That is a personal issue. I have no problem with my kid understanding that "Daddy's busy", and never have. This is with homeschooling, so he is home all day. If noise prevents you from concentrating, it might not be for you. If your child is naturally unusually needy, it might not be for you, but for many kids, there isn't a problem with understanding it.
No, it is your perpetuation that because your genetics keeps you in a size 6, that other people don't have different genetics. Your response shows just how ignorant you are. You don't counter any of the valid and factual points, but simply make an ad hominem attack. If taken at your word, you think that 0% body fat is healthy, as you call me a fattie when my lean bodymass alone puts me in the BMI's 'overweight' category.
So, tell me, how do YOU think a person who's LEAN BODY MASS puts a person into the 'over weight' category is supposed to reduce their weight to the 'normal' range?
1/5 pound of 100% beef, bread, ketchup and mustard. I don't know why people think that cheap food from a grocery store can be healthy, but it is impossible for it to be healthy from a fast food restaurant. The big health problem is fast food restaurants are the french fries and soda. Both are massively high in sugar with no other nutritional value. There is no way for people's bodies to use that amount of sugar before it gets metabolized into fat in their body.
What rice are you talking about, that magic rice that isn't sugar? Because all the rice that you can buy in stores, white rice, whole grain rice, wild rice, you name it, is sugar. Is there some kind of new rice that isn't sugar or are you thinking that complex sugars (carbohydrates) are not sugar?
That all depends on how you order. A McDouble is $1. Even a big eater is generally going to feel full if they eat 3 of those. That drops down your cost for a family of 4 to $12. The kids are likely going to eat 1 or two, and mom is likely to only eat 2. So, really you are looking at closer to $8. That is pretty darn cheap to feed a family of 4. Little Ceasers will sell you a good sized pizza that will feed a family of 4 for $5. I don't eat pizza because bread has way too much sugar for my body, but my wife and son will get 3 good meals (as in full, not healthy) each out of a $5 Little Ceasers pizza. That even rivals ramen noodles in price.
The reason most people feel they must eat all day is because they are eating a primarily sugar diet. They have been conned into thinking that complex sugars (carbohydrates) are not really sugar. So, they eat sugar, their bodies process it in about an hour, and they are hungry again. If they don't graze all day, they go through massive swings of starvation and over eating.
There is nothing about a factory that makes food unhealthy, just as being fresh, or "natural" does not make food healthy. The reason so many factory foods are unhealthy is because sugar tends to dry and store easily, so many factory foods are just that. Sugar. Unfortunately, our government, medical, and insurance industries continue to push people to eat 90% sugar diets, by telling them that balls of sugar like rice and pasta are 'health' foods.
This stems from the brain dead concept that weight can be maintained by just counting calories burned and calories consumed. They figure that per pound, sugar has fewer calories than fat, people can get few calories and eat more by eating a high sugar/low fat diet. Obviously that doesn't work.
I've been their two. Rice, beans and vegetables. I packed on huge amounts of weight. It was the second heaviest I had ever weighed. Rice is not healthy. It is horrible for you, and only slightly better than just eating gummy bears. It's very molecular structure is just a long string of simple sugars strung together.
It is people like you that cause much of the problem. You say that you stay a size six because you won't buy other sizes of clothes. It is more likely that the maximum size your body will achieve is a size 8. It is unlikely that you could achieve a size 14 even if you made that your life goal. You likely just don't have the genes for it. Likewise there is a huge percentage of the population that simply doesn't have the genes to fit in a size 6. They could exercise day and night, and eat exactly what they should, and they simply would never get that small.
I am a man, so 'size 6' doesn't apply directly, but I can tell you that my lean body mass alone, not counting ANY fat at all is enough to define me as 'overweight' by the BMI. I get hydrostatically weighed a couple of times a year, so I know how much of my body is fat, and how much is lean. When I am carrying just 10 lbs of excess body fat, the BMI defines me as 'obese'. Can you say that you have never had 10 lbs of excess body fat?
I know what my body would do unchecked. I have been actually, truly, obese. My wake up call was that I wheezed during sex. It was humiliating, and shocking to me. This has led me to become extremely aware of what my body is doing, and how it responds to food and exercise. I am pretty much never surprised by what I see on the scale because I know a day or two ahead of time what it is going to be. From this, I can tell you that Even if I really tried, I could not get to 350 lbs. I just don't have the genes for it. Just as I could not reach 170 lbs. without amputation.
