Now granted, the foot issue you explained is pretty rediculous, but there's other people on here saying they eat the same thing every day. That is actually not good for your body. Its just like an exercise routine, if you do the same thing every time then it gets easy as your muscles adapt and you get less benefit from it. Your body also adapts to your diet, and keeping your food choices irregular helps burn more calories and keep your metabolism high.
Microsoft's ad revenue pales in comparison to its competitor's ad revenue. This is more like Europeans carrying small pox coming to the Americas in the 1500's: It causes them to suffer some uncomfortable days, but it decimates the opposition. While the decision can certainly be seen in a good light for consumers, I think this action is directly related to how Google gets most of their revenue: precise targeted advertising.
Tell that to my account. Out of my home town during the battle.net hack, my account was comprimised. I come back, my account is shut down. $60, poof, gone. Fuck blizzard and the high horse they rode in on.
Granted it was ten years ago, but when I went to UNCC, there was a small selection of software provided by the school under a shared license for free to students. This included, in my case, norton corporate, which was not intrusive and did an admirable job. Might wanna check around and see if you have similar options available. While the best free AV might be MSE for Windows, you might be able to get a paid AV for free.
I'd wager to say this is a case of confirmation bias or generalizing the population with your thoughts. Specific demographics tend to migrate to specific locations and specific proffessions, and that does not give you the ability to generalize the population based on your small little world. If I was to do so, working in my heavy fixed assets business that's constantly kneecapped by cartel-style labor unions, all middle class would be frustrated conservatives who get laid off because outdated liberal policies on organized labor eat 75% of all costs in a high cost fixed-assets industry, which is downright sad.
See the fallacy? One lead designer in bass ackwards California does not make for world view on the middle class, just as one finance manager in jaded labor union strangled industry doesn't make for the world view on middle class.
Given PC gaming, pure keyboard play is difficult as is switching, unless you're playing something like Civ V. A lot of people who play MMOs have these supermice with 10 keys on them and that's probably going to be your best bet.
As a result, companies like mine are averse to doing business there as well. We do have a location down there, but we wrk in a high expense fixed asset industry. There's a predominant fear that they might de-privatize our industry and force us out, leaving us holding the bag on a multi-hundred million dollar investment. As such, we have to charge according to the risk. Its like a vicious cycle, we charge because of the volatility, they react to those prices and be more volatile.
I love the irony of it. I was having a discussion with a buddy from Montreal and he was railing on the US for not being metric. I was like....bro....you're the only province on the continent that speaks French. I'll spend trillions converting the US to metric if you spend trillions forcing everyone to learn the dominant language, English.
The EU is where most of the imperial unit bitterness comes from, and it has 23 official languages. Oh sweet irony.
I think calling post 80's stuff heathen is disingenious. The evolution of RPGs on the PC and consoles has been phenomenal to watch, and there's a lot of history potential in documenting MMO politics. All of the open world PVP games have had a very interesting development post-launch controlled entirely by the players, and I think its a lot of thought-provoking material at its core. Region control maps over months for games like UO, AC, EVE, SB, Darkfall, etc, are all like watching a condensed version of medieval history play out in a real time simulation. I would be very interested in reading up on those histories and the insights gleamed by an author studying them.
I remember playing a game I enjoyed that ran dedicated servers for different regions, but not for Brazil and Australia. Due to constant complaining, they eventually divulged the reasons: the hosting services in those locations were god-awful expensive, tripling and quadrupling the cost of US datacenters with low bandwidth caps, and felt that deceptively hosting another region's server elsewhere and it being in name only was unethical. Apparently, a lot of games that run Oceanic servers meant to cover Australia run them out of Cali for this reason.
I think its important for people to know, because it allows them to understand the opportunities as well as the limitations of software. Working in Finance, its painful seeing how few people understand what opportunities lie within 1 hour's worth of code to simplify their life. Even the number of people who print something out in order to scan it is mind boggling. Its not even about whittling at their headcounts and working hours, its about changing the focus. The job should be about ensuring matches and verifying payments, not scanning and renaming files and manually typing in information that's already on your computer. Mundane work creates mistakes and takes away from what the job is supposed to be.
Then the limitations come into play. When implementing a new system, such outlandish requests without understanding what it will take to accomplish them create rifts and a lot of headbutting. It also helps you understand errors and why things aren't working. "Oh shit, I got an error box, I should call the help desk." Why did it happen, and why doesn't it normally happen? Understanding the way code works allows you to see into the solution in many cases.
I can't have 2 games on one account, and sell one of them to somebody else without transferring ownership of the account, including the other game.
Actually, I don't think you're correct on this one. I can't remember exactly how it occured, I think through the orange box, but I had bought HL2 and ended up with another copy of it through a bundle purchase. Lo and behold, I have it listed in my giftable copies. Therefore, duplicate copies of games can be gifted to other accounts.
