This site has a responsibility to the OSS community...
Basically... bullshit. This site is a collection of links to things the editors think are cool, and a large quantity of comments from the public on those things. It has never, ever touted itself as being 'journalism' or impartial in any way.
Now, your comment about the icon being not funny anymore or even detracting from the goal(s) of many Slashdot readers may well be true and full of merit, but Slashdot itself has a 'responsibility' to nobody.
Honestly, I've never understood all the whining about the Slashdot color schemes. I'm not colorblind or anything, and I completely fail to even notice the colors of the bars on the screen. And how can anybody say "Oh God my eyes!" about BEIGE? Seriously, if the Slashdot colors are that important to you, just slowly back away from the computer and go outside for a while. Sheesh.
But, they really aren't (and probably won't be) better.
Gonna have to disagree with you on that parenthetical part. The body is truly the most amazing machine, and nothing we can make now really stacks up to what the body can do, but for the foreseeable future, the human body will essentially be unchanged. 100 years from now, 1000 years from now, if we don't modify the body ourselves, the human body will pretty much be exactly the same as it is now.
So, basically a stationary target. While human SCIENCE is not only progressing, but accelerating, pretty much across the board. Where do you think camera technology will be in 100 years? Where do you think our knowledge of nerves and the brain will be in 200 years? Our knowledge of genetics in 500 years?
It's not only possible to envision extensions of today's technology that's can outclass natural human systems, it's really INEVITABLE that they will. It's only a matter of time before we'll be growing our own gene-enhanced eyes in vats and implanting them in every human to give them perfect vision. That time might be 500 or 1000 years... but it's coming. It would take a society-altering catastrophe to stop it.
The parent of your post never claimed anything to do with seating arrangements, he was talking about the flight having a known roster of who was on the plane at all. If flight 1234 falls from the sky, they know exactly who was on it; that's what he meant by identifying the corpses, not physically wading through the wreckage tagging bodies.
Oh my god, I know there have been a lot of comments about how this guy's a troll, but just reading that crap is amazing.
That is why I stood up for SCO; they were being attacked because they were vulnerable. Those that attacked them did so because they could in a clear effort to deny the employees, the stockholders, and the customers of SCO their rights and, as a number of veterans have reminded me from time to time, heroes died for those rights and I believe it is our.... No my, obligation to uphold them.
SCO is being attacked? Didn't they start all this? Oh, I see, they were just defending their rights that "heroes died for"... What a blatent pull at heartstrings. What utter crap.
Repeat after me: the stock market is *not* gambling.
I see what you're saying, but I'm sorry, to most people it is gambling. The vast majority of personal investors don't know the first thing about how to evaluate a company and therefore determine if the stock price is high/low and likely to fall/rise. These people listen to the "experts" on the news and/or their friends and simply buy what "looks good" to them, on the hopes that the stock price will rise.
This is effectively gambling. They throw $1000 at something and hope that they'll make some money. As far as they're concerned, there's an equal chance of it going up or down. They simply don't know if they're going to "win" or not.
Now, you may know something about investing and how to read a balance sheet, as I do, so to us it's not gambling; we can be fairly sure (although never certain) that if we buy a stake in a strong company we're unlikely to lose much, or if we short one that's obviously financially unstable we're fairly likely to "win". That's not gambling, that's taking educated risks based on solid information.
Most people don't do anything near that. They are gambling.
Okay. Hard to buy out that which isn't proprietary and, thanks to the GPL, can't be retroactively closed.
(2) lower the prices to the point where you cannot possibly compete
a) It's hard to beat free, although they're trying to do the TCO dance and make it look not-free. But apples-to-apples, Linux is free, Windows aint.
b) According to Linus, Linux already isn't competing. It's just trying to be the best little OS that it can be for whoever uses it. In fact, in the long run, MS will find it VERY hard to compete with that attitude.
(3) intimidate their existing customers to think that there will be retaliatioins if they go with you.
