Who the **** cares? Nobody knows but you and Slashdot. Oh, wait a minute...
But seriously, this is like asking how much you should pay the RIAA because you burned your mp3 collection to DVDs and gave a copy to your girlfriend (after stripping out the serial numbers amazon puts in the comments, of course)
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it hit the ground, does it make a sound?
Gamestop isn't the only seller of used games. I get mine for $15, which is considerably less than $50. You are right tho, I'm pretty contemptuous of anyone paying $50 for a used game too, but at $15 a used game is a steal;-). Usually the book is even in the case, not that they are useful for anything anyway.
I'm not trying to stick it to anyone. I just don't see any game being worth $60... I play them but I get bored of them pretty fast. Maybe if they made better games I'd pay.
Intel mobos (with chipsets and mobo made by intel) are reliable. Most people that buy AMDs get the shittiest motherboard they can get for $30 or suck the nVidia coolaid. No wonder you have problems.; ) AMD/ATi Chipsets are fine, it's the nVidia/AMD chipsets that have all (without exception!) sucked eggs (coincidence?). I know I had 3 of them and all three (of different generations, and mobo makers mind you, all "high quality" motherboard makers) were utter and complete shit. nVidia should stick to video cards and leave the chipsets to companies that know what they are doing. I'm on my second AMD/ATi chipset (on a daily use gaming/home computer) and they are rock solid.
If you get a real chipset made by competent engineers you won't have those sorts of problems. At the end of the day they are still cheaper than intel mobos, you just need to know what you are buying and stop trying to get quality for $30 because it's not happening.
I've also worked on hardware (since 1983) for a long time. I've built shit AMD systems and good ones. The pattern for sucktitude with AMD hardware is cheesy inferior hardware or nVidia chipsets. Stay away from those two and you won't have issues. I'm honestly surprised nVidia hasn't been sued out of existence with class action lawsuits for the garbage they try to pass off as a chipset.
AMD chipsets made by AMD/ATi work, and extremely well but you have to get a quality motherboard (MSI, ASUS etc) for them to live in, or your system won't work right.
Getting an AMD system right is difficult til you know what works, and if you don't know hardware, I would stay away from AMD too. Just buy intel cpu, memory, and mobo, and you can't go wrong;-)
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> I learned a few things. The first is to get exact specifications. Let there be no wiggle room, no "well I thought it would do that" crapola.
This is not realistic. You _can't_ get the requirements right up front because the users don't even know what they want until they have a system that doesn't have it. They think they told you what they want, but they didn't because they don't know themselves. A more realistic approach is to get the best requirements you can, and build enough time into the project to handle 1.5-2 years worth of scope creep because that's what's going to happen with any huge system.
If you try to hardline your users by forcing them into a corner with rigid up front requirements that they cannot possibly help you formulate, they'll simply go outside the company and work with someone who knows how to run a project better and you'll get laid off. (refer to Linus Torvald's rant about specs to see why specs and requirements done this way are useless, except as a starting point)
If you are prepared for scope creep, and frame the first release as an alpha, you will succeed. I've been doing this for 20 years and I've seen the approach you are talking about fail over and over even with PM's that have 30 years experience. They knew better but corporate policy forced them to operate this way. Inevitably the requirements were hopelessly incomplete and the users were pissed off when they had to sign off the project as complete because of what they agreed to, and in the end, the product did not meet their needs. The whole idea is to give the users the product they need. So even if you succeed in beating them on paper, and they are forced to sign off complete, you've failed.
Know what happens when you do this to your users? They hire contractors, who will be more flexible and give them what they want, and fire you. You are better off with a "Look this is a big system and it's going to take a while to get it right. Lets figure out what you think you need now, we'll build it, and use that as a starting point to flesh out your system."
XP for the win for corporate development, Waterfall = FAIL. Waterfall can only succeed if you are a software company building a boxed static product produced by someone that knows what they want.
At the end of the day a large corporate software project will take 10x longer than you think it will. I've never seen one that didn't. I've seen plenty that failed. Plan accordingly.
Actually, in some cases p2p _reduces_ traffic. If your neighbor is on the same subnet and a game patch is being distributed via p2p, he gets the packets first and you are just behind him, that's one less data stream that needs to enter the provider's network since you are largely downloading it from someone on your subnet.
