Then you might be interested in reading his books, like "Origin of the Species".
If you research his life and theory you may discovers some interesting facts.
For example, the title he gave a certain book was "The Origin of Species", not "Origin of the Species".
Then just over their heads they saw a passing flash of color. There in the sky they saw a giant eagle, full-feathered and painted shocking pink. On its side were the words DEUS EX MACHINA AIRLINES in metallic gold.
Frito yelped as the great bird swooped low and snatched them both from death with its rubberized talons.
"Name's Gwahno," said the Eagle as they climbed sharply awy from the disintegrating land. "Find a seat."
"But how -" began Frito.
"Not now, mac," the bird snapped. "Gotta figure a flight plan outta this dump."
If these numbers represent real life heat production, the athlon 64 is their hottest running processor yet (89 W), as is the P2EE Intel's (93.9 W). While the athlon 64 is the more appealing choice, I'd still expect it to need a pretty noisy heatsink/fan. Personally, I'd like to see a dual-processor Pentium M.;)
I didn't know there were fanless 9600's... neat. A Zalman VGA cooler might work for you, too. I've got this one on my AIW 9700 Pro, and it works great. I've got a second fan on my Zalman fan bracket to be extra sure it stays cool, but said fan is a quiet one turned down until it is virtually silent, rather than the loud whine that came from the original fan.
Yeah, real easy to replace. At least mine merely requires the removal of the battery cover, but compare that to the convenience swapping in a spare set of NIMH AAA's if I'm running low on power. Not to mention the fact that the replacement batteries cost about a third of a new unit. It wouldn't be so bad paying ten times as much as for a set if NIMH cells if I could find a PDA that gets a tenth of the battery life as the old AAA ones did.
No kidding. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I see lithium batteries as just another way to gouge customers by forcing them to "upgrade" all of their electronics every year or two. For some devices (such as PDAs), it is impossible to buy anything that uses AAs or any other standard form of battery - or even a user-replaceable Li-ion battery. Digital cameras, mp3 players, gameboy sp... everything seems to be going this way. Screw that. I have my gameboy advance, cd/mp3 player, and AA-powered digital camera, but after my handera 330 was destroyed the only option was a Li-ion powered PDA.
Well, yeah. Frankly, a little tinkering around with my laptop and I could fit a plastic bag of the stuff in there bigger than my PDA (or maybe an actual explosive device - hopefully they have sniffer dogs), and still have it pass the silly "turn it on and see if it works" test.
Naw, they'd just automatically debit it from your bank account. Then do it a few more times for good measure. Then run up a million dollar gambling debt and vote for Bush.
Eh, I was curious, so I looked up the details of the mechanism in Dipiro...
The toxicity of acute iron poisoning is due to local effects on GI mucosa, and systemic effects due to excessive iron in the body. Iron is irritating to the gastric and duodenal mucosa, which may result in hemorrage and occasionally perforations. Once absorbed, iron is taken up by tissues, particularly the liver, and acts as a mitochondrial poison. It occasionally causes hepatic injury. Iron may significantly inhibit aerobic glycolysis and perturb the electron transport system (that means it screws up the burning of glucose). Further, iron may shnt electrons away from the electron transport system, thereby reducing the efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation (ditto). These biochemical factors, along with the cardiovascular effects of iron, lead to metabolic acidosis. The pathogenesis of shock is not well understood but may include developmen of hypovolemia and lactic acidosis, release of endogenous vasodilators, and direct vasodepressant effects of iron and ferritin on the circulation (see fig 9-8, a really cool flow chart that probably makes more sense than this but would take forever to format properly).
Oh, and there's also iron overload, a condition caused by the (relatively slow) deposition of iron in organs which can result due to frequent transfusions (eg, needed by patients with thalassemia), which is prevented/treated with iron chelating agents.
IIRC, the body becomes more efficient in absorbing iron if body stores are low, and less if high... also, more iron is eliminated through the urine and lost from shed skin if iron stores are high. The problem with supplements is what you said - they might take in amounts of excess iron that are orders of magnitude greater than they could ever get from any food. Note that the actual percentage of nonheme iron (iron tablets, vegetables) absorbed is ~5%, while heme iron (from meat and animal products) is ~34%.
