Christmas is an economic holiday. I celebrate X-Mas but couldn't care less about Christ. The materialism is pathetic though. I use the holiday season to reconnect with family that I've been trying to avoid since the last Christmas season.
Like it or not Christmas is more commercial than religious. Hell Dec 25th is just a propaganda date to coincide with a previously popular pagen celebration to make Christianity more popular. Christianity just had the best marketing team, why do you think Islam is popular? Same reason, good sell job.
If I had to chose a religion I'd probably be Buddist. They have some strange BS as well. It's sad that people cannot accept that they will never "understand" the meaning of life and just live without the "my religion is better than yours" mentality.
Exactly. There is a negative to this side as well. However I doubt that the cable companies will make "a la carte" pricing attractive at all. Bundles will still be the best route. Hell I get every channel available in my area and the HD channels are free (I don't have an hdtv so it's pointless but nice nevertheless). I get all the movie channels for my wife who loves movies and I get the Fox Soccer Channel for me (bundled with ESPN News, Classic and all that). I almost never watch TV but the PVR has actually made a major shift in my viewing habits. I never sit down and watch TV at a certain time except Saturday college football (when I'm not at the game) and sunday/monday live english premiere league football matches. I like Scrubs (apparently cancelled), Arrested Development (cancelled), My name is Earl, The Family Guy and to a lesser extent American Dad (the old dog in the first episode still has me laughing, it's on my dvr forever!). Why should I bother trying to fit these shows in my schedule? With my PVR I don't. Hell I forget what night they come on. When I get over 60% of my storage I try to watch a few of them just to clear space.
Back on topic: I will REALLY miss all those random kickass shows on history channel, the learning channel, hell there are even some good ones now and again on E! and food network (the soup is hilarious). In 1990 MTV wasn't bad, since Yo! MTV Raps took over it's gone to shit (all programming no music). I loved MTV in the 80's, world changing. Now it's like one big fucking advertisement (enjoy your stay at the Palms).
That's the truth. My company QA's our software but in new routines (moderatly complex) we were having bugs that wouldn't be triggered for months. To eliminate the confusion of our customers on our new product features all new modules/reports/etc... come out as beta for at least the first month. It's the "take it with a grain of salt" model. I've found our customers like accessing new features (especially the ones they specifically request) earlier and have significantly less anger when a small glitch appears. Programers aren't perfect and end-user design docs are almost impossible to get 100% correct. Beta is a happy medium that should not be abused. That being said Google abuses the shit out of it. However, when you don't pay a dime for their services, can you really complain? (The answer is yes, with very little affect.)
FIFA 2006 is by far the best football game ever. I still like 2005 too. At least with sports games you know what you're getting. FIFA for the XBox 360 is worthless. So I'll be waiting till next year for a 360 assuming anything good is released for it.
My office is about 3 miles from my house now. Most of the time I actually just work at home. When I lived in Dallas I was a consulant which meant my client could have been in Las Colinas (central dallas) or Los Angeles. I was on a plane about 1/2 the time flying to clients so my proximity and ease of access to the airport was actually more helpful.
that is where the whistle is tied into the system. When the whistle blows (by any ref) the play is dead. When the play is dead the system can mark exactly where the ball was when it was blown. Not too hard really. The hardest part would be integrating the whistle into the system. It can be done.
Considering that a ticket to buy one at the local Walmart last night went for between 100-600 dollars, it looks like your boycott is meaning less (as are all for the most part). That being said, I was going to buy one until I read the Madden 06 and FIFA:Road to the World Cup reviews on game spot here I'll wait for next year's FIFA since that is the only game I really ever play (too busy). FIFA 2006 just came out last month for my XBox and it is kick ass. HD Soccer next year.
All that being said, I LOVE the new controller. The only reason I have never purchased and NEVER will purchase a POS Sony Playstation is their controller. The same thing for the XBox until the S-controller came out.
I've lived and have relatives all over this country. Oklahoma is no different than any other place as far as racisim and the like. Oklahomans tend to hide it less (like most Red State Voters). That being said Oklahoma is an excellent place to hire software engineers. OU, OSU, UCO,... lot's of talent that primarily goes elsewhere after graduation to make more money. Money isn't the only reason software developers leave, it's also because there are few if any entry level developer positions here. I moved to Dallas after graduation. Made about 2x what I did in oklahoma after moving back but there is more to life than money.
