We were poor so couldn't afford buying any computer. Because of the simplicity of the design and available information we had 2-3 FrankenApples my dad put together from junked apples. It was so easy to hook up peripherals or plug in your own card that he also made a scanner, light pen, joystick, memory cards, etc...
Ah, what fond memories of watching BBS screens drawn at 150baud after my dad repurposed a broken acousticly coupled modem. ah, the day we found a dead 300baud modem card in the garbage was a happy day indeed.
Suprisingly, my dad was able to snag a dead Lisa shortly after launch and fix that as well. For things that were being sold for thousands of dollars it was suprising how much people threw them away when pretty much everything could be fixed with a basic voltmeter to diagnose, and some basic solder skills to remove and replace burnt out components. Some times it was just resoldering required.
Oh no, somebody please help this lost little boy who can't figure out that AMD hosts their drivers on their website!! Will nobody think of the mentally retarded children who can't think or google??
What are they going to do with my information? Offer me deals on things I'm interested in? I would actually greatly appreciate that. Why should it bother me if they make money as well?
So tell me, why do you hold your privacy so dear? I strongly believe that 'do as I say, not as I do' is what is seriously wrong with our world. I hold myself to the same standards as I hold everybody else. Actions speak louder than words and the only way to really lead is by example. I believe in openess in all things, because if you've lived for any amount of time in human society you quickly realize that misunderstandings arise from lack of information because people keep things to themselves. These people don't seem to realize that we are all humans, all going through comparable situations, and sharing ourselves is the quickest path to growth. What's really funny about paranoid people, and humans in general, is that we always expect others to do as we would.
Every single time I see comments like yours, or the ones you're commenting on, I sometimes wonder what kind of world you guys live in. Seriously, what the hell did you guys do in a past life??
I've got real email addresses, phone numbers, details, etc... on various websites. Total amount of spam I have to deal with on a daily basis: 0! That's with my whole facebook profile filled with real information and most of it open to everybody.
Tell me, what is privacy worth? The only helpful thing I've seen privacy do is to emotionally protect people who are ashamed of their actions. Oh sure, you can rant about some paranoid delusions you have, and OMG corps might find out my buying habits and try and give me discounts on stuff I buy! Basically privacy (in civilized societies) just protects the emotionally weak, the mentally weak paranoids, and every single criminal
Here's a radical revelation for you, not all of a person's friends are always within a geographically close location. What's wrong with using a medium to keep in contact with them? You're right, the internet is a TOOL, and what's wrong with using it as such? A hammer can bash in your skull or hammer a nail, how you use a tool is up to you.
Um, you do know that's pretty much the same deal Canada gets into with any country right? Since the beginning of Canada it's been, 'here take these resources, and just give me a moment to bend over.
Please don't put misinformation like removing environmental protections from waterways into your rants. Using lies to get a reaction just increases apathy, as it becomes a stupid play ground battle like all of canadian politics.
The truth will set you free, spreading lies and disinformation will get you nowhere. I can't even bother to check whether any of your other claims are true, and why bother, you've already lied.
Why is this modded insightful? His question was NOT answered and still isn't. We have postulated that Mars lost it's water because it no longer had a functioning magnetosphere. However, we have absolutely no clue why it lost it's magnetosphere or how to prevent the same from happening to earth.
Describing a process does not mean you understand why the process started in the first place.
The movement required to keep the motion going is rhythmic and needs to be controlled. You are constantly using tons of tiny stabilizing movements.
Now the problem is when you have wrist problems it's not always easy to get a fluid motion going, or you're too used to extreme flexions which is what constricts nerve passages in the wrist in the first place. You can however use your shoulder to hold the rotation, or even your elbow if your isolations are good. Once the thing is spinning you can then experiment with wrist movement that doesn't hinder the spinning. Visualization is a good technique to use with this as well. Liken it to a game of Operation, except that you are trying to keep an open channel in your wrist. Pretty much anytime your skin get's wrinkled that's touching the side, and the gyro will pull or push you hard.
What's frightening is the amount of misinformation of how to use your wrists is out there. I was talking to some woman off on physio for rsi and she proceeded to show me how she knew the 'correct' way to type as she showed me a broken wrist. This is what OT are teaching?? Wrist rests? Yes, let's just discourage proper posture and restrict with pressure.
