I suspect cognitive decline starts somewhere in early childhood. Babies are smarter than you imagine. From my own personal experience, I may "know" more now than I ever have, but my brain doesn't work nearly as well as it did when I was a child. Think about all the things you had already learned by your first birthday (and you spent most of that year sleeping). Once I began talking it only took me a year or so to have a functional grasp on the english language (which is a ridiculously difficult language to learn). If there was a way to teach a baby about quantum mechanics, I'm pretty sure he'd have this whole unification thing figured out before middle school.
the real problem is the news. Almost every news outlet is regurgitating the exact same story handed down from some corporate office. There is no more journalism, because journalists aren't allowed to think for themselves. Their opinions have already been written for them and entered into the teleprompter. If you'd like a laugh, google "conan o'brien push the envelope" and you can watch newscasters from across the country reading the exact same dialogue. Every corporation has an agenda. Be it product placements or rigging elections, those who control the media will use it to their advantage.
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
I haven't read anything about this particular treatment; so I have no idea if it holds any promise whatsoever, or if it truly is just a scam. In reading everyone's replies though, I have to ask why everyone is so quick to dismiss alternative medicine altogether. Sure, I'm willing to admit there are lots of people trying to turn a quick buck by selling you sugar pills, but that doesn't mean we should immediately dismiss everything without an FDA seal stamped on it. The truth is, the FDA is under the thumb of big pharma's lobbyists. Pharmaceutical companies are only worried about making a pill that they can patent and sell; how well it works is secondary. If they find that chewing some roots will relieve a headache, they will guess which compound is responsible and synthesize it at the highest levels they can get away with before the side effects become too great. They're not worried about multiple compounds acting and counteracting in harmony. They just want something patentable. Until they have that patent, they will label those roots as shamanism. Who are you going to believe: some witchdoctor smeared with goat blood, or these smiling scientists in lab coats? Any studies into the benefits of said roots will be labeled as pseudoscience and snake oil. Meanwhile they're rushing Tuberex through clinical trials and falsifying documents for the FDA. Again, I'm not supporting Burzynski or his clinic. Rather, I'm just addressing a mindset I seem to be seeing among commenters. Remember that "science" doesn't know everything, nor does it claim to. I'm not saying you should believe things without proof, but don't dismiss them outright either. "I'm not sure" is an acceptable stance.
It sounds like you just want a good point-and-shoot camera. I suggest something in the Canon SX line. I have an SX130is that does everything a novice would need. Good resolution, good image quality, and a decent optical zoom. I've owned a couple in this same line (one got left in Vegas). A brand new one will run around $250, or you can usually find last year's model for under $200. I got both of mine on sale for around $170. I've looked into the bigger SX30 or SX40, but for that price you might as well buy a cheap rebel DSLR (which is what I'll get next time).
The first thing that pops into mind is strapping phones to RC cars and ferrets. I'm sure there is something better though. Someone come up with a tech solution that's only borderline illegal. GO GO GO!
I've set up a few LAMP/WAMP stacks recently. I began with almost no web experience (other than writing HTML back in high school), but a fairly broad knowledge of nix/win administration. I recommend starting with some small project. I began with out of the box blogs, forums, intranets, etc. You can re-purpose some POS from your closet, or try some of the virtual environments. I started with WAMP since I thought it would be easier, but after tinkering around, I actually prefer linux. I've also found MySQL easy and adequate for just about everything I've had to do. Play around and you'll find your preferences along the way. Just sharpen your google-fu and dive right in on something. I've actually found it quite surprising how incredibly easy it was to set up some projects, and how little kinks can turn a simple project into a mess. Also, look into hosting solutions. Most come with SQL and many of your PHP apps come with fairly idiot-proof installers.
Why do we care if we seed life on a dead planet? That actually sounds quite awesome. I guess it's problematic for whoever tries to eventually establish a base there, but screw those guys. They already have the deck stacked against them, might as well add horribly mutated alien flu to the list of dangers.
So this one drug finds ANY cell infected with ANY virus and kills it? That sounds dangerous as hell. Aren't viral infections partially responsible for genetic mutations vital to evolution. I don't know of any specific examples in our own genome; but isn't bee venom, for instance, derived partially from bits of genetic code from a virus. Who knows what leaps in evolution were fueled by snippets of viral DNA being incorporated with its hosts'. I think I'd like more information on this specific type of RNA that it targets. I smell a zombie apocalypse coming on.
A college friend had a Sparc cluster in his closet that did a great job heating his small apartment. Between my big screen, my air cooled rig, and body heat I've never turned the heater on in my own apartment. Of course, Texas winters aren't exactly on par with the rest of the country.
Is there a reason why you can't have both? NFC is great for its simplicity. It makes perfect sense for quick transactions of small amounts of data (making payments, syncing devices, sending contacts, etc), but it's slow. Bluetooth, because of its speed and range, makes more sense for larger data transfers and pairing to devices like headsets or your car stereo. As for the hassle of pairing devices (though i don't see typing "1111" as much of a hassle), integrate the two and use NFC to set up pairing between bluetooth devices. Better yet, someone find a way to integrate both into a single transceiver and optimize power consumption.
