I too had problems losing weight and keeping it off. 2 1/2 years ago I tried loseit.com and lost a pound a week (roughly) for a year and have kept it off. I went from 210 lbs. to 160 lbs. and my knees don't hurt anymore and I don't take glucosamine any longer.
Lose It! is a simple free app that runs in a browser and on IOS and Android devices.
There is also MyFitnessPal.com which is similar.
Either one will get you the weight loss you want if you are serious enough to stick with a weight loss and exercise program.
I already have health insurance. It's expensive and overly complicated, but I do have it. So, will this actually change anything for people like me? Hopefully I won't be picking up the tab for so many others who opted not to buy insurance before getting sick. But otherwise I don't see a huge impact.
Well, there's the part of the act that requires health insurance companies to refund a portion of your premiums if "overhead costs" exceed 80% of gross receipts. That's a good thing, right?
I'm afraid sci-fi is dead on Syfy. Perhaps it's time to start a new "Science and Science Fiction" channel (to borrow the title from Analog) and restore some of those classic shows like "SF Trader" and "Convention Watch" and "Inside Space".
Heck, I'd be happy to be able to rewatch LEXX and Farscape episodes. Too much frelling drenn on SyFy these days.
It was selling for $25 at Amazon yesterday. I think you get a lot Bang for your $25 and according to Ars you can install it over Tiger on Intel Macs. See:
Damn, man, I'd mod you up for this post. I love that geeky show and I could care less about 10BaseT Ethermet. The show is fun, and I can suspend my inner geek for that.
The way we play, you "Junk ina Po" until you don't show the same hand. It was still considered a single turn. Perhaps official tournament rules differ on this point - but there were never ties.
For those not familiar with Rock,Paper,Scissors or as we called it when I was a kid in Hawaii "Junk ina Po", there are no ties. Rock loses to paper and beats scissors, paper loses to scissors (of course) and finally scissors loses to rock.
The players pump a closed fist in front of themselves three times together showing rock (fist), paper (hand flat fingers extended) or scissors (fist with index and second finger extended) on the third pump. We also chanted "Junk ina Po" as a pump count.
It's a fun game and actually has strategy and a world championship event. See http://www.rpschamps.com/.
Thanks for the clarification. I was a PDP-11 RSX-11 commo. and networking programmer in a previous life.... Those were the days, we didn't NEED any high level language and we liked it, etc. etc. old geezer rant.
We really owe the "millions of jobs" to Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs for developing UNIX and making it available to academia virtually for free.
And, if I remember correctly, Digital Equipment Corp. (remember them?) coined "the network is the computer" not SUN.
"Macintosh computers using Intel microprocessors do not use Open Firmware. Although many parts of the IO registry are present and work as expected, information that is provided by Open Firmware on a Macintosh using a PowerPC microprocessor (such as a complete device tree) is not available in the IO registry on a Macintosh using an Intel microprocessor. You can obtain some of the information from IODeviceTree by using the sysctlbyname or sysctl commands."
Interesting and certainly food for thought but it seems to me that this is only definitive with respect to the current development (Intel) hardware and does not address what production hardware will support/use.
I do think the TCP/IP protocol was designed to add the kind of robustness to packet switched networks that the military/government agencies wanted for their secure networks. And it has largely been successful.
This is prabably how people get confused about ARPANET's ability to survive multiple node failures. That, and robust routing protocols of course.
OK, overall I agree with your points, however for my purposes a browser *is* a UI--a web UI in this case. As you say, the innovation you are talking about isn't browser innovation either.
So perhaps we should wonder what Marc's mysterious browser innovations might be.
How about tabbed browsing (I know it's not everyone's cuppa but...) and cascaiding style sheets or the super back button in Safari or popup ad blocking? These are all worthwhile IMO.
Refinement is what I'm looking for, web browsers are a commodity now.
From the tone of the interview, Marc sounds like he's a bitter man now.
There are aspects of Opera that I like, such as preserving the state of all the tabbed pages and restoring them when it is restarted. However, the performance is so dismal in OS X that I browse using Opera 6.? running in a remote X-window from my 450 MHz Linux box. Not quite Safari speed but better than Mozilla, IE or Omniweb speed.
I complained to the Opera developers and I'm hoping Opera 7 for OS X will have addressed this issue.
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I too had problems losing weight and keeping it off. 2 1/2 years ago I tried loseit.com and lost a pound a week (roughly) for a year and have kept it off. I went from 210 lbs. to 160 lbs. and my knees don't hurt anymore and I don't take glucosamine any longer.
Lose It! is a simple free app that runs in a browser and on IOS and Android devices.
There is also MyFitnessPal.com which is similar.
Either one will get you the weight loss you want if you are serious enough to stick with a weight loss and exercise program.
I already have health insurance. It's expensive and overly complicated, but I do have it. So, will this actually change anything for people like me? Hopefully I won't be picking up the tab for so many others who opted not to buy insurance before getting sick. But otherwise I don't see a huge impact.
Well, there's the part of the act that requires health insurance companies to refund a portion of your premiums if "overhead costs" exceed 80% of gross receipts. That's a good thing, right?
