There has been some pretty amazing developments in this field in the past few years.
From an article I read in New Scientist, aparently they can turn off certain regions on of the brain termporarily. This can replicate savant type abilitiies.
The replicated the drawing savant abilities in one gentlemen and he went from OK drawing to near photo-realism in a series of drawings. It was amazing.
Near Death experiences have been replicated as well. I imagine that soon they will be able to replicate. many of these savant type skills
Genius seems to reside in us all, I think we are often afraid to commit to revealing it. These new tools might make it easier. Once you have tasted that mental space, it can become consuming.
Excellent magazine. They always seeem to be covering just what I'm thinking about. They had an interesting article on P2P engines and the implications for business content distribution.
BitTorrent was mentioned. Great software, but best for popular files. Obscure files download slowly, if you can find them at all.
My quess is that somehow Skype will end up somehow being involved with that.
As the pipes get bigger, what will be needed is an effecient search algoritm to locate files. Skyp has that stuff already. People will also be used to paying for VM and land line hookups. It be a perfect fit.:)
Make the Play bar disappear faster so you can read text on the screen.
This code take the format of "Select Play Select Something Select". These do not require backdoors to be enabled for them to work. The best way to do this type of code is to start playing a recorded program and do them while the recorded program is playing. They can be done from LiveTV as well, but people generally have a hard time getting them to work when trying to do that.
Select-Pause-Select-Pause-Select - Toggles the fast disappear of the Play bar. Appears to have no other major effect, but who knows.
If you want to learn to cook food you like better, learn what the different spices taste like.
If you are in a restaurant and you like your meal. Tell the waiter and ask what the ingredients are. Most chefs lover the compliments and I have had several come out and talk to me about their secrets.
Everyone loves honest compliments.
Oh yeah, and salt the food before you cook it. Pepper will burn if you cook it, but salt seems to meld with the food better during the cooking process.
A guy shows up at his Thursday night poker game with his bulldog. The dog jumps on on an empty seat and the guy buys him some chips.
As the dealer starts to pass the dog by, the guy says, "Hey, deal my dog in!" Everyone looks rather askance but they deal him in.
To everyone's surprise, the dog picks up the cards and begins to play! After a few hands one of the guys says, "Say, that's amazing! Your dog ought to be in the Guiness Book of Records!"
The dog owner says, "Nah, he sees too many flops and is a sucker for a check-raise."
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Poker, in particular Texas Holdem, is an incredible game and very easy to pick up. What is most interesting is that the complexity of the game is not even unstood by the layperson until after they have played for a while.
I used to play UT and Medal of Honor. Not anymore, after I found out that many of the online poker sites have FREE money tables. So you get to compete against others and it doesn't cost you anything.
A friend of mine just recently started a site: www.Aces-Wired.com
He's got reviews of several of the Online Casino's
I happen to live near Ga Tech and there are big games going on almost every night. Most colleges have games.
Plus I learned something else really interesting.
About 40% of the people that I meet playing poker are Self Employed so it a great source for leads for my own business.
Poker is a great analogy for business too.
In poker and in business you've got to learn to play the odds.
1. Know when the odds are in your favor.
2. Be able to capitalize on that advantage.
3. To make money, you learn to be comfortable with risk. There is no way around it.
Poker, in particular Texas Holdem, is an incredible game and very easy to pick up. What is most interesting is that the complexity of the game is not even unstood by the layperson until after they have played for a while.
I used to play UT and Medal of Honor. Not anymore, after I found out that many of the online poker sites have FREE money tables. So you get to compete against others and it doesn't cost you anything.
A friend of mine just recently started a site: http://www.aces-wired.com He's got reviews of several of the Online Casino's
I happen to live near Ga Tech and there are big games going on almost every night.
Plus I learned something else really interesting. About 40% of the people that I meet playing poker are Self Employed so it a great source for leads for my own business.
