Acid. An entire Atmosphere made of Acid. You have to build enough shielding that the entire system (or even just some important exposed bit or piece) doesn't get devoured by Acid.
No you idiot. They were not taking a loss on each console. They broke even on the OVER ALL cost of development and production of the console. Each individual console was sold for more that it cost to produce it. Hence profit. They made enough by early last year to recoup all of their developmental expenses, so now they are using the PS2 to both fund their next console and to roll money into the rest of their console division. But the fact remains, every individual PS2 was sold by Sony for more money than it cost Sony to produce it. Because Sony is my Dark Master, and they roxor.
OUTRIGHT LIE! Either that or you are horribly misinformed about the console market. Sony NEVER EVER sells their consoles at a loss. they made a profit on every single PS2 sold, and even now at reduced cost they are still making a profit and will continue to do so. Rumor has it that they were even making a profit selling the PS1 at 70+. MSFT might be dumb enough to believe the myth that taking a loss on the hardware is worth it for the market share, but Sony will disabuse them of that notion quickly enough. Nintendo also makes a profit of their consoles. Though I don't know the details.
Kintanon Disclaimer: I sold my Soul to Sony, when they become the first MegaCorp and begin their bid for total world domination I'll be first in line to join the shocktroops.
Not to mention ANYTHING with blinking lights. Fax machines, copiers, pagers, cellphones, stereo equipment, projectors, if it's got LEDs in it somewhere you have to deal with it.
And it's always more urgent than whatever you're doing now.
Beef has always been too heavy for me. My primary meat source is Turkey. I love turkey subs and sandwhiches. I'm ovo-lacto for the most part because I just don't like beef. I'm not hardcore ovo-lacto though, probably once a week I have a turkey breast sub for lunch instead of pasta. And once a month I probably have fish for dinner. The texturned veggie protein is GREAT if you mix it into your pasta sauce, it gives it the same kind of texture as having ground beef, and it doesn't alter the taste any. I hate drinking anything heavier than 1% milk. And I really don't like milk that much at all. I'm seriously considering starting to bike to work, if I weren't terrified by the way students drive here and the complete lack of bikelanes/sidewalks between my side of town and the side work is on. I probably do need to push my calorie intake up another 500 or so calories... I overheat after I eat very much as well, I never realized those things were related. I always was just thinking, "Eat hot food, start sweating." I grew up drinking kool-aid, so it's kind of a habit. One thing my wife used to do for me was take a packet of kool-aid, some orange juice, a couple of bananas, some ice, and maybe some other fruit and blend them together with I think some honey and a little sugar.... That made me a really yummy smoothie, I might ask her to start doing that again, then I can drink those instead of kool-aid.... My wife is trying to lose weight, she's on the Pritikin diet, she's doing well so far.
You are confusing Mathamatics and Arithmatic. Kids are not mentally ready for math until 5th grade at the earliest. Until then then need some facts (arithmatic) as a foundation.
Eh? By 1st grade I was happily doing algebra at home. By second crade I could factor some polynomials. By 5th grade I was in love with Euclidean Geometry, by 7th grade I never wanted to see another mathbook again so long as I lived. The reason for the above progression is that my dad loved math, I could do basic math, understood negative numbers, and was quite proficient at all of the normal arithmatic before I even began school. He continued to keep me ahead of the school, and when I was a little kid I didn't mind breezing through assignments in school because it was still fun to get rewarded through recognition as being good at it. By middle school, recognition meant I got the shit kicked out of me at lunch every day. So I stopped doing anything in class. I aced the tests, did none of the homework, and made Cs. Good enough to pass, low enough to stay off the teachers radar. The capacity for learning is present from the beginning, it just has to be fed. But that isn't always a good thing, if you speed past the rest of your age group, eventually you are subject to ridicule which checks your development and can sometimes turn you completely off of a subject. Because of my own experiences I NEVER really learned Trig or Calc. By 11th grade I had stopped liking mathematics except as an outlet to show the people who worked hard and got As that I was still smarter than they were by doing the really hard problems and nothing else. So I didn't pay attention in class, didn't do any work, and eventually found out I couldn't do even the easy probs in Calc. I ended up failing calculus, and it sucked. So be careful what you wish for, your kid might be a math genius for 10 years and then decide it's not worth the aggravation and give up.
