4) "Water intoxication", a peculiar form of hyponatremia (low blood sodium concentration), is *not* mythical. However, it *is* much rarer than dehydration. It takes a special kind of person (read: mentally ill patient) to drink the 25+ glasses of water per day that it requires to achieve this.
i think i was once intoxicated by water. with 2 friends, i drank 4 liters in 20 minutes. it was a contest to see if we could do it and who could do it fastest. the contest was spurred by the fact that our H.S. chem lab had 4 litre 'battery jars' that we cleaned out and filled with water. my friends finished in 15 minutes but puked it all back up within 10 minutes. i kept it down but and pissed it out during many rushed trips to the bathroom over the next 2 hours.
anyway, i think i was feeling a bit 'drunk' but it could have been the insanity which was apparently controlling me at the time....
p.s. drinking that much tap water is very hard to do -- after the first litre all you can taste is chlorine and you gag before each sip! so it's really not any fun.
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how does the named karma level breakdown work (what are the names and point requirements for each name)? i had around 26 points, now my karma is 'excellent'.
if the methane was going to be created anyway (because the cattle were pre-existing for human consumption) this at least reduces the pollutants to a less harmful pollutant, like a catalitic (sp) converter. also, since the cows get fuel from grass which gets its fuel from CO2 and H2O we're closing the loop.
one, the sterile seeds you mentioned aren't being used yet.
two, there is an alternative to the nasty pesticides (and fertilizers) that pollute waterways and harm the people who use them or consume them. it's called ORGANIC and has been used to grow food for centuries. the argument that it costs more is generally a unfortunate result of markets -- the people who want organic foods will pay a bit more for the privlidge leaving everyone else to consume heavily government subsidized corn grown on industrial farms.
three, has there been any independent research to determine if putting pesticides IN the food is really a good thing? we all know that pesticides are bad to eat -- insects eat 'em then die. so why are we eating it? are we going to find in 20 years that people who eat a diet high in corn run a higher risk of var_deadlyMalidy?
i am not against bioengineered foods. but i am cautious. these foods should be thourghly investigated by the FDA and independent research groups.
(not to you alone) People, stop trying to look smart by saying centripetal!:-P
point taken, though at the time i wrote that i thought centripetal was the right word -- these things happen when you attend public school, i mean, work 20 hours straight (minus slashdot breaks).;)
the issue is that the flywheel must keep spinning, though it is constantly loosing energy to power the phone -- as soon as you get that wheel spinning at 1000rpm it starts slowing down due to resistance from generating power. IANAP but to keep your phone operating that 1000rpm is going to be 0rpm within a minute. i estimate, by conjecture, that 1000rpm, on a small light disk, would only last about 2 seconds.
as an example, consider an upside-down bicycle with a perfect, frictionless mount. now you add energy by cranking the pedals to get the rear wheel spinning, like a flywheel. next you want to get some energy out of the system. no matter how you do it (heat through friction or electricty through a reversed motor/generator) your wheel will loose energy and momentum.
but if you get that wheel spinning wayyyyyyy fast, as in the-rubber-tire-flew-off-from-centriptal-force and the rim is barely holding on, you'll have more energy to extract which translates to longer 'battery' life.
also, another silentbozo mentioned that the gyroscopic forces which would be too severe to be able to use the device. that's probably true. there are ways to balance the spins by using multiple flywheels at right angles but at that point it looses portability....
sure! why couldn't a robot like this be setup with an anonymous upload that could allow a tech show participant (like bruce) to load presentations. ok, so sometimes it might get loaded with a 'sex-ed' program. ummm.... so either way it's educational.... riiiight.
flywheels storing enough energy to power a cellphone would have to be spinning very very fast (way faster than the fastest hard drives). getting this up to speed by hand, even with an efficient transmission, is not going to be as efficient as if you just made the power then stored it in a battery.