Y'know what, fuck it. If the "terrorists" are willing to go to such great lengths to blow up a plane, then let them have it. At that point they deserve it. Downing an airliner would cause no more collateral damage than bombing a bus at rush hour or a restaurant around dinner time. Just to make sure there's no confusion: I'm advocating less security at airports, not free peepee touches at the chinese buffet.
I've got a giant chunk of rock at home that looks very similar. I found it fused to a slab of limestone. It wasn't there one day and the next it was, so I've always assumed it was a meteorite of some sort. I've never really pondered it's origin, I just know that It has yet to grant me any sort of supernatural powers. It weighs roughly 5 lbs, so I guess I'd be willing to part with it for about $138M.
I propose an easy way for senators to decide whether they should back a bill: When legislation is applauded by the MPAA and supported by ISPs, it's probably a STUPID FUCKING IDEA! When the corrupt are cheering you on in your actions, it's probably time to start moving in the opposite direction.
let's just let them have it and soon they'll be bored with it. In the meantime we can find something else to play with. If they've cornered to market on Apps, let's start calling our widgets 'Lications. "Check out all the downloadable content on Amazon's new 'Lication Station."
I can't tell if I'm supposed to flag this as a troll post.
By "restoring the environment which flora previously upset" you mean restoring it to the primordial environment that couldn't support higher forms of life as we know it?
If we were talking pure ethanol, this argument might hold some water. Ethanol requires us to grow plant matter, some of which is converted to fuel and the rest is returned to the soil. So this does have the effect of releasing less carbon from the fuel than the plants used to make the fuel took in. You still have to weigh in energy expense to convert the plants to fuel, but that would still be somewhat better than digging up million year old carbon reserves and releasing it all into the atmosphere like we do now. We're talking about drilling for oil composed of plants and animals that died over several million years, taking all that carbon and burning it in a matter of a few centuries. If we built engines to run specifically on alcohol, they would be far more efficient than anything on the road today. Trying to mix ethanol into petrol is just wreaking havoc on engines that weren't designed with alcohol in mind. Ethanol has a long way to go with all the stupid subsidies, bureaucracy, corn growers (there are much better plants to make ethanol from), and such. at least it would be a step in the right direction though.
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I suspect cognitive decline starts somewhere in early childhood. Babies are smarter than you imagine. From my own personal experience, I may "know" more now than I ever have, but my brain doesn't work nearly as well as it did when I was a child. Think about all the things you had already learned by your first birthday (and you spent most of that year sleeping). Once I began talking it only took me a year or so to have a functional grasp on the english language (which is a ridiculously difficult language to learn). If there was a way to teach a baby about quantum mechanics, I'm pretty sure he'd have this whole unification thing figured out before middle school.
So do employees have to track their intake with some weight-watcheresque point system? If so, do I get my points back if I purge afterward?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEAY445h7uw
the real problem is the news. Almost every news outlet is regurgitating the exact same story handed down from some corporate office. There is no more journalism, because journalists aren't allowed to think for themselves. Their opinions have already been written for them and entered into the teleprompter. If you'd like a laugh, google "conan o'brien push the envelope" and you can watch newscasters from across the country reading the exact same dialogue. Every corporation has an agenda. Be it product placements or rigging elections, those who control the media will use it to their advantage.
You don't necessarily need an absurd amount of power if you're transmitter is physically closer.
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
I haven't read anything about this particular treatment; so I have no idea if it holds any promise whatsoever, or if it truly is just a scam. In reading everyone's replies though, I have to ask why everyone is so quick to dismiss alternative medicine altogether. Sure, I'm willing to admit there are lots of people trying to turn a quick buck by selling you sugar pills, but that doesn't mean we should immediately dismiss everything without an FDA seal stamped on it. The truth is, the FDA is under the thumb of big pharma's lobbyists. Pharmaceutical companies are only worried about making a pill that they can patent and sell; how well it works is secondary. If they find that chewing some roots will relieve a headache, they will guess which compound is responsible and synthesize it at the highest levels they can get away with before the side effects become too great. They're not worried about multiple compounds acting and counteracting in harmony. They just want something patentable. Until they have that patent, they will label those roots as shamanism. Who are you going to believe: some witchdoctor smeared with goat blood, or these smiling scientists in lab coats? Any studies into the benefits of said roots will be labeled as pseudoscience and snake oil. Meanwhile they're rushing Tuberex through clinical trials and falsifying documents for the FDA. Again, I'm not supporting Burzynski or his clinic. Rather, I'm just addressing a mindset I seem to be seeing among commenters. Remember that "science" doesn't know everything, nor does it claim to. I'm not saying you should believe things without proof, but don't dismiss them outright either. "I'm not sure" is an acceptable stance.
It sounds like you just want a good point-and-shoot camera. I suggest something in the Canon SX line. I have an SX130is that does everything a novice would need. Good resolution, good image quality, and a decent optical zoom. I've owned a couple in this same line (one got left in Vegas). A brand new one will run around $250, or you can usually find last year's model for under $200. I got both of mine on sale for around $170. I've looked into the bigger SX30 or SX40, but for that price you might as well buy a cheap rebel DSLR (which is what I'll get next time).
