Thank you! That's the first thing I thought of. It even has something called iDisk, since the year 2000. (It helps if you say that last part like they do on Conan O'Brien)
What does being a good person have to do with being a Maoist dictator-like CEO? If she's the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, I would say that her job is to be fairly ruthless to competitors and enact policies to soothe shareholders. How does one do that? By raising profits.
Now, I'm not saying it can't be done by a good person. I'm not saying it can't be done without being ruthless. But previous evidence shows that it's pretty much how it's done.
I find it ridiculous that people get so worked up over that little "o" missing.
See, and *I* find it ridiculous that people don't pay attention to what they write. Sure, I make mistakes in JEs or comments. However, were I writing for publication (article submission, a "State of Slashdot" article), I'd read over it a few times to make sure it was clear, all words were spelled correctly, et cetera. I guess it comes down to pride in what you do, even the little things. When I come across a misspelling or typo, it takes me out of what I'm reading enough that it breaks the continuity, and that's a shame, considering that it could be fixed with better editing or attention to detail.
Well, cloudmaster might scoff, but I'd suggest some probiotics, like acidophilus or some such. Couldn't hurt.:)
Our gut flora is such a delicate beast once thrown out of whack - but much like my initial blood loss, you can dish out quite a beating for quite a while. It might change so little over time that people just attribute it to aging, but I think people discount the damage we do with our diet. My father in law informed me that type 2 (sugar-induced) diabetes was practically unheard of before 1900. What changed in 1900? That's around when highly refined white sugar was introduced.
Anyway, I'm glad you read through. I started keeping track of my diet in my journal for me, but it's helped others as well.
I understand your bias and concerns. Like I said, it's worked better for me than anything else in 11 years. Especially the first doc I saw who gave me sulfasalazine and said "Take this and you'll be able to eat and drink whatever you want." A year later, anemic and having no iron stores, the doc I started going to (and who I credit with saving my life, actually) said "No, you can't eat or drink whatever you want" and put me on a bland diet, which helped a bit, and started me on iron shots. He said I had so little blood in my system that if I had lost it all at once I'd likely have died from the shock. But just trickling out little by little, my body adjusted. So that began my broad distrust of MD's:) But I know that there are good ones. Like the one I'm seeing now, noted that I was a little B12 deficient, which he said is common in Crohn's & colitis patients. So he gave me a shot yesterday on my way out. The diet itself has been practiced for quite some time by Elaine's daughter, who was the original impetus for Elaine's discovery and research into it. But even Elaine says that it's not for everyone, that not everyone will improve on it. There's just too much diversity in humans for it to be a catch-all. For me, personally, it's amazing how much science has seemed to have learned about these disorders/diseases in the 11 years that I've had it. Thank goodness for the Internet, though, which helps people like myself find and research things like this.
In some way, I feel like I'm making up for all the years I spent like you, though.:) I've eaten enough fast food & drank enough beer for a couple "normal" human beings, and I'm only 35. The nice side benefit to my diet is that my family is eating more healthy, fresh foods as well. I don't ask that they adhere to my strict diet, but since we like to eat all together, they're usually eating things that are on my diet, which I feel good about. Like, I'll make a fresh chicken & tomato sauce dish with cheese, and they'll add some pasta. Or we'll have thanksgiving dinner, but I'll make them traditional stuffing and they'll have rolls and such. I'm not an SCD nazi like you might find vegan nazis, but I do think that, bottom line, it's a much healthier way to eat. Believe me, if I hadn't seen such good results so quickly (You can read about my start on the diet here, and in subsequent journals titled "M,MH&I"), I'd probably not be on the diet. And I may not be on it for the rest of my life, or at least not as strict as now. But I've got a lot more healing to do, and a lot less bleeding to do.
I'm particularly taking issue with the idea of removing all starchy substances from the diet. All grains, corn, and potatoes are bad?
Think about it, though. You can't just eat grains or potatoes without doing a lot of cooking and milling and such with it. At least we don't anymore. We cook meat anymore to remove bacteria, but you can eat most vegetables and fruits raw.
