True, electric motors have a higher efficiency than internal combustion motors, but the energy density of petroleum-based fuels quickly outstrips current battery technology, so the range/power of the dino-based cars is significantly higher at the moment...
In the sound reinforcement group I used to work with, older or damaged speakers would get plugged directly into AC (usually just the driver... the cabinets aren't worth setting on fire). Some of the higher-power drivers would last for quite a while before the coils melted or burned.
Ah, but don't you see - if they were so smart, then your tv would just plug into the wall, your dvd player, receiver, and speakers as well - all with the same cord, no cables in between elements of the system... and it would all work perfectly, and not cause interference to any other devices...
Those would be some smart folks (the existing audio transmitted on a carrier over home power ideas aside, I'd hate to see composite video mangled over old knob-and-tube wiring, or even new romex).
"Why don't you read Barry Sears, ZONE, and Dr Atkins, New Diet Revolution?" Done that.
"Or take a biochemistry class before you speak" Hmmm, I've done that, too.
"FYI, bodybuilders and supermodels do low carb. high protein diets (without "watching" fat)" In fact, I've done something along these lines when I was doing some training and trying to get in better shape just a couple years ago...
The way different foods interact with each other and interact with your digestive system does play a role, but all of the diets come down to a very simple premise: Weight Gain/loss is proportional to (Calories in)-(Calories Out), where Calories Out include metabolism, exercise, and excretion. Pretty simple, really. If you look closely at any of the diets, all of them affect one or more of these parameters. None are revolutionary, by any stretch.
"I lost quite a few pounds eating nothing but steak and cheese...I lost the weight, looked good, my confidence was high..." I'm happy for you - maybe you could get a job doing an infomercial for the diet...
"I do agree with the phosphoric acid in soda potentially being bad for teeth, but I'm 26 now, and I've had a diet coke every day and I don't have a single cavity. Explain that young Einstein."
Dental health is a wonderful subject into which I will not delve very deeply at this time, but I will note that different people have varying amounts of enamel, different chemical makeup of their saliva, produce different quanities of saliva (which does make a difference), spend different amounts of time self-adjusting their dental hygine (brushing, flosing, Listerine, fluoride rinses/gels, gum, rinsing with water/salt water, etc), and certainly have different habits for seeing a dentist for regular cleanings. All of these things, along with diet, and the order and timing in which food items are consumed can have an effect on dental health (caries/gum disease). I dare not guess at your specific situation.
As for the artificial sweetener issue, they all taste bad, and are all bad for lab rats in very large doses - this I have no doubt of. In fact, there are a great many substances that are extremely bad for lab rats when a significant amount is ingested. I don't drink diet soda... it doesn't taste good, and I'd rather have a charcoal grilled steak affect my health than a nasty not-even-cola.
I can feel good about feeding the trolls, even if it does go off of their usual diet...
Ah, but he only referred to the instance of "pictures'" not "CEO's/CFO's", and gave implicit acceptance of the latter with an example, though the "CEO" in the original post was not possessive... just trying to clear that issue up.
Yes, but in the parent post, "CEO's" is not used as a posessive, it is used as a plural, and thus should not have the apostrophe.
" Don't buy from Telcos whose CEOs/CFOs/etc have their pictures plastered on a wall at your local post office." is a perfectly acceptable version of that sentence.
Two notes - too many calories from any source (protein, fat, carbs...) that you don't burn off will all turn to fat on your body - if you want to lose weight, burn more than you take in. As easy as that. A little weight training helps immensly, since even resting muscle burns some energy.
As for the dental problems, the pH level of most sodas (including diet sodas) is low enough to be more harmful than the sugars in there...
That being said, I'm more of a Mountain Dew fan myself... never cared for colas, and I can't stand the aftertaste of aspartame or saccharin... the newer sucralose is a little better, but still leaves a dry, bad taste in my mouth.
Quantum, for one, made a solid-state drive ("Quantum is no longer in the Solid State Disk (SSD) business, as of June 30, 2001."). I got to play with a 1GB version... basically just a bunch of DRAM in a drive form factor. Great for caching, temp space, etc... but it does dissapear when you power off (unlike FLASH/NVRAM).
So in order for DIY hardware to do it, they would need to provide an open core for the DRM function, or at least fully detailed specs to the public... which could be somewhat interesting.
Please enlighten this (apparently) ignorant reader (me) on when a million means a billion...