The first thing that pops into mind is strapping phones to RC cars and ferrets. I'm sure there is something better though. Someone come up with a tech solution that's only borderline illegal. GO GO GO!
So I'm not the only one that read that in the silicon life form's voice?
I've set up a few LAMP/WAMP stacks recently. I began with almost no web experience (other than writing HTML back in high school), but a fairly broad knowledge of nix/win administration. I recommend starting with some small project. I began with out of the box blogs, forums, intranets, etc. You can re-purpose some POS from your closet, or try some of the virtual environments. I started with WAMP since I thought it would be easier, but after tinkering around, I actually prefer linux. I've also found MySQL easy and adequate for just about everything I've had to do. Play around and you'll find your preferences along the way. Just sharpen your google-fu and dive right in on something. I've actually found it quite surprising how incredibly easy it was to set up some projects, and how little kinks can turn a simple project into a mess. Also, look into hosting solutions. Most come with SQL and many of your PHP apps come with fairly idiot-proof installers.
Why do we care if we seed life on a dead planet? That actually sounds quite awesome. I guess it's problematic for whoever tries to eventually establish a base there, but screw those guys. They already have the deck stacked against them, might as well add horribly mutated alien flu to the list of dangers.
So this one drug finds ANY cell infected with ANY virus and kills it? That sounds dangerous as hell. Aren't viral infections partially responsible for genetic mutations vital to evolution. I don't know of any specific examples in our own genome; but isn't bee venom, for instance, derived partially from bits of genetic code from a virus. Who knows what leaps in evolution were fueled by snippets of viral DNA being incorporated with its hosts'. I think I'd like more information on this specific type of RNA that it targets. I smell a zombie apocalypse coming on.
...what does it taste like? Surely someone has tried it.
A college friend had a Sparc cluster in his closet that did a great job heating his small apartment. Between my big screen, my air cooled rig, and body heat I've never turned the heater on in my own apartment. Of course, Texas winters aren't exactly on par with the rest of the country.
Is there a reason why you can't have both? NFC is great for its simplicity. It makes perfect sense for quick transactions of small amounts of data (making payments, syncing devices, sending contacts, etc), but it's slow. Bluetooth, because of its speed and range, makes more sense for larger data transfers and pairing to devices like headsets or your car stereo. As for the hassle of pairing devices (though i don't see typing "1111" as much of a hassle), integrate the two and use NFC to set up pairing between bluetooth devices. Better yet, someone find a way to integrate both into a single transceiver and optimize power consumption.
Y'know what, fuck it. If the "terrorists" are willing to go to such great lengths to blow up a plane, then let them have it. At that point they deserve it. Downing an airliner would cause no more collateral damage than bombing a bus at rush hour or a restaurant around dinner time. Just to make sure there's no confusion: I'm advocating less security at airports, not free peepee touches at the chinese buffet.
I've got a giant chunk of rock at home that looks very similar. I found it fused to a slab of limestone. It wasn't there one day and the next it was, so I've always assumed it was a meteorite of some sort. I've never really pondered it's origin, I just know that It has yet to grant me any sort of supernatural powers. It weighs roughly 5 lbs, so I guess I'd be willing to part with it for about $138M.
I propose an easy way for senators to decide whether they should back a bill: When legislation is applauded by the MPAA and supported by ISPs, it's probably a STUPID FUCKING IDEA! When the corrupt are cheering you on in your actions, it's probably time to start moving in the opposite direction.
That's going too far. We need to get back to exploiting children.
let's just let them have it and soon they'll be bored with it. In the meantime we can find something else to play with. If they've cornered to market on Apps, let's start calling our widgets 'Lications. "Check out all the downloadable content on Amazon's new 'Lication Station."
The future of holodecks is looking grim.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2005/feb/12/weekend7.weekend2
everyone used to laugh at me for wearing tinfoil underwear
I can't tell if I'm supposed to flag this as a troll post. By "restoring the environment which flora previously upset" you mean restoring it to the primordial environment that couldn't support higher forms of life as we know it? If we were talking pure ethanol, this argument might hold some water. Ethanol requires us to grow plant matter, some of which is converted to fuel and the rest is returned to the soil. So this does have the effect of releasing less carbon from the fuel than the plants used to make the fuel took in. You still have to weigh in energy expense to convert the plants to fuel, but that would still be somewhat better than digging up million year old carbon reserves and releasing it all into the atmosphere like we do now. We're talking about drilling for oil composed of plants and animals that died over several million years, taking all that carbon and burning it in a matter of a few centuries. If we built engines to run specifically on alcohol, they would be far more efficient than anything on the road today. Trying to mix ethanol into petrol is just wreaking havoc on engines that weren't designed with alcohol in mind. Ethanol has a long way to go with all the stupid subsidies, bureaucracy, corn growers (there are much better plants to make ethanol from), and such. at least it would be a step in the right direction though.