Metabolic differences aren't excuses. Reducing your caloric intake does not produce weight loss unless you can force yourself to maintain the same level of activity in spite of feeling like crap. That's what makes dieting hard---the lack of energy you feel while burning calories primarily from your own fat makes you tend to be more sedentary, which reduces your metabolic rate, at which point you are consuming more calories than you are using once again.
Two other things worth noting:
Dietary fiber increases the speed at which food moves through your digestive system and can reduce caloric absorption. Increasing dietary fiber even without changing anything else in your diet can produce weight loss.
Dehydration may be a factor as well. I find that I eat more when I am dehydrated. YMMV.
It's definitely hand waving, insofar as the specific mechanism of causation isn't known. The studies just show what happens, not why it happens.:-) That said, hunger does definitely have a psychological component, so it's certainly not implausible that this effect might be entirely psychological in nature. It's hard to say. That's more of a hypothesis than anything else.
Parent might be a troll, but depression is anything but off-topic. Depression is a major risk factor for obesity. It has often been observed that depressed people are more likely to fall victim to binge eating, which is a major cause of obesity. Depression can also be a symptom of hypothyroidism, IIRC, which causes low metabolism and can lead to obesity. The links between depression and obesity are not completely understood, but it is quite likely that reducing the incidence of depression will also reduce obesity.
Artificial sweeteners (and some non-artificial sweeteners like fructose) are believed to do two things:
They cause your brain to expect an insulin response that never comes, thus causing you to perceive that you still need to consume more calories to be "full". If consumed in the form of sugary or starchy foods, this creates more energy than your body needs in the short term, so it stores the excess as fat that never gets used because you never take in too few calories. Fructose is a particularly bad in this regard because it doesn't produce the insulin satiation but it is still metabolized into energy.
They slow down your metabolism, thus reducing the number of calories used by your body, causing the calories you do consume to be more than what is needed.
The statement about calories in vs. out does hold true, but there are foods that change the amount of energy that your body actually uses (both increasing and decreasing it), which complicates the equation greatly---sugars (both natural and artificial), caffeine, tryptophan, calcium, magnesium deficiency, etc. Caloric intake versus typical calorie use is still a pretty good predictor, though.
According to lowendmac, that support is unofficial and only works in Mac OS X (and, I suspect, probably only in 10.2). That said, LEM and I could both be wrong. It certainly is possible.
If you want unsupported, I ran LBA48 on a beige G3 once. It takes all of five minutes to comment out one line in the ATA family kext and recompile.... Actual hardware bugs notwithstanding, LBA48 addresses are just data as far as the controller is concerned. Thus, LBA48 support doesn't require any controller support(*) as long as the driver doesn't make incorrect assumptions about LBA48 implying other features like faster DMA modes or large transfer sizes.
(*) Booting from a larger partition requires firmware support, which is why most OSes limit LBA48 to supported hardware.
If you have the mirrored doors edition of 9, it added LBA48 support. Now that the smallest drives on the market are about 160 gigs, being able to use the portion of your ATA drive above the first 128 binary gigs is a pretty significant benefit. That OS version only shipped with one Mac model, though (the mirrored doors G4).
Huge. XFree86, for example, is over 2 million lines of code. Given that there is an average of one security bug per 1,000 lines of code (according to the DoD), this means that there are likely over 2,000 security bugs in the X server. That's 2,000 privilege escalation attack vectors that a local user could use to gain root privileges by smashing on the X server in the right way.... If the X server runs as the local user, then all of those bugs become mostly moot (crash risk notwithstanding).
Which brings us right around to my solution for storing a petabyte. It only weighs a few pounds... on each end... of a very long distance. It involves three lasers with insanely precise tracking mirrors orbiting the sun at 0 degrees, 120 degrees, and 240 degrees around a circular orbit. This ensures that each laser can see both of the other lasers.
Modulate the beam with the data. If we naively assume one bit per Hz, and approximate it at 10^17 bits per petabyte, and if we modulate the beam at 10 THz, the total distance around the triangle has to be about 2 * 10^9 miles, or a little over 20 AU, putting their orbit a bit inside the orbit of Jupiter. The problems of how to actually track an object so precisely and how to modulate a laser at 10 THz are left as exercises for the reader.:-D
1. Codex Sinaiticus mentions the resurrection many times. What is omitted is the description of the Gospel of Mark. The description in the Gospel of Luke, however, is NOT missing from that text. At best Codex S. supports the theory that the ending of Mark was added later---a theory that a fair number of biblical scholars hold, mind you.
