There are definately skills required that wouldn't be tested in autox - but I'm betting that those who could succesfully navigate the course would tend to be those who pay more attention in general, and who could therefore avoid an accident if such a situation came up. At least we'd have 2/3 better drivers...
If realistic simulators were available, that'd be even better - but those kind of things would be even more expensive than just setting up some cones in the parking lot.;)
Anyway, I wish more people would realize that it's a good idea to leave an escape path in general. The shoulder's good - I've had to use it when my brakes failed, among other times that weren't my fault - and just not following so closely is a good idea.
I live in a smaller area than you, probably. Most of the accidents that I see are the result of someone pulling out in front of someone else. Actually, almost all of them have been like that. Those are largely the result of either inattentiveness or misjudging speed of approaching traffic v/s the speed the driver can accelerate. I'm really not sure how to eliminate those two problems, except possibly by mounting big spikes and some heavy steel plate to the front of my car.;)
It's a good thing he didn't have my mp3 system (yes, I had an mp3-playing custom-rolled computer in my car long before "everyone" was doing it) in there, then. I used a Cyrix chip, and nothing gets hotter than a Cyrix. I think that was even in theri marketing material - "we might run slower than advertised, but you can heat your house with our chips". The only thing keeping me from burning up is the massive cabin size in my 1980 Caprice (which is for sale now, assuming the newly built engine fires up this week).
While "click it or ticket" is a nationwide program with federal funding, it's enforced by the states, and the money from the tickets goes to the state and county of issue.
Anyway, they're approaching the problem in the wrong way. The way to reduce problems due to accidents is to reduce accidents to begin with, not to make people safer if they're involved in an accident. A "no fault" accident is caused by incompetence or bad choices, in general. Enforcing turn signal usage would be a good way to prevent a whole pile of accidents (and a good way to prevent "road rage") before they happen, as would making people actually prove that they can drive *well* rather than just proving that they can memorize some following distances to pass a written test.
There needs to be a friggin' autocross course located behind each and every DMV, IMHO, and if you can't get the provided car (or your own, possibly) though the course in the prescribed time without running over some cones, then you can't navigate the streets adequately and therefore can't have a license. *That* would reduce the number of accidents, and would probably save more money than it'd cost. It'd also get some politicians voted out of office by the old and/or incompetent, and therefore won't happen.:(
It was clearly very hot in there. It was either "get out" or "strip completely down". While I wasn't pleased with "shirtless guy gets out of car before parking", it was far preferable to "naked guy gets out of car after parking"...
Several of the higher-end cars already have devices that will follow the car ahead of you at a pre-determined distance (which, unfortunately for the people who appearently drive where I'm driving, isn't configurable to be 8"). That's about all that's involved in driving down the freeway - keep moving but don't crash into the car ahead of you.
Luckily, the state governments are engaged in a campaign to raise extra money, err, "save lives" by writing more tickets out for those *crazy* drivers who endanger everyone else by - look away if you're faint of heart - driving *without* a seatbelt! Ohh, the horror of enountering someone who's not bucked in to their car! Don't they care about how sad I might or might not become if they hurt themselves?:)
Sometimes I need to roll that window down while driving. Back before power windows, the speed limits were higher *and* people leaned over to roll their windows down. If you want a real shock, wait 'till I get hot enough to roll the *back* windows down while driving...;)
Because it allows the sysadmin to double-click on a binary file. And presumably it will do smart things like migrating a previous install, instead of just overwriting a previous install and possibly not working.
I dunno - I've known a lot of sysadmins over the years, and most of us *don't* prefer to "double click on a binary". I've always created a versioned directory with things like this (so I have "firefox-0.8", "firefox-0.9", etc, with "firefox" symlinked to the current version), and preferences are stored in users homedirs anyway, so there's really no migrating to be done except possibly to preferences after the user starts it for the first time.
Besides, for the "sysadmin" (yes, in quotes) who has to double-click on things, double clicking on the tarball will probably open up a decompression utility. For the user who doesn't understand sudo, they're probably also not maintaining a system for anyone but themselves, and could just as easily "cd ~/bin && tar xzf downloadfile.tgz".:) That user probably doesn't know about any of the graphical sudo-esque programs, either, and really should wait for their vendor to come out with a package for them.
BTW, is it weird that I want things to be more command-line unpolished ugly difficult-for-newbies than a Debian user does?;)
Firefox now comes with an installer for Linux/GTK2 users. The new installer makes the installation process much simpler."
