Ah yes, the age old complaint about misleading headlines. They will never end. I'm sure cheap in this case is a relative word. It's relatively considerably cheaper than the alternatives.
I'm not going to fully disagree with anything you're saying, mainly because it's all good advice. Still, I think for a lot of people out there, changing their routine to even that slight extent will be a drastic change to them. A lot of people in this guy's situation get so stuck in a rut that they don't know what to do and are desperate for anything. Once you've reached that point, everything looks extreme. Only in hindsight does it appear to be simple.
Are you implying that parents should parent their children? That if they see that they're having more emotional stress than usual that they should step in and found out what's going on? That's insane! Why should the parents be responsible in any of this? Children should learn themselves! My god, just think of what the world would be like if parents were more proactive in their childs life!
What I mean to say is that I completely agree. While what Lori Drew did was clearly bad, where were Megan's parents? Some twat is harassing your child on the PC and you know your child is emotionally unstable and won't stay away from the PC, you take that away from them. If they can't help themselves, you as a parent should help them. Megan's parents share some of the blame for this. They could have done more. They chose not to.
What kind of miracle solution do you want? Its easy...
For a given workday, after N hours work and M hours sleep, is anything left? if yes, make the decision to work out or to fuck off. If not, then wait for your days off and work out hard. Also decrease caloric intake.
There is no other solution (aside from changing work schedule).
This.
I will first tell you to stop being a lazy fuck and use google to find the information you need. You can't tell me you're working every minute you're at work. And what about your "unwind" time at home?
Now obviously that isn't going to help you too much since you are lazy and you wanted this handed to you. Here's some real helpful advice:
First find out why your metabolic rate is the way it is. Thyroid problem could be possible.
Obviously muscle will burn more energy than fat. This is a given. However weight training might not be too much of an option for you. There are foods you can eat to boost this. I've read that spicy food in particular does this (but the source never mentioned why). I assume it's because of the acidic content of spicy food. It probably helps to break down what you've eaten faster. If you're a fan of spicy things, this is good. Just don't go around giving oral. Your partner may nott like their parts feeling like burning.
Drastically change your diet. You don't necessarily need to go on something specific like low carbs, and even then diets like that are just to start you out. You can find calorie counters on the internet that will ask for your gender, height, weight, and general physical lifestyle (you would be sedentary). From that, they will calculate the approximate amount of calories you will need to sustain that weight, and then recommend a caloric intake to lose weight. Usually a safe bet is 400 to 500 calories less if you are overweight.
Those two pieces of advice are obvious ones, and big ones. Changing what you eat can't be too hard. Don't like certain foods? Too bad. Don't be a bitch and suck it up. Learn to like those foods that are healthier.
Whatever you decide to do, it's going to be a lifestyle change. If dieting will be your answer, well, it's hard at first, but once you stick with it for a decent amount of time you'll feel better. Honestly though, you need to decrease the amount of hours you work anyway. People are significantly less productive after 8, and more so after 10. You could also choose to move closer to your work. You never said why this wasn't possible.
Many Crystalline silicon module manufacturers offer warranties that guarantee electrical production for 10 years at 90% of rated power output and 25 years at 80%.
Now I read his initial article close to a year ago, so I don't remember what type he got, or if it even specifically mentions it. However his panels are rated to last 30 years. I imagine the warranty specifically mentions how much they will output as their life increases. It should be fairly obvious to see if it's putting out what it should be in those 30 years. If they don't, well, his warranty will cover that.
If you had RTFA you would see that the panels are quoted as having a 30 year warranty. So in 30 years. If they break down before that, he gets freebies, and I imagine those will produce more electricity. All in all, it's worth it.
Futhermore, Wikipedia has this to say about Solar Panels and how efficient they are at a certain time frame:
Solar panels must withstand heat, cold, rain and hail for many years. Many Crystalline silicon module manufacturers offer warranties that guarantee electrical production for 10 years at 90% of rated power output and 25 years at 80%.
It's called flavor. Useless details add more to a story to captivate your attention. If every story got straight to the point... well, we'd be a boring species.
Just because every bug hasn't been squashed or that every exploit hasn't been fixed doesn't mean they didn't do patches to remove some of them. I think you read too far into my comment.
I would suggest that a pragmatic approach might be the ability to remotely disable the phone totally so that it has to be sent some sort of authenticated authorisation code to be used at all.
Because, you know, once the phone is rendered disabled for the person who stole it, they're totally going to keep it instead of tossing it off to the side or selling it real fast for a few bucks.
