Although I completely agree that exercise is good and its very important for people of all ages to be involved in it...
I find it very disturbing that such a study does not have a recommendation against reading books for too long or too often, as movement wise, there is little or no difference between sitting on ones rear in front of the TV and sitting on ones rear reading a book for a few hours.
Besides all that, I always find it sad when a single study is done on 3,000 or so people and some then tries to portray it as a ground breaking discovery that is already proven... but: > There are over 6.7 billion people on the planet according to some sources, so 3,000 is about.00004477% of the planets population > No scientific studies are ever worth anything, in the vast majority of cases, unless/until they are show to be repeatable by others > TV watching in this case was used as a measure of sedentary behavior, neglecting several other major activities, like reading and playing boardgames which are also sedentary. > The study mentions nothing about air quality in the area of residence of the children ...to point out a few issues
I was going to put a Scott Adams quote here about the three different kinds of statistics, but I couldn't find it before I got tired of looking...
Try going to wildblue.com, or to www.hughesnet.com they are the two most popular satellite internet companies for the US. While there service is not what DSL is it is far better than dial-up and HughesNet is supposedly going to be having FIOS equivalent speed available sometime this year. Note, that their prices are a little high then basic DSL, and ypu may end up paying between 60-80 a month to get a solid speed that you will be happy with, but anything is better than dial-up.
I just installed iTunes 7 and found that for some strange reason my computer was all of a sudden unable to handle the visualization within iTunes with out causing the audio to skip, while with itunes 6 my computer was able to hand almost full screen visualization at 1280X800 at between 35 and 45 fps, depending on what else was running in the background. It seems that a fairly large number of people are having similar problems based on the number of posts on apple.com under support, but they only seem to be having problems with the audio skipping and not with the visualization. It seems to me that however apple modified the visualization part of iTunes, weather or not this has anything to due with the new use or do not use DirectX option, iTunes is no longer able to establish a balance between good performance and allowing the over all windows environment to remain stable, it simply draws too much of the system resources. It is so bad that even with NO visualization and iTunes simply playing music, the simple task of opening another explorer or firefox window is enough to cause the audio to skip. I am curios to know if other people are having any problems with the visualization portion of the program as well.
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Although I completely agree that exercise is good and its very important for people of all ages to be involved in it...
I find it very disturbing that such a study does not have a recommendation against reading books for too long or too often, as movement wise, there is little or no difference between sitting on ones rear in front of the TV and sitting on ones rear reading a book for a few hours.
Besides all that, I always find it sad when a single study is done on 3,000 or so people and some then tries to portray it as a ground breaking discovery that is already proven... .00004477% of the planets population
...to point out a few issues
but:
> There are over 6.7 billion people on the planet according to some sources, so 3,000 is about
> No scientific studies are ever worth anything, in the vast majority of cases, unless/until they are show to be repeatable by others
> TV watching in this case was used as a measure of sedentary behavior, neglecting several other major activities, like reading and playing boardgames which are also sedentary.
> The study mentions nothing about air quality in the area of residence of the children
I was going to put a Scott Adams quote here about the three different kinds of statistics, but I couldn't find it before I got tired of looking...
Try going to wildblue.com, or to www.hughesnet.com they are the two most popular satellite internet companies for the US. While there service is not what DSL is it is far better than dial-up and HughesNet is supposedly going to be having FIOS equivalent speed available sometime this year. Note, that their prices are a little high then basic DSL, and ypu may end up paying between 60-80 a month to get a solid speed that you will be happy with, but anything is better than dial-up.
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Sorry for being obsessive, but its "and hope they don't have blasters."
Crap it maybe, but it is far better than the crap that comes with windows.
I just installed iTunes 7 and found that for some strange reason my computer was all of a sudden unable to handle the visualization within iTunes with out causing the audio to skip, while with itunes 6 my computer was able to hand almost full screen visualization at 1280X800 at between 35 and 45 fps, depending on what else was running in the background. It seems that a fairly large number of people are having similar problems based on the number of posts on apple.com under support, but they only seem to be having problems with the audio skipping and not with the visualization.
It seems to me that however apple modified the visualization part of iTunes, weather or not this has anything to due with the new use or do not use DirectX option, iTunes is no longer able to establish a balance between good performance and allowing the over all windows environment to remain stable, it simply draws too much of the system resources. It is so bad that even with NO visualization and iTunes simply playing music, the simple task of opening another explorer or firefox window is enough to cause the audio to skip.
I am curios to know if other people are having any problems with the visualization portion of the program as well.