Before - "sudo tar xvzf" the downloaded file, run./firefox/firefox.
After - give root permission to access your X display, start the installer as root to install to a system-wide location, wait for the GUI to ask you some inane questions, like whether you want to install any of teh 0 optional components or not. Run/crazy/path/to/firefox/firefox
Just how is the "after" step simpler? It was pretty darned simple before, IMHO, whereas it's a pain now to remote pugrade (I know there's still a tarball available, but I *like* to complain)...
Go to www.cups.org, click on Documentation, and read the Software Admin guide. Optionally, read the software Users manual later on. It's not short, but it's pretty clear and does detail the steps involved in building, installing, and configuring. CUPS is a complicated system, and you can't really get it with just a 1-page howto. That's like saying "I want a short, clearly written explanation on how to write assembly code". Sure, there are just a few assembler commands - but you won't get the most out of it unless you understand how the stuff works...:) That's kindof a drawback to Linux for those who wanna "click and go" - but then, those people probably should use one of the common distros that already has CUPS installed and has a wizard for configuring the printers (I prefer SuSE in that regard, but anyting in a shiny box should do that for you). If you're running Slackware, then you *expect* to have to read some docs.;)
The objective's weak (I prefer those that start with "to find a job that blah" - like you're answering the question "Objective?"), and the education should come after the other two parts (which are fine in the order I see them). I'd leave the school before college out, unless you're applying for a job where you know an important person's an alumnus, etc. The extra education stuff otherwise just increases the amount of scrolling needed, and basically wastes my time before I get to the part I care about - skills + experience (skills). I've observed 0 correlation bewteen diplomas and skills, the job requires skills but not a diploma, and I'm only vaugely curious what level of education you've completed.:)
BTW, it's too bad you're not in Central IL and that we're not actively hiring. We could use a programmer with music background, and I'd personally recommend you even if your resume was just the line "core audacity developer" and your name. That's our primary recording and editing software, and I can't tell you how much I wish our programmers better understood the concept of abstraction. The detail there, BTW, is a good part of the resume, and I like the Tech skills section.
BeOS is 1) dead (unless you could the variants that popped up later) and 2) not open source. It's really cool (yup, I bought it and actually used it for a good while) and definately marginal, but none the less...
Ever download the windows drivers for an HP Printer? The most recent ones I've grabbed have been in the 40+MB range, since they include a bunch of crap that I don't care about on top of the drivers...
BTW, I can take a current SuSE, install it, and about 2/3 of the time it'll detect my printer and set it up for me even better than windows. Teh remaining third takes a couple of minutes to use the same setup procedure as windows, essentially - click "printers" in YaST, select the port, select the printer type, click "OK". Sharing? Samba supports printer sharing out of the box - it usually just takes uncommenting the "[printers]" share lines in smb.conf and the stuff magically appears. Cups supports ipp sharing, just enable that in the cupsd.conf file. The cups project, BTW, is great. LPD sucks. Don't use LPD.
1/2 of a 40lb bag of bird seed, lifted to the side. Result: similar to the cans - it lifts fine, but is approaching my limit. This is still not anywhere as cool as a gymnast doing an Iron Cross, though (and yes, I know those are different muscles)...
The *poster* claims to be "Indian American", not the comic book hero. Just ignore that idiocy of claiming to be "notAmerican-American" and everything makes more sense. That's a rant for another day, though.
That's just the camera angle / bad lighting / etc - it's actually directly in front of me. One article says "with arms extended", and doesn't specify whether that's in front, to the side, or what. The NYT article says "horizontally with his arms extended".
That said, it didn't feel much more difficult to lift an office chair from the side than in front., aside from the balance issues caused by 20 unbalanced pounds located ~3 feet away from my spine.:) I guess I can get the soupcans out again this evening, though. I'll let you know howw it goes.
Regardless, my point is that I'm not a very big guy, and I can do that. Ergo, it must not be all that amazing of a feat, and I'm sorely dissapointed by the thought that most adults can't.
