It is quite likely that if you are pretty heavy as I was that going to gym is going to induce a heart attack. Start off by doing a bit of steady exercise like walking regularly which will improve your heart condition and then you can start doing more serious exercise.
I think it depends on what sort of weight you're talking about. Unless you're morbidly obese, I don't think walking is sufficient exercise. At my heaviest I was around 250lbs, and even then I could run a few miles at a time, and lift weights. How heavy exactly were you?
Also if you don't lift weights when you lose weight, you'll lose a load of muscle, so your metabolism will plummet and you'll look all saggy.
Don't count on that lasting that long. When you're sedentary, then eventually when you age, your body starts to eat itself. As a result your metabolism plummets, and as you're too lazy to change your lifestyle you end up spiralling into obesity. It's what's known as 'middle aged spread'. The only way to avoid this is to exercise properly. It's neither natural nor healthy for a human to be sedentary. It WILL fuck you over in the end.
Also I don't see how you can count 15 lbs GAIN to be weight loss...
Note to both the women that read this site: This is true. Why? Because we're attracted to curves. Guys find attraction in more subtle ways than stereotypes portray.
But bear in mind, a sphere isn't the sort of curve we're looking for. We might not want really underweight chicks but we don't want fat chicks either. The right sort of size for a woman is generally the sort you see in porn. Heavier than the sort you see in women's fashion magazines, but not as fat as the sort of land-whales you see on the street who've obviously spent too much time at the trough^Wdinner table.
On the other hand, a very skinny chick is preferable to a very fat chick.
Have you never been to a SuperBowl party? Bar? Pool hall? Guys like to hang around each other. They like women too.
Yeah, and they go out to meet women also. Like women at the bar for instance. These nerds don't like women AT ALL. They completely avoid their company 100%. They never go anywhere there might be women, their entire social life seems to revolve around computer games with other men.
Most men in computers complain about the fact that there are few women, but their love for the profession is greater than their love for getting laid.
I wouldn't say that. I'd say they would want to get laid, they're just terrified of social contact so avoid finding prospective partners in favour of the comfort of the computer monitor.
What was really so hard for you about 8 hours without women?
All of it? And it's more than 8 hours. More like all day, if I'm planning on doing some work in the computer room afterwards. It seems that computer science is for two types of men: 1. Gay men, and 2. Men who are scared of women.
Bear in mind, that middle-click thing only works on the Linux Firefox, not the Windows version. In fact, the Windows version of Firefox lacks a lot of features, it's like an afterthought. Perhaps if they want more people to convert they should make sure they get a good experience when they try it out on Windows.
How is IE making your life harder? I think that you are making yourself harder by putting things in your web site that not only are obscure enough not to work on most people's browsers, but are merely aesthetic and have zero functional value. Try concentrating on content rather than throwing in every little CSS trick you read about.
1. Not all drives can write them, or rewrite them. A USB port is much cheaper and more common.
2. CDRs are not portable. They need a case, and they're huge. They don't fit in your pocket, unless you're 300lbs. Also they scratch easily.
3. Re-writing on CDRWs is not a trivial task. You can't just treat it as another disk like you can with a USB stick. You can't just mount/mnt/cdrw/dev/hdc and start moving files over. Don't as me why not, it doesn't seem that a lot of thought went into the technology.
No, CS is already a big enough sausage-fest as it is. You're lucky to see 10% women. We don't need any more men in CS. I can't think of any reason why CS should have such an uneven number of men and women, other subjects are much more balanced. No wonder there's a drop in applicants, what healthy straight male wants to be surrounded by other men all day every day?
Also if you want more women in the field, then increase the quality of the men. It should be a dream for women to be in a class where it's 90% men, but they're hardly top-shelf men. Imagine how many men would go into a female-dominated field if the average class looked like this:
It will definitely psychologically damage a straight-male by denying him female contact in the way that CS courses do, and based on my experience of CS would be enough to turn women into lesbians.
