RE: injury, I agree... for running. People new to running should start with slowly building up daily mileage and maintain a low-to-moderate pace. HIIT running is a high injury risk. But for cycling, go for it. On an indoor trainer, HIIT cycling is very safe and beneficial. Recovery is still important, so you'll see most HIIT programs go 3 days per week with light activity on the alternating days.
The problem with these HIIT recommendations is that they still come across as tricks to minimize exercise... as if exercise is something to avoid. People need to get out of that mentality. Do something active every day. Go a little harder every other day. You'll improve. Just be consistent and make it a priority in your life.
Despite the/. fun, I'm a 3x Ironman and lifelong athlete.
Oh I forgot to toss in another tidbit. To all those who are saying that sales tax hits the poor much harder than the rich:
- Washington state doesn't charge sales tax on grocery food items, which are a good percentage of spending for someone at the poverty line. - Washington state citizens are allowed to use their expenditures on sales tax for the year, or a standard value, as a deduction on their federal income tax.
Both of those things reduce the sales tax pain quite a bit.
There's an even more pressing concern. The income tax proponents state it as only taxing the rich (i.e. 200k+ income per year). Just like the AMT in federal law, though, it is not indexed for inflation. So even if the state legislature left it unmodified by some miracle, people would start falling into the tax trap.
Anyone who believes we're not in for some massive inflation is in a fantasy world. The Fed is printing money left and right.
Magic the Gathering Online went live in 2002. You buy "tickets" which you can use to trade, enter tournaments, etc. And you can win stuff playing those tournaments. I'd say that falls under the gambling with virtual currency category.
Addition of 10% ethanol, which is common, does not have a significant impact on gas mileage and it certainly does not "destroy" it. A quick look at Wikipedia on energy density shows that a 90-10 gasoline-ethanol mix produces about 93% of the energy of pure gasoline. Now if you're talking about "flex-fuel" E85, then yeah, you're going to see a noticeable mileage drop. But that is not a common fuel.
Also ethanol acts as an oxygenate, to make the gas burn more completely and reduce carbon monoxide emissions. Pricewise - prior to oxygenating with ethanol, we were using MTBE anyhow, which has health risks and is a ground water contaminant.
So your post is mostly over-hyped nonsense. Now in a general sense, should corn be used to produce ethanol? No, and that's a result of the lobby that you mentioned. But they've affected much more than ethanol usage (see: high-fructose corn syrup and how they essentially killed sugarcane production in Hawaii).
Ethanol production from sugarcane, and to a lesser extent, beets, is much more energy efficient than corn.
Agreed. Also if they're going to arbitrarily change something like this, after many many releases with it on the other side, they should present a dialog to let the user configure it during installation / upgrade.
Actually it does get dissipated periodically. We just haven't had enough damage for it to be a major news event yet. For example, there was the moderate sized Nisqually earthquake in 2001.
Sure another earthquake is likely on the way but who's to say how large it will be?
Also in reading the details of that patent, one could argue that the CSS standard also applies (separating content from layout). RFC 2318, describing CSS, was written early enough to constitute prior art.
However, IANAL and I have to assume that Microsoft's legal team probably investigated this possibility and ruled it out for some reason.
1) DVR from cable company. Problems: I've gotten anecdotal information that these DVR's have poorly designed UI's and tend to be somewhat flaky (worse than Windows). Also, they are a closed system, I can't move the recording to a mobile device for portable viewing.
At least in my experience with Comcast DVRs, yes they are flaky, the interface is poor, the fast forwarding sucks, and it has had problems with just magically losing all recordings twice in the two years I used it.
2) PC + HD ATSC / Clear-QAM tuner card - this gives me the ability to record over the air broadcasts and cable channels that support Clear-QAM (which is a fairly small subset of cable channels).
Works well, although I'd recommend something like the HDHomerun (dual clear-QAM tuner box that plugs into your home network). At least where I am, I get pretty much everything on basic cable in 480p, and then the OTA channels plus a few others in either 720p or 1080i.
