I've been logging in as little as possible for awhile now, just responding to direct messages and giving people my email address if they want to have a deeper conversation. I figure if enough people stop adding content to Facebook, the rest will get tired of talking to themselves.
When trying to read or concentrate on a task, I usually opt for instrumental music, usually soft/ambient/downtempo. Vocals are distracting. Though I seem to have a higher tolerance of non-instrumental music when it's played through low-fi speakers (eg. an iPod's speakers).
But there's much more that Manterola and co have deduced. They point out that nobody else on the planet seems to have seen this comet passing in front of the Sun, even though the nearest observatories in those days were just a few hundred kilometres away.
That can be explained using parallax. If the fragments were close to Earth, parallax would have ensured that they would not have been in line with the Sun even for observers nearby. And since Mexico is at the same latitude as the Sahara, northern India and south-east Asia, it's not hard to imagine that nobody else was looking.
It is certain that as your own intelligence increases to where you find yourself smarter than all but a fraction of a percent of the population, the ideas you have will be mostly correct but most other people won't be able to understand you. This can be incredibly frustrating.
I don't consider myself exceptionally smart, but I feel like this somewhat regularly. It can take people months or years for a situation to evolve to a point where others understand and/or agree with what I proposed long ago. It is very frustrating. I partially blame inadequate communication skills to explain some of the ideas I have... that's one skill I'd recommend for a prodigy to focus on (applicable, of course, to anyone).
The sad thing is you rarely if ever hear any of this in a politician's campaign promises, as if erosion of people's rights and privacy are a non-issue or can't be helped.
What really pisses me off is Sony changing the EULA on a product I already use (Playstation Network). I _had_ to "agree" to the EULA in order to continue to play online games. However, I emailed a complaint to them and refuse to make any more purchases on PSN. New games - no problem - they are on my do not buy list. If Microsoft and Nintendo decide to go this way, then my console options are pretty much zero.
Even if this is somehow "legal", it's a slimy enough move that I refuse to buy from EA or anyone else who wants to use this tactic (most recently, Sony). Bring it! I will spend my money on things that don't require me to waive my rights.
How about a tax scale that accounts for the current unemployment rate? Higher unemployment = higher taxes for corporations and rich, lower unemployment is lower taxes for corporations and the rich. Hell of an incentive to create jobs.
Yes, it's funny to hear people tell you to watch loud power tools and music until... your hearing is 1/2 gone!
Just curious, the doc says hearing aids only amplify the volume of sounds. I'm only deficient in hearing in a certain small range but it makes talking to certain people (usually women and kids) a chore. Isn't there _something_ that can shift the pitch of a certain frequency into another frequency so I can hear it without amplification?
I've been running a web proxy at home for awhile now and the more I review the logs, the more I see that the entire WWW is a massive data collection engine. Trying to keep up with blocks is like playing whack-a-mole (albeit similarly satisfying).
I agree with their call to action to have FaceBook links removed, but I'd also add that this is only the tip of the iceberg.
What's the brand they're building, Cmdr. Taco or Slashdot? Headline should read something like "Slashdot visits Kennedy Space Center", and mention in the article that it's Cmdr. Taco who's covering it, IMO.
I filed a bug against an ATI driver and provided all the relevant info. Go look up driver bugs if you want to see what's out there.
If you think power management is just for suspend functionality, then you have no business commenting on this issue. The topic has been fully covered on slashdot for crying out loud.
I run several operating systems under VMware so running without VMware isn't an option.
I use Linux all day under VMware on Windows. For awhile I ran VMware on Linux, but on my laptop the power management and video drivers had fairly significant issues. Now, running under Windows, everything works fine. I rarely have to interact with Windows so it's not a big deal.
I'd love to buy North American goods but there are hardly any out there compared to "Made in China" goods. Finding stuff that is not made in China is actually pretty hard. Someone should make a UPC scanner app that offers you "Made in XX" products as alternatives.
Another thing is, once you have all this infrastructure in place to upkeep roads, military, etc... it is extremely disruptive to the economy to make sweeping changes. Imagine cutting road budgets in 1/2, military budgets in 1/2, and watch the economy fall and unemployment rise. Look at how "too big to fail" industry gets propped up with bailouts, and even protection against fair competition.
There are potential dangers in making organisms virus-proof, though. Most obviously, they might have an advantage over competing species if they escaped into the wild, allowing them to dominate environments with potentially destructive effects. In the case of E. coli, those environments could include our guts.
"We want to be very careful. The goal is to isolate these organisms from part of the natural sphere with which they normally interact," says Carr. "We shouldn't pretend that we understand all possible ramifications, and we need to study these modified organisms carefully." But he points out that we deal with similar issues already, such as invasive species running riot in countries where they have no natural predators. Additional safeguards could be built in, such as making modified organisms dependent on nutrients they can get only in a lab or factory. And if the worst came to the worst, biologists could create viruses capable of killing their errant organisms. Such viruses would not be able to infect normal cells.
I wonder how someone who deals directly with evolutionary processes can be so sure of something like this never happening, or how fixing one genetic "woops" should be solved by creating yet another organism. Where did the inspiration from that come from, Jurassic Park? Still, the possibilities are interesting.