A lot of the console to PC ports coming out these days already have the 360 buttons mapped by default if it detects a gamepad plugged in. Devil May Cry 4, Prince of Persia, The Last Remnant, etc... It could just boil down to your preferences.
While I found all of the games I mentioned doable with a mouse and keyboard, the 360 controller made any movements and actions more fluid for me. I didn't have to spend hours trying to find the right spots to map my keys to. The buttons were already mostly mapped to the right spots on the 360 controller.
1.) You clearly can't discern the difference between uneducated (which doesn't necessarily mean you are dumb) and stupid (which does mean you're dumb). The person you just pointlessly threatened never mentioned or implied anything about your intelligence level.
2.) Wasting your mod points is well... wasteful. Instead of making juvenile attempts to mod people's posts down with crap like "flamebait", and "troll" mods when it's clearly not warranted, you would better serve the community by modding up the more insightful, humorous, and intelligent posts. It's easy enough to ignore the trollish stuff anyway. It's not always easy to find those nuggets of wisdom in the random Slashdot post. There's also meta-moderation which usually gets rid of unwarranted bad moderation.
I use one of those "cinderblocks" as my gamepad for my PC. It works great and it feels comfortable. So I'm not entirely sure where you're getting the whole "cinderblock" argument from anyway.
Well, you just pretty much took the words out of my mouth.
Don't get me wrong. I've enjoyed countless hours on L4D. However I also bought the game based on promises that Valve has shown they can deliver on in the past. And with those games in the past, they didn't release an immediate sequel to them a fucking year later. L4D is stale now, so it doesn't matter how many modding tools they release. They never updated the game fast enough with content. Bug fixes? Sure, they did all of that, but that's already to be expected. If they had released a few new campaigns sooner, well, maybe there won't be this overwhelming bitterness being felt a lot of people.
I've been saying that too. However it's good to keep in mind that Nvidia is able to do more with lesser hardware. AMD has been pushing newer and better technologies in their GPU's and the drivers for them don't utilize them fully. Maybe it's because of how the boards are designed. I don't know. I'm just basing this off the specs on their components. Still, AMD isn't trying to compete at the end and it still manages to do that.
Bad analogy is bad analogy. Try applying your critical thinking skills to the topic at hand. Sure, what I said can be applied to life in a lot of ways, but you're obviously twisting it to be a flaming jackass.
And how exactly do you pronounce either of them differently? If the writer is merely quoting the kid in text form, you'd have to yell at the writer for their bad grammar.
This sort of thing is not for kids who get it. It's for kids who don't.
That's not necessarily true. While some kids who do get it will stop doing the work if the reward suddenly stops, there are some who will keep trucking away. Kids aren't as stupid or lazy as we make them out to be. If we can teach them at an early age that the no matter what you're given in life, that the real reward is the satisfaction you feel from doing something, the monetary rewards won't do diddly to them even if they're taken away.
My parents paid my sister and I for our good grades, but they also made it clear that they did expect those grades regardless. They rewarded us for good grades, and punished us if we got really bad ones. You got a "D" in math? We're going to make sure you sit down and do your work and ban your TV time until we see an improvement.
I personally hated getting bad grades, even when I was eight. A good grade felt like I accomplished something. It isn't because I tried to regurgitate as much information as I could, but because I learned something. As I got older I stopped studying. I got to a point where I realized if I knew something or not. If I knew it and understood it, I had no reason to study. If I didn't know it by test time, studying was a waste of time. I may do better on a test, but I would never truly retain it, so why waste the time? And honestly, I did fairly well in my educational programs and higher educational ones too.
This attitude pissed off a lot of my teachers, instructors, and professors over the years. They acted as if I had to know every tid bit of knowledge there is to know with what they presented to me. That's bullshit. Was some of what I didn't retain useful? Probably. All of it? Probably not. If I have a need to learn something, I'll work at it until I fully understand what it is. Most adults still can't even do that.
I agree with you, but you have to keep in mind that sometimes things are done the way they are for a reason. Some devices that do get repaired aren't actually meant to be fully serviceable, even if you can service them. They would rather people bought brand new.
Try being on the repair side in a facility that manufactures something. They expect you to be able to test it and fix it if something is wrong, but sometimes your ability to fix it is severely hampered.
There's all sorts of mentalities that can contribute to that, and they're not all necessarily bad. Still, it would be nice if an engineer took the repair into consideration somewhat.
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Ah yes, the age old complaint about misleading headlines. They will never end. I'm sure cheap in this case is a relative word. It's relatively considerably cheaper than the alternatives.