Here was my typical Dallas day: 6:00am get up and get ready for work (13 miles south on I-35W) 6:30am leave for work (if miss my rush hour window add 30 mintues to arrival time) 6:30~7:45am stuck in I-35W Gridlock 8:00am get to office 8:00am to 5:00~10:00pm (I was a consultant for the no longer existing Accounting Firm) If 5:00pm drive until 6:30pm (your round trip cost you 2.5 to 3 hours of your life today) If 10:00pm drive until 10:30pm (missed traffic but go straight to bed)
Typical day in Oklahoma (before working for my own company): 6:00am get up and go to gym 6:45am get ready for work 7:30am leave for work (I live in Norman my job was in North OKC 35 miles away) 8:00am arrive at job 4:30pm leave for home 5:00~5:15pm arrive at home (depending on wrecks/construction)
I had to wait about 3 years to match my salary in dallas. By the end of it all I was making more in Oklahoma with 2 more hours of my life back (not counting Dallas overtime that was part of the "salary") every single work day. That is like 65 - 8 hour work days wasted in my car in Dallas.
I run my own software company in Oklahoma and my expenses are next to nothing. Good labor force (albeit you must look hard for excellent employees) and low overhead. I cannot imagine starting my company in NYC or San Francisco. I'd need 100 times the money, which means giving away a large part (if not most) of the company to investors and giving up on my personal vision. I would bet that if 99% of those dot.com startups had been setup in a rural state instead of Silicon Valley, they might have had more pragmatic employees, managers and saved millions of investor dollars that could have helped in becoming profitable. Although, some things where just really shitty ideas to start with.
Side note: why the fuck can't we put sensors in a football to see if it crosses the goal plane? All that needs to be done is as soon as a player is down the ref blows the whistle, that signals the system as to the spot of the ball. Would work in most sports, baseball/softball (is it foul?), football (where was the ball in that pile?), soccer (did the ball cross the goal?),...
1024x768 is fine on a 12.1" screen. Granted the 14" should be 1400x1050 or 1280x1024. I like 1920xwhatever on my monitor at work but on a laptop that would be crazy. I have a T42 thinkpad and 1400x1050 is small enough. I won't get a 15" that is 1600x1200 either. I guess it's all in your desired application. When I need a high resolution I go to the office or my office at home and hook up to a big flat panel (It's kick ass btw). The sad thing is I got it when it first came out for $1299. Still a good deal compared to my Apple Cinema Display though...
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Bullshit. Experience shows. And if I must be like an asshole ex-smoker then so be it. People make choices in life. Making an excuse for people because they eat garbage just takes the it's my fault part of the equation out of peoples hands. "Parts of your endocrine system aren't working right" How many of those cases does the doctor say "losing weight will help your system"? My guess is almost all. Type 2 diabetes is primarily a result of a lazy overfed society. Look at the numbers for christ's sake. Child type 2 diabetes? WTF, maybe too many cokes and hours of playing Halo. Why are there so many more Type 2 diabetes cases now than in the past? Maybe there is a correlation between an obese society and Type 2 diabetes. Most obesity is due to laziness (I mean laziness about one's health, not necessarily their work habits, you seem to be confusing my meaning).
Like I said I know 1 person with adult onset type 2 diabetes that probably has it as a result of a "bad hand". All the others are just fat and lazy. Some are in my family, some are family friends and others are acquaintances.
When people start looking in the mirror and stop blaming others for their poor health, I might be inclined to agree with you. Until I see that with my own two eyes I'll continue to believe that well over 90-95% of type 2 diabetes cases are a result of poor diet and exercise by the person afflicted.
BTW my significant other is extremely overweight as a result of a tumor on the thyroid. After going through a significant number of doctors and finally getting all the subsequent related illnesses that were generated by the weight gain, a nice $7,500/month medication bill is what I get. If there is weight loss down the road there are 2 parts of her body that cannot be fixed and as a result she will need meds for the remainder of her life. That being said, what is her biggest concern right now? Type 2 diabetes. Why? because she's overweight. What has her doctor said to help avoid a possible future onset of diabetes? You guessed it, lose some fucking weight. She didn't choose to get sick. However she chooses every day to not work out and focus on eating a healthy diet. If she gets diabetes it will be her fault. The initial illness wasn't. However by neglecting to lose the weight related to her "fixed" illness due to laziness (in taking care of herself) she is at risk. Sometimes you get a bad hand and other times you get an even worse hand.
