Er, no, maybe it has some capacity to learn the way things move, which surprisingly, after 30-odd years of the same observed behaviour, proves a little hard to unlearn.
Sounds reasonable, but I think you're wrong.
I recall reading (sorry, no cite due to faulty memory) that we don't have to learn to catch; it comes automatically as soon as we can control our limbs properly. Sure, we get better with practise, but we can do it without.
It was assumed that this was due to our "excellent" hand-eye co-ordination, but this experiment seems to show that instead we're predicting the motion in a gravity field. It shouldn't have taken 15 days for the astronauts to learn to adjust if they were really following the movement of the ball.
An example given in the brief article was that a baby placed on a glass table became distressed even though it should know it was going to fall.
The guy doing the experiment is a neuroscientist. I think he would have considered the simpler explanation first, don't you? Just because the article doesn't give a complete account doesn't mean that work wasn't done.
Don't post when you don't know what you're talking about. You could at least have read the article before you started with your "horrible YEC creationists" rubbish.
"Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a mountain in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'."
Well, you're quite right...and I would have modded you up (since I have some points ATM), but I decided not to simply because you posted rudely, instead of pointing out the flaws in his argument politely.
Slashdot is bad enough without relatively low uid posters adding to the noise.
Is there a companion volume for getting your stories accepted by Slashdot?
0. Read the front page of Slashdot
1. Wait till a story if posted by Timothy or Michael
2. Submit the exact same story, but with a different title.
3. Celebrate.
Why do you sue for peace? (I know that is the proper expression, but it is just weird)
Because when you sue for peace you're beseeching the person to stop attacking you. When you sue someone in court, you're beseeching the court to help redress your grievance. I think.
It would have been funny if you'd pretended to be the computer talking to her. It seems from your post that it was clear she knew it was someone who was watching her.
Or maybe I'm just grumpy. Very possibly.
Anyway, what's this about "no one knew computers could send messages to each other"? Hadn't you heard of winpopup? I dunno...kids nowadays:-)
There's a bug in MandrakeUpdate, where if you have an invalid Source in your source list, then it throws up random spurious errors as to why it can't install.
Try removing all the sources except one that you're sure you can connect to (try going there manually if it's ftp, for example), and then reload the list and try again.
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Er, no, maybe it has some capacity to learn the way things move, which surprisingly, after 30-odd years of the same observed behaviour, proves a little hard to unlearn.
Sounds reasonable, but I think you're wrong.
I recall reading (sorry, no cite due to faulty memory) that we don't have to learn to catch; it comes automatically as soon as we can control our limbs properly. Sure, we get better with practise, but we can do it without.
It was assumed that this was due to our "excellent" hand-eye co-ordination, but this experiment seems to show that instead we're predicting the motion in a gravity field. It shouldn't have taken 15 days for the astronauts to learn to adjust if they were really following the movement of the ball.
An example given in the brief article was that a baby placed on a glass table became distressed even though it should know it was going to fall.
The guy doing the experiment is a neuroscientist. I think he would have considered the simpler explanation first, don't you? Just because the article doesn't give a complete account doesn't mean that work wasn't done.
I guess it's this
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I find myself almost appalled at the prospect of all-out memetic warfare waged with state of the art googlebombs.
.sig somewhere :-)
I need to use this as a
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Read this.
Don't post when you don't know what you're talking about. You could at least have read the article before you started with your "horrible YEC creationists" rubbish.
...and then explore the rest of this incredibly cool site.
Thanks for the link, morcheeba.
It's an adaptation of the quote:
"Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a mountain in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'."
from "The Colour of Magic", by Terry Pratchett
Well, you're quite right...and I would have modded you up (since I have some points ATM), but I decided not to simply because you posted rudely, instead of pointing out the flaws in his argument politely.
Slashdot is bad enough without relatively low uid posters adding to the noise.
Is there a companion volume for getting your stories accepted by Slashdot?
0. Read the front page of Slashdot
1. Wait till a story if posted by Timothy or Michael
2. Submit the exact same story, but with a different title.
3. Celebrate.
Older people don't get +2's...
:-)
Ahem!
Why do you sue for peace? (I know that is the proper expression, but it is just weird)
Because when you sue for peace you're beseeching the person to stop attacking you. When you sue someone in court, you're beseeching the court to help redress your grievance. I think.
It would have been funny if you'd pretended to be the computer talking to her. It seems from your post that it was clear she knew it was someone who was watching her.
:-)
Or maybe I'm just grumpy. Very possibly.
Anyway, what's this about "no one knew computers could send messages to each other"? Hadn't you heard of winpopup? I dunno...kids nowadays
Uhh..let me see....you sent messages to a girl pretending to spy on her.
Then you threatened her.
This is funny? And you got modded up....*sigh*...
>>The lunar landings were not fake.
Oh yeah? Explain this then!
'A message from the City of London Police:
There is no intelligence to say the City of London is at risk from attack as in New York and Washington.'
Since so many appear to be slashdotted This is London also has it.
Avoiding the filter, etc, etc
Might as well bring it down a bit more then....
Yeah, that's an excellent idea... ;-)
Probably an early adopter...some of us used to read slashdot before it had user ids....I waited a while to register. :)
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There's a bug in MandrakeUpdate, where if you have an invalid Source in your source list, then it throws up random spurious errors as to why it can't install.
Try removing all the sources except one that you're sure you can connect to (try going there manually if it's ftp, for example), and then reload the list and try again.
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Aaaarrrghhhh!! I can't take any more!
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Yours isn't even a palindrome...
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Eil's post isn't flamebait (as moderated). :-)
The guy did indeed copy and paste from the original (I'll assume he didn't have the ability to 'cut')
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NT has had CreateProcessAsUser since it's creation.
Is there a 'runas' for NT4? I couldn't find it on the MS site...
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"Me too"s and much spam
Dominate mighty Usenet
It must be Autumn...
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