I think you're talking about the DV media converters from sony and dazzle. I have the dazzle and we have the sony at work. they both work great but the dazzle was about $100 less when i bought it.
it's a really cool product, IMHO -- it takes s-video or composite video from any source (vcr, tuner, camcorder...) and converts it to firewire which can then be encoded for whatever.
and, since it's an external firewire accessory, it works on linux, macs and windows.
i never liked those backpacks with the builtin laptop thing. i got a case from tom bihn to hold my inspiron 5000 with a 15 inch display. it's a big laptop and i already have a large backpack that holds it fine but the laptop needed some extra protection. this worked great for me and i didn't have to carry a backpack that obviously has a laptop in it (so it's less likely to be stolen).
my experience (at the community college of allegheny county) was that classes such as history, basic science, english and even economics were good. but the computer classes (i took java, c, vb and sql) and math courses (algerbra II and calc) were poor at best. my main complaint was that the course material didn't move fast enough but there were also problems with some teachers who didn't seem prepared or weren't accessible.
as we have already seen, people are also motivated by fear. i'm picturing an MSNBC expose on how toxic the grocery store plastic bags are to thier children. or, better yet, the CIA has discovered al-quaeda plans to poision shoppers through those free plastic bags in grocery stores.
The real 'brains' behind the robots are the 32bit Hitachi 7045 SH2 microcontrollers that are normally used in the automotive industry
maybe they were dating -- the car and robot had the same 'brain' and the robot is programmed to have 'sex,' sort of:
The robots can 'breed' or evolve by uploading their electronic genes to a remote computer. The Darwinian principle of survival of the fittest will apply as only robots which survive to maturity a given length of time - will be allowed to re-enter their 'genes' into the breeding pool.
...perhaps the robot thought giving its offspring leather interior and a CD-stereo would grant it a competetive advantage.
(those quotes weren't in the article, they were from the 'how it works' page here)
1. US Military (build huge stockpiles of advanced weapons, aircraft and troops for defense from that other major superpower, um, Iraq (?)
2. a maglev which, at a cost of 1 trillion, could be built within 6 years based on a 50% reduction in the military budget (currently about 396,000,000,000).
damnit! what do we have to show for all that money getting spent? 'freedom and democracy' i hear. BULLSHIT, freedom from whom? has there been a real attempt by a legitimate threat to conqur the US within the past 20 years? have we done anything with our massive military that could not have been done with a reasonably sized one? i don't even feel like arguing these points anymore -- i'm getting closer to taking the advice of those people who don't like my ideas and just leaving the country.
*the military has brought us some good technological advances (computers...) but what about solving the problems we already have like making a clean maglev for folks who need to go visit thier family across the nation?
please don't reply. this is probably a flame -- you all know there is way too much money in the military anyways.
not this again -- it's been a year or so but a 'this funky keyboard will cure carpal tunnel' article always come up eventually.
Basically, ONE keyboard will never solve your carpal tunnel problems. carpal tunnel is a result of continous stress on specific parts of the wrist. and it is still not completely understood how to prevent it. i found that my moderate to severe wrist pain ceased when i started alternating keyboards. i use two: a regular keyboard and a Kinesis classic. by using these very different keyboards i work different muscles and distribute the stress throughout my hands which (in theory) prevents most harm from occuring.
Kinesis keyboards are sort of expensive but it is by far my favorite keyboard. took about a week to get used to (hint: be lazy, don't reach so far for keys). i got my boss to buy it ($275) for me after some mild whining.
a lot of people like good graffiti. maybe if those who practice it didn't have to look over thier shoulder they could make something you like (i doubt picasso had a friend watching for cops as he painted). and if it becomes more common that probably means people are getting practice and getting better.
personally, i like graffiti. i have 4 murals in my apartment, painted by local kids. i gave them the whole day to work and they did a great job. most people think of tags when they think graffiti -- tags are the knee-jerk response to a society who won't let artists finish.
perhaps you missed the subject line -- IT'S GPL SOFTWARE. there is no cost for the software, only support and you really don't need support for this.
besides, this wasn't posted for government use, it's for those small business users who think that creating PDFs from HTML requires some $500 program (that was the cheapest web-based solution i could find, other than free).
i implemented this in cold fusion, if anyone wants the tag (all the HTML between the start and end tags is written to a PDF) email me (cobraATphasesgroupDOTcom).
