I live on the east coast and most of my friends use AIM. However, I also have some asian immigrant friends so I use MSN, plus some midwest and west coast friends who use Yahoo. Most of my local friends also picked up Gtalk/jabber since we all switched over to Gmail and got Gtalk as a bonus, and since they integrated the web Gtalk/Gmail into Aim, that worked out even better for us.
But as a result of having friends all of these clients I just fire up Pidgin and call it a day.
Google and Yahoo working together would be #1 marketshare holder working with the distant #2 marketshare holder.
Yahoo and MS would be the distant #2 market share holder working with the distant #3 market share holder.
Even united these two would still be smaller than Google. Google is already the biggest, and adding yahoo to the biggest player in the market makes this even more unbalanced, hence the call for an investigation.
I suspect that even if MS and Yahoo worked things out then they may have been investigated as well, the difference is that MS and Yahoo never ended up agreeing to something for the Justice Dept to investigate.
It's not just about sheer size. MS is a big company, but relatively weak in terms of internet search engine advertisement. When investigating these kinds of issues the Justice Dept will weigh the argument that since MS is relatively weak in this market segment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_segmentation) it would be acceptable for them to merge with Yahoo.
Organization is a non-trivial obstacle to leveraging money. The cost of organizing is another cost on top of the money used for leverage(people have jobs to do while they're monopoly busting). Also, the justice dept is investigating. This is because it's not immediately obvious that anything needs to be done. How many individuals have the time and money to conduct individual investigations into the google-yahoo deal? Would they even be given any access?
The government uses a similar foundation and a different approach. It takes money from the same millions, and instead of giving millions of dollars to the business which had misbehaved to the point of attracting ire, it uses those millions to collect enough physical force to tell the business to stop, and can reuse that same physical force to tell another business to stop. Unfortunately, the government might also reuse/misuse that same physical force to go overseas.
I'd say there's an important difference in there. If person A wants to take a part of their personal life and make it public, that's up to them. The problem is when person A wants to keep something private and entity B decides that person A doesn't have a say in the matter.
You talk to non-technical people to find out their needs, filter for bloat and impracticality, present program outline to programmers.
You act as a communications liason between the programmer and the end-user, your CS background is useful, and you shouldn't have to do any programming. The other skills required for the job are really just organization and communication skills that anyone should be able to develop on their own.
It's a volunteer army, not a private army or a clan.
The military is drawn from the same population base that is rebelling against the government. And though they may be military they're still Americans, and many if not most would be reluctant to fight other Americans(especially if share the same opinions). This goes from grunt-level all the way up into the command structure. If things are so bad that a popular rebellion is possible then dissent can bleed into the military itself.
Guerilla warfare has fought against the US for quite some time in Iraq. Our firepower is certainly overwhelming enough that we could have stopped the insurgency in Iraq within 1 week. Of course, the collateral damage would include the entire Iraq population that the insurgency is hiding in. It's taking this long because we don't want to kill innocent Iraqis. This reluctance would be considerably magnified when it comes to killing neighbors.
There's still oil out there, but putting off new oil drilling for as long as possible helps keep the oil prices high which makes alternative energy research more economically attractive.
The fact that there is a limited supply of oil isn't a death knell for society, so long as we can ease into the transition to alternative power sources we will suffer some hardship, but continue on. But if oil prices stay low and the resource is drained quickly before alternatives are put into place, economies will be caught flat-footed. If oil prices stay high, we can move on to other energy sources and even continue to use oil for other purposes like plastics production.
Absolutely correct, I wish everyone adhered to safe following distances.
Unfortunately the most common rule is "Stay under 1 car length" rule. This keeps people from merging in front of you. And I can understand their frustration. A mile of standstill traffic to get into an exit...and some SUV just drives 60mph down the line to merge right in at the exit, while all the patient drivers are still sitting a mile back.
I had a 14-year old and his 16-year old sister in one of my classes during my sophmore year of college.
My first thought was that it must suck not going to school with anyone his age. I wondered if he had any friends besides his sister? Then I realized, when he graduates early, and gets showered in job offers and signing bonuses, he'll be coming back to pick up teenage ass in the ferrari he bought with his own money. He'll be just fine.
