I have a couple of exercise bands at my desk which I use when my hands are free. They don't take up much space, and you can get some with pretty decent resistance. You could also get a couple of ~8-10 pound exercise balls; tossing those from hand to hand can be a pretty decent light workout. Standard free weights are an option too.
Honestly, you're just not going to get a lot of cardio in while at your desk. But you can do some light strength training and toning, which will help keep your metabolism up a bit if nothing else.
I have been desperately hoping that this is exactly what they do. One would no longer have any need to maintain continuity with forty years of plots, many of which (at least in TOS) were never really intended to be consistent. There would be an essentially blank slate. I think the huge amount of existing material that needs to be accounted for is one thing that's holding Star Trek back --- if you're inconsistent with any minor detail of Trek canon, you get a million hardcore fans screaming at you and ignoring whatever good points your work happened to contain. The writers are practically afraid to try anything really new. What better way to take Star Trek back to its roots than to break the timeline and leave us with a very much uncertain future where anything could happen?
I'm on Comcast and I do notice some unusual "connection reset" errors every now and then. More than I would normally expect, at least. They happen when I'm trying to telnet/SSH into my Linux box from outside, when I try to download something on Steam, in fact during nearly anything that requires a connection to be established for any significant period of time. I never used to have this problem before Comcast assimilated my previous cable provider. Makes me wonder if it's deliberate.
That BIOS hack works quite well and even makes Vista believe it's activated. It bypasses all these activation issues quite nicely. Even if your copy of Vista is legitimate, it's worth using the crack just to ensure that you don't get bothered by activation nonsense.
In my experience, bittorrent transfers are much faster on my Comcast connection when I choose to encrypt them. That suggests to me that Comcast is indeed throttling normal bittorrent traffic.
Jury nullification is a tool. Like any other tool, it can be used for good or evil. Just because some people in the past have used it for the wrong reasons doesn't mean it can't have good reasons as well. The fact is that the law can't account for every possible situation, and the law can be wrong. People need to understand that there can be times when the law is clearly wrong, and in those cases it's quite acceptable for a jury to do what they believe is right, even if the law indicates otherwise. I'm not saying that the RIAA case is or isn't such a thing, only that jury nullification is something that really needs to exist.
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I wouldn't even be surprised if the guy sending me messages and helping me along turns out to be Andrew Ryan (which was the plot in SS2)!
I'm a Firefox user. I use adblock. I use adblock because I never click on ads anyway. This would be true whether or not I used adblock, or whether or not I used Firefox. I still wouldn't click on an ad. The only ads I would click on are, say, Google ads that come up in response to a search, in which case the ad might be what I was searching for in the first place.
I don't even consider watermarking a restriction. It doesn't prevent me from doing anything I would otherwise choose to do. I do not accept restrictions, but this doesn't seem to be one.
"The main reason they aren't is a lack of DRM on those other platforms."
That's exactly what we find unacceptable: denying access because of a lack of DRM. It's explicit proof of why we hate DRM so much, because it interferes with the ability of legitimate users to get access to something.
I for one can't think of too many people who wouldn't like to have an extra day off. And I would also like to personally defenestrate anyone opposed to it:)
I remember that. It was called "Apple Presents Apple". You had to complete all the minigames / tutorials / etc. to unlock a primitive paint program. I used to play it all the time in computer labs and what not, but I seem to recall that I almost always got called away or had to leave just as I was unlocking the paint program. Ah, the joys of being eight years old...
Open Office does more than Works does, and zero is smaller than 1/10. The difference is knowledge and convenience --- people don't know about open office, or they don't need (or know they need) things that Works doesn't support and thus don't care to upgrade anyway.
Just as long as this doesn't steal time, resources, or people from their single-player RPGs, I'm okay with it. But if it does, even just a little, I will detest it. I hate MMOs.
That's all well and good, but I prefer for my avatar in a game to be a representation of what I would like to project myself as rather than what I'd like to sleep with. It's just a personal preference about play styles, though. Some people like to create a character that's completely different from who they really are. Others like to project themselves into the game and act according to their real-life principles. Still others just want to look at a hot female butt. I have no problem with any of these. It's your game, play it however you want to.
Well, I think it might be more accurate to say that the government has a duty to determine whether or not the law really is unconstitutional, which implies that they will have attorneys defending it in court. Our system of justice works by having lawyers argue both sides of a case before a judge or jury and receiving a verdict based on those arguments. It wouldn't work very well at all if there were only one side. Not that it works all that great as it is, but it could still be worse.
I didn't see it either. Although there's another guy on Heroes I thought looked like a Romulan. And then there was another one who looked an awful lot like Sulu. Then I realized... he WAS Sulu. And his license plate said NCC-1701. Gotta love a show made by Trekkies.
Golf tends to lend itself to the Wii controller a bit more than football does, in my opinion. I'd also like to see a realistic baseball game for the Wii. Wii Sports baseball has an awesome pitcher-batter dynamic, but it doesn't have anything at all beyond that.