Below is the entry from the Concise Oxford English Dictionary (the entry from The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors wasn't any more enlightening).
million n. & adj. --n. (pl. same or (in sense 2) millions) (in sing.prec. by a or one) 1 a thousand thousand. 2 (in pl.) colloq. a very large number (millions of years). 3 (prec. by the) the bulk of the population. 4 a Brit. a million pounds. b US a million dollars. --adj. that amount to a million. gone a million Austral. sl. completely defeated. millionfold adj. & adv. millionth adj. & n. [ME f. OF, prob. f. It. millione f. mille thousand + -one augment. suffix]
When I saw LotR in NJ, one of the pre-movie ads was a statement that if your phone rang, they would stop the film, then hand out Goobers and Raisinets for everyone to throw at you... this was apparently not an effective deterrent, since a guy one row in front and a couple seats over got a call and talked for several minutes... the shushing and other phrases only made him slouch more... what a bastard.
Well, the W3C HTML Validator claims "I got the following unexpected response when trying to retrieve http://slashdot.org/: 403 Forbidden"... looks like they have W3.org blocked.
Saving off the file, and uploading it directly it gives a parse error, and claims that the doctype definition isn't in the right place...
No, the "Synchronicity" commercial was the one where the Jetta's wipers and blinkers matched the beat of the music, along with the steps of people on the street, a bouncing basketball, and various other things... culminating in a splash on the windshield which then ended the effect... I have the mp3 of the music, but not the video of the commercial.
If you made glass, and it was imperfect (due to the manufacturing methods being somewhat crude), would you install the glass with the thicker, stronger part of the glass on the bottom (as a support) or on the top, where it could be a liability to the thinner bottom edge?
There are some older places (100-200 y.o.) that have the multi-pane glass arranged so that the thickest edge is always towards the outside of the frame (top row, thick on top... right column, thick on the right edge). It had an interesting effect (due to the slight warp in the glass...
Actually, if you look at the 1.8t in the 2001 models (150 hp), the first half have the original 150hp engine/turbo, and the second half have the newer turbo unit (same as the 2002s) with a litte boost removed to achieve the same 150hp.
The original 150hp models can be easily and safely modded to 170-180 hp, while the new 170/180 hp models (depending on which car it comes in) can be fairly easily modded to 200-220hp via a new ECU.
The first VW 1.8t (150hp in the Passat ~1998) was rougly the same engine as the 170hp 1.8t in the A4... no sense in having a premium car brand if you don't distinguish it in numerous ways.
Mich Tech (www.mtu.edu) is UP there in Houghton, eh? They seem to be wired in, so maybe an effort with them, or their upstream provider that they hook into would be a start.
The '=' for the degree celsius and calorie are somewhat tenuous... it would be more along the lines of: 1 calorie => 1 ml water = (delta)1 degree celcius.
Ah, but heat and motion are both energy (both types of kinetic energy, in fact), and the Laws O' Thermo guard the lack of creaton/destruction of said energy... since the machine was not in a vaccuum and completely frictionless (including internal component frictions), heat must have been created (i.e. motion energy translated to heat energy, since energy cannot be created nor destroyed - First LoT).
Right, when I was home from college (breaks, summer), my mom would send me on errands - go pick up such and such at the store, gas up the car... here's my card. I was never asked for ID at the pump (in NJ all gas is full serve, so someone else did handle the transaction) or in the store... maybe they thought I was just a really ugly woman (with really hairy legs) and felt bad about questioning me, but my guess is they didn't care... my signature sure didn't match either.
At Walmart, though - I go buy a couple bags of water softener salt, and my card and signature get scrutinized so closely I wondered if I was wearing an orange 'Department of Corrections' outfit...
another handy feature is that if you are on several different machines (office, lab, another lab, vnc session, etc) you can be reached easily without knowing exactly where you are, and if you are between chairs, it is waiting for you with instant access... where a phone only rings in one place, and the messages take far too long to access (with passcodes, etc). FWIW, MTC.
We use a combination of Hey (from the ATK kit) and Sametime here... very helpful - when someone needs to quickly send you an address, small memory dump (think ~0x100 bytes, error log), file path, or anything else that is quickly cut and paste into a shell or app it is much better than: "uh.. zero ecks one zero zero zero three fox zero eight"... "0x10003F08" quickly pastes into a debugger or other tool for quick use...
"Where the heck is that PCI spec again?" "/foo/bar/docs/HW/specs/PCI_x_x.pdf"
is much quicker than the telephone or writing it on a sticky note, then having to type it in again...
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Maybe his meters are off a little, like most gas gauges in cars... even after driving for 30-60 miles, many gas gauges show the tank to be "full".
Then again, it might just be the chewing gum...
True, electric motors have a higher efficiency than internal combustion motors, but the energy density of petroleum-based fuels quickly outstrips current battery technology, so the range/power of the dino-based cars is significantly higher at the moment...
