Yeah, I agree, but once the text is written, it is then defined. A politically minded individual or group can't just go back and change the content, once it's in, it's in. If changes need to be made, that's when we get the DSM-V.
Yeah, I suppose I just envision a world where things are simpler. Citing sources for papers that I write is one of the most annoying things to me. An academically accredited site similar to wikipedia would be a godsend. Unfortunately, they tell me that modern technology is not useful when it comes to learning, and that if I want to learn, I have to carry around 30 lbs of books instead of just loading the ebooks on to my phone.
Well, if you can't credibly use wikipedia to cite a well-known medical book such as the DSM-IV-TR, then what can you cite with wikipedia?
I know, I know, it's wikipedia, and you shouldn't be citing it, but c'mon! I know that politically motivated wiki pages shouldn't be cited because of bias, but what about stuff that is standard knowledge? If I cited wikipedia as my source for stating that copper's atomic number is 29, why is my source not credible?
Actually, I find even more disappointing that a decent way to display datasets on a web page isn't standard yet. Why can't a nice one be embeddable with column sorts and robust methods for retrieving data? There are solutions, sure, but I have yet to find one that isn't unnecessarily complex or just plain ugly and difficult to use. But I guess it's just a matter of time, right?
Are you seriously going to want that thing on your head?
At least go a little more casual, and get what THX had. Though, I would have to assume some would want content other than the weird blue ladies dancing around.
The silicon-based lithium ion battery anode showed a nearly 10-fold increase in capacity over existing graphite anodes, said Culver.
Capacity of what? So vague. Does this translate to batteries having 1000% of the present capabilities? Per what? cm2? oz? what kind of units are we talking here? Or are we just looking at the numbers game?
I'm not sure I've ever heard the term Makers as used in this context. I was pretty much expecting to see Mark come after it, capitalized and everything.
My girlfriend is a nurse, and a damn good one. Most of her friends are also nurses, so I have had plenty of opportunities to hang out with a bunch of nurses talking shop. In my observations, there are a lot... A LOT of substandard nurses out there simply because there is such a demand for them. I've heard plenty of stories about how bad they are to know that if/when I end up in a hospital, I sure as shit don't want some unknown nurse caring for me, I've met too many that are borderline imbeciles.
Unfortunately, this is not likely to change any time soon, as the Bureau of Labor continues to tout nursing professions as one with the most demand and future job growth. That along with a cushy salary and (despite what many think) fairly easy schedule and opportunity to travel, the quality of nursing is likely to stay where it is or else decline.
I'll have to ask around. While we don't have 1000's of acres (more like 70) but our annual revenue is probably 40-50x / acre of that an average produce grower. I'm pretty sure I can get my hands on one if make a few calls.
Well then I suppose you will be quite busy for... well, the rest of your natural life.
Pick your battles. Seriously, do you get that annoyed by spam that mostly just gets sent to another folder labeled as such?
Besides, I'd like to see your response if this hypothetical fantasy land you envision actually happened. Do you have enough time in the day to field phone calls from every friend and relative asking for your help "setting up my new Ubuntu machine?" I sure as hell don't. I dodge phone calls about this crap as it is.
Instead of being an elitist dick about it, why not print yourself up some business cards and hand them out to people who need help with their computers.
Oh? Not your kind of gig? Buy a book for a niece or nephew or something and maybe they might find interest in learning how to do it.
Until then your attitude will do absolutely nothing to help cure the ailment that you apparently loathe so much. Personally, spam does not bother me because it gets filtered out quite effectively. Maybe you need to do something about your own inbox.
...and after a little reading, I came across one message posted here that states the following:
Hope someone who knows russian better than me confirms it, but they are reading the numbers different from print.
"UVB-76, UVB-76 - 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74" is read as you see, where the numbers are stated (eg. ninety-three, eight hundred eighty two,...)
The rest of the numbers are read as positions (eg. seventh, fourth, first, fourth...)
Some dude sits around all day, everyday, waiting for some kind of message. In all this time, they have mostly had nothing to do but listen. Then, one day, it's balls to wall because something is being transmitted.
Obviously decoding the message is going to be impossible without the appropriate documents. So how do you find out what it means?
Get Julian Assange to find out
Look for and investigate the suspicious activity that happens after the transmission is sent
So you're basing a 4 million year trip on current propulsion technology? Seems pretty archaic to me. I certainly hope that in 4 million years enough new ideas would come out that our ideas of propulsion would be long obsolete.
When I travel to distant systems, I plan on using some super cool technology that I will call Magnetic Focusing Expansion of Relative Space (MFERS for short). The idea is that we just generate a magnetic attraction between two distant points and turn the thing on. It should also have the benefit of shielding the craft from any inconvenient chunks of matter between A and B. Also, this is science. Science that I base entirely on facts that are not factual (yet). Propulsion is for cavemen. Think of this more like Propullsion.
Considering everyone walks around with white headphones in their ears, or is yapping on a phone, this makes a lot of sense. People are not attentive to the world around them anymore.
I was thinking along the same lines, but more annoying. I can imagine people all over adding custom "ring tones" to their vehicles. Now I can loathe driving to Boulder even more, as everyone will be playing some crappy new age sound from the front of the car.
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Yeah, I agree, but once the text is written, it is then defined. A politically minded individual or group can't just go back and change the content, once it's in, it's in. If changes need to be made, that's when we get the DSM-V.
Yeah, I suppose I just envision a world where things are simpler. Citing sources for papers that I write is one of the most annoying things to me. An academically accredited site similar to wikipedia would be a godsend. Unfortunately, they tell me that modern technology is not useful when it comes to learning, and that if I want to learn, I have to carry around 30 lbs of books instead of just loading the ebooks on to my phone.
