There's the perception out there that your body is a black box: if (caloriesIn > caloriesOut) then getFat(); else getSkinny(); but its more complicated than that. Weight Watchers/LA Weight Loss/Herbal Magic/etc. all try to help you get to a better weight by reducing your caloric intake to ~1500 calories per day (average a normal adult male needs without heavy exertion is ~2000).
Yes, eggs, sausage and pancakes will go a long way to keep you moving. But the difference is, your body will absorb what it needs from the eggs and the sausage, but it will take in all the pancakes. When the carbs from the pancakes aren't use right away, it raises your blood sugar, which raises your insulin levels, which causes your fat cells to absorb the carbs (and turn them into fat). And of course, when your body needs energy to do work, the last thing that it goes after are your fat reserves. What you eat has a big effect on whether you get fat or skinny. It's not fat that makes you fat, its sugar/carbs.
Every type one diabetic teen girl knows that if she wants to fit into that dress for the big dance, all she has to do is stop taking her insulin, all the low carb thing is doing is taking advantage of that phenomena.
Anecdotally - I'm a big guy, and I've done the low fat thing, the 1500 calorie thing, and the low carb. I gained a frack load of weight eating low fat (try eating nothing but spaghetti for a week and see what happens), I've struggled with the 1500 calorie thing and gone nowhere, and I've had great success with the low carb thing.
Keys lipid hypothesis is dead... scientist are fleeing it like rats from a sinking ship. The media just hasn't caught up yet.
The truly frightening thing is that the diet that US and Canadian governments have been recommending over that last 30 years is pretty much the same thing that we use to fatten cattle up for slaughter.
Effectively he's been docked a week's pay (which a week of vacation time is equivalent to - especially if he is paid out at the end of the year for any unused time). The example has been made. He's an otherwise stellar employee. AFAIK, he was also payroll, not IT (who I think should have been raising the security flags).
What is not pointed out very often is that there were two companies that provided the initial data for street view. One did San Francisco (where all the funny shots of identifiable people are seen). The other company has done all the other cities so far.
That second company has dropped the resolution down so far that you can't recognise the people unless they are standing on the roof of the camera-car AND has taken their data set and scrubbed it of images that easily identify other people and vehicles where they have been close enough to recognise.
This second company is the one that is providing the data to Google in Canada and 99% of the US. Check out any city BUT San Francisco on Street View.
Do what a local fellow did here. 1) Set up two towers. One in an area where you can get a high speed connection. One close to your home (with the tops in sight of each other) 2) Setup a microwave connection between the two of them. 3) Connect the first to a t1 or better 4) Connect yours to your house. 5) Incorporate and sell of the extra bandwidth to your neighbours (either via wireless Ethernet, more towers, or heavens forbid more cable.) 6) Expand your network as more neighbours want service. 7) Wait for the local telecomm to come and buy up your company (and all your clients) 8) Profit
notice... no ??? I've already seen it done, and I wish I had been on the ground floor.
The thing I notice about this blogger's investigation is that he seems very focused on the raw number that people are being paid over the context for what they are being paid for.
That context includes things like the number of people reporting to you (or in your tree), educational requirements, duties, length of service, etc. etc. etc.
Many of these people could be in private industry where they could earn more with the skills and experience that they have. If you want to get the best people to run you city/state/province/country, you have to compensate them accordingly. Altruism can only go so far. (Especially if you are cop and your job is to dodge bullets.)
To quote the FA "The PZEV cars don't get any better mileage than conventional versions". It's not reducing the amount of carbon being put into the atmosphere. It's reducing the amount of unburned and partially burned fuel being released into the atmosphere (which is a good think to do in its self).
