Once again the Slashdot summary is misleading
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Once again the slashdot summary is misleading. I urge everyone to see the referenced video and read the article afterwards. They are very informative. However, I should point out that the slashdot summary makes it look like the New York Times article is kind of dismissing Lustig's video. This is not true, the article is actually mostly supportive of Lustig's theories while providing much more historical information.
Re:Organic vs processed (toxic) sugar.
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If you look at the now famous Lustig video you will see that the difference is fiber. He said something to the effect, that in nature wherever God put the poison he also put the antidote. The antidote is fiber. Fiber undoes most of the dangerous effects of fructose. And in nature fiber is present everywhere where you can find fructose. Thus if you eat fructose with fiber, you will be ok, and it might even be healthy for you.
The problem with "processed" sugar is that it is usually processed to get all of the fiber out. So you eat it without the fiber and you get all the dangerous effects. I suppose if you could eat a head of lettuce simultaneously with every can of coke you drink you would be ok, but nobody does that.
This is all according to Dr. Lustig of course, but it seems pretty convincing to me.
You do realize that apple had to use some of that unpronounceable "open sores" (HAHA) code to make their operating system work. They did not have a decent operating system until they lifted huge chunks of BSD (hard to pronounce, I know) code.
So what you are going to get is billions of angry militant and completely desperate and fearless teenagers attacking us anyway they can. Well it is already happening in a small scale, just imagine the present terrorism problem times a million.
I have never seen any land on nevada that can be used for farming. Remember for farming you need (1) cheap and plentiful water and (2) high quality soil.
It is great news that the Linux kernel performance keeps improving, and nowadays you can get the fastest performing commonly used OS for free. But I have to point out that the way the slashdot summary was written is misleading. The slashdot summary has the following quote:
'"This patch series was both controversial and experimental when it went in, but we're very hopeful of seeing speedups," James Bottomley, distinguished engineer at Novell said. "Just to set expectations correctly, the dcache/path lookup improvements really only impact workloads with large metadata modifications, so the big iron workloads (like databases) will likely see no change. However, stuff that critically involves metadata, like running a mail server (the postmark benchmark) should improve quite a bit."'
If you read the actual article you will notice that this quote refers only to the RCU portion. Other aspects like transparent huge pages are not controversial and they will improve database performance.
That being said, even if you choose to study only the engineering part, there should still be a lot of math required, as it is quite necessary to build applications that work. To follow your example, most reputable real world engineering degrees still require a lot of math even if it might no be quite as much as that required to become an actual physicist.
So even if you follow your distinction one still has to study math and algorithms for a software engineering degree.
Now if you really want a math free degree there could be a "code monkey" degree which will only train you to code simple things hoping that there is a well qualified person somewhere that figures out the complicated stuff and tells you what to do. That might be a possibility, but one should not fool themselves into thinking that one can write software applications of any complexity without knowing math.
Huh? Lieberman does not even like Obama. He did not support him for president and was very key in destroying his banking regulation reform. They are definitely not the same person.
The fact that person A leaked something does not mean that person B did not leak it as well. You have no proof that Armitage leaked it. But even if you did have proof that Armitage leaked it that would not prove that Cheney and Libby did not leak it.
Also why do you think Armitage opposed the Iraq war? He was in the department of state which was not as gung ho about the war as the vice president and department of defense, but still supported the war.
The only thing that is known for certain in this whole affair is that Libby lied to a grand jury about it and obstructed justice.
I hoped the prosecutor did his job better and found out more about this affair, but he did not, so here we are.
When has president Obama suggested an Internet kill switch? This is the idea of a Republican senator and has not been endorsed or supported by Obama, afaik. This should have never made it to the front page, it is an obvious troll.
Huh? We should have been what years ago already? I am sure you are aware that the US did build a couple of experimental thorium reactors many years ago.
By the way, if anyone in Slashdot tries to fix it, you should note that people that have this problem tend to have long usernames. It is pretty obvious the username extends the box into the text space.
The menu on the top left side cuts off half an inch of text of articles and comments. I am on Ubuntu and Firefox, the latest released versions of both. I am shocked that Slashdot of all websites did not test Ubuntu and Firefox.
I am supposed to be one of the lucky ones with a broadband connection. When I do Internet tests it says my download connection is over 20 Mb/s. Nevertheless I have never had a download that goes faster than 2 Mbit/s. In fact I have very rarely had one that goes faster than 1 MB/s. Usually I am happy to get 500 Kb/s. The only downloads that go over 1 mb/s are various ubuntu downloads from canonical.
It is amazing to me that someone could get around 5 Mb/s download.
