It's kindof hard to hide the massive power transmission infrastructure, also. You don't just "hide" a facility that has that much electricity coming from civilian sources going into it.
There's one that always works for me: boiling water, a whole pot, straight down the hole
If you pour molten aluminum down the hole you can get rid of the ants and get a keen casting of the whole nest. You could keep it as a trophy like a stuffed moose head.
That episode was a total rip-off/tribute/remake of the short story Leningen versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson. This story was in my elementary school reading book the same year that episode originally aired.
Psh - I've been using 2k Pro since it was released. Nine years later I'm just beginning to find a few things here and there that simply refuse to play nice with it (some online streaming video, the latest version of iTunes). It's so solid I could probably count the number of times it's crashed on me with one hand.
I'm about ready to upgrade, but since I can't get XP I guess I'll just wait for 7 and hope it lasts another 10 years.
The rehab hospital I worked at up until recently was still using mostly 2000sp4 except for some administrators' laptops (XP). I never saw any instances where I thought we needed to move up. Everything worked fine.
I'm okay with that. The raw data is free, but generally useless to the average person without some interpretation. The only thing stopping someone from making a free alternative to those commercial services is lack of cartography skills.
I know in theory this sounds good but has it ever been demonstrated to work? Can adults recruit new brain areas like this?
Turns out, yes. With the right biofeedback, the brain remains plastic throughout adulthood. Otherwise, all of the stroke and TBI rehab I've done my whole career wouldn't have worked. I've seen it functionally, and more recently, they've seen new synaptic growth in the lab. I don't think anyone will be developing whole new brain areas, but the existing motor cortex can repurpose itself.
I know you meant that as a joke, but all of the assistive tech that I've seen (which is a lot) that runs on things like EEG or eye tracking have to recalibrate a lot. The really reliable stuff tends to be very simple, like switches with only toggle ON/OFF responses.
You don't need a "no" response, actually. You can communicate quite well with just a "Yes". (Here is where I explain all of the humor out of the Capt. Pike joke.) The computer can automatically scan through a series of options and the user can activate when it gets to the option he or she wants. If no response, it simply assumes No and moves on.
If you want to see examples of this system at work, check out Jean-Dominique Bauby's system in the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, where it scans the letters of the alphabet in order of frequency (in French in his case).
Stephen Hawking uses a row-column system that scans through dictionaries of whole words large blocks at a time, each selection narrowing down the options to the word, so that he only has to resort to spelling things out for infrequently occurring words.
But hitting that wall or doorjamb the other 5% of the time really sucks.
I have a colleague with cerebral palsy who uses a powered wheelchair and she accidentally bumps doorjambs and corners of tables all the time. I don't know if it is 5% of the time, but there's not a whole lot of paint on the the door casings in our lab. It's actually not that big a deal because she is completely surrounded by the chair so it's pretty hard for her to get hurt. And she doesn't, you know, go right up to the edge of staircases or train platforms or anything. I'm sure that they are working on that remaining 5% error.
My brother works as an environmental consultant for a (Canadian) farming corporation in Maine and they've been looking at putting in wind turbines for extra revenue. The effect on their crop yield was minimal to none. If they can find a power company who'll invest in the project, it would be all upside for them. The problem is that the startup costs are so high. It takes a long time to get these projects going.
Isn't it largely irrelevant given that the sun continually replaces the energy siphoned off by the increased friction? Windmills can't be creating significantly more friction than the trees that are all over the place already.
What do we do when all you can see are wind turbines wherever you look?
The same thing you do when all you can see are power lines wherever you look?
I've always wondered about the aesthetic argument against renewable energy. Wind turbines aren't half as ugly as many other modern things that are all around us and we've gotten used to. Homeowners associations will ban solar panels for aesthetic reasons, but they aren't any uglier than the architectural clusterfuck that is the late-20th-century McMansion.
Seconded on the community theater. You usually find a 3:1 female-to-male ratio and half of those guys are gay. Hanging out with theater people in college is where I met my wife and I've seen it work for lots of other guys since.
