Uh.. Creatine is not a "herbal treatment", it's actually methyl guanidine-acetic acid. It is made up of three amino-acids, Arginine, Glycine and Methionine.
You already have about 120g stored in your body, a little more or less depending on your weight, conditioning, and diet. 95% or so is in your muscles, with the rest in your brain, heart and testicles (I wonder what the research says about the latter one:)
Creatine increases muscle size by supposedly pulling water into your muscles. And no, it will not happen without a good exercise program. Some claim water retention, but the retention happens in "all the right places". It also supposedly prevents the buildup of lactic acid in your muscles during strenous activity. Finally, it helps protein syntehsis.
If you take too much, it get peed away as creatinine.
Some chemical geek could probably explain the difference between the synthesized creatine (creatine monohydrate) and the one in your body (creatine phosphate)
I have taken creatine for a little while, and I didn't notice a bad body odor (maybe because I wash:)..
Noone ends up caring about Lara. She comes across as snobby and full of herself. In every good movie, viewers end up liking or identifying with the main character.
There is a major directorial and script writing issue with TR, but the character definition is the biggest problem. They have to make us CARE about Lara, and not see her as a priviledged, bratty girl.
Women get burned out because she's portraied in such a perfect light. Men get burned out because they see no vulerabilities. The movies have no climax since there are no low parts.
Someone needs to take Movie Making 101. If any movie needed a little formula infusion, this is it. The director should read what makes a hero(ine). The current Lara is not it. Throw something challenging at Lara... read the formula book.. fish out of water, reluctant heroine, whatever. Make us care.
These most of the times do not work. They are too weak, and they wash off too easily. If they have mouth guards, they are cheap ones that don't fit well.
The advantage is that if you have sensitive teeth this is the best option. And it's the cheapest.
Cost: $10-$40
2. Using something like BriteSmile or.. (whatever other names are.. Zoom?)
These work best. You sit in a chair, you watch a movie while an assistant props your mouth open and applies some paste. Then, they shine a light on the paste for an hour. You walk out with about 7 shades whiter.
Cost: about $500. Advantages: fast! You can do it over lunch hour. Good results.
3. Dentist at-home whitening
Dentist gives you some syringes and a mouthguard. You add a little liquid to the mouthguard and wear them anywhere from 20 mins to overnight.
Cost: about $300 initial (mouth guard is expensive), plus about $45 to resupply syringes periodically. Can buy them much cheaper off the internet (same big brands)
Advantages: cheaper than britesmile, works much better than the off-the-shelf ones. Good results. Disadvantages: expensive, most sensitivity issues (especially with 20% concentrations)
So, don't waste your money on off the shelf ones. Also, these things don't work on everything. If your teeth are gray because some medicine you took, you may need caps instead of bleaching. A dentist can tell you best.
PC games are made to run on a PC.. they usually assume keyboards, mice, etc. They get launched from an OS with a generic user interface.
XBox games are made to run from an appliance-type PC.
So, even if you were to create a PC as cheap as the X-box, unless it ran X-Box games, you would be crippled by the PC games. I may be okay with a large computer next to my TV, but I really do not want a keyboard there as well, just to launch and manage games.
Who is to say everyone wants ONLY point to point communication?
I'd rather have the most full featured piece of software, as long as:
1. It lets me customize it 2. It doesn't load up anything I don't want
I can't believe geeks would put down too much functionality. You should all be kicked out of the club. Simplicity you say? Simplicity is for those people who can't program their own VCR. Duh!
Let me explain: I would like to have a tool like this through which I can make the documents on all our public shares available for searching by users. We have documents and files spread over maybe 10-15 servers. There is no need to chat from those servers, all I need is have files shared.
I am not going to leave the servers logged in and have the app running all the time, for obvious security reasons.. but also because a remote reboot would bring the machine off the network.
WRITING
There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident
and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed files
are also not supported.
It appears you have never heard of something called a basal metabolic rate. That is how much your body is consuming daily, to maintain your weight, IF you were staying in bed the whole day.
Yours would be around 1600-1700, I believe.
If you eat 500 calories per day, you are either anorexic, or you don't know how to count.
Two things people should notice about that pyramid:
Notice the huge spacing between whole wheat bread and white bread. Almost no white bread, and a lot of whole wheat bread. That is very important.
Also notice that soda is not a food group.
