What everyone is ignoring here, including the linked article, is that Physicists and Mathematicians in Newton's era were REQUIRED to be ordained Ministers in the Church of England. This decree was set forth by King Charles II.
The political climate closely tied Religion and Science. (quite evident in the strong tie between Trinity College and the Royal Society) That way they resolved all of the Galileo type problems. Newton disagreed with much of the church's teachings, and refused to be ordained. Thus he had to obtain special permission from the King. By keeping his disidence in his private notebooks, he could continue his scientific/mathematical endevours.
I don't know about you... but I swear by my dual-channel 2x512MB RAM Chips. Especially nice when you get them in matched pairs. So what if they are cheaper, the memory access is still faster. And spending a grand for 2x1GB is ridiculous.
Now that I know he was living in a rat-infested s***hole, I am glad that it took us so long to capture him. Now that he's been arrested, his gotten a shower and a shave. Its unforunate that the Geneva Conventions won't allow us to force him to continue living in that hole for the rest of his life.
See what I want to know is can you get dual PVR-250's running. All the documentation I see is about just getting one running (the tiny bit of extra work is totally worth it)
This would make me one happy clam, b/c inevitably even shows in different hours can conflict.. I wish they synched all the channels...
This isn't actually as incredulous as you all might think. Sure simple statements like "*BSD is dying" are always going to get you in trouble. I mean look at the number of Commodore emulators. Some things just have niches, and wont go away (like Apple).
But more importantly if you read the article carefully (which is a lot I know, this is/. after all). You will notice that Intel saying that Moore's law can't continue to hold out, with the CURRENT binary logic technology. Not that Moore's law will become false, just that there will need to be new advances in technology to overcome the limits. This is what has happened in the past as well (L2 Cache, Silcon -> Germanium, 3D chip pathways).
Intel pays researchers lots of money to think outside of the box, but they need to write papers like this to keep the establishment continuing to realize them for the miracle workers that they are.
But there is one fact that he has VERY wrong. NASA did not "throw away" the SpaceCraft... it was given to the Smithsonian Museum. The Smithsonian has the right of first refusal on all of NASA uncommisioned stuff. Therefore, can't the Smithsonian say that they are squatting.
Also... since he hasn't built anything on the property... and they parked the spacecraft there... isn't it now a right of way.
Overall it is a moot point. The Federal Court can here the case all it wants... but as there are no "laws" for outerspace... it is an anarchy... you can't give someone a ticket in anarchy. So until we establish intergallactic law, any property claims are as good as garbage. Just b/c during the Western Expansion of the United States, they let people keep the land they own when the state was annexed (say the Louisiana Purchase) doesn't mean they had to recognize those rights (like how they totally shafted the Native Americans)... they could have choosen to divy it up differently, which doesn't make much sense in a democracy
But we don't know it could be a Communist Universe, and we need to reliquish property rights for the good of Mother Space (and Fidel Castro)
Now this may not be more secure... but I think it may have one up on the geek factor. Use the dandy/cheap little USB keychain devices to act as keycards to allow users to login/logout/freeze session. The cards we have with our Sun's are absolutely awesome, the only problem with it is the Solaris OS. Great for our sysadmin, but for GUI work, makes me wish for Windows (can't get Solaris-Gnome running).
Anyways I think that a standard USB "keycard" would be an awesome Linux project (sorry GNU/Linux) and I am totally suprised that I haven't seen one on SF. It makes me think I must be blind.
Think about it is two sites were to pay for this "service"
say: sLashdot.org and sMashdot.org
Then you get someone with engRish, who types sRashdot.org
How do you determine who should get the pointer? You can't both are perfectly valid versions. The only way to resolve this would be to pay for each individual misspelling that they want... WAIT... why don't they just *register* the domain.
This is why you should get the DNS error, and then the user can go to their favorite search engine, and try there... OR have their web browser do it for them automatically.
Well we can do a little Venn Diagramming here to figure out what percent of each kind of server are successfully attacked:
They claim that 67% of all linux servers successfully attacked == 12892
They claim that 23.2% of all Windows servers successfully attacked == 4626
This means that they believe that there are: (Partial Qty./Percent = Total Qty.)
