I went on the Hacker's Diet in April of 2004 and lost 10kg over a couple of months.
I found that, for me, the best solution was to eat around 200-300Cal for each regular meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and about 100-200Cal snacks in mid-morning, mid-afternoon, and sometimes mid-evening.
I also found that, in order to keep my sanity, some small amount of chocolate helped. I ate around 20 M&M's each day after lunch.
I drink iced-tea all day anyway. Don't get the bottled stuff, make the real stuff. You will be amazed how many calories are in the bottled stuff, and for no good reason. Dunk a tea bag in 150-300mL of near-boiling water for five minutes, add sweetener (I used 2g of Splenda), and pour over ice. It tastes a lot better than the bottled crap, give you your caffeine dosage (about 1/2 per serving of what is in a cup of coffee) and has no calories.
Dill pickles have no calories, but be careful, they do have a lot of salt.
Pop your own popcorn, in an air popper. Toss it with a very small quantity of olive oil and add salt or parmesan cheese. It blows away even Smartfood.
Buy snack foods in single-serving sizes, or break them down into single-serving sizes so that you don't have to think about who much you've eaten; you can just grab one and eat. This breaks the tendency of some foods to become compulsive once you start eating them (e.g. "Betcha can't eat just one!") because you will hit the bottom of the bag and have to open another one to get more, at which point your guilt should kick in. If not, make sure you don't have more than on on hand.
Continuing in that vein, I still keep 30g packets of corn nuts and peanuts (bought in bulk, packaged myself) in my office cubicle.
It's occasionally unpleasant, but if you've read Walker's book, you already knew that. You can get through it by spreading it out and finding creative ways to enforce discipline.
My cellular provider has had a policy for a long time of having users set a password to be produced whenever speaking to a customer sales rep or a retail rep about the account. Despite this, for the longest time, they would ask "Could I have your password or SSN?"
The good news, however, is this: I used a strong password (a memorized, but random string of letters and numbers), and was able to ask a CSR to set my account so that the SSN was not acceptable ID. Thus far, they have honoured this request. Since that point, the question has always been for my password.
Another fine example is the Bugs Bunny cartoon where the singing frog (later named Michigan J. Frog) is introduced.
In the original (or at least the earliest in my memory), the guy who discovered the frog, after failing to get a talent agent interested, rents or buys a derelict theatre and fixes it up. He goes to the door and opens the theatre expecting a crowd. None comes.
He paints up a sign that says, "Free Admission" and takes it to the door and waits for a crowd. None comes.
He paints up a sign that says, "Free Beer" and takes it to the door, whereupon he gets a stampede.
In more recent years, however, the "Free Beer" sign has been cut out. The stampede results from the "Free Admission" sign. It's just not as funny.
The fact is, a lot of people do not realise that the Bugs Bunny cartoons are intended for family audiences, yes, but primarily adult-oriented. Without that understanding, they have been Bowdlerised, thus removing some of the funny.
As long as you're going to have a vent hole anyway, why not cut two? Put a big slow quiet fan in the top one blowing in, and an air filter in the bottom (or the other way around)?
This is the single most sensible suggestion that has been made on this thread. Use fans.
I am offended, sir! I come from a farm family, and we used to grow melons!
Gotcha! While the above statement is true, (the farming part, not the offence part), it kind of goes to show what could happen when you try not to offend anyone. If they really feel that the must censor the movies, what, I ask, is wrong with a good, old-fashioned bleep?
The key sequence to type any of the polyglyphs that we use is immediately apparent, because the keys are labelled with each of the monoglyphs that make up those polyglyphs. On the other hand, you have to take the time to teach newbies to type double-bucky cokebottle to get such-and-such a character, or you have to convince the newbie to RTFM. Ain't happenin'.
Now, if we could have some agreement on the meanings of some of these polyglyphs, that would be good.
I think he may be thinking of an enclosure that uses SATA as the interface between it and the computer, not a firewire enclosure with a SATA drive in it.
Ah, good point; I didn't think of that. Kind of akin to the SCSI enclosures you use with older Sun workstations.
