You're absolutely right. I hope no one would take my mention of my disorder and how much certain medication (approved by the FDA for treating it) helped me as scientific proof for treating other people's disorders. If anyone suspects they or their children have AD/HD, they should see their doctors and ask them about the body of scientific evidence behind the disorder and recommended treatments. The same goes for clinical depression, anxiety disorder, aspergers syndrome and chronic migraines. Thank you for the advisory.
Also, I am not a lawyer, and nothing in my posts reflect the views of my employer. Use any information you recieve from my post at your own risk. This poster takes no responsibility for any damage, injury or theft that occurs or is caused by looking at this text. Any resemblance to other posts, living or dead is unintentional and purely coincidental. If rash, irritation, redness or swelling occur, discontinue reading. Do not read while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Batteries not included. May contain nuts.
By "better-regulated", I was saying that the AD/HD users were able to think clearer, as evidenced by various cognitive tests and life experience by many people who went on the drugs. We are our brains.
In AD/HD brains, certain stimulants have been found to actually help better regulate brain activity. Ritalin is the most famous of these. In effect, they do the opposite of what would happen in a normal brain, and slow down the thinking process of a AD/HD-er long enough to let them think before they act, and to concentrate on certain things better. Worked wonders for me as a kid, though at the time all that was available was the non-extended release version. Man, did that throw me off at the end of the dose.
Caffiene has the same effect on many AD/HD brains. When I'm feeling a little too jittery, I grab a cola.
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How would you power it, though? You've got mechanical resistance on each gate, and you hook 1,000 or so of those together, you'd need a lot of force on one end to move the rest of them.
Working with a highly experimental technology, and after seeing what happens when a fission reactor goes wrong, isn't it perhaps a better idea for European scientists to suggest it be put it on a large Island, far, far away from home?
I'm surprised they're not fighting over where it's *not* going to be put.
What's amazing to me is that these scientists conveniently ignore the fact that the Earth's climate was warm enough during a period of time in history, where the ice receeded enough to form a land-bridge between Asia and North America.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. You've got that backwards. The Bering land bridge between Asia and Alaska formed because the Earth had grown cold enough that enough water was trapped up in glaciers that the water level receded, allowing the people to walk across the land below today's sea level. That was a likely drop of about 300 feet.
What's the explaination for that, since most of these scientists believe that we were just a bunch of monkeys during that time
We evolved from a common ancestor to monkeys. Humans didn't fully evolve into their current form until about 100,000 to 150,000 years ago. The Bering bridge last emerged above water about 70,000 years ago.
While probably a good business decision, I'd imagine that the number of Fedora installations is much greater than the number of Red Hat installations, and probably other distributions now outnumber Red Hat also.
Yes, but which product brings in more money? Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux sell for more and bring in more money from support? I'd think that in many companies eyes, the number of installations is less important than whether you're bringing in more money than your competitors.
I don't think that was what she meant. Perhaps sweat would be a more appropriate necessity - instead of staying in front of the computer screen and scanning the internet for information before rehashing it and adding your own opinion, you have to work to find facts that aren't necessarily already posted on the web. Go places, make phone calls, interview people, videotape events, etc. With so few news sources available to bloggers, other than the mainstream media that is generally dismissed as being unreliable, biased and selective by those same bloggers, how can a reporting revolution come about?
You know, global warming isn't necessarily going to warm evenly across the globe. While some areas will definitely get warmer, others might have their environment thrown off kilter in ways that are hard to predict. Here in the Great Lakes region of the USA, we're looking at the unpleasant prospect of more snow and rain from climate change. There is speculation that, if too many glaciers melt into the ocean and the water loses salinity (salt concentration) because of it, the water current in the atlantic "conveyor belt" that brings warm temperatures to the surrounding landmasses will shut down. This means a frosty future for your great-great-great grandchildren. Regardless of such a doomsday scenario, short-term warming in frozen areas isn't all that grand either - the permafrost ground turns to mush. What happens to structures built upon it?
Back to my original point, this is global warming we're talking about. It simply means that when you add up all the temperatures across the planet, the number is higher than the years before. This can mean 3 degrees warmer in Siberia, and 2 degrees colder in southwest Russia.
I don't doubt that many of the people in Russia are against it. Russia hasn't exactly been the world's beacon for representative democracy lately. But just for the record, although it isn't really known who the people who are financially backing Envirotruth.org are, we do know that ExxonMobil was one of the contributors. Keep a few large grains of salt on hand while reading the site.
