there's already 400 comments so you'll never read this, but for what it's worth, i grew up wanting a career in music, and only had computers as a hobby. hobby meaning, i was into the bbs's in middle school etc, more so than the average person.
i got to college and the music education program sucked the fun right out of music for me, so i looked into the CS track, and that *was* fun. so i kept music as a hobby and turned to computers as my career, and now work as an admin and webmistress for a software development/database solutions company.
and that's what happened to the little band geek... now a computer geek...
Honestly, I think the security is worth it. No one pays attention to car alarms going off anymore. My brand spanking new 2002 Taurus won't start unless you use a special key from the dealership with the computer chip in it. While the car came with 2 keys, it will cost me $80 each for additional keys.
But then, I've never felt the need for a remote starter anyway. I've gotten used to walking outside in my pajamas in the winter to start the car so it can warm up while I get ready for work.
There was about 1 foot visibility driving all evening but I got back up at 4am to check for Leonid activity and it was still pure fog, couldn't see a damn thing.:(
I got up at 4am to watch the meteor storm but it was still extremely foggy. The entire evening there was only about a one foot visibility on the road:(
From what I understand from this page, if you are located at magnetic latitude 50 degrees, the activity level needs to be at 10+ before you can see the Northern Lights. The activity level is currently listed at a 6 and I don't see anywhere saying it's expected to rise in activity. So shouldn't the article say people at 60 degrees and above (not 50) should be able to see the Aurora?
OK that's a little disconcerting. I am a huge fan of hummus, and tabouli. Those are Middle Eastern. And I always use my Giant Eagle swipe card. Are they going to start coming after me?
Are they responsible for the startblaze product review spam as well? I couldn't find anything on their site about it, but it follows the same pattern.
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:04:00
From: Carl Carlson
To: elf@nauticom.net
Subject: Product Review: S t a r t B l a z e
Product Review: S t a r t B l a z e
Concept: Website Traffic Building System
Overall Rating: 5 out of 5
Ease of Use: 5 out of 5
Effectiveness: 5 out of 5
Recommendation: Use it Immediately - Mission Critical Tool
Price: FREE
We heard some buzz about the new free traffic building system called StartBlaze created by Mark Joyner of Aesop.com and
decided to test it out. Mark and his guys are always releasing *something* over there, but this one is unique -and
breathtakingly cool.
We could probably fill up volumes with all the cool features, but rather than waste your time, we thought we'd just
give you the URL so you could try it out yourself:
Listen, this thing is so easy, and so effective that you would be certifiably insane not to use this immediately. I
mean that.
Bottom Line: This is probably the most effective traffic building system we have ever encountered. We just hope it
stays free... You should get it now while it still is.
This was in the Newsweek that arrived in my mailbox yesterday. And they included a cute little editorial diagram and description of everything that I didn't see in this online article. The aquarium is some sort of reward from the boss... the flowers wilt when you leave and bloom when you arrive showing that someone cares about your presense. The chair, when folded down, triggers your phone to ring, to shoo away those pesky visitors. I can't remember them all, but it was cute.
I didn't think it was something for real. I figured Scott Adams, being a cartoonist, created it as something amusing and Dilbertish.
You could say that he was practicing his freedom of speech.
Everyone has the freedom of speech according to the constitution, but with that freedom comes the *responsibility* to accept the consequences of that speech.
uhm. regular birth control does the same thing. the only difference is, with birth control for the last set of pills per month they give placebo pills. if you skip the placebos and take the next set of pills you will skip your period.
I thought the cgi was pretty damn good! The plot was enjoyable. You have to let yourself enjoy movies Katz... if you walk in knowing you want to find something to be critical of, you'll never enjoy anything. The only exception was the scene where Aki is crying/pouting? in the Captains arms. They animators did a very poor job of relaying that she was crying. In fact, she showed no emotion and if it weren't for the whiney sobby noises I would have thought she was apathetic. I really enjoyed everything else though.
The preview link seems to have already suffered the Slashdot effect... but you can view a preview here as well, it was featured on Bureau42.com yesterday. It's a dead ringer for the Akira class ships first seen in "First Contact".
Nice of you to mention your sources. I found the abstract for the study in the journal, but obviously have no access to the journal at this point. The BBC article definitely doesn't mention handedness.
I had to read and write a paper on that study for my biology class last year. They didn't talk about using different sides of the brains but they did talk about the amount of hormones used. Since the brain and hormones are pretty closely linked, I'm going to go with "yes":P
You might wanna check out this article:
http://www.symposion.com/ijt/ijtc0106.htm or try searching on google for something like brain sides AND hormones AND gender.
Boys tend to use more of their right brain, while girls use more of their left brain.
Well here's my bone with the article. They mentioned how many boys and girls were in the study but they didn't seem to factor in whether those boys and girls were left/right handed or ambidextrous. That makes a *huge* difference in which side of the brain one uses more. Or rather, the side of the brain one uses more determines handedness. I've also read previously more girls are left handed than boys. Left handed generally means right brained. But their study is concluding girls use their left brain more.
If they studied all right handed subjects, then this study may hold true. But if they mixed handedness, these results may not mean a thing.
Theres a ton of tutorials on this on the web, are people forgetting to search Google again before they Ask Slashdot?
Nevertheless... here's my pretty prompt -- green user@host with a blue pathname. And on a second line is the actual $ prompt, in case the pathname is long. It's pretty handy.
