And one would assume that you could demonstrate it in some way, maybe tell us something you saw that you couldn't otherwise see while under scientific scrutiny, and do so with a greater-than-chance frequency.
'cause y'know... if it's real I would assume that it's measurable or demonstrable in some way, otherwise the simpler explanation is that you're having a very vivid dream.
I know similar studies have been done and I'm still waiting for the one that will make scientists realise they've been wrong all along (don't get me wrong, I think it would be great if you could prove this stuff rigourously, but until that happens I have to remain skeptical)
Hence why our startle reflex is quicker than our normal responses.
I've seen a thing in the vein of those "reaction test" games, where you click as soon as a dot appears on the screen. But the 5th dot in the set is much bigger than the others, so it triggers your startle response. Cut my reaction time almost in half.
Makes sense really - if something jumps out at you, you don't want to be waiting for the conscious mind to come up with a solution when a reflex response could already be happening.
Abit suck, but Asus are good
Asus suck, but Gigabyte are good
Giagabyte suck but MSI are good
Maybe the lesson here is that every company is capable of producing both shit and gold, and having a run of good/bad luck from the same manufacturer is down to just that, luck.
Well the prices for the UK seem to have actually gone down when they were converted to pounds... I think to bring them in line with what we'd pay retail here.
That or they set the converted prices before the pound dropped in value
I thought the whole point of the method of wireless power being used was that it wouldn't induce current in anything other than the receiving coil... unless your testicles are somehow on the same frequency as the transmitter you should be fine.
Much of the Arctic is floating ice, and so will have no net effect on sea levels by melting. On the other hand the ice in the Antarctic ice sheets, Greenland and various glaciers on mountains is all currently sat on top of land, and so will add to the height of the ocean.
The effect you're thinking of comes about because water expands as it freezes, so it naturally floats with about 90% of its volume underwater and about 10% above the surface. When it melts, all of it's volume is part of the sea, but that volume is only 90% of what it was; the same volume of water as the iceberg was displacing.
Only works for ice that's floating on the ocean, if it starts out on land then it wasn't displacing any water before and will increase the ocean's volume when it runs down off the land.
You're thinking of Arctic sea ice I think - glaciers are normally based on land, though they might also flow out into the sea.
You are right though, that ice freely floating in water doesn't effect the water level when it melts (because of the way water expands when it freezes).
Technically you can't prove that all of them will die - that's in the future and it only takes one of them being an immortal freak of nature to prove you wrong.
Our natural metabolic processes create carcinogens and other chemicals that damage cells, cause aging, etc. These things really are unavoidable (although there are still things which will cause cancer more than others.
We're just not built to last... which is only to be expected - evolutionarily anything that extends your lifespan after procreation is a bonus, but won't be selected for if it negatively affects your ability to spawn a new generation (e.g. delays your being able to do so in return for longer life)
Anything affecting health/longevity when you're too old to be fertile will be even less strongly selected for (via the more tenuous effect of helping your children/grandchildren)
I see less reason to use a virtual store than either a real store or a normal online store.
Online you have the advantage that everything's more or less at your fingertips and can be found fairly quickly via a search box (assuming a reasonable interface). In a real store you can browse rather than having to know exactly what you want, because you can see the actual thing you're buying there in front of you.
Combine the 2 into a sim-store and you lose both sets of advantages - finding stuff means wandering around a virtual store, and you only get to see a representation of it. Fuck that.
Will Wright must be quite an actor to have had his lines so perfectly lined up with the demo video...
I'm not even sure which I would prefer to be true - evil EA influence gives me a reason to hate EA even more-so (yay confirmation bias) and would allow me false hope that they'll eventually release a proper version of Spore, on the other hand if it was always a facade then I can write it all off as a gigantic dick-move by all involved and just let it go.
Can it be immediately after you're dead? I get the impression a lot of people would like to get moving that way, and if we have to carry on with the old way for "long after" your death you'll probably attract the same kind of posthumous ire as Walt Disney.
Now we get to see how derailing a single copyright-referencing joke can be to a discussion about electric cars... if you wish to make bets I'm offering good odds on "somewhat".
It's the same with maths - "I'm no good with numbers" seems to be a perfectly acceptable way to wave off having to do any maths involving numbers of more than one digit.
Contrast against "I'm no good with letters" - being illiterate when you had perfectly good opportunities for education would mark you out as a fucking moron. Being mathematically or technologically illiterate is just normal it seems.
I can forgive people not knowing their way around a computer if they're old and unlikely to have had to use one ever, or if the technology in question is legitimately complex, but the stupidity exhibited by some people really is beyond the pale.
Step 1: Download a decent firewall/antivirus/any other security software you like from another PC.
Step 2: Install XP without the network connected, install previously mentioned software from a USB key
Step 3: Plug in the cable.