It is close to impossible for me to break the 'overweight' mark at all. It isn't 'an hour of exercise a day and eat right'. It requires me to focus every aspect of my life, and spend several hours each and every day in maintaining my weight. How many hours a day do you spend maintaining your weight? From the sound of it, very little. You think things like "fresh and natural" have any bearing on weight. They don't. None. Zip. Zero.
People think that weight is totally controllable because you have SOME control over it. That is a sad misconception that doesn't help. Your genes set an upper and lower boundary on your weight. They also set your 'natural' weight. The weight you will gravitate to if left unchecked. From there, you can push to your upper boundary, or push to your lower boundary, but the closer you get to the edges, the harder it becomes. Berating, or worse taxing people who would require 7 or eight hours a day to get where you can get with 30 minutes of effort, is simply a horrible thing to do. It is inhumane.
I'm not disagreeing with that. I have had my gTablet for several months, but I would not have recommended it to many people. It is only this month that anything legitimate has been available besides iPad.
I'm just saying that the consumer saying "Hey, I don't need a full laptop. I'll get a tablet." is a temporary situation. In a few years, people will find it is obvious that a tablet is the touch screen that comes on every laptop. They will do this because it is obvious. Choosing a tablet will be the same act as choosing a laptop.
I just wish they would add a new "access to data" level that gives access to the application's private directory, and nothing else. It seems kind of silly that you have to give access to everything on the SD, or nothing.
No, by my logic the statement "Everything they sell can use almost everything that is made." made by the poster I was responding to is unequivocally false. How you get your conclusions based off of what I said is a bit baffling.
I would say that if writing, browsing and watching on these devices is going to be their primary purpose for the masses, then the iPad is doomed. Those features will be done perfectly fine at a much lower price in the not too distant future. It is the ability to do OTHER stuff that has the potential to keep the iPad on top.
Which is why clam shell cases will be the norm for tablets. A tablet in a clam shell case with a keyboard IS a laptop. Laptops won't go away, they will just have a tablet as their screen. Add a good integrated application that can VPN and Remote Desktop to the users full desktop, and you have full desktop power in most location, and 10 to 24 hours of battery life.
A netbook is a notebook, and always has been. It was just a way for the manufacturer to say that they were focusing on cost and battery life instead of speed and screen size.
No, people ARE stupid, but that has nothing to do with this conversation. The iPad is not a device aimed at "Smart People". Just as a hammer is not a product aimed at "Smart People". The question is whether people will eventually want to buy their nails from anyone other than the store that sold them their hammer.
Really, because I've been trying to run Angry Birds on my iPod, and it just won't work.
I really haven't, as I don't have an iPod, and I am just trying to make a point. But, as far as I know, the iPod does not support software written for the iPod Touch. None of it runs on an iPod Nano either, or an iPod shuffle. Apple has a lot more product fragmentation than most people give them credit for. They just have successfully set customer expectation to be that if it doesn't work, it either can't be done, or it is the user's fault.
How about if they left it at $600, included a clam shell case with a keyboard and touchpad and an extended battery (extending your tablet's 10hr battery life to 24), that allowed you to snap the touchpad into the place that a laptop monitor would normally let you put it? Then they included an integrated app that let you VPN into your home/office network, and screen share to your desktop be it Windows, OSX, or Linux? How about if you could, as you say, get it without a phone plan, and it could us WiFi so that you could tether to your phone to get access to the internet, and thus to your full computer at home where processing power doesn't need to be balanced with battery life and size?
I would disagree with your assessment of the tablet market. Tablets have the entire laptop market to cannibalize. Yes, today a tablet and a laptop are to different products, but we are already seeing keyboards and mice for tablets. The OSes already support them. A tablet with a day-planner style case including a keyboard is a laptop AND can instantly be converted to a tablet. The only reason for traditional laptops to exist today is that people want to run windows, and a little bit of product refinement. I can see the Windows problem going away once a vendor figures out that a free "GoToMyPC" type product included with tablet will allow us to have our 10hr laptops, 10hr tablets and still run Windows anywhere we have internet access. Laptops are what you get when tablets with attached keyboards are too expensive.
Except that Apple is not really the UI masters that they have the reputation for. If Apple had been focusing on the user experience while everyone else wasn't, we would see a huge divide in usability, and not the situation we have now where Apple is a little behind in UI usability.
Are you saying that with an Apple product, you can go find an app and install it to get functionality to work where the competition "Just Works"? That doesn't bode well for Apple.
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That is a personal issue. I have no problem with my kid understanding that "Daddy's busy", and never have. This is with homeschooling, so he is home all day. If noise prevents you from concentrating, it might not be for you. If your child is naturally unusually needy, it might not be for you, but for many kids, there isn't a problem with understanding it.
