I think the only real question is if a male can mate with a female or vice versa and possible product offspring. If it can even happen in a lab then they are reasonably of the similar enough species.
I will agree that where A and B can mate or B and C but not A and C then it makes a more interesting question because B could belong to either A or C but A and C aren't the same species.
I've seen small dogs mate with big dogs. I've seen a large female dog role on her back so the small male dog can mate her and I've also seen the female role the male on his back and get on top. You'd be surprised how physical limitations are overcome.
Thank you. Am I the only person that thinks it's wrong to apologize for defeating an enemy? The Indians were not by and large innocent weaklings. They killed and enslaved each other long before the white man landed in America. Their empires were large and spread throughout North and South Americas. If not for disease and fighting among themselves they might not have lost. The outcome was anything but sure.
Disclaimer: I'm Caucasian but with a large amount of Native American heritage. I think the worst thing the white man did to the indians was to not totally destroy their society and integrate them into ours. Their culture failed so why let them hang on to it and remain weak.
Look how recently the average white person thought that the black person wasn't the same species. It doesn't take a major distinction for people to think of others as inferior and okay to treat like an animal.
Besides that if they were an enemy tribe and resources were limited then it makes sense to kill the enemy to protect your own. If food is limited and you are already killing something, which is eatable, then it makes sense to eat it.
I don't know if it's a good idea to ask students do go without sleep for so long. You really do lose your ability to think logically and you become paranoid and emotional. Combined with the stress of something like finals I could see someone snapping and going on a shooting spree or something. If that happened I think the school should be held responsible.
You do start to hallucinate and become paranoid and unreasonable. Not especially fun. If you are abusing caffeine it is even worse. It's certainly not a good way to work most of the time. I'll agree that it might be something like popping a tab of acid. You get very creative but it will make you very unstable. As I have a family now I try not to get this sleep deprived and I avoid caffeine.
I sometimes have sleep-walking like coding sessions where I produce amazing tricks of code but when you read the code it is almost impossible to figure out why it works. I'd put it on par with trying to figure out why a neural net or genetic algorithm has produced what it has.
I used to do a lot of work with artificial intelligence and methods of indexing and searching massive stacks of information. These problems were usually very non-linear and complex so they weren't something you could just sit down and plan out what logic needed to happen. Code produced while sleep-coding or massively sleep deprived sometimes did stuff I just couldn't explain but it was very interesting and sometimes had results I've not seen duplicated.
The code produced is just bizarre though. It has weird names and is often very much spaghetti code. Sometimes it seems to be inside out.:)
I think under moderate stress I produce but under to much stress I become very focused and don't have time or energy for creativity. Under a lot of stress I also tend to become depressed and that makes me feel uncreative. Leisure time tends to be of mixed results. The first few days of leisure I just want to recover but once recovered I'll tend to become very productive. I become so productive that I'd say that I'm again under moderate stress because I keep myself so busy. I wouldn't say it is bad times though - usually it's these times that I'm most fulfilled.
I don't think so. With that kind of lack of sleep if you sleep at all you are down for the count. It's all about keeping moving and keeping the adrenaline up.
I do dream when awake but I don't actually stop receiving all external input or stop moving. I do become less reactive to what is going on around me so I guess it's possible I could be switching off for a second or two at a time.
The problem is that I do this no matter what I'm doing - I'll blink into a dream state when showering, holding a conversation, or driving even when I'm well rested. I have to avoid thinking or I get sucked in.
As I'm getting older I don't switch between this waking-dream state and normal state so it does tend to turn into sleep more often now but I think that is a third state.
When I was younger I'd sometimes go as much as a week without sleep. It does make a difference in how you solve problems. With massive sleep deprivation problems requiring critical thinking become harder but problems requiring creative leaps get easier. You end up in something close to a waking dream state. I wouldn't suggest it for average problems but if you get really stuck on something that is very complex it can help.