~19241 Linux Servers
~19939 Windows Servers
Remember that these numbers represent the number of servers that they polled. The actual number of servers is obviously different. Which means that if we are to believe their polling methods to be statistically viable, that the sample sets are essentially equal.
Unforunately this means a big hit to the Open Source Community, as it say that Linux servers are nearly 3 times more insecure that Windows Servers. I am sure we all agree that the Windows desktop is definitely more insecure that Linux. However they might be a possibility that Windows Servers are more secure, the military does use them
Although there was the one ship that "crashed" coming into harbor... although if I were to hazard a guess knowing Windows NT... it was a bad driver... come on... I'm giving you pure gold here.
Man this is the closest I have every come to wanting to make a f***ing troll post ranting on and on about the ridiculousness of the current state of affairs.
Shit I just did it oh well... I always wondered which would get to me first, the RIAA or SCO... congratulations RIAA... you've p***ed me off... and everyone who has to read my ranting (before I am moderated into oblivion)
Well at least the DMCA is working for us on this one. In Title 17, Chapter 12 Section 1201 SubSection (f - Reverse Engineering) of the U.S. Code, the DMCA explicitly allows the Open Source Community to hack(read Reverse Engineer) the last Office File Formats, and circumvent the latest DRM (Digitial Rights Management) techniques to provide interoperability between Star/OpenOffice and M$ Office.
Also a big problem is the fact that Apache and various other servers don't include the proper MIME type for.wmv files. The sysadmins have to manually add entries for the.wmv file to the server, otherwise it thinks that it is text/plain... and when mozilla sees that... it immediately renders the file as plaintext... and renders it as such.
Much to the dismay of Joe User, it is Mozilla's position that they should not provide a work around for such a flagrant violation of HTTP rules... and as such have assigned it to be part of their evangalism.
Sorry... all you guys who want to look at.wmv PRON... you are going to have to fire up IE (dunno if opera has a work around)
Where all of the articles are on Suse and Red Hat... yes their standard links to Microsoft Support refer to their shite Operating Systems... but those are in a small font in the bottom right hand corner of the page.
The cynic in me is that this is in preparation for a lawsuit... "see judge on our tech/software/OS page we don't even mention our product"... although the page is buried 3 links deep...
ok... now mod me down for almost putting M$ in a good light.
I agree... most people think of Egyptians women as Nefertiti, and Egyptian men as her son Tutankhamun.
The CG guys weren't even told that she was Egyptian, or 3000 years old... they said give us the data, and don't tell us anything (I can't remember the exact quote)... Once they had done the structural reconstruction of the face... they shipped the model off to an artist... who added the approriate colorations (which wasn't double-blind... but really stood no chance of being double blind... we don't have any photos of ancient egyptians to know skin/eye colors)
It was only the Egyptologist/forensic experts that actually visited the tomb to examine the body who knew she was "lady X", and I would assume could surmise that she was a well to-do egyptian from the tomb.
So watch the show again... and ignore the fact that the eye & skin colors are identical... and only look at shape. The remember the CG head is meant to be realistic.. the bust is meant to be artistic... so even if the CG were perfect we don't have an even comparison.
Gotta love Daryl McBrides arguement where he says that the US Copyright Law Pre-empts the GPL. He was referring to Title 17 USC 301.
However, the very title of the Law makes him look silly, "Preemption with respect to other laws". LAWS not LISCENCES. However think of the upside, if they it overrules the GPL it would also overrule various EULAs that prevent resale of M$ products via the shrink-wrap liscence. Of course thats just silly... the GPL can't be pre-empted by a clause that is only intended to pre-empt laws.
Wait a second I have it... make the GPL law... and then the Copyright code can pre-empt it. No code can be released under anything but the GPL... ah well... it would probably make RMS happy.
did you just miss the whole point where ALL (EVERY SINGLE ONE other than the Egyptologist) of the technical experts were told that the mummy was called "Lady X" and were ask to give their technical expertise without the word Nefertiti ever being mentioned... only in the last few minutes of the show were they asked directly about the hypothesis.
The Egyptologist did this for two reasons... first double blind is the way to go... and second she was a minor Egyptologist, and wanted to "protect" her find and not want other more famous egyptologists to supercede here, or worse, just dismiss her as a quack pot for making such wild claims just based upon a wig.
