Muscle burns more energy than fat, both at rest and during physical activity.
An effective oral myostatic blocker would enable a lot of people to reduce their body fat levels with minimal lifestyle change.
For those who are severely obese, this would be a godsend since for many of them they weigh so much and have such small muscle mass that physical activity can be dangerous.
This thread reminds me of the instant-message type SMS text view on Palm Treo phones. No other phone that I have found does it the same way.
I've been using Thunderbird 3 pre-release for quite a while now and even 3.0 doesn't do it quite right. But, it is what it is. It beats the pants off Thunderbird 2. Now if only enigmail worked on Windows as well as it does in Linux....
I've read several enlightening stories on the web in years past saying eyeball transplants are not far off. Apparently new eyeballs, some stem cells and time can allow the brain to recognize and rewire itself for the eyes of another.
Indeed, they are showing their true colors here. They don't care about the artists income, they care about lining their own pockets. You think when they sue consumers for copyright infringement they divvy up that money among the artists whose copyrights were violated? Nope.
They want to collect all the money without paying it out to artists. Not to mention a lot of them aren't paying artists at all, or enough for their digital downloads.
That depends a lot on where they are. Beyond simply the GS-13 base pay scale, there are locality adjustments made and someone in or near DC might actually make a lot more than $45. Consider too, if they're not in trial they're working probably just their 40 hours doing administrative/inquiry stuff.
Send them to trial and you get to pay them for 60+ hours weekly, which costs you $67 per hour plus they accrue sick leave and vacation faster. OT is expensive.
Technically, they are salary non-exempt. They get paid for 40 whether they're sick, on vacation or can't make it to work. But if they go over 40, they get paid OT for it.
As a Minnesotan, I'm pretty confident the batteries wouldn't work in our -10F weather. BMW would have to pay me $850 a month to drive one. I'm not even sure it would get me to school on one charge.
FYI - big plants are more carbon efficient than millions of little auto engines. Scale of economies and all that.
Even so, brand name refills often have far more ink in them than the "demo size" cartridges in the retail printers. The cartridges that come with new printers often don't have much ink in them.
That's indicative of the fact that DNS is a fundamental piece of the internet framework and those who develop it realize security issues must be fixed as soon as possible. I can't tell you how many BIND releases have been to only address one security issue.
Those aren't personally targeted ads, they're just matched well to the demographic and geographic in which they're placed.
A targeted newspaper ad would be akin to an e-paper ad in the newspaper that when opened by your mother says "Hi Susan, I see you went to Holiday yesterday for gas. Here's a coupon for 5 cents off per gallon on your next fill-up at Chevron!".
Most people find personally targeted ads online harmless but I guarantee you if they opened up their newspaper and found it was written just for them, knew their name, their interests and knew what they had been doing online, they would find that creepy and offensive.
WoW is the ultimate skinner box. It feeds you diminishing returns for exponentially more time consuming effort.
For every realm out there, there is probably 1000+ addicts who spend 40+ hours weekly playing the game trying to improve their stats, gear and skill.
Most people are susceptible to addiction in one form or another, be that physical addictions like alcohol, coke, meth or be that psychological addictions like video games, marijuana, sex or gambling. The extent to which a person is addictive varies greatly, but it's present in all life. For anyone prone to addiction, hard work may play a part in beating their demons but I have no doubt that luck plays a part as well.
Well, I have an obvious solution then. Each country should open a weapons check platform on the boundary waters of their major ports. Like a coat check-ships stop at the platform, turn in their weapons and get a claims ticket. Deliver the cargo and pick up their weapons on their way back out into international water.
Countries could make some easy money and shipping companies can stop paying these criminal hacks.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know why these ships aren't arming themselves?
The only reason piracy is profitable is because freighters don't fight back. If all the ships worth hijacking moving through the area had a single M2 Browning, piracy would pretty much end. It's got a range beyond any RPG, it fires fast enough that anybody could hit a target with it and even if they miss, the sound will deafen the Somalis.
Just because our modus operandi of the last 60 years has been such does not mean it has to be our future. Manifest Destiny is bullshit.
The future of the country is what we choose it to be. Sadly, in a country where barely half the people vote, let alone get involved in politics or give a shit really about things other than taxes, health care and unemployment benefits, we will never get moving in a positive direction.
We need a return to moderate politics, sensible spending and an end of corporate influence in all aspects of criminal law including, but not limited to, copyright infringement.
