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Methods in Losing Weight
There is an increasing number of people and even children who are getting over weight and obese. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in the whole world there are more than 1 billion of overweight adults and at least 300 million of them are obese. And, an estimated number of 22 million children under 5 years old are overweight. That is why more and more companies are investing on diet pills, weight loss products and programs.

There are a lot of methods nowadays available in the market and can also be sold through the internet. Some popular ways of losing weight are discussed below:

* Weight loss drugs or anti-obesity medication. Many people use drugs in order to lose weight because it is convenient and is not exhausting. These are pharmacological products that can suppress the appetite of an individual so as not to feel hunger immediately; it can also increase the metabolism of the body so there will be faster digestion of foods that have taken in; and, it can interfere the absorption of specific nutrients in the body such as blocking the breakdown of fats so that it will not be absorbed by the body.
* Diet Plans. These are very famous because these diets promote good health and reduce excess weight. An example is the South Beach Diet, it was developed by a cardiologist Arthur Agatston and dietician Marie Almon indicated to prevent heart disease. The diet plan provided alternative approaches to low-fat, and eventually it became popular as an effective method in losing weight. An effective diet plan is eating the right foods, such as fruits and vegetables because they contain high bulk but they have less calories and good vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fibers. It will make you healthy, fit and glowing. These are all natural and they are the safest foods that can be included in your diet to lose weight.
* Exercise Programs. There are a lot of exercise programs available in books and at the gym and fitness centers. It is the most effective and safest way to get rid of extra fats and folds in your body. In addition, it can make your body to become more healthy and strong by promoting respiratory and cardiovascular functioning, improving sleep, boosts your immune system, prevention of depression and stress, and promotes mental cognition. It will also help you gain a positive self-esteem and good appearance.
* Weight Loss Surgeries. Gastric bypass and gastroplasty are invasive procedures that will help an overweight person to lose weight. These surgeries are indicated for patients who are at least 100 pounds overweight and a least a BMI of 40. But there are risks and possible complications that a person can experience from these invasive procedures. Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding Procedure or Lap-Band is another surgery for weight loss but it is minimally invasive and performed using a laparoscope.
Interesting, you tend to touch your face a lot as you sit there (unless you are eating non-stop). I used to do that as well, but when someone pointed it out to me I became keenly aware of how often I did it, and now I don't do it as much.
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This is horrific, unbelievable.

I'll probably be downvoted for this, but I can't help but think that precisely because it's killing them, it exerts an enormous selection pressure on albatrosses. Nature is also cruel.
With the hash args the order could vary so I had to keep looking up what the possible argument key values could be.

You can set slots on objects in any order that you want to:

Foo.new.set_x(x).set_z(z) ...
It's quite common with us. A lot of the companies we fund do something different than they applied with.
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I think the Mozilla folks are just trying to make a point here but ultimately it's hard to see how they back it up against IE/WebKit. They'll have to give in eventually or they'll be left behind.
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I apologize for not reading the entire post, but I don't have the patience tonight. Couldn't this problem be solved by saying that 0 is not a normal number with normal properties? Therefore, it might not fit into all of the properties of equality.

1/0, 0/0, (5)x(0) = (88)x(0), 5^0 = 77^0

are a few example of really weird math things. Accepting 0 can not be used as a number but as a placeholder for an ideal would be better because then you won't make logical fallacies.
I hope that I won't do stuff to my child because I read somewhere that it might be good. Isn't there a chance to simply feel what is right?

Sure, different strokes for different folks! I don't think anyone who always goes with their gut is wrong, but I also don't think experimenting within safe boundaries is a bad thing. I think everyone should bring their kids up in different ways - diversity of approaches is a good thing.

One thing I painfully recognize, though, is that I'm often wrong and my gut instincts are based on faulty underlying facts, so I'm quick to use other people's knowledge to either reinforce what I know or to change my direction. "Overcoming" certain parenting instincts in this way could be seen by some (and possibly rightly) to be risky - I just see it as an attempt to improve.

Watching a documentary about child rearing worldwide, we were surprised at how many different (and, to Western eyes, worrying) ways there are to raise and treat kids. As a planet, we do "ok." The nomads on the Russian steppes wrap their babies tightly all day and put them in a cradle on the back of a donkey for 8 hours a day..

Couldn't there other ways to untrain the "cry to get attention" behavior than letting the child cry out? Like responding to other cues than crying?

