I'm certain that the PSN had to be audited as part of PCI-DSS compliance to process credit cards in the volume they had to. I'm sort of shocked that they didn't implement some sort of tokenization to process credit card data, but if they were storing complete card data... weren't they encrypted? If they did encrypt the data, did the hacker steal the keys too? Just how badly was Sony owned, anyway? And if they were just storing this plain text, then they and their auditor is going to have some serious 'splaining to do to the payment card peeps.
They're going to have a long, difficult process ahead of them, with lawsuits, fines, loss of business, customer trust, penalties, processing fee hikes, etc. Might be while they're still down, that they literally CAN'T go back on line until they satisfy an outside QSA that they have their i's dotted and t's crossed. Don't get me wrong, they deserve what they're getting, but if CC info is involved, this becomes the new landmark PCI case. Should be interesting to watch for years.
While the fetus is inside her body, yeah, that's pretty much how it goes. If the father doesn't like that, then he should glove up or snip his shit or keep his cock out of the baby chamber. And I think you'll find that who ever makes less and has the kid for most of the time gets the money. Sometimes it's the man, sometimes it's the woman. How would you prefer this division of rights and responsibilities to work?
I could understand if you're railing against punitive alimony or spousal support. Or if you're point was somehow that fathers tend to get screwed on parenting time. But child support? If you don't like it, how else should it be done?
Did you just cite a sitcom (WKRP in Cincinnati) as evidence in a debate? I can't tell if this is a tongue in cheek piss taking or if you honestly believe a comedy bit happened in real life.
I'm just speaking from personal experience. Well seeded, reliable, hi-def shows seem to take about 24 hours to appear on the torrent sites I frequent. YMMV, and there may be outliers.
I think he's right to look at piracy as competition. But his cures are worse than the disease. I mean, give away your shows, simultaneous to air time, in hi def, with no interstitial ads. Just because any other way would not be competitive with piracy. Balloney.
First, if you want a high def copy of the show, you're going to wait an average of 24 hours. If the big networks streamed high def copies of the show in real-time, that is already a huge competitive advantage! You could air it with full commercials for the first 24 hours easily without turning away the audience. Maybe 24-48 hours after the show has aired, you can turn off interstitials and just go with an opening 30 second ad. This would also recognize that one of the chief annoyances to anyone discovering a show and catching up to it would be sitting through the same stale interstitial ads over and over again as they plow through a show.
You don't have to beat a competitor at every level to be competitive. The content producers have the following competitive advantages.
* They own copyrights and they are legal. * They can release their material at the same time as the show airs, or even BEFORE if they choose. * They can release pristine copies in high def. * They can properly support subtitles easily. * They are easy to find, and their websites SHOULD be free of malware. * They can hold archives of past shows in an obvious, easy to understand, search, and index way. * They can monitize some of these perks (early showings, subtitles, etc) with a subscription model if they choose to.
I'd almost prefer a model where I don't subscribe to channels per se, I subscribe to shows. I buy "season passes" to my favorites for $15/season. I'm sure they'll figure it out, but them "figuring it out" will not be them giving away their product, for free, in high def, with no restrictions whatsoever. If this character was NBC's CEO, they'd go bankrupt.
That's crazy, and it's not about the ruralness of your company. There is lots of metro IT shops that are run that way. That's about the lack of sensitivity to people's lives from the people on top. Not all places are like that. Brush up your resume and leave it for the next guy who is willing to be underpaid and used up. Don't be that guy!
This is even worse when you think about the naked money grab nature of it. He's releasing the blurays of the movies, then he's releasing these, then he'll release the blurays. Again. The man is just printing his own money at this point.
I've bought the THX remastered VHS tapes of the classic trilogy, the "special" editions of same, the DVD releases of the prequels, and the DVD release of original trilogy. I'm done. No more. Not one more red cent. Buying the prequels was already a bridge to far if I'm being honest with myself. The ONLY way I will EVER buy another version of Star Wars is if they make Bluray copies of the ORIGINAL series, no special editions. Or even better, make branching copies so I can select which I want to watch or in my dream scenario, blend in the stuff I like about the special editions (the improved models in the Battle of Yavin, improved matting on the Battle of Hoth) and keep the rest as is.
I've got high quality versions of the original trilogy ripped from laser disc. They do just fine, thanks George. Let me know when I can pay you for the old, non fucked up editions, and you can have some (more) of my money then.
