Yes, I'm sure you're very proud of your coding, but programming just isn't on the same level as ECE. The whole process is much more involved. Most people don't realize how different hardware design is from software design. Granted, Verilog may be used for much of the project, but even that is much more complicated than Java. This is coming from a former ECE major, so trust me, I'm not just spouting some bullshit trying to sound smart.
Oddly enough, I watched those guys making the Tetris game while I was doing my ALU lab.
Why would you say that? The reason our troops are so effective is because they can think on their feet. If a platoon commander is killed in action, the next guy down the chain of command will immediately step up and he knows what the mission is and how to get it done. It seems to me like you're thinking of the old time battles where the two opposing factions would line up on either side of a line and keep shooting at each other until one side was all dead.
Although, I guess I am assuming you live in the U.S. I'd be interested to know how your military works, if you're from another country.
(Kind of along the same lines)
One thing my Java professor taught us the very first week was that "=" should be read as "becomes," while "==" should be read as "equals." This simple little rule really seemed to help me out. It just makes it a lot easier to grasp the fundamental difference between assignment and equality.
So why, then, did the defense in the court-martail of Corporal Trent D. Thomas assert "Marines in combat don't challenge orders"?
If you had actually read the article, you'd notice that the case was about premeditated kidnapping and murder. That, in my humble opinion (NOT the opinion of the rest of the Navy, mind you), is the mark of an idiotic NCO that should never have made it out of boot camp. That is a good article to use as "evidence" if you are into judging an entire organization based on the actions of two individuals.
Protect it from whom? The Canadians? The Mexicans? Al Qaeda...
Nobody would have thought Russia would invade Georgia, either.
I don't disagree with you that nobody is going to try to invade the U.S. now, but what about 20 years down the road? What happens if the economy does not recover, and decides they've had enough of America?
If the federal government is such a bad thing, have you considered moving out of the country? That's one of the beautiful things about this country- you can pack your stuff up and leave if you don't like it.
I'd love to hear more of your views. Shoot me an email or something.
I'm currently doing ROTC in college, and it really sickens me when people give the old argument that military personnel are trained to obey orders without question.
My experience is much the same as yours in JROTC; that is, we are being taught as future officers to question those orders which seem unreasonable or dangerous.
The main problem is that most people who have not had any exposure to the military do not know anything except what the media says. Nobody bothers to actually speak to a Marine, for example, because it's so much easier to just watch CNN for the REAL news.
Ah well, I'm involved in what I am to protect the public's right to protest what I'm involved in, so I guess I shouldn't complain.
3D solar cells are standard fare in college introductory nanotech classes (or similar). This boy, no matter how young or smart he is, did not come up with the idea for three dimensional solar cells.
Who exactly is supposed to care about this?
Two words:
Jack Thompson, keeping red-blooded American children save from the evil videogame-designing villains for..umm...far too long now.
So if you cannot physically exercise, why are you posting about how you want to do more of it to lose weight? I'm not trying to sound like a troll here, but from your description you don't sound particularly overweight. Your original post caused a few people to think that you had a bit of extra fat and wanted to know what you could do to get rid of it. Sorry for misinterpreting. Just trying to share the love. But you're right, I don't have any idea of what your life is like and probably shouldn't interfere anyway. I need to remember that people hate it when you try to help them.
I actually do understand perfectly about women and their bladders (I can read medical journals, too). On average, women have much smaller bladders than men. Yes, guys, there is a reason she has to stop at every rest stop on the highway. That's why you shouldn't fill it up and then go do strenuous exercise. I'm a guy, and I don't do that because I'd probably pee myself. I don't understand why so many people think you have to drink massive quantities of water right before you run. Not only does it make you have to pee during your run, but you get stomach cramps and other nasties. Water should be drunk (drank?) all throughout the day. Trust me when I say if you do start drinking more water, at first you'll have to pee about every 15 minute, but after about two weeks your body will become accustomed to it and you'll be all the healthier for it. That 8 recommended glasses a day isn't something to be taken lightly. Ask you doctor if you really should be drinking 8 glasses, and see what s/he says.
As for the kids, I guess I'm not qualified to talk about it. I've only taken care of 3 of them (between 2 and 4 years old) for a week. Little buggers don't follow directions very well.
The law in Japan is not *quite* as silly when you think about who lives there. I go to a school in NY where around a third of the population is Asian (mostly Japanese, Chinese, or Korean.) I would guess that most of them are under 130# M/110# F. Most of them don't break 5'6. I don't know any hard statistics, just speaking from personal experience. On the average, the Asian peoples have much smaller frames than us big 'ol SUV drivin' heavy drinkin' sign shootin' red-blooded Americans.
HOWEVER, the suicide rate in Japan is already sky-high, and I think this law has the potential to push it even higher from people thinking they have to conform to some ideal, even if it isn't particularly harsh.
I noticed your post about how much you exercise.
At the risk of sounding insensitive, I think you may have more luck losing weight if you push yourself a little more. I realize that chasing kids around is draining (I've done plenty of it, and I'm only 18), but that's just it; it's draining. It's not exercise. Stretching isn't exercise either. Granted, it's an integral part of exercise, but stretching alone won't do you a bit of good.
