http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2004/05/econ omics_of_ff.html#more provides more analysis of the economics of Final Fantasy.
There's no excuse not to work out....
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I'm amazed at the whiners in this thread who are willing to wait for a magic pill that might help them grow muscles and lose fat, when everything you need is available now. There are plenty of sources of information on the Internet, none of which you need to pay for, about how to hack your metabolism.
It's quite simple. Work out six times a week, alternating three days of heavy weights (high mass, low reps) for max. 45 minutes, with three days of high intensity aerobics (20 mins at 90% of Maximum Heart Rate). On the seventh day, rest. Work out at least two hours after eating (to ensure your glycerides in the blood are at their lowest), ideally in the morning before breakfast, which should be high in protein.
Eat six small meals a day (space them out at two hour intervals.) Relax your eating restrictions on your rest day (this is when you can treat yourself -- but note your body's reaction to whatever you eat.) Monitor your caloric intake -- don't starve yourself, because you need to keep a good level of protein and vitamin input to build muscle.
This worked for me. I'm in my mid-forties, and managed to lose 25 pounds (11 kg), and get the body fat level down to 15%. I walk around 45 km per week on top of this exercise program, and have never felt better. I leg-press 100 kg, and do curls with 50 kg, with good technique.
The bottom line -- whatever you're doing now, you can improve. Just find the time, and DO IT.
I'm sorry, I thought this was Slashdot, not alt.religion.kibo.
Don't most people here understand what religions really are? They are memes, that infect human culture. The more successful memes (such as Islam) reproduce themselves through reinforcement of cultural paradigms (although are themselves changed by the cultural meme), and by encouraging begetting. (Think of a computer virus -- now imagine the computer is a human mind. Voila! You have a meme.)
It's actually quite difficult to live without some form of meme infection -- only a few people have achieved this (J.Krishnamurti for example.) My own meme of choice is Buddhism, with a strong flavour of Secular Humanism.
At least one SF write has speculated that memes could be used as weapons by advanced ET races.
Perhaps the true evidence of the existence of ETs may be inferred by looking for their memes, which might serve to render a populace docile and compliant when the alien overlords arrive.:-)
For those who are concerned about loss of permissions, filename case, long names, etc., may I offer a simple solution -- wrap your files in.tar or.cpio archives.
If you need "live" access to the files, then simply create a loopback ext2/3 file system (which can also be encrypted), which is stored in a single large file in the FAT partition. Mount it on a loopback device, and your other problems are moot.
Well, my company has developed a Linux-based Thin Client which combines Citrix, RDP and VNC, which runs through a VPN. This allows the Corporate Desktop to be extended to the insecure home environment, allowing the managers to safely access internal networks without worrying about keystroke recorders, trojans or hidden proxies exposing their information.
Naturally, this runs from Flash, so it's next to impossible for a virus infection -- and because home Internet connections are often shared, it allows other users at home to access the Internet (but not the VPN) transparently, and of course uses Shorewall to protect the home LAN.
Bottom line: thin clients improve the heck out of security for corporate LANs when they are deployed outside of the firewall.
The ASR-33, I remember it well. The PDP 8/E that I worked on had one of those, plus a FACIT (?) tape reader, and a pair of DECtapes. I remember however working on a BASIC system in 1975 -- it was a "Computer Automation Naked Mini Alpha", which used Cassette tape (running COS.) I wrote a BASIC program to perform solutions of simultaneous linear equations with Guass-Siedel iteration, and the Newton Raphson method of optimization.
In 1978 I used a Tektronix 4010 graphics display with the PDP-8/E, and wrote some software to accept graphics input, write it to a file, and draw it on the display.
OK, I just managed to get reception in my crystal ball, and it tells me that some of the best space battles will be around in 15 years or so. That's when we will have huge video archives in our home computers, where we can use intelligent agents to recreate battles, using characters from different series, possibly even with different laws of physics, and watch the results.
Think of the SIMS, now multiply by 10,000,000 -- and include the abililty to set the Borg against the Jedis, and throw in a squadron of highly trained Wookies in SG-1 DeathGliders for good measure.
I'm a fan of OO, however StarImpress bugs me in one respect -- how do I create a simple print out formatted with 6 or 8 slides on one page, or one column of 3 sides with adjacent lines for notes? Enquiring minds want to know....
There were two "religious guys" -- the Anglican Bishop and Southwark and a well-known religious commentator, Malcolm Muggeridge.
