I'm married & I've got a gym just 5 minutes walking distance from work. Going in the lunch break is a win win situation - better health, and feeling fresh when back for the second part of the work day. I used to be a complete fitness freak before I met my wife; sadly things have gone downhill a bit since then (as far as my condition goes), however now in the mid thirties am seeing the value of getting back in shape.
(Oh and re beer, in the choice between low carb and full carb, with taste otherwise being equal, that's a pretty easy one. Opinion is divided but I happen to low the Pure Blondes.)
Going to the gym or doing other physical activity regularly (4-5 times per week) at the same time as cutting out the junk (i.e. only eat the stuff your body _needs_) would probably be a lot more helpful than going on a starvation diet. Starve yourself and the body goes into self preservation mode; the moment you start eating again it will put it on like as if you're in for another period of starvation next.
If you make exercise a daily thing, you can enjoy a very healthy appetite. For all beer drinkers out there, some of the new low carb ones are phenomenal stuff - we've got Carlton's Pure Blondes in Australia and they're great.
... but alas it's the Q6600 for me as a) Intel just drop kicked its price, and 2) AMD are still nowhere near releasing quad cores for the consumer market. "Later this year" just doesn't cut it, so here's yet another person switching from AMD (Newcastle 3200) in their desktop to Intel.:P
Hehe, no need to worry. I meant, it's pretty sad when so many people in a row can't post a proper flame of someone's grammar without messing up their own!:)
I'm fully with you on the general disintegration of the language; English is not my first (Norwegian is), but I strive to improve it as I go along (been learning it for 26 years now; I am 34). My top peeves are the likes of their/there, it's/its, maybe also the confusion of "lol" as a punctuation character rather than an actual expression of finding something really funny.
I was lucky enough to do a touch typing course in year 8 at school, and as a programmer it's been a real boon to my typing habits. I guess that just the mere act of looking at the screen as the characters come out might be one of the biggest benefits to getting things right.
Touché! It's almost a recursive loop of people pointing out grammatical mistakes in the parents' posts whilst at the same time not ensuring that their own posts are free of said misconduct. Pretty sad, really. (I'm getting a bit paranoid as I write this).
Well, I refuse to run iTunes as I find it to be one of the worst written Windows applications I've ever used. Starting with how it'll wipe a "foreign player" when connected. Anapod explorer is an awesome product and worked very well until the player started crapping out on me.
It could be hardware related, it could be driver related. I don't really care what the cause is any more, I've written off the Nano fully and completely by buying the two new Samsungs - one for me, one for the missus = no more issues, gone are the tissues.:)
I can use my WinXP desktop, Linux box or whatever to update music - and move its data any way I like. This is the way it should be.
Redchair's Anapod Explorer'? Are you fucked in the head? Why would you use a hack like that before iTunes?
So iTunes under Windows is not a hack? HAHAHAHA
Every time you hook up an iPod on a new machine iTunes wipes its contents. I cannot copy its files to a new machine. I have to use iTunes to get any content onto it. It will not play back files I just drag and drop. Maybe it's not all DRM related in the strictest sense, but it certainly is proprietary.
Redchair's stuff used to work wonderfully but then it stopped working. It could very well have been the hardware failing; it certainly wouldn't be the first time.
Apple's customer service is notoriously crap yet they've obviously got their fanbois sticking up for them [i.e. modding down my post]. With the awesome experience I've had going to one of their competitors, I can't find any logic reason to purchase one. I will certainly never recommend buying an iPod to anyone I know.
Well, with my new found ability to just drag and drop my music files without having to use proprietary software (itunes) - I it works well with whatever O/S I like. This is the way it should be.
After nearly losing it (!!!) over trying to get my wife's Nano updated with new songs under Vista, Redchair's Anapod explorer dropping the synch every so often, I just decided it wasn't worth the agony and the stress. The whole situation just really started to get under my skin.
So went out and bought two 4gb Samsung K3s. Beautiful piece of hardware, and as long as you stay away from the included software, completely DRM free. Synchs beautifully with WMP, which will convert my lossless CD rips to 192kbps versions. Or I could just drop suitable WMA or MP3 files straight into the folder structure.
