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I remember hearing some time ago about a Legend of Zelda mod. I downloaded it and ran it through a NES emulator. That sucker was about a thousand times harder than the original. I think I got about half way through the thing and finally gave up because it was too much. It was pretty cool though. The sprites were all colored differently and behaved in different ways than their original counterparts. I don't know, I may have heard about it here. If it can be done, and done well, for an NES game the newer ones would be real nice. If you get someone really creative and give it a good plot, you might have something better than the original.
You got it. That thing is nothing special. I don't like it. The only thing I like about the real McCoy is the way the motherboard comes down on the hinge doo-hickey. I like that in the original case, and I know I can get that elsewhere. If I wanted it the same exact way as with a Mac, I'd go the eBay and mod route.
I guess it all depends on how he does it. If he signed a contract that he would strap his testicles in the harness, so it got introduced to excruciating pressure when the parachute slows his descent, then he probably got funding from the Darwin Awards. But if they fund him, I'd imagine they would give him less than the cost to do this. You have to remember that the guy has to take himself out of the gene pool and doing it for next to nothing would make him a shoe in. I guess if he just did it for kicks and he made that 1km hole that would do it too.
And there is no proof of anyone DEVELOPING liver or kidney problems following this diet. There is some concern about elevated protien, but so far there is not a single case of problems that can be tied back to the low-carb diets.
I'd wager to guess that these diets haven't been around long enough to offer proof that problems are caused be Atkins type diets. These things take time and proof in the scientific community is established very slowly, usually taking more than ten well designed studies to get most experts to say there is proof. It probably happens, but it will not be proven for years.
False. The brain can also use ketone bodies (produced in low-carb situations) for fuel. While even in that situation, some glucose will be used by the brain, the bulk of its energy comes from ketones.
I'll give you that one. I was however talking about food primarily and not the ketone bodies produced by amino acid catabolism. As I stated previously, this isn't favorable because of the ammonia build up. My liver doesn't like it, how about yours?
The brain can only use glucose (basic 6 carbon sugar) for food/fuel
Carbohydrates are stored in the muscle and liver and require a healthy amount of water to stay there
When dietary carbohydrates go down, so do the storage carbohydrates in the muscle and liver due to need. Water is not needed to keep glucose there, so it goes down the chute
When the body's glucose levels drop down too much, protein is broken down to make glucose, and the process results in a lot of ammonia that the body seems to think is toxic
Fats are not converted to glucose in the body
Oxidation of fat in the body is dependant on glucose
Condsidering the above the only weight loss that is realistic on a low carb diet is protein and water. As a certified personal trainer, I can't make that reccommendation in good conscience. I've been treated in an emergency room for dehydration and it was not a great experience for me or my family. I wouldn't reccommend doing anything that would raise that risk. Also, since muscles require a lot of kilocalories to maintain themselves (or muscle burns more calories than fat), I wouldn't reccommend doing anything that reduces muscle mass.
High carbohydrate diets do not cause diabetes. Diabetes is not so simple to be caused by any one thing. Obesity and sedentary lifestyles are much stronger causes of diabetes than carbohydrates. If you also consider that carbohydrate foods are low in fiber, which plays a favorable role on blood sugar, low carb diets may be a more reliable cause than high carbs. Also consider that insulin levels go DOWN during exercise. This is because the rythmic contraction of muscles during exercise milks the glucose out of the blood. This is why a sedentary lifestyle is so bad. You rely solely on insulin to shuttle glucose out of the blood. After so much use and abuse, it might give out
The big problem with American obesity is not what we're eating; the problem is how much we are eating. A calorie is a calorie and 3500 too much will put one pound on you. Add inactivity to the equation and there you have it. Self control and exercise are generally sufficient in a healthy population to lose weight. The problem is that there are many other factors involved that might prevent weight loss. Successful weight loss takes work. Otherwise the plan is a fly by night operation and they will laugh all the way to the bank as the pounds come back on after the initial weight loss.
It seems like Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those! is taking over first post. It seems to be mentioned in almost every story with any tech angle at least.
I had a science teacher in middle school (about 1986) that thought the Russians would try this in three years (1989ish if you're not counting). Well, she was only off by 25 years. I guess that's why she was in the minor leagues.
