1. Sweet tea would have tons of sugar in it which your body would have to process, part of which would involve excretion of by-products through the kidneys (additionally you may be borderline diabetic which would exacerbate this problem)
2. You're taking in more liquid in the tea than you would with the coffee. Most teas come in quart/liter+ sizes whereas coffee is 8-16 oz. The difference in liquid intake may be the cause.
If you get the No-Doze caplets they're easily broken in half for less jittery 100mg doses as well.
Plus if you ever decide to quit you can cut up the pills into smaller and smaller doses to taper off gradually. If you take two weeks to drop your caffeine intake to ~12.5mg/day (cut the pill in half 4 times) you don't end up with withdrawal symptoms.
People have withdrawal symptoms when they break up with their girlfriends, too, but we don't go around trying to treat people for love addiction.
Some people do self medicate though. I hear hookers can help wean you off of a love addiction gradually. Fewer side effects if you following proper dosing directions.
I did that back in grad school while working full time. 4 hours of sleep a night max and the caffeine just kept me going. When I started developing stomach problems I quit and spent most of the following two weeks sleeping (other than work, school was on break). 16 hours of sleep a day for two weeks. It was insane. Caffeine withdrawal can be pretty rough depending on how much you're taking in. Anything north of 300-400mg/day will really kick you in the nuts if you quit it cold.
Yeah, I keep seeing their commercials where they advertise that they reach "97%" of Americans and I have to stop to think that it really doesn't count if they're being reached with the equivalent of a 14.4K modem.
This will never be a practical, money-making technology. It's almost as bad as fusion power.
I feel obliged to point out that when lasers were invented there was no real practical application for them (nor for a couple decades afterward), but now they are an indispensable part of our everyday life. From disc players to pointers, to industrial etchings and beyond we would not have half the cool gadgets we have without lasers. So, basically, don't knock the hard science stuff. It almost always comes out being useful in some way, even if we can't see the purpose of it yet.
A lot of murders are knife related. But you don't have to register to buy/carry those. Even California (all hail big brother!) lets you carry folding knives around without legal consequence.
Well, honestly if you get get something up fast enough in the air the momentum would carry it into space. I mean, the pure speed needed for escape velocity is something like Mach 22, but you could go a couple hundred miles straight up after you hit atmosphere too thin to support your scramjet. Falling back could be a bitch though.
If you just wanted to lob things into orbit, you could do it with pure ballistic launches (with maybe some shielding to protect the payload from atmospheric friction). It would probably be cheaper and simpler to use a railgun launch platform to accelerate to escape velocity and let basic physics take it from there. Heinlen did a pretty decent treatment of the basic concepts in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
The biggest advantage of VBScript is its easy exposure of practically all COM API's on the machine. This lets you run a ridiculous amount of automation tasks from VBScript, but you are horribly limited in the sense that it's really not an object oriented language. It lacks ability to do pointers and even structs (C-style structs that is) making any kind of advanced data structures cumbersome to implement. But for scripting it's leaps and bounds above batch files *shudder* so I have to give it a nod for the original question.
The one big problem with going GUI though is that its GUI objects do lend themselves to much customization. You cannot, for instance, create a list of buttons to pick from. You would almost want to use the cscript interface and go from there. That still embeds you in a DOS window, but hey.
Also VBSEdit is a killer IDE for developing VBScripts. It will even produce straight executables for you to help cut down on people breaking your plaintext scripts.
There is absolutely no legitimate reason to lock an iPod or iPhone or iAnything to only use iTunes, except to promote hegemony.
iPods and such also play MP3's, without any DRM at all. Anyone is free to sell in this format (if the record companies agree, or if the indie band allows selling in that format). Now the iTunes software generally only works with Apple products, but you can pretty well blame that one on the RIAA and similar entities for shoving a DRM scheme down our throats.
Would it have to be clear anyways? Couldn't you put it out-of-focus in exactly the right way such that looking at it from.5 inches away actually makes it in-focus to the viewer? I mean, this is curvable material right? We could conceivably just bend it so that it naturally projects the correct viewable image on the cornea? I feel like I must be missing something here so please, correct me. I would be curious to learn more about this.
