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Yesterday Bush called Africa a nation.
While he was not technically correct, he is hardly the first to speak of all the Pan-African countries as if they were a nation.
On Tuesday he mispronounced the name of the leader of Spain.
Who the fuck cares? (Other than the handful of liberal whack-jobs that read The Guardian?)
The Spanish themselves understood it for what it was: an easy mistake for somebody who only speaks a little Spanish...
...and whatever plans he has for exporting various technologies, at least he doesn't claim to have invented them.
While I didn't vote for either President Bush, I find it absolutely delightful that people like you are having hissy fits over the fact that Bush the Younger is in charge. Have a nice day.
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President Carter pronounced it "nuculer", and he was once a "nuculer" engineer in the Navy.
I have not heard Bush The Younger make the same mispronounciation yet, though. Do you have a citation, or are you just another "gosh darn, that Bush feller shooore am stupid" hicks that we never seem to stop hearing from?
When you learn how electric motors beat the pants of combustions in all other areas too, you lose all respect for those crude, smelly, noisy, victorian contraptions.
Using a gas-powered extended pickup truck that cost me less that $20,000, I can haul a 20-foot fishing boat 600 miles to the lake of my choice with two passengers, use it for a few quick runs into town during our fishing trip over the course of the week, and haul the boat back home. If, during one of those runs into town, I get in a head-on collision with a drunk driver at 40MPH, all three of us would probably survive.
Show me the electric car that can do all that, and cost less than $20k (without government subsidies hiding half the cost), and I will become the most outspoken advocate of electric cars in the world.
Until then, I'll keep my "victorian contraption", thanks.
They plan to use power left over from running the car(however small) to get some H2 from the waste H2O
That may be what they are planning on doing, but it was not what they original post I was replying to had proposed. I was responding to them, not to the article.
I would site the Drudge Report as a good example of how it should be done. The front page is nothing but a collection of links, usually one picture (or zero). All content, no flash... or Flash(tm).
(no link here, because promoting a political site in a forum about publishing would be off topic... if you like conservative political spin, guess the url or Google for it)
Sorry. I wish I could remember the name of those speakers. If and when I can afford a speaker upgrade, I will have to ask the guy who I was shopping with to remind me, and I will give them another listen.
I have the MFSL release of DSOTM on CD. Most audiophiles swear that the "Island Cut" (the vinyl pressing originally sold in England) is the best possible source, but I have yet to encounter a copy of that pressing in acceptable condition. The MFSL CD (which is not really a "remaster", just a very careful transfer of the original master tape) sounds really great. I have yet to do any A/B comparison with the standard-issue CD from the record store, so I can't confirm for certain that I didn't pay an extra ten bucks for a funky case and a gold disk... but every time, in the middle of "The Great Gig In The Sky", when I hear the words "I never said I was afraid of dieing" softly wispered, it sends a shiver down my spine.
They justify to themselves ever more fucked-up ways to spend money in the hope of getting better sound than other audiophiles
I don't know what "audiophiles" you know, but every audiphile I have ever meet is obsessed with value.
The game, when you are an audiophile, is "how good of a system can I build for myself with $BUDGET?" Or "I have $AMMOUNT to spend on audio gear this year. What is the biggest improvement I can make to the sound of my system with that ammount?"
A true audiophile will spend months picking out just the right speaker upgrade, and will take home several amplifiers before finally buying one.
Anybody who just blindly buys the most expensive unit out there is not an audiophile, they're just another yuppie. A real audiophile can take four grand and build a system that competes well with the $100k systems.
Back in the 70's, if you were buying mass-produced components, you were buying junk. Since that time, cheap electronic parts have been built to more and more exact specs, so it is now possible to sell a great-sounding amp for a few hundred bucks, and I have even seen really good 100W amps for as little as $99.
That said, the snooty ultra-expensive amps to a much better job at creating the illusion of a 3 dimensional soundstage between your speakers. Some amps are worth a few extra bucks.
Step 1: Take a system that faithfuly reproduces above 24Khz.
Step 2: Have a live jazz band play into that system via good microphones from another room.
Step 3: Repeat singing that phrase with and without an EQ cutting off everything above 12Khz, randomly.
I will spot the difference in sound 10 times out of 10. So will anybody who listens carefully. Such tests have been done with positive results.
Higher frequencies are what create most of the tibre of sound. Take them away, and you chance the sound, even if they are beyond the range of hearing perception.
I think that $1000 is the knee on the cost curve for speakers...