No, it is your perpetuation that because your genetics keeps you in a size 6, that other people don't have different genetics. Your response shows just how ignorant you are. You don't counter any of the valid and factual points, but simply make an ad hominem attack. If taken at your word, you think that 0% body fat is healthy, as you call me a fattie when my lean bodymass alone puts me in the BMI's 'overweight' category.
So, tell me, how do YOU think a person who's LEAN BODY MASS puts a person into the 'over weight' category is supposed to reduce their weight to the 'normal' range?
1/5 pound of 100% beef, bread, ketchup and mustard. I don't know why people think that cheap food from a grocery store can be healthy, but it is impossible for it to be healthy from a fast food restaurant. The big health problem is fast food restaurants are the french fries and soda. Both are massively high in sugar with no other nutritional value. There is no way for people's bodies to use that amount of sugar before it gets metabolized into fat in their body.
What rice are you talking about, that magic rice that isn't sugar? Because all the rice that you can buy in stores, white rice, whole grain rice, wild rice, you name it, is sugar. Is there some kind of new rice that isn't sugar or are you thinking that complex sugars (carbohydrates) are not sugar?
That all depends on how you order. A McDouble is $1. Even a big eater is generally going to feel full if they eat 3 of those. That drops down your cost for a family of 4 to $12. The kids are likely going to eat 1 or two, and mom is likely to only eat 2. So, really you are looking at closer to $8. That is pretty darn cheap to feed a family of 4. Little Ceasers will sell you a good sized pizza that will feed a family of 4 for $5. I don't eat pizza because bread has way too much sugar for my body, but my wife and son will get 3 good meals (as in full, not healthy) each out of a $5 Little Ceasers pizza. That even rivals ramen noodles in price.
The reason most people feel they must eat all day is because they are eating a primarily sugar diet. They have been conned into thinking that complex sugars (carbohydrates) are not really sugar. So, they eat sugar, their bodies process it in about an hour, and they are hungry again. If they don't graze all day, they go through massive swings of starvation and over eating.
There is nothing about a factory that makes food unhealthy, just as being fresh, or "natural" does not make food healthy. The reason so many factory foods are unhealthy is because sugar tends to dry and store easily, so many factory foods are just that. Sugar. Unfortunately, our government, medical, and insurance industries continue to push people to eat 90% sugar diets, by telling them that balls of sugar like rice and pasta are 'health' foods.
This stems from the brain dead concept that weight can be maintained by just counting calories burned and calories consumed. They figure that per pound, sugar has fewer calories than fat, people can get few calories and eat more by eating a high sugar/low fat diet. Obviously that doesn't work.
I've been their two. Rice, beans and vegetables. I packed on huge amounts of weight. It was the second heaviest I had ever weighed. Rice is not healthy. It is horrible for you, and only slightly better than just eating gummy bears. It's very molecular structure is just a long string of simple sugars strung together.
It is people like you that cause much of the problem. You say that you stay a size six because you won't buy other sizes of clothes. It is more likely that the maximum size your body will achieve is a size 8. It is unlikely that you could achieve a size 14 even if you made that your life goal. You likely just don't have the genes for it. Likewise there is a huge percentage of the population that simply doesn't have the genes to fit in a size 6. They could exercise day and night, and eat exactly what they should, and they simply would never get that small.
I am a man, so 'size 6' doesn't apply directly, but I can tell you that my lean body mass alone, not counting ANY fat at all is enough to define me as 'overweight' by the BMI. I get hydrostatically weighed a couple of times a year, so I know how much of my body is fat, and how much is lean. When I am carrying just 10 lbs of excess body fat, the BMI defines me as 'obese'. Can you say that you have never had 10 lbs of excess body fat?
I know what my body would do unchecked. I have been actually, truly, obese. My wake up call was that I wheezed during sex. It was humiliating, and shocking to me. This has led me to become extremely aware of what my body is doing, and how it responds to food and exercise. I am pretty much never surprised by what I see on the scale because I know a day or two ahead of time what it is going to be. From this, I can tell you that Even if I really tried, I could not get to 350 lbs. I just don't have the genes for it. Just as I could not reach 170 lbs. without amputation.
It is close to impossible for me to break the 'overweight' mark at all. It isn't 'an hour of exercise a day and eat right'. It requires me to focus every aspect of my life, and spend several hours each and every day in maintaining my weight. How many hours a day do you spend maintaining your weight? From the sound of it, very little. You think things like "fresh and natural" have any bearing on weight. They don't. None. Zip. Zero.
