I do see your point, but I take issue with the government using BMI to state that 30% of Americans are overweight. While I was in the Army quite a few guys in my unit had to be tested for body fat after each weigh in because of high BMI and we were all in our 20's (well under the national average).
I use a body fat analyzer instead of a scale as a metric, but there are simpler and cheaper methods to measure body fat. Strangely enough, with all the "America is getting fat" mantra the government and media are spewing, I have yet too see one actually use body fat % as a metric.
I am not fat, but my BMI higher than "normal". Based in BMI, even Will Smith, Brad Pitt, and President Bush are overweight.
Check out BMIscale.com for more info, but here is a list of some people that might surprise you. Also, since there is no seperation between male and female, almost any athletic male would be considered overweight.
Here are some "fat" people:
Barry Bonds: 6'2": 228 lbs: 29 David Boreanaz: 6'2": 218 lbs: 28 Tom Brady: 6'4": 225 lbs: 27 President Bush: 5'11": 191 lbs: 26 Nic Cage: 6'1": 210 lbs: 28 George Clooney: 5'11": 211 lbs: 29 Tom Cruise: 5'7": 170 lbs: 26 Matt Damon: 5'11": 187 lbs: 26 Johnny Depp: 5'7": 190 lbs: 27 David Duchovny: 6'0": 212 lbs: 29 Vin Diesel: 6'2": 200 lbs: 26 Cheryl Ford: 6'3": 215 lbs:27 Harrison Ford: 6'1": 218 lbs: 29 Brendan Fraser: 6'3": 234 lbs: 29 Richard Gere: 5'11": 187 lbs: 26 Ethan Hawke: 5'9": 172 lbs: 25 Hugh Jackman: 6'2": 210 lbs: 27 Lebron James: 6'8": 240 lbs: 26 Dale Jarrett: 6'2": 200 lbs: 26 Bobby Labonte: 5'9": 170 lbs: 25 Nick Lachey: 5'10": 180 lbs: 26 Karl Malone: 6'9": 259 lbs: 28 Dr. Phil McGraw: 6'4": 240 lbs: 29 Mark McGuire (playing weight): 6'5": 250 lbs: 30 Donovan McNabb: 6'3": 240 lbs: 30 Yao Ming: 7'6": 310 lbs: 27 Brad Pitt: 6'0": 203 lbs: 28 Keanu Reeves: 6'1": 223 lbs: 29 Cal Ripken: 6'4": 210 lbs: 27 Andy Roddick: 6'2": 197 lbs: 25 Will Smith: 6'2": 210 lbs: 27 Sammy Sosa: 6'0": 220 lbs: 30 Denzel Washington: 6'0": 199 lbs: 27 Bruce Willis: 6'0": 200 lbs: 29 Billy Zane: 6'2": 210 lbs: 27
A few grand a month does not sound like something worth dropping out of school over. Also, in the case of Tom Taylor, if he was 18 and still in school it didn't sound like he had much time left before graduating. I never understood the point of spending 13 years of your life in school to walk out the door 2 or 6 months before graduation. The least he could have done is homeschooled the remainder of his diploma to avoid having to place G.E.D. on his future resume's.
This is an example of the government using a blatent loophole to extract more taxes from people. When people use the same tricks to avoid being taxed it is called tax evasion and considered a crime.
The IT people in my company are 95%+ male, and the IT people with most of our vendors are also 90%+ male.
But honestly, I am glad to hear it is not the same way everyware becasue after being in a 100% male unit in the army, selecting an 80% male major in school, and a 95% male career I was starting to wonder if my GF was one of the last women on earth.
I will say that the women in my company sure don't seem to be complaining about their odds:)
China _and_ Japan have called it unacceptable, wow. Unacceptable is when my 5 year old comes home from Kindergarten with a yellow sticker. Unacceptable is when my dog barks are people walking past the house.
br>Rest assured, if the US does not stop it, nobody else will, and regardless of the decision the US makes (action or no action), the majority of the world will disagree with it.
I like how we mod people down here for saying what most people are thinking.
Also, if comparing memory bandwidth alone DDR2 still isn't that much more impressive than just DDR. When benchmarking an Application where memory bandwidth is only one factor I'd say a 2-5% gain is to be expected. I don't see the big deal and even AMD said early on not to expect much gain from the upgrade. I guess the fanboys were expecting more from the upgrade but this is why we call them fanboys.
I guess the point I was trying to make is that Internet/VoIP combine well but it makes much less sense to combine them into a set top box for your TV. All the componets of the Modem/MTA would have to exist seperately within the set top so there would really be no cost savings and like your "suitcase" example, could end up just doing all 3 things poorly.
With all 3 main technologies evolving quickly and seperately, combining the solutions could mean constantly replacing >$900 all-in-one units with each latest and greatest version build. I could probably spit off no less than ~30 reasons why doing tripple play on the same device is a bad idea.
Obviously like everyone else, they would like to solve these problems. The problem is that there are no simple solutions, all engineering/design decisions are trade-offs. Since improvements tend to be evolutionary (not revolutionary) it is unlikely the added cost/weight added by the secondary electric drive train will be woth the cost.