You should have watched the Nefertiti Special that was on the (Discovery Channel/TLC ?). It was very cool... this one Egyptologist that specializes in wigs, saw a wig in a museum... figured out the time period/gender/social status and surmised that it could have been Nefertiti's. She then got permission to enter the tomb where it was found.
The long and the short... the show was a bit drawn out... but they x-rayed the skeleton, shipped it off to a school in England (Nottingham I believe)... where they blindly (with no a priori knowledge that they would be comparing it against Nefertiti's statue) reconstructed the face from the X-rays.
The end result was suprisingly close... especially when you consider that the statue is an artists rendition.
What really annoyed me was that the producers of the show did a side by side of the CG head and the statue... and they rotated them at different speeds... so I had to use the my homebrew PVR just to pause it when the two heads lined up.
I recently had the opportunity to speak with the designers of ASCI Purple and Lightpath... and there is definitely a reason that they cant use stock parts.
Currently the interconnects are the biggest set back... currently all of the supercomputers are designed with two dimensional floorplans... with the goals of minimizing distances between each various aspects of the computer throughout the room.
Lightpath which is designed to be a "low" cost super computer, is based upon a bio-med computer out of NY (probably Cornell... but I can't recall) Even with this low cost design each machine will be a custom made dual processors. The communications protocols will actually be on the processors. To further reduce distances and communications issues, each rack will hold 2 clusters off the midplane. The curious part about Lightpath, is that it is not connected with switches... each computer is connected in 5 directions, 1 vertically and 4 horizontal. The machines on the end loop around back to the other end. Because of this manner of networking the machine can reboot in minutes, instead of the 12 hours that it takes most super computers, b/c there is no heirarchy and precedence
Common workstation modules can no longer be just bolted into specialized switched... the communications needs to be on the chips.
Furthermore after ASCI Purple and Lightpath, they are planning to build three dimensionally, although there a quite a few construction and maintence issues to be resolved.
Performancewise, both machines are expected to perform on the order of 100's of terraflops... however we might be seeing an end of the ASCI line of supercomputers, if the LightPath works out... there will be an order of magnitude in difference in cost for on par performance.
But don't you guys realize... their are not going to just pour out another pint when your glass is empty... they are just going to send the waiter/bartender scurrying in your direction. I mean how often to you have the same drink all night long, you start with the liquor, then the beer, then the soft stuff for the last few hours if you are driving...
I really think it could be useful, I mean how often have you waited 10 minutes for a drink b/c the barkeep is to busy chatting up a blonde to notice your beverage requirements.
Well speaking of OSes... I think everyone should read the following report to the Library of Conrgress (it was a link on one of the above references)
Anyways... it makes 2 claims about DVDs. Saying that the Copyright law forbids using a copyrighted medium from dictating a hardware platform. But that is exactly what the DVD-CCA does. It sites Alcatel USA vs. DGI Technolgies Which would basically justify all of the Linux DVD players out there.
So that combined with the fact that DVD region encoding restricts the free flow of global trade, basically blows a big hole in the DRM abilities of the DVD format. Although, I just found out that Region Encoding isn't so much about pricing equity, so much as allowing DVDs to be release in the US, before the movies have even hit the theaters elsewhere in the world. Although that said... there should be no reason that a Region 1 DVD player can't play all other DVD regions (unless it had something to do with restricting the balanced flow of the DVDs as a commodity.)
"I try to eat only natural foods that my body can easily digest" (emphasis mine)
While Parent's diet is very good, the rationale is wrong. Processed foods are actually EASIER for the body to digest, and natural foods are HARDER for the body to digest. What this means is that your body actually burns calories trying to digest natural foods(whole grains/fruits/veg/veg oils)
Also if you have to drink milk... buy it in the cardboard containers... the plastic containers actually leech the calcium from the milk.
There always is confusion over the 20 minutes excercise. 20 minutes @ THR is to ensure Cardiovascular fitness... and only needs to be done 3 times a week.
To burn calories you don't need to get anywhere near THR, although the harder you walk/run/bike/swim the more calories you will burn per minute... your body also continues to burn calories at an elevated level after you stop excercising. But for maximum calorie burning you should excercise daily.
