Read about LD50. There's a good article in the Wikipedia. Every substance has an LD50: "that dose administered which kills half the test population is referred to as the LD50, for Lethal Dose, 50%".
Also from wikipedia, in the entry for caffeine:
"The LD50 is estimated to be about 192 mg/kg of body mass, or about 72 cups of coffee for an average adult."
The article seems to indicate that this is for a single dose. In other words, drinking 72 cups of coffee all at once (or one after the other really fast) so that all the caffeine from all the cups is in your system at once. If you're drinking them over 24 hours you're metabolilizing some of the caffeine as you go along, thus decreasing the amount that's in your body at once.
how about this bug in the msvc debug libraries
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I don't remember the details exactly but we were testing a server for several weeks that was built on some version of the msvc++ debug mfc libraries. They put in some kind of code to track memory allocations numerically. So, let's say you wanted to tell the debugger to stop on the 3238th "new" -- somehow you would set this up using some precompiler defines and it would count up all the memory allocations until #3238 and it would break into the debugger right then. Well, folks -- guess what happened when that counter overflowed (after a few weeks of my program running)? You guessed it:
This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
With me saying "wtf" and having no idea what's going on except that my program just wants to die after it's been running for too long.
since/. is the place to do it, and I'm anon, I'll cast aspersions -- what do y'all think, was their convenient forgetting to check for overflow on this integer a deliberate mistake, since you're not supposed to (because of license) ship a product (especially a server) linked to their debug libraries? Kinda gets in the way of testing though...
Whatever happened to people taking personal responsibility for their actions? More and more we're babied by the state. We're unable to take care of ourselves so the state takes care of us and does our thinking for us. You can bet that this will morph into "it's Chevrolet's fault that I hit and killed your daughter because their breathalizer wasn't working right."
that when I call the bank I still get:
for... check... ing... in... for... ma... tion... please... press... one...
for... sav... ings... in... for... ma... tion... please... press... two...
Yes it's offtopic. I have found that trying to get a high Karma score takes work. However I am at work and someone else other than CmdTaco is paying me so I can't devote the time to it.
You can see yourself in... both sides...
I think it's like, it's like you're trying to rationalize the whole thing. I think we're stuck with a very stupid, a very dismal looking album cover. I mean, black is something you wear around your arm, not something you put on your fucking turntable.
Frankly, I think we're reached a turning point. (I agree, I agree). I think it's time to kick ass.
Now the real work begins. Building the most successful techie website in the world? Piece of cake. Now you have a real job. The most rewarding one there is. Good luck.
I can say that I agree. The big thing to understand is that writing is writing is writing. Whether you're writing essays, poems, music, code, recipes, fiction -- it's all vaguely the same process: put down the marks on the page (screen). Get up from your chair, go to the water cooler, think about it some more. Get inspired and rearrange the symbols in a new and better way. When you're finished some entity comes along and reads what you have written, maybe acting on it or just imagining what you've depicted. Whether the thing that reads what you've written is a computer or a person doesn't make a whole lot of difference.
Nowadays I don't like people much so I am writing more for computers:-)
Like I want to hear another windbag star go on about how great they are. Would you rather see this:
"I'm a visionary and a creative person," the 44-year-old entertainer said in response to questions from his attorney... "God blessed me with certain talents," Jackson said. "I hate to use an analogy, but Walt Disney was creative but not good with business. His brother Roy handled the books."... "Walt Disney was a very creative man and a visionary," Jackson said. "He loved creating family-oriented entertainment and so do I. I feel that was a gift and I have that gift also. I'm very honored to have been chosen."...