Of course most problems of this nature can be solved by just relaxing in a quiet place for a while and letting your mind wander. There is something to different states of mind but it's best not to abuse these. With practice you can slip into the right state of mind at will without needing to force it with drugs, lack of sleep, etc.
Companies would want to charge at every step which is one reason many other networks and hypertext systems were hard to use and didn't scale well. By only worrying about making it work and not how to make money from it it was a successful project.
As someone who makes a living selling things online I have to think the Internet is pretty good. Of course competitors and even some manufacturers don't like the Internet because it cuts margins and makes it hard to maintain dealer areas.
If you don't suck you can stlll make a living but it is getting harder to become filthy rich. Few authors, musicians, programmers, etc were anyway. Publishers are the ones really hurting from the change. Make something that doesn't suck, let people know, sale it from your website at a reasonable price, keep working your day job or crank out more content because you aren't going to write one book and live off it for the rest of your life.
Invest in a little search engine optimization. You can't get rid of the bad results but you could come up as the first result. It's not that difficult or expensive.
I frequently download books (and everything else) but I also buy a lot of books (and everything else) and I especially buy the ones I downloaded and liked. Many times a PDF version is easier to search and is more portable - I have thousands of books I use as reference stored on my hdd. Make it easy for people to find you and donate to you. I might not give you $100 for your book but I am far more likely to donate $5.
Piracy will never kill real authors and publishers - they will just have to adapt to modern realities. Make the digital version easy to find and cheap and people will buy it rather than looking for a pirate copy. Sell the paper version to people that want it. Keep your work up-to-date, useful, and enjoyable to read and people will keep buying it. The only thing that has changed is that you can't make people buy crappy out-dated content. That's hardly a huge change since always someone would write a newer better book and you'd lose sales to them.
So three steps: SEO, official digital version available cheap, stay relevant.
I don't mind wearing pink. What do I care what other people think. If you want to be tech savvy it shouldn't bother you that most women aren't (my wife is smart but she makes me figure out how to wire the tv).
Stereotypes exist because a large number of people do match them. The stereotype is that geeks don't shower, don't know how to dress, have no social skills, and have trouble with the opposite sex. That totally describes the vast majority of geeks I know (especially young geeks).
My wife is far more likely to like something pretty, maybe in pink, than I am. She does like to look at stylish and feminine designs that would look good with her purse. Something between a netbook and an iPhone might be good because it needs to be small, look nice, and handle important functions such as the grocery list, tracking the checkbook, a recipe keeper, and photo book without a bunch of hassle. My wife really wants something in this area that costs $100 or less and is easy to use. I think there is a huge market for a purse or diaper bag sized computer targeted at the soccer mom.
I think that it is good to market to this stereotype so long as they aren't not marketing to other types of women. The total geek girl that lacks any taste is already covered by Dell's usual market. Alienware probably has the cool cyberpunk geek girls covered. Guess they just need to hit the goths, bimbos, and biker babes and they have it about wrapped up. A laptop designed for a goth or biker babe could be sweet - steampunk and lots of chrome. I'm imagining a barbie pink wedge that spews valley girl talk and sports a mirror for the bimbo. I guess they could do the dyke laptop too but I'd think they could get a standard made-for-men laptop and put some man hating stickers on there.
I agree. Even movies I've legally purchased I rip just to get rid of all the crap. I hate when it takes half an hour from inserting the disc before I can play the movie - especially when it is a little dirty and needs wiped off and then you have to start the process over.
I don't have a problem with Amazon allowing retarded publishers to make bad choices but they better be marking the content as damaged before I buy it so I can make a choice. If not, I'd be open to a lawsuit to force the issue.
I've never bought a CD at WalMart because they censor content without labeling. Since I can't tell if a product is damaged I just don't buy it.