Yea, the FUD. Well, they're well into this, and from what I can tell, that didn't seem to slow Linux down in the server market. When the desktop is "ready", and it becomes more so every day, slowly, slowly, then all the FUD in the world won't be able to hold it back.
MS is on top, by a long, LONG shot. But to say they've "won" implies that the game is over. It's not. Keep your eyes open, and watch over the next few (5? 10? 15?) years as a bona-fide monopoly gets eroded down to nothing, with no government help whatsoever. Exciting times.
TLC stayed on top of the problems...they took care of me.
I second this entirely. I had mine done in 1999, which was fairly early for this sort of thing, and it was the best money I ever spent. TLC people knew what they were doing, and it was professional and well-done all the way through.
I had none of the problems the parent had, either, and I was more than -10 in both eyes. Had them both done at once, and drove to my follow-up appointment the next day myself. My advice is go to a good doctor, go to an experienced person to perform the procedure (ala TLC), and you'll be very, very happy with the results.
Oh, it was more than a year before I stopped waking up just overflowing with joy that I could see the clock across the room... it was a miracle every day.
Recently I had the opportunity to experience this... it was sort of unplanned, we started playing split-screen Halo on a huge 60" TV, and a couple guys said "Well, I have an Xbox, too..." and they went to get theirs and their TVs and in the end we had ten guys playing Halo on three Xboxes and TVs.
Great fun. Near as I can tell, Halo and the Xbox have brought the "LAN party" into the console world. Now if only other consoles and games would follow suit, they'd have a great marketing point...
...and I don't think there is an "all day pass" or anything of that sort.
Technically... you could get on in the morning, stay on all day, and get off in the evening at the same stop, and it would be free! The cheapest all-day pass EVER!
It has a spectator mode that includes the ability to toggle between the live players in addition to a free camera and fixed camera angles.
Yea, this is what I always imagined. Have 8-10 observers, just like all the cameramen at a football game. They each have their assignments: follow this hotshot, keep a bird's-eye view of the hottest action, keep on the flag no matter what, etc. In a "booth", you have all these perspectives on screens, and a director manages which are shown to the viewers, while commentators (who are also watching all the screens at once) are keeping up a stream of words.
In addition, I'd like to see an overhead map with colored dots for the location of each player, and one for the flag or bases or whatever the objectives are. Imagine the 'transition' from one observer to another wasn't abrupt, but the screen shrinks down to a "picture in picture" overlayed on the map, with a little square showing where that observer is, and then another square appears on the map and the "PiP" changes to that observer, and then his view grows to fill the screen. It could be done fast, and the viewers would still be able to keep track of where this new viewpoint is coming from.
That's just one of my mental images; I'm sure professional sports camera directors would have a ton of other ideas and input on this, if anybody asked them. Also, with each player saving a "replay video", for the highlight post-game show you could watch from a player's perspective, or playback in super slow-mo with a new camera freely moving around... the possibilities are endless, and it would be really cool.
I always imagine this sort of thing when I'm playing Tribes2... with many players, and all kinds of vehicles and turrets and weapons, and flag capture being the goal... done properly, I would fully expect it to be exciting to mainstream TV watchers, not just us geeks.
If you're a Tribes2 player, find the "MadRabbit" playback video and watch it. The #1 and #2 teams at the time playing each other, and it's only from one guy's perspective, and it's one of the most exciting things I've ever seen. With the addition of some of the ideas above... awesome.
If the Gmail interface is as fast as the google interface, gmail will eat hotmail and yahoo for lunch.
From what I can tell, Gmail is unbelievably fast, but I've never used it on a slow connection. If I give you an account, will you try it for a while with dial-up and then let us know how it is?
In many cases, almost ALL cases, it's not against the law to use this kind of leverage to improve your business. A Honda spoiler is going to be built on when the car is being assembled and painted and whatnot, it's going to look better than a third-party product. They have every right to include them on their vehicles.
So why can't MS integrate a browser or an AV program with their OS? The difference is the monopoly status of the company when it comes to OSes, AND that the crushing of the competition is harmful to consumers. MS killed Netscape by exploiting its monopoly, to the detriment of consumers; it's that last part that makes it illegal, the monopoly part that makes it possible.
