This isn't bad for a highschooler. Once he learns scientific method he might contribute to real knowledge. In the meantime this sort of theorizing keeps kids' neurons limber.
I've read hundreds of books on the Palm/Visor in the last two years and ALL FREE. Most were linked from online books in text format. Download 'em and run 'em through MakeDocW, which automatically puts them in the Install directory for next sync.
Oh, absolutely. You can hack anything if the phrase means to study a system or tool and develop its less-known capabilities. I guess even socialites are hackers of human interaction (for good or ill, depending on their personal qualities). I think of hacking as poking around in the substrate of whatever it is and learning what's there, finding shortcuts and odd combinations of features that produce amazing results. You use whatever tools you've got: telescopes for the moon, microscopes for microbes, general observation for reality. (Any hacker can surprise you when they say "Watch this" but those reality hackers can really surprise you.)
Just bite your lip and don't comment one way or the other, it only leads to problems. Excellent advice and applies to lots of situations. Keeping your mouth shut is wildly useful.
Courtesy works in both positive and negative situations. Courtesy isn't the icing on the cake, it's part of the steak. In other words it's a much more substantive part of human interaction than we tend to think. I'm not talking about being courteous changing people's minds, although it can, and I'm not talking about phony courtesy used to cover up treachery. The real thing is an indicator of a better ability to grasp reality.
Back to the main issue, if it's somebody you liked working for, then do it--but make sure up front whether it's paid or a "donation" in return for maintaining a good relationship. I've done work for ex-employers; sometimes paid, sometimes, if a small fix of some sort, unpaid. It's give and take. I live in the same town with these people and want to be on their good list--and they want to be on their ex-employees' good lists too, because everybody knows word gets around. And, we know each other and know neither party is going to be taking advantage.
one of the most irritating phenomena I faced was the advice that my attitude was all-important, and the... implication that a bad outcome would be my own fault...
No kidding, buddy. When I got discouraged or bummed out, I felt like I was "not doing my part", "letting everybody down" -> vicious circle. Like you can help feeling bummed out sometimes during such an episode (even if you've got some peculiar reactions to make it mostly positive).
(I never did hold with the positive-thinking theory, but these ideas are so pervasive you pick 'em up unintentionally.)
"In many respects, a simpler culture is far more resilient than a complex one."
Change this to "In some respects, a simpler culture may be more resilient than a complex one" and I might agree.
Counterintuitive but true: Complex systems are harder to bring down than simple systems. Complex systems have more redundancy built in. If paths 1 through 10 are cut, you've got paths 11 through 5000 to use as alternates. If paths 1 through 7 are all you've got, you're out of luck.
Complex systems have more individual breakdowns than simple systems because they have more components to break. But, they are less likely to collapse than simple systems.
How do the separate arms of a snowflake know to grow in roughly the same pattern? Arms 1 through 6 of Snowflake A are alike. Arms 1 through 6 of Snowflake B are alike. There are plenty of mutant-looking ones; however, you won't find any that have one arm off Snowflake A and others off B, C, D, etc. Are the patterns determined by "information"? If so, how is it communicated over these distances? And how are they reading it? --It can't be information. So why should a similar situation, only bigger (the universe) require information?
Little holographic characters (Clippit and his friends)...
Geysering out of your computer screen into your personal space
Cavorting around on your keyboard singing about Chevrolets or cold drinks or overdue upgrades
Acting out tiny love scenes or fight scenes to grab your attention
Or a full-sized holographic hand reaching out to hold yours, saying "Would you like suggestions on style? May I recommend the Palatino font?"
at which a printer, complete with leather apron, leaps out holding up a proof sheet using YOUR doc's words
until a Tyrannosaurus Rex bounds upon the scene and gobbles all the other holograms, only to turn to you and say "Hey, [YOUR NAME], tired of intrusive software? Get NO-Zilla the holo killa! Only $39.95!"
1. You turn gray from getting it into your system, not applying it to the outside, as in the case of newborns or Civil War spies. How much it takes to turn YOU gray will be different from others. See Ms. Jacobs's story. This picture is particularly telling--as is the fact that Ms. Jacobs developed breast cancer despite being visibly loaded with silver.
2. The self-promoting, profit-oriented pages trying to sell this dangerous heavy metal as a "supplement" far outnumber the objective pages describing its actual effects. Therefore, if I believed everything I read on the web, I would agree with you on this subject. Use some logic.