[angry rant] Not having to stress out battling the proprietary DRM solutions in Apple's players will give me a longer life, I'm sure. So yeah, just f*#k DRM, give me players I can just use like I want any day. As long as I'm not allowed to use legitimately purchased music any way I see fit, you'll never see me pay $$$ for downloads. As long as CD can still be ripped, I'll continue buying those - and copying to my car, HTPC, work PC, home PC and portable players as I bloody well see fit. I paid for my music, now let me use it. Anyway, when it is so much easier to just torrent an album than get set up with a commercial DRM provider, they really are kidding themselves about how they're dealing with the whole piracy issue. [/angry rant]
4.5/5 (points deducted for lying about needing to install Windows on a newly purchased PC[1])
The hardware geek in me tells me that
1) he took the opportunity to upgrade his own computer (which might have had some Linux flavour on it), and installed Windows on the old.
2) he bought the computer as parts. This is probably most plausible. In the past 15 years I haven't bought a computer that wasn't a laptop that I didn't specify and put together myself, from parts.
I used a trackball from around 1998 till 2006 to get around issues of RSI, however whilst I cannot talk up the benefit of this (and a natural keyboard) enough, after discovering the G5 laser mouse I'm now someone who's gone back to using mice. The reason is an incredible dot pitch which at max resolution lets me move the cursor across three screens (1600+1920+1600) in less than the width of a hand.
Did they try to offer him a big wad of money, say US$50M bucks? That'd certainly be a lot better way to do it than ruin some poor guy's life with worry over court cases - which incidentally does Google's image no good.
has Slim put into philanthropy? To anyone who found this question relevant (I was almost expecting "none" - and thus making the Gates foundation a very easy explanation on the #1 move), Forbes says the following (plus a lot of other interesting stuff) of the man's new project:
"Lately Carlos Slim has taken up a particular interest in philanthropy, a pursuit he had neglected for most of the years he was building his businesses. He formed a foundation 23 years ago and funded it with a few million, and it has done little since then. A year ago Slim infused it with $1.8 billion; in the fall he pledged to donate up to $10 billion to the foundation in the next four years to fund health and education programs."
It is somehow good to see the world's richest doing this kind of stuff. Of course, it's not like they couldn't afford it, but still.
If I had to watch that ad every time I started my car, and then be forced to watch 5 minutes of ads prior to being able to go anywhere... I probably would! [Assuming that stolen cars came without that ***shit*** they make you watch if you spend your money on a dvd.]
I (have to) leave the toilet seat up, how would you otherwise expect my cats to be able to use the toilet? Want them to do their business on the floor? The seats are not exactly designed for them to be easily raised using paws. And I very much doubt they'd wanna have a sip of said water after they'd done a #1 or #2.
Besides that, cats are quite fuzzy about what they eat and drink, if it wasn't clean they wouldn't eat or drink it. I also seem to recall research showing toilet seats to be one of the cleaner surfaces around a normal place.
I never click a link in an email to do something that relates to logins. I don't care how authentic something looks, if _one_ link exists, I usually hit "report phishing attempt" in gmail (to assist other users) after spending the tiniest amount of time to classify it as a scam. The only thing I'd ever respond to is one that says "please locate us via your bookmarks".... in which case I'll punch in the URL from memory and see what they want.
As for DNS, I thought the topic was the typical phishing website as per spam emails sent out, and not being subject of a direct attack that is set up to compromise my computer's DNS files or worse. And for people having such skills I'd think there be better ways (targets) to utilise them.
My router doesn't cache DNS requests and you'd have to get to the box I'm using after slipping through both the router firewall and the software firewall - am I using my Linux box? The XP Box? The XP laptop? - to have any luck. Unless of course you managed to infest my highly reputable ISP, in which case I probably would have to accept defeat.
