Interesting. All of the research I've seen on creatine indicates that it increases anaerobic performance (weightlifting and sprinting). This is because creatine is used via the phosphagen system to provide energy for 10 seconds.
Since football (soccer) matches last 90 minutes and require nearly constant motion, I'd characterize them as an aerobic activity. And endurance is something that creatine doesn't help. So these soccer players probably are taking creatine and it would certainly help them train their speed and strength in practice, but I highly doubt it helps them run hard the whole match.
Very interesting. The really neat bit is that to keep pace with the eponential rate of technology innovation -- the patent term would have to be lowered.
More specifically, to build on your anecdote of the combustion enginer following the steam engine, why should an inventor wait 20 years to invent the combustion engine when they could do it in a month? And if they can do it in a month and do -- what does that do to the steam engine manufacturer?
Of course, as the pace of innovation increases, so does complexity. Which will win? Will mountains be moved in seconds? Or will it always take 10 years to make something new?
'Hypersonic' is a fuzzy term, but there are relatively few people that argue Mach 3 fits the definition. The definition I've seen used most for the onset of hypersonic flow is somewhere around Mach 6-7.
The proposed bombers are much faster than the SR-71. And that's saying something.
Personally, I really like Spambayes and Procmail for use with my IMAP server. It's easy to setup for each user and they can train their own SPAM database. You can even run the training script as a cron job and the users only need to shuffle unknowns to the spam folder. Works well, because users never even have to see the spam, if they don't want to.
And here I think you have hit on the big problem. Apathy. It might be difficult to get enough people to run to fill 5000 seats. But one would hope the prime cause of apathy is a feeling of powerlessness.
Also, I had a hell of a time trying to vote the issues in the last election. I made a spreadsheet with all the points I felt were important. The problem was I couldn't fill in the cells. There just was not enough coverage on the issues I felt was important. I ended up picking a few major votes and basing my descision on that. That flawed (only one candidate had voted) approach was the best I could do. And just finding the data took 20 hours.
I am going to have to respectfully disagree with you. In my opinion, it is not the record label that takes the risk but the artist. Many (if not all) of the artists signed to record deals already have a number of songs -- songs that they created at their own risk -- with their own money. So when a record label signs an artist they are not just signing an artist that has no portfolio. Instead they sign the artists with the strongest portfolios and thus incur the least risk for themselves.
Furthermore, in a standard record label deal the artist agrees to pay all the costs of recording, promotion, production, transportation, food, etc out of their royalties. What is the record label going to pay for? Honestly, it seems to me that the only risk the record label assumes is the fact that the artist may bomb and owe the label millions. In that case, which seems to be very rare, the artist is bankrupt and the label has taken a profit hit.
Are you still entirely sure that it is the labels that assume the risk? Personally, I think that, unless my sources are very wrong, the artist takes the greatest risk -- by far.
Actually, I received a census form a few months back and after reading the "You are required by law to truthfully complete this survey" statement, I decided to give them a call. Guess what. That religious and race data gets used. It's available to all those congress men and women just itching to do a little social engineering and earmark funds for their various flavors of constituents. For instance, the woman I talked to indicated something along the lines of "I there is an area with a high race concentration that has difficulties they may be elligible for special funding."
The good thing is that she also indicated that it'd be acceptable if I entered 'DECLINED' in the objectionable boxes. Even though it's really not optional... they'd prefer that to a lie or the bother of fines/legal action.
The really bad thing is that this data gets used and it's likely not even right! How many people intentionally enter false data? The really infuriating thing is that this data, perhaps incorrect, is used to collect information on social engineering programs like affirmative action. Yes, it makes sense. But it still drives me nuts.
Even PDF bombs sometimes. I had a discrete math prof. who distributed class materials via PDF. They problem was many of the symbols that looked fine on his machine appeared as boxes for everyone else. What is that []? , =, +, -... etc?
I just checked out the new Yahoo! search. Guess what you'll see if you scroll to the bottom of the search results page? Yup, "Search Technology provided by Google".
If I didn't, I'd expect that storage cost and transmission costs would be covered by a flat rate for my email services. Those costs are relatively cheap and they are included in the base cost. SPAM is successful because it's so cheap to send millions of messages. Saying that ISPs need to be compensated for the costs of transmitting and storing SPAM by charging the people that send HAM (not SPAM) is just backwards. What happens when SPAMers hack into the system? Then you have SPAMers sending SPAM for free and the peon spending three cents for nothing.
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Just check out the following post to the freebsd-current mailing list.
From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Tue Apr 1 05:47:31 2003 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 05:48:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: IFF_EVIL patch available.