People need to own up to the fact that anything that goes into their body is almost always a direct result of choices they have made. For example, if you decide to live near 3 Mile Island. Let's say some day in 1979 there is a core meltdown. You didn't choose to live next to lethal radiation but you sure as hell should have known there was a risk and gone elsewhere. Every choice someone makes affects either directly or indirectly their life and the lives of those around them. To say otherwise is just burying your head in the sand.
Type 2 diabetes is normally a direct result of someone not taking care of themselves sufficiently.
Here's a good article: (emphasis is mine)
We may be closing in on the long-sought link between diabetes and obesity
We Americans love to eat, but this week the Center for Disease Control released a report suggesting we are eating ourselves into a diabetes epidemic. Diabetes affected 11 million Americans in 1990. At the close of 1999 the number was 16 million, fully 6% of all Americans. This represents an increase of 40% in ten years! Over that same period, the obesity rate increased from 12% to nearly 20%. Last year alone, the number of American diabetics increased 6%, and the obesity rate a startling 57%.
Diabetes is a disorder in which the body's cells fail to take up glucose from the blood. Tissues waste away as glucose-starved cells are forced to consume their own proteins. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, blindness, and amputation in adults. Almost all of the increase in th
* the receptors on cells in the body that normally respond to the action of insulin fail to be stimulated by it - this is known as insulin resistance. In response to this more insulin may be produced, and this over-production exhausts the insulin-manufacturing cells in the pancreas;
* there is simply insufficient insulin available; and
* the insulin that is available may be abnormal and therefore doesn't work properly.
The following risk factors increase the chances of someone developing Type 2 diabetes:
* Increasing age;
* obesity; and
* physical inactivity.
Rarer causes of diabetes include:
* Certain medicines;
* pregnancy (gestational diabetes); and
* any illness or disease that damages the pancreas and affects its ability to produce insulin e.g. pancreatitis.
Everyone I know that has type 2 diabetes got it as a direct result of 30-40 years of doing nothing but getting fat and lazy. About half of them are in remission (don't need meds anymore) because they worked their asses off to lose weight. Which also brought their blood pressure down, etc...
I would venture to guess less than 5% of Type 2 diabetes cases have nothing to do with a persons lifestyle. How many vegetarians do you know that have diabetes? How many thin people do you know with diabetes? How about athletes, any that have type 2? I know only one in the above categories and believe it or not it's the athlete.
People always blame someone else for their problems instead of trying to own up to the fact that eating McDonalds for lunch and breakfast might not be the best choice. I got fat from drinking a lot of Coke & Mountain Dew (free from my job). I chose to live an unhealthy lifestyle. I also chose to change my lifestyle for my health. If someone can take credit for looking good they should also take credit for looking/feeling bad.
As the old saying goes, garbage in garbage out. It's equally true in software development and lifestyle choices.
Cardio burns different amounts of calories for different people. Not to mention the activity. When I use my wife's recumbant stationary bike I burn about 475~500 cal per hour. When I jog at 6 mph I burn about 850 cal per hour. When I run for 30 minutes at 8.5 mph I burn about 600 cal. The amounts have dropped significantly (the amount of calories burned) since I have lost weight. There is no "easy" way to calculate specifically but you can make a best guess estimate.
If you want to lose weight this is how I did it (very quickly, I'm an instant gratification person): 1. Cut out almost all drinks from your diet except water (I have 1 coffee in the morning ~150 cal) 2. Figure out your ideal caloric input for the weight you would like to achieve (there are calculators out there) 3. To lose 1 lb per week simply take the calories to maintain your current weight and get rid of 500 cal per day.
3500 cal = 1 lb : therefore 500 cal X 7 days = 3500 cal or 1 lb 4. Exercise.