Yeah when I lived in Oslo, Norway I didn't have a car, or a license to drive one; cycled everywhere, kept me fit and saved tonnes of moolah. The city was so small and everything not in it centered around it. Moving to Melbourne, Australia, however, it's a completely different story with a completely different distribution of town centres. Cross about 3 of them on my way to work, and bike network is pretty average for the 22KM trip so I drive every day now. (I have offset the emissions by getting trees planted - http://www.carbonneutral.com.au/)
... if it saves a few car trips around the neighbourhood to scope out places to live. Now I don't have to go to SF, I'll just spend a a few hours online "walking" the place!:)
The information on www.cocacola.com.au (if you can patience the massive flash object) is close to worthless. Under "About", the entire text on "PRODUCT DIETARY INFORMATION" is:
This is where the value would seem to lie in the asymmetrical distribution of knowledge. Once everyone knows, you no longer have {that much of} an advantage.
Still, even no live GPSes would benefit greatly from some knowledge of traffic bottlenecks and times of the day. If you are going north west, and the most efficient route would have you go west then north was only true at 21:00, @ 18:00 the most efficient route would be north then west. It'd certainly be great to have some sort of smarts in the GPS unit.
Not that it has this feature, but when not cooking something I turn mine off at the wall to reduce the (Aussie coal powered) electricity usage. Having a Linux server and router+switch powered 24/7 one has to make certain sacrifices.
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I'm married & I've got a gym just 5 minutes walking distance from work. Going in the lunch break is a win win situation - better health, and feeling fresh when back for the second part of the work day. I used to be a complete fitness freak before I met my wife; sadly things have gone downhill a bit since then (as far as my condition goes), however now in the mid thirties am seeing the value of getting back in shape.
(Oh and re beer, in the choice between low carb and full carb, with taste otherwise being equal, that's a pretty easy one. Opinion is divided but I happen to low the Pure Blondes.)
Going to the gym or doing other physical activity regularly (4-5 times per week) at the same time as cutting out the junk (i.e. only eat the stuff your body _needs_) would probably be a lot more helpful than going on a starvation diet. Starve yourself and the body goes into self preservation mode; the moment you start eating again it will put it on like as if you're in for another period of starvation next.
If you make exercise a daily thing, you can enjoy a very healthy appetite. For all beer drinkers out there, some of the new low carb ones are phenomenal stuff - we've got Carlton's Pure Blondes in Australia and they're great.
... but alas it's the Q6600 for me as a) Intel just drop kicked its price, and 2) AMD are still nowhere near releasing quad cores for the consumer market. "Later this year" just doesn't cut it, so here's yet another person switching from AMD (Newcastle 3200) in their desktop to Intel. :P
Hehe, no need to worry. I meant, it's pretty sad when so many people in a row can't post a proper flame of someone's grammar without messing up their own! :)
I'm fully with you on the general disintegration of the language; English is not my first (Norwegian is), but I strive to improve it as I go along (been learning it for 26 years now; I am 34). My top peeves are the likes of their/there, it's/its, maybe also the confusion of "lol" as a punctuation character rather than an actual expression of finding something really funny.
I was lucky enough to do a touch typing course in year 8 at school, and as a programmer it's been a real boon to my typing habits. I guess that just the mere act of looking at the screen as the characters come out might be one of the biggest benefits to getting things right.
Touché! It's almost a recursive loop of people pointing out grammatical mistakes in the parents' posts whilst at the same time not ensuring that their own posts are free of said misconduct. Pretty sad, really. (I'm getting a bit paranoid as I write this).
Well, I refuse to run iTunes as I find it to be one of the worst written Windows applications I've ever used. Starting with how it'll wipe a "foreign player" when connected. Anapod explorer is an awesome product and worked very well until the player started crapping out on me.
:)
It could be hardware related, it could be driver related. I don't really care what the cause is any more, I've written off the Nano fully and completely by buying the two new Samsungs - one for me, one for the missus = no more issues, gone are the tissues.
I can use my WinXP desktop, Linux box or whatever to update music - and move its data any way I like. This is the way it should be.
