Yes, that may well be so, but the point I was trying to make is that the people involved in researching this paper are not all Americans, they are from Finland, Denmark, the UK, the USA and Taiwan.
Not that keeping score matters, but to say that this study is a result of US education system is disingenuous, US funding maybe.
This is the problem with Vista in a nutshell. Few of the upgrades in Vista are at the "consumer" level, like the UI and searching.
But at the same time Vista is not some crappy XP service pack, it's a significant new version. Most of the changes to the o/s lie at the programming and development end of things. If you're a windows programmer you can see a *lot* of significant, under the hood changes. But if you're a laymen looking at how much the UI and functionality has changed, it's meh.
Anyone remember that old movie The Black Hole. In the (rather weird) ending they emerge into another universe. First thing I thought of when I read this.
Well to be fair, I use and love NoScript, but there is no way I would recommend it to my dad. He's far too clueless to understand what it's all about, and sometimes (often) you need to allow scripts, or at least one script on a website.
Urban Terror has been around for ages. Wasn't it originally a half-life mod? I remember playing it maybe 4 or 5 years ago, or even longer, back when it first came out. It was quite a cool game back then, I remember playing quite a few lan games at work.
Maybe I'll give it a spin now, but the screenshots I saw on the website look quite antiquated (graphics wise).
The people using Mono already have Vista and.Net as Mono targets Windows developers, not Linux developers. And why do you say it is not cross platform portable? Last time I checked I could compile a program under Mono and run it on windows and linux - is that not cross platform portable?
.Net has a huge army of developers, specifically in the ISV sector, which could bring a flood of applications to Linux. Java is, in my experience, used more in a corporate environment.
I've been using PC's for awhile, since about 1988 and connected to the net since 1994 and I have *never* ever installed any AV software on any of the PC's I have owned. I believe it's simply a scam based on scare tactics.
The only virus I've ever actually seen was the bouncing ball virus, which was a floppy boot sector virus back around 1989/90, and it wasn't on my PC.
I do however today run windows defender on my xp machines, plus firewalls etc... as this *is* important, but AV software? Meh.
That's exactly what IBM said! However the correct answer was sell the Merc business and invest everything in Vespas. Of course how could they know, hindsight makes it seem so obvious.
Sure maybe in Europe, but how long did you travel for? What kind of hostels did you stay at? I still believe that laptops are a little stupid to travel with and actually ruin the travelling experience. First of all they are absolutely not required. There is no real benefit to having a laptop on your travels - I mean what is that benefit, please enlighten.
In my experience laptops tend to insulate people, you'll always see the type with a laptop, they tend to sit in the corner of the hostel rec. room and tap away at their laptop, completely missing out on interacting with fellow travellers, it's as if they never left home (if that is you goal I suggest an RV for your next trip). Travelling is the time I leave the computer I work with every day behind and do something new.
Also if you're crossing international borders, especially the USA, laptop is just another customs hassle.
So once again, please tell us what the benefit of having a laptop is.
Damn I forgot to mention GPS receiver in my other post too. But I use mine for geocaching. A great way to see many cool places that only the locals know of. Most of the time I don't even bother to actually find the cache:)
If I can add some stuff, assuming you are backpacking and staying in hostels :
- Don't take a laptop, it can be cool to have but you'll also end up worrying about it a lot and it's extra weight. I mean if you're going to LA or something you'll feel stupid travelling *without* a laptop, but any further afield, ditch it.
- Take a cheap(ish) simple camera. It's another thing you don't want to worry about losing or being damaged, and most cheap cameras these days take excellent pics. Take lots of memory sticks, though I actually found on long trips (> say 3 months) that just uploading all my pics to gmail or something at each hostel I staid at worked better, but is a little more work. Once you end up with a full 1 gig memory stick nothing much you can do other than burn to dvd and then worry that it burnt ok and try not to scratch the disk. Whereas just doing a lot of small uploads each day gives you more peace of mind. Oh and don't forget your usb cable. Most hostels provide free internet access.
- My favourite tech accessory is my old palm III. Go to gutenberg, download a ton of books to your palm pilot, using plucker and away you go. Fantastic for any layovers. Plus you can put other neat stuff on a handheld too. It's value to weight ratio is unbeatable.
- Ipods are a must have but I actually travel with an IRiver, cause it takes an AA battery, rather than a recharger, and lasts a long time on a AA battery. If you're in a remote location, or say on a long bus ride, AA batteries are far more convenient.
- Take a watch. A lot of stuff while travelling requires you to know the time.
- Cell phones can be convenient, but not a must have. Generally wherever travellers go, public phones are nearby.
Hmm I'm not sure about your cricketing analogy. Maybe today, there is just more cricket played, leading to more fast bowlers breaking down.
I also believe that with the restrictions on bouncers and the prevalence of ODI's, fast bowling is less of an asset then it was in the heyday of West Indian cricket. Most bowlers tend to favour line and length or fast swing bowling than all out speed and bounce. Control is all important in today's cricket, it's more a case of changing attitudes than changing bodies.
