Ok, maybe 1-2 times a week on a trainer to keep some form of base fitness.
But to use it as your sole form of cycling-type exercise all year round? That would make me insane. If it's nice out, go play outside. I don't think anybody who uses stationary bikes who then tried the real thing ever went back to going nowhere in their basement.
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Somewhat true. But we don't all exercise alike. I'm currently 235 lbs. In the winter I take a cyclist-specific 2 hour spin class once a week. I've burned almost 3000 calories in 2 hours in those sessions.
I've used the hacker's diet (which adheres basically to what you state). But I've found I do much better just consciously eating less, and exercising a lot more. It's now cycling season, and I have for the most part recovered from the surgeries that were keeping me from exercising over the winter months, and the lbs are melting away without me having to suffer through a strict calorie-counting diet.
Granted, I'm not a typical case. Most people certainly would not do a few days a week on the bikes (a couple of days of singletrack, and a few on the road), and certainly wouldn't go through 50ish miles at a time with a lot of climbing.
But to state that exercise has little to do with weight loss depends on the type of exercise that you do. It certainly does feel a lot better to exercise more than it does to eat less. And at the intensity levels that I personally exercise at, it certainly does have a large impact. Of course, eating less is also part of the equation, but if you put the emphasis on that part, you will be miserable, at least for awhile. And who wants to be stuck in calorie-counting mode all their lives in order to control their weight?
Get a mountain bike and find a good local trail. That's much more fun, and you'll also meet some cool people. Road bike is fine too, and you'll meet even more people on that. But if you want something more like a video game, offroad is definitely the way to go.
But the word processor is not part of the operating system. That'd be like saying windows sucks because microsoft office sucks. She seemed happy with the OS itself, although her focus was on installation, not usability. For the word processing, just use VMWare or VMWare Player.
(this looks at my mail logs to see what I've discarded as obvious spam).
"easy" depends on what you are trying to accomplish. The flexibility of my linux boxen, servers and desktops included, make it far far easier for me to use than any windows box I've ever had to use. This is mostly due to a couple of simple things:
Everything is a file
I have lots of useful little commands that I can chain together to tell me what it is I want to know... or to create my own scripts to accomplish things.
These things require you be a seasoned programmer in windows. Not so with linux. This philosophy also extends to my linux desktop environment (I use ROX filer with Windowmaker). I can easily make things do what I want them to. Again, a relatively difficult task in the windows environment.
That's actually interesting. As linux finds other ways to do things (hopefully *BETTER* ways), somebody could patent THOSE, and being superior methods, they'd become more popular. Microsoft would then have to license these ideas. Beat these idiots at their own game. But the real win would be getting rid of software and business method patents altogether.
However, the current implementation requires that I have a bloated reader that typically includes Additional Crap (tm) in the installation which installs by default (if even given the option). The reader insists in "improving performance" by running a program in my system tray for which I must remove the configuration myself (no option).
Huh?
Even if you are using Adobe's reader, you can easily kill all of the plugins. Then there are alternatives, like foxit reader on windows (love this one on my USB drive, and it's what I use on any windoze box I have to use), or you can use xpdf on *nix.
It has to be treated as an ambush. Everyone must rush the gunman, and the front people will die. Otherwise, they all die. Unless there is another student who is armed and can shoot straight who hasn't already been taken out.
I can only hope that it is a hummer or dump truck coming the other way that you end up eventually hitting, and not a pedestrian or cyclist. Hurt yourself all you want, but stop endgangering everyone else. How about you change and study at your house, and pull over to talk on the phone or txt?
And you'll probably only get probation after you run over and kill your first cyclist, so please, don't let driving your car interfere with that important text message.
We're not wired for talking on the cell phone. There are a lot more cues going on to help our brain while the person is actually there with you. Plus, they are in the same environment, and will react to problems in that environment.
Lawmakers should be required to revoke 2 laws for every 1 they create. Driving while distracted should already be against the law, no? Driving while receiving oral sex must still be legal, since there's no specific law against that...
Why's it suck? If they have a definitive story and ending, that's better than letting it go on for years with no direction. Plus I can now buy the DVDs and now worry about the series going on forever like south park, or family guy's return, and forget about the simpsons!
Become a project manager. Learn some ITIl stuff, Keane, etc. The cool thing is you can use your experience with IT to lead IT type projects and be much better with your time/cost initial estimates, keeping you from eating up a change budget.
I'd like to see the first case of trying to enforce this. If you buy the product, you should be able to use it on any type of 'computer' it will run on, including a virtual one.
The workstation version of vmware is great for all kinds of things. I use it when setting up my portable apps on my USB drive (I don't use windows, regularly, but want to have some tools with me when on somebody else's computer, so I set up VMWare with winxp).
Take a snapshot, do an install. Tweak to make portable. Revert the snapshot to pre-install. See if the app works from the USB drive (which is actually mounted under linux, and shared to the vmware session).
Good stuff.
Each different VMWare product is good for different things (ie, use ESX server if hosting a bunch of linux virtual servers, workstation for testing desktop things). I love not having to keep another computer around, or having to dual-boot just to use the random windows-only utility every now and then. It's great for test-installing new releases of linux distros too.
Mail aliases. Or use the dot extension that MTAs like sendmail allow. If you get an email to your normal address from the 'bank', you know it's bogus. Likewise, you can also tell if your bank sold your mail information, or if they were breached if you get email to your bank alias that is NOT from your bank.
If I were an ISP, I'd make an easy interface for this for my end users, and maybe even drop obvious phishing scams (cases where we know where the mail for an alias SHOULD be coming from).
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Winter is for snowboarding :)
Ok, maybe 1-2 times a week on a trainer to keep some form of base fitness.
