What part of anything I said is like saying "Don't use insulin, Mind over matter?" Because apparently you're reading phantom posts in your fucking head so you can reply in outrage to them as though they really fucking happened.
I say something paranoid to the effect of "a world of genetically engineered complacant workers incapable of being negatively effected emotionally by the socio-policital climate" and you read "omg medications is for t3h suck, nobody needs them lol" and respond accordingly.
I see deliberate poisoning of the water-supply to produce infected offspring, you see hubris about your medication. Are you feeling defensive for some reason? Are you responding to arguments you've internalized and now see as coming from everyone?
If modern anti-depressents work by effecting the serotonin transporter (which I can only guess is the same one mentioned to be affected by the gene in the article), then I could deduce that without this gene you'd effectively be whole, rather than the crippled half-formed person from a deformed line that you are? (No offense: got the creeping deformed paranoia myself, so we're all fucked here)
In all seriousness, that sounds good.
However, my personal experience indicates two separate relatives who have been on (and are on) anti-depressants right now, and they are definitely "happy pills." Now that the topic has actually come up in a fashion that makes me want to know, I'll have to ask and see just what the hell they were/are taking. Someone else has mentioned boosters in a reply, which I presume do what they sound like they would do.
Interesting, in that the gene mentioned in the article is specifically noted as involved in transmission of seratonin in the brain. But it says transmission, not production.
I looked up a bit on seratonin (and on TREK-1, though just about nothing discovered there was digestible to me), and absence of serotonin is apparently a good chunk of the problem (hence the boosters). So apparently (as best I can deduce now) this gene is either: responsible for routing serotonin away from parts of the brain in order to trigger a depressed state; somehow a limiting factor in serotonin production/transmission, so its absence causes more seratonin to be produced/transmitted
What part of that did you read as "those stupid depressed people, can't they just relax a little?" Is that part of your medication making you jumpy?
Maybe a side-effect makes you have imaginary conversations with people in your head, where you get to fill in bits and pieces so that it sounds more adversarial? Then you can pretend the conversation really took place and respond as though it did, commenting on statements that only happened in your head!
I wonder how closely depression and negative emotions like outrage, regret, etc are tied together? If I'm unable to be depressed, would I be able to care about what seems to be a series of bad things shaping the world? People I've met on anti-depressants can be pretty non-chalant regarding just about everything, so long as they're on their pills.
If you can see where I'm going with this, you're probably a paranoid conspiracy theorist too.
Microsoft will probably work together a deal with its resellers such that whenever you buy a licensed copy of a Microsoft OS (such as with a PC purchase), you'll get a Zune for free. Apple is already doing this for students purchasing a MacBook (free iPod Nano *after rebate). It's the same line they took against Netscape Navigator with Internet Explorer.
If everyone already has a Zune, why would they want to buy an iPod, right? Or if they've got two Zune's in their family, may as well go with the house-hold licensing for whatever service they'll offer to sell the media, so any other media player purchases need to be Zunes too.
It's one of those often used terms that doesn't really mean what people seem to think it means. Unsocial is what you are. Property damage is antisocial.
Neither Lotus Notes nor Lotus Sametime (which I'm expecting someone else to mention any moment now) are really "in-house". They're both applications produced by companies purchased by IBM, which are still marketable products. We're just "eating our own dogfood"
Around five-to-seven years ago, freshmen entering college could allocate around $1200 for a new desktop computer. The ones with more money got (more expensive) laptops instead. Now, why should allocating a measely $899 for a freshman's computer make them "spoiled?"
And what's this "makes other people feel bad" bullshit you're spouting?
They probably meant Common Lisp's Object System, failing to differentiate CL and Scheme. However, what's the difference really between an actor and an object? There's no MOP involved, but you still end up with instanciation, and heck you can even do inheritence.
Yup waiting for the Wii. But soon I'll have a DS Lite, which will be my first DS. The DS seems to be where all the really fun games are right now, from what I've been reading.
Slightly off-topic, but I'd like to mention (regarding your search for Ogg alternatives to iPod) that Rockbox runs awesome on my 5G iPod. Originally I would have preferred that apple would have stepped up and provided the Ogg support on its own, but the features and UI of Rockbox are actually better than the stock Apple firmware. There are some bugs and missing features to contend with (lack of video playback), but if necessary you can have rockbox boot back to the original firmware!
