American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV doesn't require drug users to go through withdrawal in order to classify them as addicts. Instead, the criteria for what is called "drug dependence" looks how deeply people are immersed in drug use, for its negative consequences for their lives, and for its disturbances of their normal life functioning, including family, work, and health.
Marijuana does not modify the brain. It affects it yes, but once it's gone the brain is the same
Although science is not absolutely conclusive on this, it is fairly clear that Marijuana usage does permanently modify the brain to some extent. Once it is gone, the brain may be similar, but it is definitely not the same. As people age, they normally lose neurons in the hippocampus, which decreases their ability to remember events. Chronic THC exposure may probably hastens the age-related loss of hippocampal neurons. In one series of studies, rats exposed to THC every day for 8 months (approximately 30 percent of their lifespan), when examined at 11 to 12 months of age, showed nerve cell loss equivalent to that of unexposed animals twice their age
1) Do I know what is expected of me at work? 2) Do I have the materials and equipment I need to do my work right? 3) At work, do I have the opportunity to do what I do best everyday? 4) In the last seven days, have I received recognition or praise for doing good work? 5) Does my supervisor or someone at work seem to care about me as a person? 6) Is there someone at work who encourages my development? 7) At work, do my opinions seem to count? 8) Does the mission/purpose of my company make me feel my job is important? 9) Are my co-workers committed to doing quality work? 10) Do I have a best friend at work? 11) In the last six months, has someone at work talked to me about my progress? 12) This last year, have I had the opportunity at work to learn and grow?
Based on a research study conducted by the Gallup Organization involving 80,000 managers
You are a God. It never occurred to me that I could get HDTV with a regular antenna. It all makes a little more sense now. I already drilled a hole right through my kitchen onto my front balcony and put the satellite dish out front, so my relationship with the HOA is pretty much shot to hell. I bought a huge fake plant to cover up some of the hole and wires, but it's all pretty transparent. *shrug* Hopefully they won't be able to force me to move it until after football season.
Yes, which makes it all the more frustrating when you pay a fortune for DirecTV, the HD package, the NFL Direct Ticket package, and then the Monday night games aren't available in HD because ABC's local affiliate won't let DirecTV give me the HD ABC channel. DirecTV is the only way to get HDTV in my condo, even though I am in the heart of Scottsdale, AZ. ARGGGGGGGGG.
Of course, it was all worthwhile to get every game my hometown Redskins play on TV every week without having to drive to a bar and spend 3.5 hours sitting on an uncomfortable chair. I was just frustrated last week when I couldn't get HDTV for their Monday Night Football game versus the Cowboys. I also won't be able to get their December 12th game against the Cardinals because the game will be blacked out.
Anyway, this is probably the least audience appropriate comment ever written on Slashdot; feel free to moderate me down. If it makes you feel better, I sometimes ramble like this to football loving meatheads about the wonders of open source software.
It seems to me that this could only be important or useful for professional astronomers. It makes no difference to the layman. Might as well do whatever is most convenient for the professionals.
They are willing to die, so I'm sure they are willing to deal with the risk of random checks. Well implemented profiling is more the key, although it may not be possible.
Skype is going to have trouble competing with Google Talk. I used Google Talk to talk to my brother in China today, and used Skype a few minutes later to talk to him as well. The sound quality was significantly better using Google Talk. This dispute the fact that Skype has a huge head start. In general, Skype has been around for a while and their website is still amateurish and customer service non-existance. It is absolutely impossible to get a real human at Skype to send you an email.
I'd say the 2+ billion Indians and Chinese who don't have personal computers would be a good start. The Chinese GDP per capita is $5600 (and rising fast) and the Indian GDP per capita is $3100, so with desktop prices getting so low, even the very poor in these countries will probably be able to afford desktops soon.
(Of course, I don't know how you tell someone who makes $1 per hour that he will have to pay $200 for an operating system)
For 2004, Intel had a net income of US$7.5 billion on revenue of US$34.2 billion.
Overall tax rate expected for 2005: 31%
(With 2004 earnings as a guide, taxes will be US$10.6 billion)
Taxes are paid on profit, not revenues. They should pay 31% of 7.5 billion, not 34.2 billion.
