Watch your back: build your core with a Swiss ball
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How Do Geeks Exercise?
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Years of sitting at a desk have screwed up my L5-S1 disc, which in addition to my L3-L4 have now herniated and caused a month of excruciating pain.
A number of things relevant to this thread contributed to this:
Sitting at a desk all day
Poor posture
Choosing the wrong exercises at the gym
Being about 20 lbs overweight.
Going through physical therapy taught me a fair number of core exercises which in addition to helping me lose an inch or so around the middle, have strengthed all my ab and lower back muscles including the core ones the machines and traditional situps don't touch.
I've since purchased a Swiss ball to do core exercises at home to keep my core toned. You would be amazed how much that alone will do for your health and your back.
Oh, and get up from the desk every once in a while.
Part of my job every year is to try to get video footage to make up reels that demonstrate a company's products at trade shows. Every year we have difficulty getting rights to include TV shows. Why? Because SAG, the Screen Actors Guild insists that actors appearing in shows which are sublicensed for commercial use get compensated for their work, even in a medium like a tradeshow. Guess what folks--not every actor makes a million per year and that residual check from reruns and iTunes means a middle class existence for many SAG actors. Why not force YouTube, which is a commercial interest making money from copyrighted material get held liable for paying what is legally due to an actor appearing in something on YouTube? Once YouTube started to sell ads, they are WAAAYYY out of fair use. And while I'll get modded flame bait, musicians fall under the same category. Once a musician's work is stolen from someone's fair use, they cease to make money from their efforts. Music isn't free. TV isn't free. Get over it. As a former actor and former professional musician, I like getting paid for my efforts like every one else.
The last job I had was as a straight C programmer in OS/2 and DOS environments. I was learning Presentation Manager, understood the Macintosh event loop and when the department decided to start developing for Windows in VB, Gupta, SQLBase and C++ I decided I didn't want to do that and left the career. I went into IT management, then sales. That was in 1991 and I haven't had to touch a Windows box since and am grateful for it. Now I'm in marketing and making more money than most developers I know, am happy, get to express myself, and be creative on the job and in my Life.
If I ever have to leave this job and touch another Windows box, I'm going to cooking school instead.
Moral: Make the move, but have something else to do.
Firstly, as far as your editing software, try them all out and remember that Apple has creativity in it's DNA. They make the OS, hardware and software for the way the creative person thinks. I'm sure Vegas does the job, but FCP will make you happy and you'll join 250,000 other FCP users including top end film and TV editors.
Apart from that, Canon introduced the XL2, which does 24p. It's a shoulder mount camera, which might be what you are looking for. Having been a one-man show with the Canon XL series, if would say going with an XL series camera means you should also have a monopod or tripod. It gets heavy after a while. I prefer smaller 3-chip cameras like the DVX100a, PD150, etc...
However, you need to educate yourself if you want to shoot in 24p. Basically, in order to pad out 24 frames of video (a film frame rate) to 30 frames of video (how we view good ole NTSC video) a pattern of duplicated frames and fields called a pulldown pattern is introduced. These patterns (there are a few) were NEVER meant to be edited. They need to be removed before editing.
At the risk of slashdotting someone else website, adam wilt dot com, has very good information on working with 24p.
So what's the difference? Windows has a monopoly, the five labels are a cartel. Windows is a company's intellectual property, so is music. So why is it almost overwhelming that people come to the support of Microsoft in terms of protecting their liceneses and IP, while musicians get deprived of the nickle they get from the record company when someone rips and shares a CD with no guilt?
I STILL don't get why people think downloading is their right and stealing is OK.
So Peter Ludlow violates a game's EULA and TOS and gets kicked out because he's caught. This is news?
I'm a big fan of meatspace and the rights provided me by my government (or at least the government I attempted to vote for in the last election). However, when I check into a online game, regardless if it is a first person shooter or cooperative environment, I make no illusions that the rules that govern my life will be (or should be) transferred to a place I'm taking a "time out" in.
Maybe I'm a pimp in The Sims Online because that's how I relax. I'm looking forward to the bloodbath if Grand Theft Auto goes massively multiplayer. (Imagine: I was kicked out because I was auctioning off GTA armor piercing bullets on E-Bay! No fair! Restraint of trade!)
If the outcome seems predetermined, maybe it's because they hit upon a particular case in a hash file and saw it work out that every outcome came to a loss.
They of course don't show if a situation exists where the player will always win. My guess is there probably is one.
It's well known that hash tables can repeat certain patterns given certain inputs. I could see one of these machines setting a random seed into the hash table for the first spin and then following results from there for every subsequent spin instead of generating a new random number for a new entry into the table for every spin.
Sounds like someone was lazy to me.
Was Your Penalty Fair and Will It Deter?
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Ask Kevin Mitnick
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Seeing that you have taken some responsibility for your actions, do you think your penalty was fair and will a penalty like you received, fair or not, deter others from following in your footsteps?
