If you do even moderate exercise, it is not possible to eat enough with fruits and vegetables as your sole carbohydrate source without gorging on fats, which is among things, uncomfortable.
You are supposed to also eat meats (fish, white meat, beef, etc.) Hardly gorging on fats, it's not like you go buy beef, cut off the fat, then fry and eat said fat.
Targeting (whole) grains as problematic for people with somewhat healthy lifestyles is just unrealistic.
This just does not make sense. "somewhat healthy?" So if they are not "hospital sick" you should not worry about the diet? I guess most of America agrees with you...
Try going for a month without eating anything but fruits, vegetables, and high quality cuts of meat and poultry, but being heavy on the vegetables.
Don’t forget home cooked meats. But yes, I did this and it’s amazing. Fruit, that I always found bland, is now deliciously sweet. The other day my wife bought a bag of dried fruit, and once I put it in my mouth I almost spit it out. It was a huge sugar overload. Once I read the bag it turns out the dried fruit have been added loads of sugars, not to mention additional "natural flavoring" and artificial coloring.
Why should that sound strange? Didn’t our body evolve to feed on animal meat and foraged fruits and vegetables? And these were hunter ages, where energy was required in higher amounts than in the harvesting ages. Evolutionarily speaking, harvesting grain has been a very tiny chunk of our lifetimes.
There was a time I would had found it strange, since I truthfully believed fats were evil and meats were the main cause of cancer, that we should be all vegans eating breads, beans, pastas and vegetables. After a lot of lectures from people that know better, I no longer believe this way.
Have you actually tried this? I have, but it's really hard to stay on this diet. At first you feel great, but then your body gets tired of all the fructose you are feeding it.
I am doing it right now. I started trying it about 3 weeks ago. I took a long time to be fully willing to try it, though. I love my rice and beans, and a big bowl of Alfredo Pasta.
I not only don’t feel tired, but I feel I have a lot more energy than before (may be the fact that today I am carrying 15 pounds less than I was carrying when I started too...) I used to feel dizzy if I stood up suddenly after a long period of idleness. This no longer happens.
I also walk a mile every day. Half a mile in the morning, half a mile in the afternoon. Have no choice as I park that distance away from work.
Note that I am not JUST feeding on fruits and veggies. I am also feeding on a lot of meats (beef, white meat, fish.) I balance my meals, between fruits, vegetables and meats. Never I end up eating just pure meat dinners, always accompany them with some vegetables, usually a combination of carrots, broccoli and cauliflower. Either steamed or grilled. For breakfasts it’s usually eggs with cheese, onions, peppers and maybe bacon or sausage.
I hear some people go this way but go extremist, only eating meats. Or hate vegetables so they only eat meats and fruit. The vegetables are important.
My wife is a diabetes researcher. She tells me all the carbs we eat (in the way we consume them in the United States) are, indeed, killing us. Ironically, I asked her if there are any studies on this, and she says there are not (that she knows off, it's not easy to get a grant to "prove" eating bread is unhealthy) but it’s visible in other non-focused studies and existing knowledge of how the body treats sugars.
Your daily carb intake should consist of fruit and vegetables, not breads or pastas.
Sure, if by lack of response you completely ignore their QNX Tablet OS
That thing that cant even do email???
(and future BB10)
Future promisses dont count as responces.
and that they've finally released a phone with no keyboard that doesn't suck (9860), for all those people that never have to type more than 140 characters at a time.
1) High school HOSTED reunions are becoming every day less because people are more likely to relocate these days, making it harder for schools to locate them and let them know about it. 2) In my experience, Facebook has actually increased high school reunions, without the need of the school inviting anyone back. Classmates just find eachother and plan their own reunions these days. 3) Reconnecting with classmates I dont ever want to see again was the reason I finally deleted my facebook account. There is a reason I never kept contact with them in the first place. 4) If your only reason to go to a school reunion is to be shocked at how the pretty girl is now fat and the sports guy is now a loser that just got off jail.... I think you belong in there because you didnt turn out too well either.
