We picked up Wii Fit last summer. I have played it every day since we got it except for five days when I was out of town.
I lost 20 pounds and have kept it off. (I am down to 165 from my peak weight 13 years ago, which was 250. I had been stable at 185 for several years. I've been at 165 for a little under a year now.)
My wife has not lost 20 pounds; she is extremely upset at me for losing weight.
For Father's Day, she got me EA Active*. I've been doing that in the evenings for the last month. I haven't changed much in terms of fitness, although I've noticed a slight increase in muscle definition.
She has, of course, been even MORE upset that I've been keeping this weight off. She hasn't had the same fitness changes that I've had. Of course, she hasn't been as dedicated to it as I have - I've put in close to 80 hours on the Wii Fit and 10 on EA Active, plus a lot of biking to work. I think she's got 20 hours on the Wii Fit.
*Had the people who wrote EA Active ever played a game before? Was it done by co-op students? Children? Morons? Who did QA?
He's not selling to technical people who can do the math.
He's selling to people who will hear the pitch and think, "Holy shit, people will line up around the block to get HD movies on their cell and plug it into their TV! I've GOT to invest in this right now, and get in on the ground floor."
Look at what he's got already: postive reviews, awards, and a front page on/. I guarantee you that the next rounds of adverts in an investment magazine will have these awards highlighted.
"Holy shit, not only is this a great-sounding idea, but it's won a CTIA award. It's... fucking legitimate! Cut this guy a cheque, and do it before some other asshole does!"
The system requires travelling to other dimensions with different physics in order to work, but other than that, it's a great idea.
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Perhaps I am too much of a fan boy for my own country, but one Canadian site? And it's Baddeck?
The only communications-loving geek perplexed at leaving out Signal Hill?
Yeah, that's an unforgivable omission.
For those who are unaware, this was the site of the first trans-atlantic wireless transmission.
That would be interesting, as you could then determine how much of a horse's competitive capabilities are from training and diet, how much is from genetics, and how much is random.
We'd require a sample size of ~1500 genetically identical horses to test the theories.
The point is that Facebook is disclosing personal information to any developer that asks for it, without regard to what the information is, or what use the developer has for the information. That's against Canadian law.
The quote in the article states it most clearly: "Why does a hangman developer have to know your address?"
We talk a lot here about how Windows gets hacked more than Linux or Mac because it has a higher market share.
What's the market share on a prosthetic limb?
By the way, the style sheets are totally fucked up on IE6. Some of us aren't running nightly Firefox builds, morons. Try testing your code on various paltforms.
What? It's a managed work computer. It is what it is.
No, USB devices aren't permitted either, so Portable Firefox is out.
Nope, they can't. The question, "can I look in your bag?"
is replied, at least by myself, with, "are you a police officer with a warrant?"
I've worked retail. You can't catch good shoplifters. You just have to let them go, focus on the paying customers, and accept the losses as the cost of doing business.
I think his point was that if they hadn't used other programs to see:
a) what features they had, and b) why they had those features at all
then their product would be theoretical at best, and not take into account several factors that would make it a useful and productive tool.
His attitude may be sub-optimal, but that doesn't mean that his point is invalid.
My experience with EMC2, an open-source milling program, has been expectional. The chat rooms are full of helpful people, we ran some experiments, and in the end, we found a way to configure a gamepad ($20) to work like a jog wheel ($1000).
My experience with Ubuntu at home has been complete shit. I still can't look at Youtube, Flash is troublesome at best, and apparently it's my fault for not buying a new machine every year. "Why would you have that card? It's ATI and it's, like, 4 years old. Get a new nVidia card and it'll work."
Nah, he's trying to keep optimistic during the downturn.
"Let's see... Ah! I get to sleep in!"
My bio-alarms (3 and 5 years old) wake me up by 6:30-7:00 should the alarm somehow fail, but that's unlikely. It auto-shuts on weekends, resets the time after a power failure, and stores the alarm time in non-volatile memory.
I am a light sleeper. Noises such as a door opening or a toilet flushing will wake me up and keep me up for a while. Even when exhausted, it takes 10-15 minutes to fall asleep.
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You think that's bad?
We picked up Wii Fit last summer. I have played it every day since we got it except for five days when I was out of town.
I lost 20 pounds and have kept it off. (I am down to 165 from my peak weight 13 years ago, which was 250. I had been stable at 185 for several years. I've been at 165 for a little under a year now.)
My wife has not lost 20 pounds; she is extremely upset at me for losing weight.
For Father's Day, she got me EA Active*. I've been doing that in the evenings for the last month. I haven't changed much in terms of fitness, although I've noticed a slight increase in muscle definition.
She has, of course, been even MORE upset that I've been keeping this weight off. She hasn't had the same fitness changes that I've had. Of course, she hasn't been as dedicated to it as I have - I've put in close to 80 hours on the Wii Fit and 10 on EA Active, plus a lot of biking to work. I think she's got 20 hours on the Wii Fit.
*Had the people who wrote EA Active ever played a game before? Was it done by co-op students? Children? Morons? Who did QA?