Hey, I live in the boonies. Still have a quality library, that networks with other libraries, has online reserve and renewal, and all the other modern features that larger, metropolitan areas have. Just because one lives in the "sticks" doesn't mean one has to accept sub-standard services.
Good point. I actually had a counter argument in the back of my mind RE: Left 4 Dead, which uses a director system to ramp up the difficulty of the game, by playing with the size of and timing of the zombie hordes, and supply of health and ammo. A person that sucks at FPSs and a veteran can play the same game with wildly different difficulties, with the same end result: having to fight through a massive amount of zombies and just barely surviving to the safehouse.
I can imagine the same could be said for Dwarf Fortress. From what I know, the core experience of the game is going to be similar, with similar situations and encounters, even if the difficulty varies.
So you might be right. I still think the less strategic and more "arcadey" a game is, the less this will hold true. But it's just a feeling, and probably fueled not a little bit by some grognard standards I have for gaming difficulty now versus the "good old days".:)
Totally agree. As we talked about on my podcast, I want to know people were in the deep shit with me. When I talk about NES-era Ninja Gaiden with a fellow aging geek, and I see the look of pain flash on his face? I know. I know he knows. And I know he knows that I know. You know? That experience has currency.
If it had some kind of sliding difficulty scale, and he says "what do you mean? I thought the game was easy." What does that mean? Is he a god of gaming? Does he suck and the game took mercy on him? There is a shadow* of the same feeling war veterans get talking with fellow soldiers who spent time in the same conflict together. Well designed but brutally difficult games can spark that kind of "Band of Brothers" conversation in groups of gamers.
* A small shadow. A shade. Like, on an overcast day.
The single "best" story of zombifying parasites have to be the Sacculina barnacles. Read this to lose some sleep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacculina
The basics: Barnacle attaches itself to crab. Weaves tendrils throughout crabs central nervous system to take control of the crab and also leach neutrients from it. The crab stops growing and molting at that part. It will not engage in normal behavior like regrowing lost limbs. Anything behavior that does not serve the parasite is suppressed If the crab is a female, the barnacles sprouts an internal egg sac at the exact place a crabs would be and causes the crab to care for the eggs as if it is its own.
If the crab is a male? IT REWIRES THE CRABS INTERNAL PLUMBING AND *MAKES* IT A FEMALE!!
Truly insane stuff. I remember first reading about them in the book Parasite Rex (highly recommended, btw), and one biologist recounts the crabs behavior when it feels the parasite latch on to a joint in its armor. At first, the crab is panicked, flailing around, trying to scrape the damn thing off. Then, as the hours go by, and the parasite takes over its system, it slowly stops its resistance, until it becomes a zombie crab. It will then be used up and discarded.
Pretty horrifying, if you ask me. No crab deserves to go out like that.:)
One of the coolest moments at this years inaugural PAX East was getting my hands on an original Vextrex machine to play frogger and moon lander. It was lovingly maintained and restored, and the detail and some of the effects they pulled off were amazing. Don't get me wrong, it was crude as hell, but the effect of your frog dying, how it kind of shriveled up and deformed into a single point of light was the kind of awesome you're never going to see again.
Indeed. And when lipos go, they don't just go up in flames, or at least the ones in RC models don't. They produce an intense, almost blowtorch like flame that can cut through, melt, and ignite materials instantly. See the following video for an example of a 4000mah battery. That would be sufficient to power a 1/8th scale car for 10 minutes or so, or a 1-2lb stunt plane for a similar time. Now imagine something sized big enough to power a car.
There are containment devices sold that effectively (basically a kevlar/asbestos bag, although I don't think it was asbestos. Similar materials, though) prevents the discharge from destroying the surrounding environment. So I think you could engineer around this, but yeah. The dangers are very real.
As a power user I hated the ribbon for about four weeks, until I actually quit bitching and moaning about it and started using it. Now I prefer it, and don't like the former interface. Even for relatively advanced spreadsheet tasks involving remote data access with cubing and other analytic voodoo, I find that the ribbon is faster and easier to use for every task I use Word, Access, and Excel for, and on the rare occasions I have to use a new feature it is easier to guess at what category of task they filed it under than the old nested menu bar. Even our oldest, gnarliest, set-in-their-ways troll-beasts in accounting have grudgingly accepted and even begun to admire the ribbon.