Poker is a great analogy for business too. In poker and in business you've got to learn to play the odds. Know when the odds are in your favor and
The chance of a thermonuclear war is less now because large groups of society view the world differently than they did in the '80s. If you want to see evidence, look at business culture in 1986 versus today. I doubt a CEO in 1986 even knew what the word integrity meant. Now, the public clamours that CEO's conduct business with integrity. More evidence is the fact that there was great discussion in the United States as to whether we should respond with aggression to the events of 9/11 . In the 80's it would have been a different story.
The government loves getting more and more power. More laws mean they get to grow bigger and spend more of our tax money.
Once in place you get a real big, dumb organization that can't fire anyone and will use it's power to try to grow even bigger.
The only people whose opinions matter then are lobbyists with lot's of cash and the people that make money from things staying the way they are.
If the government starts regulating security, they will be even slower to respond than MicroSoft is.
It's very similar to the reason why medical marijuana remains illegal. There is a lot of money invested in keeping people in jail and enforcing the current drug laws. The reality is that the government would make even more money from taxes if the wacky weed were legalized. Greed can be very blinding.
The subtle irony of it all is that the Government is inherently anti-democratic.
Their NewsAlert feature allows people to get exactly what they want delivered right to their e-mail.
This opens the door for the dream of big media, a targeted list of people that are actively searching for a specific type of information. To make this even sweeter, they don't even pay for their content.
This will be one of the Top Innovations of 2004. This is HUGE idea.
I hope that this stops Google's talks with the investment banks. I think going public would be a huge mistake. This comes from personal experience. If they go public, I fear they will become another Micro$oft, forced to chase after ever increasing earnings targets.
Munch Munch You read too much into my comments. I never said it was justfied to 'hate lawyers'. I was merely expressing the reasons that lawyers are despised.
BTW, the big secret the 'polically correct' people don't want you to know is that stereotypes are invariably based on truth.
It would be as foolish to ignore stereotypes as it would be to believe in them blindly.
I'm intrigued that google is still interestted in going public. Being a public company means that google will be working for the investors rather than doing what google does best. My guess is that they: 1.go public 2. gets lots of cash 3. Buy back company and privitize after price comes back down.
I also think that google is using the muscle to hopefully make some good changes to Wall Street. Even when things were good in '97 and '98, Wall Street's actions always looked criminal to me.
Wall Street consistantly ended up giving companies going public only a fraction of the price that the company closed at after the first day of trading. Why is this a problem? Well a company going public is essentially selling a % of their company to raise capital. Let's say we have a company that we are willing to sell 20% to raise $20 million. To do that, I have to sell 2 million shares at $10 a share. If the stock closes at $20 at the end of the first day, as the IPO'd company we still only raised $20 million dollars. If the I-bankers did their job correctly, we could have only sold 10% of the company and still raised the same amount of cash ( $20 million ). Instead, we were forced to sell 2x as much ownership of the company as we should have.
The investment banks pocketed all the additional money. The most common structure of an IPO is that the underwriters purchase all the stock from the IPO company and then sell it from their books as trading occurs.
As I understand it, the biggest task a IPO underwriter performs is evaluating what a share of a stock will trade for in the market. If you look at their historical accuracy of doing this, you'll see how poor a job they do at this.
Why does Wall Street still exist? Legislation
Look at the effeciency of NYSE vs Nasdaq. No comparison.
The reaons that lawyers are despised so much is that they are, most of the time, just legal thugs.
No one likes a bully.
They are slick enough to convince 'the public' that they are working for 'the public'. Anytime they can take advantage of the fact that human beings don't want to be held responsible for their own actions, the lawyers show up. ( Tobacco, fast food, the list goes on and on. )
The reality is, they just want to create a rigid structure with them at the top.
How do they slip this past the public? Easy, lawyers use overly complicated jargon the average person can't understand. Look at Nolo.com to see how clearly even complicated legal ideas can be expressed. The lawyers don't want to express their ideas clearly, that would remove one of their biggest power bases.
