Hm...despite being threatened from all sides, even already floundering from piracy losses, the poor suffering movie industry still hit a record memorial day weekend: "The two movies [shrek2 & day after tomorrow] led Hollywood to a record Memorial Day weekend haul. The top 12 movies alone took in $233.5 million, easily topping the previous best of $202 million for all movies over Memorial Day weekend last year." And that's just US figures! (CNN source) Threatened my ass. At lest they can afford those spiffy new toys though...
and I *hate* alton. yes, there is a lot of chemistry and science in cooking, and it is very interesting, and a lot of it can be boiled down to quantifiable, deterministic values - but ultimately, COOKING IS AN ART. if it wasn't, any regular joe could pick up a copy of the Joy of Cooking and be running a four-star restaurant in a week. i can't count how often something i've tried in the kitchen that chemically and scientifically should have worked fine, but in the end came out curdled, or tasteless, or fallen. maybe "regular" home cooking can be broken down into pure numbers that anybody can grind out, but making truly excellent food will always need that certain artists' touch.
i did some work at Brookhaven National Lab a while back; i hooked up with a cute chick who was into physics and got to slum around the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider quite a bit (mostly the STAR detector, for those who care). i almost choked when i saw a win2k workstation humming away, but that was just the interface computer (there tend to be a lot of interns and such working, so a windows frontend is handy, cuts back the learning curve quite a bit). the rest of the lot was a hodgepodge of unix kit; the really really mission-critical hardware (the stuff that actually ran the collider) was running Solaris, at least as near as i could tell, along with quite a few linux and sgi boxes around for data processing and visualization (if you want pretty posters, get the gold ion collisions from the website).
it's a bout freakin' time; i was curious what the power needs of a G4 proc were as compared to a P4, so i went hunting - my entire dual 1.25ghz G4 box sucks down 113 watts, while a single 3.2ghz P4 wants ~115W IIRC...that's just re-freakin-diculous!
...with a cooler processor (a given volume of air can remove a given quantity of heat, so if you have less heat, you need to push less air to remove it). your smaller fan can spin at a lower RPM, hence it's quieter.
637hp is nothing from a 427 (that's 100hp/L...)
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well, lessee here...637hp out of a 7.0L (427ci) is under 100hp/liter, which is a trivial output level - honda's s2000 puts out 120hp/liter; the latest round of F1 cars put out 250-300hp/L, and a Top Fuel rail (the BME car to be exact) pumps out 8000hp from 8.2L (500ci) - that's damn near a THOUSAND HORSEPOWER PER LITER. if you can get even 20% of that power in a mill that will run for 3000 miles with no maintenance, you're gonna be one of the richest men in history.
how often you wanna rebuild it?
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drag engines are torn down after every day, if not every race - do you want to have to bring your car in for a total engine rebuild every 500 miles?
Yes, I am aware of neutrino observatories...and I would hardly consider a mammoth installation in Antarctica that relies on ice buried over 1400 meters deep as a detector a "practical" or even particularly general method of detecting single atoms. I suppose a sensitive laser excitation atomic fluorescence spectroscopy setup could theoretically detect single atoms, but good luck getting it to actually work in the real world.
first off, there's no (practical) way to detect a single atom of anything in a reaction. i'm willing to bet what they were able to do was generate a detectable quantity of He4 and measure the total energy released, then just divide to get the energy per helium atom value. i'd imagine it was a very small amount of helium; that would account for the huge uncertainty of over 50%.
i got my first exposure to a sonic boom while out to sea off the East Coast - every morning at..uhm..9:18am? it sounded like somebody was firing a double-barrel 12ga shotgun in a quick 1-2 BOOM-BOOM. no gentle, thunderlike rumble, definitely more like a gunshot than anything.
anybody who's used the labview scientific test, measurement&recording and control software package can see how this will work just like LV in hardware; all you'll have to do will be pick your modules, wire them together and voila, a totally custom hardware solution. cool.