Also one has to wonder how much it cost to run myspace all these years. I don't think we will ever know for sure whether Murdoch made or lost money with Myspace. The myspace finances were not separated out in the statements. In the 2010 statement the group in which myspace belonged (named appropriately as "other") suffered around a $500 million loss. However that group included other businesses.
Nobody is preventing carriers from charging for bandwidth. If net neutrality was enacted into law tomorrow carriers could still charge per MB downloaded or something like that.
The problem is that they want to charge depending on what is in the data. They want to charge you more for getting 100 MB worth of movies or voice than 100 MB worth of random webpages. Now that is fucked up, because (a) the carriers have no business looking at the stuff i download and (b) if they are allowed to do that they will just tax the popular websites and web services ensuring that any innovation or success on the web is quickly punished.
The correct term should have been pro-telecom. And the republicans are acting on behalf of corporations, just not all corporation, only telecoms. Telecoms have the most to gain from destroying net neutrality and they can bring the most pressure on the senate, as they already have more ingrained lobbyists than the various internet companies.
Your statement about the Taiwan and Korea markets is nonsensical. Why does using a heart beat type trading decrease the total amount of shares traded in a day? And why would that have anything to do with the overall market value?
Regarding the dark pools, if you thought about it for a second, you would realize that those dark pools are partially caused by exactly the high frequency trading you support. People do not want to suffer the tax of the HFTs on the big exchanges, so they trade outside of them in dark pools. Of course this causes all kinds of inefficiencies. If the central markets like NASDAQ and NYSE were fair, and had low transaction costs, more people would trade there and that would make our economy much more efficient as buyers would more easily find sellers to get the best price for all parties involved.
Why do you think that? The government has been passing laws for cars for a hundred years and I am not aware of a single time where they banned existing cars for not complying with a law that was passed after those cars were legally sold. They merely required all the new cars to comply.
Even the Corvair is still legal. Don't quote me on this, but I am pretty sure it would be legal to drive a car with no break lights or signals if you can find one that is old enough.
If this passes it will be a law that is applied to new cars only, as has always been the case.
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Once again the slashdot summary is misleading. I urge everyone to see the referenced video and read the article afterwards. They are very informative. However, I should point out that the slashdot summary makes it look like the New York Times article is kind of dismissing Lustig's video. This is not true, the article is actually mostly supportive of Lustig's theories while providing much more historical information.
If you look at the now famous Lustig video you will see that the difference is fiber. He said something to the effect, that in nature wherever God put the poison he also put the antidote. The antidote is fiber. Fiber undoes most of the dangerous effects of fructose. And in nature fiber is present everywhere where you can find fructose. Thus if you eat fructose with fiber, you will be ok, and it might even be healthy for you.
The problem with "processed" sugar is that it is usually processed to get all of the fiber out. So you eat it without the fiber and you get all the dangerous effects. I suppose if you could eat a head of lettuce simultaneously with every can of coke you drink you would be ok, but nobody does that.
This is all according to Dr. Lustig of course, but it seems pretty convincing to me.
You do realize that apple had to use some of that unpronounceable "open sores" (HAHA) code to make their operating system work. They did not have a decent operating system until they lifted huge chunks of BSD (hard to pronounce, I know) code.
They are obviously not talking about ignoring the problem, but about not making fun of people that are actually suffering radiation exposure.
So what you are going to get is billions of angry militant and completely desperate and fearless teenagers attacking us anyway they can. Well it is already happening in a small scale, just imagine the present terrorism problem times a million.
I have never seen any land on nevada that can be used for farming. Remember for farming you need (1) cheap and plentiful water and (2) high quality soil.
It is great news that the Linux kernel performance keeps improving, and nowadays you can get the fastest performing commonly used OS for free. But I have to point out that the way the slashdot summary was written is misleading. The slashdot summary has the following quote:
'"This patch series was both controversial and experimental when it went in, but we're very hopeful of seeing speedups," James Bottomley, distinguished engineer at Novell said. "Just to set expectations correctly, the dcache/path lookup improvements really only impact workloads with large metadata modifications, so the big iron workloads (like databases) will likely see no change. However, stuff that critically involves metadata, like running a mail server (the postmark benchmark) should improve quite a bit."'
If you read the actual article you will notice that this quote refers only to the RCU portion. Other aspects like transparent huge pages are not controversial and they will improve database performance.
That being said, even if you choose to study only the engineering part, there should still be a lot of math required, as it is quite necessary to build applications that work. To follow your example, most reputable real world engineering degrees still require a lot of math even if it might no be quite as much as that required to become an actual physicist.
