From both Yahoo and AOL users: If they don't want something, they just mark it spam, even if they signed up for it.
In fact, we have customers that pay us money every month to send them leads on their inventory, and ever month, we have a few of them (AOL users) mark legitimate inquiries as spam. And they not only asked us to send them to them, they're PAYING US to send them to them!!!
But it's not that easy. For a few years, AMD beat Intel at the CPU business because Intel made some very, very stupid decisions, and AMD made some very smart ones. But assuming that a company doesn't make such stupid decisions, then the CPU game comes down mostly to "Who has the best fab technology?". Intel has some of the (if not THE) best fab tech in the world, and is thusly returning the favor to AMD. NVidia doesn't have any fabs at all, they would have to go to 3rd-party fabs, something that proved not to work out so well for AMD.
Not only that, but the romantic versions of history like to paint it as if the white man was the only bad person in the situation, when in reality, there's plenty of blame on both sides.
Native Americans and their apologists like to forget that Native Americans did things like ride in, kill people, kidnap women and children, and torture and rape them for years because... they started farming on some land.
The only thing we're robbing Native Americans of is a free lunch. And often times, not even that.
Many of them (depending on the tribe) are free to do absolutely nothing, and get paid every month in order to do it. I think that MORE than qualifies for "reparations".
What's more, if any of them actually want to get a college education, guess what! They're all but guaranteed to get full scholarships since they're Native American. They can go to college for free, and not have to work their way through it. The catch? They actually have to DO it. That's the tough part.
When my tax money is paying someone to do nothing, and would pay for them to get an education if they actually bothered to go get it, and they still won't... I don't really feel very bad for them.
It's not the Atom, it's the northbridge. The DDR2 memory controller and built-in video are from an older desktop chipset, and are not power-optimized at all.
Those numbers are from me plugging in ONLY the motherboard, and measuring power draw from the wall, which was 55-65 watts. Factoring in losses in the PSU, 40-50 watts for the board is pretty close for the actual draw.
I have a C-something machine (I don't recall if it's an Eden or a Nehemiah) where the CPU, board, NIC, two hard drives, and optical drive together pull 65 watts from the wall under load.
Actually, each pound of muscle you pack on burns about another 50 calories per day. Pack on ten pounds of muscle, and burning up to another 500 calories per day can *really* help cut the weight, if you combine it with other exercise.
Few people that I've known have lost weight with either weights or cardio alone - but of those I know who have combined the two, every single one has lost considerable weight.
That's all? So, after doing that to warm up, what do you do next?:D
Just kidding. I used to bike a LOT. I kept track of my mileage, and over 2 years, never put in less than 300 miles per week. But that was many years ago, and now I find biking to be much more mundane, and I'm lucky if I put in 5 miles per week. And unfortunately, my gut shows the effects.
The only thing that keeps me on the bike is putting my kid in a bike trailer and taking him with me.
Buy some dumbbells. Add military presses, curls, and "rambo rows".
But you need some cardio, too. Either get the treadmill/walker/skier/whatever that you like, or... you're going to have to go outside.
What makes biking even more fun for me is putting my kid in a bike trailer, and running errands with him... but it sounds like that isn't really compatible with your situation.
And if you can get past your fear of people, find a nice girl, and have sex until you both drop.
Eliminating the hard drive and optical drive, the Atom board still draws 40-50 watts. On my board, I observe a 55-65 watt draw from the wall with just the board, which taking PSU losses into account, is about right.
The part that it entirely irking is that that board alone draws more than my entire laptop, which includes a Core Duo, hard drive and a *display*, for crying out loud. Not such a great way to show off a low-power CPU.
... is the chipset it's paired with. I recently bought an Intel motherboard with an Atom on it. Whilst the CPU is only 4-ish watts, the board draws around 40-50 watts. That's the board, not optical or hard drives.
That northbridge, with the non-power-optimized video card and memory controller, sucks up the juice. The heatsink on the northbridge is 4x larger than the one on the CPU. Furthermore, the heatsink on the northbridge has a fan, where the HS on the CPU has none.