3. QW says medicines can be divided into two categories only: works and doesn't work. "Alternative", "mainstream," "profitable", "non-patentable" are all side issues.
4. The QW writer points out that there's a huge trade in such things as Vitamin C despite their not being patentable. So much for that issue.
5. QW's skepticism sometimes goes overboard. Although I wish they would be a bit more moderate, in general a model of reality will be more accurate if you practice skepticism rather than gullibility.
6. Show me fully-documented, double-blind, replicated studies that unambiguously support your claims, and I will accept your claims.
Please post the URL of the studies here so that we all can learn about them.
7. Do the sellers of colloidal silver have your welfare in mind any more than other pharmaceutical companies? Why should they? They're in business. The profit motive is a powerful corrupter on every level. Alternative medicine companies have no better a record, and often worse, than the mainstream producers.
This poor woman wants to tell you about colloidal silver. She took it as a child, back when it was a standard ingredient prescribed by a regular MD. So much for it being alternative. Mainstream or alternative, it made her look permanently alien and did not cure anything or prevent her getting cancer in adulthood.
Here's the page on colloidal silver at Quackwatch. Apparently the stuff can turn you permanently gray anywhere you're naturally light--skin, whites of the eyes, some of your insides (lungs? fat?) etc. And, the producers are big on hype, not so interested in rigorous testing or even keeping microorganisms out of their medicine bottles. See also this FDA site. As for a conspiracy preventing effective medicines from reaching the consumer, isn't it obvious that researchers, pharmaceutical company stockholders, scientists, and doctors are all ALSO consumers? They and their families are just as likely to get cancer or heart disease as you are. Think they'll suppress something that could cure their kid of leukemia so that the company can profit? Give me a break.
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...certain conditions increase performance. I thought we figured this out years ago...
Sure. The question is, how do they increase performance? What is the mechanism? Can it be controlled? What else can we learn about it?
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... I repeat the same thought, image, or phrase over repeatedly in my mind until I accomplish the particular part I'm trying to beat in the game...
This sounds exactly like the way people get into a meditative state by repeating a word or phrase (out loud or internally), or concentrating on a mental image.
Maybe you have learned to boost the alpha state so that your gaming improves. How about that! You've reinvented the mantra.
As for the nonsense part, when you get into a meditative or semi-meditative state you can watch your stream of consciousness which is full of random stuff. You can also do this when dropping off to sleep.
Ever tried meditating? You sound like it would come natural to you.
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hey, Marty, can I quote you? Send me an email if so.
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I get into the state (that is, have a couple of times) when circumstances forced me to watch a video that I didn't want much to be watching, but had to sit through anyway.
Howdy! If you went to the FW/. meetup and didn't find one of your hosts, namely Texchanchan, that is because I was sitting at a restaurant in Handley waiting for a tow truck. Alternator chose this afternoon to go out at 820 and Lancaster. Sincere regrets.
All I see on the BBC story is a graphic showing intersecting paths. Maybe they changed it.
For an excellent asteroid impact image, see this page with art by C. Crowley (my brother). Scroll about halfway down for the scary stuff captioned "A Hadean countryside. Here, a mountain ten miles tall falls out of the sky in an everyday Hadean event. Earth took hits like this much more frequently in the Hadean than it does today, but Hadean moments like this still happen on a regular basis.
Chixulub Crater of Yucutan records a cosmic disaster everyone knows about. The large asteroid that struck Manson, Iowa, a few million years before that, must have certainly killed all life in central North America."
Any diet at all needs a book full of really quick (like 5-minute) recipes, with 3 or 4 ingredients plus spices and such.
Most diet books assume that you, the fat person, are a dedicated food-lover with a kitchen full of ingredients and two or three hours at least to waste assembling complicated dishes.
Pfah.
Anybody know of a source of recipes like this? Doesn't have to be for a weight-loss diet. Heck if there was just one for balanced that would be OK.
Sure, people can be self-serving cheating liars. But nobody here should need to be reminded: The whole point of science is that there are a lot of people checking each other's results. It doesn't mean they get everything right. It does mean that, over time, their combined model more and more closely approximates reality.
When someone points out how science was wrong about something, which it often has been, the biggest fact of all is almost invisible: We wouldn't know they were wrong unless some other scientist got it right.
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1. Open Gutenberg file in UltraEdit (shareware)
f f
2. Run this macro
InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
UnixReO
Find "^p^p"
Replace All "QQQQ"
Find "^p"
Replace All " "
Find "QQQQ"
Replace All "^p "
3. Save file.
4. Run MakeDocW (free) on the file.
5. Hotsync to the Palm/Visor.
6. Read and bookmark in CSpotRun (free but you can send a donation). Annotate in something else.
The only thing that'll cost you is the PDA itself and I bet a used 2-meg one isn't that much.
