One thing that has been bothering me is that the letter thorn has been thrown out, whilst keeping that useless Q. You have no idea how hard some people grasp the 'th' digraph. Especially in languages with no 'th' sound. They keep reading it as 'duh' or 't'. Also, ligatures were useful in denoting certain pronunciations, and were replaced by arbitrary, perl-esque conventions. Why?
The only drugs that cause you to stare at ceiling are serious opioid doses, dissociative anesthetics, and powerful GABA agonists - benzodiazepines/barbiturates. None of those are popular. Or often used. They are well within statistical error.
Like we deal with other problems in this business - automatic rifles, lot of 'em. To quote Stalin - if there is a person, there is a problem - no person - no problem. Keep in mind that I'm just representative of the average embittered high-schooler.
Bullshit. Coke and heroin have totally different effects from meth. It's like saying that avid bikers are gonna go bungee jumping if they can ride. Bullshit.
Thanks man. Though I might find that long-distance relationship a little difficult, by virtue of me being in high-school, with obsessive parents. Not to mention that I doubt that there are 30 y.o. interested in me. Heck, I can't find a girl my age that can stand me (because I'm usually too honest for my own good). Still, I'll see what I can do, at least I didn't get the canned "Your time will come." and "Grow a pair responses.". Thanks again.
That is the thesis of ONE experiment, involving how many subjects? A video link showed a total of 4. A friend told me he had read this only happens to this degree to a subset of the population. Perhaps 15%.
The subjects of that experiment only estimated their fall as 1/3 longer than observing others. My experience more like an order of magnitude. At the speed I was traveling, it would have been no more than 1/4 second, but the perception was more like 2-3 seconds.
If you read some of the comments to the article you linked to, you'll find that other people have experiences which suggest that something different was going on than the researchers in a contrived experiment measured.
For me, it was not just impulse reaction. There was a thought process, including an evaluation of the situation and choosing the best course of action. This situation was like a faster thought process and perception.
And actually, time itself is sort of an illusion. It's just a comparison of some sequence of events vs some other sequence. Such as the definition of a second being the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation corresponding to the transition between two energy levels of the caesium-133 atom. ( Atomic clock )
(Under the Big Bang theory, time is also a measure of entropy. But not everyone agrees...)
All that said, there is probably also something the idea that these events trigger more brain activity and memory being activated. But from my experience, that's not quite all of it...
In fact as I get older (over 50 now) I notice this effect more and more, such as when something is about to fall and my hand is under it well before it is actually falling. Like some of the commentators on the article you linked to, I had some martial arts training; though it was 30 years ago now. Probably didn't hurt, though it might be that people who pursue that training have something in common. So causality is not established by the training itself.
I attribute it to my mind being more quiet now. Meaning more able to be quiet until needed, like a cat waiting for prey, attentive to its environment. Then a burst of action when needed (though unlike a cat, also capable of sustained bursts of effort for many hours)
And that comes from seeing the "personality machine" for what it is, and not confusing it with who and what I actually am. When the monkey chatter calms down, we are more able to respond to real events rather than imagined ones.
As I said, I was being optimistic, quit bashing in my dreams, OK? It's bad enough that obsess over this stuff trying to run away from loneliness, but I also have to have my ideology burned before my eyes. Just keep that flame a little cooler, OK? Some of just plain don't have a life.
Not now, but open source system integrators may find it quite useful. Also, the fact that it is FLOSS on the Verilog level means best docs in the world, which means it has plenty GPGPU potential, in contrast with the pretty much single-purpose GPUs from the big three. Yes, I know about CUDA, etc., but that is vendor controlled, and available on the high-end only, AFAIK. So the OG project has much more potential to reach the consumer than you give it credit for, even if it's not tomorrow. I'm being a bit optimistic, but look where Firefox got in so little years.
You guys must be on PCP if you think anybody is going to bother with 12 pointless pages, no matter the excuse. Why the hell do you need more than one page, anyway? Just put discrete ad banners between paragraphs.
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One thing that has been bothering me is that the letter thorn has been thrown out, whilst keeping that useless Q. You have no idea how hard some people grasp the 'th' digraph. Especially in languages with no 'th' sound. They keep reading it as 'duh' or 't'. Also, ligatures were useful in denoting certain pronunciations, and were replaced by arbitrary, perl-esque conventions. Why?