Lawyers have lead to the death of common sense and are leading us into a police state.
I've noticed that some people seem to be naturally better cooks than others. I've know several people that follow a recipe very exactly. The food they create just doesn't turn out very good. Personally, I'll use a recipe as a guideline and use rough estimates. Most of the time, my meals turn out pretty well. It's as if a intuitive sense is needed.
It's unfortunate that the Linux/BSD community has to create new distributions to attempt to find the magic button that's going to capture market share.
I love the idea of Linux and the BSD's but installation and configuration can be insanely hard if things don't go right the first time. I've installed:
Redhat 7.2 - this went pretty easy on my work pc, except I couldn't even boot the install disks on my home pc. Mandrake 8.1 - wouldn't boot on my home PC- did install on work pc, but couldn't configure my laster jet printer due to some cryptic bug. I sent my cap file and hopefully they will figure it out, because I have not clue FreeBSD - It was easy to install the OS, but configuring XFree86 has me comletely confused. I have gotten the GUI to render, but there are no buttons. But I can use the mouse to drag windows around create a really cool tracers:)
It's frustrating to want to do something that I believe in so much.( I even donate money to Mandrake, FreeBSD and several other projects ) Despite the fact that I know more about computers than 90% of the general public, I still haven't been able to get a "free" version of a OS to be fully functional on any of my computers.
Fortunately, I do have access to most of the software because I'm a OS X user too. I've configured my iBook to be able to use the FreeBSD ports.
Enough of my rant, but there are a few things that I think need to be done.
HP seems to dominate the Printer market. I think that getting All the HP printers to work by being able to click a button is critical for Linux to ever be a viable desktop option.( add in NEC and you've got 85% of the market )
The configuration of XFree86 needs to be simplified somehow. Mandrake and Redhat seemed to have done this and I'd love to see FreeBSD do this too.
Finally, someone needs to create a virus that somehow sets all infected PC's to default to.rtf to purge themselves of those nasty.doc 's.
Ultimately, how much we learn in school comes from how well we understand the message that is being conveyed by the teacher AND the parents.
Anyone that wants a magic pill, be it a computer or more education spending, is not focusing on the right problem.
It would seem that a computer's best use would be to gather the best teaching methods and provide other teachers with new insights into how to best convey their teachings to the students.
Think about it, teaching many subjects involves creating metaphors that allow your audience to understand the message you are delivering. Almost all learning is associative, so if you have a large enough db of teaching metaphors, you can readily find the right message to deliver.
I'm a manager in a biotech company. I interact with several distinct groups. When I'm talking with programmers, I tend to be very precise with my message, I let them know what I need and make sure we understand what we are developing. OTOH, If I'm talking with one of our operators, I tend to talk about different things. I talk about the cases they've performed etc. because they are more concerned with the people/relationships.
IMO, a teacher's job is to provide the spark that bridges the gap and allows the fire of knowledge to grow within the student.
I'm in partial agreement.
One thing that frustrates me is that most people seem to want to view it as binary.
0 Either you teach computers
1 You dont' use computers at all
I don't think that it has to be that way.
Why not allow them to do what they want to do.
that they should be taught the basics and allowed to do what they want to.
You can try to encourage, but a kids going to do what a kids going to do. I like freedom:)
I do agree they need better educational software though.A lot of the stuff out there is hard even for me to read.:)
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From an article I read in New Scientist, aparently they can turn off certain regions on of the brain termporarily. This can replicate savant type abilitiies.
The replicated the drawing savant abilities in one gentlemen and he went from OK drawing to near photo-realism in a series of drawings. It was amazing.
Near Death experiences have been replicated as well. I imagine that soon they will be able to replicate. many of these savant type skills
Genius seems to reside in us all, I think we are often afraid to commit to revealing it. These new tools might make it easier. Once you have tasted that mental space, it can become consuming.
Tennis Elbow Injury symptomsOr at least they did.