"Yeah, it should. But we don't live in Shouldland. Ah, Shouldland, where clean-cut kids cruise Shouldland Boulevard, and the Shouldland High football team gets their optimistic asses kicked by their cross-town rival, Reality Check Tech."
Whether it's ethical or not doesn't mean much, it's legal(in the US) unless it's predatory/anti-competitive(not easy to prove).
And other companies get away with this alllll the time.
Airlines and travel associated businesses charge you more for trying to book at the last minute, you can't substitute so you pay more.
Ever buy food from a vendor where you can't go elsewhere? Buy food at an arena, a movie theatre, an amusement park, whereever you can't easily access food from somewhere else, they can charge more and still get you to pay.
It is certainly illegal if they are charging less in order to drive a competitor out of business before raising prices again. But part of that competition is/free/ linux. They're not undercutting Linux.
Of course they're douchebags, and price discrimination sucks, but it's quite common and legal(in the US).
This is fine when there is a sufficient common ground of reference between the two. However, the end-user is unlikely to understand the development process and should not be expected to. Abstraction is an important tool and the end-user/developer communication can benefit greatly from such abstraction.
End-user's requirements go into the analyst who listens, finds out what they really need, compares it against the possible solutions that the developers might actually be able to deliver on, and then takes it to the developers.
An end-user could want a fantastically intricate tracking system cataloguing the length and breadth of the company's entire logistics and production system in order to fix recurring communications delays. The developer hears this and tells them that's ridiculous and not possible(justifiably so). End-user thinks the developer is blowing smoke up his ass to get away from supplying the support that he's getting paid for. They argue, time gets wasted, and the work time the developer could have been spending on his projects is eaten by trying to talk to an unreasonable end-user.
Hence the middle-man translator, who saves the developer time by asking about what the exact communications delays are, looks at what resources are already in place, and can recommend a course of action that saves a great deal time,effort, and money, by addressing the root problem directly. Meanwhile the developer can stay at the desktop getting work done while he/she waits for the next project outline.
I am not a BA I'm just pointing out that the seperation here is useful in keeping the end-user and the developer focused on their specialized job functions where their time is most productively spent. Especally if an end-user and/or the developer is a Grade-A jackass, the mediator is useful in keeping work rolling and a minimum of strangulation and defenestration.
Actually, I'm surprised how many people go ahead and have disfigured and crippled children even after pre-natal testing shows the fetuses aren't normal.
...I mean, many people have no compunction about terminating a pregnancy due to convenience (too young, not ready for a kid, etc)...it would seem to be even easier to make the decision on terminating a potentially very damaged child, which would drain all the parents' time, and monetary resources. I would conjecture that the difference between choosing to terminate a pregnancy for convenience and choosing not to terminating even when it's a damaged baby are the parents in question. There's a lot of people in each camp, but I imagine very few with feet planted in both.
It's not hard to understand, the one of the key tenets of the anti-abortion camp is pretty well known, that life can begin inside the womb(starting at different stages of gestation for different people). If the baby in the womb is alive, then it's no longer a defective product, it's now/their baby/. So if their baby can have any joy in its lifespan I can certainly see why they'd want to bring it to term.
I probably wouldn't though. But then, I also don't have pregnancy hormones flushing through me(guys go hormonal too).
My geek friend spent 3 years timing the purchase of his "new PC". He is aware that new tech constantly comes out, so he just kept waiting for new tech releases to coincide in a short time span so that he could maximize the value between iterations. His computer became obsolete within 3 weeks.
To be fair, he's an extreme case. He's also waiting for an Xbox360...waiting for the RRODs to be solved in the 3rd or 4th production generation which will address graphics cooling(unlike the last one which changed the heatsink on the the processor).
Bingo, while the touchscreen may be neat, it's certainly no substitute for physical feedback. In particular I'd like some music control buttons so that I don't need to activate the touch screen first in order to see the options to change the volume or track. Using buttons on pretty much any other mp3 player won't require me to focus my eyes on a screen to manipulate the controls. I was able to operate my last mp3 player(iriver clix 2) with my/chin/ on an armband while running, I can't do this with my ipod touch.
I hope that future devices will remember that just because there's a touch screen on the face, doesn't mean that buttons along the side are a bad idea.(Maybe a slide-out keyboard to boot?)