IMHO overall, p2p itself neither increases nor decreases available bandwidth. The problems occur in how it's used and whether or not people "leech" (download but not allow uploads). When used legally and liberally, p2p is beneficial for everyone, _especially_ the ISP and it's subscribers.
Java is alive and well on phones. The AmazeGPS app I started 3 hours ago should be coming up any time now on my LG phone... hopefully the bluetooth (for the GPS Puck) isn't bugging out necessitating me to restart it...
iFitness is a perfect example. That took a ton of work and research to build and provides good information, which is valuable and useful. 4.5 * apps are very rare and that's how it's done. There are roughly one bazillion apps that simply repackage google maps.
>An Inability to put forward a falsifiable theory based on testable hypothesis (how does it work? No, really. How. Does. It. Work?).
The same can be said about gravity and electricity. Nobody really knows how they work either. We know that two objects that have mass are attracted to each other in the absence of gravity, and the force can be created with acceleration, but why? What creates the gravity well? Why does gravity happen? We can create gravity but still know absolutely nothing about it. All we have is the newtonian theories, general theory of relativity and string theory, which can be proven, but are not yet understood and these are very basic tenets of physics on which all sorts of other theories rest.
I'm not saying psychology isn't bullshit, I'm just sayin'... Even though some psychological theories can and have been proven, how and why the mind works is far from being understood... like 99% of science, especially "hard" sciences like chemistry and physics. That's why we have scientists; they are trying to figure the stuff out. If we understood it, we would have no need for scientists. Every theory that is formulated and proven creates yet more questions.
Almost every theory details "what is" and "what will", not "why?" or "how?".
I'm still not sure why anyone thinks that anyone else who makes an OS is out to "take down Microsoft".
I assure you that people that build their own OS are out to build a better OS, not take down another company. Let's face it, there's a lot to be desired with any of the OS's currently on the market, and most serve a niche. Their developers aren't trying to take down anyone. Apple is closer than anyone else to a perfect OS, but it has it's own set of issues, like closed ecosystem and only officially runs on Apple hardware.
Maybe Google thinks it can do a better job. Hopefully, for all of us, they succeed. It would cause Microsoft etc. to step up their game resulting in better OSs for everyone from all of the software companies that build them.
Competition is good for all of us, including Microsoft.
-Viz
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Most people don't know How-To use key authentication:-p
lol I use X Windows for viewing multimedia and viewing web sites. The rest of the time I'm in a shell. I can never find anything in Gnome or KDE. It's faster to type the command I want than it is to play hunt and seek in a bazillion levels of poorly organized submenus with a mouse. On top of that the interfaces for the programs I want are usually named differently than the actual programs themselves which adds to the confusion. They can keep it...
That's probably why when asked which I prefer, KDE or Gnome, my usual response is "there's a difference?". I could care less.
Usually GUIs get in the way. I don't bother installing them on servers at all. It's a waste of drive space. That being said compiz-fusion is fun lol, but it's primary purpose for me is tech bling. As long as the windowing system allows me to put a shortcut to a shell on the desktop I'm good.
Yes it can and does. If you are in a city with tall buildings and don't have line of sight to enough satellites, it uses cell towers. It does both, at least mine does.
Easy to do on the internet. BEP use sub bass for physical impact so a high bit rate is necessary to come close to properly reproducing bass frequencies or the impact is lost. That's why I missed the point. It's actually important to have a high bit rate to hear and feel a BEP track the way it's meant to be heard.
That being said, I'm not that into them, but I am an amateur mix engineer, and listen to their stuff for educational purposes, so it's an easy mistake to make. I mix hip hop (among other things) for local artists.
Vinyl level sound is infinite kbps because it's analog, there are no frames. Digital has better dynamic range, but for frequency reproduction nothing can touch analog. That being said, you get more predictable results with digital, a better noise floor, and the aforementioned dynamic range.
The "vinyl level" sound is much higher quality in at least one measurable respect, bass reproduction. That's why in a world class club, with a world class DJ, they will be using vinyl even if nobody there but the DJ can tell the difference or cares... Some DJ's are moving to CD's but there are still a large number using vinyl precisely for this reason. Deep, round, rich bass.
