I think they'd be better off making games for Android/iPhone. It's pretty obvious really.. making a decent bluetooth mobile gaming controller isn't that bad an idea, but there is no point at all making an actual tablet dedicated to gaming.
It's not even that unique, the Commodore trademark seems to get passed around almost yearly and more Amiga or Commodore branded machines get pumped out.. at least Amiga has Amiga OS 4, but (possibly to my shame) I haven't ever tried it.. when I was a teenager I used to dream of having a PPC card for my Amiga so that I could run WarpOS.
I suppose it depends how fast the RAM to storage transfer is, I didn't imagine 512MB being very good for the software plus storage buffer. Though I guess now that I imagine how such a program might work, you could just stream everything directly off the drive while editing, and then only need to use a lot of RAM when "rendering" the video..
It wasn't me who looked into it, it was my flatmate. He has a law degree, works with contracts all day, and an insane level of morality/conscientiousness, so I'd be apt to believe him over you to be honest! I'm quite happy to pay it if we actually need it. iPlayer does not require a TV tuner.
Have a look here. I wouldn't be surprised if they require you to pay a TV license for iPlayer eventually, but it doesn't seem that it's the case yet.
If you don't think Apple is going to make this work in the consumer space, and guarantee its success, you don't know Apple.
What? Is Steve Jobs god now? The iPod, iPhone and iPad have been pretty successful, but Apple have had plenty of misses over the years too. It just so happens that in arenas like MP3 players, phones and tablet computers, and online music stores, the options really sucked before Apple came along.
I was actually considering getting a Xoom for video editing. I can imagine a touch interface working really nicely for that. I know I'd much rather have 1GB of RAM than 512MB in that scenario.
Here in the UK you only have to pay a TV license if you're watching live TV. iPlayer is free. So, we don't pay a TV license, and any time someone has mentioned a worthwhile TV program to me (which was.. one time this year!) I just looked it up on iPlayer.
I really feel for the humans who literally live online and nowhere else. It is sad. Very sad.
Did you learn nothing from watching The Matrix? If they're happy, who cares? It seems sad for those of us that enjoy going outside once in a while, but at the same time, internet addicts probably think I'm sad for enjoying walking and exercise..
I think, by allowing us to seek out the ideal people with our exact interests at the moment, the internet allows us to get into the mindset to discount the people around us as less worthwhile to interact with.
Yeah, that's an interesting point. I had a long distance relationship with someone who eventually came over to live with me, and for a while I weirdly felt like something was "missing". I'd feel she was a completely different person when chatting online compared to speaking for real.
I even feel like that when speaking to family members, I guess I just joke around more online. So I suppose it's really me who's different when typing than when speaking, even with people I've known all my life.
It's pretty simple, you'd define ride quality by how smooth a passenger's travel is. Harsher accelerations would score worse. I wonder what they're comparing it to though, since there obviously can be a vast difference in ride quality in even cars with the same type of suspension, depending on how they're set up.
Proper BMI tests take into account muscle mass, but I completely agree that in general it's BS. My weight has been pretty steady in the last year even though I've gained muscle. Yeah, overindulging in alcohol, poor quality sleep, stress etc all cause visceral fat..
I didn't say with fries and soda, I don't eat that shit:p They are the reason you're hungry again after an hour. The burgers themselves aren't that bad nutritionally and I find them satisfying if I'm out training and need some food. The bun is some simple carbs to replenish glycogen quickly, burger has plenty of protein and fat for rebuilding muscles and longer term energy, and they generally have pretty nice salad too for vitamins and such.
Who said that's all I eat? I of course have a decent meal (generally with plenty of complex carbs, protein and fat) when I get home, but I have something high GI near the end of a session, or immediately after training. If you are ingesting simple sugars after a workout (generally should be within 15 minutes of the end of your training), you are in fact providing some easy energy for your body to use to replace your glycogen stores (in your muscles and liver). After intense workouts like weightlifting (used to do) or Parkour (currently do), your metabolism is running higher (you might find yourself breathing more heavily the day after such intense exercise for example) for around a day as your body repairs. During that time you're a lot less likely to be storing fat than normal, and I'd rather supply my body with energy and material to do its repairs than have a deficit.
