Doesn't matter. Whichever release it is, it will never save System Restore properly. My first install of Win 7 RC 1 got corrupted thanks to nVidia 186.18 driver. I could not roll back because NO system restore points were available. so i reinstalled Win 7, allocated 22% of my disk spaces to System Restore and created manual system restore points AFTER Bootup and BEFORE Shutdown every single damn time. But when i reboot, i find all of those points missing. Not just Manual points, but also those created by Install and Automatic are gone Kaput. This happens every day. I i create 20 system restore points and reboot, ALL 20 are gone. If the Install service created one system restore point and i rebooted, its gone. I contacted Technet, but while MVPs acknowledged my problem as unique, they could do nothing.
Kudos. You did guess my profile correctly. But an architect is a staid profile: it talks too much about abstractions. And architects prefer order and stability: neither of which am prepared to accept. But am also not a Business Analyst, i don't despise techies like they do. Iam somewhat between these two: i like technology, but like business more. I like order, but i like change more. I like design, but i like chaos more.
The problem is one of age. As your grow old, your primary needs change from latest version of WAS to latest baby food or diapers. That is when you lose the edge: never to regain. Technical stuff always improves with time. ALWAYS. That is why we don't write in Assembly anymore. Hell, we don't even write in C anymore (a lot of us). Like horse shoe making or stagecoach building at some point you will become redundant. That is why it is always better to ride on a team than be one of the team being ridden.
I recall the Yes, Minister Episode where the minister is stringently against invasion of privacy and tapping, but when his life is on the line he accepts the recommendations to tap telephone lines. In short, all BT has to do to implement this is to show the peers and MPs a real-life example of Yes, Minister episode! Voila!
Well, you seem to mirror my career although you are older by 5 years. I was a techie in my early years of my 14 years of IT career. Cut my teeth on JDK 1.0.2 and was the one of the first to introduce Java to Citibank via a working prototype that used RMI/JRMP: won an award for the same. Over the years as i got promoted beyond my capabilities, i realized two things: I was a leader, not a manager. I created and built teams that were fiercely loyal and extremely professional. But like me, they too hated the Administrivia of Management and refused to enter "Management". I also recognized a truth: The MBAs in suits look down upon techies. The Techies look down upon MBAs as paper pushers. You need someone who has the confidence of techies BUT also has an MBA under his belt to talk sense to the management. Someone who can talk to Clients directly on their business needs, understand their business problems on Compliance, Dealer Management, Funds Treasury investment across borders, EoD transaction nettings, etc and then turn around talk to the techies about EJB Entity Beans, Message Driven Beans, WebSphere 5.1.3 to WebSphere 6.0 AS migration to achieve the same. I realized that such people are far and very few. Most take to Management after the required years as a techie and lose touch with technology. Some stay with technology and refuse to understand the business reasons and concerns that put food on their plates. You need to be the one who bridges both and has the confidence of both. I can walk up to any Bank and talk sense to their suits: Corporate Actions payouts, T+2 settlements, Securities Loans, etc. Why? I have a PG in Banking under my belt. But i can also come back to my teams and talk to them about evaluating their architecture via SAAM rather than ATAM, mathematically evaluating a design for fitness for purpose, not preferring AJAX for security reasons, architecture patterns, etc. Why? Because i daily go through the grind and understand their difficulties. FYI Its not easy to migrate from WAS 5.1.3 to WAS 6.0 on OS/390 when you have session beans invoking MDBs and you are using SQLJ. In short, you need to be a master of both. You need to wear two faces: one face which understands that the cold fork is for Salads and one who understands IE 7.0 DOM model.
No No no. That's not what i meant. I agree on mobi format. i can create an un-DRM mobi and read it on kindle. The fact is that mobi itself is owned by amazon. Not by Gutenberg or an open standard. So, anyday Amazon can refuse to allow creation of non-DRM books for any reason. That day Kindle will become opaque. Can kindle read JPG formats? Can kindle read other open standards of book packaging?
