Um, these suits have nothing in common. One is about illegal business practices, the other is *soon* to be about illegal business practices. Totally different.
The hell they don't have "anything in common". They are both clear abuses of the law for profit purpouses. Only the targets are different. They are both about illegal business practices - as you said. What kind of raving idiot...oh wait, you're an anonymous coward.
So, everybody basically agrees that SCO is in the wrong for sueing IBM and Linux "users" as an income model - what makes it right when a Linux company does it? SCO is using the threat of lawsuits to scare Linux "users" into paying their exhorbitant extortionist licensing fees. Lindows is using the actual lawsuits to force Microsoft to pay them - in effect - to distribute Lindows to end users for free.
...I think it's safe to say that this is only because Linux has some 80% market penetration for serving web sites (Linux + Apache/Apollo/thttpd/etc), whereas Microsoft's IIS has dropped to about 17%.
Of course, you can also make the case that Linux is more easily hacked - and lets face it, because Linux offers more services and is being installed by less competant sysadmins in many cases, it is full of holes. IIS by default is fairly secure, but doesn't offer alot of services. What is needed is a decent GUI front-end for managing and configuring Apache. I haven't seen any I'm happy with.
I'm too lazy to run the numbers, but I think you'll find that all things being equal, Linux is way more secure than Windows for any application when both are installed by competant sysadmins.
I read their list of so-called "Underreported stories". They were reported on. Just because PS, and perhaps their readership, isn't paying attention doesn't uncover some vast conspiracy.
More to the point, PS obviously doesn't do anything approaching investigative journalism on their own. Had they elected to do so, they would have realized (assuming they are level, rational, objective individuals) that there is nothing to these stories.
Yeah, so...they're damn expensive new, and anyone can understand that. But you cannot deny that the book stores aren't making a killing on used books. I've had my book bought for $40 and then sold for $90, where the new price is $120.
Lets not forget the planned obsolescence - that is the habit of faculty of changing books regardless of whether they need it or not. I have heard some teachers fight tooth and nail to stay with a certain text where the administration wants to change to a new text so they can pump up book sales, and get that tidy back-end rebate from the publisher.
It's not just the books either - $4.00 for a pack of three-hole college rule notebook paper? It's $1.44 at Wal-Mart. And the college swank..."X University" on a Hanes Beefy-T should not cost $40.00.
Nobody is making this an attack against you personally, but don't sit there and try to justify the obvious price gouging that goes on in a book store, or shift the responsibility over to the publisher when the University is definately getting their kicks. Just because you clerked the college bookstore doesn't mean you know the economics behind the college book business.
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I don't know who the flaming moron is who wrote this article, but they are woefully ignorant of...my god, they're just woefull ignorant.
For starters, the US Army does not have any personnel at risk from the V-22 Osprey, because the US Army is forbidden by Congressional Mandate from operating fixed-wing aircraft. The US Marine Corps is spearheading the operational deployment of the Osprey. Also, the US Navy and Air Force are evaluating prototypes.
The next idiocy is the implication (likely based in outright aviation ignorance) that the V-22 is at all an unsafe aircraft, or even more outlandish - that an untested and infinitely more complex aircraft design is going to be safer. The V-22 Osprey has an outstanding record for a fixed-wing VSTOL aircraft, and considering it is a new type of VSTOL (of which none have every peen deployed, and only a small series of research prototypes have been based on), it is without saying that thus far the aircraft has peformed very well.
That one insipid litany of ignorance ruined what would have otherwise been a decent article - except that really, Slashdot has been going down the tubes when it comes to "quality" articles for a while now. If you get that many submissions in a day, you'd think you could weed out the pedestrian ones like this, or at least trim the fat off the meat.
I can demonstrate prior art on behalf of Texas Instruments in the form of my TI-85, which will store any number or image, and recall it at the touch of a button.
...while Red Hat's dominance cannot be doubted, and Suse's extreme popularity is not in question either, it would be a mistake to ignore the "31 flavors" aspect of linux. For instance, I keep at least two Knoppix Live CD's on my person at all times, and I hand them out like candy. People are amazed that there are OS's that are stable, beautiful and not Microsoft/Apple.
Then there's Lindows, and FreeBSD (though less of a nix, more of a nux). At least 5% of Macs now run Yellow Dog Linux IIRC, and I know for a fact that some schools have revived their old PowerPC 61xx's using MKLinux.
Regardless, he is generally right, but the OS community needs to downplay these statements, or it *will* become just Suse and RedHat.
...this notion is patently rediculous. Apples simply aren't recommended because - outside of professional graphics - there isn't a whole lot of narrow application programs available for the MacOS (that is, before OS X). Windows, on the other hand, has a tremendous library of applications for specifically targeted tasks. Take accounting for instance. You simply cannot get a professional grade accounting package like Great Plains or Business Works for the Mac.
