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This goes back to the flawed notion that calorie restriction is an effective weight loss tool. The root of this problem is not that you are eating too much. Eating too much is an effect, not a cause. The root of the problem is that you want to eat too much. A healthy person with a healthy metabolism does not want to eat more than their bodies need.

It is true that you will loose weight if you restrict calories, but if you don't fix the root problem you are fighting a very old (leptin resistant) part of the brain that wants its fat back.

We evolved an extremely complex and precise energy regulation mechanism over millions of years (just like all other organisms on earth). So the big question is, what is breaking this system?

The answer (I believe) is rooted in high-calorie low nutrient junk-foods that are now ubiquitous (mainly sugar and grain based foods). The emphasis here is low nutrient by the way, not high calorie.

I dare anyone to gain weight on meat and vegetables alone. If it's even possible, it's not easy to do.

Over a year I lost 60 lbs (27kg) eating fatty meats and butter drenched vegetables and outside of the first two weeks or so, I NEVER starved myself and always ate till I was full.

I feel truly sorry for those that struggle with obesity and try starving themselves and exercising as I did for the first 25 years of my life.
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As the person behind PadMapper (http://www.padmapper.com), this isn't the best news I've gotten this week.

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No, because you can offend people without bigotry, and you can be entirely respectful without being PC. The scope of things that can offend the people around you is essentially limitless. Failure to tip toe around your audience's sensitivities is not bigotry, but failure to respect your audience as an equal human being is.
Regarding the static maps:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/in...

Does the following statement still apply?

> Use of the Google Static Maps API is subject to a query limit of 1000 unique (different) image requests per viewer per day. Since this restriction is a quota per viewer, most developers should not need to worry about exceeding their quota.
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Newer (late 2010+) phones have finally learned to start putting a reasonable amount of onboard NAND, so app storage isn't near the problem it used to be. The "disable" feature sounds like it also `chmod -x`'s the app in question so it can't start, not just hide away the icon.

The one bit I'm worried about is if carriers are going to be able to comment out the feature (and the data controls, which I'm far more concerned about getting removed)
The cost is not relevant to my point. If you want to start a courier service in a fairly large area, motorized vehicles are a bit more expensive than a Mac.

Can't afford the tools? Find another line of work.
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Google charging for this is good only in that it guarantees attempts by other parties to create independent solutions that are lower cost.

Sometimes I worry google is too good at things like gmail, maps, etc. and it causes others to not even try to develop competitive services

I was surprised to discover bing maps is far better than google maps at some things, particularly their "bird's eye view" and they find addresses far better in my town where Google will pick the wrong spot.
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I'd imagine he means wiping the Windows install and installing some other OS, e.g. Linux, BSD or OSx86 or something. Not really an upgrade or downgrade of the Windows installation the machine shipped with. I think crossgrade is a nice way to put it ;-)
Is OS X on VMWare supported, if you are not using a Mac has the host system with VMWare Fusion?

(If so, that would be news.)
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I think it is a good idea for non developers, but as a developer I would know how to implement this feature without needing your service. So I would be a little worried about your target audience and really making your webpage speak to those people.

Here's my 2 cents on some things I saw:
- Plans and pricing has some css issues
- Signup page has three sign up callouts. Maybe put some benefits on that page and remove the duplicate call outs.
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I do have sympathy, but I think it's pretty sad to call the 'sexist' card when it's clearly just a case of a troll.

If you ignore him, he'll move on to someone else soon enough. It looks from the article that he wasn't being ignored at all.
How do you "quit the tech industry"? Start again from scratch from the bottom in... What?
Developers care. What use are the new shiny features in Ice Cream Sandwich when I need to make my app compatible with phones on Eclair or Froyo to access a sufficiently broad portion of the Android install base? If developers are wary of developing for Android - especially the latest-and-greatest - that will affect the satisfaction of regular users.
"Gabe Newell thinks Apple is going to launch a console."

He could be right - but rather than a console, just an 'iOS device' that plugs into your TV and runs app store stuff. Music, movies, games, etc. If they nail the control surface then it could be a big deal.
The gradients on the section headers in the left frame need to go as they are very difficult to read. No reason to promote more headaches.
my 2.5 year old niece is more adept at handling a touch phone than my mother! Thats crazy!

No, its not crazy, its perfectly logical. You're niece is learning how things in the world work out of necessity, touch interfaces being just one of many completely new-to-her things she is exposed to. Your mother has had many decades of a firm grip on how things in the world work and touchscreens are completely new to her extremely-entrenched mental model of the world.

