Actually that sounds much sadder to me, but then I do things I enjoy all the time instead of doing things I hate just to afford to spend some precious little sliver of time with something special. I can't imagine having to spend all that time toiling away just so you can do something you enjoy. Wouldn't you rather have all those hours to do something nice in? Even if it meant you might not afford quite so many gadgets or had to build your non-practical inventions out of second hand stuff instead of brand new parts?
Sure, I buy that to some degree. My personal opinion however, which is entirely unbacked by the scientific community I'm sure, is that there is a lot of difference between foundational research into things like the building blocks of the universe, and foundational research into how to make a diagram that shows more overlapping units than was previously possible. Compare it to origami...
Yes, origami, the art of folding shit into funky shapes. It has applications such as the best way to fold parachutes, and so on. I've even heard of ultrathin solar panels or some shit for satellites being folded up according to very strictly calculated patterns so that they can be deployed properly without snagging into something, while still taking as little room as possible... This is all things that are developed by research into origami methods.
However, researching how to fold a better yoda is not the same as researching how to better fold a parachute. There might be some mild overlap at the edges, but one isn't likely to bring any major breakthroughs in the other. And making better venn diagrams isn't likely to solve world hunger, or explain the mysterious of the world, or whatever mathemagician feat that will come next... Not in my opinion.
In my opinion this isn't foundational research, it's child's play, wasting time between real projects on something that looks neat and has no practical function. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, playing with yourself is a healthy practice I hear, but it's not the kind of thing that deserves to be called "Stuff that matters." In fact it's closer to the kind of thing they should have kept to themselves and been happy about while they tried their next huge challenge - to draw a hexagonal sudoku puzzle.
No really, I hear that one will cure aids. True story.
I say it's apples and oranges, because I like tablets as much as I like E-ink devices - just not for the same things. But this thread was about the benefits of E-ink, and he pointed out the battery life aspect. You might have felt the need to react as if his comment threatened your wisdom in buying an ipad, so you jumped in an corrected his hearsay about the battery life.
Still doesn't change the point that you're confirming his exact point - 12 is still less than 30 - massively so. And a quick google shows reported numbers from 5-12 hours depending on settings and activity, so you are clearly both in the range of being right... he's just pessimistic and you're... well, I guess you're an ipad owner.
I'm almost ashamed to mention but you might not have noticed the slight flaw in your comment there. 12 is actually less than 30. The point of the E-ink devices are the longer battery life, specifically because they don't have to be recharged every night. You might be tied to an outlet yourself, but some of us actually leave such luxuries behind for more than 12 hours in a row at times, and then a less power hungry device for a very low-tech task is quite appreciated.
You can bring an e-ink device with you camping for a week and get a few hours reading in every day. Can't do that with a tablet. Plus you can read it in full sunshine! And yes, it doesn't have a backlight so it's useless in the dark... but then a separate little campinglight works quite well and uses a lot less energy per hour used than all the extra power a tablet uses just to keep that screen glowing.
So it's no contest, really, if all you want to do is read OR if you want to be able to stay away for a few days without having to hit a power outlet... then it's E-ink all the way. It's apples and oranges.
You have a good point. I went through the same phase myself when I was around 8 or so, built strange contraptions. A lot out of lego, but really whatever I got my hands on. Pneumatics, record players, things were spinning, twisting and turning. My mother used to ask me what it was, and I would just happily say I had no fucking clue, but hey, at least it looked cool.
I grew out of it though. Building things with absolutely no practical implementation can be amusing, but once we grow to a certain age we like to at least have some thin veneer of reason behind things... Like the one button party mode room someone built, that I'm sure they've gotten to use often... to demonstrate it, and then promptly turn it off. But we don't tend to brag about it if we do something completely useless.
Well, I guess you might, being an anonymous coward, but those of us who dare stand for our opinions don't tend to.
Torrent it used to be called, lightweight and fast and non-intrusive. That's why I started using it, and probably many others as well. As it got more bloated I could have abandoned it, but then I've got more than a few extra gigabytes of ram these days and my cpu doesn't exactly hiccup at any extra work it does, so... I don't really care it's grown a bit. It's still within my comfort zone just for being simple and doing what I need done.
So they're going to start showing sponsored content now? Fine with me. I have never, ever used the search function in their client. I always find my torrents on third party sites, and they are either sent by magnet link directly to the client, or torrent files put in a folder that the client is watching. I only ever directly interact with the client once every now and then when I open it up to check on the progress on something, and clear out any completed downloads from the last week while I'm there. Ads won't be in my view for long enough to disturb me. I am not sure i'll even notice them.