That being said, it is no longer actually true. Now that Mac is 'nix based, there are a host of programs that were heretofore only available on Windows NT and Unix. I've been beating this drum for years, but now that MacOS is 'nix based, more applications will be ported to it because of the already established Linux and Unix user bases, and because of the popular application of PowerPC processors in scientific and business computing application. The consumer side is seeing rapid interest in Macs as well, and the only thing that is needed is for Apple to release the PowerPC as an open architecture.
But that's not why this assertion is patently false. It's patently false because - as any IT person knows - about 90% of the problems that arise with a computer are ESO (Equipment Superior to Operator) or OHS (Operator Head Space) errors. Granted, 50% of those problems were related to a deficiency with the PC, but an even moderately astute user knows to save their work and reboot, or shut down applications to reclaim memory. You could make the argument that because Mac's are easier to use, there will be less of these, but I can assure you that - having serviced an IT environment with 12 Macs, 5 Windows PC's, and 3 'nix PC's, there were more problems with the heavily used macs than with the hardly touched PC's.
First of all, New England refers to those states in the North which are part of the original colonies. Maine didn't even exist when the term came into use, so I don't know where the hell you get this tripe from.
Little History Lesson for Yankees
During the colonial era, The Northern Colonies included New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey. Territories in the Ohio Valley (such as Kentucky, Indiana, et al) were ceded to the US by Britain after our Independence. These areas were referred to as the Northwest, and the border regions are known as the Northwest Corridor.
By the way, Maine didn't exist as a state until the Missourri Compromise in 1820.
For the geographicall challenged, the areas affected are known as the "New England" States and the "Great Lakes Region". To New Englanders, it's specifically the "Northwest Corridor".
I am on the "East Coast", and my power didn't even blink. But then, I just shut down my Slash beta server a few minutes ago, so I may have singlehandedely spared NC from a power outage.
...and I know that sounds like pedantic geekish zealotry, but it's exactly what I did. RedHat, Lindows, Knoppix, and Suse all demonstrate that Linux is mature enough to fully replace Windows. I got this worm last Wednesday, and I've been using Linux since. Granted, it wasn't a out-of-the-blue switch - I had considerable dabbling under my belt, but this time its for real. All we need is for Wine to fix that little "reentrant libc, multithreading not enabled on compile" issue, and Linux can realistically crush microsoft.
So, it's been about 5 days since my computer started crashing. Actually, it didn't toally crash, but DCOM kept crashing, and occasionally RPC would crash and I'd be forced to reboot. No biggie it only happenned once that I noticed. A more common problem was Mozilla staying memory resident after I closed it out, and sucking up 50 MB of RAM (not Windows's fault). So I got used to CTRL+ALT+DEL'ing, and closing it manually. But suddenly, one day last week, Program Manager kept crashing - but not...it was closing. I did a series of rapid CAD's, and saw a program that was obviously bull. A quick trip through the registry turned up the "WindowsSuckz 4 Driver - gloaub.exe". Turned out I had a worm which was installing a backdoor. My computer could have been used as a DOS zombie, or they could have installed keylogging software! I felt....DIRTY.
So I said "screw Microsoft". I've been a good boy. I apply an endless march of patches, service packs, hotfixes, and upgrades - more often then necessary IMHO. Well Microsoft didn't post a fix for this until nearly two weeks after it was discovered in the wild! By contrast, I remember the last Linux server I ran, a vulnerability was discovered in Apache+SQL that allowed backdoor access to a Linux system. Before my sweaty hands had finished an executive summary for da boss, a fix was issued. Literally...TWO HOURS for OpenSource to fix a bug vs Micrsoft taking TWO WEEKS!
Well I had dabbled in Linux for a while, I felt confident, and I was impressed by the latest round of offerings from RedHat, Suse, Mandrake, and Knoppix. So, I switched. I now run KDE, I use XawTV for my tuner card, Xine for playing DVD and video files, CUPS lets me print even over a network, SAMBA lets me share files....hell, you get the idea. The only thing I can't do is play windows games. I left a clean WinXP install for playing games until Wine gets that little "reentrant libc" issue fixed, and I'm sure the/dev/ team over at America's Army will get my v1.9 for Linux edition out soon enough.
Microsoft might have to learn about free market competition the hard way - by competing with an OS that is not only free, but better.
I'd download a new application, and either install the packages, or build it myself and install it. Except...it would give me an error that it needed lib-whatever-0.4.i386.tar.gz, which itself needs lib-devel-whatever-0.4.i386.tar.gz, and so on. Then, after installing all these, I find that somethings broke.
I'm also annoyed by the numlock behavior. I'll fix it every time, then when I upgrade or reinstall, I have to remember it all over again.
Beer (and other forms of alcohol) IS and have been part of a food pyramid for nearly 4 years!
Some Background For The Uninitiated
The concept of the Food Pyramid was proposed by researches at the US Department of Agriculture, who needed to convey the idea of a healthy diet (according to the dogma of the time) in terms of proportion, variety and moderation. Thus, the pyramid graphic was presented. The problem is that word, "dogma".
The USDA is by far not even close to the leading edge of nutrition and dietary research. Their food pyramid represented a diet heavy in breads, with a little less emphasis on fruits and vegetables. Meat was eschewed, as was diary, and fats, oils, and salts were placed at the top of the pyramid to emphasize that they were to be used sparingly.