I just read elsewhere in the thread that you play piano! Yeah. You need to find a theater (although in SoCal you might be around some more serious actors than in the theaters I've been in on the east coast, but it's worth looking into).
Seconded on the community theater. You usually find a 3:1 female-to-male ratio and half of those guys are gay. Hanging out with theater people in college is where I met my wife and I've seen it work for lots of other guys since.
I suspect the reason people are less ready to give their lives in western cultures is because our governments are relatively stable Go back a little over 100 years and I think you would find that Americans of the North and South were more than ready to give up their lives by the hundreds of thousands for a cause.
I've always wondered if the Confederacy had used nonviolent resistance in their attempt to secede instead of open war if they might have been successful. That type of revolution wasn't really invented until later, so it wouldn't have occurred to a 19th century mind to "fight" without making war.
Stem cell therapy? On cancer? Please tell me you're joking. That'd be like putting out a fire with gasoline.
And no matter how much money you have, you can't just "buy" a new medical technology in a matter of a few months.
Tony Stark can build new medical technologies out of junk lying about his cell. Doesn't every billionaire keep a crack team of doctors in their secret base under the volcano?
I got Verizon because it was the only company that covered where I worked up in the mountains in NH. I didn't realize it was the same in metro DC.
I just got the free POS phone that doesn't do anything except make voice calls and TXT. I just had to get used to the idea that I could never demand anything of my phone except for that.
As an engineer, I try to design systems which function even when humans behave as humans. The educational system should have similar goals.
Sir, if you can come up with an engineering solution which takes human behavior out of the equation in education and still produces results, then I believe you deserve to make a lot of money with it.
Cheers
I believe the technology is called a Skinnerbox. It didn't work.
I feel like Future Shock missed the point, though. People individually are mostly acclimating to the technological society fairly well and aren't as traumatized by it as the Toeffler's expected.
Slashdot Mirror
There's a Mormon joke there somewhere.
They have to store a year's supply of extra electricity in their basement.
How's that?
It's kindof hard to hide the massive power transmission infrastructure, also. You don't just "hide" a facility that has that much electricity coming from civilian sources going into it.
There's one that always works for me: boiling water, a whole pot, straight down the hole
If you pour molten aluminum down the hole you can get rid of the ants and get a keen casting of the whole nest. You could keep it as a trophy like a stuffed moose head.
That episode was a total rip-off/tribute/remake of the short story Leningen versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson.
This story was in my elementary school reading book the same year that episode originally aired.
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html
Psh - I've been using 2k Pro since it was released. Nine years later I'm just beginning to find a few things here and there that simply refuse to play nice with it (some online streaming video, the latest version of iTunes). It's so solid I could probably count the number of times it's crashed on me with one hand.
I'm about ready to upgrade, but since I can't get XP I guess I'll just wait for 7 and hope it lasts another 10 years.
The rehab hospital I worked at up until recently was still using mostly 2000sp4 except for some administrators' laptops (XP). I never saw any instances where I thought we needed to move up. Everything worked fine.
I'm okay with that. The raw data is free, but generally useless to the average person without some interpretation.
The only thing stopping someone from making a free alternative to those commercial services is lack of cartography skills.
I know in theory this sounds good but has it ever been demonstrated to work? Can adults recruit new brain areas like this?
Turns out, yes. With the right biofeedback, the brain remains plastic throughout adulthood. Otherwise, all of the stroke and TBI rehab I've done my whole career wouldn't have worked. I've seen it functionally, and more recently, they've seen new synaptic growth in the lab.
I don't think anyone will be developing whole new brain areas, but the existing motor cortex can repurpose itself.
I know you meant that as a joke, but all of the assistive tech that I've seen (which is a lot) that runs on things like EEG or eye tracking have to recalibrate a lot. The really reliable stuff tends to be very simple, like switches with only toggle ON/OFF responses.
You don't need a "no" response, actually. You can communicate quite well with just a "Yes". (Here is where I explain all of the humor out of the Capt. Pike joke.) The computer can automatically scan through a series of options and the user can activate when it gets to the option he or she wants. If no response, it simply assumes No and moves on.