That's one of the reason that MicroSoft doesn't pay any corporate tax.
Alternative Fuel
Excellent magazine.
:)
They always seeem to be covering just what I'm thinking about. They had an interesting article on P2P engines and the implications for business content distribution.
BitTorrent was mentioned. Great software, but best for popular files. Obscure files download slowly, if you can find them at all.
My quess is that somehow Skype will end up somehow being involved with that.
As the pipes get bigger, what will be needed is an effecient search algoritm to locate files. Skyp has that stuff already. People will also be used to paying for VM and land line hookups. It be a perfect fit.
Make the Play bar disappear faster so you can read text on the screen.
This code take the format of "Select Play Select Something Select". These do not require backdoors to be enabled for them to work. The best way to do this type of code is to start playing a recorded program and do them while the recorded program is playing. They can be done from LiveTV as well, but people generally have a hard time getting them to work when trying to do that.
Select-Pause-Select-Pause-Select - Toggles the fast disappear of the Play bar. Appears to have no other major effect, but who knows.
Put a 3 ring binder in your lap and the computer on top. It works perfectly.
The air space between the covers prevents the transfer of heat.
I figured this out through trial and error.
If you want to learn to cook food you like better, learn what the different spices taste like.
If you are in a restaurant and you like your meal. Tell the waiter and ask what the ingredients are. Most chefs lover the compliments and I have had several come out and talk to me about their secrets.
Everyone loves honest compliments.
Oh yeah, and salt the food before you cook it. Pepper will burn if you cook it, but salt seems to meld with the food better during the cooking process.
I've been thinking about getting a Roomba for a while. I don't know anyone that has one.
:(
To those that have this little robot:
Is it worth it?
Sweeping seems to be a daily chore for me.
There are TWO rules for ultimate success in poker: 1. Never tell everything you know. more Poker Party Jokes
As the dealer starts to pass the dog by, the guy says, "Hey, deal my dog in!"
Everyone looks rather askance but they deal him in.
To everyone's surprise, the dog picks up the cards and begins to play!
After a few hands one of the guys says, "Say, that's amazing! Your dog ought to be in the Guiness Book of Records!"
The dog owner says, "Nah, he sees too many flops and is a sucker for a check-raise."
more Online Poker Jokes
I used to play UT and Medal of Honor. Not anymore, after I found out that many of the online poker sites have FREE money tables. So you get to compete against others and it doesn't cost you anything.
A friend of mine just recently started a site:
www.Aces-Wired.com
He's got reviews of several of the Online Casino's
I happen to live near Ga Tech and there are big games going on almost every night. Most colleges have games.
Plus I learned something else really interesting. About 40% of the people that I meet playing poker are Self Employed so it a great source for leads for my own business.
Poker is a great analogy for business too. In poker and in business you've got to learn to play the odds.
1. Know when the odds are in your favor.
2. Be able to capitalize on that advantage.
3. To make money, you learn to be comfortable with risk. There is no way around it.
Poker, in particular Texas Holdem, is an incredible game and very easy to pick up. What is most interesting is that the complexity of the game is not even unstood by the layperson until after they have played for a while.
I used to play UT and Medal of Honor. Not anymore, after I found out that many of the online poker sites have FREE money tables. So you get to compete against others and it doesn't cost you anything.
A friend of mine just recently started a site:
http://www.aces-wired.com
He's got reviews of several of the Online Casino's
I happen to live near Ga Tech and there are big games going on almost every night.
Plus I learned something else really interesting.
About 40% of the people that I meet playing poker are Self Employed so it a great source for leads for my own business.
Poker is a great analogy for business too.
In poker and in business you've got to learn to play the odds. Know when the odds are in your favor and
The chance of a thermonuclear war is less now because large groups of society view the world differently than they did in the '80s .
If you want to see evidence, look at business culture in 1986 versus today. I doubt a CEO in 1986 even knew what the word integrity meant.