As an aside, when are SATA enclosures going to be more readily avaialble. The only ones out now have a premium price attached to it.
This will probably happen when it becomes necessary due to a low availability of PATA drives. Don't expect much benefit, though. Firewire 400 transfers at 50MB/s ((400Mbit/s) / (8bit/B) = 50MB/s) and Firewire 800 at 100MB/s (similar math). As such, the Firewire is the bottleneck (at least from a signalling perspective).
On Firewire 400, an ATA/66 drive will only show a 50% improvement over an ATA/33, and ATA/100, ATA/133, SATA/150 or SATA/300 should put in the same performance as ATA/66 (exception caused by smarter drive electronics noted).
On Firewire 800, things are slightly less limited, with ATA/66 putting in the expected 100% boost over ATA/33, and ATA/100 giving another 50% over ATA/66. It stops there, though, with ATA/133, SATA/150 and SATA/300 giving the same performance as ATA/100
Of course, this is a simplistic analysis. It ignores the overhead of the firewire interface (which is less than the overhead of USB, which, in turn is why USB at 480Mbit/s gets consistently smoked by Firewire at 400Mbit/s) and it ignores the logic on board the drive, and it ignores the drive mechanics. It's pretty likely that an SATA/300 drive will have smarter logic and faster mechanics than an ATA/100 drive, but that doesn't make it so.
Bottom line, there really isn't a lot of benefit in making an SATA enclosure at this time, and probably won't be until PATA drives become an endangered species.
(excluding of course any hint of rebelling against the publishers profits)
Now I've always had a deep respect
And I mean that most sincerely
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think
Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?
Tell me that is not rebelling against the publisher? The sarcasm drips thick off of that song. (For the unfamiliar, the song is Have a Cigar from the album Wish You Were Here
Why in the world would I ever even consider paying a dollar per TRACK of the same music
The only upside to $1/track that I can think of is that you can buy just one track. If you just like one song, you aren't forced to buy the whole album.
only to have harsh restrictions placed on me as to where I can play it, and how many times I can copy it to other devices?
Here, I'm with you 100%, and it is precicely the reason why I will not be buying HD-DVD unless the movie industry extract their collective crania from their collective recta, in precicely the same manner as the record industry have not done.
By definition, if it annoys me, it is therefore annoying. If something annoys you, then it is annoying. If it annoys someone else, then it is annoying. Does that make sense?
Lots of good discussion. As for Dr. Barach, he did a number of speaking tours, and someone I know had given me an audio tape of one of his presentations. I don't know when the tape was made.
The points about the research are well taken. As a vet, Dr. Barach was able to fast-track his knowledge into practical use, because his patients weren't likely to sue him. Whether or not that makes him an ass is another matter.
To the fellow who had the triple-threat approach, I notice that one of the items in the triple threat is an pre-emptive acid reducer; probably not a bad idea. Dr. Barach's approach pre-dates Nexium by at least a year. I'm glad you are on the mend, and thank you for the input on the process.
As for the battery technology, I think it is safe to say that now that the research has been done once by this really big American automotive company they will never look at it again
AC Propulsion is hardly a really big American automotive company, rather, they built the T-Zero not only as a test platform, but also, as you say, to kick the automotive industry in the head.
Peeve alert: starting sentences in the subject line and finishing them in the body is annoying. Just so you know.
Anyway, what I really am posting about, though, is that stress weakens the immune system, giving the bacteria the ability to take hold. There are other, similarly-behaved things, such as eczema (a skin affliction), which is viral, but will mostly only manifest when you are stressed badly.
The Nobel Prize committee is almost as slow as Slashdot. The actual discovery, per TFA, was made in 1982.
Similar to what I was going to post. I have known this since 1996 or so, when I heard a presentation by a Dr. Barach. He was saying that the cure for ulcers is tetracycline (antibiotic) and bismuth. In short, antibiotics with a shot of Pepto-Bismol should do it.
The trouble with Dr. Barach knowing this is that, being a veterinarian, he was forbidden to use this knowledge on people. We have this taboo, which is sometimes codified into law (as it was where he practiced) that one person cannot be licenced as both a DVM and an MD.
