The consensus of most studies on it are that stretching/warm ups offer some benefit in preventing specific types of injury, but not as much as most people thought. A pubmed search for 'stretching exercise injury' should bring up plenty of studies.
On my lifting days I never do warm ups. Actually I've got the best results from a downward progression system: starting heavy and going lighter as I go to failure. But I'm of the 'big movement/heavy weight' school of thought too. I never bothered when I swim either. Swimming is usually intensive enough that the muscles warm up within minutes anyway. Combined with the lack of any real impact or skeletal-muscular stress, muscle and tendon injury is not usually an issue.
To be fair IE7Pro (a plugin for IE7) adds most of those features. Now if only it could actually make it run well on Vista. You know, like every other current browser seems capable of doing without issue, out of the box.
I agree completely. I've used IE almost exclusively since IE 3. I'm using the current RC of Firefox 3 and I can't ever see myself going back. It looks great (glad to see that circa 1999 default skin gone), is memory friendly, fast (way faster than IE on Vista), and there are so many cool little features. So many "why didn't anyone think of that before!" features.
For the first time I think IE is really in trouble of loosing it's dominance.
So kudos to the FF developers! This browser rocks!
My record STL to CHI is 3.5 hours, but I had the benefit of stumbling into a group of cars with Illinois State-House plates headed to Chicago. I think that was the first time I got to really use 6th in my car. Nothing like cruising along on a wide open, almost empty interstate on a sunny spring day, coat-tailing on some politicians' "ticket-free" ride at 95 mph, 2500 RPM, and still getting ~25 mpg. That was a really great drive.
The train is usually on time from what I remember. It's been a few years since I took it with any regularity, so YMMV. It takes about the same amount of time as driving (it runs pretty fast between stops). The problem is the STL to Alton, Il part. You have to be careful checking the schedule because side-tracks (where the train pulls off to a side track to let a freight train go by) can make that segment take up to an hour! I had trips side-track at other spots, but it wasn't a regular thing.
Normally I'd just drive instead of fly to/from Chicago from STL. When you factor in the time to park, shuttle to the airport (or taxi for the return), security, delays, etc, it's a wash time wise, and a lot less of a hassle. Unfortunately my Boss at the time had a thing for flying so we flew. The Amtrak from Alton to Chicago is nice too. Done it plenty of times.
Nah, most of these people where not the type of people to pull out a laptop for games. I'm sure some were, but from what I could see most of the people appeared to be "suits". I travel on business all the time as a consultant, and have been known to pull out the old laptop to play a game or movie. But I've never been so desperate for that that I had to do it on a flight near that short.
It's not the geeks, it's the business wonks. I remember a flight I took from Chicago to St Louis a few years ago. It was a 90 minute flight (minus the 2 hour ground delay), about 30-40 minutes of that was actually at "cruising" where you can have electronic devices on. As soon as they announced that electronic devices could be used, at least half the plane (packed MD80) pulled out laptops. From what I could tell, most were business users. They couldn't go 30 minutes without working on their spreadsheets and powerpoints.
At Best Buy, store sales numbers are #1, customer service is a far 2nd. They honestly don't care if they lose a customer here or there if it keeps their numbers up.
I purchased a sound card a few years ago, got it home, opened it up and there was an old Jazz drive and 3.5-to-5.25 bracket inside. Lucky for me, I had some leverage when returning it and did get my exchange. When the CS rep started giving me trouble about it I threatened to return the $3,000 in merchandise I had purchased in the prior 30 days.
When I got the new box, I noticed the shrink wrap was different. I always check the shrink now and often will open it after I purchase it while still at the register. I also NEVER buy the first item on the shelf, but go to one farther back.
That is exactly how it SHOULD work anyway: clear QAM for basic/extended channels and some form of protection for the pay networks. QAM tuners are showing up in most HDTV sets now, so I imagine the cost of including it must be next to nothing. Why the hell should I have to rent/buy a converter box when my TV can display the damn content by itself already! Guess I just find it really frustrating that the content providers/cable companies are actually CREATING a technical hurdle to my consumption of their own damn product. Heck, the damn STB requirement is the reason I DON'T subscribe to their digital tier now.
Wow. In two posts I think you set a/. record for appeals to authority. Unless I missed an FCC ruling though, I don't think anyone is going to be FORCED to switch to HDTV in 2009:
This should intersect with the curve around February 2009, which is about when the US market will be forced to switch over to HDTV as well.
