Comments for Geekhive http://www.geekhive.com Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:31:49 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Fat Matt by Matt http://www.geekhive.com/fat-matt/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Matt Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:31:49 +0000 http://www.geekhive.com/?p=127#comment-60 Guinness?? You serious? I thought there was a million calories in Guinness. Can't see that being too healthy, unless you drink and don't eat a lot else for the rest of the day. I lost a lot once before. I eat a little better and took a 45 min every day. Took a few months of a pound 2 a week but it paid off. I'm a big believer in gradual weight loss as opposed to "lose 30 in 4 days" and all those other bullshit claims you see in the stupid section of the magazine rack. Guinness?? You serious? I thought there was a million calories in Guinness. Can’t see that being too healthy, unless you drink and don’t eat a lot else for the rest of the day.
I lost a lot once before. I eat a little better and took a 45 min every day. Took a few months of a pound 2 a week but it paid off. I’m a big believer in gradual weight loss as opposed to “lose 30 in 4 days” and all those other bullshit claims you see in the stupid section of the magazine rack.

]]> Comment on Fat Matt by Jon Rockwell http://www.geekhive.com/fat-matt/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Jon Rockwell Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:24:49 +0000 http://www.geekhive.com/?p=127#comment-59 Potentially so. There's a quiet Internet rumour going around that refined sugar isn't a healthful drink. For health purposes sugar can be a drag, but from a purely weight loss perspective you might get away with keeping, or halving, the soda jerks. That's why taking and then examining the data could be usefull. You might find nursing the Guiness's would do the trick. I have friends that've failed to construct their weight loss utopias because, I think, they did too much at once. Exercising sucks, eating healthy is boring. A sudden switch to an extreme lifestyle (relative to your current lifestyle) can be misery inducing. I guess the fault was mine for living vicariously through their unrealized utopias. Potentially so. There’s a quiet Internet rumour going around that refined sugar isn’t a healthful drink. For health purposes sugar can be a drag, but from a purely weight loss perspective you might get away with keeping, or halving, the soda jerks. That’s why taking and then examining the data could be usefull. You might find nursing the Guiness’s would do the trick. I have friends that’ve failed to construct their weight loss utopias because, I think, they did too much at once. Exercising sucks, eating healthy is boring. A sudden switch to an extreme lifestyle (relative to your current lifestyle) can be misery inducing.
I guess the fault was mine for living vicariously through their unrealized utopias.

]]> Comment on Fat Matt by Matt http://www.geekhive.com/fat-matt/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Matt Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:13:58 +0000 http://www.geekhive.com/?p=127#comment-58 Wow! Thanks for the info. Definitely a lot to consider. My first big step has to be my "dependency" on soda. I think I kind of replaced nicotine with pepsi when I quit smoking 2 and a half years ago. Wow! Thanks for the info. Definitely a lot to consider. My first big step has to be my “dependency” on soda. I think I kind of replaced nicotine with pepsi when I quit smoking 2 and a half years ago.