Also lifting weights does nothing for burning calories. A moderate effort in the gym burns 5 cal/min, whereas doing housework burns 6 cal/min and is actually productive.
So do yourself a favor and take up biking/jogging/swimming where a moderate effort will burn at least 14 cal/min, and forget about those expensive gym memberships unless you want to "pump them up."
For those of you that don't want to read the article:
Sugar: Glucose (blood sugar) is bad, as it causes your blood sugar levels to spike and helps cause Diabetes. More other sugars that need to be broken down into glucose are better, b/c they don't cause any spikes to the blood sugar level.
Complex Carbs/starches - not all are good:
White grains (labeled as bleached, durum, semolina, etc) are actually just long strains of glucose, which the body is very adept at turning straight into glucose (and thus the blood sugar spike)
Whole wheats are not as easily handled by the body, and actually require that the body spend more energy digesting them. Also there are more nutrients/fiber in the outside shell of a grain, which are stripped off in white grains.
Fats Not all fats are bad, the FDA just thinks the American consumer is to stupid to know the difference. Just avoid these words:
Saturated Fat
Trans-fat
Hydrogenated (appears in ingredient list)
The Mediterranean diet actually very high in fat from Olive Oil, but they live longer than people with more western diets.
This not exactly new... or unique to the Aussies... at the University of California at Davis they have an automated machine that goes around the rows of vegetation picking up the buckets of picked fruit.
While this may seem silly, nothing treats the fruit as gently as the human hand... but immigrant Mexican workers are getting really bad back problems lifting around these buckets, and they get screwed b/c they have no medical care or legal recourse. The goal of the project is to make the bucket picker upper automated and cheap enough to run, that it is actually cheaper to operate than having the buckets lifted and managed by hand.
Yeah we all know illegal immigrants shouldn't be hear... but boy would people complain if they had to pay 3 to 4 times the current price for their fresh produce.
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What everyone is ignoring here, including the linked article, is that Physicists and Mathematicians in Newton's era were REQUIRED to be ordained Ministers in the Church of England. This decree was set forth by King Charles II.
The political climate closely tied Religion and Science. (quite evident in the strong tie between Trinity College and the Royal Society) That way they resolved all of the Galileo type problems. Newton disagreed with much of the church's teachings, and refused to be ordained. Thus he had to obtain special permission from the King. By keeping his disidence in his private notebooks, he could continue his scientific/mathematical endevours.
I don't know about you ... but I swear by my dual-channel 2x512MB RAM Chips. Especially nice when you get them in matched pairs. So what if they are cheaper, the memory access is still faster. And spending a grand for 2x1GB is ridiculous.
Now that I know he was living in a rat-infested s***hole, I am glad that it took us so long to capture him. Now that he's been arrested, his gotten a shower and a shave. Its unforunate that the Geneva Conventions won't allow us to force him to continue living in that hole for the rest of his life.
To our troops in Iraq - Bravo Zulu
See what I want to know is can you get dual PVR-250's running. All the documentation I see is about just getting one running (the tiny bit of extra work is totally worth it)
.. I wish they synched all the channels ...
This would make me one happy clam, b/c inevitably even shows in different hours can conflict
This isn't actually as incredulous as you all might think. Sure simple statements like "*BSD is dying" are always going to get you in trouble. I mean look at the number of Commodore emulators. Some things just have niches, and wont go away (like Apple).
/. after all). You will notice that Intel saying that Moore's law can't continue to hold out, with the CURRENT binary logic technology. Not that Moore's law will become false, just that there will need to be new advances in technology to overcome the limits. This is what has happened in the past as well (L2 Cache, Silcon -> Germanium, 3D chip pathways).
But more importantly if you read the article carefully (which is a lot I know, this is
Intel pays researchers lots of money to think outside of the box, but they need to write papers like this to keep the establishment continuing to realize them for the miracle workers that they are.
But there is one fact that he has VERY wrong. NASA did not "throw away" the SpaceCraft ... it was given to the Smithsonian Museum. The Smithsonian has the right of first refusal on all of NASA uncommisioned stuff. Therefore, can't the Smithsonian say that they are squatting.