The pursuit of profit is was a valid goal for businesses in mid 1990s and good for a different business in 2009. Why should Kindle allow open standards? That allows a zillion others to post content into it without providing money to Amazon. That's the last thing a CEO wants. Instead, if a CEO were to increase revenue for his company he would insist on closed products which have no APU visible to outsiders and a powerful legal team that defeats every attempt to pry it open. That's why Toshiba didn't release its HD spec into public: it would get sued immediately.
Again i repeat, its not paranoia. What you are saying is ideal in an ideal world: Gaikai's product will be seen as long-term benefits for nVidia and ATI. But the corporates that make graphics cards and CPUs are... well corporates. Their overwhelming desire is to fulfil next quarter expectations. Long term plan is great: But it was NOT Moore's law which forced Intel to make faster chips. It was AMD. Without a competitor, we would still be using Intel Pentium chips running at 800Mhz and playing Doom on 640x480 VGA monitor. What am saying is that law of jungle forces companies to innovate and think long term. Otherwise they would think only short term. Gaikai enables them to think only short term since its DRM prevents anyone from cracking a game. With no heat in form of lost sales which force the company to make better products, it would be making crappy products. After all it was NOT the oil crisis that forced Chrysler, GM and Ford into making fuel-efficient cars: it was the Japanese who were very lucky at that time. DRM is a way to prevent me from forcing a company to innovate by providing it a steady stream of money in current products. Tell me, if you were a CEO who was enjoying a constant steady stream of revenue from 100% non-pirated products, would you throw away money on Research to innovate and make a better product, when there's no apparent demand for the same?
Am not going to start the familiar rant that DRM is evil. The fact is that a stronger DRM will enable stronger restrictions on usage while freeing PC's from the debilitating effects of DRM and Virus This does not necessarily translate to better games or even more demos. On the contrary, it will lead to more profit taking and more of the same crap games. For instance, Company of Heroes was ground-breaking when it came out. I upgraded my PC to play it. The subsequent Opposing Fronts was even more ground breaking. BUT, the law of average returns states that companies should screw up: Tales of Valor. BioShock was ground breaking. Subsequent sequels were not. Age of Empires was ground breaking. Subsequent sequels were not. A company innovates only once. Then the MBA's take over and consider it a cash cow and all that crap. This rule is applicable not only for Games, but also to movies, songs, books, etc.: Tremors, Star Wars, Star Trek, FRIENDS, Joey, etc. DRM only seeks to reinforce what the company does without providing an incentive for it to improve. Leasing the Big Iron is time sharing: this is not a new concept. I don't need a high-end PC is false: I need a high speed processor and RAM to make sure i can continue to stream AND send back responses to the Big Iron. Dumb Terminals they can't be. Not even an S/390 box can accommodate the entire population of war craft or Spore. Thirdly, AMD, ATI, nVidia would actively sabotage these efforts by suing/buying out/bankrupting this company to protect their investments, In short, the idea is worthwhile IF Jesus were ruling the world: Unfortunately he is not, so live with it. Like a zillion ideas before, this too shall bite the dust, quietly.
Calm down. You are taking this seriously. To reiterate again, slashdot doesn't permit me to post AND mod in same discussion. So i didn't mod you down. Secondly it is ironical now: Iam posting from Safe Mode under WIndows 7 64-bit because the latest nVidia driver screwed up my system badly. Even Guru3d Driver Sweeper can't solve it.
No. I didn't mod you down. I can't post and mod in same discussion. Plus i make it a point to mod upwards only and not downwards. My threshold is set too high to see AC comments. So obviously i couldn ot have seen it in first place.
Knowing what NSA does, this Super Data Center would be used to spy, filter and record all the calls redirected it to by AT&T. So, now we have an American agency, operating within America, and recording American telephone conversations without oversight of law. And we have the galls to say USSR was a spy country... Wonders will never cease!
