1. You clearly know pretty much nothing about type 2 diabetes. Cause and effect are not what you want them to be. Are they fat because they're sick? Or sick because they're fat? Maybe it's more complicated than that even!
2. Substitution time... "Stop developing stupid video games just because you want to make a buck..." "Stop developing stupid base jumping parachutes just cause you want to make a buck..." "Stop developing lighter bicycle parts just because you want to make a buck..." You can make an arguement against all these things based on some strongly held belief held by some opinionated moron in the world.
You like to redefine things to suit your point of view. To define this as a crime against humanity could very well make you a criminal as well. If you have $5 in the bank, and there's a starving child somewhere... Hey you're withholding food from the child you could help, and you're not!
A little socialism can be a good thing. A lot of socialism... society rots from within.
Having said that... If government funding helped produce the drug, then the government is one of the stake holders in the patent and should exercise it's leverage on behalf its constituents. But this is an arguement against "corperate welfare", and has little to do with "crimes against humanity".
If you say so... The OP said "will be wiring the entire lab to every possible variation of AC and DC voltage". I'm pretty sure as tough as a Fluke 43b is, it will not handle common 250Kv 60hz A/C. That part of the sentance made it look like it was written by a kid that needs a nanny, or at least a ham "elmer".
I'm currently getting a Fluke 43b meter to be the primary testing equipment and will be wiring the entire lab to every possible variation of AC and DC voltage.
A knowlegeable person in the field would likely not have said this. This sentance implies to me that you're not old enough and mature enough to work with dangerous voltage & currents. Knowlege in electronics is a noble persuit. Be aware that it can be lethal.
Electric car tech works. The problem not discussed in the movie is the amount of lithium reserves in the world. It's mostly produced from an oddball mineral called spodumene, and other pegmatite related minerals. There's enough lithium available to us to make about 500 million Toyota Priuses. These use much smaller battery packs than a true electric like the EV-1.
We need to come up with battery tech that uses raw materials we actually have available. Li-ION is nice for laptops, but doesn't scale.
Ok... You got me on the benefits. So I'll retract the MS/PhD statement entirely. Most public school teachers have BA/BS, and make less than $45k/yr. (Which is sad, in my opinion...)
Class C commercial office space in my area (Texas) is about $16.50/sf, our construction costs run about 80% of the national average, which also taints my assessment. Our public schools are financed in large part by property tax assessments, and we don't have any of the jury-rigged tax caps ala prop 13 in California, so the need to extract permit & assessments from home builders is not as great.
So... All of this doesn't explain why some banker gets to make ~5% off the tax base as bonds. We spend a lot of money on education already. There has to be some way to fund schools without floating all kinds of debt. That's my point.
Man... I thought it was just allergies that had my nose all plugged up... Oh wait... It is... $8,468 as of 2003. So I was off a bit, but not by much. Not enough to to be completely "full of shit".
As to where it comes from... That's a very good question... Since you only make $42k/yr, I'm guessing you have no clue how progressive the US tax system really is. (I don't mean that as a slam against your earnings either, I made far less than that in the not too distant past...)
The US spends an average of ~$10,000 per student per year. For a class of 25, that's $250k. Enough money to lease commercial office space for 9 months, hire a teacher with a MS or Phd., and have money left over to buy new textbooks every single year, provide low income lunches and obtain some kind of bus service where needed.
The truth is, the money we spend on education is squandered on administration and in large part simply handed to bankers. Every education bond passed has some investment banker dipping into the public till. This is the real problem. We refuse to pay as we go and we strangle our government budgets with debt.
I've often wondered the same thing. I suspect there's a lot of misinformation floating around out there with regards to type 2 diabetes. Cause and effect are really not easy to tease apart with this disease, and the finger pointing may give some people a sense of vindication for their own lifestyle choices, and/or a bit of schadenfreude. It's easy to sit at a computer and type trash when you consider yourself immune because you play ultimate frisbee everyday at lunch. But it's a false sense of security. I became type 2 while doing outdoor science research, hiking all day, 6 days a week.