Considering this is running a neutered version of Windows and is designed to perform only the most basic tasks, I'm surpised it is priced so high.
Indeed. Consider this, though: If the idea catches on (in precisely the same manner as it has not caught on the last twenty times), then there could be a move to the cell phone/satellite TV model of subsidized pricing. The ISP, much like the cell or satellite network, would "sell" you a unit at a subsidized price that is a minor fraction of cost. That unit would be tied to that ISP such that you could not use it with a different ISP. To get the greatly subsidized price, you agree to a 1-year contract, or something similar.
no offense and i dont know where you live or you personal circumstances, but have you considered a bicycle?
In my current employment circumstances, and weather permitting, this works well. However, I can't stand it very well once the weather drops below 5C (40F), which it has just done for the season. We're supposed to have warmer weather next week, so I will probably bike again next week, but that will probably be it for the year.
It takes a bit of preparation (pack work clothes in backpack, leave enough time to change before I am expected at my desk, etc) and it takes about twice as long as driving.
Note that I am not a very fast biker. I average about 15km/h (9MPH) and spike at about 20km/h (12MPH). It's worth noting because on the same stretch of road, driving a car, I would be travelling typically 70km/h (45MPH), thus it would appear that I should be able to get there in 1/5 the time by car, but the best I can do is 1/2 the time. The deciding factor here is congestion. In a car, I have to deal with congestion; on a bike, I don't
My commute is about 10km/6.5mi. Unfortunately, my company is moving in December, and the new site is too far to commute by bike. It will be 34km (21mi) putting it out of reach for a bicyclist of my modest ability.
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I went on the Hacker's Diet in April of 2004 and lost 10kg over a couple of months.
I found that, for me, the best solution was to eat around 200-300Cal for each regular meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and about 100-200Cal snacks in mid-morning, mid-afternoon, and sometimes mid-evening.
I also found that, in order to keep my sanity, some small amount of chocolate helped. I ate around 20 M&M's each day after lunch.
I drink iced-tea all day anyway. Don't get the bottled stuff, make the real stuff. You will be amazed how many calories are in the bottled stuff, and for no good reason. Dunk a tea bag in 150-300mL of near-boiling water for five minutes, add sweetener (I used 2g of Splenda), and pour over ice. It tastes a lot better than the bottled crap, give you your caffeine dosage (about 1/2 per serving of what is in a cup of coffee) and has no calories.
Dill pickles have no calories, but be careful, they do have a lot of salt.
Pop your own popcorn, in an air popper. Toss it with a very small quantity of olive oil and add salt or parmesan cheese. It blows away even Smartfood.
Buy snack foods in single-serving sizes, or break them down into single-serving sizes so that you don't have to think about who much you've eaten; you can just grab one and eat. This breaks the tendency of some foods to become compulsive once you start eating them (e.g. "Betcha can't eat just one!") because you will hit the bottom of the bag and have to open another one to get more, at which point your guilt should kick in. If not, make sure you don't have more than on on hand.
Continuing in that vein, I still keep 30g packets of corn nuts and peanuts (bought in bulk, packaged myself) in my office cubicle.
It's occasionally unpleasant, but if you've read Walker's book, you already knew that. You can get through it by spreading it out and finding creative ways to enforce discipline.
CD audio consumes 88,200 bytes per second.
Close, but off by a factor of two. There are 44100 samples per second, 2 channels, 2 bytes (16 bits) per sample. Total 176,400 bytes per second.
My cellular provider has had a policy for a long time of having users set a password to be produced whenever speaking to a customer sales rep or a retail rep about the account. Despite this, for the longest time, they would ask "Could I have your password or SSN?"
The good news, however, is this: I used a strong password (a memorized, but random string of letters and numbers), and was able to ask a CSR to set my account so that the SSN was not acceptable ID. Thus far, they have honoured this request. Since that point, the question has always been for my password.
Another fine example is the Bugs Bunny cartoon where the singing frog (later named Michigan J. Frog) is introduced.
In the original (or at least the earliest in my memory), the guy who discovered the frog, after failing to get a talent agent interested, rents or buys a derelict theatre and fixes it up. He goes to the door and opens the theatre expecting a crowd. None comes.
