Go find some exercise you enjoy, and set up a routine where you get to do it. Your body will adjust (over 6-12 months) to whatever shape you need to do that exercise more effectively.
Fad / deficiency / hunger / starvation diets just trigger your body to go into "hoarding mode", as you were evolved to do to get through a few months of winter scarcity. Keep your metabolism up by feeding yourself well and exercising well, and you'll train your body to just take what it needs and pass the rest.
I think most nerds are just too bored with most gyms and exercise routines. Hiking / biking / exploring is a great way to make exercise more cerebral. Also you might enjoy enrolling in some form of Martial Arts (though certainly shop around for good school that isn't too focused on sparring and beating people up) where you can concentrate on translating the wisdom of the ancients into modern physics and biomechanics hacks.
I practiced Tae Kwon Do for about a year and a half, until my left knee limited my advancement. The master of the school was adamant any reports of students using their knowledge to harm others or even show off was ground for permanent expulsion (so popular was the school there was only room for so many students.) Focus on patterns and form in practice was so total it was terrific for clearing the mind. Sometimes you just need to let go of perplexing problems so when you embrace them again you do so with a fresh look often seeing the obvious which was overlooked at the cost of much frustration.
The thing is it's not really "Windows", though. They've developed a phone OS and chosen to call it "Windows", but that doesn't make it so.
Windows is only popular on desktop computers because it's backwards compatible with the entire modern history of computing. To call RT "Windows" without that feature is like calling your new mode of transportation "AirplaneRT" even though it can't fly and you have to push pedals with your feet to make it move.
They've promised to ditch compatibility for years and versions and now they're trying to do it and seeing where their strength has always been - being Microsoft compatible.:-D and I don't need to buy that AirplaneRT, I can ride one for a quarter at the supermarket whenever I want.
That's not likely to work. iOS and Android are too entrenched. No OEM is going to willingly walk into a new, untested OS.
OEMs like to sell product. If they think there's enough demand they will make it. Odds are the only real change is in their firmware so they can handle Microsoft's OS.
its windows, its CRAP, comsumers are realizing this and buying into a much better system. Surface pro is just the desktop smushed into a tablet form, but it still gets plenty of malware and take up gigantic amounts of room compared to the others. Why would a knowledgeable person put themselves thru the hassle of downgrading their tablet experience with microsoft software?
Perhaps they don't have a tablet yet or haven't used one much and want to go a bit more mobile.
Trying to reconcile how to do what they know how to do on a desktop or laptop but now on a touch sensitive screen, on top of all the constant version-on-version of reshuffling menu options, where things are and how to work previously simple things done many times in a now more complicated way -- that could really blunt their thrust.
There's a juicy irony in calling Windows a new, untested OS. Microsoft have been plugging Windows for touch screens for decades now; they just suck at it.
I'm not disagreeing with your sentiment, by the way, just enjoying the phrasing.
I have one of the old XP tablets and to say it sucks is to put it mildly. It worked pretty good for some things, generally not using the touch screen any more than necessary, but that's counter to what they are pushing these days, whether you like it or not. People are trained on Windows with a Keyboard and Mouse. Windows without either is a strange and unfamiliar thing which creates a lot of mental conflict, trying to figure how to do what we are familiar with with unfamiliar controls. Android and iOS have effectively come out the door without the baggage of prior expectations.
To clear my head and take my mind off the predicaments of coding I try to get regular exercise. I'm fortunate enough to live near several very large open space parks, state parks and county parks.
I hiked about 8 miles in the mountains on Sunday. You can't exert energy like that and then eat and drink garbage, your body knows what it needs and tells you by rather convincing means. Headaches, cramps, lethargy and such are symptomatic of eating poorly. A bag of chips and a soda after a 90 mile bike ride is guaranteed to make me utterly ill. Fruit and raw almonds after exertion along with water replace energy, protein and electrolytes which have been consumed in effort.
Sitting at the desk and slogging through code isn't much different than muscle exerting - the brain seeks it's own fuel, quite a bit of sugar, but I find processed sugar gives me sugar rushes and headaches, followed by lethargy. Fruit sugar works more effectively and goes into the blood quicker. Tea rather than overstrong coffee or soda (with its high fructose corn syrup) I try to avoid. Marathon development sessions go more smoothly when I resist the urge to eat fried foods, sugar glazed stuff, too much salt and beverages which overly stimulate me - I don't need no stinkin' "energy" drinks (instant ice tea and Tang are more effective anyway and way cheaper.)
It may have been able to compete with the original iPad, but not the latest and that's the greatest miscalculation.
