One has been up for 99 days (I remember shutting it down to install a DVD-rom drive about that long ago) and the other has been up for 127 days.
My experiences with *BSD and Solaris are similar (posting for diversity awareness). At my old job, my Sun workstation was rebooted about twice a year for kernel updates. Any other reboots were due only to extended power outages. The only time I saw a kernel panic under Solaris was due to installing a wrong driver (our fault).
Thing is the high carb low calorie diets were based as much on myth and all-out misinformation as well.
This is why I said I believe all diets are bad. They paint an incomplete picture and just put people through undue stress. I agree that sugary sodas are bad. Those fake "10% juice" fruit drinks are worse, IMO, because of the misleading marketing to parents. The engineered sports drinks are better, though, as they really do make a difference during arduous physical activity (glucose plus sodium and postassium), and they don't have as many calories as soda.
If the obesity epidemic continues, I wonder if an image of the 64oz. bladder buster cups at convenience stores will replace the bald eagle as a symbol of America. Few things are more American than a supersized double quarter pounder meal with a half-gallon of soda. Take a 7000lb. SUV through the drive-through and the picture is complete.
I wonder what professors will feel like teaching real Computer Science in a building named after Bill Gates. The irony probably casts a fog in the classrooms.
Red Grape Juice. I lack propper sources, but apparently red grape juice is just as good with the free radicals as wine was found to be.
I thought this was a great idea until I realized that grape juice plus vodka is still more expensive than those box-o-wine deals for $11. I'd like to see some debate over the sulfites in wine. It would be interesting to see if grape juice plus vodka is actually better than wine, due to the lack of preservatives.
When it was widely publicized that Oats helped lower cholesterol...
And when you read the fine print, it is by only 3%. I.e, this is 6 points for a person with a cholesterol of 200. So oatmeal gets someone down to 194. Big whoop-de-doo. Just lay off the chili cheese fries and quintuple-scoop ice cream, folks.
The low-carb diets fall short where they do not discriminate among different forms of carbohydrate. Of all the fad diets, the ones based on the glycemic index actually make the most sense, as it is obvious that a cup of chick peas will be easier on the pancreas than a cup of boiled potatoes. The pure black-and-white low-carb diets are pretty much based on poor logic and/or all-out misinformation (they really do read like pseudo-science, few citations, many conclusions). For example, ketosis just isn't a normal healthy state, and it puts an unnecessary burden on the kidneys. Also, low-carb diets are not repeatable for some reason (as evidenced by a family member who absolutely lost no weight the second time around on Atkins even when being very strict--the first time was very effective, however). My impression is that the low-carb fad started when Atkins made a simple observation about ketosis and ran away with it making millions of dollars in book sales. No one can say the real long term damage done to people by dieting, especially the diets with two-week phases of bodily abuse.
I actually believe that all diets are bad, and that people should seek out eating what pretty much all fad diets boil down to in their "maintenance" phases: whole foods, prepared fresh, , not all fats are bad (many are good), not all carbohydrates are bad (many are good), moderation always, et cetera ad naseum.
They'll buy anything as long as it's easy and has a snazzy PR campaign.
Proven by the persistence of infomercials during the early morning hours on TV. You'd think they would give up after the 500th attempt to push a new excersize machine, but they keep going and going.
I think it is more likely that these authors, like many advocates for various causes, have gained just enough knowledge to think they know what's right for everyone else while causing harm due to the remaining things they don't know. There are so many contradictions among fad diets with real health consequences, that I'm suprised the FDA/FTC/etc. haven't stepped in and declared them all as false advertising and bad advice based on faulty evidence. The profit motive isn't very encouraging, either.
Beer still has to battle against the more extreme low-carb advocates out there. One book, the popular South Beach Diet, goes to such an effort to discredit beer that it fallaciously compares consuming beer to consuming 100% pure maltose, simply because beer contains some maltose. The claims in the book made me think the author has some sort of agenda against beer or alcohol that go far beyond low-carb eating.
Like it or not, that work ethic has made us the most powerful economy in the history of the world.
Devil's advocate: was it the work ethic or the fact that the USA has huge amounts of natural resources, such as enough farmland to feed the world, multiple large mountain ranges to mine, ample ocean coastlines with protected harbors, large forests, and a temperate climate? Also, a lot of credit needs to go to our government, whose charter is not to micromanage the economy. People work very hard in other countries, too, but somehow the USA had the right combination of resources and government to flourish.
They don't, as pretty much every Sun graphics board since the Ultra 1 workstation was 24-bit (Creator boards and onwards). Older SPARCstations had 24-bit boards, too, but they were very expensive and not common.