Having recently helped a hi-fi nut shop for speakers, I would have to disagree.
$1000 get you right in th edge of high-quality speakers. Most speakers in that price range that we listened to demanded some small compromise or another. Either the highs would be a little too aggressive, or the imaging would be a little limited. Each $1k speaker sounded better than the others in some ways, and worse in some ways.
When we moved up to the $2000 - $3000 speakers, it was like magic. I don't recall off the top of my head the name of the monitors we auditioned... they were not electrostats... Some kind of side-mounted subwoofer tower... Anyway... Listening to Marni Nixon sing "Someone To Watch Over Me" was like having her in the room with us. On a live jazz record, I was able to close my eyes and visualize the dimensions of the stage with total confidence. Then came the clincher... The opening wash of sound from Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" almost knocked us out of our chairs, not from the impact of the bass, but the heavenly beauty of the sound! I have listened to that album at least a thousand times on a lot of great systems, and thought I knew how good it could sound. I was wrong. It was a transendantial experiece.
I'm no snob... I get by (for now) with a sub-$1000 pair of B&W speakers myself, and I am a big believer in hi-fi bargain hunting. That said, I have never heard a $1k pair of speakers pull off that level of quality. Were in not for my expensive PC and musical instrument habits, I would have bought a pair of those $2k speakers on the spot that day, and I wasn't even the one shopping for them.
(As for the hi-fi nut that I was shopping with... He didn't buy them either. He agreed that they were the best-sounding ones we had heard, but his wife didn't like the way they looked.)
One of the leading audio magazines (which one escapes me at the moment) has a substantial standing reward for anyone who can reliably identify "high end" cables in a double-blind test with cheap cable of the same guage, shielding, and material.
Audio cable is like laptop PC's. Just as 95% of laptops come from one of two Singapore factories (yes, that includes those cool Apple powerbooks and the Sony Vaio), nearly all speaker cable (including the fancy stuff that you bought) comes from one of six factories.
In one famous case, Monster Cable had a wire with a little plastic box near one end (similar to the one you see on computer monitors). Curious about what it could be, the audio testers for a hi-fi mag cracked it open. It was just an empty piece of plastic that was slapped on just before shipping.
High End cable manufacturers are con artists. Electrical conduction is electrical conduction. Buy cable that is properly shielded, wide enough, just barely long enough, has good connections (the gold ones are popular) and don't run it parallel to power cables. Anybody who does more than that is buying for status, not sound.
Granted that electrolysis requires electricity - the needed electricity could be created by a turbine in the engine itself.
And we are back to my point about perpetual motion:
Spend electricity to get H2 from water via electrolysis. Gain electricity getting water from H2 via induction. Expect to have enough energy left over after doing the work of the engine to start the cycle over again.
When a machine produces its own power, that's what's known as a perpetual motion machine, and it never works because every transfer of power results in a loss of power. It's Physics 101.
We can cut out a lot of the fuel refinery waste (in energy usage and pollutants) to make car fuel
And would instead be refining more coal and oil for the electric plant.
he pollution of the trucks and tanker ships that transport the gas to the stations,
Again, more shipping of coal and oil to electric plants.
the pollution of the cars themselves,
vs. the plants themselves.
and maybe get the power companies to move away from coal burning power (very, very unlikely).
If and when we reach this step, electric cars will be a very, very good idea. Since, as you acknowledge, that step is probably decades away, we are really only talking about a modest gain of efficiency in a car which costs twice as much to build, and is extremely limited when it comes to issues like cargo capacity.
If you have a percentage, I would be really interested to know it.
Sorry, friend. Posting from work, and too lazy to look up stats that I don't have memorized. You can always do a google search of your own, if you have the time. I do recall it being an astonishing amount of lost power, though.
It's not a magic bullet, but more efficient engines will help tremendously (if only to lower the price of gas from supply and demand).
Heh. A lot of people like public transportation for the same reason: Not because they want to ride the bus, but because they want other schlepps to ride the bus so the highway has less traffic while they drive to work.
Our local generators are run on natural gas, not oil.
As we have all been made painfully aware over the last few months, California's "local generators" don't produce enough power to carge my notebook PC. You buy most of your power from various neighboring states. Some of that is hydroelectric, but most of it is from burning coal and oil.
But hey, it's not in your back yard, so it must be a Good Thing.
As for conservation in California, yep. They do a pretty darn good job. That does not alter the fact that consumption goes down ever more when prices go up.