Note that the movie was originally funded in part by George Harrison -- good friend of Eric Idle, who stepped in when the original backers, EMI, pulled out.
And in related news, the city of Aliso Viejo, CA has decided to legislate a simpler value of pi = 3.15, which is much more accurate than the value of 3 preferred by the Alabama legislature. They based this decision on the well-documented scientific research of Dr Richard Kimber.
One measure used by a scanner to detect currency is to look for five small circles, arranged in a specific pattern. These may be found on certain major currencies, including Euros, Pounds and Dollars.
There are hundreds of software projects out there right now. The world does not need more software. What it needs is *better quality* software.
How to achieve this?
Well, there are some basic answers I might offer. First, start by looking at the existing projects, and choose one you like. Then download the software, and get to know it. Use it, test it, reporting bugs. Join the mailing lists, read the archives, then when you get to know the culture, start making contributions.
After a while, you'll be ready to make a bigger contribution. To really help, start writing good quality documentation, tutorials and FAQs. License it under a suitable documentation license, then set up a tip-jar to reap the rewards of your contribution. If enough people appreciate your work, then you'll start to see some results.
To summarize:
Choose a favourite package
Learn it, then test it thoroughly
Notify the developers of the results of your tests.
One of my earliest jobs was implementing industrial process control systems in a slaughter house. That means many days of working next to the killing chain, listening to the screams of animals being killed, smelling the horrible stench of death and internal organs, seeing the glistening pouches spill out from the corpses as they swing back and forth from the skid (which used a digital ID embedded within it....)
Oh, and to top this off, the chain ended in the freezers, with close to freezing temperatures, where one had to work for hours at a time, trying to get the process operational.
For me, Enterprise jumped the shark in the recent UK showing of the episode in which three of the main characters caught a virus, and within minutes started turning into very alien "primitives", complete with loss of memory, different language and failures to comprehend the situation they found themselves in (hmmmm, sounds like too much alcohol.)
How many times have we seen this plot rehashed? It's not as if we didn't expect that the Doctor would find a miracel cure that would reset all the effects at the end of the episode, complete with appropriate homily about preserving the past.
Sigh. For me, Enterprise *might* have been great, if they really gave the Captain an edge. For example, in a recent episode he was close to killing a prisoner in an airlock to interrogate him. "At last", I thought -- "some moxie!"
Unfortunately, the only thing worth watching in that recent ep. was Jolene's jumpsuit. I couldn't bear to watch the crap, so switched to Golf instead -- that Ernie Els can really use the flat stick!
Of course, I note Jake 2.0 also starts soon in the UK, and is already cancelled.
The only shows with some promise these days seem to be "Smallville" and "Stargate." I particularly liked the recent "Stargate" ep. where Jack realized that he was supporting a regime of Racial-Purity slimeballs, and ended by closing the iris to allow one of them to pancake coming through the wormhole -- priceless!
Basically, the leak was found in a hose which is used to connect from the interior space of two thick window panes, to the outside vaccum.
Due to the late arrive of a separate hand-hold, astronauts repeatedly used the hose as a temporary hand-hold, and the repetitive strain caused the hose to partly fail, leading to the leak.
Interestingly enough, while repairing the hose, the astronauts made a mistake which led to a vacuum excursion event!
Actually, you are wrong. The Secret Service handle enforcement, but there are other parts of the Treasury involved -- such as international coordination with other Central Banks, design of Banknotes, ensuring anti-counterfeiting programs are in place in banks, etc. The Secret Service is much more focused on the cure, while prevention is handled by other treasury bodies. Please follow the first link I posted for more information.
And yes, I know that the Secret Service is part of the Department of Treasury, and in fact was the foundation of the FBI, as ten or so agents were transferred from the Secret Service to the Justice Department to establish the FBI.
Slashdot Mirror
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2004/05/econ omics_of_ff.html#more provides more analysis of the economics of Final Fantasy.
I'm amazed at the whiners in this thread who are willing to wait for a magic pill that might help them grow muscles and lose fat, when everything you need is available now. There are plenty of sources of information on the Internet, none of which you need to pay for, about how to hack your metabolism.
It's quite simple. Work out six times a week, alternating three days of heavy weights (high mass, low reps) for max. 45 minutes, with three days of high intensity aerobics (20 mins at 90% of Maximum Heart Rate). On the seventh day, rest. Work out at least two hours after eating (to ensure your glycerides in the blood are at their lowest), ideally in the morning before breakfast, which should be high in protein.