I agree that it's not healthy to cut out all carbs, I just did it for a week or two to make sure that my body was starting to be able to burn fat properly before moving to a low GI diet, which I intend to have for the rest of my life.
I'm doing it because it makes me feel good, not to lose weight. I have to eat a shitload of "whole" carbs to maintain weight, but it's worth it to not constantly be going hypoglycaemic as I seem to do with normal foods. I used to always have such a hard time getting up in the mornings and have moments of basically irrational nerdrage. That might be expected as a teenager, but it only stopped for me once I changed the way I eat at 25:p
Put it this way - would you consider a Big Mac or a Whopper "junk"? And why? Most people would think, oh noes, burgers, fatty and baaad! But I think the contents is perfectly fine (and when I go I get extra bacon and cheese). The only bit that I think is "junk" is the white bread in the bun (hence why I only tend to go to BK after I've just been out exercising, which is the one time when eating refined carbs isn't actually such a bad idea).
The term junk food is a very subjective thing, because it keeps changing. We've been told for decades that saturated fat is bad, and they're only just now realising that maybe it's not that bad after all, maybe it's even *gasp* good! A lot of people eat/drink stuff pumped full of artificial sweeteners because they it's better than having sugary drinks. I think I'd prefer just to have the sugary stuff if I really had to choose, especially if the sugar is from fruit rather than "table sugar".
I consider diets that get back to more natural, ie Atkins, low GI, paleo etc to be the only ones that are designed for our body to be able to handle, so I'm not sure where else I'd even find such info. Fat has been demonised so much these days that most people tend to try and avoid it where they can.
We might have "hunter-gatherer evolved genes", but most people do not have hunter-gatherer style diets! They're so used to pumping themselves full of sugary corn based drinks and snacks that they don't even need to be burning their own body fat, or digesting all of the fat in their diet.
I'd read before about fat being more likely to pass through undigested if it's not "needed", though perhaps that was incorrect. Found a small discussion on it here, which mentions for example eating fiber at the same time as fat seems to inhibit absorption of fat to a degree. Also saw a few guys on the "paleo" diet talking about fat passing through undigested.
Red meat is not a "huge contributor to obesity". Try looking instead at the potatoes/fries or white flour based buns that people often eat with red meat. You could eat steak every meal and not get fat. It's not high in calories at all, and fat is much more likely to pass through you undigested if your body doesn't need the energy. Stuff like potatoes and white bread is very easy to digest and absorb. I'm happy to eat steak/burgers/hot dogs any meal.
I know what other people is junk, and I also know that based on what I've read, as well as my own experience and that of friends and family, they are often completely off the mark, as long as they're going to equate junk to "makes you fat/unhealthy". Refined carbs are pretty much the only thing I consider "junk", and they make up the staple of most people's diets, even "healthy" home cooked type meals.
Definitely agree with that. It pisses me off no end when it's "low fat" but added sugar. The only time I eat sugar is after long periods of exercise when my body can actually make use of all the sugar to replenish glycogen stores quickly.
The fact of the matter is that very few of the people who are obese would live up to any of those demeaning stereotypes
Yeah, I'm sure the vast majority of them are all eating well (what I consider eating well is not the same as what Ancel Keys considers eating well btw, he was a complete fucking idiot who caused way more people to get fat and sick than otherwise), getting regular exercise and high quality sleep. Gimme a break.
I see many, many fat people walking around, but I don't see many skeletons. And the ones that are anything like skeletons in this area are clearly junkies. I agree that fat is beneficial (dietary fat especially, though you don't need a lot of stored body fat - a man can live for a month on water with just 10% body fat), and you need to be getting enough protein and other nutrients to keep your body in good repair, but it's BS to act like underweight is anywhere near as bad for you as overweight. Even just simple things like the extra strain on your joints if you have poor walking technique (as most people do - if you're not moving silently, you're transferring shock loads into your knees/hips/back) are pretty horrible.
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I was under the impression that a self healing ring was a fairly common way of dealing with important fiber
Sorry, but you're making it too easy to even try..