Two problems with the Food Pyramid were immediately obvious. First, it ignored contemporary research and accepted medical though which stated that diets high in fish and poultry were beneficial. The USDA assumed that all means were bad because of their high animal fat content. But research at the time (and subsequent) proved that not all fat was bad, and not only was some fat good, but actually necessary. Also, the Food Pyramid didn't differntiate between breads that were healthy (whole grains) and those that were unhealthy (white rice, bleached flour, corn startches, pasta, and processed grains in which the fiber had been stripped chemically). They simply lumped all grains together.
The second problem was that the food pyramid tried to convey a sense of proportion by giving recommended serving amounts. But these serving amounts were meaningless to the average person. They needed to know what a serving was. Was it a gram, kilo, cup, pound, ounce, or something else?
Enter the Diet Fads
Actually, "Fad" diets aren't new. The term is used for just about any new diet which proclaims a principal not accepted in contemporary circles - so fad diets are not inherently bad, but most turn out that way. Fad diets did for Americans what the USDA didn't with thier Food Pyramid or "Four Food Groups" of prior years. It gave people a guide to how much of what should be eaten. The other problem is that these fad diets were targeted towards weight loss. Most of them worked for most people who tried them to some degree, but their failure came when the diet was over. Without a sense of proper nutrition, people reverted to their unhealthy ways of eating. Thus was coined the term "Yo-Yo" dieting, where a person loses weight, then gains it back, and loses it again. This constant state of flux is not healthy, and coupled with the sedantary lifestyle of the average American, it has lead to an epidemic of obesity.
The word "diet" itself has become synonymous with "trying to lose weight", and likewise has become eschewed by the very diet industry that gave rise to that misconception. Instead, they are using terms like "nutrition system" or "program".
Fighting Fat With Knowledge
Enter the molecular biologists, who have put the American diet and the human metabolism under a microscope. Some of the results they have come up with are startling, and have been used to construct a New Food Pyramid to counter the USDA's Food Pyramid. A notable development is the recognition that there are cultural differences that prevent a food pyramid for the American diet from being at all practical for other cultures.
Healthy, as in Beer
Beer, and other forms of alcohol, were discovered to be healthy in moderation. Moderation, of course, is the key to everything in a diet. A glass of wine daily can reduce risk factors related to heart disease and stroke. Beer was found to have a phytoprotein that actually aids in repairing cardiac muscle tissues. Red wine, long given to Soviet Nuclear Submariners, can protect the body from low levels of ionizing radiation (though potassium iodide is b
Bamboo can grow anywhere you have sunlight, soil and the proper temprature.
The same holds true of trees in general, but the facts are that bamboo is being harvested faster than it is being grown (just like trees in many places).
...yeah, I did get that backwards. Aluminum is something like 8.5% to irons 5% of the earths crust...the point I had hoped to make is that aluminum is just waiting on a better production and smelting technology to come along.
There is no "sustaining" bicycling. You build a bike, and it's done. It's a durable good.
As for aluminum, it's manufacture costs is due to our limited foundary technology, not because of any peculiar property of aluminum. Also, aluminum is a relatively rare metal when compared to the iron it often stands in for.
Rather than deforesting vast tracts of already endangered bamboo forests (which is already leading to the demise of the Panda - not that the stupid beast deserves a future in the ecosystem), folks ought to consider carbon fiber for the bicycles.
Oh man, I forgot abotu Kitt Peak, and the Grand Canyon! But, I got the guy as far as Flagstaff, and I sent him through Tucson, so he can see all the wonders of AZ.
...in Texas, when you get to Ft. Stockton, fill your gas tank up. Then head north on SR 385. This will take you up into New Mexico. Just over the border is Carlsbad, where you can visit Carlsbad Caverns (Geo Geek). Continue north to the Infamous Roswell, where you can visit the Famous (cheesy, hokey) UFO Museum & Research Center. There, you can pay for a tour of the Ranch where Marc Brazel made his discovery. But before you leave town, visit the Goddard Space Flight Museum and Planetarium. Here you can see Robert Goddards shop where he pioneered American Rocketry, then see a movie projected onto the planetariums dome.
Leaving Roswell, you'll hang a left on 2nd Street, and leave town via SR 380, which takes you out through some of the most beautiful southwest steppe countryside in the country. You'll cross the San Andreas mountains. You'll leave 380 for 70, heading south to Las Cruces. Along the way, you'll go through the White Sands missile test range, and into the town of Alamogordo. Hang a left onto 10th street, and go to the end, where you'll hang a left on Scenic drive. There, you can see the Alamagordo Space & Missile Museum.