WS is just a star. If you're a fan of someone then for you that star is like chocolate. You just like them, you don't need a justification or a long explanation. He signs books because people just want his signature (their damn chocolate) not a big bunch of bullshit. They don't really want him to talk or tell them what he's REALLY feeling, they just want his signature or picture or whatever and for him to say what they want to hear. He has no idea how or why he's a star and he certainly is not going to be able to explain it to anyone nor should he feel obligated to nor do they really want to know anyway. Guess what? He probably only has a few REAL friends and has a totally different relationship with them than he has with ANYONE who approaches him as a star or as "William Shatner, the actor". He has NO obligation to you or anyone to do anything. I thought his attitude was really refreshing in this culture where every pop star thinks they are THE FUCKING MESSIAH COME AGAIN TO EARTH TO SAVE HUMANITY. Get a life, it's FUCKING TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have an idea -- why don't you choose your career wholly on the basis of whether there are lots of jobs available in that career at the time you are in college? Then when the economy, and the entire world, changes in 10 years, you'll be God knows where. Not to mention the fact that what you've chosen to do with your life will have absolutely nothing to do with what fulfills you or what kind of person you want to be, and you can spend 40 hours a week miserable because you really don't like X at all. Sounds like a great plan! Just remember: money is the only thing that matters, and that when you are lying on your deathbed you definitely won't be looking back and asking yourself what you did with your life!
I couldn't hit the side of a barn and neither could most psychos. Many of them don't use guns, or use them at close range. For example, Son of Sam, who was a former military member, snuck up on couples making out in cars and shot them at close range.
Without knowing the population of the washington metro area, the number of employees working at FBI headquarters who are terrorism analysts, the population of Redmond, and the number of Microsoft employees based in Redmond, you cannot be sure that this is a valid comparison. However I would be willing to bet that the number of FBI terrorism analysts based in the DC metro area divided by the total population of the DC metro area is a pretty small number.
First it will come for the terrorists and then it will keep coming for the terrorists until all the terrorists are gone. Then we will all breathe a sigh of relief, a wiser nation. I saw a photograph of C.Rice and other cabinet members ON September 11th. One of them was reading something, another was talking on the phone. You could see it in their faces. They were absolutely shitting their pants -- nobody had ever slapped those politicos in the face like that before. It wasn't just about doing their jobs and trying to lead, they were afraid for their OWN lives in a very real way. This thing was a wake up call. In times of peace, the right makes war against Americans -- that's true. That's how you get the things that Rev. N is talking about here, the McCarthy era, etc. However, in times of war -- REAL war, not cold war, where there is a very real, not imagined, threat to the future of this country and the safety of its people -- the right has more important things to worry about, and it would be wise for liberals like yourself, and former liberals like myself, to just let them do their jobs.
Let me ask you a question -- how are we going to catch those D.C. snipers if we can't tap phone lines? I bet you're still saying that it's probably a psycho -- even though some people have seen them now and said they were Middle Eastern looking. Wake up people, there is a war on. Psychos have a weird sex thing they do or have some bizarre twist to how they kill, or they kill a certain type of person, and they rarely work in teams. This sniper is just popping completely random people out the window of the van while his friend drives. A good marksman too, obviously trained. Shot an FBI terrorism analyst?!? And you don't want to let the government tap phone lines. Better wake up and smell the coffee before it's too late -- this isn't the 60's anymore.
I guess I deserve this because I rushed through this post and didn't clarify. This is slashdot, so if you want to say something you had better make sure your case is rock-solid.
First of all, writing in the present tense might not always be a gimmick, but in this case it certainly appears to be. That needed clarification.
However, I don't understand how your "pen and paper" comment is a counter to my statement about Dune. Your comment seems not to follow. Shakespeare wrote well, regardless of what he wrote on. To succeed as a writer you must write well, which entails a lot more than just putting everything in the present tense.
Use M$ windows? Sure, if you're a writer, use M$ windows, use a quill pen, whatever -- just please write well! How much simpler could my message be?
As far as the "unselectable" tag, hey, you don't want to use it -- don't! I don't care. The main message of my post is still that good writing takes a lot of work and thought. Specifically, I thought that from reading just a few paragraphs of this novel that the present tense did not mesh well at all with the type of narrative or the writing style. There may be other types of writing (for example, perhaps avant-gard or stream-of-consciousness) for which this is better suited, however here it comes across as if you had a perfectly good past-tense traditional narrative, and somebody decided at the last minute to just go through and change every "was" to an "is", almost as if they did a search and replace. At first glance, it appears not to work well (as a tool). Maybe it gets better later on in the story, I don't know.
