I used to run in place either barefoot, or with my normal shoes (can't remember) and I did it for around one month without any pain or discomfort, but I do agree that for longer times, or for people with less health/luck than me, getting running shoes would probably be a better idea.
I know I once tried running 10Km with normal shoes and it was a bad idea. Your back and articulations are worth much more than the 100$ you save on decent footwear (I got mine the next day).
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My experience is that running in place without footwear is possible, but you have to learn how to do it properly.
I once had an exercise regime which included a relatively long time running in place, and at the beginning I was doing it just as if I was really running: banging my heel on the ground, and then pulling up with the foot.
That hurts. A lot. And it keeps on hurting later.
Basically, pain taught me to absorb the impact with the front of the foot when hitting the ground. It's not a very natural movement because you can't do it when moving forward, but for standing in place it works perfectly.
Another benefit is that this movement works your calves much harder, which contributes to the calorie burning and those nice legs that make the ladies go wild:-)
The reason it works in Windows and OSX, is because the manufacturers write complete drivers.
Which manufacturers are you talking about? Here, my computer simply doesn't hibernate in either Windows XP or Ubuntu. Suspend is a hit-or-miss with both OSs. Most of the time I end up losing either LAN, WLAN, or both (both are Intel, btw).
I've even lost audio on one occasion, I think it was in Windows, but I'm not sure.
Granted, I currently have some problems with my NVidia card corrupting my display completely once in a while in Ubuntu (I think it's an incompatibility with Compiz). Closing and opening the laptop screen resets the display and it's usable again, but it is annoying.
On the other hand, I started getting random cold restarts without even a bluescreen on Windows after I installed Groove Virtual Office. A video driver update fixed it, but it sure sucked for a while.
So who's fault are these? Is Dell to blame for crappy integration? NVidia sure seems to have crappy, drivers for Linux, and the Windows' ones also don't seem to be that great. Is Intel to blame for their network cards not waking up properly, or is it the fault of the crappy ACPI specification/implementation (which I gather Microsoft has a large part of the blame).
You're echoing the fears of fathers for the last $BIG_NUMBER generations, and look where we are now -- the value of intellectual work is much more valuable now that it ever was in recorded human history.
Your children will do ok, and with any luck, without having to trample over those of other less fortunate countries.
I'm not disagreeing with the underlying sentiment: you're right that companies are abusing the system. I just think you're choosing the wrong solution.
Beware of using protectionism as a fix. It's usually a bad idea, as other have pointed in this thread.
The problem with your thinking (besides being at least morally questionable) is that you're only considering the short-term benefits.
When the economy recovers and you want to start getting foreigners to fill positions that you don't have enough locals for, they will think long and hard if it's the best choice for them to go to a country which at the first signs of trouble will just put them on a plane again.
This is especially true for the most qualified, who will have alternatives and will probably consider it safer to choose a "competitor" country which has an history of treating foreign workers better.
It's really only the U.S. that has major overload issues when bad things happen
Depends on the point of view, I guess, but Obama being inaugurated wouldn't qualify as a bad thing:-)
I come from a country where bad things don't happen on a regular basis, but the network here also basically fails every new year's eve, for example, when everyone's calling and messaging every friend they have to give their wishes. In fact I can't even think of another yearly event where the network fails. Maybe christmas eve?
Basically it all comes down to the economics of investing and maintaining a network which is only used to its full capacity once or twice in a year, and for reasons which, frankly, can wait.
I guess it makes much more sense to make that investment in a place like Israel.
It's funny. Maybe it's because right now I'm reading The Year of Living Biblically, but when americans talk about the constitution, it sounds just like when religious people talk about the bible.
Both are books which are getting relatively long in the tooth and as time goes by:
they get increasingly "interpreted". I guess that they lose relevance to the modern world and need to be updated.
no one wants to update them because they are seen as perfect and timeless.
when interpreting the book people start imagining what the writers really meant. It's especially strange with the consitution, since it is a book of law which was theoretically written in a way that should be clear to understand.
people follow them almost blindly (religiously, I would say).
some of the more strange/inconvinient rules get "forgotten". The book I'm reading is full of examples of those.
