My roommate gets the exact same thing (auras 20 min before), and meds rarely work for her either. I will have to suggest this to her.
One odd thing is that she doesn't respond to caffeine as a stimulant. She's the first person I've ever met who isn't affected by it.
Re:This does not mean we're simple
on
Genome Surprise
·
· Score: 1
We assume that is useless DNA, but if we took it out, I have a feeling we'd have problems.
Nature tries to optimize to remove unnecessary baggage. I'd assume that at least some of that "useless" DNA has some sort of purpose, probably working in some way we haven't discovered yet.
is the US the only country on planet earth with the "private owned only" fixation?
You can thank the strong anti-socialisim meme for that.
Somewhere along the way, we've been taught that it's weak to take a "moderate" stance on an issue, so everyone wants to be an extremist. We've also been taught that democracy is the ultimate social construct (which is ironic since we do not live in a democracy).
Therefore the opposite extreme, socialism, is the ultimate evil. Anything even remotely resembling sociaism (such as national healthcare) gets shot down with out even being attempted. Meanwhile, other socialistic programs such as public education and social security are done poorly -- we only invest the minimum necessary to keep them alive, and we only do that because of their social inertia. If someone brought these social programs to the legislature today, they would never pass due to the anti-socialism meme.
Of course I'll agree that government programs are not the solution to everything, but at least they are held more accountable to the public for what they do than private corporations are.
I was thinking the exact same thing... was about to post the idea until I saw your comment =)
I have wondered for some time why they haven't gone away from minutes on microwave oven directions to a numerical instruction similiar to the old VCR Plus codes, which would tell the microwave how to cook the food, and to which the microwave can apply it's own wattage into the formula.
What percentage of recipients on the net are reasonably capable of handling an encrypted file that you send them?
Given that most of them don't even know how to set up their mail client, I hardly see encryption being a solution to this kind of problem, since a very tiny minority of users will use it, and it's easy enough for the ISP to give them the boot for denying them (the ISP) rights to their (previously your) intellectual property.
Encryption is not a very practical solution. The hassle incurred by being forced to use encryption to share your creations with other people on the net would be an ongoing expense of time and energy. Plus, you would not reach a large number of people who are not clued on how to decrypt your data.
There's a nice lean little program by Mike Lin called Startup Control Panel. It lets you temporarily remove program execution entries from many of the different windows startup locations, by simply un-checking that item from the list.
I also run another program called StartupMonitor which will pop up a dialog box whenever a program tries to insert one of these startup program execution entries and ask you if you want to give it permission to do so or not.
Sometime over the past few decades, we went from a majority of people following the spirit of the law, to them following only the most literal letter of the law...
Now it's all about how you can find the next loophole to exploit, and profit from it as much as possible before someone else does and the loophole is closed.
I think it's quite a sign of how sad the situation is when you look at how much favoritisim our government gives to big business, when a business itself does not have a right to vote.
Coincidentally enough, I just installed an Afterburner in my GBA last night... I even went out and bought a soldiering iron just for it.
It doesn't take any really advanced solidering skills, but patience and a steady hand will go a long way. I did get some dust on the screen, but it's not the end of the world. I considered the "bathroom as a clean room" idea, but I didn't have anywhere to work with it in there =)
The only difficult part I had was in laying down the AR film, as it was nearly impossible to get right, and I wound up being off by about 1-2 degrees, so there's a slight tilt to it, which bugs me, but I'm not sure I want to bother to try to buy a relacement, peel it off and do it again... it would probably do more harm than good.
I'm quite happy with my GBA now. It finally makes the games playable, and I was surprised that my NiMH batteries were still giving a green power light even after six hours when I finally had to turn it off so I would get some sleep for work today =)
How much energy could you extract from these powerlines using a device which you could carry with you while walking on the ground below them? Would it be enough to power an LED like you see on some cell phone antennas? More? Less?
It could have been broken into by a thug hired by the car alarm company... =)
"Hello Mr Johnson, we understand your vehicle was recently broken into, would you be interested in a special we're running on car alarm installations?"
This is what they typically do with video tapes (I don't know if it's being done with DVDs or games yet). They release it at a MUCH higher price, then drop the price down to a normal consumer price a few weeks later.
With this, they know only the video store (and hardcore fans) will pay the $100 rate. Video stores will pay because they want to have the *newest releases*. After a couple of weeks, they have captured the sales to most of the rental stores, so then they drop the price to sell to consumers.
What sucks is if you lose a video, you pay the $100 rate to have the store replace it, not the $20 rate which had come about before you even rented it...
And Microsoft's efforts in this field are explained as well -- the company "paid more than $60 million in 1999 to acquire Intrinsa, maker of a bug-finding tool called Prefix. The program, which sifts through huge swaths of code searching for patterns that match a defined list of common semantic errors, helped find thousands of mistakes in Windows and other Microsoft products."
Couldn't they have just bought a few licenses? Why did they have to BUYOUT the whole company? I'm sure if they worked up a good deal, they could have purchased a few thousand licenses for much less than $60M...
Slashdot Mirror
My roommate gets the exact same thing (auras 20 min before), and meds rarely work for her either. I will have to suggest this to her.
One odd thing is that she doesn't respond to caffeine as a stimulant. She's the first person I've ever met who isn't affected by it.
We assume that is useless DNA, but if we took it out, I have a feeling we'd have problems.
Nature tries to optimize to remove unnecessary baggage. I'd assume that at least some of that "useless" DNA has some sort of purpose, probably working in some way we haven't discovered yet.
What? No download links?
Grr.. guess I'll have to search guntella for "human genome".
You can thank the strong anti-socialisim meme for that.