However, I think that labelling something a "Partial Zero Emission Vehicle" is deceptive. Better the label it something like "Ultra Low Smog Emission Vehicle" (ULSEV)
Have you ever been in a "code review" with a spelling-Nazi, reviewing the code of a dyslexic? Cripes, they get all red in the face, and then you get a 1/2 hour long lecture on how they never make spelling mistakes, and all it takes is just a little concerted effort (i.e. the dyslexic is lazy) and they could be as perfect as the spelling-Nazi. (Note: Godwin's Law is not in effect here, because I have to likened the poster to a Nazi)
It's just an exercise in pain. Build a spell checker into your IDE that can see word breaks for underscores, hyphens, and camel-case and you can relieve so much pain.
And if you've ever had someone in your family who has been injured in an auto-accident in Manitoba, you wouldn't wouldn't think of it as an irrational hatred.
It's no fault. I don't care how much damage has been done to your body or the fact you can no longer do your job. The formula says this is all the compensation you are going to get and there's not a dam thing you can do about it. Oh, and because the accident took place in a parking lot, you and the guy who t-boned you are both automatically 50% at fault; here is your premium increase (sorry, that's policy as well and there's still not a dam thing you can do about it).
Apparently the immobilisers are set up to disable 3 or 4 system critical starting the car (e.g., electrical, fuel, etc.) and to get it started would require bypassing all of them (and presumably tools/parts that the average thief doesn't carry with them), and the time/ambition to get into the spaces where the cut-offs are located.
The goal being not to make the vehicle 100% theft proof, just to make it a pain in the *ss - and make the next guy more worth while. Of course if everyone has on of these devices, then they are all going to be just as much of a pain in the *ss (maybe they are hoping the joy-riders will switch over to simple vandalism instead - they know where the car is, but it is still a right-off)
It's called the Youth Criminal Justice Act (formerly the Young Offenders Act). While it allows us to prosecute 12-17 yearolds. It also denies the possibility of prosecuting an under 12 yearold. This is based upon the presumption that someone under the age of majority (18) is less competent in making decisions about right and wrong, and less responsible. It also presumes that someone under the age of 12 is totally incompetent in right and wrong an not responsible at all.
One of the effect of this is gang members will influence the under 12's to commit certain acts (be it shop lifting or jacking the car for the joy ride) because they are immune. And some under 12's will do things because they know they can get away with it now and not later in life.
My personal feeling on the YCJA is that there shouldn't be an absolute cut-off at 12 years. However, the burden of proof/seriousness/etc. should be even higher for the under 12 yearolds.
Ah... but does the Usenet feed still go back and forth acrosss the Pacific on 8mm tapes, sitting in the passenger seat of an air-liner.
Never underestimate the band with of a FedEx plane filled to the brim with magnetic tape.
Personally I think we (men) have the better deal.
We can pee standing up, and if we are quick enough on the draw we can guarantee that we have more orgasms over our lifetime that our women:-)
Tech will change over the coming years. Run conduits through the building so that you can more easily upgrade the cabling as required. It's easier than trying to fish a new line when the tech changes.
At which point... take anything (even if it's Geek Squad) to cover the hole and rebuild your career.
It's always easier to get a new job when you are still in one (or just left another) - even if it is unrelated to what you really want to do.
"I see here you were working for the local hardware store between 2000 and 2002. How does that fit in with your programming career?"
"It doesn't... the startup I was working for went under in 2000 and I had to eat. However, while I was there I converted their accounting system over from a paper ledger to... blah blah blah"
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There's the perception out there that your body is a black box: if (caloriesIn > caloriesOut) then getFat(); else getSkinny(); but its more complicated than that. Weight Watchers/LA Weight Loss/Herbal Magic/etc. all try to help you get to a better weight by reducing your caloric intake to ~1500 calories per day (average a normal adult male needs without heavy exertion is ~2000).
Yes, eggs, sausage and pancakes will go a long way to keep you moving. But the difference is, your body will absorb what it needs from the eggs and the sausage, but it will take in all the pancakes. When the carbs from the pancakes aren't use right away, it raises your blood sugar, which raises your insulin levels, which causes your fat cells to absorb the carbs (and turn them into fat). And of course, when your body needs energy to do work, the last thing that it goes after are your fat reserves. What you eat has a big effect on whether you get fat or skinny. It's not fat that makes you fat, its sugar/carbs.