That is good stuff. But still, sit down and think of how much you learned, and you're still just scratching the surface.
Furthermore, I've met people in other countries, with only a year or two of schooling, who have figured out similar things about mowing and hills. It's not that you knew the math (you probably didn't put a single number or formula to it), you just stopped to think about what you were doing.
As for the trusses, you're not missing out. Until you get a lot more advanced than you need for a bed frame, it's just a whole bunch of simple algebraic formulas, and you juggle things around until you have enough known values vs. unknown values that you can simplify.
I've applied a good bit of geo, trig, and calculus to my hobbies of building "stuff" and electronics, but still don't use most of what I've learned.
Now, don't get me wrong: Like I've said a number of times, I'm glad that I learned it. Knowledge, just for knowledge's sake, can be a very good thing, as it opens your mind not just to facts, but to ideas, and even more importantly, to thought processes. But when I see just how little people use math, I do sometimes think that those particular people would have been better served learning something that would apply more to their situation.
Find what you like, and choose a path. I like that.
I know some folks who are very happy because they went to school, college, and got an engineering degree, and found a job they like. I know a few people who are very happy because they never went to college, but went into a field they like. (One of my friends is a very good mechanic, and clears > $100k per year).
On the other hand, I know a LOT of people who went school->college because they thought that was what everyone should do, found out that with their degrees they couldn't get any jobs they liked, but still had to pay the student loans... and hate their life.
Physics classes are nthing but applying math to the world around you. That's what makes it fun, you're not doing math just to do math, you're learning about things around you, and how they work.:D
Yippee, you used three incredibly basic things. Now what about the rest of what they tought you? Surely in two or three years of math, they tought more than multiply two numbers, divide by pi, or add squares and take the root?
Did you have to do any minimizations, or maximizations? Any factoring? Anything in polar notations? Anything with tangents, sin, or cosines? Did you have to come up with a geometric proof? Did imaginary numbers come into any of it?
I'm not really deriding you, BTW. The simple things you did automatically put you in something like the top 2% of the population. But the things you mention only cover about one week of my high school math classes, the vast majority of what we learned only gets used by a very small percentage of the population in their lives or jobs. (*)
Not long ago, I helped tutor a coworker through his calculus class that was required for his CS degree. He kept asking me if he was ever going to use any of it, and I had to keep telling him that even though he was getting a science degree, that unless he went into a few small, niche areas of programming, no, he wasn't going to use any of what we were going over.
(*)I'm not complaining. I like math, and I'm glad I took it - even the stuff I don't use. I'm just saying that the critisism of teaching kids things they aren't going to use may have some merit.
It's that kids don't care. The vast majority of kids don't really care about science, it's neither fun nor interesting to them.
And to make it worse, even if they're interested in science, once they realize that it involves that oh-so-dreaded subject, MATH, then you're sure to run off most of the rest.
In fact, one of the largest criticisms of math courses (which is, in some respects, quite true) is that the majority of people who learn it will never use 99% of what they learn in there.
Hmm... maybe they should teach math and science together. Get the kids excited about a thing, then teach them the math behind it. Hmmm....
More than that, running a well-managed, well-equiped, properly-verifying, available certificate service costs real money... and *someone* has to pony up for it.
The best way, I think, is not to block it at all. Let it flow, let people leave a trail. Spend the time tracking down people who produce and consume it, and arrest them.
Like you said, they can get around most any block you put on the net. But stick them in a concrete cell for thirty years, and then you've actually done something to solve the problem, not just make the perps dance.
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From both Yahoo and AOL users: If they don't want something, they just mark it spam, even if they signed up for it.
In fact, we have customers that pay us money every month to send them leads on their inventory, and ever month, we have a few of them (AOL users) mark legitimate inquiries as spam. And they not only asked us to send them to them, they're PAYING US to send them to them!!!
You would think so, wouldn't you?