In Saints Row, all weapons were selected with one button+stick movement. Pressing B brings up a wheel(radial dial) displaying all the available weapons(12 I believe?), and you flick the stick in the direction of the weapon you wanted. Let go of the button and the weapon is selected.
You can use several buttons in this manner for quick selection of a large number of items/abilities since this would eliminate the need for scrolling. There may be some need for accuracy and practice, but very minimal relative to what gamers go through in mastering the control schemes of other games.
Just press+flick to get to any of them. LT could hold 12, RT could hold 12, LB could hold 12, RB could hold 12, Y could hold 12 menu options, B could hold another 12 menu options, this would be more than enough for any MMO. Make X+(any button) toggle that 12-set to another 12 set(but customizing your arrangement should eliminate the need for frequent alternate set access).
Apple gets a great economy of scale for it's market presence. Significance is subjective some degree, if enough people care about this "not news", then it becomes "news" simply by popular demand. It's silly, maybe even wrong, but it'll continue to be the case nonetheless.
It's news simply because the audience cares. Genocide in Darfur has a much more profound effect on human lives, political stability, moral substance, but in the end while I might disapprove of it, I don't/really/ care about it. It is more worthy of my attention in macro-level terms, but I live life in a micro-cosm, and if I'm honest with myself, I care much more about iPhone 2.0. If the genocide in Darfur's effects ever reverberate far enough to affect me personally, I may not even be able to recognize it. However, I got an iPod Touch for a present 3 weeks ago(My first apple product). Now suddenly the iPhone 2.0 is relevant because now I'm interested in having the additional features of an iPhone, and if I get one, it will see use in my day to day life, which makes it much more important to me than reading about a disaster in a far away land.
There's no reason to think religion will have anything to do with what he talks about. In fact, there's no indication given at all regarding the topic he'll speak on.
However, if he trots out the extremist right-wing view of gaming, he'd be a perfect keynote speaker since this would point out to those attending that the ESA is the only body of industry solidarity between conservative anti-gaming lobbying, and the politicians. This is critical because big name developers are pulling out left and right from the organization. Perhaps this is a desperate plea for attention by the ESA?
Even if you disagree with what someone says, you can still learn something. In fact, you might learn more than if you only listen to those that agree with you. Listening carefully to the opposition's rhetoric is a great way to strengthen the effectiveness of counter-arguments. After all, the point isn't to just argue, but to argue effectively. You can just blindly insult someone and make sure they stop thinking and listening immediately, or tear down the foundation of everything they just said and force them to recognize for themselves how foolish their argument looks.
I worked a stint in HR early on and found that HR would not give bad references due to legal liabilities. However, they could communicate in other ways, for example, the following scene I witnessed:
Secretary: "Marty, I have a call for you as a reference for _________."
Marty picks up and growls: "...Yes she worked here...NO COMMENT!!! *slams the phone down*"
So you can still get a bad reference even if they don't talk about you.
I think his skepticism of the photo stemmed more from people choosing to go about their day-to-day activities covered head-to-toe in body paint. The effort expended in maintaing this lifestyle seemed unlikely to the poster, making it look like an attempt to create an "exotic" picture by introducing a strange foreign habit.
The GP does not appear to have a problem believe that people could live in the amazon without contact. He just finds it hard to believe that people will waste that much time painting themselves for no practical benefit. However, he probably hadn't compared this to the effort that is often spent on religion in modern society.
I recommend the parent's suggestion. Continue your remaining work days by assisting your replacements. Not just because you're still being paid, but because it's satisfying to give your best work with what you have. If this means that getting access back is necessary, then start that process as well. Idling is nice as a break here and then, but a whole day of it will be very unfulfilling.
Also, It's nice to leave without burning bridges. Who knows, maybe some of the people you leave behind may remember you in a positive light later in your career and provide an opportunity?
I have to point out some issues wth the parent post.
Those sugar substitutes in soda trigger the release of insulin but without the sugar for the insulin to breakdown, leading you to become hungrier overall. This overpowers the effect of the caffeine.
Eat a healthy amount but divided in numerous small meals(Say, 2500 over 6 meals) for a higher metabolism. Eat before/after workouts. Involve lean protein and nutrient dense foods.
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I live on the east coast and most of my friends use AIM. However, I also have some asian immigrant friends so I use MSN, plus some midwest and west coast friends who use Yahoo. Most of my local friends also picked up Gtalk/jabber since we all switched over to Gmail and got Gtalk as a bonus, and since they integrated the web Gtalk/Gmail into Aim, that worked out even better for us.