Eve is a tactical and situational game. If you suck at tactics (as in managing your RL squad mates) you die, no matter how good your ship is. If you have some leadership and tactical skills as a person, you'll win fights, even if it's only by using sheer numbers. Better in game skills mean you do more damage and take less. I can beat a noob in a battleship with an assault frigate, because I do a crapload of damage and he can't even run his shields right or hit me.
Sounds about right to me... A decent analogy is that a US Naval cruiser captain could easily sink a aircraft carrier (1vs1) if the carrier captain didn't know how to run his ship and didn't have the knowledge to give his men orders. If the carrier doesn't get planes in the air, it's a big giant defenseless target. If the carrier captain knew what he was doing, he'd have the cruiser sunk before the cruiser could fire on him.
Thats why you don't fly battleships unless you can _fly_ battleships. Just being able to pilot the hull around is easy, but it doesn't mean you'll win fights. You need the skills to use the thing.
Meh it's a boring game anyway. Even when it's "fun" it's only fun for minutes at a time between hours of boredom.
Agreed... The problem is if you group with other players and you haven't read the walkthroughs, most get all pissy with you and kick you from the group. They want you to know how to do the quest before you've done it because they are on their 25th loot run of the day and don't want to be held up.
I prefer to figure the stuff out on my own. Most people prefer to "follow the recipe" to beat the quest and have all the figuring out done for them. Part of the reason I don't play MMO's...
I get 0 satisfaction from playing that way. Any time you see kids run out of content in the first week, it's because they play like this instead of "adventuring" and figuring it out the "hard" way. They are in a race to get it done and learn the stuff before any of their friends have so they can run the quests with good loot 100's of times and have better gear than anyone else./blech
LOL so true. I ditched my Vu, the GPS puck, and my sansa clip (for car use anyway, still use the clip to run because it's tiny) for all of it in a single device. I don't need to reset bluetooth devices every time I turn my phone on to get the puck to work (which could take several tries and up to 10 minutes, ROYAL pita). GPS is shit tho, no turn by turn, which I had for free on the Vu (AmazeGPS). Unfortunately dealing with the puck sucked and took all the wind out of my sails for using it. I'll bend over and get the Tom Tom if they ever get it done to get my turn by turn back.
The 3GS also has a bigger screen and it's hella faster than any Windows smart phone or the Vu.
Yea, I'll take it! BTW you need to unlock the Vu to install third party non-att apps on it too, so I honestly don't see the difference, outside of the whole "Just Works (tm)" thing and the price. Verizon phones just blow chunks. Everyone I know won't even get apps because you pay for them every single month. What a crock. Talk about locked down...
I was going to get an iPod touch anyway and the phone was $100 more. In my situation it'd have been stupid to not get the iPhone.
* No * No * No * No mine is overheating and killing the battery real fast. It's not just the map's application, it's any GPS app.
I'll be taking it back today. Love the phone but if it doesn't work, I want my money back.
My LG Vu actually had a better free GPS app (AmazeGPS) than the one in the iPhone. It has turn by turn directions and is hella easier to use while driving, and I'm kinda missing it. Yes I "hacked" the Vu and got rid of the java policy restrictions. The only downer is you need a gps puck for it.
I just wish the Amaze people would port their GPS to the iPhone. That would be the shiz. Then again that would probably put Tom-Tom out of business on the iPhone before they get started. I'll take the slow ass Vu over the iPhone at this point and I'm glad I didn't sell it.
While I like the iPhone, I can see it for what it is, not what Jobs wants me to see.
Yea but Washington could spend sooo much on outfitting cars with a newfangled device. Washington is looking for ways to spend us to oblivion and put people from foreign countries to work. Preferably the program would cost more than it generates. That would be the republicratic way(or is it demublican)?
Also, you can maintain fitness with 3 days a week... It's not necessary to work out all that much. Go to the gym, talk to a trainer there and get on a 3 day maintenance routine if you must keep the job. I'm only doing 4-5 because I love to work out.
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Who the **** cares? Nobody knows but you and Slashdot. Oh, wait a minute...
But seriously, this is like asking how much you should pay the RIAA because you burned your mp3 collection to DVDs and gave a copy to your girlfriend (after stripping out the serial numbers amazon puts in the comments, of course)
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it hit the ground, does it make a sound?
-Viz
I'm not touching this hubris with a 20 ft pole.