Anyway, since I already checked my notes for that last bit, here's a bit from a toxicology book:
"There are essentially five stages of iron poisoning:
Stage I (30 min to 6 hours): GI irritation, primarily due to the corrosive effect of iron. Drowsiness, epigastric pain, GI bleeding, hypotention, and nausea/vomiting may occur. Hyperglycemia, leukocytosis, or metabolic acidosis may be present (due to vasodilation).
Stage II: (6 to 24 hours): A latent period of symptom quiescence during which symptomatic improvement may be noted. In severe poisonings, there may be not latent period.
Stage III (6 to 48 hours): Metabolic and systemic derangement occur with cardiovascular collapse, coagulopathy (inhibition of thrombin and fibrinogen), coma, and seizures. Pulmonary edema may occur due to cardiac failure.
Stage IV (2 to 7 days): Hepatotoxicity (jaundice) and coagulopathy occur. Metabolic acidosis is present, and renal insufficiency may occur.
Stage V (1 to 8 weeks): Primarily delated GI complications, including gastric/duodenal fibrosis resulting in obstructive pattern. Achlorhydria may develop."
Er, that was longer to type than I thought. Oh, well. There's a lot of terminology that I can translate if you want.
Yeah, this sounds exactly like an AMR slot. Has anyone actually used one of those? Or even seen an AMR modem? If this was actually totally integrated and functional, like a built-in NIC, it might actually be useful.
What happens if someone is raped murdered in the same neighborhood where one of the listed offenders lives? There will be people with torches and pitchforks lined up outside their houses and jobs. What if it is someone else who did it?
How about, say, a pedophile searches a handy registry and finds someone that lives in a nearby area and even looks like them, then goes there and rapes some kid. The mob goes after the registered sex-offender, and the real criminal is never even suspected.
(No karma bonus since... I know, I know, I'm replying to an offtopic troll...)
Becuase of this, it is the citizens of the US who pay the entire cost of drug research, leading to significantly higher costs.
Wrong. The citizens of the US pay more than that (roughly double) towards the costs of the marketing to which they (and their doctors) are subjected. Interestingly enough, Canada has laws limiting this as well as the prices. The Canadian health care system would be at a greater risk if more Americans buy their drugs from Canada (less time for doctors and pharmacists to serve Canadians) than anything else.
Also, a lot of money can be saved by trying cheaper off-patent generic drugs (which can often be more effective to boot - hydrochlorothiazide is a few bucks year yet has more best evidence for preventing heart attacks and strokes than some drugs that cost dollars a day) first instead of whatever the drug-rep whore convinced their doctor to prescribe.
Couldn't the United States stop blabbing on about free trade and NAFTA while slapping ridiculously high tariffs on imports so their industries can remain inefficient? (Softwood lumber, steel, etc...)
Because, as was pointed out here this isn't done with R-rated movies, only X-rated ones. At least not around here, and not anywhere I've seen. And I've never seen a game that could reasonably be called X-rated in a retail store.
No kidding. No DVD I've bought has unskippable commercials, but then I tend to avoid Hollywood crap like the plague. (Though I think there are Xine plugins for DVD use that allow skipping and whatnot.) Anyway, if I ended up buying a DVD with this crap added on (and no warning on the packaging), I'd burn just the movie to DVD (without Macrovision, heh) and give away the original. I can't believe people would waste good money to watch commercials - I buy DVDs to avoid doing that.
I'm not sure about the 9600, but my All-in-Wonder 9700 came with an HDTV output adapter as well as one for regular TV (for the 9700, it's a squid-like thing that plugs into a port on the back of the card and branches into various video and audio outputs).
Q6: What modes does the HDTV Component Video Adapter support?
A6: ATI's HDTV Component Video Adapter supports the standard analog component modes of 480i (interlaced), 480p (progressive), 720p and 1080i.
