Except you forgot that just hiking alone won't burn your fat. You have to get your heart going (run, cycle, etc). This boosts your metabolism and you burn more calories. If you manage to keep your calorie intake the same as before you started exercising, you will inevitably lose weight. That's just basic physics.
I had a fairly successful, Slashdot-style blog (and forum) with around 10K unique daily visitors (and growing). I closed it in 2001 - lost interest. I believe that with a few exceptions the blog fad will blow over. Sooner or later you just run out of interesting things to say and start regurgitating bullshit from other blogs. Then you start regurgitating the regurgitations from other blogs. It becomes sort of like making sausage - you put all sorts of crap in and hope it will "sell".
I think zune's color is best described as "turd brown covered with snot green". Seriously, I think brown zunes are a practical joke to just see if people will buy it better after every single exec from Microsoft said that "brown is the new black". To measure the gullibility so to speak.
The only reason for obesity "epidemics" is sedentary lifestyles that a lot of people are leading. Sitting for hours in front of a computer or TV does no good to you. And coincidentally computers and TVs weren't widely available in 1975.
I weighed nearly 300 pounds (around 135Kg for metric folks). I have a huge frame, but there's still around 35Kg of fat that I need to lose. About three years ago I had stopped drinking soda containing sugars, as well as sweet fruit juices. Didn't make even a bit of difference as far as my weight is concerned. Granted I started to feel much better, because my blood sugar wasn't on a roller coaster all the time, but that's about it. I did not make any other changes to my diet, though, so I still consume quite a bit of carbs as breads (and no, I don't eat donuts or sweets every day either).
So I bought a bicycle. So far it helped me to lose about 10Kg. This is not much, considering, but I'm making a slow, steady progress. In a few years I _might_ hit my target weight. Maybe even sooner if I change my diet.
The point I'm trying to make, I guess, is that there's no "epidemic". It's that people walk a hundred yards/metters a day and sit on their ass all day. No matter how many calories you consume (within reason), diet alone is not gonna make you leaner if you don't exercise. At least not for long.
Because there are very few people in the world who know anything about user experience and they either charge a lot or work for Apple or both. You can do more features and stuff, but the actual user experience is a lot harder to nail down than the feature checklist.
But programming is _not_ computer science. I have an M.Sc. in computer science and I've spent 6 years doing programming before joining a research lab half a year ago. Guess what, while solid knowledge of math wasn't a requirement to get hired, to do anything interesting you HAVE to know math there. Statistics, combinatorics, linear algebra, calculus, signal processing, machine learning - a heck of a lot of math. And after 6 years I'm _really_ fuzzy on most of it. It's getting clearer now, but only because I had studied most of this stuff in school. I spend my weekends reading mind-numbing books and writing code far beyond anything I've done before. Using your math can be pretty exciting.
The caveat, again, is that you must learn to not confuse computer science and programming/software engineering.
To replace a sim card all you need is a pin. Really, all you bashers should just go to the store and check it out in person. It HAS a SIM tray. It works great, and dare I say it, it's not that expensive for what it is.
They call their equivalent Ded Moroz, which literally means Grandfather Frost. And Ded Moroz does not "live on the North Pole". He "lives" in Veliky Ustiug.
September 11th happened because US is in bed with Israel. And also because of over-funding of CIA. Who do you think created all those villains that now cost hundreds of billions of dollars to find and/or remove from power?
Why would he need "dynamic programming" out here in the real world? Care to explain? Why does he even need to master common algorithms? Trees, sorting - all of this is already done twenty times over. This is not to say that strong background in algorithms doesn't help, it does. This is to say that 90% of programming has nothing to do with computer science, and as a beginner, that's the 90% he'll be doing.
Cell phone company is going to get $600-1000 out of you per year regardless of what phone you own. You might as well own a good one. I'd much rather see them stop subsidizing phones altogether if I get unlimited voice for $20 a month and unlimited voice+data at $35. That, unfortunately, won't happen. Evar.
eBay is Google's biggest AdWords customer. If eBay pulls out for good, you will see it in quarterly earnings and stock price (with billions in valuation gone). This is not worth a marketing stunt (unless Google is ready to release their own auction site very very soon).
To make this a little less insane, let's hypothesize a bit.
If Russia puts its missile defense systems on Cuban soil, will the US target those installations (and Cuba along with them, as a collateral)? There's no question in my mind that they would. It's a simple logic, there's no room for political play or negotiation. Missile defense systems are deployed with the intention of using them one day.
OF COURSE they will target US missile defense systems deployed in Europe. It would be stupid and irresponsible to NOT target them. That they will target Europe because of this is just a side effect. This is not really a threat, he's just stating the facts. Another thing he should do is restore Russian missile bases on Cuba as well. Otherwise he won't be able to do anything when the next psycho in the White House decides to "give the gift of democracy" to Russia.