Honda is not a monopoly, so the same rules don't apply to them. But if ALL cars were Hondas, and they were designed so that only Honda tires worked, AND Honda tires were inferior... that would be Honda abusing its monopoly status to the detriment of the consumer.
Monopoly companies have too much power in this regard to be allowed to 'compete' like any other company.
(sure, you *could* thread in webmail, but it would either result in many trips back / forth to the server to expand / collapse the threads, or it would need fancy JS and DHTML magic which I have never seen in a webmail app.)
In short... enter Gmail. It displays mails as 'conversations', with the collapsing and expanding very much as you describe. Still in beta, but it's already very, very cool. Check it out.
The reason it bugs me so much when people talk as if the particles interact after they have been entangled is it leads someone sooner or later to start asking why we can't use that to beat the speed of light for communication, or a dozen other things that have nothing to do with entanglement.
Well, it's not our fault. Even without using words like "teleport", I'm given to understand that after atoms are entangled, when you change the property of one the property of the other changes to match, or opposite. Right? With no apparent delay or physical connection?
So, people like me, when hearing that, think: Okay, so define Property1 as "on" and Property2 as "off". Keep one of the entangled atoms here, put the other on the next Voyager. Voyager communicates with home by twiddling the property of its atom "on" and "off", with the atom here at home mirroring it with no delay, no matter how far away the spacecraft is.
We just don't have enough information to know why that wouldn't work, so getting irked at us isn't helping. I even followed the links and read nothing to debunk the above concept. Would you care to explain why it's bogus?
On a "me too" note, this "diet" just makes a crazy amount of sense, ESPECIALLY for the "lazy". The premise is: calories in must be less than calories out, or "burned". Line that up, and you'll lose weight. Period.
If you're a logical engineer-type, this document will appeal to you in a big way. Even his "lifetime ladder" exercise program is really, really easy and can provide you with a good, simple base for getting some basic tone in your body. Can you do one sit-up? Then you can start the "lifetime ladder".
If you're at all interested in losing weight, give his link a read. It's refreshing.
Grabble is correct in all respoects, including his attitude. Particularly: it doesn't matter, at all, WHAT you do, as long as you're sweating. In one sense, you're on track: you've possibly identified something fun (DDR) that should get you moving, so on that note, follow through and get a pad and start.
But on the other side, you ARE looking for a "quick way out". Going to the gym only sucks because what you've been doing there is not fun. My gym has racquetball courts, which I randomly tried one day and BY GOD, how much fun was THAT?? I'm in there 1-2 times a week now, and sweatin' all over the place.
Or get a sub-$100 hybrid bike from Target and start riding around. It's insanely easy to spend 2-3 hours on a bike, especially once you find the "good trails" which, I assure you, are VERY close to your house. That's hundreds of calories burned and hours of healthy elevated heartrate with no perceived effort, because it's just fun to ride around.
Personally, I do the above, and I also took up swimming about six months ago. Talk about low-impact but all-body workout! I've had pulled muscles from other activities, but didn't feel any pain at all while swimming; but for such a low-impact activity, it sure does work EVERYTHING. Strong legs, strong arms and back, abs... and once you get into a rhythm, your mind can wander and you think about what you like, and suddenly you're finishing up a mile. An hour of swimming is great all-around exercise.
In addition, Grabble's comments on food intake are spot-on. Stop eating "meals", and start eating smaller, balanced "mini-meals" throughout the day, snacks, almost. Almost immediately, you'll start being less hungry, and you'll be amazed at how LITTLE food you need to remain not hungry. In fact, once you do that, you'll have to be careful not to eat too LITTLE, because that can slow the metabolism. If you're very overweight, I'd cut the intake by more that 5% off of weight*15 calories, at least at the beginning.
