There are already several intelligent posts here, about increasing activity and decreasing caloric intake. Read The Hacker's Diet for a good engineering perspective on the ins and outs (as it were).
You have a problem of insufficient activity to burn calories. I had the same problem, which has been solved by A) going to the gym, and B) standing while I work. I think the latter point here can really help you.
If you can wrangle your work space around to allow you to stand -- either by piling your computer on top of additional shelving, say -- you can burn an extra 60 calories an hour. And more, if you take that additional standing time and throw in extra movements during your work day. When standing, it's easy to just walk away for a minute, throw a ball up and down, heck, do some jumping jacks. When standing, you're that much closer to any kind of physical motion, and that has to be of help.
It's hard on your legs and knees at first, but you will build the muscles to support it. Good luck!
Cheers,
Aaron.
Re:not so much pricing of the unit, as the content
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I was at first inclined to agree: $10 seems like a lot for an ebook. But then I started running some numbers. Where's that 10 bucks going?
Amazon's first-ever deal with Sprint to send you the book over a cellular network
Amazon's cut
Publisher's cut
Misc. other digital file processor/middledude cut
Author's royalty
Book publishing is an extremely poor game: razor-thin margins for everybody! In Canada, anyway, a bestseller is said to have sold 5000 copies -- let's multiply by ten to get a US figure. For 50,000 copies of a bestseller sold by Amazon, you're splitting $500,000 between a lot of people. And remember, MOST books are going to do way less than that.
In other words, I don't think the rate they're charging is over-large.
Cool article, but the first paragraph where he's deciding to write a single class to handle any database table, while cool, isn't as cool as PHP Object Generator, the tool I use to handle my databases. Ch-ch-check it out: Right here. It's sweet.
Actually, the term "PowerBook" has nothing to do with the processor. They were called PowerBooks when they originally shipped with Motorola 68030 processors, years before migrating to the PowerPC chip. It's just a neat coincidence.
It talks about the origins of crypto a little, and leads into public key encryption, a field I have been trying to learn a little more about. Much better article than the parent!
Sorry if this sounds like a troll, but that is my impression of most Windows software. Doo-dad, unnecessary components, bloated feature sets, unpredictable interfaces. Non-stop harassment to up to the paid version, and shortcuts and "special offer links" strewn everywhere.
Anyone ever heard of human interface guidelines??? Real sure hasn't, but they're not alone.
It's called What Should I Do With My Life by Po Bronson. It's chock-full of stories of people who contemplated major career decisions like yours, and will offer all kinds of advice on why you are thinking as you are. Such as:
Examining whether you're unhappy with your industry, or your employer
How you're having the same problem many others have, and what they did to deal with it
How to recognize how to use your current skills as great leverage in a new industry
No matter what your thought pattern now, this book will help you scritinize it in greater detail! I'm reading it now and it's helping tremendously.
Ooh, great you got all kinds of free stuff. Trouble is, it's all cheap-o crap you'd never use in public:
- LCD wired remote...blech, I've seen it. Better than the iPod...ha!
- external mic...yeah, if you like the sound of a hurricane every time you record!
- leather case...you mean pleather, right?
- headphone extension...with weak connections that end up causing static within three months.
No thanks.
This is not a development effort of "just because I want to". A new OS that is open source increases the size of our OS ecosystem...this is one of the greatest threats that Linux poses against MS. Linux today enjoys widespread support, but having more choices out there is a very good thing. Who can say what the OS landscape will look like in 5-10 years? Think back even five years and you'll see what I mean!
As a supposed Linux user, would you then bash OBOS because it wasn't Linux? That's hypocritical at best, and spiteful at worst.
Centrino is a brand name from Intel, not a processor. A manufacturer can put Centrino's name on their machine if it has the following characteristics:
A Pentium M processor, for low-power use
Integrated Intel 802.11b wireless networking
Advanced power management for long battery life
This all comes in the form of Intel's Centrino chipset. So when you look at the specs, you say, "gee, this Tablet has all three of those features", but it doesn't get the Centrino name because it didn't use Intel's chipset.