I often will just download the content rather than buying it just to avoid any random stupidity that comes with the legit content. If I like the content I'll do something to try to put money into the artists pocket such as buying a legit version, that may never get opened, making an online donation, buying a sponsored product, etc.
One I saw was a place I worked that had a custom designed building with everything custom and very posh. They ran the cat 5 inside the bricked in pillars (which was kind of strange to begin with) along with the electrical and plumbing. So the brilliant network engineers tied off the network cables around the electrical wires and plumbing. It wasn't discovered that the network didn't work worth a flying fsck until they'd finished bricking everything up. Because of the materials (imported something or other) it ended up being a huge expense and pain to fix this minor issue.
Most areas may add a few details of their own but will layer them on top of the international codes. Of course crappy areas don't enforce the codes but if the builder does follow the codes they can be pretty sure they won't get their ass handed to them in litigation should something go wrong and the buyer can be fairly sure that their roof won't cave in the first time it rains.
Of course even here in the US you'll find plenty of dumbasses that nail together something critical after they accidently cut through it. Or plumbing.. they'll dab glue around a pipe they accidently cut so it'll pass muster for inspection and it keeps them from having to spend hours fixing it. To bad for the buyer when they have weird water pressure issues and get mold growing inside the walls.
In my condo now I'm annoyed because some of the kitchen cabinets don't fit right so they slip off the tracks a lot and many of the window blinds are sized incorrectly so they fall or scratch the walls when you try to adjust them. They managed to install all the coax outlets wrong to so that they pull out of the wall when you try to connect or disconnect. The outside walk crumbled - probably because they poured the cement when it was to cold out.
Take some construction management classes and go check out a few build sites. You'll probably be a lot more paranoid next time you buy a home.
Of course another pet peeve I have is that if builders try to make better quality they can get sued for excessive building. So if you do a good job somebody can punish you for wasting money even if you disclose that you are going for higher quality.
Have you seen how they build the average home? A normal priced home in my area is around $300k and if you see how they build them I don't see how these cheap structures could be much worse and remain standing.
You get a bunch of idiots with little understanding of physics haphazardly building from poorly conceived plans using the cheapest building materials they can find. If something isn't right then band-aid it so it'll pass inspection and don't worry that two months later it'll go to hell. So long as these cheap apartments follow international building code at least as well as the local schmucks then I doubt it could be any worse.
I'd think a micro apartment could be great for people that commute. A local place to take a nap or shower or stay over in bad weather. I'd consider buying one if they had them locally. A plac
Turning up the speed makes it more difficult to be precise in my experience. Important if you do much in the way of graphics. The jumbo sized mouse pad takes up a lot of desk space but otherwise is a easy/cheap fix. Heck, I wish the whole darn desk was a mousepad really.
The side buttons can be frustrating sometimes. I wish they'd move them a little bit forward so that gripping the mouse didn't accidently trigger them. Something amusing I've noticed is if you have static electricity on you when touching the mouse it'll trigger the side buttons sometimes. Work up a good charge and then touch someone using the mouse and see. Or get a plasma ball and touch it while touching the mouser.
Given the ugliness of the average PC and it's components and the lack of showering by most geeks I think I can live with a bar of soap mouse.
Batteries are always a pain. I wish they'd make one that could charge by induction and just have a special induction mouse pad. Still I haven't noticed it being worse than any other brand of wireless mouse I've used. I haven't really cared for the cradle concept for recharging because nobody ever bothers until the sucker just turns up dead and then you have to wait for it to charge.
I've never had a problem with the scrollball although my keyboard usually turns black. I do wash my hands frequently so maybe that helps. (not sure why the keyboard turns black actually)
Eww. You've got to be kidding me. There is no mouse I'd rather use than my Mighty Mouse. Now if you were talking about one of those puck mice I might agree with you.:)
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I think the only real question is if a male can mate with a female or vice versa and possible product offspring. If it can even happen in a lab then they are reasonably of the similar enough species.
