The placebo effect works because pain is not an aspect of reality; it is created by the body for the brain. Pain is useful and helps with survival, but it is generated by the nerves, not by the knife that cuts the skin. If the biological body is what creates pain, then in some instances, the body can not make it also.
Reason the placebo effect doesn't work for everyone is probably similar to whatever the reason is that the same drug doesn't work with the same effectiveness on each and every individual.
I Robot the movie was the only movie I've seen that was better than the book (a collection of short stories).
Asimov was prolific. That is not the same as good. He's the one who gave SF popular stories with cardboard characters.
I look forward to new stories. If they aren't good, they won't besmirch the Robot series much because we still have Asimov's legacy. If they are good, then we get new stories, and maybe even characters we might care about.
My bosses are absolutely convinced that thin client technology instead of laptops will cut down on connection costs.
Their 'reasoning' is too bizarre to get around so all I can do is document that adding more connections 'probably' will not cut down on the company's connection costs.
The problem with newspapers is that they wish to provide news but people only want to receive entertainment. As newspapers increased their circulation, they increased the entertainment portions of their paper and eventually they ended up competing with radio, television and the music industry and making all their profits off classified ads instead of display ads.
They cannot fix the issue because if they drop entertainment (comix, horoscope, sudoku), they lose what they refer to as 'readers' so they cut the news instead (to keep circulation dollars for a short time) and end up losing the only customers who have few places to go for real news. It's a death spiral after that.
When Flash had a few issues a couple months ago, I removed it from my browser. Suddenly, thousands of irritating advertisements and web banners and annoying intro pages of pointless information were blank with only a notice to install flash player.
Remove it from one browser and see if it doesn't make surfing better for you.
If we can find enough energy someplace to provide a constant one G acceleration from an engine, we can get to Mars in 3-5 days.
Sounds like the microbes are telling us we need to explore in the energy direction.
The problem with weapons of any sort (including back doors) is that they work both ways.
We here in America will get burned by the exact same behavior.
Those who think we can trust only Americans to do right forget 1) about little Timmy McVeigh, Oklahoma City bomber and
2) George Washington, our revered first president, was a terrorist and revolutionary first.
Check out dyslexia if you want to consider lingual differences. Richard Lederer in one of his many books said there are about 80 different sounds we make., In Spanish, there are 200 ways to spell those sounds, in French, there are 300, in English, there are 1100.
English has more of an issue with dyslexia than Spanish speakers do. Those are medical facts you can check across the spelling spectrum.
One of the things we do that solves a lot of issues is that every night we export our production data to a file, zip it, stash it a few places,
and then we copy it to our Test site, drop the db and reload all the data.
Tells us fer sure the export was good and it makes sure we work on live data. Another thing it guarantees is that you will write the correct scripts to make any db changes on production because you have to make those changes every day on test until they go live.
One of my co-workers suggested it a few years a go and I wouldn't go any other way.Making a backup is only half the solution. Guaranteeing the restore is the entire solution.
I work for the government and there are two issues there. One is that we already have 3 initiatives in my 110,000 employee Department to consolidate into data centers. Unfortunately, these directives come from three different levels and mandate consolidation at 3 different centers (to be built).
That is the second issue. Saving money is not cost-effective in the Federal Government. Despite what they teach in civics class about the separation of powers, Congress approves each Department's budget along with line items for particular Agencies and Programs. They have their fingers dug deep into the process and if you can build a data center named for a congresscritter, then you will get funding for it whether it is ever used or not. In addition, you will get funding for the job you're actually supposed to perform so it is cost-effective for the Agency to pander to the politician.
OTOH, if you save money, it is merely removed from next year's budget since you obviously didn't need it.
So what's going to actually happen is that folks will roll down all their windows when they take a call while driving and then roll them back when they hang up their cell phone. Because they are talking, they'll forget to turn off the A/C so this new regulation combined with actual physics means more energy will be used.
But it's California so it's got to be a good idea since the intentions of the populace are correct.
Everything costs something. I'm still concerned about nuclear waste. If you think about our global warming problem, it is actually the problem of dealing with the waste from burning gasoline. Water pollution is essentially dealing with human and industrial waste. People slough off the waste problem even as they deal with the one they inherit from the grandparents.
