Even proponents of biodiesel realize that it is not for the mass market. Every article on it that I've read notes this. Essentially, there isn't enough refuse biomass for biodiesel. It'll work as long as a small amount of us use it, but once we get into directly producing biodiesel, and not simply making biodiesel out of unwanted byproducts, it loses all its benefits and becomes terrible.
You should read the latest issue of Harper's magazine. Growing crops takes a lot of oil. In fact, the amount of energy (caloric I assume) yielded from a field is LESS than the amount the oil that was used by the equipment that made it had. Therefore it is not beneficiary. If, however, one were able to use these alcohols to fuel the actual farm equipment, or if we were able to switch to better methods of agriculture, things might begin to turn around.
Why would intel NOT clock their chips as high as possible if temperature was not an issue? The only reason they don't currently ship overclocked chips is that standard heatsinks can't deal with the heat.
Run offs would rock! We need to be able to list the candidates in order of our preferences. The concept of someone only wanting to vote for one, and just one, person is silly. This is one of the reasons we have the current, entrenched, two party system.
ElGamal was a legacy key and not really meant to be used that much. The one slashdot poster who said he was affected (when that came out) said he chose it because he liked the sound of the name. ElGamal is legacy and shouldn't really be counted against GPG
I just bought a ThermalTake Pure Power with 420 watts and its impossible to hear (probably because I use nowhere near 420 watts so the fans never throttle up). These have been around for ages.
Well, if they want to do it logically, they could remove ambiguity by auto-reformating URLs so that www.citibank.com@hax0rheaven.com gets displayed as something like
hax0rheaven.com username:www.citibank.com.
With username as a seperate field adjacent to the URL bar. Or whatever their UI gurus come up with as long as it is distinctly seperated from the domain.
They could even have it look for things like an URL as a username or password. It won't break the standards; it'll just change the presentation of the URL. I can't imagine why they'd even think of breaking a standard like HTTP or HTTPS in the first place.
according tot hat they ARE using kde 3.2 . Mandrake won't release an terribly unstable OS, don't worry. Its only beta one, it'll have plenty of time for bug fixing. May I remind you that KDE 3.2 is only a point release. It probably won't have all that many bugs.
Or they can just offer downloadable versions of the CD online like stardock did when I bought GalCiv online. As for needing an internet connection most systems are designed to allow offline play too you know.
You only have to register for things that have some business angle to them. Registering for adwords makes sense. Registering to post on google groups makes sense. Registering to use an email address, well you kind of need to. I sincerely doubt that you'll need to log in to search or anything though. My mom gets confused enough trying to log in to windows XP. As far as portal goes it looks like they track people based more on what they're viewing at the present time than historical stats.
That makes no sense because you can't track the numbers very far. Even if the stores that sell the tapes track customers (I imagine that porn shop customers would be miffed if you asked them for their address) the goods can still be resold. I doubt that everyone selling old porn DVDs on ebay keeps customer records. Any infrastructure that enabled this would be massively expensive and inpracticable.
I stopped taking ritalin somewhere around puberty due to headaches if i Remember. Dexadrine made me severely depressed. Currently i'm on adderall which works great. I hear good things about stratera too. Good luck,
Where do you get these stats on 'most environmentalists' driving old ass VWs. Secondly many are aware of the problems of implementing various solutions like wind power. If you place the power concientiously and use adequate safegaurds then they can be a boon. Cost/Benefit analysis isnt' purely in your domain you know. In fact, it doesn't seem to be at all as you seem to be quantifying all costs equally which is nonsense. Many environmentalists are FOR nuclear power. You're stereotyping, quite poorly might I add. Yes there are wacky hippies doing exactly what you say, but then there are wacky people on both sides of the aisle. Until you provide some proof that those whacked out people are have as much control as you seem to think they do then you have no point.
Skeptics say that there's no biological marker--that it is the one condition out there where there is no blood test, and that no one knows what causes it.
That's tremendously naive, and it shows a great deal of illiteracy about science and about the mental health professions. A disorder doesn't have to have a blood test to be valid. If that were the case, all mental disorders would be invalid--schizophrenia, manic depression, Tourette's Syndrome--all of these would be thrown out.... There is no lab test for any mental disorder right now in our science. That doesn't make them invalid.
From here Scroll down the page to read the debate and see the different views. It amazes me how much anecdotal evidence and sensationalized news coverage seems to have distorted this debate. The media just wants to stir up controversy and will dig up the cranks who don't believe in ADD. See my above post for my personal experience.
I was diagnosed with ADD in elementary school and have been on and off drugs at various points in my life. I will say that they most definitely DO make a difference in my life. I take adderall and I have a really rough time going to class without it. I'm less attentive and get far less out of the experience without meds. Upon taking an IQ test my score went up a full 30 points when drugged. That kind of thing has real world effects on my life.
