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scale that to the growing world population, and the cheapness of online publication, this'll work.
In a cognitive linguistics unit I did at UWA the lecturer mentioned indigenous tribes who had no word for purple could not distinguish purple.
To experiment, take a chart of 256 colours (of which only English has separate nouns) and show it to groups of people from different genetic backgrounds, then ask them to supergroup the colours. Aqua (for instance) is viewed as either green or blue or separate depending on the person.
We can measure photonic input to retina and where that fires up the brain, but we still aren't entirely sure of the links from the input process to the memory-recognition of the colour.
My colourblind eyes prevent me from being a tank driver (spew!), but i've wired up plenty of trailers. Any bans against colourblind electricians (assuming you are from the US??) doesn't carry to the rest of the world.
And I can figure out resister codes fine thanks (or did when we did electronics in primary school)...
Its just finding flowers in trees that proves to be a problem.
red-green colourblind too, and i've heard the same rumour. apparently it's not true, but then i believe (based on personal experience) that i do see better in the dark
My family business (metal manufacturing in Oz) sources from India; and get decent-quality raw steel casting, but every time we try and get steel products from China they send us sh*t that fails safety standards.
never happen. china has an infinite supply of workers ready to grind themselves into the ground to put $ on the pockets of execs back in the US. that's just too sweet a deal for US corporations to pass up.
Funny, my money is on the US (still the largest economy in the world). If the EU successfully transforms into a genuine free-economic zone they'll threaten the US for dominance. China has a history of revolutions, and India a bureaucratic mess.
Say what you like about economies, as long as you spend half of the world military spending in one army, you'll remain on top.
Nope, Taiwan is the traditional ruler of China. China only ruled Taiwan for approx. 8 years before ceding it in perpetuity to Japan in 1895.
Japan was stripped of Taiwan after WWII and the Chinese were asked to manage it until the UN could help implement independence, which ended after 2 years when Kai-Shek invaded after being kicked out of China.
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1) slashdot readers do not represent the general populous. This makes all remarks here invalid.
2) The general populous - used to paying for everything will - pay to access online news. They do not want to have to search for news, they want it there when they logon.
3) there is a generation growing up that has the internet as a standard form of media. not all of them like searching for news either. at 2 quid a week, or 3 a month, or 5 a year, they'll pay. its easier.
scale that to the growing world population, and the cheapness of online publication, this'll work.
As previous replies.
In a cognitive linguistics unit I did at UWA the lecturer mentioned indigenous tribes who had no word for purple could not distinguish purple.
To experiment, take a chart of 256 colours (of which only English has separate nouns) and show it to groups of people from different genetic backgrounds, then ask them to supergroup the colours. Aqua (for instance) is viewed as either green or blue or separate depending on the person.
We can measure photonic input to retina and where that fires up the brain, but we still aren't entirely sure of the links from the input process to the memory-recognition of the colour.
Neuroscience has a ways to go yet..
No it's morally difference, since the "effects" of these treatments are passed into the next generations...
Having said that, I think we've just generated a test for determining who should be allowed into the morality debate...
Really? So their children who inherit the defects that are caused by the "cure" shouldn't have their rights considered?
Wait 'til that lawsuit comes out and see if that's all that really matters.
Only partially true.
My colourblind eyes prevent me from being a tank driver (spew!), but i've wired up plenty of trailers. Any bans against colourblind electricians (assuming you are from the US??) doesn't carry to the rest of the world.
And I can figure out resister codes fine thanks (or did when we did electronics in primary school)...
Its just finding flowers in trees that proves to be a problem.
http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/aboutcb.asp
red-green colourblind too, and i've heard the same rumour. apparently it's not true, but then i believe (based on personal experience) that i do see better in the dark
perhaps I just like the dark...
no /. credit
"Free will" or "Without free will" are human concepts that cannot accurately be applied to a concept supernatural in origin.
ooops.
there goes the time-space continuum.
GW problem solved.
Dandelion stew!!!!
try adding bubbles at 1 per million parts...
awwww snap!
Yeah, but then how would they invade the ocean....
i'm in for that!
So, basically, they're gonna remake The Getaway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Getaway_(video_game)
not a bad game that one
the dutchmen hate.... coffee.
and hate the tourists who... drink it.
hehe there could be a random art-gallery security guard attack whenever you wander into a ... coffehouse.
Yep, security could be enforced if we made people walk into a bank with two forms of photo-id before they could do anything....
OnLine banking user: "Wha? Hey, come back with my netbook you freak!"
OnLine banking user2: "No officer, there doesn't seem to be anything missing, but my door has been broken down, and my netbook moved..."
Seriously, good way to make people easy targets.
Mind if I ask what you were sourcing?
My family business (metal manufacturing in Oz) sources from India; and get decent-quality raw steel casting, but every time we try and get steel products from China they send us sh*t that fails safety standards.
never happen. china has an infinite supply of workers ready to grind themselves into the ground to put $ on the pockets of execs back in the US. that's just too sweet a deal for US corporations to pass up.
Bullshit, China has a labour shortage http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/business/global/27yuan.html
Countries don't (and shouldn't) have friends.
Friends put other friends feeling and needs before their own. If a Government ever did this they would be failing at their job.
Aussie speaking, very happy to have the USA as allies.
Funny, my money is on the US (still the largest economy in the world). If the EU successfully transforms into a genuine free-economic zone they'll threaten the US for dominance. China has a history of revolutions, and India a bureaucratic mess.
Say what you like about economies, as long as you spend half of the world military spending in one army, you'll remain on top.
Watch Brazil tho'.
Nope, Taiwan is the traditional ruler of China. China only ruled Taiwan for approx. 8 years before ceding it in perpetuity to Japan in 1895.
Japan was stripped of Taiwan after WWII and the Chinese were asked to manage it until the UN could help implement independence, which ended after 2 years when Kai-Shek invaded after being kicked out of China.
http://www.taiwandc.org/history.htm
algorithms aren't patentable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patentable_subject_matter#The_algorithm_exception_and_the_patent-eligibility_trilogy since they are considered to be abstract maths that predate their own discovery
No Sierra. Bad.
No Pac-Man? I realise that this is a home gaming list, but c'mon pacman should be there.
Zork? precursor to NW.
Bard's Tale? set the trend for 1st person RPGs for years to come.