I'm willing to bet that more and more, laptops are stolen for the data on them as much as for the value of the hardware. They might be more clueful than you think.
Cost them money? Not likely. Mark my words, they'll charge people that drive less the same that they pay now, and charge people that drive the most even more.
Even if it does have a high chance of causing cancer the choice is still between a 100% chance of death in a few days from acute radiation sickness, or a 100% chance of death sometime in the future from cancer.
Dude if 30 minutes a day worked for me, I'd do it in a heartbeat. The only couple of times I have lost weight in my life I lived on salad and lean meat/chicken in tiny portions and did AT LEAST 2 hours of heavy excercise a day. Anything short of that doesn't cut it. What's worse is when I've stopped it's taken a couple of months of eating reasonable portions and not excercising as much to put on all the weight I've lost over 6-8 months AND add some more kilos as the body overcompensates. Now you can choose to believe me or not. I'm guessing not. That's up to you. I happen to know for a fact that I'm not lying. Meanwhile I CAN'T keep that up while working 10 hrs a day 5 days a week plus some weekends, spending 3 hours a day in commute, doing chores till midnight when I get home and helping to raise a family.
Eating those "tiny portions" for that long might have been part of your problem. If you run a large calorie deficit for too long (3-4 days), your body starts compensating by lowering your metabolism. This results in a plateau and overcompenstation like you mention. Ironically, you might have had better success if you were eating more during your diet. You don't really want to run more than about a 500 calorie deficit per day, and every fourth day or so, you should try to break even or run a small surplus to keep your metabolism from crashing. To do this, you need to figure out what you're actually burning, and may need the help of a doctor/dietician to determine this with a sufficient amount of accuracy. Two pounds a week is about the fastest you can lose weight healthily and long term. Anything that advertises "10 lbs in a week" or whatever is bullshit.
You should also do enough resistance training to avoid losing muscle mass (or even add it). Add cardio to burn extra calories. 2 hours a day will probably just result in over-training. 20 minutes of cardio before and after a 30 minute resistance workout every other day is probably plenty, but everyone's different.
Finally, it has to be a permanent lifestyle change, not a "diet."
Maintaining a healthy weight is simple, but I would never claim it's easy.:)
But at some point in the future, someone will probably come up with technology that basically allows you to put trash and power in one end, and get useful stuff out the other with a minimum of cost & mess. What I got from the GP's post was that maybe it makes more sense than we think to just toss the stuff on a heap until we can deal with it more effectively. Obviously there's some things that make sense to recycle now, but I predict that landfills are going to turn into gold mines at some point in the future.
Solution D: Learn how to ignore the damn phone. Every cell I've ever seen comes with voicemail. You can check it the next time you go downstairs to get a drink/go to the bathroom/whatever.
Think so? The companies will still advertise their stuff at the same price. It's just that after this when you go to buy your SUV, instead of "+Tax, Title & License," they'll also tack on the $3000 "government carbon fee" or whatever to make sure the customers know who's to blame.
Going from XP to 7 would probably entail almost as many training costs as XP to Linux. I skipped Vista and went from XP to the 7 RC, and spent an awful lot of time going "Where the *F* did they move X to?!" (and/or "What are they calling THIS function now?!")
That said, I have to say I was fairly impressed by the ease of installation and transferral of user files/settings.
The same thing that happens to EVERY human society eventually. The masses get complacent and apathetic, the power hungry get corrupt, and it goes down the tubes until the masses get pissed off enough to start another revolution, at which time the cycle starts over.
Why do you think the constitution framers were so explicit about the right of the populace to bear arms?
- 15 to 10 years ago, you had to be careful when installing drives, or RAM. You could almost slice your hand on a cheap case that had unfinished and sharp edges.
The operative words here are "cheap case," not "10-15 years go." This is still a problem (although even cheap cases are getting better.)
- LOUD systems. Have to thank George for showing me just how nice a quiet system is.
My personal peeve. Fast/Cheap/Quiet. Pick any two.:(
So what would happen if MS just closed all of its European operations and refused to play by their rules? As you said they're an *American* company, so if they have no presence in Europe, there's no one to fine and nothing to seize. That doesn't preclude them making products targeted for Europe, though. I'm sure SOMEONE would find a way to sell them there. Even if they could seize all physical products at customs, it wouldn't stop people buying/distributing via the Internet.