They would first have to tie the MAC to you personally. That would require cooperation from the company that manufactured the card, every supplier in the chain on down to the retail store, and the final point of sale itself. Not to mention that it may have been sold in the interim, bought with cash in the first place, or even possibly stolen. A MAC is just a number. Tying it to a person is a whole other trick entirely (despite what the various CSI shows may try to tell you).
The current batch of video codecs are not lossless, regardless of the bitrate. MPEG1/2/4, H.264 for sure (and I would presume V8 as well since completely reversible transforms generally look like ass as lower bitrates) all lose information in the base transform even if you preserve as much information as possible. It's not necessarily a lot, a few bits here and there, but it's not reversible back to the original bits, even at the highest bitrates. Nor is it desirable to do so as a lot of the low order bits can be influenced by things like CCD noise. But please don't claim they're lossless at high bitrates, they aren't.
What happens if they have kids? Do they need to pay royalties?
Well, at least for now the term on patents (in the U.S.) is about 20 years. Assuming it's patented right at the time of conception you'd still only have to wait until you're just over 18 years old (assuming infringement happens at birth) to have a royalty free kid.
Just because you are free in your country does not mean you have any right in fanning the conflict between the citizens of a country and it's ruling theocracy. If anything, it just proves you have little more important to do in your life than going around and stirring shit up in some other country's political/theological system.
If cartoon drawings can instigate a conflict of ideals between citizens of a country and its ruling theocracy, than that just go so show how absolutely important freedom of speech is. The first step to crushing your citizens under an iron heel is restricting their freedom of expression. Freedom of expression is the first, and arguably the greatest, bastion of liberty.
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Two possibilities with tea:
1. Sweet tea would have tons of sugar in it which your body would have to process, part of which would involve excretion of by-products through the kidneys (additionally you may be borderline diabetic which would exacerbate this problem)
2. You're taking in more liquid in the tea than you would with the coffee. Most teas come in quart/liter+ sizes whereas coffee is 8-16 oz. The difference in liquid intake may be the cause.
If you get the No-Doze caplets they're easily broken in half for less jittery 100mg doses as well.
Plus if you ever decide to quit you can cut up the pills into smaller and smaller doses to taper off gradually. If you take two weeks to drop your caffeine intake to ~12.5mg/day (cut the pill in half 4 times) you don't end up with withdrawal symptoms.
People have withdrawal symptoms when they break up with their girlfriends, too, but we don't go around trying to treat people for love addiction.
Some people do self medicate though. I hear hookers can help wean you off of a love addiction gradually. Fewer side effects if you following proper dosing directions.
I did that back in grad school while working full time. 4 hours of sleep a night max and the caffeine just kept me going. When I started developing stomach problems I quit and spent most of the following two weeks sleeping (other than work, school was on break). 16 hours of sleep a day for two weeks. It was insane. Caffeine withdrawal can be pretty rough depending on how much you're taking in. Anything north of 300-400mg/day will really kick you in the nuts if you quit it cold.
That's the current estimate, yes (ozone layer destruction from supernova within 26 LY).
Also, supernovae output a lot of energy (equivalent to the lifetime energy output of our sun over 10 billion years in one massive explosion).
Yeah, I keep seeing their commercials where they advertise that they reach "97%" of Americans and I have to stop to think that it really doesn't count if they're being reached with the equivalent of a 14.4K modem.
Yeah, but they'll put together a party that lasts for months.
*rimshot*
And if the purpose of the ships is peaceful "humanitarian aid" then why are they armed?
This will never be a practical, money-making technology. It's almost as bad as fusion power.
I feel obliged to point out that when lasers were invented there was no real practical application for them (nor for a couple decades afterward), but now they are an indispensable part of our everyday life. From disc players to pointers, to industrial etchings and beyond we would not have half the cool gadgets we have without lasers. So, basically, don't knock the hard science stuff. It almost always comes out being useful in some way, even if we can't see the purpose of it yet.
Or you have to be smart enough not to visit shady websites that result in keyloggers getting installed on your system.
A lot of murders are knife related. But you don't have to register to buy/carry those. Even California (all hail big brother!) lets you carry folding knives around without legal consequence.