In 5 years of studying computer science (BS, MS) I was never formally taught Perl in a class. I learned it as the side effect of a Relational Database class. Now, 6 years later, I use Perl, ASP, and Microsoft Access on a daily basis. Not exactly the path I envisioned when I was a bright eyed 21 year old open source zealot.
Anyway, last week my mom told me it was important for me to start giving back to society, so here is your Perl tip of the day. It took me a few months of writing awful, inefficient regular expressions to learn this doozy:
the ? is your friend. It forces regular expressions to search for the first match, instead of the last."
Example:
$test = "Perl regular expression tip of the day: the ? is your friend. It forces regular expressions to search for the first match, instead of the last.";
C:\>perl test.pl Perl regular expression tip of -- Perl regular expression tip of the day: the ? is your friend. It forces regular expressions to search for the first match, instead of
There is a large enough market to sustain the growing VOIP market because this is essentially the same market that supports dozens of cell phone and local and long distance companies.
As a small business owner, I can say that Skype and other VOIP services have been a godsend and I welcome Google to the game.
We have employees in China, Australia, England, and the United States, who all talk for free on Skype. In addition, I have 3 SkypeIn phone numbers: One in China, one in England, and one in the United States (Total cost: $15 per line per 3 months). Someone in England can dial a local number to reach us, and it's free for me and free for them. On top of that, they don't even know that I'm not in England. I had to have a 3rd party company forward my Australian phone calls, because SkypeIn doesn't work in Australia yet. At a rate of about $1 per hour (.017 Euros per minute), I can call Chinese, Australian, British, or American Customers.
The signal quality can be a little low. I have one customer who refers to us as the "bad reception guys." Some days are worse than others.
As much as I like Skype, I'm looking forward to jumping on the Google Talk bandwagon because I'm certain they will offer superior service to Skype.
I think Occam's Razor can be used to explain this with one word: MONEY.
This is the most profitable time in world history for nerds. From Bill Gates and the Google guys, down to the average nerd who is now making 110k/year programming c++, nerds and geeks are making more money than ever.
Everyone loves money. Even nerds love money. But girls really love money.
I get bored working at home and even in the office. The atmosphere of a coffee shop offers a nice change of pace a couple days a week.
When I go into the coffee shop nearby, there is usually:
1) Good Music 2) Cute girls 3) Someone else to cook food for me 4) Interesting people to observe and make fun of.
And then, of course, there is the endless fun that can be had by sniffing someones IM conversations. In my heart, I know that one day I will read these words: "OH MY GOD!!! The hottest guy is sitting next to me."
You are not paying for fraud through the credit card billing fees. In case of fraud, the credit card company does not pay a penny. They just take the money from the Merchant. As a small business owner, I can testify that the credit card companies will HAPPILY take the money from you, without even asking you about it first.
Firefox is not faster than Internet Explorer, except for scripting, but for standards support, security and features, it is a better choice. However, it is still not as fast as Opera, and Opera also offers a high level of standards support, security and features.
This statement obscures the truth, which is that Firefox takes twice as long as Internet Explorer to load from a cold start (12 seconds versus 7) and 50% longer to load from a warm start (2.52 versus 1.7)
This confuses me. I don't even like to leave the house when its lower than 68 degrees F. I'm hoping that global warming can negate the need for humans to enter such cold temperatures.
At my company, we give everyone the idea that they have complete privacy, but in reality every email/IM conversation is logged and read. This probably seems morally reprehensible, but given the sensitivity of our work, it is necessary. If an employee is up to no good, we need to know immediately.
I used to work for a fortune 500 company that had a similar policy.
Someone please enlighten me - what is the advantage of a Segway over a regular, well built electric scooter like you can buy on www.hardcorescooters.com
I've been trying to figure this out for ages. Granted, you can stand up on a Segway, while you have to sit on convential scooters, but what is so great about standing? Given my druthers, I would sacrifice the gyroscopes, add an extra wheel, and spend the $3000 I saved on a new state of the art laptop.