My son was diagnosed with very-mild-autism when he was 3 years old. Instead of a series of drugs, our doctors prescribed an action course: no TV, all active plays, puzzles, and talking a lot to him. Now, at age 4 1/2, he as slowly come out of his shell and is talking normally at 80% efficiency. The doctors say he lags 6 months behind others of his age. His IQ is 90 for his age of 4 years. Of course he still is silent in school and does what he is told. His drawing skills are exceptional for his age and his teacher praises him sky-high for this. But he still has issues mingling with new kids. We checked for Lead poisoning, but nothing of that sort. His speech is still childish- meaning the words are not pronounced clearly. Doctors say it will go away only after constant practice.
The problem with XP, NT 4.0 and benefits of NT 3.5 and Vista is the GDI running in UserSpace versus kernel. Up until NT 3.5 the GDI was run under user space. Hence if the driver crashed, you don't get a BSOD which signifies a kernel panic. The reason why Windows GDI was placed in userspace was because NT 3.5 was also capable of supporting other UI like POSIX UI(which never came to be), and OS/2 UI. So theoritically you could run the NT kernel on a OS/2 GUI or even POSIX GUI if available. With its infinite wisdom and going against the advice of Helen Custer and NT Architect, Microsoft threw the GDI into Kernel for quicker response times (official reason). The real reason was OS/2 was licked and Microsoft wanted to be a monopoly (without knowing that EU will kick its ass in future). So it threw out POSIX developments (it still remains in basic limited form to be of any real use, much like a Bank's IVR). This brought in a rash of new problems: Driver developers were not exactly "Code Complete Quality" material. Hell, they were worse than Power Builder programmers. (all offense intended. So sue me PB programmers) A small freemem(*) call here, a malloc(*) pointer there, and before you know, you had a memory leak, and executable code in Kernel scratching up the wall for a non-existent memory address space. WTF was the kernel to do? Allow a badly written driver to corrupt the system more? Nope. Not even Microsoft was that stupid. So, the kernel took down the entire system with a BSOD to signify that somewhere something crashed and that the OS cannot recover unless i rebooted the system entirely. There started the jokes about BSOD, screensavers etc. Microsoft was tired of these jib jabs, and also since processor power had increased from 33 Mhz on a 80386 to 2048 MHz on an IA64, it started to move back the GDI to user space from kernel in Vista. But then, this being Microsoft, it did a half-ass job anyway without talking to the driver developers. Of course no developer worth his salt would read MSDN to know about the details of privilege de-escalation and re-escalation: that was for the n00bs. A better way to release the driver into the wild and wait for some poor unsuspecting soul to scream.... which is what exactly nvidia, ATI, Xerox, Canon and AMD did. What they didn't realize was that users were paying customers (surprise!) and that Microsoft wielded had a bigger stick. So all these device makers and driver makers got fcuked front and back. Now, having experienced the pain of such fcuking by Bubba (Microsoft), they made sure their drivers were well tested for Windows 7. Which is why Windows 7 looks nicer, works better and is more crash proof than XP. Hell, i even upgraded by nvidia display driver yesterday without rebooting.
You are talking about USSR. This is USA. Know the difference. USA is a 250+ years old Democracy with separate pillars of governance. This means the Government cannot seize anything and everything with power of eminent domain. And you don't smile and nod. You can show the middle finger to the government, sue it and win. That is what a democracy is.
