Hundreds of different types, but they boil down to three or four deviations from proper operation of the DNA/RNA system. The different types do matter, though. The tissue affected initially can determine what treatments can be used, and what other tissues might be affected if it spreads.
And the thing about there being multiple types of heart disease is actually important as well, since not making the distinction means people can feel one thing, think it might be heart related, then read the symptoms for the wrong type of problem and decide they don't have heart disease and let it get worse figuring it's one of the dozens of other things that cause those pains. The ambiguities mean that cardiologists see a lot of people with acid reflux, but it also means a lot of people with blocked arteries don't go to the cardiologist.
Heart Disease gets lots of press, it just isn't all labeled "Heart Disease", whereas anything about prostate cancer is pretty unambiguous.
Anything relating to cholesterol, "heart health", cardio anything, "eating right", etc., is ultimately about heart disease.
I also don't know why you think the treatments for heart disease are less painful than for cancer. Nothing is more painful than people digging around in your chest cavity running new pipe or replacing the pump. Chemo is pretty nasty, but compared with chopped-up thorax? Not even in the same pain ballpark.
The real difference is that 90% of heart disease is very easily *preventable*, but it means rejection of a culture foisted on us by greedheads in the junk-food industry. The economic distortions due to their business model mean that it's probably not possible to even feed us all enough calories if we have to stop eating waste products shaped as burgers and nuggets and washing it down with bubbly sugar-water all of a sudden.
I can understand a day, a week, or months without noticing imbalance.
But we use our feet from birth to whenever. If you've grown up with an imbalanced gait, you're probably aware of it by now, and its deleterious effects have manifest.
This whole thing sounds like the sort of "test" given by chiropractors and scientologists. Find a dysmorphism that's natural and unthreatening, then claim it's unnatural and threatening, then charge a lot for the cure, which may be worse than the non-problem (and don't forget to denigrate traditional remedies, since they're competition even if they're much better cures for actual cases of the problem).
There should be a word for drawing attention to something that could have a completely different explanation.
"Bullshit" seems a bit broad.
If my weight is slightly imbalanced, it's probably because, like all humans, I am built asymmetrically, and I carry things in my pockets, or hands, or slung over my shoulder. And unless I am feeling pain it is unlikely that undue stress is being put on any part of my body.
The temperature must be perfectly modulated. If it climbs so much as 1 degree above 72, you must supply an electric fan. God help you if the temperature reaches 75.
That part I totally get. Everyone's got that temperature where their body kicks into cooling mode and it's a bitch to sleep when that's happening because it's wigging-out your whole metabolism.
His just happens to be low, but he's lived in the cold all his life.
It sounds like he may have some other metabolic issues that could exacerbate it.
So if you want him to speak at your location, find him a hotel with enough A/C, but don't go out of your way if ambient is below 72 or if it's a little warmer and you can find a fan. He's actually giving the tropics a leg-up, there.
He can't sleep when it's hot (and a lot of places still interested in his brand of technobabble will be sub-tropical) so he needs accomodations with adequate cooling, and he doesn't want to be fawned over (and a lot of places still interested in his brand of technobabble will be staffed by servile cultures who see him as a bigshot deserving of obsequious treatment), and he likes Pepsi, not Coke.
Other than that, he's going into a system that is designed to cater to speakers, and all he's doing is saying how he likes their setup to be set up. He's not piling on features, he's merely switching the existing configuration variables.
Well, sorta. But after a couple of speaking trips where shit is just fucked up, you can be expected to want to spell out ways to make them not just fucked up.
At the point where he's about to go on and realizes he's jet-lagged, trying to come up with the right combination of caffeine and sugar could be difficult. And as long as he's asking, and they're probably only too willing to help, he might as well get what he likes beforehand and avoid an explanation or a complaint or a sour mood.
It's not like he's asking for anything exhorbitant there.
But, the thing about wanting a parrot to hang with, but not a brand-new one...that was a little freaky.
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Well, no.
So what happens if they get to the venue, get into the dressing room, and there's no M&M's?
Do they walk out on the show, claiming safety issues that they haven't specifically inspected?
At that point it's too late and the M&M's are not probative anyway.