A1C - 5.5% on a modified Atkins diet. Drives my flaming idealist vegetarian sister-in-law nuts... I tell her "Get over it... biochemically, I'm a carnivore".:-)
I have one. The parent's comments are right on target. Despite these little annoyances, it is quite handy. I found mine retail at Camping World of all places.
Sun makes several types of keyboards. The PeeCee layout has the caps lock next to the "A". The proper sanctified & holy Unix keyboard has the control key next to the "A".
I do prefer our "first to invent" as opposed to your "first to file" system, even if it is harder to sort out when a dispute arises.
You'd better write your rep... There's a bill pending that will switch this. I'm sure all the major software companies are eagerly waiting to start searching GPL code for patentable trinkets. They probably already have targets chosen.
If you can't beat free, and you can't make free illegal... Then patent stuff in it that you didn't invent, and tie it up for 18 years.
Prop 13 limits property taxes to 1%/yr. of the assessed value, and limits reassessment to sale or major renovation. My parents are paying 1% of the value of their house as assessed in 1978. Ok.. So what, right? Voter revolt and all that... Kali has income tax, and a geek salary will loose 10% for that and another 1% for a nice car registration... But... Those go to the state. Property taxes fund the local schools and municipalities.
The net effect is that cities and towns in California are hostile to housing. They get a bigger take via sales taxes from strip malls and retail operations. Housing demands services that cost money. This hostillity is obvious when you look at permit fees for new houses. One city I'm familiar with slaps almost $100,000 worth of planning & permit fees on a new single family home. That in turn means that every existing house with a valid occupancy permit is worth $100k in that city, no matter what kind of shape it's in or what kind of location its in. That's why housing is so expensive. You're just paying the city all the taxes up front, while the banks laugh at you paying them APR+% on the taxes. You probably thought it was all those green belts surrounding Silicon Valley, and "smart growth". Nope. Those are just the political tools used to refine the system. The tree huggers are played like fiddles out there. They're just a means to an end. It's the perfect "screw you, I got mine" system too. Utterly unrepairable. No existing homeowner is going to willingly give up their tax protection or their obscene capitals gains. Voting to end prop 13 will never happen. The housing market has to implode first.
I made the move to Texas some time ago... Texas has no income taxes, and steep property taxes. So steep that most Californians show up here thinking they can plow all their equity take into their new house, and have a for-real mansion on acreage. And then they find out what the property taxes will be! The result... You can still buy a house 5 minutes from Dell HQ in Round Rock for just a bit above $100k. Not much of a house mind you... But 3bd/2ba on 1/4 acre, and that's enough for most. One of the local high schools has a jumbotron screen on their football field. Yep... I'm hearing tax revolt noises.
There's a "day of the triffids" joke in there somewhere...:-)
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Take a look at the research being done on Retinol binding proteins. Apparently, there's some kind of relationship between RBP's and insulin resistance.
See my reply to the other post... Different times, and filling a different need... I will not lease a car. Certainly not with the commute I had at the time. I'm married to an accountant, trust me... It's a sure fire way to get screwed!
FWIW - I ended up taking the ACE Train most of the time after buying the SUV. Heavy rail is a much more refined way to commute. I'm told the WiFi even works once in a while... I moved to Texas before they installed it, so I didn't get a chance to try it.
For commuting, I'm currently interested in the hybrid Civic and the Prius. But I'd like to see them make a E85 flex fuel capable version. I can brew biodiesel for the SUV beast, as well as buy it locally (Major Brand Gas, off East Oltorf at I-35 for my fellow Austinites...). I figure a little moonshine run once a week...:)
Possessed?!?!? Hardly required. I simply don't share your religion or panic at current fuel prices.
I skipped a couple steps.... The dot.com years were good, and there's a big trailer that tags along behind the SUV. How much can your Cavalier tow? I managed 22 mpg (sans trailer of course...) on one 2000 mile trip with 6 people in the SUV plus a weeks worth of suitcases and wedding gifts. Your Cavalier would have required 2 trips on that one, and an extra week of vacation. and I'd still be ahead on fuel in the SUV. Sadly I haven't been able to repeat that mileage... Best I've done since was 20.5 mpg... Which still has me ahead on fuel and time vs. your Cavalier, provided I'm hauling enough cargo.