2. Codex Sinaiticus was either written in the last few years of Constantine or after his death. This proves nothing about Constantine's effect on the early church. You'd need something at least a hundred years older.
People who are intelligent (and thus good at math or English) are also more likely to discount the DA's comment describing this as victimizing a "small child", while others are likely to focus on that and discount everything else. Afterwards, they judge the case based on emotion rather than on its legal merits, but their first mistake was likely misinterpreting the fundamental question of whether being attracted to Miley Cyrus is deviant behavior or not.
The facts? Miley Cyrus is almost 17 years old, and given that she's an actress in Hollywood, I'd imagine she has been forced to grow up somewhat faster than normal. Thus, it stands to reason that in a test for competence, she would be held to the same standards as an adult. If she killed someone, she would be tried as an adult. If she sued for emancipation, she would no doubt succeed. In short, she is so thoroughly unlike a "small child" in every way that describing her as such is patently offensive to anyone with the slightest degree of intelligence.
I'm appalled by this case at so many levels that I don't even know where to begin. Pretty much the only thing the DA has going for him is that feeling that their "hometown girl" has been abused by this guy's actions. We are talking about her home state, after all, and there aren't that many Tennessee girls who become famous. So there's inherently a bias sufficient to warrant a change of venue....
So it's actually worse now. My top tier is almost 38 cents per kWh. At the national average (just shy of 10 cents per kWh), my power bill would be approximately half what it is here. Needless to say, I'm flipping off PG&E and going solar for my next home.
My point is that this thing has way, way too much acceleration and that as a result, there are gasoline cars that come close to it in terms of ongoing operating costs. The whole point of going electric is to lower your costs, and if it isn't doing that, why not buy a luxury gas-powered car? Give me 0-60 in 7-8 seconds and that's plenty.
And your estimate of the performance of a $10k conversion is likely way off. For the $30,000+ price difference, you can get comparable energy consumption and acceleration by converting a Hummer....
Most folks don't really care about the 0-60 acceleration once it drops below about 7-8 seconds. It's not that interesting a piece of information unless you plan to race it. So for all practical purposes, this is just another sedan. So compare it with a nice sedan. Let's take a Nissan Maxima for the comparison. Comes in at about $17,000 less. 26MPG highway. So again assuming 200,000 miles, at PG&E prices, that's $15,400 in power costs + $17,000 is $32,400. So 7142.86 gallons of gas means gas prices have to average $4.57 over the life of the car. This means if it increased linearly over the life of the car (gross oversimplification), it would still have to significantly exceed $6.00 per gallon by the time you hit 200,000 miles just to break even.
Exactly. I can hear my bedpost if I'm pointed the right direction, but it is variable. Hearing the walls is easy. Hearing that barbell you accidentally left on the floor, however. is really hard. Fortunately, your feet have no problem "locating" such things....
The biggest problem with echolocation for humans is not hearing sensitivity or mental ability. It's the fact that our feet don't follow behind our heads except when we're swimming.... We would need a second set of ears on our ankles for echolocation to be practical.
That's based on an absurdly low price of electricity, though. My current PG&E top tier rate (and every kWh I add is billed at this rate) is $0.33/kWh, for a total of over $23 per recharge. If the new Honda Fit hybrid really comes out to 45 MPG highway, it will cost less (@$3 per gallon) than this Tesla car to operate and will cost over $40,000 less to buy the car.
Put another way, assuming a 200,000 mile lifespan of both vehicles, gas would have to average a whopping $12.47 per gallon without electricity prices increasing by a single cent for me to break even with the Tesla, and that's discounting any interest I'd get by putting that extra $40,000 in the bank. Once you factor that in, the Tesla becomes laughable. If gas prices get that high over the lifespan of an automobile bought today, the economy will utterly collapse, and affording electricity or gas will be the least of your worries. You'll have to hire an armed guard to keep people from stealing that car and burning it for warmth.
