I started in January, I started a few things which have made me significantly stronger, and have dropped a little over 4 inches from my waist in the past 6 months.
Hitting the gym -- I work out for about an hour, three times a week, to build muscle mass and increase my metabolism.
Jogging -- I go jogging every day for about 20 minutes (3 miles)
Hiking/Biking -- About once a week I go on a long hike or mountain bike ride.
Nothing else
Sure, I could probably have it work a lot faster if I didn't go out for beers with the guys, if I cut down on the bad-for-you foods, like big tasty steaks, or if I ate more vegetables, but my goal was a painless, sustainable change of lifestyle, not something that'd make me insane after six months and have me just abandon the whole thing.
I'm not saying that designers should know how to write a parser which translates their code into a graphical representation displayed in a browser.
i am saying that designers need to understand what elements they're working with, and what those elements do. Just as an architect understands what the various portions of a building do, and how the interact to create a functional structure.
all "artistic" professions have quite a bit of skill that's required learning before the artist can properly render what it is they want to create. Painters learn about paint, brushes, canvas, color, perspective, various techniques for painting, and much, much more. Pianists generally spend better than a decade studying, even if their goal is just to ramble on some chords in a rock band...
why is it unreasonable to expect that somebody whose medium is HTML should know HTML?
Even if you're right, and it caused bad press, it wouldn't matter. Even in a best case scenario, where people get enraged (yeah, right), it wouldn't matter because Microsoft is a monopoly. All the software everybody needs was written for MS desktops, and is only tested on MS machines, so with a few exceptions, moving off the platform isn't viable.
What really needs to happen is more large businesses to start supporting an effort to make *nix on the desktop more clearly viable. If even 10% of the fortune 500 companies decided it was worthwhile to spend $1m/year to make *nix desktops viable, we'd have $100m/year of development effort, all aimed at the areas that *nix isn't currently good at. We'd also end up with a lot more people who are capable of staffing a *nix desktop helpdesk, knowing how to admin *nix machines and what not, which would in turn help make the market easier to grow.
bad press can't kill microsoft, big companies who realize that a moderate investment in *nix can save them a fortune in future licensing fees however, that could destroy microsoft.
okay, so you get the first 40 seconds of the 180 second song, which is quite a bit really, and you then decode it. Now you have 40 seconds of data, 20 of which may be similar to 20 others. a fairly sophisticated algorithm checks for similarities in the music, and because the music is supposed to repeat itself in the opening, your legitimate file gets whacked.
by now overpeer has heard about this stupid new program, and is now modifying the songs they're dumping into the p2p systems so loop detection doesn't actually help anything. lots of work to have a failure mode that prevents legitimate downloads, and won't stop overpeer.
i don't see a problem with what overpeer's doing anyway. a long time ago a friend of mine came up with a similar but more evil idea. the idea was to sell the record companies a service that would serve out fake files, purposefully mislabelled files, and real files that are subtly but annoyingly processed. add in some shitty harmonics, and try to get people to associate those sounds with mp3 encoding, thus making them want cds.
in retrospect, i wish we had done it, i would've loved to watch all the music thieves explaining why it's evil for me to make music piracy a bit more annoying.
If you had read the article, you'd have learned that this new alloy can be cast like plastic. It doesn't shrink on cooling, so you can cast any shape with up to 1 micron of accuracy, thus removing the need for machining.
actually, snipers like soft and squishy bullets, because while they make a small hole on one side of the target, they make a very large hole on the other side.
Additionally, the article states that the metal doesn't do well with exposure to heat, so use in firearms seems less than ideal.
yes, and in other news Ford has made a new mustang that can go 3000mph while getting 400mpg. It's not news, because it's just a bit faster, and a bit more efficient than last year's mustang.
what kind of idiot goes to CompUSA to buy cable? you can buy a 1000 foot spool of cat6 for about $400 from black box, or you could buy 16 7-foot lengths from compusa.
Those 600 miles were far more likely spent commuting between dealerships by somebody who'd lose their job if they get a speeding ticket.
Dealer trades aren't usually done by the truckful, sometimes they just have somebody drive one car from dealership a, and come back with a different car from dealership b.
If you want to put your consumer stuff on rails, Middle Atlantic can help you out, and at very reasonable prices to boot. They're what all the high-end custom installers use.
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nah, RFID tags in every bill are way more big brother-esque.
why no, officer. i have no idea how it is that the money i pulled out of that atm got deposited into that drug dealer's bank account 2 days later. i spent that $400 on ice cream, not an ounce of alaskan thunderfuck.
