It all boils down to the fact that you've got to move. Sitting all day destroys your body. After almost three decades of sitting in front of a computer, I decided two years ago to start moving and I can honestly say that despite a few temporary set backs, life just gets better.
Start small if you need to; I started with a fifteen minute walk every day. When things started to get easier I did more. After two years I'm at the point now - though I'm not (yet) the finest example of physical fitness - that CrossFit (www.crossfit.com), strength training (www.startingstrength.com), and rowing (www.concept2.com) are the best tools in my fitness routine. You gotta change things up regularly if you find yourself bored.
The key is to move. Do new things all the time. Challenge your body and you challenge your mind.
You'll find that living life upright is much more enjoyable than life sitting down.
I wondered the same thing, but then did some homework. To quote from Barlow's own page (http://www.eff.org/~barlow/):
"In 1990, he first applied William Gibson's science fiction term Cyberspace to the already-existing global electronic social space now generally referred to by that name. Until his naming it, it had not been considered any sort of place."
FYI: "Several thousand $$ a seat" just about covers it. The last engineering shop I supported purchased 10 seats (with a few bells and whistles) for just about $22k USD per seat.
That was in 1996. I can only imagine what the price would be today.
But, dang, the engineers sure liked the functionality of the software!
I'm halfway through this book and so far it is a good read. But it's missing few things that I think are critical:
(1) The authors discuss the book and how it's infinitely recycleable, but offer no clue as to who to contact to do so! Maybe I'm wrong in assuming that my local recycler doesn't know that the book is recycleable or how to do it.
(2) I would have liked more contact information regarding some of their projects and resources for similar projects. The Natural Home book had resources, why not this book? Contact info for the folks that designed the "dura-book" would have been nice, too. (I'd love to have some of my favorite books printed in this format!).
IIRC, they (being the music industry) tried to blame stores selling USED CDs as a loss in revenue in the not so distant past. Today its MP3 trading. Always someone else to blame for their inability to keep their finger on the pulse of today's consumers.
Actually, they may have been closer to the mark with the used CD accusation. Of the 800 or so CDs that I own, more than half were bought used. Why? At most stores I can listen to the used disks before I buy them. Weed out the garbage before it gets purchased. Besides, $5-8 per CD is a lot less painful than $15.95+.
Heck, buy old LPs. They're more enjoyable than 99% of the garbage on the radio and in the music stores anyway.
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It all boils down to the fact that you've got to move. Sitting all day destroys your body. After almost three decades of sitting in front of a computer, I decided two years ago to start moving and I can honestly say that despite a few temporary set backs, life just gets better.
Start small if you need to; I started with a fifteen minute walk every day. When things started to get easier I did more. After two years I'm at the point now - though I'm not (yet) the finest example of physical fitness - that CrossFit (www.crossfit.com), strength training (www.startingstrength.com), and rowing (www.concept2.com) are the best tools in my fitness routine. You gotta change things up regularly if you find yourself bored.
The key is to move. Do new things all the time. Challenge your body and you challenge your mind.
You'll find that living life upright is much more enjoyable than life sitting down.
-Fred.
I wondered the same thing, but then did some homework. To quote from Barlow's own page (http://www.eff.org/~barlow/):
"In 1990, he first applied William Gibson's science fiction term Cyberspace to the already-existing global electronic social space now generally referred to by that name. Until his naming it, it had not been considered any sort of place."
That was in 1996. I can only imagine what the price would be today.
But, dang, the engineers sure liked the functionality of the software!
I'm halfway through this book and so far it is a good read. But it's missing few things that I think are critical:
(1) The authors discuss the book and how it's infinitely recycleable, but offer no clue as to who to contact to do so! Maybe I'm wrong in assuming that my local recycler doesn't know that the book is recycleable or how to do it.
(2) I would have liked more contact information regarding some of their projects and resources for similar projects. The Natural Home book had resources, why not this book? Contact info for the folks that designed the "dura-book" would have been nice, too. (I'd love to have some of my favorite books printed in this format!).
It's not just the UK that getting hit hard. Things here in northern Indiana are very ugly this morning.
IIRC, they (being the music industry) tried to blame stores selling USED CDs as a loss in revenue in the not so distant past. Today its MP3 trading. Always someone else to blame for their inability to keep their finger on the pulse of today's consumers.
Actually, they may have been closer to the mark with the used CD accusation. Of the 800 or so CDs that I own, more than half were bought used. Why? At most stores I can listen to the used disks before I buy them. Weed out the garbage before it gets purchased. Besides, $5-8 per CD is a lot less painful than $15.95+.
Heck, buy old LPs. They're more enjoyable than 99% of the garbage on the radio and in the music stores anyway.