Well, honestly if you get get something up fast enough in the air the momentum would carry it into space. I mean, the pure speed needed for escape velocity is something like Mach 22, but you could go a couple hundred miles straight up after you hit atmosphere too thin to support your scramjet. Falling back could be a bitch though.
If you just wanted to lob things into orbit, you could do it with pure ballistic launches (with maybe some shielding to protect the payload from atmospheric friction). It would probably be cheaper and simpler to use a railgun launch platform to accelerate to escape velocity and let basic physics take it from there. Heinlen did a pretty decent treatment of the basic concepts in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
The biggest advantage of VBScript is its easy exposure of practically all COM API's on the machine. This lets you run a ridiculous amount of automation tasks from VBScript, but you are horribly limited in the sense that it's really not an object oriented language. It lacks ability to do pointers and even structs (C-style structs that is) making any kind of advanced data structures cumbersome to implement. But for scripting it's leaps and bounds above batch files *shudder* so I have to give it a nod for the original question.
The one big problem with going GUI though is that its GUI objects do lend themselves to much customization. You cannot, for instance, create a list of buttons to pick from. You would almost want to use the cscript interface and go from there. That still embeds you in a DOS window, but hey.
Also VBSEdit is a killer IDE for developing VBScripts. It will even produce straight executables for you to help cut down on people breaking your plaintext scripts.
There is absolutely no legitimate reason to lock an iPod or iPhone or iAnything to only use iTunes, except to promote hegemony.
iPods and such also play MP3's, without any DRM at all. Anyone is free to sell in this format (if the record companies agree, or if the indie band allows selling in that format). Now the iTunes software generally only works with Apple products, but you can pretty well blame that one on the RIAA and similar entities for shoving a DRM scheme down our throats.
Would it have to be clear anyways? Couldn't you put it out-of-focus in exactly the right way such that looking at it from .5 inches away actually makes it in-focus to the viewer? I mean, this is curvable material right? We could conceivably just bend it so that it naturally projects the correct viewable image on the cornea? I feel like I must be missing something here so please, correct me. I would be curious to learn more about this.
*shrug* 235 feet = 156.666667 cubits
That you don't have to install if you bother to take *one second* to uncheck it in the installer.
They would first have to tie the MAC to you personally. That would require cooperation from the company that manufactured the card, every supplier in the chain on down to the retail store, and the final point of sale itself. Not to mention that it may have been sold in the interim, bought with cash in the first place, or even possibly stolen. A MAC is just a number. Tying it to a person is a whole other trick entirely (despite what the various CSI shows may try to tell you).
Is your o, a, b and l keys broken?
Subject verb agreement issues in grammar nazi posts make me all stabby.
Alt-text: Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.
My point being, more research is needed.
Yeah, and when was the last time he published anything? I doubt he'll make tenure at this rate.
The current batch of video codecs are not lossless, regardless of the bitrate. MPEG1/2/4, H.264 for sure (and I would presume V8 as well since completely reversible transforms generally look like ass as lower bitrates) all lose information in the base transform even if you preserve as much information as possible. It's not necessarily a lot, a few bits here and there, but it's not reversible back to the original bits, even at the highest bitrates. Nor is it desirable to do so as a lot of the low order bits can be influenced by things like CCD noise. But please don't claim they're lossless at high bitrates, they aren't.
By Klono's gadolinium guts!
What happens if they have kids? Do they need to pay royalties?
Well, at least for now the term on patents (in the U.S.) is about 20 years. Assuming it's patented right at the time of conception you'd still only have to wait until you're just over 18 years old (assuming infringement happens at birth) to have a royalty free kid.
Just because you are free in your country does not mean you have any right in fanning the conflict between the citizens of a country and it's ruling theocracy. If anything, it just proves you have little more important to do in your life than going around and stirring shit up in some other country's political/theological system.
If cartoon drawings can instigate a conflict of ideals between citizens of a country and its ruling theocracy, than that just go so show how absolutely important freedom of speech is. The first step to crushing your citizens under an iron heel is restricting their freedom of expression. Freedom of expression is the first, and arguably the greatest, bastion of liberty.