Every type one diabetic teen girl knows that if she wants to fit into that dress for the big dance, all she has to do is stop taking her insulin, all the low carb thing is doing is taking advantage of that phenomena.
Anecdotally - I'm a big guy, and I've done the low fat thing, the 1500 calorie thing, and the low carb. I gained a frack load of weight eating low fat (try eating nothing but spaghetti for a week and see what happens), I've struggled with the 1500 calorie thing and gone nowhere, and I've had great success with the low carb thing.
...long live the carbohydrates theory.
Keys lipid hypothesis is dead... scientist are fleeing it like rats from a sinking ship. The media just hasn't caught up yet.
The truly frightening thing is that the diet that US and Canadian governments have been recommending over that last 30 years is pretty much the same thing that we use to fatten cattle up for slaughter.
User Interface Design for Programmers by Joel Spolsky.
I grok. "It's not endocrinology..." :)
Effectively he's been docked a week's pay (which a week of vacation time is equivalent to - especially if he is paid out at the end of the year for any unused time). The example has been made. He's an otherwise stellar employee. AFAIK, he was also payroll, not IT (who I think should have been raising the security flags).
How many weeks should it have been?
Would you want your grandmother flying it?
'nuff said.
"if you put enough engines on it, a brick will fly"
What is not pointed out very often is that there were two companies that provided the initial data for street view. One did San Francisco (where all the funny shots of identifiable people are seen). The other company has done all the other cities so far.
That second company has dropped the resolution down so far that you can't recognise the people unless they are standing on the roof of the camera-car AND has taken their data set and scrubbed it of images that easily identify other people and vehicles where they have been close enough to recognise.
This second company is the one that is providing the data to Google in Canada and 99% of the US. Check out any city BUT San Francisco on Street View.
This is a NON-Story
Do what a local fellow did here.
1) Set up two towers. One in an area where you can get a high speed connection. One close to your home (with the tops in sight of each other)
2) Setup a microwave connection between the two of them.
3) Connect the first to a t1 or better
4) Connect yours to your house.
5) Incorporate and sell of the extra bandwidth to your neighbours (either via wireless Ethernet, more towers, or heavens forbid more cable.)
6) Expand your network as more neighbours want service.
7) Wait for the local telecomm to come and buy up your company (and all your clients)
8) Profit
notice... no ??? I've already seen it done, and I wish I had been on the ground floor.
The thing I notice about this blogger's investigation is that he seems very focused on the raw number that people are being paid over the context for what they are being paid for.
That context includes things like the number of people reporting to you (or in your tree), educational requirements, duties, length of service, etc. etc. etc.
Many of these people could be in private industry where they could earn more with the skills and experience that they have. If you want to get the best people to run you city/state/province/country, you have to compensate them accordingly. Altruism can only go so far. (Especially if you are cop and your job is to dodge bullets.)
Yes _that_ Joel.
https://www.copilot.com/
Why not just use CoPilot. If I can talk my technophobic cousin through installing it over the phone, any one can use it.
Here's some more of the story on PZEV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZEV
To quote the FA "The PZEV cars don't get any better mileage than conventional versions". It's not reducing the amount of carbon being put into the atmosphere. It's reducing the amount of unburned and partially burned fuel being released into the atmosphere (which is a good think to do in its self).
However, I think that labelling something a "Partial Zero Emission Vehicle" is deceptive. Better the label it something like "Ultra Low Smog Emission Vehicle" (ULSEV)
Have you ever been in a "code review" with a spelling-Nazi, reviewing the code of a dyslexic? Cripes, they get all red in the face, and then you get a 1/2 hour long lecture on how they never make spelling mistakes, and all it takes is just a little concerted effort (i.e. the dyslexic is lazy) and they could be as perfect as the spelling-Nazi. (Note: Godwin's Law is not in effect here, because I have to likened the poster to a Nazi)
It's just an exercise in pain. Build a spell checker into your IDE that can see word breaks for underscores, hyphens, and camel-case and you can relieve so much pain.