Is ADD overdiagnosed? It's probable given the lax screening practices I've heard of. I myself spent weeks being diagnosed at great expense and had to submit to a battery of tests. In response to another user in this thread posthumous diagnoses are considered speculative and not conclusive.
I find it disconcerting that you have formulated your judgement without any real world evidence other than your own personal experience. I have a rough time dealing with people upon admittance of my ADD as a result. It's terrible when people suddenly percieve you as having an imaginary illness. For me life is more 'real' when I'm on Adderall. I can think clearly, have conversations without being distracted and am generally more productive. The only downside to being on Adderall is a bit of drymouth and sleep problems (which don't occur if you take it in the morning as I do). I have no symptoms of addiction, in fact I occasionally forget to take Adderall and usually choose not to on the weekends or for low key events. I can live without Adderall; but my life is just so much more fulfilling being able to use it.
I implore you and everyone who reads this to take into consideration the seriousness of ADD for certain people, and ask that you not spread invalid, generalizing, anecdotal evidence about what is an important part of my life.
Good and bad are different than right or wrong. If I write a C program that's supposed to perform some algorithm it is easily testable. Qualitative judgements of good/bad in art and food etc are different.
For instance, let's assume that pomo crit is bullshit. Admittedly lots of it is although I find a decent quantity of deconstruction to be fascinating and Baudrillard is so full of shit at times it isn't even funny. At any rate, there is no denying that these critics have a ball at what they do. Deconstructing a paper towel in the crudest way may not lead to insightful lingual and semiotic theories but could be infinitely fun for the practitioner. Similarly, all those people who love Thomas Kinkade paintings live in their own bubbles too.
In this I find some validity for these criticisms. It seems that in some ways litcrit has gotten itself confused with hard science and baffled via its own absurd relativism, and in other ways it hasn't. Originally litcrit was simply effusive gushings regarding the critic's emotional identification with the author. Indeed, literary criticism was actually seen by some as a social stabilizer in britain in the wake of increasing secularization. A tool for people to identify with their nationality, heritage, and humanity (which are easy to see as being bound up in each other in colonial england).
When we look at it historically we see this shift from liberal humanist theory to pomo, deconstructionist etc.. There is no denying the subjective interpretations and experience of literature.
Trying to prove an enjoyable experience through 'hard science' is a fallacy. An example would be Jackson Pollock. No doubt one of the most controversial artists of his time. Indeed, Pollock is still controversial. One interesting thing about Pollock is the fact that his paintings are amazingly natural fractals as one mathematician discovered by running some algorithm over scans of his work. This is no common feat; most people who attempt to do such a thing fail when computers scan the work. So here we have a work with an aesthetic quality that has been 'scientifically proven' yet it is not universally loved! The only answer is that enjoyment of art is defined in many ways culturally. Pollocks fractals coincided with the modernist movement, at no other time could they have ever been accepted or most likely even concieved.
To wind things down one could say that what I am saying is that lit crits are happy believing in their pseudoscience just as everyone else is. I will admit that I despise many of their links to physics and other things. Sokal later wrote a book dismissing most of the scientific links that authors draw up (like Lacan and Topology). Obviously they got carried away. The fundamental truth of the lack of a universal enjoyment of a work and the need for social context however are important and useful. Additionally, even as the writer for the above article admits Deconstruction can be useful, especially when one carefully examines etymology and other such things in noticing social trends via language and other symbols. Have many gone too far and used sloppy science and judgement? Most definitely. Are these people completely wrongheaded? No. There is use in these techniques and I am fascinated by the possibilites they leave open. Unfortuanately they are victims of their own convictions taken too far.
Who needs slavery when you have multinationals and our monstrous concept of globalization to fuck over all them backwards livin folk that aren't from our country. (I'd love to see just the agribusiness subsidies go tomorrow at least).
I'd say that in the absolute sense yes, this was not the year's best music. As far as the mainstream goes though, I'd say that this list is very good for top 40 (I assume its all top 40, I don't listen to any radio). Anyway, for better music reviews and more underground music, http://www.pitchforkmedia.com can't be beat.
An admirable list, but I don't think it really describes the metrosexual. Dandy has too much of a homosexual connotation. Dapper can't be used in a derogatory way, neither can gentleman. Metrosexual tends to be used negatively. Fop could concievably be used, but I don't think it really reflects the ethos of the metrosexual. It seems to narrow.
At any rate the only problem I have with the term is its deragatory nature. Where's the brotherly love? It's kinda pathetic when we have to use such silly social divisions to isolate ourselves. I suppose tribalism is innate.