Here's a funny (ironic funny, not so much ha-ha funny) thought: Microsoft made their way in the early days of Microcomputers riding on the backs of cheap clones or clones which could outperform IBM's PCs. Fast-forward to the present and their trying to ride the backs of the highest performing hardware, with low performing clones, hoping to drag along the operating system into prominence with it.
They should stay out of the hardware business and work on the operating system for tablets, let anyone make them and encourage development of premium hardware.
There's a difference between being tracked by a random company and a government body. At least the latter operates under the scrutiny of elected representatives.
Only in the House of Commons. You don't have much say after that, they pick the PM and the House of Lords is like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates -- you never know what you will get (may contain nuts.)
The majority of Britons seem quite content to be under constant surveillance, at least when someone runs over their cat they'll know who owned the vehicle.
Given the level of tracking going on by the government in the UK, espescially London, if the spooks there are not already doing this themselves, they will be soon.
It's a wonder your mobile isn't photographing where you are and what you are doing and adding that to the pool of publicly recorded video. Probably only a matter of time on that front.
"no-trash-talking" uh more of a "bin ban, banning bin bother"
The esteemed Gen. Shelton is playing politics. This is a standard trick. Whenever someone threatens or enacts budget cuts, politicians (and you don't get to be a general without being a politician) start shutting down things which may cost very little, but are highly noticeable or annoying. Obviously this demonstrates how catastrophic it would be to have your budget cut.
It's the old, "Don't make me shot this dog!" trick and as you say, very effective, but only where there is sufficient sentiment for the welfare of the dog or the welfare of the companies which look after the dog on the taxpayer's ticket.
You'd think that Republicans would be big proponents of the space fence. We need something to keep illegal aliens out.
They're only in favor of keeping out illegal aliens who don't side with their policies (which paradoxically are to hate themselves and make everyone else's lives miserable.)
If Ronald Reagan were still around he'd turn this thing into the next SDI and it'd be funded better than last one.
Took NASA a while to send someone up into space who could describe better than, "It's like huge and like there's a lot of it everywhere and there's lots of stars, too."
Just transfer all the money cut from the DOD to NASA. Then they can run it themselves! Genius, yes?
No.
The space junk which has slowly been taking on sentience, not unlike Hactar, will complain mightily in internet forums, where it'll largely be ignored (see earlier link.
It'll all end up with songs which could make Paul McCartney so rich he could buy the galaxy and several short, but very violent cricket match invasions.
It'll be done much cheaper and with only minor gaps in service, during which the chief overseer will be outside for a smoke or a natter on the mobile when Vlad Putin goes skydiving again and takes out a jet, which takes out a train, which takes out a factory, which takes out a utility pole, which takes out a school bus, which hits a motorcycle, which veers into a parking lot and hits the chief overseer, in the great granddaddy or unforeseen tragedies, for which the Pentagon will be blamed and blow up in the face of the president who will blame it on the House for continuing to muck around with budgets and sequestration in its usual bombast these days.
when I was tricked into drinking Hydrogen Hydroxide when I distinctly requested a beaker full of Dihydrogen Monoxide. The cover-up, the pointing of fingers, the falling out of the scientific community. HOYVIN GLAVIN!
Actually the guys at the FSF along with the major Linux players like Red hat and Canonical really should get together and bake a really nice cake for Steve Ballmer, because he is singlehandedly doing what Linux never could, completely destroying MSFT and killing Windows. From the "LULZ HAI I'm a cellphone, seen my appstore?" Windows 8 debacle to jacking the price of both home and server versions of Windows in a dead economy to burning Xbox with his retarded "hey lets bleed the gamers for more cash!" scheme, his pathetic leadership and Dilbert PHB obsession with Apple and the stock price is completely trashing the company.
Is anyone good at drawing a flying chair in cake frosting?
Just more boots dropping as Microsoft try to maintain their revenue stream with the plateauing of Windows. They'll be a bit player in the tablet and mobile market, so the money to keep the stockholders happy has to come from somewhere and Server market is as likely as Office.
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Go find some exercise you enjoy, and set up a routine where you get to do it. Your body will adjust (over 6-12 months) to whatever shape you need to do that exercise more effectively.
Fad / deficiency / hunger / starvation diets just trigger your body to go into "hoarding mode", as you were evolved to do to get through a few months of winter scarcity. Keep your metabolism up by feeding yourself well and exercising well, and you'll train your body to just take what it needs and pass the rest.
I think most nerds are just too bored with most gyms and exercise routines. Hiking / biking / exploring is a great way to make exercise more cerebral. Also you might enjoy enrolling in some form of Martial Arts (though certainly shop around for good school that isn't too focused on sparring and beating people up) where you can concentrate on translating the wisdom of the ancients into modern physics and biomechanics hacks.