Back on 70, you're going to head south into Las Cruces, where you'll pick up I10 again. Heading west, you'll go through some of the most barren land on earth (ought to remind you of parts of the outback). Just before you reach Tucson, AZ hang a right onto Pima Rd, but don't drive all the way to Pima. You'll instead go to the Pima Air & Space Museum, which is the largest private collection of military aircraft in the world, and the third largest collection period (second only to the Smithsonian and Wright Patterson AFB). There you can also buy tickets to tour the AMARC facility, where you will see some very interesting aircraft parked waiting either their destruction (B-52's, Viet Nam era choppers), or their rebirth (D-21 Hypersonic Recon Drones, YC-17 VSTOL heavy lift cargo planes). When you're done, go back to 10, go through Tucson, then keep an eye out. You'll need to exit to Tangerine Road, and head east till you hit Oracle rd (77), and head North. There'll you meet Biosphere 2.
After B2, you'll want to get back to 79 and head north through the Coconino National Forest. This is some of the most beautiful desert you'll ever see - rich, densly packed flora. 79 will also take you into Coolidge Arizona, where you can visit Casa Grande National Monument. The star attraction is a series of ruins of enormouse pre-columbian structures. The museum there (operated by the National Parks service) contains a rich history of Native American culture and technical achievement. Don't be confused when you see Casa Grande on the map - that's the town, not the historic site.
Head back toward Florence, AZ and 79, and go North. Eventually, youll hit US 60, where you'll want to head West towards Phoenix. When you get to Apache Junction, hang a right on S. Idaho Trail, go north, then hang a right on Apache Trail. You'll go north until yousee Goldfield - an authentic gold mining town from the American West. The mine is dry, but the town is very educational from a historal perspective (I learned alot at the whore house wink wink). Goldfield is a bit of a tourist trap, so you may only spend a few hours there before you ned to move on. Find your way back to 60, and go West some more into Mesa. Exit at Greenfield, and go north past University, Brown,and hang a righto onto McKellips. Then, go left on Falcon drive. Welcome to Falcon field, home of the Champlain Fighter Museum. This museumis unique, because every plane there is flight worthy, and can be flown. In fact, every plane is flown at least once in a while to maintain them. Champlain Fighter Museum restores vintage WWII aircraft to full operating capacity. You can also visit the nearby Confederate Air Force - a private non profit organization who restores WWII aircraft and flys them to airshows worldwide.
Getting back to 60, you're going to head into Phoenix - may god have mercy on your soul if it's rush hour. 60
Take it from someone who has lost more than 100 lbs, good health is usually as easy as a lifestyle change.
First, realize that excercise is not the key to losing weight. It's more like a garnish. What excercise is primarily good for is to increase muscle tone and cardiovascular health. However, at most even vigorous daily excercise will only ever account for 10% - 20% of the total energy budget of your body.
As a side effect, excercise will increase your resting metabolic rate. That's the key, because RMR is accountable for 50% to 65% of your total energy budget. In fact, you lose more weight while sleeping than in several hours of proper excercise. Digestion fills in for 15% to 35%, so choosing foods that take more to digest is a good idea (as in, don't eat sugar filled white bread junk foods).
Diet is key. You can control precisely how much you put in your mouth, but as demonstrated above you have little control over how much you take out of your body. When people live the life of a cubicle monkey, they tend to gravitate towards eating out and the "power lunch". Try to eat a well balanced diet yadda yadda yadda cliche cliche cliche. The easiest thing to do is eat subway - no shit.
Another thing people tend to do is skip breakfast, and skimp on lunch. This is the biggest mistake people make - they use up their energy in the morning, and wind up eating more in the evening. Well that food goes straight to the fat stores. Eat a good healthy breakfast, a satisfying lunch, and then go cheap on dinner. You'll also sleep better.
The beer is fine...keep drinking it. Just remember to moderate. Also, just to keep from dehydrating yourself, drink a glass of water for every beer. In fact, you should drink enough water so that - except for that first piss in the morning or just after a workout, your urine stream should be clear or barely colored.
Finally, we come back to excercise. Believe it or not, you don't have to kill yourself. Believe it or not, killing yourself is actually counterproductive. Your greatest weight loss will occur at between 65% and 85% of your maximum heart rate (MHR) for more than 30 minutes a day. To find this, you need to use Karvonin's formula, and I just don't have time to go over that. Look it up. But in general, if you're breathing heavy and sweating, you're doing a good job. If you're breathing so heavy that you can't talk in complete sentences, you're overdoing it. Overdoing it pushes you out of weight loss (the aerobic zone) and causes you to start burning nothing but glycogen. You want to burn fat.
So, what kind of excercise can you do? The stairs are a really good idea. Who gives a shit if people are looking at you? If you're worried about self image, they're going to think less of you as a fat slob who doesn't care about your body. However, you don't have to "run" the stairs. Walk up them really fast. Powerwalking is also a good idea. One of the most inoccuous excercises for around the office is stretching. When you stretch one muscle, you're working another muscle. You also reduce your chance of injury by stretching.
In general, don't try to work excercise in during your work day. Fit it in after work. Like I said, you only need about 30 minutes a day a few times a week (3 out of 5 days) to start losing gobs of weight.
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The hell they don't have "anything in common". They are both clear abuses of the law for profit purpouses. Only the targets are different. They are both about illegal business practices - as you said. What kind of raving idiot...oh wait, you're an anonymous coward.