I will agree that where A and B can mate or B and C but not A and C then it makes a more interesting question because B could belong to either A or C but A and C aren't the same species.
I've seen small dogs mate with big dogs. I've seen a large female dog role on her back so the small male dog can mate her and I've also seen the female role the male on his back and get on top. You'd be surprised how physical limitations are overcome.
Asexual is just another ball of turds.
Thank you. Am I the only person that thinks it's wrong to apologize for defeating an enemy? The Indians were not by and large innocent weaklings. They killed and enslaved each other long before the white man landed in America. Their empires were large and spread throughout North and South Americas. If not for disease and fighting among themselves they might not have lost. The outcome was anything but sure.
Disclaimer: I'm Caucasian but with a large amount of Native American heritage. I think the worst thing the white man did to the indians was to not totally destroy their society and integrate them into ours. Their culture failed so why let them hang on to it and remain weak.
Look how recently the average white person thought that the black person wasn't the same species. It doesn't take a major distinction for people to think of others as inferior and okay to treat like an animal.
Besides that if they were an enemy tribe and resources were limited then it makes sense to kill the enemy to protect your own. If food is limited and you are already killing something, which is eatable, then it makes sense to eat it.
I don't know if it's a good idea to ask students do go without sleep for so long. You really do lose your ability to think logically and you become paranoid and emotional. Combined with the stress of something like finals I could see someone snapping and going on a shooting spree or something. If that happened I think the school should be held responsible.
You do start to hallucinate and become paranoid and unreasonable. Not especially fun. If you are abusing caffeine it is even worse. It's certainly not a good way to work most of the time. I'll agree that it might be something like popping a tab of acid. You get very creative but it will make you very unstable. As I have a family now I try not to get this sleep deprived and I avoid caffeine.
I sometimes have sleep-walking like coding sessions where I produce amazing tricks of code but when you read the code it is almost impossible to figure out why it works. I'd put it on par with trying to figure out why a neural net or genetic algorithm has produced what it has.
I used to do a lot of work with artificial intelligence and methods of indexing and searching massive stacks of information. These problems were usually very non-linear and complex so they weren't something you could just sit down and plan out what logic needed to happen. Code produced while sleep-coding or massively sleep deprived sometimes did stuff I just couldn't explain but it was very interesting and sometimes had results I've not seen duplicated.
The code produced is just bizarre though. It has weird names and is often very much spaghetti code. Sometimes it seems to be inside out. :)
I think under moderate stress I produce but under to much stress I become very focused and don't have time or energy for creativity. Under a lot of stress I also tend to become depressed and that makes me feel uncreative. Leisure time tends to be of mixed results. The first few days of leisure I just want to recover but once recovered I'll tend to become very productive. I become so productive that I'd say that I'm again under moderate stress because I keep myself so busy. I wouldn't say it is bad times though - usually it's these times that I'm most fulfilled.
I don't think so. With that kind of lack of sleep if you sleep at all you are down for the count. It's all about keeping moving and keeping the adrenaline up.
I do dream when awake but I don't actually stop receiving all external input or stop moving. I do become less reactive to what is going on around me so I guess it's possible I could be switching off for a second or two at a time.
The problem is that I do this no matter what I'm doing - I'll blink into a dream state when showering, holding a conversation, or driving even when I'm well rested. I have to avoid thinking or I get sucked in.
As I'm getting older I don't switch between this waking-dream state and normal state so it does tend to turn into sleep more often now but I think that is a third state.
When I was younger I'd sometimes go as much as a week without sleep. It does make a difference in how you solve problems. With massive sleep deprivation problems requiring critical thinking become harder but problems requiring creative leaps get easier. You end up in something close to a waking dream state. I wouldn't suggest it for average problems but if you get really stuck on something that is very complex it can help.
Of course most problems of this nature can be solved by just relaxing in a quiet place for a while and letting your mind wander. There is something to different states of mind but it's best not to abuse these. With practice you can slip into the right state of mind at will without needing to force it with drugs, lack of sleep, etc.