Something along the lines of a removeable hard drive that you put into your box and load with mp3 (or whatever sound format) and then put it in the deck in your car and it plays the mp3s. The various mp3 players are small enough that this should be real easy to engineer. Also, if you use a standard format drive, you can upgrade the size as needed without pulling out the whole deck. Based on what mp3 players go for, I can see a deck without the drive included for about $50. I'll fork that over and slap in my 4.3GB IDE drive that I haven't put on ebay yet and I have tuneage for a serious road trip. Imagine the evil that can be accomplished with a 160GB drive. But that approach would be too logical and therefore is counter intuitive to the car stereo industry (well, take your pick of industry).
As one of the other responses indicate, breastfeeding is learned. There is a learning curve for both mother and child, even mother and following children. Each individual is different and some people learn faster than others. If an interface on x machine, or y OS is user friendly, then chances are some of the more savvy are going to gripe about it. I was raised on DOS and I don't mind windows because I can still use my old DOS buddies to help. I don't like Mac because it doesn't really have that luxury to the best of my knowledge. It also has a counter intuitive interface to my cerebrum, at least. The OS that has always been pushed as the user friendly one is not my friend.
I like to compare OSes and User Interface to guitars. If you play guitar you will probably know where I'm coming from. Electris guitars(ists) used to be put into two camps. Fender and Gibson were the two big companies and had decidedly different guitars, look, sound, and feel. Some people would say that Gibson was the best and Fender was the loser's guitar and vice versa. It is really a question of taste. You cannot say empirically that one is better than the other. In my case, I liked the look of the Gibson Les Paul, the sound of the Fender Stratocaster, and I couldn't bring myself to buy either one because I couldn't stand the way they felt in my hands. I couldn't play either one because they didn't feel right. If I really want to use the guitar that I think sounds best (which in my book trumps looks) then I will get one and I will learn to use it.
The time is always going to be 12:00 for some people.
I mean, physics equations use the second. The second IS the SI unit of time. Of course my physics professors could just be part of the conspiracy to keep me brainwashed.
I spent some time in Europe and the different colors was nice for telling which kind was which (especially when each bank has their own flavor of currency), but the different sizes made sifting through them in my wallet a pain. Each one fit the wallets folds differently and the different heights made it harder to get at some. It really made me miss my old greenbacks. I can't really see a whole lot of sense in catering to foreigners if the numbers are clear and in a uniform place. I think that it does make sense to people with bad eye sight, however. I guess the different sizes help when eye sight gets really bad, but there is going to be a learning curve. On second thought lets just abolish money altogether. It isn't like I'm getting paid what I'm worth/do anything anyway.
Don't get one. Government agencies are already stocking up on FM sniffers and updating their databases. When these hit the market, if they want to find you, it will be childs play. Just think about the loosening of the wiretapping laws...
The extigy or anything comparable on the market? I like the idea of a separate box with all the jacks handy. I like the remote idea for watching DVD's. Has anyone seen any reviews or competitors?
AMD hit the nail on the head (sorry, no pun intended, really) by keeping it around. Intel basically said screw everyone; buy new everything. AMD basically said we're going to ween you. Rather than making the chip with the best absolute architecture, they made one that gives us a giant step toward a better architecture without really delivering a big financial hit. I love it. Strategically giving a lesser product to set us up for a better one down the road when were all on 64 bit processing.
Being a "selective technophobe" is part of being a consumer. I prefer to call it voting with my wallet. I have no use for cell phones I don't think I will for many years. Besides that they cost too much for what I still consider an infant technology. I never hear people I talk to using cell phones with reasonable clarity. Being common as dirt is part of the problem. By adopting use I become part of the problem. I think that most people on them shouldn't be on them. They are an inconvenience more than the convenience they are intended to be. Running more tech off them is a giant step backwards in my mind. I think a better move would be wireless web enabled PDA's with all the new tech a plug in device. More functional and I still can be unreachable when I leave the house or business. The overriding reason I will not get a cell phone. I value my happy place.
I don't see why everything has to run on/off your cell phone. I just don't get it. They bug me enough when they go off in one of my good professor's lectures, but this is going too far. I have to listen to nimrods in when I'm out just about anywhere; now some guy thinks that I would love to ditch my display for something that runs off the cell phone I refuse to buy. Beam me up Scotty; I really want to use your industrial, starfleet issue, bolted to the wall vid displays.
I've always wanted to make a LAN party rig out of a tool box. Not the oft done computer in a tool box; I mean a LAN party in a tool box. Take one of the large drawered tool boxes and populate with flex ATX's and HD, CD-Roms, etc. Put a hub in one of the drawers and you have a LAN party in one box. Now if I could just get some friends...