Not necessarily, a lot of socially maladjusted nerds do have empathy, they just have no social skills, so they come across as 'creepy'. When you spend all of your waking life away from human contact, either at the computer or the TV, then you never learn to act properly around other people. The problem with that is, when you do end up around other people, you come across are very awkward and dull, no matter how interesting or friendly you are.
There's no substitute for a regular social life. No, IRC isn't a substitute. You can talk all day and night on IRC, be most interesting and funny guy in #d&dlosers, make friends with everyone there, but when you step into the real world, if you don't have any experience interacting with real-life people, they're just not going to like your company at all. You'll just freeze up, conversations will be one sided with the nerd being defensive, either trying not to give anything away or worrying about how he's coming across.
I think the solution to this is to throw away (literally) the TV/computer and dive head-first into social interaction. Just force yourself into social situations, constantly. After a few years of this you might become a more sociable person who's actually enjoyable to be around.
I know this may be an unpopular suggestion, but at least consider it rather than just modding it down. Seriously, I think it might be because nerds are largely homosexual. I did CS once, and quickly got out. As a heterosexual male, I simple found myself unable to cope with spending every day being completely surrounded by no women.
Most subjects at the university I went to had a well-balanced ratio of men to women, but computer science must have been at least 95% men. In a full lecture hall, there were perhaps five women, and hundreds of men. In the smaller classes, again nearly all men. In the computer labs, a complete sausage-fest. It seems that the sort of people who are into computers prefer the company of their fellow men.
I'm not saying this is proof, but I don't think many of them had girlfriends or anything, they generally liked to hang about with each other. This isn't a criticism, I'm not a homophobe or anything, but you have to think how many potentially talented people didn't go into CS because it would be completely unbearable for a straight male to exist in such an enviroment.
A straight male naturally seeks out female company, and so being in a field which actively repels women is incredibly frustrating.
Google's a company that spends a large amount of time researching obscure things, i.e. the sort of thing that Phd people like doing. Also they have a lot of money to throw around on researching all sorts of stuff that might never see the light of day.
Most companies are not like that, most companies are not research companies, they pay computer programmers to actually produce products. Working products on limited budgets within harsh time constraints. A Phd isn't always the right choice for such a job.
People with masters/PHDs have been trained for research positions, not real-world work. If you want a job in the real world, then you're better off spending the same time getting real-world experience.
Also the things you learn in CS have often got little to do with architecturing major products. It's always a risk that the man with the CS Phd will spend more time analysing a whole load of irrelevent academic things and missing the bigger picture.
1) Compared to how little most people think about popcorn, if your popcorn preparation consists of anything more involved than buying it from a cinema or putting a paper bag in the microwave, it counts as obsession. I mean, buying a device for something so obscure and irrelevent, I can't imagine how anyone could justify that. 2) Not when you only use it once a year. I.e. if you're not a popcorn obsessive. 3) Yes, because I use them more than once a year. And I can use them for things other than popcorn. 4) I mean, unpopped, dried corns. 5) No, it's because it's a bland vegetable puffed up into polystyrene with salt and butter for flavours. If you disagree then do tell me what flavours exactly it has? Note that polystyrene is not a flavour.
PWN'D!
You know, in order to 'PWN' someone, you have to actually make a decent argument, not just go through everything they've said and say 'no that's wrong'.
I think it's pretty odd that people can spend so much effort on something so irrelevent. I mean, if you're going to be obsessed with a type of junk food, at least make it a half-decent junkfood like kebabs or something.
Actually that sounds like a good idea. If you can't get the files off then you can't take copyrighted MP3s from your own computer then put them onto someone else's computer. I'm surprised that more people haven't thought of this, sounds like a good aid in the fight against piracy.
Modern naval warfare? What exactly is modern naval warfare like? When was the last time there was a war between two countries with large, modern navies? Most wars these days seem to consist of bombers vs. anti-aircraft missiles, or guerillas with machine-guns in third-world dictatorships.
Er, 0.6m/s is actually quite fast. In fact that's 1.35mph, or 32 miles a day. That means he'd have to swim 32 miles worth of water every day just to stay where he was.