My reading suggests so, but that it's a lot harder and time demanding. The reason is that instead of giving zero response to undesirable behavior and a lot of response to positive behavior.. instead you're giving positive behavior to everything and need to give very strong and constant responses to the positive behavior to make it stick, as it were.
Maybe its some other Alien using the star as a ride to drop for a visit.

I for one, plan to dress up. Just in case.
Provocative, general headline with an overly specific example. I know I'm not the only person who's tired of posts like this. There's a point to be made here--a good point. But it's completely ignored in favor of making a broad, meaningless, eye-catching statement.

Design doesn't matter some of the time. In this case, the aspect of the bottle design we're discussing--the label--is completely irrelevant to the functioning of the product. Its only real purpose is to sell the product. So when the product is ubiquitous enough that you instantly recognize it and want to buy it regardless, then the label design doesn't matter at all.

But when you're trying to get to the point of ubiquity--the point where everyone already knows your product and everyone seeks it out--then design usually does matter. Sometimes it gets trumped by other factors or someone gets lucky. But that doesn't mean design doesn't matter.
The article actually mentions a rehabilitation plan based on the subject's self-interest.
I imagine I'm missing something. But why couldn't Mozilla use an extension that supports H264? Similar to Ubuntu's nonfree packages?

I imagine the HTML5 video tags are pretty deep in Gecko, but surely they could 'pave the way' with a clear interface for such an extension. And then use one that is developed by others. Isn't that one of the advantages of having a standardized <video> tag?

Reading this: http://shaver.off.net/diary/2010/01/23/html5-video-and-codec...

It sounds like Mozilla is worried about (a) encouraging a non-free web and (b) passing on licensing fees to other people who use their product downstream. But surely there is less risk in being 'side-stream' so to speak with licensed technologies, esp. under a standardized markup. Anyway, curious legal issue.
Someone needs to apprise Bruce Willis of this situation.
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You could just as well make the argument that such "violating internal beliefs" is actually the exposed core and that such beliefs are the veneer furnished by upbringing.
This person mixed up design and style. This bottle is of course designed and I bet it is designed like this on purpose. But to the author's eyes, it doesn't have style. He (as I) lives in a different culture than the manufacturer, so this is probably a cultural clash.
Here is a link to the video:
http://blip.tv/file/3359300
It does say at the end of the post "Sometimes" design doesn't matter. I don't think the point of the article was to say "Design Never Matters."

My takeaway was more that sometimes a fancy facade is no substitute for a great product.
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first google result.
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I think a new version of Final Fantasy was released. It was probably a tipping point for many people to go out and buy a PS3. I'm still waiting for my killer app, GT5, to come out.
Okay, as one who lived through pretty much all of Loudcloud/Opsware, I can tell you that Ben pretty much nailed every single event of that 1999 - 2003 arc (when I left Opsware) pretty flawlessly.

What he glosses over a little (but not totally) was how fucking traumatic those layoffs were back in 2002. I recall him stating (and our VP of HR not believing he was saying it) at the completion of the cuts that there would be "no more layoffs while he was CEO". He just never wanted to go through anything like that again, so he cut as deep as he thought was need to avoid future rounds - one big round up front.

I don't know if it's relevant, but he also doesn't mention that a ton of employees were thinking of $20-$30 stock that then reverse split and went out at $6 (or $3 pre-reverse). The IPO was totally anti-climatic. We didn't even have a party.

When we had our "Opsware Founders Meeting" in Santa Cruz there was a very big deal made of the fact that we could go a _long_ time without getting a single new customer, and still not run out of cash (though, he always refused to answer my question of what Opsware would do if EDS canceled their contract with us, or just didn't pay us. :-).

Not running out of cash was a very, very big deal. Also, Opsware was a pretty big byzantine pieces of enterprise software (at the time, mostly written is Python, which was pretty forward looking for 1999-2000 - Ray Soursa had to convince people that no, perl would not be our platform), with all sorts of knobs and dials, and, they were still a public company, which meant there was a pretty good sized staffing overhead that your typical "startup" wouldn't see. It's not clear to me that there was much fat left on the bone by the time he was done chopping.

All in all though - the story is definitely worth reading over a few times - everything there happened pretty much exactly as he's calling it. Gem of an article, and Ben is easily one of the best technical company CEOs out there so that adds even more value to the read.
I'm not clear on how I'm confusing design and style. As I try to explain, the bottle is lacking in what are considered fundamentals of good typography and design. I would say the bottle definitely has "style." It has it's own attitude in the naivete of principles of good design.
Well, just make sure you keep up with the current fashions at the time. The cummberbund might be back in style.
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Well, he also apparently had a severe hormonal problem related to his cancer. Who knows what that might do to someone's personality -- I saw an article that quoted a doctor speculating it might explain his crankiness.
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I'll admit to dramatic tactics, but one does what works.