Even worse, many standards business are forced to live with (PCI-DSS for one) require the kind of account policies you and the article decry. You can either require ridiculous password policies and be compliant or not and risk significant fines and penalties. The decision is completely out of the admin's hands. On the whole I think PCI has lead to good things overall with bringing many companies kicking and screaming up to base line security competence, but some of the requirements seem to cause as many problems as the solve.
And the United States, a self-confessed democracy over its existence, managed to kill at minimum one out of 50 of its own citizens in a civil war, eradicate a substantial fraction of its native population, forcibly import a substantial number of people for servile labor, imprison a large number of citizens based on coincident heritage of one combatant party during a mid-century war (but ignoring those of coincident heritage of other combatants), and expend a significant amount of post-war energies persecuting those who made the mistake of agreeing with the governing philosophy of a nation we had made an erstwhile ally of that conflict.
Goddamn what a great country! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!
Find a gym that offers a boxer's workout. If you're a huge introvert, maybe you can just observe. Or use the below as a starting point for a home work out, although I find having a trainer/instructor shouting "no loafing! on your toes! guard up! relax those shoulders! give it all you got!" at you and giving pointers on form is invaluable. The ones I've participated in do a really good mix of cardio/strength/resistance exercise. They are usually based upon some sort of work/rest period, kind of like rounds. You do work for 2/3 minutes, then rest for 30 seconds, then do it again.
It varies depending on what condition you start with and there are modifiers for almost everything if you can't do the full motion for any given segment, but a sample workout might be... Stretching, then 5 minutes of shadowboxing to warm up. 2-3 rounds of jump rope or sprinting around the gym. 6-12 sets of 10 pushups with some variations like planks and three steps thrown in. Sometimes they'll break it up so you do 30-60 up front and then 30-60 at the end when your arms are exhausted. 5-6 rounds on various heavy bags, working combos, and concentrating on good footwork, breathing, and keeping your guard up. Sometimes the instructor will have you do the last 30 seconds of a round in a constant give-all-you-got punching on the bags. A round or two one-on-one with the instructor with him wearing focus pads and leading you through combinations. A round or two of speed bag. Some TRX or other resistance training. 3-4 laps of lunge squats or barrel-crawls up and down the gym. Then there are the crazy exercises like "pick up chickens" or "chase the rabbit" that are just excuses to have you move around, wear yourself out and increase endurance. During most of this they put emphasis on staying on your toes and keeping your guard up, i.e. keeping your hands up to protect the face, which are most of the time wearing 16oz gloves. That alone is harder than you think. You will be sore the next day. I keep thinking I'll get used to it, but what tends to happen is I'm just able to go a bit further and harder in the workout than the week before.
It is the only workout I've never grown bored with. Some are more seriously oriented to boxing and some are more of a toned down aerobics kind of thing, it depends on the gym and the trainer. The equipment doesn't cost much (basic equipment such as gloves, wraps, and a jumping rope will set you back $60 or so, if you want a home gym a heavy bag and mounting equipment maybe double that, a round timer costs $20 for a personal one that works well, and then you can add speed and focus bags if you want). You don't need weights or lots of special equipment. It does an excellent job getting you into shape, toning, increasing muscle mass, and I find it is a good confidence builder and healthy outlet for aggression. I tend to do it Mondays and Fridays, which is good for dealing with a crappy Monday and blowing off steam to relax before the weekend, and I find that's about the recovery time I need in between the full workouts. I do some heavy bag work, pushups, and jump rope on the off days.
Again, you can do it by yourself but working with a trainer and some fellow "boxers" is the most fun. At my gym it is a nominal add-on fee to my membership to take the courses.
I've been through a similar journey, I found these books insightful.
I Don't Want to Talk About It -- A good primer on depression in Men, what causes it, how to break the cycle Nothing's Wrong -- This follows up and shows how men can integrate their feelings into their lives and communicate them with those they love. No More Mister Nice Guy -- This last one helps a few years down the line when you've got in touch with your feelings but maybe feel disconnected to your own masculinity or have trouble integrating things in personal relationships.
Well, if you could figure out a mechanism to clamp down on the ocean bed relatively quietly (remembering how far sound travels in water) and then release in a manner less noisy than opening some air valves, I'm sure there is a nation state out there that would pay for it.
If being a doctor required you to give up your entire life, I'd guarantee you wouldn't have many competent doctors practicing.
Which is why I question this always on call business. You probe a bit, you find out this is never true.
