One misconception of the Atkins diet is that the "Induction Phase" is all there is to the diet. (I wonder if it is attributable to people who quit the diet after a week because of the fatigue that sets in initially.) The diet is actually a three phase stepping down program where the Induction phase steps into a Continued Weight Loss phase and finally into a Maintenance phase which should be used as the diet that will last you the rest of your life.
Only the Induction phase is strenuous in its avoidance of carbs, though it needs mentioning that a daily salad is prescribed even at this stage. By the time one makes it to the Maintenance phase, carbs have been added to the point that the amount of carbs eaten is hardly distinguishable from the diet of a person not on the diet. Certain things are still prohibited: sodas, refined flour, sugar, (frequent eating of) pasta, etc. But vegetables are in along with fruits and nuts. By the end of the diet, the dieter will be eating the same things that you equate with 'healthy food', they will have just lost weight in the process.
This is not to say that the person can return to his old ways of eating. Doing so will result in a huge insulin rebound and the dieter will gain all the fat back in a relatively short time. Done right, though, the diet can lead to a very healthy diet and lifestyle for anyone willing to stick it out through the second phase.
As for the fears of heart disease and high blood pressure, I can only quote anecdotal 'evidence' because that's all I have access to. My wife and I actually did the Atkins diet. When we started our HDL and LDL levels were very high. High HDL is fine, but high LDL is the precursor to heart disease. When we 'finished' the diet (we couldn't take any more of the greasy food) we took blood tests again and our cholesterol levels dropped significantly into the acceptable ranges. This has been echoed many times in this discussion by many people who have been on the Atkins diet. It is by no means conclusive evidence, though, and more study ought to be done to prove or disprove the theory.
Your salad diet is fine, and probably works to some extent. I'd be careful about adding carrots or beets to the salad or any calorie-dense vegetables. Lettuce and celery are great because they are filling, low-cal, and high in fiber.
I feel bad for you. An automated regression suite would cut future testing time as well. But again it seems that my first instincts were right: your management couldn't (or claimed so, at least) afford the cost and certainly didn't have enough tuits.
A system that is necessary for long term in-house use and that requires constant development, a regression suite ought to be mandatory. Another post talks about banking systems.
OTOH, a product that is to be shipped to customers, there are a few more considerations. First is whether the product will continue being developed. If it takes two months to develop the test suite, but it only takes 2 weeks to run a full test pass using current techniques, management will always choose not to develop the suite. If the product is in its first release and it appears to have a long happy road ahead of it with multiple releases and upgrades, then it makes sense to spend a little time up front developing the suite in order to cut down on the workload later on.
A game wouldn't need an automated regression suite because it is simply a one-off deal. A game engine, OTOH, definitely needs one as the plans are to have it in many games.
Anyone who has stumbled into the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and asked a question that was covered in the FAQ knows firsthand how a newsgroup can be when it comes to servicing newbies. Does the PHP culture have a more inclusive bent and willingness to answer the same questions over and over than Perl?
George, please look at the acting. The actors can't act worth crap. Please let me help the actors. You can do all the spaceship stuff. I just want to see a Star Wars movie where the actors seem like they aren't reading off cue cards!
I used to bake a lot of bread when I lived alone and had a big countertop. If you have the space, I totally recommend learning how to bake bread. Burns calories, teaches massage, and the house smells great.
I also hate bread, so I never had a problem with getting excess carbs. I just gave the loaves away.
Another variant on the 'bland food' diet is the 'blue food' diet. Put blue food coloring on everything you eat. For some reason your brain simply can't make the connection between blue and food. Almost as soon as you begin eating, no matter how tasty the meal may be, you lose your appetite.
Actually androgenic steroids and pre-contest dehydration by ingestion of diuretics are the main methods of achieving the 'ripped' look onstage. Andreas Munzer and Momo Benaziza both died as a result of diuretic misuse. Stripping all the water from the fat really brings out the muscular tone, but it wreaks havoc on the body in general.
Not having automation is one thing. It's actually quite a bit of work to get a good regression test automated. Testers, many very green fresh out of school types, generally do not have the experience necessary to write good tests that can fit into a harness framework. SDETs have the experience, but are more expensive to hire and keep around.