While I know the problem is a serious one and its fully classified as a disability, it almost sounds as if you're using it as a crutch in the summary. What I'm trying to say is that no situation is ever going to be perfect, and everyone has some nag or another that wears on them whether it be a disability, family problems, or in my case severe OCD to the point of trichotillomania. I think that finding a manager who is understanding and willing to work with you is the best thing you're going to be able to do. If you demand they heed your every desire and consider everything else unacceptable, you aren't going to ever land a job in a positive work environment. This is something you're going to have to meet others in the middle on and try to focus on the positives rather than the negatives. Its all relative and everyone has to do this, whether its visible to the observer or not.
In short: try to not wait for the ideal scenario, meet people halfway. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be open about your issues, it just means you shouldn't lean on the issue as an "out" when a less-than-perfect scenario shows up. Give it a shot, you may surprise yourself.
I tend to think you could find that out with our recent ancestors. Imagine growing up in the early hundred ADs, having no school, being taught a religion and never any formal logic or reason, and going on with your life. When you imagine this situation, it puts a lot of the medieval wars and petty squabbles in perspective. We're pretty dumb initially, we just have a high capacity for learning and the development of educational systems have had significant gains in the past 700 years.
What brought me to this realization? Sadly, it was dealing with people raised in a isolated for of pentacostalism from birth. It makes me a sad panda when I think about it.
Of course. The issue here is some people are consuming less than their equilibrium mass to forcefully lower their metabolism beyond normal levels, which results in reduced energy but also results in a slowed aging process. The problem this article is pointing to is that these people, while they may look like they're 45 at 60, have caused strain on their organs in doing so and thus do not end up living longer, regardless of their adjusted age as a result of lower metabolism. At the time I was doing this, I was 130lbs and consuming about 800 calories a day. Now I'm 170 and consume 1500.
1100 calories a day at a lean 145 is perfectly reasonable. I pull 1500 at 170 with a low body fat percentage. Low calorie doesnt mean below the 2000 they like to put on packages, it means your body kicks into the hibernation-like mode, forget what its called, and your metabolism and energy drop dramatically. Its the thing the anti-aging guys love.
I'm a guy and I've never been overweight. Your body is having to consume your stores as evidenced by your weight loss, so you're running a negative. I'd wager that when you run out of stores, you'll start to feel the effects I mention. However, in comparison to how you felt at 215, maybe its still a much better feeling to you. I was a swimmer as a kid and very active, so I could feel a significant difference in my energy levels. Its all relative.
Most of the other fun things in life do not favor the restricted calorie intake, so its kind of a moot point unless you enjoy a sedentary lifestyle. As someone whose experienced how the body feels on the level of restricted calories required to trigger the effect that's been studied, its a life of lethargy and lack of energy. I used to eat twice a day, under 1000 calories, and my bodily functions followed (don't have a bowel movement but once every couple days, don't get hungry, etc). The side effects were I could barely work out hard for 20 minutes and couldn't enjoy outdoor activities because I simply didn't have the energy, wanting to sleep upwards of 12 hours a day when feasible. Now that I eat 5 times a day, my body is fully rested on 7 hours and I can enjoy a full day of activity.
Granted, I loved the low calorie method when I was getting all my giggles from gaming and relaxing, but now that I've had the drive to do more it just doesn't work for me. I expect this is the same for parents as well, the key factor being time. To have the energy needed to be active and function on lesser amounts of sleep, a higher metabolism lifestyle is almost a requirement.
I game for these so I'm able to exercise my brain on a regular basis. Sports competitions are a test of discipline, pain tolerance, and genetics, but don't require as much mental effort as do computer gaming and its predecessors like chess. Gaming is the opposite. Its the mental fulfillment I need to be happy, considering I unfortunately can't get that kind of mental exercise at work. Whether you challenge yourself through your career, your education, or your entertainment shouldn't matter as long as you are able to be a functioning member of society.
I think the worst thing about it is buying sport equipment. All three of us brothers are lefties, and growing up, we played a lot of sports. A nice set of left handed golf clubs, for example, are almost twice as much for the right handed version if they are even available.
On an unrelated note, in my first engineering course in college my professor said for all the left-handed people to raise their hands, which ended up being more than 50% of the class. Aside from my own home, that's the only time I've ever been in the majority with my dominant hand.
Most recent example of a hand bias that hit major headlines. While I doubt Apple made this mistake by using only right-handed testers and it likely had more to do with minimal testing in poor signal areas, this problem manifested more frequently with the way a lefty held their phone.
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Now granted, the foot issue you explained is pretty rediculous, but there's other people on here saying they eat the same thing every day. That is actually not good for your body. Its just like an exercise routine, if you do the same thing every time then it gets easy as your muscles adapt and you get less benefit from it. Your body also adapts to your diet, and keeping your food choices irregular helps burn more calories and keep your metabolism high.