Q7: What modes can I watch DVDs in?
A7: DVD playback is supported in 480i and 480p modes due to Macrovision restrictions.
Yeah, that would be an interesting break from the last, er, how many millenia? Ever heard of dogs, cats, corn, and countless others? Cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli, and kale all come from the same species of mustard plant (which should have been exterminated instead, but I digress). If that isn't toying with nature, I don't know what is.
Considering some of the stuff humans have done with selective breeding, creating four-assed monkeys would be relatively kind.
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Yeah, here it is. Fascinating stuff. Here is a list of his works that are available on Gutenberg.
For example, the title he gave a certain book was "The Origin of Species", not "Origin of the Species".
Frito yelped as the great bird swooped low and snatched them both from death with its rubberized talons.
"Name's Gwahno," said the Eagle as they climbed sharply awy from the disintegrating land. "Find a seat."
"But how -" began Frito.
"Not now, mac," the bird snapped. "Gotta figure a flight plan outta this dump."
- _Bored of the Rings_
If these numbers represent real life heat production, the athlon 64 is their hottest running processor yet (89 W), as is the P2EE Intel's (93.9 W). While the athlon 64 is the more appealing choice, I'd still expect it to need a pretty noisy heatsink/fan. Personally, I'd like to see a dual-processor Pentium M. ;)
I didn't know there were fanless 9600's... neat. A Zalman VGA cooler might work for you, too. I've got this one on my AIW 9700 Pro, and it works great. I've got a second fan on my Zalman fan bracket to be extra sure it stays cool, but said fan is a quiet one turned down until it is virtually silent, rather than the loud whine that came from the original fan.
Is this a different model? Which one uses the AAs?
Yeah, real easy to replace. At least mine merely requires the removal of the battery cover, but compare that to the convenience swapping in a spare set of NIMH AAA's if I'm running low on power. Not to mention the fact that the replacement batteries cost about a third of a new unit. It wouldn't be so bad paying ten times as much as for a set if NIMH cells if I could find a PDA that gets a tenth of the battery life as the old AAA ones did.
No kidding. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I see lithium batteries as just another way to gouge customers by forcing them to "upgrade" all of their electronics every year or two. For some devices (such as PDAs), it is impossible to buy anything that uses AAs or any other standard form of battery - or even a user-replaceable Li-ion battery. Digital cameras, mp3 players, gameboy sp... everything seems to be going this way. Screw that. I have my gameboy advance, cd/mp3 player, and AA-powered digital camera, but after my handera 330 was destroyed the only option was a Li-ion powered PDA.
Well, yeah. Frankly, a little tinkering around with my laptop and I could fit a plastic bag of the stuff in there bigger than my PDA (or maybe an actual explosive device - hopefully they have sniffer dogs), and still have it pass the silly "turn it on and see if it works" test.
Gosh, so it's only thousands of times a minute? Way to totally miss the parent's point.
Naw, they'd just automatically debit it from your bank account. Then do it a few more times for good measure. Then run up a million dollar gambling debt and vote for Bush.
The worst part is that I have no interest in pirating any of the crap made by the few "artists" that will see any money from this...
Really? I thought spooning was considered acceptable to most religions, but that forking was right out.
The toxicity of acute iron poisoning is due to local effects on GI mucosa, and systemic effects due to excessive iron in the body. Iron is irritating to the gastric and duodenal mucosa, which may result in hemorrage and occasionally perforations. Once absorbed, iron is taken up by tissues, particularly the liver, and acts as a mitochondrial poison. It occasionally causes hepatic injury. Iron may significantly inhibit aerobic glycolysis and perturb the electron transport system (that means it screws up the burning of glucose). Further, iron may shnt electrons away from the electron transport system, thereby reducing the efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation (ditto). These biochemical factors, along with the cardiovascular effects of iron, lead to metabolic acidosis. The pathogenesis of shock is not well understood but may include developmen of hypovolemia and lactic acidosis, release of endogenous vasodilators, and direct vasodepressant effects of iron and ferritin on the circulation (see fig 9-8, a really cool flow chart that probably makes more sense than this but would take forever to format properly).