But the point you're missing is.... At the time I could buy pretty much anything I wanted within reason, and they wouldn't sell it to me. I didn't get to that position by taking it in the ass on a stupid lease deal that would have nailed me on mileage charges at the end of the lease and leave me with no equity position at all.
There is a limit to ideological fevor with most rational people. I wanted an EV-1 becuase I thought they were cool, and I like to tinker with electronic gadgets. Not because I give a flying fuck about gas prices, or what happens to your skull when you run a red light in front of me. At one point I wanted an EV-1 and couldn't aquire one under terms acceptable to me. At some other point I wanted a large SUV and I could aquire one. It's not like I walked off the GM lot in a huff and over to a Ford dealer and bought the biggest thing they had out of spite. I just found the irony amusing... You and several others seem to find it infuriating. Sucks to be you...
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10 ug of Synthroid
10 mg Lipitor
250 mg Caffeine (via coffee)
About an hour later I usually have some toast w/chunky PB made on 3-carb bread from a little bakery off 183 & Braker here in Austin. (Yea... yea... I know... But my TC is like 114 on Lipitor... My doc and I are still arguing as to why I'm even on it...)
The 8051 is still around too, and is still under active development. No more eprom programmers & UV erase lamps. They have 1 clock cores now, where 20Mhz = 20 MIPS. You can program them with a parallel port dongle. Some of the advanced ones program via a bootloader ROM. The AT89C51ED2... Hold reset, tap PSEN, release reset, and talk to it via the serial port. Atmel FLIP is available for Linux. GPL SDCC for C afectionados.
The Intel MCS-52 BASIC is available from numerous sites, one of which has enhanced it to work on a modern chip with internal RAM (like the above mentioned ED2). In 12 cycle mode, it can run 60Mhz. Try that with a Basic Stamp!
Then there's the AVR's. Better arch for C compilers, but single source.
Avoid PIC's. Their arch is straight from the mid 1970's. Not orthoganal at all, oddball word sizes, instruction extensions, and 10,000 different chips to choose form.
X11 was great back in 1990. But we've stuck with it for too long. The various widget sets built on top of it (motif/gtk/etc...) are just lipstick on the pig.
Look at OS X... Throw out X11. Implement a nice clean OO GUI desktop, and add a rootless X11 compatability layer back in for the legacy apps.
2. Stop developing drugs for stupid shit. Yes, lots of people have Type2 diabetes. We already have a cure for that; a treadmill. Stop wasting money to develop a drug *just* to make money off a stupid disease.
Flamebait!
1. You clearly know pretty much nothing about type 2 diabetes. Cause and effect are not what you want them to be. Are they fat because they're sick? Or sick because they're fat? Maybe it's more complicated than that even!
2. Substitution time... "Stop developing stupid video games just because you want to make a buck..." "Stop developing stupid base jumping parachutes just cause you want to make a buck..." "Stop developing lighter bicycle parts just because you want to make a buck..." You can make an arguement against all these things based on some strongly held belief held by some opinionated moron in the world.
You like to redefine things to suit your point of view. To define this as a crime against humanity could very well make you a criminal as well. If you have $5 in the bank, and there's a starving child somewhere... Hey you're withholding food from the child you could help, and you're not!
A little socialism can be a good thing. A lot of socialism... society rots from within.
Having said that... If government funding helped produce the drug, then the government is one of the stake holders in the patent and should exercise it's leverage on behalf its constituents. But this is an arguement against "corperate welfare", and has little to do with "crimes against humanity".
There are various laws in various places concerning what kind of permission is necessary before publishing photos depicting identifiable people.
There's the problem... Now everyone is identifiable!
If you say so... The OP said "will be wiring the entire lab to every possible variation of AC and DC voltage". I'm pretty sure as tough as a Fluke 43b is, it will not handle common 250Kv 60hz A/C. That part of the sentance made it look like it was written by a kid that needs a nanny, or at least a ham "elmer".
I'm currently getting a Fluke 43b meter to be the primary testing equipment and will be wiring the entire lab to every possible variation of AC and DC voltage.