Companies would want to charge at every step which is one reason many other networks and hypertext systems were hard to use and didn't scale well. By only worrying about making it work and not how to make money from it it was a successful project.
As someone who makes a living selling things online I have to think the Internet is pretty good. Of course competitors and even some manufacturers don't like the Internet because it cuts margins and makes it hard to maintain dealer areas.
Is that different than the steampunk laptop I suggested for goths? I have one I'm thinking of redoing in that style. Fun fun.
Stick it on Google Sites too. They have the bulk to resist local police departments.
If you don't suck you can stlll make a living but it is getting harder to become filthy rich. Few authors, musicians, programmers, etc were anyway. Publishers are the ones really hurting from the change. Make something that doesn't suck, let people know, sale it from your website at a reasonable price, keep working your day job or crank out more content because you aren't going to write one book and live off it for the rest of your life.
Invest in a little search engine optimization. You can't get rid of the bad results but you could come up as the first result. It's not that difficult or expensive.
I frequently download books (and everything else) but I also buy a lot of books (and everything else) and I especially buy the ones I downloaded and liked. Many times a PDF version is easier to search and is more portable - I have thousands of books I use as reference stored on my hdd. Make it easy for people to find you and donate to you. I might not give you $100 for your book but I am far more likely to donate $5.
Piracy will never kill real authors and publishers - they will just have to adapt to modern realities. Make the digital version easy to find and cheap and people will buy it rather than looking for a pirate copy. Sell the paper version to people that want it. Keep your work up-to-date, useful, and enjoyable to read and people will keep buying it. The only thing that has changed is that you can't make people buy crappy out-dated content. That's hardly a huge change since always someone would write a newer better book and you'd lose sales to them.
So three steps: SEO, official digital version available cheap, stay relevant.
I don't mind wearing pink. What do I care what other people think. If you want to be tech savvy it shouldn't bother you that most women aren't (my wife is smart but she makes me figure out how to wire the tv).
Stereotypes exist because a large number of people do match them. The stereotype is that geeks don't shower, don't know how to dress, have no social skills, and have trouble with the opposite sex. That totally describes the vast majority of geeks I know (especially young geeks).
My wife is far more likely to like something pretty, maybe in pink, than I am. She does like to look at stylish and feminine designs that would look good with her purse. Something between a netbook and an iPhone might be good because it needs to be small, look nice, and handle important functions such as the grocery list, tracking the checkbook, a recipe keeper, and photo book without a bunch of hassle. My wife really wants something in this area that costs $100 or less and is easy to use. I think there is a huge market for a purse or diaper bag sized computer targeted at the soccer mom.
I think that it is good to market to this stereotype so long as they aren't not marketing to other types of women. The total geek girl that lacks any taste is already covered by Dell's usual market. Alienware probably has the cool cyberpunk geek girls covered. Guess they just need to hit the goths, bimbos, and biker babes and they have it about wrapped up. A laptop designed for a goth or biker babe could be sweet - steampunk and lots of chrome. I'm imagining a barbie pink wedge that spews valley girl talk and sports a mirror for the bimbo. I guess they could do the dyke laptop too but I'd think they could get a standard made-for-men laptop and put some man hating stickers on there.
After the half hour it takes to load. ;)
I agree. Even movies I've legally purchased I rip just to get rid of all the crap. I hate when it takes half an hour from inserting the disc before I can play the movie - especially when it is a little dirty and needs wiped off and then you have to start the process over.
I don't have a problem with Amazon allowing retarded publishers to make bad choices but they better be marking the content as damaged before I buy it so I can make a choice. If not, I'd be open to a lawsuit to force the issue.
I've never bought a CD at WalMart because they censor content without labeling. Since I can't tell if a product is damaged I just don't buy it.