...and yet rotten.com is still one of the most popular sites. come on people...maybe this article really is only drawing the horrified to comment, and the jaded are just shrugging and looking for the video, but this "sickness" is pervasive, and nothing you can do can change it. anyway - information wants to be free, doesn't it?
on a tanget, does anybody know why the telepone-pole impalement got taken down? that was one of the more shiver-inspiring images they've had lately.
if you're a n00b then take every other day off..
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if you're already semi-fit, or want to get really in shape (and are relatively young and resilient), then alternate "real" workouts and really easy days, e.g. M=5k hard, T=3k jog W=3k fartlek Th=5k easy trail F=distance ladder, Sa=easy 5k, Su=rest day. when you get more in shape, start doing two back-to-back hard days, friday and saturday perhaps, and keep slowly building up to staggering hard and harder workouts, with one easy and one rest day. of course, that's if you want to be competitive - otherwise, x-train and take easy days to your heart's delight.
damn, and i just bought shoes like two hours ago
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newbie 801 all-terrians...and you guys have them 5 bucks cheaper! argh!
depends on how fast you want to run
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a weight program is absolutely indespensable if you want to be all-round "fit", and not specialize in one particular sport. of course, if you just want to get fit, i'd recommend something besides running for the aerobic aspect - x-c skiing, biking, swimming and rollerblading are all just as effective at whipping your cardiovascular system into shape, without the accompanying pounding (not that that's neccesarily a problem, but if you don't have a particular love for running, you might as well do something less stressful).
if you want to be a really fast runner though, i wouldn't lift weights, except for some very light upper-body endurance work to get you into shape. muscle is mighty heavy, and carrying around an extra 15 lbs on your upper body is just dead weight if you're trying to cover the maximum ground in the minimum time - pretty much all your arms are there for is to swing and set your rhythm. and don't even think about legwork; if you're doing 120 miles a week, your legs are getting plenty of exercise already. look at world-class runners...they have tiny little emaciated torsos on top of lean legs that come up to their armpits, with not an extra ounce of fat *or* muscle.
LSD runs are out, train faster punk!
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While LSD seems like a great concept, and can be useful once a month or so for the psychological value of just being out there for hours, there's very few real benefits to slow distance training - you aren't getting your system going fast enough to provide any kind of endurance at a race-pace, or for that matter any true aerobic benefit (unless you wear an HRM and get in the "zone", but who wants to work that hard for three hours?). Zatopek put it best..."I began my training by running one hundred meters as fast as I could. People laughed at me and said 'Emil, one hundred meters is not distance, it is a sprint!' I replied, 'Yes, but if I run one hundred meters twenty times, it is two kilometers and no longer a sprint.' I must train fast to run fast." (source The Lore of Running, Tim Noakes; emphasis mine)
there's a reassessment going on in town this year. land tax will be paid on the reassessed value, which is looking like it's going to be about half again as much as before (real estate values have shot up around here lately). wo while i may not pay tax on the appreciation of my house as *income*, i most certainly do pay some sort of tax on it.
israel would nuke anything that moved...
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while never publically admitting it, it's common knowledge that israel is a nuclear state (with our help, of course), with 50-200 boosted fission bombs (~2-400kT yield). now - if we just drop israel and "let that problem sort itself out", how long do you think it would take for them to decide that their very existence is in mortal danger and use that as a convenient, as-near-to-morally-justifiable-as-possible excuse for unleashing the fires of hell on the surrounding countries? i don't agree with what israel is doing and i think they do need a firm slap, but just ditching them would be one of the worst things we could do.
i ate ~2.1g of 100% pure caffeine once...