I only want to put on 10lbs, I want to weigh 135lbs, all of it muscle. But the extra 10lbs of muscle is what I feel I need to break the 200lb mark on my benchpress. My lower body workout is all plyometrics, and trunk strength training (Situps, crunches, pilates style stuff as well) no lifting. I don't want to super bulkup, just pack on 10lbs or so. My current diet involves, breakfast, Slimfast Drink (220 calories, 15gr Protein, about 35g of Carbs), Snack at work, usually a granola bar (180 calories, 29g Carb, 4g protein), lunch a Cheese sandwhich (No clue how many calories this is, I would guess around 240) and 2 servings of Pasta (Another 200 or so calories, all carbs), afternoon snack (usually some potato chips or a snickers bar, around 300 calories worth), Dinner of Pasta, about 8 servings (with sauce and textured vegetable protein, approx 1500 calories. Almost all carbs, about 300 calories from protein), evening snack either a slimfast bar (8g protein, 220 calories, the rest carbs) or another cheese sandwhich. My primary drink is water, supplemented by the occasional Mt. Dew and Kool-Aid. So I'm eatting about 3000 calories a day. I get on average 8 hours of sleep per night, sometimes more, sometimes less. I wish I could get more, but I can't. I might make an effort to add another hour to my sleep schedule, but that usually means I just wake up an hour earlier. I guess I could try to cram on some more protein... I can only bench 160x 8 reps right now, I won't move up to 170 until I can do it 10 reps. Right now I end up at 160x8. 130x15, 100x20.
So what do you think? Is my only recourse to trade out my beloved pasta for steak or something?
Kintanon
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Star Wars RPG takes care of this nicely. In the Star Wars RPG most people end up being more like Han Solo or Leie, or a Storm Trooper than a Jedi. Each party of 6 might have 1 Jedi in it. Some parties will have none, and in some rare campaigns you'll have 5 Jedi and a noble. I think that with the range of character classes available the Mass Jedi problem won't be quit as big as people think. I personally would rather be Han Solo than Luke Skywalker (Whiny farmboy....) but then, that's just me.
That must have been some good shit you were smoking this morning... It's got you believing all KINDS of crazy stuff. Lobo would get soundly thrashed by The Dark Knight.
Your children? Why don't you do it.... What's with the constant notion that 'Our Children' will fix everything? Our children are no more likely to do anything than we are, and they aren't substantially smarter. So why not you get off your ass and do something to help? Maybe we could go for the novel concept of doing something about the problem ourselves instead of hopeing that someone in the future will fix the problem so we don't need to worry about it? Really, if everyone says, 'Our kids will fix it..' then who is going to fix it for real? Your parents probably thought the same thing about you too y'know.
Since he just started, 20lbs a month is not dangerous at all. Half of it is almost certainly water weight, the other half is probably real weightloss. If he's still losing more than 2lbs a week after being on the diet for 3-4 months, then he should make sure he's staying hydrated and make sure that he's not losing muscle mass for some reason.
And any time insulin levels are above a certain point, you store unused carbohydrates as FAT. You don't have to eat any fat whatsoever to get fat, which I think we all agree is unhealthy.
So why am I not ballooned up like a giant michelin man mascot? I eat a high carb, medium proteon, low fat diet, 50,40,10 or 60/30/10 depending on what I have that day. I excersise 2-3 times a week, but I do barely any aerobic excersise any more because I'm trying to gain weight. I'm stuck at 125lbs, as I have been for the last 4 years. My body fat is less than 4%, and I benchpress 180lbs (or 160lbs 6 times). I can run a mile at a steady 7mph. I've been training in the Martial Arts for the last 8 years. So is it the excersise that keeps me from gaining weight? Do I need to include more fat? more protein? Losing weight is easy, gaining weight is hard...