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ok, i just want to go on record as saying that yes, the cure are good. wish was my first tape, bought for me for my 14th (?) birthday but as you said, everything before that album (exclusively) was good.
KPCC is good talk but they don't play music at all.
KPFK - i usually enjoy Democracy Now but my favorite show is 'Seditious Beats' now called 'Divine Forces Radio' for some reason. unfortunately, it's on from midnight to 3am on friday nights. and i would really, really, really, like to have the show 'Aware' with lisa garr removed from the lineup -- new age health shit that is like 'do what we say and your problems will all evaporate.' but hey, someone must enjoy it....
HTMLDOC is what i use. it's available on both UNIX and Windows platforms, is released under the GPL and does a good job for what i need (converting web reports to PDF for printing -- i wrote a wrapper for the binary). there may be some limitations for advanced stuff but this formats tables well, displays images, and supports color... sounds good to me.
you don't always need loops when you have recursion
//this line declares the function 'f' int f(int x){
if( x == 1 )
return 1;
else if( x has some property ) // this is recursion:
return f( g(x) );
else // this is recursion:
return f( h(x) ); }
recursion n. See recursion.
or, recursion is a function calling itself. if the function keeps calling itself the program will never exit
as someone who has been pissed at a band for 'selling out' i can tell you that, for me, hearing the band on the radio _every_day_ gets tireing. the band i'm thinking of was the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. when i was in high school they put out hard punk-ska with very rough vocals and songs about depressive drinking and the devil (and were understandably never played on the radio). then they signed to a big label, digitally smoothed the vocals and wrote shitty mass-appeal songs. no, i don't have a problem with a band getting big and making money, they just have to keep making good music -- if the white stripes start test-marketing songs and start sounding like Blink or something i will get pissed.
i don't know about all of those, actually i don't recognize all of them but weren't most of those songs released in like 96-98? like, before clear channel was the force it is now?
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woo hoo! glad that here in LA the 'left-wing masses' have a few more choices which, fortunately, rarely play The Cure.
KPFK a pacifica station. they don't take any corporate funding and are completely free from the government (uh, except for the FCC)
KILL! (corporate) RADIO well, it's web only but it's a cool project started by the LA Independent Media Center and RE:Generation TV. very 'college radio' style but has some great shows (and they occasionally play the cure)
KCRW the NPR/PRI station with some good shows (chocolate city!) but mostly i don't like the music. but at least i can agree with the format...
but that doesn't mean that i won't complain about radio here -- community radio licenses are not available here as they are in some other cities. community radio licenses were to enable underserved communities the ability to broadcast using a 10 to 100 watt transmitter. it was strongly opposed by NPR (of course, it would be a strong alternative)
and the LA 'hip hop' stations plays only gangsta rap -- there is A LOT of good hip hop and rap out there (well, i like it) that doesn't have anything to do with benzes, ho's, or fo'ties.
i rarely do work for them anymore -- nothing more than the occasional db backup. no development. the company i work for develops software for clients, they are a client and we happen to work in the same building. when i started extending thier inventory software i didn't know what the business model was -- just that they had lots of inventory and needed to know where it was. I think you will find that this is not an uncommon business model.
anyways, i am trying to find another job but i'm not having luck -- after this i don't want to work for any company whose business i disagree with. that eliminates most prospective employers. my debts will be paid off soon and then i'll jettison this job for almost anything. as long as i agree with the business practices.
