1. Realize that the world has been lying to you. McDonalds, BurgerKing, and all respectable fast food joints have been getting fat by making you fat. Candy bar companies, soda pops all exist not to "quench that thirst" or "feed that hunger" but to destroy you. No one is meant to be fat. NO ONE no one is big-boned, no one is "natually" fat. I have been 250+ since I was 15, and hit my heaviest at 285. I am now down to 240, and still losing following this concept.
2. Slow and steady wins the race. I have lost 45 pounds in the past 6 months, not the fastest out there, but at 1 or 2 pounds a week my body is GRADUALLY changing, which means it's VERY fogiving when I blow my diet once every couple of weeks. Like a rubber band my weight snaps right back into losing weight. It's the law of averages, if you eat 2000 calories a day for 3 weeks, then all of a sudden eat 4000 in a day, then the next day go back to 2000, your body expects and DEMANDS that 2000. It won't store the exceess because you're not starving yoursef.
3. Find your DMR (Daily Burn Rate). Because I sit all day, my caloric DMR is about 2000. Therefore I eat 1850. if you burn 2000, and only feed yourself 1850, where does the other 150 come from? YOUR FAT. It's a beutiful simple concept.
4. Eat the right foods. I can have 1/2 bowl of pasta or 5 bowls of chili (insert "fart joke here"). It's all in the calories. Lots of calories in rice and pasta, very little in beans. I eat a lot of fruit now, lots of salad piled with veggies and low-fat dressing. Oh and another choice is 2 tblspoons of regular salad dressing or 5 bowls of salad piled high with lowfat dressing, your pick.:) You like Pizza and COke? Just make sure it's within your Caloric intake. Hell I'm vegetarian (a bit harder) but think of all you meat eaters! Lots of meats to choose from with little calories!
5. DON'T RELY ON ANYTHING. Don't do exercises. I don't do exercises because I know I can't keep them up. Too many stories of "oh I lost 50lbs once, but now it's all back" what did they do differently? Stopped anything they were doing which shocked their body.
6. PROFIT!......a wonderful program I use for my palm pilot called e-diet has an entire database of foods (yes pizza and coke are in there) and you can modify it with your foods and calories. It helps me maintain my daily calories while also telling me what specific exercise and for how long to burn off calories when I go over (stuff like laundry, cleaning, coding). You plug in your height, weight, activity level, and how much you want to lose in how long and it shows you the path you need to take. Losing weight really is just plain mathematics, which should motivate at least SOME of you geek's out there.
Good Luck and drop me a line if you have any questions.
Yo Grark Canadian Bred with American Buttering (bread and butter is 200 calories a slice!)
Just like spam, they only have to hit 1% of they're target audience to call it a success.
And with the # of ma and pa's far outnumbering kiddies and in the know professionals who will avoid this like the plague, they're destined to be a beacon to any large distributor who doesn't want they're movie Tivo'd....err PVR'd.
All you Americans can attend "half price" because of our sagging currency/exchange rate, while us "Canadians" can't afford to buy lunch there let alone travel.
In my pocket of the world, people are recognizing that they can survive WITHOUT cell phones. They have become a BURDON instead of a necessity.
I think it was when Telco's starting charging $0.10 per text message, and rounding the seconds used up to the minute. People are finally sitting up and saying "whoah, this sucks".
I know at least 30 friends and family who have given up on their cell phones. Even the "pay as you go" is not worth it because the minutes expire.
If anyone needs me, they can call me at home or catch me at work. For emergencies I have a non-serviced cell phone (911 works WITHOUT subscribing to a service)
If I'm not typing for more than 30 seconds, it shows AWAY, which is right.
And I've been reading good articles in business magazines which shows how IM is actually better than email, in that you can SEE when someone is there, then send them an email.
Knowing when a customer is there is certainly quite helpful, and in return, they know when you're there.
Been struggling with allowing customers access to me when I'm sitting down in front of my pc, and I've done a bit of a test.
I found that customers who demand my time more is a great thing, makes customer service all the easier, but let's face it, INSTANT MESSAGING is just that. Instant.
When you say hello to someone, you don't expect them to take 10 min to say hello back.
When you leave a voicemail, you expect a reply in one business day unless you mark it urgent. With email you expect a response back what? Half day?
I equate an IM an IMMEDIDATE priority even if I'm busy with something else.
Personally, I have seen customers only let down by me not able to keep up with IM customers fast enough.
Great idea, but in the end, the purchasing agents, CEO's with decision making ability and the standards committee's don't have time for me, let alone IM me.
Any other account managers successfully integrate this into their 100-200 customer/month workday?
With the onslaught of technology we have gotten lazier and lazier. Children in my generation were lazier then our parents and them before that.