I'm not going to fully disagree with anything you're saying, mainly because it's all good advice. Still, I think for a lot of people out there, changing their routine to even that slight extent will be a drastic change to them. A lot of people in this guy's situation get so stuck in a rut that they don't know what to do and are desperate for anything. Once you've reached that point, everything looks extreme. Only in hindsight does it appear to be simple.
Are you implying that parents should parent their children? That if they see that they're having more emotional stress than usual that they should step in and found out what's going on? That's insane! Why should the parents be responsible in any of this? Children should learn themselves! My god, just think of what the world would be like if parents were more proactive in their childs life!
What I mean to say is that I completely agree. While what Lori Drew did was clearly bad, where were Megan's parents? Some twat is harassing your child on the PC and you know your child is emotionally unstable and won't stay away from the PC, you take that away from them. If they can't help themselves, you as a parent should help them. Megan's parents share some of the blame for this. They could have done more. They chose not to.
I think account deletion is a wrong term. It's more of character deletion, and maybe in the case of warcraft and starcraft, stat deletion.
What kind of miracle solution do you want? Its easy...
For a given workday, after N hours work and M hours sleep, is anything left? if yes, make the decision to work out or to fuck off. If not, then wait for your days off and work out hard. Also decrease caloric intake.
There is no other solution (aside from changing work schedule).
This.
I will first tell you to stop being a lazy fuck and use google to find the information you need. You can't tell me you're working every minute you're at work. And what about your "unwind" time at home?
Now obviously that isn't going to help you too much since you are lazy and you wanted this handed to you. Here's some real helpful advice:
First find out why your metabolic rate is the way it is. Thyroid problem could be possible.
Obviously muscle will burn more energy than fat. This is a given. However weight training might not be too much of an option for you. There are foods you can eat to boost this. I've read that spicy food in particular does this (but the source never mentioned why). I assume it's because of the acidic content of spicy food. It probably helps to break down what you've eaten faster. If you're a fan of spicy things, this is good. Just don't go around giving oral. Your partner may nott like their parts feeling like burning.
Drastically change your diet. You don't necessarily need to go on something specific like low carbs, and even then diets like that are just to start you out. You can find calorie counters on the internet that will ask for your gender, height, weight, and general physical lifestyle (you would be sedentary). From that, they will calculate the approximate amount of calories you will need to sustain that weight, and then recommend a caloric intake to lose weight. Usually a safe bet is 400 to 500 calories less if you are overweight.
Those two pieces of advice are obvious ones, and big ones. Changing what you eat can't be too hard. Don't like certain foods? Too bad. Don't be a bitch and suck it up. Learn to like those foods that are healthier.
Whatever you decide to do, it's going to be a lifestyle change. If dieting will be your answer, well, it's hard at first, but once you stick with it for a decent amount of time you'll feel better. Honestly though, you need to decrease the amount of hours you work anyway. People are significantly less productive after 8, and more so after 10. You could also choose to move closer to your work. You never said why this wasn't possible.
And apparently it's all your fault. You should feel ashamed.
Many Crystalline silicon module manufacturers offer warranties that guarantee electrical production for 10 years at 90% of rated power output and 25 years at 80%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaic_module
Now I read his initial article close to a year ago, so I don't remember what type he got, or if it even specifically mentions it. However his panels are rated to last 30 years. I imagine the warranty specifically mentions how much they will output as their life increases. It should be fairly obvious to see if it's putting out what it should be in those 30 years. If they don't, well, his warranty will cover that.
Futhermore, Wikipedia has this to say about Solar Panels and how efficient they are at a certain time frame:
Solar panels must withstand heat, cold, rain and hail for many years. Many Crystalline silicon module manufacturers offer warranties that guarantee electrical production for 10 years at 90% of rated power output and 25 years at 80%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaic_module
It's called flavor. Useless details add more to a story to captivate your attention. If every story got straight to the point... well, we'd be a boring species.
Just because every bug hasn't been squashed or that every exploit hasn't been fixed doesn't mean they didn't do patches to remove some of them. I think you read too far into my comment.
I would suggest that a pragmatic approach might be the ability to remotely disable the phone totally so that it has to be sent some sort of authenticated authorisation code to be used at all.
Because, you know, once the phone is rendered disabled for the person who stole it, they're totally going to keep it instead of tossing it off to the side or selling it real fast for a few bucks.
Well, I clearly don't get it. Care to explain?
