High fibre diet produces large quantities of cancer inhibiting chemical. And the fibre content of our diet started going down as we started consuming more and more refined foods. And refined foods became more widespread after agriculture was industrialized and it met the high pressure marketing and advertizing campaign.
If the claims are true, the vegetarians and those ethnic groups that have lots of fiber in their diet should have lower cancer rates. Some epidemiological (sp?) study should be able to figure out the patterns. Should study groups with highly off the norm dietary habits. Results would be intersting.
insert your favourite big agro conspiracy theory that has depressed the natural and less refined food consumption in America
The second hand of a small clock usually cant budge a regular ball mouse. Of course if it was an optical mouse, and if it was placed upside down in front of the clock and the second hand just waved the paper past the LEDs it might work. Anyway, she was a true hacker and should be hacking code, not counting beans.
You expect the nerds running the server to wash themselves regularly? Preposterous!!! Surprised though, they noticed that the server room stank up once a month.
Also, they're all (at least all that I've ever seen) direct injected, meaning fuel is delivere
If I remember anything right from my Aircraft Piston Engines undergrad course you are correct. All diesels must use fuel injection. Diesel engines use compression ignition, followed by constant pressure droplet combustion, unlike the petrol (gas in USA) engines which use spark ignited (nearly) instantaneous constant volume vapour combustion.
A curious factoid here is that diesel oil has a lower self ignition temperature than gasoline/petrol.
Well the greater mystery is, of course, why were they teaching us diesel engines in Aircraft Piston engines course.
Patient: Doctor, I am not feeling so well. Doc: You got terribliomax contagiatitis, a very contagious disease. We have quarantine everyone you had contact with. Did you have contact with anyone? Patient: I shook hands with your receptionist. Doc: She will get it. Patient: Before that I bought a newspaper and gave the boy some cash. Doc: He will get it too.
[snip out the long story and cutting to the chase]
Patient: Before that I kissed my wife before leaving for work. Doc: Shit! I am going to get it too.
This is what will happen if we start monitoring virus propagation in the general population.
Yes, the users will look elsewhere. And someday they might realize that what these linux phanbois/geeks kept blabbering about was really true and they are paying far too much for too little. At that time it would be too late to change the history.
For example 1959 was the peak of streetcar use in America. Ford+General Motors+Firestone+Standard Oil formed a cartel to buy and shutdown every streetcar company in USA to increase their sales. Sometimes they were secretive. Sometimes they were brazen as the "motorized" America. Fast Forward Sixty years we have, urban sprawl, decaying urban centers and extrodinary dependance on imported oil. When oil and energy consumption was synonymous with economic growth, when "what-is-good-for-GM-is-good-for-America we let the monopolies run rough shod all over us.
Now information is power, we are in the information and communication age. And we are letting information/communication monopolies run rough shod all over us. And we called those dissenters luddites/poverty-lovers/socialists. We call these dissenters geeks/uber-geeks/out-of-touch. History repeats itself.
OMG! wait till M$ hears this. All they have to do is to donate some 1000$ to a few developers in each Open Source to project, and all other devlopers will quit because they are jelaous and these few will retire happily using those 1000$ or 2000$ handout. All Open Source projects will grind to a halt! Wow! That is Steve Ballmer's dream. He might actually sit on a chair or two now.
Well, in Indian cuisine, especially the South Indian cuisine there is a foul smelling spice (!?) named asafoitida which is very popular. The root for asafoitida is foetid meaning foul smelling. It actually figures as a major mystery smell in a Agatha Christie story.
When I was young I used to hate that stuff, especially because my mom would throw blocks of it in the curries without powdering them. One bite of that chunk, and you will curse everyone in sight. So enraged I was, that I once stole her entire stash of asafoitida. I wanted to throw it away in garbage, but I was young and scared and did not dare throw it all away. So I hid it in a trunk in the loft. And, yes as I said in the subject line, my mom sniffed it out and found the stash. So yes, humans can sniff out very aromatic substances. But faint traces like a dogs do [note the significant absence of the apostrophe after the s in dogs] ? I am not so sure.