That sounds a whole lot like a gimmick and not much like real science. Pushing "more natural" foods sounds pretty gimmicky as well. Stricknine is natural. Cyanide occurs naturally. Death is natural. Simly being "natural" doesn't make something a good idea for health.:)
I completely agree. Considering the parent (wherever that parent is) comment about HFCS, which I've seen as an ingredient in foods with "natural" on the package. Something you have to process that much is not "natural". But to your comment, nobody's really pushing strychnine or cyanide as food.:)
Science is often a good thing. Also, the places where grains are used "in excess" are also often places where people in general lead more sedentary lives, and tend to eat more fatty foods, as well as having a bazillion other factors outside of eating bread regularly. I'm inclined to believe that eating lots of fat and sitting on a couch after a hard day at wor
Sorry...I was referring to a diet as a way of eating, not a means to lose weight. I lost weight as a byproduct of changing my eating habits. I'm assuming you read the link and didn't just go from my comments, but I'll elaborate just in case. The idea is that the intestinal flora of people with digestive disorders is out of whack, and not brought on by stress or other environmental issues. (See H. Pylori and peptic ulcers) However, the imbalance is exacerbated by long-chain sugar and starch molecules. The "diet" that I'm on consists of eating foods more along the lines of what humans evolved eating, not the grains and sugars that have been cultivated and used over what's been fairly recent in human evolution, the past 10,000 years or so. If you don't believe in evolution, then the theory will be lost on you.;)
That said, my personal motto is "All things in moderation, including moderation." Where you see grains used in excess, especially refined grains and sugars, you see larger instances of obesity and diabetes. North America and Europe style first world countries. That's where the "fat and unhealthy" comment came from, and more from a point that if overweight people cut back or cut out those things, they'd typically see their weight fall drastically, but they choose not to, and see their waistlines increase while their overall health decreases. Farming grains became a way for humans to move from hunter-gatherers to agriculture, since they didn't have to forage for food, as the grains were able to be stored in bulk pre-ingestion, and stored as usable energy post-digestion. The Chinese & Japanese use rice, but don't base their entire diet on it. They eat other, more natural foods along with them. But you also don't see them eating half-loaves of bread piled with condiments containing HFCS constantly either. Well, not until recently, anyway.
Interestingly, diseases like Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's are seen in much higher rates in "developed" countries than in third-world countries.
Finally, I've formally consulted with three different doctors - one current and also my gastroenterologist - while being on this diet, and informally consulted a nurse friend of mine who happens to be (IMO) very wise, and not one of them has said it's a "bad idea". Especially in light of the fact that this change in eating habits has helped to lessen my symptoms more than any one other thing I've done in the 11 years I've been diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis. I'm not sure why you say it's not sustainable. I'd be interested to hear why you think that.
The worst part is that, for some reason, HFCS is listed as "natural". I guess because it's made from corn or something. But they can list "natural" on a package and still be within federal guidelines. When buying food for my kids, I scan the ingredient list first for HFCS and if I see it, I put it back. My wife doesn't necessarily do that, so some stuff sneaks through. But I'm trying to do right by the health of my kids.
Other interesting information that comes from a position of science, for others that are interested in learning more about it.
Me? I'm on this diet to help with my ulcerative colitis, and it's working very well. I lost about 20 lbs and have had to replace my whole wardrobe. But just try to get most people to give up grains and refined sugars. They'd rather stay fat and unhealthy.
While other countries are taking advantage of the technological, business and education opportunities of the broadband era, America remains lost in transition.
Oh, we're being taken advantage of, alright.
Oh, wait, that said other countries...opportunities. Right. Sorry. Move along.
If you take all of it in to your (hopefully) local Apple Store and ask nicely, you might be surprised.
Then again, if you take it in and ask nicely and they say "no", ask louder and gripe more. If they still say no, whine and cry and gripe and ask for the manager.
Cost, yes, power, yes, supply, yes...many things were the factors, and as I said, my co-workers and I went over all the options and whys and came to those conclusions on..June 6th, if not the 7th. My question is a) Why is MacWorld just coming out with this and b) why is Slashdot reporting on it? It's old "news", from both sources.
Intel serves up the most complete line of low-power chips for mobile and small form factor computers, and a good-looking future roadmap for it. Also, Intel's mammoth production capacity erases any supply worries
My co-workers and I pretty much sussed that out the day of the announcement. Others have, quite a while ago as well.
Anything they make from selling the video on iTunes will go straight to the bottom line.
Which said companies will obfuscate in any and every way possible.
I agree with others here, though. Why am I paying for a marketing tool? Not that I wouldn't, but they give 'em away now, what's my motivation to pay for 'em? I suppose losing revenue streams will do that for you.
I can only hope that it'll make for better videos (a la the Killers' "Mr. Brightside" clip).
I didn't know about it until yesterday, when everyone else found out, so there's not really anything I can't discuss. There was much hand-wringing yesterday (I'm not actually out on the floor this week), but for me it comes down to 2 things. One, we could be running on machines using a Flux capacitor for all I care, it's still the Mac OS and it's still better for the desktop than pretty much everything else out there. Two, there's not thing one that you, or I, or mcc or anyone else can say that will change it. From past experience, Apple's not let me down before, and I doubt they will this time either. The guy making the decisions might be seen as a little out there, but he's smart.
