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  1. Re:Interesting... on A Link Between Diet and Myopia? · · Score: 1

    The evidence is finally accumulating in favor of the low-carb approach. No links, yet, but there's a real study in progress, somewhere in Pennsylvania, I seem to remember.

    And Atkins is a cardiologist !

    You don't avoid carbs altogether, just reduce them drastically. 20 grams a day for two weeks, then 50 grams a day thereafter is reasonable.

    Reducing caloric intake just causes your body to stop using calories. Lethargy does not make for effective weight loss.

    If you can lose weight with your plan, you never had a problem to begin with.

  2. another existance proof on Professor Testifies Windows Is Modular, Separable · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Maxtor Windows-Based NAS boxes.

    Or am I to assume they all contain a web browser, etc ?

  3. Re:Iraq did it first! on The Huntsville Concrete Rocket · · Score: 1

    A link to an article on those concrete bombs.

  4. Re:Iraq did it first! on The Huntsville Concrete Rocket · · Score: 1

    We (the US) also used concrete warheads against Iraq to target anti-aircraft guns while reducing collateral damage. With precision guidance, it worked pretty well.

  5. Re:Felony or at least penal code violation (rocket on The Huntsville Concrete Rocket · · Score: 1

    You mean Lil' Abner, maybe ?

  6. stuck pixels on Behind the Numbers: LCD vs. CRT · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here is an article entitled "LCD Panels and Customer Expectations". It talks about "stuck pixels" among other things.

  7. actually there is a replacement for displacement on Hack Your Ignition (Before Someone Else Does) · · Score: 1

    RPMs.

    If it revs to 14,000 rpm reliably you'll get twice as much juice as you would at 7,000.

    This is why Honda used to make six cylinder 24 valve 250s for racing, etc.

    And while it isn't applicable to cars, two-strokes make twice as many power pulses per revolution as four-strokes do. You haven't lived until you've cracked the throttle open on a Kawasaki H2. One second later you're making as much power as a Harley at red-line with one third the weight. Hang on tight. Of course the thing never wants to go in a straight line 8-o.

    BTW, I drive a 2-liter, 8-valve normally asperated VW GTI. Yeah it could go faster with different ignition and fuel maps, but I can't be bothered.

  8. Kid Rock on Pitch Perfect Karaoke · · Score: 1

    it's not country, it's an "Arena Anthem" if I ever heard one.

  9. you too can sound like Cher on Pitch Perfect Karaoke · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and all the others now using auto-tune boxes as an effect. You can set these things to quantize to a diatonic scale and just "snap" from one pitch to another not allowing any slide at all. I'm sure you've heard it.

    I'm also sure you've not heard it when the thresholds are set a little looser.

    It was kinda neat the first time I heard it, but jeeze.. it's getting old.

  10. Re:This is what'll screw us all in the end on The Root of All E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Or it could be the fact that it's the only brick building in the area, usually !

  11. Re:This is not a review. on Sizing Up StarOffice 6.0 · · Score: 1
    Access is a joke and should be replaced by somthing, anything, of your choosing.


    Like what ?
  12. Re:I'm not a tree-hugging dirt worshipper... on Self-Heating Can · · Score: 1

    Actually Gogurt isn't too bad. It is has less packaging than yogurt that comes in a cup, just a plastic tube. No evil foil bonded to paper bonded to plastic that lasts forever. And it's a also very, very viscous, like a thick paste, so you can squeeze it out of the tube controllably.

    I don't eat the stuff, but my kids love it.

  13. and no Macrovision ? on Shuttle SS50 Mini-system · · Score: 1

    Don't see anything about Macrovision on the TV out.. did I miss that ?

  14. Re:thin and flexible is great but... on New, Flexible CDs Arrive · · Score: 1

    Try Toluene.

  15. Re:This only has figurative meaning on U.S. Works Up Plans for Using Nuclear Arms · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Don't knock country music... on Slashback: Decade, Fragmentation, RDRAM · · Score: 1

    First time I've *ever* owned a Grammy album of the year (OBWAT), before or after the fact.

    Great album. Hard to pigeonhole as either country or bluegrass, though.

    I am a man of constant sorrow.

  17. Re:UnixConfig (tm) on Slashback: Bundestux, Kerberos, Blizzard · · Score: 1
    It would be far more effective to isolate and the concepts associated with changing the behavior of a system (or group of systems) rather than just mapping check boxes to booleans and selects to lists.

    Like AIX's smit ?

  18. Re:My original plan (OT) on Gifts for Valentine's Day, 2002? · · Score: 1

    I was wondering about some of those native americans at the Olympic opening ceremonies last night. Some were armed. The bow and string looked real enough... couldn't tell about the arrows.

  19. Harris Poll/MS spam on Tracking Spam to the Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    Anyone else received an unsolicited email inviting them to participate in a Harris Poll for Microsoft ? Sort of a "how are we doing" type of thing ?

    It took a little guts, but after 2nd and 3rd thoughts I reported it via spamcop.

    Not sure if I'll take the poll anyway. I think it sucks that MS has me on their list. Maybe they scraped microsoft.public.???.

  20. Spamcop in Time on Tracking Spam to the Source · · Score: 1

    There's a good article on spamcop.net in time this week. They do seem a little slower lately.

  21. Re:The new reaches of minaturization on Video with Depth · · Score: 1

    Pros *are* using tiny cameras, and mics as well.

    There was an article in EQ magazine about working the X-games in Philly. Helmet-cams and matchbook-size "button mics" abound.

    It doesn't appear to be on their site

    Not mentinoned in the article, but another cool thing they have at the X-games is a camera suspended above the half-pipe by three (four?) cables connected to computer-controlled high-speed winches. It can "fly" over the skaters' heads at amazing speed, dropping down into the pipe to look up at them on the vert ramp, and then zooming up out of the way.

  22. Re:Disabling the RF Tags on Sun Joins RFID Program · · Score: 1

    For some reason my Honeywell alarm system card (the kind you just hold up to the scanner rather than swiping) tripped some of those EAS scanners.

    That caused some fun on a store visit once (we sold retailing-related systems). I didn't even buy anything and I tripped the alarm on the way out.

  23. Re:what a load of horseshit on Heart of the Net · · Score: 1

    The Message is *Not* the Medium.

    The net is the new medium. The old Media can't figure it out as you explain, and they, including self-professed "Media Critic" Mr. Katz mistake the hype for the heart, as a previous poster noted.

    There are a lot of people who know only AOL, MSN and Amazon. But the real users of the new media, the Internet, are below the horizon of the old media.

    That is why we get articles like this that are so utterly disconnected from reality.

  24. Re:Freudian slip on Slashback: Public, Anecdotes, Conclusions · · Score: 1

    IANAMA (not a MS apologist), but..

    It sounds like you don't have working drivers for your TV card. That sucks, and it sucks that it's difficult for the "community" to come up with a driver in the closed-source world. I've come up against this problem.

    The second case? You're doing something wrong. There is no domain issue unless you're authenticating to a domain, which is not advisable for a Win98 laptop anyway.

    But... Win2K, as a workstation, is *solid*. Sorry, it just works.

  25. Re:At least ... on Slashback: Public, Anecdotes, Conclusions · · Score: 1

    The geeks are going to have a hard time inheriting the earth if the non-geeks out-breed them.

    Now if that 91:9 ratio was the other way around ?