So, everybody basically agrees that SCO is in the wrong for sueing IBM and Linux "users" as an income model - what makes it right when a Linux company does it? SCO is using the threat of lawsuits to scare Linux "users" into paying their exhorbitant extortionist licensing fees. Lindows is using the actual lawsuits to force Microsoft to pay them - in effect - to distribute Lindows to end users for free.
The lawsuit madness continues.
...I think it's safe to say that this is only because Linux has some 80% market penetration for serving web sites (Linux + Apache/Apollo/thttpd/etc), whereas Microsoft's IIS has dropped to about 17%.
Of course, you can also make the case that Linux is more easily hacked - and lets face it, because Linux offers more services and is being installed by less competant sysadmins in many cases, it is full of holes. IIS by default is fairly secure, but doesn't offer alot of services. What is needed is a decent GUI front-end for managing and configuring Apache. I haven't seen any I'm happy with.
I'm too lazy to run the numbers, but I think you'll find that all things being equal, Linux is way more secure than Windows for any application when both are installed by competant sysadmins.
I read their list of so-called "Underreported stories". They were reported on. Just because PS, and perhaps their readership, isn't paying attention doesn't uncover some vast conspiracy.
More to the point, PS obviously doesn't do anything approaching investigative journalism on their own. Had they elected to do so, they would have realized (assuming they are level, rational, objective individuals) that there is nothing to these stories.
Yeah, so...they're damn expensive new, and anyone can understand that. But you cannot deny that the book stores aren't making a killing on used books. I've had my book bought for $40 and then sold for $90, where the new price is $120.
Lets not forget the planned obsolescence - that is the habit of faculty of changing books regardless of whether they need it or not. I have heard some teachers fight tooth and nail to stay with a certain text where the administration wants to change to a new text so they can pump up book sales, and get that tidy back-end rebate from the publisher.
It's not just the books either - $4.00 for a pack of three-hole college rule notebook paper? It's $1.44 at Wal-Mart. And the college swank..."X University" on a Hanes Beefy-T should not cost $40.00.
Nobody is making this an attack against you personally, but don't sit there and try to justify the obvious price gouging that goes on in a book store, or shift the responsibility over to the publisher when the University is definately getting their kicks. Just because you clerked the college bookstore doesn't mean you know the economics behind the college book business.
I don't know who the flaming moron is who wrote this article, but they are woefully ignorant of...my god, they're just woefull ignorant.
For starters, the US Army does not have any personnel at risk from the V-22 Osprey, because the US Army is forbidden by Congressional Mandate from operating fixed-wing aircraft. The US Marine Corps is spearheading the operational deployment of the Osprey. Also, the US Navy and Air Force are evaluating prototypes.
The next idiocy is the implication (likely based in outright aviation ignorance) that the V-22 is at all an unsafe aircraft, or even more outlandish - that an untested and infinitely more complex aircraft design is going to be safer. The V-22 Osprey has an outstanding record for a fixed-wing VSTOL aircraft, and considering it is a new type of VSTOL (of which none have every peen deployed, and only a small series of research prototypes have been based on), it is without saying that thus far the aircraft has peformed very well.
That one insipid litany of ignorance ruined what would have otherwise been a decent article - except that really, Slashdot has been going down the tubes when it comes to "quality" articles for a while now. If you get that many submissions in a day, you'd think you could weed out the pedestrian ones like this, or at least trim the fat off the meat.
...any half assed electronics store can reprint your receipt.
I can demonstrate prior art on behalf of Texas Instruments in the form of my TI-85, which will store any number or image, and recall it at the touch of a button.
...while Red Hat's dominance cannot be doubted, and Suse's extreme popularity is not in question either, it would be a mistake to ignore the "31 flavors" aspect of linux. For instance, I keep at least two Knoppix Live CD's on my person at all times, and I hand them out like candy. People are amazed that there are OS's that are stable, beautiful and not Microsoft/Apple.
Then there's Lindows, and FreeBSD (though less of a nix, more of a nux). At least 5% of Macs now run Yellow Dog Linux IIRC, and I know for a fact that some schools have revived their old PowerPC 61xx's using MKLinux.
Regardless, he is generally right, but the OS community needs to downplay these statements, or it *will* become just Suse and RedHat.
...and promptly spewed beer all over my desktop...
...this notion is patently rediculous. Apples simply aren't recommended because - outside of professional graphics - there isn't a whole lot of narrow application programs available for the MacOS (that is, before OS X). Windows, on the other hand, has a tremendous library of applications for specifically targeted tasks. Take accounting for instance. You simply cannot get a professional grade accounting package like Great Plains or Business Works for the Mac.
That being said, it is no longer actually true. Now that Mac is 'nix based, there are a host of programs that were heretofore only available on Windows NT and Unix. I've been beating this drum for years, but now that MacOS is 'nix based, more applications will be ported to it because of the already established Linux and Unix user bases, and because of the popular application of PowerPC processors in scientific and business computing application. The consumer side is seeing rapid interest in Macs as well, and the only thing that is needed is for Apple to release the PowerPC as an open architecture.