A few more hints:
Cut down on anything that has High Fructose Corn Syrup in it. You really should remove it from your diet, since it does nasty things to your insulin.
Watch the SIZE of your portions as much as what you eat.
Remember you need fat, protein, and carbs! You need fat for your body to operate corectly and stay healthy.. You need protein to maintain muscle tone and feel full. And you need carbs to maintain your energy.
If you snack, put down the sugar (carbs) and pick up the protein.. cheese, nuts, beef jerky (without the nitrites) are good snacks. Candy is a bad snack.
Drink a lot of water. At least half a galon per day, preferably more. And I mean water, not beer.
It is really geared for men (obviously) but it's more professional, especially if you have exercise in your routine.
By the way, excellent magazine, IMO, and the web site also has a number of good articles on topics guys care about (sorry, no open source articles though:)
I second this. I used fitday as well, but only enough so I can learn how to eat. I foudn the food tracking and the protein/carbo/fat breakdown good (I use a 40carb, 30fat, 30 protein diet)
You will find that after using it for a month or two, you learn to pace yourself and eat corectly. Then, it becomes cumbersome.
Also note: it doesn't seem to be well managed by the admins. People have said it's next to impossible to get them to reply to any questions or problems, and they don't really add new features. They seem to be in maintenance mode, and some parts of the web site could really use improvement (the custom foods section for example, is limited in length...)
...download the updates yourself and either push them to the users through something like SMS, or have a program check the registry in the login script. It is fairly simple.
If it's a big problem, just block off windowsupdate and redirect them to your own page. You could implement a simple scan using something like HFNetChk. It's command line and works well.
Hey, look at it this way.. at least your users are updating! That puts them above 90% of the users out there.
One other approach I forgot to mention, and it's about the same idea as the middle tier. Create a web service, have the web service query the database, and have your clients query through the web service.
Of course, the best solution is to step up to a real database. Failing that, you could try some of the following ideas:
If the database is small, you could have multiple copies of it, and sync the changes later. If it's really small, you could automatically make a copy for each user.
You could have a broker program (a middle tier) that is the only one which accesses the database. The clients would talk to the broker, not the database. This could be done easily with any of the middle tier technologies.
You could cache data to the client and reduce the number of accesses to the database.
There is not enough information in the original post. If your database is large or if your changes are time critical (e.g. users must see changes in real-time) then your only option is to upsize.
I find the other way around. I get significantly more spam on yahoo than on hotmail.
As a test, I opened two accounts. One on hotmail and one on Yahoo. I did not give the account out to anyone, and in both cases I made sure to stay out of their on-line directories and didn't make any public profiles.
At the end of the month, after deleting the original "welcome" emails) the hotmail account had one piece of mail (from.. MSN, advertising some products.) The Yahoo mail had 6, normal spam.. Symantec product advertisements from a 3rd party, HGH supplements, and "get pay per view free" spam, etc..
I would love to know how they got my email address.
Maybe my case was unique. I encourage someone else to run a similar test on the various free mail sites, and report their results. I don't much care for either Yahoo or MSN mail, but I'm stuck with Yahoo now since I have SBC Yahoo DSL.
You: Hi Her: Hi [after one minute passes...] Her: Are you going to say something, or are you just going to keep staring? You: Uh, hi Her: Hi...? You: My n... n.. uh.. hi Her: (walking away) freak!
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How about the fact that there were no BENEFITS to going J2EE?
Why would I spend an extra $4000 (and yes, $4000 is a tidy sum in today's el-cheapo, shoe-string budget, money saving environment) when I cannot point to any obvious benefits?
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I'm only seeing it at $3,550, hours after the parent post.
;)
And the kicker is, the high bidder is a person who according to the feedback may be a 15-year old. Won't the parents be happy.
Uh.. Creatine is not a "herbal treatment", it's actually methyl guanidine-acetic acid. It is made up of three amino-acids, Arginine, Glycine and Methionine.
:)
:)..
You already have about 120g stored in your body, a little more or less depending on your weight, conditioning, and diet. 95% or so is in your muscles, with the rest in your brain, heart and testicles (I wonder what the research says about the latter one
Creatine increases muscle size by supposedly pulling water into your muscles. And no, it will not happen without a good exercise program. Some claim water retention, but the retention happens in "all the right places". It also supposedly prevents the buildup of lactic acid in your muscles during strenous activity. Finally, it helps protein syntehsis.