A "better" way to exercise is to really push your personal envelope. Run (or swim, if your knees are bad) until you just about can't take it any more. Bring yourself out of your comfort zone. Doing this also makes you feel a lot better about the workout you just did later on. The morning after a good workout is glorious. I think you will also find that if you have trouble sleeping, going for a 3 mile run will really put you to bed. Keep doing those ab workouts. Put your feet under something to hold them and do as many crunches as you can. Not just until you get tired, but until you can not lift your shoulders off the ground. Your abs should be on fire. Incidentally, when doing this make sure to keep your hands on your shoulders (putting them behind the head strains the neck, as you might be aware). Do at least 40 situps per night and you will notice wonderful improvements. I personally like to do pushups also, but that's up to you.
It doesn't matter how much exercise you get per day if you aren't uncomfortable when doing it. And I don't mean like you're aggravating a broken elbow, I mean you're chest is burning and sweat is pouring out of your armpits and back. Yes, it sounds gross, and yes, you will look gross when doing it (we all do, don't worry) but that deep burn is burning off the fat.
Also, drink as much water as you can (just not when running! Throwing up water is not fun.) All the fear mongering you hear about water poisoning is just when athletes drink insane amounts of water. You won't be hurt AT ALL by drinking 10 glasses of water a day. Being well hydrated helps to release fat reserves. After about a week or two, your body will become accustomed to drinking a lot and you'll feel great. I personally drink around 2 Pur pitchers a day (or around 4 Nalgene bottles). A few women I know say they don't like to drink a lot because they don't like to have to pee so much; this is a bullshit excuse. Don't cheat your body out of being well hydrated. Nobody cares if you have to pee 10 times daily.
Sorry if I sound like an insensitive clod, but most people just don't understand what exercise is. My mother thinks she's getting her daily exercise by going for walks every day or two. A lot of people would call that a good workout, but that is simply not the case.
There's a reason you never see happy runners; it is a lot of hard work. My advice in a nutshell is to just stick with a heavy exercise plan for a few months, drink lots of water, and of course talk to your doctor about a healthy diet.
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Yes, I'm sure you're very proud of your coding, but programming just isn't on the same level as ECE. The whole process is much more involved. Most people don't realize how different hardware design is from software design. Granted, Verilog may be used for much of the project, but even that is much more complicated than Java. This is coming from a former ECE major, so trust me, I'm not just spouting some bullshit trying to sound smart.
Oddly enough, I watched those guys making the Tetris game while I was doing my ALU lab.
Why would you say that? The reason our troops are so effective is because they can think on their feet. If a platoon commander is killed in action, the next guy down the chain of command will immediately step up and he knows what the mission is and how to get it done. It seems to me like you're thinking of the old time battles where the two opposing factions would line up on either side of a line and keep shooting at each other until one side was all dead.
Although, I guess I am assuming you live in the U.S. I'd be interested to know how your military works, if you're from another country.
(Kind of along the same lines)
One thing my Java professor taught us the very first week was that "=" should be read as "becomes," while "==" should be read as "equals." This simple little rule really seemed to help me out. It just makes it a lot easier to grasp the fundamental difference between assignment and equality.
If that was aimed at me, HAL, I was referring more to my lack of a right to protest.
Learn to read, dickwad.
So why, then, did the defense in the court-martail of Corporal Trent D. Thomas assert "Marines in combat don't challenge orders"?
If you had actually read the article, you'd notice that the case was about premeditated kidnapping and murder. That, in my humble opinion (NOT the opinion of the rest of the Navy, mind you), is the mark of an idiotic NCO that should never have made it out of boot camp. That is a good article to use as "evidence" if you are into judging an entire organization based on the actions of two individuals.
Protect it from whom? The Canadians? The Mexicans? Al Qaeda...
Nobody would have thought Russia would invade Georgia, either.
I don't disagree with you that nobody is going to try to invade the U.S. now, but what about 20 years down the road? What happens if the economy does not recover, and decides they've had enough of America?
If the federal government is such a bad thing, have you considered moving out of the country? That's one of the beautiful things about this country- you can pack your stuff up and leave if you don't like it.
I'd love to hear more of your views. Shoot me an email or something.
So being locked into an eight year commitment to the United States Navy is not the "actual" military, according to you?
I'm currently doing ROTC in college, and it really sickens me when people give the old argument that military personnel are trained to obey orders without question.
My experience is much the same as yours in JROTC; that is, we are being taught as future officers to question those orders which seem unreasonable or dangerous.
The main problem is that most people who have not had any exposure to the military do not know anything except what the media says. Nobody bothers to actually speak to a Marine, for example, because it's so much easier to just watch CNN for the REAL news. Ah well, I'm involved in what I am to protect the public's right to protest what I'm involved in, so I guess I shouldn't complain.
3D solar cells are standard fare in college introductory nanotech classes (or similar). This boy, no matter how young or smart he is, did not come up with the idea for three dimensional solar cells.