Leveraging our new RFC3514 support I've implemented a new network interface flag 'IFF_EVIL' which causes all IP packets crossing the interface to have the IP_EVIL bit set.
ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/patches/IFF_EVI L. patch
Personally, I won't pay three cents to send an email.
I don't want to deal with the headache and I don't think anyone else does either. I suspect that it wold be more difficult to make this a reality than deleting a few spams.
Why bother when spam filtering is getting so good? I've been using Spambayes on a trial basis for a while now and it's been very good to me.
I can send it for free now; why pay? Plus, I don't want to see three cents rise to something nutty like $0.38.
I realize that's how it's supposed to work... unfortunately it often doesn't. For instance, if two regions are too close to eachother (there are several ways this could happen) pressing enter won't do the trick. You'll just end up in the lower region. Basically, I think the total lack of realtime region positioning (I dunno what else to call it) is a real killer. To my dismay, I find myself continually dragging and entering when it works and aligning and so on.
User friendly? Are you talking about the program that I use on a daily basis? Surely not. MathCAD is without a doubt the prettiest of all the options but it is among the worst in user interface.
For those of you who are not familiar with MathCAD, it works like this:
Anything and everything that you want to input into MathCAD is in it's own little box. Be it a text or an equation box.
The horrid part is trying to organize all these boxes on the page. Putting everthing in a box means that it operates completely contrary to what most people are used to with MS Word. Say you enter some equations and then decide you want to add a few more in the middle. You can't just hit the up arrow and start typing with maybe an enter. Instead, you'll often have to select the later equations and drag them down to make room for the new. Then, if you have a lot of equations you likely didn't move all of them down. So, you have to select the equations that now overlap and select 'Separate Regions' from a menu. This gets to be very tedious.
Furthermore, is it too much to expect MathCAD to figure out that I don't want have my equation on page one and the rest on page two? Why should I have to go and select "Reimpaginate' from a menu before I print?
Entering equations is no joy either. I'm constantly frustrated when I try and do something as simple as add antoher term to an equation, like changing x^2 - 3 to x^2 + x - 3. I find myself starting over and at times typing 1 + 1 - 1 and then replacing the ones. I mean, come on, I've seen many math typeing solutions that are far better, in MathType, and LyX for example.
Sure you might have a nice looking document but was it really worth the pain? Furthermore, I find MathCAD to be seriously lacking in function compared to Maple et al.
Of course, Maple et al. all have their problems with user interface. Why should I have to end with a semi-colon? And you have to realize that it's never going to look the way you want it to. So you have to suck it up and do the math without worrying about the beauty of the output.
Not to sell MathCAD short, there are some things that it does do well:
Units, the best unit management system I've had the joy to use. Very nice.
The output is beatiful.
Simple math that doesn't require big complicated equations and lots of loops.
Personally, I can do the easy math by hand. For more advanced stuff check out SciPy.org. They provide a python interface to established numerical algorithms in C and Fortran. But it's much quicker and 'funner' to use. Unfortunately they are only at alpha right now. But, you can't be the price and for the most part, I've found the optimization sections to be quite stable. Combine it with pychart and your've got a good science package for free.
Otherwise, the only package that I've actually heard people rave about is Matlab.
First, I agree with the general point of your post. I am fundamentally opposed to any measures that see marginal improvement with relatively large cost in freedoms and money. (But some things can and sould be done to limit some vulnerabilities without negatively impacting my freedoms... close the holes that you can). Those new drug commercials raise my ire for their black and white portrayal of drug users and non-users. And I do not want to feel more secure. I want to be free.
But, what countries? What countries see more losses to terrorism than the United States saw in one day? And do you seriously think that the U.S. is otherwise immune to terrorism? Do you think that 9/11 was to only loss of American life to terrorism?
I think you should do some research before you make a statement like that.
For instance, this pro-IsraelFAQ regarding the "wave of Palestinian violence and terrorism that began in September 2000".
More looking should turn up other sources (don't take this one source as gospel... it is biased). This source agrees (Israel statistic-wise) with other figures I've seen.
Based on the above, I am loath to take your statement on marijuana production with anything other than some salt. While, the statement is perhaps popular perception and I did grow up in Washington County, NY (once rumored to be the third weediest county in the nation) I am wary. (Also, in the 'I know someone sense', heroin use is increasing... this same county recently had a heroin death... a man who went to my school). However, some sources would support your claim.
I just want to clairify a point that often gets lost. It seems to be common belief that the PCBs in the Hudson River are locked in the the sediment and just so long as nothing disturbs the sediment everything is A OK.
