With a name like BiggerIsBetter it behooves you to look into avenues where one can simply increase the current volume at no real expense to anyone nearby.
Growing economical value is just such a thing. It is quite possible to create more money/value at no expense. That's what humans (and some other animals) are very good at. Ideas, inventions, creations, etc are all new things that didn't exist before they were generated and now become a part of the economy.
It is quite possible to lend someone money just because they have a good plan and they then make something which didn't exist before that makes life better for all. This is the staple of a growing economy.
A guy told me that he heard from a friend about a Pepsi employee that chugged six straight cans of their Amp cola or whatever... and within fifteen minutes he got sent to the hospital for having a heartbeat of somewhere around 250.
Remember that if I run into someone claiming to be GYAN 6853 twenty years from now that I might just pull this stuff out of context and throw it at them. Oh wait, is that good or bad?
All I know fersure is a piece of wisdom my seventh grade teacher imparted on us victims, and I'm very serious about this. When a student didn't turn his homework in on time, with the claim, "I forgot."... this teacher said:
Well, it must not have been very important to you then, huh?
at which point, the student said, "Well, I did it but I didn't remember to bring it, blah blah"
following (we get the memorable part):
No one forgets anything important. In the future, if you think something might be important to remember, make it important.
In the meanwhile, I'm just going to switch back to turning "matching" cards over to test my memory and hoping that Nature gets back online so that I can quibble over results.
I think that the 'having too good of a memory' meme is a fallacy propagated by those that want to justify not having good retention.
In my own personal experience, a friend of mine is extraordinarily good at remembering where we have been, spatially, for well over twenty years. When travelling in foreign countries this is a stupidly valuable resource.
I am probably too capable of remembering conversations, it only leads to conflict in personal relationships. But, for those rare cases where I need to pull some quote out of nowhere to argue with someone it is a virtual godsend.
I've heard the 'trapped by too much memory' argument before and I don't subcribe to it except in rare cases where the person has a perseverance issue and is lacking in the intelligence department, of which this whole thread is supposed to be related.
This seems to be quite questionable as far as any sorts of broad conclusions are concerned.
When people talk about "intelligence" they usually mean something like "being able to grasp two deep concepts and put them together"... not remember 4 spots of light.
Granted, I have seen a correlation between people who are capable of remembering 10 digit codes and intelligence... but I've also seen many of those same types fail when tasked with the above sorts of questions.
Fact is, if they tried to pull that shit in real life, they'd probably get the shit beaten out of them. But since you can live anonymously behind a monitor, you're like a drunken asshole full of "courage".
You've obviously never been a drunken asshole full of courage. It's pretty different than random whining and pompous condescensions.
I think the physically present part helps to make everything a bit more real.
Don't be ridiculous. EMACS is easy to use right away while vi is hard to use at first but rewards the user over time.
And wordpad, it just sucks and will always suck because it's crippled on purpose.
Oh, and before I forget, I don't know how many times I've seen someone dork around with a mouse and the backspace key in their email doing something that can be accomplished with a few keypresses in vi. Just because people don't THINK they need to learn something 'fancy' doesn't mean that they might not appreciate the knowledge once they have it. Multiplication falls into that category.
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With a name like BiggerIsBetter it behooves you to look into avenues where one can simply increase the current volume at no real expense to anyone nearby.
Growing economical value is just such a thing. It is quite possible to create more money/value at no expense. That's what humans (and some other animals) are very good at. Ideas, inventions, creations, etc are all new things that didn't exist before they were generated and now become a part of the economy.
It is quite possible to lend someone money just because they have a good plan and they then make something which didn't exist before that makes life better for all. This is the staple of a growing economy.
115 lbs?
Are you 12 years old?
Completely disreputable.
... and within fifteen minutes he got sent to the hospital for having a heartbeat of somewhere around 250.