I was actually referring to Bioshock plasmids. Lame joke, I know :)
So is this how plasmids are going to work?
UR SO GHEY I H8 SCI FI
Who exactly is supposed to care about this? Two words: Jack Thompson, keeping red-blooded American children save from the evil videogame-designing villains for..umm...far too long now.
So if you cannot physically exercise, why are you posting about how you want to do more of it to lose weight? I'm not trying to sound like a troll here, but from your description you don't sound particularly overweight. Your original post caused a few people to think that you had a bit of extra fat and wanted to know what you could do to get rid of it. Sorry for misinterpreting. Just trying to share the love. But you're right, I don't have any idea of what your life is like and probably shouldn't interfere anyway. I need to remember that people hate it when you try to help them.
I actually do understand perfectly about women and their bladders (I can read medical journals, too). On average, women have much smaller bladders than men. Yes, guys, there is a reason she has to stop at every rest stop on the highway. That's why you shouldn't fill it up and then go do strenuous exercise. I'm a guy, and I don't do that because I'd probably pee myself. I don't understand why so many people think you have to drink massive quantities of water right before you run. Not only does it make you have to pee during your run, but you get stomach cramps and other nasties. Water should be drunk (drank?) all throughout the day. Trust me when I say if you do start drinking more water, at first you'll have to pee about every 15 minute, but after about two weeks your body will become accustomed to it and you'll be all the healthier for it. That 8 recommended glasses a day isn't something to be taken lightly. Ask you doctor if you really should be drinking 8 glasses, and see what s/he says.
As for the kids, I guess I'm not qualified to talk about it. I've only taken care of 3 of them (between 2 and 4 years old) for a week. Little buggers don't follow directions very well.
The law in Japan is not *quite* as silly when you think about who lives there. I go to a school in NY where around a third of the population is Asian (mostly Japanese, Chinese, or Korean.) I would guess that most of them are under 130# M/110# F. Most of them don't break 5'6. I don't know any hard statistics, just speaking from personal experience. On the average, the Asian peoples have much smaller frames than us big 'ol SUV drivin' heavy drinkin' sign shootin' red-blooded Americans.
HOWEVER, the suicide rate in Japan is already sky-high, and I think this law has the potential to push it even higher from people thinking they have to conform to some ideal, even if it isn't particularly harsh.
Or, better yet, ignore EVERYTHING people have written here, and go find a Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant. Talk him into training you.
I noticed your post about how much you exercise. At the risk of sounding insensitive, I think you may have more luck losing weight if you push yourself a little more. I realize that chasing kids around is draining (I've done plenty of it, and I'm only 18), but that's just it; it's draining. It's not exercise. Stretching isn't exercise either. Granted, it's an integral part of exercise, but stretching alone won't do you a bit of good.
A "better" way to exercise is to really push your personal envelope. Run (or swim, if your knees are bad) until you just about can't take it any more. Bring yourself out of your comfort zone. Doing this also makes you feel a lot better about the workout you just did later on. The morning after a good workout is glorious. I think you will also find that if you have trouble sleeping, going for a 3 mile run will really put you to bed.
Keep doing those ab workouts. Put your feet under something to hold them and do as many crunches as you can. Not just until you get tired, but until you can not lift your shoulders off the ground. Your abs should be on fire. Incidentally, when doing this make sure to keep your hands on your shoulders (putting them behind the head strains the neck, as you might be aware). Do at least 40 situps per night and you will notice wonderful improvements. I personally like to do pushups also, but that's up to you.
It doesn't matter how much exercise you get per day if you aren't uncomfortable when doing it. And I don't mean like you're aggravating a broken elbow, I mean you're chest is burning and sweat is pouring out of your armpits and back. Yes, it sounds gross, and yes, you will look gross when doing it (we all do, don't worry) but that deep burn is burning off the fat.
Also, drink as much water as you can (just not when running! Throwing up water is not fun.) All the fear mongering you hear about water poisoning is just when athletes drink insane amounts of water. You won't be hurt AT ALL by drinking 10 glasses of water a day. Being well hydrated helps to release fat reserves. After about a week or two, your body will become accustomed to drinking a lot and you'll feel great. I personally drink around 2 Pur pitchers a day (or around 4 Nalgene bottles). A few women I know say they don't like to drink a lot because they don't like to have to pee so much; this is a bullshit excuse. Don't cheat your body out of being well hydrated. Nobody cares if you have to pee 10 times daily.
Sorry if I sound like an insensitive clod, but most people just don't understand what exercise is. My mother thinks she's getting her daily exercise by going for walks every day or two. A lot of people would call that a good workout, but that is simply not the case. There's a reason you never see happy runners; it is a lot of hard work. My advice in a nutshell is to just stick with a heavy exercise plan for a few months, drink lots of water, and of course talk to your doctor about a healthy diet.
Good luck with everything,
Alex
Darn...it appears I was too late and this joke has already been used.
KAAAHHHHNNNNN!
...considering the recent announcement that Sony will not allow porn on BluRay.