Eat six small meals a day (space them out at two hour intervals.) Relax your eating restrictions on your rest day (this is when you can treat yourself -- but note your body's reaction to whatever you eat.) Monitor your caloric intake -- don't starve yourself, because you need to keep a good level of protein and vitamin input to build muscle.
This worked for me. I'm in my mid-forties, and managed to lose 25 pounds (11 kg), and get the body fat level down to 15%. I walk around 45 km per week on top of this exercise program, and have never felt better. I leg-press 100 kg, and do curls with 50 kg, with good technique.
The bottom line -- whatever you're doing now, you can improve. Just find the time, and DO IT.
I'm sorry, I thought this was Slashdot, not alt.religion.kibo.
:-)
Don't most people here understand what religions really are? They are memes, that infect human culture. The more successful memes (such as Islam) reproduce themselves through reinforcement of cultural paradigms (although are themselves changed by the cultural meme), and by encouraging begetting. (Think of a computer virus -- now imagine the computer is a human mind. Voila! You have a meme.)
It's actually quite difficult to live without some form of meme infection -- only a few people have achieved this (J.Krishnamurti for example.) My own meme of choice is Buddhism, with a strong flavour of Secular Humanism.
At least one SF write has speculated that memes could be used as weapons by advanced ET races.
Perhaps the true evidence of the existence of ETs may be inferred by looking for their memes, which might serve to render a populace docile and compliant when the alien overlords arrive.
For those who are concerned about loss of permissions, filename case, long names, etc., may I offer a simple solution -- wrap your files in .tar or .cpio archives.
If you need "live" access to the files, then simply create a loopback ext2/3 file system (which can also be encrypted), which is stored in a single large file in the FAT partition. Mount it on a loopback device, and your other problems are moot.
> Mr. Taco, Please make me a preference option to hide headlines with articles that require registration.
What he said, double.
Not bad, but I disqualify it on the ground that it uses two contractions and two acronyms. :-)
OK, here's a better one. It's an instruction to one's butler to prepare the alchoholic beverages for a picnic:
"Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."
Notice it's shorter than the stupid story about two animals.
Well, my company has developed a Linux-based Thin Client which combines Citrix, RDP and VNC, which runs through a VPN. This allows the Corporate Desktop to be extended to the insecure home environment, allowing the managers to safely access internal networks without worrying about keystroke recorders, trojans or hidden proxies exposing their information.
Naturally, this runs from Flash, so it's next to impossible for a virus infection -- and because home Internet connections are often shared, it allows other users at home to access the Internet (but not the VPN) transparently, and of course uses Shorewall to protect the home LAN.
Bottom line: thin clients improve the heck out of security for corporate LANs when they are deployed outside of the firewall.
The ASR-33, I remember it well. The PDP 8/E that I worked on had one of those, plus a FACIT (?) tape reader, and a pair of DECtapes. I remember however working on a BASIC system in 1975 -- it was a "Computer Automation Naked Mini Alpha", which used Cassette tape (running COS.) I wrote a BASIC program to perform solutions of simultaneous linear equations with Guass-Siedel iteration, and the Newton Raphson method of optimization.
In 1978 I used a Tektronix 4010 graphics display with the PDP-8/E, and wrote some software to accept graphics input, write it to a file, and draw it on the display.
OK, I just managed to get reception in my crystal ball, and it tells me that some of the best space battles will be around in 15 years or so. That's when we will have huge video archives in our home computers, where we can use intelligent agents to recreate battles, using characters from different series, possibly even with different laws of physics, and watch the results.
:-)
Think of the SIMS, now multiply by 10,000,000 -- and include the abililty to set the Borg against the Jedis, and throw in a squadron of highly trained Wookies in SG-1 DeathGliders for good measure.
In other words, we will be able to BE AS GODS.
I'm a fan of OO, however StarImpress bugs me in one respect -- how do I create a simple print out formatted with 6 or 8 slides on one page, or one column of 3 sides with adjacent lines for notes?
Enquiring minds want to know....
There were two "religious guys" -- the Anglican Bishop and Southwark and a well-known religious commentator, Malcolm Muggeridge.
Note that the movie was originally funded in part by George Harrison -- good friend of Eric Idle, who stepped in when the original backers, EMI, pulled out.
Before or after Pine Tree Meads? :=-)
Oh, and do you want LotR with the authentic Elvish accent, or perhaps a Gondorian lilt?