Somewhere along the way, we've been taught that it's weak to take a "moderate" stance on an issue, so everyone wants to be an extremist. We've also been taught that democracy is the ultimate social construct (which is ironic since we do not live in a democracy).
Therefore the opposite extreme, socialism, is the ultimate evil. Anything even remotely resembling sociaism (such as national healthcare) gets shot down with out even being attempted. Meanwhile, other socialistic programs such as public education and social security are done poorly -- we only invest the minimum necessary to keep them alive, and we only do that because of their social inertia. If someone brought these social programs to the legislature today, they would never pass due to the anti-socialism meme.
Of course I'll agree that government programs are not the solution to everything, but at least they are held more accountable to the public for what they do than private corporations are.
Someone should make a graphical nodemap of what companies own what other companies.
I have a feeling it would be quite shocking to see just how bad it has become.
I was thinking the exact same thing... was about to post the idea until I saw your comment =)
I have wondered for some time why they haven't gone away from minutes on microwave oven directions to a numerical instruction similiar to the old VCR Plus codes, which would tell the microwave how to cook the food, and to which the microwave can apply it's own wattage into the formula.
And the other 95% is from where?
Electromagnetic radiation from satellite debris?
Could you execute a specific series of CPU instructions so that you create EM patterns to introduce a bias?
I think we have already learned from a popular 80's movie that it's really *bad* to "cross the streams"...
Also, if someone asks if you're a god, you say "YES".
It was my understanding that newer Operating Systems will actually put the CPU into a state where it consumes less power when the CPU is idling.
If this is true, then it is not completely "free" to run these number crunching background programs when the computer is idle.
What percentage of recipients on the net are reasonably capable of handling an encrypted file that you send them?
Given that most of them don't even know how to set up their mail client, I hardly see encryption being a solution to this kind of problem, since a very tiny minority of users will use it, and it's easy enough for the ISP to give them the boot for denying them (the ISP) rights to their (previously your) intellectual property.
Encryption is not a very practical solution. The hassle incurred by being forced to use encryption to share your creations with other people on the net would be an ongoing expense of time and energy. Plus, you would not reach a large number of people who are not clued on how to decrypt your data.
It would be much easier to just change ISPs.
I'm not flaming, but, since when is reading Wired magazine a yardstick of internet familiarity?
That's not much unlike me saying I know what it's like to live in "the ghetto" because I've been listening to rap music for the past three years... =P
There's a nice lean little program by Mike Lin called Startup Control Panel. It lets you temporarily remove program execution entries from many of the different windows startup locations, by simply un-checking that item from the list.
I also run another program called StartupMonitor which will pop up a dialog box whenever a program tries to insert one of these startup program execution entries and ask you if you want to give it permission to do so or not.
Sometime over the past few decades, we went from a majority of people following the spirit of the law, to them following only the most literal letter of the law...
Now it's all about how you can find the next loophole to exploit, and profit from it as much as possible before someone else does and the loophole is closed.
I think it's quite a sign of how sad the situation is when you look at how much favoritisim our government gives to big business, when a business itself does not have a right to vote.
Coincidentally enough, I just installed an Afterburner in my GBA last night... I even went out and bought a soldiering iron just for it.
It doesn't take any really advanced solidering skills, but patience and a steady hand will go a long way. I did get some dust on the screen, but it's not the end of the world. I considered the "bathroom as a clean room" idea, but I didn't have anywhere to work with it in there =)
The only difficult part I had was in laying down the AR film, as it was nearly impossible to get right, and I wound up being off by about 1-2 degrees, so there's a slight tilt to it, which bugs me, but I'm not sure I want to bother to try to buy a relacement, peel it off and do it again... it would probably do more harm than good.
I'm quite happy with my GBA now. It finally makes the games playable, and I was surprised that my NiMH batteries were still giving a green power light even after six hours when I finally had to turn it off so I would get some sleep for work today =)
That's because most of the theatre's income comes from the concession stand, which is highly nonrefundable =)
I understand the theatres themselves only get to keep something like 10% of the ticket sales, so it's really small change to give a refund...
Perhaps the rules were relaxed for what were assumed to be distant objects beyond the scope of our simulation. =)
There is no spoon...
Heh.. I was thinking the same thing.. now THIS is irony...
I know someone who, even after being corrected, still can't break the habit of using the "singular" form, "one gigahert" for 1Ghz.
This topic brings up an interesting question...
How much energy could you extract from these powerlines using a device which you could carry with you while walking on the ground below them? Would it be enough to power an LED like you see on some cell phone antennas? More? Less?
What ever happened to FMD-ROM?
How about Penny-sized CDs
Or were these just another round of VC scams?
It could have been broken into by a thug hired by the car alarm company... =)
"Hello Mr Johnson, we understand your vehicle was recently broken into, would you be interested in a special we're running on car alarm installations?"
This is what they typically do with video tapes (I don't know if it's being done with DVDs or games yet). They release it at a MUCH higher price, then drop the price down to a normal consumer price a few weeks later.
With this, they know only the video store (and hardcore fans) will pay the $100 rate. Video stores will pay because they want to have the *newest releases*. After a couple of weeks, they have captured the sales to most of the rental stores, so then they drop the price to sell to consumers.
What sucks is if you lose a video, you pay the $100 rate to have the store replace it, not the $20 rate which had come about before you even rented it...
Couldn't they have just bought a few licenses? Why did they have to BUYOUT the whole company? I'm sure if they worked up a good deal, they could have purchased a few thousand licenses for much less than $60M...
If a "crystal set" radio can work without power, why can't a hearing aid or a tiny am earbud radio work without a power source?