What they should have put in there was a notice that someone would show up a day ahead to double-check that the safety requirements listed on that page were being implemented.
Because if I was a shifty promoter, and I read those requirements, and saw the M&M thing, I'd know just how to get away with not doing the expensive stuff and still make them think I had. What's a bag of M&M's cost again?
Is RIM the only manufacturer allowing the government to monitor traffic?
Or is it just the only one who tried to fight it, or could?
I suspect the government already has a sniffer on all the other systems.
Doesn't change my view of RIM's capitulation. They tried to keep their entire subscriber base, now they're willing to profit from delivering up those who haven't bailed.
>It's hard to build a back-driveable linear actuator that can handle a shock load.
I think that's another point for moving to an arrayed solution. Connect lots of micromotors in a series-parallel grid, and a shock gets divided serially and spread out in parallel. Muscles really solved that problem like a champ.
Those 8150 vs. 2600K numbers are sans discrete graphics. It shows the 8150 integrating a stronger graphics core. It's still a pretty crummy graphics core. It's just better than the basic-equipment one that Intel put in the 2600k. The 2600K is much older than the 8150, though, and hardly Intel's top-end part. It's just the one that AMD chose to compare against. They do that. Bring out a half-assed chip, then pick an Intel part they can beat and beat it. While Intel's other parts stand on the other side of the cafeteria wondering why the fat kid is picking on the nerdy kid instead of someone their own size.
So, if you're in the small niche where you want to play Battlefield 3 on a computer with no discrete graphics, the 8150 is probably your choice. Or you could wait a couple of weeks for Intel's next part. Or upgrade to new-release discrete graphics, which will kick that integrated graphics solution's ass using either CPU.
So what I'm saying is, AMD's market is lamers, not gamers. And they seem to be making a little money at it. For now. Bulldozer has yet to dominate a quarterly report, so its issues, which comprise both performance and manufacturability, have yet to reveal themselves as a significant driver of the bottom line. Q3 was good to them, Q4 not likely to be. 12Q1 could be their doom if they don't find a miracle.
Cray fell for AMD in a big way a few years ago. Then AMD handed them the Barcelona grenade and, well, they fell out.
Cray now sells Intel-based HPCs and does quite well with them.
AMD is the budget choice for your desktop or your server farm. People still find reasons to justify spending a little more for the Intel systems, though. I suspect that there are hidden performance and reliability costs to owning AMD in a scaled-up context.
I highly doubt the price difference was because of the processors. More likely it was because Dell is having trouble moving those boxes because they're slower.
>Why else do Universities almost exclusively use AMD processors in their clusters
Because when your budget is fixed and N is the number of nodes you can afford and M is the performance per node, and N1*M1 > N2*M2, you buy P1 over P2 even if M1 > N2 in this case because proprietor 1 has a lot of trouble selling its units to individuals and turns to massively discounting its products when sold in bulk to HPC OEMs.
take out the screw drive and use direct or geared drive, and throw a fat capacitor in the system to soak up the back-emf current and supply it back to the motor, and voila, electro-spring. or just fake it with extra power from the power supply and some motion-control software.
i suspect that as time goes on, the whole idea of one big motor will go away, and we'll get something more like a muscle, which is a mass of tiny electrochemical motors. that gives you redundancy, fine tuning, and the ability to size and locate it better. it takes about a dozen attachments to make a thigh work, and doing it with a couple of motors and a gimballed joint isn't the same thing.
Pretty silly that they have a "robust" and "quick" robot made from "aerospace-grade aluminum alloy and stainless steel" that they have to keep tethered to the ceiling with a nylon rope to keep it from falling over and breaking itself.
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Hundreds of different types, but they boil down to three or four deviations from proper operation of the DNA/RNA system. The different types do matter, though. The tissue affected initially can determine what treatments can be used, and what other tissues might be affected if it spreads.
And the thing about there being multiple types of heart disease is actually important as well, since not making the distinction means people can feel one thing, think it might be heart related, then read the symptoms for the wrong type of problem and decide they don't have heart disease and let it get worse figuring it's one of the dozens of other things that cause those pains. The ambiguities mean that cardiologists see a lot of people with acid reflux, but it also means a lot of people with blocked arteries don't go to the cardiologist.