Taking the inititive by MS,
1. They stand to make sure all the kiddies continue to be late for school
2. ensure kids are Messaging instead of homeworking
3. Develop l33t net sp33k (ok not so bad but rememeber the recent stories about net speek making it's way into legitamate assignments)
4. Develop a gaggle of health related issues down the road from the repetetive strains and lack of physical exercise.
5. Continue to become socially inept through lack of human interaction.
6. Forget the rules of conduct when dealing with real people.
7. Insert hundreds of other uh-oh's.
Bottom line is I am slowing realizing that just like TV or Video Games, everything has to be takin in MODERATION (not moderate those who have points:P)
Too much of a anything is a bad thing, and I for one limit my interaction with the PC to the 8 hours I work on it, and the 1-2 hours at home I use it for finances and games.
Whoah, I spend a shitload of time on the PC, god I can't imagine what our youth are going to be facing.
So that's again MS for providing a clear vision into why so many "in the know" know you're evil, EVEN WHEN YOU GET GOOD REVIEWS.
Slashdot Mirror
Wait. Who the hell are the Gutenberg family? :P
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
1. Realize that the world has been lying to you. McDonalds, BurgerKing, and all respectable fast food joints have been getting fat by making you fat. Candy bar companies, soda pops all exist not to "quench that thirst" or "feed that hunger" but to destroy you. No one is meant to be fat. NO ONE no one is big-boned, no one is "natually" fat. I have been 250+ since I was 15, and hit my heaviest at 285. I am now down to 240, and still losing following this concept.
:) You like Pizza and COke? Just make sure it's within your Caloric intake. Hell I'm vegetarian (a bit harder) but think of all you meat eaters! Lots of meats to choose from with little calories!
2. Slow and steady wins the race. I have lost 45 pounds in the past 6 months, not the fastest out there, but at 1 or 2 pounds a week my body is GRADUALLY changing, which means it's VERY fogiving when I blow my diet once every couple of weeks. Like a rubber band my weight snaps right back into losing weight. It's the law of averages, if you eat 2000 calories a day for 3 weeks, then all of a sudden eat 4000 in a day, then the next day go back to 2000, your body expects and DEMANDS that 2000. It won't store the exceess because you're not starving yoursef.
3. Find your DMR (Daily Burn Rate). Because I sit all day, my caloric DMR is about 2000. Therefore I eat 1850. if you burn 2000, and only feed yourself 1850, where does the other 150 come from? YOUR FAT. It's a beutiful simple concept.
4. Eat the right foods. I can have 1/2 bowl of pasta or 5 bowls of chili (insert "fart joke here"). It's all in the calories. Lots of calories in rice and pasta, very little in beans. I eat a lot of fruit now, lots of salad piled with veggies and low-fat dressing. Oh and another choice is 2 tblspoons of regular salad dressing or 5 bowls of salad piled high with lowfat dressing, your pick.
5. DON'T RELY ON ANYTHING. Don't do exercises. I don't do exercises because I know I can't keep them up. Too many stories of "oh I lost 50lbs once, but now it's all back" what did they do differently? Stopped anything they were doing which shocked their body.
6. PROFIT!......a wonderful program I use for my palm pilot called e-diet has an entire database of foods (yes pizza and coke are in there) and you can modify it with your foods and calories. It helps me maintain my daily calories while also telling me what specific exercise and for how long to burn off calories when I go over (stuff like laundry, cleaning, coding). You plug in your height, weight, activity level, and how much you want to lose in how long and it shows you the path you need to take. Losing weight really is just plain mathematics, which should motivate at least SOME of you geek's out there.
Good Luck and drop me a line if you have any questions.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering (bread and butter is 200 calories a slice!)
"thus answering the question of whether or not software engineering is in fact engineering."
:/
Well it certainly answered whether a Canadian University could withstand a slashdotting after 2 posts
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Just like spam, they only have to hit 1% of they're target audience to call it a success.
And with the # of ma and pa's far outnumbering kiddies and in the know professionals who will avoid this like the plague, they're destined to be a beacon to any large distributor who doesn't want they're movie Tivo'd....err PVR'd.
Distributor: AOL, please don't PVR our show, it's under "special" programming
AOL: That will be 50 Million.
Distributor: That's hiway robbery! Forget it, I'm not paying.
AOL: Fine, we just "automatically" PVR'd it for all our customers and provided live feed for all our Internet Subscribers
Distributor: You Can't do that!
AOL: We can't? Who ya gonna call? SLASHDOT! HAHAHAHAHA!
Distributor: No, they don't have any real power except the occasional network bandwidth block. Here's your money.
AOL: Yeah! We get to show better than expected Earnings!
Bah.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred (AOL FREE) with American Buttering.
I like to think I represent a lot of sales people.
Contacting 100-200 different companies a month and sending them files requires me to stay very much compatible with a lot of them.
Believe it or not, a good deal of people still don't use HTML in their emails.
Our company will probably upgrade to Office 2003 for an elite few, but for the majority, it would actually HURT our sales to upgrade.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering.
(ps, finally an article dedicated to nothing but MS bashing...wait that's every article)
AHEM, around these parts everyone has insurance. Mandatory.
More over, every time a car is sold or transferred, a tax is paid, I just had to pay $500.00 in tax on the $1.00 purchase of a car.