I'm kind of hoping the treaty gets signed and we just never ratify it. The rest of the world will feel like idiots for participating in this corporate coup d'etat.
I hope, if our own cannot that at least other countries can realize the internet is not a media gateway but is basic infrastructure like water and highways.
This is not Disney's internet. This is not Sony's internet. This is not Microsoft's internet.
It belongs to the people who designed it, the corporations who built it, and the citizens who paid for it all.
I think you underestimate the pacifism of most Americans. They just don't care anymore.
240 years ago the men that founded the USA were running away from what we have become. Freedom has given way to corporations needs and our ever more difficult struggle to maintain our standard of living. We need a revolt, but I just don't see that happening. Just look at even more repressed countries like Iran and North Korea.
The time has come and gone to make peaceful change, but the country will have to descend much farther into the depths of hell before people will get off their ass and make a change.
Interesting. I have been writing Qt applications on Windows using MinGW for a while and just assumed my executables were huge because of Qt.
I just tested what you said, whipped up Hello World using libstdc++ and got an identical byte size as your own. It was 474990 bytes with debugging symbols in it!
I recompiled with -Os and stripped the executable and got it down to 265728. Jesus.
Funny you mention that. Programming Win32 message handlers during a high school programming class about 12 years ago is what originally drove me to Linux. I heard it "did programming".
I didn't have money for Borland or MSVC and the school only had one computer with a compiler.
Agreed. Using visual studio is a pleasure. I develop on Qt Creator almost exclusively now in windows and it really is a pleasure.
I hate that Qt Creator relies on GDB though. The mingw port of GDB is horrifically slow, even on modern hardware. It also pales in comparison to MSVC debugger as far as integration and usability.
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Muscle burns more energy than fat, both at rest and during physical activity.
An effective oral myostatic blocker would enable a lot of people to reduce their body fat levels with minimal lifestyle change.
For those who are severely obese, this would be a godsend since for many of them they weigh so much and have such small muscle mass that physical activity can be dangerous.
In the spirit of slashdot, we present a car analogy.
This is like taking things out of the glove box and putting them in the trunk because you don't want to throw them away yet.
All that does is make your inbox a mess.
This thread reminds me of the instant-message type SMS text view on Palm Treo phones. No other phone that I have found does it the same way.
I've been using Thunderbird 3 pre-release for quite a while now and even 3.0 doesn't do it quite right. But, it is what it is. It beats the pants off Thunderbird 2. Now if only enigmail worked on Windows as well as it does in Linux....
If only you could manage people with a bash script...
Whats the point?
A netbook with linux isn't that much cheaper. I really think Windows piracy on desktops is quite a lot more prevalent then on netbooks.
None of those really subvert fingerprint scanning. It just invalidates the results. The police are highly likely to notice your lack of prints.
A transplant moving your finger pads around though will let you through as unidentified. A far more valuable thing.
I've read several enlightening stories on the web in years past saying eyeball transplants are not far off. Apparently new eyeballs, some stem cells and time can allow the brain to recognize and rewire itself for the eyes of another.
Sounds really creepy, unless you're a blind man.
Indeed, they are showing their true colors here. They don't care about the artists income, they care about lining their own pockets. You think when they sue consumers for copyright infringement they divvy up that money among the artists whose copyrights were violated? Nope.
They want to collect all the money without paying it out to artists. Not to mention a lot of them aren't paying artists at all, or enough for their digital downloads.
That depends a lot on where they are. Beyond simply the GS-13 base pay scale, there are locality adjustments made and someone in or near DC might actually make a lot more than $45. Consider too, if they're not in trial they're working probably just their 40 hours doing administrative/inquiry stuff.
Send them to trial and you get to pay them for 60+ hours weekly, which costs you $67 per hour plus they accrue sick leave and vacation faster. OT is expensive.
Technically, they are salary non-exempt. They get paid for 40 whether they're sick, on vacation or can't make it to work. But if they go over 40, they get paid OT for it.
As a Minnesotan, I'm pretty confident the batteries wouldn't work in our -10F weather. BMW would have to pay me $850 a month to drive one. I'm not even sure it would get me to school on one charge.
FYI - big plants are more carbon efficient than millions of little auto engines. Scale of economies and all that.
Even so, brand name refills often have far more ink in them than the "demo size" cartridges in the retail printers. The cartridges that come with new printers often don't have much ink in them.