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4) "Water intoxication", a peculiar form of hyponatremia (low blood sodium concentration), is *not* mythical. However, it *is* much rarer than dehydration. It takes a special kind of person (read: mentally ill patient) to drink the 25+ glasses of water per day that it requires to achieve this.
i think i was once intoxicated by water. with 2 friends, i drank 4 liters in 20 minutes. it was a contest to see if we could do it and who could do it fastest. the contest was spurred by the fact that our H.S. chem lab had 4 litre 'battery jars' that we cleaned out and filled with water. my friends finished in 15 minutes but puked it all back up within 10 minutes. i kept it down but and pissed it out during many rushed trips to the bathroom over the next 2 hours.
anyway, i think i was feeling a bit 'drunk' but it could have been the insanity which was apparently controlling me at the time....
p.s. drinking that much tap water is very hard to do -- after the first litre all you can taste is chlorine and you gag before each sip! so it's really not any fun.
my problem isn't a lack of time, it's the lack of name recognition.
if everyone knew me i'd be famous for something too!
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if the methane was going to be created anyway (because the cattle were pre-existing for human consumption) this at least reduces the pollutants to a less harmful pollutant, like a catalitic (sp) converter. also, since the cows get fuel from grass which gets its fuel from CO2 and H2O we're closing the loop.
one, the sterile seeds you mentioned aren't being used yet.
two, there is an alternative to the nasty pesticides (and fertilizers) that pollute waterways and harm the people who use them or consume them. it's called ORGANIC and has been used to grow food for centuries. the argument that it costs more is generally a unfortunate result of markets -- the people who want organic foods will pay a bit more for the privlidge leaving everyone else to consume heavily government subsidized corn grown on industrial farms.
three, has there been any independent research to determine if putting pesticides IN the food is really a good thing? we all know that pesticides are bad to eat -- insects eat 'em then die. so why are we eating it? are we going to find in 20 years that people who eat a diet high in corn run a higher risk of var_deadlyMalidy?
i am not against bioengineered foods. but i am cautious. these foods should be thourghly investigated by the FDA and independent research groups.
(not to you alone) People, stop trying to look smart by saying centripetal! :-P
;)
point taken, though at the time i wrote that i thought centripetal was the right word -- these things happen when you attend public school, i mean, work 20 hours straight (minus slashdot breaks).
i think you need to do some reading on flywheels.
the issue is that the flywheel must keep spinning, though it is constantly loosing energy to power the phone -- as soon as you get that wheel spinning at 1000rpm it starts slowing down due to resistance from generating power. IANAP but to keep your phone operating that 1000rpm is going to be 0rpm within a minute. i estimate, by conjecture, that 1000rpm, on a small light disk, would only last about 2 seconds.
as an example, consider an upside-down bicycle with a perfect, frictionless mount. now you add energy by cranking the pedals to get the rear wheel spinning, like a flywheel. next you want to get some energy out of the system. no matter how you do it (heat through friction or electricty through a reversed motor/generator) your wheel will loose energy and momentum.
but if you get that wheel spinning wayyyyyyy fast, as in the-rubber-tire-flew-off-from-centriptal-force and the rim is barely holding on, you'll have more energy to extract which translates to longer 'battery' life.
also, another silentbozo mentioned that the gyroscopic forces which would be too severe to be able to use the device. that's probably true. there are ways to balance the spins by using multiple flywheels at right angles but at that point it looses portability....
sure! why couldn't a robot like this be setup with an anonymous upload that could allow a tech show participant (like bruce) to load presentations. ok, so sometimes it might get loaded with a 'sex-ed' program. ummm.... so either way it's educational.... riiiight.
but really, who are 'they' going to prosecute?
flywheels storing enough energy to power a cellphone would have to be spinning very very fast (way faster than the fastest hard drives). getting this up to speed by hand, even with an efficient transmission, is not going to be as efficient as if you just made the power then stored it in a battery.