This is purpetuated by GE's ad campaign that shows pretty graphs with the PCB concentration dropping of dramatically in the 1970s (I can't remember exactly when) and saying "The River is healing itself!" What GE don't tell you is that this dramatic decrease is a result of them ceasing pollution. The PCB concentration in the water droped because GE stoped pumping PCBs into the water! NOT becasue the river is healing itself.
Furthermore, PCB levels in fish have remained constant. There is a reason you are not allowed to eat the fish in the Hudson River (only catch and release is allowed). I know of no real evidence that the PCBs remain 'locked' in the sediment.
To me this is a damn good example of a successful advertising campaign. The EPA really dropped the ball when GE spent millions and they [EPA] didn't respond in turn. Just look at the number of no dredging signs in the area, or if you're from the area... chances are you've been visited by a GE PR rep (think kid on summer job) with nice fliers. I know I have. The kid was actually happy to get the other side of the story from my father, who is in a position to know damn well what goes on in that river.
Oh yeah, one other thing: modern dredging techniques don't use those bucket chains on the GE fliers... they use a vacuum technology that prevents recontamination of the river bed.
My personal opinion is that GE should clean up their mess (ATM). And the EPA should have and should do a much better job with advertising.
And to stick with the parent... you're right... you really do not want Joe Adventurer (without advaced equipement) stiring things up. No sense in making things worse, again.
Last I checked, playing Quake, even on a laptop, didn't make someone a jackass.
I think you may have missed my point. I was expressing amusement that public service's are finding use for a consumer system that is regulated such that it won't 'interfere' with, or be useable in, the function of public services. The correct conclusion to reach is that it would have been much better to allow the services to co-exist and benefit eachother (more so the public service sector).
Rather funny considering that the PD and FD is one of Ricochet's major consumers. (Think NYC after 911 when the service was activated for PD and FD use.)
Nope! One theory goes that this is the same way that Earth got its water. (Orginal water was boiled away in early hot days when there was no atmosphere). The only problem with such theories is the isotope ratios of the water found in comets versus Earth. Search around a bit, you'll find more.
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The same thing was happening on Earth. Earth gets smacked, life gets crushed, picks itself up, and tries again. Thankfully, life has yet to crush itself.
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Interesting. All of the research I've seen on creatine indicates that it increases anaerobic performance (weightlifting and sprinting). This is because creatine is used via the phosphagen system to provide energy for 10 seconds.
Since football (soccer) matches last 90 minutes and require nearly constant motion, I'd characterize them as an aerobic activity. And endurance is something that creatine doesn't help. So these soccer players probably are taking creatine and it would certainly help them train their speed and strength in practice, but I highly doubt it helps them run hard the whole match.
Just turn of JavaScript ... then you can use any browser.
Very interesting. The really neat bit is that to keep pace with the eponential rate of technology innovation -- the patent term would have to be lowered.
More specifically, to build on your anecdote of the combustion enginer following the steam engine, why should an inventor wait 20 years to invent the combustion engine when they could do it in a month? And if they can do it in a month and do -- what does that do to the steam engine manufacturer?
Of course, as the pace of innovation increases, so does complexity. Which will win? Will mountains be moved in seconds? Or will it always take 10 years to make something new?
Yes. There is a lot to be said for the innovater that moves quickly and makes good business decisions. There is also much to be said for competition.
'Hypersonic' is a fuzzy term, but there are relatively few people that argue Mach 3 fits the definition. The definition I've seen used most for the onset of hypersonic flow is somewhere around Mach 6-7.
The proposed bombers are much faster than the SR-71. And that's saying something.
Personally, I really like Spambayes and Procmail for use with my IMAP server. It's easy to setup for each user and they can train their own SPAM database. You can even run the training script as a cron job and the users only need to shuffle unknowns to the spam folder. Works well, because users never even have to see the spam, if they don't want to.
And here I think you have hit on the big problem. Apathy. It might be difficult to get enough people to run to fill 5000 seats. But one would hope the prime cause of apathy is a feeling of powerlessness.
Also, I had a hell of a time trying to vote the issues in the last election. I made a spreadsheet with all the points I felt were important. The problem was I couldn't fill in the cells. There just was not enough coverage on the issues I felt was important. I ended up picking a few major votes and basing my descision on that. That flawed (only one candidate had voted) approach was the best I could do. And just finding the data took 20 hours.
That's a damn good idea.