But it's not that easy. For a few years, AMD beat Intel at the CPU business because Intel made some very, very stupid decisions, and AMD made some very smart ones. But assuming that a company doesn't make such stupid decisions, then the CPU game comes down mostly to "Who has the best fab technology?". Intel has some of the (if not THE) best fab tech in the world, and is thusly returning the favor to AMD. NVidia doesn't have any fabs at all, they would have to go to 3rd-party fabs, something that proved not to work out so well for AMD.
Not only that, but the romantic versions of history like to paint it as if the white man was the only bad person in the situation, when in reality, there's plenty of blame on both sides.
Native Americans and their apologists like to forget that Native Americans did things like ride in, kill people, kidnap women and children, and torture and rape them for years because... they started farming on some land.
The only thing we're robbing Native Americans of is a free lunch. And often times, not even that.
Many of them (depending on the tribe) are free to do absolutely nothing, and get paid every month in order to do it. I think that MORE than qualifies for "reparations".
What's more, if any of them actually want to get a college education, guess what! They're all but guaranteed to get full scholarships since they're Native American. They can go to college for free, and not have to work their way through it. The catch? They actually have to DO it. That's the tough part.
When my tax money is paying someone to do nothing, and would pay for them to get an education if they actually bothered to go get it, and they still won't... I don't really feel very bad for them.
here is my favorite.
Trying to pull a tough-guy face while sporting Tux on your arm just doesn't work.
That's why you don't use caching resolvers that aren't under your control.
It's not the Atom, it's the northbridge. The DDR2 memory controller and built-in video are from an older desktop chipset, and are not power-optimized at all.
Those numbers are from me plugging in ONLY the motherboard, and measuring power draw from the wall, which was 55-65 watts. Factoring in losses in the PSU, 40-50 watts for the board is pretty close for the actual draw.
I have a C-something machine (I don't recall if it's an Eden or a Nehemiah) where the CPU, board, NIC, two hard drives, and optical drive together pull 65 watts from the wall under load.
Huh. What do you know. I've always heard them called that.
here you go.
It's a fairly quick and easy way to hit lats and biceps without having to find a place to do pullups.barbell row
Actually, each pound of muscle you pack on burns about another 50 calories per day. Pack on ten pounds of muscle, and burning up to another 500 calories per day can *really* help cut the weight, if you combine it with other exercise.
Few people that I've known have lost weight with either weights or cardio alone - but of those I know who have combined the two, every single one has lost considerable weight.
Wow. That is really, really pimp. When that comes out, I might just have to buy one...
That's all? So, after doing that to warm up, what do you do next? :D
Just kidding. I used to bike a LOT. I kept track of my mileage, and over 2 years, never put in less than 300 miles per week. But that was many years ago, and now I find biking to be much more mundane, and I'm lucky if I put in 5 miles per week. And unfortunately, my gut shows the effects.
The only thing that keeps me on the bike is putting my kid in a bike trailer and taking him with me.
Buy some dumbbells. Add military presses, curls, and "rambo rows".
But you need some cardio, too. Either get the treadmill/walker/skier/whatever that you like, or... you're going to have to go outside.
What makes biking even more fun for me is putting my kid in a bike trailer, and running errands with him... but it sounds like that isn't really compatible with your situation.
And if you can get past your fear of people, find a nice girl, and have sex until you both drop.
Eliminating the hard drive and optical drive, the Atom board still draws 40-50 watts. On my board, I observe a 55-65 watt draw from the wall with just the board, which taking PSU losses into account, is about right.
The part that it entirely irking is that that board alone draws more than my entire laptop, which includes a Core Duo, hard drive and a *display*, for crying out loud. Not such a great way to show off a low-power CPU.
I dunno... running CentOS on an Atom isn't terribly slow or disappointing. I could get by with it quite well if it meant 8-hour battery life.
... is the chipset it's paired with. I recently bought an Intel motherboard with an Atom on it. Whilst the CPU is only 4-ish watts, the board draws around 40-50 watts. That's the board, not optical or hard drives.
