Curious. I saw the Hobbit in 2D and kept thinking, "gee, I don't notice anything different, what was all that frame rate fuss about?" Didn't realize you'd only get it in 3D. I don't see myself going back to see it again just to experience the frame rate difference.
An attribution and date would have gone a long way to helping your point there. I assume that's an ancient quote, but maybe you read it in the paper this morning. I seem to recall another one from Roman times that concluded with "And everyone is writing a book," which I thought was a hilarious way to wrap up the condemnation.
That's okay, Orson Scott Card has a series of short stories hinging on that topic, compiled into a book. I think it's called "Empire" but it could be something else kind of like that. Starts at near-modern day and spans a rise and fall of a galactic civilization. So now you can go spoil the idea for yourself by reading his.
Interesting. Without reading up on it, I can definitely identify categories from that list where I know I'm good or I know I struggle, and lines up pretty well with the way I've categorized my own abilities. Spatial in particular jumps out at me, because that's often lumped in with math by a lot of people. While I'm good at and enjoy math, I've always struggled when it comes to spatial analysis and puzzles. Always thought it was a weird blind spot in my mathematical ability, and it makes a lot more sense to me as separate category.
In other words, Slashdot karma is an almost perfect reflection of the idea there are lots of different mental capabilities, rather than one singular factor (like IQ, say).
Worse, if you're like me and only had maybe a semester of programming at school while pursuing another degree, and then got into it as a hobby, you're VERY unlikely to even know you should go looking for things like official version control and bug tracking tools or systems. You learn enough to do what you want, but you don't know what you don't know, and some of those things can be critical.
I remember a high-school classmate who started taking his third language and declared of himself, "Now I'm a tringle!" Pretty sure that's not the proper term, but it was funny enough I still recall it today.
Used price, I think. I tried a filter that was supposed to show me DVD's for under $3, thinking I'd get a lot of nice Monday specials. All the results were coming up in the $6 - $8 range. It took a while to catch on that they were sorted low because of the $0.01 used DVDs. Which of course come with $2.99 shipping, making them much less of a deal, and probably not acceptable holiday presents.
Blocking ads seriously seems like stealing to me. If you don't want the ad don't use the site/service.
Most ads are pay-per click. There's no revenue from seeing the ad, only if you click. Thus, not clicking on ads is stealing! You MUST click on every ad, or you're robbing the web site blind! I'm sure as a good little citizen you agree wholeheartedly and make sure you click on each and every ad on each and every page to ensure you're not stealing, don't you?
I subscribe to a magazine called 'Imbibe' which is focused mostly on alcoholic drinks, with a little coffee and other such things thrown in. All the ads are of course for various forms of booze, many of them interesting. A lot of times I actually have to force myself to stop and look at the potentially good ads, because it's such an ingrained habit to try to tune them out.
I wonder if muscle memory sets overnight, too? I've had the same luck with video games. Play for a while, learning a new game, until I seem to plateau. Take the rest of the night off and try it again the next day, and suddenly I'm much better at the whole. Thing. No idea if this is mental, physical, or a combination of both.
I've had this happen to me when watching a movie that has Spanish subtitles. I used to be semi-fluent in Spanish, and I'd watch the subtitles to practice. Once I got into the Spanish enough sometimes the English that I was hearing would turn into gibberish.
There's also the first few sentences on the phone with someone with a heavy accent. This may be a little different, but I have to sit there and tell myself I'm hearing English and then wait to dial in on the accent before I can figure out what's being said.
I've always recognized two levels of voice in my head. One that speaks in full words, often in full sentences, and in a lot of cases is mostly like me rehearsing what I'm going to say before I'm saying it, or me talking to myself, but not out loud. It's slow-ish, in that it operates more or less at the pace of speech.
Below that there's also a very vast, very whispery, voice that may not work in words at all - it may be working in impressions or emotions, or simple flags (e.g.: that's not right; that sounds good; let's go that way), though in some cases I think there are words but it's rarely lengthy sentences.
I became aware of these different levels when trying to meditate. I could keep the first voice quiet enough, but that second little flickery one would pop up with "don't think" and then "ack, a thought!" and then "no, more thoughts!" over and over until the first voice came in and said, "Darn it, this isn't working at all, I think I'm going to go play a video game." Years later I think I've concluded that when it comes to meditating if you silence (or focus, with a key word) the first voice, you're just supposed to ignore the second voice because it's sort of always on. I could be wrong, though, because I've never gotten the knack of meditation.