Teenagers who become vegan/vegetarian without knowing enough about it WILL become unhealthy from lack of protein. When you're a teen your body is growing the same way it grows when you are excersising heavily and it needs more protein than normal for muscle growth. I've known many vegetarian and vegan teens who eat nothing but lettuce, broccoli, and carrots, and drink nothing but water. That is NOT a healthy diet. No vitamin supplements, no nuts or legumes, nothing at all. These people were barely getting enough calories to survive, and they thought that being a vegetarian was GREAT because they lost 20lbs doing it. But they weren't healthy. The original poster is right, especially with teens a lot of people have no idea what a healthy vegetarian diet is and can make themselves sick because of it.
OK, great, so you have a good plan for losing weight, well I weigh 125lbs, soaking wet, with rocks in my pockets. My current workout involves benching 160 as many times as I can, then 130 as many times as I can, then 100 as many times as I can. Then doing lat pulls with 120, fingertip latpulls with 90, and fingertip chindowns with 90. (Those last two are for rock climbing practice) I'm trying to GAIN weight and nothing works. I eat tons, I supplement my normal 2000ish calorie diet with slimfast drinks for breakfast and those slimfast bars as a snack during the day. The heaviest I have ever been was 129lbs, and that was when I first started drinking the slimfasts (The first two weeks I gained 6lbs, then I dropped the next week, and the next, until I as back down around 124/125). So WTF can I do to GAIN weight? I've always been good at figuring out how to lose weight, and helping other people loe weight, but everything I've read about gaining weight says to start chugging Protein shakes, and I already consume about 50 grams of protein a day, which is more than enough for someone my size.
How about it folks? How can I gain some weight? That doesn't involve being totally sedentary and pigging out on icecream....
>:) That's ok, I was just poking a bit of fun. ROTFLMAO is the only 'Net acronym that I use in real life speaking. And I feel like such a geek whenever I do... But the sound of the word just complements any fun comment perfectly.
I should have specified that I was talking completely about formal non creative writing. But yes, every one that I know of who has been to college was told in their Lit 101 and 102 classes that you DO NOT use contractions in formal works.
I just have to say, I am *NOT* an Oracle admin in any sense of the word, but I even I can bring up such elementary information as the ORACLE_SID and ORACLE_HOME and other things like that... I don't see how someone who is supposed to be know the DB inside and out could NOT have bothered to learn how to do things like that under almost every situation. It just doesn't seem very thorough.
And... India is STILL Third World by the original definition as they are not considered Allies to the US or to Russia/Former Soviet Bloc countries. Making them still a part of the Third World politically. Economically I would consider them on par with the former Second World countries, but not quite up to First world status simply due to having SO MUCH population that it drags down their average.
Why is it that people with no real support for their arguments immediately jump to assuming that the other person is living alone, in high school, in their parents basement? I'm married, I'm a sysadmin, and I live in an apartment. Just because you don't understand the definition of the word theft doesn't mean you have free license to insult everyone and then assume that means you have won the argument. The rightness or wrongness of software copying and distribution is not the issue in this particular conversation, the issue is that Theft is the wrong word to apply to the concept. Theft involves posession of an item changing hands. My brother had his CD player stolen, I have a copy of Rounders. Those two things are fundamentally different in concept. Until people begin to understand that then we will be stalled arguing about it.
You critically err. There is no object involved. And object is something physical. An Mp3 is not an object. Also, he did not remove the Mp3 from the posession of the original owner. And I garauntee you that if you walk into court, point at someone and say 'That guy stole my hammer' just because he has an exact copy of your hammer, if you have your hammer in your hand they'll throw you out of court.
Learn to play Spades, Hearts, and possibly Poker like a pro. That will help you keep from getting your ass kicked since you'll be able to pay off the really big fuckers with cigarettes and shit...
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Acid. An entire Atmosphere made of Acid.
You have to build enough shielding that the entire system (or even just some important exposed bit or piece) doesn't get devoured by Acid.
Kintanon
No you idiot. They were not taking a loss on each console. They broke even on the OVER ALL cost of development and production of the console. Each individual console was sold for more that it cost to produce it. Hence profit. They made enough by early last year to recoup all of their developmental expenses, so now they are using the PS2 to both fund their next console and to roll money into the rest of their console division. But the fact remains, every individual PS2 was sold by Sony for more money than it cost Sony to produce it.
