If you intend to accomplish something and you are in balance with self then it will occur. If you intend to do something, and it doesn't occur, then does that mean you're not in balance with yourself? That's as good an escape as saying that some god you prayed to has a "deeper plan"!
A question is, though, do those laws apply at all times and places, or are we just "discovering" them here, and now? As far as I know, there's nothing prohibiting a gradual gauge change over time and space. Perhaps those innocuous gauge shifts really DO have an effect somewhere/when. What we generally call "laws" should be universally applicable (or their restricted domains should be stated), but what if they're only applicable here/now? Are they just shadows of higher-dimensional laws which may undergo sudden changes as some higher-dimensional phase change goes on?
Perhaps the arbitrary laws you can write down really do apply.
This all strikes me as a form of hidden variables theory. Or perhaps just cosmic navel-gazing.
Agreed. Though, of course, each instrument has its special field of applicability.
Human eyes are amazing, but really only have much acuity in the fovea centralis (thus microsaccades). Horses' eyes don't have the acuity we do in the center of their visual fields, but their relatively high-resolution field extends considerably father than ours. We don't have tapeta; many other animals have much better night-vision than we do. Many birds can see a ways into the ultraviolet regions; many insects and other arthropods can see farther. Pit-vipers are sensitive to infrared radiation; sharks, skates, and rays can sense nearly DC fields; migrating birds may be able to do something similar. Crabs (if I remember something I read a long while ago), due to their 10^4 compound eyes, may be able to sense movements as slight as that of the sun's movement across the sky.
To each his own. Naturally (sic) you may argue that we've incorporated all of these amazing sensors into our own technologies. To even be able to recognize the animals' abilities we much have at least partially achieved them ourselves.
Good. And because RFID chips are reasonably painless to inject, and the carrier would quickly forget about them, why not track every public servant? Your kids could also be tagged, as could you (since you're using those public thoroughfares, and your parents definitely put in considerable funds and effort bringing you up). No disruption!
If my boss and my IT department can watch where I go on the internet and walk into my cube at anytime, why is it unreasonable to think that the person who pays your paycheck can do the same? A moderately good point, and not one I have a ready answer to. However, the IT dept. at University and one's professors (who are the equivalent of your boss) and co-workers can also walk in at any time. Still, even at a federal job, a right to privacy should be respected.
One advocatus diaboli argument would also be that much of graduate research involves labwork and teaching duties. Do we also need cameras (infrared or other frequencies for darkened labs) to watch labs and classrooms? Another is to state, "Well, I pay taxes so you can have highways to drive on, public sidewalks to walk on, classrooms in which to learn, and public libraries in which to read. Why can't I watch you all the time to make sure the money isn't being wasted?"
Scary. I say this probably because I was a graduate student at a state University. Because of that, I was considered a government employee. So were all the shop workers, janitors, and professors. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to watch my fellow employees (well, maybe some of them).
Indeed. I won't contribute to the debate of "warmth" in music when everyone in his right mind knows that transistors can do everything tubes can do.:)
However, there's one place where tubes win out over transistors, as another poster stated: high-voltage amplifiers. Tubes can deal with much more power. More importantly, though (at least sometimes), is that when you use a tube amp, you're almost always stepping down the voltage going to the output. This drastically reduces the chance of oscillations in your amplifying circuitry, and makes things much more stable. When you're dealing with wide bandwidths and high power, this ability to get rid of feedback is very important.
No -- the ultrasound is rapidly (within tens of feet or less) downconverted and attenuated by the air. What is left to reach your ears is regular, audible sound.
Approaches the ease, yes, but takes 5 - 10 times as long as, say, a sidux installation. Then, as you say, you have to go find drivers, etc. I say this "Microsoft" startup is probably peddling vaporware. We'll see if they manage to stick around.
And then there are those wonderful Bose noise-canceling headphones (though they DO allow most human voices to go through). Hopefully those will keep the ads away. If not, I'm sure these ridiculous ads will spur a new line of headphones that specifically -make sure- that the ads stay out of your ears. The only thing that will work is something that will cancel normal sound, since that's all this is. So regular earplugs will be quite effective, but of course you'll have a hard time hearing other things.
This is not a very new technology -- it's just high-frequency sound with a normal audio signal modulating it (the trick is to figure out the modulation properly). The air's nonlinearity downconverts it to a range which is audible to us.
Now, if these advertisers can convince animal-rights people that these will NOT damage any birds that get caught close to the source, that will be quite a trick.
What is love without the need, and willingness to sacrifice? What is love without emotional exposure? What is love without the risk of loss? What is love Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me no more What is love Oh baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me no more
You're saying that people keep pets because the people are overweight or short? Not only does correlation not imply causation, but I don't even think there's a correlation here. Prove me wrong.
I just downloaded and ran the Debian live version using KDE4 in vBox. It was pretty. However, I couldn't figure out how to disable the "Lancelot" applet thing, which was annoying since anytime the mouse cursor got near it, it'd launch a 1/4-screen-covering window with lists of recent applications, documents, etc. Couldn't even right-click on it to disable.
Still, covering 1/4 of the screen sure didn't take much memory!
Except that the article states that there was healing around some of the holes, indicating the animal was alive for at least a while after getting "dusted".