I notice this when I pull out DVDs of early Simpsons episodes. The first few seasons were created for slightly longer time slots than they use now. In every episode I'll catch a joke or three which was cut out to make things fit on the reruns in the short time slot. After a couple of decades of reruns where I've learned the edited version by heart, seeing that additional material is always a shock.
'Einstein's Dreams' also explores a series of worlds where the properties of relativity are slightly different or slightly more pronounced than in our world.
The Colorado voting guide had a small summary for the judges, but in every single instance the suggestion was a unanimous 10-0 (or 8-0 with two unavailable) to retain. It made me strongly suspicious I wasn't getting impartial advice, though I guess it's possible all of our judges are just fantastic.
You may be setting your sights a little low. My grandparents on one side were playing tennis into their early 80s, and my grandma on the other side really only started slow down when she was nearly 90. My dad is 62, and he still does carpentry for a living - admittedly he's much more focused on management than the physical labor, but he can still swing a hammer pretty well. I know there's a lot of genetic variance, but 70 ain't necessarily that old, unless you've got serious health problems.
I've had bad luck with the really fine G2 pens in the past - seems some will be nice and smooth, but a distressing percentage of them will have smoothness or consistency issues. My office stocks the 1.0 and occasionally the.7, and they're my top pick for writing. I prefer the.7, but a fraction of them never seem to get going right. There'll be a burr, or the ink just never flows heavy enough, or something, and I end up throwing the thing away when I get frustrated. I bought a box of the.5's a long time ago, and I think half of them were great and the other half were frustrating enough I had to throw them away. After enough of those incidents I just settled on the 1.0 pens. I don't like the heavy line nearly as much, but I almost never run across a dud.
Based on that, I've been afraid to try more of the.5's, and have never touched a.38, but it's been a very long time. Do you never run into problems like this?
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Curious. I saw the Hobbit in 2D and kept thinking, "gee, I don't notice anything different, what was all that frame rate fuss about?" Didn't realize you'd only get it in 3D. I don't see myself going back to see it again just to experience the frame rate difference.
An attribution and date would have gone a long way to helping your point there. I assume that's an ancient quote, but maybe you read it in the paper this morning. I seem to recall another one from Roman times that concluded with "And everyone is writing a book," which I thought was a hilarious way to wrap up the condemnation.
That's okay, Orson Scott Card has a series of short stories hinging on that topic, compiled into a book. I think it's called "Empire" but it could be something else kind of like that. Starts at near-modern day and spans a rise and fall of a galactic civilization. So now you can go spoil the idea for yourself by reading his.
Interesting. Without reading up on it, I can definitely identify categories from that list where I know I'm good or I know I struggle, and lines up pretty well with the way I've categorized my own abilities. Spatial in particular jumps out at me, because that's often lumped in with math by a lot of people. While I'm good at and enjoy math, I've always struggled when it comes to spatial analysis and puzzles. Always thought it was a weird blind spot in my mathematical ability, and it makes a lot more sense to me as separate category.
In other words, Slashdot karma is an almost perfect reflection of the idea there are lots of different mental capabilities, rather than one singular factor (like IQ, say).
I then double that number then add 50% to the resulting number
So you multiply by three, then, but with an unnecessary intermediate step?
2x*1.5 = 3x
Worse, if you're like me and only had maybe a semester of programming at school while pursuing another degree, and then got into it as a hobby, you're VERY unlikely to even know you should go looking for things like official version control and bug tracking tools or systems. You learn enough to do what you want, but you don't know what you don't know, and some of those things can be critical.
I remember a high-school classmate who started taking his third language and declared of himself, "Now I'm a tringle!" Pretty sure that's not the proper term, but it was funny enough I still recall it today.
Used price, I think. I tried a filter that was supposed to show me DVD's for under $3, thinking I'd get a lot of nice Monday specials. All the results were coming up in the $6 - $8 range. It took a while to catch on that they were sorted low because of the $0.01 used DVDs. Which of course come with $2.99 shipping, making them much less of a deal, and probably not acceptable holiday presents.
That only works if it's a *volcano* lair.
Blocking ads seriously seems like stealing to me. If you don't want the ad don't use the site/service.
