Re:Coffee Dehydration is a Myth
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My brother once drank on average 4-5 cokes a day. He didn't drink anything besides coke. One day he decided to stop, and so he stopped drinking anything. He didn't replace his coke consumption with water or anything else.
Two weeks later, my mom took him to the doctor because he was feeling sick constantly. Turns out he was very dehydrated (who would have thought!).
Therefore Coke is hydrating, and probably most caffienated drinks also.
I tell this story to everyone who tells me I'm going to get dehydrated from drinking so much caffiene. I probably have 4 coffees and 2-3 cokes a day. Some of them still don't believe that caffienated drinks are hydrating, so I'm happy to know there's also scientific proof I can point them to.
Also, it's very difficult to search for words with two meanings. Yesterday I was trying to find out the history of Dupont, and why Dupont Circle in Washington, DC, is named that. I know Dupont was a French person somehow involved in DC's formation (did he design the street layout?). But even using my limited knowledge I couldn't find any information because every single link dealt with DuPont, the chemical company.
And if you're searching for non-U.S. made baby strollers, why don't you check out walmart.com?
Given your numbers an illegal file sharer can calculate their monthly financial risk from RIAA lawsuits.
Your numbers are: Time (T)=8 months Probability (P)=1/25290 Cost (C)=3000
With monthly financial risk = (P*C)/T, if each month you put away 1.483 cents, you would on average have enough money to pay your settlement fees by the time you were sued.
Now assume that the RIAA gets more aggressive and settles less, and through the courts gets a $1 million verdict in 100% of the people it sues (1977 people / 8 months). The monthly financial risk then is $4.94 a month.
So even if your punishment is $1 million, the financial risk of getting sued is less than any online music service with a monthly fee. It's also less than 5 songs on iTunes a month, which probably isn't nearly as many songs as Kazaa users download. Why does the RIAA think their legal efforts will convince people with such a low financial risk?
And here's an interesting twist -- why doesn't an insurance company insure people against RIAA lawsuits for $10/mo so they can download as much as they want on Kazaa? Isn't this similar to what Redhat is doing to protect its customers from SCO? I'd much rather pay $10/mo to download whatever I want without risk of being sued than pay the same money to MusicMatch for their inferior service. And if everyone did the same, peer-to-peer services would blossom again with tons of quality content from all genres imaginable.
Except that it's not a criminal justice issue, it's an issue for sports leagues to decide. In the present, Barry Bonds could be forced not to play if he were caught using steroids, but that's completely seperate from any criminal charges that he could face. (Actually I think players have to test positive for steroid use 5 consecutive times to be punished by the league, with the tests announced quite in advance and none of the testing results made public.)
So while it might be interesting to hear the perspectives of both sides, doing it on a lawyer show would probably be quite unrealistic. I doubt it would involve the real-world issues such as negotiating with the sports league or the side issue of possessing steroids without a prescription. And even if they did do a show about criminal charges for steroid possession, those charges wouldn't prevent someone from playing professional sports.
How is Interactive Fiction more politically correct than Text Adventure? What's politically incorrect about Text Adventure? Once apon a time the Adventure genre dominated the gaming industry (Sierra). So Text Adventure games are just adventure games done only with text. What's wrong with that?
Interactive Fiction describes any type of game on the market. Every game is interactive, and every game is make-believe (fiction). How does it describe text adventure games?
Can someone explain to me why this name change was adopted?? It seems to me that the developers were just embarassed that their games didn't involve any new technologies so they renamed their genre to sound more interesting.
Don't you notice how the cops always ask for permission first? I would say probably 90% of the time when cops ask to search a vehicle, they don't have probable cause. But the cops ask to search, and the people say "okay!", and the cops find guns and narcotics. It's pretty rediculous what people will agree to because they think they'll get off easier if they allow the cops to do whatever they want.
This is great news! The FCC is looking into the future and seeing what great quality of life leaps will happen with Broadband-over-PowerLine. After 10 years of consumer Internet access, the next frontier for Internet connectivity is clearly the kitchen. There are unfathomable benefits to having toasters, blenders, and microwave ovens access the Internet. I see BPL as the way to provide that interconnectivity, without the downsides of other options:
1) Giving kitchen appliances wireless cards: Lots of people have tried hacking their toasters to support existing 802.11b standards, but these hacks are overly expensive and don't work on a large scale.
2) Redesigning and remodeling kitchens to have ethernet jacks: This will happen over time, but in the short run it's too expensive to retrofit existing homes. In addition, having to run a wire from a toaster to both a power and ethernet jack adds too much clutter to countertops.