Beware that Comcast likes to leave their QAM frequencies undocumented and likes to map them to different channels periodically. So if you're using MythTV you'll want some familiarity with the database, particularly the channels and dtv_multiplex tables. That said, with the switchover to digital, I no longer have the ability to record analog cable and you may find the same problem in upcoming months. In particular, in my area, Comcast switched QAM frequencies last month (again) and is now using some of the area formerly allocated to analog.
3) PC + HD Tuner Card + Cable Card - does anyone make one of these? Anyone have any experience with this?
I'm not joking on this one. I have a quad Athlon 3.0ghz performing MythTV duties. It draws a lot of power when it needs to - for example, commercial flagging HD recordings. But I have it set up to conserve power when it's idle, which is most of the time. Two things you'll want to consider:
1) The easiest thing is to set up powernowd (simplest daemon IMO - but there are a couple alternatives). It drops the speed of your CPUs when they are idle - in my case from 3.0ghz down to 800Mhz. This reduces power usage, keeps your machine cooler and has zero impact on service availability.
2) Depending on what you use the machine for, you may want to set it up sleep most of the time. Then use wake on LAN, or ACPI / BIOS wakeup functionality so that it powers up on demand. The BIOS method is useful for things like MythTV that perform a lot of scheduled tasks.
But this also has the problem that trademark owners usually dont like showing their products in bad light and going even so far that the game is not allowed to break their cars and so on.
This is right on the money. Forza Motorsport 3 had to rely on a lot of Microsoft legal wrangling to get the car companies to even allow *limited* damage modelling in the game. The major auto manufacturers are VERY picky about how you can depict their vehicles. This applies to movies as well as racing games. Look at the blatant Audi product placement in Iron Man. I'm not talking about the R8 either. I'm talking about the family driving in their Audi towards the end of the movie in the last major fight scene. Thanks to our hero, and the excellent quality and performance of the car (gag) they get away unscathed even in the middle of the destruction and mayhem that's going on.
The taxpayer would get stuck with all of the unpaid hospital bills (right now the hospitals eat them or try to make up the cost on those who have credit and can pay).
To repeat the question: how is that different than what we have today? Let's go over how the taxpayer gets screwed by uninsured people, or worse yet, illegals - right now:
Right now uninsured people use the emergency room for care because they cannot be turned away. And yeah doctors or hospitals may eat the cost like you mentioned. It also makes things even worse than uninsured clinic visits because it forces ER docs triage extra people, making it more difficult to quickly get to the serious cases.
But let me then continue to a case in my old neighborhood where it got so bad that they finally just closed the ER(!). A large majority of the cases were uninsured gunshot victims due to gang activity in the area. The hospital, doctors, etc got fed up and shut down the ER. What happened then? Yeah you guessed it - those gunshot victims were *airlifted* to a hospital an hour away. How's that for use of taxpayer money?
Bottom line is that the docs and hospitals "eat" the cost but it eventually gets passed along to you and me in the form of higher insurance premiums and higher taxes. And the result is more expensive than the initial case would have been in the first place.
All in all, I have little respect for anyone who complains about health care overhaul and offers the status quo as reasonable or preferable. Leaving a large segment of the population out of the system in order to make it cost effective for the remainder is neither acceptable nor effective. It simply causes more problems like what I mentioned above.
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RE: injury, I agree... for running. People new to running should start with slowly building up daily mileage and maintain a low-to-moderate pace. HIIT running is a high injury risk. But for cycling, go for it. On an indoor trainer, HIIT cycling is very safe and beneficial. Recovery is still important, so you'll see most HIIT programs go 3 days per week with light activity on the alternating days.
The problem with these HIIT recommendations is that they still come across as tricks to minimize exercise... as if exercise is something to avoid. People need to get out of that mentality. Do something active every day. Go a little harder every other day. You'll improve. Just be consistent and make it a priority in your life.
Despite the /. fun, I'm a 3x Ironman and lifelong athlete.
Oh I forgot to toss in another tidbit. To all those who are saying that sales tax hits the poor much harder than the rich:
- Washington state doesn't charge sales tax on grocery food items, which are a good percentage of spending for someone at the poverty line.