So 1 in roughly every 11 million iPods has this sort of problem.
No -- 1 in roughly every 11 million iPods has reported this sort of problem.
If you haven't read the whole story, here it is:
http://www.stellaawards.com/stella.html
According to the National Coffee Association, coffee is supposed to be brewed at 195-205F, and either drunk immediately (how?) or kept at 180-185F.
It's easy to access. All you have to do is email him your name and credit card info and ... ... wait a minute.
He's not selling to technical people who can do the math.
He's selling to people who will hear the pitch and think, "Holy shit, people will line up around the block to get HD movies on their cell and plug it into their TV! I've GOT to invest in this right now, and get in on the ground floor."
Look at what he's got already: postive reviews, awards, and a front page on /. I guarantee you that the next rounds of adverts in an investment magazine will have these awards highlighted.
"Holy shit, not only is this a great-sounding idea, but it's won a CTIA award. It's... fucking legitimate! Cut this guy a cheque, and do it before some other asshole does!"
The system requires travelling to other dimensions with different physics in order to work, but other than that, it's a great idea.
Perhaps I am too much of a fan boy for my own country, but one Canadian site? And it's Baddeck?
The only communications-loving geek perplexed at leaving out Signal Hill?
Yeah, that's an unforgivable omission.
For those who are unaware, this was the site of the first trans-atlantic wireless transmission.
Think about that.
That would be interesting, as you could then determine how much of a horse's competitive capabilities are from training and diet, how much is from genetics, and how much is random.
We'd require a sample size of ~1500 genetically identical horses to test the theories.
It used to.
You used to have the ability to control what the developers had access to. Now the choices are "give them everything" or "do not use the application"
Tech the tech teched.
Tech the teching tech?
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That's not the point.
The point is that Facebook is disclosing personal information to any developer that asks for it, without regard to what the information is, or what use the developer has for the information. That's against Canadian law.
The quote in the article states it most clearly: "Why does a hangman developer have to know your address?"
I rent games before I buy them. My library has an extensive collection that loans out games for free.
make sure when you purchase music you don't buy anything from these companies that fund the RIAA.
Okay.
I don't understand your signature. /EE
Sorry. I didn't specify that I'm Canadian, so your mickey mouse laws don't apply to me.
If you lose visual on a shoplifter, you can't persue the offence.
It's not worth hacking.
We talk a lot here about how Windows gets hacked more than Linux or Mac because it has a higher market share.
What's the market share on a prosthetic limb?
By the way, the style sheets are totally fucked up on IE6. Some of us aren't running nightly Firefox builds, morons. Try testing your code on various paltforms.
What? It's a managed work computer. It is what it is.
No, USB devices aren't permitted either, so Portable Firefox is out.
Nope, they can't. The question, "can I look in your bag?"
is replied, at least by myself, with, "are you a police officer with a warrant?"
I've worked retail. You can't catch good shoplifters. You just have to let them go, focus on the paying customers, and accept the losses as the cost of doing business.
Another eye-catching headline to get click throughs, that's just wrong. Sad.
Then we shall give them what they ask for and bring forth the slashpocalypse.
Or maybe it's an Ass-to-Mouth Machine.
Makes for a really fucked-up summary.
Maybe it's missing a comma:
"...noise of an ATM machine and a fan in a particular room."
becomes:
"...noise of an ATM, machine, and a fan in a particular room."
or, more clearly:
"...noise of an ATM, machine (unspecified but noisy), and a fan in a particular room."
I think his point was that if they hadn't used other programs to see:
a) what features they had, and
b) why they had those features at all
then their product would be theoretical at best, and not take into account several factors that would make it a useful and productive tool.
His attitude may be sub-optimal, but that doesn't mean that his point is invalid.
My experience with EMC2, an open-source milling program, has been expectional. The chat rooms are full of helpful people, we ran some experiments, and in the end, we found a way to configure a gamepad ($20) to work like a jog wheel ($1000).
My experience with Ubuntu at home has been complete shit. I still can't look at Youtube, Flash is troublesome at best, and apparently it's my fault for not buying a new machine every year. "Why would you have that card? It's ATI and it's, like, 4 years old. Get a new nVidia card and it'll work."
Yes, that was invented by John Houghtaling, who passed away last month at the age of 92.
The casue of death was a head injury after a fall.
Nah, he's trying to keep optimistic during the downturn.
"Let's see... Ah! I get to sleep in!"
My bio-alarms (3 and 5 years old) wake me up by 6:30-7:00 should the alarm somehow fail, but that's unlikely. It auto-shuts on weekends, resets the time after a power failure, and stores the alarm time in non-volatile memory.
I am a light sleeper. Noises such as a door opening or a toilet flushing will wake me up and keep me up for a while. Even when exhausted, it takes 10-15 minutes to fall asleep.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a 5-digit account number?
The police use their own voicemail password. In North America, it's usually 7782.
Mmmm.... Having gone from cows' rectums to a torus, who's up for donuts this morning?
Many doughnuts are made with beef tallow, so you're not far off.