What ancient mummified version of SunOS did you work with? Just recently, I had a program go wacko and suck up every bit of virtual memory it could. My Sun workstation slowed down, of course, but I eventually got to an xterm to kill the offending process. No crash.
The book, Solaris Internals, details exactly what Solaris does when resources become scarce. It is designed to degrade gracefully by speeding up page scanning, for example, at certain thresholds of memory usage.
I think the crashing you saw was due to a specific program that you depended on (not Solaris) that was very poorly written.
Not for a "salaried" position in the USA. Typically, higher-responsibility jobs like management are salaried, as are many professional positions, like software development. If someone is lucky, they work for a company bound to 40 hours a week by contract, but others are not so lucky.
Ask the American people if anyone knows why we're in the war to begin with?
If I understand correctly, the Vietnam War was essentially the last hurrah of World War II, where south-east Asia was left in a power vacuum between Japan and China and was terribly mismanaged by French and British occupiers. The USA inherited the resulting mess.
Debian is absolutely horrible IMO about wanting to do everything the "Debian way".
Actually, I'd be more concerned about the "Red Hat way." Debian is a much more sane and well-thought-out system than Red Hat, IMO, and it's merely a case of Red Hat being more popular that OEMs choose it for things like Oracle. Red Hat is the "Windows" of the Linux world...which is why I tend towards distros like Debian and Slackware (and OpenBSD for when it matters).
I used to feel the same way until Bush. If you recall he ran as a "uniter, not a divider" and talked up "bipartisanship" when he first came into office.
He also runs as a Republican, when he is not. Ironic that Kerry speaks about free trade for pharmaceuticals and Bush does not and that Bush wants to increase government intervention with a marriage amendment and Kerry does not. It baffles the mind.
The sooner we get an education system which does not teach religion or political or patriotic based material the better.
While teaching religion is not good for a public school, I all for teaching theology. Understanding the historical and social contexts of religions and asking questions about where religious texts come from and what their meaning might be is very effective in broadening students' minds.
Politics, as in studying the historical foundation of the US Constitution, for example, is totally necessary for US citizens. The Declaration of Independence didn't form out of thin air, and too many people today take it for granted.
Patriotism, as a love for one's nation, is a very vague thing in the USA. Whether fighting in defense of the First Amendment or fighting in defense of an invasion, patriotism takes many forms, and it isn't really something that can be taught. Instead, it is something that comes naturally for people who have made a personal investment in their home and country and choose to support and defend it at all costs. I'm almost of the opinion that only adults can really be patriotic, especially once they have had children and want to protect their futures.
Left means you talk like a Democrat. Right means you talk like a Republican. What you actually do is completely irrelevant and just confuses the issue, so don't worry about that.
At a minimum, there was a discussion on The News Hour between a real journalist and one of the swift boat guys, and the journalist ripped the other guy to shreds. For the most part, the journalist compared the swift boat book to grocery store tabloids in its quality of argument and integrity of data, and he also exposed that the swift boat guy has had an agenda against Kerry for over 20 years. The politics of this presidential campaing is filthy dirty going both ways, but it is pretty clear the swift boat ads are among the dirtiest of the bunch.
Actually, I think they allow people growing up Amish to experience technology at 18 years old.
Amish communities are intertwined with non-Amish communities, they work together, and they share community resources, like nice paved roads courtesy of the DOT. Many Amish people shop at modern grocery stores, work at modern restaurants, etc. In general, they completely co-exist with their more modern neighbors. Just drive through some of the small towns in Ohio north and east of Columbus, and you'll see this everywhere.
The Amish do keep to their traditions as much as they can, such as in their church services, using oxen to pull farming equipment, horses and buggies, etc., but they are faced with the challenges of whether to adopt more technology every single day of their lives.
Given that OpenAL is backed by sound card manufacturers, I wonder if they would ever concede to using GPUs to accelerate 3-D sound. I hope that the apparent conflict of interest doesn't hinder progress, if GPUs can really make a difference.
OpenAL is the one cross-platform audio API I've tried that actually _works_, while the other cross-platform options seem to either be stagnant, incomplete, just plain garbage, or so lacking in documentation that no mere mortal could figure them out. Here's to hoping that OpenAL and cross-platform audio on UNIX keeps getting better and better, because we really do need it.
Now if they can get a water solution such as desalination or filtering then we would in great shape.
Build a single ship with one portable nuclear reactor plus a desalination plant running off the reactor, and fresh water could be supplied anywhere in the world it is needed.
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One has been up for 99 days (I remember shutting it down to install a DVD-rom drive about that long ago) and the other has been up for 127 days.
