Personally, I think Asperger's Syndrome is just an expression of Neanderthal and Denisovian genes on the brain, but I'm not going to open up that can of worms (much more than I just did). What I would like to point out is that the reason that some people don't like to call Asperger's a medical condition is because they fail to separate the condition that causes poor development of some areas of the brain with the miraculous benefits of what sometimes happens when the brain reroutes and tries to compensate.
Scientists have already proved with transcranial magnetic stimulation that some patients spontaneously developed savant skills when select areas of their brains were shut down temporarily.
I guess my point is that just because some people get something awesome out of the deal doesn't mean it's not still autism.
The biggest problem that pro-technology, pro-science Conservatives face today is an overly vocal minority that is either ignorant, mysognistic, racist, religious, or some combination of the four, and as we pull our money away from Education in the name of Defense Contracts and corporate tax breaks, it's not surprising that part of the population is going that way, as well.
If you have an RFID badge that you're forced to wear, just run it over the device they use to clear merchandise at many retail stores. Another thing you can do is short bursts in the microwave (1 second maximum) on high. Wait for the badge to completely cool down before doing mutliple doses, though! Remember, you're only required to wear it, not for it to actually work. And if you get questioned, be prepared to play dumb.
It's a given that modern Reality Television is crap, but it certainly wasn't better 100 years ago. Want to see for yourself? Search "Algie the Miner" on YouTube.
I suspect the real reason behind the increase in average scores is the greater access (or bombardment of) information during the formative years of children. Stick your child in front of a bunch of televisions that are showing educational or information programs, and you'll end up with a child who is smarter than his peers who don't.
Or even better, give your child access to a tablet. A buddy of mine has two tablet-savvy kids, and they are WAY ahead of what I'd expect for age-level learning development.
In yet other news, the last kid in John Jay High School to figure out the locker ID trick to skip school and stay in bed all day was not, in fact, mercilessly mocked and bullied by his peers because he was the only one there.
Knowing how to fill out forms is the number one trick to government paperwork. Does the state with the job opening specify a temporary credential from that particular state? If it doesn't say that, you can shop around, find a state that will give you one with a qualifying degree and a signing fee, and apply with that.
The system is often counter-intuitive, but you can often follow the letter of the law to achieve the desired results.
I still think it's pretty awesome that you can carry a device with the equivalent processing power of a device in 1979 that was so massive it had its own bench.
I wouldn't mind seeing more benchmarks of computational power/storage, etc. For instance, how much magnetic storage was there forty years ago? I have 13.6 tb on my home media server, and it sure would be nice to say that I have more storage than the entire world did in 1970...
(AP-Beijing) A spokesperson for the Shengyang Company said the new stealth plane will only have air-to-air missiles and no guns, as the nation's supply of lead has been exhausted by the children's toy and baby formula industries.
When I'm using a first-aid app for instructions on performing an emergency tracheotomy, I damn well better not get a bunch of windows and flashing ad bars telling me how I can lower my power bill using one simple trick, or why Plastic Surgeons hate one mom wearing a rubber halloween mask...
Well, I also hardly ever get porno groped anymore. But that's probably because I lack confidence and look too needy when I go through Security, it's just like the bars in college...
"Or causing Sojourner to develop an inexplicable liking for Smash Mouth," he replied, hoping desperately that inane pop culture references from 1997 would trick people into thinking it was funny and give him a 5, since, after all, it worked for Family Guy.
Quietly, he clung to hopes of a Pity 5 through a desperate use of internal dialogue and a clumsy attempt to break the fourth wall.
I accidentally left my sunglasses and jacket in one of those tubs that you put through the scanner last Christmas while rushing to a last minute flight after some genius wearing more chains than Mr. T snarled up the security queue for 30 minutes at a regional airport.
Upon returning a week later and checking in with TSA agents, I found out they had itemized and bagged my stuff and got both back to me in less than 15 minutes.
Sans Digital Makes an 8 slot drive enclosure with either a PCI-E or USB 3.0 interface for about 350 bucks. Put 8 3tb drives in it, run it JBOD. You can buy the cheap 3tb drives because you're going to run them JBOD. At 150 bucks a drive, Your total cost is about $1600.
You might be able to get Windows to do Incrementals to those drives, although I haven't tried it myself. And remember to run the enclosure sparingly, because non-enterprise drives aren't rated for the same number of spin-up hours.
Of course, it's not as safe as putting everything on a billion optical disks. But even using a BD-rom (at 46gig a pop), you're talking about 534 Blu-rays, and that's pretty much ridiculous, unless you have an intern you really dislike or something.
