Maybe I'm just smarter than you, but I didn't really notice. So, do stupid people win spelling bees, or are they just so useless all they can do is hang around/. all day looking for mistakes to pickup because they can't think of anything interesting to say
Fighting to defend the Earth is different from murdering innocent bystanders..
We call that Bush's law, what happens if I think the 'Innocent people' and the 'politicians, cops, corps etc...' are the cause of the problems, surly killing them and putting them back into the food chain is going to be the best plan of action since they don't seem to be managing to look after the earth whilst they are alive.
However I'm sure there's a better way to take back the world, so I'll just bent my frustration out on one of these games.
I doubt very much that anyone 'invented' the iPod, it far too obvious for it to be an 'invention', I'm fairly sure I was trying to purchase a incar cd player that also played mo3's off cd shortly after I found out what mp3's were, and if I had have owned a walkman as the time I would have been looking for a walkman that plays mp3's, and is that not the iPod.
Their not weak, they like it. You are weak because you fit into the rat race, if you were strong you would be smoking crack on street corners trying to change the fucking world.
Well, we didn't use AJAX, it wasn't 'invented', but, we used a popup window for cross site scripting to collect data for Addresses, insurance details and all kinds of other personal information.
We were developing web 'applications' using XSL and Javascript (no server side interface scripting), for applications like the police looking up the insurance details of a driver at the side of the road, verifying their identity and checking that the car was really taxed and insured. We also developed web applications for looking up credit histories, car histories and that kind of thing, each lookup was billed for so the user had the option of requesting address information, previous address information, and demographics for the area.
By that token, air is addictive. So is water. So is all food, for that matter, including carbohydrates. To prove it, I can guarantee that you are psychologically addicted to these things - if I take them away you will undergo a behaviour change.
Ok, I drink 2-2.5 litres of water a day, I can cut this down to say 1 Litre with no side effects. Try doing that with someone hooked on sugar.
Also, I think if you took my air compleatly away I would die is a few minutes. reducing oxygen levels fairly quickly will result in altitude syckness, but a gradual reduction and you body will start to produce enough red blood cells to compensate. I don't start running round like a mad man after holding my breath for a few minutes.
I also take Quetiapine (I ran out a couple of days ago and boots fucked up my repeat, hence the slight manicness), now when I start taking it I have major psychological changes, for a start I stop thinking that everyones in some kind of plot against me, and the people who used to watch me, but then started carring guns just go back to watching me again. Now that That's like extream addiction (too much dopamine amoungst other things) but like crack addiction (another dopamine related problem) there's no 'real' physical side effects (there are psycotic physical side effects but their not real)...
Anyhow, I'm kinda glad because I couldn't tell reality from unreality I relled soley on what I could look up and factual information to keep myself going. Now a 'healthy' paranoia about what they put in the food, and my own family health problems lead me to do several months intensive reashearch into diet, fat metobilism etc... I may overstate things a 'little' but looking at the number of people getting fatter by the day I think more people need to tell them what's going on.
You could apply that to cannabis, sex, music... , twat, fucking moronic twat, you do eat at Tesco don't you, Jesus that shit food has a lot to answer for.
Ok, sex releases amongst other things dopamine, know what that is? that's right it's that stuff that gets released when you smoke a crack pipe, so yeh I'd say sex may be a tad addictive. (BTW You don't get many physical withdraw symptoms when you come off of crack, your not trying to say it isn't addictive are you?)
Shit loads of people will tell you that their psychologically hooked on cannabis, so much so that stopping causes depression which is a real physical as well as mental illness.
As for music, well that helps with alpha wave and makes you feel 'good' and if something makes you feel good it's an adictive nerochemical that's doing that too. (not God).
Yeah, they're good for you too.
Ok, long chain carbs and water soluable fiber are pretty good for you, they reduce the risk of bowel cancer for a start.
short chain carbs (sugars, white bread, starch, potatoes) are good for you in the same way that crack is good for you, a little crack and you performance will improve, too much and you fucked. Basically you might as well deprive yourself of insulin and stick a block of lard under you skin instead of eating sugars, because that's exactly what happens when you eat them.
