but even I can figure out that cell phones are _not_ an application for this technology. This is talking about machines that vibrate anyways, and using the vibration as a means of reclaiming some of the energy expended throught the vibration. Cell/pager vibration will always require more energy to vibrate than they can reclaim unless the efficiency of this mechanism is greater than 100% (and unless my understanding of high school physics is wrong that is not possible.)
Can people read and understand articles before posting once in a while? Pretty please?
I would expect to see Apple try to continue what they have done with the iPod - that is, making it easier to get your favorite artists, and listen to them, and maybe even make payment unobtrusive. Only if you have a Mac, of course. So if buying Universal is the only way to do that, then they would love to buy Universal, but chances are better that this is about some secret Apple squirrel society that is available to all Mac owners, but better if you pay.
Well keep with it. It sounds like you are doing it, and I know for my wife it has made a big difference in her life, with her confidence. It will become difficult to get those last few pounds off, or to keep it off, but remember that it's not having an attractive body that makes this worth it - its having a body that it healthy and happy:-)
(And I did have to start working out myself - she was making me look bad;-)
It's also a slight 'demotivator' that I love her despite her not being of 'pristine model shape'
I know how you feel exactly. But there's no way she doesn't know that it would be appealing to you if she lost some weight. She would have to be aweful naive - that's just human nature. The imporant thing is that you love her as she is, and support her in her goals. If she someday can find the lighter person that she believes is inside her someday, then good for her - help her all that you can to do that. In the meantime, I guess you just never let her forget that you chose her and not her body.
It's challenging to have to watch this played out. I struggled for a long time not wanting to stop her when she would eat ridiculously. On one hand, I wanted her to succeed, on the other hand she was overweight when I married her and I loved her like she was. If I pointed out to her that she was eating too much or incorrectly, I felt like I was telling her that I couldn't accept her as an overweight person. In the end, she decided on her own that she wanted to "shed" parts of herself that she wasn't happy with. I now envy her, because she was strong enough to make a change in her life, when I still struggle with my own weaknesses.
My wife lost 60 pounds, and has been able to keep it off for about a year. She looks fantastistic! Her approach? Stop eating so much, stop eating crap, go to the gym and do exercise classes, and work out. Doesn't sound that glamorous. But it worked for her.
Now what she discovered from all that hard work is that she actually enjoyed it (which she had never realized before, since she had never tried it.
I confess, I didn't read the article, but if it is advocating good old fashioned "straightening up", then it sounds right. I shudder when I walk into the drug store (of all places) and see bottles of tablets that are supposed to help lose weight. I think of all the people that get sucked in by that - I've seen my wife doing fad diets and other quick schemes. The only thing that worked was to change her lifestyle.
Get off your Cellphone rage and think of the lives they save when they are used to call 911 or to report an accident. I say, don't bug me about my wired car either. When it comes down to it, I could be drunk.
Does anyone else find it interesting that this argument has such a strong parallel to the argument Christians use to try to refute the possibility of evolution?
Does anyone else find it interesting that this argument has such a strong parallel to the argument evolutionsists use to try to refute the possibility of God?
There are other programs that do similar things. They are just being lazy.
lazy? what, my friend, do you believe is the purpose of having a computer? if using a specific piece of software to perform a task is "being lazy", then what do you propse, chisels and stone tablets?
i use outlook at work, because i am forced to use windows which is an os that has a plethora of shitty mail clients. Netscape 4? sucks. Eudora? really sucks. Mozilla? Not quite ready. Outlook? sucks less. it also happens to be the only application that give me easy to use calendaring that integrates with my handspring visor.
so, untill mozilla gets better, or i can use linux (which also, incidentally, sucks less) i am stuck with outlook. so i turn off scripting/auto-launching of attachments, turn off html mail so as not to scramble other peoples mail readers.
though, i still have to snicker at the though of getting a uudecoded message...
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Can people read and understand articles before posting once in a while? Pretty please?
Need I remind you that this is *SLASHDOT*?
touche.
but even I can figure out that cell phones are _not_ an application for this technology. This is talking about machines that vibrate anyways, and using the vibration as a means of reclaiming some of the energy expended throught the vibration. Cell/pager vibration will always require more energy to vibrate than they can reclaim unless the efficiency of this mechanism is greater than 100% (and unless my understanding of high school physics is wrong that is not possible.)
Can people read and understand articles before posting once in a while? Pretty please?