Because Sony is my Dark Master, and they roxor.
Kintanon
OUTRIGHT LIE!
Either that or you are horribly misinformed about the console market.
Sony NEVER EVER sells their consoles at a loss. they made a profit on every single PS2 sold, and even now at reduced cost they are still making a profit and will continue to do so. Rumor has it that they were even making a profit selling the PS1 at 70+. MSFT might be dumb enough to believe the myth that taking a loss on the hardware is worth it for the market share, but Sony will disabuse them of that notion quickly enough.
Nintendo also makes a profit of their consoles. Though I don't know the details.
Kintanon
Disclaimer: I sold my Soul to Sony, when they become the first MegaCorp and begin their bid for total world domination I'll be first in line to join the shocktroops.
Not to mention ANYTHING with blinking lights. Fax machines, copiers, pagers, cellphones, stereo equipment, projectors, if it's got LEDs in it somewhere you have to deal with it.
And it's always more urgent than whatever you're doing now.
Kintanon
Beef has always been too heavy for me. My primary meat source is Turkey. I love turkey subs and sandwhiches. I'm ovo-lacto for the most part because I just don't like beef. I'm not hardcore ovo-lacto though, probably once a week I have a turkey breast sub for lunch instead of pasta. And once a month I probably have fish for dinner.
The texturned veggie protein is GREAT if you mix it into your pasta sauce, it gives it the same kind of texture as having ground beef, and it doesn't alter the taste any. I hate drinking anything heavier than 1% milk. And I really don't like milk that much at all. I'm seriously considering starting to bike to work, if I weren't terrified by the way students drive here and the complete lack of bikelanes/sidewalks between my side of town and the side work is on. I probably do need to push my calorie intake up another 500 or so calories... I overheat after I eat very much as well, I never realized those things were related. I always was just thinking, "Eat hot food, start sweating."
I grew up drinking kool-aid, so it's kind of a habit. One thing my wife used to do for me was take a packet of kool-aid, some orange juice, a couple of bananas, some ice, and maybe some other fruit and blend them together with I think some honey and a little sugar.... That made me a really yummy smoothie, I might ask her to start doing that again, then I can drink those instead of kool-aid.... My wife is trying to lose weight, she's on the Pritikin diet, she's doing well so far.
Kintanon
You are confusing Mathamatics and Arithmatic. Kids are not mentally ready for math until 5th grade at the earliest. Until then then need some facts (arithmatic) as a foundation.
Eh? By 1st grade I was happily doing algebra at home. By second crade I could factor some polynomials. By 5th grade I was in love with Euclidean Geometry, by 7th grade I never wanted to see another mathbook again so long as I lived.
The reason for the above progression is that my dad loved math, I could do basic math, understood negative numbers, and was quite proficient at all of the normal arithmatic before I even began school. He continued to keep me ahead of the school, and when I was a little kid I didn't mind breezing through assignments in school because it was still fun to get rewarded through recognition as being good at it. By middle school, recognition meant I got the shit kicked out of me at lunch every day. So I stopped doing anything in class. I aced the tests, did none of the homework, and made Cs. Good enough to pass, low enough to stay off the teachers radar. The capacity for learning is present from the beginning, it just has to be fed. But that isn't always a good thing, if you speed past the rest of your age group, eventually you are subject to ridicule which checks your development and can sometimes turn you completely off of a subject. Because of my own experiences I NEVER really learned Trig or Calc. By 11th grade I had stopped liking mathematics except as an outlet to show the people who worked hard and got As that I was still smarter than they were by doing the really hard problems and nothing else. So I didn't pay attention in class, didn't do any work, and eventually found out I couldn't do even the easy probs in Calc. I ended up failing calculus, and it sucked.
So be careful what you wish for, your kid might be a math genius for 10 years and then decide it's not worth the aggravation and give up.