BPL has none of these detractions of the above options. Toasters and microwaves can be connected to the Internet as easily as they're plugged in to a power jack, and no kitchen remodelling is necessary. Clearly ham radio and emergency service disruption is a small price to pay for the overwhelming benefits of kitchen appliance interconnectivity.
I applaud the FCC's forward thinking on in this area.
It's interesting to note that Internet Explorer (win2k/private/shell/iexplore/iexplore.rc) really is just a small sized shell application for Windows win2k/private/ntos/ based ActiveX controls. This means that IE's core functionality really is in the kernel and not an application with minimal ties to the OS.
It's also interesting that Windows Media Player isn't in the OS, though it's still bundled with Windows. I wonder if Real could use this to argue a monopoly case? But I've heard that Longhorn is going to have kernel-level 3D rendering and multimedia playback, so maybe that's going to change.
I could care less if people don't capitalize widely used proper nouns. But I don't think The LEGO Group should be so cocky as to capitalize their whole name. I looked up Lego at acronymfinder.com and apparently it's short for the Danish term "Leg Godt", but how does that justify capitalizing EVERY LETTER? I don't care if their logo is all capital letters, but officially capitalizing every letter of your company or product because you want it to stand out is just masturbatory.
Your article, Fax and Friction (1/20/2004), gives the me the impression that companies illegally sending faxes should be allowed to do so without the threat of civil lawsuits. That's akin to arguing that murderers shouldn't be subject to civil lawsuits because the Feds already can prosecute them criminally. How does that make any sense?
There are laws against junk faxes, and both the victims and the FCC can prosecute against perpetrators. Why should it be different because some financial institutions your magazine adores use Fax.com?
Which lane is "lane 2"? I think it's a west coast term, and I hear it used all the time now that I live in California. But I grew up in Virginia! So is "lane 1" the right-most lane or left-most lane??
IANAL, but I've read the GPL a number of times, and there's nothing in there that says if you use GPL code in one little part of your project that you must distribute all of your sources under GPL. For compiled versions specifically, it says that if you distribute your product you must include the GPL license and provide a way for getting the source to the GPLed portion. If you just used com.ostermiller.util in your project you don't have to share everything. You just have to state that some portions are under GPL and give people a way to contact you.
I'm wondering if the submitter actually asked any of the alleged violators for the sources to com.ostermiller.util. Maybe they'd be happy to share them. Just because you can't go to their site and click on "Download Sources" doesn't mean they're violating the GPL.
We just got Cisco IP phones at my work. I notice that when I talk on them I can't hear my own voice in the headset. With normal phones I can always hear myself back. Especially when I blow into the receiver. Maybe with normal phones there's an echo from the electronics looping around... but I like it! It makes me feel like my voice is going into the network.
With the IP phones I lose my train of thought because I feel like I'm talking to myself rather than into a phone. It weirds me out. Do all IP phones take away the echo, or is it just the kind we have?
The hole I see in her argument is the lack of a macro-economic view. With outsourcing at the macro level, money is leaving the local economy and going to a foreign one. As a result there is less money in the local economy for investment. She mistakenly thinks that profits spur investment, but investment is a cost. When there is less money locally for R&D and other investment costs, less R&D will happen.
The problem of money leaving the local economy can go away if money is also coming in from the foreign markets. But with India, almost all the products and services we're outsourcing are for Americans or other developed countries. They money we giving them for outsourcing isn't going to come back. In the short term, companies will have higher profits which they will then invest back into India. In the long term, the local economy won't have money for buying outsourced products anymore. At that point I believe India will own the technology services market.
SBC promises download speeds as fast 1.5 megabits per second - one megabit is 1,000 kilobits -...
Way to break down megabits per second into something the average person can understand, David Koenig. I guess you're trying to compare 56kbps to 1.5mbps, but still, how many people reading IWon News know what a kilobit is? Why don't you say "1.5 megabits per second means 1 megabyte takes 5.3 seconds to download"? That's something people could understand.
At least Libraries of Congress aren't in your conversion rate.
Most of Californians live near the coast. I'm in Northern California, and it takes me 5-6 hours to get out of the state (Reno, NV). It takes people in Los Angeles 4 hours to get out (Las Vegas, NV). I guess it's possible for people in San Diego to buy them in Mexico, but then they have to go through customs which would confiscate them.
Californians will have the option of buying them out-of-state, but it's way too much of a hassle IMHO just to have a few glowing fish.
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My brother once drank on average 4-5 cokes a day. He didn't drink anything besides coke. One day he decided to stop, and so he stopped drinking anything. He didn't replace his coke consumption with water or anything else.
