First off, the basis of energy consumption in your body called the Krebbs cycle. The input is sugar (glucose, to be specific) and oxygen. The output is water, carbon dioxide, and energy stored in the bonds of a ATP (adenosine triphosphate). This chemical reaction is fixed. While the body can operate in an anaerobic process, this occurs when vigerously exercising. Even then, the input is still glucose.
Any sugar or starch you consume is converted to glucose. Sucrose is two glucose molcules stuck together. Fructose is a sugar with 1 carbon missing. Starch is a chain of sugars. All of these are converted into glucose.
So, what happens when not enough sugar is around? The body draws on the reserves of fat and protein. Glucose is able to come out of fat pretty easily. For protein, the body does some complex conversion which use the protein to create glucose to stuff into the Krebbs cycle. The downside is some unpleasant byproducts need to be dealt with by the liver.
So why does the body burn fat and protein? Because, when you burn protein, you reduce muscle mass, and hence your caloritic requirements. Kind of like a layoff.
Ok, so after all that: Glucose (sugar) is the only thing the body "burns". It all comes down to how much you take in. It is simply accounting. If you eat more than you need, you gain weight. If you eat less, your body starts cutting back on muscle and uses up fat. Carbs have 5 cal/gram, while fat has 9cal/gram (I don't remember protein).
So you can think all you want about high GI and low GI and fat and so on. You still get X cals from Y grams of carbs, and X cals from 5/9Y grams of fat. End of story.
I think that the real reason that these diets are effective is because they are less "boring" than high carb diets and also self-limiting. If you can only eat the patty and not the bun, how many burgers are you going to stuff in your face?
Of course, my belief is that people really evolved eating mainly vegetables and only occasionally fruit, meat, and grains. Do I eat that way? Hell no! But I do try to eat vegetables whenever I can.
Well, why don't you actually TEST IT YOURSELF! You are apparently too lazy to test it yourself, yet are willing to write just as much impugning someone else. And posting as an AC shows how brave you are
Rancher Bob has a sick cow. That cow cost a lot of money to raise.
Now ignore the fact that the cow was sick. Rancher Bob sees some strange lights out back one night. And then, one of his cows his horribly massacared on night. It must have been aliens! THe cops come and agree that it was strange alright.
Rancher Bob then submits an insurace claim on the cow. Left as an exercise for the reader is which cow died...
I heard the newest Epsons won't let you print if only one color is out. Even if you don't care about being out of magenta, and just NEED a printout, the driver won't let you.
Plus, I heard that the ink was much more expensive. Of course, you can get the real deal archival inks for Epson (good luck for any other brand).
Well, first off HPs suck. I don't know how they got the reputation that they were so good, but my experience has been they don't last. I've had 3 of them, including one I bought for a rather expensive $350 around 5 years ago. It stopped working after a year. The next HP bit it too. So I bought a Lexmark Z51 - it did decent printouts and it still works. But the ink is quite expensive. But Canon - I got an s800, and it prints out beautiful pictures. Then it stopped working after only a year! Damn. But it turned out my kid had stuffed a pencil in a rather delicate part of the printer's anotomy, and once a pencil-ectmy was performed, the printer was all better! Able to survive a hostile environment. Plus the ink is really cheap. So there you have it - cheap, durable, and excellent output. And no Carly.
If anything, this is just going to be an incentive for companies like HP, Canon, Lexmark, Epson etc to get off of their asses and fix all of the broken drivers that we see daily.
I respectfully disagree - if there is a subtle bug, that gets through the certification, then there is less incentive to fix the bug cause releasing a new certified driver is a lot more work now.
And Palladium is a step in that direction - to extend MS's control over the PC platform.
Let's suppose that a company which more often than not also provides Linux drivers wants its new superduper-peripheral drivers signed. Maybe it will take a little longer for MS to sign them compared to a company that doesn't provide linux drivers. Maybe. Just Maybe.
I like the Inova x5 - it is small and exceptionally durable. Supposedly you can run it over with a car. They also have a steel version that you can run over with a tank (and it will still work). Perhaps if you are planning a trip to the middle east... Note that they use lithium batteries which have an long shelf life - so they are good to leave in the car. The downside is significantly more expensive replacement costs.
I also have a turtlelite II. Also well made, but a different style. Plastic, light, and quite durable. Not as bright, but it uses AA batteries.
Another flashlight was the LED-LENSER V2 Triplex. It is bright, small, and durable. But outclassed by the Inova x5 and turtlelite II.
I also tried some of the adapters for maglights. I was not impressed - the output was significantly lower than the original incandescent bulb.