Take the Toyota Prius for instance, yeah it is only $23,000 and has pretty good gas mileage. But also consider that it is no more powerfull or roomy than a Chevy Aveo wich has a base invoice of $8,836 despite Toyota's cheaper labor and manufacturing costs. The real-world gas mileage of the Gas only Aveo isn't far off the Prius either (the hybrids are much better at the EPA estimate tests than real world driving).
There is no magic bullet to efficiency, the "secret" behind the Prius's efficiency has more to do with it being scaled down, light, and aerodynamic than the hybrid sticker on the back of it, but the average American is too stupid to realize that. I guess I am just a little dissapointed becasue I thought Google was engineering minded enough to see this.
I am a little dissapointed to see Google jumping on the whole plug in hybrid thing, I didn't expect them to buy into the hype too. A "100mpg" equiv plug in hybrid is actually pretty trivial to build. The problem with it is that they are costly to build, there is an _enormous_ amount of red tape (crash test ratings etc.) involved in producing a car. Lastly, nobody wants to spend > $50,000 on a $10,000 car with an electric drive train that needs to be parked for 15 hours to charge after every 200 miles of travel.
If Pluto is included in the definition of planet then that would mean also promoting Xena (or 2003 UB313) to planet status as well since it is larger than Pluto. Ceres and Charon are smaller than Pluto, but would need to be considered for entry if Pluto was to remain.
So, the option was to either demote Pluto and have 8 planets, or promote Xena and maybe others and have 10 - 12 planets. I think the correct decision was made.
Did the idiots who modded this up to 5 read ANY of the replies to it??
That would be like offering a la carte FM radio, how in the fuck would you ever enforce it without encrypting the channels?? Use some fucking common sense people.
Existing analog channels are NOT encrypted, so my statement that local filters would be required is true.
"TVs that 'understood' cable are fairly recent thing; I don't see what the big deal of requiring a settop box is."
There are at least 33.6 million analog TV's in the US that will not understand either an encrypted analog or digital signal (there are many not reported also). You don't see an issue with bricking millions of TV's to support a la carte when the cable companies are saying it isn't going to save consumers money anyway?
Many of these people might not be interested in renting set top boxes for some of the infrequently used TV's that are on cable as well
As people begin upgrading these legacy TV's to digital/CableCard ready TV's or DVR's the legacy support problem will go away, but currently it is too early to force this change on people.
Yes, but channels are only transmitted in analog for legacy support, encrypting the analog channels (like HBO 20 years ago) can be done, but it would defeat the purpose of using analog in the first place.
So you think 5 "value packs" are confusing and you want to push a model with thousands of combinatios of options? You could not just give a flat rate for 5, 10, 15, 20 a la carte channels becasue some channels cost more. At best each channels would have a different price tier based on how many total channels you have (>5, >10, >15 etc.) like this (in $'s), not counting home shopping etc.
Congrats, you have just gone full circle. They can do this with HBO because it is NOT an analog channel. They COULD scranble everything, but this would require everyone to have either a CableCard supported TV/DVR or a set top from the cable company for every TV in the home. This would brick millions of TV's over night so the migration will need to take time. Make no mistake, if cable companies did this to people Slashdot would be the first community to get on their soap boxes to complain about it.
Is scrambling everything like HBO to better lock down content _really_ what you want?
OK, so if you take a bunch of home shopping channels and only a few regular ones is the service free? If you take only HSN etc. do you get paid to use the service? I doubt it, it would just be another anomaly the a la cart pricing algorithm would need to account separately for.
Also, are the a la cart users really watching these channels or just bundling all of them for cost savings, if so, is it worth it to these channels to spend money to be for a la cart availability? Things are never as black and white as Slashdot makes them seem.
Yes I do, they CAN restric specific channels over the wire but blocking it from the head end would impact everyone, how for instance would they allow me to get a specific channel but prevent my neighbor from getting it? The only way to do this with analog channels would be with analog filters placed on the tap to each home. Look at some cable filters and you will see that filters tend to be pretty limited dumb equipment (eg high pass or low pass). Becasue of the way filters work you can't just filter every other or every 3rd 6 MHz channel to allow an a la cart analog service. Enabling this would take a series of filters (at best) that would create large point of failure and be a nightmare to manage on a per home basis.
Think of it like broadcasting an FM radio station and trying to pick and choose who can receive it, the only possible way to do it would be to install a filter on _every_ FM antenna. Encrypting the data and selling the key is the only solution that makes sense.
Yes, but if the channels are just broadcasted unencrypted in QAM you still wouldn't be able to offer an a la cart service becasue anyone with a QAM tuner would just get everything. I agree that CableCard 2.0 support pretty much covers all bases though.
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I use a body fat analyzer instead of a scale as a metric, but there are simpler and cheaper methods to measure body fat. Strangely enough, with all the "America is getting fat" mantra the government and media are spewing, I have yet too see one actually use body fat % as a metric.
Check out BMIscale.com for more info, but here is a list of some people that might surprise you. Also, since there is no seperation between male and female, almost any athletic male would be considered overweight.