Two weeks later, my mom took him to the doctor because he was feeling sick constantly. Turns out he was very dehydrated (who would have thought!).
Therefore Coke is hydrating, and probably most caffienated drinks also.
I tell this story to everyone who tells me I'm going to get dehydrated from drinking so much caffiene. I probably have 4 coffees and 2-3 cokes a day. Some of them still don't believe that caffienated drinks are hydrating, so I'm happy to know there's also scientific proof I can point them to.
I thought rule #1 for production PHP was to realize your dumb web hack has gone too far and it's time to rewrite it in a production-capable language.
Also, it's very difficult to search for words with two meanings. Yesterday I was trying to find out the history of Dupont, and why Dupont Circle in Washington, DC, is named that. I know Dupont was a French person somehow involved in DC's formation (did he design the street layout?). But even using my limited knowledge I couldn't find any information because every single link dealt with DuPont, the chemical company.
And if you're searching for non-U.S. made baby strollers, why don't you check out walmart.com?
Given your numbers an illegal file sharer can calculate their monthly financial risk from RIAA lawsuits.
Your numbers are:
Time (T)=8 months
Probability (P)=1/25290
Cost (C)=3000
With monthly financial risk = (P*C)/T, if each month you put away 1.483 cents, you would on average have enough money to pay your settlement fees by the time you were sued.
Now assume that the RIAA gets more aggressive and settles less, and through the courts gets a $1 million verdict in 100% of the people it sues (1977 people / 8 months). The monthly financial risk then is $4.94 a month.
So even if your punishment is $1 million, the financial risk of getting sued is less than any online music service with a monthly fee. It's also less than 5 songs on iTunes a month, which probably isn't nearly as many songs as Kazaa users download. Why does the RIAA think their legal efforts will convince people with such a low financial risk?
And here's an interesting twist -- why doesn't an insurance company insure people against RIAA lawsuits for $10/mo so they can download as much as they want on Kazaa? Isn't this similar to what Redhat is doing to protect its customers from SCO? I'd much rather pay $10/mo to download whatever I want without risk of being sued than pay the same money to MusicMatch for their inferior service. And if everyone did the same, peer-to-peer services would blossom again with tons of quality content from all genres imaginable.
So while it might be interesting to hear the perspectives of both sides, doing it on a lawyer show would probably be quite unrealistic. I doubt it would involve the real-world issues such as negotiating with the sports league or the side issue of possessing steroids without a prescription. And even if they did do a show about criminal charges for steroid possession, those charges wouldn't prevent someone from playing professional sports.
Is that the last thing you do too?
- - - Wow, a computer cleaning maid!!!
How is Interactive Fiction more politically correct than Text Adventure? What's politically incorrect about Text Adventure? Once apon a time the Adventure genre dominated the gaming industry (Sierra). So Text Adventure games are just adventure games done only with text. What's wrong with that?
Interactive Fiction describes any type of game on the market. Every game is interactive, and every game is make-believe (fiction). How does it describe text adventure games?
Can someone explain to me why this name change was adopted?? It seems to me that the developers were just embarassed that their games didn't involve any new technologies so they renamed their genre to sound more interesting.
I guess that's why you encoded all your CIA top-secret communications with ANSI encryption?
Don't you notice how the cops always ask for permission first? I would say probably 90% of the time when cops ask to search a vehicle, they don't have probable cause. But the cops ask to search, and the people say "okay!", and the cops find guns and narcotics. It's pretty rediculous what people will agree to because they think they'll get off easier if they allow the cops to do whatever they want.
First Barbie breaks up with Ken and now this! Augh!$@, my fantasy word is crumbling to pieces. :((((
This is great news! The FCC is looking into the future and seeing what great quality of life leaps will happen with Broadband-over-PowerLine. After 10 years of consumer Internet access, the next frontier for Internet connectivity is clearly the kitchen. There are unfathomable benefits to having toasters, blenders, and microwave ovens access the Internet. I see BPL as the way to provide that interconnectivity, without the downsides of other options:
1) Giving kitchen appliances wireless cards: Lots of people have tried hacking their toasters to support existing 802.11b standards, but these hacks are overly expensive and don't work on a large scale.
2) Redesigning and remodeling kitchens to have ethernet jacks: This will happen over time, but in the short run it's too expensive to retrofit existing homes. In addition, having to run a wire from a toaster to both a power and ethernet jack adds too much clutter to countertops.
BPL has none of these detractions of the above options. Toasters and microwaves can be connected to the Internet as easily as they're plugged in to a power jack, and no kitchen remodelling is necessary. Clearly ham radio and emergency service disruption is a small price to pay for the overwhelming benefits of kitchen appliance interconnectivity.