Nice save attempt, btw. That aside, if you think that 42" 1080p will be the sales leader and/or the driving force behind HDTV adoption in 2009, well, I have to disagree. 32" 720p sets take that spot. The sets are already dipping into the $599 range, with higher end sets falling under $1000. Expect $499 bargain sets by x-mas (I've already seen at least one set this low at CC this year). By the 2009 cutover, these will be the new "27-inch" TVs. Their picture size, especially for 4:3 content, is a good match to the 27" tube TVs. Much better than the 26/27 inch widescreens. 27" CRT's are popular for a reason: big enough for a living room, small enough for a bedroom. Expect the 32" to step up into that roll for HDTVs. I do agree that you will see 720p all but vanish by 2012, replaced by 1080p.
I also agree that 42" is at a "sweet spot" in the size vs cost. Hell, I just bought one today instead of a 61" DLP. That said, I think their prices will remain above $800 well past the 2009 cutover, putting them out of range for lower-income and cost-conscious consumers.
Unencrypted is the key there. Most cable companies provide few, if any, unencrypted QAM channels. I have charter and the only unencrypted QAM channels I can get are the secondary channels from the local HD stations (excluding PBS) and PPV/On demand that people in my area have ordered. Yes, that's right, THAT they send out unencrypted. The extended digital channels and all the HD channels (including locals) are scrambled.
The converter box vouchers from the FCC should help with this. I imagine the big retailers will be clamoring for them and offering a ton of inexpensive boxes so they can rake in those vouchers.
How do you figure that? Oh, wait, are you one of those people who thinks that "digital only" means "HDTV only"? BestBuy has sets at the exact same price points as they always have (cheapest on their site is a 13" 480i for $109). The only difference is that they are no longer carrying TV's that ONLY have analog tuners. No surprise though, as TV's 13" or larger manufactured after 12/31/06 MUST contain a digital tuner. So really, their announcement just means that they have run out of their stock of pre-2007 TV's.
Repeat 10 times aloud (very aloud): Digital TV does not mean you have to buy an HDTV.
BestBuy, right now, carries digital standard definition (480i) tube TV's starting at $109.00 for a 13" set. Wal-mart has even cheaper sets. I was in a BB store this week and they have a huge array of SD digital sets available for the same prices you would expect to pay for an analog only set of the same size. Most (if not all) of these sets can also tune analog as well.
That was my first thought too. My second thought was "I'm so taking one of those to the next protest near me." Maybe mount a fake lens to it, paint it black, put little flag decals on it, mark it "Property of Haliburton"...
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I wouldn't count on seeing an American version of the IT Crowd anytime soon. They shot the live audience parts of the pilot and it has sat ever since. Rumor has it the new NBC boss isn't big on the show. Ah well, they would probably screw it up anyway. Hooray for bittorrent!
I was curious if all the anti-copyright stuff that you see in the background of the British version would survive it's Americanization.
That's not a "Microsoft" issue though. All MS did was implement the standard handed to them by the HD/Bluray groups to allow playback of their content. This is not some MS specific thing. Hardware players have the same restriction and will have the same issue if (when) the content providers flip that bit. Making this out to be Microsoft's fault is pure FUD. I have to wonder if there will be the same kind of comments will be floating around when Apple begins to provide support for HD or Bluray in OS X and people discover it comes with the same DRM evilness.
That wouldn't work either. The missile bodies and warheads would be tracked separately. Since they were (supposed to be) separated, you are still short six warheads. It would be much easier to just order the strike, scramble the bomber(s), and be done with it. It's not like you could hide it after the bombs are dropped, so trying to play with the inventory would be a moot point once the mission was launched.
I'd actually be happier with the conspiracy theory scenario, since that would mean that the USAF really didn't manage to loose track of six nuclear weapons. Unfortunately everything seems to point to exactly that. At least they didn't end up on eBay.
The problem with this theory is that Barksdale is also a B52 base, complete with their very own nuclear armaments on hand. There would be no reason to come up with some zany plan to "stage" missiles from ND.
since it's quite easy instead for a program to export it in the proper format
This is also the case with MS Office. Microsoft provides COM interfaces to the office products that can be used to generate documents. I do this all the time with Excel. It is actually very simple to use and well documented.
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The consensus of most studies on it are that stretching/warm ups offer some benefit in preventing specific types of injury, but not as much as most people thought. A pubmed search for 'stretching exercise injury' should bring up plenty of studies.
