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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 4, 2014 -> 10:41 AM) I actually routinely youtube success stories to keep me motivated because I see stories that I know are real and they really hit home with me. Soccer moms, overworked men, people who have just gotten lazy. Everyone has a chance to do SOMETHING to turn themselves around. I love it. I agree completely, and I'm not saying everyone of them is a pro, but there are standouts that are, and it's those that I find annoying. I mean, I don't find the actual people annoying, I find that using them for videos of this sort is annoying. For the most part, I can do these workouts from start to finish without a problem, but others that are just starting out that AREN'T in shape, at all...it's pretty intimidating watching pros perform a move you aren't even close to being able to perform. I wish they'd ONLY use regular people, even people in their special little test-group, and not professionals. Tony is the only pro that needs to be there. I find it more motivating watching a regular person that got into shape versus watching a person that's paid to be in shape 24/7/365. If it was my job to be in shape, it'd be pretty easy to do so.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 4, 2014 -> 10:22 AM) You can look a majority of them up. Unless they got fat for the show, I believe the transformation. Early on I had an easier time believing it, but now that Beachbody is like a massive corporation complete with a pyramid scheme, I think a lot of this has become manufactured. In the original P90X videos, people like Pam the Blam were what I considered "regular people", in decent shape, able to do the workouts (just like us), but not above and beyond -- such as the dancer/prancer people he also had on the original P90X, who's job is to basically be in shape.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Mar 4, 2014 -> 10:25 AM) You realize you have literally zero backing up this reaction right? It's purely manufactured on YOUR part. lol The person I'm talking about in specific is that Stephanie girl from Pilates/Yoga, she's just TOO perfect at every single move they perform. Ok, looked it up -- she IS a pro. So much for me having literally zero backing.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 4, 2014 -> 09:32 AM) I think for the most part they are pretty inspirational. Most if not all of the folks on the video were normal schlubs at one point and made themselves into people that are so fit it annoys you. Thats pretty incredible. This is the part I don't buy. I think most of these people are manufactured pros, while a few of them may have done something incredible even they were afforded extraordinary means to do so. I could be in perfect shape too if I didn't have to worry about my job/family for 6 months.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 3, 2014 -> 01:23 PM) Each on of those people has a pretty well documented transformation story. Its not like they got fat then fit to be in the videos. Some of them are fine, but others are just annoying to me. And there is only one Pam the Blam.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Mar 3, 2014 -> 09:12 AM) In LA those ARE the regular joes. Well for home fitness videos, I find them thoroughly annoying.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 28, 2014 -> 04:49 PM) Ya Pilates is something else, I really enjoy/hate it. I've also done both the Yoga and Pilates routines, and for how short they are, there are just too many complex movements involved to the point I just can't enjoy either of them. It's like rapid fire movement changes where you barely get a second to learn proper form of a single move, and hold it for a minute to make sure you're using the right combination of muscles. I also wish P90X would stop using professionals whose 9-5 job is basically to be in perfect shape and use regular people so they can tailor the workouts to regular people that can't do 5 minute handstands while doing the splits. I'm in pretty insane shape these days, but these overly flexible/in perfect shape models they use in these videos just get annoying. And yes, I know they claim they're just regular joes, but we all know they aren't.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 28, 2014 -> 04:26 PM) just signed up for a Spartan Sprint in June. Anyone ever done one? Or another obstacle course/mud run? My friend is into this stuff, but I find it too unsafe to bother with. It'd be fine if it was people in mostly decent shape/athletic, but it's not, it's filled with people that shouldn't be there, and they tend to cause accidents and take others down with them. People ALWAYS get hurt at these events in mass numbers, and usually because some out of shape frat "bro" idiot causes a catastrophe. It's bad enough with the course conditions being varied and constantly changing because of weather, but those people make it worse.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 28, 2014 -> 02:06 PM) FWIW I don't think your "genetics," i.e. your actual DNA is changing when your metabolism slows down. Body chemistry would be more accurate, but your genetics are going to at least partially determine your body chemistry. Probably more accurate.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Feb 28, 2014 -> 12:18 PM) I'm 25, so I'm hitting that point. So far, I've stayed about normal weight even though I was traveling for work almost every week the past 6 months (i.e. eat out for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, usually with a nice dinner - e.g. steak, seafood, etc). It helps that I always stayed close to a LA Fitness, so I was able to maintain my workout schedule. 20 is late growth spurt. That had to be a pleasant surprise. Reddy took what I said and kind of blew it out of proportion. I never said it's not insurmountable, but for most people, it's insurmountable because they will NOT be able to consume that many calories or work out enough to make it feasible. Where as people like myself can eat nothing extra, use no supplements, and pack on muscle without much effort. And yes, over the years, your genetics will change in that some aspects slow down, others speed up, etc...so while that may be impossible when you're in your 20's and burning 10k calories being awake, when in you're 30's that probably won't be the case.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 28, 2014 -> 12:00 PM) I think he is oversimplifying it quite a bit as well, and I do think supplements can play a role in changing your body. I am over simplifying, as everyone's body is different to a degree, but I'd put money on it that Reddy could never bulk up like I can, whether he supplements or not. Now, if he cheats genetics and uses steroids, that's a bit of a different story. Some people have a natural \/ shape (as I do), and some will NEVER get that shape no matter how hard they try. What I'm saying is it's best to work with your body than against it. If you're frame is slender and you don't have wideset shoulders, you can do all the shoulder presses you want, you're still not going to get wideset shoulders, yes, they'll be bigger, but they'll still match your frame.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 27, 2014 -> 07:26 PM) Back + Biceps was my absolute jam. So funny story. I've been trying to bulk for ages right and it worked... moderately at one point, but nothing significant. I bought a Fitbit Flex yesterday and wore it all day today. I burn 900 calories and walk 6 miles while at work, meaning that my body burns about 3,000 calories a day BEFORE EXERCISE on days I work. Welp. That explains that. As a person that has no issues adding muscle mass with minimal effort, I can tell you the secret is genetics and nothing more. I use no supplements, not even protein, and my muscle mass/definition just explodes while doing half as much work in the gym as my friends, who do supplement. You are either an endomorph or you aren't, and if you aren't, you're battling your genetics instead of working with them. That's not to say it cannot be done, but it's very very hard to overcome. Like someone above mentioned long/lean muscles...despite doing Yoga, that just doesn't happen for me, my body just isn't build that way.