People think that weight is totally controllable because you have SOME control over it. That is a sad misconception that doesn't help. Your genes set an upper and lower boundary on your weight. They also set your 'natural' weight. The weight you will gravitate to if left unchecked. From there, you can push to your upper boundary, or push to your lower boundary, but the closer you get to the edges, the harder it becomes. Berating, or worse taxing people who would require 7 or eight hours a day to get where you can get with 30 minutes of effort, is simply a horrible thing to do. It is inhumane.
For many of us, complex carbohydrates (sugars) are just as bad.
I'm not disagreeing with that. I have had my gTablet for several months, but I would not have recommended it to many people. It is only this month that anything legitimate has been available besides iPad.
I'm just saying that the consumer saying "Hey, I don't need a full laptop. I'll get a tablet." is a temporary situation. In a few years, people will find it is obvious that a tablet is the touch screen that comes on every laptop. They will do this because it is obvious. Choosing a tablet will be the same act as choosing a laptop.
I just wish they would add a new "access to data" level that gives access to the application's private directory, and nothing else. It seems kind of silly that you have to give access to everything on the SD, or nothing.
No, by my logic the statement "Everything they sell can use almost everything that is made." made by the poster I was responding to is unequivocally false. How you get your conclusions based off of what I said is a bit baffling.
I would say that if writing, browsing and watching on these devices is going to be their primary purpose for the masses, then the iPad is doomed. Those features will be done perfectly fine at a much lower price in the not too distant future. It is the ability to do OTHER stuff that has the potential to keep the iPad on top.
Which is why clam shell cases will be the norm for tablets. A tablet in a clam shell case with a keyboard IS a laptop. Laptops won't go away, they will just have a tablet as their screen. Add a good integrated application that can VPN and Remote Desktop to the users full desktop, and you have full desktop power in most location, and 10 to 24 hours of battery life.
Lowend laptops is what they were always intended to be. Being overpriced now is bad though.
A netbook is a notebook, and always has been. It was just a way for the manufacturer to say that they were focusing on cost and battery life instead of speed and screen size.
I think the other poster was holding his phone wrong.
No, people ARE stupid, but that has nothing to do with this conversation. The iPad is not a device aimed at "Smart People". Just as a hammer is not a product aimed at "Smart People". The question is whether people will eventually want to buy their nails from anyone other than the store that sold them their hammer.
Really, because I've been trying to run Angry Birds on my iPod, and it just won't work.
I really haven't, as I don't have an iPod, and I am just trying to make a point. But, as far as I know, the iPod does not support software written for the iPod Touch. None of it runs on an iPod Nano either, or an iPod shuffle. Apple has a lot more product fragmentation than most people give them credit for. They just have successfully set customer expectation to be that if it doesn't work, it either can't be done, or it is the user's fault.
[troll]Your not supposed to have to learn anything to use Apple products. They are supposed to "Just Work".[/troll]
How about if they left it at $600, included a clam shell case with a keyboard and touchpad and an extended battery (extending your tablet's 10hr battery life to 24), that allowed you to snap the touchpad into the place that a laptop monitor would normally let you put it? Then they included an integrated app that let you VPN into your home/office network, and screen share to your desktop be it Windows, OSX, or Linux? How about if you could, as you say, get it without a phone plan, and it could us WiFi so that you could tether to your phone to get access to the internet, and thus to your full computer at home where processing power doesn't need to be balanced with battery life and size?
Would that get you to jump on board?
I would disagree with your assessment of the tablet market. Tablets have the entire laptop market to cannibalize. Yes, today a tablet and a laptop are to different products, but we are already seeing keyboards and mice for tablets. The OSes already support them. A tablet with a day-planner style case including a keyboard is a laptop AND can instantly be converted to a tablet. The only reason for traditional laptops to exist today is that people want to run windows, and a little bit of product refinement. I can see the Windows problem going away once a vendor figures out that a free "GoToMyPC" type product included with tablet will allow us to have our 10hr laptops, 10hr tablets and still run Windows anywhere we have internet access. Laptops are what you get when tablets with attached keyboards are too expensive.
Except that Apple is not really the UI masters that they have the reputation for. If Apple had been focusing on the user experience while everyone else wasn't, we would see a huge divide in usability, and not the situation we have now where Apple is a little behind in UI usability.
Are you saying that with an Apple product, you can go find an app and install it to get functionality to work where the competition "Just Works"? That doesn't bode well for Apple.
Not to mention that every TV in my house runs Linux also.