If management knows about automation but no such system exists in the company, it's mainly a matter of money and tuits. If management doesn't know about automation at all, then you're dealing with very inexperienced leadership. Any book that deals with software testing, even the very simple treatment of the topic by Kaner, Falk, and Nguyen discusses test automation and regression testing.
Both camps have conducted numerous studies, but the only ones that have produced long term results are the low-carb diets and diets that include exercise as the key component.
Low fat diets have repeatedly been shown to be the leading factor leading to the 'yoyo effect'. The diet works against the body's metabolism, suspressing it which leads to a lower metabolic rate which is exactly the opposite of what is needed for longterm weight reduction.
They use that to track how many Wu Tang MP3s you've pirated.
But seriously folks, that's to track updates for Windows Update. Basically it keeps a line of communication open so that if there is an update on the windows.com website, you will be notified ASAP.
Where can the plot go from here? The end of the Matrix 1 was pretty much the end, wasn't it? Are we going to find out that the Matrix is Neo's father and will Neo get trained by a puppet?
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I'm certainly not suggesting that everyone give up stop studying something and take the results of a previous finding on faith. I'm saying that an adviser's role is to point obviously gifted people in productive directions. Hence the PhD candidate/Kepler's laws of planetary motion analogy.
In Open Source development it is ultimately the users that take the advisory role. It is up to the users to encourage development of new, useful, and interesting things. Developers are by no means tied to the opinions of users, but that does not relieve the users of the responsibility of rewarding developers that do insightful things and providing (perhaps biting) criticism when developers seem to stray from developing useful things.
Linux on x86 is nothing new. This hack isn't even Linux on x86. It's an x86 executable on an x86.
Perl 6 seems to be a whole new camel. This one's definitely uglier and has two humps.
The Perl community seems to have become something of an inbred group where the only ideas come from people who have been using Perl exclusively for years. While this may be fine for a while, the end result is a jumble of personal preferences and half-baked ideas.
As for the hardware, there isn't anything new on the box except for the graphics chip and in this hack they don't seem to have done much changing of that driver (or OS, for that matter).
I don't disagree with what you said, but I think that such blind optimism in regards to new hacks must be tempered. There must be some point at which one must be able to differentiate between something good and something that is merely a waste of time. You wouldn't say to someone who has a PhD in Physics that they were doing a good job if they decided they wanted to prove Kepler's laws of planetary motion. It's simply something that's already been done, the amount of insight that the person will contribute to the whole of physics will be minimal. It is at this time that you ought to tell them (assuming you had the authority, which in the Free Software arena means everybody) that their time could be spent doing better things.
Hey, it's their life, why don't we encourage them do something worthwhile and chastise them when they do something lame?
Once you advocate the position of "Microsoft bad, Linux good", you have to provide the means to take advantage of that paradigm. By telling users who are wholly willing to use Linux in the mainstream and to encourage others to do so as well that they need to code their own drivers or submit their own bug fixes to teams that ostensibly have their own funding (RedHat, IBM, Cygwin, FSF through begging drives, etc.) you have turned an eager apostate into, at best, a hesitant user.
No one is saying that the people who did this hack don't have the right to their own time, but their actions *hurt* the Linux community by making it appear as Linux developers are more concerned with poking Microsoft in the eye than making Linux better, which this hack clearly does not do.
Oh I didn't say it was some sort of paradigm-shifting time-wasting activity. Slashdot has simply set the bar too high for the next paradigm shifter.
I just meant that it was a colossal waste of time (though not to be compared to posting on Slashdot, such a comparison makes this hack seem on par with curing AIDS or solving world hunger).
You gotta hand it to Apple. They sure know how to name technologies.
Too bad they painted themselves into a corner with this one. What do you call a drive that can do more than CD-R/W+DVD-R/W? Super-Duper Drive? Ultra Drive?
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One misconception of the Atkins diet is that the "Induction Phase" is all there is to the diet. (I wonder if it is attributable to people who quit the diet after a week because of the fatigue that sets in initially.) The diet is actually a three phase stepping down program where the Induction phase steps into a Continued Weight Loss phase and finally into a Maintenance phase which should be used as the diet that will last you the rest of your life.