This is exactly the kind of reasoning that makes me want to verbally tear someone a new backdoor for their production system, if you know what I mean.
A dev's approach to writing code isn't a binary state; neither is political ideology, for that matter.
This is a classic case of someone coming up with the "answer", and then attempting to find a way to logically justify it. But hey, since this is "Snap judgement and reason later" Friday, I'm going to automatically assume that Yegge is one of the geniuses behind the push to put everything on the cloud, despite the fact that more than a few long-term prediction models show user data volumes rising geometrically and overtaking infrastructure increases, or the inherent privacy and identity risks associated with waving's one's digital cheese out in the electronic wind.
Let's put this logical tar pit to bed before someone has to ponder if LISP programmers, being "liberal", would support gay marriage.
All I can say is that I'm still feeling a little guilty about uploading an article about Sgt. Pat McGroyne, who led the charge at the Battle of the Bulge.
I see a picture of what I assume is the "worst of the worst" monitoring stations at surfacestations.org compared to a good station. What I don't see is the methodology or the formula for determining the temperature error. You could easily test AC impact by simply setting up a second site and turning off the air, for instance.
I could just as easily make up a formula for error based on the geographic proximity to Narnia (which had a really long winter), but that doesn't mean it would be any more accurate.
Naturally, that sounds snarky, but NOAA already has a formula for compensating for local microclimate effects, what makes this new formula better?
I mean, hex strings are a pain in the ass to remember. You have to admit, it's pretty easy to remember 81680085 when you have "big boobs" as a memory aid.
I'm a little disappointed in the State Department hasn't figured out that arguing on the internet is like playing Global Thermonuclear War in "War Games", the only way to win is not to play. That being said, I'm arguing my point on the internet, so I might as well submit myself for an Irony award this year.
I made a bet with a co-worker back in 2004 that bionic implants would be available in the next ten years. Although, five dollars isn't what it used to be...
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Personally, I think Asperger's Syndrome is just an expression of Neanderthal and Denisovian genes on the brain, but I'm not going to open up that can of worms (much more than I just did). What I would like to point out is that the reason that some people don't like to call Asperger's a medical condition is because they fail to separate the condition that causes poor development of some areas of the brain with the miraculous benefits of what sometimes happens when the brain reroutes and tries to compensate.
Scientists have already proved with transcranial magnetic stimulation that some patients spontaneously developed savant skills when select areas of their brains were shut down temporarily.
I guess my point is that just because some people get something awesome out of the deal doesn't mean it's not still autism.
Spaun sees a series of digits: 1 2 3; 5 6 7; 3 4 ?. Its neurons fire, and it calculates the next logical number in the sequence. It scrawls out a 5
What the article doesn't tell you is that the "5" was followed by "@r@H c0Nn0r?"...
The biggest problem that pro-technology, pro-science Conservatives face today is an overly vocal minority that is either ignorant, mysognistic, racist, religious, or some combination of the four, and as we pull our money away from Education in the name of Defense Contracts and corporate tax breaks, it's not surprising that part of the population is going that way, as well.
If you have an RFID badge that you're forced to wear, just run it over the device they use to clear merchandise at many retail stores. Another thing you can do is short bursts in the microwave (1 second maximum) on high. Wait for the badge to completely cool down before doing mutliple doses, though! Remember, you're only required to wear it, not for it to actually work. And if you get questioned, be prepared to play dumb.
I could have camped the 25th District, but I heard the drops suck.
It's a given that modern Reality Television is crap, but it certainly wasn't better 100 years ago. Want to see for yourself? Search "Algie the Miner" on YouTube.
I suspect the real reason behind the increase in average scores is the greater access (or bombardment of) information during the formative years of children. Stick your child in front of a bunch of televisions that are showing educational or information programs, and you'll end up with a child who is smarter than his peers who don't.
Or even better, give your child access to a tablet. A buddy of mine has two tablet-savvy kids, and they are WAY ahead of what I'd expect for age-level learning development.
In yet other news, the last kid in John Jay High School to figure out the locker ID trick to skip school and stay in bed all day was not, in fact, mercilessly mocked and bullied by his peers because he was the only one there.
That's like saying that the bride and a groom don't really love each other because the ice sculpture swans at the reception were the wrong size.
Knowing how to fill out forms is the number one trick to government paperwork. Does the state with the job opening specify a temporary credential from that particular state? If it doesn't say that, you can shop around, find a state that will give you one with a qualifying degree and a signing fee, and apply with that. The system is often counter-intuitive, but you can often follow the letter of the law to achieve the desired results.