Microsoft's ad revenue pales in comparison to its competitor's ad revenue. This is more like Europeans carrying small pox coming to the Americas in the 1500's: It causes them to suffer some uncomfortable days, but it decimates the opposition. While the decision can certainly be seen in a good light for consumers, I think this action is directly related to how Google gets most of their revenue: precise targeted advertising.
Tell that to my account. Out of my home town during the battle.net hack, my account was comprimised. I come back, my account is shut down. $60, poof, gone. Fuck blizzard and the high horse they rode in on.
A politician and government owning their mistake? Color me impressed.
Granted it was ten years ago, but when I went to UNCC, there was a small selection of software provided by the school under a shared license for free to students. This included, in my case, norton corporate, which was not intrusive and did an admirable job. Might wanna check around and see if you have similar options available. While the best free AV might be MSE for Windows, you might be able to get a paid AV for free.
I'd wager to say this is a case of confirmation bias or generalizing the population with your thoughts. Specific demographics tend to migrate to specific locations and specific proffessions, and that does not give you the ability to generalize the population based on your small little world. If I was to do so, working in my heavy fixed assets business that's constantly kneecapped by cartel-style labor unions, all middle class would be frustrated conservatives who get laid off because outdated liberal policies on organized labor eat 75% of all costs in a high cost fixed-assets industry, which is downright sad.
See the fallacy? One lead designer in bass ackwards California does not make for world view on the middle class, just as one finance manager in jaded labor union strangled industry doesn't make for the world view on middle class.
Given PC gaming, pure keyboard play is difficult as is switching, unless you're playing something like Civ V. A lot of people who play MMOs have these supermice with 10 keys on them and that's probably going to be your best bet.
For example, http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/mmog-mice
As a result, companies like mine are averse to doing business there as well. We do have a location down there, but we wrk in a high expense fixed asset industry. There's a predominant fear that they might de-privatize our industry and force us out, leaving us holding the bag on a multi-hundred million dollar investment. As such, we have to charge according to the risk. Its like a vicious cycle, we charge because of the volatility, they react to those prices and be more volatile.
I love the irony of it. I was having a discussion with a buddy from Montreal and he was railing on the US for not being metric. I was like....bro....you're the only province on the continent that speaks French. I'll spend trillions converting the US to metric if you spend trillions forcing everyone to learn the dominant language, English.
The EU is where most of the imperial unit bitterness comes from, and it has 23 official languages. Oh sweet irony.
I think calling post 80's stuff heathen is disingenious. The evolution of RPGs on the PC and consoles has been phenomenal to watch, and there's a lot of history potential in documenting MMO politics. All of the open world PVP games have had a very interesting development post-launch controlled entirely by the players, and I think its a lot of thought-provoking material at its core. Region control maps over months for games like UO, AC, EVE, SB, Darkfall, etc, are all like watching a condensed version of medieval history play out in a real time simulation. I would be very interested in reading up on those histories and the insights gleamed by an author studying them.
I remember playing a game I enjoyed that ran dedicated servers for different regions, but not for Brazil and Australia. Due to constant complaining, they eventually divulged the reasons: the hosting services in those locations were god-awful expensive, tripling and quadrupling the cost of US datacenters with low bandwidth caps, and felt that deceptively hosting another region's server elsewhere and it being in name only was unethical. Apparently, a lot of games that run Oceanic servers meant to cover Australia run them out of Cali for this reason.
I think its important for people to know, because it allows them to understand the opportunities as well as the limitations of software. Working in Finance, its painful seeing how few people understand what opportunities lie within 1 hour's worth of code to simplify their life. Even the number of people who print something out in order to scan it is mind boggling. Its not even about whittling at their headcounts and working hours, its about changing the focus. The job should be about ensuring matches and verifying payments, not scanning and renaming files and manually typing in information that's already on your computer. Mundane work creates mistakes and takes away from what the job is supposed to be.
Then the limitations come into play. When implementing a new system, such outlandish requests without understanding what it will take to accomplish them create rifts and a lot of headbutting. It also helps you understand errors and why things aren't working. "Oh shit, I got an error box, I should call the help desk." Why did it happen, and why doesn't it normally happen? Understanding the way code works allows you to see into the solution in many cases.
Make me wonder if its possible to get a degree in Backronyms.
bahh, ignore me, I misunderstood your post. Correct, you can't gift a single copy of a game to someone else, which I agree, blows.
I can't have 2 games on one account, and sell one of them to somebody else without transferring ownership of the account, including the other game.
Actually, I don't think you're correct on this one. I can't remember exactly how it occured, I think through the orange box, but I had bought HL2 and ended up with another copy of it through a bundle purchase. Lo and behold, I have it listed in my giftable copies. Therefore, duplicate copies of games can be gifted to other accounts.