That northbridge, with the non-power-optimized video card and memory controller, sucks up the juice. The heatsink on the northbridge is 4x larger than the one on the CPU. Furthermore, the heatsink on the northbridge has a fan, where the HS on the CPU has none.
That is good stuff. But still, sit down and think of how much you learned, and you're still just scratching the surface.
Furthermore, I've met people in other countries, with only a year or two of schooling, who have figured out similar things about mowing and hills. It's not that you knew the math (you probably didn't put a single number or formula to it), you just stopped to think about what you were doing.
As for the trusses, you're not missing out. Until you get a lot more advanced than you need for a bed frame, it's just a whole bunch of simple algebraic formulas, and you juggle things around until you have enough known values vs. unknown values that you can simplify.
I've applied a good bit of geo, trig, and calculus to my hobbies of building "stuff" and electronics, but still don't use most of what I've learned.
Now, don't get me wrong: Like I've said a number of times, I'm glad that I learned it. Knowledge, just for knowledge's sake, can be a very good thing, as it opens your mind not just to facts, but to ideas, and even more importantly, to thought processes. But when I see just how little people use math, I do sometimes think that those particular people would have been better served learning something that would apply more to their situation.
Find what you like, and choose a path. I like that.
I know some folks who are very happy because they went to school, college, and got an engineering degree, and found a job they like. I know a few people who are very happy because they never went to college, but went into a field they like. (One of my friends is a very good mechanic, and clears > $100k per year).
On the other hand, I know a LOT of people who went school->college because they thought that was what everyone should do, found out that with their degrees they couldn't get any jobs they liked, but still had to pay the student loans... and hate their life.
Physics classes are nthing but applying math to the world around you. That's what makes it fun, you're not doing math just to do math, you're learning about things around you, and how they work. :D
Yippee, you used three incredibly basic things. Now what about the rest of what they tought you? Surely in two or three years of math, they tought
more than multiply two numbers, divide by pi, or add squares and take the root?
Did you have to do any minimizations, or maximizations? Any factoring? Anything in polar notations? Anything with tangents, sin, or cosines? Did you have to come up with a geometric proof? Did imaginary numbers come into any of it?
I'm not really deriding you, BTW. The simple things you did automatically put you in something like the top 2% of the population. But the things you mention only cover about one week of my high school math classes, the vast majority of what we learned only gets used by a very small percentage of the population in their lives or jobs. (*)
Not long ago, I helped tutor a coworker through his calculus class that was required for his CS degree. He kept asking me if he was ever going to use any of it, and I had to keep telling him that even though he was getting a science degree, that unless he went into a few small, niche areas of programming, no, he wasn't going to use any of what we were going over.
(*)I'm not complaining. I like math, and I'm glad I took it - even the stuff I don't use. I'm just saying that the critisism of teaching kids things they aren't going to use may have some merit.
It's that kids don't care. The vast majority of kids don't really care about science, it's neither fun nor interesting to them.
And to make it worse, even if they're interested in science, once they realize that it involves that oh-so-dreaded subject, MATH, then you're sure to run off most of the rest.
In fact, one of the largest criticisms of math courses (which is, in some respects, quite true) is that the majority of people who learn it will never use 99% of what they learn in there.
Hmm... maybe they should teach math and science together. Get the kids excited about a thing, then teach them the math behind it. Hmmm....
That's going to pretty good lengths to avoid just giving people a reliable service to begin with!
10%! Excellent!
That way, I can spend money to replace all of my light bulbs, and throw away all of the fluorescents that I spent money on...
all to save less money than if I just turned my lights out more often.
More than that, running a well-managed, well-equiped, properly-verifying, available certificate service costs real money... and *someone* has to pony up for it.
HD converted locally to analog is still worlds ahead of analog radio.
The best way, I think, is not to block it at all. Let it flow, let people leave a trail. Spend the time tracking down people who produce and consume it, and arrest them.
Like you said, they can get around most any block you put on the net. But stick them in a concrete cell for thirty years, and then you've actually done something to solve the problem, not just make the perps dance.