Re:No tracking necessary
Re:No tracking necessary (Score:1)
by Threni (635302) Alter Relationship on Saturday August 06, @01:07PM (#13258561)
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>One general version of addiction we use in medicine is:
>Anything that produces physiological or psychological change and habit seeking
>behaviour when the substance is withdrawn is addictive. This is not a verbatim
>quote, it's from memory, but you get the gist.
It's bollocks. It's not anything I recognize as addiction, anyway. You could apply that to cannabis, sex, music... I can't see that definition being any use, really whatsoever. Certainly by that yardstick addiction isn't negative at all, something that's not true of, say, physically addictive things.
> There is a huge drive to sell carbohydrates to people - they don't spoil as
> quickly as other food types and they are easy to manufacture, store and
> transport. Look at the amount of floor space dedicated to carbohydrates in your
> local supermarket and compare it to other foods.
Yeah, they're good for you too.
> Poor eating habits (ie choice of foods) and lack of enough exercise are the
> explanation for the obesity epidemic in the West. Cardiologists have job
> security for many years to come:)
Sure, but it's because of sugary or fatty things, not because people are eating too much pasta, potatoes and bread! It's all the pizza, kebabs, burgers, chips, crisps, sweets, chocolate and beer people consume, matched by a lack of excercise.
In part, but pasta is just like sugar unless it's drum wheat pasta, white bread is a highly refined carbohydrate, you might as well just eat a few spoons full of sugar, stick to whole grain bread and you'll be ok. Potatoes, your kidding right? full of starch another short chain carb go for the boilers and not the mashers to keep the starch levels down otherwise eating potatoes is like eating from a bowel full of sugar. Oh, and try to avoid American long grain rice, stick to brown rice of basmati.
The craving for sweet food is probably another consequence of our low risk, high reward, instant gratification society. This is probably behavior more than anything else. Sweets come in shiny, brightly coloured packages, they don't need preparation, and they taste good. Plus you get the added satisfaction of knowing you are doing something you shouldn't, and "getting away with it" (although you might not be).
You appear to be trying to be 'scientific' but you don't know a lot do you? I hope you not an MD? maybe one that eats at Tesco?
The body tries to balance out the body chemistry any change usually results in a 'withdrawl' and a craving for that which is missing. Sugar has a special place to play in human body chemistry, we all need sugar in our blood to provide energy and help us concentrate, people with ADHD are found to have low blood sugar levels. When you take sugar you body descides that it's better to have too much than too little, because you body doesn't release insulin straight away you end up getting a sugar rush, this affects all parts of the body and can result in a seritonin rush, eating makes you feel good, so good that a compulsive eater will keep eating until they are sick. One method of controling compulsive eating is a fairly high dosage level of SSRI's and other anti-depresants that work by raising seritonin levels. blah blah blah blah blah....... I would have been far easier for me to cut and paste (no spelling mistakes) so as I said, go do some reading.
As for the brightly coloured packets, that's crap humans (and other mammals like Dogs who being colour blind don't give too shits about brightly coloured packets) like the taste of sweet food, it fucks with out little heads and make us go mad like a crack head. I believe it has been shown that children crave sweet food more than tart (and often alcaline) food, I certainly have a lot of imperial evidence to back this up. Now, before the days of brightly coloured packets when we were all in the swap (your not a creationist are you?) why would we 'crave' sweet food? Thats right because 'sweet' foods tend not to be poisionous where as tart foods often tend to be full of alcaloids and their commonly poisionous. It has been shown that women during pregency often crave highly refined foods because of a responce to toxins in the blood.
I don't have any quarms about sweet food, it's all just crap that's sold to us by the coperations nore do I give to shits about brightly coloured packaging, and yet I still get a sugar rush, and still sometime crave sweet foods (often when ill).
What was it you said you do?
BTW, I do thing that the 'office' job has equally as much to answer for as the shit that they feed us, not only because we sit on our ass all day but because you end up at the mercy of the sandwitch van, the pub meal and the sweet and crisp machine. I used to have the school 400 and 3000 meters records (and always came first), I used to be like a stick and eat well (plenty of vedge low salt and sugar) until I started working in an office.