I don't mean to insult anyone, but seriously, I think you guys need a constitution 2.0. There are a lot of countries with constitutions in Europe and they get updated frequently.
Guy: How much is a cup of coffee? Bartender: 0,5â Guy: And the sugar? Bartender: The sugar is free. Guy: Ok, so I don't want the coffee, but I'll take 1Kg of sugar, thanks.
But your dad/mom wouldn't be installing Windows on their own. They'd either ask you to do it, or buy a preconfigured version from Dell or whatever.
Now, a guy which is capable of installing Windows by himself should be expected to either try ftp.mozilla.org, or have a firefox installer ready in a usb stick.
1000$ isn't a lot, if you consider paying those two guys (they are expensive because they are actually ninjas who are able to leave undetected), travel expenses, plus the time which is 20 minutes + however long it takes the guys to get there.
On the other hand I'm sure that some companies with deep pockets would love to be able to cancel their rivals' projects, so you might be onto something here.
Man, you never know when 2 guys from Google come out of nowhere and have a 20-minute meeting with your CEO and your project gets canned. It's all so mysterious that you don't even see them leave!
i received discrimination plenty times and i live in a wealthy area in w. germany. when you see me you wouldnt be able to put my clothing style into any sub culture, period. the stereotype neo nazi look would be the most far fetched look...
Discrimination exists everywhere. I'm just arguing that Germany isn't specially bad in that respect. In fact, I consider the German people one of the most accepting of personal or cultural differences.
Maybe you were unlucky, or maybe you're confusing the feelings at a lower level and interpreting general impoliteness as something else because you start from a position where you feel you will be discriminated for having a shaved head.
Or maybe you're right and I live in the only area of Germany where you can have a bald head and lead a normal life. I do travel a lot in this country, though, and have friends in every direction, so I guess that's probably not true.
Or maybe you shouldn't have gotten that swastika tatoo on your forehead (just kidding:-)
what are nazi colours? you cant name anyone a nazi just because of the clothes (exception would apply to swastika on them or SS-uniforms or similar.) sure any subculture has its dress code but still....
Well, I can't put my finger on it (though your description from your original post fits the bill), but it's not like skinheads are usually discreet. I mean, it's not as obvious as a member of the KKK in uniform, but you can tell clearly, just as you can usually tell if someone is dressed like a metalhead.
But the formula for looking like a neo-nazi isn't simply = take average normal guy + shave head.
sentences like that show me that you dont think about what i wrote thus not able to understand what i am saying. i am sorry but i like to write my thoughts this way therewith i am able to see who really is interested in an open minded discussion rather than to hoe on somebodies opinion. besides even without a proper explanation and usage of the right term for jew-hate you like to concentrate more on incidentals like the wrong usage of that term rather then the real issue. (the real issue would be irrational hate against anyone.)
I think your sentiments are wrong, and they may come from the same misinformation that led you to type "racism" instead of "anti-semitism". Besides, I didn't concentrate on the incidental -- it was a footnote in my post.
I'm sorry for your loss. These people aren't getting what they deserve, and I can assure you that it's not only a problem in the USA (not that that's supposed to make you feel better).
I do, and I have friends who go around not with 3mm of hair, but with no hair at all, and they've never been discriminated against.
Of course, if besides shaving their heads, they dress in nazi "colours", then they will feel society's pressure, but that's nowhere near unique to Germany.
Secondly, discriminating against jews isn't racism, which I find kind of revealing on how much thought you put into your comment before typing it.
I think that if they come to your house with a picture of your friend driving your car, you probably are expected to identify him.
It's not exactly "keeping notes" but usually I will recognise anyone in a picture driving my car, unless it was stolen.
I don't know what the penalties are for not identifying someone, but when I lend my car to someone I expect them to be responsible for their actions while driving it, so identifying them to the police would never be an issue for me or them.