I don't foresee theatres investing in massive Faraday cages anytime soon.
Not all of them, because the primary customer of a multiplex are rude teenagers. But I expect to see some theaters catering to high end experience to do so. There are still theaters around with ushers, after all, and shielding a theater is much cheaper than hiring them for a pretty big improvement in the theater experience.
No thanks, I'll call 911 if I need them and I'm sure somebody will pick me up. Just because your SO is at the movies and otherwise unavailable, that doesn't mean the emergency services of an entire city would grind to a halt. Or do all the doctors in the emergency room all go out to the movies at the same time, leaving the facility totally bereft of talent and expertise? I'll take my chances that the administrators of these facilities aren't inept, and you can decide to do whatever you want to do when the day of no-cell-phone establishments arrives.
You are completely off the reservation as far as liability goes. There are many buildings right now that are effectively shielded (by accident of design or location, if not intent) and they aren't liable to doctors and sysadmins with overdeveloped egos, with or without warning you that you aren't getting a signal.
As far as reverse 911, if I were in my home, I wouldn't be blocking my own signal, so I could flee if needed. If I were not home, then I wouldn't need to flee, my residence, would I? I think I'm all set there too.
Look, if people are dying if when you guys miss phone calls, I don't see how you enjoy yourselves while you're out since you're just a weak battery or cell phone tower outage away from blood on your hands. I happen to think you are just over exaggerating the impact of you guys being off line for two hours to see a movie or go to dinner. If not, there are rentals and take out you know. Small sacrifices compared to being beholden to your job every moment of the rest of your life.
I would just love to go to the movies and know that I'm not going to be sitting next to some dork with a buzzing device, who yanks it out, blinds everyone with screen glow, and then steps on my toes as he exits to politely take the call. I don't know why that's so hard to understand.
So people who are on call don't deserve to have some sort of life?
I don't get it. You sign up for a job and voluntarily say you'll be on call 24/7/365, and only when people start blocking cell signals do people sit up and say "Wait a minute! I deserve to have some sort of life!"
Something is out of whack here. Either people have a really skewed view of their own importance in the world (likely) or else have trouble following the choices they have made about the way they lead their lives to their logical conclusion (also likely).
FCC might have something to say about active blockers, but passive blocking is A-OK. It is pretty easy to shield a building from cell phone signals as it turns out, and it won't be long before cinemas, theaters, etc do just that.
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I'm certain that the PSN had to be audited as part of PCI-DSS compliance to process credit cards in the volume they had to. I'm sort of shocked that they didn't implement some sort of tokenization to process credit card data, but if they were storing complete card data... weren't they encrypted? If they did encrypt the data, did the hacker steal the keys too? Just how badly was Sony owned, anyway? And if they were just storing this plain text, then they and their auditor is going to have some serious 'splaining to do to the payment card peeps.
They're going to have a long, difficult process ahead of them, with lawsuits, fines, loss of business, customer trust, penalties, processing fee hikes, etc. Might be while they're still down, that they literally CAN'T go back on line until they satisfy an outside QSA that they have their i's dotted and t's crossed. Don't get me wrong, they deserve what they're getting, but if CC info is involved, this becomes the new landmark PCI case. Should be interesting to watch for years.
While the fetus is inside her body, yeah, that's pretty much how it goes. If the father doesn't like that, then he should glove up or snip his shit or keep his cock out of the baby chamber. And I think you'll find that who ever makes less and has the kid for most of the time gets the money. Sometimes it's the man, sometimes it's the woman. How would you prefer this division of rights and responsibilities to work?
I could understand if you're railing against punitive alimony or spousal support. Or if you're point was somehow that fathers tend to get screwed on parenting time. But child support? If you don't like it, how else should it be done?
Did you just cite a sitcom (WKRP in Cincinnati) as evidence in a debate? I can't tell if this is a tongue in cheek piss taking or if you honestly believe a comedy bit happened in real life.
I'm just speaking from personal experience. Well seeded, reliable, hi-def shows seem to take about 24 hours to appear on the torrent sites I frequent. YMMV, and there may be outliers.
I think he's right to look at piracy as competition. But his cures are worse than the disease. I mean, give away your shows, simultaneous to air time, in hi def, with no interstitial ads. Just because any other way would not be competitive with piracy. Balloney.