The phone company provides a free servide - the PHONE BOOK, which lists 'all' of the phone numbers. However, some phone numbers are not included because those people have unpopular views. Therefore, you can't call them because you don't know the number, even if they would welcome your call.
(NOTE: this analogy ignores people who have unlisted numbers out of choice).
Wow - that sounds a lot more subversive than the way some are spinning it, huh?
You might be surprised: ask someone to go to another country where they don't know the language, to leave their friends and family, and they don't even know how to make a living...
Now, I will be the first to agree that there are areas where it is still a nobrainer - Somolia is a great example. But I think some people get so wrapped up in how great the USA is for rich people that they don't know about people lower down in the economy.
I had to make a pair of custom interface boards a few years back. I named them "Jake" and "Elwood". We used them for quite a while, and so conference calls were quite amusing at times. When we made a new pair of boards, the new names were Boris and Natasha. Being asked "Is Natasha ready to back up Boris?" in meetings was an interesting question. I had considered naming the boards Tom and Jerry, but one manager involved in the project was named Tom, so it was not a viable name.
However, the way I look at things is a little different. The main requirement is energy. If you really need water, you could use a limited supply and use up energy to constantly purify it. While you can't burn oil or gas, you can make a go with solar panels. The wide availability of silicates means that it may be feasible to constantly make solar panels on the lunar surface. You wouldn't need to have a very large production. The panels wouldn't have to be very efficient, cause you could make acres and acres of them. So, once you have huge areas of cheap solar panels pumping out energy, you can start to become more and more self-sufficient, and also support additional expansion.
Gnuplot is very versatile. I have used it for years in a professional environment. Actually, the main thing I use it for is importing graphs into Framemaker - I use the Gnuplot MIF file format output. I wrote some simple c programs and scripts that allow me to convert lots of files at once, and then just import them. Excellent quality vector formatted graphics that can be scaled and easily worked with. I've also used them in presentations - save the Framemaker file as a PDF, and Adobe has a full screen option. No Powerpoint for me!
Patriot Act II makes it illegal to be a member of that known terrorist-loving group:the ACLU! Remember how Bush I tried to crush that dangerous group, but it has returned like Saddam to menance America!
We are absolutely lucky that we have Bush here to protect the government!
B. Isn't smarter to protest before a war happens, than after?
Well, normally yes, but since Bush is going to do whatever he wants anyway... Remember, he was the candidate with LESS votes.
A little more about 802.11g
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What is 802.11g? It is a mix of 802.11b and 802.11a.
802.11b, the commonly seen version, runs at 2.4GHz, just like Bluetooth. Why? Because 2.4GHz is the natural resonance frequency of water, which is the frequency of microwave ovens. So 2.4GHz was left open years ago, because nobody thought it would be any use (a 1KW noise source could completely swamp out the 1nW power of a tranmsitted frequency).
802.11b uses a digital modulation scheme called CCK, which is basically a fluffed up version of QPSK. 802.11a uses a more advanced modulation format called OFDM, but at 5.2GHz. OFDM is better able to operate in an environment with multiple reflections, but requires a much more complicated modulator/demodulator. But the complexity gets about 5x the data rate in the same bandwidth.
802.11g was a higher data rate version of 802.11b. Texas Instruments had proposed to use a data format called PBCC to get higher data rates than the CCK used in 802.11b. Intersil proposed to use the OFDM from 802.11a. A standards committee war started, and the end was TI lost. TI wanted PBCC because it was already working on a chipset that would support it, giving TI a great advantage. Of course, Intersil waas probably doing the same thing. When TI lost, it tried to do an end-run around the standard by releasing its chipset anyway. The Dlink plus series and USR 22MB/s Wireless components use the TI chipset.
The Post Office also goes after fraud in a big way. So mailed advertisements are significantly more trustworthy than the common enlarge your penis/breasts emails.
Everyone knocks the post office, but for $0.37, would you deliver a letter anywhere in the US?
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First off, the basis of energy consumption in your body called the Krebbs cycle. The input is sugar (glucose, to be specific) and oxygen. The output is water, carbon dioxide, and energy stored in the bonds of a ATP (adenosine triphosphate). This chemical reaction is fixed. While the body can operate in an anaerobic process, this occurs when vigerously exercising. Even then, the input is still glucose.
Any sugar or starch you consume is converted to glucose. Sucrose is two glucose molcules stuck together. Fructose is a sugar with 1 carbon missing. Starch is a chain of sugars. All of these are converted into glucose.