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(being a chem major had it's uses, like 250g bottles of sublimed caffeine...disco shit, pure as the driven snow...) anyway, i started literally...jiggling, the buzz was that intense. i had to pull over on the ride to campus and make my housemate drive so i could hang my head out the window and retch. by the time we got to campus, i could hardly walk - but i was trippin. yes, literally Tripping; i had this weird flanging-vision thing going where my field of view would "update" about three-four times a second, like a super-fast slideshow (prolly because my eyes couldn't stay still) with some wierd border effects and halos around lights. i was only in my first two classes for about 15 minutes total, the rest of the time i spent literally running in circles around NatSci and drinking gallons and gallons of water. I settled down after about 2.5 hours and was left with a stomach trying to eat itself and a pounding headache. Fun, that...
the tiniest variation, beyond any manufacturing control, will affect the chip's speed. 90 nanometers is an incredibly small distace - it's impossible to create an arbitrary number of perfectly identical chips. the tolerances don't allow any defects that will affect the overall function of the chips, just how fast they can be reliably run - sort of like putting engines together with parts from the bin, then rating them to a certain rpm. if you get crap parts, your engine will only go so fast, but if you luck out and get all really good parts, you end up with a 15,000 rpm engine.
..anybody who uses an OS X box regularly knows what i mean. a well-designed GUI makes a lot of tasks simpler - i know a lot of you like your config files, but i really enjoy my mac config dialogs; you're absolutely nuts if you want to argue the firewall (in OS X) is easier to set up from the shell rather than system preferences. OTOH, i do use iTerm rather a lot, especially for dealing with huge quantities of files (Aqua bogs horribly when you try and move >2000 files around at once) and non-graphical web stuff...FTP is literally about half again as fast from the commandline. basic text editing too, although bbedit's multicolored highlighting with programming languages is nice for certain things.
side story: my dad was a communications operator for the air force in 'nam, a guru of the proto-net - he used to tell me about playing battleship with people in Greenland, in 1968, over the teletype. he hadn't touched a computer in 30 years, loathed the things, until i sat him down in front of my box, logged in as >console (switches off Aqua, drops you to a pure CLI). he stared at it for a second, then his face lit up as he said "OHHHhhh, it's just like my teletype, only on a screen!"...he's now does all his email, web browsing, imming, and text editing (invoices, inventories, whatnot) off the commandline. he DID ask if i could use the printer instead of the monitor once though, i had to shoot that one down...
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Hm...despite being threatened from all sides, even already floundering from piracy losses, the poor suffering movie industry still hit a record memorial day weekend: "The two movies [shrek2 & day after tomorrow] led Hollywood to a record Memorial Day weekend haul. The top 12 movies alone took in $233.5 million, easily topping the previous best of $202 million for all movies over Memorial Day weekend last year." And that's just US figures! (CNN source)
Threatened my ass. At lest they can afford those spiffy new toys though...
and I *hate* alton. yes, there is a lot of chemistry and science in cooking, and it is very interesting, and a lot of it can be boiled down to quantifiable, deterministic values - but ultimately, COOKING IS AN ART. if it wasn't, any regular joe could pick up a copy of the Joy of Cooking and be running a four-star restaurant in a week. i can't count how often something i've tried in the kitchen that chemically and scientifically should have worked fine, but in the end came out curdled, or tasteless, or fallen. maybe "regular" home cooking can be broken down into pure numbers that anybody can grind out, but making truly excellent food will always need that certain artists' touch.
i did some work at Brookhaven National Lab a while back; i hooked up with a cute chick who was into physics and got to slum around the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider quite a bit (mostly the STAR detector, for those who care). i almost choked when i saw a win2k workstation humming away, but that was just the interface computer (there tend to be a lot of interns and such working, so a windows frontend is handy, cuts back the learning curve quite a bit). the rest of the lot was a hodgepodge of unix kit; the really really mission-critical hardware (the stuff that actually ran the collider) was running Solaris, at least as near as i could tell, along with quite a few linux and sgi boxes around for data processing and visualization (if you want pretty posters, get the gold ion collisions from the website).
Here ya go...be nice, OOL gives me a lotta upstream bandwidth (yes, shameless plug) so let's try and not give them a heart attack, mmmkay?
it's a bout freakin' time; i was curious what the power needs of a G4 proc were as compared to a P4, so i went hunting - my entire dual 1.25ghz G4 box sucks down 113 watts, while a single 3.2ghz P4 wants ~115W IIRC...that's just re-freakin-diculous!