Not to mention that the prohibition sends tons of money out of the country, causes violent crime, and is destroying the countries that grow and transport the stuff.
Even if you have perfect backups, no amount of money is going to compensate for some idiot going to the Internet ghetto and getting your laptop owned, your ID stolen, etc. "No" is really the best way to handle it. I had to learn to do the same thing when people ask to drive my jet ski.
My laptop is easy... I just tell them they have to have at least a 6C clearance to use it:)
Yup... In this case, an ounce of prevention is worth several tons of cure. I was in this situation, and ended up using AD group policy to redirect everyone's My Docs to a server directory that I could back up. Then just make sure everyone knows that *everything* important has to go in there. Fortunately, most stuff defaults to saving there.
It only took one round of "oh no, I accidentally deleted X, and spent HOURS on it!!" "Was it in your My Documents?" "No" "Sorry, can't help." for everyone to get the hint.
Plus it means that any time someone messes up their machine, you can just tell them to get a coffee, and push a fresh image onto it.
Add to your list to document where the server/device is physically. Isn't a big deal for a small shop, but I have about 50 servers spread over 250,000 sq ft of data center. Nothing worse than having a replacement hard drive and realizing that your predecessor neglected to mention which rack the box is in (or which of the 15 identical servers in the rack is which).
So: site, building, floor, rack, and rack position of everything
This blogger needs to learn some tact. The best way to deal with security guards (who have no real power) is simply to ask, "Are you police?" followed by, "Then you have no authority over me. I'm now going to leave."
I would probably ask straight up, "Are you detaining me?" Preferably in front of witnesses. If the cop-wannabe says yes, he and his employer are in a world of hurt. He'll be fired, and I'll never have to work again after the civil suit. If he's carrying any sort of weapon, it gets even better.
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Talking to passengers has the same effect... Too bad you can't ban that, too.
I'm willing to bet that more and more, laptops are stolen for the data on them as much as for the value of the hardware. They might be more clueful than you think.
Cost them money? Not likely. Mark my words, they'll charge people that drive less the same that they pay now, and charge people that drive the most even more.
There's a huge difference... The reflected light increases proportionately to ambient light, so the display won't get washed out by bright light.
Even if it does have a high chance of causing cancer the choice is still between a 100% chance of death in a few days from acute radiation sickness, or a 100% chance of death sometime in the future from cancer.
Dude if 30 minutes a day worked for me, I'd do it in a heartbeat. The only couple of times I have lost weight in my life I lived on salad and lean meat/chicken in tiny portions and did AT LEAST 2 hours of heavy excercise a day. Anything short of that doesn't cut it. What's worse is when I've stopped it's taken a couple of months of eating reasonable portions and not excercising as much to put on all the weight I've lost over 6-8 months AND add some more kilos as the body overcompensates. Now you can choose to believe me or not. I'm guessing not. That's up to you. I happen to know for a fact that I'm not lying. Meanwhile I CAN'T keep that up while working 10 hrs a day 5 days a week plus some weekends, spending 3 hours a day in commute, doing chores till midnight when I get home and helping to raise a family.
Eating those "tiny portions" for that long might have been part of your problem. If you run a large calorie deficit for too long (3-4 days), your body starts compensating by lowering your metabolism. This results in a plateau and overcompenstation like you mention. Ironically, you might have had better success if you were eating more during your diet. You don't really want to run more than about a 500 calorie deficit per day, and every fourth day or so, you should try to break even or run a small surplus to keep your metabolism from crashing. To do this, you need to figure out what you're actually burning, and may need the help of a doctor/dietician to determine this with a sufficient amount of accuracy. Two pounds a week is about the fastest you can lose weight healthily and long term. Anything that advertises "10 lbs in a week" or whatever is bullshit.
You should also do enough resistance training to avoid losing muscle mass (or even add it). Add cardio to burn extra calories. 2 hours a day will probably just result in over-training. 20 minutes of cardio before and after a 30 minute resistance workout every other day is probably plenty, but everyone's different.
Finally, it has to be a permanent lifestyle change, not a "diet."
Maintaining a healthy weight is simple, but I would never claim it's easy. :)
...for a GPS company to allow you to upload samples of your wife's voice to nag you about the directions... :)
But at some point in the future, someone will probably come up with technology that basically allows you to put trash and power in one end, and get useful stuff out the other with a minimum of cost & mess. What I got from the GP's post was that maybe it makes more sense than we think to just toss the stuff on a heap until we can deal with it more effectively. Obviously there's some things that make sense to recycle now, but I predict that landfills are going to turn into gold mines at some point in the future.
