We do have drugs that affect one, some, or all of them. Norepinephrine is made from epinephrine which is made from dopamine and you can inhibit the cascade in multiple places. The problem is that they do so many different things manipulating them to have a positive benefit is very tricky. The same goes for serotonin, SSRI's have that first S for selective by necessity, it allows them to have some positive benefit but they are also very mild as anti-depressants go. When you start increasing serotonin throughout the CNS in a non-selective way you end up with something akin to the street drug LSD.
Also a slight correction, and I'm not trying to be a jerk, but they are neurotransmitters (NT) not enzymes. It can be a very important difference in that enzymes catalyze reactions while NT's generally act as ligands for receptors.
Actually, if you bothered to think before replying you would have realized that science has not only caught up but has also surpassed the book since an ATOM is smaller than a MOLECULE.
I think you are mistaking molecule (at least two atoms joined together) for atom. His blades in the book were very sharp glass that was 1 sheet of molecules thick. This point is 1 atom, that's by definition sharper.
Well you have the nature camp and the nurture camp. Most researches believe behavior is some combination of the two not some mutually exlusive system. There is much evidence for both sides, just look at any set of seperated identical twin studies.
Very possible, I could see constantly exposing a developing brain to every new (toy, gadget, thing) might cause changes similar to that seen in drug addicts. There would be elevated MAO to get rid of the excess dopamine which was being released and then when the stimulation of new toys was cut off a resulting excessive down regulation of dopamine would cause some type of withdraw symptoms. This is somewhat of a strech, just as being addicted to video games and the internet is a strech, still its plausable.
There are ways to cut the levels, MAOI drugs which inhibit MAO's from breaking down the monoanime neurotransmitters (dopamine, epinephrine, serotonin) are pretty powerful anti-depressants. Unfortunately they have some very unfriendly reactions with other meds as well as side effects and increased health risks. MAO's do so much more than just make you want new stuff.
Before it was, tell all the parents their child has ADD/ADHD and that's why he/she wont sit still or pay attention in class. Now doctors will be saying that the kids need all this new stuff and throw temper tantrums because of their genetically elevated monoamine oxidase A and not that they are spoiled/greedy/etc.
Actually, I would think that with 10.2B shares outstanding http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT the fine of 280M could actually do some damage. They are expected to earn about 30 cent per share http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ae?s=MSFT. 280M Euro = ~ $357M US so dividing by the number of shares it comes out to a loss of ~3.5 cents per share. That's a 10% earnings miss for the quarter of record, something wallstreet could care about.
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A dual ISDN line would have been roughly 128 kbps or 16 KB/sec.
"In 21st Century China, just swap out Mao ideology with material success."
"material success" would indicate movement toward some type of capitalistic system. I'm not trying to argue what system is or isn't better, that didn't seem to be the point of the article. I was just making the point that the current regime might not want to build more universities for fear of speeding up the growth of opposition to communism.
I think that the government would be against opening more schools. It seems that the more educated a society as a whole becomes, the more political opposition to oppression there would be. I met quite a few graduate students from China when I was in school and I will always remember something this one TA told my EE2 lab. He said that almost no one in the higher education system supported communism. They all had to take classes and tests on the subject and that was the only area where everyone was completelty disinterested and large scale cheating was completely overlooked. I'm not saying that everyone who goes on to university will automatically fight the government but I think there is a history of more education leading to that sort of thing.
You can't say for sure they made it 3-spread in UT:2003 because it was overpowered in UT. It is a totally different game engine with many different features. This is like saying nintendo must have thought links sword was underpowered in the original nintendo because they gave link a power spin move in Zelda: A Link to the Past. That is simply not the case, they just had a different game which they molded the items/moves specifically to fit. Had there been a patch released for UT which changed the spread then you might have a leg to stand on.
Any article that characterizes bit torrent as just a popular "internet video service" loses quality points IMO. The rest of the article seems pretty straight forward but if the author can't be bothered to find out what bit torrent really is when he's talking about Bram Cohen that raises a red flag.
So you think going into space to help avoid the possibility of human extinction, which could stem from a multitude of different scenarios that we can't even imagine, is a bad idea because we should just fix our problems (even the ones we don't know about)? Then you go on to suggest we leave for a "positive reason" such as solving an over population problem. Isn't this in opposition of your point that we shouldn't use leaving to solve problems? Maybe you don't think overpopulation is a solvable problem, and yet you seem sure that all the other ones must be?