I love the idea of an electric, but a $10,000 conversion of a standard vehicle (or $2,000 to add batteries to a hybrid) makes a heck of a lot more sense than spending such an insane amount of money for a Tesla. When the Tesla falls below a $20,000 price point for their entry level sedan, I'll stop using the phrase "Cars for people with more money than brains," but for now, it very much applies, IMHO.
The HTML comments inside of style tags are still a good idea. Although no modern browser requires it, not everything that parses HTML is a full-blown web browser. Those extra seven bytes don't hurt anything, and they pretty much guarantee that any code with anything resembling a proper HTML parser won't interpret the styles, JavaScript, etc. as content even if the tool doesn't understand or care about specific tags.
Perhaps more importantly, from a purely philosophical point of view, leaving out the comments in style tags is wrong. That line noise is not part of the content, and therefore should be fundamentally separated from the presentation. Other stuff like that (link URLs, image URLs, inline styles, etc.) are all in HTML attributes or otherwise sequestered from the text content. Putting CSS or JavaScript bare inside a tag without surrounding it with comment markers violates the fundamental philosophy of HTML. Yes, this means the XHTML spec is fundamentally defective by design.
I'll leave the uppercase/lowercase flame war to people who care.
Odd. I've use the CSS 2.1 print media standards on several occasions, and they have worked consistently well for me since Safari 3 came out.... What doesn't work for you? You aren't talking about the obsolete (and massively broken by design) CSS 2 page size bits that were removed in CSS 2.1, are you?
I would expect hot cloning a live machine to mostly work, ignoring the obvious damage to hot files like logs. The part that I would expect to fail miserably was hot overwriting the standby machine, which presumably wasn't doing anything at the time or I'd expect you to have gotten a panic the first time anything tried to even do so much as an opendir on/.
Wait, I misread that. You seriously overwrote a machine while it was running and it worked without the running OS exploding in flames? That's bordering on miraculous. Was this before the kernel implemented buffer caching at all?:-D
Either way, you could do it just as easily and much more safely by booting that clone machine with an install CD and dropping to the command line. Installing an OS on the clone machine, booting off that installed volume, and then overwriting your root partition is entirely the wrong way to solve that problem.
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Metabolic differences aren't excuses. Reducing your caloric intake does not produce weight loss unless you can force yourself to maintain the same level of activity in spite of feeling like crap. That's what makes dieting hard---the lack of energy you feel while burning calories primarily from your own fat makes you tend to be more sedentary, which reduces your metabolic rate, at which point you are consuming more calories than you are using once again.
Two other things worth noting:
It's definitely hand waving, insofar as the specific mechanism of causation isn't known. The studies just show what happens, not why it happens. :-) That said, hunger does definitely have a psychological component, so it's certainly not implausible that this effect might be entirely psychological in nature. It's hard to say. That's more of a hypothesis than anything else.
Parent might be a troll, but depression is anything but off-topic. Depression is a major risk factor for obesity. It has often been observed that depressed people are more likely to fall victim to binge eating, which is a major cause of obesity. Depression can also be a symptom of hypothyroidism, IIRC, which causes low metabolism and can lead to obesity. The links between depression and obesity are not completely understood, but it is quite likely that reducing the incidence of depression will also reduce obesity.
Artificial sweeteners (and some non-artificial sweeteners like fructose) are believed to do two things:
The statement about calories in vs. out does hold true, but there are foods that change the amount of energy that your body actually uses (both increasing and decreasing it), which complicates the equation greatly---sugars (both natural and artificial), caffeine, tryptophan, calcium, magnesium deficiency, etc. Caloric intake versus typical calorie use is still a pretty good predictor, though.
According to lowendmac, that support is unofficial and only works in Mac OS X (and, I suspect, probably only in 10.2). That said, LEM and I could both be wrong. It certainly is possible.
If you want unsupported, I ran LBA48 on a beige G3 once. It takes all of five minutes to comment out one line in the ATA family kext and recompile.... Actual hardware bugs notwithstanding, LBA48 addresses are just data as far as the controller is concerned. Thus, LBA48 support doesn't require any controller support(*) as long as the driver doesn't make incorrect assumptions about LBA48 implying other features like faster DMA modes or large transfer sizes.
(*) Booting from a larger partition requires firmware support, which is why most OSes limit LBA48 to supported hardware.
Yup. Just with one really freaking big delay line.