Kintanon
I only want to put on 10lbs, I want to weigh 135lbs, all of it muscle. But the extra 10lbs of muscle is what I feel I need to break the 200lb mark on my benchpress. My lower body workout is all plyometrics, and trunk strength training (Situps, crunches, pilates style stuff as well) no lifting.
I don't want to super bulkup, just pack on 10lbs or so. My current diet involves, breakfast, Slimfast Drink (220 calories, 15gr Protein, about 35g of Carbs), Snack at work, usually a granola bar (180 calories, 29g Carb, 4g protein), lunch a Cheese sandwhich (No clue how many calories this is, I would guess around 240) and 2 servings of Pasta (Another 200 or so calories, all carbs), afternoon snack (usually some potato chips or a snickers bar, around 300 calories worth), Dinner of Pasta, about 8 servings (with sauce and textured vegetable protein, approx 1500 calories. Almost all carbs, about 300 calories from protein), evening snack either a slimfast bar (8g protein, 220 calories, the rest carbs) or another cheese sandwhich. My primary drink is water, supplemented by the occasional Mt. Dew and Kool-Aid. So I'm eatting about 3000 calories a day.
I get on average 8 hours of sleep per night, sometimes more, sometimes less. I wish I could get more, but I can't. I might make an effort to add another hour to my sleep schedule, but that usually means I just wake up an hour earlier.
I guess I could try to cram on some more protein... I can only bench 160x 8 reps right now, I won't move up to 170 until I can do it 10 reps. Right now I end up at 160x8. 130x15, 100x20.
So what do you think? Is my only recourse to trade out my beloved pasta for steak or something?
Kintanon
Star Wars RPG takes care of this nicely. In the Star Wars RPG most people end up being more like Han Solo or Leie, or a Storm Trooper than a Jedi. Each party of 6 might have 1 Jedi in it. Some parties will have none, and in some rare campaigns you'll have 5 Jedi and a noble. I think that with the range of character classes available the Mass Jedi problem won't be quit as big as people think. I personally would rather be Han Solo than Luke Skywalker (Whiny farmboy....) but then, that's just me.
Kintanon
That must have been some good shit you were smoking this morning... It's got you believing all KINDS of crazy stuff. Lobo would get soundly thrashed by The Dark Knight.
Kintanon
Your children? Why don't you do it....
What's with the constant notion that 'Our Children' will fix everything? Our children are no more likely to do anything than we are, and they aren't substantially smarter. So why not you get off your ass and do something to help? Maybe we could go for the novel concept of doing something about the problem ourselves instead of hopeing that someone in the future will fix the problem so we don't need to worry about it? Really, if everyone says, 'Our kids will fix it..' then who is going to fix it for real? Your parents probably thought the same thing about you too y'know.
Kintanon
Since he just started, 20lbs a month is not dangerous at all. Half of it is almost certainly water weight, the other half is probably real weightloss. If he's still losing more than 2lbs a week after being on the diet for 3-4 months, then he should make sure he's staying hydrated and make sure that he's not losing muscle mass for some reason.
Kintanon
And any time insulin levels are above a certain point, you store unused carbohydrates as FAT. You don't have to eat any fat whatsoever to get fat, which I think we all agree is unhealthy.
So why am I not ballooned up like a giant michelin man mascot? I eat a high carb, medium proteon, low fat diet, 50,40,10 or 60/30/10 depending on what I have that day. I excersise 2-3 times a week, but I do barely any aerobic excersise any more because I'm trying to gain weight. I'm stuck at 125lbs, as I have been for the last 4 years. My body fat is less than 4%, and I benchpress 180lbs (or 160lbs 6 times). I can run a mile at a steady 7mph. I've been training in the Martial Arts for the last 8 years. So is it the excersise that keeps me from gaining weight? Do I need to include more fat? more protein? Losing weight is easy, gaining weight is hard...
Kintanon
Teenagers who become vegan/vegetarian without knowing enough about it WILL become unhealthy from lack of protein. When you're a teen your body is growing the same way it grows when you are excersising heavily and it needs more protein than normal for muscle growth. I've known many vegetarian and vegan teens who eat nothing but lettuce, broccoli, and carrots, and drink nothing but water. That is NOT a healthy diet. No vitamin supplements, no nuts or legumes, nothing at all. These people were barely getting enough calories to survive, and they thought that being a vegetarian was GREAT because they lost 20lbs doing it. But they weren't healthy.