You are telling me your hardware has XP x64 drivers, but no linux drivers?
The only drugs that cause you to stare at ceiling are serious opioid doses, dissociative anesthetics, and powerful GABA agonists - benzodiazepines/barbiturates. None of those are popular. Or often used. They are well within statistical error.
SSRIs are nasty in comparison to THC, et al.
And the police also wouldn't object to use of force against serial killers.
Mod parent up.
I second them as well.
Like we deal with other problems in this business - automatic rifles, lot of 'em. To quote Stalin - if there is a person, there is a problem - no person - no problem. Keep in mind that I'm just representative of the average embittered high-schooler.
Bullshit. Coke and heroin have totally different effects from meth. It's like saying that avid bikers are gonna go bungee jumping if they can ride. Bullshit.
Single zero size flash applet, dynamic embedding of bitmaps via DOM manipulation interfaces would fix that overhead.
Thanks man. Though I might find that long-distance relationship a little difficult, by virtue of me being in high-school, with obsessive parents. Not to mention that I doubt that there are 30 y.o. interested in me. Heck, I can't find a girl my age that can stand me (because I'm usually too honest for my own good). Still, I'll see what I can do, at least I didn't get the canned "Your time will come." and "Grow a pair responses.". Thanks again.
Why not?
That is the thesis of ONE experiment, involving how many subjects? A video link showed a total of 4. A friend told me he had read this only happens to this degree to a subset of the population. Perhaps 15%.
The subjects of that experiment only estimated their fall as 1/3 longer than observing others. My experience more like an order of magnitude. At the speed I was traveling, it would have been no more than 1/4 second, but the perception was more like 2-3 seconds.
If you read some of the comments to the article you linked to, you'll find that other people have experiences which suggest that something different was going on than the researchers in a contrived experiment measured.
For me, it was not just impulse reaction. There was a thought process, including an evaluation of the situation and choosing the best course of action. This situation was like a faster thought process and perception.
And actually, time itself is sort of an illusion. It's just a comparison of some sequence of events vs some other sequence. Such as the definition of a second being the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation corresponding to the transition between two energy levels of the caesium-133 atom. ( Atomic clock )
(Under the Big Bang theory, time is also a measure of entropy. But not everyone agrees...)
All that said, there is probably also something the idea that these events trigger more brain activity and memory being activated. But from my experience, that's not quite all of it...
In fact as I get older (over 50 now) I notice this effect more and more, such as when something is about to fall and my hand is under it well before it is actually falling. Like some of the commentators on the article you linked to, I had some martial arts training; though it was 30 years ago now. Probably didn't hurt, though it might be that people who pursue that training have something in common. So causality is not established by the training itself.
I attribute it to my mind being more quiet now. Meaning more able to be quiet until needed, like a cat waiting for prey, attentive to its environment. Then a burst of action when needed (though unlike a cat, also capable of sustained bursts of effort for many hours)
And that comes from seeing the "personality machine" for what it is, and not confusing it with who and what I actually am. When the monkey chatter calms down, we are more able to respond to real events rather than imagined ones.
Citation?
As I said, I was being optimistic, quit bashing in my dreams, OK? It's bad enough that obsess over this stuff trying to run away from loneliness, but I also have to have my ideology burned before my eyes. Just keep that flame a little cooler, OK? Some of just plain don't have a life.
Ever heard of wikipedia?
The reverse process, along with http://xmlvm.sf.org/ on the server side might prove interesting.
What if the Flash applet is zero size, and draws on a bunch of canvas tags, or dynamically generates images?
Why? Because the page is going to be littered with Flash applets? LOL, there are sites that are ONE BIG Flash applet.
Mutually meta-circular interpreters FTW!
Mod parent up.
Not now, but open source system integrators may find it quite useful. Also, the fact that it is FLOSS on the Verilog level means best docs in the world, which means it has plenty GPGPU potential, in contrast with the pretty much single-purpose GPUs from the big three. Yes, I know about CUDA, etc., but that is vendor controlled, and available on the high-end only, AFAIK. So the OG project has much more potential to reach the consumer than you give it credit for, even if it's not tomorrow. I'm being a bit optimistic, but look where Firefox got in so little years.
http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php
You guys must be on PCP if you think anybody is going to bother with 12 pointless pages, no matter the excuse. Why the hell do you need more than one page, anyway? Just put discrete ad banners between paragraphs.
NetBSD?