So, what happens when not enough sugar is around? The body draws on the reserves of fat and protein. Glucose is able to come out of fat pretty easily. For protein, the body does some complex conversion which use the protein to create glucose to stuff into the Krebbs cycle. The downside is some unpleasant byproducts need to be dealt with by the liver.
So why does the body burn fat and protein? Because, when you burn protein, you reduce muscle mass, and hence your caloritic requirements. Kind of like a layoff.
Ok, so after all that: Glucose (sugar) is the only thing the body "burns". It all comes down to how much you take in. It is simply accounting. If you eat more than you need, you gain weight. If you eat less, your body starts cutting back on muscle and uses up fat. Carbs have 5 cal/gram, while fat has 9cal/gram (I don't remember protein).
So you can think all you want about high GI and low GI and fat and so on. You still get X cals from Y grams of carbs, and X cals from 5/9Y grams of fat. End of story.
I think that the real reason that these diets are effective is because they are less "boring" than high carb diets and also self-limiting. If you can only eat the patty and not the bun, how many burgers are you going to stuff in your face?
Of course, my belief is that people really evolved eating mainly vegetables and only occasionally fruit, meat, and grains. Do I eat that way? Hell no! But I do try to eat vegetables whenever I can.
Well, why don't you actually TEST IT YOURSELF! You are apparently too lazy to test it yourself, yet are willing to write just as much impugning someone else.
And posting as an AC shows how brave you are
What a loser
The way I heard it was:
Rancher Bob has a sick cow. That cow cost a lot of money to raise.
Now ignore the fact that the cow was sick. Rancher Bob sees some strange lights out back one night. And then, one of his cows his horribly massacared on night. It must have been aliens! THe cops come and agree that it was strange alright.
Rancher Bob then submits an insurace claim on the cow. Left as an exercise for the reader is which cow died...
I heard the newest Epsons won't let you print if only one color is out. Even if you don't care about being out of magenta, and just NEED a printout, the driver won't let you.
Plus, I heard that the ink was much more expensive. Of course, you can get the real deal archival inks for Epson (good luck for any other brand).
Well, first off HPs suck. I don't know how they got the reputation that they were so good, but my experience has been they don't last. I've had 3 of them, including one I bought for a rather expensive $350 around 5 years ago. It stopped working after a year. The next HP bit it too.
So I bought a Lexmark Z51 - it did decent printouts and it still works. But the ink is quite expensive.
But Canon - I got an s800, and it prints out beautiful pictures. Then it stopped working after only a year! Damn. But it turned out my kid had stuffed a pencil in a rather delicate part of the printer's anotomy, and once a pencil-ectmy was performed, the printer was all better! Able to survive a hostile environment. Plus the ink is really cheap. So there you have it - cheap, durable, and excellent output. And no Carly.
I bet it's FRENCH! Let's change the name to FREEDOMTELLA!!
That will show them!
I don't mind the company making money - a 25% profit margin on them is fine by me. However, when it is a 95% profit margin, then that is simply usury.
If anything, this is just going to be an incentive for companies like HP, Canon, Lexmark, Epson etc to get off of their asses and fix all of the broken drivers that we see daily.
I respectfully disagree - if there is a subtle bug, that gets through the certification, then there is less incentive to fix the bug cause releasing a new certified driver is a lot more work now.
Hmmm . . . to digitally protect what?
Microsoft profits, duh!
And Palladium is a step in that direction - to extend MS's control over the PC platform.
Let's suppose that a company which more often than not also provides Linux drivers wants its new superduper-peripheral drivers signed. Maybe it will take a little longer for MS to sign them compared to a company that doesn't provide linux drivers. Maybe. Just Maybe.
I would like to get an LED flashlight that has both a bright white led and also a red led to keep night vision. Has anyone seen one like that?
I like the Inova x5 - it is small and exceptionally durable. Supposedly you can run it over with a car. They also have a steel version that you can run over with a tank (and it will still work). Perhaps if you are planning a trip to the middle east...
Note that they use lithium batteries which have an long shelf life - so they are good to leave in the car. The downside is significantly more expensive replacement costs.
I also have a turtlelite II. Also well made, but a different style. Plastic, light, and quite durable. Not as bright, but it uses AA batteries.
Another flashlight was the LED-LENSER V2 Triplex. It is bright, small, and durable. But outclassed by the Inova x5 and turtlelite II.
I also tried some of the adapters for maglights. I was not impressed - the output was significantly lower than the original incandescent bulb.
If phone books aren't free - why do I get 3 different companies sending them to me? I only pay one bill.
And, you may have missed it, but choosing to keep an unlisted number is not the same as your listing being dropped by the phone company.