I'm pretty motivated when I do something. Having been athletic through college gave me the know how to get the results I desired quickly. I decided to give it a try for 8 weeks. I began at the current semester (I'm taking a couple of classes for fun/learning). In 8 weeks I lost 25 lbs. Here is my routine: 1. Every M/W/F lift weights 30~45 minutes then jog for 30 minutes. 2. Every M/W/F night jog 30~60 minutes (obviously I had to work up to jogging the whole time)
The important thing is not how far you run/walk but how LONG you walk/run 3. Every T/Th do recumbant stationary (non-impact) bike 60 minutes. 4. Reduce calories to ~1500/day sometimes eat 2000 cal if body feeling worn down.
That's it. I averaged over 3 lbs a week of weight loss and have actually added weight through muscle. So my fat loss is more like 3.5 lbs a week. I've plateaued over the last few weeks but I'm back on it now. I went from 210 to 185 in 8 weeks and have been at 185 for 3~4 weeks now. My goal is to get to 165lbs if I can (that may be too little). Hopefully I will be there by Xmas time.
Like anything in life if you desire a result and never give up you will succeed. I became motivated by all the diabetic people that are in my life. To get something as horrible as (type 2) diabetes simply because you won't get up off your ass and put in some effort to being healthy, is f'ing pathetic in my opinion. Auf Wiedersehen!
Simple rule of economics. You can price yourself out of a market. Todays software engineers are the autoworkers of yesteryear. Some old coder will look up one day and realize he doesn't have a field to work in anymore. Pay attention to the world around you and ALWAYS continue education and expansion of your experience. Look out coders, someone's moving your cheese.
Uh, yea. That's exactly what happens. It may be 36,000 miles or somewhere farther along but eventually that is exactly what you get. I have 3 cars that have over 130,000 miles on them. I fix them occasionally and don't hold Ford accountable since things wear down. Now my Explorer is a different matter altogether. Got free tires out of the deal. Just had to explain to my wife if you get a blow out don't hit the brakes at all coast to the shoulder as quickly as is safely possible. I spend about $1000~1500 a year maintaining my cars (I drive a lot for work) and see no need to get any new ones.
Lol, for 238 million dollars per plane I bet you'd get some pretty good software. Mind you that cost is spread across several hundred being built, not just one. So one doesn't actually cost 238 million. If they only built one it would be closer to 1 billion dollars.
So when you have a team of software developers being paid 80k/year and you compare that to a plane that is roughly 2975 times more expensive, your point is what?
The higher the expectation of perfection from a product correlates to the price of construction. I bet if I were to get 238 million dollars per copy of Windows XP I could be certain it would be bug free (or very close).
I'd be interested in seeing the likelihood that someone would choose today's Windows XP for around $200 or a bug free version for $2,000. My guess is most people would live with the bugs (or pirate the bug free version).
Lol, poppycock. 99% of software companies aren't microsoft. For example, my software company builds a product and we have several known bugs that are in queue to be fixed at this very moment (part of the reason I'm up at 4am). The major limitation in my company is not having a dedicated QA role. We are working toward that now. Being a small business and having to go to market with software that is constantly in flux (user requests & regulation changes) is not possible without significant financial reserves. We chose to go the route that would allow us to enter the market the quickest with the least amount of risk to us and our customers. Our software is important but not critical. There are however errors that can be life threatening, those areas (medication related) are tested to a much higher degree than reports that have no real bearing on a persons life.
There are trade offs in every business. I build homes as well, you'd be surprised at the number of changes are made during construction due to unforseen problems. However, compared to software development they are very few indeed.
BTW Perfect to whom? One person's perfect software is another's POS.
I've got an idea. For non-software developers with great ideas. You program some piece of software for 5 years and then warranty against any bugs or failures. Oh btw, it must be priced competitively with current offerings. This guy can go wank himself in a corner somewhere. Perfect software doesn't exist. If you want something done right, your best bet is to do it internally to your company instead of outsourcing. Walmart is a perfect example. Do it right with people that feel they have ownership in the software they are creating and you'll get a better product. Plus, Arkansas (and my state too) are like Bangladesh anyway in the wages paid to software developers.
the Space ship One team had 250 billion. What they could have accomplished. Bureaucracy and the status quo seem to have limited their functionality. However, building space vehicles is going to require breaking a few eggs. Hindsight is always better than foresight, just ask George Bush (1 & 2)
Yeah, why should you have to pay this company to develop and produce cutting edge high tech software???