Here are some "fat" people:
A few grand a month does not sound like something worth dropping out of school over. Also, in the case of Tom Taylor, if he was 18 and still in school it didn't sound like he had much time left before graduating. I never understood the point of spending 13 years of your life in school to walk out the door 2 or 6 months before graduation. The least he could have done is homeschooled the remainder of his diploma to avoid having to place G.E.D. on his future resume's.
This is an example of the government using a blatent loophole to extract more taxes from people. When people use the same tricks to avoid being taxed it is called tax evasion and considered a crime.
But honestly, I am glad to hear it is not the same way everyware becasue after being in a 100% male unit in the army, selecting an 80% male major in school, and a 95% male career I was starting to wonder if my GF was one of the last women on earth.
I will say that the women in my company sure don't seem to be complaining about their odds :)
br>Rest assured, if the US does not stop it, nobody else will, and regardless of the decision the US makes (action or no action), the majority of the world will disagree with it.
PS. Isn't the higher number of male gamers one of the reasons people claim males are the majority in the IT industry?
Someone gets it. Give this guy something shiny.
Also, if comparing memory bandwidth alone DDR2 still isn't that much more impressive than just DDR. When benchmarking an Application where memory bandwidth is only one factor I'd say a 2-5% gain is to be expected. I don't see the big deal and even AMD said early on not to expect much gain from the upgrade. I guess the fanboys were expecting more from the upgrade but this is why we call them fanboys.
With all 3 main technologies evolving quickly and seperately, combining the solutions could mean constantly replacing >$900 all-in-one units with each latest and greatest version build. I could probably spit off no less than ~30 reasons why doing tripple play on the same device is a bad idea.
Take the Toyota Prius for instance, yeah it is only $23,000 and has pretty good gas mileage. But also consider that it is no more powerfull or roomy than a Chevy Aveo wich has a base invoice of $8,836 despite Toyota's cheaper labor and manufacturing costs. The real-world gas mileage of the Gas only Aveo isn't far off the Prius either (the hybrids are much better at the EPA estimate tests than real world driving).
There is no magic bullet to efficiency, the "secret" behind the Prius's efficiency has more to do with it being scaled down, light, and aerodynamic than the hybrid sticker on the back of it, but the average American is too stupid to realize that. I guess I am just a little dissapointed becasue I thought Google was engineering minded enough to see this.
The cable modem and VoIP eMTA's are integrated, take a look at the Motorola SBV5220 for an example.
I am a little dissapointed to see Google jumping on the whole plug in hybrid thing, I didn't expect them to buy into the hype too. A "100mpg" equiv plug in hybrid is actually pretty trivial to build. The problem with it is that they are costly to build, there is an _enormous_ amount of red tape (crash test ratings etc.) involved in producing a car. Lastly, nobody wants to spend > $50,000 on a $10,000 car with an electric drive train that needs to be parked for 15 hours to charge after every 200 miles of travel.
How can this not be modded up? You dissapoint me sometimes slashdot.
Well shoveling snow to get out of your driveway sure beats swimming to work.
So, the option was to either demote Pluto and have 8 planets, or promote Xena and maybe others and have 10 - 12 planets. I think the correct decision was made.
That would be like offering a la carte FM radio, how in the fuck would you ever enforce it without encrypting the channels?? Use some fucking common sense people.
This is true.
"TVs that 'understood' cable are fairly recent thing; I don't see what the big deal of requiring a settop box is."
There are at least 33.6 million analog TV's in the US that will not understand either an encrypted analog or digital signal (there are many not reported also). You don't see an issue with bricking millions of TV's to support a la carte when the cable companies are saying it isn't going to save consumers money anyway?
Many of these people might not be interested in renting set top boxes for some of the infrequently used TV's that are on cable as well
As people begin upgrading these legacy TV's to digital/CableCard ready TV's or DVR's the legacy support problem will go away, but currently it is too early to force this change on people.
Yes, but channels are only transmitted in analog for legacy support, encrypting the analog channels (like HBO 20 years ago) can be done, but it would defeat the purpose of using analog in the first place.
So you think 5 "value packs" are confusing and you want to push a model with thousands of combinatios of options? You could not just give a flat rate for 5, 10, 15, 20 a la carte channels becasue some channels cost more. At best each channels would have a different price tier based on how many total channels you have (>5, >10, >15 etc.) like this (in $'s), not counting home shopping etc.
Is scrambling everything like HBO to better lock down content _really_ what you want?
Also, are the a la cart users really watching these channels or just bundling all of them for cost savings, if so, is it worth it to these channels to spend money to be for a la cart availability? Things are never as black and white as Slashdot makes them seem.
Think of it like broadcasting an FM radio station and trying to pick and choose who can receive it, the only possible way to do it would be to install a filter on _every_ FM antenna. Encrypting the data and selling the key is the only solution that makes sense.
Yes, but if the channels are just broadcasted unencrypted in QAM you still wouldn't be able to offer an a la cart service becasue anyone with a QAM tuner would just get everything. I agree that CableCard 2.0 support pretty much covers all bases though.