The classic example of a child's mind being more flexible is the window of time wherein the human brain is more able to learn laugauge. After a certain age, the brain develops to a point where it puts up a wall that increases the difficulty to teach someone a second language, even though on the surface you may think that someone with lots of experience using language might have an easier time picking up a second.
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Examples?

It’s rough on the internet, sure, but were I a woman I would think long and hard about revealing my gender. Women are quite visibly treated differently and everyone being oblivious to this sexism (or even belittling it) doesn’t really help.
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Certainly twitter and facebook, and there are others like Khan Academy, but what are some other startups that qualify--or at least have the capacity to qualify--as world changers?
I think this might be a better metric for stability or reliability of the distros, rather than their health: I suspect many people only sign up to these forums when they want to ask for help with a problem. Anecdotally, over many years as an Ubuntu user the only times I've ever visited their forum were when I had problems after an upgrade (and it was usually with WiFi).
I read a private blog of a lady in the games industry, and the level of ordure and harassment she gets is simply unbelievable. It's well beyond anything in the 'people are jerks, suck it up' level.

I can well believe Skud got sick of it and is doing other things with her life.

I'm going to come right out and say it - if you, or someone you know - has a penchant for writing these sorts of harassing emails, it needs to stop. Quite possibly, professional help needs to be sought. It's simply wrong.
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Writing apps, writing libraries, writing drivers each have a different threshold for quality. In a startup environment the threshold is under tremendous pressure, and it can move for good or bad.

Those that don't adapt to this, die (or run out of money, which feels like dying).
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I'd be curious to see how this differs from a product I'd seen before, and was at DerbyCon: http://pwnieexpress.com/
Your public support for woman's rights is undermined by your implication that she is "stupid" for "falling for his shit". It's not like she got duped into giving her bank account information to a Nigerian Prince. She's become a target for bigotry.

I also wouldn't call harassing emails, phoning people's work places, and changing an employer's online database as "nothing substantial".
I had this problem originally. It's not Chrome. :-)

I originally entered in my birthdate as 06/30/1980, but they are using European date style. As such, it would have to be entered as 30/06/1980 to make sense.
I was going to start a rant about how this behavior is encouraged by the macho men online, but this was just one guy harassing her. "Due to harassment" reads as due to harassment from the community, but she gave in to one idiot. She let him win.
Nintendo is in real trouble, this is only the beginning. The huge decline in 3DS sales should be a warning shot. $200 handhelds w/ $40 games are a joke in 2011. Wii, a novelty that rode the back of a huge economic bubble, was probably the worst thing to happen to them long term - it gave the company confidence to stay on its insular course.

Nintendo is too proud to go software-only. They need a hardware product in every home in order to perpetuate their real strength: characters and brands. Wii2 is going to be a huge flop in this recession. Don't bet on Nintendo.
Please read this post: http://geekfeminism.org/2011/10/11/online-harassment-as-a-da...
Definitely.

SVG is available in any browser that supports all the selectors being use (i.e. it'll not work in IE6/7/8 with CVG, but these CSS versions probably won't either), and the code for them in SVG would be significantly smaller then that markup+styling I'd wager.
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Addendum: If you absolutely HAVE to give a gut-level estimate, multiply your gut level estimate by 4 or 5 before you let it escape your mouth.
Welcome to the Internet. As Paul Vixie pointed out ages ago: "The Internet is not for sissies."

Trolls are almost as old as the net, and they are not going to disappear without something short of a big-brother state that makes the Great Firewall Of China look like kids play.

So better get used to it.

Also remember:

"Liberty resides in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious." — John Stuart Mill

[Disclaimer: I have often been labeled a troll, and I'm not offended by this label.]
Ha. Non-Orange phones are much better off in this regard (at least in the UK). And non-branded phones are even better.

I don't think carriers have realised just how much ill-will their crapware/crippling branding process engenders. In the past, they created a market for tools like Davinci, even though I resent having to use something like that to get MY hardware back into a sane state (and risk bricking it in the process). Now, they're pushing people towards rooting their Android phone. I haven't yet rooted my new (non-contract-encumbered) S2, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time. When I do, I'll be sure to install my usual selection of advert-filtering, revenue-denying proxies while I'm at it...
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Replying to delinka here because I can't reply directly:

It's very sad that there should be any kind of pay wall behind tinkering with your mobile phone. I get that if you intend on making an app that's going to earn you millions then buying a Mac is small change. But what if you're just starting out, and are curious about how to go about making iOS apps?

It's a real disappointment that anyone would think attaching a $1,000 price tag to programming is a good thing.
I've never owned a mac before, never really had the inclination, but have been curious about developing on the platform.