By the way, what the hell is a typical power bill in Californial like, anyway? We keep hearing about these "1500%" increases... if that happened to me where I live, my power bill would be higher than my mortgage. I find it hard to believe that anybody would continue to live in California if that was the case.
It seems to me to be far more likely that California has been spoiled by years and years of artificially low power costs, and are suddenly confronted with paying the actual cost of getting electricity for the first time, and are crying like babies over it.
Of course, the "high" price which their cartel has fixed is still cheaper than it would be to just drill our own oil or buy from Mexico, or else we wouldn't be shipping so much oil from clear over on the other side of the planet. The truth is, we have been robbing them blind for decades, because they have been desperate enough to sell off their precious reserves for peanuts, and they just started to realize it.
Give them a few months, and they will start shooting the hell out of each other again. Then the cartel will collapse and they will dump cheap oil on the market so they can buy another couple dozen fighter jets.
You are saying that if we use electricity to get hydrogen from water, then power our car with the electricity produced from making water with the hydrogen... and you think that no emissions will be produced?
Time to re-read your Newton. You just tried to propose a perpetual-motion machine.
This is the problem with both induction motors and battery motors: they don't eliminate the fossil fuel consumption, they just hide it at the power company.
About 60% of the US power grid's electricity comes from burning coal. The rest mostly comes from burning oil, blocking up rivers, or nuclear plants. If you power a car off the grid and call the pollution savings "immense", you are clearly ignoring where the power is coming from.
A large power plant may be more efficient than a small car engine, but unless you live next door to your neighborhood coal plant, a crapload of the power they produce is lost in the lines which bring it to you.
I'm not saying that there isn't a modest savings... there well could be. I'm just pointing out that it is not the magic bullet that you seem to imply.
The problem with your thinking is that there will really only be two kinds of "smart tags" for most users:
1. Preferences that they set, which will mostly link to pages they already know about.
2. Preferences that Microsoft sets, which will mostly link to where MS marketing folks would like them to go. (Some of which, they might have added in return for compensation. For example, AOL might choose to pay MS to have their service linked to for a variety of words.)
In other words, this thing is a huge ad generator for Microsoft's browser, and the "opt out" feature will be one hell of a mailing-list generator as well. Win-win, if you are Microsoft. No value really added for the user.
Even in your best-case situation: most of the "update-packs" are just going to be a collection of links to commercial sites. Who the hell wants to download a database of advertisment links to "enhance" their client with?
Very true. It could also be pointed out that the reason why RSI complaints are down is because we now jump to action when a data-entry grunt complains about sore wrists; new desk, new chair, special keyboard, funky mouse solution.
Nearly every office, the government ones included, have learned that it is much cheaper to address pain before it becomes injury than after. Ignore the problem, and you end up with a very expensive workers' comp. claim on your hands.
I know that I only experience any sort of pain after a long typing or mouse using session (such as writing code or playing a game for hours in a row)... if I lay off it for awhile, I'm fine. Could the same be said for all RSI sufferers?
You are not really an RSI sufferer (yet). The pain you have experienced is from the friction of your nerves and tendons passing through the carpal tunnel. That kind of thing heals quickly when you get away from the cause for a while.
People with CTS had the same thing happen, but rather than "lay off for a while", they continued to crank away at their data-entry jobs. Their tendons swelled up, resulting in even more tightness, which not only caused even more pain, but also caused some long-term damage to the nervous system. Their hands are now useless pieces of meat.
One indicator of the relationship is that smokers tend to suffer from RSI less... because they take smoke breaks every couple hours. Non-smokers don't feel comfortable telling their boss that they want to stop working and hang out at the entrance of the building for 10 minutes several times a day, so they soldier on straight through, breaking only for lunch.
Personally, I take a single 200 mg tablet if & when I feel pain, and if the pain is still there a half-hour later, I can always pop one more (I have not needed to yet).
For me, this ammounts to about 2-3 pills per week, rather than several per day.
But then, I'm one of those people who believes all medicine should be used very conservatively. Our bodies are pretty good at fixing themselves if we don't mess them up too much.
My coach in high school used to make a big deal about the difference between pain and injury. Pain in your wrist is just pain in your wrists (probably from tendonitis; a swelling of the tendons commonly caused by things like bad tennis form, long hours playing the old Pac Man arcade game, or using the torure devices known as the PC keyboard and mouse). Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is damage caused by your swolen tendons constricting around the bundle of nerves that pass through your wrist to your hands. It is an injury. A serious and crippling one.