At a previous life I was maintaining a text app built in OS/2 and hit the end-of-line key in Brief (my editor of choice back then) and noticed I was waaaayyyy past column 80. I started hunting around and found that a long-gone programmer had put in some text messages past column 80 that wouldn't be casually found.
They flashed by very quickly in our UI and said "Xxxx deserves a raise." "Xxxx does great work." "Xxxx should be a lead."
Of course, as those message boxes weren't causing the bug, I left them alone.
What's up with cooking food and it turns brown and tastes great or turns black and is burned? What's the process? What's the difference and why does the brown stuff at the bottom of a pan taste so good?
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Years of sitting at a desk have screwed up my L5-S1 disc, which in addition to my L3-L4 have now herniated and caused a month of excruciating pain. A number of things relevant to this thread contributed to this: Sitting at a desk all day Poor posture Choosing the wrong exercises at the gym Being about 20 lbs overweight. Going through physical therapy taught me a fair number of core exercises which in addition to helping me lose an inch or so around the middle, have strengthed all my ab and lower back muscles including the core ones the machines and traditional situps don't touch. I've since purchased a Swiss ball to do core exercises at home to keep my core toned. You would be amazed how much that alone will do for your health and your back. Oh, and get up from the desk every once in a while.
Part of my job every year is to try to get video footage to make up reels that demonstrate a company's products at trade shows. Every year we have difficulty getting rights to include TV shows. Why? Because SAG, the Screen Actors Guild insists that actors appearing in shows which are sublicensed for commercial use get compensated for their work, even in a medium like a tradeshow. Guess what folks--not every actor makes a million per year and that residual check from reruns and iTunes means a middle class existence for many SAG actors. Why not force YouTube, which is a commercial interest making money from copyrighted material get held liable for paying what is legally due to an actor appearing in something on YouTube? Once YouTube started to sell ads, they are WAAAYYY out of fair use. And while I'll get modded flame bait, musicians fall under the same category. Once a musician's work is stolen from someone's fair use, they cease to make money from their efforts. Music isn't free. TV isn't free. Get over it. As a former actor and former professional musician, I like getting paid for my efforts like every one else.
If I ever have to leave this job and touch another Windows box, I'm going to cooking school instead.
Moral: Make the move, but have something else to do.
Amazing how many open hotspots there are in midtown Manhattan going down 5th Ave.
Apart from that, Canon introduced the XL2, which does 24p. It's a shoulder mount camera, which might be what you are looking for. Having been a one-man show with the Canon XL series, if would say going with an XL series camera means you should also have a monopod or tripod. It gets heavy after a while. I prefer smaller 3-chip cameras like the DVX100a, PD150, etc...
However, you need to educate yourself if you want to shoot in 24p. Basically, in order to pad out 24 frames of video (a film frame rate) to 30 frames of video (how we view good ole NTSC video) a pattern of duplicated frames and fields called a pulldown pattern is introduced. These patterns (there are a few) were NEVER meant to be edited. They need to be removed before editing.
At the risk of slashdotting someone else website, adam wilt dot com, has very good information on working with 24p.
I STILL don't get why people think downloading is their right and stealing is OK.
I'm a big fan of meatspace and the rights provided me by my government (or at least the government I attempted to vote for in the last election). However, when I check into a online game, regardless if it is a first person shooter or cooperative environment, I make no illusions that the rules that govern my life will be (or should be) transferred to a place I'm taking a "time out" in.
Maybe I'm a pimp in The Sims Online because that's how I relax. I'm looking forward to the bloodbath if Grand Theft Auto goes massively multiplayer. (Imagine: I was kicked out because I was auctioning off GTA armor piercing bullets on E-Bay! No fair! Restraint of trade!)
They of course don't show if a situation exists where the player will always win. My guess is there probably is one.
It's well known that hash tables can repeat certain patterns given certain inputs. I could see one of these machines setting a random seed into the hash table for the first spin and then following results from there for every subsequent spin instead of generating a new random number for a new entry into the table for every spin.
Sounds like someone was lazy to me.
Seeing that you have taken some responsibility for your actions, do you think your penalty was fair and will a penalty like you received, fair or not, deter others from following in your footsteps?
At a previous life I was maintaining a text app built in OS/2 and hit the end-of-line key in Brief (my editor of choice back then) and noticed I was waaaayyyy past column 80. I started hunting around and found that a long-gone programmer had put in some text messages past column 80 that wouldn't be casually found.
They flashed by very quickly in our UI and said "Xxxx deserves a raise." "Xxxx does great work." "Xxxx should be a lead."
Of course, as those message boxes weren't causing the bug, I left them alone.
"First, do no harm."
What's up with cooking food and it turns brown and tastes great or turns black and is burned? What's the process? What's the difference and why does the brown stuff at the bottom of a pan taste so good?