Fortunately, i have a high metabolism rate. The kind that burns fat first. As several of doctors in Singapore, Australia, USA and India confirmed, my metabolism is slightly off balance. Meaning it is hyper. So the more i eat, the faster it metabolizes it. And the more fat i eat, the more it metabolizes the same first. My doctor said my weight will always be around 57-60 Kgs. Never will go up even if i eat a pound of butter every day. And no, my heart is not affected. Heck, the fat never even reaches it. Took ECGs regularly every month and i still climb four floors of stairs to go my office cabin. The side-effect is, i can't exist without eating fatty foods. I can't subsist on cereals, juices and salads. Those make me awfully hungry and weak. My wife hates me for eating lathering up my dinner with butter and the way i inhale cakes and pastries. She hates me for eating a quarter-pounder every week without getting fat ever. And no, i don't do special exercises. All i do is to walk 4 floors up, down 4 times a day (one in morn, one in even and two times in between for lunch) I tried to get fat once by eating a double-cheese burger for one month at McDonalds and Pizzas at Dominoes. All i got for all that trouble was a taste killing effort. My taste buds lost their taste for everything else. It took me 3 months to regain taste buds. Now i stick to my regular meals: Breakfast: one huge bowl of Kellogs and a glass of Orange juice, double-egg omletes. Lunch: Anything with lots of cheese and butter in it. And no juices. Egg again. Evening: Butter cookies and Corn puffs for snacks: 500 Gms Dinner: Mashed potatoes with butter, Rice with butter and other stuff. Chocolate Milk shake. Anything less and i start to feel weak. My women friends at office are extremely jealous and wonder whether it is hereditary. They always say they would kill for my Gene. Any advice?
As i told earlier, i did NOT use Vista. So i have no experience to compare. I graduated from 32-bit XP to 64-bit Win 7. 64-bit XP at my workplace is a piece of crap. Don't tell me its great. I work with it every single day and i would prefer if IT would switch to 32-bit XP just for my sake.
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Doesn't matter.
Whichever release it is, it will never save System Restore properly.
My first install of Win 7 RC 1 got corrupted thanks to nVidia 186.18 driver.
I could not roll back because NO system restore points were available.
so i reinstalled Win 7, allocated 22% of my disk spaces to System Restore and created manual system restore points AFTER Bootup and BEFORE Shutdown every single damn time.
But when i reboot, i find all of those points missing.
Not just Manual points, but also those created by Install and Automatic are gone Kaput.
This happens every day. I i create 20 system restore points and reboot, ALL 20 are gone. If the Install service created one system restore point and i rebooted, its gone.
I contacted Technet, but while MVPs acknowledged my problem as unique, they could do nothing.
What's the importance of having eyes on a Human Being?
Kudos. You did guess my profile correctly.
But an architect is a staid profile: it talks too much about abstractions. And architects prefer order and stability: neither of which am prepared to accept.
But am also not a Business Analyst, i don't despise techies like they do.
Iam somewhat between these two: i like technology, but like business more. I like order, but i like change more. I like design, but i like chaos more.
The problem is one of age.
As your grow old, your primary needs change from latest version of WAS to latest baby food or diapers.
That is when you lose the edge: never to regain.
Technical stuff always improves with time. ALWAYS.
That is why we don't write in Assembly anymore. Hell, we don't even write in C anymore (a lot of us).
Like horse shoe making or stagecoach building at some point you will become redundant.
That is why it is always better to ride on a team than be one of the team being ridden.
I recall the Yes, Minister Episode where the minister is stringently against invasion of privacy and tapping, but when his life is on the line he accepts the recommendations to tap telephone lines.
In short, all BT has to do to implement this is to show the peers and MPs a real-life example of Yes, Minister episode!
Voila!
Well, you seem to mirror my career although you are older by 5 years.
I was a techie in my early years of my 14 years of IT career. Cut my teeth on JDK 1.0.2 and was the one of the first to introduce Java to Citibank via a working prototype that used RMI/JRMP: won an award for the same.
Over the years as i got promoted beyond my capabilities, i realized two things: I was a leader, not a manager. I created and built teams that were fiercely loyal and extremely professional. But like me, they too hated the Administrivia of Management and refused to enter "Management".
I also recognized a truth: The MBAs in suits look down upon techies. The Techies look down upon MBAs as paper pushers. You need someone who has the confidence of techies BUT also has an MBA under his belt to talk sense to the management.