The original poster is right, especially with teens a lot of people have no idea what a healthy vegetarian diet is and can make themselves sick because of it.
Kintanon
OK, great, so you have a good plan for losing weight, well I weigh 125lbs, soaking wet, with rocks in my pockets. My current workout involves benching 160 as many times as I can, then 130 as many times as I can, then 100 as many times as I can. Then doing lat pulls with 120, fingertip latpulls with 90, and fingertip chindowns with 90. (Those last two are for rock climbing practice) I'm trying to GAIN weight and nothing works. I eat tons, I supplement my normal 2000ish calorie diet with slimfast drinks for breakfast and those slimfast bars as a snack during the day. The heaviest I have ever been was 129lbs, and that was when I first started drinking the slimfasts (The first two weeks I gained 6lbs, then I dropped the next week, and the next, until I as back down around 124/125). So WTF can I do to GAIN weight? I've always been good at figuring out how to lose weight, and helping other people loe weight, but everything I've read about gaining weight says to start chugging Protein shakes, and I already consume about 50 grams of protein a day, which is more than enough for someone my size.
How about it folks? How can I gain some weight?
That doesn't involve being totally sedentary and pigging out on icecream....
Kintanon
>:) That's ok, I was just poking a bit of fun. ROTFLMAO is the only 'Net acronym that I use in real life speaking. And I feel like such a geek whenever I do... But the sound of the word just complements any fun comment perfectly.
Kintanon
I should have specified that I was talking completely about formal non creative writing. But yes, every one that I know of who has been to college was told in their Lit 101 and 102 classes that you DO NOT use contractions in formal works.
Kintanon
I just have to say, I am *NOT* an Oracle admin in any sense of the word, but I even I can bring up such elementary information as the ORACLE_SID and ORACLE_HOME and other things like that... I don't see how someone who is supposed to be know the DB inside and out could NOT have bothered to learn how to do things like that under almost every situation. It just doesn't seem very thorough.
Kintanon
Get yer fscking acronyms right. It's ROTFLMAO. Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off. ROFLMOA makes no sense at all!
Kintanon
In formal written papers using a contraction will lose you points in college.
Kintanon
Now I have to spend 17 seconds dicking around until slashdot decides to let me post the stupid comment...lalalalalal....
And... India is STILL Third World by the original definition as they are not considered Allies to the US or to Russia/Former Soviet Bloc countries. Making them still a part of the Third World politically. Economically I would consider them on par with the former Second World countries, but not quite up to First world status simply due to having SO MUCH population that it drags down their average.
Kintanon
Now I have to type a bunch of crap down here to make slashdot pass through my editorial comment.
What waste of bits and bytes.
Kintanon
Why is it that people with no real support for their arguments immediately jump to assuming that the other person is living alone, in high school, in their parents basement? I'm married, I'm a sysadmin, and I live in an apartment. Just because you don't understand the definition of the word theft doesn't mean you have free license to insult everyone and then assume that means you have won the argument. The rightness or wrongness of software copying and distribution is not the issue in this particular conversation, the issue is that Theft is the wrong word to apply to the concept. Theft involves posession of an item changing hands. My brother had his CD player stolen, I have a copy of Rounders. Those two things are fundamentally different in concept.
Until people begin to understand that then we will be stalled arguing about it.
Kintanon
You critically err. There is no object involved. And object is something physical. An Mp3 is not an object. Also, he did not remove the Mp3 from the posession of the original owner. And I garauntee you that if you walk into court, point at someone and say 'That guy stole my hammer' just because he has an exact copy of your hammer, if you have your hammer in your hand they'll throw you out of court.
Kintanon
I could rape your little sister and spend less time in jail than this guy got.
Something ain't right.
Kintanon
Learn to play Spades, Hearts, and possibly Poker like a pro. That will help you keep from getting your ass kicked since you'll be able to pay off the really big fuckers with cigarettes and shit...
Kintanon