In the sound reinforcement group I used to work with, older or damaged speakers would get plugged directly into AC (usually just the driver... the cabinets aren't worth setting on fire). Some of the higher-power drivers would last for quite a while before the coils melted or burned.
Ah, but don't you see - if they were so smart, then your tv would just plug into the wall, your dvd player, receiver, and speakers as well - all with the same cord, no cables in between elements of the system... and it would all work perfectly, and not cause interference to any other devices...
Those would be some smart folks (the existing audio transmitted on a carrier over home power ideas aside, I'd hate to see composite video mangled over old knob-and-tube wiring, or even new romex).
Nice troll - I'll bite...
...I lost the weight, looked good, my confidence was high ..."
"Why don't you read Barry Sears, ZONE, and Dr Atkins, New Diet Revolution?"
Done that.
"Or take a biochemistry class before you speak"
Hmmm, I've done that, too.
"FYI, bodybuilders and supermodels do low carb. high protein diets (without "watching" fat)"
In fact, I've done something along these lines when I was doing some training and trying to get in better shape just a couple years ago...
The way different foods interact with each other and interact with your digestive system does play a role, but all of the diets come down to a very simple premise:
Weight Gain/loss is proportional to (Calories in)-(Calories Out), where Calories Out include metabolism, exercise, and excretion. Pretty simple, really. If you look closely at any of the diets, all of them affect one or more of these parameters. None are revolutionary, by any stretch.
"I lost quite a few pounds eating nothing but steak and cheese
I'm happy for you - maybe you could get a job doing an infomercial for the diet...
"I do agree with the phosphoric acid in soda potentially being bad for teeth, but I'm 26 now, and I've had a diet coke every day and I don't have a single cavity. Explain that young Einstein."
Dental health is a wonderful subject into which I will not delve very deeply at this time, but I will note that different people have varying amounts of enamel, different chemical makeup of their saliva, produce different quanities of saliva (which does make a difference), spend different amounts of time self-adjusting their dental hygine (brushing, flosing, Listerine, fluoride rinses/gels, gum, rinsing with water/salt water, etc), and certainly have different habits for seeing a dentist for regular cleanings. All of these things, along with diet, and the order and timing in which food items are consumed can have an effect on dental health (caries/gum disease). I dare not guess at your specific situation.
As for the artificial sweetener issue, they all taste bad, and are all bad for lab rats in very large doses - this I have no doubt of. In fact, there are a great many substances that are extremely bad for lab rats when a significant amount is ingested. I don't drink diet soda... it doesn't taste good, and I'd rather have a charcoal grilled steak affect my health than a nasty not-even-cola.
I can feel good about feeding the trolls, even if it does go off of their usual diet...
Ah, but he only referred to the instance of "pictures'" not "CEO's/CFO's", and gave implicit acceptance of the latter with an example, though the "CEO" in the original post was not possessive... just trying to clear that issue up.
Yes, but in the parent post, "CEO's" is not used as a posessive, it is used as a plural, and thus should not have the apostrophe.
" Don't buy from Telcos whose CEOs/CFOs/etc have their pictures plastered on a wall at your local post office."
is a perfectly acceptable version of that sentence.
So it is illegal to sell a pint of Guinness? Now *that* would be a crime.
Two notes - too many calories from any source (protein, fat, carbs...) that you don't burn off will all turn to fat on your body - if you want to lose weight, burn more than you take in. As easy as that. A little weight training helps immensly, since even resting muscle burns some energy.
As for the dental problems, the pH level of most sodas (including diet sodas) is low enough to be more harmful than the sugars in there...
That being said, I'm more of a Mountain Dew fan myself... never cared for colas, and I can't stand the aftertaste of aspartame or saccharin... the newer sucralose is a little better, but still leaves a dry, bad taste in my mouth.
Quantum, for one, made a solid-state drive ("Quantum is no longer in the Solid State Disk (SSD) business, as of June 30, 2001."). I got to play with a 1GB version... basically just a bunch of DRAM in a drive form factor. Great for caching, temp space, etc... but it does dissapear when you power off (unlike FLASH/NVRAM).
Ah, but what about reading older CD-ROMs at 64x+? Would they blow apart just reading the TOC?
So in order for DIY hardware to do it, they would need to provide an open core for the DRM function, or at least fully detailed specs to the public... which could be somewhat interesting.
Please enlighten this (apparently) ignorant reader (me) on when a million means a billion...