I practiced Tae Kwon Do for about a year and a half, until my left knee limited my advancement. The master of the school was adamant any reports of students using their knowledge to harm others or even show off was ground for permanent expulsion (so popular was the school there was only room for so many students.) Focus on patterns and form in practice was so total it was terrific for clearing the mind. Sometimes you just need to let go of perplexing problems so when you embrace them again you do so with a fresh look often seeing the obvious which was overlooked at the cost of much frustration.
The thing is it's not really "Windows", though. They've developed a phone OS and chosen to call it "Windows", but that doesn't make it so.
Windows is only popular on desktop computers because it's backwards compatible with the entire modern history of computing. To call RT "Windows" without that feature is like calling your new mode of transportation "AirplaneRT" even though it can't fly and you have to push pedals with your feet to make it move.
They've promised to ditch compatibility for years and versions and now they're trying to do it and seeing where their strength has always been - being Microsoft compatible. :-D and I don't need to buy that AirplaneRT, I can ride one for a quarter at the supermarket whenever I want.
That's not likely to work. iOS and Android are too entrenched. No OEM is going to willingly walk into a new, untested OS.
OEMs like to sell product. If they think there's enough demand they will make it. Odds are the only real change is in their firmware so they can handle Microsoft's OS.
Consider the source, take with grain of salt, etc.
It sure isn't the magazine it once was.
its windows, its CRAP, comsumers are realizing this and buying into a much better system. Surface pro is just the desktop smushed into a tablet form, but it still gets plenty of malware and take up gigantic amounts of room compared to the others. Why would a knowledgeable person put themselves thru the hassle of downgrading their tablet experience with microsoft software?
Perhaps they don't have a tablet yet or haven't used one much and want to go a bit more mobile.
Trying to reconcile how to do what they know how to do on a desktop or laptop but now on a touch sensitive screen, on top of all the constant version-on-version of reshuffling menu options, where things are and how to work previously simple things done many times in a now more complicated way -- that could really blunt their thrust.
There's a juicy irony in calling Windows a new, untested OS. Microsoft have been plugging Windows for touch screens for decades now; they just suck at it.
I'm not disagreeing with your sentiment, by the way, just enjoying the phrasing.
I have one of the old XP tablets and to say it sucks is to put it mildly. It worked pretty good for some things, generally not using the touch screen any more than necessary, but that's counter to what they are pushing these days, whether you like it or not. People are trained on Windows with a Keyboard and Mouse. Windows without either is a strange and unfamiliar thing which creates a lot of mental conflict, trying to figure how to do what we are familiar with with unfamiliar controls. Android and iOS have effectively come out the door without the baggage of prior expectations.
To clear my head and take my mind off the predicaments of coding I try to get regular exercise. I'm fortunate enough to live near several very large open space parks, state parks and county parks.
I hiked about 8 miles in the mountains on Sunday. You can't exert energy like that and then eat and drink garbage, your body knows what it needs and tells you by rather convincing means. Headaches, cramps, lethargy and such are symptomatic of eating poorly. A bag of chips and a soda after a 90 mile bike ride is guaranteed to make me utterly ill. Fruit and raw almonds after exertion along with water replace energy, protein and electrolytes which have been consumed in effort.
Sitting at the desk and slogging through code isn't much different than muscle exerting - the brain seeks it's own fuel, quite a bit of sugar, but I find processed sugar gives me sugar rushes and headaches, followed by lethargy. Fruit sugar works more effectively and goes into the blood quicker. Tea rather than overstrong coffee or soda (with its high fructose corn syrup) I try to avoid. Marathon development sessions go more smoothly when I resist the urge to eat fried foods, sugar glazed stuff, too much salt and beverages which overly stimulate me - I don't need no stinkin' "energy" drinks (instant ice tea and Tang are more effective anyway and way cheaper.)
It may have been able to compete with the original iPad, but not the latest and that's the greatest miscalculation.
Here's a funny (ironic funny, not so much ha-ha funny) thought: Microsoft made their way in the early days of Microcomputers riding on the backs of cheap clones or clones which could outperform IBM's PCs.
Fast-forward to the present and their trying to ride the backs of the highest performing hardware, with low performing clones, hoping to drag along the operating system into prominence with it.
They should stay out of the hardware business and work on the operating system for tablets, let anyone make them and encourage development of premium hardware.
There's a difference between being tracked by a random company and a government body. At least the latter operates under the scrutiny of elected representatives.
Only in the House of Commons. You don't have much say after that, they pick the PM and the House of Lords is like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates -- you never know what you will get (may contain nuts.)
The majority of Britons seem quite content to be under constant surveillance, at least when someone runs over their cat they'll know who owned the vehicle.
It is astonishing how few people seem to understand that.
Rather like war-driving in reverse. How times change.