(Step 4: ???, Step 5: Profit)
Then your risk should be fairly minimal while you download and install all the updates. If you felt like being even cleverer then Step 1 would be to copy the updates from another XP PC to a USB key, but it's somewhat easier to let the update website handle that.
So the question is, what would the minimum be for a person with some sense?
To be specific, if my router has a built in NAT firewall and I have the brains to not open dodgy email attachments et al, will it matter if I let the updates sit for a while without rebooting or don't have an AV running?
Buy the book in whatever manner the author would like you to if you really want to support the author.
Fair enough, but what do you do when they aren't offering it in any manner at all? If the book's out of print and/or not available via any legal means you have available, then the option just isn't there to buy it in the manner they would like you to.
The only question then is whether you go without, get a pirate copy and send the author money some other way or just pirate it on the basis that, since they weren't selling it, you can't possibly be a "lost sale".
You don't have to tell someone your home address in order to talk to them, so no... not really a good comparison.
You can generally expect to keep your address private unless you intend to tell someone where you live, but your IP address is known by any server your computer communicates with (unless you spoof it, mask it, go through a proxy or some other method of anonymisation)
"Sovereign nation" is a theoretical idea. Attempts to argue based on practicality are fundamentally flawed since the only way to be a sovereign nation is "in theory"
Ok, some nations are very well able to defend their sovereignty, but the thing they're defending is itself a concept.
It doesn't matter if no-one cares, as far as I'm aware "it's OK if no-one complains, but otherwise it's illegal" is not what's in the lawbooks.
You may be right, maybe no-one would give a shit and the government could just do whatever they want to Sealand, but this doesn't make it legal or right and so the courts would have to listen when the people contesting the issue raise hell at being invaded.
That court may subsequently decide that they have no legal standing and all the crackpots need to be kicked off their oil derrick, but "no-one would care" is a fucking stupid argument.
The "if you can't defend it then it's not yours" trend is a little worrying. There are plenty of countries that would find it rather hard to hold out were they to be invaded by the armies of a western nation, but they are no less sovereign states.
Simply having the power to take something does not grant you legal right to it (if it did then, for one thing, the copyright debate would be significantly easier to settle)
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And one would assume that you could demonstrate it in some way, maybe tell us something you saw that you couldn't otherwise see while under scientific scrutiny, and do so with a greater-than-chance frequency.
'cause y'know... if it's real I would assume that it's measurable or demonstrable in some way, otherwise the simpler explanation is that you're having a very vivid dream.
I know similar studies have been done and I'm still waiting for the one that will make scientists realise they've been wrong all along (don't get me wrong, I think it would be great if you could prove this stuff rigourously, but until that happens I have to remain skeptical)
Hence why our startle reflex is quicker than our normal responses.
I've seen a thing in the vein of those "reaction test" games, where you click as soon as a dot appears on the screen. But the 5th dot in the set is much bigger than the others, so it triggers your startle response. Cut my reaction time almost in half.
Makes sense really - if something jumps out at you, you don't want to be waiting for the conscious mind to come up with a solution when a reflex response could already be happening.
So to summarise...
Abit suck, but Asus are good
Asus suck, but Gigabyte are good
Giagabyte suck but MSI are good
Maybe the lesson here is that every company is capable of producing both shit and gold, and having a run of good/bad luck from the same manufacturer is down to just that, luck.
Well the prices for the UK seem to have actually gone down when they were converted to pounds... I think to bring them in line with what we'd pay retail here.
That or they set the converted prices before the pound dropped in value
I thought the whole point of the method of wireless power being used was that it wouldn't induce current in anything other than the receiving coil... unless your testicles are somehow on the same frequency as the transmitter you should be fine.
Much of the Arctic is floating ice, and so will have no net effect on sea levels by melting. On the other hand the ice in the Antarctic ice sheets, Greenland and various glaciers on mountains is all currently sat on top of land, and so will add to the height of the ocean.
The effect you're thinking of comes about because water expands as it freezes, so it naturally floats with about 90% of its volume underwater and about 10% above the surface. When it melts, all of it's volume is part of the sea, but that volume is only 90% of what it was; the same volume of water as the iceberg was displacing.
Only works for ice that's floating on the ocean, if it starts out on land then it wasn't displacing any water before and will increase the ocean's volume when it runs down off the land.
You're thinking of Arctic sea ice I think - glaciers are normally based on land, though they might also flow out into the sea.
You are right though, that ice freely floating in water doesn't effect the water level when it melts (because of the way water expands when it freezes).
Hell, you could be rolling around on a big pile of ill-gotten money before Thursday.
Technically you can't prove that all of them will die - that's in the future and it only takes one of them being an immortal freak of nature to prove you wrong.
Our natural metabolic processes create carcinogens and other chemicals that damage cells, cause aging, etc. These things really are unavoidable (although there are still things which will cause cancer more than others.