-Viz
Gamestop isn't the only seller of used games. I get mine for $15, which is considerably less than $50. You are right tho, I'm pretty contemptuous of anyone paying $50 for a used game too, but at $15 a used game is a steal ;-). Usually the book is even in the case, not that they are useful for anything anyway.
I'm not trying to stick it to anyone. I just don't see any game being worth $60... I play them but I get bored of them pretty fast. Maybe if they made better games I'd pay.
-Viz
Intel mobos (with chipsets and mobo made by intel) are reliable. Most people that buy AMDs get the shittiest motherboard they can get for $30 or suck the nVidia coolaid. No wonder you have problems.; ) AMD/ATi Chipsets are fine, it's the nVidia/AMD chipsets that have all (without exception!) sucked eggs (coincidence?). I know I had 3 of them and all three (of different generations, and mobo makers mind you, all "high quality" motherboard makers) were utter and complete shit. nVidia should stick to video cards and leave the chipsets to companies that know what they are doing. I'm on my second AMD/ATi chipset (on a daily use gaming/home computer) and they are rock solid.
If you get a real chipset made by competent engineers you won't have those sorts of problems. At the end of the day they are still cheaper than intel mobos, you just need to know what you are buying and stop trying to get quality for $30 because it's not happening.
I've also worked on hardware (since 1983) for a long time. I've built shit AMD systems and good ones. The pattern for sucktitude with AMD hardware is cheesy inferior hardware or nVidia chipsets. Stay away from those two and you won't have issues. I'm honestly surprised nVidia hasn't been sued out of existence with class action lawsuits for the garbage they try to pass off as a chipset.
AMD chipsets made by AMD/ATi work, and extremely well but you have to get a quality motherboard (MSI, ASUS etc) for them to live in, or your system won't work right.
Getting an AMD system right is difficult til you know what works, and if you don't know hardware, I would stay away from AMD too. Just buy intel cpu, memory, and mobo, and you can't go wrong ;-)
> I learned a few things. The first is to get exact specifications. Let there be no wiggle room, no "well I thought it would do that" crapola.
This is not realistic. You _can't_ get the requirements right up front because the users don't even know what they want until they have a system that doesn't have it. They think they told you what they want, but they didn't because they don't know themselves. A more realistic approach is to get the best requirements you can, and build enough time into the project to handle 1.5-2 years worth of scope creep because that's what's going to happen with any huge system.
If you try to hardline your users by forcing them into a corner with rigid up front requirements that they cannot possibly help you formulate, they'll simply go outside the company and work with someone who knows how to run a project better and you'll get laid off. (refer to Linus Torvald's rant about specs to see why specs and requirements done this way are useless, except as a starting point)
If you are prepared for scope creep, and frame the first release as an alpha, you will succeed. I've been doing this for 20 years and I've seen the approach you are talking about fail over and over even with PM's that have 30 years experience. They knew better but corporate policy forced them to operate this way. Inevitably the requirements were hopelessly incomplete and the users were pissed off when they had to sign off the project as complete because of what they agreed to, and in the end, the product did not meet their needs. The whole idea is to give the users the product they need. So even if you succeed in beating them on paper, and they are forced to sign off complete, you've failed.
Know what happens when you do this to your users? They hire contractors, who will be more flexible and give them what they want, and fire you. You are better off with a "Look this is a big system and it's going to take a while to get it right. Lets figure out what you think you need now, we'll build it, and use that as a starting point to flesh out your system."
XP for the win for corporate development, Waterfall = FAIL. Waterfall can only succeed if you are a software company building a boxed static product produced by someone that knows what they want.
At the end of the day a large corporate software project will take 10x longer than you think it will. I've never seen one that didn't. I've seen plenty that failed. Plan accordingly.
-Viz
Actually, in some cases p2p _reduces_ traffic. If your neighbor is on the same subnet and a game patch is being distributed via p2p, he gets the packets first and you are just behind him, that's one less data stream that needs to enter the provider's network since you are largely downloading it from someone on your subnet.
IMHO overall, p2p itself neither increases nor decreases available bandwidth. The problems occur in how it's used and whether or not people "leech" (download but not allow uploads). When used legally and liberally, p2p is beneficial for everyone, _especially_ the ISP and it's subscribers.