You know, if you don't like the way a post is moderated, just ignore it and move on, or get an account with moderation points. Just just spam the board by posting multiple anonymous messages making it look like it's more than you who it's disgruntled.
Popcorn full-stop is purely convenience. It's convenient at cinemas because it's already made. It's convenient at home because you just microwave it. There's nothing else to it. If you're going to be inconvenienced and cook something, you may as well make something with flavour or nutritional value. As far as food goes, popcorn is pretty bland.
Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Microwave
CHAPEL HILL, NCArea resident Anagama does not own a microwave, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.
"I, personally, would rather spend my time cooking something decent than using a microwave," Anagama told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's microwave. "I don't even own one."
According to Melinda Elkins, a coworker of Anagama's at The Frame Job, a Chapel Hill picture-frame shop, Anagama steers the conversation toward microwaves whenever possible, just so he can mention not owning one.
"A few days ago, [store manager] Annette [Haig] was saying she had a bad headache," Elkins said. "The second she said that, I knew Anagama would pounce. He was like, 'Oh that's a shame. I'm guessing it's because of your microwave sending out dangerous radiation into your skull every day. I don't have that problem with microwaves. In fact, I don't even own one."
According to Elkins, "idiot oven" is Anagama's favorite derogatory term for microwave.
Tony Gerela, who lives in the apartment directly below Anagama's and occasionally chats with the 37-year-old by the mailboxes, is well aware of his neighbor's disdain for microwaves.
"About a week after I met him, we were talking, and I made some kind of microwave reference," Gerela said. "He asked me what I was talking about, and when I told him, he just went off saying the last time he used a microwave, it was some microwave lasagna, and it gave him diahorrea."
Added Gerela: "Once, I made the mistake of saying I nuked something for dinner, and he started in with, 'Nuked the dinner? I don't know about you, but I 'cook' dinner. In a pan."
Anagama has lived without microwaves since 1989, when his then-girlfriend moved out and took her oven with her.
"When Claudia went, the microwave went with her," Anagama said. "But instead of just going out and buying another one which I certainly could have afforded, that wasn't the issue, I decided to stand up to the microwave teat."
"I'm not an elitist," Anagama said. "It's just that I'd much rather cook some risotto or grill some salmon than sit there passively staring at some 'ready-meal' going round and round.
Continued Anagama: "I can't begin to tell you how happy I am not to own a microwave."
I don't understand why people use microwaves rather than a cheap air popper.
I can think of a few reasons.
1. We're not all popcorn obessives. You know, for most people, it's just another food, not a hobby. 2. A microwave is already in the kitchen, and can be used other things. It's hard to justify another device for the sole purpose of preparing a single food, especially if you don't eat it very often. 3. Most people don't have popcorn very often, and so buying a paper bag to put in the microwave is the better alternative to buying a 'popper' and kernels, which would just be taking up room 99% of the time. 4. A lot of places sell the microwave popcorn, not so many sell normal corns. 5. Get over yourself. It's just bland salty junk food, you're talking about it as if it were some sophisticated cuisine.
Well done mate, you must be the first, and only, popcorn obsessive in the world!
On a related note, why do they serve popcorn at cinemas? And why do people always complain about the prices? If it's that expensive (which it is) then don't buy it. Can people really not go for two hours without eating something? No wonder everyone's so fat these days!
I dunno, I think I'd look pretty emaciated at 150lbs. And where did you get the idea that I worked in the business world? Also you need a good body to get away with wearing a suit. Ever seen a fat man in a suit?
I am perplexed that suits are considered appropriate business attire. Suits don't look much better than other clothes, and most people look just as ugly in suits as they do in casual attire.
Actually no, they make people look smarter and more professional. Like they've actually made an effort towards their appearance rather than dressing as if they were going to the pub.
Notice how in shops you get better service when you're wearing a suit. Notice how people subconsiously and automatically treat you with more respect. Your appearance is the first thing people judge you on, whether you like it or not. It doesn't really pay to look like a bum.
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It is quite likely that if you are pretty heavy as I was that going to gym is going to induce a heart attack. Start off by doing a bit of steady exercise like walking regularly which will improve your heart condition and then you can start doing more serious exercise.