I guess you didn't notice that I replied to my own post 'sorry insulin is produced by the pancreas but it affects the liver. insulin forces fat cells to take in glucose which is converted to triglycerides;'
Wrong guy, I said sugar rush. both protein and fat keep you 'filled up' for longer so if you cut out carbs you don't get a sugar rush and don't eat so much. Your just reading Atkins dogma because you don't believe that carbs have a greater chance of making you fat (obese) and not necessarily fat, do you also believe global warming is a lie, or that God exists, maybe you eat Tesco food? If something isn't true you can get a whole tonne of google links to scientific studdies that prove it's not true, not just one link.
Ok, Vitamin B3 comes in two forms, niacinamide and nicotinic acid, one of them is involved in cholesterol levels, go look them up. I don't see why you fail to believe that I have actually looked this shit up a long time before Atkins came along, and I'm not even spouting Atkins, I'm talking about the sugar rush, diabities and HDL/LDL cholesterol levels.
Go look up Omega oils (3,6,9) Linsceed/Flax oil, fatty fish, mioline, lorenzos oils.
Go look up ADHD and Blood Sugar levels.
Along with the shit (salt, sugar, refined carbs, more sugar, wheat gluten, and probably wood chippings, oh and a tiny bit of fat since fat is 'bad') that they put into Tesco food, this shit is addictive so it's not supprising that consumer studdies show that it's popular.
'There's nothing addictive about simple carbohydrates, in the sense that eating them over a long period of time causes physical dependence.'
How come all the fat people I know eat chips and chocolate? You've never tried to diet have you, even though you have ample fat to keep you alive for a good few months you'll start to feel like hell has frozen over and crave food, sound like addiction to me.
The general definition of addiction is... "An illness in which a person seeks and consumes a substance, such as alcohol, tobacco or a drug, despite the fact that it causes harm." It doesn't have to be physical it can be psychological, but i think if you look up the chemistry of dieting you'll find that it's both a physical and psychological addiction to sugar and short chain carbohydrates.
infact a quick google for "Eating sugar causes addiction" turns up about 750,000 pages that must be utter crap. given that sweet foods are generally not poisonous it makes sense for humans to be sugar addicts and children to crave sweet food. I suggest you get a better dietitian.
America's strike against Hiroshima would have been the only strike if those in charge of Japan's military had surrendered.
And that's supposed to be good in what way, idiot. Lets say instead Japan had carried on and destroyed the entire American fleet.... The atomic bomb may never have been dropped and their wouldn't be a war in Iraq and Bin-Laden would never have taken out the world trade centres.
I didn't say that fat doesn't make you fat, I said that carbs make you fatter due to the addictive nature of the sugar rush.
fat intake also benefits levels of HDL cholesterol and carbohydrates increase levels of LDL cholesterol and transitional lipids like VLDL, but you should know that. This isn't actkins hype, males in my family have a long history of dieing from heart attacks below the age of 60 so you might say I have a vested interst in fat metabolism. And no, I don't eat fat, I'm a white meat and fruit guy.
'It's fat that makes you fat (and is linked with diabetes), not carbs.'
Oh, really? you don't know too much about fat metabolism do you?
Just the basics, shot chain carbohydrates are absorbed into the blood stream faster than fat creating an effect called a 'sugar rush' followed by a craving for more food. ergo, sugar and short chain carbs are 'addictive' encouraging people to eat more and more making them fat. Once the 'sugar' has entered you blood stream you liver will start to produce insulin to turn any unburnt sugars into FAT, noting the two key words, insulin and fat.... you know when you liver is overworked producing insulin it kinda stops working properly after a while and any guesses what that's called, ummm.... well done diabetes, and any guesses what that fat does? that's right it makes you fat.
insulin dependant diabetics are often quite thin because their body doesn't have enough insulin to make the fat that makes you fat, that's why sugar in your urine is a sign of diabetes, because the sugar hasn't been turned into fat.