That being said, I'd consider moving to another client... if there was really any serious competitors for windows that did things better. Not as good, better. I have tried a few, seems to be six of one, half a dozen of the other. They get the job done, and any particular bells and whistles they offer, I don't need. All I need is a download queue, good connection settings to work around my crap router, and the ability to keep scanning a folder for new torrent files. If it's got that, I'm golden. But that doesn't mean I'll do actual work to switch to such a client unless uTorrent fucks up completely... and they'd have to get pretty annoying to do that. Popups, or some such, or degrading the actual basic functionality of the program.
I bet most users feel pretty much the same... a few people on here shout loudly about change, maybe a few people will try something else out, but if it's work, it's not worth it. Not for something that spends most of its time working in the background, unseen, anyway.
Might also want to mention WoW patches, which is probably one of the largest legitimate uses of bit-torrent today. Well, aside perhaps from linux-isos, but the most WELL KNOWN legitimate use.
The entire point of a venn diagram is a quick overview to easily be able to get an understanding about how things overlap, in what amounts and what areas. The diagrams on the linked page might be pretty, but they are in no way useful, and I doubt anyone would get more information out of it than reading the datalist it was compiled from.
I knew this old lady who worked as a cleaner at the local hospice. Every person there knew her name, because that was just the kind of person she was. At some times of stress the elderly would even ask for her to be there with them, just so they'd have a familiar face in the blur of doctors and nurses that came and went. Arguably this woman gave pleasure to a lot of people. But she was paid the same as any other janitor, the rest of what she did... well that was her choice, that was her enjoying pleasing others. If she wanted to do that as a career and get paid to do it then she would have had to go get certified as a nurse or something, and enter that rat-race.
I'm not saying that giving people pleasure and satisfaction isn't a good thing, or that it should go unrewarded... I'm saying these people are producing a product. They can sell it for a hundred years if they wish. Under current laws their ancestors can keep selling it exclusively until the copyright goes out, probably long after the author's own demise.
What I am saying is that once they've sold me my product, the book, they are not to expect me to pay again for it. They are not renting me a story, they are not offering me a continual service, they are selling a product. If they do this through a publisher or directly is another argument, if they have the copyright for a day or a million years is another argument. The fact that they don't have any rights to get paid when I use my lawfully purchased product in a legal manner that doesn't infringe their copyright does matter.
No I'm fine with fire. Chances of a mentally stunted anonymous coward from across the world to set me on fire for the lulz is non-existent. It has a completely different safety-aspect to it, physical and direct security, and personal responsibility - i.e. if I don't stick my hand in it, I don't get burned. If someone wants to stick my hand in it, they have to get close enough to me to do so. It's a completely different issue and argument. Now if someone found a way to remotely set me on fire over the internet, then I would indeed start to worry about the security implications of this. True crazy nutjobs who would do such a thing are really rare, but in a pool of billions of internet users you are much more likely to find them than in a pool of a few thousand people you encounter physically.
Once hurting someone becomes too easy then bored or careless people start doing it. For fun, for profit, just because they can, or even by accident while just digging through something that looked interesting.
I'm aware of that, but as any hacker knows the more you know about something the more chances are of spotting something you can use to get into it. It might not be much of a risk, say one chance in a trillion that it lead to an exploit... but this is a defibrillator built in to some guys chest we're talking about here. You heard about the hackers that raped some guys icloud account just for the lulz on their way to take over his twitter? Yeah that. I don't want those kinds of people to have a one in a trillion chance of messing with something that's keeping someone alive. For the lulz, or for blackmail, or whatever.
One the other hand I support the idea that he should have the right to the data about his own body... I just don't think it's a good idea, right or not.
You're welcome. Just don't forget to run it through a spell-checker and get it to a good editor, wouldn't want to accidentally give your children a heart-attack from having to read it in its unedited form.
Well in my experience, like so many other's here, changing position is the best. I don't have any fancy research to support that with, just the average "geek since age 6, spend pretty much every woken hour by a computer for the past 25 years" background that most people here have. At times I've had back problems or such, and then I've had to get serious about it, changing my position more regularly. When I was tied to a desktop it was the worst, but I found occasionally switching between one of those seat-balls and a regular chair did wonders... Once I got into laptops, well... Now I spend some time at my desk. Then I have another shelf where I can stand up and work for a while if I feel like it... or I can lounge on my bed, on the floor, on a hammock, standing, leaning, sitting. I change position regularly, put a leg under me, throw my feet up, sit on my knees... Maybe ever 15-20 minutes I move. Every half hour to hour I get up and walk a bit, not to walk but to go get some water or hit the bathroom or something. All together this has massively increased my comfort and decreased any problems I used to have.