My personal success story? On Thanksgiving of last year, 2003, I was 250lbs and just decided, forget it, I'm going to change this. I picked swimming, and jumped in a pool and taught myself to swim laps. I did that every day for four months, while also adjusting my eating, as per the above. In the last two months, I've eased off the swimming a little and added the cycling, and recently the racquetball, and some weight lifting for tone.
The result? I'm just about to break the 200lb barrier, and if I do say do myself, I'm looking great. Strong shoulders and back from swimming, and legs from that and cycling; chest and even abs are firm and VISIBLE, which is a new thing. It's absolutely amazing, and I wasn't out there killing myself every day, we're talking 30-45min in a pool, just getting the heartrate up. That's all it takes.
Losing weight and toning up doesn't have to be a painful chore; just pick something remotely fun and start doing it every day, ever for a tiny amount of time. DDR, just buy a pad and start up. Get a bike and ride around. Jump in a pool and "swim laps", even if you suck at it. Tennis and racquetball are great fun, even alone against a wall. Get the heartrate up doing something fun, ANYTHING fun, and keep at it; since it's FUN, it won't be a chore, right?:)
Best of luck to you. Feel free to contact me, anybody, if you like, to talk about this topic. I'm pretty passionate about it, since I've lost 20% of my body weight in six months and just feel great!:)
...long, annoying song clip ringtones erupting out of coworkers cubes at maximum volume, especially when they aren't there and left their cellphone on their desk...
In that case, just walk over and turn the phone off. I had a guy who worked near me who did this all the time, and he was the typical self-important "I'm always rushing to a meeting" jerk. I turned off his phone all the time, and even shut down his Outlook on his unlocked computer because it would play some annoying noise every time he got an email...
Relief for me, adolation from your coworkers for "being so bold", plus endless amusement when he returns to his desk and wonders out loud how his phone keeps shutting itself off. I think he even had it replaced as faulty, once. He never mentioned his Outlook being shut down, though. He wasn't too bright.
Side note: when throwing up all the problems to a theory or course of action, which is a useful endeavor, it's also useful to give us your thoughts on possible solutions to those problems. Otherwise, you just come across as obstructionist and a pessimist, instead of a critical thinker.
What do you think would be some good solutions or even brainstorms to attack these issues that you pose?
I have, thanks, and I'm quite pleased with it. I was merely reponding to the guy who thought that, if I were to only SEE this particular device, that I would, in fact, lust after it. He was incorrect, and I thought it might be useful for him to have that pointed out.
Slashdot Mirror
Basically... bullshit. This site is a collection of links to things the editors think are cool, and a large quantity of comments from the public on those things. It has never, ever touted itself as being 'journalism' or impartial in any way.
Now, your comment about the icon being not funny anymore or even detracting from the goal(s) of many Slashdot readers may well be true and full of merit, but Slashdot itself has a 'responsibility' to nobody.
Doug
Honestly, I've never understood all the whining about the Slashdot color schemes. I'm not colorblind or anything, and I completely fail to even notice the colors of the bars on the screen. And how can anybody say "Oh God my eyes!" about BEIGE? Seriously, if the Slashdot colors are that important to you, just slowly back away from the computer and go outside for a while. Sheesh.
Doug
Gonna have to disagree with you on that parenthetical part. The body is truly the most amazing machine, and nothing we can make now really stacks up to what the body can do, but for the foreseeable future, the human body will essentially be unchanged. 100 years from now, 1000 years from now, if we don't modify the body ourselves, the human body will pretty much be exactly the same as it is now.
So, basically a stationary target. While human SCIENCE is not only progressing, but accelerating, pretty much across the board. Where do you think camera technology will be in 100 years? Where do you think our knowledge of nerves and the brain will be in 200 years? Our knowledge of genetics in 500 years?
It's not only possible to envision extensions of today's technology that's can outclass natural human systems, it's really INEVITABLE that they will. It's only a matter of time before we'll be growing our own gene-enhanced eyes in vats and implanting them in every human to give them perfect vision. That time might be 500 or 1000 years... but it's coming. It would take a society-altering catastrophe to stop it.