First, if you want a high def copy of the show, you're going to wait an average of 24 hours. If the big networks streamed high def copies of the show in real-time, that is already a huge competitive advantage! You could air it with full commercials for the first 24 hours easily without turning away the audience. Maybe 24-48 hours after the show has aired, you can turn off interstitials and just go with an opening 30 second ad. This would also recognize that one of the chief annoyances to anyone discovering a show and catching up to it would be sitting through the same stale interstitial ads over and over again as they plow through a show.
You don't have to beat a competitor at every level to be competitive. The content producers have the following competitive advantages.
* They own copyrights and they are legal.
* They can release their material at the same time as the show airs, or even BEFORE if they choose.
* They can release pristine copies in high def.
* They can properly support subtitles easily.
* They are easy to find, and their websites SHOULD be free of malware.
* They can hold archives of past shows in an obvious, easy to understand, search, and index way.
* They can monitize some of these perks (early showings, subtitles, etc) with a subscription model if they choose to.
I'd almost prefer a model where I don't subscribe to channels per se, I subscribe to shows. I buy "season passes" to my favorites for $15/season. I'm sure they'll figure it out, but them "figuring it out" will not be them giving away their product, for free, in high def, with no restrictions whatsoever. If this character was NBC's CEO, they'd go bankrupt.
That's crazy, and it's not about the ruralness of your company. There is lots of metro IT shops that are run that way. That's about the lack of sensitivity to people's lives from the people on top. Not all places are like that. Brush up your resume and leave it for the next guy who is willing to be underpaid and used up. Don't be that guy!
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This is even worse when you think about the naked money grab nature of it. He's releasing the blurays of the movies, then he's releasing these, then he'll release the blurays. Again. The man is just printing his own money at this point.
I've bought the THX remastered VHS tapes of the classic trilogy, the "special" editions of same, the DVD releases of the prequels, and the DVD release of original trilogy. I'm done. No more. Not one more red cent. Buying the prequels was already a bridge to far if I'm being honest with myself. The ONLY way I will EVER buy another version of Star Wars is if they make Bluray copies of the ORIGINAL series, no special editions. Or even better, make branching copies so I can select which I want to watch or in my dream scenario, blend in the stuff I like about the special editions (the improved models in the Battle of Yavin, improved matting on the Battle of Hoth) and keep the rest as is.
I've got high quality versions of the original trilogy ripped from laser disc. They do just fine, thanks George. Let me know when I can pay you for the old, non fucked up editions, and you can have some (more) of my money then.
Hey, I live in the boonies. Still have a quality library, that networks with other libraries, has online reserve and renewal, and all the other modern features that larger, metropolitan areas have. Just because one lives in the "sticks" doesn't mean one has to accept sub-standard services.
Good point. I actually had a counter argument in the back of my mind RE: Left 4 Dead, which uses a director system to ramp up the difficulty of the game, by playing with the size of and timing of the zombie hordes, and supply of health and ammo. A person that sucks at FPSs and a veteran can play the same game with wildly different difficulties, with the same end result: having to fight through a massive amount of zombies and just barely surviving to the safehouse.
I can imagine the same could be said for Dwarf Fortress. From what I know, the core experience of the game is going to be similar, with similar situations and encounters, even if the difficulty varies.
So you might be right. I still think the less strategic and more "arcadey" a game is, the less this will hold true. But it's just a feeling, and probably fueled not a little bit by some grognard standards I have for gaming difficulty now versus the "good old days". :)
Totally agree. As we talked about on my podcast, I want to know people were in the deep shit with me. When I talk about NES-era Ninja Gaiden with a fellow aging geek, and I see the look of pain flash on his face? I know. I know he knows. And I know he knows that I know. You know? That experience has currency.
If it had some kind of sliding difficulty scale, and he says "what do you mean? I thought the game was easy." What does that mean? Is he a god of gaming? Does he suck and the game took mercy on him? There is a shadow* of the same feeling war veterans get talking with fellow soldiers who spent time in the same conflict together. Well designed but brutally difficult games can spark that kind of "Band of Brothers" conversation in groups of gamers.
* A small shadow. A shade. Like, on an overcast day.
The single "best" story of zombifying parasites have to be the Sacculina barnacles. Read this to lose some sleep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacculina
The basics: Barnacle attaches itself to crab. Weaves tendrils throughout crabs central nervous system to take control of the crab and also leach neutrients from it. The crab stops growing and molting at that part. It will not engage in normal behavior like regrowing lost limbs. Anything behavior that does not serve the parasite is suppressed If the crab is a female, the barnacles sprouts an internal egg sac at the exact place a crabs would be and causes the crab to care for the eggs as if it is its own.