Basically if you drive my car and do something illegal with it, don't expect me to cover your ass.
Because they were the same product from the same company for more or less the same kind of end-user. They introduced minute changes (or limitations) in order to squeeze the last penny out of their customers, and in the process confused the hell out of their product portfolio.
The different distros cater to different users, except for a few which compete for users in a certain domain.
If Ubuntu were offering 3 different distros for home users, you would be right to make fun of them (and I would join in).
No one's ever criticized MS for having user and server versions of their OS.
Windows users are not used to choice, thus, don't give them any.
WTF? So now I have to give up choice and competition in the OSS field because you want to cater to the lowest common denominator windows user?
If you don't want choice just take Ubuntu. Don't think about it, just take it. It's the most popular distro and it just works, and to make it even better they don't ask you to choose between Gnome and KDE.
But don't take my choices away from me just because you want to have all of yours made for you.
Not specifically for BlackBerry, but it's a j2me app so...
if you're monitoring your weight for some reason (usually trying to get rid of it), you might find WeightWatch useful.
It's a small application which will record your weight daily and display it in a chart with an error-correcting tendency curve, like the one in the Hacker's Diet.
You can even create a diet plan that predicts when you'll reach your desired weight, and display the plan next to your chart.
Currently the application only supports metric units, but I've already started working on localization, so it should be available in the next month or so, depending on how busy I am.
If you want to help, head over to the project page.
Don't know why I can put ICO at the top of my list but not Portal (similarly short), but something keeps Portal from reaching that high eschellon for me.
If you loved ICO, you will probably love Shadow of the Colossus even more (if you don't know about it yet). It's a kind of sequel to ICO while not really being a sequel.
This is coming from someone with more or less the same taste in gaming, though I would certainly put Portal up there with the masters.
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I used to run in place either barefoot, or with my normal shoes (can't remember) and I did it for around one month without any pain or discomfort, but I do agree that for longer times, or for people with less health/luck than me, getting running shoes would probably be a better idea.
I know I once tried running 10Km with normal shoes and it was a bad idea. Your back and articulations are worth much more than the 100$ you save on decent footwear (I got mine the next day).
My experience is that running in place without footwear is possible, but you have to learn how to do it properly.
I once had an exercise regime which included a relatively long time running in place, and at the beginning I was doing it just as if I was really running: banging my heel on the ground, and then pulling up with the foot.
That hurts. A lot. And it keeps on hurting later.
Basically, pain taught me to absorb the impact with the front of the foot when hitting the ground. It's not a very natural movement because you can't do it when moving forward, but for standing in place it works perfectly.
Another benefit is that this movement works your calves much harder, which contributes to the calorie burning and those nice legs that make the ladies go wild :-)
The reason it works in Windows and OSX, is because the manufacturers write complete drivers.
Which manufacturers are you talking about?
Here, my computer simply doesn't hibernate in either Windows XP or Ubuntu.
Suspend is a hit-or-miss with both OSs. Most of the time I end up losing either LAN, WLAN, or both (both are Intel, btw).
I've even lost audio on one occasion, I think it was in Windows, but I'm not sure.
Granted, I currently have some problems with my NVidia card corrupting my display completely once in a while in Ubuntu (I think it's an incompatibility with Compiz). Closing and opening the laptop screen resets the display and it's usable again, but it is annoying.
On the other hand, I started getting random cold restarts without even a bluescreen on Windows after I installed Groove Virtual Office. A video driver update fixed it, but it sure sucked for a while.
So who's fault are these? Is Dell to blame for crappy integration? NVidia sure seems to have crappy, drivers for Linux, and the Windows' ones also don't seem to be that great. Is Intel to blame for their network cards not waking up properly, or is it the fault of the crappy ACPI specification/implementation (which I gather Microsoft has a large part of the blame).
You're being paranoid.
You're echoing the fears of fathers for the last $BIG_NUMBER generations, and look where we are now -- the value of intellectual work is much more valuable now that it ever was in recorded human history.