I'm sorry if you are a fan of this author. Note that I never actually said (reread my post) that he is a bad author or the novel is a bad novel. All I am saying is that I am getting hit in the face with these present tense verbs where they don't work or fit.
This novel is written in the present tense. If I were this author, I wouldn't do this -- it's gimmicky and will not make the novel any better. Dune's just written in plain old past tense, yet this is one of the greatest works of Sci-Fi/Fantasy ever created. By writing in the present tense, you are not starting a revolution in literature. It's been thought of before. You're not the first.
Just write it in the past tense like everybody else. Instead, put in the time and effort to research medieval civilization and folklore, and if you have already done this research, do more. How much do you really know about Feudalism? Ever read about the Greek legend of the Erinyes? Only hard work, not gimmicks, makes for good writing. Not to mention a good amount of time just spent sitting and thinking -- without that, your thoughts (and writing) will just end up a jumble.
And finally: if you write a truly good novel, it won't matter whether it's on a website, in a book, or engraved on stone tablets. People will flock to read it. Though will they pay? I've often wondered why no one ever thought to implement an "unselectable" tag. Put it around your text
<UNSELECTABLE> This is my intellectual property </UNSELECTABLE>
And the browser doesn't let you select that text for a copy-and-paste operation. I guess they could always take a series of screenshots, but the idea is to make it harder, since you can't make it impossible.
Prince is way better than Morris Day. If you find you don't like Prince, do this:
close your eyes and just listen. Do not think about the costumes or stage presentation, the lyrics, skin color, femininity/masculinity, culture, or anything. Do not think about yourself or even how you feel. Just listen to the sounds. Listen to notes, sounds, timbre. Do not pay attention to what Prince is saying (if he was a great lyricist, I'd give you different advice on this count). Just listen to the sounds. Don't do this while cleaning your room, or driving, or at a party, or with any other distractions. Do this and exclusively this: you are just listening to music. With Prince, there is so much more to listen to, there's an entire world in that music. Morris Day is just party music.
Yo man, I downloaded this new song with my p2p app. Check it out -- it's the new song by The Evil Meals. I really like when the singer goes "Yaddah, yaddah, yaddah".
I'm tired of this debate. I myself am confident that one day soon I will be a rock star and make millions of dollars. Therefore, I'm against file sharing because I feel this sort of thing will eat into my future profits, which I will need to maintain a proper boozing, whoring, and stoned rock star lifestyle. I can't wait.
Also, I know that all you slashdot nerds are just computer geeks who wish you could be as cool as me. You probably all wanted to be artists, musicians, or something like that at one time, and then settled for engineering because it's KINDA creative but less risky. Oh wait, maybe that's just me. No, no, I'm really going to be a rock star, you wait. Anyway, so you hate the rock stars and want to take their songs without paying because you think the whole thing is a big sham. Also you hate your hippie rock star parents who did drugs, or maybe you are a baby boomer who hates your rock star successful peers who got all the attention during the 60's and 70's.
Ultimately rock stars are evil beings because of the boozing, whoring, and drug taking, so that justifies file sharing in your mind. And corporations are evil! Fuck capitalism! Maybe you are all Linux Euros on the dole so you don't have to have anything to do with Capitalism (lucky you!).
Anyway the thing that's funny about all this is all the big whining. Somewhere a kid is getting locked in a closet somewhere or getting beaten with a broomhandle, people are starving to death and getting shot, and all we can do is whine about how the big mean green money man wants to take away my mp3 recording of The Pencils "Smile, You're My Foot". What a waste of words and time, just like my typing of this post. End of transmission.
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Read about LD50. There's a good article in the Wikipedia. Every substance has an LD50: "that dose administered which kills half the test population is referred to as the LD50, for Lethal Dose, 50%".