So even if you follow your distinction one still has to study math and algorithms for a software engineering degree.
Now if you really want a math free degree there could be a "code monkey" degree which will only train you to code simple things hoping that there is a well qualified person somewhere that figures out the complicated stuff and tells you what to do. That might be a possibility, but one should not fool themselves into thinking that one can write software applications of any complexity without knowing math.
Huh? Lieberman does not even like Obama. He did not support him for president and was very key in destroying his banking regulation reform. They are definitely not the same person.
You mean "dear leader Lieberman."
The fact that person A leaked something does not mean that person B did not leak it as well. You have no proof that Armitage leaked it. But even if you did have proof that Armitage leaked it that would not prove that Cheney and Libby did not leak it.
Also why do you think Armitage opposed the Iraq war? He was in the department of state which was not as gung ho about the war as the vice president and department of defense, but still supported the war.
The only thing that is known for certain in this whole affair is that Libby lied to a grand jury about it and obstructed justice.
I hoped the prosecutor did his job better and found out more about this affair, but he did not, so here we are.
When has president Obama suggested an Internet kill switch? This is the idea of a Republican senator and has not been endorsed or supported by Obama, afaik. This should have never made it to the front page, it is an obvious troll.
It's actually a BSD box, but don't tell anyone.
Huh? We should have been what years ago already? I am sure you are aware that the US did build a couple of experimental thorium reactors many years ago.
You can remove critical systems from access by unplugging their Ethernet cables.
By the way, if anyone in Slashdot tries to fix it, you should note that people that have this problem tend to have long usernames. It is pretty obvious the username extends the box into the text space.
And I have exactly the same problem on Chrome.
Version: 8.0.552.237 (70801) Ubuntu 10.10
The menu on the top left side cuts off half an inch of text of articles and comments. I am on Ubuntu and Firefox, the latest released versions of both. I am shocked that Slashdot of all websites did not test Ubuntu and Firefox.
Otherwise, it looks pretty good, I have to admit.
I am supposed to be one of the lucky ones with a broadband connection. When I do Internet tests it says my download connection is over 20 Mb/s. Nevertheless I have never had a download that goes faster than 2 Mbit/s. In fact I have very rarely had one that goes faster than 1 MB/s. Usually I am happy to get 500 Kb/s. The only downloads that go over 1 mb/s are various ubuntu downloads from canonical.
It is amazing to me that someone could get around 5 Mb/s download.
It seems they might not have gotten the full 900 mil. See
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/media/myspace-in-trouble-on-900-million-google-deal/19224196/
Also one has to wonder how much it cost to run myspace all these years. I don't think we will ever know for sure whether Murdoch made or lost money with Myspace. The myspace finances were not separated out in the statements. In the 2010 statement the group in which myspace belonged (named appropriately as "other") suffered around a $500 million loss. However that group included other businesses.
So is entering an url in a web browser.
Nobody is preventing carriers from charging for bandwidth. If net neutrality was enacted into law tomorrow carriers could still charge per MB downloaded or something like that.
The problem is that they want to charge depending on what is in the data. They want to charge you more for getting 100 MB worth of movies or voice than 100 MB worth of random webpages. Now that is fucked up, because (a) the carriers have no business looking at the stuff i download and (b) if they are allowed to do that they will just tax the popular websites and web services ensuring that any innovation or success on the web is quickly punished.
The correct term should have been pro-telecom. And the republicans are acting on behalf of corporations, just not all corporation, only telecoms. Telecoms have the most to gain from destroying net neutrality and they can bring the most pressure on the senate, as they already have more ingrained lobbyists than the various internet companies.
Your statement about the Taiwan and Korea markets is nonsensical. Why does using a heart beat type trading decrease the total amount of shares traded in a day? And why would that have anything to do with the overall market value?
Regarding the dark pools, if you thought about it for a second, you would realize that those dark pools are partially caused by exactly the high frequency trading you support. People do not want to suffer the tax of the HFTs on the big exchanges, so they trade outside of them in dark pools. Of course this causes all kinds of inefficiencies. If the central markets like NASDAQ and NYSE were fair, and had low transaction costs, more people would trade there and that would make our economy much more efficient as buyers would more easily find sellers to get the best price for all parties involved.
Why do you think that? The government has been passing laws for cars for a hundred years and I am not aware of a single time where they banned existing cars for not complying with a law that was passed after those cars were legally sold. They merely required all the new cars to comply.
Even the Corvair is still legal. Don't quote me on this, but I am pretty sure it would be legal to drive a car with no break lights or signals if you can find one that is old enough.
If this passes it will be a law that is applied to new cars only, as has always been the case.