- Washington state citizens are allowed to use their expenditures on sales tax for the year, or a standard value, as a deduction on their federal income tax.
Both of those things reduce the sales tax pain quite a bit.
There's an even more pressing concern. The income tax proponents state it as only taxing the rich (i.e. 200k+ income per year). Just like the AMT in federal law, though, it is not indexed for inflation. So even if the state legislature left it unmodified by some miracle, people would start falling into the tax trap.
Anyone who believes we're not in for some massive inflation is in a fantasy world. The Fed is printing money left and right.
Magic the Gathering Online went live in 2002. You buy "tickets" which you can use to trade, enter tournaments, etc. And you can win stuff playing those tournaments. I'd say that falls under the gambling with virtual currency category.
Many filesystems support uid= and gid= options in their mount command (including HFS). Just add that to a mount script or set it up in fstab.
Addition of 10% ethanol, which is common, does not have a significant impact on gas mileage and it certainly does not "destroy" it. A quick look at Wikipedia on energy density shows that a 90-10 gasoline-ethanol mix produces about 93% of the energy of pure gasoline. Now if you're talking about "flex-fuel" E85, then yeah, you're going to see a noticeable mileage drop. But that is not a common fuel.
Also ethanol acts as an oxygenate, to make the gas burn more completely and reduce carbon monoxide emissions. Pricewise - prior to oxygenating with ethanol, we were using MTBE anyhow, which has health risks and is a ground water contaminant.
So your post is mostly over-hyped nonsense. Now in a general sense, should corn be used to produce ethanol? No, and that's a result of the lobby that you mentioned. But they've affected much more than ethanol usage (see: high-fructose corn syrup and how they essentially killed sugarcane production in Hawaii).
Ethanol production from sugarcane, and to a lesser extent, beets, is much more energy efficient than corn.
Agreed. Also if they're going to arbitrarily change something like this, after many many releases with it on the other side, they should present a dialog to let the user configure it during installation / upgrade.
er sorry, make that :minimize,maximize,close
And then log out/in or restart X or whatever.
window control buttons on the right pls
gconf-editor
apps->metacity->general
button_layout=:maximize,minimize,close
Actually it does get dissipated periodically. We just haven't had enough damage for it to be a major news event yet. For example, there was the moderate sized Nisqually earthquake in 2001.
Sure another earthquake is likely on the way but who's to say how large it will be?
One of the Rockstar coders was a member of Myth.
(you think I joke, but crack / warez teams are often loaded with industry insiders...)
Except that it was faked, just like the moon landings.
Irregardless is nonsense caused by confusion between the words irrespective and regardless.
At least people generally follow the intended meaning. Compare that to flammable, which came into use because people misunderstand "inflammable".
Also in reading the details of that patent, one could argue that the CSS standard also applies (separating content from layout). RFC 2318, describing CSS, was written early enough to constitute prior art.
However, IANAL and I have to assume that Microsoft's legal team probably investigated this possibility and ruled it out for some reason.
You can get an HDFury2 (converts HDMI to component) and then you're back in business, even if the component outputs on your cable box go away.
1) DVR from cable company. Problems: I've gotten anecdotal information that these DVR's have poorly designed UI's and tend to be somewhat flaky (worse than Windows). Also, they are a closed system, I can't move the recording to a mobile device for portable viewing.
At least in my experience with Comcast DVRs, yes they are flaky, the interface is poor, the fast forwarding sucks, and it has had problems with just magically losing all recordings twice in the two years I used it.
2) PC + HD ATSC / Clear-QAM tuner card - this gives me the ability to record over the air broadcasts and cable channels that support Clear-QAM (which is a fairly small subset of cable channels).
Works well, although I'd recommend something like the HDHomerun (dual clear-QAM tuner box that plugs into your home network). At least where I am, I get pretty much everything on basic cable in 480p, and then the OTA channels plus a few others in either 720p or 1080i.