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Even proponents of biodiesel realize that it is not for the mass market. Every article on it that I've read notes this. Essentially, there isn't enough refuse biomass for biodiesel. It'll work as long as a small amount of us use it, but once we get into directly producing biodiesel, and not simply making biodiesel out of unwanted byproducts, it loses all its benefits and becomes terrible.
You should read the latest issue of Harper's magazine. Growing crops takes a lot of oil. In fact, the amount of energy (caloric I assume) yielded from a field is LESS than the amount the oil that was used by the equipment that made it had. Therefore it is not beneficiary. If, however, one were able to use these alcohols to fuel the actual farm equipment, or if we were able to switch to better methods of agriculture, things might begin to turn around.
I agree. My point was that heat is an issue that a user can change. It's something you can mod. One cannot mod the chip itself however!
Why would intel NOT clock their chips as high as possible if temperature was not an issue? The only reason they don't currently ship overclocked chips is that standard heatsinks can't deal with the heat.
Run offs would rock! We need to be able to list the candidates in order of our preferences. The concept of someone only wanting to vote for one, and just one, person is silly. This is one of the reasons we have the current, entrenched, two party system.
ElGamal was a legacy key and not really meant to be used that much. The one slashdot poster who said he was affected (when that came out) said he chose it because he liked the sound of the name. ElGamal is legacy and shouldn't really be counted against GPG
I just bought a ThermalTake Pure Power with 420 watts and its impossible to hear (probably because I use nowhere near 420 watts so the fans never throttle up). These have been around for ages.
Well, if they want to do it logically, they could remove ambiguity by auto-reformating URLs so that www.citibank.com@hax0rheaven.com gets displayed as something like
.
hax0rheaven.com username:www.citibank.com
With username as a seperate field adjacent to the URL bar. Or whatever their UI gurus come up with as long as it is distinctly seperated from the domain.
They could even have it look for things like an URL as a username or password. It won't break the standards; it'll just change the presentation of the URL. I can't imagine why they'd even think of breaking a standard like HTTP or HTTPS in the first place.
Firewire is far faster than 100 base T ethernet.
Lucian is most definitely the entertaining candidate on the ballot.
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/100beta.php3
according tot hat they ARE using kde 3.2 . Mandrake won't release an terribly unstable OS, don't worry. Its only beta one, it'll have plenty of time for bug fixing. May I remind you that KDE 3.2 is only a point release. It probably won't have all that many bugs.
Or they can just offer downloadable versions of the CD online like stardock did when I bought GalCiv online. As for needing an internet connection most systems are designed to allow offline play too you know.
You only have to register for things that have some business angle to them. Registering for adwords makes sense. Registering to post on google groups makes sense. Registering to use an email address, well you kind of need to. I sincerely doubt that you'll need to log in to search or anything though. My mom gets confused enough trying to log in to windows XP. As far as portal goes it looks like they track people based more on what they're viewing at the present time than historical stats.
That makes no sense because you can't track the numbers very far. Even if the stores that sell the tapes track customers (I imagine that porn shop customers would be miffed if you asked them for their address) the goods can still be resold. I doubt that everyone selling old porn DVDs on ebay keeps customer records. Any infrastructure that enabled this would be massively expensive and inpracticable.
Care to explain the disparity between women and men's pay of equal positions then?
I stopped taking ritalin somewhere around puberty due to headaches if i Remember. Dexadrine made me severely depressed. Currently i'm on adderall which works great. I hear good things about stratera too. Good luck,
And this is the same president who appointed a fraud to lead our education infrastructure? Greaaaaaaaaaat.
Where do you get these stats on 'most environmentalists' driving old ass VWs. Secondly many are aware of the problems of implementing various solutions like wind power. If you place the power concientiously and use adequate safegaurds then they can be a boon. Cost/Benefit analysis isnt' purely in your domain you know. In fact, it doesn't seem to be at all as you seem to be quantifying all costs equally which is nonsense. Many environmentalists are FOR nuclear power. You're stereotyping, quite poorly might I add. Yes there are wacky hippies doing exactly what you say, but then there are wacky people on both sides of the aisle. Until you provide some proof that those whacked out people are have as much control as you seem to think they do then you have no point.
From here Scroll down the page to read the debate and see the different views. It amazes me how much anecdotal evidence and sensationalized news coverage seems to have distorted this debate. The media just wants to stir up controversy and will dig up the cranks who don't believe in ADD. See my above post for my personal experience.
I was diagnosed with ADD in elementary school and have been on and off drugs at various points in my life. I will say that they most definitely DO make a difference in my life. I take adderall and I have a really rough time going to class without it. I'm less attentive and get far less out of the experience without meds. Upon taking an IQ test my score went up a full 30 points when drugged. That kind of thing has real world effects on my life.