This isn't bad for a highschooler. Once he learns scientific method he might contribute to real knowledge. In the meantime this sort of theorizing keeps kids' neurons limber.
Multiplied by 2, divided by 2.
I'll stake my cat this is in use already.
I've read hundreds of books on the Palm/Visor in the last two years and ALL FREE. Most were linked from online books in text format. Download 'em and run 'em through MakeDocW, which automatically puts them in the Install directory for next sync.
Oh, absolutely. You can hack anything if the phrase means to study a system or tool and develop its less-known capabilities. I guess even socialites are hackers of human interaction (for good or ill, depending on their personal qualities). I think of hacking as poking around in the substrate of whatever it is and learning what's there, finding shortcuts and odd combinations of features that produce amazing results. You use whatever tools you've got: telescopes for the moon, microscopes for microbes, general observation for reality. (Any hacker can surprise you when they say "Watch this" but those reality hackers can really surprise you.)
Just bite your lip and don't comment one way or the other, it only leads to problems. Excellent advice and applies to lots of situations. Keeping your mouth shut is wildly useful.
Courtesy works in both positive and negative situations. Courtesy isn't the icing on the cake, it's part of the steak. In other words it's a much more substantive part of human interaction than we tend to think. I'm not talking about being courteous changing people's minds, although it can, and I'm not talking about phony courtesy used to cover up treachery. The real thing is an indicator of a better ability to grasp reality.
Back to the main issue, if it's somebody you liked working for, then do it--but make sure up front whether it's paid or a "donation" in return for maintaining a good relationship. I've done work for ex-employers; sometimes paid, sometimes, if a small fix of some sort, unpaid. It's give and take. I live in the same town with these people and want to be on their good list--and they want to be on their ex-employees' good lists too, because everybody knows word gets around. And, we know each other and know neither party is going to be taking advantage.
one of the most irritating phenomena I faced was the advice that my attitude was all-important, and the ... implication that a bad outcome would be my own fault...
No kidding, buddy. When I got discouraged or bummed out, I felt like I was "not doing my part", "letting everybody down" -> vicious circle. Like you can help feeling bummed out sometimes during such an episode (even if you've got some peculiar reactions to make it mostly positive).
(I never did hold with the positive-thinking theory, but these ideas are so pervasive you pick 'em up unintentionally.)
"In many respects, a simpler culture is far more resilient than a complex one."
Change this to "In some respects, a simpler culture may be more resilient than a complex one" and I might agree.
Counterintuitive but true: Complex systems are harder to bring down than simple systems. Complex systems have more redundancy built in. If paths 1 through 10 are cut, you've got paths 11 through 5000 to use as alternates. If paths 1 through 7 are all you've got, you're out of luck.
Complex systems have more individual breakdowns than simple systems because they have more components to break. But, they are less likely to collapse than simple systems.
How do the separate arms of a snowflake know to grow in roughly the same pattern? Arms 1 through 6 of Snowflake A are alike. Arms 1 through 6 of Snowflake B are alike. There are plenty of mutant-looking ones; however, you won't find any that have one arm off Snowflake A and others off B, C, D, etc. Are the patterns determined by "information"? If so, how is it communicated over these distances? And how are they reading it? --It can't be information. So why should a similar situation, only bigger (the universe) require information?
Re, "Mail was coming in slowly, servers were appearing to fade in and out of existence..."
Sounds like A Fire Upon the Deep (Vinge, about 1993).
Scary in real life.
Didn't notice anything in North Texas, but at 4:00 pm our time, not much was going on at work, no intense outside connectivity.
How do helicopters and other personal aircraft _not_ qualify as flying cars?
Because there's not one in my garage.
1. You turn gray from getting it into your system, not applying it to the outside, as in the case of newborns or Civil War spies. How much it takes to turn YOU gray will be different from others. See Ms. Jacobs's story. This picture is particularly telling--as is the fact that Ms. Jacobs developed breast cancer despite being visibly loaded with silver.
2. The self-promoting, profit-oriented pages trying to sell this dangerous heavy metal as a "supplement" far outnumber the objective pages describing its actual effects. Therefore, if I believed everything I read on the web, I would agree with you on this subject. Use some logic.
