No. Go fucking read it yourself. I'll talk to your lonely ass up to a point (probably no further than here), but I'm not going to do your goddamn thinking for you too.
You see, what baffles me here is that all your responses are some variation on "oh yeah, well so are you." I just can't figure how you derive satisfaction from that. It's so lame.
0x0000 said: "And furthermore, blah blah blah blah blah. I'm going to assault you with misspelled nonsense to appease my overwhelming sense of inadequacy."
I don't know what site you are working on in which each page is 90% different, unless perhaps you are applying absolute positioning to each paragraph. In my experience, it's not nearly as complicated as you make it out to be -- one default stylesheet, which encompasses probably 80-90% of what is needed, and spot stylesheets where needed. Typically that means a spot stylesheet for major site buckets, not that big a deal.
Firefox and Web Dev toolbar = visual page layout and text formatting.
IMO, people who bitch about CSS haven't used it long enought to get it. It's not that terrible, and once you get in the swing of it, you'll realize it's vastly more powerful than the clunky old table.
I think you're missing my point. You *can* lose weight through diet alone. It's not recommended -- for health reasons if nothing else -- but it can be done. The reverse is not true -- you can't lose weight through exercise alone unless you spend ten hours a day in a gym. Two or three days a week of one or two hour sessions can transform your body *if* you're eating right.
Marty Gallagher may have been a competitive powerlifter, but the rest of us are just normal people. I was a fat guy, and now I'm a skinny guy. I exercise, have exercised, and will continue to exercise. But it was calorie reduction that made the difference.
Makes no difference. Unless you're a professional body builder and spend all day in the gym, you aren't going to burn off a bloated diet with exercise.
It's funny you should say that, because just this morning I was reflecting on how free I used to feel living in Boston and being able to get anywhere without having to drive.
You're not quite right there, chap. One hour on a bicycle per day will burn about 200 calories. One Big Mac with large fries and a large coke will cost you 1450 calories. That's seven hours worth of bicycling you'll have to do to burn that all off.
It's true that exercise will raise your metabolism, but the OP is right -- you want to lose weight, you've got to watch your intake very carefully. Let's say you boost your metabolism by 100%, which is, of course, ludicrous. Ok, so now you have to bike 3.5 hours to burn off the Big Mac value meal. Who is going to be able to find that kind of time and willpower? Nobody. And that doesn't count the other meals, snacks, etc. I'm not saying exercise should not accompany diet, but, at least in the U.S., diet is almost always the big tamale. If you're eating 3500 calories a day (not at all hard to do), increasing your activity isn't going to do a thing.
Case study: I have biked 6 miles a day for a couple years, but my weight has always been headed upward. Hmm. Ok, so I reduced my calorie intake to 1500/day, and in six months I'd lost 50 pounds. That was almost a year ago, and I've been at my ideal weight ever since. Did I go back to eating the Big Mac value meal every couple days? No. Do I eat like a bird? No. I eat like a normal human being. That's increasingly rare here.
Hear hear. The safest way to bicycle is to get out in the middle of a lane and be SEEN. People will occasionally get pissed, but that's their problem. If they are honking at you, at least you know they see you.
I moved from Boston to Atlanta a little over a year ago, and while I sympathize with your criticism of the MBTA, I desperately long for it. MARTA is to MBTA as Cheez Doodles are to prime steak. The steak might have a hair on it, but it's a *steak* for God's sake.
Fortunately, I live three miles from work (downtown) and bike or walk every day. It's ironic, given what a sprawling mess Atlanta is, but I'm getting far more exercise here than I did in Boston.
Since my prior response was apparently too oblique (modded down as offtopic -- go figure), I thought I'd expand on it a bit:
It seems to me that the article is using the the term "Slashdot story" to imply that the information is all FUD by default, when the original source is, in fact, highly reputable. Perhaps you don't believe attribution is important, but I do. If the Weekly World News quotes Milton Friedman or Steven Hawking, you can't honestly dismiss it by saying, well, it's just a Weekly World News story.
Slashdot Mirror
No. Go fucking read it yourself. I'll talk to your lonely ass up to a point (probably no further than here), but I'm not going to do your goddamn thinking for you too.
You see? You're doing it again.
You see, what baffles me here is that all your responses are some variation on "oh yeah, well so are you." I just can't figure how you derive satisfaction from that. It's so lame.
Don't you have better things to do?
0x0000 said: "And furthermore, blah blah blah blah blah. I'm going to assault you with misspelled nonsense to appease my overwhelming sense of inadequacy."