However, if it looks like a Centrino, and smells like a Centrino.... then it acts like a Centrino.
If you're not an Apple fan after that experience, I don't know what'll convince you. What impressed you so much about iTunes would blow you away at the OS level. Spend some more quality time with your sister, and while you're at it, try out her Mac! You'll be amazed.
This is the best move Apple could've made: a truly viral move into the Windows world. Excellent work Apple!
...on the value the company attaches to the software.
If you understand the amount of work that needs to go into the project to meet the requirements of the company, then you might calculate an hourly rate and multiply by the number of hours. You must seriously ask yourself: how much is your time worth? Never mind that you would do this anyway: the company you're working for is getting a product they otherwise wouldn't have without you.
Realistically, how much do you think your product is worth? What price can the company bear? How much is your time worth? These are all vectors in your decision; the readers here will give their opinions, but only you know what the vectors truly are.
Actually, a lot of people cry out that Coke and Pepsi are warping childrens' minds. It's part of the war against commercialization in schools. See this paper for an example.
...and, by the way, for those complaining about the cost, and why you need to pay that much for "just speed", Rogers (cable) offers "Lite Speed" -- always-on Internet at 128 kbps for $30/month. Canadian.
Here's a funny story for those of you who think everyone's read the book.
I was hosting a party after FOTR came out, and one guy there contributed to our conversation about the movie with this gem: "Is it just me, or did that movie leave you hanging there a bit?"
Implying that a) he didn't know it was the first of a trilogy of books/movies; and b) he had never even heard of the whole LOTR phenomenon prior to seeing the movie! Outrageous!
Needless to say, the party stopped dead right there, and we all proceeded to mock him ceaselessly. Poor bastard.:-)
Everyone I talk to HATES the DeLaurentis version of Dune. I love it. It's so stylin'.
I second the motion on Hudson Hawk. I take a lot of flack on that one too.
Put your money where your mouth is...
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Boy, that was a great column. Not.
A: I can't stand it when someone writes about "how bad" current interfaces are, about how they need to change, without suggesting an improvement. Okay genius, the desktop GUI paradigm sucks, what do you recommend replace it? Until I hear a valuable answer, I'm not listening.
B: His arguments are also specious at best: he tries to compare the current event-driven interface that we know today to the elegance of a waiting cursor on an Apple II? Pragmatically speaking, it's the same thing! Both scenarios are event-driven. This one doesn't hold any water.
Now, if only Jef Raskin would actually produce some content in his SourceForge project, we might actually see something INTERESTING here.
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There are already several intelligent posts here, about increasing activity and decreasing caloric intake. Read The Hacker's Diet for a good engineering perspective on the ins and outs (as it were).
You have a problem of insufficient activity to burn calories. I had the same problem, which has been solved by A) going to the gym, and B) standing while I work. I think the latter point here can really help you.
If you can wrangle your work space around to allow you to stand -- either by piling your computer on top of additional shelving, say -- you can burn an extra 60 calories an hour. And more, if you take that additional standing time and throw in extra movements during your work day. When standing, it's easy to just walk away for a minute, throw a ball up and down, heck, do some jumping jacks. When standing, you're that much closer to any kind of physical motion, and that has to be of help.
It's hard on your legs and knees at first, but you will build the muscles to support it. Good luck!
Cheers,
Aaron.
- Amazon's first-ever deal with Sprint to send you the book over a cellular network
- Amazon's cut
- Publisher's cut
- Misc. other digital file processor/middledude cut
- Author's royalty
Book publishing is an extremely poor game: razor-thin margins for everybody! In Canada, anyway, a bestseller is said to have sold 5000 copies -- let's multiply by ten to get a US figure. For 50,000 copies of a bestseller sold by Amazon, you're splitting $500,000 between a lot of people. And remember, MOST books are going to do way less than that.In other words, I don't think the rate they're charging is over-large.
Okay, back to nerding.
Actually, the term "PowerBook" has nothing to do with the processor. They were called PowerBooks when they originally shipped with Motorola 68030 processors, years before migrating to the PowerPC chip. It's just a neat coincidence.