I think it depends on what sort of weight you're talking about. Unless you're morbidly obese, I don't think walking is sufficient exercise. At my heaviest I was around 250lbs, and even then I could run a few miles at a time, and lift weights. How heavy exactly were you?
Also if you don't lift weights when you lose weight, you'll lose a load of muscle, so your metabolism will plummet and you'll look all saggy.
Don't count on that lasting that long. When you're sedentary, then eventually when you age, your body starts to eat itself. As a result your metabolism plummets, and as you're too lazy to change your lifestyle you end up spiralling into obesity. It's what's known as 'middle aged spread'. The only way to avoid this is to exercise properly. It's neither natural nor healthy for a human to be sedentary. It WILL fuck you over in the end.
Also I don't see how you can count 15 lbs GAIN to be weight loss...
Note to both the women that read this site: This is true. Why? Because we're attracted to curves. Guys find attraction in more subtle ways than stereotypes portray.
But bear in mind, a sphere isn't the sort of curve we're looking for. We might not want really underweight chicks but we don't want fat chicks either. The right sort of size for a woman is generally the sort you see in porn. Heavier than the sort you see in women's fashion magazines, but not as fat as the sort of land-whales you see on the street who've obviously spent too much time at the trough^Wdinner table.
On the other hand, a very skinny chick is preferable to a very fat chick.
Well, assembly is hardly a language that encourages large, well-organised programming projects, so you've pretty much supported his point.
Have you never been to a SuperBowl party? Bar? Pool hall? Guys like to hang around each other. They like women too.
Yeah, and they go out to meet women also. Like women at the bar for instance. These nerds don't like women AT ALL. They completely avoid their company 100%. They never go anywhere there might be women, their entire social life seems to revolve around computer games with other men.
Most men in computers complain about the fact that there are few women, but their love for the profession is greater than their love for getting laid.
I wouldn't say that. I'd say they would want to get laid, they're just terrified of social contact so avoid finding prospective partners in favour of the comfort of the computer monitor.
What was really so hard for you about 8 hours without women?
All of it? And it's more than 8 hours. More like all day, if I'm planning on doing some work in the computer room afterwards. It seems that computer science is for two types of men: 1. Gay men, and 2. Men who are scared of women.
Bear in mind, that middle-click thing only works on the Linux Firefox, not the Windows version. In fact, the Windows version of Firefox lacks a lot of features, it's like an afterthought. Perhaps if they want more people to convert they should make sure they get a good experience when they try it out on Windows.
How is IE making your life harder? I think that you are making yourself harder by putting things in your web site that not only are obscure enough not to work on most people's browsers, but are merely aesthetic and have zero functional value. Try concentrating on content rather than throwing in every little CSS trick you read about.
1. Not all drives can write them, or rewrite them. A USB port is much
/mnt/cdrw /dev/hdc and start moving files over. Don't as me why not, it doesn't seem that a lot of thought went into the technology.
cheaper and more common.
2. CDRs are not portable. They need a case, and they're huge. They don't fit in your pocket, unless you're 300lbs. Also they scratch easily.
3. Re-writing on CDRWs is not a trivial task. You can't just treat it as another disk like you can with a USB stick. You can't just mount
No, CS is already a big enough sausage-fest as it is. You're lucky to see 10% women. We don't need any more men in CS. I can't think of any reason why CS should have such an uneven number of men and women, other subjects are much more balanced. No wonder there's a drop in applicants, what healthy straight male wants to be surrounded by other men all day every day?
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Also if you want more women in the field, then increase the quality of the men. It should be a dream for women to be in a class where it's 90% men, but they're hardly top-shelf men. Imagine how many men would go into a female-dominated field if the average class looked like this:
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I can't see many signing up.
It will definitely psychologically damage a straight-male by denying him female contact in the way that CS courses do, and based on my experience of CS would be enough to turn women into lesbians.