Only the Induction phase is strenuous in its avoidance of carbs, though it needs mentioning that a daily salad is prescribed even at this stage. By the time one makes it to the Maintenance phase, carbs have been added to the point that the amount of carbs eaten is hardly distinguishable from the diet of a person not on the diet. Certain things are still prohibited: sodas, refined flour, sugar, (frequent eating of) pasta, etc. But vegetables are in along with fruits and nuts. By the end of the diet, the dieter will be eating the same things that you equate with 'healthy food', they will have just lost weight in the process.
This is not to say that the person can return to his old ways of eating. Doing so will result in a huge insulin rebound and the dieter will gain all the fat back in a relatively short time. Done right, though, the diet can lead to a very healthy diet and lifestyle for anyone willing to stick it out through the second phase.
As for the fears of heart disease and high blood pressure, I can only quote anecdotal 'evidence' because that's all I have access to. My wife and I actually did the Atkins diet. When we started our HDL and LDL levels were very high. High HDL is fine, but high LDL is the precursor to heart disease. When we 'finished' the diet (we couldn't take any more of the greasy food) we took blood tests again and our cholesterol levels dropped significantly into the acceptable ranges. This has been echoed many times in this discussion by many people who have been on the Atkins diet. It is by no means conclusive evidence, though, and more study ought to be done to prove or disprove the theory.
Your salad diet is fine, and probably works to some extent. I'd be careful about adding carrots or beets to the salad or any calorie-dense vegetables. Lettuce and celery are great because they are filling, low-cal, and high in fiber.
I feel bad for you. An automated regression suite would cut future testing time as well. But again it seems that my first instincts were right: your management couldn't (or claimed so, at least) afford the cost and certainly didn't have enough tuits.
A system that is necessary for long term in-house use and that requires constant development, a regression suite ought to be mandatory. Another post talks about banking systems.
OTOH, a product that is to be shipped to customers, there are a few more considerations. First is whether the product will continue being developed. If it takes two months to develop the test suite, but it only takes 2 weeks to run a full test pass using current techniques, management will always choose not to develop the suite. If the product is in its first release and it appears to have a long happy road ahead of it with multiple releases and upgrades, then it makes sense to spend a little time up front developing the suite in order to cut down on the workload later on.
A game wouldn't need an automated regression suite because it is simply a one-off deal. A game engine, OTOH, definitely needs one as the plans are to have it in many games.
it's solid at room temperature, it will probably be solid in your arteries as well.
The question is, then, how much of it actually gets to your arteries?
Anyone who has stumbled into the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and asked a question that was covered in the FAQ knows firsthand how a newsgroup can be when it comes to servicing newbies. Does the PHP culture have a more inclusive bent and willingness to answer the same questions over and over than Perl?
George, please look at the acting. The actors can't act worth crap. Please let me help the actors. You can do all the spaceship stuff. I just want to see a Star Wars movie where the actors seem like they aren't reading off cue cards!
Please!
I used to bake a lot of bread when I lived alone and had a big countertop. If you have the space, I totally recommend learning how to bake bread. Burns calories, teaches massage, and the house smells great.
I also hate bread, so I never had a problem with getting excess carbs. I just gave the loaves away.
See, you are already exceeding the limit. You forgot about the free sample you get while waiting in line!
Go ahead. Try to eat just two.
Another variant on the 'bland food' diet is the 'blue food' diet. Put blue food coloring on everything you eat. For some reason your brain simply can't make the connection between blue and food. Almost as soon as you begin eating, no matter how tasty the meal may be, you lose your appetite.
3 days is the normal duration of caffeine withdrawal. By that time you've either overcome the withdrawal symptoms or gone back to the juice.
Actually androgenic steroids and pre-contest dehydration by ingestion of diuretics are the main methods of achieving the 'ripped' look onstage. Andreas Munzer and Momo Benaziza both died as a result of diuretic misuse. Stripping all the water from the fat really brings out the muscular tone, but it wreaks havoc on the body in general.
Not having automation is one thing. It's actually quite a bit of work to get a good regression test automated. Testers, many very green fresh out of school types, generally do not have the experience necessary to write good tests that can fit into a harness framework. SDETs have the experience, but are more expensive to hire and keep around.