But I never followed through because I think it would cost too much, and nobody would be interested. Anyone want to make me a liar? :-)
Aaron.
It talks about the origins of crypto a little, and leads into public key encryption, a field I have been trying to learn a little more about. Much better article than the parent!
Sorry if this sounds like a troll, but that is my impression of most Windows software. Doo-dad, unnecessary components, bloated feature sets, unpredictable interfaces. Non-stop harassment to up to the paid version, and shortcuts and "special offer links" strewn everywhere. Anyone ever heard of human interface guidelines??? Real sure hasn't, but they're not alone.
- Examining whether you're unhappy with your industry, or your employer
- How you're having the same problem many others have, and what they did to deal with it
- How to recognize how to use your current skills as great leverage in a new industry
No matter what your thought pattern now, this book will help you scritinize it in greater detail! I'm reading it now and it's helping tremendously.Cheers,
Aaron.
Ooh, great you got all kinds of free stuff. Trouble is, it's all cheap-o crap you'd never use in public: - LCD wired remote...blech, I've seen it. Better than the iPod...ha! - external mic...yeah, if you like the sound of a hurricane every time you record! - leather case...you mean pleather, right? - headphone extension...with weak connections that end up causing static within three months. No thanks.
This is not a development effort of "just because I want to". A new OS that is open source increases the size of our OS ecosystem...this is one of the greatest threats that Linux poses against MS. Linux today enjoys widespread support, but having more choices out there is a very good thing. Who can say what the OS landscape will look like in 5-10 years? Think back even five years and you'll see what I mean!
As a supposed Linux user, would you then bash OBOS because it wasn't Linux? That's hypocritical at best, and spiteful at worst.
Stop dissin' the CBC! I listen to Radio One all the time, and I'm not the only one: the drive-in show was just rated the most popular radio show in Toronto. And it's far more engaging than the crap played on any other station, in Toronto, Buffalo or otherwise.
Umm...actually, there's PureTracks, which sells music to Canadians like you and me. Well, like you, maybe. I use a Mac. :-P
This all comes in the form of Intel's Centrino chipset. So when you look at the specs, you say, "gee, this Tablet has all three of those features", but it doesn't get the Centrino name because it didn't use Intel's chipset.
However, if it looks like a Centrino, and smells like a Centrino.... then it acts like a Centrino.
This is the best move Apple could've made: a truly viral move into the Windows world. Excellent work Apple!
If you understand the amount of work that needs to go into the project to meet the requirements of the company, then you might calculate an hourly rate and multiply by the number of hours. You must seriously ask yourself: how much is your time worth? Never mind that you would do this anyway: the company you're working for is getting a product they otherwise wouldn't have without you.
Realistically, how much do you think your product is worth? What price can the company bear? How much is your time worth? These are all vectors in your decision; the readers here will give their opinions, but only you know what the vectors truly are.
Oh man, I kill me.
http://www.filerush.com/torrents/return_of_the_kin g_trailer_480x280_fixed.mov.torrent
Go gettum. :-)
Sweet. :-)
Link here
I was hosting a party after FOTR came out, and one guy there contributed to our conversation about the movie with this gem: "Is it just me, or did that movie leave you hanging there a bit?"
Implying that a) he didn't know it was the first of a trilogy of books/movies; and b) he had never even heard of the whole LOTR phenomenon prior to seeing the movie! Outrageous!
Needless to say, the party stopped dead right there, and we all proceeded to mock him ceaselessly. Poor bastard. :-)
I second the motion on Hudson Hawk. I take a lot of flack on that one too.
A: I can't stand it when someone writes about "how bad" current interfaces are, about how they need to change, without suggesting an improvement. Okay genius, the desktop GUI paradigm sucks, what do you recommend replace it? Until I hear a valuable answer, I'm not listening.
B: His arguments are also specious at best: he tries to compare the current event-driven interface that we know today to the elegance of a waiting cursor on an Apple II? Pragmatically speaking, it's the same thing! Both scenarios are event-driven. This one doesn't hold any water.
Now, if only Jef Raskin would actually produce some content in his SourceForge project, we might actually see something INTERESTING here.