I'm not even a smart guy and I can put 2 and 2 together here. NOTE: "Sci-fi writer",............ this screams "please read my books" or "I have a new book coming, I need my name out there in popular culture for a couple of weeks!"
Ingredients are 1/5'th of the battle. The reality is as I've mentioned to the guy above, the vast majority of fat people are food ADDICTED - this is habits which they need to break, serious habits.
Skinny people simply don't understand, a smoker might understand or alcoholic - and many may ridicule me (or others) for pushing the food addiction theory but as someone who experiences it, I can clarify it's quite real. A smoker, drinker, heroin user, coke user - all these people when they finally quit their addiction it's over - for food addicts, they must eat for the rest of their life, it sits with them forever.
I do appreciate your post, but to clarify my stance, I'm 34 - I have fluctuated between 70 and 115kgs 6 or 7 times over the past 20 years. I can lose weight incredibly easy when I put my mind to it but it's an ongoing battle which I have to fight day in and day out and relenting off course is a disaster due to the addictive nature of my eating. I believe this is why many, many dieters fail. It's not (all) about nutrition help or excercise or even the health benefits of being skinnier or eating better, it's simply about making someone not want to gorge themselves, often by addressing other issues. Every meal is a battle to keep on course, it's amazing how miserable, how difficult it is to order a meal out at a resteraunt when on a diet. You have to make a conscious, sensible choice about what to eat and then eat carefully in front of others. It sounds so trivial probably to skinny people but you're stressing before the meal, then stressing when the meal arrives. It's difficult to even EAT the damned meal, even if you chose wisely, it's easy to go into "zombie eating" mode, the addiction takes over as you shovel the food quickly - I suspect we're probably very ugly people to watch eating, not just due to appearance but the style in which we eat, so compulsive and uncivilised. Finally it's difficult after the meal, you're either sitting there feeling TERRIBLY guilty because you ate too much or you're not feeling satiated because over 50% of your life, your idea of a decent meal is to be gorged to the point of being physically uncomfortable (yet we do it again and again)
Long story short, thank you for the information - people need all the help they can get - I've learnt a lot in the last 2 years about food, nutrition and excercise and did nothing for 18 months of that, ultimately you HAVE to want to do it for yourself.
I am really glad you posted, because as I hit post I forgot to breach the topic of food addiction. I've been watching a lot of supersize vs superskinny (ermmtv on youtube, whole series uploaded!) and observing my own behaviour for 34 years.
I dont' need to go into the sobstory but ultimately I 101% believe in food addiction, without question. I am a major major comfort eater and the sensation is incredibly addictive. Just to note, when you shovel food in it's utterly mindless, the voice in your head saying "you don't need this, you know it's wrong" gets drowned out as you gorge. You can see the person almost become a zombie as they shovel the food.
This may be due to sugar or bad parenting or millions of things, it's certainly compulsive for me - I think the only thing I can say, besides yes I absoloutely experience and understand it is that while yes, fat people got themselves to where they are and yes we are WAY too politically correct about fatties and coddling them, do bear in mind - they don't sit at home thinking "I want to be fat" the weight is a symptom of their issues and depression, generally not the cause (but it sure adds to it) A heroin addict can roll up their sleeves. An alcoholic can not drink for a couple of days and so on - but the food addict cannot hide their problem.
I've emailed Richard last year by the way and he's still the weight he achieved in that article 9 years later.
FWIW: I'm an endomorph who DOES believe that some people hold weight easier, crave carbs and sugar more than others and have a lower BMR. However science is science - these things only make up a small fraction of the work. 95%+ is simply putting in the effort.
I can also confirm that adjusting diet is far, far far more rewarding than excercise for weight loss, despite other health benefits. Just as his article says.
I know it's limited to Apple devices so that's what? 30% of all SMS's people do are now free? Not bad for a piece of software added to your phone.
