The Wii Fit doesn't lie....even with all this holiday food, I'm still down 55 pounds since I started on this journey in June. Not bad for 6 months. I have my weight loss/fitness goals for 2010 already mapped out. 2010 is really gonna be a good year.
I love these sorts of creative things!
- Rick Cogley
I always wish they'd show what these things look like from something other than the exactly perfect perspective. Because to most people passing by these would look totally different.
- Brian Johns
These never get old. Thanks for sharing. :)
- Kevin Winn
Yeah. LOL. I just made it official, like in the Thriller video...except that I didn't turn into a werewolf and chase her through the woods....
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Not fair that the lady gets to wear a fancy ring before we even do the church thing. What's the point of being engaged if you can't flaunt it? LOL. Thanks everyone :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Congratulations, Rahsheen! I had a similar thought for Harold when he gave me my ring: "Gee, kind of unfair the guy doesn't get to wear something too until the wedding."
- Kamilah Gill
ahahaahahah ahahahah öle bi anlatmışsın ki, tanımasam aşık olup eve alacam valla... tanımasam, gezdirirken bokunu toplamasam, sabaha kadar başımda havladığına tanık olmasam, o prenses hallerini ve nazını çekmesem, oburluğuyla boğuşmasam, kaşıntısına çare olmak zorunda kalmasam.... amaaaannn yine de alırım ben o külkedisini evime. bi tanecik kızım o benim!
- Ceyda Babaoglu
bir sarı alan gezisinde arabada altalta üstüste giderken ling ossurduğunda o buz gibi havada camları sonuna kadar açıp tir tir giderken soracam sana. :)
- Murat Sönmez
Optimum'da bunun yavrusunu gördüm, cok üzgündülerrr... onlara baktikça bende üzüldümmmm "( gerci senin köpekinde üzgün suratli, bunlarin cinsi mi böle ^^
- mayamisa
Optimum'da gördüğünüzün aynı cins olması mümkün değil, çünkü satışı ve üretilmesi yasak bu cinslerin.
- Murat Sönmez
ama cok benziyoduuu, yakın zamanda biri gitsin baksinnn :=)
- mayamisa
bilemedim benzer bi kopek olabilir ama bull terrierin satisi biraz zor. eger oyleyse de illegal bi durum soz konusu.
- yavuz vashakmadze
Hep demisimdir 60s robots sanildiklarindan daha evil'lar diye. O simdi dergiyi ele gecirme planlari da yapiyordur dunyayi da.
- Özgür D. Cyric
from iPhone
خب من الان از کجاش شروع کنم بگم؟ این بیشتر به شخصیت افراد مربوط میشه، اگه کس دیگهای این عکس رو شیر میکردم من عمرا کاریش داشتم! چون شاید اشکالی هم نداشته برا اون!!
- آرامش مطلوب
آرامش بی خیال من باهاش حرف زدم .شما کوتاه بیا:دی
- سبوی عشق
"I recently had a minor epiphany: I’m probably never going to buy another desktop PC. It shouldn’t have come as a revelation given that the last one I got (in January of 2007) sits largely unused, except when I need to grab a particular old file off its hard drive. Laptops give me everything I need from a computer, and their downsides–smaller screens, lower-capacity hard drives–are far outweighed by their multiple virtues. Market share figures show that the world’s made the leap to laptops, too–they’re the planet’s default personal computer, and it’s desktops that are now the variant device."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
I'll get rid of my desktop when laptops have dual 22" monitors, quad core CPUs, and powerful graphics cards.
- Christopher A Carr
I still use my desktop for all my daily work. Had a laptop let my sister have it, she needed it for her job. I got it back as she is going to Guam. But I use a desktop for a server and even to do my daily. Plus my desktop is much more powerful than my laptop and it can run two monitors.
- Patrick
I loves me PC Desktop, thank, especially since I upgraded top a 22" monitor. So nice.
- Brent - Loving Life
Yeah, as much as I complain about it, I'm never getting rid of the 7-year-old desktop. How else will I test the new Linux distros?
- Steven Perez
from IM
happy with my new desktop. not easy cramming a 2nd SATA hard drive into a laptop....
- Mike Nencetti
How do these laptop people download torrents overnight?
- Andrew C
Minus the whole monitor & graphics/computing power stated already, I think the reason desktops will be around for the long haul is the ease of upgrade & customization. I don't think we're going to see home-built notebooks or laptops with 6 extra bays for RAM upgrades any time in the near future. Essentially, desktops can last a whole lot longer through minor upgrades.
- Kyle Wegner
With an external HD, of course. ER, I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT I'VE HEARD.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I plan on going back to desktops when I turn over my current hardware. Tricked out desktop, all the features I could ever want, half the price of a laptop, and 2 freakin monitors, and an HDMI output to my TV for Hulu viewing, and then a worlds greatest netbook for walking around, $350. I hate my monster size notebooks now.
- Matthew DeVries
I <3 my desktop and I <3 my laptop. They both have functions that I wouldn't want the other to do. For instance I wouldn't want my laptop on 24/7 running apps and serving up content while I am on the go. Nor would I want my desktop in bed with me.