And remember competitive sportsmen today are *raised* as competitive sportsmen, they don't take trips to MacDonald's during school lunch, they're training, and generally don't follow the couch potato lifestyle.
Your article has references that reference nothing. I don't see any research there. Besides I'm too lazy to look up the research myself cause I'm a skinny runner who doesn't need to lose weight:)
Perhaps you can post links to actual research, rather than this dodgy website.
There is even some newer research that is pointing to people who run a lot for distance can actually gain fat in their legs.
That sounds ridiculous, maybe a miniscule amount, but I run ultra marathons and have never seen people with fat legs at the start line:). Besides even the skinniest of runners have enough "fat energy" to last them longer than they could run afaik. Please post links to actual research preferably by people who know what they are talking about.
Sprinting obviously burns more calories but for a shorter period of time and over the same distance the number of calories burnt by the slow and fast person will be roughly equal.
This has been the traditional view for some time but maybe recent research shows otherwise, I dunno. However, the article you reference reeks of snake oil.
I've run a number of marathons and ultras, and actually used to smoke dope during training, just once or so a week. I felt it was really good for easing sore leg muscles after a long training run and just for general relaxation.
And I've seen people on the starting line of 100km runs smoking cigarettes:)
He needs to take a continuos stream of dietary supplements and run 25 kilometers daily, use special cushioning on all his footwear to compensate for the deformation that the impact of running produces, and keep an extremely strict dietary regimen, not to mention constant sports massages to keep himself from cramping as well as a myriad of other things.
Uhm every runner I know uses special cushioning in their footwear, we call them running shoes. Almost all marathon runners use dietary supplements, Gatorade, and eat healthy diets, Pasta anyone? I just wish I could afford constant massages:)
Seriously I understand your point, but it's a bit alarmist. Most people can train easily in the region of 100km a week without any side affects (other than rotten toenails), and for the average joe that kind of mileage is normally not required, unless you're going for an ultra marathon.
Plus getting punched in the head for a living doesn't exactly help. I would think that head trauma negates all the positive effects of exercise in this instance.
Why is sprinting better than walking for weight loss? You burn the same amount of calories walking 400 metres as you do sprinting the same. Walking just takes longer.
Are you talking about a CS grad or an IS grad? The grandparent is talking about IS grads I think. IS degree offers more project management and overviewy stuff plus a bit of programming, while CS is more hardcore programming and math.
IS grads can become very valuable to many organisations, especially as you (possibly) point out if they can learn some hardcore programming, because they develop a strong hybrid of skills with experience, whereas CS grads tend to remain rather one dimensional.
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Yes, that may well be so, but the point I was trying to make is that the people involved in researching this paper are not all Americans, they are from Finland, Denmark, the UK, the USA and Taiwan.
Not that keeping score matters, but to say that this study is a result of US education system is disingenuous, US funding maybe.
Kevin Rose posts code and backs down here.
Kinda bizarre. If the key was 1, would noone ever be able to type 1 again?
Huang, Ahmad, Silvfast, Skifvars, Vanden Hoek, Khan - all good American names
This is the problem with Vista in a nutshell. Few of the upgrades in Vista are at the "consumer" level, like the UI and searching.
But at the same time Vista is not some crappy XP service pack, it's a significant new version. Most of the changes to the o/s lie at the programming and development end of things. If you're a windows programmer you can see a *lot* of significant, under the hood changes. But if you're a laymen looking at how much the UI and functionality has changed, it's meh.
Anyone remember that old movie The Black Hole. In the (rather weird) ending they emerge into another universe. First thing I thought of when I read this.
:)
And V.I.N.CENT kicks R2D2's ass
Because Google assures me that if I use Gmail I will (3) Never lose a message again
Well to be fair, I use and love NoScript, but there is no way I would recommend it to my dad. He's far too clueless to understand what it's all about, and sometimes (often) you need to allow scripts, or at least one script on a website.
Urban Terror has been around for ages. Wasn't it originally a half-life mod? I remember playing it maybe 4 or 5 years ago, or even longer, back when it first came out. It was quite a cool game back then, I remember playing quite a few lan games at work.
Maybe I'll give it a spin now, but the screenshots I saw on the website look quite antiquated (graphics wise).
The people using Mono already have Vista and .Net as Mono targets Windows developers, not Linux developers. And why do you say it is not cross platform portable? Last time I checked I could compile a program under Mono and run it on windows and linux - is that not cross platform portable?
.Net has a huge army of developers, specifically in the ISV sector, which could bring a flood of applications to Linux. Java is, in my experience, used more in a corporate environment.
I've been using PC's for awhile, since about 1988 and connected to the net since 1994 and I have *never* ever installed any AV software on any of the PC's I have owned. I believe it's simply a scam based on scare tactics.
The only virus I've ever actually seen was the bouncing ball virus, which was a floppy boot sector virus back around 1989/90, and it wasn't on my PC.