In most magazines and newspapers, if an advertizer mimics the content of the mag or newspaper too closely, the publisher adds a prominant "ADVERTISEMENT" headers and footers to separate the ad from the content. So it might appear that google policy is just an on line implementation.
On the other hand, unless I have misunderstood the policy completely, here Google prohibits content from mimicking the ad too closely. Do we have any thing like that in the print world? Time Mag specifically making its article look like an ad?
Does it mean that someday TiVo would ban TV shows from inserting fake ads to fool its ad-skipper? Nah, TiVo has already sold out to the corps. MythTV does not have the clout.
Just scan through the data the customers store, slice them dice them and sell the consolidated data, of course. No personally identifiable information will be revealed to the Russian Mafia. yeah. sure.
Then God said, Ye man, Adam, thou shalt be tolerant of milk into your adulthood.
He said it some 5000 years ago. Precise date calculated by that Bishop in England.
See? finally science is catching up to our ability to twist the scriptures to say whatever we want it to say.
I really don't think it mattered if humans drank milk or not.
You can extract 10x calories over the life time of a cow by milking it and finally eating the old dead cow, instead of killing it young and eating it immediately. Those people who domesticated cattle and milked them developed more organized societies and built empires earlier compared to those who killed and ate every large animal they came across. And thus the ability to drink milk directly led to ability to make steel and eventually guns.
Soon someone will announce that by using blue laser they get blu-Terabit-DVD and another will announce blu+terabit-DVD and one more blu-terabit+DVD and finally a blu+terabit+DVD. By the this time users would have been fed up and gone on a nice fishing trip in the Owen's river in California.
The curriculum is exactly similar to any accredited university in America. Courses of study published and students register for courses. Each lecture hour is one credit. Three lab hours is one credit. Three hours of self study/reserch per credit for such project courses. I was on a five year course, I needed 218 credits to graduate. Some 85 credits of "core curriculum" that has Math I, II, II, Phy I, II, Chem I, II, Engg Drawing, workshop, Intro to CS, intro to Economics, Principles of Management etc etc. Now a days it is a four year course. Most text books are American. Most faculty are graduates of US univs. They design their course to be very similar to American style. As another poster observed, there is Teacher Evaluation forms submitted by the students about their profs. The students are very honest and fair, though it is compeltely anonymous.
Studying in IIT is no different from studying in any American university as far as course materials, teaching style and evaluations are concerned. But in India the entire middle class and poor people want to be engineers or doctors. In America a huge portion of the top students pursue journalism, law, economics, marketing and pure sciences. In India, if you top your school and say I want to do a BS in Math or BA in Economics, people will look at you strangely and call people in white coats to haul you away to a mental asylum. That should tell you how hard it is to get past JEE. It is not just that one has to be in the top 2% to get through, the 200,000 students who sit for JEE form probably the top 5% of the Indian student body.
At this insane filtering level, some mishaps do happen. A good many students who have only bookish knowledge, people who lack creativity but can follow exceedingly complex math and theories get in and graduate. Some IITians will find the solution if one exists to any problem, but in the real world many problems dont have one single well defined best solution. Real world requires choosing a good compromise among many competing solutions, and some IITians get lost in such situations. But even after discounting these losses, the over all quality of IIT graduate is extremely good. Best in the world, I say. Of course it is my alma mater, what else would I say?
Just before the spectacular collapse, the business journals were ohhhing and aahhhing about the work culture in Enron. Articles were eerily similar. Sell BestBuy stock now. or short them. Or buy circuit city stock.
There is still a shortage of skilled workers. The univs (other than IITs) are not turning out skilled workers. They churn out morons with rote memorization. There is no contradiction. Anyway it is good. My daughter loves the Bollywood movies as much as she does the Disney channel, but I would rather like her find work here not there.
Facilitieswise, IITs are like the middle level state schools. For example, the Univ of Texas at Arlington library was better stocked and its comp. center had better computers than IITM I went to. But what sets IITs apart is just the quality of the students. My All India Rank was 811, the number of candidates for the Joint Entance Exam was about 100,000. It is like collecting all the valedictorians of America and dumping them in one compus. No matter what the quality of the facilities are, or the quality of the faculty is, they would do very very well. By Indian standards, the facilities are top class, really, as much as India could afford. And the faculty too are very good by Indian standards.