He paints up a sign that says, "Free Admission" and takes it to the door and waits for a crowd. None comes.
He paints up a sign that says, "Free Beer" and takes it to the door, whereupon he gets a stampede.
In more recent years, however, the "Free Beer" sign has been cut out. The stampede results from the "Free Admission" sign. It's just not as funny.
The fact is, a lot of people do not realise that the Bugs Bunny cartoons are intended for family audiences, yes, but primarily adult-oriented. Without that understanding, they have been Bowdlerised, thus removing some of the funny.
"We don't care, we don't have to !"
The counterpart to this was, "Ma Bell, Go to hell!"
As long as you're going to have a vent hole anyway, why not cut two? Put a big slow quiet fan in the top one blowing in, and an air filter in the bottom (or the other way around)?
This is the single most sensible suggestion that has been made on this thread. Use fans.
What a bunch of Melon farmers
I am offended, sir! I come from a farm family, and we used to grow melons!
Gotcha! While the above statement is true, (the farming part, not the offence part), it kind of goes to show what could happen when you try not to offend anyone. If they really feel that the must censor the movies, what, I ask, is wrong with a good, old-fashioned bleep?
The key sequence to type any of the polyglyphs that we use is immediately apparent, because the keys are labelled with each of the monoglyphs that make up those polyglyphs. On the other hand, you have to take the time to teach newbies to type double-bucky cokebottle to get such-and-such a character, or you have to convince the newbie to RTFM. Ain't happenin'.
Now, if we could have some agreement on the meanings of some of these polyglyphs, that would be good.
Badger Badger Badger
I think he may be thinking of an enclosure that uses SATA as the interface between it and the computer, not a firewire enclosure with a SATA drive in it.
Ah, good point; I didn't think of that. Kind of akin to the SCSI enclosures you use with older Sun workstations.
As an aside, when are SATA enclosures going to be more readily avaialble. The only ones out now have a premium price attached to it.
This will probably happen when it becomes necessary due to a low availability of PATA drives. Don't expect much benefit, though. Firewire 400 transfers at 50MB/s ((400Mbit/s) / (8bit/B) = 50MB/s) and Firewire 800 at 100MB/s (similar math). As such, the Firewire is the bottleneck (at least from a signalling perspective).
On Firewire 400, an ATA/66 drive will only show a 50% improvement over an ATA/33, and ATA/100, ATA/133, SATA/150 or SATA/300 should put in the same performance as ATA/66 (exception caused by smarter drive electronics noted).
On Firewire 800, things are slightly less limited, with ATA/66 putting in the expected 100% boost over ATA/33, and ATA/100 giving another 50% over ATA/66. It stops there, though, with ATA/133, SATA/150 and SATA/300 giving the same performance as ATA/100
Of course, this is a simplistic analysis. It ignores the overhead of the firewire interface (which is less than the overhead of USB, which, in turn is why USB at 480Mbit/s gets consistently smoked by Firewire at 400Mbit/s) and it ignores the logic on board the drive, and it ignores the drive mechanics. It's pretty likely that an SATA/300 drive will have smarter logic and faster mechanics than an ATA/100 drive, but that doesn't make it so.
Bottom line, there really isn't a lot of benefit in making an SATA enclosure at this time, and probably won't be until PATA drives become an endangered species.
Write The Fucking Word, it's not like masking it with *s makes it any less offensive.
Fuck you! Ya happy now?
And there is always short wave radio for us to enjoy!
...that is, until it gets wiped out by the QRM from BPL!
(QRM = manmade interference)
Read the f***ing articles, Follow the F***ing links, you will find your list.
Didn't we already decide, that enumaration, amongst other things was a Dumb Idea?
(excluding of course any hint of rebelling against the publishers profits)
Now I've always had a deep respect
And I mean that most sincerely
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think
Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?
Tell me that is not rebelling against the publisher? The sarcasm drips thick off of that song. (For the unfamiliar, the song is Have a Cigar from the album Wish You Were Here
Why in the world would I ever even consider paying a dollar per TRACK of the same music
The only upside to $1/track that I can think of is that you can buy just one track. If you just like one song, you aren't forced to buy the whole album.
only to have harsh restrictions placed on me as to where I can play it, and how many times I can copy it to other devices?