$1000000 -- all of the presidents, and they're having a party.
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actually you're wrong. (imagine that, somebody spewing falsehoods on slapdash.org)
american currancy counting machines can tell what the note is, and do some counterfeit checking, on the fly. easiest way is the little metal strip (which fluoresces under blacklight) is in a different spot on 100s, 50s, 20s, 10s and 5s. Of course, there are a lot of less easy ways around too, since if that was all that got checked, banks would regularly get 2 inch stacks of $50s that only include $100 of real cash.
no problem, i'll read the clearly printed numerals that are located somewhere on the notes. same as i'd do in thailand, taiwan, china, israel, vietnam, phillipines, russia, uganda, saudi arabia, india, sri lanka, afghanistan, iran, iraq.... actually i don't know of any country that doesn't print arabic numerals on their paper money.
coins on the other hand are a whole different story...
yeah, bryce is nice, and the south part of zion is beautiful (some awesome views from relatively short dayhikes), but vegas still rocks.
there's something wonderful about walking into a casino covered in dirt from the playa, cleaning yourself up, having a fine meal, playing some blackjack or shooting some craps, then going back to your loved one in a big comfy bed.
and hey, if you don't want porn shoved in your face, don't accept the hooker trading cards.
a digital camera, preferably a nice small one that you can carry with you painlessly.
a laptop, to dump the images from the camera onto every few days.
a book of cds or an mp3 player
places to go (assuming a not particularly direct route):
manhattan
hike a piece of the appalachian trail
eat some steak and catch a ballgame in chicago
drive through huge amounts of fucking nothing
arches national park
grand canyon
vegas baby, vegas!
yellowstone
drive the pacific coast highway, and check out one of the many waterfalls
use a quarter as an inexpensive GPS alternative. heads means turn left, tails means turn right. see where it takes you.
and for chrissakes, fuck net access. go out, smoke some pot, drink some beers, and enjoy LIFE!
actually, from a business standpoint having choices is much, much better, seeing as you get the ability to tell the vendor 'meet these terms or i'll go with product Y'. With no competition, you have no leverage.
a low-level format will prevent data recovery using the heads that are attached to the platters by default, but one can put much more sensitive (and expensive) heads over the platters and read erased data with ease. Hell, with even more expensive equipment you can not only recover the data that was erased, but the last few pieces of data that were stored there.
Not to mention that the Bosendorfer system is far, far better. it has 1018 intensities for every note, 256 positions for every pedal, all sampled 800 times per second, and it understands the concept that sometimes a note isn't struck to create a tone, sometimes it's struck to allow for an overtone.
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- Hitting the gym -- I work out for about an hour, three times a week, to build muscle mass and increase my metabolism.
- Jogging -- I go jogging every day for about 20 minutes (3 miles)
- Hiking/Biking -- About once a week I go on a long hike or mountain bike ride.
- Nothing else
Sure, I could probably have it work a lot faster if I didn't go out for beers with the guys, if I cut down on the bad-for-you foods, like big tasty steaks, or if I ate more vegetables, but my goal was a painless, sustainable change of lifestyle, not something that'd make me insane after six months and have me just abandon the whole thing.i am saying that designers need to understand what elements they're working with, and what those elements do. Just as an architect understands what the various portions of a building do, and how the interact to create a functional structure.
all "artistic" professions have quite a bit of skill that's required learning before the artist can properly render what it is they want to create. Painters learn about paint, brushes, canvas, color, perspective, various techniques for painting, and much, much more. Pianists generally spend better than a decade studying, even if their goal is just to ramble on some chords in a rock band...
why is it unreasonable to expect that somebody whose medium is HTML should know HTML?
oh wait, that's completely rediculous.
you stand retarded.
What really needs to happen is more large businesses to start supporting an effort to make *nix on the desktop more clearly viable. If even 10% of the fortune 500 companies decided it was worthwhile to spend $1m/year to make *nix desktops viable, we'd have $100m/year of development effort, all aimed at the areas that *nix isn't currently good at. We'd also end up with a lot more people who are capable of staffing a *nix desktop helpdesk, knowing how to admin *nix machines and what not, which would in turn help make the market easier to grow.
bad press can't kill microsoft, big companies who realize that a moderate investment in *nix can save them a fortune in future licensing fees however, that could destroy microsoft.
okay, so you get the first 40 seconds of the 180 second song, which is quite a bit really, and you then decode it. Now you have 40 seconds of data, 20 of which may be similar to 20 others. a fairly sophisticated algorithm checks for similarities in the music, and because the music is supposed to repeat itself in the opening, your legitimate file gets whacked.