But that's not why this assertion is patently false. It's patently false because - as any IT person knows - about 90% of the problems that arise with a computer are ESO (Equipment Superior to Operator) or OHS (Operator Head Space) errors. Granted, 50% of those problems were related to a deficiency with the PC, but an even moderately astute user knows to save their work and reboot, or shut down applications to reclaim memory. You could make the argument that because Mac's are easier to use, there will be less of these, but I can assure you that - having serviced an IT environment with 12 Macs, 5 Windows PC's, and 3 'nix PC's, there were more problems with the heavily used macs than with the hardly touched PC's.
First of all, New England refers to those states in the North which are part of the original colonies. Maine didn't even exist when the term came into use, so I don't know where the hell you get this tripe from.
Little History Lesson for Yankees
During the colonial era, The Northern Colonies included New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey. Territories in the Ohio Valley (such as Kentucky, Indiana, et al) were ceded to the US by Britain after our Independence. These areas were referred to as the Northwest, and the border regions are known as the Northwest Corridor.
By the way, Maine didn't exist as a state until the Missourri Compromise in 1820.
It's the other way around bucko...Canada depends on us for electricity. That's why they tie into our grids at the NW Corridor.
But you're right. We need more nuclear reactors...preferrably IEC Fusion ones.
For the geographicall challenged, the areas affected are known as the "New England" States and the "Great Lakes Region". To New Englanders, it's specifically the "Northwest Corridor".
I am on the "East Coast", and my power didn't even blink. But then, I just shut down my Slash beta server a few minutes ago, so I may have singlehandedely spared NC from a power outage.
...and I know that sounds like pedantic geekish zealotry, but it's exactly what I did. RedHat, Lindows, Knoppix, and Suse all demonstrate that Linux is mature enough to fully replace Windows. I got this worm last Wednesday, and I've been using Linux since. Granted, it wasn't a out-of-the-blue switch - I had considerable dabbling under my belt, but this time its for real. All we need is for Wine to fix that little "reentrant libc, multithreading not enabled on compile" issue, and Linux can realistically crush microsoft.
Better yet...get a Mac.
So, it's been about 5 days since my computer started crashing. Actually, it didn't toally crash, but DCOM kept crashing, and occasionally RPC would crash and I'd be forced to reboot. No biggie it only happenned once that I noticed. A more common problem was Mozilla staying memory resident after I closed it out, and sucking up 50 MB of RAM (not Windows's fault). So I got used to CTRL+ALT+DEL'ing, and closing it manually. But suddenly, one day last week, Program Manager kept crashing - but not...it was closing. I did a series of rapid CAD's, and saw a program that was obviously bull. A quick trip through the registry turned up the "WindowsSuckz 4 Driver - gloaub.exe". Turned out I had a worm which was installing a backdoor. My computer could have been used as a DOS zombie, or they could have installed keylogging software! I felt....DIRTY.
/dev/ team over at America's Army will get my v1.9 for Linux edition out soon enough.
So I said "screw Microsoft". I've been a good boy. I apply an endless march of patches, service packs, hotfixes, and upgrades - more often then necessary IMHO. Well Microsoft didn't post a fix for this until nearly two weeks after it was discovered in the wild! By contrast, I remember the last Linux server I ran, a vulnerability was discovered in Apache+SQL that allowed backdoor access to a Linux system. Before my sweaty hands had finished an executive summary for da boss, a fix was issued. Literally...TWO HOURS for OpenSource to fix a bug vs Micrsoft taking TWO WEEKS!
Well I had dabbled in Linux for a while, I felt confident, and I was impressed by the latest round of offerings from RedHat, Suse, Mandrake, and Knoppix. So, I switched. I now run KDE, I use XawTV for my tuner card, Xine for playing DVD and video files, CUPS lets me print even over a network, SAMBA lets me share files....hell, you get the idea. The only thing I can't do is play windows games. I left a clean WinXP install for playing games until Wine gets that little "reentrant libc" issue fixed, and I'm sure the
Microsoft might have to learn about free market competition the hard way - by competing with an OS that is not only free, but better.
I'd download a new application, and either install the packages, or build it myself and install it. Except...it would give me an error that it needed lib-whatever-0.4.i386.tar.gz, which itself needs lib-devel-whatever-0.4.i386.tar.gz, and so on. Then, after installing all these, I find that somethings broke.
I'm also annoyed by the numlock behavior. I'll fix it every time, then when I upgrade or reinstall, I have to remember it all over again.
Whatever...just keep sucking the tit of big government...
Beer (and other forms of alcohol) IS and have been part of a food pyramid for nearly 4 years!
Some Background For The Uninitiated
The concept of the Food Pyramid was proposed by researches at the US Department of Agriculture, who needed to convey the idea of a healthy diet (according to the dogma of the time) in terms of proportion, variety and moderation. Thus, the pyramid graphic was presented. The problem is that word, "dogma".
