One of my coworkers recently took the train (KC -> Chicago and back). Total transit time was 7 hours -- roughly the same as driving, but without having to, well, drive. Cost of the ticket was around $70 one way, which is probably around what gas would cost (depending on vehicle, etc.. etc...). The only problem with trains is the schedule. Maybe with increased ridership, more routes, etc.. will be added? Time will tell.
It also seems to have some sort of effect on reducing acid reflux. Scientific American had a great article about a year ago or so about this bug and how it works. Very interesting reading.
No cons???!!! No cadr??!?! What about a nice lambda?!?!? Come on guys -- you can do better than that...:) (and if it hadn't been 12 years since I last did some SCHEME-ing, I probably could do better too...)
Do you really think that the AMA is restricting doctor numbers? If so, could you please provide a reference? I would think that doctor numbers are limited more by the following:
1) High barriers to entry including:
a) Large education costs (~$54k a year (tuition + living expenses) for a top private school)
b) Years and years and years of training
c) Extensive (and continuous) licensing requirements (from the government, not the AMA) 2) Big red target for lawsuits 3) Increasing operating (no pun intended) costs (e.g. malpractice) 4) Long hours, large workloads, large responsibilities,
I have never heard of the AMA discouraging people going into med school to keep numbers down. And as far as practicing medicine, that is regulated by the state medical licensing organizations (AFAIK).
> How does the number of Iraqis killed by Saddam stack up against the number of Iraqis killed by the US?
Some caual googling turns up this document regarding the kurdish genocide:
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/
I have not had time to look at the sources and verify the organizations involved in this publication. That being said, from the fine article:
When Kurdish leaders met with Iraqi government officials in the wake of the spring 1991 uprising, they raised the question of the Anfal dead and mentioned a figure of 182,000--a rough extrapolation based on the number of destroyed villages. Ali Hassan al-Majid reportedly jumped to his feet in a rage when the discussion took this turn. "What is this exaggerated figure of 182,000?" he is said to have asked. "It couldn't have been more than 100,000"--as if this somehow mitigated the catastrophe that he and his subordinates had visited on the Iraqi Kurds
That's actually an interesting twist on how to implement censorship -- rather than having the central government block information, make the information providers so mad enough that they refuse to distribute the information.
I am not in networking, but I would imagine that it would be easy to spoof ip's from whatever subnets you want. The more subnets you use, the more annoying you become and wider the blanket of blocking that providers use.
It means: Eat hot lead, nazi zombie robot commandos. I wish I could say that I came up with it, but I saw it in a brit newspaper when I was doing some backpacking in Europe and thought it was pretty funny. It came off a column about how useful latin is and I almost used another one in there for my.sig: 'Nisi mecum concubueris, phobistae vicerint' (If you don't sleep with me, the terrorist have won)./. didn't quite seem to be the place for something like that though...
Apparently there is a collection of choice latin bits like this in _X-Treme Latin: Unleash Your Inner Gladiator_ by Henry Beard.
The "Romans 12:2" above their logo kindof gives it away as well
Romans 12:2 -- Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
I'm no business guru but it strikes me that if you head up a company that no-one particularly likes, then you spend some resource improving your reputation in the eyes of the public - try to convince everyone that you care about your image in their eyes, that you want to be seen as a corporation that listens and that you change some of your business processes based upon what people tell you is wrong with the way you do things.
Case in point, IBM.
I can't remember if they are Good or Bad (that seems to change on/. on an hourly basis), but that fact that the question even comes up says a lot about how far they have come in terms of PR.
Generally, I hate to point out misspellings, but in today's world, its spelled 'terrist'. For a similar spelling change, so the Official Newspeak Dictionary entry for 'sosh-security'.
Interesting. The study looked at interval training, and not sustained intense workouts. I wonder what the average HR was for the HIIT study group...
Citing animal studies, they also said it may be that appetite is suppressed more following intense intervals.
I do know from experience that appetite is supressed after intense workouts:) I always pegged it on 1) guzzling water at the end and possible 2) adjustments to blood sugar levels (increase release of glucagon?) made by the body during workout.
At any rate, something to keep in mind I guess. Thanks for the additional info.
You should be getting up to about 180BPM near the end of your workout- not sticking to some 130BPM songs.
Actually, if you are trying to lose fat, you should keep it around 130 BPM. IANAEP (I am not an exercise physiologist, but I engage in endurance sports) but you burn more fat during moderate exercise than intense exercise.
At any workout intensity, the energy required comes from a mixture of fat metabolism and glycogen metabolism (and possibly other sources -- again, IANAEP). As I understand it, the energy source for higher intensity workouts comes predominantly from glycogen stores in the muscle, liver, etc... as this is more readily metabolized and hence keeps up with the energy demands you are placing on your muscular and CV system. At lower workout intensity, the body has more time to break down fat and use those byproducts for energy.