Now, the public clamours that CEO's conduct business with integrity.
More evidence is the fact that there was great discussion in the United States as to whether we should respond with aggression to the events of 9/11 . In the 80's it would have been a different story.
Doing too much to quickly can lead to a case of heel spurs. Take it slow and allow your body to adapt.
The government loves getting more and more power. More laws mean they get to grow bigger and spend more of our tax money.
Once in place you get a real big, dumb organization that can't fire anyone and will use it's power to try to grow even bigger.
The only people whose opinions matter then are lobbyists with lot's of cash and the people that make money from things staying the way they are.
If the government starts regulating security, they will be even slower to respond than MicroSoft is.
It's very similar to the reason why medical marijuana remains illegal. There is a lot of money invested in keeping people in jail and enforcing the current drug laws. The reality is that the government would make even more money from taxes if the wacky weed were legalized. Greed can be very blinding.
The subtle irony of it all is that the Government is inherently anti-democratic.
It's always nice to support great GPL stuff.
BTW, I'm just learning Blender and would love to know how similar Blender was to Maya. Maya is too expensive for me right now.
I'm sure once the technology gets cheaper that we'll begin seeing applications like this all the time.
:)
I can't wait until someone combines this technology with the FlyBar super pogo stick. Soon we'll all be leaping buildings in a single bound
Their NewsAlert feature allows people to get exactly what they want delivered right to their e-mail.
This opens the door for the dream of big media, a targeted list of people that are actively searching for a specific type of information. To make this even sweeter, they don't even pay for their content.
This will be one of the Top Innovations of 2004.
This is HUGE idea.
I hope that this stops Google's talks with the investment banks. I think going public would be a huge mistake. This comes from personal experience. If they go public, I fear they will become another Micro$oft, forced to chase after ever increasing earnings targets.
That is not a good situation to be in.
It also shows that against the belief of all the "elite" techies, the companies kept on going.
It amazing how many people overestimate their value to others.
The name of the game is providing value, not about proving how l33t U R.
Figure out what people want and give it to them.
Munch Munch
You read too much into my comments. I never said it was justfied to 'hate lawyers'. I was merely expressing the reasons that lawyers are despised.
BTW, the big secret the 'polically correct' people don't want you to know is that stereotypes are invariably based on truth.
It would be as foolish to ignore stereotypes as it would be to believe in them blindly.
I'm intrigued that google is still interestted in going public. Being a public company means that google will be working for the investors rather than doing what google does best.
My guess is that they:
1.go public
2. gets lots of cash
3. Buy back company and privitize after price comes back down.
I also think that google is using the muscle to hopefully make some good changes to Wall Street.
Even when things were good in '97 and '98, Wall Street's actions always looked criminal to me.
Wall Street consistantly ended up giving companies going public only a fraction of the price that the company closed at after the first day of trading.
Why is this a problem?
Well a company going public is essentially selling a % of their company to raise capital.
Let's say we have a company that we are willing to sell 20% to raise $20 million.
To do that, I have to sell 2 million shares at $10 a share.
If the stock closes at $20 at the end of the first day, as the IPO'd company we still only raised $20 million dollars.
If the I-bankers did their job correctly, we could have only sold 10% of the company and still raised the same amount of cash ( $20 million ). Instead, we were forced to sell 2x as much ownership of the company as we should have.
The investment banks pocketed all the additional money. The most common structure of an IPO is that the underwriters purchase all the stock from the IPO company and then sell it from their books as trading occurs.
As I understand it, the biggest task a IPO underwriter performs is evaluating what a share of a stock will trade for in the market. If you look at their historical accuracy of doing this, you'll see how poor a job they do at this.
Why does Wall Street still exist?
Legislation
Look at the effeciency of NYSE vs Nasdaq. No comparison.
The reaons that lawyers are despised so much is that they are, most of the time, just legal thugs.
No one likes a bully.