I'm not clear on the point of your argument. It sounds as if you're saying:

* The purpose of the label - as is being discussed - is to sell the product.

* If a product is popular enough that you instantly recognize it, then the label design doesn't matter.

* Yet when you're trying to get to the point of ubiquity, design does matter.
This is a blog by a parent raising a he has identified as a psychopath. The description of his son's behaviors is both interesting and chilling.
http://raising-a-psychopath.blogspot.com/
I've also had an excellent experience with 3 versions of their hardware (slimp3, squeezebox2, radio).

Another pointer with a HN resonance is (note the beer bottle):

http://gigaom.com/2006/09/07/portrait-of-a-startup-slim-devi...

Of course they sold to Logitech some time ago:

http://gigaom.com/2006/10/18/slim-devices/
Things I don't understand:

* Fork?

* H.264 HTML Video support via a plugin?

Why aren't these valid solutions?
I think that my interactive roguelike version of the same thing is spiffier!

http://eiman.tv/misc/3d_ascii.html

(No, it's not a roguelike -game-, just a proof of concept thingie for the display variant - but don't forget to scroll around the map to see how it'd look)
I built a Rube Goldberg machine in high school as part of Science Olympiad (http://soinc.org/).

It might be a surprise to some that the machine with the lowest budget one, but it's not to me. We also had essentially no budget--I think we spent about $5 on parts--but ended up placing 5th out of about 25 teams. And we had actually had a chance to test it before we went to the competition we would have done a lot better.

You can easily spend hundreds of dollars on these things (and some of the teams we competed against did), but it's not going to actually get you much. When you're building a machine that's complex by design, you really want the individual components to be as simple as possible.
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Timelapse photography is kick ass and I am all for them, but I wonder if dedicating an entire computer for this task along with the camera is the right way of going about it (unless overkill is the motive). How about a more compact/cheaper solutions such as an intervalometer for dslr (buy or build one), or if you have a canon p&s camera using the CHDK firmware project http://chdk.wikia.com which offer the intervalometer feature....
Here's one I made with my iPhone propped up on the countertop, not long after Auctomatic was acquired and we all moved to Vancouver http://vimeo.com/1407316
Finally. Seriously, I wonder what took Amazon so long. They got some arguably smaller platforms out quicker.
larswm predates ion by a few years, and that was inspired by Rob Pike's acme programming environment for Plan 9 ( http://acme.cat-v.org ), which was preceded by Help, which in turn was influenced by Oberon.
It's pretty decent. Synced up my books that I was reading on the iPhone as expected.

Still trying to figure out where it downloads the books to.

[edit] Looks like ~/Documents/My Kindle Content
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I don't know about you, but I actually find them interesting. I like to have meaningful and deep discussions about "facts-of-life" and these kind of articles bring on such discussions.
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Depending on your web framework, this may cause problems unrelated to load. If the framework identifies components in the DOM tree via auto-generated IDs, the additional requests can cause these to be regenerated. In your JavaScript, or even somewhere in the server side code which didn't expect further requests, the old value might still be used, breaking the site.

I learned this the hard way recently while working on an Apache Wicket app, see my mailing list post: http://old.nabble.com/Nasty-problem-with-%22component-not-fo....
As far as I can tell you cannot:

* select or copy text

* highlight

* take notes

* search for text

Making this less useful than paper books or PDFs, which is quite a feat.
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On the other hand, you might consider that nature is cleaning the garbage patch.

We've given up on being able to clean the garbage patch saying its impractical to go out there and fish such widely dispersed trash from the ocean. By this, of course, we mean "too expensive".

Nature has dispatched the cleaning crew to do it for us at an almost unimaginable cost. The albatross seems an almost perfect instrument for flying out there, spotting, and picking up exactly as much trash as it can carry and then returning it to land.

Hopefully the selection pressure you speak of will yield a method of collection that doesn't cost a whole bird for each load.
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Wow. Frustratingly you can't open ebooks on your computer.

So all of those O'Reilly ebooks I got in Kindle format won't open.