I am going to have to respectfully disagree with you. In my opinion, it is not the record label that takes the risk but the artist. Many (if not all) of the artists signed to record deals already have a number of songs -- songs that they created at their own risk -- with their own money. So when a record label signs an artist they are not just signing an artist that has no portfolio. Instead they sign the artists with the strongest portfolios and thus incur the least risk for themselves.
Furthermore, in a standard record label deal the artist agrees to pay all the costs of recording, promotion, production, transportation, food, etc out of their royalties. What is the record label going to pay for? Honestly, it seems to me that the only risk the record label assumes is the fact that the artist may bomb and owe the label millions. In that case, which seems to be very rare, the artist is bankrupt and the label has taken a profit hit.
Are you still entirely sure that it is the labels that assume the risk? Personally, I think that, unless my sources are very wrong, the artist takes the greatest risk -- by far.
Actually, I received a census form a few months back and after reading the "You are required by law to truthfully complete this survey" statement, I decided to give them a call. Guess what. That religious and race data gets used. It's available to all those congress men and women just itching to do a little social engineering and earmark funds for their various flavors of constituents. For instance, the woman I talked to indicated something along the lines of "I there is an area with a high race concentration that has difficulties they may be elligible for special funding."
The good thing is that she also indicated that it'd be acceptable if I entered 'DECLINED' in the objectionable boxes. Even though it's really not optional ... they'd prefer that to a lie or the bother of fines/legal action.
The really bad thing is that this data gets used and it's likely not even right! How many people intentionally enter false data? The really infuriating thing is that this data, perhaps incorrect, is used to collect information on social engineering programs like affirmative action. Yes, it makes sense. But it still drives me nuts.
Even PDF bombs sometimes. I had a discrete math prof. who distributed class materials via PDF. They problem was many of the symbols that looked fine on his machine appeared as boxes for everyone else. What is that []? , =, +, - ... etc?
I just checked out the new Yahoo! search. Guess what you'll see if you scroll to the bottom of the search results page? Yup, "Search Technology provided by Google".
Interesting. I host my own email.
If I didn't, I'd expect that storage cost and transmission costs would be covered by a flat rate for my email services. Those costs are relatively cheap and they are included in the base cost. SPAM is successful because it's so cheap to send millions of messages. Saying that ISPs need to be compensated for the costs of transmitting and storing SPAM by charging the people that send HAM (not SPAM) is just backwards. What happens when SPAMers hack into the system? Then you have SPAMers sending SPAM for free and the peon spending three cents for nothing.
Just check out the following post to the freebsd-current mailing list.
I L. patch
From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Tue Apr 1 05:47:31 2003
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 05:48:53 -0500 (EST)
From: "Matthew N. Dodd"
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: IFF_EVIL patch available.
Leveraging our new RFC3514 support I've implemented a new network
interface flag 'IFF_EVIL' which causes all IP packets crossing the
interface to have the IP_EVIL bit set.
ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/patches/IFF_EV
Enjoy.
Personally, I won't pay three cents to send an email.
Seems to me that this could, given current events, be applied to press conferences as well.
I realize that's how it's supposed to work ... unfortunately it often doesn't. For instance, if two regions are too close to eachother (there are several ways this could happen) pressing enter won't do the trick. You'll just end up in the lower region. Basically, I think the total lack of realtime region positioning (I dunno what else to call it) is a real killer. To my dismay, I find myself continually dragging and entering when it works and aligning and so on.
User friendly? Are you talking about the program that I use on a daily basis? Surely not. MathCAD is without a doubt the prettiest of all the options but it is among the worst in user interface.
For those of you who are not familiar with MathCAD, it works like this:
Anything and everything that you want to input into MathCAD is in it's own little box. Be it a text or an equation box.
The horrid part is trying to organize all these boxes on the page. Putting everthing in a box means that it operates completely contrary to what most people are used to with MS Word. Say you enter some equations and then decide you want to add a few more in the middle. You can't just hit the up arrow and start typing with maybe an enter. Instead, you'll often have to select the later equations and drag them down to make room for the new. Then, if you have a lot of equations you likely didn't move all of them down. So, you have to select the equations that now overlap and select 'Separate Regions' from a menu. This gets to be very tedious.
Furthermore, is it too much to expect MathCAD to figure out that I don't want have my equation on page one and the rest on page two? Why should I have to go and select "Reimpaginate' from a menu before I print?
Entering equations is no joy either. I'm constantly frustrated when I try and do something as simple as add antoher term to an equation, like changing x^2 - 3 to x^2 + x - 3. I find myself starting over and at times typing 1 + 1 - 1 and then replacing the ones. I mean, come on, I've seen many math typeing solutions that are far better, in MathType, and LyX for example.