MS has basically stopped supporting pre-2000 so why shouldn't firefox? Anyone using their computer to browse the web with firefox should probably make sure they have 2000 or better just to keep the nasties out of their system.
The most inaccurate statment in that whole press release (of which there are many) is when they call "The Poseidon Adventure" a blockbuster! Seriously, that movie wont even make the directors salary back while it's in theatres.
That is a totally false analogy. Radiation has been shown to act in a cumulative manner. So exposing someone to 100 units in a second is the same as exposing them to 1 unit over 100 seconds. Therefore, in your analogy listening to 1000 hours of 1 dB music would equate to 1 hour of 1000 dB music if it were radiation.
I'll bet you drive a nice big gas guzzling SUV, leave your windows open with the A/C on and never ever turn off lights in your house. Just because you do all that doesn't mean the rest of us don't think its stupid and certainly huge companies that buy thousands of CPU's care about power consumption.
but a year later they will revive the line with the Core 2 Duo GT Ultimate Edition. Sadly, this one will contain a hidden portion of transistors that resembles a scantily clad woman thus causing Jack Thompson and his lackeys to file end endless stream of lawsuits. Well atleast there wont be any lack of discussion topics for slashdot!
Now just combine this technology with a very flexible lightweight display technology and you can get very close to and invisibility suit or atleast really great camouflage.
But then you also must believe in some things that fly in the face of science. (i.e. the earth being created in 7 days, adam & eve, a boat that holds 2 of every kind of life, etc.) Whether or not you accept some science I think the point he was making is that you still must have some beliefs based in faith, which generally makes them unsound scientifically and that when science starts questioning those things you will fight it tooth and nail.
Except the vendor section with AMD specifically says "Special Advertising Section". It makes clear to the reader that the section is paid for and they can read through with that bias in mind. On the other hand, I have never seen one of those front page game articles mention that the game maker paid to have it highlighted. When I see a game site put big headlines up for a game I would assume that they really think highly of the game and want to inform their readers.
If she thought that was the real problem, why not get rid of the wifi or whatever network connections in the class? The problem is obviously the typing of notes but I think that making students write with pen and paper is not going to increase any eye contact. The laptop just seems like an easy target for the prof's frustration at her students.
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We do have drugs that affect one, some, or all of them. Norepinephrine is made from epinephrine which is made from dopamine and you can inhibit the cascade in multiple places. The problem is that they do so many different things manipulating them to have a positive benefit is very tricky. The same goes for serotonin, SSRI's have that first S for selective by necessity, it allows them to have some positive benefit but they are also very mild as anti-depressants go. When you start increasing serotonin throughout the CNS in a non-selective way you end up with something akin to the street drug LSD.
Also a slight correction, and I'm not trying to be a jerk, but they are neurotransmitters (NT) not enzymes. It can be a very important difference in that enzymes catalyze reactions while NT's generally act as ligands for receptors.
Actually, if you bothered to think before replying you would have realized that science has not only caught up but has also surpassed the book since an ATOM is smaller than a MOLECULE.
I think you are mistaking molecule (at least two atoms joined together) for atom. His blades in the book were very sharp glass that was 1 sheet of molecules thick. This point is 1 atom, that's by definition sharper.
Well you have the nature camp and the nurture camp. Most researches believe behavior is some combination of the two not some mutually exlusive system. There is much evidence for both sides, just look at any set of seperated identical twin studies.
Very possible, I could see constantly exposing a developing brain to every new (toy, gadget, thing) might cause changes similar to that seen in drug addicts. There would be elevated MAO to get rid of the excess dopamine which was being released and then when the stimulation of new toys was cut off a resulting excessive down regulation of dopamine would cause some type of withdraw symptoms. This is somewhat of a strech, just as being addicted to video games and the internet is a strech, still its plausable.
There are ways to cut the levels, MAOI drugs which inhibit MAO's from breaking down the monoanime neurotransmitters (dopamine, epinephrine, serotonin) are pretty powerful anti-depressants. Unfortunately they have some very unfriendly reactions with other meds as well as side effects and increased health risks. MAO's do so much more than just make you want new stuff.
Before it was, tell all the parents their child has ADD/ADHD and that's why he/she wont sit still or pay attention in class. Now doctors will be saying that the kids need all this new stuff and throw temper tantrums because of their genetically elevated monoamine oxidase A and not that they are spoiled/greedy/etc.
Actually, I would think that with 10.2B shares outstanding http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT the fine of 280M could actually do some damage. They are expected to earn about 30 cent per share http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ae?s=MSFT. 280M Euro = ~ $357M US so dividing by the number of shares it comes out to a loss of ~3.5 cents per share. That's a 10% earnings miss for the quarter of record, something wallstreet could care about.