On my lifting days I never do warm ups. Actually I've got the best results from a downward progression system: starting heavy and going lighter as I go to failure. But I'm of the 'big movement/heavy weight' school of thought too. I never bothered when I swim either. Swimming is usually intensive enough that the muscles warm up within minutes anyway. Combined with the lack of any real impact or skeletal-muscular stress, muscle and tendon injury is not usually an issue.
I do, however, warm up when I run.
To be fair IE7Pro (a plugin for IE7) adds most of those features. Now if only it could actually make it run well on Vista. You know, like every other current browser seems capable of doing without issue, out of the box.
er..I mean "...losing its dominance."
I agree completely. I've used IE almost exclusively since IE 3. I'm using the current RC of Firefox 3 and I can't ever see myself going back. It looks great (glad to see that circa 1999 default skin gone), is memory friendly, fast (way faster than IE on Vista), and there are so many cool little features. So many "why didn't anyone think of that before!" features.
For the first time I think IE is really in trouble of loosing it's dominance. So kudos to the FF developers! This browser rocks!
"Anyone else hate idiots like this?"
Yep, almost as much as the idiots that use logical fallacies to attack them.
My record STL to CHI is 3.5 hours, but I had the benefit of stumbling into a group of cars with Illinois State-House plates headed to Chicago. I think that was the first time I got to really use 6th in my car. Nothing like cruising along on a wide open, almost empty interstate on a sunny spring day, coat-tailing on some politicians' "ticket-free" ride at 95 mph, 2500 RPM, and still getting ~25 mpg. That was a really great drive.
The train is usually on time from what I remember. It's been a few years since I took it with any regularity, so YMMV. It takes about the same amount of time as driving (it runs pretty fast between stops). The problem is the STL to Alton, Il part. You have to be careful checking the schedule because side-tracks (where the train pulls off to a side track to let a freight train go by) can make that segment take up to an hour! I had trips side-track at other spots, but it wasn't a regular thing.
Normally I'd just drive instead of fly to/from Chicago from STL. When you factor in the time to park, shuttle to the airport (or taxi for the return), security, delays, etc, it's a wash time wise, and a lot less of a hassle. Unfortunately my Boss at the time had a thing for flying so we flew. The Amtrak from Alton to Chicago is nice too. Done it plenty of times.
Nah, most of these people where not the type of people to pull out a laptop for games. I'm sure some were, but from what I could see most of the people appeared to be "suits". I travel on business all the time as a consultant, and have been known to pull out the old laptop to play a game or movie. But I've never been so desperate for that that I had to do it on a flight near that short.
It's not the geeks, it's the business wonks. I remember a flight I took from Chicago to St Louis a few years ago. It was a 90 minute flight (minus the 2 hour ground delay), about 30-40 minutes of that was actually at "cruising" where you can have electronic devices on. As soon as they announced that electronic devices could be used, at least half the plane (packed MD80) pulled out laptops. From what I could tell, most were business users. They couldn't go 30 minutes without working on their spreadsheets and powerpoints.
At Best Buy, store sales numbers are #1, customer service is a far 2nd. They honestly don't care if they lose a customer here or there if it keeps their numbers up.
I purchased a sound card a few years ago, got it home, opened it up and there was an old Jazz drive and 3.5-to-5.25 bracket inside. Lucky for me, I had some leverage when returning it and did get my exchange. When the CS rep started giving me trouble about it I threatened to return the $3,000 in merchandise I had purchased in the prior 30 days.
When I got the new box, I noticed the shrink wrap was different. I always check the shrink now and often will open it after I purchase it while still at the register. I also NEVER buy the first item on the shelf, but go to one farther back.
I wish I was in the same boat...
That is exactly how it SHOULD work anyway: clear QAM for basic/extended channels and some form of protection for the pay networks. QAM tuners are showing up in most HDTV sets now, so I imagine the cost of including it must be next to nothing. Why the hell should I have to rent/buy a converter box when my TV can display the damn content by itself already! Guess I just find it really frustrating that the content providers/cable companies are actually CREATING a technical hurdle to my consumption of their own damn product. Heck, the damn STB requirement is the reason I DON'T subscribe to their digital tier now.
Wow. In two posts I think you set a /. record for appeals to authority. Unless I missed an FCC ruling though, I don't think anyone is going to be FORCED to switch to HDTV in 2009:
This should intersect with the curve around February 2009, which is about when the US market will be forced to switch over to HDTV as well.