... since he hasn't built anything on the property ... and they parked the spacecraft there ... isn't it now a right of way.
... but as there are no "laws" for outerspace ... it is an anarchy ... you can't give someone a ticket in anarchy. So until we establish intergallactic law, any property claims are as good as garbage. Just b/c during the Western Expansion of the United States, they let people keep the land they own when the state was annexed (say the Louisiana Purchase) doesn't mean they had to recognize those rights (like how they totally shafted the Native Americans) ... they could have choosen to divy it up differently, which doesn't make much sense in a democracy
Also
Overall it is a moot point. The Federal Court can here the case all it wants
But we don't know it could be a Communist Universe, and we need to reliquish property rights for the good of Mother Space (and Fidel Castro)
Now this may not be more secure ... but I think it may have one up on the geek factor. Use the dandy/cheap little USB keychain devices to act as keycards to allow users to login/logout/freeze session. The cards we have with our Sun's are absolutely awesome, the only problem with it is the Solaris OS. Great for our sysadmin, but for GUI work, makes me wish for Windows (can't get Solaris-Gnome running).
Anyways I think that a standard USB "keycard" would be an awesome Linux project (sorry GNU/Linux) and I am totally suprised that I haven't seen one on SF. It makes me think I must be blind.
Think about it is two sites were to pay for this "service"
... WAIT ... why don't they just *register* the domain.
... OR have their web browser do it for them automatically.
say: sLashdot.org and sMashdot.org
Then you get someone with engRish, who types sRashdot.org
How do you determine who should get the pointer? You can't both are perfectly valid versions. The only way to resolve this would be to pay for each individual misspelling that they want
This is why you should get the DNS error, and then the user can go to their favorite search engine, and try there
This means that they believe that there are: (Partial Qty./Percent = Total Qty.)
Remember that these numbers represent the number of servers that they polled. The actual number of servers is obviously different. Which means that if we are to believe their polling methods to be statistically viable, that the sample sets are essentially equal.
Unforunately this means a big hit to the Open Source Community, as it say that Linux servers are nearly 3 times more insecure that Windows Servers. I am sure we all agree that the Windows desktop is definitely more insecure that Linux. However they might be a possibility that Windows Servers are more secure, the military does use them
Although there was the one ship that "crashed" coming into harbor
Man this is the closest I have every come to wanting to make a f***ing troll post ranting on and on about the ridiculousness of the current state of affairs.
... I always wondered which would get to me first, the RIAA or SCO ... congratulations RIAA ... you've p***ed me off ... and everyone who has to read my ranting (before I am moderated into oblivion)
Shit I just did it oh well
Well at least the DMCA is working for us on this one. In Title 17, Chapter 12 Section 1201 SubSection (f - Reverse Engineering) of the U.S. Code, the DMCA explicitly allows the Open Source Community to hack(read Reverse Engineer) the last Office File Formats, and circumvent the latest DRM (Digitial Rights Management) techniques to provide interoperability between Star/OpenOffice and M$ Office.
Also a big problem is the fact that Apache and various other servers don't include the proper MIME type for .wmv files. The sysadmins have to manually add entries for the .wmv file to the server, otherwise it thinks that it is text/plain ... and when mozilla sees that ... it immediately renders the file as plaintext ... and renders it as such.
... and as such have assigned it to be part of their evangalism.
... all you guys who want to look at .wmv PRON ... you are going to have to fire up IE (dunno if opera has a work around)
Much to the dismay of Joe User, it is Mozilla's position that they should not provide a work around for such a flagrant violation of HTTP rules
Sorry
Well not in support of the evil empire ... but I was f***ing astounded when I went to tech.msn.com
... yes their standard links to Microsoft Support refer to their shite Operating Systems ... but those are in a small font in the bottom right hand corner of the page.
... "see judge on our tech/software/OS page we don't even mention our product" ... although the page is buried 3 links deep ...
... now mod me down for almost putting M$ in a good light.
Then I clicked "Software", then "Operating Systems"
I totally expected to see an homage to the "glory" (cough cough hack hack) that is windows.
Instead I saw this page: http://tech.msn.com/software/OS/
Where all of the articles are on Suse and Red Hat
The cynic in me is that this is in preparation for a lawsuit
ok
I agree ... most people think of Egyptians women as Nefertiti, and Egyptian men as her son Tutankhamun.