An analogy that I think is useful:
The phone company provides a free servide - the PHONE BOOK, which lists 'all' of the phone numbers. However, some phone numbers are not included because those people have unpopular views. Therefore, you can't call them because you don't know the number, even if they would welcome your call.
(NOTE: this analogy ignores people who have unlisted numbers out of choice).
Wow - that sounds a lot more subversive than the way some are spinning it, huh?
You might be surprised: ask someone to go to another country where they don't know the language, to leave their friends and family, and they don't even know how to make a living...
Now, I will be the first to agree that there are areas where it is still a nobrainer - Somolia is a great example. But I think some people get so wrapped up in how great the USA is for rich people that they don't know about people lower down in the economy.
An interesting fact, in the last election more working-class Americans voted for Bush than for Gore.
Considerably more interesting is that more people overall voted for Gore.
In the eyes of 5,000,000,000 people of the 6,000,000,000 on the planet, you are "the rich".
Even when you have no job?
Politically, for Bush, there were two cool things about pushing for Hydrogen cars:
1) It has a neat hi-tech feel that even the greenest couldn't complain about;
2) It means he didn't have to do anything about SUVs or CAFE or such, 'cause, after all, he supports Hydrogen.
Why is it any surprise that Hydrogen is not a real viable solution?
I had to make a pair of custom interface boards a few years back. I named them "Jake" and "Elwood". We used them for quite a while, and so conference calls were quite amusing at times. When we made a new pair of boards, the new names were Boris and Natasha. Being asked "Is Natasha ready to back up Boris?" in meetings was an interesting question. I had considered naming the boards Tom and Jerry, but one manager involved in the project was named Tom, so it was not a viable name.
The lack of water is an impediment.
However, the way I look at things is a little different. The main requirement is energy. If you really need water, you could use a limited supply and use up energy to constantly purify it. While you can't burn oil or gas, you can make a go with solar panels. The wide availability of silicates means that it may be feasible to constantly make solar panels on the lunar surface. You wouldn't need to have a very large production. The panels wouldn't have to be very efficient, cause you could make acres and acres of them.
So, once you have huge areas of cheap solar panels pumping out energy, you can start to become more and more self-sufficient, and also support additional expansion.
Gnuplot is very versatile. I have used it for years in a professional environment. Actually, the main thing I use it for is importing graphs into Framemaker - I use the Gnuplot MIF file format output. I wrote some simple c programs and scripts that allow me to convert lots of files at once, and then just import them. Excellent quality vector formatted graphics that can be scaled and easily worked with. I've also used them in presentations - save the Framemaker file as a PDF, and Adobe has a full screen option. No Powerpoint for me!
Well, actually, the police now know a little bit more about the suspect. It should make their job easier.
Patriot Act II makes it illegal to be a member of that known terrorist-loving group:the ACLU! Remember how Bush I tried to crush that dangerous group, but it has returned like Saddam to menance America!
We are absolutely lucky that we have Bush here to protect the government!
B. Isn't smarter to protest before a war happens, than after?
Well, normally yes, but since Bush is going to do whatever he wants anyway...
Remember, he was the candidate with LESS votes.
What is 802.11g? It is a mix of 802.11b and 802.11a.
802.11b, the commonly seen version, runs at 2.4GHz, just like Bluetooth. Why? Because 2.4GHz is the natural resonance frequency of water, which is the frequency of microwave ovens. So 2.4GHz was left open years ago, because nobody thought it would be any use (a 1KW noise source could completely swamp out the 1nW power of a tranmsitted frequency).
802.11b uses a digital modulation scheme called CCK, which is basically a fluffed up version of QPSK. 802.11a uses a more advanced modulation format called OFDM, but at 5.2GHz. OFDM is better able to operate in an environment with multiple reflections, but requires a much more complicated modulator/demodulator. But the complexity gets about 5x the data rate in the same bandwidth.
802.11g was a higher data rate version of 802.11b. Texas Instruments had proposed to use a data format called PBCC to get higher data rates than the CCK used in 802.11b. Intersil proposed to use the OFDM from 802.11a. A standards committee war started, and the end was TI lost. TI wanted PBCC because it was already working on a chipset that would support it, giving TI a great advantage. Of course, Intersil waas probably doing the same thing. When TI lost, it tried to do an end-run around the standard by releasing its chipset anyway. The Dlink plus series and USR 22MB/s Wireless components use the TI chipset.
The Post Office also goes after fraud in a big way. So mailed advertisements are significantly more trustworthy than the common enlarge your penis/breasts emails.
Everyone knocks the post office, but for $0.37, would you deliver a letter anywhere in the US?