You can't expect them to do this for everyone, it's not a simple to impliment. I'd be happy with 2 standards, 1 iphone, 1 android - from there consumers will whine enough that we'll eventually get interpolation like we did when SMS didn't go from carrier to carrier.
Google talk does not work seamlessly as default when it detects someone online., The SMS messaging app and the chat / talk app are 2 different entities and not working 'smartly'
Apple deserve credit because their system works/seamlessly/ instantly with any other iphone (I wouldn't be surprised if it works on tablets but I don't know for sure)
The key word here is seamlessly, utterly seamlessly. Therefore you will get 'free' SMS the second you use the App as long as the recipient is on an iphone. It's built in to the OS, nothing more to do.
Hence, Google should be copying this, Google chat like integration - they've already done some work as I've now noticed in one of the newer Android builds that as I scroll through my contacts, some have the green dot representing being online on google chat (talk) - it just needs to default to messaging them off the bat.
Google could then release Google chat for ios, allowing people to receive messages there, although I'm skeptical Apple would allow it.
There is about 15 different companies offering their own messaging systems "for free" - some even offering VOIP calls.
These insidious packages take a copy of all your friends as well and match you up against them, awful things - also never is everyone you know on it, ever. I hate to yet again give Apple credit but building the imessage system into the iphone is brilliant and I sincerely hope Google copy the concept with far far better Google talk integration into the Android OS (frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't been patched in NOW)
Nice of the 3'rd parties to offer this but I'm just not interested unless it's seamless (which, to my knowledge imessage is? if it can imessage, it will - if not, defaults to SMS, seamlessly, right?)
I won't be buying a Nokia product again. Piss the wrong customer off and they'll rail on you for life, I will not only never buy your products, I will tell people never to buy your products. Nokia and Gigabyte will never, ever see a dollar from me again. Ever. Remember this companies, remember it.
Anyone who has an interest in things smashing in to the earth (I do, it's some kind of very fascinating thing for me see: Thanatos) I recommend you check out this film, ideally on a screen absoloutely as large as possible.
This 20k figure has very little to do with programmer time.
It has a LOT more to do with googles size and customer base. When you look at just how much data google has, just how many customers (paying as well, with Google Apps) 20k is absoloute pocket change to possibly convince someone malicious to instead fix the problem than exploit it.
The suit features I guess could be (personally I found no major difference with the skills) but the intuitive and fluid radial menu was utterly abortioned in Crysis 2, despite the same basic functionality (hold down button, move mouse, release) something simply went/wrong/ maybe it was timing of the window appearing or timing of the window closing - but it simply was broken and no where near as fluid
How this frankly stupid post god mod'd +3 insightful is beyond me, I guess I'll spend 10 damn minutes giving you a response that you don't deserve.
First off Crysis 1 is no where near a tech demo, if anything the only thing which could make one think that is the fairly poorly told story throughout the game. That being said, at least Crysis 1 had a good story concept, whereas Crysis 2 CLEARLY outlined to me just how bad they are at story and storytelling. Sometimes it's best to have an idea and then let the user to fill the gaps. (Think Doom, Half Life 1)
Then we come to the gameplay, the suit offered a huge variety of playstyles, from stealth hunt and kill to just typical run and gun action fighting from a standard FPS. Furthermore on higher difficulties the gameplay quality simply ramped up, the combat became even more interesting as stealth was near forced on the player as well as dynamic playstyles.
The ability to modify your guns was refreshing and fun, I loved putting a mid range scope on the basic gun, choosing burst or single fire mode and setting maximum strength (less recoil, more accurate, more damage) then I could mid range snipe my targets, without the limitation of the sniper ammo in the 'proper' sniper rifle. Some however prefferred to sneak up invisible, then run in, hit maximum strength and just choke the guys out and discard them (as seen in the introduction movie)
Many people dislike the open world playstyle, I myself find it can be a bit daunting but the best part of Crysis was it a "linear" open world game, you had some freedom but it was guided, allowing you to not get too far off the beaten track and keeping you in the action and on the story. If anything the pacing was _excellent_ it felt a lot like a movie to be honest, quiet, action scenes, story, quiet - more action and so on - you walked from site to site for the action and it was never more than 15 minutes without a major event. Yes, the graphics were exceptional, this does not make the game a tech demo, a tech demo is Quake 3 (and I loved id software and I still do) but that game is the true definition of a tech demo, no single player at all, basic multiplayer levels - just shiny graphics. Crysis did exceptionally more than this.