The DSS broadcasters are not allowed to do business in Canada. The signal reaches them
just fine. So there is a *huge* motivation
to unscramble the signal. I believe if it hits
your house, you own it, whether it's an orange from the neighbor's tree, or a tv signal from
another country.
One thing I don't get about people with this attitude: You dont seem to thing it is right to own airwaves, yet you think it is perfectly natural for people to own land and property. Do you honestly believe that land is inherently more ownable than airwaves or anything else?
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American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV doesn't require drug users to go through withdrawal in order to classify them as addicts. Instead, the criteria for what is called "drug dependence" looks how deeply people are immersed in drug use, for its negative consequences for their lives, and for its disturbances of their normal life functioning, including family, work, and health.
Marijuana does not modify the brain. It affects it yes, but once it's gone the brain
is the same
Although science is not absolutely conclusive on this, it is fairly clear that Marijuana usage does permanently modify the brain to some extent. Once it is gone, the brain may be similar, but it is definitely not the same. As people age, they normally lose neurons in the hippocampus, which decreases their ability to remember events. Chronic THC exposure may probably hastens the age-related loss of hippocampal neurons. In one series of studies, rats exposed to THC every day for 8 months (approximately 30 percent of their lifespan), when examined at 11 to 12 months of age, showed nerve cell loss equivalent to that of unexposed animals twice their age
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You should talk to my friend Stephanie. She has exactly the opposite philosophy.
1) Do I know what is expected of me at work?
2) Do I have the materials and equipment I need to do my work right?
3) At work, do I have the opportunity to do what I do best everyday?
4) In the last seven days, have I received recognition or praise for doing good work?
5) Does my supervisor or someone at work seem to care about me as a person?
6) Is there someone at work who encourages my development?
7) At work, do my opinions seem to count?
8) Does the mission/purpose of my company make me feel my job is important?
9) Are my co-workers committed to doing quality work?
10) Do I have a best friend at work?
11) In the last six months, has someone at work talked to me about my progress?
12) This last year, have I had the opportunity at work to learn and grow?
Based on a research study conducted by the Gallup Organization involving 80,000 managers
You are a God. It never occurred to me that I could get HDTV with a regular antenna. It all makes a little more sense now. I already drilled a hole right through my kitchen onto my front balcony and put the satellite dish out front, so my relationship with the HOA is pretty much shot to hell. I bought a huge fake plant to cover up some of the hole and wires, but it's all pretty transparent. *shrug* Hopefully they won't be able to force me to move it until after football season.
The local FOX network has approved HDTV. Still waiting to hear back from NBC and CBS. What a weird system.
Of course, it was all worthwhile to get every game my hometown Redskins play on TV every week without having to drive to a bar and spend 3.5 hours sitting on an uncomfortable chair. I was just frustrated last week when I couldn't get HDTV for their Monday Night Football game versus the Cowboys. I also won't be able to get their December 12th game against the Cardinals because the game will be blacked out.
Anyway, this is probably the least audience appropriate comment ever written on Slashdot; feel free to moderate me down. If it makes you feel better, I sometimes ramble like this to football loving meatheads about the wonders of open source software.
The HDTV DirectTV Tivo Box is still $650.
It seems to me that this could only be important or useful for professional astronomers. It makes no difference to the layman. Might as well do whatever is most convenient for the professionals.
They are willing to die, so I'm sure they are willing to deal with the risk of random checks. Well implemented profiling is more the key, although it may not be possible.
Skype is going to have trouble competing with Google Talk. I used Google Talk to talk to my brother in China today, and used Skype a few minutes later to talk to him as well. The sound quality was significantly better using Google Talk. This dispute the fact that Skype has a huge head start. In general, Skype has been around for a while and their website is still amateurish and customer service non-existance. It is absolutely impossible to get a real human at Skype to send you an email.
(Of course, I don't know how you tell someone who makes $1 per hour that he will have to pay $200 for an operating system)
Ah, I guess it is wrong. Sorry. Still, using the ? is very useful and a lot of people don't know about it.
Taxes are paid on profit, not revenues. They should pay 31% of 7.5 billion, not 34.2 billion.