I think you're talking about the DV media converters from sony and dazzle. I have the dazzle and we have the sony at work. they both work great but the dazzle was about $100 less when i bought it.
it's a really cool product, IMHO -- it takes s-video or composite video from any source (vcr, tuner, camcorder...) and converts it to firewire which can then be encoded for whatever.
and, since it's an external firewire accessory, it works on linux, macs and windows.
i never liked those backpacks with the builtin laptop thing. i got a case from tom bihn to hold my inspiron 5000 with a 15 inch display. it's a big laptop and i already have a large backpack that holds it fine but the laptop needed some extra protection. this worked great for me and i didn't have to carry a backpack that obviously has a laptop in it (so it's less likely to be stolen).
my experience (at the community college of allegheny county) was that classes such as history, basic science, english and even economics were good. but the computer classes (i took java, c, vb and sql) and math courses (algerbra II and calc) were poor at best. my main complaint was that the course material didn't move fast enough but there were also problems with some teachers who didn't seem prepared or weren't accessible.
as we have already seen, people are also motivated by fear. i'm picturing an MSNBC expose on how toxic the grocery store plastic bags are to thier children. or, better yet, the CIA has discovered al-quaeda plans to poision shoppers through those free plastic bags in grocery stores.
riiiiiight
The real 'brains' behind the robots are the 32bit Hitachi 7045 SH2 microcontrollers that are normally used in the automotive industry
maybe they were dating -- the car and robot had the same 'brain' and the robot is programmed to have 'sex,' sort of:
The robots can 'breed' or evolve by uploading their electronic genes to a remote computer. The Darwinian principle of survival of the fittest will apply as only robots which survive to maturity a given length of time - will be allowed to re-enter their 'genes' into the breeding pool.
...perhaps the robot thought giving its offspring leather interior and a CD-stereo would grant it a competetive advantage.
(those quotes weren't in the article, they were from the 'how it works' page here)
where would you rather have your money spent:
1. US Military (build huge stockpiles of advanced weapons, aircraft and troops for defense from that other major superpower, um, Iraq (?)
2. a maglev which, at a cost of 1 trillion, could be built within 6 years based on a 50% reduction in the military budget (currently about 396,000,000,000).
damnit! what do we have to show for all that money getting spent? 'freedom and democracy' i hear. BULLSHIT, freedom from whom? has there been a real attempt by a legitimate threat to conqur the US within the past 20 years? have we done anything with our massive military that could not have been done with a reasonably sized one? i don't even feel like arguing these points anymore -- i'm getting closer to taking the advice of those people who don't like my ideas and just leaving the country.
*the military has brought us some good technological advances (computers...) but what about solving the problems we already have like making a clean maglev for folks who need to go visit thier family across the nation?
please don't reply. this is probably a flame -- you all know there is way too much money in the military anyways.
not this again -- it's been a year or so but a 'this funky keyboard will cure carpal tunnel' article always come up eventually.
Basically, ONE keyboard will never solve your carpal tunnel problems. carpal tunnel is a result of continous stress on specific parts of the wrist. and it is still not completely understood how to prevent it. i found that my moderate to severe wrist pain ceased when i started alternating keyboards. i use two: a regular keyboard and a Kinesis classic. by using these very different keyboards i work different muscles and distribute the stress throughout my hands which (in theory) prevents most harm from occuring.
Kinesis keyboards are sort of expensive but it is by far my favorite keyboard. took about a week to get used to (hint: be lazy, don't reach so far for keys). i got my boss to buy it ($275) for me after some mild whining.
a lot of people like good graffiti. maybe if those who practice it didn't have to look over thier shoulder they could make something you like (i doubt picasso had a friend watching for cops as he painted). and if it becomes more common that probably means people are getting practice and getting better.
personally, i like graffiti. i have 4 murals in my apartment, painted by local kids. i gave them the whole day to work and they did a great job. most people think of tags when they think graffiti -- tags are the knee-jerk response to a society who won't let artists finish.