'I wouldn't take that Atkins diet too seriously - it's going right out of fashion.'
since when did fashion follow logic, like the fashion of people going to tesco to eat shit, oh that's right there not intelligent...
I suggest you do a bit of digging on fat metabolism lookup ketosis for a start, then try looking up how HDL and LDL cholesterols are formed.
I live in newbury, the place where shops are closing down at an astonishing rate. The local music shop blames downloads, but what they fail to realize is that the collage was rebuild, out of town a few years ago, and any one with any money is working whilst the shops are open leaving only the infirm and elderly left to buy goods.
What's worse is the local council is hard out on demolishing an area that is home to six local businesses and replacing it with a new shopping center, so that all those infirm and elderly people can shop in comfort.
Replace Tesco with Cheep shit, their policy is, find a product and squeeze the producer until they end up using wood chippings as packing, most of their customers are getting fatter and eating too many carbs so diabetes is on the cards.
It doesn't matter if they tone things down, none of their shoppers are intelligent enough to appreciate it in the fist place.
I predict that a lot of the slashdot crowd is against things like corporations, money, etc because they're still in college and don't have money or employment.
What about the higher than average OSS programmer readership. Surly a lot of them would like to think themselves left of Marx (Marx believed that the army should keep communism alive, I consider myself to be left of that)
"Modern video games require the player to learn highly complex control sets, multi button combo commands, mission prioritization, teamwork (sometimes), and all sorts of other things that are applicable to the real world. (ever need to learn how to use a new peice of software in a few days for a job? Video games make that easier because you're used to learning new complex systems)"
What game are you playing, sounds like they've finally sorted the AI out. Play one RTS, FPS etc... and you've played them all.
The Xbox runs DirectX, I expect the PPC move is to stop people making Intel XBox emulators on x86. Also, I believe Microsoft make windows emulation software for Mac, so they already have x86 emulation on PPC.
My guess is no one noticed how well the playstation done with it's backwards compatibility, or maybe they didn't want to include already broken DRM.
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Maybe I'm just smarter than you, but I didn't really notice. So, do stupid people win spelling bees, or are they just so useless all they can do is hang around /. all day looking for mistakes to pickup because they can't think of anything interesting to say
It doesn't have color matching, but then again it should be easy to add if drivers supported the GL_ARB_Imaging extension properly.
As a simple example of scaling r,g,b you can use something like..
float color_croma = { dr,0,0,0,
0,dg,0,0,
0,0,db,0,
0,0,0,1 };
glMatrixMode(GL_COLOR);
glLoadMatrixf(color_croma);
and with a 4^2 matrix it's also easy to adjust things like the hew and saturation and anything else you'd need for colour matching.
Fighting to defend the Earth is different from murdering innocent bystanders..
We call that Bush's law, what happens if I think the 'Innocent people' and the 'politicians, cops, corps etc...' are the cause of the problems, surly killing them and putting them back into the food chain is going to be the best plan of action since they don't seem to be managing to look after the earth whilst they are alive.
However I'm sure there's a better way to take back the world, so I'll just bent my frustration out on one of these games.
I doubt very much that anyone 'invented' the iPod, it far too obvious for it to be an 'invention', I'm fairly sure I was trying to purchase a incar cd player that also played mo3's off cd shortly after I found out what mp3's were, and if I had have owned a walkman as the time I would have been looking for a walkman that plays mp3's, and is that not the iPod.
Their not weak, they like it. You are weak because you fit into the rat race, if you were strong you would be smoking crack on street corners trying to change the fucking world.
Well, we didn't use AJAX, it wasn't 'invented', but, we used a popup window for cross site scripting to collect data for Addresses, insurance details and all kinds of other personal information.
We were developing web 'applications' using XSL and Javascript (no server side interface scripting), for applications like the police looking up the insurance details of a driver at the side of the road, verifying their identity and checking that the car was really taxed and insured. We also developed web applications for looking up credit histories, car histories and that kind of thing, each lookup was billed for so the user had the option of requesting address information, previous address information, and demographics for the area.
By that token, air is addictive. So is water. So is all food, for that matter, including carbohydrates. To prove it, I can guarantee that you are psychologically addicted to these things - if I take them away you will undergo a behaviour change.