Java is alive and well on phones. The AmazeGPS app I started 3 hours ago should be coming up any time now on my LG phone... hopefully the bluetooth (for the GPS Puck) isn't bugging out necessitating me to restart it ...
iFitness is a perfect example. That took a ton of work and research to build and provides good information, which is valuable and useful. 4.5 * apps are very rare and that's how it's done. There are roughly one bazillion apps that simply repackage google maps.
>An Inability to put forward a falsifiable theory based on testable hypothesis (how does it work? No, really. How. Does. It. Work?).
The same can be said about gravity and electricity. Nobody really knows how they work either. We know that two objects that have mass are attracted to each other in the absence of gravity, and the force can be created with acceleration, but why? What creates the gravity well? Why does gravity happen? We can create gravity but still know absolutely nothing about it. All we have is the newtonian theories, general theory of relativity and string theory, which can be proven, but are not yet understood and these are very basic tenets of physics on which all sorts of other theories rest.
I'm not saying psychology isn't bullshit, I'm just sayin'... Even though some psychological theories can and have been proven, how and why the mind works is far from being understood... like 99% of science, especially "hard" sciences like chemistry and physics. That's why we have scientists; they are trying to figure the stuff out. If we understood it, we would have no need for scientists. Every theory that is formulated and proven creates yet more questions.
Almost every theory details "what is" and "what will", not "why?" or "how?".
LOL or stare at rocks getting shot with laser beams. Now THAT'S exciting.
I'm still not sure why anyone thinks that anyone else who makes an OS is out to "take down Microsoft".
I assure you that people that build their own OS are out to build a better OS, not take down another company. Let's face it, there's a lot to be desired with any of the OS's currently on the market, and most serve a niche. Their developers aren't trying to take down anyone. Apple is closer than anyone else to a perfect OS, but it has it's own set of issues, like closed ecosystem and only officially runs on Apple hardware.
Maybe Google thinks it can do a better job. Hopefully, for all of us, they succeed. It would cause Microsoft etc. to step up their game resulting in better OSs for everyone from all of the software companies that build them.
Competition is good for all of us, including Microsoft.
-Viz
Most people don't know How-To use key authentication :-p
lol I use X Windows for viewing multimedia and viewing web sites. The rest of the time I'm in a shell. I can never find anything in Gnome or KDE. It's faster to type the command I want than it is to play hunt and seek in a bazillion levels of poorly organized submenus with a mouse. On top of that the interfaces for the programs I want are usually named differently than the actual programs themselves which adds to the confusion. They can keep it...
That's probably why when asked which I prefer, KDE or Gnome, my usual response is "there's a difference?". I could care less.
Usually GUIs get in the way. I don't bother installing them on servers at all. It's a waste of drive space. That being said compiz-fusion is fun lol, but it's primary purpose for me is tech bling. As long as the windowing system allows me to put a shortcut to a shell on the desktop I'm good.
Yes it can and does. If you are in a city with tall buildings and don't have line of sight to enough satellites, it uses cell towers. It does both, at least mine does.
Search for Navionics. They have charts for every waterway and yes they are locally stored so they work even if you are out of range of a cell tower.
That being said, I agree, the iPhone is not suitable for marine use especially on the ocean or in a storm.
Easy to do on the internet. BEP use sub bass for physical impact so a high bit rate is necessary to come close to properly reproducing bass frequencies or the impact is lost. That's why I missed the point. It's actually important to have a high bit rate to hear and feel a BEP track the way it's meant to be heard.
That being said, I'm not that into them, but I am an amateur mix engineer, and listen to their stuff for educational purposes, so it's an easy mistake to make. I mix hip hop (among other things) for local artists.
-Viz
Vinyl level sound is infinite kbps because it's analog, there are no frames. Digital has better dynamic range, but for frequency reproduction nothing can touch analog. That being said, you get more predictable results with digital, a better noise floor, and the aforementioned dynamic range.
The "vinyl level" sound is much higher quality in at least one measurable respect, bass reproduction. That's why in a world class club, with a world class DJ, they will be using vinyl even if nobody there but the DJ can tell the difference or cares... Some DJ's are moving to CD's but there are still a large number using vinyl precisely for this reason. Deep, round, rich bass.