I won't even go in to how bad Crysis 2 is, there's too much dissapointment regarding that game. They took away most of the good stuff and added only bad things. I am still annoyed I paid good money for it. (for a start the mouse input code is flat out broken as default, requiring console tweaks, the 'suit menu' which was intuitive, clever and useful in the first game is somehow tweaked to simply be less responsive and frankly broken - and again, now that they are trying to tell a story? ouch - it'd be better if they just went back to a basic concept and let us fill in the blanks)
In conclusion, you're completely and utterly wrong about Crysis, there's also still a large community of fans and mods for the original. If anything Crysis 2 is the definition of 'selling out' and catering to the masses. Good for the bottom dollar but they definitely lost me as a customer.
You can buy very very reasonable used Intel Core 2 Duo / 3 year old IBM / HP / Dell workstations, add a 100$ SSD and 50$ of ram and have a PC which performs as fast or faster than the 800$ new boxes for literally half or less of the price.
I wouldn't recommend it for a large company but mid size it seems quite reasonable to me.
Honestly, I cant' think of 2 groups better suited to hang with each other, it's utterly perfect. Elitist Apple idiots with terrible taste in photography and narcissists.
Are you serious? This actually occurs? I mean... I guess some parents might think that's wise or I guess in some places that might be necessary but I just find that completely surprising. I'd never heard of such a thing, is this common internationally or just in the US?
I've just never heard of it. (Yes, I'm a cracker from Australia)
Has been better than expected, XBMC came a long long long way since my Xbox 1. Playback is smooth, UI is good, even installed MySQL on the little NAS and now the library can be accessed around the house easily with multiple copies of XBMC tied in to the main box. Very good stuff.
I'm using 'classic mode (well, I believe I am anyhow) When I log in to the site with my username and password it looks correct to me. IIRC you guys did a re-design a couple of years back which was repugnant, don't kill off the classic one.
(If you can forward this to the idiots @ IMDB as well, I'd appreciate it. I still quake in fear at the thought of ever having to use their new layout)
South Australias capital is Adelaide, it's slogan is "city of churches" (or was) It's a nasty backwards place mostly filled with savages, few of the civilised Aussies live there at all.
Furthermore, as an Aussie myself, I must ask - what self respecting Aussie would buy Australian? Do you really want to pay 110$ (115$ US) for a game we can import for 40$ US? including shipping?
So the South Australians (which haven't been eaten by the savages) will continue to import like the rest of us.
Slashdot Mirror
If you're stupid enough to broadcast information you don't want out there, it's your own fault.
Sorry :/ some people are fucking stupid and have no idea about technology.
I'm not even a smart guy and I can put 2 and 2 together here. ,............ this screams "please read my books" or "I have a new book coming, I need my name out there in popular culture for a couple of weeks!"
NOTE: "Sci-fi writer"
We're better than this aren't we?
Ingredients are 1/5'th of the battle. The reality is as I've mentioned to the guy above, the vast majority of fat people are food ADDICTED - this is habits which they need to break, serious habits.
Skinny people simply don't understand, a smoker might understand or alcoholic - and many may ridicule me (or others) for pushing the food addiction theory but as someone who experiences it, I can clarify it's quite real.
A smoker, drinker, heroin user, coke user - all these people when they finally quit their addiction it's over - for food addicts, they must eat for the rest of their life, it sits with them forever.