The other thing that surprises me is the amount of comments that make it sound like people think this decision was *made* yesterday. He said they've been doing x86 builds for 5 years. This decision wasn't made yesterday, or last week, or last month. Probably not even this year. So for people to feel "hurt" or "betrayed" is fairly disingenuous, or at least naiive. You don't make a change like this spur-of-the-moment. I'm sure many of these people decrying the move are the selfsame ones who are screaming "WHERE'S MY G5 LAPTOP?!?" While yes, it is a major change, I take it like they're putting up a new building on my block. I'm interested to see where it's going, but it's not going to change *my* life at all. For ever Mac Loyalist who says "Never again", there'll probably be 5 PC users who say "Hm. Maybe now..." The MHz myth was always there. Now that that's gone, people will probably say "What's the diff?" and get a Mac where they may not have been inclined before.
But would never want Comcast's 3rd-party no-name DVR with my service. This makes perfect sense for me, and I'll actually think about upgrading to digital cable in ought-six and get one of these boxes, if it makes sense. Cuz most of the DVRs now are just a monthly fee and I'd rather pay for TiVo than junky box stuff.
What'll really be cool is if you can get the on-demand stuff just downloaded to your TiVo and catch it that way. Maybe you can do that now, I dunno. I just hope they don't cripple any of the functionality of the TiVo. Eh, I guess it'd be okay for a 3rd room or something if they did.
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Unless they discontinue black. In which case, once you go Flower Power (or Dalmatian, or Titanium), you never go back.
Thank you! That's the first thing I thought of. It even has something called iDisk, since the year 2000. (It helps if you say that last part like they do on Conan O'Brien)
And it's examples like that that are the basis of my decision to not shop at Wal Mart or Sam's Club.
Now, I'm not saying it can't be done by a good person. I'm not saying it can't be done without being ruthless. But previous evidence shows that it's pretty much how it's done.
That ruled.
See, and *I* find it ridiculous that people don't pay attention to what they write. Sure, I make mistakes in JEs or comments. However, were I writing for publication (article submission, a "State of Slashdot" article), I'd read over it a few times to make sure it was clear, all words were spelled correctly, et cetera. I guess it comes down to pride in what you do, even the little things. When I come across a misspelling or typo, it takes me out of what I'm reading enough that it breaks the continuity, and that's a shame, considering that it could be fixed with better editing or attention to detail.
However, where you touch the toilet, you have two more-or-less open entrances/exits directly to your body at that point of contact.
Our gut flora is such a delicate beast once thrown out of whack - but much like my initial blood loss, you can dish out quite a beating for quite a while. It might change so little over time that people just attribute it to aging, but I think people discount the damage we do with our diet. My father in law informed me that type 2 (sugar-induced) diabetes was practically unheard of before 1900. What changed in 1900? That's around when highly refined white sugar was introduced.
Anyway, I'm glad you read through. I started keeping track of my diet in my journal for me, but it's helped others as well.
Myself, I thought it was a good pairing. Now we can watch *both* MTV and M$ ride the "we-obviously-don't-get-it-anymore" train to obscurity.
In some way, I feel like I'm making up for all the years I spent like you, though. :) I've eaten enough fast food & drank enough beer for a couple "normal" human beings, and I'm only 35. The nice side benefit to my diet is that my family is eating more healthy, fresh foods as well. I don't ask that they adhere to my strict diet, but since we like to eat all together, they're usually eating things that are on my diet, which I feel good about. Like, I'll make a fresh chicken & tomato sauce dish with cheese, and they'll add some pasta. Or we'll have thanksgiving dinner, but I'll make them traditional stuffing and they'll have rolls and such. I'm not an SCD nazi like you might find vegan nazis, but I do think that, bottom line, it's a much healthier way to eat. Believe me, if I hadn't seen such good results so quickly (You can read about my start on the diet here, and in subsequent journals titled "M,MH&I"), I'd probably not be on the diet. And I may not be on it for the rest of my life, or at least not as strict as now. But I've got a lot more healing to do, and a lot less bleeding to do.
I'm particularly taking issue with the idea of removing all starchy substances from the diet. All grains, corn, and potatoes are bad?
Think about it, though. You can't just eat grains or potatoes without doing a lot of cooking and milling and such with it. At least we don't anymore. We cook meat anymore to remove bacteria, but you can eat most vegetables and fruits raw.