And in related news, the city of Aliso Viejo, CA has decided to legislate a simpler value of pi = 3.15, which is much more accurate than the value of 3 preferred by the Alabama legislature. They based this decision on the well-documented scientific research of Dr Richard Kimber.
Great idea! Let's form a lobby group, and get funding, so we can get this law passed.
The GR also has a direct relationship with biological systems, especially relating to growth.
Apart from the breeding of Fibonacci's Rabbits there are nice examples of Phyllotaxis and Sunflower Seed Patterns which exhibit the Golden Ratio.
I agree that the artistic "debunking" is over enthusiastic. For example, the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian was a deliberate user of the Golden Ratio.
If you're interested in convergence, try the Fibonacci sequences -- the ratio of successive terms converges to the Golden Ratio.
Years ago, I also made an analysis, and found the ratio in the trigonometry of a pyramid -- it's there if you look for it.
Algebraeically, try the square root of 5, + 1, divided by 2. i.e., (sqrt(5)+1)/2 = Phi.
One measure used by a scanner to detect currency is to look for five small circles, arranged in a specific pattern. These may be found on certain major currencies, including Euros, Pounds and Dollars.
How to achieve this?
Well, there are some basic answers I might offer. First, start by looking at the existing projects, and choose one you like. Then download the software, and get to know it. Use it, test it, reporting bugs. Join the mailing lists, read the archives, then when you get to know the culture, start making contributions. After a while, you'll be ready to make a bigger contribution. To really help, start writing good quality documentation, tutorials and FAQs. License it under a suitable documentation license, then set up a tip-jar to reap the rewards of your contribution. If enough people appreciate your work, then you'll start to see some results.
To summarize:
OK, let's leave this in the IT business.
One of my earliest jobs was implementing industrial process control systems in a slaughter house. That means many days of working next to the killing chain, listening to the screams of animals being killed, smelling the horrible stench of death and internal organs, seeing the glistening pouches spill out from the corpses as they swing back and forth from the skid (which used a digital ID embedded within it....)
Oh, and to top this off, the chain ended in the freezers, with close to freezing temperatures, where one had to work for hours at a time, trying to get the process operational.
No wonder I switched to be a vegetarian....
For me, Enterprise jumped the shark in the recent UK showing of the episode in which three of the main characters caught a virus, and within minutes started turning into very alien "primitives", complete with loss of memory, different language and failures to comprehend the situation they found themselves in (hmmmm, sounds like too much alcohol.)
How many times have we seen this plot rehashed? It's not as if we didn't expect that the Doctor would find a miracel cure that would reset all the effects at the end of the episode, complete with appropriate homily about preserving the past.
Sigh. For me, Enterprise *might* have been great, if they really gave the Captain an edge. For example, in a recent episode he was close to killing a prisoner in an airlock to interrogate him. "At last", I thought -- "some moxie!"
Unfortunately, the only thing worth watching in that recent ep. was Jolene's jumpsuit. I couldn't bear to watch the crap, so switched to Golf instead -- that Ernie Els can really use the flat stick!
Of course, I note Jake 2.0 also starts soon in the UK, and is already cancelled.
The only shows with some promise these days seem to be "Smallville" and "Stargate." I particularly liked the recent "Stargate" ep. where Jack realized that he was supporting a regime of Racial-Purity slimeballs, and ended by closing the iris to allow one of them to pancake coming through the wormhole -- priceless!
BBC has a story on this:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3969567/
Basically, the leak was found in a hose which is used to connect from the interior space of two thick window panes, to the outside vaccum.
Due to the late arrive of a separate hand-hold, astronauts repeatedly used the hose as a temporary hand-hold, and the repetitive strain caused the hose to partly fail, leading to the leak.
Interestingly enough, while repairing the hose, the astronauts made a mistake which led to a vacuum excursion event!
Actually, you are wrong. The Secret Service handle enforcement, but there are other parts of the Treasury involved -- such as international coordination with other Central Banks, design of Banknotes, ensuring anti-counterfeiting programs are in place in banks, etc. The Secret Service is much more focused on the cure, while prevention is handled by other treasury bodies. Please follow the first link I posted for more information.
And yes, I know that the Secret Service is part of the Department of Treasury, and in fact was the foundation of the FBI, as ten or so agents were transferred from the Secret Service to the Justice Department to establish the FBI.
Please! It's not the FBI which handles counterfeiting, it's the US Department of Treasury, in conjunction with the US Secret Service.