Okay not ANY problems, I still can't quite figure out how bake cookies without having an oven, but my back is doing fine.
While security through obscurity isn't a good approach I figure with something such as a that you'd want to take every step you can to make sure as little information gets out about it as possible.
Next year on defcon - learn how to hotwire your neighbour! Literally! From your android device! (or iphone, but you have to be jailbroken and pay 99c for the app. But it comes with a jump-o-meter to measure how high he jumps.)
Actually most literary works are produced for entertainment. Most of the budding authors who are in it to make a profit you'll find are self-publishing, thinks editing is a dirty word, and generally won't get much of an audience outside of what they can aggressively market themselves to. They might be local phenomenons for a few years, seen in the few local bookshops, constantly waiting for the big breakthrough... that won't come unless they learn to actually write properly, use the services of an editor, and realize they are fallible. And so on.
As for things that improve your life and health, well, under that definition I believe any literary works you produced should lean more towards being restricted as weapons of mass destruction, so copyright really isn't an issue here. Look into a career in psychological warfare or some such.
Well I have to wonder though, at that point we probably have the technology to introduce the mental scarring directly. I.e. to confuse and disorient people with chemicals or certain signals in ways that mean torture is needless. More akin to just hacking the psyche directly rather than brute forcing it, I suppose.
I'll do without, thanks! The way you handle the language it's quite obvious to me that you wouldn't produce anything I'd want to read or listen to, free or not. Of course you are also trolling, since I at no point in the post you replied to said anything about the length of copyright. If you read further down in the discussion you'll see I mention my opinion that it shouldn't be longer than a handful of years or so, but that's not exactly relevant to the topic so I'm not going to discuss it. Not even if you learned to read and write.
I never denigrated his achievements - if you look in the first post you quite clearly see I state there to compare him to the olympians. You seem to be the person here sticking to your guns religiously rather than objectively discussing the topic.
If those stories aren't fairy tales I look forward to seeing your non-anecdotal evidence of them.
True, he doesn't move at all in the ice boxes. And was it david blaine or some such that held his breath for 17 minutes under water? Not a mystic, just an illusionist who went through physical conditioning and training to do it. The human body is indeed capable of some crazy shit, and if you want to attribute that to mystical powers then well... To paraphrase a funny man - I don't know if there are drugs you are taking, or drugs you should be taking...
Or in other words, whatever floats your boat, but I'll stick to the science, thanks. You can keep your superstitions.
Yes. This: "Mothers lifting overturned vehicles to free a trapped child, a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps whose name escapes me at the moment describing seeing men literally give up, they ate their last potato, lay down, and died for no particular medical reason." are examples of old anecdotal fairy tales that you compared Wim Hof to. I suggest you stop doing that, since that's just pseudoscience as previously mentioned by someone.
Yes, the feats you mention are indeed "staying warm". The fact that he does so under extreme physical exertion actually makes it easier, not harder, but it's not an important factor since other people do it as well. The thing that differentiates him and makes him special is his skill at staying warm. Or, if your new claim is correct which I have no reason to doubt (like I said I was merely going off a skim of the wikipedia page, which I didn't see mention anything about a desert) to control his bodytemperature overall. It's the same methodology in both directions, so I don't really see the issue here. In fact staying cool in hot climates is a lot less impressive - humans evolved specifically to be able to run long distances in the heat without overheating. That was how we hunted, by tiring prey out or running until they overheated and couldn't escape any longer.
I have plenty of imagination and sense of wonder, but I've also got the sense to approach it sensibly, to cut away pseudoscience and religion, and look at the basic facts as they are presented.
Yes, he is clearly an exception specimen of the human race, I never tried to denigrate his achievements... as I said, compare him to the olympians, the best of the best. But don't compare him to fairytales or try to claim his powers are supernatural or mystical... that belittles his achievements as much as it belittles yourself.
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I don't know... I don't see any drinking courses... https://www.coursera.org/illinois
Actually that sounds much sadder to me, but then I do things I enjoy all the time instead of doing things I hate just to afford to spend some precious little sliver of time with something special. I can't imagine having to spend all that time toiling away just so you can do something you enjoy. Wouldn't you rather have all those hours to do something nice in? Even if it meant you might not afford quite so many gadgets or had to build your non-practical inventions out of second hand stuff instead of brand new parts?