Your children will do ok, and with any luck, without having to trample over those of other less fortunate countries.
I'm not disagreeing with the underlying sentiment: you're right that companies are abusing the system. I just think you're choosing the wrong solution.
Beware of using protectionism as a fix. It's usually a bad idea, as other have pointed in this thread.
The problem with your thinking (besides being at least morally questionable) is that you're only considering the short-term benefits.
When the economy recovers and you want to start getting foreigners to fill positions that you don't have enough locals for, they will think long and hard if it's the best choice for them to go to a country which at the first signs of trouble will just put them on a plane again.
This is especially true for the most qualified, who will have alternatives and will probably consider it safer to choose a "competitor" country which has an history of treating foreign workers better.
It's really only the U.S. that has major overload issues when bad things happen
Depends on the point of view, I guess, but Obama being inaugurated wouldn't qualify as a bad thing :-)
I come from a country where bad things don't happen on a regular basis, but the network here also basically fails every new year's eve, for example, when everyone's calling and messaging every friend they have to give their wishes. In fact I can't even think of another yearly event where the network fails. Maybe christmas eve?
Basically it all comes down to the economics of investing and maintaining a network which is only used to its full capacity once or twice in a year, and for reasons which, frankly, can wait.
I guess it makes much more sense to make that investment in a place like Israel.
Don't care if PowerPoint has similar features
It does. :-)
I know you don't care, but maybe someone else reading this thread does
It's funny. Maybe it's because right now I'm reading The Year of Living Biblically, but when americans talk about the constitution, it sounds just like when religious people talk about the bible.
Both are books which are getting relatively long in the tooth and as time goes by:
I don't mean to insult anyone, but seriously, I think you guys need a constitution 2.0. There are a lot of countries with constitutions in Europe and they get updated frequently.
Wow.
Your post was like a Kamehameha of Star Wars references.
Guy enters café
Guy: How much is a cup of coffee?
Bartender: 0,5â
Guy: And the sugar?
Bartender: The sugar is free.
Guy: Ok, so I don't want the coffee, but I'll take 1Kg of sugar, thanks.
But your dad/mom wouldn't be installing Windows on their own.
They'd either ask you to do it, or buy a preconfigured version from Dell or whatever.
Now, a guy which is capable of installing Windows by himself should be expected to either try ftp.mozilla.org, or have a firefox installer ready in a usb stick.
1000$ isn't a lot, if you consider paying those two guys (they are expensive because they are actually ninjas who are able to leave undetected), travel expenses, plus the time which is 20 minutes + however long it takes the guys to get there.
On the other hand I'm sure that some companies with deep pockets would love to be able to cancel their rivals' projects, so you might be onto something here.
Man, we could be rich!
Man, you never know when 2 guys from Google come out of nowhere and have a 20-minute meeting with your CEO and your project gets canned.
It's all so mysterious that you don't even see them leave!
And it could happen anytime!
Buy Microsoft.
i received discrimination plenty times and i live in a wealthy area in w. germany. when you see me you wouldnt be able to put my clothing style into any sub culture, period. the stereotype neo nazi look would be the most far fetched look...
Discrimination exists everywhere. I'm just arguing that Germany isn't specially bad in that respect. In fact, I consider the German people one of the most accepting of personal or cultural differences.
Maybe you were unlucky, or maybe you're confusing the feelings at a lower level and interpreting general impoliteness as something else because you start from a position where you feel you will be discriminated for having a shaved head.
Or maybe you're right and I live in the only area of Germany where you can have a bald head and lead a normal life. I do travel a lot in this country, though, and have friends in every direction, so I guess that's probably not true.
Or maybe you shouldn't have gotten that swastika tatoo on your forehead (just kidding :-)
what are nazi colours? you cant name anyone a nazi just because of the clothes (exception would apply to swastika on them or SS-uniforms or similar.) sure any subculture has its dress code but still....