I think they'd be better off making games for Android/iPhone. It's pretty obvious really.. making a decent bluetooth mobile gaming controller isn't that bad an idea, but there is no point at all making an actual tablet dedicated to gaming.
It's not even that unique, the Commodore trademark seems to get passed around almost yearly and more Amiga or Commodore branded machines get pumped out.. at least Amiga has Amiga OS 4, but (possibly to my shame) I haven't ever tried it.. when I was a teenager I used to dream of having a PPC card for my Amiga so that I could run WarpOS.
I suppose it depends how fast the RAM to storage transfer is, I didn't imagine 512MB being very good for the software plus storage buffer. Though I guess now that I imagine how such a program might work, you could just stream everything directly off the drive while editing, and then only need to use a lot of RAM when "rendering" the video..
It wasn't me who looked into it, it was my flatmate. He has a law degree, works with contracts all day, and an insane level of morality/conscientiousness, so I'd be apt to believe him over you to be honest! I'm quite happy to pay it if we actually need it. iPlayer does not require a TV tuner.
Have a look here. I wouldn't be surprised if they require you to pay a TV license for iPlayer eventually, but it doesn't seem that it's the case yet.
If you don't think Apple is going to make this work in the consumer space, and guarantee its success, you don't know Apple.
What? Is Steve Jobs god now? The iPod, iPhone and iPad have been pretty successful, but Apple have had plenty of misses over the years too. It just so happens that in arenas like MP3 players, phones and tablet computers, and online music stores, the options really sucked before Apple came along.
I was actually considering getting a Xoom for video editing. I can imagine a touch interface working really nicely for that. I know I'd much rather have 1GB of RAM than 512MB in that scenario.
Here in the UK you only have to pay a TV license if you're watching live TV. iPlayer is free. So, we don't pay a TV license, and any time someone has mentioned a worthwhile TV program to me (which was.. one time this year!) I just looked it up on iPlayer.
You can tell a lot about a person by how and what they cook for dinner! :P
I really feel for the humans who literally live online and nowhere else. It is sad. Very sad.
Did you learn nothing from watching The Matrix? If they're happy, who cares? It seems sad for those of us that enjoy going outside once in a while, but at the same time, internet addicts probably think I'm sad for enjoying walking and exercise..
I think, by allowing us to seek out the ideal people with our exact interests at the moment, the internet allows us to get into the mindset to discount the people around us as less worthwhile to interact with.
Yeah, that's an interesting point. I had a long distance relationship with someone who eventually came over to live with me, and for a while I weirdly felt like something was "missing". I'd feel she was a completely different person when chatting online compared to speaking for real.
I even feel like that when speaking to family members, I guess I just joke around more online. So I suppose it's really me who's different when typing than when speaking, even with people I've known all my life.
It's pretty simple, you'd define ride quality by how smooth a passenger's travel is. Harsher accelerations would score worse. I wonder what they're comparing it to though, since there obviously can be a vast difference in ride quality in even cars with the same type of suspension, depending on how they're set up.
What? Who wouldn't put mayonnaise on french fries?
(assuming they ate french fries, which I no longer do)
Yep.
Proper BMI tests take into account muscle mass, but I completely agree that in general it's BS. My weight has been pretty steady in the last year even though I've gained muscle. Yeah, overindulging in alcohol, poor quality sleep, stress etc all cause visceral fat..
I didn't say with fries and soda, I don't eat that shit :p They are the reason you're hungry again after an hour. The burgers themselves aren't that bad nutritionally and I find them satisfying if I'm out training and need some food. The bun is some simple carbs to replenish glycogen quickly, burger has plenty of protein and fat for rebuilding muscles and longer term energy, and they generally have pretty nice salad too for vitamins and such.
Who said that's all I eat? I of course have a decent meal (generally with plenty of complex carbs, protein and fat) when I get home, but I have something high GI near the end of a session, or immediately after training. If you are ingesting simple sugars after a workout (generally should be within 15 minutes of the end of your training), you are in fact providing some easy energy for your body to use to replace your glycogen stores (in your muscles and liver). After intense workouts like weightlifting (used to do) or Parkour (currently do), your metabolism is running higher (you might find yourself breathing more heavily the day after such intense exercise for example) for around a day as your body repairs. During that time you're a lot less likely to be storing fat than normal, and I'd rather supply my body with energy and material to do its repairs than have a deficit.