This may actually be useful! There are a number of games, among them that holy-of-holies, The Secret of Mana, that during very busy scenes with all three characters and a number of enemies, will experience slow-down and flickered sprites as an error. Does a sped-up CPU do anything at all to remedy this?
Once he's got it so it's only sped (and not fucked) up, I'd love to find out if that would help prevent those slow-downs
I'll bet nobody was expecting an actual response to this story, heh
I'm coming up on thirty, and I can still tell when a television or monitor is on (with the sound system turned off) by that sound, usually from a fair distance.
On a slightly related note, there was a time while I worked for a hosting company, and during the first week we toured the entire facility. The battery room, hidden away off of the server farm, had about the most extreme example of this type of sound I've ever witnessed. Some people in the group didn't notice anything at all, but it felt to me like someone was trying to drag my stomach lining out through my eye sockets.
I've been considering this since the last time this was on slashdot. While over any real distance DC is inefficient for power transmission, the inside of a rack might benefit. I figure with a large UPS and some sort of redundant power-supply, you could feed a number of computers with 12V lines and a picoPSU-120 12V DC-DC ATX power supply. Has anyone tried this yet? I've never worked with high-density hardware (like blades) but I'd imagine that each blade is certainly not using its own PSU.
My dad brought home a Texas Instruments box one day, and sat down with a little black and white television and write the sample "Make Mr. Bojangles Dance" program. I was absolutely fascinated, and ate through the two manuals that came with it.
In between games of Blasto, I was busy learning hexadecimal in order to draw 8x8 characters on the screen. Most of my programs weren't terribly interesting, they were more in the way of little movies. A Mr. Bojangles lookalike would wander across the screen, then fall off of a cliff and land on a bomb and print *boom*! End of program.
I've always been fairly frank about this with myself and others; I buy books and video games to escape a disapointing reality. That's a bit different from just "entertainment"
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What part of anything I said is like saying "Don't use insulin, Mind over matter?" Because apparently you're reading phantom posts in your fucking head so you can reply in outrage to them as though they really fucking happened.
I say something paranoid to the effect of "a world of genetically engineered complacant workers incapable of being negatively effected emotionally by the socio-policital climate" and you read "omg medications is for t3h suck, nobody needs them lol" and respond accordingly.
I see deliberate poisoning of the water-supply to produce infected offspring, you see hubris about your medication. Are you feeling defensive for some reason? Are you responding to arguments you've internalized and now see as coming from everyone?
If modern anti-depressents work by effecting the serotonin transporter (which I can only guess is the same one mentioned to be affected by the gene in the article), then I could deduce that without this gene you'd effectively be whole, rather than the crippled half-formed person from a deformed line that you are? (No offense: got the creeping deformed paranoia myself, so we're all fucked here)
In all seriousness, that sounds good.
However, my personal experience indicates two separate relatives who have been on (and are on) anti-depressants right now, and they are definitely "happy pills." Now that the topic has actually come up in a fashion that makes me want to know, I'll have to ask and see just what the hell they were/are taking. Someone else has mentioned boosters in a reply, which I presume do what they sound like they would do.
Interesting, in that the gene mentioned in the article is specifically noted as involved in transmission of seratonin in the brain. But it says transmission, not production.
I looked up a bit on seratonin (and on TREK-1, though just about nothing discovered there was digestible to me), and absence of serotonin is apparently a good chunk of the problem (hence the boosters). So apparently (as best I can deduce now) this gene is either: responsible for routing serotonin away from parts of the brain in order to trigger a depressed state; somehow a limiting factor in serotonin production/transmission, so its absence causes more seratonin to be produced/transmitted
What part of that did you read as "those stupid depressed people, can't they just relax a little?" Is that part of your medication making you jumpy?
Maybe a side-effect makes you have imaginary conversations with people in your head, where you get to fill in bits and pieces so that it sounds more adversarial? Then you can pretend the conversation really took place and respond as though it did, commenting on statements that only happened in your head!
I wonder how closely depression and negative emotions like outrage, regret, etc are tied together? If I'm unable to be depressed, would I be able to care about what seems to be a series of bad things shaping the world? People I've met on anti-depressants can be pretty non-chalant regarding just about everything, so long as they're on their pills.
If you can see where I'm going with this, you're probably a paranoid conspiracy theorist too.