Well, "titbit" isn't something I've heard over here before, and it stands to reason that if one "t" was gonna be replaced at the end of the first syllable, why not replace the other "t" too? I know what a "tidbit" is, but non-Americans English is different in several ways, so perhaps a "tidbid" is something else - like a variant of "titbid" or something...:)
It turns out, we don't have enough water, but we do have several cans. My wife and I weighed about 5 cans of soup, beans, and Red Gold tomatos at a time (scale only reads up to 7 lbs) until we had 21 lb, 6 oz in a pair of plastic bags (which, coincidentally, was all of our cabinet's canned supplies). Then she recorded while I lifted and held momentarily. The thing only records for a few seconds, leading me to choose a controlled descent over holding onto it for a long time.
So, after getting a crack for my expired mjpeg codec (why in the hell doesn't Canon include one with their camera if it's gonna record in that format!) and tweaking TMPGEnc so the rest of the world can view this feat in mpeg format. It's just a shade over 1 MB, but I don't have a whole ot of bandwidth so it might take a couple minutes to grab (hopefully this thread has died down enough to keep traffic down - I certainly don't need a slashdotting). I've also got video of dropping a 3 lb leg weight in there (actually, just enough to make it 24 lb 3 oz) and that was about all I could do. The grunting wasn't attractive, and I didn't quite get it level anyway, so it's not getting posted. I think the office chair from this afternoon was somewhere in between 21 and 24 lbs, but I can definitively say that I can, in fact, lift over 21 lbs with a straight arm, which surpasses my 18lb claim.:)
BTW, that's about 26 inches from my shoulder, which Google says ends up at 46.3 ft-lbs. Not terribly impressive, but about 5-6 times the torque my pushmower engine puts out... I'm gonna go out and taunt my pushmower now.
I just lifted and held an office chair like that, but I'm guessing it's only about 20 lbs - and our company camera is MIA, so it seems... That was getting pretty close to my limit, so 25 lbs might be about all I can do now.
I'm not big into sports that make it easy for me to get stabbed, but I put up some fence a few times, does that count?;)
I *am* the parent poster.:) I guess that, technically, I did grow up on a farm, which may have given me a bit of an advantage over the typical sedentary-lifestyle child. I don't think that my 6'2" 180lb body makes me a big guy, but I guess it could. Anyway, I head home in about an hour. There may be food waiting for me, but I fully intend to get a picture taken tonight, and to be either lifting 25 lbs with a straight arm, or wincing in defeat as I try and fail.;) I *know* that I used to be able to do more...
I've got a spool of cat5 next to me here, but I think it only weighs about 10 lbs now. Maybe a couple of months ago, before I rewired stuff...
Doing a little research, you're right. It it just a couple of weeks and then a gradual build-up until your weight levels off. Thanks for encouraging me to do more research before I rant again.;)
I dunno, any of those "target this one aspect" diets just can't be good for you in general. Reducing calorie intake will reduce calorie storage, and increasing calorie burn-off rate will consume calorie storage. Therefore, "watch calories and work out as a new lifestyle" sounds like something that usually works, which is probably why it's endured through the years. It's also a lot of work - especially as a lifestyle change, which probably explains the fad diet popularity. I need to work out more too, and also just can't find a way to stay motivated. My wife's pretty self-motivating - maybe I can get her on some kind of workout program (not that one - it's not generalized enough) that I can just join in on...:)
Are you telling me that your shoulders can only exert 20-26 ft-lbs of *static* torque on your arms? You, my friend, are either a small woman or a pansy - or possibly both.:)
I'll get the digital camera out when I go home in a few hours and post a picture, I guess. I may not hold it there for the full afternoon, but it'll get there.
Several times, BTW, only implies 3x to me, which would be 18lbs. I could do a 5 gallon bucket of water (a little under 40 lbs) a few years ago, but I don't have one of thse around the house. I think my wife's got a couple of 5 lb dumbells and a gallon of distilled water - that'd get me to 18 lbs. I'll see what I can find in the way of measurable weights to get me closer to your 20 lbs, though. Maybe a new bag of kittie litter - I think that's about 25 lbs...
Unfortunately, Atkins is popular because people have latched onto it as a fad diet. A diet won't really work, though, unless you stick to a relatively healthy lifestyle. Given the stuff that people give up for the Atkins scheme, combined with the high protein (die kidneys, die!) and induced chemical impbalance that's linked to depression, Atkins isn't likely to be something people can or will stick with as a lifestyle change. South Beach, while initially low-carb, seems like a better scheme - but then, it's not just low-carb for life...