I run into apps that don't work on iPods because they were written for iPhones. I run into apps that won't install on the 3GS because they require a 4.
There are certainly some good examples out there, but those two are horrible. Fragmentation is mostly an issue going forward (developed for 3GS and suddenly does not works in the next generation?!!) Although the iPod vz iPhone may be close to be a viable example, the only reason an app will not work in that is due to feature sets. Example: an app that uses the camera flash as a flash light will not work in an iPod, because the iPod has no flash light! Sure, allow me to install it to.... what? That's not real fragmentation.
The only real lines of fragmentation (at least with my experience developing for it) are: Resolution: (3 varieties for original iPhones, Retina iPhones and iPads) Processor power (mostly for games) 3 CPU performance tiers (4 if you count the original iPhone chip but that is already obsolete and not sold or supported.)
With Android you have a huge line of graphic chips and CPUs, with very different storage models and resolutions and memory size. It is very nice that Google provides a site showing how many phones are at various resolution "buckets" and OS versions, but there is no comprehensive source to actually even know:
How many phones run on every specific screen resolution? How many phones run specific graphic chips? How many phones run specific CPU speed? How much installation app storage devices have (I'd settle for buckets there)?
These are all points that make you actually able to determine if it's worth even start developing for the platform. A game developer does not care how many android phones are out there. Heck, we don’t care how many are there with 4" screens. But we need to know how many phones out there actually can run the type of game we are working on. Sure, Apple does not give us a comprehensive list of active iPhones, but we know that there are only 3 possible specs to worry about for a 3 year deployment window.
The app storage is very important because larger apps can have trouble installing on phones with too little memory. My wife's now retired Samsung Gravity S was not even able to install Angry Birds, and that was the first thing she tried when she got the phone! Day one and no space to install anything but basic IM apps.
Google did say there are some undocumented APIs they changed in ICS. Unlike Apple, they allowed developers to use at their own risk. This means many apps (percentage unknown but I would guess less than 10%, in an optimistic mindset) will just break under ICS.
ICS is a bigger structural change than previous revisions, from a developer standpoint, just because of this.
Since google is at the end of the day just a huge web based ad agency, you are forced to watch a wireless internet connected screen thats feeding you audio commercials all the way to your destination.:P
But according to the poster I replied to, only some one that can't even install their own browser would want to willingly see ads. Thats why I felt the need to note that.
I am a power user, and I actually don’t mind ads. I HATE pop-up ads, though. The ones that show in the middle of the screen while you are reading, the ones that do crazy stuff when you accidentally roll over them, and every single flash based ad. But plain image banner ads, PNGs or GIFs, I don’t mind. Heck sometimes I like them. In some sites they let me know of products I care for (like upcoming games.)
I currently manually manage ad block in Firefox to allow certain sites to show their ads because I know the sites in question don't allow obtrusive stuff.
That being said: they stated that they can’t automatically determine what is an obtrusive ad so they are instead going for a kind of partnership program where they won’t block ads from specific sources that agreed to their terms. That is garbage. If you ever dealt with an ad agency you should know they WILL push as hard as they can and they will slowly violate the agreement terms and annoy users like most already do.
When someone says "this is the best tool available", you can’t say "that’s not true, because this one is sufficient". You CAN say it's sufficient and leave it at that, but that tool being sufficient does not nullify the statement of the other tool being "the best."
The fact remains that there's no good reason for the vast majority of people to be subjected "Word Perfect wannabes".
I don’t think it was called that in this thread. Just a toy compared to word. Got to say it’s rather true. In 2011, OpenOffice and LibreOffice both feel as if they were 1995 software. It’s usable. As I noted, I use it. But it IS a toy compared to Word.
The App Store actually accomodates for that by allowing the software to be entirely free. Apple does not collect any kind of comission or fee from free app distribution.