Heart Disease gets lots of press, it just isn't all labeled "Heart Disease", whereas anything about prostate cancer is pretty unambiguous.
Anything relating to cholesterol, "heart health", cardio anything, "eating right", etc., is ultimately about heart disease.
I also don't know why you think the treatments for heart disease are less painful than for cancer. Nothing is more painful than people digging around in your chest cavity running new pipe or replacing the pump. Chemo is pretty nasty, but compared with chopped-up thorax? Not even in the same pain ballpark.
The real difference is that 90% of heart disease is very easily *preventable*, but it means rejection of a culture foisted on us by greedheads in the junk-food industry. The economic distortions due to their business model mean that it's probably not possible to even feed us all enough calories if we have to stop eating waste products shaped as burgers and nuggets and washing it down with bubbly sugar-water all of a sudden.
His haircut has already metastasized onto teenaged losers everywhere.
And, for no good reason, onto this dude, who currently defines "winner" in a way not made so clear since Joe Namath and James Bond were peaking.
Why are timing chips a PIA?
What's the error rate?
I can understand a day, a week, or months without noticing imbalance.
But we use our feet from birth to whenever. If you've grown up with an imbalanced gait, you're probably aware of it by now, and its deleterious effects have manifest.
This whole thing sounds like the sort of "test" given by chiropractors and scientologists. Find a dysmorphism that's natural and unthreatening, then claim it's unnatural and threatening, then charge a lot for the cure, which may be worse than the non-problem (and don't forget to denigrate traditional remedies, since they're competition even if they're much better cures for actual cases of the problem).
There should be a word for drawing attention to something that could have a completely different explanation.
"Bullshit" seems a bit broad.
If my weight is slightly imbalanced, it's probably because, like all humans, I am built asymmetrically, and I carry things in my pockets, or hands, or slung over my shoulder. And unless I am feeling pain it is unlikely that undue stress is being put on any part of my body.
The temperature must be perfectly modulated. If it climbs so much as 1 degree above 72, you must supply an electric fan. God help you if the temperature reaches 75.
That part I totally get. Everyone's got that temperature where their body kicks into cooling mode and it's a bitch to sleep when that's happening because it's wigging-out your whole metabolism.
His just happens to be low, but he's lived in the cold all his life.
It sounds like he may have some other metabolic issues that could exacerbate it.
So if you want him to speak at your location, find him a hotel with enough A/C, but don't go out of your way if ambient is below 72 or if it's a little warmer and you can find a fan. He's actually giving the tropics a leg-up, there.
I didn't see anything exhorbitant there.
He can't sleep when it's hot (and a lot of places still interested in his brand of technobabble will be sub-tropical) so he needs accomodations with adequate cooling, and he doesn't want to be fawned over (and a lot of places still interested in his brand of technobabble will be staffed by servile cultures who see him as a bigshot deserving of obsequious treatment), and he likes Pepsi, not Coke.
Other than that, he's going into a system that is designed to cater to speakers, and all he's doing is saying how he likes their setup to be set up. He's not piling on features, he's merely switching the existing configuration variables.
Well, sorta. But after a couple of speaking trips where shit is just fucked up, you can be expected to want to spell out ways to make them not just fucked up.
At the point where he's about to go on and realizes he's jet-lagged, trying to come up with the right combination of caffeine and sugar could be difficult. And as long as he's asking, and they're probably only too willing to help, he might as well get what he likes beforehand and avoid an explanation or a complaint or a sour mood.
It's not like he's asking for anything exhorbitant there.
But, the thing about wanting a parrot to hang with, but not a brand-new one...that was a little freaky.
Well, no.
So what happens if they get to the venue, get into the dressing room, and there's no M&M's?
Do they walk out on the show, claiming safety issues that they haven't specifically inspected?
At that point it's too late and the M&M's are not probative anyway.
What they should have put in there was a notice that someone would show up a day ahead to double-check that the safety requirements listed on that page were being implemented.
Because if I was a shifty promoter, and I read those requirements, and saw the M&M thing, I'd know just how to get away with not doing the expensive stuff and still make them think I had. What's a bag of M&M's cost again?
Is RIM the only manufacturer allowing the government to monitor traffic?