But to use it as your sole form of cycling-type exercise all year round? That would make me insane. If it's nice out, go play outside. I don't think anybody who uses stationary bikes who then tried the real thing ever went back to going nowhere in their basement.
Somewhat true. But we don't all exercise alike. I'm currently 235 lbs. In the winter I take a cyclist-specific 2 hour spin class once a week. I've burned almost 3000 calories in 2 hours in those sessions.
I've used the hacker's diet (which adheres basically to what you state). But I've found I do much better just consciously eating less, and exercising a lot more. It's now cycling season, and I have for the most part recovered from the surgeries that were keeping me from exercising over the winter months, and the lbs are melting away without me having to suffer through a strict calorie-counting diet.
Granted, I'm not a typical case. Most people certainly would not do a few days a week on the bikes (a couple of days of singletrack, and a few on the road), and certainly wouldn't go through 50ish miles at a time with a lot of climbing.
But to state that exercise has little to do with weight loss depends on the type of exercise that you do. It certainly does feel a lot better to exercise more than it does to eat less. And at the intensity levels that I personally exercise at, it certainly does have a large impact. Of course, eating less is also part of the equation, but if you put the emphasis on that part, you will be miserable, at least for awhile. And who wants to be stuck in calorie-counting mode all their lives in order to control their weight?
Get a mountain bike and find a good local trail. That's much more fun, and you'll also meet some cool people. Road bike is fine too, and you'll meet even more people on that. But if you want something more like a video game, offroad is definitely the way to go.
But the word processor is not part of the operating system. That'd be like saying windows sucks because microsoft office sucks. She seemed happy with the OS itself, although her focus was on installation, not usability. For the word processing, just use VMWare or VMWare Player.
"easy" depends on what you are trying to accomplish. The flexibility of my linux boxen, servers and desktops included, make it far far easier for me to use than any windows box I've ever had to use. This is mostly due to a couple of simple things:
These things require you be a seasoned programmer in windows. Not so with linux. This philosophy also extends to my linux desktop environment (I use ROX filer with Windowmaker). I can easily make things do what I want them to. Again, a relatively difficult task in the windows environment.
That's actually interesting. As linux finds other ways to do things (hopefully *BETTER* ways), somebody could patent THOSE, and being superior methods, they'd become more popular. Microsoft would then have to license these ideas. Beat these idiots at their own game. But the real win would be getting rid of software and business method patents altogether.
foxit reader
Huh?
Even if you are using Adobe's reader, you can easily kill all of the plugins. Then there are alternatives, like foxit reader on windows (love this one on my USB drive, and it's what I use on any windoze box I have to use), or you can use xpdf on *nix.
It has to be treated as an ambush. Everyone must rush the gunman, and the front people will die. Otherwise, they all die. Unless there is another student who is armed and can shoot straight who hasn't already been taken out.
A shining example of how to totally screwup what was once a useful best-in-class site: http://yodel.yahoo.com/2006/11/28/anything-good-on -tonight/
And now my bank is going down the same road with their online bill payment tool. *sigh*.
I can only hope that it is a hummer or dump truck coming the other way that you end up eventually hitting, and not a pedestrian or cyclist. Hurt yourself all you want, but stop endgangering everyone else. How about you change and study at your house, and pull over to talk on the phone or txt?
And you'll probably only get probation after you run over and kill your first cyclist, so please, don't let driving your car interfere with that important text message.
We're not wired for talking on the cell phone. There are a lot more cues going on to help our brain while the person is actually there with you. Plus, they are in the same environment, and will react to problems in that environment.
Lawmakers should be required to revoke 2 laws for every 1 they create. Driving while distracted should already be against the law, no? Driving while receiving oral sex must still be legal, since there's no specific law against that...
Why's it suck? If they have a definitive story and ending, that's better than letting it go on for years with no direction. Plus I can now buy the DVDs and now worry about the series going on forever like south park, or family guy's return, and forget about the simpsons!
Yup. And I'd think that something like a CC # would be set up as a unique index too, so that screwup shouldn't have been able to happen anyway...
A worse (and unfortunately, all too common with careless unix admins in cron jobs) example: /# cd non-existent-directory /# rm -rf *
Become a project manager. Learn some ITIl stuff, Keane, etc. The cool thing is you can use your experience with IT to lead IT type projects and be much better with your time/cost initial estimates, keeping you from eating up a change budget.
I'd like to see the first case of trying to enforce this. If you buy the product, you should be able to use it on any type of 'computer' it will run on, including a virtual one.
The workstation version of vmware is great for all kinds of things. I use it when setting up my portable apps on my USB drive (I don't use windows, regularly, but want to have some tools with me when on somebody else's computer, so I set up VMWare with winxp).
Take a snapshot, do an install. Tweak to make portable. Revert the snapshot to pre-install. See if the app works from the USB drive (which is actually mounted under linux, and shared to the vmware session).
Good stuff.
Each different VMWare product is good for different things (ie, use ESX server if hosting a bunch of linux virtual servers, workstation for testing desktop things). I love not having to keep another computer around, or having to dual-boot just to use the random windows-only utility every now and then. It's great for test-installing new releases of linux distros too.
Here's a video of the boston news on TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kdP8WBB4lI
Mail aliases. Or use the dot extension that MTAs like sendmail allow. If you get an email to your normal address from the 'bank', you know it's bogus. Likewise, you can also tell if your bank sold your mail information, or if they were breached if you get email to your bank alias that is NOT from your bank.
If I were an ISP, I'd make an easy interface for this for my end users, and maybe even drop obvious phishing scams (cases where we know where the mail for an alias SHOULD be coming from).
CPAN?
If you want to compare mosaic browsers, OS/2's webex was the best of the time :-P