Someone who can talk to Clients directly on their business needs, understand their business problems on Compliance, Dealer Management, Funds Treasury investment across borders, EoD transaction nettings, etc and then turn around talk to the techies about EJB Entity Beans, Message Driven Beans, WebSphere 5.1.3 to WebSphere 6.0 AS migration to achieve the same.
I realized that such people are far and very few. Most take to Management after the required years as a techie and lose touch with technology. Some stay with technology and refuse to understand the business reasons and concerns that put food on their plates.
You need to be the one who bridges both and has the confidence of both.
I can walk up to any Bank and talk sense to their suits: Corporate Actions payouts, T+2 settlements, Securities Loans, etc. Why? I have a PG in Banking under my belt. But i can also come back to my teams and talk to them about evaluating their architecture via SAAM rather than ATAM, mathematically evaluating a design for fitness for purpose, not preferring AJAX for security reasons, architecture patterns, etc. Why? Because i daily go through the grind and understand their difficulties. FYI Its not easy to migrate from WAS 5.1.3 to WAS 6.0 on OS/390 when you have session beans invoking MDBs and you are using SQLJ.
In short, you need to be a master of both.
You need to wear two faces: one face which understands that the cold fork is for Salads and one who understands IE 7.0 DOM model.
No No no. That's not what i meant.
I agree on mobi format. i can create an un-DRM mobi and read it on kindle.
The fact is that mobi itself is owned by amazon. Not by Gutenberg or an open standard.
So, anyday Amazon can refuse to allow creation of non-DRM books for any reason. That day Kindle will become opaque.
Can kindle read JPG formats?
Can kindle read other open standards of book packaging?
Next year, let's see where nVidia is and where this fancy company of yours is.
My bet would be on nVidia and Intel and AMD.
The pursuit of profit is was a valid goal for businesses in mid 1990s and good for a different business in 2009.
Why should Kindle allow open standards? That allows a zillion others to post content into it without providing money to Amazon.
That's the last thing a CEO wants.
Instead, if a CEO were to increase revenue for his company he would insist on closed products which have no APU visible to outsiders and a powerful legal team that defeats every attempt to pry it open.
That's why Toshiba didn't release its HD spec into public: it would get sued immediately.
Again i repeat, its not paranoia.
What you are saying is ideal in an ideal world: Gaikai's product will be seen as long-term benefits for nVidia and ATI.
But the corporates that make graphics cards and CPUs are... well corporates. Their overwhelming desire is to fulfil next quarter expectations.
Long term plan is great: But it was NOT Moore's law which forced Intel to make faster chips. It was AMD. Without a competitor, we would still be using Intel Pentium chips running at 800Mhz and playing Doom on 640x480 VGA monitor.
What am saying is that law of jungle forces companies to innovate and think long term. Otherwise they would think only short term.
Gaikai enables them to think only short term since its DRM prevents anyone from cracking a game.
With no heat in form of lost sales which force the company to make better products, it would be making crappy products.
After all it was NOT the oil crisis that forced Chrysler, GM and Ford into making fuel-efficient cars: it was the Japanese who were very lucky at that time.
DRM is a way to prevent me from forcing a company to innovate by providing it a steady stream of money in current products.
Tell me, if you were a CEO who was enjoying a constant steady stream of revenue from 100% non-pirated products, would you throw away money on Research to innovate and make a better product, when there's no apparent demand for the same?
Am a realist.
Tell me what i have told are not facts.
Am not an optimist, otherwise i would be driving an atomic car and flying to work a.k.a Jetsons.
Am not going to start the familiar rant that DRM is evil.
The fact is that a stronger DRM will enable stronger restrictions on usage while freeing PC's from the debilitating effects of DRM and Virus
This does not necessarily translate to better games or even more demos.
On the contrary, it will lead to more profit taking and more of the same crap games.
For instance, Company of Heroes was ground-breaking when it came out. I upgraded my PC to play it. The subsequent Opposing Fronts was even more ground breaking.