I applaud the FCC's forward thinking on in this area.
It's interesting to note that Internet Explorer (win2k/private/shell/iexplore/iexplore.rc) really is just a small sized shell application for Windows win2k/private/ntos/ based ActiveX controls. This means that IE's core functionality really is in the kernel and not an application with minimal ties to the OS.
It's also interesting that Windows Media Player isn't in the OS, though it's still bundled with Windows. I wonder if Real could use this to argue a monopoly case? But I've heard that Longhorn is going to have kernel-level 3D rendering and multimedia playback, so maybe that's going to change.
I could care less if people don't capitalize widely used proper nouns. But I don't think The LEGO Group should be so cocky as to capitalize their whole name. I looked up Lego at acronymfinder.com and apparently it's short for the Danish term "Leg Godt", but how does that justify capitalizing EVERY LETTER? I don't care if their logo is all capital letters, but officially capitalizing every letter of your company or product because you want it to stand out is just masturbatory.
MAC NOT AN ACRONYM. Capitalize it "Mac".
I don't understand you people.
Here is my e-mail to him:
Your article, Fax and Friction (1/20/2004), gives the me the impression that companies illegally sending faxes should be allowed to do so without the threat of civil lawsuits. That's akin to arguing that murderers shouldn't be subject to civil lawsuits because the Feds already can prosecute them criminally. How does that make any sense?
There are laws against junk faxes, and both the victims and the FCC can prosecute against perpetrators. Why should it be different because some financial institutions your magazine adores use Fax.com?
Which lane is "lane 2"? I think it's a west coast term, and I hear it used all the time now that I live in California. But I grew up in Virginia! So is "lane 1" the right-most lane or left-most lane??
Thanks!
What about OGG support?
IANAL, but I've read the GPL a number of times, and there's nothing in there that says if you use GPL code in one little part of your project that you must distribute all of your sources under GPL. For compiled versions specifically, it says that if you distribute your product you must include the GPL license and provide a way for getting the source to the GPLed portion. If you just used com.ostermiller.util in your project you don't have to share everything. You just have to state that some portions are under GPL and give people a way to contact you.
I'm wondering if the submitter actually asked any of the alleged violators for the sources to com.ostermiller.util. Maybe they'd be happy to share them. Just because you can't go to their site and click on "Download Sources" doesn't mean they're violating the GPL.
What state/country do you live in?
Maybe some IP phones do have sidetones. The Cisco 7960's we're being given don't though.
Thanks.
We just got Cisco IP phones at my work. I notice that when I talk on them I can't hear my own voice in the headset. With normal phones I can always hear myself back. Especially when I blow into the receiver. Maybe with normal phones there's an echo from the electronics looping around... but I like it! It makes me feel like my voice is going into the network.
With the IP phones I lose my train of thought because I feel like I'm talking to myself rather than into a phone. It weirds me out. Do all IP phones take away the echo, or is it just the kind we have?
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Haha! Now it's a denial of service algorithm! Bet you wish you had
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now, eh?
The hole I see in her argument is the lack of a macro-economic view. With outsourcing at the macro level, money is leaving the local economy and going to a foreign one. As a result there is less money in the local economy for investment. She mistakenly thinks that profits spur investment, but investment is a cost. When there is less money locally for R&D and other investment costs, less R&D will happen.
The problem of money leaving the local economy can go away if money is also coming in from the foreign markets. But with India, almost all the products and services we're outsourcing are for Americans or other developed countries. They money we giving them for outsourcing isn't going to come back. In the short term, companies will have higher profits which they will then invest back into India. In the long term, the local economy won't have money for buying outsourced products anymore. At that point I believe India will own the technology services market.
SBC promises download speeds as fast 1.5 megabits per second - one megabit is 1,000 kilobits - ...
Way to break down megabits per second into something the average person can understand, David Koenig. I guess you're trying to compare 56kbps to 1.5mbps, but still, how many people reading IWon News know what a kilobit is? Why don't you say "1.5 megabits per second means 1 megabyte takes 5.3 seconds to download"? That's something people could understand.
At least Libraries of Congress aren't in your conversion rate.
Most of Californians live near the coast. I'm in Northern California, and it takes me 5-6 hours to get out of the state (Reno, NV). It takes people in Los Angeles 4 hours to get out (Las Vegas, NV). I guess it's possible for people in San Diego to buy them in Mexico, but then they have to go through customs which would confiscate them.
Californians will have the option of buying them out-of-state, but it's way too much of a hassle IMHO just to have a few glowing fish.