I bet you've paid a lot for Linux, or BSD, or Apache, or OpenOffice, or any number of free products.
When I pay $129 for OS X that is more that what I've paid for Windows. So what is the fucking problem with running it on any piece of hardware that can run it?
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Christmas is an economic holiday. I celebrate X-Mas but couldn't care less about Christ. The materialism is pathetic though. I use the holiday season to reconnect with family that I've been trying to avoid since the last Christmas season.
Like it or not Christmas is more commercial than religious. Hell Dec 25th is just a propaganda date to coincide with a previously popular pagen celebration to make Christianity more popular. Christianity just had the best marketing team, why do you think Islam is popular? Same reason, good sell job.
If I had to chose a religion I'd probably be Buddist. They have some strange BS as well. It's sad that people cannot accept that they will never "understand" the meaning of life and just live without the "my religion is better than yours" mentality.
Exactly. There is a negative to this side as well. However I doubt that the cable companies will make "a la carte" pricing attractive at all. Bundles will still be the best route. Hell I get every channel available in my area and the HD channels are free (I don't have an hdtv so it's pointless but nice nevertheless). I get all the movie channels for my wife who loves movies and I get the Fox Soccer Channel for me (bundled with ESPN News, Classic and all that). I almost never watch TV but the PVR has actually made a major shift in my viewing habits. I never sit down and watch TV at a certain time except Saturday college football (when I'm not at the game) and sunday/monday live english premiere league football matches. I like Scrubs (apparently cancelled), Arrested Development (cancelled), My name is Earl, The Family Guy and to a lesser extent American Dad (the old dog in the first episode still has me laughing, it's on my dvr forever!). Why should I bother trying to fit these shows in my schedule? With my PVR I don't. Hell I forget what night they come on. When I get over 60% of my storage I try to watch a few of them just to clear space.
Back on topic: I will REALLY miss all those random kickass shows on history channel, the learning channel, hell there are even some good ones now and again on E! and food network (the soup is hilarious). In 1990 MTV wasn't bad, since Yo! MTV Raps took over it's gone to shit (all programming no music). I loved MTV in the 80's, world changing. Now it's like one big fucking advertisement (enjoy your stay at the Palms).
That's the truth. My company QA's our software but in new routines (moderatly complex) we were having bugs that wouldn't be triggered for months. To eliminate the confusion of our customers on our new product features all new modules/reports/etc... come out as beta for at least the first month. It's the "take it with a grain of salt" model. I've found our customers like accessing new features (especially the ones they specifically request) earlier and have significantly less anger when a small glitch appears. Programers aren't perfect and end-user design docs are almost impossible to get 100% correct. Beta is a happy medium that should not be abused. That being said Google abuses the shit out of it. However, when you don't pay a dime for their services, can you really complain? (The answer is yes, with very little affect.)
Who makes pro evolution? What platforms? I like Winning 11 but haven't heard of this one. Is it a US title or Europe only?
FIFA 2006 is by far the best football game ever. I still like 2005 too. At least with sports games you know what you're getting. FIFA for the XBox 360 is worthless. So I'll be waiting till next year for a 360 assuming anything good is released for it.
My office is about 3 miles from my house now. Most of the time I actually just work at home. When I lived in Dallas I was a consulant which meant my client could have been in Las Colinas (central dallas) or Los Angeles. I was on a plane about 1/2 the time flying to clients so my proximity and ease of access to the airport was actually more helpful.
that is where the whistle is tied into the system. When the whistle blows (by any ref) the play is dead. When the play is dead the system can mark exactly where the ball was when it was blown. Not too hard really. The hardest part would be integrating the whistle into the system. It can be done.
Considering that a ticket to buy one at the local Walmart last night went for between 100-600 dollars, it looks like your boycott is meaning less (as are all for the most part). That being said, I was going to buy one until I read the Madden 06 and FIFA:Road to the World Cup reviews on game spot here I'll wait for next year's FIFA since that is the only game I really ever play (too busy). FIFA 2006 just came out last month for my XBox and it is kick ass. HD Soccer next year.