As I RTFA, I take that to mean it would have been a really unhealthy day for any one near by, al la blue-flash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident ); not a really unhealthy day for anyone for miles around, al la mushroom cloud(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_cloud) .
%s/"insurance"/(insurance)/g
And if you've ever had someone in your family who has been injured in an auto-accident in Manitoba, you wouldn't wouldn't think of it as an irrational hatred.
It's no fault. I don't care how much damage has been done to your body or the fact you can no longer do your job. The formula says this is all the compensation you are going to get and there's not a dam thing you can do about it. Oh, and because the accident took place in a parking lot, you and the guy who t-boned you are both automatically 50% at fault; here is your premium increase (sorry, that's policy as well and there's still not a dam thing you can do about it).
Don't make it mandatory(*). Just make it so expensive to insure your vehicle without one that the hold-outs will cave.
(*) What else would you expect in a province where you have only one legal option for auto-insurance. The crown "insurance" corporation (MPI).
Apparently the immobilisers are set up to disable 3 or 4 system critical starting the car (e.g., electrical, fuel, etc.) and to get it started would require bypassing all of them (and presumably tools/parts that the average thief doesn't carry with them), and the time/ambition to get into the spaces where the cut-offs are located.
The goal being not to make the vehicle 100% theft proof, just to make it a pain in the *ss - and make the next guy more worth while. Of course if everyone has on of these devices, then they are all going to be just as much of a pain in the *ss (maybe they are hoping the joy-riders will switch over to simple vandalism instead - they know where the car is, but it is still a right-off)
It's called the Youth Criminal Justice Act (formerly the Young Offenders Act). While it allows us to prosecute 12-17 yearolds. It also denies the possibility of prosecuting an under 12 yearold. This is based upon the presumption that someone under the age of majority (18) is less competent in making decisions about right and wrong, and less responsible. It also presumes that someone under the age of 12 is totally incompetent in right and wrong an not responsible at all.
One of the effect of this is gang members will influence the under 12's to commit certain acts (be it shop lifting or jacking the car for the joy ride) because they are immune. And some under 12's will do things because they know they can get away with it now and not later in life.
My personal feeling on the YCJA is that there shouldn't be an absolute cut-off at 12 years. However, the burden of proof/seriousness/etc. should be even higher for the under 12 yearolds.
Ah... but does the Usenet feed still go back and forth acrosss the Pacific on 8mm tapes, sitting in the passenger seat of an air-liner. Never underestimate the band with of a FedEx plane filled to the brim with magnetic tape.
Personally I think we (men) have the better deal. We can pee standing up, and if we are quick enough on the draw we can guarantee that we have more orgasms over our lifetime that our women :-)
Tech will change over the coming years.
Run conduits through the building so that you can more easily upgrade the cabling as required. It's easier than trying to fish a new line when the tech changes.
Shiny! I'm sure we can do _at_least_ 20,000 pounds of Ramen to whatever gorram executive cancelled our show.
OK, any chance you could tell us how to find it on that site? Instead of making me spend hours flipping through their game.
At which point... take anything (even if it's Geek Squad) to cover the hole and rebuild your career. It's always easier to get a new job when you are still in one (or just left another) - even if it is unrelated to what you really want to do. "I see here you were working for the local hardware store between 2000 and 2002. How does that fit in with your programming career?" "It doesn't... the startup I was working for went under in 2000 and I had to eat. However, while I was there I converted their accounting system over from a paper ledger to ... blah blah blah"
I can't believe you're pulling this out of the queue now. The story is 3.5 months old.