Ok, I drink 2-2.5 litres of water a day, I can cut this down to say 1 Litre with no side effects. Try doing that with someone hooked on sugar.
Also, I think if you took my air compleatly away I would die is a few minutes. reducing oxygen levels fairly quickly will result in altitude syckness, but a gradual reduction and you body will start to produce enough red blood cells to compensate. I don't start running round like a mad man after holding my breath for a few minutes.
I also take Quetiapine (I ran out a couple of days ago and boots fucked up my repeat, hence the slight manicness), now when I start taking it I have major psychological changes, for a start I stop thinking that everyones in some kind of plot against me, and the people who used to watch me, but then started carring guns just go back to watching me again. Now that That's like extream addiction (too much dopamine amoungst other things) but like crack addiction (another dopamine related problem) there's no 'real' physical side effects (there are psycotic physical side effects but their not real)...
Anyhow, I'm kinda glad because I couldn't tell reality from unreality I relled soley on what I could look up and factual information to keep myself going. Now a 'healthy' paranoia about what they put in the food, and my own family health problems lead me to do several months intensive reashearch into diet, fat metobilism etc... I may overstate things a 'little' but looking at the number of people getting fatter by the day I think more people need to tell them what's going on.
You could apply that to cannabis, sex, music... , twat, fucking moronic twat, you do eat at Tesco don't you, Jesus that shit food has a lot to answer for.
Ok, sex releases amongst other things dopamine, know what that is? that's right it's that stuff that gets released when you smoke a crack pipe, so yeh I'd say sex may be a tad addictive. (BTW You don't get many physical withdraw symptoms when you come off of crack, your not trying to say it isn't addictive are you?)
Shit loads of people will tell you that their psychologically hooked on cannabis, so much so that stopping causes depression which is a real physical as well as mental illness.
As for music, well that helps with alpha wave and makes you feel 'good' and if something makes you feel good it's an adictive nerochemical that's doing that too. (not God).
Yeah, they're good for you too.
Ok, long chain carbs and water soluable fiber are pretty good for you, they reduce the risk of bowel cancer for a start.
short chain carbs (sugars, white bread, starch, potatoes) are good for you in the same way that crack is good for you, a little crack and you performance will improve, too much and you fucked. Basically you might as well deprive yourself of insulin and stick a block of lard under you skin instead of eating sugars, because that's exactly what happens when you eat them.
Re:No tracking necessary Re:No tracking necessary (Score:1) by Threni (635302) Alter Relationship on Saturday August 06, @01:07PM (#13258561) (http://poldie.fotopic.net/) >One general version of addiction we use in medicine is: >Anything that produces physiological or psychological change and habit seeking >behaviour when the substance is withdrawn is addictive. This is not a verbatim >quote, it's from memory, but you get the gist. It's bollocks. It's not anything I recognize as addiction, anyway. You could apply that to cannabis, sex, music... I can't see that definition being any use, really whatsoever. Certainly by that yardstick addiction isn't negative at all, something that's not true of, say, physically addictive things. > There is a huge drive to sell carbohydrates to people - they don't spoil as > quickly as other food types and they are easy to manufacture, store and > transport. Look at the amount of floor space dedicated to carbohydrates in your > local supermarket and compare it to other foods. Yeah, they're good for you too. > Poor eating habits (ie choice of foods) and lack of enough exercise are the > explanation for the obesity epidemic in the West. Cardiologists have job > security for many years to comeThe craving for sweet food is probably another consequence of our low risk, high reward, instant gratification society. This is probably behavior more than anything else. Sweets come in shiny, brightly coloured packages, they don't need preparation, and they taste good. Plus you get the added satisfaction of knowing you are doing something you shouldn't, and "getting away with it" (although you might not be).
You appear to be trying to be 'scientific' but you don't know a lot do you? I hope you not an MD? maybe one that eats at Tesco?