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I've been logging in as little as possible for awhile now, just responding to direct messages and giving people my email address if they want to have a deeper conversation. I figure if enough people stop adding content to Facebook, the rest will get tired of talking to themselves.
The Boards of Canada song you linked is one of my favourites, too. Never thought to look up the video, though. :)
When trying to read or concentrate on a task, I usually opt for instrumental music, usually soft/ambient/downtempo. Vocals are distracting. Though I seem to have a higher tolerance of non-instrumental music when it's played through low-fi speakers (eg. an iPod's speakers).
Don't forget your pajama jeans and a flock of cuddly puppies!
It also mentions in the article:
It is certain that as your own intelligence increases to where you find yourself smarter than all but a fraction of a percent of the population, the ideas you have will be mostly correct but most other people won't be able to understand you. This can be incredibly frustrating.
I don't consider myself exceptionally smart, but I feel like this somewhat regularly. It can take people months or years for a situation to evolve to a point where others understand and/or agree with what I proposed long ago. It is very frustrating. I partially blame inadequate communication skills to explain some of the ideas I have... that's one skill I'd recommend for a prodigy to focus on (applicable, of course, to anyone).
The sad thing is you rarely if ever hear any of this in a politician's campaign promises, as if erosion of people's rights and privacy are a non-issue or can't be helped.
What really pisses me off is Sony changing the EULA on a product I already use (Playstation Network). I _had_ to "agree" to the EULA in order to continue to play online games. However, I emailed a complaint to them and refuse to make any more purchases on PSN. New games - no problem - they are on my do not buy list.
If Microsoft and Nintendo decide to go this way, then my console options are pretty much zero.
Even if this is somehow "legal", it's a slimy enough move that I refuse to buy from EA or anyone else who wants to use this tactic (most recently, Sony). Bring it! I will spend my money on things that don't require me to waive my rights.
What would that mean if Neo (from The Matrix) were to ride a Tron Lightcycle.
Organic world -> Matrix Simulation -> Electronic Tron world inside a simulation -> Build a Matrix Simulation -> Pick up a phone
Anyway, cool looking bike...
1. I want to see a completed Death Star roam into the Borg home world (as seen on Voyager's "I, Borg") and fight it out
2. http://spacebattles.com/
How about a tax scale that accounts for the current unemployment rate? Higher unemployment = higher taxes for corporations and rich, lower unemployment is lower taxes for corporations and the rich. Hell of an incentive to create jobs.
Thank you for the informative response! I need to see an audiologist.
Yes, it's funny to hear people tell you to watch loud power tools and music until... your hearing is 1/2 gone!
Just curious, the doc says hearing aids only amplify the volume of sounds. I'm only deficient in hearing in a certain small range but it makes talking to certain people (usually women and kids) a chore. Isn't there _something_ that can shift the pitch of a certain frequency into another frequency so I can hear it without amplification?
I've been running a web proxy at home for awhile now and the more I review the logs, the more I see that the entire WWW is a massive data collection engine. Trying to keep up with blocks is like playing whack-a-mole (albeit similarly satisfying).
I agree with their call to action to have FaceBook links removed, but I'd also add that this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Yes, I know. Slashdot is well beyond the personal blog stage, as the about page clearly states!
What's the brand they're building, Cmdr. Taco or Slashdot? Headline should read something like "Slashdot visits Kennedy Space Center", and mention in the article that it's Cmdr. Taco who's covering it, IMO.
More ASSumptions from Mr. Belits. Again, all wrong. You go girl! Do something about your anger issues instead of wasting time trolling on slashdot.
I filed a bug against an ATI driver and provided all the relevant info. Go look up driver bugs if you want to see what's out there.
If you think power management is just for suspend functionality, then you have no business commenting on this issue. The topic has been fully covered on slashdot for crying out loud.
I run several operating systems under VMware so running without VMware isn't an option.
Using a LiveCD would be simplest for sure, but it's a lot slower than running a virtualized environment.
I use Linux all day under VMware on Windows. For awhile I ran VMware on Linux, but on my laptop the power management and video drivers had fairly significant issues. Now, running under Windows, everything works fine. I rarely have to interact with Windows so it's not a big deal.
I'd love to buy North American goods but there are hardly any out there compared to "Made in China" goods. Finding stuff that is not made in China is actually pretty hard.
Someone should make a UPC scanner app that offers you "Made in XX" products as alternatives.
Another thing is, once you have all this infrastructure in place to upkeep roads, military, etc... it is extremely disruptive to the economy to make sweeping changes. Imagine cutting road budgets in 1/2, military budgets in 1/2, and watch the economy fall and unemployment rise. Look at how "too big to fail" industry gets propped up with bailouts, and even protection against fair competition.
I wonder how someone who deals directly with evolutionary processes can be so sure of something like this never happening, or how fixing one genetic "woops" should be solved by creating yet another organism. Where did the inspiration from that come from, Jurassic Park? Still, the possibilities are interesting.
I was simply responding to the OP who said:
No chat, no auction houses, no guilds (basically no social interaction of any kind, which kind of defeats the whole point of an MMO).
I think my interpretation was fair and hardly a flame. Glad to know they were incorrect.