He said an attendant would retrieve shot animals for the shooters, who could have the heads preserved by a taxidermist.
I'd hate to be an attendant when some net hunter wanders away from the computer, and his young son, thinking it just a video game, takes a second shot.
Personally, I was pleasantly surprised at the lack of any earth-shattering voter irregularities reported.
Let's assume for a moment that the election was either stolen with few fingerprints left, or tons of rampant errors that may have merely made the race a lot closer than it was. Let's assume that the mainstream media is very relieved not to have egg on its face as it did in 2000, and is determined not to go into a fuss over the vote counting like they did in Bush vs. Gore. Let's also assume that there are many small blogs all over the internet screaming bloody murder about how there was voter fraud, but that no mainstream media is willing to report it. The more they cry foul, the more they are dismissed as stubborn conspiratorial kooks.
Would it then be unreasonable to assume that most people would therefore think that the election went fairly and smoothly, with "plenty of hickups, a few thousaand votes lost or misrepresennted here and there, but on the whole, nothing to really put any legitimate dispute as to the overall effect on the outcome of the Presidential Election"?
My favorite part is the wild misconception people have that moore's law has anything to do with speed. His real observation was basically "We're gonna have more space on a chip to cram stuff on there than we know what to do with."
I agree completely that this is a misconception people have. But when you think about it, the idea that if you double the amount of transistors in 18 months, you might very well be doubling speed makes sense. With twice the transistors on today's technology, you could make two chips that, when working on two seperate halves of the same task, could do the full task in half the time. With the right software, a dual processor system can run nearly twice as fast. And isn't that really (beyond megahertz improvements) how computers have gotten faster? More transistors in the same chip doing the same things the core parts do, just in advance.
A friend recently told me he had bought a new 3Ghz Athlon XP, he was ready to take it back to the shop after I explained what the 3000 meant!
I hope you also explained that he got the same, if not more, power as an Intel P4 3GHz, for a cheaper price. It would be silly to educate people about what AMD ratings are not, without explaining what they really are.
Matter attracts matter; this we know. The rest of the theory explains that space attracts space, and matter repels space. Matter and space are polar opposites (as well as logical opposites).
So is it then hypothesized that Space has similar parallels to matter? As certain kinds of matter can attract or repel other matter (electrons, protons), can one kind of space repel another kind of space? It would be interesting if "dark energy" was thought of as "anti-space".
- Further still, Sega's Saturn was released months before the Playstation.
Perhaps not the smartest move by Sega. They released it *way* early (May, expected in November) in the US to get a good jump start on Sony, surprising many of the software developers. Consequently, there wasn't as much software available at launch.
Including compatibility for even crappy games would have been a plus for the Dreamcast. The real reason for a lack of backwards compatibility is that it would not have been practical to make the Dreamcast backward compatible with the Saturn. One of Sega's biggest mistakes with the Saturn was that it designed a dual-CPU system (and a whole slew of other chips, including an extra DSP patched in at the last minute to compete in the 3D arena) where the two CPUs couldn't access memory at the same time. The Dreamcast was a break away from such complexity. Sega worked as hard as possible to make sure the system was easy to program for (Hence, a supply of crappy WindowsCE-based games, which oddly enough don't run on the VGA monitor add-on) to coax third party developers back to the fold.
A good system, really. It would have been the perfect machine for Sega to create a successor with backwards compatibility to.
Apologies for the above post. Slashdot interpreted a "less than" sign as the starting bracket of HTML even in "Plain Old Text" mode. Here it is without the missing text:
) Whats the technical definition of a universe?
Everything.
) Does it include the voids?
Does everything include nothing? You could argue about the double negatives that a "no" answer would lead to, and "yes" wouldn't make much more practical sense. It's sort of like asking if infinity is less than infinity plus 0.
) If so, how does "nothing" expand? How can you describe the shape of nothing?
If it's too much trouble to think of an ever expanding universe, try thinking about an ever shrinking one. You keep the same physical space, but every object in it just keeps shrinking forever. That doesn't help you with your "outside" problem, though.
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it will take 23 1/2 years just to move the neccessary paperwork through the bureaucracy and by then you are basically screwed
Don't worry. Scientists have already started work on a plan to deflect the paperwork so it won't hit the bureaucracy.
and if it hits the middle east we might actually end up with fewer problems. see theres always an upside.
...and if it hits us in the U.S.A., the Middle East might actually end up with fewer problems. There's a flip side to everything, too.