But the reason why IITs shine is very very simple. In a country mired in corruption, (today's headline was that a cabinet minister of the central govt is convicted of murder, BTW) this one Examination is absolutely uncorruptible. No paper leaks, no mass copying, no bribing of examiners, a clean system that gives a fair shot to everyone irrespective of caste, creed or religion.
JEE and IIT are examples of what India can do, if it gets rid of the corruption and rewards merit.
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If the claims are true, the vegetarians and those ethnic groups that have lots of fiber in their diet should have lower cancer rates. Some epidemiological (sp?) study should be able to figure out the patterns. Should study groups with highly off the norm dietary habits. Results would be intersting.
insert your favourite big agro conspiracy theory that has depressed the natural and less refined food consumption in America
The second hand of a small clock usually cant budge a regular ball mouse. Of course if it was an optical mouse, and if it was placed upside down in front of the clock and the second hand just waved the paper past the LEDs it might work. Anyway, she was a true hacker and should be hacking code, not counting beans.
Please?
I should find where I had saved the firefox extension development SDK and learn it.
People watch people.
Well, 3 out of 5 employees lie to their managers too. So it evens out. Brillant!
Well, the aviation diesel engine seems to have come a long way since I went to school. Thanx for the info.
If I remember anything right from my Aircraft Piston Engines undergrad course you are correct. All diesels must use fuel injection. Diesel engines use compression ignition, followed by constant pressure droplet combustion, unlike the petrol (gas in USA) engines which use spark ignited (nearly) instantaneous constant volume vapour combustion.
A curious factoid here is that diesel oil has a lower self ignition temperature than gasoline/petrol. Well the greater mystery is, of course, why were they teaching us diesel engines in Aircraft Piston engines course.
Patient: Doctor, I am not feeling so well.
Doc: You got terribliomax contagiatitis, a very contagious disease. We have quarantine everyone you had contact with. Did you have contact with anyone?
Patient: I shook hands with your receptionist.
Doc: She will get it.
Patient: Before that I bought a newspaper and gave the boy some cash.
Doc: He will get it too.
[snip out the long story and cutting to the chase]
Patient: Before that I kissed my wife before leaving for work.
Doc: Shit! I am going to get it too.
This is what will happen if we start monitoring virus propagation in the general population.
Netcraft.com rankings: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsites?s=2629A F9E8226E9D5E21D0E6F8945#89"
1 http://www.google.com/ November 1998 Google Inc. Go US
2 http://www.yahoo.com/ August 1995 Inktomi Corporation Go US
3 http://www.google.de/ April 1999 Google Inc. Go US
4 https://www.google.com/ May 2002 Google Inc. Go US
5 http://www.google.co.uk/ April 1999 Google Inc. Go US
6 http://www.google.fr/ November 2001 Google Inc. Go US
7 http://www.microsoft.com/ August 1995 Microsoft Corp Go US
8 http://mail.google.com/ June 2004 Google Inc. Go US
9 http://news.bbc.co.uk/ December 1997 BBC News Online Go UK
10 http://www.bbc.co.uk/ August 1995 BBC Internet Services, Docklands. Go UK
Slashdot is some 89 today.
Looks like the rank depends on who does the counting.
Wont help you. They use ROT-26 encryption. Not some stupid ROT-13 twice.
For example 1959 was the peak of streetcar use in America. Ford+General Motors+Firestone+Standard Oil formed a cartel to buy and shutdown every streetcar company in USA to increase their sales. Sometimes they were secretive. Sometimes they were brazen as the "motorized" America. Fast Forward Sixty years we have, urban sprawl, decaying urban centers and extrodinary dependance on imported oil. When oil and energy consumption was synonymous with economic growth, when "what-is-good-for-GM-is-good-for-America we let the monopolies run rough shod all over us.