perhaps you missed the subject line -- IT'S GPL SOFTWARE. there is no cost for the software, only support and you really don't need support for this.
besides, this wasn't posted for government use, it's for those small business users who think that creating PDFs from HTML requires some $500 program (that was the cheapest web-based solution i could find, other than free).
i implemented this in cold fusion, if anyone wants the tag (all the HTML between the start and end tags is written to a PDF) email me (cobraATphasesgroupDOTcom).
ok, i just want to go on record as saying that yes, the cure are good. wish was my first tape, bought for me for my 14th (?) birthday but as you said, everything before that album (exclusively) was good.
KPCC is good talk but they don't play music at all.
KPFK - i usually enjoy Democracy Now but my favorite show is 'Seditious Beats' now called 'Divine Forces Radio' for some reason. unfortunately, it's on from midnight to 3am on friday nights. and i would really, really, really, like to have the show 'Aware' with lisa garr removed from the lineup -- new age health shit that is like 'do what we say and your problems will all evaporate.' but hey, someone must enjoy it....
HTMLDOC is what i use. it's available on both UNIX and Windows platforms, is released under the GPL and does a good job for what i need (converting web reports to PDF for printing -- i wrote a wrapper for the binary). there may be some limitations for advanced stuff but this formats tables well, displays images, and supports color... sounds good to me.
you don't always need loops when you have recursion
//this line declares the function 'f'
// this is recursion:
// this is recursion:
int f(int x){
if( x == 1 )
return 1;
else if( x has some property )
return f( g(x) );
else
return f( h(x) );
}
recursion n. See recursion.
or, recursion is a function calling itself. if the function keeps calling itself the program will never exit
as someone who has been pissed at a band for 'selling out' i can tell you that, for me, hearing the band on the radio _every_day_ gets tireing. the band i'm thinking of was the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. when i was in high school they put out hard punk-ska with very rough vocals and songs about depressive drinking and the devil (and were understandably never played on the radio). then they signed to a big label, digitally smoothed the vocals and wrote shitty mass-appeal songs. no, i don't have a problem with a band getting big and making money, they just have to keep making good music -- if the white stripes start test-marketing songs and start sounding like Blink or something i will get pissed.
i don't know about all of those, actually i don't recognize all of them but weren't most of those songs released in like 96-98? like, before clear channel was the force it is now?
woo hoo! glad that here in LA the 'left-wing masses' have a few more choices which, fortunately, rarely play The Cure.
KPFK a pacifica station. they don't take any corporate funding and are completely free from the government (uh, except for the FCC)
KXLU which is a decent good college radio station
KILL! (corporate) RADIO well, it's web only but it's a cool project started by the LA Independent Media Center and RE:Generation TV. very 'college radio' style but has some great shows (and they occasionally play the cure)
KCRW the NPR/PRI station with some good shows (chocolate city!) but mostly i don't like the music. but at least i can agree with the format...
but that doesn't mean that i won't complain about radio here -- community radio licenses are not available here as they are in some other cities. community radio licenses were to enable underserved communities the ability to broadcast using a 10 to 100 watt transmitter. it was strongly opposed by NPR (of course, it would be a strong alternative)
and the LA 'hip hop' stations plays only gangsta rap -- there is A LOT of good hip hop and rap out there (well, i like it) that doesn't have anything to do with benzes, ho's, or fo'ties.
(kind of late reply)
i rarely do work for them anymore -- nothing more than the occasional db backup. no development. the company i work for develops software for clients, they are a client and we happen to work in the same building. when i started extending thier inventory software i didn't know what the business model was -- just that they had lots of inventory and needed to know where it was. I think you will find that this is not an uncommon business model.
anyways, i am trying to find another job but i'm not having luck -- after this i don't want to work for any company whose business i disagree with. that eliminates most prospective employers. my debts will be paid off soon and then i'll jettison this job for almost anything. as long as i agree with the business practices.