If the crab is a male? IT REWIRES THE CRABS INTERNAL PLUMBING AND *MAKES* IT A FEMALE!!
Truly insane stuff. I remember first reading about them in the book Parasite Rex (highly recommended, btw), and one biologist recounts the crabs behavior when it feels the parasite latch on to a joint in its armor. At first, the crab is panicked, flailing around, trying to scrape the damn thing off. Then, as the hours go by, and the parasite takes over its system, it slowly stops its resistance, until it becomes a zombie crab. It will then be used up and discarded.
Pretty horrifying, if you ask me. No crab deserves to go out like that. :)
One of the coolest moments at this years inaugural PAX East was getting my hands on an original Vextrex machine to play frogger and moon lander. It was lovingly maintained and restored, and the detail and some of the effects they pulled off were amazing. Don't get me wrong, it was crude as hell, but the effect of your frog dying, how it kind of shriveled up and deformed into a single point of light was the kind of awesome you're never going to see again.
Indeed. And when lipos go, they don't just go up in flames, or at least the ones in RC models don't. They produce an intense, almost blowtorch like flame that can cut through, melt, and ignite materials instantly. See the following video for an example of a 4000mah battery. That would be sufficient to power a 1/8th scale car for 10 minutes or so, or a 1-2lb stunt plane for a similar time. Now imagine something sized big enough to power a car.
There are containment devices sold that effectively (basically a kevlar/asbestos bag, although I don't think it was asbestos. Similar materials, though) prevents the discharge from destroying the surrounding environment. So I think you could engineer around this, but yeah. The dangers are very real.
As a power user I hated the ribbon for about four weeks, until I actually quit bitching and moaning about it and started using it. Now I prefer it, and don't like the former interface. Even for relatively advanced spreadsheet tasks involving remote data access with cubing and other analytic voodoo, I find that the ribbon is faster and easier to use for every task I use Word, Access, and Excel for, and on the rare occasions I have to use a new feature it is easier to guess at what category of task they filed it under than the old nested menu bar. Even our oldest, gnarliest, set-in-their-ways troll-beasts in accounting have grudgingly accepted and even begun to admire the ribbon.
Even worse, many standards business are forced to live with (PCI-DSS for one) require the kind of account policies you and the article decry. You can either require ridiculous password policies and be compliant or not and risk significant fines and penalties. The decision is completely out of the admin's hands. On the whole I think PCI has lead to good things overall with bringing many companies kicking and screaming up to base line security competence, but some of the requirements seem to cause as many problems as the solve.
Goddamn what a great country! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!
Find a gym that offers a boxer's workout. If you're a huge introvert, maybe you can just observe. Or use the below as a starting point for a home work out, although I find having a trainer/instructor shouting "no loafing! on your toes! guard up! relax those shoulders! give it all you got!" at you and giving pointers on form is invaluable. The ones I've participated in do a really good mix of cardio/strength/resistance exercise. They are usually based upon some sort of work/rest period, kind of like rounds. You do work for 2/3 minutes, then rest for 30 seconds, then do it again.
It varies depending on what condition you start with and there are modifiers for almost everything if you can't do the full motion for any given segment, but a sample workout might be... Stretching, then 5 minutes of shadowboxing to warm up. 2-3 rounds of jump rope or sprinting around the gym. 6-12 sets of 10 pushups with some variations like planks and three steps thrown in. Sometimes they'll break it up so you do 30-60 up front and then 30-60 at the end when your arms are exhausted. 5-6 rounds on various heavy bags, working combos, and concentrating on good footwork, breathing, and keeping your guard up. Sometimes the instructor will have you do the last 30 seconds of a round in a constant give-all-you-got punching on the bags. A round or two one-on-one with the instructor with him wearing focus pads and leading you through combinations. A round or two of speed bag. Some TRX or other resistance training. 3-4 laps of lunge squats or barrel-crawls up and down the gym. Then there are the crazy exercises like "pick up chickens" or "chase the rabbit" that are just excuses to have you move around, wear yourself out and increase endurance. During most of this they put emphasis on staying on your toes and keeping your guard up, i.e. keeping your hands up to protect the face, which are most of the time wearing 16oz gloves. That alone is harder than you think. You will be sore the next day. I keep thinking I'll get used to it, but what tends to happen is I'm just able to go a bit further and harder in the workout than the week before.