If you take too much, it get peed away as creatinine.
Some chemical geek could probably explain the difference between the synthesized creatine (creatine monohydrate) and the one in your body (creatine phosphate)
I have taken creatine for a little while, and I didn't notice a bad body odor (maybe because I wash
Noone ends up caring about Lara. She comes across as snobby and full of herself. In every good movie, viewers end up liking or identifying with the main character.
There is a major directorial and script writing issue with TR, but the character definition is the biggest problem. They have to make us CARE about Lara, and not see her as a priviledged, bratty girl.
Women get burned out because she's portraied in such a perfect light. Men get burned out because they see no vulerabilities. The movies have no climax since there are no low parts.
Someone needs to take Movie Making 101. If any movie needed a little formula infusion, this is it. The director should read what makes a hero(ine). The current Lara is not it. Throw something challenging at Lara... read the formula book.. fish out of water, reluctant heroine, whatever. Make us care.
Right now.. it's an MTV glam video.
You have to guard on the network as well. So you could have a troll sitting on the router or switch.
Or bridge..
A Troll Bridge?
Ha!
You basically have three options:
1. Buying somethng off shelf
These most of the times do not work. They are too weak, and they wash off too easily. If they have mouth guards, they are cheap ones that don't fit well.
The advantage is that if you have sensitive teeth this is the best option. And it's the cheapest.
Cost: $10-$40
2. Using something like BriteSmile or.. (whatever other names are.. Zoom?)
These work best. You sit in a chair, you watch a movie while an assistant props your mouth open and applies some paste. Then, they shine a light on the paste for an hour. You walk out with about 7 shades whiter.
Cost: about $500.
Advantages: fast! You can do it over lunch hour. Good results.
3. Dentist at-home whitening
Dentist gives you some syringes and a mouthguard. You add a little liquid to the mouthguard and wear them anywhere from 20 mins to overnight.
Cost: about $300 initial (mouth guard is expensive), plus about $45 to resupply syringes periodically. Can buy them much cheaper off the internet (same big brands)
Advantages: cheaper than britesmile, works much better than the off-the-shelf ones. Good results.
Disadvantages: expensive, most sensitivity issues (especially with 20% concentrations)
So, don't waste your money on off the shelf ones. Also, these things don't work on everything. If your teeth are gray because some medicine you took, you may need caps instead of bleaching. A dentist can tell you best.
PC games are made to run on a PC.. they usually assume keyboards, mice, etc. They get launched from an OS with a generic user interface.
XBox games are made to run from an appliance-type PC.
So, even if you were to create a PC as cheap as the X-box, unless it ran X-Box games, you would be crippled by the PC games. I may be okay with a large computer next to my TV, but I really do not want a keyboard there as well, just to launch and manage games.
Who is to say everyone wants ONLY point to point communication?
I'd rather have the most full featured piece of software, as long as:
1. It lets me customize it
2. It doesn't load up anything I don't want
I can't believe geeks would put down too much functionality. You should all be kicked out of the club. Simplicity you say? Simplicity is for those people who can't program their own VCR. Duh!
How would that help me? Wouldn't I have to set up a search engine that would index them? Besides, it's a lot more headache (page design, etc)
Why not have it run as a service?
Let me explain: I would like to have a tool like this through which I can make the documents on all our public shares available for searching by users. We have documents and files spread over maybe 10-15 servers. There is no need to chat from those servers, all I need is have files shared.
I am not going to leave the servers logged in and have the app running all the time, for obvious security reasons.. but also because a remote reboot would bring the machine off the network.
It works fine for me...
:)
and when I got there, there was a nice little popup with a fake user-interface window.
From the FreeBSD version -- mount_ntfs(8):
WRITING
There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident
and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed files
are also not supported.
It appears you have never heard of something called a basal metabolic rate. That is how much your body is consuming daily, to maintain your weight, IF you were staying in bed the whole day.
Yours would be around 1600-1700, I believe.
If you eat 500 calories per day, you are either anorexic, or you don't know how to count.
Two things people should notice about that pyramid:
Notice the huge spacing between whole wheat bread and white bread. Almost no white bread, and a lot of whole wheat bread. That is very important.
Also notice that soda is not a food group.
A few more hints:
Cut down on anything that has High Fructose Corn Syrup in it. You really should remove it from your diet, since it does nasty things to your insulin.