That sounds a whole lot like a gimmick and not much like real science. Pushing "more natural" foods sounds pretty gimmicky as well. Stricknine is natural. Cyanide occurs naturally. Death is natural. Simly being "natural" doesn't make something a good idea for health. :)
I completely agree. Considering the parent (wherever that parent is) comment about HFCS, which I've seen as an ingredient in foods with "natural" on the package. Something you have to process that much is not "natural". But to your comment, nobody's really pushing strychnine or cyanide as food. :)
Science is often a good thing. Also, the places where grains are used "in excess" are also often places where people in general lead more sedentary lives, and tend to eat more fatty foods, as well as having a bazillion other factors outside of eating bread regularly. I'm inclined to believe that eating lots of fat and sitting on a couch after a hard day at wor
I recently converted them to butter instead of margarine as well. So there.
That said, my personal motto is "All things in moderation, including moderation." Where you see grains used in excess, especially refined grains and sugars, you see larger instances of obesity and diabetes. North America and Europe style first world countries. That's where the "fat and unhealthy" comment came from, and more from a point that if overweight people cut back or cut out those things, they'd typically see their weight fall drastically, but they choose not to, and see their waistlines increase while their overall health decreases. Farming grains became a way for humans to move from hunter-gatherers to agriculture, since they didn't have to forage for food, as the grains were able to be stored in bulk pre-ingestion, and stored as usable energy post-digestion. The Chinese & Japanese use rice, but don't base their entire diet on it. They eat other, more natural foods along with them. But you also don't see them eating half-loaves of bread piled with condiments containing HFCS constantly either. Well, not until recently, anyway.
Interestingly, diseases like Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's are seen in much higher rates in "developed" countries than in third-world countries.
Finally, I've formally consulted with three different doctors - one current and also my gastroenterologist - while being on this diet, and informally consulted a nurse friend of mine who happens to be (IMO) very wise, and not one of them has said it's a "bad idea". Especially in light of the fact that this change in eating habits has helped to lessen my symptoms more than any one other thing I've done in the 11 years I've been diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis. I'm not sure why you say it's not sustainable. I'd be interested to hear why you think that.
The worst part is that, for some reason, HFCS is listed as "natural". I guess because it's made from corn or something. But they can list "natural" on a package and still be within federal guidelines. When buying food for my kids, I scan the ingredient list first for HFCS and if I see it, I put it back. My wife doesn't necessarily do that, so some stuff sneaks through. But I'm trying to do right by the health of my kids.
Me? I'm on this diet to help with my ulcerative colitis, and it's working very well. I lost about 20 lbs and have had to replace my whole wardrobe. But just try to get most people to give up grains and refined sugars. They'd rather stay fat and unhealthy.
Can I get this soon please? kthxbye.
Can we hurry this up, please? kthxbye
Oh, we're being taken advantage of, alright.
Oh, wait, that said other countries...opportunities. Right. Sorry. Move along.
Then again, if you take it in and ask nicely and they say "no", ask louder and gripe more. If they still say no, whine and cry and gripe and ask for the manager.
Then you'll be surprised. :)
Cost, yes, power, yes, supply, yes...many things were the factors, and as I said, my co-workers and I went over all the options and whys and came to those conclusions on..June 6th, if not the 7th. My question is a) Why is MacWorld just coming out with this and b) why is Slashdot reporting on it? It's old "news", from both sources.
My co-workers and I pretty much sussed that out the day of the announcement. Others have, quite a while ago as well.
Which said companies will obfuscate in any and every way possible.
I agree with others here, though. Why am I paying for a marketing tool? Not that I wouldn't, but they give 'em away now, what's my motivation to pay for 'em? I suppose losing revenue streams will do that for you.
I can only hope that it'll make for better videos (a la the Killers' "Mr. Brightside" clip).
The other thing that surprises me is the amount of comments that make it sound like people think this decision was *made* yesterday. He said they've been doing x86 builds for 5 years. This decision wasn't made yesterday, or last week, or last month. Probably not even this year. So for people to feel "hurt" or "betrayed" is fairly disingenuous, or at least naiive. You don't make a change like this spur-of-the-moment. I'm sure many of these people decrying the move are the selfsame ones who are screaming "WHERE'S MY G5 LAPTOP?!?" While yes, it is a major change, I take it like they're putting up a new building on my block. I'm interested to see where it's going, but it's not going to change *my* life at all. For ever Mac Loyalist who says "Never again", there'll probably be 5 PC users who say "Hm. Maybe now..." The MHz myth was always there. Now that that's gone, people will probably say "What's the diff?" and get a Mac where they may not have been inclined before.
Only putting this in to clarify - you may already know - but Apple uses Open Firmware right now. Which is probably the way it'll stay. :)
What'll really be cool is if you can get the on-demand stuff just downloaded to your TiVo and catch it that way. Maybe you can do that now, I dunno. I just hope they don't cripple any of the functionality of the TiVo. Eh, I guess it'd be okay for a 3rd room or something if they did.