Can't wait til I run the world, things will be different.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
All you Americans can attend "half price" because of our sagging currency/exchange rate, while us "Canadians" can't afford to buy lunch there let alone travel.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
In my pocket of the world, people are recognizing that they can survive WITHOUT cell phones. They have become a BURDON instead of a necessity.
I think it was when Telco's starting charging $0.10 per text message, and rounding the seconds used up to the minute. People are finally sitting up and saying "whoah, this sucks".
I know at least 30 friends and family who have given up on their cell phones. Even the "pay as you go" is not worth it because the minutes expire.
If anyone needs me, they can call me at home or catch me at work. For emergencies I have a non-serviced cell phone (911 works WITHOUT subscribing to a service)
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering.
When BBC says it, the world goes woot!
When Wired says it almost a month ago, no one says boo.
Or is this a duplicate and I missed it last time around.
Either way, WOOT!
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
I think my odds of cracking the software are better than winning the lottery!
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
The auto-away works really well.
If I'm not typing for more than 30 seconds, it shows AWAY, which is right.
And I've been reading good articles in business magazines which shows how IM is actually better than email, in that you can SEE when someone is there, then send them an email.
Knowing when a customer is there is certainly quite helpful, and in return, they know when you're there.
I still like the idea personally.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Been struggling with allowing customers access to me when I'm sitting down in front of my pc, and I've done a bit of a test.
I found that customers who demand my time more is a great thing, makes customer service all the easier, but let's face it, INSTANT MESSAGING is just that. Instant.
When you say hello to someone, you don't expect them to take 10 min to say hello back.
When you leave a voicemail, you expect a reply in one business day unless you mark it urgent. With email you expect a response back what? Half day?
I equate an IM an IMMEDIDATE priority even if I'm busy with something else.
Personally, I have seen customers only let down by me not able to keep up with IM customers fast enough.
Great idea, but in the end, the purchasing agents, CEO's with decision making ability and the standards committee's don't have time for me, let alone IM me.
Any other account managers successfully integrate this into their 100-200 customer/month workday?
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering.
Ummm, no...they are to get a hint of popular sites which can't make money from ads.
:P
You REALLY think the website makes money?
Therefore you are without financial retoric.
Yo Grark
I HATE FUCKIN POPUPS
I really don't think ABC News needs to be paid to put INTRUSIVE ads on thier site.
Whenever I see a popup, I close the site and move on. And since there is no news on their homepage, this has turned into a rant AGAINST POPUPS!
YOU HEAR ME CORPORATIONS? PEOPLE HATE POPUPS.
We accept banner, bottom scrolling, ads as part of articles (not articles that are ads *ahem* Slashdot *cough**cough*).
Get a clue from RH, and change the format to what people want and make money from that.
{end rant}
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American DRTFABOP Buttering
(Didn't read the fuckin article because of popups)
Couldn't agree more.
I am in the market to buy a new Palm/PocketPC and was looking forward to this article.
Not one pro/con, not one REAL THOUGHT.
That ranks right up there with the recent journalism though, so all in all I'm not surprised.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
What's sad is that it was up to 80usd. -Yo Grark
You haven't tasted Pain til you try my wife's cooking. /me passes slashdot he salt.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Yup
t em =2911684233&category=16709
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i
Get a low ID on Slashdot, get excellent Karma, sell it in EBay.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Tomorrow's news: Intel gives Phoneix the boot, or would that be take away the boot?
Either way, Instant ON is way overdue.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering.
With the onslaught of technology we have gotten lazier and lazier. Children in my generation were lazier then our parents and them before that.
:P)
Taking the inititive by MS,
1. They stand to make sure all the kiddies continue to be late for school
2. ensure kids are Messaging instead of homeworking
3. Develop l33t net sp33k (ok not so bad but rememeber the recent stories about net speek making it's way into legitamate assignments)
4. Develop a gaggle of health related issues down the road from the repetetive strains and lack of physical exercise.
5. Continue to become socially inept through lack of human interaction.
6. Forget the rules of conduct when dealing with real people.
7. Insert hundreds of other uh-oh's.
Bottom line is I am slowing realizing that just like TV or Video Games, everything has to be takin in MODERATION (not moderate those who have points
Too much of a anything is a bad thing, and I for one limit my interaction with the PC to the 8 hours I work on it, and the 1-2 hours at home I use it for finances and games.
Whoah, I spend a shitload of time on the PC, god I can't imagine what our youth are going to be facing.
So that's again MS for providing a clear vision into why so many "in the know" know you're evil, EVEN WHEN YOU GET GOOD REVIEWS.
/ end of rant
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG I'm still getting Slashdot's History Pages.
:P
I'm stuck in Cache HELL!
Can someone tell me how to get the latest stories?
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering American Buttering American Buttering
Nothing, hence the sarcasm
Yo Grark
Isn't DMCA beutiful? :P
Yo Grark
Don't know what part of Canada you're in, but the increase and "tax all media" thing hasn't happened yet.
It was the annual end of year "scare". Each year it gets closer, but it hasn't happened yet.
But just wait til next year...
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering