I've had two major weight loss periods in my life:
First was from 130 kilos down to 80 kilos. I did this through eating 1500 kcal per day exclusing green veggies AND doing intensive cardio on the treadmill five times a week, hitting 500kcal on the calorie counter each time.
Now I did drop a load of weight, but a good portion of that was muscle. I did regular max-lift tests on biceps and my legs, and over the course of my weight loss the weights I could lift more than halved.
Second major weight loss is from 108kg to 94kg. It's still ongoing, with the final goal being 80kg again. This time I didn't want to loose muscle, so joined the local gym and took professional advise. This resulted in a combination of diet and mixed training plan being made. For the food, my intake drops to 1500-1700 kcal per day for six days a week, split into 6 meals. For the training, I do 3 weight sessions a week (upper body, lower body, upper body, lower body etc etc), 3 cardio sessions doing interval training and 1 session which combines cardio and weights focusing on endurance.
The result? At the half way point I'm stronger than when I started. I've increase my weights by about 30% since the start (about 4 months now). I'm also getting some muscle definition. Weight loss is now steady - it's slower than my first but the actual inches being lost around my waist more than the last time.
So through my experience you're right. Cardio training combined with diet for weightloss is really counter productive. Adding weights in there is clearly the way to go.
No, not at all europhobic. Quite the opposite, infact. I've a pretty poor view of my fatherland and the general attitude of the inhabitants.
For the record I live slap bang in the middle of the country.
The plugs I've got:
1. Standard two pronged thin. CEE 7/16 plug with similary shaped sockets. Ever light I own has this plug. 2. Round two pronged with earth. Type F. All my kitchen stuff uses this. 3. Round two pronged without earth. Same shape as Type F but without the gaps (so it doesnt fit a type-f socket). Fairly common in electronics.
1 fits in all sockets. 2 fits in big round earthed sockets, and most (but NOT all) big round unearthed sockets (those with a molding which assume a recess). 3 fits in big rounded unearthed sockets only.
I've all three sort in house. I bought new plugs from either Gamma or Media Markt for all my UK electronic kit (the only 'imports' I've got), mixture of all the types (wasn't aware that 2/3 were different at the time.).
When we rewired the house I made sure to buy sockets which fit all of the plug types; Gamma at least has several molded in such a way that some plugs don't fit.
Almost non of our plugs are grounded. Only those which have appliances attached to them. The plug sockets themselves aren't stable - you can easily accidently jank a plug out.
In comparison, the three pronged plugs are fantastic. Both the UK model and the one they use in South Africa (like UK but bigger with round prongs). They're almost always grounded, they can only go in one way and generally stay plugged in dispite minor knocks.
What's even better is that there's only standard in the UK. In Netherlands there are 3 different plug types. Not every plug fits in every plug type. Which is a real PITA.
I missed the word "few" (after "very") in my post - and doing anything meaningful with graphics is one of the exceptions. It's also one of the exceptions which can fall back to assembly because the unmanaged code's slow:)
Honestly there are now very problems which can't be solved more quickly and far more effectively in managed code.
The difference is even bigger when talking multithreaded code. Solving those problems in C/C++ is akin to building single threaded applications in assembly - sure it's faster but the costs to produce bug free code are several orders of magnitude higher with with the modern replacement.
Why didn't he just email them and ask them either not to use his pictures, or to pay him for them?
Seems to me like the real reason for him being angry is that the iPhone application he's complaining about looks to be basically an iPhone version of his desktop application. Someone beat him to it on the iPhone and he's mad..
Sorry, but this stinks of an government "spin" survey. You know, one of those surveys where the result is decided before it's even comissioned.
They've have rigged the questions, asking parents how hard they rated things such as:
Counting to three. Breathing. Explaining the facts of life to your children. Explaning how to draw something.
The desired outcome will, of course, be that most parents would have difficulty explaning sex to their kids.
The rating options were probably:
Easy Not easy Hard Very Hard Extremely hard..with only "easy" counting as a positive result.
