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  1. Re:Lunix! on Juggling Molecules with Linux · · Score: 1

    I certainly hope not!

  2. Re:Colossus, the Forbin Project on Self-wiring Supercomputer · · Score: 1
    I remember this cool movie from the 60s called Project X. That's another of those "Wow they sure were ahead of their time in the 60s!" experiences.

    My only regret is not being alive in the 60s.

  3. Re:AFTER BREAKFAST!!! on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1
    "Just dont tell everyone else it's the best way"

    If you could only stick to that advice yourself regarding your spewing of religious bullshit in your sig... sheesh...

    Anyways, I wonder why I feel good throughout the day then? AH! It's the DEVIL! That must be it. He's DECEIVING me! Where do I go for my exorcism? Hey you just keep working out at Curves, m'kay?

  4. Re:AFTER BREAKFAST!!! on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1
    Yes, I'm sure that throughout the millions of years that life has evolved on Earth, there was always puuhleeenty of food available before the first big "run away from the predator" in the morning. There are no systems in the body to supply energy except for the stomach. I wonder why Americans are such fat asses with all the great PhD nutritionists out there?

    If all you need is some extra glucose, have a glass of orange juice first. (Translation for Americans: oranges are fruits that grow on trees. If you squeeze them, a very good juice comes out of them. Not a powder, not punch. Orange juice.) There's no way that with a breakfast churning away in your insides that you're going to be able to generate any significant effort. I'd be like a lead balloon if I ate a breakfast before my bike ride. (Maybe all the people who say to eat breakfast before exercising also drink lots of coffee??)

    I mean, do people who work out in the evening do it right after dinner? I nearly died when I tried that. Seriously, at 6pm, your lunch is 6 hours away, so according to Mr. It's-all-in-the-bible-I-need-no-sources, that should be bad. Unless there's a magical period between 6 and 7 hours where all of a sudden, you can't expend any energy anymore?

    And unless you have no body fat, and no glycogen reserves, burning muscles is a last resort in the body. My morning workout lasts about an hour. There's no way I'm going to lose so much muscle mass that I'll be "anerexic" (whatever the hell this has to do with working out before breakfast, maybe I should send you guys a picture of what I eat for breakfast? How the hell can you confuse an eating disorder with working out in the morning? And misspell it as well? Sheesh.)

    "Sorry I don't have any fancy links or quotes "

    Hey, don't worry about it, you used an "appeal to authority".

    I'm really enjoying this. Like they say on this other site: This thread is useless without pics.

    Seriously, I'd be curious to see what shape the other people are in, and what their numbers are. Squats, leg press, bench press, etc. And blood workup too.

  5. Re:I recommend a workout a day on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1
    "It's amazing how stupid we can be."

    I've noticed that, especially in this thread. Hooboy, there are some real loons out there.

  6. Re:BEFORE Breakfast works for the army on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but you were probably young. You can do anything when you're young... sigh... Youth really IS wasted on the young.

  7. Re:AFTER BREAKFAST!!! on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1
    Funny how YOUR sig applies to the war in Iraq... So where are the remains of the weapons? Oh yeah, same place your sky-friend is: in your head. Unless Sadam intelligently designed weapons to dissolve into thin air on command!!! Yeah! That's the ticket!

    Fuck it scares me to think people like you really, truly exist!

  8. Re:I recommend a workout a day on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I have problems sticking to it as well. But if I exercise after work, I'm so hyped that I can't get to sleep before 1am. My legs feel hot and I'm wide-eyed.

  9. Re:AFTER BREAKFAST!!! on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1

    Really? I got an A+ in my nutrition and exercise class. All you have is a bible quote and a religious mindset ("doesn't need any source"). Good luck with that.

  10. Re:I recommend a workout a day on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1
    Strange, I found the opposite to be true for me. I can squat and leg-press way more on an empty stomach, after a nice warm up. There's enough glycogen in my ass and blood glucose in the morning to get me a nice 20-25Km bike ride no problem. Anyways, the body can always convert alanine to glucose when exercising.

    I guess to repeat a hackneyed phrase, it depends on the metabolism. Mine is strange. People say food takes 2-3 days to get through you, I can assure you that I do it in 6 hours from start to finish. (Maybe that whole 2-3 days thing is a myth, like the "we have 5 senses" thing and the "tongue has these taste zones" stuff they still teach kids?)