They are slick enough to convince 'the public' that they are working for 'the public'. Anytime they can take advantage of the fact that human beings don't want to be held responsible for their own actions, the lawyers show up. ( Tobacco, fast food, the list goes on and on. )
The reality is, they just want to create a rigid structure with them at the top.
How do they slip this past the public?
Easy, lawyers use overly complicated jargon the average person can't understand. Look at Nolo.com to see how clearly even complicated legal ideas can be expressed. The lawyers don't want to express their ideas clearly, that would remove one of their biggest power bases.
Lawyers have lead to the death of common sense and are leading us into a police state.
I've noticed that some people seem to be naturally better cooks than others.
I've know several people that follow a recipe very exactly. The food they create just doesn't turn out very good.
Personally, I'll use a recipe as a guideline and use rough estimates. Most of the time, my meals turn out pretty well.
It's as if a intuitive sense is needed.
How does someone learn/teach this skill?
It's unfortunate that the Linux/BSD community has to create new distributions to attempt to find the magic button that's going to capture market share.
:)
.rtf .doc 's.
I love the idea of Linux and the BSD's but installation and configuration can be insanely hard if things don't go right the first time.
I've installed:
Redhat 7.2 - this went pretty easy on my work pc, except I couldn't even boot the install disks on my home pc.
Mandrake 8.1 - wouldn't boot on my home PC- did install on work pc, but couldn't configure my laster jet printer due to some cryptic bug. I sent my cap file and hopefully they will figure it out, because I have not clue
FreeBSD - It was easy to install the OS, but configuring XFree86 has me comletely confused. I have gotten the GUI to render, but there are no buttons. But I can use the mouse to drag windows around create a really cool tracers
It's frustrating to want to do something that I believe in so much.( I even donate money to Mandrake, FreeBSD and several other projects ) Despite the fact that I know more about computers than 90% of the general public, I still haven't been able to get a "free" version of a OS to be fully functional on any of my computers.
Fortunately, I do have access to most of the software because I'm a OS X user too. I've configured my iBook to be able to use the FreeBSD
ports.
Enough of my rant, but there are a few things that I think need to be done.
HP seems to dominate the Printer market. I think that getting All the HP printers to work by being able to click a button is critical for Linux to ever be a viable desktop option.( add in NEC and you've got 85% of the market )
The configuration of XFree86 needs to be simplified somehow. Mandrake and Redhat seemed to have done this and I'd love to see FreeBSD do this too.
Finally, someone needs to create a virus that somehow sets all infected PC's to default to
to purge themselves of those nasty
Ultimately, how much we learn in school comes from how well we understand the message that is being conveyed by the teacher AND the parents.
Anyone that wants a magic pill, be it a computer or more education spending, is not focusing on the right problem.
It would seem that a computer's best use would be to gather the best teaching methods and provide other teachers with new insights into how to best convey their teachings to the students.
Think about it, teaching many subjects involves creating metaphors that allow your audience to understand the message you are delivering. Almost all learning is associative, so if you have a large enough db of teaching metaphors, you can readily find the right message to deliver.
I'm a manager in a biotech company. I interact with several distinct groups. When I'm talking with programmers, I tend to be very precise with my message, I let them know what I need and make sure we understand what we are developing. OTOH, If I'm talking with one of our operators, I tend to talk about different things. I talk about the cases they've performed etc. because they are more concerned with the people/relationships.
IMO, a teacher's job is to provide the spark that bridges the gap and allows the fire of knowledge to grow within the student.
I'm in partial agreement.
:)
One thing that frustrates me is that most people seem to want to view it as binary.
0 Either you teach computers
1 You dont' use computers at all
I don't think that it has to be that way.
Why not allow them to do what they want to do.
that they should be taught the basics and allowed to do what they want to.
You can try to encourage, but a kids going to do what a kids going to do. I like freedom
I do agree they need better educational software though.A lot of the stuff out there is hard even for me to read.:)