Now information is power, we are in the information and communication age. And we are letting information/communication monopolies run rough shod all over us. And we called those dissenters luddites/poverty-lovers/socialists. We call these dissenters geeks/uber-geeks/out-of-touch. History repeats itself.
OMG! wait till M$ hears this. All they have to do is to donate some 1000$ to a few developers in each Open Source to project, and all other devlopers will quit because they are jelaous and these few will retire happily using those 1000$ or 2000$ handout. All Open Source projects will grind to a halt! Wow! That is Steve Ballmer's dream. He might actually sit on a chair or two now.
When I was young I used to hate that stuff, especially because my mom would throw blocks of it in the curries without powdering them. One bite of that chunk, and you will curse everyone in sight. So enraged I was, that I once stole her entire stash of asafoitida. I wanted to throw it away in garbage, but I was young and scared and did not dare throw it all away. So I hid it in a trunk in the loft. And, yes as I said in the subject line, my mom sniffed it out and found the stash. So yes, humans can sniff out very aromatic substances. But faint traces like a dogs do [note the significant absence of the apostrophe after the s in dogs] ? I am not so sure.
On the other hand, unless I have misunderstood the policy completely, here Google prohibits content from mimicking the ad too closely. Do we have any thing like that in the print world? Time Mag specifically making its article look like an ad?
Does it mean that someday TiVo would ban TV shows from inserting fake ads to fool its ad-skipper? Nah, TiVo has already sold out to the corps. MythTV does not have the clout.
Just scan through the data the customers store, slice them dice them and sell the consolidated data, of course. No personally identifiable information will be revealed to the Russian Mafia. yeah. sure.
Then God said, Ye man, Adam, thou shalt be tolerant of milk into your adulthood. He said it some 5000 years ago. Precise date calculated by that Bishop in England. See? finally science is catching up to our ability to twist the scriptures to say whatever we want it to say.
You sound like "640 KB is more than enough", "There is demand in the world for upto six computers". If you build it, they will use it.
Soon someone will announce that by using blue laser they get blu-Terabit-DVD and another will announce blu+terabit-DVD and one more blu-terabit+DVD and finally a blu+terabit+DVD. By the this time users would have been fed up and gone on a nice fishing trip in the Owen's river in California.
Studying in IIT is no different from studying in any American university as far as course materials, teaching style and evaluations are concerned. But in India the entire middle class and poor people want to be engineers or doctors. In America a huge portion of the top students pursue journalism, law, economics, marketing and pure sciences. In India, if you top your school and say I want to do a BS in Math or BA in Economics, people will look at you strangely and call people in white coats to haul you away to a mental asylum. That should tell you how hard it is to get past JEE. It is not just that one has to be in the top 2% to get through, the 200,000 students who sit for JEE form probably the top 5% of the Indian student body.
At this insane filtering level, some mishaps do happen. A good many students who have only bookish knowledge, people who lack creativity but can follow exceedingly complex math and theories get in and graduate. Some IITians will find the solution if one exists to any problem, but in the real world many problems dont have one single well defined best solution. Real world requires choosing a good compromise among many competing solutions, and some IITians get lost in such situations. But even after discounting these losses, the over all quality of IIT graduate is extremely good. Best in the world, I say. Of course it is my alma mater, what else would I say?
Just before the spectacular collapse, the business journals were ohhhing and aahhhing about the work culture in Enron. Articles were eerily similar. Sell BestBuy stock now. or short them. Or buy circuit city stock.
There is still a shortage of skilled workers. The univs (other than IITs) are not turning out skilled workers. They churn out morons with rote memorization. There is no contradiction. Anyway it is good. My daughter loves the Bollywood movies as much as she does the Disney channel, but I would rather like her find work here not there.
But the reason why IITs shine is very very simple. In a country mired in corruption, (today's headline was that a cabinet minister of the central govt is convicted of murder, BTW) this one Examination is absolutely uncorruptible. No paper leaks, no mass copying, no bribing of examiners, a clean system that gives a fair shot to everyone irrespective of caste, creed or religion.
JEE and IIT are examples of what India can do, if it gets rid of the corruption and rewards merit.
I dont want any dark navy blue colored circles painted in my backyard. ;-)