It is the only workout I've never grown bored with. Some are more seriously oriented to boxing and some are more of a toned down aerobics kind of thing, it depends on the gym and the trainer. The equipment doesn't cost much (basic equipment such as gloves, wraps, and a jumping rope will set you back $60 or so, if you want a home gym a heavy bag and mounting equipment maybe double that, a round timer costs $20 for a personal one that works well, and then you can add speed and focus bags if you want). You don't need weights or lots of special equipment. It does an excellent job getting you into shape, toning, increasing muscle mass, and I find it is a good confidence builder and healthy outlet for aggression. I tend to do it Mondays and Fridays, which is good for dealing with a crappy Monday and blowing off steam to relax before the weekend, and I find that's about the recovery time I need in between the full workouts. I do some heavy bag work, pushups, and jump rope on the off days.
Again, you can do it by yourself but working with a trainer and some fellow "boxers" is the most fun. At my gym it is a nominal add-on fee to my membership to take the courses.
I've been through a similar journey, I found these books insightful.
I Don't Want to Talk About It -- A good primer on depression in Men, what causes it, how to break the cycle
Nothing's Wrong -- This follows up and shows how men can integrate their feelings into their lives and communicate them with those they love.
No More Mister Nice Guy -- This last one helps a few years down the line when you've got in touch with your feelings but maybe feel disconnected to your own masculinity or have trouble integrating things in personal relationships.
I'd go to a clinic, if I were you. You know, get checked out.
Well, if you could figure out a mechanism to clamp down on the ocean bed relatively quietly (remembering how far sound travels in water) and then release in a manner less noisy than opening some air valves, I'm sure there is a nation state out there that would pay for it.
If being a doctor required you to give up your entire life, I'd guarantee you wouldn't have many competent doctors practicing.
Which is why I question this always on call business. You probe a bit, you find out this is never true.
I don't foresee theatres investing in massive Faraday cages anytime soon.
Not all of them, because the primary customer of a multiplex are rude teenagers. But I expect to see some theaters catering to high end experience to do so. There are still theaters around with ushers, after all, and shielding a theater is much cheaper than hiring them for a pretty big improvement in the theater experience.
No thanks, I'll call 911 if I need them and I'm sure somebody will pick me up. Just because your SO is at the movies and otherwise unavailable, that doesn't mean the emergency services of an entire city would grind to a halt. Or do all the doctors in the emergency room all go out to the movies at the same time, leaving the facility totally bereft of talent and expertise? I'll take my chances that the administrators of these facilities aren't inept, and you can decide to do whatever you want to do when the day of no-cell-phone establishments arrives.
You are completely off the reservation as far as liability goes. There are many buildings right now that are effectively shielded (by accident of design or location, if not intent) and they aren't liable to doctors and sysadmins with overdeveloped egos, with or without warning you that you aren't getting a signal.
As far as reverse 911, if I were in my home, I wouldn't be blocking my own signal, so I could flee if needed. If I were not home, then I wouldn't need to flee, my residence, would I? I think I'm all set there too.
Look, if people are dying if when you guys miss phone calls, I don't see how you enjoy yourselves while you're out since you're just a weak battery or cell phone tower outage away from blood on your hands. I happen to think you are just over exaggerating the impact of you guys being off line for two hours to see a movie or go to dinner. If not, there are rentals and take out you know. Small sacrifices compared to being beholden to your job every moment of the rest of your life.
I would just love to go to the movies and know that I'm not going to be sitting next to some dork with a buzzing device, who yanks it out, blinds everyone with screen glow, and then steps on my toes as he exits to politely take the call. I don't know why that's so hard to understand.
So people who are on call don't deserve to have some sort of life?
I don't get it. You sign up for a job and voluntarily say you'll be on call 24/7/365, and only when people start blocking cell signals do people sit up and say "Wait a minute! I deserve to have some sort of life!"
Something is out of whack here. Either people have a really skewed view of their own importance in the world (likely) or else have trouble following the choices they have made about the way they lead their lives to their logical conclusion (also likely).
Then don't go out, even to the movies. Ever.
FCC might have something to say about active blockers, but passive blocking is A-OK. It is pretty easy to shield a building from cell phone signals as it turns out, and it won't be long before cinemas, theaters, etc do just that.