Microsoft will probably work together a deal with its resellers such that whenever you buy a licensed copy of a Microsoft OS (such as with a PC purchase), you'll get a Zune for free. Apple is already doing this for students purchasing a MacBook (free iPod Nano *after rebate). It's the same line they took against Netscape Navigator with Internet Explorer.
If everyone already has a Zune, why would they want to buy an iPod, right? Or if they've got two Zune's in their family, may as well go with the house-hold licensing for whatever service they'll offer to sell the media, so any other media player purchases need to be Zunes too.
It's one of those often used terms that doesn't really mean what people seem to think it means. Unsocial is what you are. Property damage is antisocial.
Math majors don't give a fuck about roman numerals. And IV is 4, not 9.
No, terrorism is about funding pork projects. Who benefits from terrorists? The people who sell the magic charms to keep them away.
Neither Lotus Notes nor Lotus Sametime (which I'm expecting someone else to mention any moment now) are really "in-house". They're both applications produced by companies purchased by IBM, which are still marketable products. We're just "eating our own dogfood"
And besides, a computer will eventually wear out, but alcoholism and a spoiled liver are forever!
Around five-to-seven years ago, freshmen entering college could allocate around $1200 for a new desktop computer. The ones with more money got (more expensive) laptops instead. Now, why should allocating a measely $899 for a freshman's computer make them "spoiled?"
And what's this "makes other people feel bad" bullshit you're spouting?
They probably meant Common Lisp's Object System, failing to differentiate CL and Scheme. However, what's the difference really between an actor and an object? There's no MOP involved, but you still end up with instanciation, and heck you can even do inheritence.
Don't lump all people with children under that standard. There are fucktards who pass laws like this amongst any group.
Yup waiting for the Wii. But soon I'll have a DS Lite, which will be my first DS. The DS seems to be where all the really fun games are right now, from what I've been reading.
Slightly off-topic, but I'd like to mention (regarding your search for Ogg alternatives to iPod) that Rockbox runs awesome on my 5G iPod. Originally I would have preferred that apple would have stepped up and provided the Ogg support on its own, but the features and UI of Rockbox are actually better than the stock Apple firmware. There are some bugs and missing features to contend with (lack of video playback), but if necessary you can have rockbox boot back to the original firmware!
no, I also really enjoyed that game. You are not alone!
Warren Ellis called, and he wants his joke back :)
Find a TI Explorer or one of the MIT Lisp Machines. Those are something I'd love to see restored!
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This may actually be useful! There are a number of games, among them that holy-of-holies, The Secret of Mana, that during very busy scenes with all three characters and a number of enemies, will experience slow-down and flickered sprites as an error. Does a sped-up CPU do anything at all to remedy this?
Once he's got it so it's only sped (and not fucked) up, I'd love to find out if that would help prevent those slow-downs
I'll bet nobody was expecting an actual response to this story, heh
I'm coming up on thirty, and I can still tell when a television or monitor is on (with the sound system turned off) by that sound, usually from a fair distance.
On a slightly related note, there was a time while I worked for a hosting company, and during the first week we toured the entire facility. The battery room, hidden away off of the server farm, had about the most extreme example of this type of sound I've ever witnessed. Some people in the group didn't notice anything at all, but it felt to me like someone was trying to drag my stomach lining out through my eye sockets.
I've been considering this since the last time this was on slashdot. While over any real distance DC is inefficient for power transmission, the inside of a rack might benefit. I figure with a large UPS and some sort of redundant power-supply, you could feed a number of computers with 12V lines and a picoPSU-120 12V DC-DC ATX power supply. Has anyone tried this yet? I've never worked with high-density hardware (like blades) but I'd imagine that each blade is certainly not using its own PSU.
My dad brought home a Texas Instruments box one day, and sat down with a little black and white television and write the sample "Make Mr. Bojangles Dance" program. I was absolutely fascinated, and ate through the two manuals that came with it.
In between games of Blasto, I was busy learning hexadecimal in order to draw 8x8 characters on the screen. Most of my programs weren't terribly interesting, they were more in the way of little movies. A Mr. Bojangles lookalike would wander across the screen, then fall off of a cliff and land on a bomb and print *boom*! End of program.
I've always been fairly frank about this with myself and others; I buy books and video games to escape a disapointing reality. That's a bit different from just "entertainment"
I'd guess it meant something more like "Loving Sons"