I didn't know about the excercise requirement, though. Mostly because I have no need to diet and have only done cursory research on the thing.:)
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There are definately skills required that wouldn't be tested in autox - but I'm betting that those who could succesfully navigate the course would tend to be those who pay more attention in general, and who could therefore avoid an accident if such a situation came up. At least we'd have 2/3 better drivers...
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If realistic simulators were available, that'd be even better - but those kind of things would be even more expensive than just setting up some cones in the parking lot.
Anyway, I wish more people would realize that it's a good idea to leave an escape path in general. The shoulder's good - I've had to use it when my brakes failed, among other times that weren't my fault - and just not following so closely is a good idea.
I live in a smaller area than you, probably. Most of the accidents that I see are the result of someone pulling out in front of someone else. Actually, almost all of them have been like that. Those are largely the result of either inattentiveness or misjudging speed of approaching traffic v/s the speed the driver can accelerate. I'm really not sure how to eliminate those two problems, except possibly by mounting big spikes and some heavy steel plate to the front of my car.
It's a good thing he didn't have my mp3 system (yes, I had an mp3-playing custom-rolled computer in my car long before "everyone" was doing it) in there, then. I used a Cyrix chip, and nothing gets hotter than a Cyrix. I think that was even in theri marketing material - "we might run slower than advertised, but you can heat your house with our chips". The only thing keeping me from burning up is the massive cabin size in my 1980 Caprice (which is for sale now, assuming the newly built engine fires up this week).
While "click it or ticket" is a nationwide program with federal funding, it's enforced by the states, and the money from the tickets goes to the state and county of issue.
:(
Anyway, they're approaching the problem in the wrong way. The way to reduce problems due to accidents is to reduce accidents to begin with, not to make people safer if they're involved in an accident. A "no fault" accident is caused by incompetence or bad choices, in general. Enforcing turn signal usage would be a good way to prevent a whole pile of accidents (and a good way to prevent "road rage") before they happen, as would making people actually prove that they can drive *well* rather than just proving that they can memorize some following distances to pass a written test.
There needs to be a friggin' autocross course located behind each and every DMV, IMHO, and if you can't get the provided car (or your own, possibly) though the course in the prescribed time without running over some cones, then you can't navigate the streets adequately and therefore can't have a license. *That* would reduce the number of accidents, and would probably save more money than it'd cost. It'd also get some politicians voted out of office by the old and/or incompetent, and therefore won't happen.
It was clearly very hot in there. It was either "get out" or "strip completely down". While I wasn't pleased with "shirtless guy gets out of car before parking", it was far preferable to "naked guy gets out of car after parking"...
Several of the higher-end cars already have devices that will follow the car ahead of you at a pre-determined distance (which, unfortunately for the people who appearently drive where I'm driving, isn't configurable to be 8"). That's about all that's involved in driving down the freeway - keep moving but don't crash into the car ahead of you.
Hooray for "the future" courtesy of the 1950s!
That self-driving thing will happen just about the time our fusion-powered flying cars arrive.
Luckily, the state governments are engaged in a campaign to raise extra money, err, "save lives" by writing more tickets out for those *crazy* drivers who endanger everyone else by - look away if you're faint of heart - driving *without* a seatbelt! Ohh, the horror of enountering someone who's not bucked in to their car! Don't they care about how sad I might or might not become if they hurt themselves? :)
Sometimes I need to roll that window down while driving. Back before power windows, the speed limits were higher *and* people leaned over to roll their windows down. If you want a real shock, wait 'till I get hot enough to roll the *back* windows down while driving... ;)
Because it allows the sysadmin to double-click on a binary file. And presumably it will do smart things like migrating a previous install, instead of just overwriting a previous install and possibly not working.
I dunno - I've known a lot of sysadmins over the years, and most of us *don't* prefer to "double click on a binary". I've always created a versioned directory with things like this (so I have "firefox-0.8", "firefox-0.9", etc, with "firefox" symlinked to the current version), and preferences are stored in users homedirs anyway, so there's really no migrating to be done except possibly to preferences after the user starts it for the first time.
Besides, for the "sysadmin" (yes, in quotes) who has to double-click on things, double clicking on the tarball will probably open up a decompression utility. For the user who doesn't understand sudo, they're probably also not maintaining a system for anyone but themselves, and could just as easily "cd ~/bin && tar xzf downloadfile.tgz". :) That user probably doesn't know about any of the graphical sudo-esque programs, either, and really should wait for their vendor to come out with a package for them.