My JRA had gotten so bad that I had to stop working, couldn't type or use my right hand for weeks. Gyro balls were one of the tools I used to learn proper motion. Just did a 30s handstand no problem over the weekend.
Catching the 'improbable' on film makes it easier to study and to reduce the improbability of the event occuring again.
This is especially true when the improbable are human achievements. It shows us exactly what the human body is capable of even when constrained by physics. If anything, this wealth of data allows us to be more critical and logical to discern what exactly is going on.
The human brain is an awesome knowledge digester, if you feed it truth, it's not going to produce untruths. For example, athletes viewing recordings of themselves or of competition. There is a tendency in olympic sports to standardize on certain technique aspects that have been proven to work for others. There is a higher congruency of movement in athletes today than there was in the early filmings of the olympics, and higher inter-disciplinary congruence as well as we discover the simple physical truth. Humans are subject to the laws of physics, as such there are optimal paths for the human body to be all it can be.
Of course, there's always people too stupid to recognize they do not have the necessary knowledge and control to execute a movement and there's thousands of compilations of these failures. That's a good thing though, just more data to feed into the path optimizer.
Ah, so your parents tried to teach you homophobia instead of reading? oh, i'll be nice. sigh, you're probably gay and dealt with persecution from your parents, but you're also clearly wrong. Next time, when you say something like 'from what i gather', actually try gathering information from present reality and not from your past which has nothing to do with this.
Well, if you look closely , pretty much all western medicine is a massively complex solution to what basically boils down as to people not understanding and not being able to maintain their bodies.
It's why I'm inventing a new religious text. Only this time, instead of just outlawing things, it'll scientifically explained why it's a sin, and why certain sins are worse for certain people. After all, sin isn't something that's inherently 'evil' it is something that may cause harm. You, in fact, can say that we are all born sinners for the simple fact that babies tend to put anything and everything in their mouth. It'll be CC and every fact open for review and discussion.
My dream would be that eventually it would replace the mindless stupidity that school has become. People no longer need to be walking databases, that's what we have the internet for. It's time we spent a significant portion of a persons early years guiding people to discover their current talents and limitations, their way of learning, and applying that while learning how your physical, mental, emotional aspects work, how they alert you to problems, what their individual needs are, etc...
If we raise humans to be humans instead of specialized tools the world will be a different place.
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About as popular as making people drive through the everglades to get to Queens.
Ah, what fond memories of watching BBS screens drawn at 150baud after my dad repurposed a broken acousticly coupled modem. ah, the day we found a dead 300baud modem card in the garbage was a happy day indeed.
Suprisingly, my dad was able to snag a dead Lisa shortly after launch and fix that as well. For things that were being sold for thousands of dollars it was suprising how much people threw them away when pretty much everything could be fixed with a basic voltmeter to diagnose, and some basic solder skills to remove and replace burnt out components. Some times it was just resoldering required.
Tell me, how did you jump over to our timeline?
Poor you.
Oh no, somebody please help this lost little boy who can't figure out that AMD hosts their drivers on their website!! Will nobody think of the mentally retarded children who can't think or google??
It's funny when people mod you as flamebait for telling a truth about yourself.
So tell me, why do you hold your privacy so dear? I strongly believe that 'do as I say, not as I do' is what is seriously wrong with our world. I hold myself to the same standards as I hold everybody else. Actions speak louder than words and the only way to really lead is by example. I believe in openess in all things, because if you've lived for any amount of time in human society you quickly realize that misunderstandings arise from lack of information because people keep things to themselves. These people don't seem to realize that we are all humans, all going through comparable situations, and sharing ourselves is the quickest path to growth. What's really funny about paranoid people, and humans in general, is that we always expect others to do as we would.
You can receive posts, messages, etc... on your cell and respond. Actually quite useful if you're traveling
I've got real email addresses, phone numbers, details, etc... on various websites. Total amount of spam I have to deal with on a daily basis: 0! That's with my whole facebook profile filled with real information and most of it open to everybody.