  11. I recommend a workout a day on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Preferably in the morning before breakfast. Yes, it's quite a challenge the first few times you do it, but wouldn't you rather be outside and biking than watching the same old dreary news in the morning?

    It requires a bit of self-control as you have to ignore your hunger but as your body gets used to the idea that it will eat later anyways, you won't notice it much.

    This energizes me quite a lot, and the work day just goes by faster, and problems are much easier to tackle.

  12. Re:Use TOSLINK instead on Is All SPDIF Audio Output the Same? · · Score: 1
    Then stop buying your cables at Dollarama. Seriously. If that's what your cables look like, they are shit. Period. The only "side-by-side" you should be seeing is two or more coaxial cables running side by side, under the same sleeve.

    Look, I went the Dollarama way once, when I wanted to hook up my Commodore 64 to a LCD monitor via a scan doubler. The picture had horrible dot crawl. The cheap-ass telephone cables with s-video connectors wee the culprit. A 7$ cable with real coax fixed that problem. I'd ahte to see your TV picture if your video cables are telephone cables...

  13. Tektronix scope carts on Searching for Quailty A/V Carts? · · Score: 1
    Back in the day when scopes weighed 70 lbs+, Tektronix made carts that are built better than today's cars.

    Just look for a Tektronix Scopemobile cart. The older, the more metal it has.

  14. Re:Perific Dual Mouse on Top Mice Compared · · Score: 3, Informative

    In my case, as a PCB designer, I'm pretty much forced to keep my hand over the mouse 8+ hours a day and clicking continuously. I had the RSI thing happen to me, and I've found the cure: get one of those hand-spring squeeze grip thingies for exercise. Every 15 minutes, do a bunch of squeezes. Get a good, hard one. Even if it hurts at first, this is the only way to cure the problem of incomplete movements, which is the cause of RSI in my case.

  15. Re:Trademark dilution and despoilment... on Hormel Back on The Spam Offensive · · Score: 1

    So, can the makers of PAM cooking spray sue the makers of SPAM crap for the same reason?

  16. Re:possible first split on Next Step in Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    Yeah, which sounds like Sterling from 30 years ago, ie Shapers and Mechanists.

  17. Re:I really *want* to be excited. on Motorola Debuts Nano-Emissive Flat Screen · · Score: 1

    I wonder what happened to the folded CRT I saw in a French magazine 20 years ago? They had some sort of material that bent an electron flow 180 degrees and 90 degrees. So the electron gun was folded up against the back of the CRT and fired down, then the stream went back up and bent again towards the front. Sort of like a reflex speaker design.

  18. Re:Still uses deuterium on Room-Temperature, Small-Scale Fusion at UCLA · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Really? How about this device?

  19. Re:The Saint says: on Room-Temperature, Small-Scale Fusion at UCLA · · Score: 1

    Nah, but how about warm fusion??

  20. Re:Metro on Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro' · · Score: 1
    "Obviously it's outlived it's sell-by date by now"

    You know what else has outlived its sell-by date? That extra apostrophe in "its".

  21. Re:Ka spot beams on DirecTV's 1st MPEG4 Satellite Launch Successful · · Score: 1

    MMICs don't usually have biasing on both ports, do they? I can see the biasing on the PCB. I've done some designs with MMICs amd they usually self-bias internally. That's why I'm guessing transistor, probably one of those HEMT or pHEMT jobs.

  22. Re:Ka spot beams on DirecTV's 1st MPEG4 Satellite Launch Successful · · Score: 1

    I'll give them a look. Thanks!

  23. Re:Ka spot beams on DirecTV's 1st MPEG4 Satellite Launch Successful · · Score: 1

    Hey, well thanks for looking!

  24. Re:Ka spot beams on DirecTV's 1st MPEG4 Satellite Launch Successful · · Score: 1
    You sound like the kind of guy that can help me. I took apart a LNB for fun. I'm wondering who makes the transistors in the gain chain. I've looked at NEC, RF Nitro (or whatever they are called now), etc...

    If you could just take a look at the devices, if you have any pointers, it would be awesome. They are 2mm on a side (80 mils).

  25. Re:I like GOTO! on Aspect-Oriented Programming Considered Harmful · · Score: 1
    "GOTO has it's place."

    An apostrophe has its place. That wasn't it.