]]> Comment on Fat Matt by Jon Rockwell http://www.geekhive.com/fat-matt/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Jon Rockwell Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:59:23 +0000 http://www.geekhive.com/?p=127#comment-57 I lost a few pounds over the last several years. My experience has been consistent with the common-sense view of losing weight: exercise, eat well. But stress the latter over the former. I'm not an athlete, so I don't want to spend too much time exercising, I want to focus on other areas. This turned out to be convenient, running for half an hour burns just over 500 calories, but running is painful, I find it much easier to just eat healthy. For instance, a medium pizza is between 1500 and 2000 calories, a proper meal for my weight is 720 calories. So I have to run 45 to 70 minutes to turn that pizza into a normal meal. That's out of my acceptable range, way out. This is an extreme example, but it generally conveys my experience, it's easier to not gain the calories than to gain the calories and burn them off. I do, however, exercise regularly. Right now I play badminton because it's nicer to play off the calories than to run them off -I hate running, I do. But disregarding badminton and substituting an equivalent (30 mins of running), my weekly exercise routine is simple: 30 minutes of running twice a week, 75 minutes of weight training split across two days a week. This is a total of two hours and fifteen minutes of exercise a week. Although sometimes I begrudge the exercises, I should be able to spare that time, after all, it accounts for only 2 percent of my waking time. Losing weight through diet can be a bit of a nag at first. Nothing beats raw data, the iPhone has an app to track calories eaten and burned called Nutrition, Android has a similar app called CalorieSmart, Linux has some inferior programs, and the web has FitDay.com. Getting an idea of how many calories you are eating and burning from exercise will give you certainty. From my experience, guesswork in this area leads to self-deception. The easiest way to lose weight is to pick a mass within your recommended range, and eat the number of calories neccessary to maintain that weight. So if I weight 77 kilograms, I need to net 2260 calories to maintain that weight. If I weight 100 kilograms and I ate 2260 net calories a day, eventually I'll weight 77 kilos. At first I'll lose weight fast, then the closer I get to 77 the slower I'll lose weight. I was not in a rush to lose weight, and there was no health imperative that ought to provoke an aggressive response to weight, so I did it the slow and easy way. Both your body and mind compete for certain resources, so one thing you'll want to do is ensure you are eating highly nutritional food. The macronutrients that B&M compete for are protein and fat, so I eat a little more than what Health Canada recommends -I probably would do fine eating according to their recommendations, but I'm not interested in finding out whether that's true. B&M also compete for a variety of vitamins and minerals. I'll supply a PDF to help you determine your ideal weight range and the calories associated with that weight. My experience has been the Internet reports these values wildly differently, so I took a source from a well-regarded medical doctor. I'll also supply Health Canada's nutritional recommendations, the important values are near the end of the document. I'll leave those there for at least a month. http://mediothe.ca/mt/ I lost a few pounds over the last several years. My experience has been consistent with the common-sense view of losing weight: exercise, eat well. But stress the latter over the former. I’m not an athlete, so I don’t want to spend too much time exercising, I want to focus on other areas. This turned out to be convenient, running for half an hour burns just over 500 calories, but running is painful, I find it much easier to just eat healthy. For instance, a medium pizza is between 1500 and 2000 calories, a proper meal for my weight is 720 calories. So I have to run 45 to 70 minutes to turn that pizza into a normal meal. That’s out of my acceptable range, way out. This is an extreme example, but it generally conveys my experience, it’s easier to not gain the calories than to gain the calories and burn them off.
I do, however, exercise regularly. Right now I play badminton because it’s nicer to play off the calories than to run them off -I hate running, I do. But disregarding badminton and substituting an equivalent (30 mins of running), my weekly exercise routine is simple: 30 minutes of running twice a week, 75 minutes of weight training split across two days a week. This is a total of two hours and fifteen minutes of exercise a week. Although sometimes I begrudge the exercises, I should be able to spare that time, after all, it accounts for only 2 percent of my waking time.
Losing weight through diet can be a bit of a nag at first. Nothing beats raw data, the iPhone has an app to track calories eaten and burned called Nutrition, Android has a similar app called CalorieSmart, Linux has some inferior programs, and the web has FitDay.com. Getting an idea of how many calories you are eating and burning from exercise will give you certainty. From my experience, guesswork in this area leads to self-deception.
The easiest way to lose weight is to pick a mass within your recommended range, and eat the number of calories neccessary to maintain that weight. So if I weight 77 kilograms, I need to net 2260 calories to maintain that weight. If I weight 100 kilograms and I ate 2260 net calories a day, eventually I’ll weight 77 kilos. At first I’ll lose weight fast, then the closer I get to 77 the slower I’ll lose weight. I was not in a rush to lose weight, and there was no health imperative that ought to provoke an aggressive response to weight, so I did it the slow and easy way.
Both your body and mind compete for certain resources, so one thing you’ll want to do is ensure you are eating highly nutritional food. The macronutrients that B&M compete for are protein and fat, so I eat a little more than what Health Canada recommends -I probably would do fine eating according to their recommendations, but I’m not interested in finding out whether that’s true. B&M also compete for a variety of vitamins and minerals.
I’ll supply a PDF to help you determine your ideal weight range and the calories associated with that weight. My experience has been the Internet reports these values wildly differently, so I took a source from a well-regarded medical doctor. I’ll also supply Health Canada’s nutritional recommendations, the important values are near the end of the document. I’ll leave those there for at least a month.