Also from wikipedia, in the entry for caffeine:
"The LD50 is estimated to be about 192 mg/kg of body mass, or about 72 cups of coffee for an average adult."
The article seems to indicate that this is for a single dose. In other words, drinking 72 cups of coffee all at once (or one after the other really fast) so that all the caffeine from all the cups is in your system at once. If you're drinking them over 24 hours you're metabolilizing some of the caffeine as you go along, thus decreasing the amount that's in your body at once.
I don't remember the details exactly but we were testing a server for several weeks that was built on some version of the msvc++ debug mfc libraries. They put in some kind of code to track memory allocations numerically. So, let's say you wanted to tell the debugger to stop on the 3238th "new" -- somehow you would set this up using some precompiler defines and it would count up all the memory allocations until #3238 and it would break into the debugger right then. Well, folks -- guess what happened when that counter overflowed (after a few weeks of my program running)? You guessed it:
/. is the place to do it, and I'm anon, I'll cast aspersions -- what do y'all think, was their convenient forgetting to check for overflow on this integer a deliberate mistake, since you're not supposed to (because of license) ship a product (especially a server) linked to their debug libraries? Kinda gets in the way of testing though...
This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
With me saying "wtf" and having no idea what's going on except that my program just wants to die after it's been running for too long.
since
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hampster
Whatever happened to people taking personal responsibility for their actions? More and more we're babied by the state. We're unable to take care of ourselves so the state takes care of us and does our thinking for us. You can bet that this will morph into "it's Chevrolet's fault that I hit and killed your daughter because their breathalizer wasn't working right."
I would join Orkut if the text in the jpg on their home page had the grammatically correct sentence "Whom do you know?"
But alas.
that when I call the bank I still get: for... check... ing... in... for... ma... tion... please... press... one... for... sav... ings... in... for... ma... tion... please... press... two...
"hollowed" -> pumpkin
Are you an atheist?
only smart thing said
anybody remember "Buzzard Bait" (for the apple)?
Yes it's offtopic. I have found that trying to get a high Karma score takes work. However I am at work and someone else other than CmdTaco is paying me so I can't devote the time to it.
You can see yourself in... both sides... I think it's like, it's like you're trying to rationalize the whole thing. I think we're stuck with a very stupid, a very dismal looking album cover. I mean, black is something you wear around your arm, not something you put on your fucking turntable. Frankly, I think we're reached a turning point. (I agree, I agree). I think it's time to kick ass.
Now the real work begins. Building the most successful techie website in the world? Piece of cake. Now you have a real job. The most rewarding one there is. Good luck.
I can say that I agree. The big thing to understand is that writing is writing is writing. Whether you're writing essays, poems, music, code, recipes, fiction -- it's all vaguely the same process: put down the marks on the page (screen). Get up from your chair, go to the water cooler, think about it some more. Get inspired and rearrange the symbols in a new and better way. When you're finished some entity comes along and reads what you have written, maybe acting on it or just imagining what you've depicted. Whether the thing that reads what you've written is a computer or a person doesn't make a whole lot of difference.
:-)
Nowadays I don't like people much so I am writing more for computers
Like I want to hear another windbag star go on about how great they are. Would you rather see this:
... "Walt Disney was a very creative man and a visionary," Jackson said. "He loved creating family-oriented entertainment and so do I. I feel that was a gift and I have that gift also. I'm very honored to have been chosen." ...
"I'm a visionary and a creative person," the 44-year-old entertainer said in response to questions from his attorney... "God blessed me with certain talents," Jackson said. "I hate to use an analogy, but Walt Disney was creative but not good with business. His brother Roy handled the books."