The author doesn't go back far enough if he can't find any usefulness deriving from copyrights. At the risk of protecting the RIAA (they abuse the law and its intent), the song Oh Susannah was the #1 hit of 1840 and because of the money it made, there was a huge lawsuit over who got all those entertainment dollars. Without copyright, there wouldn't have been all the money that supported Foster to write more songs, there would simply have been a lot of bad copies. Linux anyone?
If Gartner says it, we all _know_ it will come true just like almost 0.0000000001% of their predictions usually do.
I develop in Android and like it, but think Gartner is still full of feces.
The problem with using dna to determine tribal or racial characteristics is the statistics. The differences between dna of members WITHIN a race or culture are far larger than the difference in the average dna of two members of different races or tibes.
The impossibility of using dna as a determinant has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with statistics.
The disproving of extremophiles is also filled with unexamined assumptions. There is an entire colony of organisms around the vents, an ecosystem so-to-speak, and without the ecosystem, the entire place dies, but the ecosystem is _not_ closed. (Do they use any gasses or nutrients from the surrounding water?)
We will never find a single instance of species, we are only going to find Life as an ecosystem. that's all that Gaia means.
You'll never find a single planet. It's only a planet if it's part of a star system. If it ain't, it's just a large rock or failed star.
James Lovelock wrote the Gaia Hypothesis AFTER being hired by NASA to invent equipment to search for life on Mars. He studied life and realized that you could find evidence of it by spectrography. The extremophiles on Earth cannot last more than a few generations without the recycling and delivery services performed by the rest of 'life.' Life is an interpendent group thing and not merely a single biological specimen loitering in a cave as the rusting of rocks removes oxygen from the atmosphere.
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The placebo effect works because pain is not an aspect of reality; it is created by the body for the brain. Pain is useful and helps with survival, but it is generated by the nerves, not by the knife that cuts the skin. If the biological body is what creates pain, then in some instances, the body can not make it also.
Reason the placebo effect doesn't work for everyone is probably similar to whatever the reason is that the same drug doesn't work with the same effectiveness on each and every individual.
I Robot the movie was the only movie I've seen that was better than the book (a collection of short stories).
Asimov was prolific. That is not the same as good. He's the one who gave SF popular stories with cardboard characters.
I look forward to new stories. If they aren't good, they won't besmirch the Robot series much because we still have Asimov's legacy. If they are good, then we get new stories, and maybe even characters we might care about.
My bosses are absolutely convinced that thin client technology instead of laptops will cut down on connection costs.
Their 'reasoning' is too bizarre to get around so all I can do is document that adding more connections 'probably' will not cut down on the company's connection costs.
The problem with newspapers is that they wish to provide news but people only want to receive entertainment. As newspapers increased their circulation, they increased the entertainment portions of their paper and eventually they ended up competing with radio, television and the music industry and making all their profits off classified ads instead of display ads.
They cannot fix the issue because if they drop entertainment (comix, horoscope, sudoku), they lose what they refer to as 'readers' so they cut the news instead (to keep circulation dollars for a short time) and end up losing the only customers who have few places to go for real news. It's a death spiral after that.
When Flash had a few issues a couple months ago, I removed it from my browser. Suddenly, thousands of irritating advertisements and web banners and annoying intro pages of pointless information were blank with only a notice to install flash player.
Remove it from one browser and see if it doesn't make surfing better for you.
If we can find enough energy someplace to provide a constant one G acceleration from an engine, we can get to Mars in 3-5 days. Sounds like the microbes are telling us we need to explore in the energy direction.
The problem with weapons of any sort (including back doors) is that they work both ways. We here in America will get burned by the exact same behavior.
Those who think we can trust only Americans to do right forget 1) about little Timmy McVeigh, Oklahoma City bomber and 2) George Washington, our revered first president, was a terrorist and revolutionary first.
Check out dyslexia if you want to consider lingual differences. Richard Lederer in one of his many books said there are about 80 different sounds we make., In Spanish, there are 200 ways to spell those sounds, in French, there are 300, in English, there are 1100.
English has more of an issue with dyslexia than Spanish speakers do. Those are medical facts you can check across the spelling spectrum.