There's also a good chance that the parents questioned where from a poor inner city area, where their parents would have been poorly educated when compared to the norm, and there would be an higher prevelence of people of below average intelligence....
When growing up, I never learnt to write with my hand contorted at an strange angle. So, because my hand would always touch the letters I'd just written, all of my handwritten script suffered from terrible smudging problems..
Back then an certain percentage of your exam results were linked to your handwriting. You were marked down for smudges, as much as 5% (iirc).
Cursive was always an step to far: sure, I could write fast in it, but it'd be completly unreadable even to me. Especially when forced to write with an foutain-tipped pen (as we had to back then).
Thankfully the computer came and fixed everything. I can type faster than I can write, it's always neat and my (terrible) spelling is automatically corrected. Plus, I'm as handicaped as an right hander.
I've used the Windows version of Safari for about a week. It was installed along with a boat load of other crap (Quicktime, Quicktime Updater service, half a dozen iTunes services). Something which Chrome, Adobe and Java are all guilty of.
Killed it because it was slow, buggy and terrible to use. IE7 was faster and better.
Killed iTunes soon after, upon finding floola (something which didn't need three days to fill the bloody thing up every time it destroyed its indexes).
Sorry, can't believe that. The only standard they ever follow are their own.
They're so only going to use the same plug but put the charging ability in software/hardware to force you to buy their accessories. Like they both already do (but with their own connectors).
I left UK three years ago to move to the Netherlands. There's a good job market here and it's a nice country. It's not the pot-and-prozzie-filled place that Amsterdam is. That's like Vegas is to the rest of the US.
As a programmer language wasn't a problem, but that didn't stop me putting in the effort to learn the language. It took two years to learn the language well enough to work in it. After three years I can watch TV, read the paper and listen to the radio. However I'm still not close to my level of English, which makes having deeper conversations (or, more importantly for me, making jokes!) really hard. My feeling is it'll take another 3-5 years to get to that level (including some real study).
BTW, have you considered voting Lib Dem? If everyone who was disenchanted with Labour and the Tories voted Lib Dem, then they'd get in..
It's hard to compare to 'normal' people, because someone like Steve Jobs would have had an team of the very best surgeons working on him, and generally the best medical care that money could buy..
Any reasonable person would say that she's guilty based on the evidence in the case. However, just as equally, any reasonable person would agree that the punishement must fit the crime.
Why can't it be left to a combination of the judge and reasonable persons to identify the punishement in this case?
It seems blindingly obvious that [losses] * [multiplier] * [multiplier-for-lying] result in an fair punishment. As an reasonable person, I'd suggest figures of:
[losses] = number of songs shared * $1 (cost per song) [multipler] = repayment of 10 times, so 10. [multipler for lying] = another 10 times for lying and wasting court time, so 10.
That'd give, what, $2400 damages in this case? I'd also think it reasonable to award reasonable costs. So not the $5mill the RIAA will claim, but something similar to her own legal costs (which I guess are themselves a few thousand).
Nice and fair.
However, were I, as an reasonable person, asked to effectively condemn a woman to what in effect would be life long slavery to the RIAA, then I think it's reasonable for me to require a far higher level of proof than the case where the damages were reasonable?
So, it is my reasonable opinion in this case that there is insufficient evidance that she shared the files. If they can't produce the files, plus an witness who saw her behind the PC sharing them, then she ain't guilty.
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Yup, burning muscle sucks.
I've had two major weight loss periods in my life:
First was from 130 kilos down to 80 kilos. I did this through eating 1500 kcal per day exclusing green veggies AND doing intensive cardio on the treadmill five times a week, hitting 500kcal on the calorie counter each time.
Now I did drop a load of weight, but a good portion of that was muscle. I did regular max-lift tests on biceps and my legs, and over the course of my weight loss the weights I could lift more than halved.