BUT, the law of average returns states that companies should screw up: Tales of Valor.
BioShock was ground breaking. Subsequent sequels were not.
Age of Empires was ground breaking. Subsequent sequels were not.
A company innovates only once. Then the MBA's take over and consider it a cash cow and all that crap.
This rule is applicable not only for Games, but also to movies, songs, books, etc.: Tremors, Star Wars, Star Trek, FRIENDS, Joey, etc.
DRM only seeks to reinforce what the company does without providing an incentive for it to improve.
Leasing the Big Iron is time sharing: this is not a new concept. I don't need a high-end PC is false: I need a high speed processor and RAM to make sure i can continue to stream AND send back responses to the Big Iron. Dumb Terminals they can't be.
Not even an S/390 box can accommodate the entire population of war craft or Spore.
Thirdly, AMD, ATI, nVidia would actively sabotage these efforts by suing/buying out/bankrupting this company to protect their investments,
In short, the idea is worthwhile IF Jesus were ruling the world: Unfortunately he is not, so live with it. Like a zillion ideas before, this too shall bite the dust, quietly.
Righhhhttt.
And exposing a CIA agent for her husband's refusal to paint Iraq as nuke owners is patriotism i guess,
Awww.. you just had to go and spoil the perfect joke with your explanation, aye?
Calm down. You are taking this seriously.
To reiterate again, slashdot doesn't permit me to post AND mod in same discussion. So i didn't mod you down.
Secondly it is ironical now: Iam posting from Safe Mode under WIndows 7 64-bit because the latest nVidia driver screwed up my system badly.
Even Guru3d Driver Sweeper can't solve it.
Thanks for your concern.
I have replied to the GDI thread.
No. I didn't mod you down. I can't post and mod in same discussion.
Plus i make it a point to mod upwards only and not downwards. My threshold is set too high to see AC comments.
So obviously i couldn ot have seen it in first place.
Right.... and the same law was used to prevent Bush and now Obama from spying on Americans...
Knowing what NSA does, this Super Data Center would be used to spy, filter and record all the calls redirected it to by AT&T.
So, now we have an American agency, operating within America, and recording American telephone conversations without oversight of law.
And we have the galls to say USSR was a spy country...
Wonders will never cease!
My son was diagnosed with very-mild-autism when he was 3 years old.
Instead of a series of drugs, our doctors prescribed an action course: no TV, all active plays, puzzles, and talking a lot to him.
Now, at age 4 1/2, he as slowly come out of his shell and is talking normally at 80% efficiency.
The doctors say he lags 6 months behind others of his age. His IQ is 90 for his age of 4 years.
Of course he still is silent in school and does what he is told. His drawing skills are exceptional for his age and his teacher praises him sky-high for this.
But he still has issues mingling with new kids.
We checked for Lead poisoning, but nothing of that sort.
His speech is still childish- meaning the words are not pronounced clearly. Doctors say it will go away only after constant practice.
The problem with XP, NT 4.0 and benefits of NT 3.5 and Vista is the GDI running in UserSpace versus kernel.
Up until NT 3.5 the GDI was run under user space. Hence if the driver crashed, you don't get a BSOD which signifies a kernel panic.
The reason why Windows GDI was placed in userspace was because NT 3.5 was also capable of supporting other UI like POSIX UI(which never came to be), and OS/2 UI. So theoritically you could run the NT kernel on a OS/2 GUI or even POSIX GUI if available.
With its infinite wisdom and going against the advice of Helen Custer and NT Architect, Microsoft threw the GDI into Kernel for quicker response times (official reason). The real reason was OS/2 was licked and Microsoft wanted to be a monopoly (without knowing that EU will kick its ass in future). So it threw out POSIX developments (it still remains in basic limited form to be of any real use, much like a Bank's IVR).