I do however today run windows defender on my xp machines, plus firewalls etc... as this *is* important, but AV software? Meh.
That's exactly what IBM said! However the correct answer was sell the Merc business and invest everything in Vespas. Of course how could they know, hindsight makes it seem so obvious.
Sure maybe in Europe, but how long did you travel for? What kind of hostels did you stay at? I still believe that laptops are a little stupid to travel with and actually ruin the travelling experience. First of all they are absolutely not required. There is no real benefit to having a laptop on your travels - I mean what is that benefit, please enlighten.
In my experience laptops tend to insulate people, you'll always see the type with a laptop, they tend to sit in the corner of the hostel rec. room and tap away at their laptop, completely missing out on interacting with fellow travellers, it's as if they never left home (if that is you goal I suggest an RV for your next trip). Travelling is the time I leave the computer I work with every day behind and do something new.
Also if you're crossing international borders, especially the USA, laptop is just another customs hassle.
So once again, please tell us what the benefit of having a laptop is.
Damn I forgot to mention GPS receiver in my other post too. But I use mine for geocaching. A great way to see many cool places that only the locals know of. Most of the time I don't even bother to actually find the cache :)
Or so you may think.
If I can add some stuff, assuming you are backpacking and staying in hostels :
- Don't take a laptop, it can be cool to have but you'll also end up worrying about it a lot and it's extra weight. I mean if you're going to LA or something you'll feel stupid travelling *without* a laptop, but any further afield, ditch it.
- Take a cheap(ish) simple camera. It's another thing you don't want to worry about losing or being damaged, and most cheap cameras these days take excellent pics. Take lots of memory sticks, though I actually found on long trips (> say 3 months) that just uploading all my pics to gmail or something at each hostel I staid at worked better, but is a little more work. Once you end up with a full 1 gig memory stick nothing much you can do other than burn to dvd and then worry that it burnt ok and try not to scratch the disk. Whereas just doing a lot of small uploads each day gives you more peace of mind. Oh and don't forget your usb cable. Most hostels provide free internet access.
- My favourite tech accessory is my old palm III. Go to gutenberg, download a ton of books to your palm pilot, using plucker and away you go. Fantastic for any layovers. Plus you can put other neat stuff on a handheld too. It's value to weight ratio is unbeatable.
- Ipods are a must have but I actually travel with an IRiver, cause it takes an AA battery, rather than a recharger, and lasts a long time on a AA battery. If you're in a remote location, or say on a long bus ride, AA batteries are far more convenient.
- Take a watch. A lot of stuff while travelling requires you to know the time.
- Cell phones can be convenient, but not a must have. Generally wherever travellers go, public phones are nearby.
Hmm I'm not sure about your cricketing analogy. Maybe today, there is just more cricket played, leading to more fast bowlers breaking down.
I also believe that with the restrictions on bouncers and the prevalence of ODI's, fast bowling is less of an asset then it was in the heyday of West Indian cricket. Most bowlers tend to favour line and length or fast swing bowling than all out speed and bounce. Control is all important in today's cricket, it's more a case of changing attitudes than changing bodies.
And remember competitive sportsmen today are *raised* as competitive sportsmen, they don't take trips to MacDonald's during school lunch, they're training, and generally don't follow the couch potato lifestyle.
Perhaps you can post links to actual research, rather than this dodgy website.That sounds ridiculous, maybe a miniscule amount, but I run ultra marathons and have never seen people with fat legs at the start line
Sprinting obviously burns more calories but for a shorter period of time and over the same distance the number of calories burnt by the slow and fast person will be roughly equal.
This has been the traditional view for some time but maybe recent research shows otherwise, I dunno. However, the article you reference reeks of snake oil.
I've run a number of marathons and ultras, and actually used to smoke dope during training, just once or so a week. I felt it was really good for easing sore leg muscles after a long training run and just for general relaxation.
:)
And I've seen people on the starting line of 100km runs smoking cigarettes
Uhm every runner I know uses special cushioning in their footwear, we call them running shoes. Almost all marathon runners use dietary supplements, Gatorade, and eat healthy diets, Pasta anyone? I just wish I could afford constant massages
Seriously I understand your point, but it's a bit alarmist. Most people can train easily in the region of 100km a week without any side affects (other than rotten toenails), and for the average joe that kind of mileage is normally not required, unless you're going for an ultra marathon.
Plus getting punched in the head for a living doesn't exactly help. I would think that head trauma negates all the positive effects of exercise in this instance.
Why is sprinting better than walking for weight loss? You burn the same amount of calories walking 400 metres as you do sprinting the same. Walking just takes longer.
Are you talking about a CS grad or an IS grad? The grandparent is talking about IS grads I think. IS degree offers more project management and overviewy stuff plus a bit of programming, while CS is more hardcore programming and math.
IS grads can become very valuable to many organisations, especially as you (possibly) point out if they can learn some hardcore programming, because they develop a strong hybrid of skills with experience, whereas CS grads tend to remain rather one dimensional.