Doug
The parent of your post never claimed anything to do with seating arrangements, he was talking about the flight having a known roster of who was on the plane at all. If flight 1234 falls from the sky, they know exactly who was on it; that's what he meant by identifying the corpses, not physically wading through the wreckage tagging bodies.
Doug
Oh my god, I know there have been a lot of comments about how this guy's a troll, but just reading that crap is amazing.
SCO is being attacked? Didn't they start all this? Oh, I see, they were just defending their rights that "heroes died for"... What a blatent pull at heartstrings. What utter crap.
Doug
I see what you're saying, but I'm sorry, to most people it is gambling. The vast majority of personal investors don't know the first thing about how to evaluate a company and therefore determine if the stock price is high/low and likely to fall/rise. These people listen to the "experts" on the news and/or their friends and simply buy what "looks good" to them, on the hopes that the stock price will rise.
This is effectively gambling. They throw $1000 at something and hope that they'll make some money. As far as they're concerned, there's an equal chance of it going up or down. They simply don't know if they're going to "win" or not.
Now, you may know something about investing and how to read a balance sheet, as I do, so to us it's not gambling; we can be fairly sure (although never certain) that if we buy a stake in a strong company we're unlikely to lose much, or if we short one that's obviously financially unstable we're fairly likely to "win". That's not gambling, that's taking educated risks based on solid information.
Most people don't do anything near that. They are gambling.
Doug
Favorably. I can pronounce "Cloudscape".
Doug
Okay. Hard to buy out that which isn't proprietary and, thanks to the GPL, can't be retroactively closed.
a) It's hard to beat free, although they're trying to do the TCO dance and make it look not-free. But apples-to-apples, Linux is free, Windows aint.
b) According to Linus, Linux already isn't competing. It's just trying to be the best little OS that it can be for whoever uses it. In fact, in the long run, MS will find it VERY hard to compete with that attitude.
Yea, the FUD. Well, they're well into this, and from what I can tell, that didn't seem to slow Linux down in the server market. When the desktop is "ready", and it becomes more so every day, slowly, slowly, then all the FUD in the world won't be able to hold it back.
MS is on top, by a long, LONG shot. But to say they've "won" implies that the game is over. It's not. Keep your eyes open, and watch over the next few (5? 10? 15?) years as a bona-fide monopoly gets eroded down to nothing, with no government help whatsoever. Exciting times.
Doug
I second this entirely. I had mine done in 1999, which was fairly early for this sort of thing, and it was the best money I ever spent. TLC people knew what they were doing, and it was professional and well-done all the way through.
I had none of the problems the parent had, either, and I was more than -10 in both eyes. Had them both done at once, and drove to my follow-up appointment the next day myself. My advice is go to a good doctor, go to an experienced person to perform the procedure (ala TLC), and you'll be very, very happy with the results.
Oh, it was more than a year before I stopped waking up just overflowing with joy that I could see the clock across the room... it was a miracle every day.
Doug
Recently I had the opportunity to experience this... it was sort of unplanned, we started playing split-screen Halo on a huge 60" TV, and a couple guys said "Well, I have an Xbox, too..." and they went to get theirs and their TVs and in the end we had ten guys playing Halo on three Xboxes and TVs.
Great fun. Near as I can tell, Halo and the Xbox have brought the "LAN party" into the console world. Now if only other consoles and games would follow suit, they'd have a great marketing point...
Doug
TiVo
Doug
Technically... you could get on in the morning, stay on all day, and get off in the evening at the same stop, and it would be free! The cheapest all-day pass EVER!
Doug
Yea, this is what I always imagined. Have 8-10 observers, just like all the cameramen at a football game. They each have their assignments: follow this hotshot, keep a bird's-eye view of the hottest action, keep on the flag no matter what, etc. In a "booth", you have all these perspectives on screens, and a director manages which are shown to the viewers, while commentators (who are also watching all the screens at once) are keeping up a stream of words.