Nice save attempt, btw. That aside, if you think that 42" 1080p will be the sales leader and/or the driving force behind HDTV adoption in 2009, well, I have to disagree. 32" 720p sets take that spot. The sets are already dipping into the $599 range, with higher end sets falling under $1000. Expect $499 bargain sets by x-mas (I've already seen at least one set this low at CC this year). By the 2009 cutover, these will be the new "27-inch" TVs. Their picture size, especially for 4:3 content, is a good match to the 27" tube TVs. Much better than the 26/27 inch widescreens. 27" CRT's are popular for a reason: big enough for a living room, small enough for a bedroom. Expect the 32" to step up into that roll for HDTVs. I do agree that you will see 720p all but vanish by 2012, replaced by 1080p.
I also agree that 42" is at a "sweet spot" in the size vs cost. Hell, I just bought one today instead of a 61" DLP. That said, I think their prices will remain above $800 well past the 2009 cutover, putting them out of range for lower-income and cost-conscious consumers.
Unencrypted is the key there. Most cable companies provide few, if any, unencrypted QAM channels. I have charter and the only unencrypted QAM channels I can get are the secondary channels from the local HD stations (excluding PBS) and PPV/On demand that people in my area have ordered. Yes, that's right, THAT they send out unencrypted. The extended digital channels and all the HD channels (including locals) are scrambled.
The converter box vouchers from the FCC should help with this. I imagine the big retailers will be clamoring for them and offering a ton of inexpensive boxes so they can rake in those vouchers.
How do you figure that? Oh, wait, are you one of those people who thinks that "digital only" means "HDTV only"? BestBuy has sets at the exact same price points as they always have (cheapest on their site is a 13" 480i for $109). The only difference is that they are no longer carrying TV's that ONLY have analog tuners. No surprise though, as TV's 13" or larger manufactured after 12/31/06 MUST contain a digital tuner. So really, their announcement just means that they have run out of their stock of pre-2007 TV's.
Repeat 10 times aloud (very aloud): Digital TV does not mean you have to buy an HDTV.
BestBuy, right now, carries digital standard definition (480i) tube TV's starting at $109.00 for a 13" set. Wal-mart has even cheaper sets. I was in a BB store this week and they have a huge array of SD digital sets available for the same prices you would expect to pay for an analog only set of the same size. Most (if not all) of these sets can also tune analog as well.
Feel free to do the same when your computer dies.
That was my first thought too. My second thought was "I'm so taking one of those to the next protest near me." Maybe mount a fake lens to it, paint it black, put little flag decals on it, mark it "Property of Haliburton"...
What?? The Zune sync cable IS the power cable.
I wouldn't count on seeing an American version of the IT Crowd anytime soon. They shot the live audience parts of the pilot and it has sat ever since. Rumor has it the new NBC boss isn't big on the show. Ah well, they would probably screw it up anyway. Hooray for bittorrent!
I was curious if all the anti-copyright stuff that you see in the background of the British version would survive it's Americanization.
That's not a "Microsoft" issue though. All MS did was implement the standard handed to them by the HD/Bluray groups to allow playback of their content. This is not some MS specific thing. Hardware players have the same restriction and will have the same issue if (when) the content providers flip that bit. Making this out to be Microsoft's fault is pure FUD. I have to wonder if there will be the same kind of comments will be floating around when Apple begins to provide support for HD or Bluray in OS X and people discover it comes with the same DRM evilness.
That wouldn't work either. The missile bodies and warheads would be tracked separately. Since they were (supposed to be) separated, you are still short six warheads. It would be much easier to just order the strike, scramble the bomber(s), and be done with it. It's not like you could hide it after the bombs are dropped, so trying to play with the inventory would be a moot point once the mission was launched.
I'd actually be happier with the conspiracy theory scenario, since that would mean that the USAF really didn't manage to loose track of six nuclear weapons. Unfortunately everything seems to point to exactly that. At least they didn't end up on eBay.
The problem with this theory is that Barksdale is also a B52 base, complete with their very own nuclear armaments on hand. There would be no reason to come up with some zany plan to "stage" missiles from ND.
since it's quite easy instead for a program to export it in the proper format
This is also the case with MS Office. Microsoft provides COM interfaces to the office products that can be used to generate documents. I do this all the time with Excel. It is actually very simple to use and well documented.