If you have the mirrored doors edition of 9, it added LBA48 support. Now that the smallest drives on the market are about 160 gigs, being able to use the portion of your ATA drive above the first 128 binary gigs is a pretty significant benefit. That OS version only shipped with one Mac model, though (the mirrored doors G4).
Huge. XFree86, for example, is over 2 million lines of code. Given that there is an average of one security bug per 1,000 lines of code (according to the DoD), this means that there are likely over 2,000 security bugs in the X server. That's 2,000 privilege escalation attack vectors that a local user could use to gain root privileges by smashing on the X server in the right way.... If the X server runs as the local user, then all of those bugs become mostly moot (crash risk notwithstanding).
I don't know if you've noticed, but 99% of commercial music sucks, too. It just has better marketing.
Which brings us right around to my solution for storing a petabyte. It only weighs a few pounds... on each end... of a very long distance. It involves three lasers with insanely precise tracking mirrors orbiting the sun at 0 degrees, 120 degrees, and 240 degrees around a circular orbit. This ensures that each laser can see both of the other lasers.
Modulate the beam with the data. If we naively assume one bit per Hz, and approximate it at 10^17 bits per petabyte, and if we modulate the beam at 10 THz, the total distance around the triangle has to be about 2 * 10^9 miles, or a little over 20 AU, putting their orbit a bit inside the orbit of Jupiter. The problems of how to actually track an object so precisely and how to modulate a laser at 10 THz are left as exercises for the reader. :-D
Most of what's on the Internet qualifies, so I'd say that's a safe bet.
To be pedantic, historically speaking, there have been series hybrid cars. There just aren't any on the market today.
Mod parent down. That's not correct at all.
1. Codex Sinaiticus mentions the resurrection many times. What is omitted is the description of the Gospel of Mark. The description in the Gospel of Luke, however, is NOT missing from that text. At best Codex S. supports the theory that the ending of Mark was added later---a theory that a fair number of biblical scholars hold, mind you.
2. Codex Sinaiticus was either written in the last few years of Constantine or after his death. This proves nothing about Constantine's effect on the early church. You'd need something at least a hundred years older.
5) Other drivers in the area noted that it would have been impossible for even a non-impaired driver to have avoided hitting the victim.
Was it stupid for the guy to drive while impaired? Yes. Would it have made a difference if he had been completely sober? Probably not.
Awwwwwww. That is truly terrible....
People who are intelligent (and thus good at math or English) are also more likely to discount the DA's comment describing this as victimizing a "small child", while others are likely to focus on that and discount everything else. Afterwards, they judge the case based on emotion rather than on its legal merits, but their first mistake was likely misinterpreting the fundamental question of whether being attracted to Miley Cyrus is deviant behavior or not.
The facts? Miley Cyrus is almost 17 years old, and given that she's an actress in Hollywood, I'd imagine she has been forced to grow up somewhat faster than normal. Thus, it stands to reason that in a test for competence, she would be held to the same standards as an adult. If she killed someone, she would be tried as an adult. If she sued for emancipation, she would no doubt succeed. In short, she is so thoroughly unlike a "small child" in every way that describing her as such is patently offensive to anyone with the slightest degree of intelligence.
I'm appalled by this case at so many levels that I don't even know where to begin. Pretty much the only thing the DA has going for him is that feeling that their "hometown girl" has been abused by this guy's actions. We are talking about her home state, after all, and there aren't that many Tennessee girls who become famous. So there's inherently a bias sufficient to warrant a change of venue....
A mere 816 kWh.
Tier 1: 361 kWh @ $0.11591
Tier 2: 108 kWh @ $0.13109
Tier 3: 253 kWh @ $0.25974
Tier 4: 94 kWh @ $0.37866
So it's actually worse now. My top tier is almost 38 cents per kWh. At the national average (just shy of 10 cents per kWh), my power bill would be approximately half what it is here. Needless to say, I'm flipping off PG&E and going solar for my next home.
My point is that this thing has way, way too much acceleration and that as a result, there are gasoline cars that come close to it in terms of ongoing operating costs. The whole point of going electric is to lower your costs, and if it isn't doing that, why not buy a luxury gas-powered car? Give me 0-60 in 7-8 seconds and that's plenty.