In addition, I'd like to see an overhead map with colored dots for the location of each player, and one for the flag or bases or whatever the objectives are. Imagine the 'transition' from one observer to another wasn't abrupt, but the screen shrinks down to a "picture in picture" overlayed on the map, with a little square showing where that observer is, and then another square appears on the map and the "PiP" changes to that observer, and then his view grows to fill the screen. It could be done fast, and the viewers would still be able to keep track of where this new viewpoint is coming from.
That's just one of my mental images; I'm sure professional sports camera directors would have a ton of other ideas and input on this, if anybody asked them. Also, with each player saving a "replay video", for the highlight post-game show you could watch from a player's perspective, or playback in super slow-mo with a new camera freely moving around... the possibilities are endless, and it would be really cool.
I always imagine this sort of thing when I'm playing Tribes2... with many players, and all kinds of vehicles and turrets and weapons, and flag capture being the goal... done properly, I would fully expect it to be exciting to mainstream TV watchers, not just us geeks.
If you're a Tribes2 player, find the "MadRabbit" playback video and watch it. The #1 and #2 teams at the time playing each other, and it's only from one guy's perspective, and it's one of the most exciting things I've ever seen. With the addition of some of the ideas above... awesome.
Doug
From what I can tell, Gmail is unbelievably fast, but I've never used it on a slow connection. If I give you an account, will you try it for a while with dial-up and then let us know how it is?
Reply or email me for an invitation.
Doug
IANAL
In many cases, almost ALL cases, it's not against the law to use this kind of leverage to improve your business. A Honda spoiler is going to be built on when the car is being assembled and painted and whatnot, it's going to look better than a third-party product. They have every right to include them on their vehicles.
So why can't MS integrate a browser or an AV program with their OS? The difference is the monopoly status of the company when it comes to OSes, AND that the crushing of the competition is harmful to consumers. MS killed Netscape by exploiting its monopoly, to the detriment of consumers; it's that last part that makes it illegal, the monopoly part that makes it possible.
Honda is not a monopoly, so the same rules don't apply to them. But if ALL cars were Hondas, and they were designed so that only Honda tires worked, AND Honda tires were inferior... that would be Honda abusing its monopoly status to the detriment of the consumer.
Monopoly companies have too much power in this regard to be allowed to 'compete' like any other company.
Doug
In short... enter Gmail. It displays mails as 'conversations', with the collapsing and expanding very much as you describe. Still in beta, but it's already very, very cool. Check it out.
Doug
Well, it's not our fault. Even without using words like "teleport", I'm given to understand that after atoms are entangled, when you change the property of one the property of the other changes to match, or opposite. Right? With no apparent delay or physical connection?
So, people like me, when hearing that, think: Okay, so define Property1 as "on" and Property2 as "off". Keep one of the entangled atoms here, put the other on the next Voyager. Voyager communicates with home by twiddling the property of its atom "on" and "off", with the atom here at home mirroring it with no delay, no matter how far away the spacecraft is.
We just don't have enough information to know why that wouldn't work, so getting irked at us isn't helping. I even followed the links and read nothing to debunk the above concept. Would you care to explain why it's bogus?
Doug
Sweet! I, for one, have been DYING to see Java take it right up its...
What? Not that kind of 'hardcore'? Damn.
Doug
On a "me too" note, this "diet" just makes a crazy amount of sense, ESPECIALLY for the "lazy". The premise is: calories in must be less than calories out, or "burned". Line that up, and you'll lose weight. Period.
If you're a logical engineer-type, this document will appeal to you in a big way. Even his "lifetime ladder" exercise program is really, really easy and can provide you with a good, simple base for getting some basic tone in your body. Can you do one sit-up? Then you can start the "lifetime ladder".
If you're at all interested in losing weight, give his link a read. It's refreshing.
Doug
Grabble is correct in all respoects, including his attitude. Particularly: it doesn't matter, at all, WHAT you do, as long as you're sweating. In one sense, you're on track: you've possibly identified something fun (DDR) that should get you moving, so on that note, follow through and get a pad and start.