I still think it's pretty awesome that you can carry a device with the equivalent processing power of a device in 1979 that was so massive it had its own bench.
I wouldn't mind seeing more benchmarks of computational power/storage, etc. For instance, how much magnetic storage was there forty years ago? I have 13.6 tb on my home media server, and it sure would be nice to say that I have more storage than the entire world did in 1970...
(AP-Beijing) A spokesperson for the Shengyang Company said the new stealth plane will only have air-to-air missiles and no guns, as the nation's supply of lead has been exhausted by the children's toy and baby formula industries.
When I'm using a first-aid app for instructions on performing an emergency tracheotomy, I damn well better not get a bunch of windows and flashing ad bars telling me how I can lower my power bill using one simple trick, or why Plastic Surgeons hate one mom wearing a rubber halloween mask...
You mean funny in the sense that malic acid squirting into your eyes from a Gallagher-destroyed watermelon is funny.
Well, I also hardly ever get porno groped anymore. But that's probably because I lack confidence and look too needy when I go through Security, it's just like the bars in college...
"Or causing Sojourner to develop an inexplicable liking for Smash Mouth," he replied, hoping desperately that inane pop culture references from 1997 would trick people into thinking it was funny and give him a 5, since, after all, it worked for Family Guy.
Quietly, he clung to hopes of a Pity 5 through a desperate use of internal dialogue and a clumsy attempt to break the fourth wall.
I accidentally left my sunglasses and jacket in one of those tubs that you put through the scanner last Christmas while rushing to a last minute flight after some genius wearing more chains than Mr. T snarled up the security queue for 30 minutes at a regional airport.
Upon returning a week later and checking in with TSA agents, I found out they had itemized and bagged my stuff and got both back to me in less than 15 minutes.
Not everywhere is Dulles.
I blame the Conservative coders over at Google+.
That NASA has learned from the experience of upgrading Sojourner to WinAMP 0.92...
Sans Digital Makes an 8 slot drive enclosure with either a PCI-E or USB 3.0 interface for about 350 bucks. Put 8 3tb drives in it, run it JBOD. You can buy the cheap 3tb drives because you're going to run them JBOD. At 150 bucks a drive, Your total cost is about $1600.
You might be able to get Windows to do Incrementals to those drives, although I haven't tried it myself. And remember to run the enclosure sparingly, because non-enterprise drives aren't rated for the same number of spin-up hours.
Of course, it's not as safe as putting everything on a billion optical disks. But even using a BD-rom (at 46gig a pop), you're talking about 534 Blu-rays, and that's pretty much ridiculous, unless you have an intern you really dislike or something.
This is exactly the kind of reasoning that makes me want to verbally tear someone a new backdoor for their production system, if you know what I mean.
A dev's approach to writing code isn't a binary state; neither is political ideology, for that matter.
This is a classic case of someone coming up with the "answer", and then attempting to find a way to logically justify it. But hey, since this is "Snap judgement and reason later" Friday, I'm going to automatically assume that Yegge is one of the geniuses behind the push to put everything on the cloud, despite the fact that more than a few long-term prediction models show user data volumes rising geometrically and overtaking infrastructure increases, or the inherent privacy and identity risks associated with waving's one's digital cheese out in the electronic wind.
Let's put this logical tar pit to bed before someone has to ponder if LISP programmers, being "liberal", would support gay marriage.
All I can say is that I'm still feeling a little guilty about uploading an article about Sgt. Pat McGroyne, who led the charge at the Battle of the Bulge.
I see a picture of what I assume is the "worst of the worst" monitoring stations at surfacestations.org compared to a good station. What I don't see is the methodology or the formula for determining the temperature error. You could easily test AC impact by simply setting up a second site and turning off the air, for instance.
I could just as easily make up a formula for error based on the geographic proximity to Narnia (which had a really long winter), but that doesn't mean it would be any more accurate.
Naturally, that sounds snarky, but NOAA already has a formula for compensating for local microclimate effects, what makes this new formula better?
It may be important to note that the "incorrect" graph on the surfacestations website looks different than the one at NASA, which you can view here: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_station.py?id=425745000030&data_set=1&num_neighbors=1
I mean, hex strings are a pain in the ass to remember. You have to admit, it's pretty easy to remember 81680085 when you have "big boobs" as a memory aid.
I'm a little disappointed in the State Department hasn't figured out that arguing on the internet is like playing Global Thermonuclear War in "War Games", the only way to win is not to play. That being said, I'm arguing my point on the internet, so I might as well submit myself for an Irony award this year.
I made a bet with a co-worker back in 2004 that bionic implants would be available in the next ten years. Although, five dollars isn't what it used to be...