from cnn
WS is just a star. If you're a fan of someone then for you that star is like chocolate. You just like them, you don't need a justification or a long explanation. He signs books because people just want his signature (their damn chocolate) not a big bunch of bullshit. They don't really want him to talk or tell them what he's REALLY feeling, they just want his signature or picture or whatever and for him to say what they want to hear. He has no idea how or why he's a star and he certainly is not going to be able to explain it to anyone nor should he feel obligated to nor do they really want to know anyway. Guess what? He probably only has a few REAL friends and has a totally different relationship with them than he has with ANYONE who approaches him as a star or as "William Shatner, the actor". He has NO obligation to you or anyone to do anything. I thought his attitude was really refreshing in this culture where every pop star thinks they are THE FUCKING MESSIAH COME AGAIN TO EARTH TO SAVE HUMANITY. Get a life, it's FUCKING TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have an idea -- why don't you choose your career wholly on the basis of whether there are lots of jobs available in that career at the time you are in college? Then when the economy, and the entire world, changes in 10 years, you'll be God knows where. Not to mention the fact that what you've chosen to do with your life will have absolutely nothing to do with what fulfills you or what kind of person you want to be, and you can spend 40 hours a week miserable because you really don't like X at all. Sounds like a great plan! Just remember: money is the only thing that matters, and that when you are lying on your deathbed you definitely won't be looking back and asking yourself what you did with your life!
I have seen old pictures of computers but this guy really knows how to take photographs.
I said rarely. Read my posts more carefully.
I couldn't hit the side of a barn and neither could most psychos. Many of them don't use guns, or use them at close range. For example, Son of Sam, who was a former military member, snuck up on couples making out in cars and shot them at close range.
Without knowing the population of the washington metro area, the number of employees working at FBI headquarters who are terrorism analysts, the population of Redmond, and the number of Microsoft employees based in Redmond, you cannot be sure that this is a valid comparison. However I would be willing to bet that the number of FBI terrorism analysts based in the DC metro area divided by the total population of the DC metro area is a pretty small number.
First it will come for the terrorists and then it will keep coming for the terrorists until all the terrorists are gone. Then we will all breathe a sigh of relief, a wiser nation. I saw a photograph of C.Rice and other cabinet members ON September 11th. One of them was reading something, another was talking on the phone. You could see it in their faces. They were absolutely shitting their pants -- nobody had ever slapped those politicos in the face like that before. It wasn't just about doing their jobs and trying to lead, they were afraid for their OWN lives in a very real way. This thing was a wake up call. In times of peace, the right makes war against Americans -- that's true. That's how you get the things that Rev. N is talking about here, the McCarthy era, etc. However, in times of war -- REAL war, not cold war, where there is a very real, not imagined, threat to the future of this country and the safety of its people -- the right has more important things to worry about, and it would be wise for liberals like yourself, and former liberals like myself, to just let them do their jobs.
Let me ask you a question -- how are we going to catch those D.C. snipers if we can't tap phone lines? I bet you're still saying that it's probably a psycho -- even though some people have seen them now and said they were Middle Eastern looking. Wake up people, there is a war on. Psychos have a weird sex thing they do or have some bizarre twist to how they kill, or they kill a certain type of person, and they rarely work in teams. This sniper is just popping completely random people out the window of the van while his friend drives. A good marksman too, obviously trained. Shot an FBI terrorism analyst?!? And you don't want to let the government tap phone lines. Better wake up and smell the coffee before it's too late -- this isn't the 60's anymore.
I guess I deserve this because I rushed through this post and didn't clarify. This is slashdot, so if you want to say something you had better make sure your case is rock-solid.
First of all, writing in the present tense might not always be a gimmick, but in this case it certainly appears to be. That needed clarification.
However, I don't understand how your "pen and paper" comment is a counter to my statement about Dune. Your comment seems not to follow. Shakespeare wrote well, regardless of what he wrote on. To succeed as a writer you must write well, which entails a lot more than just putting everything in the present tense.
Use M$ windows? Sure, if you're a writer, use M$ windows, use a quill pen, whatever -- just please write well! How much simpler could my message be?
