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  1. Re:Yo Grark's Rules to losing weight. on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    This is what I did. Get a stop watch. Go to a gym (or buy some weightlifting equipment). Pick 6-10 basic exercises to work most of your muscle groups.

    Did you get any kind of professional advice on what exercises to use, or did you just chose something you thought was ok?

    I do my workout once a week, and I worked my way up to a point where it is a brutally hard twenty five minutes for me. The time commitment is tiny, I'm never bored while exercising, and I still get stronger.

    Just getting stronger or bigger muscles as well? I understand that body fat tends to 'convert' into muscles.

    Good luck, whatever you choose.

    Thanks, I may actually try your idea. Small amount of time appeals to me :)

  2. Re:Yo Grark's Rules to losing weight. on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    After weeks of pain and hate I'll end up liking it... check.

    After a while, you'll feel like going out now and then to run. Then you can meet girls in the park-- which is what you really want, right? :-)

    I suppose. But mostly (he grudgingly admits) not to die too soon.

  3. Its not flamebait you idiot moderator! on NYT On Google's Role In Internet Advertising · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Time to go metamod some moderators i think..

  4. Re:This is a nice thing about DVD's... on Firefly Coming to DVD · · Score: 1

    The whole economic system the show portrayed just didn't make sense (e.g. paying for an interstellar trip by hauling some cattle around). Etc

    Nobody payed for a trip by hauling cattle. They (the crew of the ship) was payed TO HAUL cattle. Because they owner had sold the cattle to someone on another planet (and as i recall that wasn't strictly speaking allowed)

  5. Re:Yo Grark's Rules to losing weight. on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    A few weeks later I decided to start casually running some trails and within a few weeks was going for much longer runs at a lot better pace and was enjoying myself immensely.

    I wonder if you could (and would) try and explain why it is you are enjoying yourself?

    I hate it. I wish I didn't. But I find it boring and unplesant. When I meet someone who says they like it I always ask them about it, hoping one day to get a lightbulb instead of a question mark.

    Never works though. Usually its something like "oh bring a walkman listen to music" yeah right, as if that would make it less boring...oh well

    Likewise I've gotten myself into the routine of a set of push-ups and sit-ups before I go to bed every night and now am able to easily keep up this very simple routine and feel restless if I don't.



    Doesn't that wake up you? I mean if you get energy from exercise, the heart starts pumping - the enringe gets revved up as it were?

  6. It will be shown in the UK on Firefly Coming to DVD · · Score: 2, Informative

    British SciFI have bought all of Firefly and will start showing it next month. Originally they were planning to show it in the same order as in the US, but when fans (from across the pond) started emailing them about the importance of NOT showing the pilot LAST (like Fox did!) they agreed to show the series in the right order (fancy that).

    http://www.uk.scifi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3 516

  7. Re:Mod parent down on NYT On Google's Role In Internet Advertising · · Score: 1

    LOL - well you may have a point.

  8. Re:Google aren't big... on NYT On Google's Role In Internet Advertising · · Score: 1

    If this is true the google is doomed. If they would rather build a new building than replace a machine this is incompetence that will cause not just a machine crash, but a company crash... when they run out of room or money...

  9. Re:NYTimes registration. on NYT On Google's Role In Internet Advertising · · Score: 1

    They offer you a deal:

    You tell them who you are, they let you read their pages. If you don't like that, don't read their pages.

  10. Mod parent down on NYT On Google's Role In Internet Advertising · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The REAL link to the article is this:

    No, the real link was in the story (which works just fine thank you) - what you are using as a backdoor that the NewYork Times doesn't want people to use. If enough twits like you keep posting that like they will remove it.

  11. They don't know on NYT On Google's Role In Internet Advertising · · Score: 1

    This is not that much of an inside look at Google as it is a guess, they don't know what hardware Google is running on, they are guessing and spreading rumours.

  12. Re:A solution - temporary local mirrors on Slashdo on Comparing Sci-fi Starship Sizes · · Score: 1

    Ooh, excuse my innocence.

  13. Re:OT .sig reply on Stash Your Hard Drive In The Attic · · Score: 1

    True. But its not just that. I don't like to be forced to have one mega partition where all programs will insist on saving data.

  14. Re:A solution - temporary local mirrors on Slashdo on Comparing Sci-fi Starship Sizes · · Score: 1

    Would never work. It would come across as blackmail. "Would you like to pay us to cache your site? You are free to say no but then your site will be trashed tomorrow"

  15. That explains it... on Stash Your Hard Drive In The Attic · · Score: 1

    He thinks the killer app for this one is for keeping your porn storage hidden, if you're busted by the cops.

    So porn is illegal in the United States? That explains why everybody is so trigger happy!

  16. Re:Seymour Cray said it best on The Hundred-Year Language · · Score: 1

    Why?

  17. Non now Bill on HD DVD Coming Very Soon · · Score: 1

    Take a pill Bill!

  18. Re:screw them on HD DVD Coming Very Soon · · Score: 1

    Actually having faked my UA (thanks, Moz PrefBar) and looked at the video samples, they come in .exe format. Now I don't know about you but I am just a bit (!) dubious about running video files that are explicitly executable code.

    They are zip archives, with a self extracting stub. You can rename them to .zip instead.

  19. Re:screw them on HD DVD Coming Very Soon · · Score: 1

    And since I can't see the "stunning samples" in Mozilla, I'm not so stunned.


    Can't you just download the samples and play them in media player (assuming you have media player)

  20. Re:What's the point? on HD DVD Coming Very Soon · · Score: 1

    whatsoever (apart from region coding, which is trivial to remove on most all players, and only effects a small segment of the population).



    In Europe they are passing law that makes it illegal to import DVD's that are not region 2. This affects millions of people.

  21. Re:What's the point? on HD DVD Coming Very Soon · · Score: 1

    Remember DVD? The video format that you couldn't record to that had unprecented consumer adoptment rates? That comes with a variety of copy prevention technology (encryption, Macrovision)? Doesn't seem to have hurt it much.

    Perhaps that was because it was quickly discovered how to remove it ;)

  22. This just proves... on HD DVD Coming Very Soon · · Score: 1

    :) it has a dropdown menu for what browser/OS you want to impersonate.

    This just proves that Microsoft are full of shit when they say you must use IE - if all that is required is a differetn user-agent string, then they are simply censoring browsers. Not surprising of course.

  23. Microsoft er evil on Sell Your Computers, Keep Paying MS For Licenses · · Score: 1

    We always knew that. What's new?

  24. Re:Not A Joke on Congress to Make PATRIOT Act Permanent · · Score: 1

    >Just like the people on guantanamo.

    >All of whom are non U.S. citizens, and therefore

    >do not qualify for the protections afforded to

    >United States citizens under the Constitution.



    No really? Wow. Who would have thought.

    Twelve years of failed diplomacy on the part of the UN to disarm Iraq, yet Bush and the US gets the blame.

    Not the US, just Bush - that's what you get for invading other other countries. That and probably a shit load of new bin ladens.

  25. Re:Not A Joke on Congress to Make PATRIOT Act Permanent · · Score: 1

    Now, the 'temporary' measure appears to be a permanent fixture, which is probably only fair since the "war on terrorism" itself will likely last longer than any of us will live.


    Indeed - the war on terrorism that Hitler started hasn't really ended yet, has it?