This is the perfect kind of solution (albeit poor pricing plan) that would allow me to give things a try before I commit to buying the hardware.

I see this kind of service targeted at folks like myself who are interested in making the leap and obviously not for people who might consider themselves Mac Developers (tm).
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My best guess to this would be the government would have to temporarily (or permanently) set up a federal bank that would get the cash out, perhaps giving back a larger amount than normal that year in tax returns that have to be picked up in cash from said bank. New problems would need new solutions.
It typically takes two generations.
The first generation of women that have the chance of higher education and a professional job have a much lower birth rate.
Then once these women get into positions of power they show that it's possible for women to have children and a career introduce maternity leave, women's rights etc and the birth rate recovers with the next generation.

It's interesting to plot the position of each country in Europe in this cycle, from Scandanavia through Italy/Spain to Greece/Portugal.

For the 3rd world or 'human resource rich countries' - it's different. You have to look at the population in the industrial revolution 200years ago.
People living on farms in the countryside had lots of children to run the farm, to provide for them in their old age and because many wouldn't survive.
They move to the cities and have the same number of children - but more of these survive (however bad conditions in the 18C towns were - they were better than the countryside!)

Then as people become more prosperous they have less children and the population stabilizes - but at the new higher level
I don’t want to live in a society where unnecessary perilous violence is the norm.

Is that a good enough reason for you?
Wouldn't that be more a case of memetics rather than genetics?

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics]
Good idea. I know I was a bit intimidated too.. be interesting to see if this kicks off some interesting projects.
I don't see how the fact that I don't want to pay for a specific set of tools (a mac machine) prevents me from being interested in alternative tools.
Should offer a boot CD iso that works in recent x86 devices with as many NICs and wireless adapters as possible, and support all inputs on almost all x86 PCs, and most display adapters, then I might use it as a virtual Hackintosh on my underpowered x100e netbook.
Excuse me? At what point do you stop calling someone a "troll" and start calling them a "stalker"? Perhaps the harassment she received was so much that changing her whole life greatly improves her quality of life. Is she still "just supporting negative stereotypes" then?
Proposal: GNU ships a working operating system that someone not a member of GNU wants to use, or they give this nonsense up.

"But RMS made the C toolchain work" you say. Great, and lots of electric engineers made my computer work, but their names aren't on the operating system, because that's a different level of work. Everything we've seen from GNU shows that RMS can make wonderful tools for his own use, but not a particularly coherent operating system for anyone else.

So he (and GNU) get credit for the C toolchain, and get credit for Emacs, and don't get credit for Linux. Until they build one that we would like to use. Then they can call it what they want.
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That's kind of what bgruber pointed out in his comment - Scotty later reveals in TNG that he always told Kirk the work would take longer than he thought it would.
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If that's not where AppleTV is going I'd be really surprised.
I pointed this out to another poster: http://geekfeminism.org/2011/10/11/online-harassment-as-a-da...
Been there a couple times. Emulating a real Lisp Machine would be a little more complicated than just a Lisp-running processor - you have miscellaneous hardware around it. I was imagining something software-compatible with a Symbolics or LMI with a USB port for keyboad/mouse, an SD card slot and an HDMI output.
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A new Zelda for Wii comes out in a couple weeks. Too little, too late. That system is collecting dust in homes everywhere.
http://polymaps.org could be a good alternative if you are willing to ditch support for <= ie8 (non svg browsers).
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To learn how FPGAs work, I'd recommend starting with a cheap Digilent board; see http://www.digilentinc.com/choosing.cfm - You can get a simple BASYS 2 board for under $100, possibly under $50. This board is the Arduino of the FPGA world. There are tutorials from many schools, lots of good documentation, it's a proven design...you can't go wrong with the Basys board. It does sacrifice performance for simplicity, though - Notably, there's no RAM except for what's on the FPGA. Go up to the Nexys for that, but if you're just interested in learning Verilog/VHDL, the Basys is a fine place to start.

To learn how these things work, get a job at a company which uses FPGAs. You'll probably never see one of these parts as a hobbyist.

If you're interested in stuff that's actually like this, and want to start right away, then look for a board packaged as a PCIe card. This will be significantly more expensive; think $500 on the extreme low end. NetFPGA is (http://netfpga.org/) is a good starting point if you're trying to start at a higher level. (Note that the old board is 33MHz PCI and the processor is obsolete; you want the 4x10GBE Virtex 5 part if you're looking for modern tools)
My city Vancouver, has the average life expectancy in Canada - but this is due to the population mix (lots of Japanese centenarians) not due to the medical benefits of rain.
That's true - I would pay $2-3 for some old NES titles like Techmo Bowl.
It says "Total Login Hour Options (Limited Time Discount!)" for the anytime access--so it seems that it normally costs more.