The USDA is by far not even close to the leading edge of nutrition and dietary research. Their food pyramid represented a diet heavy in breads, with a little less emphasis on fruits and vegetables. Meat was eschewed, as was diary, and fats, oils, and salts were placed at the top of the pyramid to emphasize that they were to be used sparingly.
Two problems with the Food Pyramid were immediately obvious. First, it ignored contemporary research and accepted medical though which stated that diets high in fish and poultry were beneficial. The USDA assumed that all means were bad because of their high animal fat content. But research at the time (and subsequent) proved that not all fat was bad, and not only was some fat good, but actually necessary. Also, the Food Pyramid didn't differntiate between breads that were healthy (whole grains) and those that were unhealthy (white rice, bleached flour, corn startches, pasta, and processed grains in which the fiber had been stripped chemically). They simply lumped all grains together.
The second problem was that the food pyramid tried to convey a sense of proportion by giving recommended serving amounts. But these serving amounts were meaningless to the average person. They needed to know what a serving was. Was it a gram, kilo, cup, pound, ounce, or something else?
Enter the Diet Fads
Actually, "Fad" diets aren't new. The term is used for just about any new diet which proclaims a principal not accepted in contemporary circles - so fad diets are not inherently bad, but most turn out that way. Fad diets did for Americans what the USDA didn't with thier Food Pyramid or "Four Food Groups" of prior years. It gave people a guide to how much of what should be eaten. The other problem is that these fad diets were targeted towards weight loss. Most of them worked for most people who tried them to some degree, but their failure came when the diet was over. Without a sense of proper nutrition, people reverted to their unhealthy ways of eating. Thus was coined the term "Yo-Yo" dieting, where a person loses weight, then gains it back, and loses it again. This constant state of flux is not healthy, and coupled with the sedantary lifestyle of the average American, it has lead to an epidemic of obesity.
The word "diet" itself has become synonymous with "trying to lose weight", and likewise has become eschewed by the very diet industry that gave rise to that misconception. Instead, they are using terms like "nutrition system" or "program".
Fighting Fat With Knowledge
Enter the molecular biologists, who have put the American diet and the human metabolism under a microscope. Some of the results they have come up with are startling, and have been used to construct a New Food Pyramid to counter the USDA's Food Pyramid. A notable development is the recognition that there are cultural differences that prevent a food pyramid for the American diet from being at all practical for other cultures.
Healthy, as in Beer
Beer, and other forms of alcohol, were discovered to be healthy in moderation. Moderation, of course, is the key to everything in a diet. A glass of wine daily can reduce risk factors related to heart disease and stroke. Beer was found to have a phytoprotein that actually aids in repairing cardiac muscle tissues. Red wine, long given to Soviet Nuclear Submariners, can protect the body from low levels of ionizing radiation (though potassium iodide is b
The same holds true of trees in general, but the facts are that bamboo is being harvested faster than it is being grown (just like trees in many places).
...yeah, I did get that backwards. Aluminum is something like 8.5% to irons 5% of the earths crust...the point I had hoped to make is that aluminum is just waiting on a better production and smelting technology to come along.
There is no "sustaining" bicycling. You build a bike, and it's done. It's a durable good.
As for aluminum, it's manufacture costs is due to our limited foundary technology, not because of any peculiar property of aluminum. Also, aluminum is a relatively rare metal when compared to the iron it often stands in for.
Rather than deforesting vast tracts of already endangered bamboo forests (which is already leading to the demise of the Panda - not that the stupid beast deserves a future in the ecosystem), folks ought to consider carbon fiber for the bicycles.
Oh man, I forgot abotu Kitt Peak, and the Grand Canyon! But, I got the guy as far as Flagstaff, and I sent him through Tucson, so he can see all the wonders of AZ.
DAMN I miss Arizona.
...in Texas, when you get to Ft. Stockton, fill your gas tank up. Then head north on SR 385. This will take you up into New Mexico. Just over the border is Carlsbad, where you can visit Carlsbad Caverns (Geo Geek). Continue north to the Infamous Roswell, where you can visit the Famous (cheesy, hokey) UFO Museum & Research Center. There, you can pay for a tour of the Ranch where Marc Brazel made his discovery. But before you leave town, visit the Goddard Space Flight Museum and Planetarium. Here you can see Robert Goddards shop where he pioneered American Rocketry, then see a movie projected onto the planetariums dome.
Leaving Roswell, you'll hang a left on 2nd Street, and leave town via SR 380, which takes you out through some of the most beautiful southwest steppe countryside in the country. You'll cross the San Andreas mountains. You'll leave 380 for 70, heading south to Las Cruces. Along the way, you'll go through the White Sands missile test range, and into the town of Alamogordo. Hang a left onto 10th street, and go to the end, where you'll hang a left on Scenic drive. There, you can see the Alamagordo Space & Missile Museum.