Not necessarily, a lot of socially maladjusted nerds do have empathy, they just have no social skills, so they come across as 'creepy'. When you spend all of your waking life away from human contact, either at the computer or the TV, then you never learn to act properly around other people. The problem with that is, when you do end up around other people, you come across are very awkward and dull, no matter how interesting or friendly you are.
There's no substitute for a regular social life. No, IRC isn't a substitute. You can talk all day and night on IRC, be most interesting and funny guy in #d&dlosers, make friends with everyone there, but when you step into the real world, if you don't have any experience interacting with real-life people, they're just not going to like your company at all. You'll just freeze up, conversations will be one sided with the nerd being defensive, either trying not to give anything away or worrying about how he's coming across.
I think the solution to this is to throw away (literally) the TV/computer and dive head-first into social interaction. Just force yourself into social situations, constantly. After a few years of this you might become a more sociable person who's actually enjoyable to be around.
I know this may be an unpopular suggestion, but at least consider it rather than just modding it down. Seriously, I think it might be because nerds are largely homosexual. I did CS once, and quickly got out. As a heterosexual male, I simple found myself unable to cope with spending every day being completely surrounded by no women.
Most subjects at the university I went to had a well-balanced ratio of men to women, but computer science must have been at least 95% men. In a full lecture hall, there were perhaps five women, and hundreds of men. In the smaller classes, again nearly all men. In the computer labs, a complete sausage-fest. It seems that the sort of people who are into computers prefer the company of their fellow men.
I'm not saying this is proof, but I don't think many of them had girlfriends or anything, they generally liked to hang about with each other. This isn't a criticism, I'm not a homophobe or anything, but you have to think how many potentially talented people didn't go into CS because it would be completely unbearable for a straight male to exist in such an enviroment.
A straight male naturally seeks out female company, and so being in a field which actively repels women is incredibly frustrating.
Google's a company that spends a large amount of time researching obscure things, i.e. the sort of thing that Phd people like doing. Also they have a lot of money to throw around on researching all sorts of stuff that might never see the light of day.
Most companies are not like that, most companies are not research companies, they pay computer programmers to actually produce products. Working products on limited budgets within harsh time constraints. A Phd isn't always the right choice for such a job.
Not really, he's got a point.
People with masters/PHDs have been trained for research positions, not real-world work. If you want a job in the real world, then you're better off spending the same time getting real-world experience.
Also the things you learn in CS have often got little to do with architecturing major products. It's always a risk that the man with the CS Phd will spend more time analysing a whole load of irrelevent academic things and missing the bigger picture.
1) Compared to how little most people think about popcorn, if your popcorn preparation consists of anything more involved than buying it from a cinema or putting a paper bag in the microwave, it counts as obsession. I mean, buying a device for something so obscure and irrelevent, I can't imagine how anyone could justify that.
2) Not when you only use it once a year. I.e. if you're not a popcorn obsessive.
3) Yes, because I use them more than once a year. And I can use them for things other than popcorn.
4) I mean, unpopped, dried corns.
5) No, it's because it's a bland vegetable puffed up into polystyrene with salt and butter for flavours. If you disagree then do tell me what flavours exactly it has? Note that polystyrene is not a flavour.
PWN'D!
You know, in order to 'PWN' someone, you have to actually make a decent argument, not just go through everything they've said and say 'no that's wrong'.
I think it's pretty odd that people can spend so much effort on something so irrelevent. I mean, if you're going to be obsessed with a type of junk food, at least make it a half-decent junkfood like kebabs or something.
Actually that sounds like a good idea. If you can't get the files off then you can't take copyrighted MP3s from your own computer then put them onto someone else's computer. I'm surprised that more people haven't thought of this, sounds like a good aid in the fight against piracy.
Modern naval warfare? What exactly is modern naval warfare like? When was the last time there was a war between two countries with large, modern navies? Most wars these days seem to consist of bombers vs. anti-aircraft missiles, or guerillas with machine-guns in third-world dictatorships.
Er, 0.6m/s is actually quite fast. In fact that's 1.35mph, or 32 miles a day. That means he'd have to swim 32 miles worth of water every day just to stay where he was.
The idea is you don't sit about motionless, you keep swimming.