Its hard to keep track of that. I know they often back in and out of individual sales, but never have I seen them offer the tool at an acceptable price.
Also the linked seem to be PC only. I cant seem to find Excel Mac for standalone sale. Not that I think it would be woth it, the Home edition allows 3 users, 3 macs, and incluedes the usual trinity for 149.95.
First note I actually agree with you in that Apple is not anti-open source. Heck, look at webkit!!!
But there is something you are wrong there about, and not because of any apple issues but because of GPL wording.
I don’t know the exact details, but from all I have gathered the point is that anything you do with a GPL licensed codebase needs to be redistributable in its final form, on top of granting access to the source code. Giving access to the source code and telling the user he can compile and then work around Apple's restrictions to get the app running in their devices does not seem to be acceptable.
For the App Store to be GPL compliant, they have to allow developers to opt out of the DRM, and allow the apps that were originally downloaded from the app store to be installed in anyone's device, even if they were received via email.
I'm not saying they HAVE to do this, though. As you note, the GPL compliance issue is only an issue in large open source projects where at least one contributor has an issue with the software being in the Apple store. If all contributors agree, the software can be re-licensed for the purpose of Apple App Store current form of distribution.
So what you're saying is that GPL is incompatible with the app store, not that the app store is incompatible with open source.
Thats exactly what I'm saying, yes.:)
GPL is designed to not work with things like the app store, its funny when it works as intended people blame the other guy for the fact that its a rather restrictive license.
I personally am not fond of the GPL. If you want to be all hardcore about software freedom, you dont hold hostage the user about him also being equally hardcore.
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If you do even moderate exercise, it is not possible to eat enough with fruits and vegetables as your sole carbohydrate source without gorging on fats, which is among things, uncomfortable.
You are supposed to also eat meats (fish, white meat, beef, etc.) Hardly gorging on fats, it's not like you go buy beef, cut off the fat, then fry and eat said fat.
Targeting (whole) grains as problematic for people with somewhat healthy lifestyles is just unrealistic.
This just does not make sense. "somewhat healthy?" So if they are not "hospital sick" you should not worry about the diet? I guess most of America agrees with you...
Try going for a month without eating anything but fruits, vegetables, and high quality cuts of meat and poultry, but being heavy on the vegetables.
Don’t forget home cooked meats. But yes, I did this and it’s amazing. Fruit, that I always found bland, is now deliciously sweet. The other day my wife bought a bag of dried fruit, and once I put it in my mouth I almost spit it out. It was a huge sugar overload. Once I read the bag it turns out the dried fruit have been added loads of sugars, not to mention additional "natural flavoring" and artificial coloring.
Why should that sound strange? Didn’t our body evolve to feed on animal meat and foraged fruits and vegetables? And these were hunter ages, where energy was required in higher amounts than in the harvesting ages. Evolutionarily speaking, harvesting grain has been a very tiny chunk of our lifetimes.
There was a time I would had found it strange, since I truthfully believed fats were evil and meats were the main cause of cancer, that we should be all vegans eating breads, beans, pastas and vegetables. After a lot of lectures from people that know better, I no longer believe this way.
Have you actually tried this? I have, but it's really hard to stay on this diet. At first you feel great, but then your body gets tired of all the fructose you are feeding it.
I am doing it right now. I started trying it about 3 weeks ago. I took a long time to be fully willing to try it, though. I love my rice and beans, and a big bowl of Alfredo Pasta.
I not only don’t feel tired, but I feel I have a lot more energy than before (may be the fact that today I am carrying 15 pounds less than I was carrying when I started too...) I used to feel dizzy if I stood up suddenly after a long period of idleness. This no longer happens.
I also walk a mile every day. Half a mile in the morning, half a mile in the afternoon. Have no choice as I park that distance away from work.
Note that I am not JUST feeding on fruits and veggies. I am also feeding on a lot of meats (beef, white meat, fish.) I balance my meals, between fruits, vegetables and meats. Never I end up eating just pure meat dinners, always accompany them with some vegetables, usually a combination of carrots, broccoli and cauliflower. Either steamed or grilled. For breakfasts it’s usually eggs with cheese, onions, peppers and maybe bacon or sausage.
I hear some people go this way but go extremist, only eating meats. Or hate vegetables so they only eat meats and fruit. The vegetables are important.
My wife is a diabetes researcher. She tells me all the carbs we eat (in the way we consume them in the United States) are, indeed, killing us. Ironically, I asked her if there are any studies on this, and she says there are not (that she knows off, it's not easy to get a grant to "prove" eating bread is unhealthy) but it’s visible in other non-focused studies and existing knowledge of how the body treats sugars.
Your daily carb intake should consist of fruit and vegetables, not breads or pastas.
When Glen Beck does not support a republican, you KNOW he cant win.
Wow... there are actually people out there that will defend RIM's standing on this??? Just wow...
They had to pass the warning through Q&A to make sure it was not buggy.
Prepare for the Fox News Headlines: Apple financing potential terrorists?
I would not be shocked if this was ALL Fox News saw in this press release.
Sure, if by lack of response you completely ignore their QNX Tablet OS
That thing that cant even do email???
(and future BB10)
Future promisses dont count as responces.
and that they've finally released a phone with no keyboard that doesn't suck (9860), for all those people that never have to type more than 140 characters at a time.
And it only took them 4 years to do this!
But I bet not even Microsoft can kill BB OS any fastr than RIM!!!!
1) High school HOSTED reunions are becoming every day less because people are more likely to relocate these days, making it harder for schools to locate them and let them know about it.
2) In my experience, Facebook has actually increased high school reunions, without the need of the school inviting anyone back. Classmates just find eachother and plan their own reunions these days.
3) Reconnecting with classmates I dont ever want to see again was the reason I finally deleted my facebook account. There is a reason I never kept contact with them in the first place.
4) If your only reason to go to a school reunion is to be shocked at how the pretty girl is now fat and the sports guy is now a loser that just got off jail.... I think you belong in there because you didnt turn out too well either.
I run into apps that don't work on iPods because they were written for iPhones. I run into apps that won't install on the 3GS because they require a 4.
There are certainly some good examples out there, but those two are horrible. Fragmentation is mostly an issue going forward (developed for 3GS and suddenly does not works in the next generation?!!) Although the iPod vz iPhone may be close to be a viable example, the only reason an app will not work in that is due to feature sets. Example: an app that uses the camera flash as a flash light will not work in an iPod, because the iPod has no flash light! Sure, allow me to install it to.... what? That's not real fragmentation.
The only real lines of fragmentation (at least with my experience developing for it) are:
Resolution: (3 varieties for original iPhones, Retina iPhones and iPads)
Processor power (mostly for games) 3 CPU performance tiers (4 if you count the original iPhone chip but that is already obsolete and not sold or supported.)
With Android you have a huge line of graphic chips and CPUs, with very different storage models and resolutions and memory size. It is very nice that Google provides a site showing how many phones are at various resolution "buckets" and OS versions, but there is no comprehensive source to actually even know:
How many phones run on every specific screen resolution?
How many phones run specific graphic chips?
How many phones run specific CPU speed?
How much installation app storage devices have (I'd settle for buckets there)?
These are all points that make you actually able to determine if it's worth even start developing for the platform. A game developer does not care how many android phones are out there. Heck, we don’t care how many are there with 4" screens. But we need to know how many phones out there actually can run the type of game we are working on. Sure, Apple does not give us a comprehensive list of active iPhones, but we know that there are only 3 possible specs to worry about for a 3 year deployment window.
The app storage is very important because larger apps can have trouble installing on phones with too little memory. My wife's now retired Samsung Gravity S was not even able to install Angry Birds, and that was the first thing she tried when she got the phone! Day one and no space to install anything but basic IM apps.
Google did say there are some undocumented APIs they changed in ICS. Unlike Apple, they allowed developers to use at their own risk. This means many apps (percentage unknown but I would guess less than 10%, in an optimistic mindset) will just break under ICS.
ICS is a bigger structural change than previous revisions, from a developer standpoint, just because of this.
Until the Doctor opens the Satan pit that is...
Don't be silly....
That was Cthulhu in the pit (strongly psychic alien taking over people's minds with squid faced minions.)
Seriously people, get it right! :P
"I'm sorry, I do not understand 'this is why me caress taking the home'"
There is a catch:
Since google is at the end of the day just a huge web based ad agency, you are forced to watch a wireless internet connected screen thats feeding you audio commercials all the way to your destination. :P
But according to the poster I replied to, only some one that can't even install their own browser would want to willingly see ads. Thats why I felt the need to note that.
I am a power user, and I actually don’t mind ads. I HATE pop-up ads, though. The ones that show in the middle of the screen while you are reading, the ones that do crazy stuff when you accidentally roll over them, and every single flash based ad. But plain image banner ads, PNGs or GIFs, I don’t mind. Heck sometimes I like them. In some sites they let me know of products I care for (like upcoming games.)
I currently manually manage ad block in Firefox to allow certain sites to show their ads because I know the sites in question don't allow obtrusive stuff.
That being said: they stated that they can’t automatically determine what is an obtrusive ad so they are instead going for a kind of partnership program where they won’t block ads from specific sources that agreed to their terms. That is garbage. If you ever dealt with an ad agency you should know they WILL push as hard as they can and they will slowly violate the agreement terms and annoy users like most already do.
http://latexinword.sourceforge.net/
I was thinking iOS but you are right. I forgot about the Mac App Store.
So?
When someone says "this is the best tool available", you can’t say "that’s not true, because this one is sufficient". You CAN say it's sufficient and leave it at that, but that tool being sufficient does not nullify the statement of the other tool being "the best."
The fact remains that there's no good reason for the vast majority of people to be subjected "Word Perfect wannabes".
I don’t think it was called that in this thread. Just a toy compared to word. Got to say it’s rather true. In 2011, OpenOffice and LibreOffice both feel as if they were 1995 software. It’s usable. As I noted, I use it. But it IS a toy compared to Word.
The App Store actually accomodates for that by allowing the software to be entirely free. Apple does not collect any kind of comission or fee from free app distribution.
Its hard to keep track of that. I know they often back in and out of individual sales, but never have I seen them offer the tool at an acceptable price.
Also the linked seem to be PC only. I cant seem to find Excel Mac for standalone sale. Not that I think it would be woth it, the Home edition allows 3 users, 3 macs, and incluedes the usual trinity for 149.95.
First note I actually agree with you in that Apple is not anti-open source. Heck, look at webkit!!!
But there is something you are wrong there about, and not because of any apple issues but because of GPL wording.
I don’t know the exact details, but from all I have gathered the point is that anything you do with a GPL licensed codebase needs to be redistributable in its final form, on top of granting access to the source code. Giving access to the source code and telling the user he can compile and then work around Apple's restrictions to get the app running in their devices does not seem to be acceptable.
For the App Store to be GPL compliant, they have to allow developers to opt out of the DRM, and allow the apps that were originally downloaded from the app store to be installed in anyone's device, even if they were received via email.
I'm not saying they HAVE to do this, though. As you note, the GPL compliance issue is only an issue in large open source projects where at least one contributor has an issue with the software being in the Apple store. If all contributors agree, the software can be re-licensed for the purpose of Apple App Store current form of distribution.
So what you're saying is that GPL is incompatible with the app store, not that the app store is incompatible with open source.
Thats exactly what I'm saying, yes. :)
GPL is designed to not work with things like the app store, its funny when it works as intended people blame the other guy for the fact that its a rather restrictive license.
I personally am not fond of the GPL. If you want to be all hardcore about software freedom, you dont hold hostage the user about him also being equally hardcore.