If you have pain in your wrist that doesn't go away after a day away from the keyboard, it does not mean you have permanent RSI damage yet. Change your ergonomics and/or work habits, and you may be back to being your old self. Or you could ignore the pain, pop a couple asprin, and end up crippling yourself. Your call.
BTW: If you have tendonitis, a lot of doctors will tell you to take Advil (or a generic version of it). That's because Advil is an anti-inflamitory drug that actually reduces the swelling in your wrist. Since the swolen tendons is what is causign all the friction (which causes more pain and more swelling), reducing it is a Good Thing. Other pain killers will 1: not reduce the swelling, and 2: ease the pain, allowing you to cheerfully type away and hurt yourself more.
In spite of articles like this... take care of your hands. Getting along without them would be tough.
I seem to recall that, at the time he made those comments, he also stated that he had not yet reviewed all the facts of the case, and that his opinion could very well change after viewing all the information related to the case.
But some people prefer to believe that all Republicans are evil Montgomery Burns types, nefariously rubbing their hands together while contemplating how to screw the little guy. Mr. Katz is definitely among those who think like that. I'm just trying to point out that the situation is not nearly that simple.
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While he was not technically correct, he is hardly the first to speak of all the Pan-African countries as if they were a nation.
On Tuesday he mispronounced the name of the leader of Spain.
Who the fuck cares? (Other than the handful of liberal whack-jobs that read The Guardian?)
The Spanish themselves understood it for what it was: an easy mistake for somebody who only speaks a little Spanish...
While I didn't vote for either President Bush, I find it absolutely delightful that people like you are having hissy fits over the fact that Bush the Younger is in charge. Have a nice day.
I have not heard Bush The Younger make the same mispronounciation yet, though. Do you have a citation, or are you just another "gosh darn, that Bush feller shooore am stupid" hicks that we never seem to stop hearing from?
Using a gas-powered extended pickup truck that cost me less that $20,000, I can haul a 20-foot fishing boat 600 miles to the lake of my choice with two passengers, use it for a few quick runs into town during our fishing trip over the course of the week, and haul the boat back home. If, during one of those runs into town, I get in a head-on collision with a drunk driver at 40MPH, all three of us would probably survive.
Show me the electric car that can do all that, and cost less than $20k (without government subsidies hiding half the cost), and I will become the most outspoken advocate of electric cars in the world.
Until then, I'll keep my "victorian contraption", thanks.
That may be what they are planning on doing, but it was not what they original post I was replying to had proposed. I was responding to them, not to the article.
(no link here, because promoting a political site in a forum about publishing would be off topic... if you like conservative political spin, guess the url or Google for it)
I have the MFSL release of DSOTM on CD. Most audiophiles swear that the "Island Cut" (the vinyl pressing originally sold in England) is the best possible source, but I have yet to encounter a copy of that pressing in acceptable condition. The MFSL CD (which is not really a "remaster", just a very careful transfer of the original master tape) sounds really great. I have yet to do any A/B comparison with the standard-issue CD from the record store, so I can't confirm for certain that I didn't pay an extra ten bucks for a funky case and a gold disk... but every time, in the middle of "The Great Gig In The Sky", when I hear the words "I never said I was afraid of dieing" softly wispered, it sends a shiver down my spine.
I don't know what "audiophiles" you know, but every audiphile I have ever meet is obsessed with value.
The game, when you are an audiophile, is "how good of a system can I build for myself with $BUDGET?" Or "I have $AMMOUNT to spend on audio gear this year. What is the biggest improvement I can make to the sound of my system with that ammount?"
A true audiophile will spend months picking out just the right speaker upgrade, and will take home several amplifiers before finally buying one.
Anybody who just blindly buys the most expensive unit out there is not an audiophile, they're just another yuppie. A real audiophile can take four grand and build a system that competes well with the $100k systems.
Back in the 70's, if you were buying mass-produced components, you were buying junk. Since that time, cheap electronic parts have been built to more and more exact specs, so it is now possible to sell a great-sounding amp for a few hundred bucks, and I have even seen really good 100W amps for as little as $99.
That said, the snooty ultra-expensive amps to a much better job at creating the illusion of a 3 dimensional soundstage between your speakers. Some amps are worth a few extra bucks.
Step 1: Take a system that faithfuly reproduces above 24Khz.
Step 2: Have a live jazz band play into that system via good microphones from another room.
Step 3: Repeat singing that phrase with and without an EQ cutting off everything above 12Khz, randomly.
I will spot the difference in sound 10 times out of 10. So will anybody who listens carefully. Such tests have been done with positive results.