And the thing that I want to know is how they evaluate the results. I actually do research in this space right now, and by far the most painful thing is evaluation of results. We have a system that automates most of the work, but there's still a lot of human involvement, and this limits the input dataset size and speed with which we can iterate the improvements.
I'd like to know how they transform their queries before running them against the index. I.e. how they decide whether they should throw out the "stop" words (most prepositions, some verbs, some nouns) or keep them, whether they should throw in an alternative spelling or synonym, whether they should throw in a semantically related word or two to increase recall (this is evident when you search for something and get related words highlighted in the results), when to stem and when not to stem.
Those are the things that keep them ahead. Page rank is pretty much solved by now, which is why this dude is allowed to talk about it even at this level of detail.
WRT page rank it'd be interesting to know how they train the classifiers and individual classifier weights. The problem is that human experiments are extremely expensive for this stuff.
Use FreeBSD. Or any other BSD for that matter. There isn't anything in Linux that makes it Tivo's only choice. If GPL V3 gets pushed onto commercial users of Linux (Google, Amazon, others), they'll just switch to *BSD within a year, tops.
If you did, you'd see that their insistence on using Word 2003 doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I'm a die hard TeX user, and I won't be switching to Word or anything else, but if I was using Word, I'd be using W2007 - anything else is torture.
For the first time ever it DOES get the math right. It's ironic that they insist on the version of Word that couldn't render good looking math to save its life.
IMO they should just upgrade and start accepting the new format, for one simple reason. Office 2007 features a HUGELY improved "equation editor". Believe it or not, for most things you can come close to what you can do in TeX. This was a huge downside of Office before 2007.
Average American family spends four times as much per month on eating out and Starbucks, and about $50-60 on cable TV with 200+ channels. Average American consumer is very far from the point of "breaking" at this point. The danger of high gas prices is indirect - it can trigger higher prices for consumer goods. I was just saying that using gas prices as justification for telecommuting or buying a hybrid car is stupid.
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Except you forgot that just hiking alone won't burn your fat. You have to get your heart going (run, cycle, etc). This boosts your metabolism and you burn more calories. If you manage to keep your calorie intake the same as before you started exercising, you will inevitably lose weight. That's just basic physics.
I had a fairly successful, Slashdot-style blog (and forum) with around 10K unique daily visitors (and growing). I closed it in 2001 - lost interest. I believe that with a few exceptions the blog fad will blow over. Sooner or later you just run out of interesting things to say and start regurgitating bullshit from other blogs. Then you start regurgitating the regurgitations from other blogs. It becomes sort of like making sausage - you put all sorts of crap in and hope it will "sell".
I think zune's color is best described as "turd brown covered with snot green". Seriously, I think brown zunes are a practical joke to just see if people will buy it better after every single exec from Microsoft said that "brown is the new black". To measure the gullibility so to speak.
The only reason for obesity "epidemics" is sedentary lifestyles that a lot of people are leading. Sitting for hours in front of a computer or TV does no good to you. And coincidentally computers and TVs weren't widely available in 1975.
I weighed nearly 300 pounds (around 135Kg for metric folks). I have a huge frame, but there's still around 35Kg of fat that I need to lose. About three years ago I had stopped drinking soda containing sugars, as well as sweet fruit juices. Didn't make even a bit of difference as far as my weight is concerned. Granted I started to feel much better, because my blood sugar wasn't on a roller coaster all the time, but that's about it. I did not make any other changes to my diet, though, so I still consume quite a bit of carbs as breads (and no, I don't eat donuts or sweets every day either).
So I bought a bicycle. So far it helped me to lose about 10Kg. This is not much, considering, but I'm making a slow, steady progress. In a few years I _might_ hit my target weight. Maybe even sooner if I change my diet.
The point I'm trying to make, I guess, is that there's no "epidemic". It's that people walk a hundred yards/metters a day and sit on their ass all day. No matter how many calories you consume (within reason), diet alone is not gonna make you leaner if you don't exercise. At least not for long.
Because it's still not out and iPhone is. You keep forgetting that iPhone has been in development for 3 years before it was announced.
And professionals at SUN don't know jack shit about user interfaces, I'm sorry. That's just not what SUN does.
Because there are very few people in the world who know anything about user experience and they either charge a lot or work for Apple or both. You can do more features and stuff, but the actual user experience is a lot harder to nail down than the feature checklist.