My experiences with *BSD and Solaris are similar (posting for diversity awareness). At my old job, my Sun workstation was rebooted about twice a year for kernel updates. Any other reboots were due only to extended power outages. The only time I saw a kernel panic under Solaris was due to installing a wrong driver (our fault).
Thing is the high carb low calorie diets were based as much on myth and all-out misinformation as well.
This is why I said I believe all diets are bad. They paint an incomplete picture and just put people through undue stress. I agree that sugary sodas are bad. Those fake "10% juice" fruit drinks are worse, IMO, because of the misleading marketing to parents. The engineered sports drinks are better, though, as they really do make a difference during arduous physical activity (glucose plus sodium and postassium), and they don't have as many calories as soda.
If the obesity epidemic continues, I wonder if an image of the 64oz. bladder buster cups at convenience stores will replace the bald eagle as a symbol of America. Few things are more American than a supersized double quarter pounder meal with a half-gallon of soda. Take a 7000lb. SUV through the drive-through and the picture is complete.
I wonder what professors will feel like teaching real Computer Science in a building named after Bill Gates. The irony probably casts a fog in the classrooms.
Red Grape Juice. I lack propper sources, but apparently red grape juice is just as good with the free radicals as wine was found to be.
I thought this was a great idea until I realized that grape juice plus vodka is still more expensive than those box-o-wine deals for $11. I'd like to see some debate over the sulfites in wine. It would be interesting to see if grape juice plus vodka is actually better than wine, due to the lack of preservatives.
When it was widely publicized that Oats helped lower cholesterol...
And when you read the fine print, it is by only 3%. I.e, this is 6 points for a person with a cholesterol of 200. So oatmeal gets someone down to 194. Big whoop-de-doo. Just lay off the chili cheese fries and quintuple-scoop ice cream, folks.
The low-carb diets fall short where they do not discriminate among different forms of carbohydrate. Of all the fad diets, the ones based on the glycemic index actually make the most sense, as it is obvious that a cup of chick peas will be easier on the pancreas than a cup of boiled potatoes. The pure black-and-white low-carb diets are pretty much based on poor logic and/or all-out misinformation (they really do read like pseudo-science, few citations, many conclusions). For example, ketosis just isn't a normal healthy state, and it puts an unnecessary burden on the kidneys. Also, low-carb diets are not repeatable for some reason (as evidenced by a family member who absolutely lost no weight the second time around on Atkins even when being very strict--the first time was very effective, however). My impression is that the low-carb fad started when Atkins made a simple observation about ketosis and ran away with it making millions of dollars in book sales. No one can say the real long term damage done to people by dieting, especially the diets with two-week phases of bodily abuse.
I actually believe that all diets are bad, and that people should seek out eating what pretty much all fad diets boil down to in their "maintenance" phases: whole foods, prepared fresh, , not all fats are bad (many are good), not all carbohydrates are bad (many are good), moderation always, et cetera ad naseum.
They'll buy anything as long as it's easy and has a snazzy PR campaign.
Proven by the persistence of infomercials during the early morning hours on TV. You'd think they would give up after the 500th attempt to push a new excersize machine, but they keep going and going.
I think it is more likely that these authors, like many advocates for various causes, have gained just enough knowledge to think they know what's right for everyone else while causing harm due to the remaining things they don't know. There are so many contradictions among fad diets with real health consequences, that I'm suprised the FDA/FTC/etc. haven't stepped in and declared them all as false advertising and bad advice based on faulty evidence. The profit motive isn't very encouraging, either.
Beer still has to battle against the more extreme low-carb advocates out there. One book, the popular South Beach Diet, goes to such an effort to discredit beer that it fallaciously compares consuming beer to consuming 100% pure maltose, simply because beer contains some maltose. The claims in the book made me think the author has some sort of agenda against beer or alcohol that go far beyond low-carb eating.
Like it or not, that work ethic has made us the most powerful economy in the history of the world.
Devil's advocate: was it the work ethic or the fact that the USA has huge amounts of natural resources, such as enough farmland to feed the world, multiple large mountain ranges to mine, ample ocean coastlines with protected harbors, large forests, and a temperate climate? Also, a lot of credit needs to go to our government, whose charter is not to micromanage the economy. People work very hard in other countries, too, but somehow the USA had the right combination of resources and government to flourish.
How exactly do they run out of colors?
They don't, as pretty much every Sun graphics board since the Ultra 1 workstation was 24-bit (Creator boards and onwards). Older SPARCstations had 24-bit boards, too, but they were very expensive and not common.
They run out of swap space, and they crash.