Sure you might have a nice looking document but was it really worth the pain? Furthermore, I find MathCAD to be seriously lacking in function compared to Maple et al.
Of course, Maple et al. all have their problems with user interface. Why should I have to end with a semi-colon? And you have to realize that it's never going to look the way you want it to. So you have to suck it up and do the math without worrying about the beauty of the output.
Not to sell MathCAD short, there are some things that it does do well:
Units, the best unit management system I've had the joy to use. Very nice.
The output is beatiful.
Simple math that doesn't require big complicated equations and lots of loops.
Personally, I can do the easy math by hand. For more advanced stuff check out SciPy.org. They provide a python interface to established numerical algorithms in C and Fortran. But it's much quicker and 'funner' to use. Unfortunately they are only at alpha right now. But, you can't be the price and for the most part, I've found the optimization sections to be quite stable. Combine it with pychart and your've got a good science package for free.
Otherwise, the only package that I've actually heard people rave about is Matlab.
First, I agree with the general point of your post. I am fundamentally opposed to any measures that see marginal improvement with relatively large cost in freedoms and money. (But some things can and sould be done to limit some vulnerabilities without negatively impacting my freedoms ... close the holes that you can). Those new drug commercials raise my ire for their black and white portrayal of drug users and non-users. And I do not want to feel more secure. I want to be free.
But, what countries? What countries see more losses to terrorism than the United States saw in one day? And do you seriously think that the U.S. is otherwise immune to terrorism? Do you think that 9/11 was to only loss of American life to terrorism?
I think you should do some research before you make a statement like that.
For instance, this pro-Israel FAQ regarding the "wave of Palestinian violence and terrorism that began in September 2000".
More looking should turn up other sources (don't take this one source as gospel ... it is biased). This source agrees (Israel statistic-wise) with other figures I've seen.
Based on the above, I am loath to take your statement on marijuana production with anything other than some salt. While, the statement is perhaps popular perception and I did grow up in Washington County, NY (once rumored to be the third weediest county in the nation) I am wary. (Also, in the 'I know someone sense', heroin use is increasing ... this same county recently had a heroin death ... a man who went to my school). However, some sources would support your claim.
Yes, you're right. I was not specific enough.
I just want to clairify a point that often gets lost. It seems to be common belief that the PCBs in the Hudson River are locked in the the sediment and just so long as nothing disturbs the sediment everything is A OK.
This is purpetuated by GE's ad campaign that shows pretty graphs with the PCB concentration dropping of dramatically in the 1970s (I can't remember exactly when) and saying "The River is healing itself!" What GE don't tell you is that this dramatic decrease is a result of them ceasing pollution. The PCB concentration in the water droped because GE stoped pumping PCBs into the water! NOT becasue the river is healing itself.
Furthermore, PCB levels in fish have remained constant. There is a reason you are not allowed to eat the fish in the Hudson River (only catch and release is allowed). I know of no real evidence that the PCBs remain 'locked' in the sediment.
To me this is a damn good example of a successful advertising campaign. The EPA really dropped the ball when GE spent millions and they [EPA] didn't respond in turn. Just look at the number of no dredging signs in the area, or if you're from the area ... chances are you've been visited by a GE PR rep (think kid on summer job) with nice fliers. I know I have. The kid was actually happy to get the other side of the story from my father, who is in a position to know damn well what goes on in that river.
Oh yeah, one other thing: modern dredging techniques don't use those bucket chains on the GE fliers ... they use a vacuum technology that prevents recontamination of the river bed.
My personal opinion is that GE should clean up their mess (ATM). And the EPA should have and should do a much better job with advertising.
And to stick with the parent ... you're right ... you really do not want Joe Adventurer (without advaced equipement) stiring things up. No sense in making things worse, again.
Last I checked, playing Quake, even on a laptop, didn't make someone a jackass.
I think you may have missed my point. I was expressing amusement that public service's are finding use for a consumer system that is regulated such that it won't 'interfere' with, or be useable in, the function of public services. The correct conclusion to reach is that it would have been much better to allow the services to co-exist and benefit eachother (more so the public service sector).
Rather funny considering that the PD and FD is one of Ricochet's major consumers. (Think NYC after 911 when the service was activated for PD and FD use.)
Nope! One theory goes that this is the same way that Earth got its water. (Orginal water was boiled away in early hot days when there was no atmosphere). The only problem with such theories is the isotope ratios of the water found in comets versus Earth. Search around a bit, you'll find more. One Two Three
The same thing was happening on Earth. Earth gets smacked, life gets crushed, picks itself up, and tries again. Thankfully, life has yet to crush itself.