I do appreciate your post, but to clarify my stance, I'm 34 - I have fluctuated between 70 and 115kgs 6 or 7 times over the past 20 years. I can lose weight incredibly easy when I put my mind to it but it's an ongoing battle which I have to fight day in and day out and relenting off course is a disaster due to the addictive nature of my eating. I believe this is why many, many dieters fail. It's not (all) about nutrition help or excercise or even the health benefits of being skinnier or eating better, it's simply about making someone not want to gorge themselves, often by addressing other issues.
Every meal is a battle to keep on course, it's amazing how miserable, how difficult it is to order a meal out at a resteraunt when on a diet. You have to make a conscious, sensible choice about what to eat and then eat carefully in front of others. It sounds so trivial probably to skinny people but you're stressing before the meal, then stressing when the meal arrives. It's difficult to even EAT the damned meal, even if you chose wisely, it's easy to go into "zombie eating" mode, the addiction takes over as you shovel the food quickly - I suspect we're probably very ugly people to watch eating, not just due to appearance but the style in which we eat, so compulsive and uncivilised. Finally it's difficult after the meal, you're either sitting there feeling TERRIBLY guilty because you ate too much or you're not feeling satiated because over 50% of your life, your idea of a decent meal is to be gorged to the point of being physically uncomfortable (yet we do it again and again)
To finish my point, here is a massive post I made on reddit, a self depreciating and honest post covering more of the topic of being fat and what it's like, near 10,000 chars,........
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sd9pf/what_is_it_like_being_a_fat_person/c4dosfp
Long story short, thank you for the information - people need all the help they can get - I've learnt a lot in the last 2 years about food, nutrition and excercise and did nothing for 18 months of that, ultimately you HAVE to want to do it for yourself.
I am really glad you posted, because as I hit post I forgot to breach the topic of food addiction.
I've been watching a lot of supersize vs superskinny (ermmtv on youtube, whole series uploaded!) and observing my own behaviour for 34 years.
I dont' need to go into the sobstory but ultimately I 101% believe in food addiction, without question. I am a major major comfort eater and the sensation is incredibly addictive.
Just to note, when you shovel food in it's utterly mindless, the voice in your head saying "you don't need this, you know it's wrong" gets drowned out as you gorge. You can see the person almost become a zombie as they shovel the food.
This may be due to sugar or bad parenting or millions of things, it's certainly compulsive for me - I think the only thing I can say, besides yes I absoloutely experience and understand it is that while yes, fat people got themselves to where they are and yes we are WAY too politically correct about fatties and coddling them, do bear in mind - they don't sit at home thinking "I want to be fat" the weight is a symptom of their issues and depression, generally not the cause (but it sure adds to it) A heroin addict can roll up their sleeves. An alcoholic can not drink for a couple of days and so on - but the food addict cannot hide their problem.
I think I found this here like 5 years ago and I've kept it since.
http://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays/22-ThePhysicsDiet.htm
I've emailed Richard last year by the way and he's still the weight he achieved in that article 9 years later.
FWIW: I'm an endomorph who DOES believe that some people hold weight easier, crave carbs and sugar more than others and have a lower BMR. However science is science - these things only make up a small fraction of the work. 95%+ is simply putting in the effort.
I can also confirm that adjusting diet is far, far far more rewarding than excercise for weight loss, despite other health benefits. Just as his article says.
I know it's limited to Apple devices so that's what? 30% of all SMS's people do are now free? Not bad for a piece of software added to your phone.
You can't expect them to do this for everyone, it's not a simple to impliment. I'd be happy with 2 standards, 1 iphone, 1 android - from there consumers will whine enough that we'll eventually get interpolation like we did when SMS didn't go from carrier to carrier.
At least it's a partial standard.