A dual ISDN line would have been roughly 128 kbps or 16 KB/sec.
Exactly!
"In 21st Century China, just swap out Mao ideology with material success."
"material success" would indicate movement toward some type of capitalistic system. I'm not trying to argue what system is or isn't better, that didn't seem to be the point of the article. I was just making the point that the current regime might not want to build more universities for fear of speeding up the growth of opposition to communism.
I think that the government would be against opening more schools. It seems that the more educated a society as a whole becomes, the more political opposition to oppression there would be. I met quite a few graduate students from China when I was in school and I will always remember something this one TA told my EE2 lab. He said that almost no one in the higher education system supported communism. They all had to take classes and tests on the subject and that was the only area where everyone was completelty disinterested and large scale cheating was completely overlooked. I'm not saying that everyone who goes on to university will automatically fight the government but I think there is a history of more education leading to that sort of thing.
You can't say for sure they made it 3-spread in UT:2003 because it was overpowered in UT. It is a totally different game engine with many different features. This is like saying nintendo must have thought links sword was underpowered in the original nintendo because they gave link a power spin move in Zelda: A Link to the Past. That is simply not the case, they just had a different game which they molded the items/moves specifically to fit. Had there been a patch released for UT which changed the spread then you might have a leg to stand on.
Any article that characterizes bit torrent as just a popular "internet video service" loses quality points IMO. The rest of the article seems pretty straight forward but if the author can't be bothered to find out what bit torrent really is when he's talking about Bram Cohen that raises a red flag.
So you think going into space to help avoid the possibility of human extinction, which could stem from a multitude of different scenarios that we can't even imagine, is a bad idea because we should just fix our problems (even the ones we don't know about)? Then you go on to suggest we leave for a "positive reason" such as solving an over population problem. Isn't this in opposition of your point that we shouldn't use leaving to solve problems? Maybe you don't think overpopulation is a solvable problem, and yet you seem sure that all the other ones must be?
MS has basically stopped supporting pre-2000 so why shouldn't firefox? Anyone using their computer to browse the web with firefox should probably make sure they have 2000 or better just to keep the nasties out of their system.
The most inaccurate statment in that whole press release (of which there are many) is when they call "The Poseidon Adventure" a blockbuster! Seriously, that movie wont even make the directors salary back while it's in theatres.
That is a totally false analogy. Radiation has been shown to act in a cumulative manner. So exposing someone to 100 units in a second is the same as exposing them to 1 unit over 100 seconds. Therefore, in your analogy listening to 1000 hours of 1 dB music would equate to 1 hour of 1000 dB music if it were radiation.
I'll bet you drive a nice big gas guzzling SUV, leave your windows open with the A/C on and never ever turn off lights in your house. Just because you do all that doesn't mean the rest of us don't think its stupid and certainly huge companies that buy thousands of CPU's care about power consumption.
but a year later they will revive the line with the Core 2 Duo GT Ultimate Edition. Sadly, this one will contain a hidden portion of transistors that resembles a scantily clad woman thus causing Jack Thompson and his lackeys to file end endless stream of lawsuits. Well atleast there wont be any lack of discussion topics for slashdot!
Now just combine this technology with a very flexible lightweight display technology and you can get very close to and invisibility suit or atleast really great camouflage.
So this thing is a "force field" against projectiles like my umbrella is a force field against rain?
Won't the key to defeating this be to use weapons that are faster than its reaction speed?
But then you also must believe in some things that fly in the face of science. (i.e. the earth being created in 7 days, adam & eve, a boat that holds 2 of every kind of life, etc.) Whether or not you accept some science I think the point he was making is that you still must have some beliefs based in faith, which generally makes them unsound scientifically and that when science starts questioning those things you will fight it tooth and nail.
Except the vendor section with AMD specifically says "Special Advertising Section". It makes clear to the reader that the section is paid for and they can read through with that bias in mind. On the other hand, I have never seen one of those front page game articles mention that the game maker paid to have it highlighted. When I see a game site put big headlines up for a game I would assume that they really think highly of the game and want to inform their readers.
I think they are looking at the success of Geometry Wars and hoping to capitalize on something like that.
If she thought that was the real problem, why not get rid of the wifi or whatever network connections in the class? The problem is obviously the typing of notes but I think that making students write with pen and paper is not going to increase any eye contact. The laptop just seems like an easy target for the prof's frustration at her students.