All that being said, I LOVE the new controller. The only reason I have never purchased and NEVER will purchase a POS Sony Playstation is their controller. The same thing for the XBox until the S-controller came out.
I've lived and have relatives all over this country. Oklahoma is no different than any other place as far as racisim and the like. Oklahomans tend to hide it less (like most Red State Voters). That being said Oklahoma is an excellent place to hire software engineers. OU, OSU, UCO, ... lot's of talent that primarily goes elsewhere after graduation to make more money. Money isn't the only reason software developers leave, it's also because there are few if any entry level developer positions here. I moved to Dallas after graduation. Made about 2x what I did in oklahoma after moving back but there is more to life than money.
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Here was my typical Dallas day:
6:00am get up and get ready for work (13 miles south on I-35W)
6:30am leave for work (if miss my rush hour window add 30 mintues to arrival time)
6:30~7:45am stuck in I-35W Gridlock
8:00am get to office
8:00am to 5:00~10:00pm (I was a consultant for the no longer existing Accounting Firm)
If 5:00pm drive until 6:30pm (your round trip cost you 2.5 to 3 hours of your life today)
If 10:00pm drive until 10:30pm (missed traffic but go straight to bed)
Typical day in Oklahoma (before working for my own company):
6:00am get up and go to gym
6:45am get ready for work
7:30am leave for work (I live in Norman my job was in North OKC 35 miles away)
8:00am arrive at job
4:30pm leave for home
5:00~5:15pm arrive at home (depending on wrecks/construction)
I had to wait about 3 years to match my salary in dallas. By the end of it all I was making more in Oklahoma with 2 more hours of my life back (not counting Dallas overtime that was part of the "salary") every single work day. That is like 65 - 8 hour work days wasted in my car in Dallas.
I run my own software company in Oklahoma and my expenses are next to nothing. Good labor force (albeit you must look hard for excellent employees) and low overhead. I cannot imagine starting my company in NYC or San Francisco. I'd need 100 times the money, which means giving away a large part (if not most) of the company to investors and giving up on my personal vision. I would bet that if 99% of those dot.com startups had been setup in a rural state instead of Silicon Valley, they might have had more pragmatic employees, managers and saved millions of investor dollars that could have helped in becoming profitable. Although, some things where just really shitty ideas to start with.
Side note: why the fuck can't we put sensors in a football to see if it crosses the goal plane? All that needs to be done is as soon as a player is down the ref blows the whistle, that signals the system as to the spot of the ball. Would work in most sports, baseball/softball (is it foul?), football (where was the ball in that pile?), soccer (did the ball cross the goal?),
1024x768 is fine on a 12.1" screen. Granted the 14" should be 1400x1050 or 1280x1024. I like 1920xwhatever on my monitor at work but on a laptop that would be crazy. I have a T42 thinkpad and 1400x1050 is small enough. I won't get a 15" that is 1600x1200 either. I guess it's all in your desired application. When I need a high resolution I go to the office or my office at home and hook up to a big flat panel (It's kick ass btw). The sad thing is I got it when it first came out for $1299. Still a good deal compared to my Apple Cinema Display though...
Lol. He means "In January, Apple to release Intel based iBook". Why would they be talking about the January in 2007 anyway?
Don't you mean they're? Hoffentlich bin ich richtig!
Lol, that is soooo uncalled for. Funny nevertheless.
Facebook You do however need to verify you go to a uni to be able to sign up and see them! Mmmmm... hot young co-eds. (Or you could always look at myspace)
Like I said I know 1 person with adult onset type 2 diabetes that probably has it as a result of a "bad hand". All the others are just fat and lazy. Some are in my family, some are family friends and others are acquaintances.
When people start looking in the mirror and stop blaming others for their poor health, I might be inclined to agree with you. Until I see that with my own two eyes I'll continue to believe that well over 90-95% of type 2 diabetes cases are a result of poor diet and exercise by the person afflicted.
