Heh. Im eating my words...no pun intended!!!
I still contest that from what i've seen of people playing this game, that its not all that continuous of an exercise. Starting and stopping every minute or two from what I recall. Though this may be a factor of the coin-op arcade version and not the home version. But you're right....i misread your original post.
I find this rather hard to believe. In order for you to lose a true 3lbs of fat you'd need to burn up 10,800 calories (3 * 3,600) per week. At 5 days per week and 45 minutes per session you're working out for 3.75 hours total, which means that you'd have to be burning calories at a rate of 2800 calories per hour!!!! This was assuming all other parameters remain fixed, such as caloric intake, etc. No chance man. No chance.
While I dont disagree that you've lost weight, albeit sadly by playing a video game, lets not confuse the reader.
I think that some of the real point here is that DDR is probably a great game, and people that would otherwise be sitting in front of the TV or computer and snacking all day are rather getting mild physical activity and not eating due to being consumed with something else.
Having lost well over 100 lbs myself about 10 years ago, I found that keeping myself occupied was almost as important as proper eating and daily exercise at first. Kept my mind of the habit of eating. Whether that was a game of metroid or whatever was irrelevant.
You are a fucking moron. Jesus christ, I think I am officially done posting to/. First the idiots who comment about fake diplomas.....when only about 10 percent of the posts have any clue what a "credible" degree involves, and now this stuff.
Your grammar isnt even remotely intelligent.
"what they invented a STD that made your penis longer...".
I have to agree with the above post. I recall my dad being a die hard Sears fan. If I remember correctly, he purchased some shudders for the house there. Brought them home, painted them, and went to put them up only to realize that they were the wrong size. He took them back, and received his money after having painted them over. He was amazed that they'd take them back...and still talks of it to this day. But I guess if Sears was willing to eat the cost, why not take advantage of the system.
Typically, multiple *simpler* cores are put on a chip rather than one monolithic core that uses all the silicon real-estate. For instance, its cheaper to put 4 vliw cores on a chip and not have to worry about the nightmare of debugging an out-of-order execution engine of a similar superscalar type device. Its all about modularity, and if the workload can be run with multiple heavy weight threads, as in parallel...then its worth it from a hardware engineering standpoint.
IN contrast to what the poster said however, putting two cores on one piece of silicon is NOT going to result in 2x performance for most applications.
as i understood it, its legal to make back up copies of your software but cds/tapes/lps didnt fall into this category. hence the record industry going nuts in the 80s over home taping and such. i thought it was still illegal to make any unauthorized copy of a cd, even if it is just to tape. perhaps im wrong. insightful point you made though.
this is a good point. also..i think it would appeal to technophobes like my parents. i dont see them using an online music service anytime soon. i cant even get them to shop online period! hah. but paying a small amount of cash and having a disc burned while they buy toilet paper by the bulk is something that would appeal to them. also, they arent the type of people to buy a whole album, but more a few tracks.
there was a similar service to this operating in the late 80s and very early 90s in record stores. you could select from a libary of singles by popular artists and have a custom cassette made for you in just a few minutes. they were kiosks where you filled out a little form and submitted it to an employee there. this was all over new england at least. i used it once or twice, but personally it wasnt i was looking for. the service failed out of operation quite quickly. then again, people werent used to music on demand 10 years ago or so.
this might work now. considering the fleeting attention span of most wal-mart customers and the fact that most music sold there is of the disposable type. fleeting pop singles, this weeks country hits, blah blah. i dont think they're moving a lot of copies of abbey road, or exile on main street....is what i'm getting at.
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wasnt this on /. a while back as well. jebus. and i dont even believe in jebus.
Heh. Im eating my words...no pun intended!!! I still contest that from what i've seen of people playing this game, that its not all that continuous of an exercise. Starting and stopping every minute or two from what I recall. Though this may be a factor of the coin-op arcade version and not the home version. But you're right....i misread your original post.
While I dont disagree that you've lost weight, albeit sadly by playing a video game, lets not confuse the reader. I think that some of the real point here is that DDR is probably a great game, and people that would otherwise be sitting in front of the TV or computer and snacking all day are rather getting mild physical activity and not eating due to being consumed with something else.
Having lost well over 100 lbs myself about 10 years ago, I found that keeping myself occupied was almost as important as proper eating and daily exercise at first. Kept my mind of the habit of eating. Whether that was a game of metroid or whatever was irrelevant.
You are a fucking moron. Jesus christ, I think I am officially done posting to /. First the idiots who comment about fake diplomas.....when only about 10 percent of the posts have any clue what a "credible" degree involves, and now this stuff.
Your grammar isnt even remotely intelligent.
"what they invented a STD that made your penis longer...".
Go back to grade school chap. PLEASE!!!!!
I have to agree with the above post. I recall my dad being a die hard Sears fan. If I remember correctly, he purchased some shudders for the house there. Brought them home, painted them, and went to put them up only to realize that they were the wrong size. He took them back, and received his money after having painted them over. He was amazed that they'd take them back...and still talks of it to this day. But I guess if Sears was willing to eat the cost, why not take advantage of the system.
Typically, multiple *simpler* cores are put on a chip rather than one monolithic core that uses all the silicon real-estate. For instance, its cheaper to put 4 vliw cores on a chip and not have to worry about the nightmare of debugging an out-of-order execution engine of a similar superscalar type device. Its all about modularity, and if the workload can be run with multiple heavy weight threads, as in parallel...then its worth it from a hardware engineering standpoint. IN contrast to what the poster said however, putting two cores on one piece of silicon is NOT going to result in 2x performance for most applications.
I couldn't have said it better myself. The Beasties, much like Camaro's, are outdated overbloated piles of domestic crap.
as i understood it, its legal to make back up copies of your software but cds/tapes/lps didnt fall into this category. hence the record industry going nuts in the 80s over home taping and such. i thought it was still illegal to make any unauthorized copy of a cd, even if it is just to tape. perhaps im wrong. insightful point you made though.
it *is* illegal to copy a cd to tape and listen to it in your car.
this is a good point. also..i think it would appeal to technophobes like my parents. i dont see them using an online music service anytime soon. i cant even get them to shop online period! hah. but paying a small amount of cash and having a disc burned while they buy toilet paper by the bulk is something that would appeal to them. also, they arent the type of people to buy a whole album, but more a few tracks.
there was a similar service to this operating in the late 80s and very early 90s in record stores. you could select from a libary of singles by popular artists and have a custom cassette made for you in just a few minutes. they were kiosks where you filled out a little form and submitted it to an employee there. this was all over new england at least. i used it once or twice, but personally it wasnt i was looking for. the service failed out of operation quite quickly. then again, people werent used to music on demand 10 years ago or so.
this might work now. considering the fleeting attention span of most wal-mart customers and the fact that most music sold there is of the disposable type. fleeting pop singles, this weeks country hits, blah blah. i dont think they're moving a lot of copies of abbey road, or exile on main street....is what i'm getting at.