I often will just download the content rather than buying it just to avoid any random stupidity that comes with the legit content. If I like the content I'll do something to try to put money into the artists pocket such as buying a legit version, that may never get opened, making an online donation, buying a sponsored product, etc.
One I saw was a place I worked that had a custom designed building with everything custom and very posh. They ran the cat 5 inside the bricked in pillars (which was kind of strange to begin with) along with the electrical and plumbing. So the brilliant network engineers tied off the network cables around the electrical wires and plumbing. It wasn't discovered that the network didn't work worth a flying fsck until they'd finished bricking everything up. Because of the materials (imported something or other) it ended up being a huge expense and pain to fix this minor issue.
Most areas may add a few details of their own but will layer them on top of the international codes. Of course crappy areas don't enforce the codes but if the builder does follow the codes they can be pretty sure they won't get their ass handed to them in litigation should something go wrong and the buyer can be fairly sure that their roof won't cave in the first time it rains.
Of course even here in the US you'll find plenty of dumbasses that nail together something critical after they accidently cut through it. Or plumbing.. they'll dab glue around a pipe they accidently cut so it'll pass muster for inspection and it keeps them from having to spend hours fixing it. To bad for the buyer when they have weird water pressure issues and get mold growing inside the walls.
In my condo now I'm annoyed because some of the kitchen cabinets don't fit right so they slip off the tracks a lot and many of the window blinds are sized incorrectly so they fall or scratch the walls when you try to adjust them. They managed to install all the coax outlets wrong to so that they pull out of the wall when you try to connect or disconnect. The outside walk crumbled - probably because they poured the cement when it was to cold out.
Take some construction management classes and go check out a few build sites. You'll probably be a lot more paranoid next time you buy a home.
Of course another pet peeve I have is that if builders try to make better quality they can get sued for excessive building. So if you do a good job somebody can punish you for wasting money even if you disclose that you are going for higher quality.
Have you seen how they build the average home? A normal priced home in my area is around $300k and if you see how they build them I don't see how these cheap structures could be much worse and remain standing.
You get a bunch of idiots with little understanding of physics haphazardly building from poorly conceived plans using the cheapest building materials they can find. If something isn't right then band-aid it so it'll pass inspection and don't worry that two months later it'll go to hell. So long as these cheap apartments follow international building code at least as well as the local schmucks then I doubt it could be any worse.
I'd think a micro apartment could be great for people that commute. A local place to take a nap or shower or stay over in bad weather. I'd consider buying one if they had them locally. A plac
Turning up the speed makes it more difficult to be precise in my experience. Important if you do much in the way of graphics. The jumbo sized mouse pad takes up a lot of desk space but otherwise is a easy/cheap fix. Heck, I wish the whole darn desk was a mousepad really.
The side buttons can be frustrating sometimes. I wish they'd move them a little bit forward so that gripping the mouse didn't accidently trigger them. Something amusing I've noticed is if you have static electricity on you when touching the mouse it'll trigger the side buttons sometimes. Work up a good charge and then touch someone using the mouse and see. Or get a plasma ball and touch it while touching the mouser.
Given the ugliness of the average PC and it's components and the lack of showering by most geeks I think I can live with a bar of soap mouse.
A 1 button mouse that offers the normal three buttons, side buttons, and an extra scrollball.
Batteries are always a pain. I wish they'd make one that could charge by induction and just have a special induction mouse pad. Still I haven't noticed it being worse than any other brand of wireless mouse I've used. I haven't really cared for the cradle concept for recharging because nobody ever bothers until the sucker just turns up dead and then you have to wait for it to charge.
I've never had a problem with the scrollball although my keyboard usually turns black. I do wash my hands frequently so maybe that helps. (not sure why the keyboard turns black actually)
Eww. You've got to be kidding me. There is no mouse I'd rather use than my Mighty Mouse. Now if you were talking about one of those puck mice I might agree with you. :)