You're absolutely right. I hope no one would take my mention of my disorder and how much certain medication (approved by the FDA for treating it) helped me as scientific proof for treating other people's disorders. If anyone suspects they or their children have AD/HD, they should see their doctors and ask them about the body of scientific evidence behind the disorder and recommended treatments. The same goes for clinical depression, anxiety disorder, aspergers syndrome and chronic migraines. Thank you for the advisory.
Also, I am not a lawyer, and nothing in my posts reflect the views of my employer. Use any information you recieve from my post at your own risk. This poster takes no responsibility for any damage, injury or theft that occurs or is caused by looking at this text. Any resemblance to other posts, living or dead is unintentional and purely coincidental. If rash, irritation, redness or swelling occur, discontinue reading. Do not read while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Batteries not included. May contain nuts.
By "better-regulated", I was saying that the AD/HD users were able to think clearer, as evidenced by various cognitive tests and life experience by many people who went on the drugs. We are our brains.
In AD/HD brains, certain stimulants have been found to actually help better regulate brain activity. Ritalin is the most famous of these. In effect, they do the opposite of what would happen in a normal brain, and slow down the thinking process of a AD/HD-er long enough to let them think before they act, and to concentrate on certain things better. Worked wonders for me as a kid, though at the time all that was available was the non-extended release version. Man, did that throw me off at the end of the dose.
Caffiene has the same effect on many AD/HD brains. When I'm feeling a little too jittery, I grab a cola.
How would you power it, though? You've got mechanical resistance on each gate, and you hook 1,000 or so of those together, you'd need a lot of force on one end to move the rest of them.
Working with a highly experimental technology, and after seeing what happens when a fission reactor goes wrong, isn't it perhaps a better idea for European scientists to suggest it be put it on a large Island, far, far away from home?
I'm surprised they're not fighting over where it's *not* going to be put.
What's amazing to me is that these scientists conveniently ignore the fact that the Earth's climate was warm enough during a period of time in history, where the ice receeded enough to form a land-bridge between Asia and North America.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. You've got that backwards. The Bering land bridge between Asia and Alaska formed because the Earth had grown cold enough that enough water was trapped up in glaciers that the water level receded, allowing the people to walk across the land below today's sea level. That was a likely drop of about 300 feet.
What's the explaination for that, since most of these scientists believe that we were just a bunch of monkeys during that time
We evolved from a common ancestor to monkeys. Humans didn't fully evolve into their current form until about 100,000 to 150,000 years ago. The Bering bridge last emerged above water about 70,000 years ago.
Kyoto will do nothing to actually save us, but it WILL cause a huge amount of resources to be consumed.
What resources? How?
While probably a good business decision, I'd imagine that the number of Fedora installations is much greater than the number of Red Hat installations, and probably other distributions now outnumber Red Hat also.
Yes, but which product brings in more money? Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux sell for more and bring in more money from support? I'd think that in many companies eyes, the number of installations is less important than whether you're bringing in more money than your competitors.
I don't think that was what she meant. Perhaps sweat would be a more appropriate necessity - instead of staying in front of the computer screen and scanning the internet for information before rehashing it and adding your own opinion, you have to work to find facts that aren't necessarily already posted on the web. Go places, make phone calls, interview people, videotape events, etc. With so few news sources available to bloggers, other than the mainstream media that is generally dismissed as being unreliable, biased and selective by those same bloggers, how can a reporting revolution come about?
What has so much data?
I'm sure we could overload it with a good Slashdotting.
You know, global warming isn't necessarily going to warm evenly across the globe. While some areas will definitely get warmer, others might have their environment thrown off kilter in ways that are hard to predict. Here in the Great Lakes region of the USA, we're looking at the unpleasant prospect of more snow and rain from climate change. There is speculation that, if too many glaciers melt into the ocean and the water loses salinity (salt concentration) because of it, the water current in the atlantic "conveyor belt" that brings warm temperatures to the surrounding landmasses will shut down. This means a frosty future for your great-great-great grandchildren. Regardless of such a doomsday scenario, short-term warming in frozen areas isn't all that grand either - the permafrost ground turns to mush. What happens to structures built upon it?
Back to my original point, this is global warming we're talking about. It simply means that when you add up all the temperatures across the planet, the number is higher than the years before. This can mean 3 degrees warmer in Siberia, and 2 degrees colder in southwest Russia.
I don't doubt that many of the people in Russia are against it. Russia hasn't exactly been the world's beacon for representative democracy lately. But just for the record, although it isn't really known who the people who are financially backing Envirotruth.org are, we do know that ExxonMobil was one of the contributors. Keep a few large grains of salt on hand while reading the site.