Sure, I buy that to some degree. My personal opinion however, which is entirely unbacked by the scientific community I'm sure, is that there is a lot of difference between foundational research into things like the building blocks of the universe, and foundational research into how to make a diagram that shows more overlapping units than was previously possible. Compare it to origami...
Yes, origami, the art of folding shit into funky shapes. It has applications such as the best way to fold parachutes, and so on. I've even heard of ultrathin solar panels or some shit for satellites being folded up according to very strictly calculated patterns so that they can be deployed properly without snagging into something, while still taking as little room as possible... This is all things that are developed by research into origami methods.
However, researching how to fold a better yoda is not the same as researching how to better fold a parachute. There might be some mild overlap at the edges, but one isn't likely to bring any major breakthroughs in the other. And making better venn diagrams isn't likely to solve world hunger, or explain the mysterious of the world, or whatever mathemagician feat that will come next... Not in my opinion.
In my opinion this isn't foundational research, it's child's play, wasting time between real projects on something that looks neat and has no practical function. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, playing with yourself is a healthy practice I hear, but it's not the kind of thing that deserves to be called "Stuff that matters." In fact it's closer to the kind of thing they should have kept to themselves and been happy about while they tried their next huge challenge - to draw a hexagonal sudoku puzzle.
No really, I hear that one will cure aids. True story.
I say it's apples and oranges, because I like tablets as much as I like E-ink devices - just not for the same things. But this thread was about the benefits of E-ink, and he pointed out the battery life aspect. You might have felt the need to react as if his comment threatened your wisdom in buying an ipad, so you jumped in an corrected his hearsay about the battery life.
Still doesn't change the point that you're confirming his exact point - 12 is still less than 30 - massively so. And a quick google shows reported numbers from 5-12 hours depending on settings and activity, so you are clearly both in the range of being right... he's just pessimistic and you're... well, I guess you're an ipad owner.
I'm almost ashamed to mention but you might not have noticed the slight flaw in your comment there. 12 is actually less than 30. The point of the E-ink devices are the longer battery life, specifically because they don't have to be recharged every night. You might be tied to an outlet yourself, but some of us actually leave such luxuries behind for more than 12 hours in a row at times, and then a less power hungry device for a very low-tech task is quite appreciated.
You can bring an e-ink device with you camping for a week and get a few hours reading in every day. Can't do that with a tablet. Plus you can read it in full sunshine! And yes, it doesn't have a backlight so it's useless in the dark... but then a separate little campinglight works quite well and uses a lot less energy per hour used than all the extra power a tablet uses just to keep that screen glowing.
So it's no contest, really, if all you want to do is read OR if you want to be able to stay away for a few days without having to hit a power outlet... then it's E-ink all the way. It's apples and oranges.
You have a good point. I went through the same phase myself when I was around 8 or so, built strange contraptions. A lot out of lego, but really whatever I got my hands on. Pneumatics, record players, things were spinning, twisting and turning. My mother used to ask me what it was, and I would just happily say I had no fucking clue, but hey, at least it looked cool.
I grew out of it though. Building things with absolutely no practical implementation can be amusing, but once we grow to a certain age we like to at least have some thin veneer of reason behind things... Like the one button party mode room someone built, that I'm sure they've gotten to use often... to demonstrate it, and then promptly turn it off. But we don't tend to brag about it if we do something completely useless.
Well, I guess you might, being an anonymous coward, but those of us who dare stand for our opinions don't tend to.
Huh, thanks for the info! Learn something new every day. I guess it's drinking time!
Neither, but if you've got some vodka I've got a thirst that's not of this world.
That's more depending on how much drugs you take. Not so much a limitation as a lack of reality disconnect.
And of course slashdot can't handle the letter "mju", so woooo for slashdot!
Torrent it used to be called, lightweight and fast and non-intrusive. That's why I started using it, and probably many others as well. As it got more bloated I could have abandoned it, but then I've got more than a few extra gigabytes of ram these days and my cpu doesn't exactly hiccup at any extra work it does, so... I don't really care it's grown a bit. It's still within my comfort zone just for being simple and doing what I need done.