by now overpeer has heard about this stupid new program, and is now modifying the songs they're dumping into the p2p systems so loop detection doesn't actually help anything. lots of work to have a failure mode that prevents legitimate downloads, and won't stop overpeer.
i don't see a problem with what overpeer's doing anyway. a long time ago a friend of mine came up with a similar but more evil idea. the idea was to sell the record companies a service that would serve out fake files, purposefully mislabelled files, and real files that are subtly but annoyingly processed. add in some shitty harmonics, and try to get people to associate those sounds with mp3 encoding, thus making them want cds.
in retrospect, i wish we had done it, i would've loved to watch all the music thieves explaining why it's evil for me to make music piracy a bit more annoying.
yes, it does, however that's clearly in error because low-uid users can never be wrong, and everything you read on slashdot must be true.
If you had read the article, you'd have learned that this new alloy can be cast like plastic. It doesn't shrink on cooling, so you can cast any shape with up to 1 micron of accuracy, thus removing the need for machining.
Additionally, the article states that the metal doesn't do well with exposure to heat, so use in firearms seems less than ideal.
yes, and in other news Ford has made a new mustang that can go 3000mph while getting 400mpg. It's not news, because it's just a bit faster, and a bit more efficient than last year's mustang.
hmmm.... i wonder which is the better deal...
Dealer trades aren't usually done by the truckful, sometimes they just have somebody drive one car from dealership a, and come back with a different car from dealership b.
If you want to put your consumer stuff on rails, Middle Atlantic can help you out, and at very reasonable prices to boot. They're what all the high-end custom installers use.
why no, officer. i have no idea how it is that the money i pulled out of that atm got deposited into that drug dealer's bank account 2 days later. i spent that $400 on ice cream, not an ounce of alaskan thunderfuck.
$1000000 -- all of the presidents, and they're having a party.
american currancy counting machines can tell what the note is, and do some counterfeit checking, on the fly. easiest way is the little metal strip (which fluoresces under blacklight) is in a different spot on 100s, 50s, 20s, 10s and 5s. Of course, there are a lot of less easy ways around too, since if that was all that got checked, banks would regularly get 2 inch stacks of $50s that only include $100 of real cash.
coins on the other hand are a whole different story...
- bloomingdale's
- the bon marche
- burdine's
- dillard's
- famous-barr
- filene's
- foley's
- goldsmith's
- harrod's
- hecht's
- jc penney
- the jones store
- kaufmann's
- lazarus
- lord & taylor
- l.s. ayres
- macy's
- mark's & spencer
- meier & frank
- neimann marcus
- nordstrom's
- robinson's-may
- rich's
- saks fifth avenue
- strawbridge's
oh wait, i forgot, smart people generally don't aspire to working in retail, thus making every store chock full o retards.there's something wonderful about walking into a casino covered in dirt from the playa, cleaning yourself up, having a fine meal, playing some blackjack or shooting some craps, then going back to your loved one in a big comfy bed.
and hey, if you don't want porn shoved in your face, don't accept the hooker trading cards.
a digital camera, preferably a nice small one that you can carry with you painlessly.
a laptop, to dump the images from the camera onto every few days.
a book of cds or an mp3 player
places to go (assuming a not particularly direct route):
manhattan
hike a piece of the appalachian trail
eat some steak and catch a ballgame in chicago
drive through huge amounts of fucking nothing
arches national park
grand canyon
vegas baby, vegas!
yellowstone
drive the pacific coast highway, and check out one of the many waterfalls
use a quarter as an inexpensive GPS alternative. heads means turn left, tails means turn right. see where it takes you.
and for chrissakes, fuck net access. go out, smoke some pot, drink some beers, and enjoy LIFE!
actually, from a business standpoint having choices is much, much better, seeing as you get the ability to tell the vendor 'meet these terms or i'll go with product Y'. With no competition, you have no leverage.
a low-level format will prevent data recovery using the heads that are attached to the platters by default, but one can put much more sensitive (and expensive) heads over the platters and read erased data with ease. Hell, with even more expensive equipment you can not only recover the data that was erased, but the last few pieces of data that were stored there.
Nice policy. As a musician, my policy is 'if you like one track of my cd, then buy it fucker.' Oddly enough, that's also what the law says.
nn-tss nn-tss nn-tss nn-tss THWAP!
Not to mention that the Bosendorfer system is far, far better. it has 1018 intensities for every note, 256 positions for every pedal, all sampled 800 times per second, and it understands the concept that sometimes a note isn't struck to create a tone, sometimes it's struck to allow for an overtone.