Most ads are pay-per click. There's no revenue from seeing the ad, only if you click. Thus, not clicking on ads is stealing! You MUST click on every ad, or you're robbing the web site blind! I'm sure as a good little citizen you agree wholeheartedly and make sure you click on each and every ad on each and every page to ensure you're not stealing, don't you?
Maybe they could just use evil tracking cookies or tap into my system's webcam to identify me?
I subscribe to a magazine called 'Imbibe' which is focused mostly on alcoholic drinks, with a little coffee and other such things thrown in. All the ads are of course for various forms of booze, many of them interesting. A lot of times I actually have to force myself to stop and look at the potentially good ads, because it's such an ingrained habit to try to tune them out.
I wonder if muscle memory sets overnight, too? I've had the same luck with video games. Play for a while, learning a new game, until I seem to plateau. Take the rest of the night off and try it again the next day, and suddenly I'm much better at the whole. Thing. No idea if this is mental, physical, or a combination of both.
I've had this happen to me when watching a movie that has Spanish subtitles. I used to be semi-fluent in Spanish, and I'd watch the subtitles to practice. Once I got into the Spanish enough sometimes the English that I was hearing would turn into gibberish.
There's also the first few sentences on the phone with someone with a heavy accent. This may be a little different, but I have to sit there and tell myself I'm hearing English and then wait to dial in on the accent before I can figure out what's being said.
I've always recognized two levels of voice in my head. One that speaks in full words, often in full sentences, and in a lot of cases is mostly like me rehearsing what I'm going to say before I'm saying it, or me talking to myself, but not out loud. It's slow-ish, in that it operates more or less at the pace of speech.
Below that there's also a very vast, very whispery, voice that may not work in words at all - it may be working in impressions or emotions, or simple flags (e.g.: that's not right; that sounds good; let's go that way), though in some cases I think there are words but it's rarely lengthy sentences.
I became aware of these different levels when trying to meditate. I could keep the first voice quiet enough, but that second little flickery one would pop up with "don't think" and then "ack, a thought!" and then "no, more thoughts!" over and over until the first voice came in and said, "Darn it, this isn't working at all, I think I'm going to go play a video game." Years later I think I've concluded that when it comes to meditating if you silence (or focus, with a key word) the first voice, you're just supposed to ignore the second voice because it's sort of always on. I could be wrong, though, because I've never gotten the knack of meditation.
I notice this when I pull out DVDs of early Simpsons episodes. The first few seasons were created for slightly longer time slots than they use now. In every episode I'll catch a joke or three which was cut out to make things fit on the reruns in the short time slot. After a couple of decades of reruns where I've learned the edited version by heart, seeing that additional material is always a shock.
I've read #4, and it was fascinating. Glad to have the recommendations for the other three.
'Einstein's Dreams' also explores a series of worlds where the properties of relativity are slightly different or slightly more pronounced than in our world.
The Colorado voting guide had a small summary for the judges, but in every single instance the suggestion was a unanimous 10-0 (or 8-0 with two unavailable) to retain. It made me strongly suspicious I wasn't getting impartial advice, though I guess it's possible all of our judges are just fantastic.
Hint: if your wife does you in, it's not suicide. :)
You may be setting your sights a little low. My grandparents on one side were playing tennis into their early 80s, and my grandma on the other side really only started slow down when she was nearly 90. My dad is 62, and he still does carpentry for a living - admittedly he's much more focused on management than the physical labor, but he can still swing a hammer pretty well. I know there's a lot of genetic variance, but 70 ain't necessarily that old, unless you've got serious health problems.
I've had bad luck with the really fine G2 pens in the past - seems some will be nice and smooth, but a distressing percentage of them will have smoothness or consistency issues. My office stocks the 1.0 and occasionally the .7, and they're my top pick for writing. I prefer the .7, but a fraction of them never seem to get going right. There'll be a burr, or the ink just never flows heavy enough, or something, and I end up throwing the thing away when I get frustrated. I bought a box of the .5's a long time ago, and I think half of them were great and the other half were frustrating enough I had to throw them away. After enough of those incidents I just settled on the 1.0 pens. I don't like the heavy line nearly as much, but I almost never run across a dud.
.5's, and have never touched a .38, but it's been a very long time. Do you never run into problems like this?
Based on that, I've been afraid to try more of the
No.
It is possible to send pre-pumped milk to daycares, too.