So iTunes under Windows is not a hack? HAHAHAHA
Every time you hook up an iPod on a new machine iTunes wipes its contents. I cannot copy its files to a new machine. I have to use iTunes to get any content onto it. It will not play back files I just drag and drop. Maybe it's not all DRM related in the strictest sense, but it certainly is proprietary.
Redchair's stuff used to work wonderfully but then it stopped working. It could very well have been the hardware failing; it certainly wouldn't be the first time.
Apple's customer service is notoriously crap yet they've obviously got their fanbois sticking up for them [i.e. modding down my post]. With the awesome experience I've had going to one of their competitors, I can't find any logic reason to purchase one. I will certainly never recommend buying an iPod to anyone I know.
Hehe, I like your highlight. :)
Well, with my new found ability to just drag and drop my music files without having to use proprietary software (itunes) - I it works well with whatever O/S I like. This is the way it should be.
After nearly losing it (!!!) over trying to get my wife's Nano updated with new songs under Vista, Redchair's Anapod explorer dropping the synch every so often, I just decided it wasn't worth the agony and the stress. The whole situation just really started to get under my skin.
So went out and bought two 4gb Samsung K3s. Beautiful piece of hardware, and as long as you stay away from the included software, completely DRM free. Synchs beautifully with WMP, which will convert my lossless CD rips to 192kbps versions. Or I could just drop suitable WMA or MP3 files straight into the folder structure.
[angry rant]
Not having to stress out battling the proprietary DRM solutions in Apple's players will give me a longer life, I'm sure. So yeah, just f*#k DRM, give me players I can just use like I want any day. As long as I'm not allowed to use legitimately purchased music any way I see fit, you'll never see me pay $$$ for downloads. As long as CD can still be ripped, I'll continue buying those - and copying to my car, HTPC, work PC, home PC and portable players as I bloody well see fit. I paid for my music, now let me use it. Anyway, when it is so much easier to just torrent an album than get set up with a commercial DRM provider, they really are kidding themselves about how they're dealing with the whole piracy issue.
[/angry rant]
4.5/5 (points deducted for lying about needing to install Windows on a newly purchased PC[1])
The hardware geek in me tells me that
1) he took the opportunity to upgrade his own computer (which might have had some Linux flavour on it), and installed Windows on the old.
2) he bought the computer as parts. This is probably most plausible. In the past 15 years I haven't bought a computer that wasn't a laptop that I didn't specify and put together myself, from parts.
I used a trackball from around 1998 till 2006 to get around issues of RSI, however whilst I cannot talk up the benefit of this (and a natural keyboard) enough, after discovering the G5 laser mouse I'm now someone who's gone back to using mice. The reason is an incredible dot pitch which at max resolution lets me move the cursor across three screens (1600+1920+1600) in less than the width of a hand.
Did they try to offer him a big wad of money, say US$50M bucks?
That'd certainly be a lot better way to do it than ruin some poor guy's life with worry over court cases - which incidentally does Google's image no good.
has Slim put into philanthropy? To anyone who found this question relevant (I was almost expecting "none" - and thus making the Gates foundation a very easy explanation on the #1 move), Forbes says the following (plus a lot of other interesting stuff) of the man's new project:
"Lately Carlos Slim has taken up a particular interest in philanthropy, a pursuit he had neglected for most of the years he was building his businesses. He formed a foundation 23 years ago and funded it with a few million, and it has done little since then. A year ago Slim infused it with $1.8 billion; in the fall he pledged to donate up to $10 billion to the foundation in the next four years to fund health and education programs."
It is somehow good to see the world's richest doing this kind of stuff. Of course, it's not like they couldn't afford it, but still.
If I had to watch that ad every time I started my car, and then be forced to watch 5 minutes of ads prior to being able to go anywhere... I probably would! [Assuming that stolen cars came without that ***shit*** they make you watch if you spend your money on a dvd.]
Being Norwegian, I have absolutely no bloody clue. :P
And I've toilet trained mine. Much less poo being walked all across the house. Which is the more gross one?