BTW, is it weird that I want things to be more command-line unpolished ugly difficult-for-newbies than a Debian user does? ;)
After - give root permission to access your X display, start the installer as root to install to a system-wide location, wait for the GUI to ask you some inane questions, like whether you want to install any of teh 0 optional components or not. Run
Just how is the "after" step simpler? It was pretty darned simple before, IMHO, whereas it's a pain now to remote pugrade (I know there's still a tarball available, but I *like* to complain)...
Go to www.cups.org, click on Documentation, and read the Software Admin guide. Optionally, read the software Users manual later on. It's not short, but it's pretty clear and does detail the steps involved in building, installing, and configuring. CUPS is a complicated system, and you can't really get it with just a 1-page howto. That's like saying "I want a short, clearly written explanation on how to write assembly code". Sure, there are just a few assembler commands - but you won't get the most out of it unless you understand how the stuff works... :) That's kindof a drawback to Linux for those who wanna "click and go" - but then, those people probably should use one of the common distros that already has CUPS installed and has a wizard for configuring the printers (I prefer SuSE in that regard, but anyting in a shiny box should do that for you). If you're running Slackware, then you *expect* to have to read some docs. ;)
I like it. I know that I said "education last", but now that I look at it, ending with a bit of a summary does work well. :)
The objective's weak (I prefer those that start with "to find a job that blah" - like you're answering the question "Objective?"), and the education should come after the other two parts (which are fine in the order I see them). I'd leave the school before college out, unless you're applying for a job where you know an important person's an alumnus, etc. The extra education stuff otherwise just increases the amount of scrolling needed, and basically wastes my time before I get to the part I care about - skills + experience (skills). I've observed 0 correlation bewteen diplomas and skills, the job requires skills but not a diploma, and I'm only vaugely curious what level of education you've completed. :)
BTW, it's too bad you're not in Central IL and that we're not actively hiring. We could use a programmer with music background, and I'd personally recommend you even if your resume was just the line "core audacity developer" and your name. That's our primary recording and editing software, and I can't tell you how much I wish our programmers better understood the concept of abstraction. The detail there, BTW, is a good part of the resume, and I like the Tech skills section.
BeOS is 1) dead (unless you could the variants that popped up later) and 2) not open source. It's really cool (yup, I bought it and actually used it for a good while) and definately marginal, but none the less...
Ever download the windows drivers for an HP Printer? The most recent ones I've grabbed have been in the 40+MB range, since they include a bunch of crap that I don't care about on top of the drivers...
BTW, I can take a current SuSE, install it, and about 2/3 of the time it'll detect my printer and set it up for me even better than windows. Teh remaining third takes a couple of minutes to use the same setup procedure as windows, essentially - click "printers" in YaST, select the port, select the printer type, click "OK". Sharing? Samba supports printer sharing out of the box - it usually just takes uncommenting the "[printers]" share lines in smb.conf and the stuff magically appears. Cups supports ipp sharing, just enable that in the cupsd.conf file. The cups project, BTW, is great. LPD sucks. Don't use LPD.
1/2 of a 40lb bag of bird seed, lifted to the side. Result: similar to the cans - it lifts fine, but is approaching my limit. This is still not anywhere as cool as a gymnast doing an Iron Cross, though (and yes, I know those are different muscles)...
The *poster* claims to be "Indian American", not the comic book hero. Just ignore that idiocy of claiming to be "notAmerican-American" and everything makes more sense. That's a rant for another day, though.
That's just the camera angle / bad lighting / etc - it's actually directly in front of me. One article says "with arms extended", and doesn't specify whether that's in front, to the side, or what. The NYT article says "horizontally with his arms extended".
:) I guess I can get the soupcans out again this evening, though. I'll let you know howw it goes.
That said, it didn't feel much more difficult to lift an office chair from the side than in front., aside from the balance issues caused by 20 unbalanced pounds located ~3 feet away from my spine.
Regardless, my point is that I'm not a very big guy, and I can do that. Ergo, it must not be all that amazing of a feat, and I'm sorely dissapointed by the thought that most adults can't.