Having a favorite airline is like having a favorite dentist. They're necessary, and some are less painful than others...but they all suck.

QUOTE (Tex @ Feb 25, 2014 -> 10:58 AM) The point that needs to be discussed is we are creating highly valued companies with very small work forces. That is a huge shift from huge companies = huge employers. That will produce a shift in how our society works. An optimist may suggest a 30 hour work week could be at hand with people job sharing. The pessimist could argue that huge unemployment will mean a global depression on a scale never seen before. The gulf between have and have nots will be huge. Fantastic point, Tex...something I hadn't really thought of. The problem is this house of cards is built upon the have-nots having enough to spend on entertainment, clothing, housing, food, etc...and the second they don't the house will collapse. The haves will slowly start becoming have-nots when their money runs dry (as they'd have no new money coming in). It's a delicate balance, and they need to make sure their greed doesn't blind them from seeing that.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 25, 2014 -> 10:20 AM) It was the norm back then to value companies based on an idea with no execution. Nowadays you have to at least have 100 mil in revenue in my industry to think about IPO. It takes a lot of success to reach 100 mil in annual revenue. Thats the main difference I see. Idea companies arent getting valued at billions of dollars. Snapchat had 0 annual revenue when they were offered 3-4 billion in cash.

I mean, Dropbox is so confident in everything they're doing they've also issued a new "automagically" opt-in TOS where users give up their right to be able to bring them to court and/or form class action against them... http://consumerist.com/2014/02/21/dropbox-...online-opt-out/ "Another company is taking the coward’s way out of resolving legal disputes with its customers by tweaking its Terms of Service to take away users’ rights to take the company to court and to prevent multiple users from having their complaints heard as a group. This time, it’s online storage service Dropbox, which is currently notifying users of the bad news. In a new blog post, Dropbox details the latest changes to its ToS, including the forced arbitration clause. “Arbitration is a faster and more efficient way to resolve legal disputes,” lies Dropbox, “and it provides a good alternative to things like state or federal courts, where the process could take months or even years.” Thank you Dropbox for unburdening consumers of their statutory right to seek legal redress in a court of law! It’s like you read our minds. We’d all much rather be heard by a paid arbitrator in a process that is heavily unbalanced in favor of businesses."