... they said give us the data, and don't tell us anything (I can't remember the exact quote) ... Once they had done the structural reconstruction of the face ... they shipped the model off to an artist ... who added the approriate colorations (which wasn't double-blind ... but really stood no chance of being double blind ... we don't have any photos of ancient egyptians to know skin/eye colors)
... and ignore the fact that the eye & skin colors are identical ... and only look at shape. The remember the CG head is meant to be realistic .. the bust is meant to be artistic ... so even if the CG were perfect we don't have an even comparison.
The CG guys weren't even told that she was Egyptian, or 3000 years old
It was only the Egyptologist/forensic experts that actually visited the tomb to examine the body who knew she was "lady X", and I would assume could surmise that she was a well to-do egyptian from the tomb.
So watch the show again
Gotta love Daryl McBrides arguement where he says that the US Copyright Law Pre-empts the GPL. He was referring to Title 17 USC 301.
... the GPL can't be pre-empted by a clause that is only intended to pre-empt laws.
... make the GPL law ... and then the Copyright code can pre-empt it. No code can be released under anything but the GPL ... ah well ... it would probably make RMS happy.
However, the very title of the Law makes him look silly, "Preemption with respect to other laws". LAWS not LISCENCES. However think of the upside, if they it overrules the GPL it would also overrule various EULAs that prevent resale of M$ products via the shrink-wrap liscence. Of course thats just silly
Wait a second I have it
did you just miss the whole point where ALL (EVERY SINGLE ONE other than the Egyptologist) of the technical experts were told that the mummy was called "Lady X" and were ask to give their technical expertise without the word Nefertiti ever being mentioned ... only in the last few minutes of the show were they asked directly about the hypothesis.
... first double blind is the way to go ... and second she was a minor Egyptologist, and wanted to "protect" her find and not want other more famous egyptologists to supercede here, or worse, just dismiss her as a quack pot for making such wild claims just based upon a wig.
The Egyptologist did this for two reasons
You should have watched the Nefertiti Special that was on the (Discovery Channel/TLC ?). It was very cool ... this one Egyptologist that specializes in wigs, saw a wig in a museum ... figured out the time period/gender/social status and surmised that it could have been Nefertiti's. She then got permission to enter the tomb where it was found.
... the show was a bit drawn out ... but they x-rayed the skeleton, shipped it off to a school in England (Nottingham I believe) ... where they blindly (with no a priori knowledge that they would be comparing it against Nefertiti's statue) reconstructed the face from the X-rays.
... especially when you consider that the statue is an artists rendition.
... and they rotated them at different speeds ... so I had to use the my homebrew PVR just to pause it when the two heads lined up.
The long and the short
The end result was suprisingly close
What really annoyed me was that the producers of the show did a side by side of the CG head and the statue
I recently had the opportunity to speak with the designers of ASCI Purple and Lightpath ... and there is definitely a reason that they cant use stock parts.
... currently all of the supercomputers are designed with two dimensional floorplans ... with the goals of minimizing distances between each various aspects of the computer throughout the room.
... but I can't recall) Even with this low cost design each machine will be a custom made dual processors. The communications protocols will actually be on the processors. To further reduce distances and communications issues, each rack will hold 2 clusters off the midplane. The curious part about Lightpath, is that it is not connected with switches ... each computer is connected in 5 directions, 1 vertically and 4 horizontal. The machines on the end loop around back to the other end. Because of this manner of networking the machine can reboot in minutes, instead of the 12 hours that it takes most super computers, b/c there is no heirarchy and precedence
... the communications needs to be on the chips.
... however we might be seeing an end of the ASCI line of supercomputers, if the LightPath works out ... there will be an order of magnitude in difference in cost for on par performance.
Currently the interconnects are the biggest set back
Lightpath which is designed to be a "low" cost super computer, is based upon a bio-med computer out of NY (probably Cornell
Common workstation modules can no longer be just bolted into specialized switched
Furthermore after ASCI Purple and Lightpath, they are planning to build three dimensionally, although there a quite a few construction and maintence issues to be resolved.