And your estimate of the performance of a $10k conversion is likely way off. For the $30,000+ price difference, you can get comparable energy consumption and acceleration by converting a Hummer....
Most folks don't really care about the 0-60 acceleration once it drops below about 7-8 seconds. It's not that interesting a piece of information unless you plan to race it. So for all practical purposes, this is just another sedan. So compare it with a nice sedan. Let's take a Nissan Maxima for the comparison. Comes in at about $17,000 less. 26MPG highway. So again assuming 200,000 miles, at PG&E prices, that's $15,400 in power costs + $17,000 is $32,400. So 7142.86 gallons of gas means gas prices have to average $4.57 over the life of the car. This means if it increased linearly over the life of the car (gross oversimplification), it would still have to significantly exceed $6.00 per gallon by the time you hit 200,000 miles just to break even.
Exactly. I can hear my bedpost if I'm pointed the right direction, but it is variable. Hearing the walls is easy. Hearing that barbell you accidentally left on the floor, however. is really hard. Fortunately, your feet have no problem "locating" such things....
The biggest problem with echolocation for humans is not hearing sensitivity or mental ability. It's the fact that our feet don't follow behind our heads except when we're swimming.... We would need a second set of ears on our ankles for echolocation to be practical.
That's based on an absurdly low price of electricity, though. My current PG&E top tier rate (and every kWh I add is billed at this rate) is $0.33/kWh, for a total of over $23 per recharge. If the new Honda Fit hybrid really comes out to 45 MPG highway, it will cost less (@$3 per gallon) than this Tesla car to operate and will cost over $40,000 less to buy the car.
Put another way, assuming a 200,000 mile lifespan of both vehicles, gas would have to average a whopping $12.47 per gallon without electricity prices increasing by a single cent for me to break even with the Tesla, and that's discounting any interest I'd get by putting that extra $40,000 in the bank. Once you factor that in, the Tesla becomes laughable. If gas prices get that high over the lifespan of an automobile bought today, the economy will utterly collapse, and affording electricity or gas will be the least of your worries. You'll have to hire an armed guard to keep people from stealing that car and burning it for warmth.
I love the idea of an electric, but a $10,000 conversion of a standard vehicle (or $2,000 to add batteries to a hybrid) makes a heck of a lot more sense than spending such an insane amount of money for a Tesla. When the Tesla falls below a $20,000 price point for their entry level sedan, I'll stop using the phrase "Cars for people with more money than brains," but for now, it very much applies, IMHO.
The HTML comments inside of style tags are still a good idea. Although no modern browser requires it, not everything that parses HTML is a full-blown web browser. Those extra seven bytes don't hurt anything, and they pretty much guarantee that any code with anything resembling a proper HTML parser won't interpret the styles, JavaScript, etc. as content even if the tool doesn't understand or care about specific tags.
Perhaps more importantly, from a purely philosophical point of view, leaving out the comments in style tags is wrong. That line noise is not part of the content, and therefore should be fundamentally separated from the presentation. Other stuff like that (link URLs, image URLs, inline styles, etc.) are all in HTML attributes or otherwise sequestered from the text content. Putting CSS or JavaScript bare inside a tag without surrounding it with comment markers violates the fundamental philosophy of HTML. Yes, this means the XHTML spec is fundamentally defective by design.
I'll leave the uppercase/lowercase flame war to people who care.
Odd. I've use the CSS 2.1 print media standards on several occasions, and they have worked consistently well for me since Safari 3 came out.... What doesn't work for you? You aren't talking about the obsolete (and massively broken by design) CSS 2 page size bits that were removed in CSS 2.1, are you?
I would expect hot cloning a live machine to mostly work, ignoring the obvious damage to hot files like logs. The part that I would expect to fail miserably was hot overwriting the standby machine, which presumably wasn't doing anything at the time or I'd expect you to have gotten a panic the first time anything tried to even do so much as an opendir on /.
Wait, I misread that. You seriously overwrote a machine while it was running and it worked without the running OS exploding in flames? That's bordering on miraculous. Was this before the kernel implemented buffer caching at all? :-D
Either way, you could do it just as easily and much more safely by booting that clone machine with an install CD and dropping to the command line. Installing an OS on the clone machine, booting off that installed volume, and then overwriting your root partition is entirely the wrong way to solve that problem.