BTW my significant other is extremely overweight as a result of a tumor on the thyroid. After going through a significant number of doctors and finally getting all the subsequent related illnesses that were generated by the weight gain, a nice $7,500/month medication bill is what I get. If there is weight loss down the road there are 2 parts of her body that cannot be fixed and as a result she will need meds for the remainder of her life. That being said, what is her biggest concern right now? Type 2 diabetes. Why? because she's overweight. What has her doctor said to help avoid a possible future onset of diabetes? You guessed it, lose some fucking weight. She didn't choose to get sick. However she chooses every day to not work out and focus on eating a healthy diet. If she gets diabetes it will be her fault. The initial illness wasn't. However by neglecting to lose the weight related to her "fixed" illness due to laziness (in taking care of herself) she is at risk. Sometimes you get a bad hand and other times you get an even worse hand.
People need to own up to the fact that anything that goes into their body is almost always a direct result of choices they have made. For example, if you decide to live near 3 Mile Island. Let's say some day in 1979 there is a core meltdown. You didn't choose to live next to lethal radiation but you sure as hell should have known there was a risk and gone elsewhere. Every choice someone makes affects either directly or indirectly their life and the lives of those around them. To say otherwise is just burying your head in the sand.
Type 2 diabetes is normally a direct result of someone not taking care of themselves sufficiently.
Here's a good article: (emphasis is mine)
Type 2 diabetes is believed to develop when:
* the receptors on cells in the body that normally respond to the action of insulin fail to be stimulated by it - this is known as insulin resistance. In response to this more insulin may be produced, and this over-production exhausts the insulin-manufacturing cells in the pancreas;
* there is simply insufficient insulin available; and
* the insulin that is available may be abnormal and therefore doesn't work properly.
The following risk factors increase the chances of someone developing Type 2 diabetes:
* Increasing age;
* obesity; and
* physical inactivity.
Rarer causes of diabetes include:
* Certain medicines;
* pregnancy (gestational diabetes); and
* any illness or disease that damages the pancreas and affects its ability to produce insulin e.g. pancreatitis.
Everyone I know that has type 2 diabetes got it as a direct result of 30-40 years of doing nothing but getting fat and lazy. About half of them are in remission (don't need meds anymore) because they worked their asses off to lose weight. Which also brought their blood pressure down, etc...
I would venture to guess less than 5% of Type 2 diabetes cases have nothing to do with a persons lifestyle. How many vegetarians do you know that have diabetes? How many thin people do you know with diabetes? How about athletes, any that have type 2? I know only one in the above categories and believe it or not it's the athlete.
People always blame someone else for their problems instead of trying to own up to the fact that eating McDonalds for lunch and breakfast might not be the best choice. I got fat from drinking a lot of Coke & Mountain Dew (free from my job). I chose to live an unhealthy lifestyle. I also chose to change my lifestyle for my health. If someone can take credit for looking good they should also take credit for looking/feeling bad.
As the old saying goes, garbage in garbage out. It's equally true in software development and lifestyle choices.
Cardio burns different amounts of calories for different people. Not to mention the activity. When I use my wife's recumbant stationary bike I burn about 475~500 cal per hour. When I jog at 6 mph I burn about 850 cal per hour. When I run for 30 minutes at 8.5 mph I burn about 600 cal. The amounts have dropped significantly (the amount of calories burned) since I have lost weight. There is no "easy" way to calculate specifically but you can make a best guess estimate.
If you want to lose weight this is how I did it (very quickly, I'm an instant gratification person):
1. Cut out almost all drinks from your diet except water (I have 1 coffee in the morning ~150 cal)
2. Figure out your ideal caloric input for the weight you would like to achieve (there are calculators out there)
3. To lose 1 lb per week simply take the calories to maintain your current weight and get rid of 500 cal per day.
3500 cal = 1 lb : therefore 500 cal X 7 days = 3500 cal or 1 lb
4. Exercise.
I'm pretty motivated when I do something. Having been athletic through college gave me the know how to get the results I desired quickly. I decided to give it a try for 8 weeks. I began at the current semester (I'm taking a couple of classes for fun/learning). In 8 weeks I lost 25 lbs. Here is my routine:
1. Every M/W/F lift weights 30~45 minutes then jog for 30 minutes.
2. Every M/W/F night jog 30~60 minutes (obviously I had to work up to jogging the whole time)
The important thing is not how far you run/walk but how LONG you walk/run
3. Every T/Th do recumbant stationary (non-impact) bike 60 minutes.
4. Reduce calories to ~1500/day sometimes eat 2000 cal if body feeling worn down.
That's it. I averaged over 3 lbs a week of weight loss and have actually added weight through muscle. So my fat loss is more like 3.5 lbs a week. I've plateaued over the last few weeks but I'm back on it now. I went from 210 to 185 in 8 weeks and have been at 185 for 3~4 weeks now. My goal is to get to 165lbs if I can (that may be too little). Hopefully I will be there by Xmas time.