...with a cooler processor (a given volume of air can remove a given quantity of heat, so if you have less heat, you need to push less air to remove it). your smaller fan can spin at a lower RPM, hence it's quieter.
well, lessee here...637hp out of a 7.0L (427ci) is under 100hp/liter, which is a trivial output level - honda's s2000 puts out 120hp/liter; the latest round of F1 cars put out 250-300hp/L, and a Top Fuel rail (the BME car to be exact) pumps out 8000hp from 8.2L (500ci) - that's damn near a THOUSAND HORSEPOWER PER LITER. if you can get even 20% of that power in a mill that will run for 3000 miles with no maintenance, you're gonna be one of the richest men in history.
drag engines are torn down after every day, if not every race - do you want to have to bring your car in for a total engine rebuild every 500 miles?
Yes, I am aware of neutrino observatories...and I would hardly consider a mammoth installation in Antarctica that relies on ice buried over 1400 meters deep as a detector a "practical" or even particularly general method of detecting single atoms. I suppose a sensitive laser excitation atomic fluorescence spectroscopy setup could theoretically detect single atoms, but good luck getting it to actually work in the real world.
first off, there's no (practical) way to detect a single atom of anything in a reaction. i'm willing to bet what they were able to do was generate a detectable quantity of He4 and measure the total energy released, then just divide to get the energy per helium atom value. i'd imagine it was a very small amount of helium; that would account for the huge uncertainty of over 50%.
i got my first exposure to a sonic boom while out to sea off the East Coast - every morning at..uhm..9:18am? it sounded like somebody was firing a double-barrel 12ga shotgun in a quick 1-2 BOOM-BOOM. no gentle, thunderlike rumble, definitely more like a gunshot than anything.
anybody who's used the labview scientific test, measurement&recording and control software package can see how this will work just like LV in hardware; all you'll have to do will be pick your modules, wire them together and voila, a totally custom hardware solution. cool.
...and yet rotten.com is still one of the most popular sites. come on people...maybe this article really is only drawing the horrified to comment, and the jaded are just shrugging and looking for the video, but this "sickness" is pervasive, and nothing you can do can change it. anyway - information wants to be free, doesn't it?
on a tanget, does anybody know why the telepone-pole impalement got taken down? that was one of the more shiver-inspiring images they've had lately.
if you're already semi-fit, or want to get really in shape (and are relatively young and resilient), then alternate "real" workouts and really easy days, e.g. M=5k hard, T=3k jog W=3k fartlek Th=5k easy trail F=distance ladder, Sa=easy 5k, Su=rest day. when you get more in shape, start doing two back-to-back hard days, friday and saturday perhaps, and keep slowly building up to staggering hard and harder workouts, with one easy and one rest day. of course, that's if you want to be competitive - otherwise, x-train and take easy days to your heart's delight.
newbie 801 all-terrians...and you guys have them 5 bucks cheaper! argh!
a weight program is absolutely indespensable if you want to be all-round "fit", and not specialize in one particular sport. of course, if you just want to get fit, i'd recommend something besides running for the aerobic aspect - x-c skiing, biking, swimming and rollerblading are all just as effective at whipping your cardiovascular system into shape, without the accompanying pounding (not that that's neccesarily a problem, but if you don't have a particular love for running, you might as well do something less stressful).
if you want to be a really fast runner though, i wouldn't lift weights, except for some very light upper-body endurance work to get you into shape. muscle is mighty heavy, and carrying around an extra 15 lbs on your upper body is just dead weight if you're trying to cover the maximum ground in the minimum time - pretty much all your arms are there for is to swing and set your rhythm. and don't even think about legwork; if you're doing 120 miles a week, your legs are getting plenty of exercise already. look at world-class runners...they have tiny little emaciated torsos on top of lean legs that come up to their armpits, with not an extra ounce of fat *or* muscle.