Higher frequencies are what create most of the tibre of sound. Take them away, and you chance the sound, even if they are beyond the range of hearing perception.
Having recently helped a hi-fi nut shop for speakers, I would have to disagree.
$1000 get you right in th edge of high-quality speakers. Most speakers in that price range that we listened to demanded some small compromise or another. Either the highs would be a little too aggressive, or the imaging would be a little limited. Each $1k speaker sounded better than the others in some ways, and worse in some ways.
When we moved up to the $2000 - $3000 speakers, it was like magic. I don't recall off the top of my head the name of the monitors we auditioned... they were not electrostats... Some kind of side-mounted subwoofer tower... Anyway... Listening to Marni Nixon sing "Someone To Watch Over Me" was like having her in the room with us. On a live jazz record, I was able to close my eyes and visualize the dimensions of the stage with total confidence. Then came the clincher... The opening wash of sound from Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" almost knocked us out of our chairs, not from the impact of the bass, but the heavenly beauty of the sound! I have listened to that album at least a thousand times on a lot of great systems, and thought I knew how good it could sound. I was wrong. It was a transendantial experiece.
I'm no snob... I get by (for now) with a sub-$1000 pair of B&W speakers myself, and I am a big believer in hi-fi bargain hunting. That said, I have never heard a $1k pair of speakers pull off that level of quality. Were in not for my expensive PC and musical instrument habits, I would have bought a pair of those $2k speakers on the spot that day, and I wasn't even the one shopping for them.
(As for the hi-fi nut that I was shopping with... He didn't buy them either. He agreed that they were the best-sounding ones we had heard, but his wife didn't like the way they looked.)
Audio cable is like laptop PC's. Just as 95% of laptops come from one of two Singapore factories (yes, that includes those cool Apple powerbooks and the Sony Vaio), nearly all speaker cable (including the fancy stuff that you bought) comes from one of six factories.
In one famous case, Monster Cable had a wire with a little plastic box near one end (similar to the one you see on computer monitors). Curious about what it could be, the audio testers for a hi-fi mag cracked it open. It was just an empty piece of plastic that was slapped on just before shipping.
High End cable manufacturers are con artists. Electrical conduction is electrical conduction. Buy cable that is properly shielded, wide enough, just barely long enough, has good connections (the gold ones are popular) and don't run it parallel to power cables. Anybody who does more than that is buying for status, not sound.
And we are back to my point about perpetual motion:
Spend electricity to get H2 from water via electrolysis.
Gain electricity getting water from H2 via induction.
Expect to have enough energy left over after doing the work of the engine to start the cycle over again.
When a machine produces its own power, that's what's known as a perpetual motion machine, and it never works because every transfer of power results in a loss of power. It's Physics 101.
Yes, Hydrogen from gasoline might work out, but the post I replied to suggested using water as the source, not gasoline.
And would instead be refining more coal and oil for the electric plant.
he pollution of the trucks and tanker ships that transport the gas to the stations,
Again, more shipping of coal and oil to electric plants.
the pollution of the cars themselves,
vs. the plants themselves.
and maybe get the power companies to move away from coal burning power (very, very unlikely).
If and when we reach this step, electric cars will be a very, very good idea. Since, as you acknowledge, that step is probably decades away, we are really only talking about a modest gain of efficiency in a car which costs twice as much to build, and is extremely limited when it comes to issues like cargo capacity.
If you have a percentage, I would be really interested to know it.
Sorry, friend. Posting from work, and too lazy to look up stats that I don't have memorized. You can always do a google search of your own, if you have the time. I do recall it being an astonishing amount of lost power, though.
It's not a magic bullet, but more efficient engines will help tremendously (if only to lower the price of gas from supply and demand).
Heh. A lot of people like public transportation for the same reason: Not because they want to ride the bus, but because they want other schlepps to ride the bus so the highway has less traffic while they drive to work.
As we have all been made painfully aware over the last few months, California's "local generators" don't produce enough power to carge my notebook PC. You buy most of your power from various neighboring states. Some of that is hydroelectric, but most of it is from burning coal and oil.
But hey, it's not in your back yard, so it must be a Good Thing.
As for conservation in California, yep. They do a pretty darn good job. That does not alter the fact that consumption goes down ever more when prices go up.
By the way, what the hell is a typical power bill in Californial like, anyway? We keep hearing about these "1500%" increases... if that happened to me where I live, my power bill would be higher than my mortgage. I find it hard to believe that anybody would continue to live in California if that was the case.