Performancewise, both machines are expected to perform on the order of 100's of terraflops
I have an old olympus camera that came with Ni-MH AA batteries and a battery charger ... it has lasted me near 4 years.
Those batteries keep their energy for 3 months at a time easily, when I am not on vacations or otherwise using the camera.
But don't you guys realize ... their are not going to just pour out another pint when your glass is empty ... they are just going to send the waiter/bartender scurrying in your direction. I mean how often to you have the same drink all night long, you start with the liquor, then the beer, then the soft stuff for the last few hours if you are driving ...
I really think it could be useful, I mean how often have you waited 10 minutes for a drink b/c the barkeep is to busy chatting up a blonde to notice your beverage requirements.
Well speaking of OSes ... I think everyone should read the following report to the Library of Conrgress (it was a link on one of the above references)
... it makes 2 claims about DVDs. Saying that the Copyright law forbids using a copyrighted medium from dictating a hardware platform. But that is exactly what the DVD-CCA does. It sites Alcatel USA vs. DGI Technolgies Which would basically justify all of the Linux DVD players out there.
... there should be no reason that a Region 1 DVD player can't play all other DVD regions (unless it had something to do with restricting the balanced flow of the DVDs as a commodity.)
Anyways
So that combined with the fact that DVD region encoding restricts the free flow of global trade, basically blows a big hole in the DRM abilities of the DVD format. Although, I just found out that Region Encoding isn't so much about pricing equity, so much as allowing DVDs to be release in the US, before the movies have even hit the theaters elsewhere in the world. Although that said
"I try to eat only natural foods that my body can easily digest" (emphasis mine)
... buy it in the cardboard containers ... the plastic containers actually leech the calcium from the milk.
While Parent's diet is very good, the rationale is wrong. Processed foods are actually EASIER for the body to digest, and natural foods are HARDER for the body to digest. What this means is that your body actually burns calories trying to digest natural foods(whole grains/fruits/veg/veg oils)
Also if you have to drink milk
There always is confusion over the 20 minutes excercise. 20 minutes @ THR is to ensure Cardiovascular fitness ... and only needs to be done 3 times a week.
... your body also continues to burn calories at an elevated level after you stop excercising. But for maximum calorie burning you should excercise daily.
To burn calories you don't need to get anywhere near THR, although the harder you walk/run/bike/swim the more calories you will burn per minute
Also lifting weights does nothing for burning calories. A moderate effort in the gym burns 5 cal/min, whereas doing housework burns 6 cal/min and is actually productive.
So do yourself a favor and take up biking/jogging/swimming where a moderate effort will burn at least 14 cal/min, and forget about those expensive gym memberships unless you want to "pump them up."
Scientific American recently ran an article on the "New Food Pyramid."
For those of you that don't want to read the article:
Sugar: Glucose (blood sugar) is bad, as it causes your blood sugar levels to spike and helps cause Diabetes.
More other sugars that need to be broken down into glucose are better, b/c they don't cause any spikes to the blood sugar level.
Complex Carbs/starches - not all are good:
- White grains (labeled as bleached, durum, semolina, etc) are actually just long strains of glucose, which the body is very adept at turning straight into glucose (and thus the blood sugar spike)
- Whole wheats are not as easily handled by the body, and actually require that the body spend more energy digesting them. Also there are more nutrients/fiber in the outside shell of a grain, which are stripped off in white grains.
FatsNot all fats are bad, the FDA just thinks the American consumer is to stupid to know the difference. Just avoid these words:
The Mediterranean diet actually very high in fat from Olive Oil, but they live longer than people with more western diets.
This not exactly new ... or unique to the Aussies ... at the University of California at Davis they have an automated machine that goes around the rows of vegetation picking up the buckets of picked fruit.
... but immigrant Mexican workers are getting really bad back problems lifting around these buckets, and they get screwed b/c they have no medical care or legal recourse. The goal of the project is to make the bucket picker upper automated and cheap enough to run, that it is actually cheaper to operate than having the buckets lifted and managed by hand.
... but boy would people complain if they had to pay 3 to 4 times the current price for their fresh produce.
While this may seem silly, nothing treats the fruit as gently as the human hand
Yeah we all know illegal immigrants shouldn't be hear