What's funny is this isn't the first time they've reposted... there was a Science article not too far back that was also posted twice by two different editors. Pay attention guys:P
Slashdot Mirror
hey... the link to the msnbc article doesn't work. anyone got a substitute?
Since it's already been given away, the part that Dormer is confused about is whether or not he subconsciously *meant* to shoot Hap.
there's already 400 comments so you'll never read this, but for what it's worth, i grew up wanting a career in music, and only had computers as a hobby. hobby meaning, i was into the bbs's in middle school etc, more so than the average person.
i got to college and the music education program sucked the fun right out of music for me, so i looked into the CS track, and that *was* fun. so i kept music as a hobby and turned to computers as my career, and now work as an admin and webmistress for a software development/database solutions company.
and that's what happened to the little band geek... now a computer geek...
Honestly, I think the security is worth it. No one pays attention to car alarms going off anymore. My brand spanking new 2002 Taurus won't start unless you use a special key from the dealership with the computer chip in it. While the car came with 2 keys, it will cost me $80 each for additional keys.
But then, I've never felt the need for a remote starter anyway. I've gotten used to walking outside in my pajamas in the winter to start the car so it can warm up while I get ready for work.
There was about 1 foot visibility driving all evening but I got back up at 4am to check for Leonid activity and it was still pure fog, couldn't see a damn thing. :(
I got up at 4am to watch the meteor storm but it was still extremely foggy. The entire evening there was only about a one foot visibility on the road :(
From what I understand from this page, if you are located at magnetic latitude 50 degrees, the activity level needs to be at 10+ before you can see the Northern Lights. The activity level is currently listed at a 6 and I don't see anywhere saying it's expected to rise in activity. So shouldn't the article say people at 60 degrees and above (not 50) should be able to see the Aurora?
OK that's a little disconcerting. I am a huge fan of hummus, and tabouli. Those are Middle Eastern. And I always use my Giant Eagle swipe card. Are they going to start coming after me?
Are they responsible for the startblaze product review spam as well? I couldn't find anything on their site about it, but it follows the same pattern.
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:04:00
From: Carl Carlson
To: elf@nauticom.net
Subject: Product Review: S t a r t B l a z e
Product Review: S t a r t B l a z e
Concept: Website Traffic Building System
Overall Rating: 5 out of 5
Ease of Use: 5 out of 5
Effectiveness: 5 out of 5
Recommendation: Use it Immediately - Mission Critical Tool
Price: FREE
We heard some buzz about the new free traffic building system called StartBlaze created by Mark Joyner of Aesop.com and
decided to test it out. Mark and his guys are always releasing *something* over there, but this one is unique -and
breathtakingly cool.
We could probably fill up volumes with all the cool features, but rather than waste your time, we thought we'd just
give you the URL so you could try it out yourself:
StartBlaze
Listen, this thing is so easy, and so effective that you would be certifiably insane not to use this immediately. I
mean that.
Bottom Line: This is probably the most effective traffic building system we have ever encountered. We just hope it
stays free... You should get it now while it still is.
I didn't think it was something for real. I figured Scott Adams, being a cartoonist, created it as something amusing and Dilbertish.
The article only mentions cradles attached to a serial port. Does this affect cradles attached to a USB port as well?
Everyone has the freedom of speech according to the constitution, but with that freedom comes the *responsibility* to accept the consequences of that speech.
man what school did you go to? i took intro to biology for my science credit and we learned about these.
uhm. regular birth control does the same thing. the only difference is, with birth control for the last set of pills per month they give placebo pills. if you skip the placebos and take the next set of pills you will skip your period.
I thought the cgi was pretty damn good! The plot was enjoyable. You have to let yourself enjoy movies Katz... if you walk in knowing you want to find something to be critical of, you'll never enjoy anything. The only exception was the scene where Aki is crying/pouting? in the Captains arms. They animators did a very poor job of relaying that she was crying. In fact, she showed no emotion and if it weren't for the whiney sobby noises I would have thought she was apathetic. I really enjoyed everything else though.
From the author: http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/ 7/10/9150/14200
http://www.bureau42.com/view/?id=302&cb=3
http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/TP/scoops/scoops.htm l
It's not a matter of are they, but *how* are they?
I'll give the brain hemisphere bit... it's tricky. See http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/brain.html
You might wanna check out this article: http://www.symposion.com/ijt/ijtc0106.htm or try searching on google for something like brain sides AND hormones AND gender.
Well here's my bone with the article. They mentioned how many boys and girls were in the study but they didn't seem to factor in whether those boys and girls were left/right handed or ambidextrous. That makes a *huge* difference in which side of the brain one uses more. Or rather, the side of the brain one uses more determines handedness. I've also read previously more girls are left handed than boys. Left handed generally means right brained. But their study is concluding girls use their left brain more.
If they studied all right handed subjects, then this study may hold true. But if they mixed handedness, these results may not mean a thing.
Don't people know how to use Google to search for answers anymore? ;)
Nevertheless... here's my pretty prompt -- green user@host with a blue pathname. And on a second line is the actual $ prompt, in case the pathname is long. It's pretty handy.
export PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007> \033[00;32m\]\u@\h \[\033[01;34m\w\033[0m\]
\$ '
What's funny is this isn't the first time they've reposted... there was a Science article not too far back that was also posted twice by two different editors. Pay attention guys :P