But as a result of having friends all of these clients I just fire up Pidgin and call it a day.
Google and Yahoo working together would be #1 marketshare holder working with the distant #2 marketshare holder.
Yahoo and MS would be the distant #2 market share holder working with the distant #3 market share holder.
Even united these two would still be smaller than Google. Google is already the biggest, and adding yahoo to the biggest player in the market makes this even more unbalanced, hence the call for an investigation.
I suspect that even if MS and Yahoo worked things out then they may have been investigated as well, the difference is that MS and Yahoo never ended up agreeing to something for the Justice Dept to investigate.
Here's one of the tools used in weighing the effects of mergers on market power distribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfindahl_index
It's not just about sheer size. MS is a big company, but relatively weak in terms of internet search engine advertisement. When investigating these kinds of issues the Justice Dept will weigh the argument that since MS is relatively weak in this market segment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_segmentation) it would be acceptable for them to merge with Yahoo.
Organization is a non-trivial obstacle to leveraging money. The cost of organizing is another cost on top of the money used for leverage(people have jobs to do while they're monopoly busting). Also, the justice dept is investigating. This is because it's not immediately obvious that anything needs to be done. How many individuals have the time and money to conduct individual investigations into the google-yahoo deal? Would they even be given any access?
The government uses a similar foundation and a different approach. It takes money from the same millions, and instead of giving millions of dollars to the business which had misbehaved to the point of attracting ire, it uses those millions to collect enough physical force to tell the business to stop, and can reuse that same physical force to tell another business to stop. Unfortunately, the government might also reuse/misuse that same physical force to go overseas.
I'd say there's an important difference in there. If person A wants to take a part of their personal life and make it public, that's up to them. The problem is when person A wants to keep something private and entity B decides that person A doesn't have a say in the matter.
Business analyst is a good suggestion.
You talk to non-technical people to find out their needs, filter for bloat and impracticality, present program outline to programmers.
You act as a communications liason between the programmer and the end-user, your CS background is useful, and you shouldn't have to do any programming. The other skills required for the job are really just organization and communication skills that anyone should be able to develop on their own.
It's a volunteer army, not a private army or a clan.
The military is drawn from the same population base that is rebelling against the government. And though they may be military they're still Americans, and many if not most would be reluctant to fight other Americans(especially if share the same opinions). This goes from grunt-level all the way up into the command structure. If things are so bad that a popular rebellion is possible then dissent can bleed into the military itself.
Guerilla warfare has fought against the US for quite some time in Iraq. Our firepower is certainly overwhelming enough that we could have stopped the insurgency in Iraq within 1 week. Of course, the collateral damage would include the entire Iraq population that the insurgency is hiding in. It's taking this long because we don't want to kill innocent Iraqis. This reluctance would be considerably magnified when it comes to killing neighbors.
There's still oil out there, but putting off new oil drilling for as long as possible helps keep the oil prices high which makes alternative energy research more economically attractive.
The fact that there is a limited supply of oil isn't a death knell for society, so long as we can ease into the transition to alternative power sources we will suffer some hardship, but continue on. But if oil prices stay low and the resource is drained quickly before alternatives are put into place, economies will be caught flat-footed. If oil prices stay high, we can move on to other energy sources and even continue to use oil for other purposes like plastics production.
Absolutely correct, I wish everyone adhered to safe following distances.
Unfortunately the most common rule is "Stay under 1 car length" rule. This keeps people from merging in front of you. And I can understand their frustration. A mile of standstill traffic to get into an exit...and some SUV just drives 60mph down the line to merge right in at the exit, while all the patient drivers are still sitting a mile back.
Too...many...jokes...*keels over and dies*
(Are the editors just trying to bait us now?)
I had a 14-year old and his 16-year old sister in one of my classes during my sophmore year of college.
My first thought was that it must suck not going to school with anyone his age. I wondered if he had any friends besides his sister? Then I realized, when he graduates early, and gets showered in job offers and signing bonuses, he'll be coming back to pick up teenage ass in the ferrari he bought with his own money. He'll be just fine.