Is ADD overdiagnosed? It's probable given the lax screening practices I've heard of. I myself spent weeks being diagnosed at great expense and had to submit to a battery of tests. In response to another user in this thread posthumous diagnoses are considered speculative and not conclusive.
I find it disconcerting that you have formulated your judgement without any real world evidence other than your own personal experience. I have a rough time dealing with people upon admittance of my ADD as a result. It's terrible when people suddenly percieve you as having an imaginary illness. For me life is more 'real' when I'm on Adderall. I can think clearly, have conversations without being distracted and am generally more productive. The only downside to being on Adderall is a bit of drymouth and sleep problems (which don't occur if you take it in the morning as I do). I have no symptoms of addiction, in fact I occasionally forget to take Adderall and usually choose not to on the weekends or for low key events. I can live without Adderall; but my life is just so much more fulfilling being able to use it.
I implore you and everyone who reads this to take into consideration the seriousness of ADD for certain people, and ask that you not spread invalid, generalizing, anecdotal evidence about what is an important part of my life.
Good and bad are different than right or wrong. If I write a C program that's supposed to perform some algorithm it is easily testable. Qualitative judgements of good/bad in art and food etc are different.
For instance, let's assume that pomo crit is bullshit. Admittedly lots of it is although I find a decent quantity of deconstruction to be fascinating and Baudrillard is so full of shit at times it isn't even funny. At any rate, there is no denying that these critics have a ball at what they do. Deconstructing a paper towel in the crudest way may not lead to insightful lingual and semiotic theories but could be infinitely fun for the practitioner. Similarly, all those people who love Thomas Kinkade paintings live in their own bubbles too.
In this I find some validity for these criticisms. It seems that in some ways litcrit has gotten itself confused with hard science and baffled via its own absurd relativism, and in other ways it hasn't. Originally litcrit was simply effusive gushings regarding the critic's emotional identification with the author. Indeed, literary criticism was actually seen by some as a social stabilizer in britain in the wake of increasing secularization. A tool for people to identify with their nationality, heritage, and humanity (which are easy to see as being bound up in each other in colonial england).
When we look at it historically we see this shift from liberal humanist theory to pomo, deconstructionist etc.. There is no denying the subjective interpretations and experience of literature.
Trying to prove an enjoyable experience through 'hard science' is a fallacy. An example would be Jackson Pollock. No doubt one of the most controversial artists of his time. Indeed, Pollock is still controversial. One interesting thing about Pollock is the fact that his paintings are amazingly natural fractals as one mathematician discovered by running some algorithm over scans of his work. This is no common feat; most people who attempt to do such a thing fail when computers scan the work. So here we have a work with an aesthetic quality that has been 'scientifically proven' yet it is not universally loved! The only answer is that enjoyment of art is defined in many ways culturally. Pollocks fractals coincided with the modernist movement, at no other time could they have ever been accepted or most likely even concieved.
To wind things down one could say that what I am saying is that lit crits are happy believing in their pseudoscience just as everyone else is. I will admit that I despise many of their links to physics and other things. Sokal later wrote a book dismissing most of the scientific links that authors draw up (like Lacan and Topology). Obviously they got carried away. The fundamental truth of the lack of a universal enjoyment of a work and the need for social context however are important and useful. Additionally, even as the writer for the above article admits Deconstruction can be useful, especially when one carefully examines etymology and other such things in noticing social trends via language and other symbols. Have many gone too far and used sloppy science and judgement? Most definitely. Are these people completely wrongheaded? No. There is use in these techniques and I am fascinated by the possibilites they leave open. Unfortuanately they are victims of their own convictions taken too far.
Who needs slavery when you have multinationals and our monstrous concept of globalization to fuck over all them backwards livin folk that aren't from our country. (I'd love to see just the agribusiness subsidies go tomorrow at least).
So that means there are actually two users of ICQ out there?
I'd say that in the absolute sense yes, this was not the year's best music. As far as the mainstream goes though, I'd say that this list is very good for top 40 (I assume its all top 40, I don't listen to any radio). Anyway, for better music reviews and more underground music, http://www.pitchforkmedia.com can't be beat.
An admirable list, but I don't think it really describes the metrosexual. Dandy has too much of a homosexual connotation. Dapper can't be used in a derogatory way, neither can gentleman. Metrosexual tends to be used negatively. Fop could concievably be used, but I don't think it really reflects the ethos of the metrosexual. It seems to narrow.
At any rate the only problem I have with the term is its deragatory nature. Where's the brotherly love? It's kinda pathetic when we have to use such silly social divisions to isolate ourselves. I suppose tribalism is innate.