This brought in a rash of new problems: Driver developers were not exactly "Code Complete Quality" material. Hell, they were worse than Power Builder programmers. (all offense intended. So sue me PB programmers)
A small freemem(*) call here, a malloc(*) pointer there, and before you know, you had a memory leak, and executable code in Kernel scratching up the wall for a non-existent memory address space.
WTF was the kernel to do? Allow a badly written driver to corrupt the system more? Nope. Not even Microsoft was that stupid. So, the kernel took down the entire system with a BSOD to signify that somewhere something crashed and that the OS cannot recover unless i rebooted the system entirely.
There started the jokes about BSOD, screensavers etc.
Microsoft was tired of these jib jabs, and also since processor power had increased from 33 Mhz on a 80386 to 2048 MHz on an IA64, it started to move back the GDI to user space from kernel in Vista.
But then, this being Microsoft, it did a half-ass job anyway without talking to the driver developers.
Of course no developer worth his salt would read MSDN to know about the details of privilege de-escalation and re-escalation: that was for the n00bs. A better way to release the driver into the wild and wait for some poor unsuspecting soul to scream.... which is what exactly nvidia, ATI, Xerox, Canon and AMD did.
What they didn't realize was that users were paying customers (surprise!) and that Microsoft wielded had a bigger stick.
So all these device makers and driver makers got fcuked front and back.
Now, having experienced the pain of such fcuking by Bubba (Microsoft), they made sure their drivers were well tested for Windows 7.
Which is why Windows 7 looks nicer, works better and is more crash proof than XP.
Hell, i even upgraded by nvidia display driver yesterday without rebooting.
You are talking about USSR.
This is USA.
Know the difference.
USA is a 250+ years old Democracy with separate pillars of governance.
This means the Government cannot seize anything and everything with power of eminent domain.
And you don't smile and nod. You can show the middle finger to the government, sue it and win.
That is what a democracy is.
Touche my friend.
Peace be between us.
Fortunately, i have a high metabolism rate. The kind that burns fat first.
As several of doctors in Singapore, Australia, USA and India confirmed, my metabolism is slightly off balance. Meaning it is hyper.
So the more i eat, the faster it metabolizes it.
And the more fat i eat, the more it metabolizes the same first.
My doctor said my weight will always be around 57-60 Kgs. Never will go up even if i eat a pound of butter every day.
And no, my heart is not affected. Heck, the fat never even reaches it. Took ECGs regularly every month and i still climb four floors of stairs to go my office cabin.
The side-effect is, i can't exist without eating fatty foods. I can't subsist on cereals, juices and salads. Those make me awfully hungry and weak.
My wife hates me for eating lathering up my dinner with butter and the way i inhale cakes and pastries. She hates me for eating a quarter-pounder every week without getting fat ever.
And no, i don't do special exercises.
All i do is to walk 4 floors up, down 4 times a day (one in morn, one in even and two times in between for lunch)
I tried to get fat once by eating a double-cheese burger for one month at McDonalds and Pizzas at Dominoes.
All i got for all that trouble was a taste killing effort.
My taste buds lost their taste for everything else.
It took me 3 months to regain taste buds.
Now i stick to my regular meals:
Breakfast: one huge bowl of Kellogs and a glass of Orange juice, double-egg omletes.
Lunch: Anything with lots of cheese and butter in it. And no juices. Egg again.
Evening: Butter cookies and Corn puffs for snacks: 500 Gms
Dinner: Mashed potatoes with butter, Rice with butter and other stuff.
Chocolate Milk shake.
Anything less and i start to feel weak.
My women friends at office are extremely jealous and wonder whether it is hereditary. They always say they would kill for my Gene.
Any advice?
As i told earlier, i did NOT use Vista. So i have no experience to compare.
I graduated from 32-bit XP to 64-bit Win 7.
64-bit XP at my workplace is a piece of crap.
Don't tell me its great. I work with it every single day and i would prefer if IT would switch to 32-bit XP just for my sake.