Like anything in life if you desire a result and never give up you will succeed. I became motivated by all the diabetic people that are in my life. To get something as horrible as (type 2) diabetes simply because you won't get up off your ass and put in some effort to being healthy, is f'ing pathetic in my opinion. Auf Wiedersehen!
Simple rule of economics. You can price yourself out of a market. Todays software engineers are the autoworkers of yesteryear. Some old coder will look up one day and realize he doesn't have a field to work in anymore. Pay attention to the world around you and ALWAYS continue education and expansion of your experience. Look out coders, someone's moving your cheese.
Uh, yea. That's exactly what happens. It may be 36,000 miles or somewhere farther along but eventually that is exactly what you get. I have 3 cars that have over 130,000 miles on them. I fix them occasionally and don't hold Ford accountable since things wear down. Now my Explorer is a different matter altogether. Got free tires out of the deal. Just had to explain to my wife if you get a blow out don't hit the brakes at all coast to the shoulder as quickly as is safely possible. I spend about $1000~1500 a year maintaining my cars (I drive a lot for work) and see no need to get any new ones.
Lol, for 238 million dollars per plane I bet you'd get some pretty good software. Mind you that cost is spread across several hundred being built, not just one. So one doesn't actually cost 238 million. If they only built one it would be closer to 1 billion dollars.
So when you have a team of software developers being paid 80k/year and you compare that to a plane that is roughly 2975 times more expensive, your point is what?
The higher the expectation of perfection from a product correlates to the price of construction. I bet if I were to get 238 million dollars per copy of Windows XP I could be certain it would be bug free (or very close).
I'd be interested in seeing the likelihood that someone would choose today's Windows XP for around $200 or a bug free version for $2,000. My guess is most people would live with the bugs (or pirate the bug free version).
Lol, poppycock. 99% of software companies aren't microsoft. For example, my software company builds a product and we have several known bugs that are in queue to be fixed at this very moment (part of the reason I'm up at 4am). The major limitation in my company is not having a dedicated QA role. We are working toward that now. Being a small business and having to go to market with software that is constantly in flux (user requests & regulation changes) is not possible without significant financial reserves. We chose to go the route that would allow us to enter the market the quickest with the least amount of risk to us and our customers. Our software is important but not critical. There are however errors that can be life threatening, those areas (medication related) are tested to a much higher degree than reports that have no real bearing on a persons life.
There are trade offs in every business. I build homes as well, you'd be surprised at the number of changes are made during construction due to unforseen problems. However, compared to software development they are very few indeed.
BTW Perfect to whom? One person's perfect software is another's POS.
I've got an idea. For non-software developers with great ideas. You program some piece of software for 5 years and then warranty against any bugs or failures. Oh btw, it must be priced competitively with current offerings. This guy can go wank himself in a corner somewhere. Perfect software doesn't exist. If you want something done right, your best bet is to do it internally to your company instead of outsourcing. Walmart is a perfect example. Do it right with people that feel they have ownership in the software they are creating and you'll get a better product. Plus, Arkansas (and my state too) are like Bangladesh anyway in the wages paid to software developers.
the Space ship One team had 250 billion. What they could have accomplished. Bureaucracy and the status quo seem to have limited their functionality. However, building space vehicles is going to require breaking a few eggs. Hindsight is always better than foresight, just ask George Bush (1 & 2)
That there weren't software patents back then. Windows wouldn't exist, or if it did a hefty fee would be paid to Apple for every license.
Oh wait patents foster innovation. Right....
Yeah, why should you have to pay this company to develop and produce cutting edge high tech software???
I bet you've paid a lot for Linux, or BSD, or Apache, or OpenOffice, or any number of free products.
When I pay $129 for OS X that is more that what I've paid for Windows. So what is the fucking problem with running it on any piece of hardware that can run it?