Well, I can't put my finger on it (though your description from your original post fits the bill), but it's not like skinheads are usually discreet. I mean, it's not as obvious as a member of the KKK in uniform, but you can tell clearly, just as you can usually tell if someone is dressed like a metalhead.
But the formula for looking like a neo-nazi isn't simply = take average normal guy + shave head.
sentences like that show me that you dont think about what i wrote thus not able to understand what i am saying. i am sorry but i like to write my thoughts this way therewith i am able to see who really is interested in an open minded discussion rather than to hoe on somebodies opinion. besides even without a proper explanation and usage of the right term for jew-hate you like to concentrate more on incidentals like the wrong usage of that term rather then the real issue. (the real issue would be irrational hate against anyone.)
I think your sentiments are wrong, and they may come from the same misinformation that led you to type "racism" instead of "anti-semitism".
Besides, I didn't concentrate on the incidental -- it was a footnote in my post.
I'm sorry for your loss.
These people aren't getting what they deserve, and I can assure you that it's not only a problem in the USA (not that that's supposed to make you feel better).
Do you live in Germany?
I do, and I have friends who go around not with 3mm of hair, but with no hair at all, and they've never been discriminated against.
Of course, if besides shaving their heads, they dress in nazi "colours", then they will feel society's pressure, but that's nowhere near unique to Germany.
Secondly, discriminating against jews isn't racism, which I find kind of revealing on how much thought you put into your comment before typing it.
Let's see...all the surveillance states are getting the worst of the economic fallout. Wonder if that means anything?
That correlation is not causation?
I think that if they come to your house with a picture of your friend driving your car, you probably are expected to identify him.
It's not exactly "keeping notes" but usually I will recognise anyone in a picture driving my car, unless it was stolen.
I don't know what the penalties are for not identifying someone, but when I lend my car to someone I expect them to be responsible for their actions while driving it, so identifying them to the police would never be an issue for me or them.
Basically if you drive my car and do something illegal with it, don't expect me to cover your ass.
It's the same in Germany.
If they can't positively identify you, you're not paying the fine.
There are many anecdotes of people saying that they are not the person on the picture, even though it's obvious they are.
Because they were the same product from the same company for more or less the same kind of end-user. They introduced minute changes (or limitations) in order to squeeze the last penny out of their customers, and in the process confused the hell out of their product portfolio.
The different distros cater to different users, except for a few which compete for users in a certain domain.
If Ubuntu were offering 3 different distros for home users, you would be right to make fun of them (and I would join in).
No one's ever criticized MS for having user and server versions of their OS.
Windows users are not used to choice, thus, don't give them any.
WTF? So now I have to give up choice and competition in the OSS field because you want to cater to the lowest common denominator windows user?
If you don't want choice just take Ubuntu. Don't think about it, just take it. It's the most popular distro and it just works, and to make it even better they don't ask you to choose between Gnome and KDE.
But don't take my choices away from me just because you want to have all of yours made for you.
I know, I know, bad form to reply to myself* but I had to say that my [shameless_plug] tags were filtered in the above text.
* According to correct internet protocol, unless you start your post with saying exactly that.
Not specifically for BlackBerry, but it's a j2me app so...
if you're monitoring your weight for some reason (usually trying to get rid of it), you might find WeightWatch useful.
It's a small application which will record your weight daily and display it in a chart with an error-correcting tendency curve, like the one in the Hacker's Diet.
You can even create a diet plan that predicts when you'll reach your desired weight, and display the plan next to your chart.
Currently the application only supports metric units, but I've already started working on localization, so it should be available in the next month or so, depending on how busy I am.
If you want to help, head over to the project page.
Don't know why I can put ICO at the top of my list but not Portal (similarly short), but something keeps Portal from reaching that high eschellon for me.
If you loved ICO, you will probably love Shadow of the Colossus even more (if you don't know about it yet). It's a kind of sequel to ICO while not really being a sequel.
This is coming from someone with more or less the same taste in gaming, though I would certainly put Portal up there with the masters.