The fact that you are working less in moderate workouts means that you will have to work out longer to burn the same number of calories. A quick experiment supports this -- walk one mile with a HR monitor with a calorimeter and then run the same mile. The number of kcals burned are about the same. However, the source of those calories will tend to be more from fat in the moderate workouts.
See Endurance Sports Nutrition (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/073 6001433/qid=1085574104/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xg l14/103-3003779-7209430?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) or a quick google turns up these sites:
http://www.thefactsaboutfitness.com/research/epo c. htm http://www.brianmac.demon.co.uk/fatburn.htm
The easy answer is that if it doesn't uninstall easily, or if it just comes back upon reboot, it's either spyware or a virus - either way it should be killed
Conversely, if it doesn't install easy and causes your machine to reboot, it's Windows (and should still be killed).
He says most problems can be fixed by upgrading to better hardware and hours of optimization is not worth 3-4k more in hardware costs.
This only works if hardware is actually the bottleneck. This doesn't help if if your object lifecycles are so short that you are doing major garbage collections every two minutes and loading down your app server, or your SQL does full table scans and updates primary keys such that your DB is operating at 90% capacity all the time.
Also, I would like to live in the fantasy land of 3-4K of hardware costs. Lets say you are running Oracle and need to add CPU's -- sure the hardware and installation might not be that bad (although even 3-4K is way on the low side when you factor in downtime, overtime, etc...), but wait till you get the licensing hit from the additional CPU. We're talking tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands, depending on the scale) of dollars.
Granted - I think that your profs point is that premature optimization or blind optimization (w/o knowing where the bottlenecks are) is generally a waste of time/money. I am not sure what the "right" time to optimize is (generally when the customers, complain, right?:) but ideally the coding would be written such that blatant inefficiencies are avoided (e.g. using built in quicksort instead of writing your own bubble sort) However, thinking that throwing hardware is going to fix your performance problems is pretty much deluded thinking.
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> "We" (Americans) didn't invent it.
Are you trying to tell me that Al Gore isn't American???
One of my coworkers recently took the train (KC -> Chicago and back). Total transit time was 7 hours -- roughly the same as driving, but without having to, well, drive. Cost of the ticket was around $70 one way, which is probably around what gas would cost (depending on vehicle, etc.. etc...). The only problem with trains is the schedule. Maybe with increased ridership, more routes, etc.. will be added? Time will tell.
One of the more interesting items about this bug is that while it appears to cause stomach cancer, it also seems to protect against esophageal cancer:
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http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/04_03/p
It also seems to have some sort of effect on reducing acid reflux. Scientific American had a great article about a year ago or so about this bug and how it works. Very interesting reading.
No cons???!!! No cadr??!?! What about a nice lambda?!?!? Come on guys -- you can do better than that... :) (and if it hadn't been 12 years since I last did some SCHEME-ing, I probably could do better too...)
Do you really think that the AMA is restricting doctor numbers? If so, could you please provide a reference? I would think that doctor numbers are limited more by the following:
1) High barriers to entry including:
a) Large education costs (~$54k a year (tuition + living expenses) for a top private school)
b) Years and years and years of training
c) Extensive (and continuous) licensing requirements (from the government, not the AMA)
2) Big red target for lawsuits
3) Increasing operating (no pun intended) costs (e.g. malpractice)
4) Long hours, large workloads, large responsibilities,
I have never heard of the AMA discouraging people going into med school to keep numbers down. And as far as practicing medicine, that is regulated by the state medical licensing organizations (AFAIK).
Damn! Why weren't these part of the 34 PSU's that Hexus reviewed???
Whatever Mr. Fish-bulb.
Did you know that nuclear fusion is only 20 years away?
Actually, it's only ~8 minutes away (as the photon flies).
Some caual googling turns up this document regarding the kurdish genocide: http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/ I have not had time to look at the sources and verify the organizations involved in this publication. That being said, from the fine article: I don't think the US has quite hit the 100K mark.
They (well, cholesterol, at least) are also the precursors for steroid hormones -- such as testosterone, progesterone, etc...
That's actually an interesting twist on how to implement censorship -- rather than having the central government block information, make the information providers so mad enough that they refuse to distribute the information.
I am not in networking, but I would imagine that it would be easy to spoof ip's from whatever subnets you want. The more subnets you use, the more annoying you become and wider the blanket of blocking that providers use.
It means: Eat hot lead, nazi zombie robot commandos. I wish I could say that I came up with it, but I saw it in a brit newspaper when I was doing some backpacking in Europe and thought it was pretty funny. It came off a column about how useful latin is and I almost used another one in there for my .sig: 'Nisi mecum concubueris, phobistae vicerint' (If you don't sleep with me, the terrorist have won). /. didn't quite seem to be the place for something like that though...