3. QW says medicines can be divided into two categories only: works and doesn't work. "Alternative", "mainstream," "profitable", "non-patentable" are all side issues.
4. The QW writer points out that there's a huge trade in such things as Vitamin C despite their not being patentable. So much for that issue.
5. QW's skepticism sometimes goes overboard. Although I wish they would be a bit more moderate, in general a model of reality will be more accurate if you practice skepticism rather than gullibility.
6. Show me fully-documented, double-blind, replicated studies that unambiguously support your claims, and I will accept your claims.
Please post the URL of the studies here so that we all can learn about them.
7. Do the sellers of colloidal silver have your welfare in mind any more than other pharmaceutical companies? Why should they? They're in business. The profit motive is a powerful corrupter on every level. Alternative medicine companies have no better a record, and often worse, than the mainstream producers.
This poor woman wants to tell you about colloidal silver. She took it as a child, back when it was a standard ingredient prescribed by a regular MD. So much for it being alternative. Mainstream or alternative, it made her look permanently alien and did not cure anything or prevent her getting cancer in adulthood.
Here's the page on colloidal silver at Quackwatch. Apparently the stuff can turn you permanently gray anywhere you're naturally light--skin, whites of the eyes, some of your insides (lungs? fat?) etc. And, the producers are big on hype, not so interested in rigorous testing or even keeping microorganisms out of their medicine bottles. See also this FDA site. As for a conspiracy preventing effective medicines from reaching the consumer, isn't it obvious that researchers, pharmaceutical company stockholders, scientists, and doctors are all ALSO consumers? They and their families are just as likely to get cancer or heart disease as you are. Think they'll suppress something that could cure their kid of leukemia so that the company can profit? Give me a break.
...certain conditions increase performance. I thought we figured this out years ago...
Sure. The question is, how do they increase performance? What is the mechanism? Can it be controlled? What else can we learn about it?
... I repeat the same thought, image, or phrase over repeatedly in my mind until I accomplish the particular part I'm trying to beat in the game...
This sounds exactly like the way people get into a meditative state by repeating a word or phrase (out loud or internally), or concentrating on a mental image.
Maybe you have learned to boost the alpha state so that your gaming improves. How about that! You've reinvented the mantra.
As for the nonsense part, when you get into a meditative or semi-meditative state you can watch your stream of consciousness which is full of random stuff. You can also do this when dropping off to sleep.
Ever tried meditating? You sound like it would come natural to you.
hey, Marty, can I quote you? Send me an email if so.
I get into the state (that is, have a couple of times) when circumstances forced me to watch a video that I didn't want much to be watching, but had to sit through anyway.
Howdy! If you went to the FW /. meetup and didn't find one of your hosts, namely Texchanchan, that is because I was sitting at a restaurant in Handley waiting for a tow truck. Alternator chose this afternoon to go out at 820 and Lancaster. Sincere regrets.
The Grape Escape, 500 Commerce St., Fort Worth, TX
on Thursday, July 25 @ 7:00PM
Oops, was looking at the wrong article. Here is the BBC's asteroid pic http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1640000/images/_1644 899_aster300.jpg
All I see on the BBC story is a graphic showing intersecting paths. Maybe they changed it.
For an excellent asteroid impact image, see this page with art by C. Crowley (my brother). Scroll about halfway down for the scary stuff captioned "A Hadean countryside. Here, a mountain ten miles tall falls out of the sky in an everyday Hadean event.
Earth took hits like this much more frequently in the Hadean than it does today, but Hadean moments like this still happen on a regular basis.
Chixulub Crater of Yucutan records a cosmic disaster everyone knows about. The large asteroid that struck Manson, Iowa, a few million years before that, must have certainly killed all life in central North America."
Any diet at all needs a book full of really quick (like 5-minute) recipes, with 3 or 4 ingredients plus spices and such.
Most diet books assume that you, the fat person, are a dedicated food-lover with a kitchen full of ingredients and two or three hours at least to waste assembling complicated dishes.
Pfah.
Anybody know of a source of recipes like this? Doesn't have to be for a weight-loss diet. Heck if there was just one for balanced that would be OK.
Sure, people can be self-serving cheating liars. But nobody here should need to be reminded: The whole point of science is that there are a lot of people checking each other's results. It doesn't mean they get everything right. It does mean that, over time, their combined model more and more closely approximates reality.
When someone points out how science was wrong about something, which it often has been, the biggest fact of all is almost invisible: We wouldn't know they were wrong unless some other scientist got it right.