Still a pretty complex pricing model, wonder what they're doing on the backend to swap sessions around.
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Who decides whether he gets the beating, and who administers it?

Sounds like a step backward in civilization to me.

Should we ignore this kind of problem? No. Should we go full vigilante on it? No.
Interestingly when Linus first uploaded Linux to an FTP site he called it "Freeix". Some random person came along later and renamed the directory.
Funny, I was dreading re-writing the "about" and "help" copy on my project, for exactly the reasons you suggest. I'll be in touch.
I thought this debate died around 10 years ago. If they didn't manage to change anything when name Linux mattered, they're even less likely to change it now that distributions matter more. (gnu/ubuntu?) General public didn't care... I'd rather they just let it go, whining about it every couple of years won't help them much.
Is there a distribution of Linux built with say Intel's icc compiler and using their standard library?

Then we can remove emacs and have InteLinux
No. No, we don't. I've been online for years, and men never get this particular kind of tripe thrown in their faces. It's a pretty unique kind of anger that comes out.
The iPad 2 and iPhone 4S can mirror their display to the Apple TV over Wi-Fi. Provided the response time is somewhere in the range of "useful" (for reference, OnLive works within ~12ms over the Internet IIRC) and they market it properly, they'd own the home market. And even if raw streaming is too slow; the Apple TV packs an A4 SoC. Not as powerful as a Xbox 360, but at $99 it's also way cheaper. Run the game locally, use your iPod Touch as a controller.
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That's your proposal, not GNU's proposal. Please don't attribute it to GNU like that.

Linux is Linux. GNU is GNU. Debian, Fedora etc are combinations of Linux, GNU, and much else besides. IMO it's better if the distributions don't incorporate GNU or Linux into their names.
Indeed, my first thought on seeing all the options was: how could I game this?

For example, if I live on the east coast (UTC-5) and select the lowest-cost option (3 hours of use from 1am until 9am for $20), but claim my timezone is the Alaska (UTC-9) I believe I could actually use the service from 5am until 1pm in the east coast.

I don't know if that's how it would actually work, but it certainly is confusing.

That said, if you look at the academic pricing plans the presentation is much clearer and easier to understand.
At $work in Australia, we went through this a couple months ago. After an initial quote that was beyond ridiculous, we worked out a much better deal with the local Google reseller. In addition, to help keep map views down we stopped unconditionally loading the map. Instead we have a placeholder image which when clicked loads the maps API dynamically. Google's fine with this behaviour as long as we don't use their map image.

We looked at other map providers, and in particular Bing and TileStream/OSM. But Bing's cost was 1) nearly what Google wanted and 2) confusing to try and get an actual price because there are about 10 different ways to get a Bing maps license. OSM ended up being ruled out because 1) we weren't confident in the data quality in India and Malaysia and 2) I couldn't find an easy way to geocode.

I wish I had known about the Mapstraction project freyfogle mentioned. I would have seriously considered using it since we were already moving from v2 to v3 of the Google Maps API. Future proofing our maps implementation would have been nice.
This sort of behavior coming from members of the Australian FOSS community is unfortunately somewhat of a consistent underbelly.

I used to help run and host the local LUG chapter in Sydney for a few years. One particular meeting I had to ask a speaker to leave the premises (hosted in my employers building) for displaying bared breasts during his talk. Unsurprisingly, people walked out. So much of this sort of shit goes on and it's ugly, ugly, ugly.
Isn't Sega a Japanese company that dropped their consoles and went software-only? They're still in business and doing well. If you've been to Japan and have seen or played Border Break (an arcade-only game), you know they've still got it. They also still make Sonic games.

There's no reason that Nintendo couldn't follow suit. Pride is probably the biggest obstacle preventing that from happening, but if/when things get bad enough, they'll make the switch.
I think the point is that men have to put up with such shit all the time online.
I'd argue its just as easy/easier to "crossgrade the OS" (whatever that means) on an android phone as a PC. Step 1: get a .zip from http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ Step 2: Place it on your SD card. Step 3: Reboot phone, hold down the power button, select "install update". Now you have an android device with the latest software, no bloatware, and a host of other awesome features.
We don't know the full details. There're probably more going on in her life than just the stated incidents in this one article. Your argument, however, is blaming the victim for her unsolicited suffering.