Below is the entry from the Concise Oxford English Dictionary (the entry from The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors wasn't any more enlightening).
million n. & adj. --n. (pl. same or (in sense 2) millions) (in sing.prec. by a or one) 1 a thousand thousand. 2 (in pl.) colloq. a very large number (millions of years). 3 (prec. by the) the bulk of the population. 4 a Brit. a million pounds. b US a million dollars. --adj. that amount to a million. gone a million Austral. sl. completely defeated. millionfold adj. & adv. millionth adj. & n. [ME f. OF, prob. f. It. millione f. mille thousand + -one augment. suffix]
When I saw LotR in NJ, one of the pre-movie ads was a statement that if your phone rang, they would stop the film, then hand out Goobers and Raisinets for everyone to throw at you... this was apparently not an effective deterrent, since a guy one row in front and a couple seats over got a call and talked for several minutes... the shushing and other phrases only made him slouch more... what a bastard.
Well, the W3C HTML Validator claims "I got the following unexpected response when trying to retrieve http://slashdot.org/: 403 Forbidden"... looks like they have W3.org blocked.
Saving off the file, and uploading it directly it gives a parse error, and claims that the doctype definition isn't in the right place...
No, the "Synchronicity" commercial was the one where the Jetta's wipers and blinkers matched the beat of the music, along with the steps of people on the street, a bouncing basketball, and various other things... culminating in a splash on the windshield which then ended the effect... I have the mp3 of the music, but not the video of the commercial.
If you made glass, and it was imperfect (due to the manufacturing methods being somewhat crude), would you install the glass with the thicker, stronger part of the glass on the bottom (as a support) or on the top, where it could be a liability to the thinner bottom edge?
There are some older places (100-200 y.o.) that have the multi-pane glass arranged so that the thickest edge is always towards the outside of the frame (top row, thick on top... right column, thick on the right edge). It had an interesting effect (due to the slight warp in the glass...
Actually, if you look at the 1.8t in the 2001 models (150 hp), the first half have the original 150hp engine/turbo, and the second half have the newer turbo unit (same as the 2002s) with a litte boost removed to achieve the same 150hp.
The original 150hp models can be easily and safely modded to 170-180 hp, while the new 170/180 hp models (depending on which car it comes in) can be fairly easily modded to 200-220hp via a new ECU.
The first VW 1.8t (150hp in the Passat ~1998) was rougly the same engine as the 170hp 1.8t in the A4... no sense in having a premium car brand if you don't distinguish it in numerous ways.
Mich Tech (www.mtu.edu) is UP there in Houghton, eh? They seem to be wired in, so maybe an effort with them, or their upstream provider that they hook into would be a start.
>1 centimeter^3 = 1 milliliter = 1 gram = 1 degree celsius = 1 calorie
;-)
The '=' for the degree celsius and calorie are somewhat tenuous... it would be more along the lines of:
1 calorie => 1 ml water = (delta)1 degree celcius.
Good thing we all knew what you meant anyway
Many new cars are at 5k, 7500 or 10k miles between oil changes (especially with semi or full synthetic).
Ah, but heat and motion are both energy (both types of kinetic energy, in fact), and the Laws O' Thermo guard the lack of creaton/destruction of said energy... since the machine was not in a vaccuum and completely frictionless (including internal component frictions), heat must have been created (i.e. motion energy translated to heat energy, since energy cannot be created nor destroyed - First LoT).
ITYS.
Right, when I was home from college (breaks, summer), my mom would send me on errands - go pick up such and such at the store, gas up the car... here's my card. I was never asked for ID at the pump (in NJ all gas is full serve, so someone else did handle the transaction) or in the store... maybe they thought I was just a really ugly woman (with really hairy legs) and felt bad about questioning me, but my guess is they didn't care... my signature sure didn't match either.
At Walmart, though - I go buy a couple bags of water softener salt, and my card and signature get scrutinized so closely I wondered if I was wearing an orange 'Department of Corrections' outfit...
Replying to my own post...
another handy feature is that if you are on several different machines (office, lab, another lab, vnc session, etc) you can be reached easily without knowing exactly where you are, and if you are between chairs, it is waiting for you with instant access... where a phone only rings in one place, and the messages take far too long to access (with passcodes, etc).
FWIW, MTC.
We use a combination of Hey (from the ATK kit) and Sametime here... very helpful - when someone needs to quickly send you an address, small memory dump (think ~0x100 bytes, error log), file path, or anything else that is quickly cut and paste into a shell or app it is much better than:
"uh.. zero ecks one zero zero zero three fox zero eight"... "0x10003F08" quickly pastes into a debugger or other tool for quick use...
"Where the heck is that PCI spec again?"
"/foo/bar/docs/HW/specs/PCI_x_x.pdf"
is much quicker than the telephone or writing it on a sticky note, then having to type it in again...