But on the other side, you ARE looking for a "quick way out". Going to the gym only sucks because what you've been doing there is not fun. My gym has racquetball courts, which I randomly tried one day and BY GOD, how much fun was THAT?? I'm in there 1-2 times a week now, and sweatin' all over the place.
Or get a sub-$100 hybrid bike from Target and start riding around. It's insanely easy to spend 2-3 hours on a bike, especially once you find the "good trails" which, I assure you, are VERY close to your house. That's hundreds of calories burned and hours of healthy elevated heartrate with no perceived effort, because it's just fun to ride around.
Personally, I do the above, and I also took up swimming about six months ago. Talk about low-impact but all-body workout! I've had pulled muscles from other activities, but didn't feel any pain at all while swimming; but for such a low-impact activity, it sure does work EVERYTHING. Strong legs, strong arms and back, abs... and once you get into a rhythm, your mind can wander and you think about what you like, and suddenly you're finishing up a mile. An hour of swimming is great all-around exercise.
In addition, Grabble's comments on food intake are spot-on. Stop eating "meals", and start eating smaller, balanced "mini-meals" throughout the day, snacks, almost. Almost immediately, you'll start being less hungry, and you'll be amazed at how LITTLE food you need to remain not hungry. In fact, once you do that, you'll have to be careful not to eat too LITTLE, because that can slow the metabolism. If you're very overweight, I'd cut the intake by more that 5% off of weight*15 calories, at least at the beginning.
My personal success story? On Thanksgiving of last year, 2003, I was 250lbs and just decided, forget it, I'm going to change this. I picked swimming, and jumped in a pool and taught myself to swim laps. I did that every day for four months, while also adjusting my eating, as per the above. In the last two months, I've eased off the swimming a little and added the cycling, and recently the racquetball, and some weight lifting for tone.
The result? I'm just about to break the 200lb barrier, and if I do say do myself, I'm looking great. Strong shoulders and back from swimming, and legs from that and cycling; chest and even abs are firm and VISIBLE, which is a new thing. It's absolutely amazing, and I wasn't out there killing myself every day, we're talking 30-45min in a pool, just getting the heartrate up. That's all it takes.
Losing weight and toning up doesn't have to be a painful chore; just pick something remotely fun and start doing it every day, ever for a tiny amount of time. DDR, just buy a pad and start up. Get a bike and ride around. Jump in a pool and "swim laps", even if you suck at it. Tennis and racquetball are great fun, even alone against a wall. Get the heartrate up doing something fun, ANYTHING fun, and keep at it; since it's FUN, it won't be a chore, right? :)
Best of luck to you. Feel free to contact me, anybody, if you like, to talk about this topic. I'm pretty passionate about it, since I've lost 20% of my body weight in six months and just feel great! :)
Doug
Is it just me, or does that sound like a ton of fun??
Doug
In that case, just walk over and turn the phone off. I had a guy who worked near me who did this all the time, and he was the typical self-important "I'm always rushing to a meeting" jerk. I turned off his phone all the time, and even shut down his Outlook on his unlocked computer because it would play some annoying noise every time he got an email...
Relief for me, adolation from your coworkers for "being so bold", plus endless amusement when he returns to his desk and wonders out loud how his phone keeps shutting itself off. I think he even had it replaced as faulty, once. He never mentioned his Outlook being shut down, though. He wasn't too bright.
Doug
Side note: when throwing up all the problems to a theory or course of action, which is a useful endeavor, it's also useful to give us your thoughts on possible solutions to those problems. Otherwise, you just come across as obstructionist and a pessimist, instead of a critical thinker.
What do you think would be some good solutions or even brainstorms to attack these issues that you pose?
Doug
That explanation is quite simple: they're all using the word wrong in that industry.
It is amateur until you are being paid to do it.
Doug
I have, thanks, and I'm quite pleased with it. I was merely reponding to the guy who thought that, if I were to only SEE this particular device, that I would, in fact, lust after it. He was incorrect, and I thought it might be useful for him to have that pointed out.
Doug