I personally like the sound of my hardware revving up. It gives me this really Tim the Tool Man Taylor masculine feeling. It just makes me want to start barking. Now if I could just crank up the RPMs on my DVD, CD-RW, hard drive, floppy, and all my fans...Oh the thought gives me the warm fuzzies.
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I remember hearing some time ago about a Legend of Zelda mod. I downloaded it and ran it through a NES emulator. That sucker was about a thousand times harder than the original. I think I got about half way through the thing and finally gave up because it was too much. It was pretty cool though. The sprites were all colored differently and behaved in different ways than their original counterparts. I don't know, I may have heard about it here. If it can be done, and done well, for an NES game the newer ones would be real nice. If you get someone really creative and give it a good plot, you might have something better than the original.
You got it. That thing is nothing special. I don't like it. The only thing I like about the real McCoy is the way the motherboard comes down on the hinge doo-hickey. I like that in the original case, and I know I can get that elsewhere. If I wanted it the same exact way as with a Mac, I'd go the eBay and mod route.
I guess it all depends on how he does it. If he signed a contract that he would strap his testicles in the harness, so it got introduced to excruciating pressure when the parachute slows his descent, then he probably got funding from the Darwin Awards. But if they fund him, I'd imagine they would give him less than the cost to do this. You have to remember that the guy has to take himself out of the gene pool and doing it for next to nothing would make him a shoe in. I guess if he just did it for kicks and he made that 1km hole that would do it too.
I'd wager to guess that these diets haven't been around long enough to offer proof that problems are caused be Atkins type diets. These things take time and proof in the scientific community is established very slowly, usually taking more than ten well designed studies to get most experts to say there is proof. It probably happens, but it will not be proven for years.
Try taking an exercise physiology course, or try reading a text book. Never mind, try human physiology. They'll all tell you that it happens.
I'll give you that one. I was however talking about food primarily and not the ketone bodies produced by amino acid catabolism. As I stated previously, this isn't favorable because of the ammonia build up. My liver doesn't like it, how about yours?
The brain can only use glucose (basic 6 carbon sugar) for food/fuel
Carbohydrates are stored in the muscle and liver and require a healthy amount of water to stay there
When dietary carbohydrates go down, so do the storage carbohydrates in the muscle and liver due to need. Water is not needed to keep glucose there, so it goes down the chute
When the body's glucose levels drop down too much, protein is broken down to make glucose, and the process results in a lot of ammonia that the body seems to think is toxic
Fats are not converted to glucose in the body
Oxidation of fat in the body is dependant on glucose
Condsidering the above the only weight loss that is realistic on a low carb diet is protein and water. As a certified personal trainer, I can't make that reccommendation in good conscience. I've been treated in an emergency room for dehydration and it was not a great experience for me or my family. I wouldn't reccommend doing anything that would raise that risk. Also, since muscles require a lot of kilocalories to maintain themselves (or muscle burns more calories than fat), I wouldn't reccommend doing anything that reduces muscle mass.
High carbohydrate diets do not cause diabetes. Diabetes is not so simple to be caused by any one thing. Obesity and sedentary lifestyles are much stronger causes of diabetes than carbohydrates. If you also consider that carbohydrate foods are low in fiber, which plays a favorable role on blood sugar, low carb diets may be a more reliable cause than high carbs. Also consider that insulin levels go DOWN during exercise. This is because the rythmic contraction of muscles during exercise milks the glucose out of the blood. This is why a sedentary lifestyle is so bad. You rely solely on insulin to shuttle glucose out of the blood. After so much use and abuse, it might give out
The big problem with American obesity is not what we're eating; the problem is how much we are eating. A calorie is a calorie and 3500 too much will put one pound on you. Add inactivity to the equation and there you have it. Self control and exercise are generally sufficient in a healthy population to lose weight. The problem is that there are many other factors involved that might prevent weight loss. Successful weight loss takes work. Otherwise the plan is a fly by night operation and they will laugh all the way to the bank as the pounds come back on after the initial weight loss.
It seems like Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those! is taking over first post. It seems to be mentioned in almost every story with any tech angle at least.
I had a science teacher in middle school (about 1986) that thought the Russians would try this in three years (1989ish if you're not counting). Well, she was only off by 25 years. I guess that's why she was in the minor leagues.