That's indicative of the fact that DNS is a fundamental piece of the internet framework and those who develop it realize security issues must be fixed as soon as possible. I can't tell you how many BIND releases have been to only address one security issue.
DNS is simple?
BIND has what, 200 releases in the 9.x branch alone? There are more BIND releases than there are Linux kernels, and that's saying something!
Those aren't personally targeted ads, they're just matched well to the demographic and geographic in which they're placed.
A targeted newspaper ad would be akin to an e-paper ad in the newspaper that when opened by your mother says "Hi Susan, I see you went to Holiday yesterday for gas. Here's a coupon for 5 cents off per gallon on your next fill-up at Chevron!".
Most people find personally targeted ads online harmless but I guarantee you if they opened up their newspaper and found it was written just for them, knew their name, their interests and knew what they had been doing online, they would find that creepy and offensive.
WoW is the ultimate skinner box. It feeds you diminishing returns for exponentially more time consuming effort.
For every realm out there, there is probably 1000+ addicts who spend 40+ hours weekly playing the game trying to improve their stats, gear and skill.
Most people are susceptible to addiction in one form or another, be that physical addictions like alcohol, coke, meth or be that psychological addictions like video games, marijuana, sex or gambling. The extent to which a person is addictive varies greatly, but it's present in all life. For anyone prone to addiction, hard work may play a part in beating their demons but I have no doubt that luck plays a part as well.
Well, I have an obvious solution then. Each country should open a weapons check platform on the boundary waters of their major ports. Like a coat check-ships stop at the platform, turn in their weapons and get a claims ticket. Deliver the cargo and pick up their weapons on their way back out into international water.
Countries could make some easy money and shipping companies can stop paying these criminal hacks.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know why these ships aren't arming themselves?
The only reason piracy is profitable is because freighters don't fight back. If all the ships worth hijacking moving through the area had a single M2 Browning, piracy would pretty much end. It's got a range beyond any RPG, it fires fast enough that anybody could hit a target with it and even if they miss, the sound will deafen the Somalis.
Am I missing something?
Just because our modus operandi of the last 60 years has been such does not mean it has to be our future. Manifest Destiny is bullshit.
The future of the country is what we choose it to be. Sadly, in a country where barely half the people vote, let alone get involved in politics or give a shit really about things other than taxes, health care and unemployment benefits, we will never get moving in a positive direction.
We need a return to moderate politics, sensible spending and an end of corporate influence in all aspects of criminal law including, but not limited to, copyright infringement.
I'm kind of hoping the treaty gets signed and we just never ratify it. The rest of the world will feel like idiots for participating in this corporate coup d'etat.
I hope, if our own cannot that at least other countries can realize the internet is not a media gateway but is basic infrastructure like water and highways.
This is not Disney's internet.
This is not Sony's internet.
This is not Microsoft's internet.
It belongs to the people who designed it, the corporations who built it, and the citizens who paid for it all.
I think you underestimate the pacifism of most Americans. They just don't care anymore.
240 years ago the men that founded the USA were running away from what we have become. Freedom has given way to corporations needs and our ever more difficult struggle to maintain our standard of living. We need a revolt, but I just don't see that happening. Just look at even more repressed countries like Iran and North Korea.
The time has come and gone to make peaceful change, but the country will have to descend much farther into the depths of hell before people will get off their ass and make a change.
Interesting. I have been writing Qt applications on Windows using MinGW for a while and just assumed my executables were huge because of Qt.
I just tested what you said, whipped up Hello World using libstdc++ and got an identical byte size as your own. It was 474990 bytes with debugging symbols in it!
I recompiled with -Os and stripped the executable and got it down to 265728. Jesus.
I would not want to see COM rewritten in python. I might hang myself from the rafters.
Funny you mention that. Programming Win32 message handlers during a high school programming class about 12 years ago is what originally drove me to Linux. I heard it "did programming".
I didn't have money for Borland or MSVC and the school only had one computer with a compiler.
Agreed. Using visual studio is a pleasure. I develop on Qt Creator almost exclusively now in windows and it really is a pleasure.
I hate that Qt Creator relies on GDB though. The mingw port of GDB is horrifically slow, even on modern hardware. It also pales in comparison to MSVC debugger as far as integration and usability.
OpenGL doesn't encapsulate anything other than graphics. DirectX encapsulates input, 3D acceleration, sound, etc.
From a developer standpoint, DirectX is a no-brainer when it's available.