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He said an attendant would retrieve shot animals for the shooters, who could have the heads preserved by a taxidermist.
I'd hate to be an attendant when some net hunter wanders away from the computer, and his young son, thinking it just a video game, takes a second shot.
Personally, I was pleasantly surprised at the lack of any earth-shattering voter irregularities reported.
Let's assume for a moment that the election was either stolen with few fingerprints left, or tons of rampant errors that may have merely made the race a lot closer than it was. Let's assume that the mainstream media is very relieved not to have egg on its face as it did in 2000, and is determined not to go into a fuss over the vote counting like they did in Bush vs. Gore. Let's also assume that there are many small blogs all over the internet screaming bloody murder about how there was voter fraud, but that no mainstream media is willing to report it. The more they cry foul, the more they are dismissed as stubborn conspiratorial kooks.
Would it then be unreasonable to assume that most people would therefore think that the election went fairly and smoothly, with "plenty of hickups, a few thousaand votes lost or misrepresennted here and there, but on the whole, nothing to really put any legitimate dispute as to the overall effect on the outcome of the Presidential Election"?
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There's several versions of this image floating around on the web - some of them have a source listed as the department of labor.
My favorite part is the wild misconception people have that moore's law has anything to do with speed. His real observation was basically "We're gonna have more space on a chip to cram stuff on there than we know what to do with."
I agree completely that this is a misconception people have. But when you think about it, the idea that if you double the amount of transistors in 18 months, you might very well be doubling speed makes sense. With twice the transistors on today's technology, you could make two chips that, when working on two seperate halves of the same task, could do the full task in half the time. With the right software, a dual processor system can run nearly twice as fast. And isn't that really (beyond megahertz improvements) how computers have gotten faster? More transistors in the same chip doing the same things the core parts do, just in advance.
Many have said it before, and others will say it again - if it displeases you... vote with your wallets.
I'm sure there are people who would like to do just that. Out of curiousity, what companies aren't hiding computer codes from smaller repair shops?
A friend recently told me he had bought a new 3Ghz Athlon XP, he was ready to take it back to the shop after I explained what the 3000 meant!
I hope you also explained that he got the same, if not more, power as an Intel P4 3GHz, for a cheaper price. It would be silly to educate people about what AMD ratings are not, without explaining what they really are.
Matter attracts matter; this we know. The rest of the theory explains that space attracts space, and matter repels space. Matter and space are polar opposites (as well as logical opposites).
So is it then hypothesized that Space has similar parallels to matter? As certain kinds of matter can attract or repel other matter (electrons, protons), can one kind of space repel another kind of space? It would be interesting if "dark energy" was thought of as "anti-space".
- Further still, Sega's Saturn was released months before the Playstation.
Perhaps not the smartest move by Sega. They released it *way* early (May, expected in November) in the US to get a good jump start on Sony, surprising many of the software developers. Consequently, there wasn't as much software available at launch.
We still haven't seen where Itanium does not scale, whereas we know where the x86 has problems (too few registers,
Don't overlook that x86-64 adds 8 new general purpose registers. These are called R8-R15.
Including compatibility for even crappy games would have been a plus for the Dreamcast. The real reason for a lack of backwards compatibility is that it would not have been practical to make the Dreamcast backward compatible with the Saturn. One of Sega's biggest mistakes with the Saturn was that it designed a dual-CPU system (and a whole slew of other chips, including an extra DSP patched in at the last minute to compete in the 3D arena) where the two CPUs couldn't access memory at the same time. The Dreamcast was a break away from such complexity. Sega worked as hard as possible to make sure the system was easy to program for (Hence, a supply of crappy WindowsCE-based games, which oddly enough don't run on the VGA monitor add-on) to coax third party developers back to the fold.
A good system, really. It would have been the perfect machine for Sega to create a successor with backwards compatibility to.
Apologies for the above post. Slashdot interpreted a "less than" sign as the starting bracket of HTML even in "Plain Old Text" mode. Here it is without the missing text:
) Whats the technical definition of a universe?
Everything.
) Does it include the voids?
Does everything include nothing? You could argue about the double negatives that a "no" answer would lead to, and "yes" wouldn't make much more practical sense. It's sort of like asking if infinity is less than infinity plus 0.
) If so, how does "nothing" expand? How can you describe the shape of nothing?
If it's too much trouble to think of an ever expanding universe, try thinking about an ever shrinking one. You keep the same physical space, but every object in it just keeps shrinking forever. That doesn't help you with your "outside" problem, though.