Given the level of tracking going on by the government in the UK, espescially London, if the spooks there are not already doing this themselves, they will be soon.
It's a wonder your mobile isn't photographing where you are and what you are doing and adding that to the pool of publicly recorded video. Probably only a matter of time on that front.
"no-trash-talking" uh more of a "bin ban, banning bin bother"
Tho I do hope they recycling part of that is still up even after they stop tracking phones.
All the better reason to go around with your mobile phone turned off until you need to use it or wish to check messages.
"I see you post on /. Please look at all these cheesey t-shirts on ThinkGeek.com!"
Corn and sugarcane got nothing on the sugar beet.
Yeah, but the only way the sugar beet may be harvested is by coating the roads of the midwest with mud during the rainy part of Autumn.
"slide, Casey, slide!" ... bdee-bdee-bdee Mud."
"my name isn't bdee-bdee-bdee Casey, it's
Germany is one of the hotspots for Boundless Informant. It appears that the US spies on Germany as much as it does on China.
The NSA will probably next be cornering the market on high GPU count graphics cards.
Would it be Star Wars Episode V or Star Wars Episode I?
Episode VII: Return of the Revenge of the Ewoks.
Turn it into a space fence to keep out illegal aliens.
Aliens are what keep the economy of Area 51 rock solid and giving it 10% quarter on quarter growth!
at least, that's what they tell me to type
The esteemed Gen. Shelton is playing politics. This is a standard trick. Whenever someone threatens or enacts budget cuts, politicians (and you don't get to be a general without being a politician) start shutting down things which may cost very little, but are highly noticeable or annoying. Obviously this demonstrates how catastrophic it would be to have your budget cut.
It's the old, "Don't make me shot this dog!" trick and as you say, very effective, but only where there is sufficient sentiment for the welfare of the dog or the welfare of the companies which look after the dog on the taxpayer's ticket.
You'd think that Republicans would be big proponents of the space fence. We need something to keep illegal aliens out.
They're only in favor of keeping out illegal aliens who don't side with their policies (which paradoxically are to hate themselves and make everyone else's lives miserable.)
If Ronald Reagan were still around he'd turn this thing into the next SDI and it'd be funded better than last one.
They should have sent a POET. A poet. Not a poem.
Took NASA a while to send someone up into space who could describe better than, "It's like huge and like there's a lot of it everywhere and there's lots of stars, too."
Just transfer all the money cut from the DOD to NASA. Then they can run it themselves! Genius, yes?
No.
The space junk which has slowly been taking on sentience, not unlike Hactar, will complain mightily in internet forums, where it'll largely be ignored (see earlier link.
It'll all end up with songs which could make Paul McCartney so rich he could buy the galaxy and several short, but very violent cricket match invasions.
It'll be done much cheaper and with only minor gaps in service, during which the chief overseer will be outside for a smoke or a natter on the mobile when Vlad Putin goes skydiving again and takes out a jet, which takes out a train, which takes out a factory, which takes out a utility pole, which takes out a school bus, which hits a motorcycle, which veers into a parking lot and hits the chief overseer, in the great granddaddy or unforeseen tragedies, for which the Pentagon will be blamed and blow up in the face of the president who will blame it on the House for continuing to muck around with budgets and sequestration in its usual bombast these days.
Very well could just be as they say, a poor choice of words. Maybe he just wanted her to do the needful?
I'm waiting for the day when something from the House, Senate or Whitehouse goes out with a not attached, "...and don't sent this to the press."
Or has that already happened?
Why let the search for truth get in the way of a good lynching.
A lie can run around the world before truth has got it's boots on - Terry Pratchett
Looks like truth got a running start on this sprint.
when I was tricked into drinking Hydrogen Hydroxide when I distinctly requested a beaker full of Dihydrogen Monoxide. The cover-up, the pointing of fingers, the falling out of the scientific community. HOYVIN GLAVIN!
Actually the guys at the FSF along with the major Linux players like Red hat and Canonical really should get together and bake a really nice cake for Steve Ballmer, because he is singlehandedly doing what Linux never could, completely destroying MSFT and killing Windows. From the "LULZ HAI I'm a cellphone, seen my appstore?" Windows 8 debacle to jacking the price of both home and server versions of Windows in a dead economy to burning Xbox with his retarded "hey lets bleed the gamers for more cash!" scheme, his pathetic leadership and Dilbert PHB obsession with Apple and the stock price is completely trashing the company.
Is anyone good at drawing a flying chair in cake frosting?
Just more boots dropping as Microsoft try to maintain their revenue stream with the plateauing of Windows. They'll be a bit player in the tablet and mobile market, so the money to keep the stockholders happy has to come from somewhere and Server market is as likely as Office.