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 25, 2014 -> 09:56 AM) huh? SAML has been ready for YEARS and is implemented across the board. OAuth and OpenID Connect are not far behind. The NSA scandal has exposed most of the standards in use as inadequate and easily crackable, as there is always a point where the data resides in an unencrypted form, and that's the area of target. I'm sure there are some encryptions that aren't so easy to break, but most aren't using them, and once again, when accessed by a user, it inherently needs to be unencrypted. And of course, the easiest part to crack remains the people not to mention their use of overly simplistic passwords. So I'm not exactly sure what's confusing about my statement.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 25, 2014 -> 09:32 AM) It should be an industry that matures into a low profit margin area quickly. There are no barriers to entry, and it is a low cost sector. It won't be hard to undercut pricing to levels that cut margins down to very low levels. It isn't like there are high labor, high entry, or high production costs here. The biggest barrier to entry into cloud services will be trust, and since modern encryption/security standards have been exposed as "not ready yet", a lot of these companies will run into trust issues, and once this sort of trust is broken, without playing this properly to the media, you may lose people in droves... Hell, look at the 19 billion dollar WhatsApp...they had a 3 hour outage the other day and it's direct (and free) competitors were signing people up by the millions...because of a short outage.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 24, 2014 -> 08:42 PM) Ummm...revenue isn't all that great of a metric if you aren't turning a profit. They have thin margins and aren't profitable. It doesn't work like that when you're in a bubble -- and make no mistake -- we are in the middle of a second tech bubble. Of course, like Warren Buffett says, investing is like sex, and it feels best right before it pops. Those that don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it, and that's exactly what's happening now. .com v1.0 - people didn't understand the Internet, and didn't want to miss the boat on the next big industry, so they invested in anything/everything that contained a .com or had a website, no matter how shaky or stupid the idea actually was. .com v2.0 - people still don't understand the Internet, social medias place on the Internet, where cloud computing is going, and once again, they don't want to miss the boat. They're overvaluing everything on "potential" future profits to the tune of insanity, and of these investments, a handful will emerge victorious, becoming the next Microsoft or Google. Apple is one of the most financially successful companies in the history of world, churning out unseen profits for almost a decade now, and at their absolute peak profit earning power, it's P/E never eclipsed 20. Think about that for a second. We're talking about one of the most successful profit generating companies EVER. Meanwhile, they're speculating on "potential" future earnings from other companies like NetFlix, Amazon, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc...pumping their valuations into the stratosphere. Now, for arguments sake, let's say they're right. Let's say Amazon somehow starts making money (after two decades of NOT making money), even if they blew away any realistic number you can imagine, what I can safely say they will NOT do is make more money than Apple did at it's peak, therefore the speculated earnings potential is insane based on it's P/E ratio alone. To justify some of these P/E ratios (or even their future P/E ratios, if they ever even materialize), these companies would not only need to start making profits, but they'd have to start making profits to the tune of multiple times what Apple was making at it's peak. Now, re-read that last line. Because that's never going to happen in bottom feeding profit industries like retail or media (aka Amazon/Netflix). That's not to say they can't make money (NetFlix does), but with profit margins of about 4% they're not going to see profits like Apple or Exxon.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 24, 2014 -> 11:30 PM) I personally have never broken a phone due to clumsiness. I've come close (dropped my uncle's iPhone 4 from about chest high straight onto hard flooring and it somehow survived) though. However, you can't account for situations you just can't control sometimes. In those cases, I'd rather have a phone that's less likely to break if I do drop it. I use cases though, so usually that's not an issue. I've dropped my Nexus 5 with the case on a few times and it's still in perfect condition. I agree, but for accident prone people, they do have insurance for phones ... and if you're going to break it, it's cheaper to buy the insurance than having to replace a flagship smartphone these days.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 24, 2014 -> 07:06 PM) It doesn't even need to be like the HTC One. Sony's phones are absolutely gorgeous (see new Z2), although I don't know how shatter-proof they are. That's just something that doesn't concern me, as I've had every iPhone since the start and have never broken one of them, despite not using a case. They're phones not hammers, don't be careless with them. I don't throw my expensive watch around, either...it's not a baseball, it's a delicate instrument and though made to withstand some punishment, the wrong drop at the wrong angle can destroy it, so it should be treated as such. If a shatterproof phone is what you need, they make them, and they're huge ugly monstrosities. Oh, I don't throw rubber balls at my plasma tvs, either, because they'll shatter. That being said, IF that's such a concern to you, buy the insurance which is available for any device you buy and then you can shatter them at will.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 24, 2014 -> 06:53 PM) If people thought the S4 was a bad incremental update, then this is a far worse incremental update. I think the best thing Samsung could have done was improve the build quality of the phone. I don't think that requires anything groundbreaking to do. But they really didn't manage to do that. Instead, they made a phone with a slightly better feeling back that's bigger than the previous iteration in every way. We agree on that, I think a flagship phone needs to be made of some sort of metal/alloy these days, I'm not a huge fan of plastic stuff at these prices. But that'd still be incremental.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 24, 2014 -> 04:55 PM) I agree some people are cheap. We paid for our own wedding and spent quite a bit. We got $35 "gifts" from some COUPLES (down state family). Like, come on man, that's not even covering the pre-dinner salad. Not to mention they tend to be the drunkest of the drunkards, filling up on open bar "free booze" you also paid for.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 24, 2014 -> 06:11 PM) Samsung's getting pretty complacent. In Samsungs defense (I can't believe you have me defending Samsung here), the smartphone market is technologically mature now, and there isn't much other than incremental updates to add/tweak at this point. It's not unlike what the desktop market became over the years, where a bit more speed was the only real differentiator. Until a battery breakthrough is made, which is an obvious improvement, or a yet unknown and much less obvious idea emerges, there isn't much they can really do at this point.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Feb 24, 2014 -> 02:13 PM) I used to use dropbox all the time, mostly for picture sharing and stuff like that. Since I switched back from android to ios I cant seem to find an app that allows me to send individual pictures from my phone into my dropbox one at a time so I have more or less switched to puush and I love it. I like that you can capture anything on your cpu screen by dragging a box over what youre trying to save and then it pops up as a png file that you can either send to someone or use to post the picture on a forum. It also has a free app that allows you to send individual pics from your camera to your puush account and you can immediately view them on your computer. The dropbox app lets you send pics from you iOS device to your dropbox...I'm not sure what you're asking about here.