You're an idiot. Not all fat is bad. In fact, fat is a necessary part of your diet and a single apple and a handful of nuts after exercise is not going to result in too much fat in your diet. I'm a lot more intimately familiar with the practical side of nutrition than you are clearly.
Weight loss is caused by Calories Burned > Calories Consumed. That's the only safe way to lose weight. And it's only safe if Calories Consumed is larger than the amount that triggers ketosis. If you drop all of the fat out of the diet you'll lose muscle mass, your resting calorie burn will decrease, and you will be less healthy. If you keep a reasonable percentage of fat in your diet along with carbohydrates and proteins and maintain a calorie burn higher than your intake you will lose weight.
HOWEVER the original question wasn't about losing weight necessarily. It was about exercising and being in shape on a low time budget. Cutting fat down to 20g/day is going to do nothing good for anyone trying to exercise except make them feel sluggish and tired.
My advice will result in a healthy, fit person. Your advice is stupid and unhealthy. But might result in a "Skinnier" person.
Most of them are going to give you advice you can't implement. I understand where you're coming from and I can actually help you as long as you don't mind the possibility of looking slightly foolish at work.
You work 12 hours a day. I know that you aren't continuously engaged in productive work. No one is. So start there. Every 3 hours take a 15 minute break and do the following:
Set a timer for 5 minutes then do: 100x Jumping Jacks 50x Pushups 50x Bodyweight Squats 50x Leg Raises 50x Crunches, 50x Russian twists (Russian twist is going halfway up in a crunch, then turning left to right, each direction is one)
When you first start out you will probably not finish this in 5 minutes. It doesn't matter. Stop at 5 minutes. Go get some water, walk around for 5 minutes and catch your breath. Now go eat an apple and a handful of peanuts or sunflower seeds or some other healthy snack.
When you eat lunch eat a sandwhich, or a big salad, or a chicken breast, not a bigmac or a whole cheese pizza. Keep a GENERAL IDEA of how many calories you are eatting and keep it somewhere in the 1600-1700 range. You don't have to be precise here, just don't knock down the Triple Whopper and you should be ok.
Do NOT drink sodas. You drink WATER. Nothing else. Vitamin Water or Life Water is acceptable, Powerade and Gatorade are not.
Coffee is acceptable, but not recommended.
Eat every 3 hours, a smallish meal, approximately 6 times a day. Your target is an average of 300 calories per meal, but it's flexible.
And if you want to know what makes me qualified to give this advice and why you should listen to me:
Of the 63 MILLION emails we've processed for our clients (About 60 companies run through our spam filter) 58 million of them are blocked as SPAM. So only 1/12th of the email traffic we see is legit. One of our clients has its own spam filter because they process that much email all by themselves and they have closer to a 1/20 legit traffic. SPAM is a bigger threat to the network than some hypothetical cyber-terrorist.
I have a Honda CRX, it gets 40-50 MPG. So instead of paying 18 cents per 50 miles, I'm now paying 50-100 cents per 50 miles. Even my Nissan NX 2000 gets 35mpg, doubling the amount of tax I pay per gallon of gas. This is only revenue neutral if your vehicle gets 18mpg. People with more fuel efficient vehicles are paying a larger tax with this plan.
This legislation also affects people like my parents who own goats, rabbits, and pigs, who do not sell them commercially. They would be required at great expense to microchip and track these animals as they travel all of 100 feet from the pen to the dinner table. It's a senseless burden on small farms that provides the illusion of accountability more than the reality.
That's what happens when ELECTRICIANS run your data cable. We came in behind an electrician that had taken every cable in the wiring closet, stripped the shielding off to about 1 foot from the wall, and neatly bundled each color of wire pairs together for about 100 cables. So we had a huge bundle of blue, then one of blue/white, then one of orange etc... pairs. Same guy tried to run network jacks in serial the way you can do telephone cable or electrical. Same guy would strip 4-6 inches of shielding off before punching down (incorrectly) at the jacks.
Electricians just see it as low voltage electrical. The master electrician running the crew might know the difference, but the apprentice who is actually doing the work has no clue.
So please, hire a real data wiring company to run your cables.
IX was my third favorite of the games, V being my favorite and VI being my second fav.
I liked the return to a slightly cartoony look, the story was good except for the random twist bossfight at the end, the characters were generally likeable. There were plenty of sidequests you COULD do, but you didn't really HAVE to do them to beat the game. I beat it the first time without ever riding more than 1 chocobo I think... I give it much love. X was better than VIII, X-2 was shittastic, XII was so annoying that I couldn't play it for more than 30 minutes.