- Geoff Schultz
i've been on a laptop for like forever now, with a desktop keyboard and monitor. but the thing i'm really done with is e-mail. I hate it.
- Brian Hendrickson
I do the Desktop/Netbook combo and I find it works great. I have a powerful desktop at home for editing video and a netbook for writing/browsing the web.
- Kevin Winn
Hell no, never, when hell freezes over, or when I can build a laptop from bitty parts (ok not tooo bitty). Besides, I'm still using parts from my build from 6 years ago (mainly the classic all-aluminum Lian-Li case....)
- Adrian
Out of my cold dead hands........................................
- Kevin J Hatton
I haven't been on a desktop in a long while now. For what I do, I haven't found the need for a desktop. Yes, my recent video editing tasks have annoyed me on my 13" aluminum unibody MacBook, but I'll eventually upgrade the Ram and it'll be fine. I like being able to carry my computer with me.
- Cheryl Jones
Perhaps whenever I set up a proper work area for myself, I'll get an external monitor and keyboard for my laptop to drive, but that's all I would need. And I download torrents just fine; I have to offload stuff a lot, but it doesn't bother me. Perhaps I'll upgrade my laptop HD soon.
- Cheryl Jones
I will continue to buy desktops because they are cheaper than laptops
- sjjh
I have both. Laptop's advantage: power consumption, portability, cool factor. Laptop's disadvantage: no maintainability, bad hardware choices. Desktop's advantage: flexibility, choice, maintainability, expandability. Desktop's disadvantage: cables, size, lack of portability. Both sets of disadvantages can be fixed but I suspect there will be far more likely on the desktop side than...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I have both, I can't see me getting rid of my desktop, I can upgrade it easily, it's faster, etc. I definitely wouldn't get rid of my desktop monitor, mouse and keyboard. It's unhealthy to work from laptop alone so if I only had a laptop and was working from it regularly I would still put it into the monitor, etc.
- Kol Tregaskes
Me, I'll probably always have a desktop computer at home. My current Dell P4 unit serves my purposes well (a few upgrades pending, of course, just for Windows 7), thought I'll eventually get rid of my current monitor for a widescreen one. My laptop is for carrying around, all over town and beyond. That way I can write on the bus.
- Dennis Jernberg
For day to day usage I'm almost exclusively on my laptop, but the desktop is handy because it's on 24 hours with a bucket load of hard drive space. It has far more computing power so it's great for converting videos and that sort of stuff. Plus I can remotely log into it. so it's not like I HAVE to sit in front of it. And they're dirt cheap these days as well. I don't think this is a binary situation.
- Eoghann Irving
I never thought I would, but I almost exclusively use a laptop now. I love the power and customization of a desktop and there isn't a thing I can't fix, but the laptop goes everywhere with me.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Laptops ... can't stand them, although they are handy at times. I use them only when I have to; that is, when I'm not at my desk.
- Kittyburgers
Laptops are pretty ergonomically terrible, unless you raise them up and use a separate keyboard and mouse.
- Ladybug Heather
... which, I guess, pretty much defeats the whole purpose of having a laptop in the first place.
- Kittyburgers
from IM
Yup, indeed it does. Then, the only advantage is that you can take a laptop out to a library or meeting or whatever.
- Ladybug Heather
No. There's too many things that Desktops are still needed for. My laptops are no where near as powerful as desktops can be. Makes HD encoding and other things much faster to process.
- John Wang
James - I'd rather have a desk than a 'hotelling' system.
- Andrew C
Not until we've got ubiquitous computing.
- Victor Ganata
Not yet, maybe soon. I may skip the laptop altogether aad have slightly less computing power in my pocket. visa vi Iphone
- Tate DA FF MVP
my best friend got pissed when he was doing a bunch of pdf conversions (he is an attorney) and built himself a ridiculous monster with 24 gigs of ram - was the first time i had thought about getting a desktop in forever
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I need a new gaming desktop, but after I get that, I'll probably just try and take other people's old desktops. Hardware from a few years ago is still good. It's a shame everyone falls for the marketing campaigns and thinks they absolutely need new hardware every few years.
- Rudolf Olah
I will always have both laptops and desktops in my life. I have specific uses for both and apply them accordingly. Plus I hate gaming on a laptop. Always have, probably always will. :)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
People's hardware buying habits will probably evolve towards holding onto old hardware for longer. We're just starting to get used to the fact that due to quantum mechanics, Moore's law no longer really operates.
- Victor Ganata
Victor: Intel thinks they can get down to 7nm before that's an issue.
- Christopher A Carr
I just bought a new desktop after years of using laptops as my primary machine.
- ronin
I hope that Yahoo takes a hard look at Popkin’s article. There is much improvement that could be done with Flickr. Flickr is a tremendously important cultural jewel that in a strange way I feel belongs to society at large at this point as much as it belongs to Yahoo. So much art is being made and shared at Flickr. So many people are using it in a way to culturally enrich the world. Yahoo should look at this cultural jewel that they have and recognize it for what it is, also recognizing that censorship has often been the enemy of culture. I’d much rather blog about all the great things going on at Flickr than the things that I feel are negative going on there. And I do hope that some of the practices over the course of the past few years mentioned in this article are addressed and changed.