-Viz
Eve is a tactical and situational game. If you suck at tactics (as in managing your RL squad mates) you die, no matter how good your ship is. If you have some leadership and tactical skills as a person, you'll win fights, even if it's only by using sheer numbers. Better in game skills mean you do more damage and take less. I can beat a noob in a battleship with an assault frigate, because I do a crapload of damage and he can't even run his shields right or hit me.
Sounds about right to me... A decent analogy is that a US Naval cruiser captain could easily sink a aircraft carrier (1vs1) if the carrier captain didn't know how to run his ship and didn't have the knowledge to give his men orders. If the carrier doesn't get planes in the air, it's a big giant defenseless target. If the carrier captain knew what he was doing, he'd have the cruiser sunk before the cruiser could fire on him.
Thats why you don't fly battleships unless you can _fly_ battleships. Just being able to pilot the hull around is easy, but it doesn't mean you'll win fights. You need the skills to use the thing.
Meh it's a boring game anyway. Even when it's "fun" it's only fun for minutes at a time between hours of boredom.
-Viz
Agreed... The problem is if you group with other players and you haven't read the walkthroughs, most get all pissy with you and kick you from the group. They want you to know how to do the quest before you've done it because they are on their 25th loot run of the day and don't want to be held up.
I prefer to figure the stuff out on my own. Most people prefer to "follow the recipe" to beat the quest and have all the figuring out done for them. Part of the reason I don't play MMO's...
I get 0 satisfaction from playing that way. Any time you see kids run out of content in the first week, it's because they play like this instead of "adventuring" and figuring it out the "hard" way. They are in a race to get it done and learn the stuff before any of their friends have so they can run the quests with good loot 100's of times and have better gear than anyone else. /blech
Always try to work with people you already know.
Playing as a team works better than being out for yourself.
LOL so true. I ditched my Vu, the GPS puck, and my sansa clip (for car use anyway, still use the clip to run because it's tiny) for all of it in a single device. I don't need to reset bluetooth devices every time I turn my phone on to get the puck to work (which could take several tries and up to 10 minutes, ROYAL pita). GPS is shit tho, no turn by turn, which I had for free on the Vu (AmazeGPS). Unfortunately dealing with the puck sucked and took all the wind out of my sails for using it. I'll bend over and get the Tom Tom if they ever get it done to get my turn by turn back.
The 3GS also has a bigger screen and it's hella faster than any Windows smart phone or the Vu.
Yea, I'll take it! BTW you need to unlock the Vu to install third party non-att apps on it too, so I honestly don't see the difference, outside of the whole "Just Works (tm)" thing and the price. Verizon phones just blow chunks. Everyone I know won't even get apps because you pay for them every single month. What a crock. Talk about locked down...
I was going to get an iPod touch anyway and the phone was $100 more. In my situation it'd have been stupid to not get the iPhone.
-Viz
Yea but the kernel is based on Mach, not BSD. It just uses all of the BSD goodness to make the kernel useful for something.
http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/whatismacosx/arch_xnu.html
Saying the OS is BSD is incorrect. _Most_ of of the OS is BSD, but the kernel is Mach ;)
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mine is overheating and killing the battery real fast. It's not just the map's application, it's any GPS app.
I'll be taking it back today. Love the phone but if it doesn't work, I want my money back.
My LG Vu actually had a better free GPS app (AmazeGPS) than the one in the iPhone. It has turn by turn directions and is hella easier to use while driving, and I'm kinda missing it. Yes I "hacked" the Vu and got rid of the java policy restrictions. The only downer is you need a gps puck for it.
I just wish the Amaze people would port their GPS to the iPhone. That would be the shiz. Then again that would probably put Tom-Tom out of business on the iPhone before they get started. I'll take the slow ass Vu over the iPhone at this point and I'm glad I didn't sell it.
While I like the iPhone, I can see it for what it is, not what Jobs wants me to see.
-Viz
Yea but Washington could spend sooo much on outfitting cars with a newfangled device. Washington is looking for ways to spend us to oblivion and put people from foreign countries to work. Preferably the program would cost more than it generates. That would be the republicratic way(or is it demublican)?
-Viz
Also, you can maintain fitness with 3 days a week... It's not necessary to work out all that much. Go to the gym, talk to a trainer there and get on a 3 day maintenance routine if you must keep the job. I'm only doing 4-5 because I love to work out.