Google talk does not work seamlessly as default when it detects someone online.,
The SMS messaging app and the chat / talk app are 2 different entities and not working 'smartly'
Apple deserve credit because their system works /seamlessly/ instantly with any other iphone (I wouldn't be surprised if it works on tablets but I don't know for sure)
The key word here is seamlessly, utterly seamlessly. Therefore you will get 'free' SMS the second you use the App as long as the recipient is on an iphone. It's built in to the OS, nothing more to do.
Hence, Google should be copying this, Google chat like integration - they've already done some work as I've now noticed in one of the newer Android builds that as I scroll through my contacts, some have the green dot representing being online on google chat (talk) - it just needs to default to messaging them off the bat.
Google could then release Google chat for ios, allowing people to receive messages there, although I'm skeptical Apple would allow it.
There is about 15 different companies offering their own messaging systems "for free" - some even offering VOIP calls.
These insidious packages take a copy of all your friends as well and match you up against them, awful things - also never is everyone you know on it, ever.
I hate to yet again give Apple credit but building the imessage system into the iphone is brilliant and I sincerely hope Google copy the concept with far far better Google talk integration into the Android OS (frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't been patched in NOW)
Nice of the 3'rd parties to offer this but I'm just not interested unless it's seamless (which, to my knowledge imessage is? if it can imessage, it will - if not, defaults to SMS, seamlessly, right?)
As an Aussie - this guy is fairly right.
You can get us to whine a fair bit but as for actually doing anything? Simply unheard of. We're so screwed.
I'd ban the "Motorola Xbox" too! It doesn't sound like a legitimate product to me,........
Fucking awesome!
I won't be buying a Nokia product again.
Piss the wrong customer off and they'll rail on you for life, I will not only never buy your products, I will tell people never to buy your products. Nokia and Gigabyte will never, ever see a dollar from me again. Ever. Remember this companies, remember it.
Anyone who has an interest in things smashing in to the earth (I do, it's some kind of very fascinating thing for me see: Thanatos) I recommend you check out this film, ideally on a screen absoloutely as large as possible.
This 20k figure has very little to do with programmer time.
It has a LOT more to do with googles size and customer base. When you look at just how much data google has, just how many customers (paying as well, with Google Apps) 20k is absoloute pocket change to possibly convince someone malicious to instead fix the problem than exploit it.
The suit features I guess could be (personally I found no major difference with the skills) but the intuitive and fluid radial menu was utterly abortioned in Crysis 2, despite the same basic functionality (hold down button, move mouse, release) something simply went /wrong/ maybe it was timing of the window appearing or timing of the window closing - but it simply was broken and no where near as fluid
How this frankly stupid post god mod'd +3 insightful is beyond me, I guess I'll spend 10 damn minutes giving you a response that you don't deserve.
First off Crysis 1 is no where near a tech demo, if anything the only thing which could make one think that is the fairly poorly told story throughout the game. That being said, at least Crysis 1 had a good story concept, whereas Crysis 2 CLEARLY outlined to me just how bad they are at story and storytelling. Sometimes it's best to have an idea and then let the user to fill the gaps. (Think Doom, Half Life 1)
Then we come to the gameplay, the suit offered a huge variety of playstyles, from stealth hunt and kill to just typical run and gun action fighting from a standard FPS. Furthermore on higher difficulties the gameplay quality simply ramped up, the combat became even more interesting as stealth was near forced on the player as well as dynamic playstyles.
The ability to modify your guns was refreshing and fun, I loved putting a mid range scope on the basic gun, choosing burst or single fire mode and setting maximum strength (less recoil, more accurate, more damage) then I could mid range snipe my targets, without the limitation of the sniper ammo in the 'proper' sniper rifle. Some however prefferred to sneak up invisible, then run in, hit maximum strength and just choke the guys out and discard them (as seen in the introduction movie)
Many people dislike the open world playstyle, I myself find it can be a bit daunting but the best part of Crysis was it a "linear" open world game, you had some freedom but it was guided, allowing you to not get too far off the beaten track and keeping you in the action and on the story. If anything the pacing was _excellent_ it felt a lot like a movie to be honest, quiet, action scenes, story, quiet - more action and so on - you walked from site to site for the action and it was never more than 15 minutes without a major event.