Second major weight loss is from 108kg to 94kg. It's still ongoing, with the final goal being 80kg again. This time I didn't want to loose muscle, so joined the local gym and took professional advise. This resulted in a combination of diet and mixed training plan being made. For the food, my intake drops to 1500-1700 kcal per day for six days a week, split into 6 meals. For the training, I do 3 weight sessions a week (upper body, lower body, upper body, lower body etc etc), 3 cardio sessions doing interval training and 1 session which combines cardio and weights focusing on endurance.
The result? At the half way point I'm stronger than when I started. I've increase my weights by about 30% since the start (about 4 months now). I'm also getting some muscle definition. Weight loss is now steady - it's slower than my first but the actual inches being lost around my waist more than the last time.
So through my experience you're right. Cardio training combined with diet for weightloss is really counter productive. Adding weights in there is clearly the way to go.
No, not at all europhobic. Quite the opposite, infact. I've a pretty poor view of my fatherland and the general attitude of the inhabitants.
For the record I live slap bang in the middle of the country.
The plugs I've got:
1. Standard two pronged thin. CEE 7/16 plug with similary shaped sockets. Ever light I own has this plug.
2. Round two pronged with earth. Type F. All my kitchen stuff uses this.
3. Round two pronged without earth. Same shape as Type F but without the gaps (so it doesnt fit a type-f socket). Fairly common in electronics.
1 fits in all sockets.
2 fits in big round earthed sockets, and most (but NOT all) big round unearthed sockets (those with a molding which assume a recess).
3 fits in big rounded unearthed sockets only.
I've all three sort in house. I bought new plugs from either Gamma or Media Markt for all my UK electronic kit (the only 'imports' I've got), mixture of all the types (wasn't aware that 2/3 were different at the time.).
When we rewired the house I made sure to buy sockets which fit all of the plug types; Gamma at least has several molded in such a way that some plugs don't fit.
I'm British, but living in Netherlands.
Almost non of our plugs are grounded. Only those which have appliances attached to them. The plug sockets themselves aren't stable - you can easily accidently jank a plug out.
In comparison, the three pronged plugs are fantastic. Both the UK model and the one they use in South Africa (like UK but bigger with round prongs). They're almost always grounded, they can only go in one way and generally stay plugged in dispite minor knocks.
What's even better is that there's only standard in the UK. In Netherlands there are 3 different plug types. Not every plug fits in every plug type. Which is a real PITA.
Don't believe everything you read on wikipedia.
So they've written a static compiler, just like mono did?
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I missed the word "few" (after "very") in my post - and doing anything meaningful with graphics is one of the exceptions. It's also one of the exceptions which can fall back to assembly because the unmanaged code's slow :)
Honestly there are now very problems which can't be solved more quickly and far more effectively in managed code.
The difference is even bigger when talking multithreaded code. Solving those problems in C/C++ is akin to building single threaded applications in assembly - sure it's faster but the costs to produce bug free code are several orders of magnitude higher with with the modern replacement.
But the other side is that the OS is massive.
c:\windows alone is 11gb, with \winsxs being around 6gb.
Googling shows that \winsxs is where all these dll versions are being stored.
I haven't got close to 11gb of applications installed (and I've got VS, SQL server + office on here).
Because the banks are the best placed to fix it.
You've expressed my thoughts quite nicely.
The BBC together with the NHS are the last remaining "Great" in "Great Britain".
Bingo.
Why didn't he just email them and ask them either not to use his pictures, or to pay him for them?
Seems to me like the real reason for him being angry is that the iPhone application he's complaining about looks to be basically an iPhone version of his desktop application. Someone beat him to it on the iPhone and he's mad..
Sorry, but this stinks of an government "spin" survey. You know, one of those surveys where the result is decided before it's even comissioned.
They've have rigged the questions, asking parents how hard they rated things such as:
Counting to three.
Breathing.
Explaining the facts of life to your children.
Explaning how to draw something.
The desired outcome will, of course, be that most parents would have difficulty explaning sex to their kids.
The rating options were probably:
Easy ..with only "easy" counting as a positive result.
Not easy
Hard
Very Hard
Extremely hard
There's also a good chance that the parents questioned where from a poor inner city area, where their parents would have been poorly educated when compared to the norm, and there would be an higher prevelence of people of below average intelligence....