If you want to see examples of this system at work, check out Jean-Dominique Bauby's system in the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, where it scans the letters of the alphabet in order of frequency (in French in his case).
Stephen Hawking uses a row-column system that scans through dictionaries of whole words large blocks at a time, each selection narrowing down the options to the word, so that he only has to resort to spelling things out for infrequently occurring words.
But hitting that wall or doorjamb the other 5% of the time really sucks.
I have a colleague with cerebral palsy who uses a powered wheelchair and she accidentally bumps doorjambs and corners of tables all the time. I don't know if it is 5% of the time, but there's not a whole lot of paint on the the door casings in our lab. It's actually not that big a deal because she is completely surrounded by the chair so it's pretty hard for her to get hurt. And she doesn't, you know, go right up to the edge of staircases or train platforms or anything.
I'm sure that they are working on that remaining 5% error.
My brother works as an environmental consultant for a (Canadian) farming corporation in Maine and they've been looking at putting in wind turbines for extra revenue. The effect on their crop yield was minimal to none. If they can find a power company who'll invest in the project, it would be all upside for them.
The problem is that the startup costs are so high. It takes a long time to get these projects going.
Isn't it largely irrelevant given that the sun continually replaces the energy siphoned off by the increased friction? Windmills can't be creating significantly more friction than the trees that are all over the place already.
What do we do when all you can see are wind turbines wherever you look?
The same thing you do when all you can see are power lines wherever you look?
I've always wondered about the aesthetic argument against renewable energy. Wind turbines aren't half as ugly as many other modern things that are all around us and we've gotten used to.
Homeowners associations will ban solar panels for aesthetic reasons, but they aren't any uglier than the architectural clusterfuck that is the late-20th-century McMansion.
You left out "hear the lamentation of the women." Nothing more manly than hearing lamentation.
At least on my car it isn't on parts I have to touch. My apartment and my workplace both have their bicycle racks under trees. Trees with berries.
Seconded on the community theater. You usually find a 3:1 female-to-male ratio and half of those guys are gay. Hanging out with theater people in college is where I met my wife and I've seen it work for lots of other guys since.
I just read elsewhere in the thread that you play piano! Yeah. You need to find a theater (although in SoCal you might be around some more serious actors than in the theaters I've been in on the east coast, but it's worth looking into).
Seconded on the community theater. You usually find a 3:1 female-to-male ratio and half of those guys are gay. Hanging out with theater people in college is where I met my wife and I've seen it work for lots of other guys since.
I prefer 10mm to the .45, though.
However, either is so completely counterproductive to the Iranians' cause as to be pointless.
I suspect the reason people are less ready to give their lives in western cultures is because our governments are relatively stable Go back a little over 100 years and I think you would find that Americans of the North and South were more than ready to give up their lives by the hundreds of thousands for a cause.
I've always wondered if the Confederacy had used nonviolent resistance in their attempt to secede instead of open war if they might have been successful. That type of revolution wasn't really invented until later, so it wouldn't have occurred to a 19th century mind to "fight" without making war.
When 900 years old you reach, sound as smart you will not. Hm?
Stem cell therapy? On cancer? Please tell me you're joking. That'd be like putting out a fire with gasoline.
And no matter how much money you have, you can't just "buy" a new medical technology in a matter of a few months.
Tony Stark can build new medical technologies out of junk lying about his cell. Doesn't every billionaire keep a crack team of doctors in their secret base under the volcano?
I got Verizon because it was the only company that covered where I worked up in the mountains in NH. I didn't realize it was the same in metro DC.
I just got the free POS phone that doesn't do anything except make voice calls and TXT. I just had to get used to the idea that I could never demand anything of my phone except for that.
Sir, if you can come up with an engineering solution which takes human behavior out of the equation in education and still produces results, then I believe you deserve to make a lot of money with it.
Cheers
I believe the technology is called a Skinnerbox. It didn't work.
I feel like Future Shock missed the point, though. People individually are mostly acclimating to the technological society fairly well and aren't as traumatized by it as the Toeffler's expected.
No mod points today (I already posted anyway), but this certainly deserves it. Very well said.