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I have a couple of exercise bands at my desk which I use when my hands are free. They don't take up much space, and you can get some with pretty decent resistance. You could also get a couple of ~8-10 pound exercise balls; tossing those from hand to hand can be a pretty decent light workout. Standard free weights are an option too. Honestly, you're just not going to get a lot of cardio in while at your desk. But you can do some light strength training and toning, which will help keep your metabolism up a bit if nothing else.
I have been desperately hoping that this is exactly what they do. One would no longer have any need to maintain continuity with forty years of plots, many of which (at least in TOS) were never really intended to be consistent. There would be an essentially blank slate. I think the huge amount of existing material that needs to be accounted for is one thing that's holding Star Trek back --- if you're inconsistent with any minor detail of Trek canon, you get a million hardcore fans screaming at you and ignoring whatever good points your work happened to contain. The writers are practically afraid to try anything really new. What better way to take Star Trek back to its roots than to break the timeline and leave us with a very much uncertain future where anything could happen?
I'm on Comcast and I do notice some unusual "connection reset" errors every now and then. More than I would normally expect, at least. They happen when I'm trying to telnet/SSH into my Linux box from outside, when I try to download something on Steam, in fact during nearly anything that requires a connection to be established for any significant period of time. I never used to have this problem before Comcast assimilated my previous cable provider. Makes me wonder if it's deliberate.
That BIOS hack works quite well and even makes Vista believe it's activated. It bypasses all these activation issues quite nicely. Even if your copy of Vista is legitimate, it's worth using the crack just to ensure that you don't get bothered by activation nonsense.
In my experience, bittorrent transfers are much faster on my Comcast connection when I choose to encrypt them. That suggests to me that Comcast is indeed throttling normal bittorrent traffic.
Jury nullification is a tool. Like any other tool, it can be used for good or evil. Just because some people in the past have used it for the wrong reasons doesn't mean it can't have good reasons as well. The fact is that the law can't account for every possible situation, and the law can be wrong. People need to understand that there can be times when the law is clearly wrong, and in those cases it's quite acceptable for a jury to do what they believe is right, even if the law indicates otherwise. I'm not saying that the RIAA case is or isn't such a thing, only that jury nullification is something that really needs to exist.
I don't click on ads anyway. So what's the difference here? If they only get paid for clicks, they aren't getting any revenue from me either way.
The Bible doesn't say anything at all about life forms on other planets. Intelligent life I might have issues with, but microbes? No problem there.
I'm a Firefox user. I use adblock. I use adblock because I never click on ads anyway. This would be true whether or not I used adblock, or whether or not I used Firefox. I still wouldn't click on an ad. The only ads I would click on are, say, Google ads that come up in response to a search, in which case the ad might be what I was searching for in the first place.
I don't even consider watermarking a restriction. It doesn't prevent me from doing anything I would otherwise choose to do. I do not accept restrictions, but this doesn't seem to be one.
I for one can't think of too many people who wouldn't like to have an extra day off. And I would also like to personally defenestrate anyone opposed to it :)
I remember that. It was called "Apple Presents Apple". You had to complete all the minigames / tutorials / etc. to unlock a primitive paint program. I used to play it all the time in computer labs and what not, but I seem to recall that I almost always got called away or had to leave just as I was unlocking the paint program. Ah, the joys of being eight years old...
I dunno, but he sure does terrorize a lot of people.
Open Office does more than Works does, and zero is smaller than 1/10. The difference is knowledge and convenience --- people don't know about open office, or they don't need (or know they need) things that Works doesn't support and thus don't care to upgrade anyway.
Just as long as this doesn't steal time, resources, or people from their single-player RPGs, I'm okay with it. But if it does, even just a little, I will detest it. I hate MMOs.
That's all well and good, but I prefer for my avatar in a game to be a representation of what I would like to project myself as rather than what I'd like to sleep with. It's just a personal preference about play styles, though. Some people like to create a character that's completely different from who they really are. Others like to project themselves into the game and act according to their real-life principles. Still others just want to look at a hot female butt. I have no problem with any of these. It's your game, play it however you want to.
Well, I think it might be more accurate to say that the government has a duty to determine whether or not the law really is unconstitutional, which implies that they will have attorneys defending it in court. Our system of justice works by having lawyers argue both sides of a case before a judge or jury and receiving a verdict based on those arguments. It wouldn't work very well at all if there were only one side. Not that it works all that great as it is, but it could still be worse.
I didn't see it either. Although there's another guy on Heroes I thought looked like a Romulan. And then there was another one who looked an awful lot like Sulu. Then I realized ... he WAS Sulu. And his license plate said NCC-1701. Gotta love a show made by Trekkies.
I agree with that. That's what I'm doing. But then, aren't they coming out with another Tiger Woods soon as well?
Golf tends to lend itself to the Wii controller a bit more than football does, in my opinion. I'd also like to see a realistic baseball game for the Wii. Wii Sports baseball has an awesome pitcher-batter dynamic, but it doesn't have anything at all beyond that.