The body tries to balance out the body chemistry any change usually results in a 'withdrawl' and a craving for that which is missing. Sugar has a special place to play in human body chemistry, we all need sugar in our blood to provide energy and help us concentrate, people with ADHD are found to have low blood sugar levels. When you take sugar you body descides that it's better to have too much than too little, because you body doesn't release insulin straight away you end up getting a sugar rush, this affects all parts of the body and can result in a seritonin rush, eating makes you feel good, so good that a compulsive eater will keep eating until they are sick. One method of controling compulsive eating is a fairly high dosage level of SSRI's and other anti-depresants that work by raising seritonin levels. blah blah blah blah blah....... I would have been far easier for me to cut and paste (no spelling mistakes) so as I said, go do some reading.
As for the brightly coloured packets, that's crap humans (and other mammals like Dogs who being colour blind don't give too shits about brightly coloured packets) like the taste of sweet food, it fucks with out little heads and make us go mad like a crack head. I believe it has been shown that children crave sweet food more than tart (and often alcaline) food, I certainly have a lot of imperial evidence to back this up. Now, before the days of brightly coloured packets when we were all in the swap (your not a creationist are you?) why would we 'crave' sweet food? Thats right because 'sweet' foods tend not to be poisionous where as tart foods often tend to be full of alcaloids and their commonly poisionous. It has been shown that women during pregency often crave highly refined foods because of a responce to toxins in the blood.
I don't have any quarms about sweet food, it's all just crap that's sold to us by the coperations nore do I give to shits about brightly coloured packaging, and yet I still get a sugar rush, and still sometime crave sweet foods (often when ill).
What was it you said you do?
BTW, I do thing that the 'office' job has equally as much to answer for as the shit that they feed us, not only because we sit on our ass all day but because you end up at the mercy of the sandwitch van, the pub meal and the sweet and crisp machine. I used to have the school 400 and 3000 meters records (and always came first), I used to be like a stick and eat well (plenty of vedge low salt and sugar) until I started working in an office.
I guess you didn't notice that I replied to my own post 'sorry insulin is produced by the pancreas but it affects the liver. insulin forces fat cells to take in glucose which is converted to triglycerides;'
Wrong guy, I said sugar rush. both protein and fat keep you 'filled up' for longer so if you cut out carbs you don't get a sugar rush and don't eat so much. Your just reading Atkins dogma because you don't believe that carbs have a greater chance of making you fat (obese) and not necessarily fat, do you also believe global warming is a lie, or that God exists, maybe you eat Tesco food?
If something isn't true you can get a whole tonne of google links to scientific studdies that prove it's not true, not just one link.
Ok, Vitamin B3 comes in two forms, niacinamide and nicotinic acid, one of them is involved in cholesterol levels, go look them up. I don't see why you fail to believe that I have actually looked this shit up a long time before Atkins came along, and I'm not even spouting Atkins, I'm talking about the sugar rush, diabities and HDL/LDL cholesterol levels.
Go look up Omega oils (3,6,9) Linsceed/Flax oil, fatty fish, mioline, lorenzos oils.
Go look up ADHD and Blood Sugar levels.
Along with the shit (salt, sugar, refined carbs, more sugar, wheat gluten, and probably wood chippings, oh and a tiny bit of fat since fat is 'bad') that they put into Tesco food, this shit is addictive so it's not supprising that consumer studdies show that it's popular.
'There's nothing addictive about simple carbohydrates, in the sense that eating them over a long period of time causes physical dependence.'
How come all the fat people I know eat chips and chocolate? You've never tried to diet have you, even though you have ample fat to keep you alive for a good few months you'll start to feel like hell has frozen over and crave food, sound like addiction to me.
The general definition of addiction is...
"An illness in which a person seeks and consumes a substance, such as alcohol, tobacco or a drug, despite the fact that it causes harm."
It doesn't have to be physical it can be psychological, but i think if you look up the chemistry of dieting you'll find that it's both a physical and psychological addiction to sugar and short chain carbohydrates.
infact a quick google for "Eating sugar causes addiction" turns up about 750,000 pages that must be utter crap. given that sweet foods are generally not poisonous it makes sense for humans to be sugar addicts and children to crave sweet food. I suggest you get a better dietitian.
America's strike against Hiroshima would have been the only strike if those in charge of Japan's military had surrendered.