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A question is, though, do those laws apply at all times and places, or are we just "discovering" them here, and now? As far as I know, there's nothing prohibiting a gradual gauge change over time and space. Perhaps those innocuous gauge shifts really DO have an effect somewhere/when. What we generally call "laws" should be universally applicable (or their restricted domains should be stated), but what if they're only applicable here/now? Are they just shadows of higher-dimensional laws which may undergo sudden changes as some higher-dimensional phase change goes on?
Perhaps the arbitrary laws you can write down really do apply.
This all strikes me as a form of hidden variables theory. Or perhaps just cosmic navel-gazing.
What, do you have something against loving little people?!?
That figures. Predictable really, I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place.
Bread!
VILLAGER #2:
Apples!
VILLAGER #3:
Uh, very small rocks!
VILLAGER #1:
Cider!
VILLAGER #2:
Uh, gra-- gravy!
VILLAGER #1:
Cherries!
VILLAGER #2:
Mud!
VILLAGER #3:
Uh, churches! Churches!
VILLAGER #2:
Lead! Lead!
ARTHUR:
A duck!
CROWD:
Oooh.
Luckily, you said, "In other news...". Therefore, any mods which think you're off-topic are automatically wrong! You've done a brilliant thing.
Agreed. Though, of course, each instrument has its special field of applicability.
Human eyes are amazing, but really only have much acuity in the fovea centralis (thus microsaccades). Horses' eyes don't have the acuity we do in the center of their visual fields, but their relatively high-resolution field extends considerably father than ours. We don't have tapeta; many other animals have much better night-vision than we do. Many birds can see a ways into the ultraviolet regions; many insects and other arthropods can see farther. Pit-vipers are sensitive to infrared radiation; sharks, skates, and rays can sense nearly DC fields; migrating birds may be able to do something similar. Crabs (if I remember something I read a long while ago), due to their 10^4 compound eyes, may be able to sense movements as slight as that of the sun's movement across the sky.
To each his own. Naturally (sic) you may argue that we've incorporated all of these amazing sensors into our own technologies. To even be able to recognize the animals' abilities we much have at least partially achieved them ourselves.
"Hello! My name is:
REEM-D"
Good. And because RFID chips are reasonably painless to inject, and the carrier would quickly forget about them, why not track every public servant? Your kids could also be tagged, as could you (since you're using those public thoroughfares, and your parents definitely put in considerable funds and effort bringing you up). No disruption!
I believe you've made a fencepost error. In this case, it will read:
0) porn
And thank goodness for it. Because then all my spurious Wikipedia edits would be more easily tracked!
One advocatus diaboli argument would also be that much of graduate research involves labwork and teaching duties. Do we also need cameras (infrared or other frequencies for darkened labs) to watch labs and classrooms? Another is to state, "Well, I pay taxes so you can have highways to drive on, public sidewalks to walk on, classrooms in which to learn, and public libraries in which to read. Why can't I watch you all the time to make sure the money isn't being wasted?"
Scary. I say this probably because I was a graduate student at a state University. Because of that, I was considered a government employee. So were all the shop workers, janitors, and professors. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to watch my fellow employees (well, maybe some of them).
Indeed. I won't contribute to the debate of "warmth" in music when everyone in his right mind knows that transistors can do everything tubes can do. :)
However, there's one place where tubes win out over transistors, as another poster stated: high-voltage amplifiers. Tubes can deal with much more power. More importantly, though (at least sometimes), is that when you use a tube amp, you're almost always stepping down the voltage going to the output. This drastically reduces the chance of oscillations in your amplifying circuitry, and makes things much more stable. When you're dealing with wide bandwidths and high power, this ability to get rid of feedback is very important.
I don't know. Good question. Didn't you post about that back in 2004, and said that Microtek wouldn't release its specifications to the SANE people?
No -- the ultrasound is rapidly (within tens of feet or less) downconverted and attenuated by the air. What is left to reach your ears is regular, audible sound.
Approaches the ease, yes, but takes 5 - 10 times as long as, say, a sidux installation. Then, as you say, you have to go find drivers, etc. I say this "Microsoft" startup is probably peddling vaporware. We'll see if they manage to stick around.
This is not a very new technology -- it's just high-frequency sound with a normal audio signal modulating it (the trick is to figure out the modulation properly). The air's nonlinearity downconverts it to a range which is audible to us.
Now, if these advertisers can convince animal-rights people that these will NOT damage any birds that get caught close to the source, that will be quite a trick.
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh
Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh
You're saying that people keep pets because the people are overweight or short? Not only does correlation not imply causation, but I don't even think there's a correlation here. Prove me wrong.
I love lamp!
I just downloaded and ran the Debian live version using KDE4 in vBox. It was pretty. However, I couldn't figure out how to disable the "Lancelot" applet thing, which was annoying since anytime the mouse cursor got near it, it'd launch a 1/4-screen-covering window with lists of recent applications, documents, etc. Couldn't even right-click on it to disable.
Still, covering 1/4 of the screen sure didn't take much memory!
"And I pick.... me!"
Gosh, I hope you were drinking milk.
Except that the article states that there was healing around some of the holes, indicating the animal was alive for at least a while after getting "dusted".