I agree that it's not healthy to cut out all carbs, I just did it for a week or two to make sure that my body was starting to be able to burn fat properly before moving to a low GI diet, which I intend to have for the rest of my life.
I'm doing it because it makes me feel good, not to lose weight. I have to eat a shitload of "whole" carbs to maintain weight, but it's worth it to not constantly be going hypoglycaemic as I seem to do with normal foods. I used to always have such a hard time getting up in the mornings and have moments of basically irrational nerdrage. That might be expected as a teenager, but it only stopped for me once I changed the way I eat at 25 :p
You're getting hungry from the juice/fries, not the burger. I find a triple whopper and a bottle of water pretty damn satisfying as a meal in itself.
Put it this way - would you consider a Big Mac or a Whopper "junk"? And why? Most people would think, oh noes, burgers, fatty and baaad! But I think the contents is perfectly fine (and when I go I get extra bacon and cheese). The only bit that I think is "junk" is the white bread in the bun (hence why I only tend to go to BK after I've just been out exercising, which is the one time when eating refined carbs isn't actually such a bad idea).
The term junk food is a very subjective thing, because it keeps changing. We've been told for decades that saturated fat is bad, and they're only just now realising that maybe it's not that bad after all, maybe it's even *gasp* good! A lot of people eat/drink stuff pumped full of artificial sweeteners because they it's better than having sugary drinks. I think I'd prefer just to have the sugary stuff if I really had to choose, especially if the sugar is from fruit rather than "table sugar".
I consider diets that get back to more natural, ie Atkins, low GI, paleo etc to be the only ones that are designed for our body to be able to handle, so I'm not sure where else I'd even find such info. Fat has been demonised so much these days that most people tend to try and avoid it where they can.
We might have "hunter-gatherer evolved genes", but most people do not have hunter-gatherer style diets! They're so used to pumping themselves full of sugary corn based drinks and snacks that they don't even need to be burning their own body fat, or digesting all of the fat in their diet.
I'd read before about fat being more likely to pass through undigested if it's not "needed", though perhaps that was incorrect. Found a small discussion on it here, which mentions for example eating fiber at the same time as fat seems to inhibit absorption of fat to a degree. Also saw a few guys on the "paleo" diet talking about fat passing through undigested.
Red meat is not a "huge contributor to obesity". Try looking instead at the potatoes/fries or white flour based buns that people often eat with red meat. You could eat steak every meal and not get fat. It's not high in calories at all, and fat is much more likely to pass through you undigested if your body doesn't need the energy. Stuff like potatoes and white bread is very easy to digest and absorb. I'm happy to eat steak/burgers/hot dogs any meal.
I know what other people is junk, and I also know that based on what I've read, as well as my own experience and that of friends and family, they are often completely off the mark, as long as they're going to equate junk to "makes you fat/unhealthy". Refined carbs are pretty much the only thing I consider "junk", and they make up the staple of most people's diets, even "healthy" home cooked type meals.
Definitely agree with that. It pisses me off no end when it's "low fat" but added sugar. The only time I eat sugar is after long periods of exercise when my body can actually make use of all the sugar to replenish glycogen stores quickly.
The fact of the matter is that very few of the people who are obese would live up to any of those demeaning stereotypes
Yeah, I'm sure the vast majority of them are all eating well (what I consider eating well is not the same as what Ancel Keys considers eating well btw, he was a complete fucking idiot who caused way more people to get fat and sick than otherwise), getting regular exercise and high quality sleep. Gimme a break.
I see many, many fat people walking around, but I don't see many skeletons. And the ones that are anything like skeletons in this area are clearly junkies. I agree that fat is beneficial (dietary fat especially, though you don't need a lot of stored body fat - a man can live for a month on water with just 10% body fat), and you need to be getting enough protein and other nutrients to keep your body in good repair, but it's BS to act like underweight is anywhere near as bad for you as overweight. Even just simple things like the extra strain on your joints if you have poor walking technique (as most people do - if you're not moving silently, you're transferring shock loads into your knees/hips/back) are pretty horrible.