So they're going to start showing sponsored content now? Fine with me. I have never, ever used the search function in their client. I always find my torrents on third party sites, and they are either sent by magnet link directly to the client, or torrent files put in a folder that the client is watching. I only ever directly interact with the client once every now and then when I open it up to check on the progress on something, and clear out any completed downloads from the last week while I'm there. Ads won't be in my view for long enough to disturb me. I am not sure i'll even notice them.
That being said, I'd consider moving to another client... if there was really any serious competitors for windows that did things better. Not as good, better. I have tried a few, seems to be six of one, half a dozen of the other. They get the job done, and any particular bells and whistles they offer, I don't need. All I need is a download queue, good connection settings to work around my crap router, and the ability to keep scanning a folder for new torrent files. If it's got that, I'm golden. But that doesn't mean I'll do actual work to switch to such a client unless uTorrent fucks up completely... and they'd have to get pretty annoying to do that. Popups, or some such, or degrading the actual basic functionality of the program.
I bet most users feel pretty much the same... a few people on here shout loudly about change, maybe a few people will try something else out, but if it's work, it's not worth it. Not for something that spends most of its time working in the background, unseen, anyway.
Might also want to mention WoW patches, which is probably one of the largest legitimate uses of bit-torrent today. Well, aside perhaps from linux-isos, but the most WELL KNOWN legitimate use.
The entire point of a venn diagram is a quick overview to easily be able to get an understanding about how things overlap, in what amounts and what areas. The diagrams on the linked page might be pretty, but they are in no way useful, and I doubt anyone would get more information out of it than reading the datalist it was compiled from.
I knew this old lady who worked as a cleaner at the local hospice. Every person there knew her name, because that was just the kind of person she was. At some times of stress the elderly would even ask for her to be there with them, just so they'd have a familiar face in the blur of doctors and nurses that came and went. Arguably this woman gave pleasure to a lot of people. But she was paid the same as any other janitor, the rest of what she did... well that was her choice, that was her enjoying pleasing others. If she wanted to do that as a career and get paid to do it then she would have had to go get certified as a nurse or something, and enter that rat-race.
I'm not saying that giving people pleasure and satisfaction isn't a good thing, or that it should go unrewarded... I'm saying these people are producing a product. They can sell it for a hundred years if they wish. Under current laws their ancestors can keep selling it exclusively until the copyright goes out, probably long after the author's own demise.
What I am saying is that once they've sold me my product, the book, they are not to expect me to pay again for it. They are not renting me a story, they are not offering me a continual service, they are selling a product. If they do this through a publisher or directly is another argument, if they have the copyright for a day or a million years is another argument. The fact that they don't have any rights to get paid when I use my lawfully purchased product in a legal manner that doesn't infringe their copyright does matter.
It matters quite a lot.
No I'm fine with fire. Chances of a mentally stunted anonymous coward from across the world to set me on fire for the lulz is non-existent. It has a completely different safety-aspect to it, physical and direct security, and personal responsibility - i.e. if I don't stick my hand in it, I don't get burned. If someone wants to stick my hand in it, they have to get close enough to me to do so. It's a completely different issue and argument. Now if someone found a way to remotely set me on fire over the internet, then I would indeed start to worry about the security implications of this. True crazy nutjobs who would do such a thing are really rare, but in a pool of billions of internet users you are much more likely to find them than in a pool of a few thousand people you encounter physically.
Once hurting someone becomes too easy then bored or careless people start doing it. For fun, for profit, just because they can, or even by accident while just digging through something that looked interesting.
I'm aware of that, but as any hacker knows the more you know about something the more chances are of spotting something you can use to get into it. It might not be much of a risk, say one chance in a trillion that it lead to an exploit... but this is a defibrillator built in to some guys chest we're talking about here. You heard about the hackers that raped some guys icloud account just for the lulz on their way to take over his twitter? Yeah that. I don't want those kinds of people to have a one in a trillion chance of messing with something that's keeping someone alive. For the lulz, or for blackmail, or whatever.
One the other hand I support the idea that he should have the right to the data about his own body... I just don't think it's a good idea, right or not.
You're welcome. Just don't forget to run it through a spell-checker and get it to a good editor, wouldn't want to accidentally give your children a heart-attack from having to read it in its unedited form.