http://mediothe.ca/mt/

]]> Comment on Microsoft Need to Watch Out by Matt http://www.geekhive.com/microsoft-need-to-watch-out/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Matt Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:27:56 +0000 http://www.geekhive.com/microsoft-need-to-watch-out/#comment-53 I couldn't agree more about Apple. Steve tells people what they should want. Apple are a joke. I'm a Linux fan but I'd rather have Windows over Apple any day of the week. That's a whole other post though. I was tempted by android but the main reasons I didn't go for it was because: 1. I hate touch. I like the tactile clickity click I get from my little BB Curve. 2. The hardware on offer at the time I had to renew my contract just couldn't keep up to the Android OS in my opinion. I looked at the Hero but it didn't live up to its name. Only E.T would be able to type accuratly on that touch keyboard. The iPhone's touch keyboard is better. 3. At work I was beginning to support Blackberrys and had no experience with them so I figured owning one would help. 4. Work have recently requested I have blackberry connectivity so I'm just using my own device and having them pay for the Enterprise piece - beats packing around two devices. Blackberry isn't as open as Android but I do get to download apps from anywhere without jail breaking, I get to open the back cover of my phone and replace the battery, I get to swap out the media card. Those are some big pluses for both Android and RIM devices. Say what you will about RIM....it's still better than iPhone in my opinion. I couldn’t agree more about Apple. Steve tells people what they should want. Apple are a joke. I’m a Linux fan but I’d rather have Windows over Apple any day of the week. That’s a whole other post though.
I was tempted by android but the main reasons I didn’t go for it was because:
1. I hate touch. I like the tactile clickity click I get from my little BB Curve.
2. The hardware on offer at the time I had to renew my contract just couldn’t keep up to the Android OS in my opinion. I looked at the Hero but it didn’t live up to its name. Only E.T would be able to type accuratly on that touch keyboard. The iPhone’s touch keyboard is better.
3. At work I was beginning to support Blackberrys and had no experience with them so I figured owning one would help.
4. Work have recently requested I have blackberry connectivity so I’m just using my own device and having them pay for the Enterprise piece – beats packing around two devices.

Blackberry isn’t as open as Android but I do get to download apps from anywhere without jail breaking, I get to open the back cover of my phone and replace the battery, I get to swap out the media card. Those are some big pluses for both Android and RIM devices. Say what you will about RIM….it’s still better than iPhone in my opinion.