It seems to me to be far more likely that California has been spoiled by years and years of artificially low power costs, and are suddenly confronted with paying the actual cost of getting electricity for the first time, and are crying like babies over it.
Give them a few months, and they will start shooting the hell out of each other again. Then the cartel will collapse and they will dump cheap oil on the market so they can buy another couple dozen fighter jets.
You think 17 gallons is a "massive fuel tank"!? You must live in Europe or something.
You are saying that if we use electricity to get hydrogen from water, then power our car with the electricity produced from making water with the hydrogen... and you think that no emissions will be produced?
Time to re-read your Newton. You just tried to propose a perpetual-motion machine.
This is the problem with both induction motors and battery motors: they don't eliminate the fossil fuel consumption, they just hide it at the power company.
About 60% of the US power grid's electricity comes from burning coal. The rest mostly comes from burning oil, blocking up rivers, or nuclear plants. If you power a car off the grid and call the pollution savings "immense", you are clearly ignoring where the power is coming from.
A large power plant may be more efficient than a small car engine, but unless you live next door to your neighborhood coal plant, a crapload of the power they produce is lost in the lines which bring it to you.
I'm not saying that there isn't a modest savings... there well could be. I'm just pointing out that it is not the magic bullet that you seem to imply.
1. Preferences that they set, which will mostly link to pages they already know about.
2. Preferences that Microsoft sets, which will mostly link to where MS marketing folks would like them to go. (Some of which, they might have added in return for compensation. For example, AOL might choose to pay MS to have their service linked to for a variety of words.)
In other words, this thing is a huge ad generator for Microsoft's browser, and the "opt out" feature will be one hell of a mailing-list generator as well. Win-win, if you are Microsoft. No value really added for the user.
Even in your best-case situation: most of the "update-packs" are just going to be a collection of links to commercial sites. Who the hell wants to download a database of advertisment links to "enhance" their client with?
Nearly every office, the government ones included, have learned that it is much cheaper to address pain before it becomes injury than after. Ignore the problem, and you end up with a very expensive workers' comp. claim on your hands.
You are not really an RSI sufferer (yet). The pain you have experienced is from the friction of your nerves and tendons passing through the carpal tunnel. That kind of thing heals quickly when you get away from the cause for a while.
People with CTS had the same thing happen, but rather than "lay off for a while", they continued to crank away at their data-entry jobs. Their tendons swelled up, resulting in even more tightness, which not only caused even more pain, but also caused some long-term damage to the nervous system. Their hands are now useless pieces of meat.
One indicator of the relationship is that smokers tend to suffer from RSI less... because they take smoke breaks every couple hours. Non-smokers don't feel comfortable telling their boss that they want to stop working and hang out at the entrance of the building for 10 minutes several times a day, so they soldier on straight through, breaking only for lunch.
Acetominophen is a wonderful substance for getting rid of pain... but that is not the goal here.
If you just get rid of the pain, without dealing with the swelling, you dramatically increase the chances of injuring yourself.
(Pain is, after all, a survival mechanism which is supposed to prevent us from damaging ourselves.)
Or as Governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura would say:
"Pain is the feeling of weakness leaving the body. Pain is good, and extreme pain is extremely good."
Personally, I take a single 200 mg tablet if & when I feel pain, and if the pain is still there a half-hour later, I can always pop one more (I have not needed to yet).
For me, this ammounts to about 2-3 pills per week, rather than several per day.
But then, I'm one of those people who believes all medicine should be used very conservatively. Our bodies are pretty good at fixing themselves if we don't mess them up too much.
If you have pain in your wrist that doesn't go away after a day away from the keyboard, it does not mean you have permanent RSI damage yet. Change your ergonomics and/or work habits, and you may be back to being your old self. Or you could ignore the pain, pop a couple asprin, and end up crippling yourself. Your call.
BTW: If you have tendonitis, a lot of doctors will tell you to take Advil (or a generic version of it). That's because Advil is an anti-inflamitory drug that actually reduces the swelling in your wrist. Since the swolen tendons is what is causign all the friction (which causes more pain and more swelling), reducing it is a Good Thing. Other pain killers will 1: not reduce the swelling, and 2: ease the pain, allowing you to cheerfully type away and hurt yourself more.
In spite of articles like this... take care of your hands. Getting along without them would be tough.
But some people prefer to believe that all Republicans are evil Montgomery Burns types, nefariously rubbing their hands together while contemplating how to screw the little guy. Mr. Katz is definitely among those who think like that. I'm just trying to point out that the situation is not nearly that simple.