You know, if you don't like the way a post is moderated, just ignore it and move on, or get an account with moderation points. Just just spam the board by posting multiple anonymous messages making it look like it's more than you who it's disgruntled.
Indeed. Microwave popcorn is purely convenience,
Popcorn full-stop is purely convenience. It's convenient at cinemas because it's already made. It's convenient at home because you just microwave it. There's nothing else to it. If you're going to be inconvenienced and cook something, you may as well make something with flavour or nutritional value. As far as food goes, popcorn is pretty bland.
Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Microwave
CHAPEL HILL, NCArea resident Anagama does not own a microwave, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.
"I, personally, would rather spend my time cooking something decent than using a microwave," Anagama told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's microwave. "I don't even own one."
According to Melinda Elkins, a coworker of Anagama's at The Frame Job, a Chapel Hill picture-frame shop, Anagama steers the conversation toward microwaves whenever possible, just so he can mention not owning one.
"A few days ago, [store manager] Annette [Haig] was saying she had a bad headache," Elkins said. "The second she said that, I knew Anagama would pounce. He was like, 'Oh that's a shame. I'm guessing it's because of your microwave sending out dangerous radiation into your skull every day. I don't have that problem with microwaves. In fact, I don't even own one."
According to Elkins, "idiot oven" is Anagama's favorite derogatory term for microwave.
Tony Gerela, who lives in the apartment directly below Anagama's and occasionally chats with the 37-year-old by the mailboxes, is well aware of his neighbor's disdain for microwaves.
"About a week after I met him, we were talking, and I made some kind of microwave reference," Gerela said. "He asked me what I was talking about, and when I told him, he just went off saying the last time he used a microwave, it was some microwave lasagna, and it gave him diahorrea."
Added Gerela: "Once, I made the mistake of saying I nuked something for dinner, and he started in with, 'Nuked the dinner? I don't know about you, but I 'cook' dinner. In a pan."
Anagama has lived without microwaves since 1989, when his then-girlfriend moved out and took her oven with her.
"When Claudia went, the microwave went with her," Anagama said. "But instead of just going out and buying another one which I certainly could have afforded, that wasn't the issue, I decided to stand up to the microwave teat."
"I'm not an elitist," Anagama said. "It's just that I'd much rather cook some risotto or grill some salmon than sit there passively staring at some 'ready-meal' going round and round.
Continued Anagama: "I can't begin to tell you how happy I am not to own a microwave."
I don't understand why people use microwaves rather than a cheap air popper.
I can think of a few reasons.
1. We're not all popcorn obessives. You know, for most people, it's just another food, not a hobby.
2. A microwave is already in the kitchen, and can be used other things. It's hard to justify another device for the sole purpose of preparing a single food, especially if you don't eat it very often.
3. Most people don't have popcorn very often, and so buying a paper bag to put in the microwave is the better alternative to buying a 'popper' and kernels, which would just be taking up room 99% of the time.
4. A lot of places sell the microwave popcorn, not so many sell normal corns.
5. Get over yourself. It's just bland salty junk food, you're talking about it as if it were some sophisticated cuisine.
Well done mate, you must be the first, and only, popcorn obsessive in the world!
On a related note, why do they serve popcorn at cinemas? And why do people always complain about the prices? If it's that expensive (which it is) then don't buy it. Can people really not go for two hours without eating something? No wonder everyone's so fat these days!
I dunno, I think I'd look pretty emaciated at 150lbs. And where did you get the idea that I worked in the business world? Also you need a good body to get away with wearing a suit. Ever seen a fat man in a suit?
I am perplexed that suits are considered appropriate business attire. Suits don't look much better than other clothes, and most people look just as ugly in suits as they do in casual attire.
Actually no, they make people look smarter and more professional. Like they've actually made an effort towards their appearance rather than dressing as if they were going to the pub.
Notice how in shops you get better service when you're wearing a suit. Notice how people subconsiously and automatically treat you with more respect. Your appearance is the first thing people judge you on, whether you like it or not. It doesn't really pay to look like a bum.