Here, I'm with you 100%, and it is precicely the reason why I will not be buying HD-DVD unless the movie industry extract their collective crania from their collective recta, in precicely the same manner as the record industry have not done.
Just because you think so?
By definition, if it annoys me, it is therefore annoying. If something annoys you, then it is annoying. If it annoys someone else, then it is annoying. Does that make sense?
Lots of good discussion. As for Dr. Barach, he did a number of speaking tours, and someone I know had given me an audio tape of one of his presentations. I don't know when the tape was made.
The points about the research are well taken. As a vet, Dr. Barach was able to fast-track his knowledge into practical use, because his patients weren't likely to sue him. Whether or not that makes him an ass is another matter.
To the fellow who had the triple-threat approach, I notice that one of the items in the triple threat is an pre-emptive acid reducer; probably not a bad idea. Dr. Barach's approach pre-dates Nexium by at least a year. I'm glad you are on the mend, and thank you for the input on the process.
As for the battery technology, I think it is safe to say that now that the research has been done once by this really big American automotive company they will never look at it again
AC Propulsion is hardly a really big American automotive company, rather, they built the T-Zero not only as a test platform, but also, as you say, to kick the automotive industry in the head.
tar -cf - . | (cd $destination;tar -xvf -)
tar -cf - . | ssh $user@$host "(cd $destination;tar -cvf -)"
So Ulcers . . . Are not caused by stress?
Peeve alert: starting sentences in the subject line and finishing them in the body is annoying. Just so you know.
Anyway, what I really am posting about, though, is that stress weakens the immune system, giving the bacteria the ability to take hold. There are other, similarly-behaved things, such as eczema (a skin affliction), which is viral, but will mostly only manifest when you are stressed badly.
The Nobel Prize committee is almost as slow as Slashdot. The actual discovery, per TFA, was made in 1982.
Similar to what I was going to post. I have known this since 1996 or so, when I heard a presentation by a Dr. Barach. He was saying that the cure for ulcers is tetracycline (antibiotic) and bismuth. In short, antibiotics with a shot of Pepto-Bismol should do it.
The trouble with Dr. Barach knowing this is that, being a veterinarian, he was forbidden to use this knowledge on people. We have this taboo, which is sometimes codified into law (as it was where he practiced) that one person cannot be licenced as both a DVM and an MD.
Considering this is running a neutered version of Windows and is designed to perform only the most basic tasks, I'm surpised it is priced so high.
Indeed. Consider this, though: If the idea catches on (in precisely the same manner as it has not caught on the last twenty times), then there could be a move to the cell phone/satellite TV model of subsidized pricing. The ISP, much like the cell or satellite network, would "sell" you a unit at a subsidized price that is a minor fraction of cost. That unit would be tied to that ISP such that you could not use it with a different ISP. To get the greatly subsidized price, you agree to a 1-year contract, or something similar.
Of course, this has been tried before.
no offense and i dont know where you live or you personal circumstances, but have you considered a bicycle?
In my current employment circumstances, and weather permitting, this works well. However, I can't stand it very well once the weather drops below 5C (40F), which it has just done for the season. We're supposed to have warmer weather next week, so I will probably bike again next week, but that will probably be it for the year.
It takes a bit of preparation (pack work clothes in backpack, leave enough time to change before I am expected at my desk, etc) and it takes about twice as long as driving.
Note that I am not a very fast biker. I average about 15km/h (9MPH) and spike at about 20km/h (12MPH). It's worth noting because on the same stretch of road, driving a car, I would be travelling typically 70km/h (45MPH), thus it would appear that I should be able to get there in 1/5 the time by car, but the best I can do is 1/2 the time. The deciding factor here is congestion. In a car, I have to deal with congestion; on a bike, I don't
My commute is about 10km/6.5mi. Unfortunately, my company is moving in December, and the new site is too far to commute by bike. It will be 34km (21mi) putting it out of reach for a bicyclist of my modest ability.