I also propose that Simcity, Civilization, the game of Monopoly, and possibly the "Tycoon" series of sims are responsible for the lack of economic planningthat is rampant in our society. I mean, just look at the websites for these video games. Is there any kind of discourse on the harsh realities of capitalism or the far reaching effects of uneven taxation on the social framework of society? No.
The game would also have to consist entirely of brown levels populated by people in slightly less brown armor. Which as I remember describes all of the Quake games, Unreal Tournament, etc... etc... Of course you get better at making fine color distinctions, it's required to be able to SEE in the damn things.
From where I stand the primary benefit of virtualization is that increased redundancy. Instead of running multiple virtual machines on one piece of hardware because I'm cheap I can run 10 virtual machines on 10 pieces of hardware using an iSCSI backbone to shared storage where the images reside and turn on High Availability. Now not only do several redundant components have to fail in each piece of hardware, but many pieces of hardware have to fail in order for there to be a performance issue. I can also upgrade machines, move them in and out, do maintenance, etc... without the users ever seeing any downtime. In addition we can power physical servers down when the load is low and bring them back up as needed to conserve power and reduce the load on the HVAC. The over all savings is pretty decent over the long term even though the upfront cost is a little high. It's also trivial to add new virtual servers to the system and we don't have to add new hardware unless performance is adversely affected. Our 10 physical servers might be adequate for 15, 20, 25 virtual servers with dynamically managed resources. If not we can seamlessly drop a new piece of hardware into the mix or upgrade old ones, again with no down time to the clients. And if a virtual machine craps out it takes only seconds to reload a previous snapshot. Even if the entire datacenter gets hit by a meteor the daily offsite backups of the snapshots means we can have the whole place back up and running in an hour or two in a backup location. Virtualization isn't just a way to cheap out on your hardware, it's a way to ensure absolutely absurd levels of uptime and redundancy.
I have the beta, it's essentially Vista with most of the annoying shit turned off by default. Some screen shots and a quick preview available over at Tech Empire.
There was a time in my life when I regularly consumed 1500mg of caffeine every 24 hours. I had no hallucinations, no paranoia... Nothing. The headaches when I stopped were nothing short of spectacular, but other than intense concentration and a frantic work pace I never saw anything crazy from the caffeine intake. And that's a hell of a lot more than 3 cups of coffee.
Along the same lines is Coder For Hire that let's you freelance out for a set rate or bid by the project, etc... Good way to build a portfolio and make contacts, etc...
To update this, I've had two people confirm they were able to hard reset the zune with the buttons during startup, I've had about a dozen tell me they weren't able to. I do have confirmation from a microsoft employee that the issue is with the latest firmware version and rolling back to an older firmware will temporarily solve the issue if you can do it. He was recommending the hard reset procedure that I have posted. If that doesn't work you can try the hard reset method that Gizmodo posted, but I haven't been able to get anyone to confirm that one for me.
Zunes with older firmwares are unaffected, a hard reset will blow away the current firmware and get your Zune working again. Already have the fix posted at The Tech Empire
The Monkey Island series is a brilliant example of how the Narrator can make the game awesome. Even in the later incarnations with fewer options and all that those games are quirky, intelligent, and entertaining precisely because the dialogue takes into account a very very wide array of possible actions with each item you have. We would spend time combining random items just to see what the narration had to say about our attempts. Grim Fandango was another game with the same kind of awesome.
The problem I always had with the text adventure games was the limitation of the parser, in that "Use Saw With Tree" might work, whereas "Use Saw On Tree" wouldn't. That makes no sense. For a modern text adventure game I would expect a more robust parser by far than the ones I remember from the 80s.
I fully endorse this. I got my first tech job with no real experience and no degree because my girlfriends dad worked for the company and recommended me. I got my current job partly because a good friend of mine was the local Dell tech and recommended me to this company. If nothing else it can help you get past the HR department which will frequently circular file your resume if you don't fill in enough of their boxes on Resume Buzzword Bingo.
The concerns that I have heard have less to do with the ability to generate the power and more with transporting it to the end destinations. Mostly because the vehicles aren't evenly distributed around the country.
I'm not surprised they work really well. I'm glad they do. But those methods are in no way inhibited by also restricting the level of access the kids have on the PCs which makes the teachers job easier. I am not suggesting that locking down the PC is an excuse for paying 0 attention to the students. But there is no good reason not to restrict access in that environment.
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You're an idiot. Not all fat is bad.
In fact, fat is a necessary part of your diet and a single apple and a handful of nuts after exercise is not going to result in too much fat in your diet. I'm a lot more intimately familiar with the practical side of nutrition than you are clearly.