I (have to) leave the toilet seat up, how would you otherwise expect my cats to be able to use the toilet? Want them to do their business on the floor? The seats are not exactly designed for them to be easily raised using paws. And I very much doubt they'd wanna have a sip of said water after they'd done a #1 or #2.
Besides that, cats are quite fuzzy about what they eat and drink, if it wasn't clean they wouldn't eat or drink it. I also seem to recall research showing toilet seats to be one of the cleaner surfaces around a normal place.
I never click a link in an email to do something that relates to logins. I don't care how authentic something looks, if _one_ link exists, I usually hit "report phishing attempt" in gmail (to assist other users) after spending the tiniest amount of time to classify it as a scam. The only thing I'd ever respond to is one that says "please locate us via your bookmarks" .... in which case I'll punch in the URL from memory and see what they want.
As for DNS, I thought the topic was the typical phishing website as per spam emails sent out, and not being subject of a direct attack that is set up to compromise my computer's DNS files or worse. And for people having such skills I'd think there be better ways (targets) to utilise them.
My router doesn't cache DNS requests and you'd have to get to the box I'm using after slipping through both the router firewall and the software firewall - am I using my Linux box? The XP Box? The XP laptop? - to have any luck. Unless of course you managed to infest my highly reputable ISP, in which case I probably would have to accept defeat.
Is my bloody brain and eye superfilter combo. With these, I don't need any stinking slow-me-down-even-further plugins.
Yeah when I lived in Oslo, Norway I didn't have a car, or a license to drive one; cycled everywhere, kept me fit and saved tonnes of moolah. The city was so small and everything not in it centered around it. Moving to Melbourne, Australia, however, it's a completely different story with a completely different distribution of town centres. Cross about 3 of them on my way to work, and bike network is pretty average for the 22KM trip so I drive every day now. (I have offset the emissions by getting trees planted - http://www.carbonneutral.com.au/)
... if it saves a few car trips around the neighbourhood to scope out places to live. :)
Now I don't have to go to SF, I'll just spend a a few hours online "walking" the place!
I'm a big Zero drinker here in Australia... Looks like I should give it a rest...:n ts.html
http://www.thezeromovement.org/coke_zero_ingredie
The information on www.cocacola.com.au (if you can patience the massive flash object) is close to worthless. Under "About", the entire text on "PRODUCT DIETARY INFORMATION" is:
Beverage pH Range
'Coca-Cola' 2.5
'diet Sprite' 3.1
'diet Coke' 3.1
'Lift' 3.0
caffeine free 'diet Coke' 3.1
'diet Lift' 3.0
'Sprite' 3.2
'Fanta' 2.6
'cherry Coke' 2.5
vanilla 'Coke' 2.5
Sugar Content (grams per 100ml)
'Coca-Cola' 10.6
'Lift' 12.0
'diet Coke' 0
'Fanta' 13
'Sprite' 10.0
'POWERADE' 6
'cherry Coke' 10.7
vanilla 'Coke' 10.9
Calorie Count (per 100ml)
'Coca-Cola' 41
'Lift' 47
'diet Coke' 0.41
'diet Lift' 1.7
'Sprite' 40
'Fanta' 52
'diet Sprite' 1
'cherry Coke' 44
vanilla 'Coke' 44
This is where the value would seem to lie in the asymmetrical distribution of knowledge. Once everyone knows, you no longer have {that much of} an advantage.
Still, even no live GPSes would benefit greatly from some knowledge of traffic bottlenecks and times of the day. If you are going north west, and the most efficient route would have you go west then north was only true at 21:00, @ 18:00 the most efficient route would be north then west. It'd certainly be great to have some sort of smarts in the GPS unit.
(I am speaking as a Garmin 2610 owner).
Not that it has this feature, but when not cooking something I turn mine off at the wall to reduce the (Aussie coal powered) electricity usage. Having a Linux server and router+switch powered 24/7 one has to make certain sacrifices.
Yep - except (only since we are nitpicking) you got two ANDs there:
and and
vs
, and
Some of my old English teachers would probably argue that the ", and" option is the preferable option.