So THAT's where Vogons evolved from!
You forgot:
Solution D: Learn how to ignore the damn phone. Every cell I've ever seen comes with voicemail. You can check it the next time you go downstairs to get a drink/go to the bathroom/whatever.
Think so? The companies will still advertise their stuff at the same price. It's just that after this when you go to buy your SUV, instead of "+Tax, Title & License," they'll also tack on the $3000 "government carbon fee" or whatever to make sure the customers know who's to blame.
Going from XP to 7 would probably entail almost as many training costs as XP to Linux. I skipped Vista and went from XP to the 7 RC, and spent an awful lot of time going "Where the *F* did they move X to?!" (and/or "What are they calling THIS function now?!")
That said, I have to say I was fairly impressed by the ease of installation and transferral of user files/settings.
The same thing that happens to EVERY human society eventually. The masses get complacent and apathetic, the power hungry get corrupt, and it goes down the tubes until the masses get pissed off enough to start another revolution, at which time the cycle starts over.
Why do you think the constitution framers were so explicit about the right of the populace to bear arms?
Or university management funnelling money to their consultant friends...
I don't think there's anything wrong with caps, as long as they're up front about it.
What I'd rather see is a bill separating the wire/fiber owners from the content/service providers.
- 15 to 10 years ago, you had to be careful when installing drives, or RAM. You could almost slice your hand on a cheap case that had unfinished and sharp edges.
The operative words here are "cheap case," not "10-15 years go." This is still a problem (although even cheap cases are getting better.)
- LOUD systems. Have to thank George for showing me just how nice a quiet system is.
My personal peeve. Fast/Cheap/Quiet. Pick any two. :(
I want one that hinges at the back, so I can adjust it to be comfortable for one OR two handed typing.
And if you screw with the layout of the ins/del/home/etc. keys, I'll shoot you!
So what would happen if MS just closed all of its European operations and refused to play by their rules? As you said they're an *American* company, so if they have no presence in Europe, there's no one to fine and nothing to seize. That doesn't preclude them making products targeted for Europe, though. I'm sure SOMEONE would find a way to sell them there. Even if they could seize all physical products at customs, it wouldn't stop people buying/distributing via the Internet.
Not to mention that the prohibition sends tons of money out of the country, causes violent crime, and is destroying the countries that grow and transport the stuff.
Even if you have perfect backups, no amount of money is going to compensate for some idiot going to the Internet ghetto and getting your laptop owned, your ID stolen, etc. "No" is really the best way to handle it. I had to learn to do the same thing when people ask to drive my jet ski.
My laptop is easy... I just tell them they have to have at least a 6C clearance to use it :)
Yup... In this case, an ounce of prevention is worth several tons of cure. I was in this situation, and ended up using AD group policy to redirect everyone's My Docs to a server directory that I could back up. Then just make sure everyone knows that *everything* important has to go in there. Fortunately, most stuff defaults to saving there.
It only took one round of "oh no, I accidentally deleted X, and spent HOURS on it!!" "Was it in your My Documents?" "No" "Sorry, can't help." for everyone to get the hint.
Plus it means that any time someone messes up their machine, you can just tell them to get a coffee, and push a fresh image onto it.
"Warp...five point nine...parsecs then exit hyperspace left"
Add to your list to document where the server/device is physically. Isn't a big deal for a small shop, but I have about 50 servers spread over 250,000 sq ft of data center. Nothing worse than having a replacement hard drive and realizing that your predecessor neglected to mention which rack the box is in (or which of the 15 identical servers in the rack is which).
So: site, building, floor, rack, and rack position of everything
This blogger needs to learn some tact. The best way to deal with security guards (who have no real power) is simply to ask, "Are you police?" followed by, "Then you have no authority over me. I'm now going to leave."
I would probably ask straight up, "Are you detaining me?" Preferably in front of witnesses. If the cop-wannabe says yes, he and his employer are in a world of hurt. He'll be fired, and I'll never have to work again after the civil suit. If he's carrying any sort of weapon, it gets even better.
Buy some .50 caliber ammo cans in good condition (about $5 ea + shipping) and some dessicant packs (also cheap).
The ammo cans are built like a tank and air/watertight. Glue some foam to the inside, put your drives in and toss in some silica gel.