Feh. Troll.
Well, hysteria aside, that's an entirely different issue.
Why would people use more bandwidth just because they were at home?
I don't know what site you are working on in which each page is 90% different, unless perhaps you are applying absolute positioning to each paragraph. In my experience, it's not nearly as complicated as you make it out to be -- one default stylesheet, which encompasses probably 80-90% of what is needed, and spot stylesheets where needed. Typically that means a spot stylesheet for major site buckets, not that big a deal.
Firefox and Web Dev toolbar = visual page layout and text formatting.
IMO, people who bitch about CSS haven't used it long enought to get it. It's not that terrible, and once you get in the swing of it, you'll realize it's vastly more powerful than the clunky old table.
By you maybe. In my household, we have trouble coming up with $250 for new tires.
I think you're missing my point. You *can* lose weight through diet alone. It's not recommended -- for health reasons if nothing else -- but it can be done. The reverse is not true -- you can't lose weight through exercise alone unless you spend ten hours a day in a gym. Two or three days a week of one or two hour sessions can transform your body *if* you're eating right.
Marty Gallagher may have been a competitive powerlifter, but the rest of us are just normal people. I was a fat guy, and now I'm a skinny guy. I exercise, have exercised, and will continue to exercise. But it was calorie reduction that made the difference.
Makes no difference. Unless you're a professional body builder and spend all day in the gym, you aren't going to burn off a bloated diet with exercise.
It's funny you should say that, because just this morning I was reflecting on how free I used to feel living in Boston and being able to get anywhere without having to drive.
I understand where you're coming from, but I'm guessing you don't have any kids.
A better question: If part of my body sprawls, am I fat?
Depending on the part, the chicks might say you're phat.
You're not quite right there, chap. One hour on a bicycle per day will burn about 200 calories. One Big Mac with large fries and a large coke will cost you 1450 calories. That's seven hours worth of bicycling you'll have to do to burn that all off.
It's true that exercise will raise your metabolism, but the OP is right -- you want to lose weight, you've got to watch your intake very carefully. Let's say you boost your metabolism by 100%, which is, of course, ludicrous. Ok, so now you have to bike 3.5 hours to burn off the Big Mac value meal. Who is going to be able to find that kind of time and willpower? Nobody. And that doesn't count the other meals, snacks, etc. I'm not saying exercise should not accompany diet, but, at least in the U.S., diet is almost always the big tamale. If you're eating 3500 calories a day (not at all hard to do), increasing your activity isn't going to do a thing.
Case study: I have biked 6 miles a day for a couple years, but my weight has always been headed upward. Hmm. Ok, so I reduced my calorie intake to 1500/day, and in six months I'd lost 50 pounds. That was almost a year ago, and I've been at my ideal weight ever since. Did I go back to eating the Big Mac value meal every couple days? No. Do I eat like a bird? No. I eat like a normal human being. That's increasingly rare here.
Hear hear. The safest way to bicycle is to get out in the middle of a lane and be SEEN. People will occasionally get pissed, but that's their problem. If they are honking at you, at least you know they see you.
I moved from Boston to Atlanta a little over a year ago, and while I sympathize with your criticism of the MBTA, I desperately long for it. MARTA is to MBTA as Cheez Doodles are to prime steak. The steak might have a hair on it, but it's a *steak* for God's sake.
Fortunately, I live three miles from work (downtown) and bike or walk every day. It's ironic, given what a sprawling mess Atlanta is, but I'm getting far more exercise here than I did in Boston.
I do miss it, though.
Isn't this the very definition of an ad hominem argument? The guy's views are invalid simply because he's a blogger? Did you read his post?
Since my prior response was apparently too oblique (modded down as offtopic -- go figure), I thought I'd expand on it a bit:
It seems to me that the article is using the the term "Slashdot story" to imply that the information is all FUD by default, when the original source is, in fact, highly reputable. Perhaps you don't believe attribution is important, but I do. If the Weekly World News quotes Milton Friedman or Steven Hawking, you can't honestly dismiss it by saying, well, it's just a Weekly World News story.
If George Bush says we're going to nuke Iran and the Times prints it, is the Times responsible for nuking Iran?
Point of fact: the source for that claim was not Slashdot, but New Zealand computer scientist Peter Gutmann. See http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_c ost.html.
Yeah, and why can't they take over the automobile and electronics industries already. We've got important TV watching to do here.
True, but Shakespeare damn well would have had his pants sued off for copyright infringement if he were working today.
Pissy, pissy.