In 5 years of studying computer science (BS, MS) I was never formally taught Perl in a class. I learned it as the side effect of a Relational Database class. Now, 6 years later, I use Perl, ASP, and Microsoft Access on a daily basis. Not exactly the path I envisioned when I was a bright eyed 21 year old open source zealot.
/(.*?)the/; /(.*)the/;
Anyway, last week my mom told me it was important for me to start giving back to society, so here is your Perl tip of the day. It took me a few months of writing awful, inefficient regular expressions to learn this doozy:
the ? is your friend. It forces regular expressions to search for the first match, instead of the last."
Example:
$test = "Perl regular expression tip of the day: the ? is your friend. It forces regular expressions to search for the first match, instead of the last.";
$test =~
print $1;
print "\n--\n";
$test =~
print $1;
C:\>perl test.pl
Perl regular expression tip of
--
Perl regular expression tip of the day: the ? is your friend. It forces regular expressions to search for the first match, instead of
There is a large enough market to sustain the growing VOIP market because this is essentially the same market that supports dozens of cell phone and local and long distance companies.
As a small business owner, I can say that Skype and other VOIP services have been a godsend and I welcome Google to the game.
We have employees in China, Australia, England, and the United States, who all talk for free on Skype. In addition, I have 3 SkypeIn phone numbers: One in China, one in England, and one in the United States (Total cost: $15 per line per 3 months). Someone in England can dial a local number to reach us, and it's free for me and free for them. On top of that, they don't even know that I'm not in England. I had to have a 3rd party company forward my Australian phone calls, because SkypeIn doesn't work in Australia yet. At a rate of about $1 per hour (.017 Euros per minute), I can call Chinese, Australian, British, or American Customers.
The signal quality can be a little low. I have one customer who refers to us as the "bad reception guys." Some days are worse than others.
As much as I like Skype, I'm looking forward to jumping on the Google Talk bandwagon because I'm certain they will offer superior service to Skype.
Ground Zero
The Forbidden City
The White House (censored!)
The Pyramids
This is the most profitable time in world history for nerds. From Bill Gates and the Google guys, down to the average nerd who is now making 110k/year programming c++, nerds and geeks are making more money than ever.
Everyone loves money. Even nerds love money. But girls really love money.
I get bored working at home and even in the office. The atmosphere of a coffee shop offers a nice change of pace a couple days a week.
When I go into the coffee shop nearby, there is usually:
1) Good Music
2) Cute girls
3) Someone else to cook food for me
4) Interesting people to observe and make fun of.
And then, of course, there is the endless fun that can be had by sniffing someones IM conversations. In my heart, I know that one day I will read these words: "OH MY GOD!!! The hottest guy is sitting next to me."
You are not paying for fraud through the credit card billing fees. In case of fraud, the credit card company does not pay a penny. They just take the money from the Merchant. As a small business owner, I can testify that the credit card companies will HAPPILY take the money from you, without even asking you about it first.
Firefox is not faster than Internet Explorer, except for scripting, but for standards support, security and features, it is a better choice. However, it is still not as fast as Opera, and Opera also offers a high level of standards support, security and features.
This statement obscures the truth, which is that Firefox takes twice as long as Internet Explorer to load from a cold start (12 seconds versus 7) and 50% longer to load from a warm start (2.52 versus 1.7)
John - http://www.wasauna.com/
hardcorescooters.com
Love Life.
I used to work for a fortune 500 company that had a similar policy.
hardcorescooters.com
Love Life.
I've been trying to figure this out for ages. Granted, you can stand up on a Segway, while you have to sit on convential scooters, but what is so great about standing? Given my druthers, I would sacrifice the gyroscopes, add an extra wheel, and spend the $3000 I saved on a new state of the art laptop.
The DSS broadcasters are not allowed to do business in Canada. The signal reaches them just fine. So there is a *huge* motivation to unscramble the signal. I believe if it hits your house, you own it, whether it's an orange from the neighbor's tree, or a tv signal from another country. One thing I don't get about people with this attitude: You dont seem to thing it is right to own airwaves, yet you think it is perfectly natural for people to own land and property. Do you honestly believe that land is inherently more ownable than airwaves or anything else?