Watch the SIZE of your portions as much as what you eat.
Remember you need fat, protein, and carbs! You need fat for your body to operate corectly and stay healthy.. You need protein to maintain muscle tone and feel full. And you need carbs to maintain your energy.
If you snack, put down the sugar (carbs) and pick up the protein.. cheese, nuts, beef jerky (without the nitrites) are good snacks. Candy is a bad snack.
Drink a lot of water. At least half a galon per day, preferably more. And I mean water, not beer.
1500 calories per day may be a little low. I'm 6ft and 183 lbs, so I need more than that per day just for my body to operate properly.
On days when I want to lose weight, if I cut it down to 1800 i'm fine. Usually I try to stay under 2000.
However, I also work out 4x week and used to run ~8 miles per week before I strained my calf muscle.
Another really good one (tho it's a few dollars a month) is the Men's Health online trackers.
:)
See: http://www.menshealth.com/weightloss2/index.shtml
It is really geared for men (obviously) but it's more professional, especially if you have exercise in your routine.
By the way, excellent magazine, IMO, and the web site also has a number of good articles on topics guys care about (sorry, no open source articles though
See for example 31 reasons why I'm still fat
I second this. I used fitday as well, but only enough so I can learn how to eat. I foudn the food tracking and the protein/carbo/fat breakdown good (I use a 40carb, 30fat, 30 protein diet)
You will find that after using it for a month or two, you learn to pace yourself and eat corectly. Then, it becomes cumbersome.
Also note: it doesn't seem to be well managed by the admins. People have said it's next to impossible to get them to reply to any questions or problems, and they don't really add new features. They seem to be in maintenance mode, and some parts of the web site could really use improvement (the custom foods section for example, is limited in length...)
Was this test violation of the DMCA? Someone circumvented the copy protection of the respective DVDs.
I like it too, but it had performance and stability problems. And no, I was not using a crappy machine.. it was fairly decent.
...download the updates yourself and either push them to the users through something like SMS, or have a program check the registry in the login script. It is fairly simple.
If it's a big problem, just block off windowsupdate and redirect them to your own page. You could implement a simple scan using something like HFNetChk. It's command line and works well.
Hey, look at it this way.. at least your users are updating! That puts them above 90% of the users out there.
One other approach I forgot to mention, and it's about the same idea as the middle tier. Create a web service, have the web service query the database, and have your clients query through the web service.
Of course, the best solution is to step up to a real database. Failing that, you could try some of the following ideas:
If the database is small, you could have multiple copies of it, and sync the changes later. If it's really small, you could automatically make a copy for each user.
You could have a broker program (a middle tier) that is the only one which accesses the database. The clients would talk to the broker, not the database. This could be done easily with any of the middle tier technologies.
You could cache data to the client and reduce the number of accesses to the database.
There is not enough information in the original post. If your database is large or if your changes are time critical (e.g. users must see changes in real-time) then your only option is to upsize.
How many other professions allow you to make a prediction with 2000+ years as error margin?
I predict that within 2000 years, pigs will fly. Give me a grant. I promise to pay back all the money if I'm proven wrong.
I find the other way around. I get significantly more spam on yahoo than on hotmail.
As a test, I opened two accounts. One on hotmail and one on Yahoo. I did not give the account out to anyone, and in both cases I made sure to stay out of their on-line directories and didn't make any public profiles.
At the end of the month, after deleting the original "welcome" emails) the hotmail account had one piece of mail (from.. MSN, advertising some products.) The Yahoo mail had 6, normal spam.. Symantec product advertisements from a 3rd party, HGH supplements, and "get pay per view free" spam, etc..
I would love to know how they got my email address.
Maybe my case was unique. I encourage someone else to run a similar test on the various free mail sites, and report their results. I don't much care for either Yahoo or MSN mail, but I'm stuck with Yahoo now since I have SBC Yahoo DSL.
Is it:
You: Hi
Her: Hi
[after one minute passes...]
Her: Are you going to say something, or are you just going to keep staring?
You: Uh, hi
Her: Hi...?
You: My n... n.. uh.. hi
Her: (walking away) freak!
How about the fact that there were no BENEFITS to going J2EE?
Why would I spend an extra $4000 (and yes, $4000 is a tidy sum in today's el-cheapo, shoe-string budget, money saving environment) when I cannot point to any obvious benefits?