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Comment Don't Listen to Anyone Else on this Thread (Score 3, Insightful) 865

Most of them are going to give you advice you can't implement. I understand where you're coming from and I can actually help you as long as you don't mind the possibility of looking slightly foolish at work.

You work 12 hours a day. I know that you aren't continuously engaged in productive work. No one is. So start there. Every 3 hours take a 15 minute break and do the following:

Set a timer for 5 minutes then do:
100x Jumping Jacks
50x Pushups
50x Bodyweight Squats
50x Leg Raises
50x Crunches,
50x Russian twists (Russian twist is going halfway up in a crunch, then turning left to right, each direction is one)

When you first start out you will probably not finish this in 5 minutes. It doesn't matter. Stop at 5 minutes. Go get some water, walk around for 5 minutes and catch your breath.
Now go eat an apple and a handful of peanuts or sunflower seeds or some other healthy snack.

When you eat lunch eat a sandwhich, or a big salad, or a chicken breast, not a bigmac or a whole cheese pizza. Keep a GENERAL IDEA of how many calories you are eatting and keep it somewhere in the 1600-1700 range. You don't have to be precise here, just don't knock down the Triple Whopper and you should be ok.

Do NOT drink sodas. You drink WATER. Nothing else. Vitamin Water or Life Water is acceptable, Powerade and Gatorade are not.

Coffee is acceptable, but not recommended.

Eat every 3 hours, a smallish meal, approximately 6 times a day. Your target is an average of 300 calories per meal, but it's flexible.

And if you want to know what makes me qualified to give this advice and why you should listen to me:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kintanon&search_type=

Comment More worried about SPAM (Score 4, Interesting) 150

Of the 63 MILLION emails we've processed for our clients (About 60 companies run through our spam filter) 58 million of them are blocked as SPAM.
So only 1/12th of the email traffic we see is legit. One of our clients has its own spam filter because they process that much email all by themselves and they have closer to a 1/20 legit traffic.
SPAM is a bigger threat to the network than some hypothetical cyber-terrorist.

Comment RIP OFF! (Score 1) 891

I have a Honda CRX, it gets 40-50 MPG. So instead of paying 18 cents per 50 miles, I'm now paying 50-100 cents per 50 miles. Even my Nissan NX 2000 gets 35mpg, doubling the amount of tax I pay per gallon of gas. This is only revenue neutral if your vehicle gets 18mpg. People with more fuel efficient vehicles are paying a larger tax with this plan.

Screw that.

Comment Re:Sigh. (Score 1) 376

This legislation also affects people like my parents who own goats, rabbits, and pigs, who do not sell them commercially. They would be required at great expense to microchip and track these animals as they travel all of 100 feet from the pen to the dinner table. It's a senseless burden on small farms that provides the illusion of accountability more than the reality.

Space

Aussie Scientists Build a Cluster To Map the Sky 58

Tri writes "Scientists at the Siding Spring Observatory have built a new system to map and record over 1 billion objects in the southern hemisphere sky. They collect 700 GB of data every night, which they then crunch down using some perl scripts and make available to other scientists through a web interface backed on Postgresql. 'Unsurprisingly, the Southern Sky Survey will result in a large volume of raw data — about 470 terabytes ... when complete. ... the bulk of the analysis of the SkyMapper data will be done on a brand new, next generation Sun supercomputer kitted out with 12,000 cores. Due to be fully online by December, the supercomputer will offer a tenfold increase in performance over the facility's current set up of two SGI machines, each with just under 3500 cores in total.'"

Comment Re:Overkill... (Score 5, Interesting) 524

That's what happens when ELECTRICIANS run your data cable.
We came in behind an electrician that had taken every cable in the wiring closet, stripped the shielding off to about 1 foot from the wall, and neatly bundled each color of wire pairs together for about 100 cables. So we had a huge bundle of blue, then one of blue/white, then one of orange etc... pairs.
Same guy tried to run network jacks in serial the way you can do telephone cable or electrical.
Same guy would strip 4-6 inches of shielding off before punching down (incorrectly) at the jacks.

Electricians just see it as low voltage electrical. The master electrician running the crew might know the difference, but the apprentice who is actually doing the work has no clue.

So please, hire a real data wiring company to run your cables.

Comment Re:FFIX?! (Score 1) 103

IX was my third favorite of the games, V being my favorite and VI being my second fav.

I liked the return to a slightly cartoony look, the story was good except for the random twist bossfight at the end, the characters were generally likeable. There were plenty of sidequests you COULD do, but you didn't really HAVE to do them to beat the game. I beat it the first time without ever riding more than 1 chocobo I think...
I give it much love.
X was better than VIII, X-2 was shittastic, XII was so annoying that I couldn't play it for more than 30 minutes.

Comment Re:they also dull your sense of logic and reason (Score 1) 205

I also propose that Simcity, Civilization, the game of Monopoly, and possibly the "Tycoon" series of sims are responsible for the lack of economic planningthat is rampant in our society. I mean, just look at the websites for these video games. Is there any kind of discourse on the harsh realities of capitalism or the far reaching effects of uneven taxation on the social framework of society? No.

Your argument is stupid.

Comment Re:Have to see (Score 1) 205

The game would also have to consist entirely of brown levels populated by people in slightly less brown armor. Which as I remember describes all of the Quake games, Unreal Tournament, etc... etc...
Of course you get better at making fine color distinctions, it's required to be able to SEE in the damn things.

Comment Re:Is Virtualization the New OS? (Score 1) 259

From where I stand the primary benefit of virtualization is that increased redundancy. Instead of running multiple virtual machines on one piece of hardware because I'm cheap I can run 10 virtual machines on 10 pieces of hardware using an iSCSI backbone to shared storage where the images reside and turn on High Availability. Now not only do several redundant components have to fail in each piece of hardware, but many pieces of hardware have to fail in order for there to be a performance issue. I can also upgrade machines, move them in and out, do maintenance, etc... without the users ever seeing any downtime. In addition we can power physical servers down when the load is low and bring them back up as needed to conserve power and reduce the load on the HVAC. The over all savings is pretty decent over the long term even though the upfront cost is a little high.
It's also trivial to add new virtual servers to the system and we don't have to add new hardware unless performance is adversely affected. Our 10 physical servers might be adequate for 15, 20, 25 virtual servers with dynamically managed resources. If not we can seamlessly drop a new piece of hardware into the mix or upgrade old ones, again with no down time to the clients. And if a virtual machine craps out it takes only seconds to reload a previous snapshot. Even if the entire datacenter gets hit by a meteor the daily offsite backups of the snapshots means we can have the whole place back up and running in an hour or two in a backup location. Virtualization isn't just a way to cheap out on your hardware, it's a way to ensure absolutely absurd levels of uptime and redundancy.

Comment I call BS (Score 1, Interesting) 628

There was a time in my life when I regularly consumed 1500mg of caffeine every 24 hours. I had no hallucinations, no paranoia... Nothing.
The headaches when I stopped were nothing short of spectacular, but other than intense concentration and a frantic work pace I never saw anything crazy from the caffeine intake. And that's a hell of a lot more than 3 cups of coffee.

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