"Yeah, it should. But we don't live in Shouldland. Ah, Shouldland, where clean-cut kids cruise Shouldland Boulevard, and the Shouldland High football team gets their optimistic asses kicked by their cross-town rival, Reality Check Tech."
/free/ linux. They're not undercutting Linux.
The phenomenon you're referring to is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
(Specifically, third-degree price discrimination)
Whether it's ethical or not doesn't mean much, it's legal(in the US) unless it's predatory/anti-competitive(not easy to prove).
And other companies get away with this alllll the time.
Airlines and travel associated businesses charge you more for trying to book at the last minute, you can't substitute so you pay more.
Ever buy food from a vendor where you can't go elsewhere? Buy food at an arena, a movie theatre, an amusement park, whereever you can't easily access food from somewhere else, they can charge more and still get you to pay.
It is certainly illegal if they are charging less in order to drive a competitor out of business before raising prices again. But part of that competition is
Of course they're douchebags, and price discrimination sucks, but it's quite common and legal(in the US).
This is fine when there is a sufficient common ground of reference between the two. However, the end-user is unlikely to understand the development process and should not be expected to. Abstraction is an important tool and the end-user/developer communication can benefit greatly from such abstraction.
End-user's requirements go into the analyst who listens, finds out what they really need, compares it against the possible solutions that the developers might actually be able to deliver on, and then takes it to the developers.
An end-user could want a fantastically intricate tracking system cataloguing the length and breadth of the company's entire logistics and production system in order to fix recurring communications delays. The developer hears this and tells them that's ridiculous and not possible(justifiably so). End-user thinks the developer is blowing smoke up his ass to get away from supplying the support that he's getting paid for. They argue, time gets wasted, and the work time the developer could have been spending on his projects is eaten by trying to talk to an unreasonable end-user.
Hence the middle-man translator, who saves the developer time by asking about what the exact communications delays are, looks at what resources are already in place, and can recommend a course of action that saves a great deal time,effort, and money, by addressing the root problem directly. Meanwhile the developer can stay at the desktop getting work done while he/she waits for the next project outline.
I am not a BA I'm just pointing out that the seperation here is useful in keeping the end-user and the developer focused on their specialized job functions where their time is most productively spent. Especally if an end-user and/or the developer is a Grade-A jackass, the mediator is useful in keeping work rolling and a minimum of strangulation and defenestration.
...I mean, many people have no compunction about terminating a pregnancy due to convenience (too young, not ready for a kid, etc)...it would seem to be even easier to make the decision on terminating a potentially very damaged child, which would drain all the parents' time, and monetary resources. I would conjecture that the difference between choosing to terminate a pregnancy for convenience and choosing not to terminating even when it's a damaged baby are the parents in question. There's a lot of people in each camp, but I imagine very few with feet planted in both.It's not hard to understand, the one of the key tenets of the anti-abortion camp is pretty well known, that life can begin inside the womb(starting at different stages of gestation for different people). If the baby in the womb is alive, then it's no longer a defective product, it's now
I probably wouldn't though. But then, I also don't have pregnancy hormones flushing through me(guys go hormonal too).
My geek friend spent 3 years timing the purchase of his "new PC". He is aware that new tech constantly comes out, so he just kept waiting for new tech releases to coincide in a short time span so that he could maximize the value between iterations. His computer became obsolete within 3 weeks.
To be fair, he's an extreme case. He's also waiting for an Xbox360...waiting for the RRODs to be solved in the 3rd or 4th production generation which will address graphics cooling(unlike the last one which changed the heatsink on the the processor).
Bingo, while the touchscreen may be neat, it's certainly no substitute for physical feedback. In particular I'd like some music control buttons so that I don't need to activate the touch screen first in order to see the options to change the volume or track. Using buttons on pretty much any other mp3 player won't require me to focus my eyes on a screen to manipulate the controls. I was able to operate my last mp3 player(iriver clix 2) with my /chin/ on an armband while running, I can't do this with my ipod touch.
I hope that future devices will remember that just because there's a touch screen on the face, doesn't mean that buttons along the side are a bad idea.(Maybe a slide-out keyboard to boot?)
In Saints Row, all weapons were selected with one button+stick movement. Pressing B brings up a wheel(radial dial) displaying all the available weapons(12 I believe?), and you flick the stick in the direction of the weapon you wanted. Let go of the button and the weapon is selected.