]]> Comment on Microsoft Need to Watch Out by Mike http://www.geekhive.com/microsoft-need-to-watch-out/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Mike Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:52:08 +0000 http://www.geekhive.com/microsoft-need-to-watch-out/#comment-52 I'm afraid RIM is on the edge of losing market share. I believe this is the very beginning of their fall from the lead. They have been WAY TO SLOW in catching the new wave of a true multimedia portable device, and have erred in trying to still hang on to the notion of being the best "business" device out there. These days all the devices can handle email and everything else the Blackberry’s thought they did best... I feel so strong about this, i am trying to get out of my RIM stocks as soon as possible, without taking too much of a hit on them. I have also already bought shares in Motorola now, because I feel they have a strong chance of taking RIM's place... Or at least being right up there with Apple. Now... Apple... The iphone (in my humble opinion) is a fanboy toy. I really do have to give Apple credit for paying for and placing so many Apple computers in so many schools out there. For YEARS now they have been breeding happy little Apple users, and all these kids have now come out of school and bought Apple Computers. Along the way, a lot of their parents have also bought machines so their kids could do homework on an Apple too. In doing this, for so long... Apple has a really huge fan base for their products. The ipod was a cool MP3 player.. The touch even more so... Even though there has always been comparable players the whole time. I think the ease of use is what gets most to buy. You don't have to think at all to own one. You simple press the itunes button and let the machines do all the work. (while you pay for every single song you want, and by the way, are locked into the limits set on the song you bought!) There has always been good competition to the Apple devices, but the fan base always feeds into the Apple propaganda. Steve talks and all the minions follow. The newer Android phones are still leading in technology. The new HTC Evo is a far superior device... But the Apple fans just don't care... As long as their phones LOOK pretty, they will still keep buying whatever Steve says they should. Even when the antenna has a major issue and they are now forced to have silly covers on them to work properly!! How crazy is that? My advice to people now these days who are looking at getting a new device, wait until the holiday season. There will be some really GREAT new Android based devices release around this time, and the newer android OS is also due out around or before then too. Look to Motorola to release a 2Ghz device too!! (The fastest on the market too by the way!!) Rubes and minions will always follow Steve and Apple. The smart money researches and READS and studies before they make the choice. I’m afraid RIM is on the edge of losing market share. I believe this is the very beginning of their fall from the lead. They have been WAY TO SLOW in catching the new wave of a true multimedia portable device, and have erred in trying to still hang on to the notion of being the best “business” device out there. These days all the devices can handle email and everything else the Blackberry’s thought they did best… I feel so strong about this, i am trying to get out of my RIM stocks as soon as possible, without taking too much of a hit on them. I have also already bought shares in Motorola now, because I feel they have a strong chance of taking RIM’s place… Or at least being right up there with Apple.

Now… Apple…

The iphone (in my humble opinion) is a fanboy toy. I really do have to give Apple credit for paying for and placing so many Apple computers in so many schools out there. For YEARS now they have been breeding happy little Apple users, and all these kids have now come out of school and bought Apple Computers. Along the way, a lot of their parents have also bought machines so their kids could do homework on an Apple too. In doing this, for so long… Apple has a really huge fan base for their products. The ipod was a cool MP3 player.. The touch even more so… Even though there has always been comparable players the whole time. I think the ease of use is what gets most to buy. You don’t have to think at all to own one. You simple press the itunes button and let the machines do all the work. (while you pay for every single song you want, and by the way, are locked into the limits set on the song you bought!)

There has always been good competition to the Apple devices, but the fan base always feeds into the Apple propaganda. Steve talks and all the minions follow.

The newer Android phones are still leading in technology. The new HTC Evo is a far superior device… But the Apple fans just don’t care… As long as their phones LOOK pretty, they will still keep buying whatever Steve says they should. Even when the antenna has a major issue and they are now forced to have silly covers on them to work properly!! How crazy is that?

My advice to people now these days who are looking at getting a new device, wait until the holiday season. There will be some really GREAT new Android based devices release around this time, and the newer android OS is also due out around or before then too. Look to Motorola to release a 2Ghz device too!! (The fastest on the market too by the way!!)

Rubes and minions will always follow Steve and Apple. The smart money researches and READS and studies before they make the choice.

]]> Comment on Site Idea by Matt http://www.geekhive.com/site-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Matt Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:11:50 +0000 http://www.geekhive.com/?p=117#comment-50 Might be a while before I do anything with it though.... Might be a while before I do anything with it though….

]]> Comment on Site Idea by luke http://www.geekhive.com/site-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-49 luke Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:27:12 +0000 http://www.geekhive.com/?p=117#comment-49 Hey Matt, Nice to see your site up and running again, Looking forward to posts to come, and to having the chance to go back over some of your previous posts. Luke Hey Matt,

Nice to see your site up and running again, Looking forward to posts to come, and to having the chance to go back over some of your previous posts.

Luke

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