Thankfully ORA also allow me to get PDF copies of the books I bought, but it's still pretty annoying on Amazon's part.
In general, this is sort of how things are done. In abstract algebra you often define 0 as the additive identity (and then prove there can be only one).

But, you don't want to give it too much special treatment. You can prove that x * 0 = 0. Why is this nice? Because you can apply abstract algebra to systems that are not just arithmetic. It can, for example be applied to set theory where you do this:

Addition --> Set intersection
Multiplication --> Set union

If you do that, and all the axioms are met, then you get a bunch of theorems about set theory for free. And its not just set theory. I've heard about this being applied to material science as well.

The thing to remember is that the operators such as +, *, -, / are very specific with arithmetic but in the more abstract fields, they are place holders for operators that share some generic properties.
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I like it. Many companies currently use facebook for competitions and giveaways without an easy way to manage them. This looks like a great solution to the problem as well as a nice way for them to increase brand exposure.
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No, people respond to displays of anger. And if the other person's convinced you were in the right, it might not even damage the relationship in the long run.
It's rather soothing to be able to label your 'asshole boss' with an epithet like 'sociopath', but that doesn't make it correct. It's just makes it easier to be less critical and believe someone that is arguing that.

It's ridiculous to suggest that 1 in 25 people could be a sociopath. Sociopathy is a disorder, a mental illness, a way in which someone can differ from the norm. If it would affect 4% of the population, it would be an essential part of the norm. Instead of labeling these people as 'sociopaths', why not accept that not everyone has the empathic abilities we'd hope for? Why not accept that, in spite the lack of empathic ability, such people can still lead meaningful lives and can care for others? Calling them 'sociopaths' is just another way of dehumanizing those we don't like, so we don't have to face to darker sides of our own humanity.
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Firefox has been slowly winning Joe consumers in the past few years by simply doing it better. Faster, less complicated, no spyware, displays everything. Regular users don't give a crap about the ideology behind any of those decisions, they just cared that FF sucks less than IE in almost every measurable way.

From a consumer standpoint, not playing the video format everyone else plays goes against why so many started using FF in the first place.

I don't care if Theora is great, it's not what people are using right now. Maybe Mozilla can fight this battle on the next go-round, but right now they're the odd man out in a split which has all major browsers and many many content creators on the other side.

If Mozilla was Microsoft they could maybe try this, but they're not, and I think many people are frustrated by this video thing because to people who "just want good software," that was the message behind adopting FF from day one. Not militant idealism or everything should be free hippie coder talk or anything else - the impression they gave at least, was of practical and clean decisions to uncomplicated the lives of average users. Sometimes that means going with the flow, even if only for the time being.

The moment they reintroduce "why doesn't this just work" into the equation, they fail at the expectation they spent so much trying to create when Firefox first caught on. This fight is weird because it feels like "Mozilla the ideological open source organization" is battling against "Mozilla the practical and uncomplicated software for your previously complicated and annoying life" marketing campaign.
Also cheap plastic lighters. I didn't expect it. It's probably because birds are attracted to "colorful" objects.
I carry a metal bottle, and NALGENE is now moving to stainless steel bottles.

It would've been great if we'd just skipped all the steps between canteens and going back to metal bottles, though. That whole 80's-00's trend of making products disposable to increase sales and profit margins was really a waste.
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They have a custom auto-installer for Flash baked into Firefox, and they've even distributed the binaries to it from addons.mozilla.org.

Nobody that hasn't already been wanking over it is going to start using Theora. Authors will just fall back to Flash playing h.264 in mp4 containers via HTTP like they've been doing for years, which Mozilla is eager to support.

There's nothing consistent about their principles.
Would Falun Gong be a better keyword? (Warning these can get quite graphic)

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If a war breaks out between google and china, who do you think will win? My money is on China.
Well I agree that after a certain point having no money will by no way improve living standards. In that view, having an MBA would be much better. We must accept that MBAs have more opportunity of making money.
It was a thin market - almost no liquidity. There were days when it was in the 40-50 cent range that I would purchase 5000 shares and see my _actual trade_ move the price of the stock a few cents. Anybody who had actually tried to purchase significant amounts of stock would have quickly brought the price of the stock up north of a dollar. In fact, when the new CFO, Sharlene Abrams came on board, the stock popped up in due course.
In India we have carriers (like BSNL) who provide 5500 (ya that is five thousand five hundred) messages for Rs 55 (roughly $1.09965).That is relatively cheap. I am sure that there would be such carriers in your locality. Take help from a hardware hacker and setup an arduino to send your messages for you.