While LSD seems like a great concept, and can be useful once a month or so for the psychological value of just being out there for hours, there's very few real benefits to slow distance training - you aren't getting your system going fast enough to provide any kind of endurance at a race-pace, or for that matter any true aerobic benefit (unless you wear an HRM and get in the "zone", but who wants to work that hard for three hours?).
Zatopek put it best..."I began my training by running one hundred meters as fast as I could. People laughed at me and said 'Emil, one hundred meters is not distance, it is a sprint!' I replied, 'Yes, but if I run one hundred meters twenty times, it is two kilometers and no longer a sprint.' I must train fast to run fast." (source The Lore of Running, Tim Noakes; emphasis mine)
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Homer: "Yeah, heh heh...they were so drunk..."
there's a reassessment going on in town this year. land tax will be paid on the reassessed value, which is looking like it's going to be about half again as much as before (real estate values have shot up around here lately). wo while i may not pay tax on the appreciation of my house as *income*, i most certainly do pay some sort of tax on it.
while never publically admitting it, it's common knowledge that israel is a nuclear state (with our help, of course), with 50-200 boosted fission bombs (~2-400kT yield).
now - if we just drop israel and "let that problem sort itself out", how long do you think it would take for them to decide that their very existence is in mortal danger and use that as a convenient, as-near-to-morally-justifiable-as-possible excuse for unleashing the fires of hell on the surrounding countries? i don't agree with what israel is doing and i think they do need a firm slap, but just ditching them would be one of the worst things we could do.
(being a chem major had it's uses, like 250g bottles of sublimed caffeine...disco shit, pure as the driven snow...) anyway, i started literally...jiggling, the buzz was that intense. i had to pull over on the ride to campus and make my housemate drive so i could hang my head out the window and retch. by the time we got to campus, i could hardly walk - but i was trippin. yes, literally Tripping; i had this weird flanging-vision thing going where my field of view would "update" about three-four times a second, like a super-fast slideshow (prolly because my eyes couldn't stay still) with some wierd border effects and halos around lights. i was only in my first two classes for about 15 minutes total, the rest of the time i spent literally running in circles around NatSci and drinking gallons and gallons of water. I settled down after about 2.5 hours and was left with a stomach trying to eat itself and a pounding headache. Fun, that...
the tiniest variation, beyond any manufacturing control, will affect the chip's speed. 90 nanometers is an incredibly small distace - it's impossible to create an arbitrary number of perfectly identical chips. the tolerances don't allow any defects that will affect the overall function of the chips, just how fast they can be reliably run - sort of like putting engines together with parts from the bin, then rating them to a certain rpm. if you get crap parts, your engine will only go so fast, but if you luck out and get all really good parts, you end up with a 15,000 rpm engine.
look!
if i hear one more person call it a swifter...i don't even know...*tears hair out*
..anybody who uses an OS X box regularly knows what i mean. a well-designed GUI makes a lot of tasks simpler - i know a lot of you like your config files, but i really enjoy my mac config dialogs; you're absolutely nuts if you want to argue the firewall (in OS X) is easier to set up from the shell rather than system preferences. OTOH, i do use iTerm rather a lot, especially for dealing with huge quantities of files (Aqua bogs horribly when you try and move >2000 files around at once) and non-graphical web stuff...FTP is literally about half again as fast from the commandline. basic text editing too, although bbedit's multicolored highlighting with programming languages is nice for certain things.
side story: my dad was a communications operator for the air force in 'nam, a guru of the proto-net - he used to tell me about playing battleship with people in Greenland, in 1968, over the teletype. he hadn't touched a computer in 30 years, loathed the things, until i sat him down in front of my box, logged in as >console (switches off Aqua, drops you to a pure CLI). he stared at it for a second, then his face lit up as he said "OHHHhhh, it's just like my teletype, only on a screen!"...he's now does all his email, web browsing, imming, and text editing (invoices, inventories, whatnot) off the commandline. he DID ask if i could use the printer instead of the monitor once though, i had to shoot that one down...
...since AAA Auto Supplies comes before AutoZone in the phone book ;P