Which is fine and dandy, but it doesn't appear to simply embed a spreadsheet, excel or otherwise.
I would like to use something like [sheet src="someurl.com/data.csv"]
Well, if you can't credibly use wikipedia to cite a well-known medical book such as the DSM-IV-TR, then what can you cite with wikipedia?
I know, I know, it's wikipedia, and you shouldn't be citing it, but c'mon! I know that politically motivated wiki pages shouldn't be cited because of bias, but what about stuff that is standard knowledge? If I cited wikipedia as my source for stating that copper's atomic number is 29, why is my source not credible?
Actually, I find even more disappointing that a decent way to display datasets on a web page isn't standard yet. Why can't a nice one be embeddable with column sorts and robust methods for retrieving data? There are solutions, sure, but I have yet to find one that isn't unnecessarily complex or just plain ugly and difficult to use. But I guess it's just a matter of time, right?
This prediction capability won't come to computing devices for quite some time, I'll predict...
Let me get right on that.
Are you seriously going to want that thing on your head?
At least go a little more casual, and get what THX had. Though, I would have to assume some would want content other than the weird blue ladies dancing around.
And thus I have been informed. This is entirely news to me, and is certainly stuff that matters. My mind is whizzing with awesome ideas as a result.
Applause
The silicon-based lithium ion battery anode showed a nearly 10-fold increase in capacity over existing graphite anodes, said Culver.
Capacity of what? So vague. Does this translate to batteries having 1000% of the present capabilities? Per what? cm2? oz? what kind of units are we talking here? Or are we just looking at the numbers game?
Vibrating Bra and Panties!
Those both seem to me as if they would be rather uncomfortable. But what do I know?
What has been your experience?
I'm not sure I've ever heard the term Makers as used in this context. I was pretty much expecting to see Mark come after it, capitalized and everything.
Precisely what I was thinking.
Hmmm, this guy seems to know a lot about where people hide their cash
No need to get PC with this. Just call it something adequately descriptive, but use words that your typical HR genius won't know the definition for.
Maybe something like "HSL Amaurosis".
My girlfriend is a nurse, and a damn good one. Most of her friends are also nurses, so I have had plenty of opportunities to hang out with a bunch of nurses talking shop. In my observations, there are a lot... A LOT of substandard nurses out there simply because there is such a demand for them. I've heard plenty of stories about how bad they are to know that if/when I end up in a hospital, I sure as shit don't want some unknown nurse caring for me, I've met too many that are borderline imbeciles.
Unfortunately, this is not likely to change any time soon, as the Bureau of Labor continues to tout nursing professions as one with the most demand and future job growth. That along with a cushy salary and (despite what many think) fairly easy schedule and opportunity to travel, the quality of nursing is likely to stay where it is or else decline.
I'll have to ask around. While we don't have 1000's of acres (more like 70) but our annual revenue is probably 40-50x / acre of that an average produce grower. I'm pretty sure I can get my hands on one if make a few calls.
Well then I suppose you will be quite busy for... well, the rest of your natural life.
Pick your battles. Seriously, do you get that annoyed by spam that mostly just gets sent to another folder labeled as such?
Besides, I'd like to see your response if this hypothetical fantasy land you envision actually happened. Do you have enough time in the day to field phone calls from every friend and relative asking for your help "setting up my new Ubuntu machine?" I sure as hell don't. I dodge phone calls about this crap as it is.
Instead of being an elitist dick about it, why not print yourself up some business cards and hand them out to people who need help with their computers.
Oh? Not your kind of gig? Buy a book for a niece or nephew or something and maybe they might find interest in learning how to do it.
Until then your attitude will do absolutely nothing to help cure the ailment that you apparently loathe so much. Personally, spam does not bother me because it gets filtered out quite effectively. Maybe you need to do something about your own inbox.
but surely we can all agree that if anyone needs "taken care of", it's spammers!
Aw c'mon. All they want is to make sure you can get a good solid boner. It's a pretty philanthropic cause. Don't be too hard on them.
...and after a little reading, I came across one message posted here that states the following:
Hope someone who knows russian better than me confirms it, but they are reading the numbers different from print. "UVB-76, UVB-76 - 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74" is read as you see, where the numbers are stated (eg. ninety-three, eight hundred eighty two, ...)
The rest of the numbers are read as positions (eg. seventh, fourth, first, fourth...)
Some dude sits around all day, everyday, waiting for some kind of message. In all this time, they have mostly had nothing to do but listen. Then, one day, it's balls to wall because something is being transmitted.
Obviously decoding the message is going to be impossible without the appropriate documents. So how do you find out what it means?
So you're basing a 4 million year trip on current propulsion technology? Seems pretty archaic to me. I certainly hope that in 4 million years enough new ideas would come out that our ideas of propulsion would be long obsolete.
When I travel to distant systems, I plan on using some super cool technology that I will call Magnetic Focusing Expansion of Relative Space (MFERS for short). The idea is that we just generate a magnetic attraction between two distant points and turn the thing on. It should also have the benefit of shielding the craft from any inconvenient chunks of matter between A and B. Also, this is science. Science that I base entirely on facts that are not factual (yet). Propulsion is for cavemen. Think of this more like Propullsion.
Did you extrapolate Moore's Law in that calculation, Captain Obvious?
Heck, why not just bolt a vuvuzela to the hood?
Considering everyone walks around with white headphones in their ears, or is yapping on a phone, this makes a lot of sense. People are not attentive to the world around them anymore.
I was thinking along the same lines, but more annoying. I can imagine people all over adding custom "ring tones" to their vehicles. Now I can loathe driving to Boulder even more, as everyone will be playing some crappy new age sound from the front of the car.