We're just not built to last... which is only to be expected - evolutionarily anything that extends your lifespan after procreation is a bonus, but won't be selected for if it negatively affects your ability to spawn a new generation (e.g. delays your being able to do so in return for longer life)
Anything affecting health/longevity when you're too old to be fertile will be even less strongly selected for (via the more tenuous effect of helping your children/grandchildren)
I see less reason to use a virtual store than either a real store or a normal online store.
Online you have the advantage that everything's more or less at your fingertips and can be found fairly quickly via a search box (assuming a reasonable interface). In a real store you can browse rather than having to know exactly what you want, because you can see the actual thing you're buying there in front of you.
Combine the 2 into a sim-store and you lose both sets of advantages - finding stuff means wandering around a virtual store, and you only get to see a representation of it. Fuck that.
Will Wright must be quite an actor to have had his lines so perfectly lined up with the demo video...
I'm not even sure which I would prefer to be true - evil EA influence gives me a reason to hate EA even more-so (yay confirmation bias) and would allow me false hope that they'll eventually release a proper version of Spore, on the other hand if it was always a facade then I can write it all off as a gigantic dick-move by all involved and just let it go.
The videos we saw of Spore were amazing. What we were subsequently sold was a poor shadow of what the game was supposed to be.
I want to know what happened to the game from the videos at E3 in 2005...
Can it be immediately after you're dead? I get the impression a lot of people would like to get moving that way, and if we have to carry on with the old way for "long after" your death you'll probably attract the same kind of posthumous ire as Walt Disney.
Now we get to see how derailing a single copyright-referencing joke can be to a discussion about electric cars... if you wish to make bets I'm offering good odds on "somewhat".
Never said it was newbie friendly... newbies will find almost anything hard on almost any system, especially around the area of installation.
Hell, I'd give my dad (not a total luddite, but behind the times) better odds at managing to install a recent linux release than XP.
It's the same with maths - "I'm no good with numbers" seems to be a perfectly acceptable way to wave off having to do any maths involving numbers of more than one digit.
Contrast against "I'm no good with letters" - being illiterate when you had perfectly good opportunities for education would mark you out as a fucking moron. Being mathematically or technologically illiterate is just normal it seems.
I can forgive people not knowing their way around a computer if they're old and unlikely to have had to use one ever, or if the technology in question is legitimately complex, but the stupidity exhibited by some people really is beyond the pale.
Step 1: Download a decent firewall/antivirus/any other security software you like from another PC.
Step 2: Install XP without the network connected, install previously mentioned software from a USB key
Step 3: Plug in the cable.
(Step 4: ???, Step 5: Profit)
Then your risk should be fairly minimal while you download and install all the updates. If you felt like being even cleverer then Step 1 would be to copy the updates from another XP PC to a USB key, but it's somewhat easier to let the update website handle that.
So the question is, what would the minimum be for a person with some sense?
To be specific, if my router has a built in NAT firewall and I have the brains to not open dodgy email attachments et al, will it matter if I let the updates sit for a while without rebooting or don't have an AV running?
Buy the book in whatever manner the author would like you to if you really want to support the author.
Fair enough, but what do you do when they aren't offering it in any manner at all? If the book's out of print and/or not available via any legal means you have available, then the option just isn't there to buy it in the manner they would like you to.
The only question then is whether you go without, get a pirate copy and send the author money some other way or just pirate it on the basis that, since they weren't selling it, you can't possibly be a "lost sale".
You don't have to tell someone your home address in order to talk to them, so no... not really a good comparison.
You can generally expect to keep your address private unless you intend to tell someone where you live, but your IP address is known by any server your computer communicates with (unless you spoof it, mask it, go through a proxy or some other method of anonymisation)
So in that case, neither Kansai International Airport or Hong Kong International Airport are on land? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclaimed_land#Creating_new_land
"Sovereign nation" is a theoretical idea. Attempts to argue based on practicality are fundamentally flawed since the only way to be a sovereign nation is "in theory"
Ok, some nations are very well able to defend their sovereignty, but the thing they're defending is itself a concept.
and it is presumed that God is on their side...
Read the Bible, having God on your side can be beaten by iron chariots. (Judges 1:19)
It doesn't matter if no-one cares, as far as I'm aware "it's OK if no-one complains, but otherwise it's illegal" is not what's in the lawbooks.
You may be right, maybe no-one would give a shit and the government could just do whatever they want to Sealand, but this doesn't make it legal or right and so the courts would have to listen when the people contesting the issue raise hell at being invaded.
That court may subsequently decide that they have no legal standing and all the crackpots need to be kicked off their oil derrick, but "no-one would care" is a fucking stupid argument.
The "if you can't defend it then it's not yours" trend is a little worrying. There are plenty of countries that would find it rather hard to hold out were they to be invaded by the armies of a western nation, but they are no less sovereign states.
Simply having the power to take something does not grant you legal right to it (if it did then, for one thing, the copyright debate would be significantly easier to settle)