Something along the lines of a removeable hard drive that you put into your box and load with mp3 (or whatever sound format) and then put it in the deck in your car and it plays the mp3s. The various mp3 players are small enough that this should be real easy to engineer. Also, if you use a standard format drive, you can upgrade the size as needed without pulling out the whole deck. Based on what mp3 players go for, I can see a deck without the drive included for about $50. I'll fork that over and slap in my 4.3GB IDE drive that I haven't put on ebay yet and I have tuneage for a serious road trip. Imagine the evil that can be accomplished with a 160GB drive. But that approach would be too logical and therefore is counter intuitive to the car stereo industry (well, take your pick of industry).
Nevermind no breasts, her hands are on backwards.
I like to compare OSes and User Interface to guitars. If you play guitar you will probably know where I'm coming from. Electris guitars(ists) used to be put into two camps. Fender and Gibson were the two big companies and had decidedly different guitars, look, sound, and feel. Some people would say that Gibson was the best and Fender was the loser's guitar and vice versa. It is really a question of taste. You cannot say empirically that one is better than the other. In my case, I liked the look of the Gibson Les Paul, the sound of the Fender Stratocaster, and I couldn't bring myself to buy either one because I couldn't stand the way they felt in my hands. I couldn't play either one because they didn't feel right. If I really want to use the guitar that I think sounds best (which in my book trumps looks) then I will get one and I will learn to use it.
The time is always going to be 12:00 for some people.
I love the trend of making devices kill batteries at an even faster rate.
I mean, physics equations use the second. The second IS the SI unit of time. Of course my physics professors could just be part of the conspiracy to keep me brainwashed.
I have to repley just to say great sig. Keeping with the UHF references Don't you know the Dewey decimal system?
I spent some time in Europe and the different colors was nice for telling which kind was which (especially when each bank has their own flavor of currency), but the different sizes made sifting through them in my wallet a pain. Each one fit the wallets folds differently and the different heights made it harder to get at some. It really made me miss my old greenbacks. I can't really see a whole lot of sense in catering to foreigners if the numbers are clear and in a uniform place. I think that it does make sense to people with bad eye sight, however. I guess the different sizes help when eye sight gets really bad, but there is going to be a learning curve. On second thought lets just abolish money altogether. It isn't like I'm getting paid what I'm worth/do anything anyway.
Plus they send you their monthly catalogue to read on the toilet.
Don't get one. Government agencies are already stocking up on FM sniffers and updating their databases. When these hit the market, if they want to find you, it will be childs play. Just think about the loosening of the wiretapping laws...
The extigy or anything comparable on the market? I like the idea of a separate box with all the jacks handy. I like the remote idea for watching DVD's. Has anyone seen any reviews or competitors?
AMD hit the nail on the head (sorry, no pun intended, really) by keeping it around. Intel basically said screw everyone; buy new everything. AMD basically said we're going to ween you. Rather than making the chip with the best absolute architecture, they made one that gives us a giant step toward a better architecture without really delivering a big financial hit. I love it. Strategically giving a lesser product to set us up for a better one down the road when were all on 64 bit processing.
Being a "selective technophobe" is part of being a consumer. I prefer to call it voting with my wallet. I have no use for cell phones I don't think I will for many years. Besides that they cost too much for what I still consider an infant technology. I never hear people I talk to using cell phones with reasonable clarity. Being common as dirt is part of the problem. By adopting use I become part of the problem. I think that most people on them shouldn't be on them. They are an inconvenience more than the convenience they are intended to be. Running more tech off them is a giant step backwards in my mind. I think a better move would be wireless web enabled PDA's with all the new tech a plug in device. More functional and I still can be unreachable when I leave the house or business. The overriding reason I will not get a cell phone. I value my happy place.
I don't see why everything has to run on/off your cell phone. I just don't get it. They bug me enough when they go off in one of my good professor's lectures, but this is going too far. I have to listen to nimrods in when I'm out just about anywhere; now some guy thinks that I would love to ditch my display for something that runs off the cell phone I refuse to buy. Beam me up Scotty; I really want to use your industrial, starfleet issue, bolted to the wall vid displays.
I've always wanted to make a LAN party rig out of a tool box. Not the oft done computer in a tool box; I mean a LAN party in a tool box. Take one of the large drawered tool boxes and populate with flex ATX's and HD, CD-Roms, etc. Put a hub in one of the drawers and you have a LAN party in one box. Now if I could just get some friends...
Then there's always the 256 boxes for a good Beowulf cluster...
I personally like the sound of my hardware revving up. It gives me this really Tim the Tool Man Taylor masculine feeling. It just makes me want to start barking. Now if I could just crank up the RPMs on my DVD, CD-RW, hard drive, floppy, and all my fans...Oh the thought gives me the warm fuzzies.