And that's supposed to be good in what way, idiot. Lets say instead Japan had carried on and destroyed the entire American fleet.... The atomic bomb may never have been dropped and their wouldn't be a war in Iraq and Bin-Laden would never have taken out the world trade centres.
Pure Partisan Joy...
I didn't say that fat doesn't make you fat, I said that carbs make you fatter due to the addictive nature of the sugar rush.
fat intake also benefits levels of HDL cholesterol and carbohydrates increase levels of LDL cholesterol and transitional lipids like VLDL, but you should know that. This isn't actkins hype, males in my family have a long history of dieing from heart attacks below the age of 60 so you might say I have a vested interst in fat metabolism. And no, I don't eat fat, I'm a white meat and fruit guy.
sorry insulin is produced by the pancreas but it affects the liver. insulin forces fat cells to take in glucose which is converted to triglycerides;
'It's fat that makes you fat (and is linked with diabetes), not carbs.'
Oh, really? you don't know too much about fat metabolism do you?
Just the basics, shot chain carbohydrates are absorbed into the blood stream faster than fat creating an effect called a 'sugar rush' followed by a craving for more food. ergo, sugar and short chain carbs are 'addictive' encouraging people to eat more and more making them fat.
Once the 'sugar' has entered you blood stream you liver will start to produce insulin to turn any unburnt sugars into FAT, noting the two key words, insulin and fat.... you know when you liver is overworked producing insulin it kinda stops working properly after a while and any guesses what that's called, ummm.... well done diabetes, and any guesses what that fat does? that's right it makes you fat.
insulin dependant diabetics are often quite thin because their body doesn't have enough insulin to make the fat that makes you fat, that's why sugar in your urine is a sign of diabetes, because the sugar hasn't been turned into fat.
'I wouldn't take that Atkins diet too seriously - it's going right out of fashion.'
since when did fashion follow logic, like the fashion of people going to tesco to eat shit, oh that's right there not intelligent...
I suggest you do a bit of digging on fat metabolism lookup ketosis for a start, then try looking up how HDL and LDL cholesterols are formed.
I live in newbury, the place where shops are closing down at an astonishing rate. The local music shop blames downloads, but what they fail to realize is that the collage was rebuild, out of town a few years ago, and any one with any money is working whilst the shops are open leaving only the infirm and elderly left to buy goods.
What's worse is the local council is hard out on demolishing an area that is home to six local businesses and replacing it with a new shopping center, so that all those infirm and elderly people can shop in comfort.
Replace Tesco with Cheep shit, their policy is, find a product and squeeze the producer until they end up using wood chippings as packing, most of their customers are getting fatter and eating too many carbs so diabetes is on the cards.
It doesn't matter if they tone things down, none of their shoppers are intelligent enough to appreciate it in the fist place.
It's ludicrously easy to scan the pci bus. Windows users, no imagination.
I predict that a lot of the slashdot crowd is against things like corporations, money, etc because they're still in college and don't have money or employment.
What about the higher than average OSS programmer readership. Surly a lot of them would like to think themselves left of Marx (Marx believed that the army should keep communism alive, I consider myself to be left of that)
"Modern video games require the player to learn highly complex control sets, multi button combo commands, mission prioritization, teamwork (sometimes), and all sorts of other things that are applicable to the real world. (ever need to learn how to use a new peice of software in a few days for a job? Video games make that easier because you're used to learning new complex systems)"
What game are you playing, sounds like they've finally sorted the AI out. Play one RTS, FPS etc... and you've played them all.
The Xbox runs DirectX, I expect the PPC move is to stop people making Intel XBox emulators on x86. Also, I believe Microsoft make windows emulation software for Mac, so they already have x86 emulation on PPC.
My guess is no one noticed how well the playstation done with it's backwards compatibility, or maybe they didn't want to include already broken DRM.
Watch out for the quit ones, there plotting against you. Maybe the clicker is intended to give the quiet ones a voice and prevent terrorism.
Whats wrong with a electric fire with a flame effect?
the same tactic could be used to get IE out of Vista (TM)