I would expect to see Apple try to continue what they have done with the iPod - that is, making it easier to get your favorite artists, and listen to them, and maybe even make payment unobtrusive. Only if you have a Mac, of course. So if buying Universal is the only way to do that, then they would love to buy Universal, but chances are better that this is about some secret Apple squirrel society that is available to all Mac owners, but better if you pay.
There. I'm not fried.
I started to write something here, but I erased it 'cause it was not as clever as I entended it to be, and I lost my train of thought.
Go, Jobs!!!
(groan. monday.)
I've given up - I use my kids playstation 2 for games now.
does anyone else think it's time to upgrade my k6-2 400?
Sun is probably doomed.
Oh no! I was told we had a few billion years left! I... what's that? Oh, that Sun.
Sorry for the panic.
Well keep with it. It sounds like you are doing it, and I know for my wife it has made a big difference in her life, with her confidence. It will become difficult to get those last few pounds off, or to keep it off, but remember that it's not having an attractive body that makes this worth it - its having a body that it healthy and happy :-)
;-)
(And I did have to start working out myself - she was making me look bad
It's also a slight 'demotivator' that I love her despite her not being of 'pristine model shape'
I know how you feel exactly. But there's no way she doesn't know that it would be appealing to you if she lost some weight. She would have to be aweful naive - that's just human nature.
The imporant thing is that you love her as she is, and support her in her goals. If she someday can find the lighter person that she believes is inside her someday, then good for her - help her all that you can to do that. In the meantime, I guess you just never let her forget that you chose her and not her body.
It's challenging to have to watch this played out. I struggled for a long time not wanting to stop her when she would eat ridiculously. On one hand, I wanted her to succeed, on the other hand she was overweight when I married her and I loved her like she was. If I pointed out to her that she was eating too much or incorrectly, I felt like I was telling her that I couldn't accept her as an overweight person. In the end, she decided on her own that she wanted to "shed" parts of herself that she wasn't happy with. I now envy her, because she was strong enough to make a change in her life, when I still struggle with my own weaknesses.
My wife lost 60 pounds, and has been able to keep it off for about a year. She looks fantastistic! Her approach? Stop eating so much, stop eating crap, go to the gym and do exercise classes, and work out. Doesn't sound that glamorous. But it worked for her.
Now what she discovered from all that hard work is that she actually enjoyed it (which she had never realized before, since she had never tried it.
I confess, I didn't read the article, but if it is advocating good old fashioned "straightening up", then it sounds right. I shudder when I walk into the drug store (of all places) and see bottles of tablets that are supposed to help lose weight. I think of all the people that get sucked in by that - I've seen my wife doing fad diets and other quick schemes. The only thing that worked was to change her lifestyle.
perhaps their webserver is also held together with duct tape?
Couple this with deaf people using sign language over the video phones a couple of articles back and our streets will be even more dangerous.
Get off your Cellphone rage and think of the lives they save when they are used to call 911 or to report an accident. I say, don't bug me about my wired car either. When it comes down to it, I could be drunk.
Ahhh. Sorry - i just thought you were distracted.
I hope I don't have to watch James Earl Jones dancing in front of one of these things...
It's bad enough having idiots on the road not listening to what's going on.
Hey, Bill, will you hold the wheel? I need to take this call...
Now if they could incorporate and Anti-AMD-processor -that-is-faster-for-less-money technology, they'd be all set!
Does anyone else find it interesting that this argument has such a strong parallel to the argument Christians use to try to refute the possibility of evolution?
Does anyone else find it interesting that this argument has such a strong parallel to the argument evolutionsists use to try to refute the possibility of God?
nope, just affiliated with a buch of guys that thought it was really funny when i liked to blow myself up with a rocket launcher in Quake ;-)
sheesh.
A PC manufacturer with balls!
There are other programs that do similar things. They are just being lazy.
lazy? what, my friend, do you believe is the purpose of having a computer? if using a specific piece of software to perform a task is "being lazy", then what do you propse, chisels and stone tablets?
i use outlook at work, because i am forced to use windows which is an os that has a plethora of shitty mail clients. Netscape 4? sucks. Eudora? really sucks. Mozilla? Not quite ready. Outlook? sucks less. it also happens to be the only application that give me easy to use calendaring that integrates with my handspring visor.
so, untill mozilla gets better, or i can use linux (which also, incidentally, sucks less) i am stuck with outlook. so i turn off scripting/auto-launching of attachments, turn off html mail so as not to scramble other peoples mail readers.
though, i still have to snicker at the though of getting a uudecoded message...
'nuff said.
Sorry.
Dr.Whiz-Bang