Well in my experience, like so many other's here, changing position is the best. I don't have any fancy research to support that with, just the average "geek since age 6, spend pretty much every woken hour by a computer for the past 25 years" background that most people here have. At times I've had back problems or such, and then I've had to get serious about it, changing my position more regularly. When I was tied to a desktop it was the worst, but I found occasionally switching between one of those seat-balls and a regular chair did wonders... Once I got into laptops, well... Now I spend some time at my desk. Then I have another shelf where I can stand up and work for a while if I feel like it... or I can lounge on my bed, on the floor, on a hammock, standing, leaning, sitting. I change position regularly, put a leg under me, throw my feet up, sit on my knees... Maybe ever 15-20 minutes I move. Every half hour to hour I get up and walk a bit, not to walk but to go get some water or hit the bathroom or something. All together this has massively increased my comfort and decreased any problems I used to have.
Okay not ANY problems, I still can't quite figure out how bake cookies without having an oven, but my back is doing fine.
While security through obscurity isn't a good approach I figure with something such as a that you'd want to take every step you can to make sure as little information gets out about it as possible.
Next year on defcon - learn how to hotwire your neighbour! Literally! From your android device! (or iphone, but you have to be jailbroken and pay 99c for the app. But it comes with a jump-o-meter to measure how high he jumps.)
Actually most literary works are produced for entertainment. Most of the budding authors who are in it to make a profit you'll find are self-publishing, thinks editing is a dirty word, and generally won't get much of an audience outside of what they can aggressively market themselves to. They might be local phenomenons for a few years, seen in the few local bookshops, constantly waiting for the big breakthrough... that won't come unless they learn to actually write properly, use the services of an editor, and realize they are fallible. And so on.
As for things that improve your life and health, well, under that definition I believe any literary works you produced should lean more towards being restricted as weapons of mass destruction, so copyright really isn't an issue here. Look into a career in psychological warfare or some such.
Well I have to wonder though, at that point we probably have the technology to introduce the mental scarring directly. I.e. to confuse and disorient people with chemicals or certain signals in ways that mean torture is needless. More akin to just hacking the psyche directly rather than brute forcing it, I suppose.
I'll do without, thanks! The way you handle the language it's quite obvious to me that you wouldn't produce anything I'd want to read or listen to, free or not. Of course you are also trolling, since I at no point in the post you replied to said anything about the length of copyright. If you read further down in the discussion you'll see I mention my opinion that it shouldn't be longer than a handful of years or so, but that's not exactly relevant to the topic so I'm not going to discuss it. Not even if you learned to read and write.
Yeah, you're totally right - I'm completely full of shit. You win.
I never denigrated his achievements - if you look in the first post you quite clearly see I state there to compare him to the olympians. You seem to be the person here sticking to your guns religiously rather than objectively discussing the topic.
If those stories aren't fairy tales I look forward to seeing your non-anecdotal evidence of them.
True, he doesn't move at all in the ice boxes. And was it david blaine or some such that held his breath for 17 minutes under water? Not a mystic, just an illusionist who went through physical conditioning and training to do it. The human body is indeed capable of some crazy shit, and if you want to attribute that to mystical powers then well... To paraphrase a funny man - I don't know if there are drugs you are taking, or drugs you should be taking...
Or in other words, whatever floats your boat, but I'll stick to the science, thanks. You can keep your superstitions.
And for the record, I'm not atheist, I'm taoist.
Yes. This: "Mothers lifting overturned vehicles to free a trapped child, a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps whose name escapes me at the moment describing seeing men literally give up, they ate their last potato, lay down, and died for no particular medical reason." are examples of old anecdotal fairy tales that you compared Wim Hof to. I suggest you stop doing that, since that's just pseudoscience as previously mentioned by someone.
Yes, the feats you mention are indeed "staying warm". The fact that he does so under extreme physical exertion actually makes it easier, not harder, but it's not an important factor since other people do it as well. The thing that differentiates him and makes him special is his skill at staying warm. Or, if your new claim is correct which I have no reason to doubt (like I said I was merely going off a skim of the wikipedia page, which I didn't see mention anything about a desert) to control his bodytemperature overall. It's the same methodology in both directions, so I don't really see the issue here. In fact staying cool in hot climates is a lot less impressive - humans evolved specifically to be able to run long distances in the heat without overheating. That was how we hunted, by tiring prey out or running until they overheated and couldn't escape any longer.
I have plenty of imagination and sense of wonder, but I've also got the sense to approach it sensibly, to cut away pseudoscience and religion, and look at the basic facts as they are presented.
Yes, he is clearly an exception specimen of the human race, I never tried to denigrate his achievements... as I said, compare him to the olympians, the best of the best. But don't compare him to fairytales or try to claim his powers are supernatural or mystical... that belittles his achievements as much as it belittles yourself.