You can use several buttons in this manner for quick selection of a large number of items/abilities since this would eliminate the need for scrolling. There may be some need for accuracy and practice, but very minimal relative to what gamers go through in mastering the control schemes of other games.
Just press+flick to get to any of them. LT could hold 12, RT could hold 12, LB could hold 12, RB could hold 12, Y could hold 12 menu options, B could hold another 12 menu options, this would be more than enough for any MMO. Make X+(any button) toggle that 12-set to another 12 set(but customizing your arrangement should eliminate the need for frequent alternate set access).
Even the 2009 Toyota Corolla?(30-32mpg in actual use)
Apple gets a great economy of scale for it's market presence. Significance is subjective some degree, if enough people care about this "not news", then it becomes "news" simply by popular demand. It's silly, maybe even wrong, but it'll continue to be the case nonetheless.
/really/ care about it. It is more worthy of my attention in macro-level terms, but I live life in a micro-cosm, and if I'm honest with myself, I care much more about iPhone 2.0. If the genocide in Darfur's effects ever reverberate far enough to affect me personally, I may not even be able to recognize it. However, I got an iPod Touch for a present 3 weeks ago(My first apple product). Now suddenly the iPhone 2.0 is relevant because now I'm interested in having the additional features of an iPhone, and if I get one, it will see use in my day to day life, which makes it much more important to me than reading about a disaster in a far away land.
It's news simply because the audience cares. Genocide in Darfur has a much more profound effect on human lives, political stability, moral substance, but in the end while I might disapprove of it, I don't
eBay isn't going to do anything about it.
Ebay isn't interested in policing the existing business to protect users, so you can be damned sure it won't do anything for elephants.
There's no reason to think religion will have anything to do with what he talks about. In fact, there's no indication given at all regarding the topic he'll speak on.
However, if he trots out the extremist right-wing view of gaming, he'd be a perfect keynote speaker since this would point out to those attending that the ESA is the only body of industry solidarity between conservative anti-gaming lobbying, and the politicians. This is critical because big name developers are pulling out left and right from the organization. Perhaps this is a desperate plea for attention by the ESA?
Even if you disagree with what someone says, you can still learn something. In fact, you might learn more than if you only listen to those that agree with you. Listening carefully to the opposition's rhetoric is a great way to strengthen the effectiveness of counter-arguments. After all, the point isn't to just argue, but to argue effectively. You can just blindly insult someone and make sure they stop thinking and listening immediately, or tear down the foundation of everything they just said and force them to recognize for themselves how foolish their argument looks.
Maybe they should've asked Jack Thompson?
I worked a stint in HR early on and found that HR would not give bad references due to legal liabilities. However, they could communicate in other ways, for example, the following scene I witnessed:
Secretary: "Marty, I have a call for you as a reference for _________."
Marty picks up and growls: "...Yes she worked here...NO COMMENT!!! *slams the phone down*"
So you can still get a bad reference even if they don't talk about you.
I think his skepticism of the photo stemmed more from people choosing to go about their day-to-day activities covered head-to-toe in body paint. The effort expended in maintaing this lifestyle seemed unlikely to the poster, making it look like an attempt to create an "exotic" picture by introducing a strange foreign habit.
The GP does not appear to have a problem believe that people could live in the amazon without contact. He just finds it hard to believe that people will waste that much time painting themselves for no practical benefit. However, he probably hadn't compared this to the effort that is often spent on religion in modern society.
I recommend the parent's suggestion. Continue your remaining work days by assisting your replacements. Not just because you're still being paid, but because it's satisfying to give your best work with what you have. If this means that getting access back is necessary, then start that process as well. Idling is nice as a break here and then, but a whole day of it will be very unfulfilling.
Also, It's nice to leave without burning bridges. Who knows, maybe some of the people you leave behind may remember you in a positive light later in your career and provide an opportunity?
Great, our new government's anthem will be "Chocolate Rain".
I have to point out some issues wth the parent post.
Those sugar substitutes in soda trigger the release of insulin but without the sugar for the insulin to breakdown, leading you to become hungrier overall. This overpowers the effect of the caffeine.
Eat a healthy amount but divided in numerous small meals(Say, 2500 over 6 meals) for a higher metabolism. Eat before/after workouts. Involve lean protein and nutrient dense foods.