Beware that Comcast likes to leave their QAM frequencies undocumented and likes to map them to different channels periodically. So if you're using MythTV you'll want some familiarity with the database, particularly the channels and dtv_multiplex tables. That said, with the switchover to digital, I no longer have the ability to record analog cable and you may find the same problem in upcoming months. In particular, in my area, Comcast switched QAM frequencies last month (again) and is now using some of the area formerly allocated to analog.
3) PC + HD Tuner Card + Cable Card - does anyone make one of these? Anyone have any experience with this?
Tivo is your easiest solution. Windows Media Center will support a CableCard but with some tweaking required (good writeup here: http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/12/how-to-install-a-cablecard-tuner-in-your-diy-media-center/)
I don't know of a way to get MythTV working with a cable card and it seems rather unlikely because it is a hardware / vendor lock-in.
Either that or it was Taco Bell.
I'm not joking on this one. I have a quad Athlon 3.0ghz performing MythTV duties. It draws a lot of power when it needs to - for example, commercial flagging HD recordings. But I have it set up to conserve power when it's idle, which is most of the time. Two things you'll want to consider:
1) The easiest thing is to set up powernowd (simplest daemon IMO - but there are a couple alternatives). It drops the speed of your CPUs when they are idle - in my case from 3.0ghz down to 800Mhz. This reduces power usage, keeps your machine cooler and has zero impact on service availability.
2) Depending on what you use the machine for, you may want to set it up sleep most of the time. Then use wake on LAN, or ACPI / BIOS wakeup functionality so that it powers up on demand. The BIOS method is useful for things like MythTV that perform a lot of scheduled tasks.
Or make your site subscription-based. Of course you might want to talk with the guys over at Slate first to see how well that works out...
But this also has the problem that trademark owners usually dont like showing their products in bad light and going even so far that the game is not allowed to break their cars and so on.
This is right on the money. Forza Motorsport 3 had to rely on a lot of Microsoft legal wrangling to get the car companies to even allow *limited* damage modelling in the game. The major auto manufacturers are VERY picky about how you can depict their vehicles. This applies to movies as well as racing games. Look at the blatant Audi product placement in Iron Man. I'm not talking about the R8 either. I'm talking about the family driving in their Audi towards the end of the movie in the last major fight scene. Thanks to our hero, and the excellent quality and performance of the car (gag) they get away unscathed even in the middle of the destruction and mayhem that's going on.
The taxpayer would get stuck with all of the unpaid hospital bills (right now the hospitals eat them or try to make up the cost on those who have credit and can pay).
To repeat the question: how is that different than what we have today? Let's go over how the taxpayer gets screwed by uninsured people, or worse yet, illegals - right now:
Right now uninsured people use the emergency room for care because they cannot be turned away. And yeah doctors or hospitals may eat the cost like you mentioned. It also makes things even worse than uninsured clinic visits because it forces ER docs triage extra people, making it more difficult to quickly get to the serious cases.
But let me then continue to a case in my old neighborhood where it got so bad that they finally just closed the ER(!). A large majority of the cases were uninsured gunshot victims due to gang activity in the area. The hospital, doctors, etc got fed up and shut down the ER. What happened then? Yeah you guessed it - those gunshot victims were *airlifted* to a hospital an hour away. How's that for use of taxpayer money?
Bottom line is that the docs and hospitals "eat" the cost but it eventually gets passed along to you and me in the form of higher insurance premiums and higher taxes. And the result is more expensive than the initial case would have been in the first place.
All in all, I have little respect for anyone who complains about health care overhaul and offers the status quo as reasonable or preferable. Leaving a large segment of the population out of the system in order to make it cost effective for the remainder is neither acceptable nor effective. It simply causes more problems like what I mentioned above.
/rant off
Good thing I was successful in my Probability and Statistics class. I scored 31.2% on the final so I totally understood that.
If you took that thing and updated it to meet current U.S. safety and emissions requirements, you'd get nowhere near the same gas mileage.
Valve's Zombie shooter has been refused classification, which means it can't be made commercially available in the country.
Valve should thumb their nose at Australia's rating board and make the game freely available there.
Also for reference, the .edu namespace is neither older nor newer than the other generic TLDs. They were defined in October 1984 in RFC 920.