Yes, the graphics were exceptional, this does not make the game a tech demo, a tech demo is Quake 3 (and I loved id software and I still do) but that game is the true definition of a tech demo, no single player at all, basic multiplayer levels - just shiny graphics. Crysis did exceptionally more than this.
I won't even go in to how bad Crysis 2 is, there's too much dissapointment regarding that game. They took away most of the good stuff and added only bad things. I am still annoyed I paid good money for it. (for a start the mouse input code is flat out broken as default, requiring console tweaks, the 'suit menu' which was intuitive, clever and useful in the first game is somehow tweaked to simply be less responsive and frankly broken - and again, now that they are trying to tell a story? ouch - it'd be better if they just went back to a basic concept and let us fill in the blanks)
In conclusion, you're completely and utterly wrong about Crysis, there's also still a large community of fans and mods for the original. If anything Crysis 2 is the definition of 'selling out' and catering to the masses. Good for the bottom dollar but they definitely lost me as a customer.
You can buy very very reasonable used Intel Core 2 Duo / 3 year old IBM / HP / Dell workstations, add a 100$ SSD and 50$ of ram and have a PC which performs as fast or faster than the 800$ new boxes for literally half or less of the price.
I wouldn't recommend it for a large company but mid size it seems quite reasonable to me.
Now all the hipsters fucking up their photos with utterly stupid filters can share them easier on facebook!
I mean we are talking about the internet elite here aren't we? The same idiots who said (and I quote) "ew" regarding Android users using their service.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=iphone%20user%20backlash%20over%20android%20instagram&hl=en&meta=#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=iphone+user+backlash+over+android+instagram+-facebook&oq=iphone+user+backlash+over+android+instagram+-facebook&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=serp.3...12799l14431l0l14564l10l10l0l0l0l0l433l1937l0j2j5j0j1l8l0.frgbld.&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=58b7f9b5dc851469&biw=1528&bih=759
Honestly, I cant' think of 2 groups better suited to hang with each other, it's utterly perfect. Elitist Apple idiots with terrible taste in photography and narcissists.
Are you serious? This actually occurs?
I mean... I guess some parents might think that's wise or I guess in some places that might be necessary but I just find that completely surprising. I'd never heard of such a thing, is this common internationally or just in the US?
I've just never heard of it.
(Yes, I'm a cracker from Australia)
Was using PS3 w/Media Centre (DLNA streaming app) on a PC.
Then I read up cinavia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1265114
Decided to convert my NAS
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=hp%20microserver&hl=en&meta= into a HTPC with a slimline video card (40$) and put XBMC on it (plus XBMC remote for Android, no IR, no bluetooth required)
Has been better than expected, XBMC came a long long long way since my Xbox 1.
Playback is smooth, UI is good, even installed MySQL on the little NAS and now the library can be accessed around the house easily with multiple copies of XBMC tied in to the main box.
Very good stuff.
I'm using 'classic mode (well, I believe I am anyhow)
When I log in to the site with my username and password it looks correct to me. IIRC you guys did a re-design a couple of years back which was repugnant, don't kill off the classic one.
(If you can forward this to the idiots @ IMDB as well, I'd appreciate it. I still quake in fear at the thought of ever having to use their new layout)
http://www.trollkingdom.net/forum/showthread.php?t=44354
http://slashdot.org/~klerck
RIP, Truly an American icon.
South Australias capital is Adelaide, it's slogan is "city of churches" (or was)
It's a nasty backwards place mostly filled with savages, few of the civilised Aussies live there at all.
Furthermore, as an Aussie myself, I must ask - what self respecting Aussie would buy Australian? Do you really want to pay 110$ (115$ US) for a game we can import for 40$ US? including shipping?
So the South Australians (which haven't been eaten by the savages) will continue to import like the rest of us.