Or is it just the only one who tried to fight it, or could?
I suspect the government already has a sniffer on all the other systems.
Doesn't change my view of RIM's capitulation. They tried to keep their entire subscriber base, now they're willing to profit from delivering up those who haven't bailed.
Netscape was no less grotesque in that environment.
I still have occasion to use it on an old Solaris box. It is one of the most painful parts of any day.
Here's what I saw in that article: "Rim entraps customers into paying to be spied on by their own government, and happily profits from it."
Because leaving profits on the table to do something ethical? Not Rim's business model.
>It's hard to build a back-driveable linear actuator that can handle a shock load.
I think that's another point for moving to an arrayed solution. Connect lots of micromotors in a series-parallel grid, and a shock gets divided serially and spread out in parallel. Muscles really solved that problem like a champ.
Those 8150 vs. 2600K numbers are sans discrete graphics. It shows the 8150 integrating a stronger graphics core. It's still a pretty crummy graphics core. It's just better than the basic-equipment one that Intel put in the 2600k. The 2600K is much older than the 8150, though, and hardly Intel's top-end part. It's just the one that AMD chose to compare against. They do that. Bring out a half-assed chip, then pick an Intel part they can beat and beat it. While Intel's other parts stand on the other side of the cafeteria wondering why the fat kid is picking on the nerdy kid instead of someone their own size.
So, if you're in the small niche where you want to play Battlefield 3 on a computer with no discrete graphics, the 8150 is probably your choice. Or you could wait a couple of weeks for Intel's next part. Or upgrade to new-release discrete graphics, which will kick that integrated graphics solution's ass using either CPU.
So what I'm saying is, AMD's market is lamers, not gamers. And they seem to be making a little money at it. For now. Bulldozer has yet to dominate a quarterly report, so its issues, which comprise both performance and manufacturability, have yet to reveal themselves as a significant driver of the bottom line. Q3 was good to them, Q4 not likely to be. 12Q1 could be their doom if they don't find a miracle.
Cray fell for AMD in a big way a few years ago. Then AMD handed them the Barcelona grenade and, well, they fell out.
Cray now sells Intel-based HPCs and does quite well with them.
AMD is the budget choice for your desktop or your server farm. People still find reasons to justify spending a little more for the Intel systems, though. I suspect that there are hidden performance and reliability costs to owning AMD in a scaled-up context.
Interestingly, except for this one quirk, they seem to run well together and generate no more performance issues than one less-well behaved AV.
And they detect different exploits at different times. Which makes me worry what they're missing.
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though i suspected where yours was already
>relying on bentmarks to "measure performance" is a fool's errand. dont go there.
And yet, that's what you're doing.
The correct phrase is: Relying on benchmarks that are not relevant to your application is a fool's errand.
I highly doubt the price difference was because of the processors. More likely it was because Dell is having trouble moving those boxes because they're slower.
>Why else do Universities almost exclusively use AMD processors in their clusters
Because when your budget is fixed and N is the number of nodes you can afford and M is the performance per node, and N1*M1 > N2*M2, you buy P1 over P2 even if M1 > N2 in this case because proprietor 1 has a lot of trouble selling its units to individuals and turns to massively discounting its products when sold in bulk to HPC OEMs.
We'll all end up being replaced by Shut Up And Ship It Robots.
take out the screw drive and use direct or geared drive, and throw a fat capacitor in the system to soak up the back-emf current and supply it back to the motor, and voila, electro-spring. or just fake it with extra power from the power supply and some motion-control software.
i suspect that as time goes on, the whole idea of one big motor will go away, and we'll get something more like a muscle, which is a mass of tiny electrochemical motors. that gives you redundancy, fine tuning, and the ability to size and locate it better. it takes about a dozen attachments to make a thigh work, and doing it with a couple of motors and a gimballed joint isn't the same thing.
>Yes but if you push it down hill does it magically have a built in "perpetual motion" machine
I have one of those.
It's called a "basketball".
I may patent it.
True dat.
Pretty silly that they have a "robust" and "quick" robot made from "aerospace-grade aluminum alloy and stainless steel" that they have to keep tethered to the ceiling with a nylon rope to keep it from falling over and breaking itself.