While I know the problem is a serious one and its fully classified as a disability, it almost sounds as if you're using it as a crutch in the summary. What I'm trying to say is that no situation is ever going to be perfect, and everyone has some nag or another that wears on them whether it be a disability, family problems, or in my case severe OCD to the point of trichotillomania. I think that finding a manager who is understanding and willing to work with you is the best thing you're going to be able to do. If you demand they heed your every desire and consider everything else unacceptable, you aren't going to ever land a job in a positive work environment. This is something you're going to have to meet others in the middle on and try to focus on the positives rather than the negatives. Its all relative and everyone has to do this, whether its visible to the observer or not.
In short: try to not wait for the ideal scenario, meet people halfway. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be open about your issues, it just means you shouldn't lean on the issue as an "out" when a less-than-perfect scenario shows up. Give it a shot, you may surprise yourself.
I tend to think you could find that out with our recent ancestors. Imagine growing up in the early hundred ADs, having no school, being taught a religion and never any formal logic or reason, and going on with your life. When you imagine this situation, it puts a lot of the medieval wars and petty squabbles in perspective. We're pretty dumb initially, we just have a high capacity for learning and the development of educational systems have had significant gains in the past 700 years.
What brought me to this realization? Sadly, it was dealing with people raised in a isolated for of pentacostalism from birth. It makes me a sad panda when I think about it.
Of course. The issue here is some people are consuming less than their equilibrium mass to forcefully lower their metabolism beyond normal levels, which results in reduced energy but also results in a slowed aging process. The problem this article is pointing to is that these people, while they may look like they're 45 at 60, have caused strain on their organs in doing so and thus do not end up living longer, regardless of their adjusted age as a result of lower metabolism. At the time I was doing this, I was 130lbs and consuming about 800 calories a day. Now I'm 170 and consume 1500.
1100 calories a day at a lean 145 is perfectly reasonable. I pull 1500 at 170 with a low body fat percentage. Low calorie doesnt mean below the 2000 they like to put on packages, it means your body kicks into the hibernation-like mode, forget what its called, and your metabolism and energy drop dramatically. Its the thing the anti-aging guys love.
I'm a guy and I've never been overweight. Your body is having to consume your stores as evidenced by your weight loss, so you're running a negative. I'd wager that when you run out of stores, you'll start to feel the effects I mention. However, in comparison to how you felt at 215, maybe its still a much better feeling to you. I was a swimmer as a kid and very active, so I could feel a significant difference in my energy levels. Its all relative.
Most of the other fun things in life do not favor the restricted calorie intake, so its kind of a moot point unless you enjoy a sedentary lifestyle. As someone whose experienced how the body feels on the level of restricted calories required to trigger the effect that's been studied, its a life of lethargy and lack of energy. I used to eat twice a day, under 1000 calories, and my bodily functions followed (don't have a bowel movement but once every couple days, don't get hungry, etc). The side effects were I could barely work out hard for 20 minutes and couldn't enjoy outdoor activities because I simply didn't have the energy, wanting to sleep upwards of 12 hours a day when feasible. Now that I eat 5 times a day, my body is fully rested on 7 hours and I can enjoy a full day of activity.
Granted, I loved the low calorie method when I was getting all my giggles from gaming and relaxing, but now that I've had the drive to do more it just doesn't work for me. I expect this is the same for parents as well, the key factor being time. To have the energy needed to be active and function on lesser amounts of sleep, a higher metabolism lifestyle is almost a requirement.
...the Apple products have a slight advantage on usability and battery life and construction (Gorilla Glass on their products for example).
Gorilla glass is not exclusive to the iPhone
I game for these so I'm able to exercise my brain on a regular basis. Sports competitions are a test of discipline, pain tolerance, and genetics, but don't require as much mental effort as do computer gaming and its predecessors like chess. Gaming is the opposite. Its the mental fulfillment I need to be happy, considering I unfortunately can't get that kind of mental exercise at work. Whether you challenge yourself through your career, your education, or your entertainment shouldn't matter as long as you are able to be a functioning member of society.
I think the worst thing about it is buying sport equipment. All three of us brothers are lefties, and growing up, we played a lot of sports. A nice set of left handed golf clubs, for example, are almost twice as much for the right handed version if they are even available.
On an unrelated note, in my first engineering course in college my professor said for all the left-handed people to raise their hands, which ended up being more than 50% of the class. Aside from my own home, that's the only time I've ever been in the majority with my dominant hand.
Most recent example of a hand bias that hit major headlines. While I doubt Apple made this mistake by using only right-handed testers and it likely had more to do with minimal testing in poor signal areas, this problem manifested more frequently with the way a lefty held their phone.