Back on 70, you're going to head south into Las Cruces, where you'll pick up I10 again. Heading west, you'll go through some of the most barren land on earth (ought to remind you of parts of the outback). Just before you reach Tucson, AZ hang a right onto Pima Rd, but don't drive all the way to Pima. You'll instead go to the Pima Air & Space Museum, which is the largest private collection of military aircraft in the world, and the third largest collection period (second only to the Smithsonian and Wright Patterson AFB). There you can also buy tickets to tour the AMARC facility, where you will see some very interesting aircraft parked waiting either their destruction (B-52's, Viet Nam era choppers), or their rebirth (D-21 Hypersonic Recon Drones, YC-17 VSTOL heavy lift cargo planes). When you're done, go back to 10, go through Tucson, then keep an eye out. You'll need to exit to Tangerine Road, and head east till you hit Oracle rd (77), and head North. There'll you meet Biosphere 2.
After B2, you'll want to get back to 79 and head north through the Coconino National Forest. This is some of the most beautiful desert you'll ever see - rich, densly packed flora. 79 will also take you into Coolidge Arizona, where you can visit Casa Grande National Monument. The star attraction is a series of ruins of enormouse pre-columbian structures. The museum there (operated by the National Parks service) contains a rich history of Native American culture and technical achievement. Don't be confused when you see Casa Grande on the map - that's the town, not the historic site.
Head back toward Florence, AZ and 79, and go North. Eventually, youll hit US 60, where you'll want to head West towards Phoenix. When you get to Apache Junction, hang a right on S. Idaho Trail, go north, then hang a right on Apache Trail. You'll go north until yousee Goldfield - an authentic gold mining town from the American West. The mine is dry, but the town is very educational from a historal perspective (I learned alot at the whore house wink wink). Goldfield is a bit of a tourist trap, so you may only spend a few hours there before you ned to move on. Find your way back to 60, and go West some more into Mesa. Exit at Greenfield, and go north past University, Brown,and hang a righto onto McKellips. Then, go left on Falcon drive. Welcome to Falcon field, home of the Champlain Fighter Museum. This museumis unique, because every plane there is flight worthy, and can be flown. In fact, every plane is flown at least once in a while to maintain them. Champlain Fighter Museum restores vintage WWII aircraft to full operating capacity. You can also visit the nearby Confederate Air Force - a private non profit organization who restores WWII aircraft and flys them to airshows worldwide.
Getting back to 60, you're going to head into Phoenix - may god have mercy on your soul if it's rush hour. 60
Take it from someone who has lost more than 100 lbs, good health is usually as easy as a lifestyle change.
First, realize that excercise is not the key to losing weight. It's more like a garnish. What excercise is primarily good for is to increase muscle tone and cardiovascular health. However, at most even vigorous daily excercise will only ever account for 10% - 20% of the total energy budget of your body.
As a side effect, excercise will increase your resting metabolic rate. That's the key, because RMR is accountable for 50% to 65% of your total energy budget. In fact, you lose more weight while sleeping than in several hours of proper excercise. Digestion fills in for 15% to 35%, so choosing foods that take more to digest is a good idea (as in, don't eat sugar filled white bread junk foods).
Diet is key. You can control precisely how much you put in your mouth, but as demonstrated above you have little control over how much you take out of your body. When people live the life of a cubicle monkey, they tend to gravitate towards eating out and the "power lunch". Try to eat a well balanced diet yadda yadda yadda cliche cliche cliche. The easiest thing to do is eat subway - no shit.
Another thing people tend to do is skip breakfast, and skimp on lunch. This is the biggest mistake people make - they use up their energy in the morning, and wind up eating more in the evening. Well that food goes straight to the fat stores. Eat a good healthy breakfast, a satisfying lunch, and then go cheap on dinner. You'll also sleep better.
The beer is fine...keep drinking it. Just remember to moderate. Also, just to keep from dehydrating yourself, drink a glass of water for every beer. In fact, you should drink enough water so that - except for that first piss in the morning or just after a workout, your urine stream should be clear or barely colored.
Finally, we come back to excercise. Believe it or not, you don't have to kill yourself. Believe it or not, killing yourself is actually counterproductive. Your greatest weight loss will occur at between 65% and 85% of your maximum heart rate (MHR) for more than 30 minutes a day. To find this, you need to use Karvonin's formula, and I just don't have time to go over that. Look it up. But in general, if you're breathing heavy and sweating, you're doing a good job. If you're breathing so heavy that you can't talk in complete sentences, you're overdoing it. Overdoing it pushes you out of weight loss (the aerobic zone) and causes you to start burning nothing but glycogen. You want to burn fat.
So, what kind of excercise can you do? The stairs are a really good idea. Who gives a shit if people are looking at you? If you're worried about self image, they're going to think less of you as a fat slob who doesn't care about your body. However, you don't have to "run" the stairs. Walk up them really fast. Powerwalking is also a good idea. One of the most inoccuous excercises for around the office is stretching. When you stretch one muscle, you're working another muscle. You also reduce your chance of injury by stretching.
In general, don't try to work excercise in during your work day. Fit it in after work. Like I said, you only need about 30 minutes a day a few times a week (3 out of 5 days) to start losing gobs of weight.