A lot of the console to PC ports coming out these days already have the 360 buttons mapped by default if it detects a gamepad plugged in. Devil May Cry 4, Prince of Persia, The Last Remnant, etc... It could just boil down to your preferences.
While I found all of the games I mentioned doable with a mouse and keyboard, the 360 controller made any movements and actions more fluid for me. I didn't have to spend hours trying to find the right spots to map my keys to. The buttons were already mostly mapped to the right spots on the 360 controller.
1.) You clearly can't discern the difference between uneducated (which doesn't necessarily mean you are dumb) and stupid (which does mean you're dumb). The person you just pointlessly threatened never mentioned or implied anything about your intelligence level.
2.) Wasting your mod points is well... wasteful. Instead of making juvenile attempts to mod people's posts down with crap like "flamebait", and "troll" mods when it's clearly not warranted, you would better serve the community by modding up the more insightful, humorous, and intelligent posts. It's easy enough to ignore the trollish stuff anyway. It's not always easy to find those nuggets of wisdom in the random Slashdot post. There's also meta-moderation which usually gets rid of unwarranted bad moderation.
Hamburger meat is made from cows. McDonalds servers hamburgers. Cows are a sacred animal in India.
I use one of those "cinderblocks" as my gamepad for my PC. It works great and it feels comfortable. So I'm not entirely sure where you're getting the whole "cinderblock" argument from anyway.
Well, you just pretty much took the words out of my mouth.
Don't get me wrong. I've enjoyed countless hours on L4D. However I also bought the game based on promises that Valve has shown they can deliver on in the past. And with those games in the past, they didn't release an immediate sequel to them a fucking year later. L4D is stale now, so it doesn't matter how many modding tools they release. They never updated the game fast enough with content. Bug fixes? Sure, they did all of that, but that's already to be expected. If they had released a few new campaigns sooner, well, maybe there won't be this overwhelming bitterness being felt a lot of people.
I've been saying that too. However it's good to keep in mind that Nvidia is able to do more with lesser hardware. AMD has been pushing newer and better technologies in their GPU's and the drivers for them don't utilize them fully. Maybe it's because of how the boards are designed. I don't know. I'm just basing this off the specs on their components. Still, AMD isn't trying to compete at the end and it still manages to do that.
Bad analogy is bad analogy. Try applying your critical thinking skills to the topic at hand. Sure, what I said can be applied to life in a lot of ways, but you're obviously twisting it to be a flaming jackass.
And how exactly do you pronounce either of them differently? If the writer is merely quoting the kid in text form, you'd have to yell at the writer for their bad grammar.
This sort of thing is not for kids who get it. It's for kids who don't.
That's not necessarily true. While some kids who do get it will stop doing the work if the reward suddenly stops, there are some who will keep trucking away. Kids aren't as stupid or lazy as we make them out to be. If we can teach them at an early age that the no matter what you're given in life, that the real reward is the satisfaction you feel from doing something, the monetary rewards won't do diddly to them even if they're taken away.
My parents paid my sister and I for our good grades, but they also made it clear that they did expect those grades regardless. They rewarded us for good grades, and punished us if we got really bad ones. You got a "D" in math? We're going to make sure you sit down and do your work and ban your TV time until we see an improvement.
I personally hated getting bad grades, even when I was eight. A good grade felt like I accomplished something. It isn't because I tried to regurgitate as much information as I could, but because I learned something. As I got older I stopped studying. I got to a point where I realized if I knew something or not. If I knew it and understood it, I had no reason to study. If I didn't know it by test time, studying was a waste of time. I may do better on a test, but I would never truly retain it, so why waste the time? And honestly, I did fairly well in my educational programs and higher educational ones too.
This attitude pissed off a lot of my teachers, instructors, and professors over the years. They acted as if I had to know every tid bit of knowledge there is to know with what they presented to me. That's bullshit. Was some of what I didn't retain useful? Probably. All of it? Probably not. If I have a need to learn something, I'll work at it until I fully understand what it is. Most adults still can't even do that.
Spar? I'm pretty sure they meant to type "spar".
Preparing for how much faster your porn will load?
I agree with you, but you have to keep in mind that sometimes things are done the way they are for a reason. Some devices that do get repaired aren't actually meant to be fully serviceable, even if you can service them. They would rather people bought brand new.
Try being on the repair side in a facility that manufactures something. They expect you to be able to test it and fix it if something is wrong, but sometimes your ability to fix it is severely hampered.
There's all sorts of mentalities that can contribute to that, and they're not all necessarily bad. Still, it would be nice if an engineer took the repair into consideration somewhat.