A knowlegeable person in the field would likely not have said this. This sentance implies to me that you're not old enough and mature enough to work with dangerous voltage & currents. Knowlege in electronics is a noble persuit. Be aware that it can be lethal.
Electric car tech works. The problem not discussed in the movie is the amount of lithium reserves in the world. It's mostly produced from an oddball mineral called spodumene, and other pegmatite related minerals. There's enough lithium available to us to make about 500 million Toyota Priuses. These use much smaller battery packs than a true electric like the EV-1.
We need to come up with battery tech that uses raw materials we actually have available. Li-ION is nice for laptops, but doesn't scale.
Temkin
Ok... You got me on the benefits. So I'll retract the MS/PhD statement entirely. Most public school teachers have BA/BS, and make less than $45k/yr. (Which is sad, in my opinion...)
Class C commercial office space in my area (Texas) is about $16.50/sf, our construction costs run about 80% of the national average, which also taints my assessment. Our public schools are financed in large part by property tax assessments, and we don't have any of the jury-rigged tax caps ala prop 13 in California, so the need to extract permit & assessments from home builders is not as great.
So... All of this doesn't explain why some banker gets to make ~5% off the tax base as bonds. We spend a lot of money on education already. There has to be some way to fund schools without floating all kinds of debt. That's my point.
Man... I thought it was just allergies that had my nose all plugged up... Oh wait... It is... $8,468 as of 2003. So I was off a bit, but not by much. Not enough to to be completely "full of shit".
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66
As to where it comes from... That's a very good question... Since you only make $42k/yr, I'm guessing you have no clue how progressive the US tax system really is. (I don't mean that as a slam against your earnings either, I made far less than that in the not too distant past...)
(AND more funds)
Uhhh.... No. This is the big myth.
The US spends an average of ~$10,000 per student per year. For a class of 25, that's $250k. Enough money to lease commercial office space for 9 months, hire a teacher with a MS or Phd., and have money left over to buy new textbooks every single year, provide low income lunches and obtain some kind of bus service where needed.
The truth is, the money we spend on education is squandered on administration and in large part simply handed to bankers. Every education bond passed has some investment banker dipping into the public till. This is the real problem. We refuse to pay as we go and we strangle our government budgets with debt.
Then watch them go nuts for a few minutes before you finally explain to them that the postassium they need in their diet is a smidge radioactive.
That "smidge" as you put it accounts for fully half of your lifetime exposure from all sources, far exceeding C14.
The lameness filter won't let me post it directly, but try Japanese characters #12468 #12472 #12521
Preferably screamed...
I've often wondered the same thing. I suspect there's a lot of misinformation floating around out there with regards to type 2 diabetes. Cause and effect are really not easy to tease apart with this disease, and the finger pointing may give some people a sense of vindication for their own lifestyle choices, and/or a bit of schadenfreude. It's easy to sit at a computer and type trash when you consider yourself immune because you play ultimate frisbee everyday at lunch. But it's a false sense of security. I became type 2 while doing outdoor science research, hiking all day, 6 days a week.
:-)
A1C - 5.5% on a modified Atkins diet. Drives my flaming idealist vegetarian sister-in-law nuts... I tell her "Get over it... biochemically, I'm a carnivore".
I always hated thinnet's little electrical fangs. Remember to only ground one end.
If I might ask... Why are you still running it?
I have one. The parent's comments are right on target. Despite these little annoyances, it is quite handy. I found mine retail at Camping World of all places.
Sun makes several types of keyboards. The PeeCee layout has the caps lock next to the "A". The proper sanctified & holy Unix keyboard has the control key next to the "A".
I do prefer our "first to invent" as opposed to your "first to file" system, even if it is harder to sort out when a dispute arises.
You'd better write your rep... There's a bill pending that will switch this. I'm sure all the major software companies are eagerly waiting to start searching GPL code for patentable trinkets. They probably already have targets chosen.
If you can't beat free, and you can't make free illegal... Then patent stuff in it that you didn't invent, and tie it up for 18 years.
Prop 13. Seriously. That's the key.