I'm 29, and an southpaw.
When growing up, I never learnt to write with my hand contorted at an strange angle. So, because my hand would always touch the letters I'd just written, all of my handwritten script suffered from terrible smudging problems..
Back then an certain percentage of your exam results were linked to your handwriting. You were marked down for smudges, as much as 5% (iirc).
Cursive was always an step to far: sure, I could write fast in it, but it'd be completly unreadable even to me. Especially when forced to write with an foutain-tipped pen (as we had to back then).
Thankfully the computer came and fixed everything. I can type faster than I can write, it's always neat and my (terrible) spelling is automatically corrected. Plus, I'm as handicaped as an right hander.
I've used the Windows version of Safari for about a week. It was installed along with a boat load of other crap (Quicktime, Quicktime Updater service, half a dozen iTunes services). Something which Chrome, Adobe and Java are all guilty of.
Killed it because it was slow, buggy and terrible to use. IE7 was faster and better.
Killed iTunes soon after, upon finding floola (something which didn't need three days to fill the bloody thing up every time it destroyed its indexes).
Really? It's already rubbish. Users are already used to using a proper browser for a decent experience.
Dropping support because Apple don't want to play ball would be like dropping support because it wouldn't be supported in IE 5.5...
ActionReplay with the fastload. Man was that good. Especially with the 1541 (3mins to 10 secs).
..was there to make my C64 games load faster...
Sorry, can't believe that. The only standard they ever follow are their own.
They're so only going to use the same plug but put the charging ability in software/hardware to force you to buy their accessories. Like they both already do (but with their own connectors).
I left UK three years ago to move to the Netherlands. There's a good job market here and it's a nice country. It's not the pot-and-prozzie-filled place that Amsterdam is. That's like Vegas is to the rest of the US.
As a programmer language wasn't a problem, but that didn't stop me putting in the effort to learn the language. It took two years to learn the language well enough to work in it. After three years I can watch TV, read the paper and listen to the radio. However I'm still not close to my level of English, which makes having deeper conversations (or, more importantly for me, making jokes!) really hard. My feeling is it'll take another 3-5 years to get to that level (including some real study).
BTW, have you considered voting Lib Dem? If everyone who was disenchanted with Labour and the Tories voted Lib Dem, then they'd get in..
I've had to explain this to my colleagues, but the Australian Rugby Union team's nickname is the "Wallabies". So the article has an delicious pun ;-)
>Ask Apple or even Windows folks.
You have seen Safari, haven't you?
It puts the 'f' in fugly.
It's hard to compare to 'normal' people, because someone like Steve Jobs would have had an team of the very best surgeons working on him, and generally the best medical care that money could buy..
Spot on.
Any reasonable person would say that she's guilty based on the evidence in the case. However, just as equally, any reasonable person would agree that the punishement must fit the crime.
Why can't it be left to a combination of the judge and reasonable persons to identify the punishement in this case?
It seems blindingly obvious that [losses] * [multiplier] * [multiplier-for-lying] result in an fair punishment. As an reasonable person, I'd suggest figures of:
[losses] = number of songs shared * $1 (cost per song)
[multipler] = repayment of 10 times, so 10.
[multipler for lying] = another 10 times for lying and wasting court time, so 10.
That'd give, what, $2400 damages in this case? I'd also think it reasonable to award reasonable costs. So not the $5mill the RIAA will claim, but something similar to her own legal costs (which I guess are themselves a few thousand).
Nice and fair.
However, were I, as an reasonable person, asked to effectively condemn a woman to what in effect would be life long slavery to the RIAA, then I think it's reasonable for me to require a far higher level of proof than the case where the damages were reasonable?
So, it is my reasonable opinion in this case that there is insufficient evidance that she shared the files. If they can't produce the files, plus an witness who saw her behind the PC sharing them, then she ain't guilty.
There are also harddrives for the C64, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone has built an flash-based storage device for them.
Gah, why doesn't Slashdot have an edit function? It's 2009 not 2001.