If management knows about automation but no such system exists in the company, it's mainly a matter of money and tuits. If management doesn't know about automation at all, then you're dealing with very inexperienced leadership. Any book that deals with software testing, even the very simple treatment of the topic by Kaner, Falk, and Nguyen discusses test automation and regression testing.
Both camps have conducted numerous studies, but the only ones that have produced long term results are the low-carb diets and diets that include exercise as the key component.
Low fat diets have repeatedly been shown to be the leading factor leading to the 'yoyo effect'. The diet works against the body's metabolism, suspressing it which leads to a lower metabolic rate which is exactly the opposite of what is needed for longterm weight reduction.
They use that to track how many Wu Tang MP3s you've pirated.
But seriously folks, that's to track updates for Windows Update. Basically it keeps a line of communication open so that if there is an update on the windows.com website, you will be notified ASAP.
Where can the plot go from here? The end of the Matrix 1 was pretty much the end, wasn't it? Are we going to find out that the Matrix is Neo's father and will Neo get trained by a puppet?
Pooh has got his head stuck in the honeypot!
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I'm certainly not suggesting that everyone give up stop studying something and take the results of a previous finding on faith. I'm saying that an adviser's role is to point obviously gifted people in productive directions. Hence the PhD candidate/Kepler's laws of planetary motion analogy.
In Open Source development it is ultimately the users that take the advisory role. It is up to the users to encourage development of new, useful, and interesting things. Developers are by no means tied to the opinions of users, but that does not relieve the users of the responsibility of rewarding developers that do insightful things and providing (perhaps biting) criticism when developers seem to stray from developing useful things.
Linux on x86 is nothing new. This hack isn't even Linux on x86. It's an x86 executable on an x86.
If someone seriously wants to reprove Kepler's laws, who am I to stand in their way?
This is the job that advisers do all the time. Alex Chiu-types exist because they never had an adviser tell them that they are doing crackpot science.
Encouraging such wastes of time helps no one.
Perl 6 seems to be a whole new camel. This one's definitely uglier and has two humps.
The Perl community seems to have become something of an inbred group where the only ideas come from people who have been using Perl exclusively for years. While this may be fine for a while, the end result is a jumble of personal preferences and half-baked ideas.
In what sense do you find them whiny?
As for the hardware, there isn't anything new on the box except for the graphics chip and in this hack they don't seem to have done much changing of that driver (or OS, for that matter).
I don't disagree with what you said, but I think that such blind optimism in regards to new hacks must be tempered. There must be some point at which one must be able to differentiate between something good and something that is merely a waste of time. You wouldn't say to someone who has a PhD in Physics that they were doing a good job if they decided they wanted to prove Kepler's laws of planetary motion. It's simply something that's already been done, the amount of insight that the person will contribute to the whole of physics will be minimal. It is at this time that you ought to tell them (assuming you had the authority, which in the Free Software arena means everybody) that their time could be spent doing better things.
Hey, it's their life, why don't we encourage them do something worthwhile and chastise them when they do something lame?
why didn't they write the drivers?
Because they can't code.
Once you advocate the position of "Microsoft bad, Linux good", you have to provide the means to take advantage of that paradigm. By telling users who are wholly willing to use Linux in the mainstream and to encourage others to do so as well that they need to code their own drivers or submit their own bug fixes to teams that ostensibly have their own funding (RedHat, IBM, Cygwin, FSF through begging drives, etc.) you have turned an eager apostate into, at best, a hesitant user.
No one is saying that the people who did this hack don't have the right to their own time, but their actions *hurt* the Linux community by making it appear as Linux developers are more concerned with poking Microsoft in the eye than making Linux better, which this hack clearly does not do.
Oh I didn't say it was some sort of paradigm-shifting time-wasting activity. Slashdot has simply set the bar too high for the next paradigm shifter.
I just meant that it was a colossal waste of time (though not to be compared to posting on Slashdot, such a comparison makes this hack seem on par with curing AIDS or solving world hunger).
You gotta hand it to Apple. They sure know how to name technologies.
Too bad they painted themselves into a corner with this one. What do you call a drive that can do more than CD-R/W+DVD-R/W? Super-Duper Drive? Ultra Drive?