I've always considered Slash Dot to be a "Community Service". Thanks for all the years of "News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters"
I'm afraid sci-fi is dead on Syfy. Perhaps it's time to start a new "Science and Science Fiction" channel (to borrow the title from Analog) and restore some of those classic shows like "SF Trader" and "Convention Watch" and "Inside Space".
Heck, I'd be happy to be able to rewatch LEXX and Farscape episodes. Too much frelling drenn on SyFy these days.
ironically misspelled I suppose
It was selling for $25 at Amazon yesterday. I think you get a lot Bang for your $25 and according to Ars you can install it over Tiger on Intel Macs. See:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/08/29-snow-leopard-retail-disc-will-install-over-tiger.ars
Damn, man, I'd mod you up for this post. I love that geeky show and I could care less about 10BaseT Ethermet. The show is fun, and I can suspend my inner geek for that.
Or....light (photons) have mass and therefore are acted upon by gravity which would pretty much explain gravitational lensing.
Just a bit of clarification:
Linda Blair is probably best known for her role in "The Exorcist". The SNL Coffee Talk character was Linda Richman and was performed by Mike Myers.
And now back to the thread, already in progress.
Anno,
The way we play, you "Junk ina Po" until you don't show the same hand. It was still considered a single turn. Perhaps official tournament rules differ on this point - but there were never ties.
For those not familiar with Rock,Paper,Scissors or as we called it when I was a kid in Hawaii "Junk ina Po", there are no ties. Rock loses to paper and beats scissors, paper loses to scissors (of course) and finally scissors loses to rock.
The players pump a closed fist in front of themselves three times together showing rock (fist), paper (hand flat fingers extended) or scissors (fist with index and second finger extended) on the third pump. We also chanted "Junk ina Po" as a pump count.
It's a fun game and actually has strategy and a world championship event. See http://www.rpschamps.com/.
Yeah, yeah I did that too only on real iron not a little Altair. Watch who you're calling a quiche eater sonny.
Mike,
Thanks for the clarification. I was a PDP-11 RSX-11 commo. and networking programmer in a previous life.... Those were the days, we didn't NEED any high level language and we liked it, etc. etc. old geezer rant.
We really owe the "millions of jobs" to Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs for developing UNIX and making it available to academia virtually for free.
And, if I remember correctly, Digital Equipment Corp. (remember them?) coined "the network is the computer" not SUN.
From the Apple developer link:
"Macintosh computers using Intel microprocessors do not use Open Firmware. Although many parts of the IO registry are present and work as expected, information that is provided by Open Firmware on a Macintosh using a PowerPC microprocessor (such as a complete device tree) is not available in the IO registry on a Macintosh using an Intel microprocessor. You can obtain some of the information from IODeviceTree by using the sysctlbyname or sysctl commands."
Interesting and certainly food for thought but it seems to me that this is only definitive with respect to the current development (Intel) hardware and does not address what production hardware will support/use.
And now you don't even get a floppy drive. What kind of progress is that?
I do think the TCP/IP protocol was designed to add the kind of robustness to packet switched networks that the military/government agencies wanted for their secure networks. And it has largely been successful.
This is prabably how people get confused about ARPANET's ability to survive multiple node failures. That, and robust routing protocols of course.
could be he did mean belive in the GPL:
belive
\Be*live"\, adv. [Cf. Live, a.] Forthwith; speedily; quickly. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[Free Trial - Merriam-Webster Unabridged.]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
A bit of a reach to be sure but it does pass spell check.
... don't blame them for making hay while the grass is green.
Just so you know, the phrase is "make hay while the sun shines" because it takes sunshine to make hay out of green grass.
And yes, I know this is off topic but it seems to be a little too much like a fractured in-duh-vidual saying to go unmarked.
OK, overall I agree with your points, however for my purposes a browser *is* a UI--a web UI in this case. As you say, the innovation you are talking about isn't browser innovation either.
So perhaps we should wonder what Marc's mysterious browser innovations might be.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
How about tabbed browsing (I know it's not everyone's cuppa but...) and cascaiding style sheets or the super back button in Safari or popup ad blocking? These are all worthwhile IMO.
Refinement is what I'm looking for, web browsers are a commodity now.
From the tone of the interview, Marc sounds like he's a bitter man now.
Windex would be a great name what with all the promotion it got in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding".
Apple is selling 125,000 files per day. It will take them 366,641.528 days or 1004 years to sell that many files with iTunes.
Apple has achieved these numbers because there is no viable p2p competition. On windoze there are alternatives to crippled files and paying.
Actually Apple has achieved these numbers in spite of viable p2p competition. Acquisiton being one example which works pretty well.
There are aspects of Opera that I like, such as preserving the state of all the tabbed pages
and restoring them when it is restarted. However, the performance is so dismal in OS X
that I browse using Opera 6.? running in a remote X-window from my 450 MHz Linux
box. Not quite Safari speed but better than Mozilla, IE or Omniweb speed.
I complained to the Opera developers and I'm hoping Opera 7 for OS X will have addressed this issue.
The MacRumors article has been updated with the following:
Update: The article has been edited with the following correction/retraction:
"IBM did not confirm it was building a chip specifically for Apple, but it does say its new PowerPC
chip will work on Apple platforms"
Not exactly a "Never Mind" but the air of mystery continues.