Well, "titbit" isn't something I've heard over here before, and it stands to reason that if one "t" was gonna be replaced at the end of the first syllable, why not replace the other "t" too? I know what a "tidbit" is, but non-Americans English is different in several ways, so perhaps a "tidbid" is something else - like a variant of "titbid" or something... :)
It turns out, we don't have enough water, but we do have several cans. My wife and I weighed about 5 cans of soup, beans, and Red Gold tomatos at a time (scale only reads up to 7 lbs) until we had 21 lb, 6 oz in a pair of plastic bags (which, coincidentally, was all of our cabinet's canned supplies). Then she recorded while I lifted and held momentarily. The thing only records for a few seconds, leading me to choose a controlled descent over holding onto it for a long time.
:)
So, after getting a crack for my expired mjpeg codec (why in the hell doesn't Canon include one with their camera if it's gonna record in that format!) and tweaking TMPGEnc so the rest of the world can view this feat in mpeg format. It's just a shade over 1 MB, but I don't have a whole ot of bandwidth so it might take a couple minutes to grab (hopefully this thread has died down enough to keep traffic down - I certainly don't need a slashdotting). I've also got video of dropping a 3 lb leg weight in there (actually, just enough to make it 24 lb 3 oz) and that was about all I could do. The grunting wasn't attractive, and I didn't quite get it level anyway, so it's not getting posted. I think the office chair from this afternoon was somewhere in between 21 and 24 lbs, but I can definitively say that I can, in fact, lift over 21 lbs with a straight arm, which surpasses my 18lb claim.
BTW, that's about 26 inches from my shoulder, which Google says ends up at 46.3 ft-lbs. Not terribly impressive, but about 5-6 times the torque my pushmower engine puts out... I'm gonna go out and taunt my pushmower now.
I just lifted and held an office chair like that, but I'm guessing it's only about 20 lbs - and our company camera is MIA, so it seems... That was getting pretty close to my limit, so 25 lbs might be about all I can do now.
;)
I'm not big into sports that make it easy for me to get stabbed, but I put up some fence a few times, does that count?
I *am* the parent poster. :) I guess that, technically, I did grow up on a farm, which may have given me a bit of an advantage over the typical sedentary-lifestyle child. I don't think that my 6'2" 180lb body makes me a big guy, but I guess it could. Anyway, I head home in about an hour. There may be food waiting for me, but I fully intend to get a picture taken tonight, and to be either lifting 25 lbs with a straight arm, or wincing in defeat as I try and fail. ;) I *know* that I used to be able to do more...
I've got a spool of cat5 next to me here, but I think it only weighs about 10 lbs now. Maybe a couple of months ago, before I rewired stuff...
Doing a little research, you're right. It it just a couple of weeks and then a gradual build-up until your weight levels off. Thanks for encouraging me to do more research before I rant again. ;)
:)
I dunno, any of those "target this one aspect" diets just can't be good for you in general. Reducing calorie intake will reduce calorie storage, and increasing calorie burn-off rate will consume calorie storage. Therefore, "watch calories and work out as a new lifestyle" sounds like something that usually works, which is probably why it's endured through the years. It's also a lot of work - especially as a lifestyle change, which probably explains the fad diet popularity. I need to work out more too, and also just can't find a way to stay motivated. My wife's pretty self-motivating - maybe I can get her on some kind of workout program (not that one - it's not generalized enough) that I can just join in on...
Are you telling me that your shoulders can only exert 20-26 ft-lbs of *static* torque on your arms? You, my friend, are either a small woman or a pansy - or possibly both. :)
I'll get the digital camera out when I go home in a few hours and post a picture, I guess. I may not hold it there for the full afternoon, but it'll get there.
Several times, BTW, only implies 3x to me, which would be 18lbs. I could do a 5 gallon bucket of water (a little under 40 lbs) a few years ago, but I don't have one of thse around the house. I think my wife's got a couple of 5 lb dumbells and a gallon of distilled water - that'd get me to 18 lbs. I'll see what I can find in the way of measurable weights to get me closer to your 20 lbs, though. Maybe a new bag of kittie litter - I think that's about 25 lbs...
Unfortunately, Atkins is popular because people have latched onto it as a fad diet. A diet won't really work, though, unless you stick to a relatively healthy lifestyle. Given the stuff that people give up for the Atkins scheme, combined with the high protein (die kidneys, die!) and induced chemical impbalance that's linked to depression, Atkins isn't likely to be something people can or will stick with as a lifestyle change. South Beach, while initially low-carb, seems like a better scheme - but then, it's not just low-carb for life...
:)
I didn't know about the excercise requirement, though. Mostly because I have no need to diet and have only done cursory research on the thing.