Weight loss is caused by Calories Burned > Calories Consumed. That's the only safe way to lose weight. And it's only safe if Calories Consumed is larger than the amount that triggers ketosis. If you drop all of the fat out of the diet you'll lose muscle mass, your resting calorie burn will decrease, and you will be less healthy. If you keep a reasonable percentage of fat in your diet along with carbohydrates and proteins and maintain a calorie burn higher than your intake you will lose weight.
HOWEVER the original question wasn't about losing weight necessarily. It was about exercising and being in shape on a low time budget. Cutting fat down to 20g/day is going to do nothing good for anyone trying to exercise except make them feel sluggish and tired.
My advice will result in a healthy, fit person. Your advice is stupid and unhealthy. But might result in a "Skinnier" person.
Most of them are going to give you advice you can't implement. I understand where you're coming from and I can actually help you as long as you don't mind the possibility of looking slightly foolish at work.
You work 12 hours a day. I know that you aren't continuously engaged in productive work. No one is. So start there. Every 3 hours take a 15 minute break and do the following:
Set a timer for 5 minutes then do:
100x Jumping Jacks
50x Pushups
50x Bodyweight Squats
50x Leg Raises
50x Crunches,
50x Russian twists (Russian twist is going halfway up in a crunch, then turning left to right, each direction is one)
When you first start out you will probably not finish this in 5 minutes. It doesn't matter. Stop at 5 minutes. Go get some water, walk around for 5 minutes and catch your breath.
Now go eat an apple and a handful of peanuts or sunflower seeds or some other healthy snack.
When you eat lunch eat a sandwhich, or a big salad, or a chicken breast, not a bigmac or a whole cheese pizza. Keep a GENERAL IDEA of how many calories you are eatting and keep it somewhere in the 1600-1700 range. You don't have to be precise here, just don't knock down the Triple Whopper and you should be ok.
Do NOT drink sodas. You drink WATER. Nothing else. Vitamin Water or Life Water is acceptable, Powerade and Gatorade are not.
Coffee is acceptable, but not recommended.
Eat every 3 hours, a smallish meal, approximately 6 times a day. Your target is an average of 300 calories per meal, but it's flexible.
And if you want to know what makes me qualified to give this advice and why you should listen to me:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kintanon&search_type=
Of the 63 MILLION emails we've processed for our clients (About 60 companies run through our spam filter) 58 million of them are blocked as SPAM.
So only 1/12th of the email traffic we see is legit. One of our clients has its own spam filter because they process that much email all by themselves and they have closer to a 1/20 legit traffic.
SPAM is a bigger threat to the network than some hypothetical cyber-terrorist.
I have a Honda CRX, it gets 40-50 MPG. So instead of paying 18 cents per 50 miles, I'm now paying 50-100 cents per 50 miles. Even my Nissan NX 2000 gets 35mpg, doubling the amount of tax I pay per gallon of gas. This is only revenue neutral if your vehicle gets 18mpg. People with more fuel efficient vehicles are paying a larger tax with this plan.
Screw that.
This legislation also affects people like my parents who own goats, rabbits, and pigs, who do not sell them commercially. They would be required at great expense to microchip and track these animals as they travel all of 100 feet from the pen to the dinner table. It's a senseless burden on small farms that provides the illusion of accountability more than the reality.
...They are awesome.
That's what happens when ELECTRICIANS run your data cable.
We came in behind an electrician that had taken every cable in the wiring closet, stripped the shielding off to about 1 foot from the wall, and neatly bundled each color of wire pairs together for about 100 cables. So we had a huge bundle of blue, then one of blue/white, then one of orange etc... pairs.
Same guy tried to run network jacks in serial the way you can do telephone cable or electrical.
Same guy would strip 4-6 inches of shielding off before punching down (incorrectly) at the jacks.
Electricians just see it as low voltage electrical. The master electrician running the crew might know the difference, but the apprentice who is actually doing the work has no clue.
So please, hire a real data wiring company to run your cables.
IX was my third favorite of the games, V being my favorite and VI being my second fav.
I liked the return to a slightly cartoony look, the story was good except for the random twist bossfight at the end, the characters were generally likeable. There were plenty of sidequests you COULD do, but you didn't really HAVE to do them to beat the game. I beat it the first time without ever riding more than 1 chocobo I think...
I give it much love.
X was better than VIII, X-2 was shittastic, XII was so annoying that I couldn't play it for more than 30 minutes.
I also propose that Simcity, Civilization, the game of Monopoly, and possibly the "Tycoon" series of sims are responsible for the lack of economic planningthat is rampant in our society. I mean, just look at the websites for these video games. Is there any kind of discourse on the harsh realities of capitalism or the far reaching effects of uneven taxation on the social framework of society? No.