What ancient mummified version of SunOS did you work with? Just recently, I had a program go wacko and suck up every bit of virtual memory it could. My Sun workstation slowed down, of course, but I eventually got to an xterm to kill the offending process. No crash.
The book, Solaris Internals, details exactly what Solaris does when resources become scarce. It is designed to degrade gracefully by speeding up page scanning, for example, at certain thresholds of memory usage.
I think the crashing you saw was due to a specific program that you depended on (not Solaris) that was very poorly written.
If you work overtime, you get paid overtime.
Not for a "salaried" position in the USA. Typically, higher-responsibility jobs like management are salaried, as are many professional positions, like software development. If someone is lucky, they work for a company bound to 40 hours a week by contract, but others are not so lucky.
Ask the American people if anyone knows why we're in the war to begin with?
If I understand correctly, the Vietnam War was essentially the last hurrah of World War II, where south-east Asia was left in a power vacuum between Japan and China and was terribly mismanaged by French and British occupiers. The USA inherited the resulting mess.
Debian is absolutely horrible IMO about wanting to do everything the "Debian way".
Actually, I'd be more concerned about the "Red Hat way." Debian is a much more sane and well-thought-out system than Red Hat, IMO, and it's merely a case of Red Hat being more popular that OEMs choose it for things like Oracle. Red Hat is the "Windows" of the Linux world...which is why I tend towards distros like Debian and Slackware (and OpenBSD for when it matters).
I suppose they might if the electrical generator and the iMac was placed outside the house next to the phone booth.
I used to feel the same way until Bush. If you recall he ran as a "uniter, not a divider" and talked up "bipartisanship" when he first came into office.
He also runs as a Republican, when he is not. Ironic that Kerry speaks about free trade for pharmaceuticals and Bush does not and that Bush wants to increase government intervention with a marriage amendment and Kerry does not. It baffles the mind.
The sooner we get an education system which does not teach religion or political or patriotic based material the better.
While teaching religion is not good for a public school, I all for teaching theology. Understanding the historical and social contexts of religions and asking questions about where religious texts come from and what their meaning might be is very effective in broadening students' minds.
Politics, as in studying the historical foundation of the US Constitution, for example, is totally necessary for US citizens. The Declaration of Independence didn't form out of thin air, and too many people today take it for granted.
Patriotism, as a love for one's nation, is a very vague thing in the USA. Whether fighting in defense of the First Amendment or fighting in defense of an invasion, patriotism takes many forms, and it isn't really something that can be taught. Instead, it is something that comes naturally for people who have made a personal investment in their home and country and choose to support and defend it at all costs. I'm almost of the opinion that only adults can really be patriotic, especially once they have had children and want to protect their futures.
What do these mean?
Left means you talk like a Democrat. Right means you talk like a Republican. What you actually do is completely irrelevant and just confuses the issue, so don't worry about that.
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1929 was overrated, anyway.
Oh really? like what?
At a minimum, there was a discussion on The News Hour between a real journalist and one of the swift boat guys, and the journalist ripped the other guy to shreds. For the most part, the journalist compared the swift boat book to grocery store tabloids in its quality of argument and integrity of data, and he also exposed that the swift boat guy has had an agenda against Kerry for over 20 years. The politics of this presidential campaing is filthy dirty going both ways, but it is pretty clear the swift boat ads are among the dirtiest of the bunch.
Actually, I think they allow people growing up Amish to experience technology at 18 years old.
Amish communities are intertwined with non-Amish communities, they work together, and they share community resources, like nice paved roads courtesy of the DOT. Many Amish people shop at modern grocery stores, work at modern restaurants, etc. In general, they completely co-exist with their more modern neighbors. Just drive through some of the small towns in Ohio north and east of Columbus, and you'll see this everywhere.
The Amish do keep to their traditions as much as they can, such as in their church services, using oxen to pull farming equipment, horses and buggies, etc., but they are faced with the challenges of whether to adopt more technology every single day of their lives.
Security by obesity.
Given that OpenAL is backed by sound card manufacturers, I wonder if they would ever concede to using GPUs to accelerate 3-D sound. I hope that the apparent conflict of interest doesn't hinder progress, if GPUs can really make a difference.
OpenAL is the one cross-platform audio API I've tried that actually _works_, while the other cross-platform options seem to either be stagnant, incomplete, just plain garbage, or so lacking in documentation that no mere mortal could figure them out. Here's to hoping that OpenAL and cross-platform audio on UNIX keeps getting better and better, because we really do need it.
Now if they can get a water solution such as desalination or filtering then we would in great shape.
Build a single ship with one portable nuclear reactor plus a desalination plant running off the reactor, and fresh water could be supplied anywhere in the world it is needed.