- Thomas Hawk
The problem is that, unless you examine the Flickr codebase, you've got no way of knowing how easy it is to make deletions reversible (which is really what this is about.... saying "oops, let me un-delete this" would defuse most of these situations). Big software systems are full of things that sound like they ought to be easy to do but aren't. For example, you'd think they'd have fixed the problem after Stewart accidentally deleted all his pictures in 2005.
- Wirehead
But the thing is Wirehead, it actually would be quite easy. Flickr already has built the ability to make images private. You can, for instance, make an image private on flickr so that only you, not even your friends and family can see it. It would be super simple for Flickr simply to mark these photos "private" for you only and include a message to you about why they've done that. You...
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- Thomas Hawk
Flickr naturally has server systems in place for back-ups and failure restoration. They most certainly have the ability to retrieve the data from some point in the recent past. For them to suggest otherwise suggests they consider us stupid or are just indifferent. The ability for a multi-million dollar operation staffed with programmers to claim that they cannot or will not make simple...
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- Robert Kenney
I agree Robert. And I guess that's their decision to make, I do think it would be nice if they would explain that to us though and their rationale for not allowing user data to be recoverable.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, how would you react if I pointed out that had you followed the Parabolic SAR, you would have sold one of the stocks under your management before it dropped?
- Wirehead
If a publically trade company like Yahoo! didn't own Flickr Id say it's their server, they an do what they want. But they do, and it's ridiculous.
- Kevin Winn
from Nambu
I think it's just them being courteous. They are attempting to confirm success of the communication process. They also use 'Know what I'm talking about?' when inquiring. When there is a need to clarify or emphasize something they have said, they often use 'That's what I'm talking 'bout!'
- Morgan Haley
Actually, isn't it usually "kna mean?" So you're supposed to understand what they mean even if they aren't necessarily saying anything.
- Victor Ganata
*Accepting Award at Podium* "Thank you! Respect! I just want to thank Jesus. Jehova God All Mighty. For helping write my #1 hit single. It's called 'Suck Yo' Mama!'. Peace!"
- Morgan Haley
Mike: Um, like, um totally. Like, totally! I, like totally um, like know what you, um, like, mean!
- Morgan Haley
I saw an interview with some rapper a while back, can't recall who it was, and he used "knam sayin'?" like a comma. Q: "Who are your influences?" A: Lots, knam sayin'? Like Snoop Dogg, knam sayin'?, Dre, knam sayin'?, Run-DMC, knam sayin'?, James Brown an shit', knam sayin'?. Etc.
- Joey Gibson
It's the same as "you know?" and "right?" Or as in the Japanese "ne?" It's a discourse/pragmatics marker, which is sometimes exaggerated to indicate status as a member of a cultural/language group. Big deal. And there are rappers that have lots to say. White people's high rising terminal intonation ("up-speak") annoys me, like, much more?
- Christopher A Carr
if anyone here in this thread were interviewed for TV (or radio), they would be amazed and horrified how many times they um'ed and used other filler words, watching themselves on TV.
- Mike Nencetti
I work with a guy who is a pretty big deal in the art world who spent a lot of time in New York City; he said it was there that he picked up on the, "know what I mean?" which peppers his speech like the aforementioned rappers, albeit, in a very upper middle class, well-to-do type of affect.
- Derrick
I would just stare at the camera blankly. Not saying anything. Perhaps drooling a little. Just. Staring.
- Morgan Haley
It´s like when Norwegians end a statement with ", ikke sant?", which literally means ", not true?". Seeking confirmation (and actually even worse, assuming that it probably is false, heh).
- Thomas Bøhm
These are all examples of speech disfluency. It's random crap you say to keep the conversation flowing because you don't really have something to say that second, but not saying anything or silence would probably be awkward. Everyone does it, from what I can see. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Also related to conversational turn taking. Sometimes you want to stall to keep your conversational turn.
- Christopher A Carr
Well, this linguistics education of mine is occasionally good for something... ;-)
- Christopher A Carr
Ah...hadn't noticed you was all edumucated and stuff...LOL. Interesting :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Meh, not too exciting -- just a State U undergrad linguistics edumacation.
- Christopher A Carr
It's a New York thing. I'm from NY but lived in Florida for a year and everyone that said that I could tell was a New Yorker. If you've watched a few old black-and-white gangster films that take place in New York you'd hear it a lot more than you would from rappers.
- Hugh Isaacs II
Well-educated upper class Brits often lard their conversations with "yes?" -- which is essentially a synonym for "you know what I'm saying?". It seems to be a speech mannerism that cuts across all cultures. (I'm not a big fan of rap -- neo-psychedelia is my thing. But I was impressed by Public Enemy in ancient days.)
- Sean McBride
Because that's how we roll... you know what I'm sayin'? :)
- Morton Fox