A guy told me that he heard from a friend about a Pepsi employee that chugged six straight cans of their Amp cola or whatever
I'm serious. I read it.
bingo
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Remember that if I run into someone claiming to be GYAN 6853 twenty years from now that I might just pull this stuff out of context and throw it at them.
... this teacher said:
Oh wait, is that good or bad?
All I know fersure is a piece of wisdom my seventh grade teacher imparted on us victims, and I'm very serious about this. When a student didn't turn his homework in on time, with the claim, "I forgot."
Well, it must not have been very important to you then, huh?
at which point, the student said, "Well, I did it but I didn't remember to bring it, blah blah"
following (we get the memorable part):
No one forgets anything important. In the future, if you think something might be important to remember, make it important.
In the meanwhile, I'm just going to switch back to turning "matching" cards over to test my memory and hoping that Nature gets back online so that I can quibble over results.
I think that the 'having too good of a memory' meme is a fallacy propagated by those that want to justify not having good retention.
In my own personal experience, a friend of mine is extraordinarily good at remembering where we have been, spatially, for well over twenty years. When travelling in foreign countries this is a stupidly valuable resource.
I am probably too capable of remembering conversations, it only leads to conflict in personal relationships. But, for those rare cases where I need to pull some quote out of nowhere to argue with someone it is a virtual godsend.
I've heard the 'trapped by too much memory' argument before and I don't subcribe to it except in rare cases where the person has a perseverance issue and is lacking in the intelligence department, of which this whole thread is supposed to be related.
I meant that the slashdot leadin/conclusion might be deduced to be offbase if one could actually read the article in context.
I still can't. I'm just going on a repost, and that repost appears to be an fMRI on the visual system.
neat
Thanks.
... not remember 4 spots of light.
... but I've also seen many of those same types fail when tasked with the above sorts of questions.
This seems to be quite questionable as far as any sorts of broad conclusions are concerned.
When people talk about "intelligence" they usually mean something like "being able to grasp two deep concepts and put them together"
Granted, I have seen a correlation between people who are capable of remembering 10 digit codes and intelligence
Maybe this is a red herring.
prefrontal ...
HA HA prefrontemporal
Anyone actually get to read this article? It's unresponsive here.
What are we linking to?
I always thought prefrontemporal was short-term. Is this anything new?
it's the sound of a cash register (making money)
you're prob talking to a professional photoshopper
that's what precision and accuracy are all about
yeah duh
booga WOOO WOOO wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah WOWWIE neener neener
abbababababababbaba
FLEEM!
yes
more hacks
less heavy acquisitions and YRO
I agree
Manganese is good for stimulating interest in chemistry^Wpyrotechnics.
Fact is, if they tried to pull that shit in real life, they'd probably get the shit beaten out of them. But since you can live anonymously behind a monitor, you're like a drunken asshole full of "courage".
You've obviously never been a drunken asshole full of courage. It's pretty different than random whining and pompous condescensions.
I think the physically present part helps to make everything a bit more real.
I was half-joking and half-pointing-out-the-fact that EMACS, IMO, is as easy to use as Wordpad.
:)
Then I jabbed about vi being better in the long run.
Then I wanted to throw in my two cents that people would be better off with these better tools whether they knew it or not.
No offense intended. I guess I needed a
Don't be ridiculous. EMACS is easy to use right away while vi is hard to use at first but rewards the user over time.
And wordpad, it just sucks and will always suck because it's crippled on purpose.
Oh, and before I forget, I don't know how many times I've seen someone dork around with a mouse and the backspace key in their email doing something that can be accomplished with a few keypresses in vi. Just because people don't THINK they need to learn something 'fancy' doesn't mean that they might not appreciate the knowledge once they have it. Multiplication falls into that category.
HA!
besides the retarded Jewish slur, why is this -1?
I passed this on.
Quote.
Nice work.
7. IF Ready THEN Rock ELSE Next
/. in a long time.
I haven't laughed at an original post at
Thanks. This was funny.