Here's a radical revelation for you, not all of a person's friends are always within a geographically close location. What's wrong with using a medium to keep in contact with them? You're right, the internet is a TOOL, and what's wrong with using it as such? A hammer can bash in your skull or hammer a nail, how you use a tool is up to you.
Um, you do know that's pretty much the same deal Canada gets into with any country right? Since the beginning of Canada it's been, 'here take these resources, and just give me a moment to bend over.
The truth will set you free, spreading lies and disinformation will get you nowhere. I can't even bother to check whether any of your other claims are true, and why bother, you've already lied.
Just not all at the same time. Her left eye is not the eye of a five year old.
Describing a process does not mean you understand why the process started in the first place.
Unfortunately, political apathy is destroying our environment, and greed and debt are eradicating the values that made us proud in the past. :(
If you want him to listen then why don't you post a petition??
Now the problem is when you have wrist problems it's not always easy to get a fluid motion going, or you're too used to extreme flexions which is what constricts nerve passages in the wrist in the first place. You can however use your shoulder to hold the rotation, or even your elbow if your isolations are good. Once the thing is spinning you can then experiment with wrist movement that doesn't hinder the spinning. Visualization is a good technique to use with this as well. Liken it to a game of Operation, except that you are trying to keep an open channel in your wrist. Pretty much anytime your skin get's wrinkled that's touching the side, and the gyro will pull or push you hard.
What's frightening is the amount of misinformation of how to use your wrists is out there. I was talking to some woman off on physio for rsi and she proceeded to show me how she knew the 'correct' way to type as she showed me a broken wrist. This is what OT are teaching?? Wrist rests? Yes, let's just discourage proper posture and restrict with pressure.
My JRA had gotten so bad that I had to stop working, couldn't type or use my right hand for weeks. Gyro balls were one of the tools I used to learn proper motion. Just did a 30s handstand no problem over the weekend.
What, you don't plan on doing that? So why should we take the word of some unknown person over Carmack?
Only for idiots like you who can't tell that's Pat, the sexually/racially ambigous thing. Wasps don't have fro's
This is especially true when the improbable are human achievements. It shows us exactly what the human body is capable of even when constrained by physics. If anything, this wealth of data allows us to be more critical and logical to discern what exactly is going on.
The human brain is an awesome knowledge digester, if you feed it truth, it's not going to produce untruths. For example, athletes viewing recordings of themselves or of competition. There is a tendency in olympic sports to standardize on certain technique aspects that have been proven to work for others. There is a higher congruency of movement in athletes today than there was in the early filmings of the olympics, and higher inter-disciplinary congruence as well as we discover the simple physical truth. Humans are subject to the laws of physics, as such there are optimal paths for the human body to be all it can be.
Of course, there's always people too stupid to recognize they do not have the necessary knowledge and control to execute a movement and there's thousands of compilations of these failures. That's a good thing though, just more data to feed into the path optimizer.
Ah, so your parents tried to teach you homophobia instead of reading? oh, i'll be nice. sigh, you're probably gay and dealt with persecution from your parents, but you're also clearly wrong. Next time, when you say something like 'from what i gather', actually try gathering information from present reality and not from your past which has nothing to do with this.
...and you gather this from which undusted corner of your imagination?
Oh, you have detailled knowledge of their system and it's workings and know for a fact that it would be simpler to implement your idea?
It's why I'm inventing a new religious text. Only this time, instead of just outlawing things, it'll scientifically explained why it's a sin, and why certain sins are worse for certain people. After all, sin isn't something that's inherently 'evil' it is something that may cause harm. You, in fact, can say that we are all born sinners for the simple fact that babies tend to put anything and everything in their mouth. It'll be CC and every fact open for review and discussion.
My dream would be that eventually it would replace the mindless stupidity that school has become. People no longer need to be walking databases, that's what we have the internet for. It's time we spent a significant portion of a persons early years guiding people to discover their current talents and limitations, their way of learning, and applying that while learning how your physical, mental, emotional aspects work, how they alert you to problems, what their individual needs are, etc...
If we raise humans to be humans instead of specialized tools the world will be a different place.
Apparently you don't know the difference between not eating and eating very little.