Your argument is stupid.
The game would also have to consist entirely of brown levels populated by people in slightly less brown armor. Which as I remember describes all of the Quake games, Unreal Tournament, etc... etc...
Of course you get better at making fine color distinctions, it's required to be able to SEE in the damn things.
From where I stand the primary benefit of virtualization is that increased redundancy. Instead of running multiple virtual machines on one piece of hardware because I'm cheap I can run 10 virtual machines on 10 pieces of hardware using an iSCSI backbone to shared storage where the images reside and turn on High Availability. Now not only do several redundant components have to fail in each piece of hardware, but many pieces of hardware have to fail in order for there to be a performance issue. I can also upgrade machines, move them in and out, do maintenance, etc... without the users ever seeing any downtime. In addition we can power physical servers down when the load is low and bring them back up as needed to conserve power and reduce the load on the HVAC. The over all savings is pretty decent over the long term even though the upfront cost is a little high.
It's also trivial to add new virtual servers to the system and we don't have to add new hardware unless performance is adversely affected. Our 10 physical servers might be adequate for 15, 20, 25 virtual servers with dynamically managed resources. If not we can seamlessly drop a new piece of hardware into the mix or upgrade old ones, again with no down time to the clients. And if a virtual machine craps out it takes only seconds to reload a previous snapshot. Even if the entire datacenter gets hit by a meteor the daily offsite backups of the snapshots means we can have the whole place back up and running in an hour or two in a backup location. Virtualization isn't just a way to cheap out on your hardware, it's a way to ensure absolutely absurd levels of uptime and redundancy.
I have the beta, it's essentially Vista with most of the annoying shit turned off by default.
Some screen shots and a quick preview available over at Tech Empire.
I did, Screenshots here:
Google Flags Itself as Harmful Hilarity ensued.
There was a time in my life when I regularly consumed 1500mg of caffeine every 24 hours. I had no hallucinations, no paranoia... Nothing.
The headaches when I stopped were nothing short of spectacular, but other than intense concentration and a frantic work pace I never saw anything crazy from the caffeine intake. And that's a hell of a lot more than 3 cups of coffee.
Heretic. Tom Baker stands atop a pile of decapitated other so called "Doctors" in my shrine.
replying to myself because I'm an idiot, wrong site.
RentACoder is the site I was thinking of.
Along the same lines is Coder For Hire that let's you freelance out for a set rate or bid by the project, etc... Good way to build a portfolio and make contacts, etc...
To update this, I've had two people confirm they were able to hard reset the zune with the buttons during startup, I've had about a dozen tell me they weren't able to.
I do have confirmation from a microsoft employee that the issue is with the latest firmware version and rolling back to an older firmware will temporarily solve the issue if you can do it. He was recommending the hard reset procedure that I have posted.
If that doesn't work you can try the hard reset method that Gizmodo posted, but I haven't been able to get anyone to confirm that one for me.
Not true. Holding the buttons during startup does do a hard reset. Already had it confirmed.
Zunes with older firmwares are unaffected, a hard reset will blow away the current firmware and get your Zune working again.
Already have the fix posted at The Tech Empire
Whoot, go me.
The Monkey Island series is a brilliant example of how the Narrator can make the game awesome. Even in the later incarnations with fewer options and all that those games are quirky, intelligent, and entertaining precisely because the dialogue takes into account a very very wide array of possible actions with each item you have. We would spend time combining random items just to see what the narration had to say about our attempts.
Grim Fandango was another game with the same kind of awesome.
The problem I always had with the text adventure games was the limitation of the parser, in that "Use Saw With Tree" might work, whereas "Use Saw On Tree" wouldn't. That makes no sense. For a modern text adventure game I would expect a more robust parser by far than the ones I remember from the 80s.
I fully endorse this.
I got my first tech job with no real experience and no degree because my girlfriends dad worked for the company and recommended me.
I got my current job partly because a good friend of mine was the local Dell tech and recommended me to this company.
If nothing else it can help you get past the HR department which will frequently circular file your resume if you don't fill in enough of their boxes on Resume Buzzword Bingo.
The concerns that I have heard have less to do with the ability to generate the power and more with transporting it to the end destinations. Mostly because the vehicles aren't evenly distributed around the country.
Just out of curiosity, are you aware of what adding a million or so plug-in vehicles will do to the already taxed power grid?
I'm not surprised they work really well. I'm glad they do. But those methods are in no way inhibited by also restricting the level of access the kids have on the PCs which makes the teachers job easier.
I am not suggesting that locking down the PC is an excuse for paying 0 attention to the students. But there is no good reason not to restrict access in that environment.