But programming is _not_ computer science. I have an M.Sc. in computer science and I've spent 6 years doing programming before joining a research lab half a year ago. Guess what, while solid knowledge of math wasn't a requirement to get hired, to do anything interesting you HAVE to know math there. Statistics, combinatorics, linear algebra, calculus, signal processing, machine learning - a heck of a lot of math. And after 6 years I'm _really_ fuzzy on most of it. It's getting clearer now, but only because I had studied most of this stuff in school. I spend my weekends reading mind-numbing books and writing code far beyond anything I've done before. Using your math can be pretty exciting.
The caveat, again, is that you must learn to not confuse computer science and programming/software engineering.
To replace a sim card all you need is a pin. Really, all you bashers should just go to the store and check it out in person. It HAS a SIM tray. It works great, and dare I say it, it's not that expensive for what it is.
They call their equivalent Ded Moroz, which literally means Grandfather Frost. And Ded Moroz does not "live on the North Pole". He "lives" in Veliky Ustiug.
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September 11th happened because US is in bed with Israel. And also because of over-funding of CIA. Who do you think created all those villains that now cost hundreds of billions of dollars to find and/or remove from power?
And where exactly will AdSense get its context from? It's not like it can analyze video to show contextual ads. Not yet at least.
Why would he need "dynamic programming" out here in the real world? Care to explain? Why does he even need to master common algorithms? Trees, sorting - all of this is already done twenty times over. This is not to say that strong background in algorithms doesn't help, it does. This is to say that 90% of programming has nothing to do with computer science, and as a beginner, that's the 90% he'll be doing.
'cause it has wifi.
Cell phone company is going to get $600-1000 out of you per year regardless of what phone you own. You might as well own a good one. I'd much rather see them stop subsidizing phones altogether if I get unlimited voice for $20 a month and unlimited voice+data at $35. That, unfortunately, won't happen. Evar.
eBay is Google's biggest AdWords customer. If eBay pulls out for good, you will see it in quarterly earnings and stock price (with billions in valuation gone). This is not worth a marketing stunt (unless Google is ready to release their own auction site very very soon).
To make this a little less insane, let's hypothesize a bit.
If Russia puts its missile defense systems on Cuban soil, will the US target those installations (and Cuba along with them, as a collateral)? There's no question in my mind that they would. It's a simple logic, there's no room for political play or negotiation. Missile defense systems are deployed with the intention of using them one day.
OF COURSE they will target US missile defense systems deployed in Europe. It would be stupid and irresponsible to NOT target them. That they will target Europe because of this is just a side effect. This is not really a threat, he's just stating the facts. Another thing he should do is restore Russian missile bases on Cuba as well. Otherwise he won't be able to do anything when the next psycho in the White House decides to "give the gift of democracy" to Russia.
And the thing that I want to know is how they evaluate the results. I actually do research in this space right now, and by far the most painful thing is evaluation of results. We have a system that automates most of the work, but there's still a lot of human involvement, and this limits the input dataset size and speed with which we can iterate the improvements.
I'd like to know how they transform their queries before running them against the index. I.e. how they decide whether they should throw out the "stop" words (most prepositions, some verbs, some nouns) or keep them, whether they should throw in an alternative spelling or synonym, whether they should throw in a semantically related word or two to increase recall (this is evident when you search for something and get related words highlighted in the results), when to stem and when not to stem.
Those are the things that keep them ahead. Page rank is pretty much solved by now, which is why this dude is allowed to talk about it even at this level of detail.
WRT page rank it'd be interesting to know how they train the classifiers and individual classifier weights. The problem is that human experiments are extremely expensive for this stuff.
And they want to make money. With GPL 2 these two goals could coexist. With GPL 3 they can't. As a business, they care little about ideology.
Use FreeBSD. Or any other BSD for that matter. There isn't anything in Linux that makes it Tivo's only choice. If GPL V3 gets pushed onto commercial users of Linux (Google, Amazon, others), they'll just switch to *BSD within a year, tops.
If you did, you'd see that their insistence on using Word 2003 doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I'm a die hard TeX user, and I won't be switching to Word or anything else, but if I was using Word, I'd be using W2007 - anything else is torture.
For the first time ever it DOES get the math right. It's ironic that they insist on the version of Word that couldn't render good looking math to save its life.
IMO they should just upgrade and start accepting the new format, for one simple reason. Office 2007 features a HUGELY improved "equation editor". Believe it or not, for most things you can come close to what you can do in TeX. This was a huge downside of Office before 2007.
Average American family spends four times as much per month on eating out and Starbucks, and about $50-60 on cable TV with 200+ channels. Average American consumer is very far from the point of "breaking" at this point. The danger of high gas prices is indirect - it can trigger higher prices for consumer goods. I was just saying that using gas prices as justification for telecommuting or buying a hybrid car is stupid.