Oh, and there's also iron overload, a condition caused by the (relatively slow) deposition of iron in organs which can result due to frequent transfusions (eg, needed by patients with thalassemia), which is prevented/treated with iron chelating agents.
Anyway, since I already checked my notes for that last bit, here's a bit from a toxicology book:
"There are essentially five stages of iron poisoning:
Stage I (30 min to 6 hours): GI irritation, primarily due to the corrosive effect of iron. Drowsiness, epigastric pain, GI bleeding, hypotention, and nausea/vomiting may occur. Hyperglycemia, leukocytosis, or metabolic acidosis may be present (due to vasodilation).
Stage II: (6 to 24 hours): A latent period of symptom quiescence during which symptomatic improvement may be noted. In severe poisonings, there may be not latent period.
Stage III (6 to 48 hours): Metabolic and systemic derangement occur with cardiovascular collapse, coagulopathy (inhibition of thrombin and fibrinogen), coma, and seizures. Pulmonary edema may occur due to cardiac failure.
Stage IV (2 to 7 days): Hepatotoxicity (jaundice) and coagulopathy occur. Metabolic acidosis is present, and renal insufficiency may occur.
Stage V (1 to 8 weeks): Primarily delated GI complications, including gastric/duodenal fibrosis resulting in obstructive pattern. Achlorhydria may develop."
Er, that was longer to type than I thought. Oh, well. There's a lot of terminology that I can translate if you want.
Yeah, this sounds exactly like an AMR slot. Has anyone actually used one of those? Or even seen an AMR modem? If this was actually totally integrated and functional, like a built-in NIC, it might actually be useful.
How about, say, a pedophile searches a handy registry and finds someone that lives in a nearby area and even looks like them, then goes there and rapes some kid. The mob goes after the registered sex-offender, and the real criminal is never even suspected.
Becuase of this, it is the citizens of the US who pay the entire cost of drug research, leading to significantly higher costs.
Wrong. The citizens of the US pay more than that (roughly double) towards the costs of the marketing to which they (and their doctors) are subjected. Interestingly enough, Canada has laws limiting this as well as the prices. The Canadian health care system would be at a greater risk if more Americans buy their drugs from Canada (less time for doctors and pharmacists to serve Canadians) than anything else.
Also, a lot of money can be saved by trying cheaper off-patent generic drugs (which can often be more effective to boot - hydrochlorothiazide is a few bucks year yet has more best evidence for preventing heart attacks and strokes than some drugs that cost dollars a day) first instead of whatever the drug-rep whore convinced their doctor to prescribe.
Couldn't the United States stop blabbing on about free trade and NAFTA while slapping ridiculously high tariffs on imports so their industries can remain inefficient? (Softwood lumber, steel, etc...)
Because, as was pointed out here this isn't done with R-rated movies, only X-rated ones. At least not around here, and not anywhere I've seen. And I've never seen a game that could reasonably be called X-rated in a retail store.
Nah, I think Doctor Fun knows where they're going with all this DRM stuff.
No kidding. No DVD I've bought has unskippable commercials, but then I tend to avoid Hollywood crap like the plague. (Though I think there are Xine plugins for DVD use that allow skipping and whatnot.) Anyway, if I ended up buying a DVD with this crap added on (and no warning on the packaging), I'd burn just the movie to DVD (without Macrovision, heh) and give away the original. I can't believe people would waste good money to watch commercials - I buy DVDs to avoid doing that.
Oh, here we go...
Q6: What modes does the HDTV Component Video Adapter support?
A6: ATI's HDTV Component Video Adapter supports the standard analog component modes of 480i (interlaced), 480p (progressive), 720p and 1080i.
Q7: What modes can I watch DVDs in?
A7: DVD playback is supported in 480i and 480p modes due to Macrovision restrictions.
Considering some of the stuff humans have done with selective breeding, creating four-assed monkeys would be relatively kind.
Along with anyone who doesn't see why people who have been dead for decades need to profit from copywrited material.