One of the things we do that solves a lot of issues is that every night we export our production data to a file, zip it, stash it a few places,
and then we copy it to our Test site, drop the db and reload all the data.
Tells us fer sure the export was good and it makes sure we work on live data.
Another thing it guarantees is that you will write the correct scripts to make any db changes on production because you have to make those changes every day on test until they go live.
One of my co-workers suggested it a few years a go and I wouldn't go any other way.Making a backup is only half the solution. Guaranteeing the restore is the entire solution.
I work for the government and there are two issues there. One is that we already have 3 initiatives in my 110,000 employee Department to consolidate into data centers. Unfortunately, these directives come from three different levels and mandate consolidation at 3 different centers (to be built).
That is the second issue. Saving money is not cost-effective in the Federal Government. Despite what they teach in civics class about the separation of powers, Congress approves each Department's budget along with line items for particular Agencies and Programs. They have their fingers dug deep into the process and if you can build a data center named for a congresscritter, then you will get funding for it whether it is ever used or not. In addition, you will get funding for the job you're actually supposed to perform so it is cost-effective for the Agency to pander to the politician.
OTOH, if you save money, it is merely removed from next year's budget since you obviously didn't need it.
So what's going to actually happen is that folks will roll down all their windows when they take a call while driving and then roll them back when they hang up their cell phone. Because they are talking, they'll forget to turn off the A/C so this new regulation combined with actual physics means more energy will be used.
But it's California so it's got to be a good idea since the intentions of the populace are correct.
Everything costs something. I'm still concerned about nuclear waste. If you think about our global warming problem, it is actually the problem of dealing with the waste from burning gasoline. Water pollution is essentially dealing with human and industrial waste. People slough off the waste problem even as they deal with the one they inherit from the grandparents.
How could Microsoft damage their reputation? That's like saying George W Bush could be more inept. Once you're at rockbottom, you cannot go lower.
Make a bootable Ubuntu click drive and boot your windoze PC from it to do on-line banking. If you dare.
The author doesn't go back far enough if he can't find any usefulness deriving from copyrights. At the risk of protecting the RIAA (they abuse the law and its intent), the song Oh Susannah was the #1 hit of 1840 and because of the money it made, there was a huge lawsuit over who got all those entertainment dollars. Without copyright, there wouldn't have been all the money that supported Foster to write more songs, there would simply have been a lot of bad copies. Linux anyone?
Gartner is the National Enquirer of the computer trade magazine industry. It's the bottom half of management that keeps them in business.
If Gartner says it, we all _know_ it will come true just like almost 0.0000000001% of their predictions usually do. I develop in Android and like it, but think Gartner is still full of feces.
I think you might want a section using L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics to demonstrate how many folks have a hard time distinguishing fiction from fact.
The problem with using dna to determine tribal or racial characteristics is the statistics. The differences between dna of members WITHIN a race or culture are far larger than the difference in the average dna of two members of different races or tibes.
The impossibility of using dna as a determinant has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with statistics.
"According to this guy [wsj.com], they aren't particularly organized and have nothing much in common other than they are unhappy with the world, "
Sounds like the Republican Party.
OTOH, as an anti-Republican, I like the idea that the party is working off incorrect measurements as well as incorrect assumptions.
The disproving of extremophiles is also filled with unexamined assumptions. There is an entire colony of organisms around the vents, an ecosystem so-to-speak, and without the ecosystem, the entire place dies, but the ecosystem is _not_ closed. (Do they use any gasses or nutrients from the surrounding water?) We will never find a single instance of species, we are only going to find Life as an ecosystem. that's all that Gaia means. You'll never find a single planet. It's only a planet if it's part of a star system. If it ain't, it's just a large rock or failed star.
Admins are NOT in charge. See Terry Childs
James Lovelock wrote the Gaia Hypothesis AFTER being hired by NASA to invent equipment to search for life on Mars. He studied life and realized that you could find evidence of it by spectrography. The extremophiles on Earth cannot last more than a few generations without the recycling and delivery services performed by the rest of 'life.' Life is an interpendent group thing and not merely a single biological specimen loitering in a cave as the rusting of rocks removes oxygen from the atmosphere.
how much does data weigh? I'm sure the 1's are heavier than the 0's....
Wrong. 0's are heavier than 1's. They're fatter.