Apparently there is a collection of choice latin bits like this in _X-Treme Latin: Unleash Your Inner Gladiator_ by Henry Beard.
Bravo!
> Which is to say, they cloned the beer
And rather poorly, at that. Further evidence of the introduction of noise in the cloning process, perhaps?
There is no comparison between a Bud/Miller/etc... and a real pilsner beer...
So would their scanner software be called eEye eEye 0?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/ a/2005/02/24/national/a095250S07.DTL
Just be careful of where you leave certain genetic material...
Incidently, if there are any former Soviet armoured officers reading Slashdot, I'd love to hear from you
As an ex-Soviet armour official I can tell you that
in Soviet Russia, the defense attacks YOU.
The "Romans 12:2" above their logo kindof gives it away as well
Romans 12:2 -- Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
I'm no business guru but it strikes me that if you head up a company that no-one particularly likes, then you spend some resource improving your reputation in the eyes of the public - try to convince everyone that you care about your image in their eyes, that you want to be seen as a corporation that listens and that you change some of your business processes based upon what people tell you is wrong with the way you do things.
/. on an hourly basis), but that fact that the question even comes up says a lot about how far they have come in terms of PR.
Case in point, IBM.
I can't remember if they are Good or Bad (that seems to change on
...who's a 'terrorist'...
Generally, I hate to point out misspellings, but in today's world, its spelled 'terrist'. For a similar spelling change, so the Official Newspeak Dictionary entry for 'sosh-security'.
Interesting. The study looked at interval training, and not sustained intense workouts. I wonder what the average HR was for the HIIT study group...
:) I always pegged it on 1) guzzling water at the end and possible 2) adjustments to blood sugar levels (increase release of glucagon?) made by the body during workout.
Citing animal studies, they also said it may be that appetite is suppressed more following intense intervals.
I do know from experience that appetite is supressed after intense workouts
At any rate, something to keep in mind I guess. Thanks for the additional info.
You should be getting up to about 180BPM near the end of your workout- not sticking to some 130BPM songs.
3 6001433/qid=1085574104/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xg l14/103-3003779-7209430?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)
o c. htm
Actually, if you are trying to lose fat, you should keep it around 130 BPM. IANAEP (I am not an exercise physiologist, but I engage in endurance sports) but you burn more fat during moderate exercise than intense exercise.
At any workout intensity, the energy required comes from a mixture of fat metabolism and glycogen metabolism (and possibly other sources -- again, IANAEP). As I understand it, the energy source for higher intensity workouts comes predominantly from glycogen stores in the muscle, liver, etc... as this is more readily metabolized and hence keeps up with the energy demands you are placing on your muscular and CV system. At lower workout intensity, the body has more time to break down fat and use those byproducts for energy.
The fact that you are working less in moderate workouts means that you will have to work out longer to burn the same number of calories. A quick experiment supports this -- walk one mile with a HR monitor with a calorimeter and then run the same mile. The number of kcals burned are about the same. However, the source of those calories will tend to be more from fat in the moderate workouts.
See Endurance Sports Nutrition (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/07
or a quick google turns up these sites:
http://www.thefactsaboutfitness.com/research/ep
http://www.brianmac.demon.co.uk/fatburn.htm
You must be new here.
The easy answer is that if it doesn't uninstall easily, or if it just comes back upon reboot, it's either spyware or a virus - either way it should be killed
Conversely, if it doesn't install easy and causes your machine to reboot, it's Windows (and should still be killed).
He says most problems can be fixed by upgrading to better hardware and hours of optimization is not worth 3-4k more in hardware costs.
:) but ideally the coding would be written such that blatant inefficiencies are avoided (e.g. using built in quicksort instead of writing your own bubble sort) However, thinking that throwing hardware is going to fix your performance problems is pretty much deluded thinking.
This only works if hardware is actually the bottleneck. This doesn't help if if your object lifecycles are so short that you are doing major garbage collections every two minutes and loading down your app server, or your SQL does full table scans and updates primary keys such that your DB is operating at 90% capacity all the time.
Also, I would like to live in the fantasy land of 3-4K of hardware costs. Lets say you are running Oracle and need to add CPU's -- sure the hardware and installation might not be that bad (although even 3-4K is way on the low side when you factor in downtime, overtime, etc...), but wait till you get the licensing hit from the additional CPU. We're talking tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands, depending on the scale) of dollars.
Granted - I think that your profs point is that premature optimization or blind optimization (w/o knowing where the bottlenecks are) is generally a waste of time/money. I am not sure what the "right" time to optimize is (generally when the customers, complain, right?