As far as the "unselectable" tag, hey, you don't want to use it -- don't! I don't care. The main message of my post is still that good writing takes a lot of work and thought. Specifically, I thought that from reading just a few paragraphs of this novel that the present tense did not mesh well at all with the type of narrative or the writing style. There may be other types of writing (for example, perhaps avant-gard or stream-of-consciousness) for which this is better suited, however here it comes across as if you had a perfectly good past-tense traditional narrative, and somebody decided at the last minute to just go through and change every "was" to an "is", almost as if they did a search and replace. At first glance, it appears not to work well (as a tool). Maybe it gets better later on in the story, I don't know.
I'm sorry if you are a fan of this author. Note that I never actually said (reread my post) that he is a bad author or the novel is a bad novel. All I am saying is that I am getting hit in the face with these present tense verbs where they don't work or fit.
This novel is written in the present tense. If I were this author, I wouldn't do this -- it's gimmicky and will not make the novel any better. Dune's just written in plain old past tense, yet this is one of the greatest works of Sci-Fi/Fantasy ever created. By writing in the present tense, you are not starting a revolution in literature. It's been thought of before. You're not the first.
Just write it in the past tense like everybody else. Instead, put in the time and effort to research medieval civilization and folklore, and if you have already done this research, do more. How much do you really know about Feudalism? Ever read about the Greek legend of the Erinyes? Only hard work, not gimmicks, makes for good writing. Not to mention a good amount of time just spent sitting and thinking -- without that, your thoughts (and writing) will just end up a jumble.
And finally: if you write a truly good novel, it won't matter whether it's on a website, in a book, or engraved on stone tablets. People will flock to read it. Though will they pay? I've often wondered why no one ever thought to implement an "unselectable" tag. Put it around your text
<UNSELECTABLE>
This is my intellectual property
</UNSELECTABLE>
And the browser doesn't let you select that text for a copy-and-paste operation. I guess they could always take a series of screenshots, but the idea is to make it harder, since you can't make it impossible.
smart ass
Prince is way better than Morris Day. If you find you don't like Prince, do this: close your eyes and just listen. Do not think about the costumes or stage presentation, the lyrics, skin color, femininity/masculinity, culture, or anything. Do not think about yourself or even how you feel. Just listen to the sounds. Listen to notes, sounds, timbre. Do not pay attention to what Prince is saying (if he was a great lyricist, I'd give you different advice on this count). Just listen to the sounds. Don't do this while cleaning your room, or driving, or at a party, or with any other distractions. Do this and exclusively this: you are just listening to music. With Prince, there is so much more to listen to, there's an entire world in that music. Morris Day is just party music.
Yo man, I downloaded this new song with my p2p app. Check it out -- it's the new song by The Evil Meals. I really like when the singer goes "Yaddah, yaddah, yaddah".
I'm tired of this debate. I myself am confident that one day soon I will be a rock star and make millions of dollars. Therefore, I'm against file sharing because I feel this sort of thing will eat into my future profits, which I will need to maintain a proper boozing, whoring, and stoned rock star lifestyle. I can't wait.
Also, I know that all you slashdot nerds are just computer geeks who wish you could be as cool as me. You probably all wanted to be artists, musicians, or something like that at one time, and then settled for engineering because it's KINDA creative but less risky. Oh wait, maybe that's just me. No, no, I'm really going to be a rock star, you wait. Anyway, so you hate the rock stars and want to take their songs without paying because you think the whole thing is a big sham. Also you hate your hippie rock star parents who did drugs, or maybe you are a baby boomer who hates your rock star successful peers who got all the attention during the 60's and 70's.
Ultimately rock stars are evil beings because of the boozing, whoring, and drug taking, so that justifies file sharing in your mind. And corporations are evil! Fuck capitalism! Maybe you are all Linux Euros on the dole so you don't have to have anything to do with Capitalism (lucky you!).
Anyway the thing that's funny about all this is all the big whining. Somewhere a kid is getting locked in a closet somewhere or getting beaten with a broomhandle, people are starving to death and getting shot, and all we can do is whine about how the big mean green money man wants to take away my mp3 recording of The Pencils "Smile, You're My Foot". What a waste of words and time, just like my typing of this post. End of transmission.