Prop 13 limits property taxes to 1%/yr. of the assessed value, and limits reassessment to sale or major renovation. My parents are paying 1% of the value of their house as assessed in 1978. Ok.. So what, right? Voter revolt and all that... Kali has income tax, and a geek salary will loose 10% for that and another 1% for a nice car registration... But... Those go to the state. Property taxes fund the local schools and municipalities.
The net effect is that cities and towns in California are hostile to housing. They get a bigger take via sales taxes from strip malls and retail operations. Housing demands services that cost money. This hostillity is obvious when you look at permit fees for new houses. One city I'm familiar with slaps almost $100,000 worth of planning & permit fees on a new single family home. That in turn means that every existing house with a valid occupancy permit is worth $100k in that city, no matter what kind of shape it's in or what kind of location its in. That's why housing is so expensive. You're just paying the city all the taxes up front, while the banks laugh at you paying them APR+% on the taxes. You probably thought it was all those green belts surrounding Silicon Valley, and "smart growth". Nope. Those are just the political tools used to refine the system. The tree huggers are played like fiddles out there. They're just a means to an end. It's the perfect "screw you, I got mine" system too. Utterly unrepairable. No existing homeowner is going to willingly give up their tax protection or their obscene capitals gains. Voting to end prop 13 will never happen. The housing market has to implode first.
I made the move to Texas some time ago... Texas has no income taxes, and steep property taxes. So steep that most Californians show up here thinking they can plow all their equity take into their new house, and have a for-real mansion on acreage. And then they find out what the property taxes will be! The result... You can still buy a house 5 minutes from Dell HQ in Round Rock for just a bit above $100k. Not much of a house mind you... But 3bd/2ba on 1/4 acre, and that's enough for most. One of the local high schools has a jumbotron screen on their football field. Yep... I'm hearing tax revolt noises.
There's a "day of the triffids" joke in there somewhere...
Take a look at the research being done on Retinol binding proteins. Apparently, there's some kind of relationship between RBP's and insulin resistance.
Temkin
See my reply to the other post... Different times, and filling a different need... I will not lease a car. Certainly not with the commute I had at the time. I'm married to an accountant, trust me... It's a sure fire way to get screwed!
:)
FWIW - I ended up taking the ACE Train most of the time after buying the SUV. Heavy rail is a much more refined way to commute. I'm told the WiFi even works once in a while... I moved to Texas before they installed it, so I didn't get a chance to try it.
For commuting, I'm currently interested in the hybrid Civic and the Prius. But I'd like to see them make a E85 flex fuel capable version. I can brew biodiesel for the SUV beast, as well as buy it locally (Major Brand Gas, off East Oltorf at I-35 for my fellow Austinites...). I figure a little moonshine run once a week...
Possessed?!?!? Hardly required. I simply don't share your religion or panic at current fuel prices.
I skipped a couple steps.... The dot.com years were good, and there's a big trailer that tags along behind the SUV. How much can your Cavalier tow? I managed 22 mpg (sans trailer of course...) on one 2000 mile trip with 6 people in the SUV plus a weeks worth of suitcases and wedding gifts. Your Cavalier would have required 2 trips on that one, and an extra week of vacation. and I'd still be ahead on fuel in the SUV. Sadly I haven't been able to repeat that mileage... Best I've done since was 20.5 mpg... Which still has me ahead on fuel and time vs. your Cavalier, provided I'm hauling enough cargo.
But the point you're missing is.... At the time I could buy pretty much anything I wanted within reason, and they wouldn't sell it to me. I didn't get to that position by taking it in the ass on a stupid lease deal that would have nailed me on mileage charges at the end of the lease and leave me with no equity position at all.
There is a limit to ideological fevor with most rational people. I wanted an EV-1 becuase I thought they were cool, and I like to tinker with electronic gadgets. Not because I give a flying fuck about gas prices, or what happens to your skull when you run a red light in front of me. At one point I wanted an EV-1 and couldn't aquire one under terms acceptable to me. At some other point I wanted a large SUV and I could aquire one. It's not like I walked off the GM lot in a huff and over to a Ford dealer and bought the biggest thing they had out of spite. I just found the irony amusing... You and several others seem to find it infuriating. Sucks to be you...