Mayo Clinic's website is claiming that clinical studies have shown that Ginko Biloba increases memory (by supplying more blood to the brain) esp. when taken with Ginseng.
Fish oil is good for the brain too (but watch out for heavy metals) and of course exercise is good for your general health. 45min of cycling 3 times a week goes a long way.
I always thought that the notion of soul is in the realm of religion. No one in scientific community uses the term.
So let's see what the people who invented the term say what it is:
From Catholic encyclopedia:
"The soul may be defined as the ultimate internal principle by which we think, feel, and will, and by which our bodies are animated. The term "mind" usually denotes this principle as the subject of our conscious states, while "soul" denotes the source of our vegetative activities as well. That our vital activities proceed from a principle capable of subsisting in itself, is the thesis of the substantiality of the soul: that this principle is not itself composite, extended, corporeal, or essentially and intrinsically dependent on the body, is the doctrine of spirituality."
So according to this, anything that thinks, has a "mind" and is conscious (never found a satisfying definition for that word by the way), should have a soul.
This means that all animals have a soul. However, according to Catholic doctrine only humans have immortal soul:D.
You can choose to think that if you want. And you can think that I am dumb or what ever. All I am saying is that Apple makes well put together product, from hardware (all the details I care about and these are not just looks or aesthetics) and with a solid OS that I enjoy using and for affordable price. If you do not see the value in this then obviously you are not a target customer.
If the goal were to product most powerful computer for the money, it would look and feel quite different.
On the other hand, not too many PC run circles around my 8 core Mac Pro either. And for the measly $4000 with upgrades I paid for it, I would not bother buying components myself and putting some franken PC together myself (I've done that for more than 10 years, now I just want to enjoy myself).
I sincerely hope they never make a $400 Mac. I prefer Mac computers to remain high end, amazingly well designed and put together machines for those who appreciate such things.
If you want a $400 computer there are other players filling that market segment.
Whether there is other life in the Universe is irrelevant really. The fact is that we are here and that we are alive. We only draw conclusions from that. If life has evolved elsewhere in the Universe as well, it would not change the conclusion.
I don't think you get it either. Observable universe is 15 billion years old. Considering that universe is expanding, and has an age, it's size is well determined. Younger universe is not sufficiently evolved to support life. Hence the universe has to be as big as it is to support us.
All this follows from the anthropic principle which is really stating the obvious (at least the weak anthropic principle).
I think you are missing the point. The universe has to be at least as large as it is in order for us to exist. Put another way, the universe is the smallest hole in which man can hide his head.
If universe were smaller, we would not be here. This does not mean that universe has to be such as to allow life everywhere.
People should be careful here. When you describe a mathematical object in a consistent manner it only exists as mathematical ideal, an object whose existence does not contradict any theorem of the theory.
The question of physical existence of such object remains open.
Essentially the existence of other universes remains a matter of belief here.
Except the "empire" you talk about is neither cultural (one can be English or Japanese and still be Catholic), nor political (one can support any political party and still be Catholic), and hence it is not an empire at all.
If you are Catholic though, you believe that the reason there is Catholic church still around is because Jesus said that it will be here until he comes back.
The church just became the official religion of the greatest empire at the time. But now it is the religion of the globe, which is an even greater feat.
I would disagree about the statement that humans have colonized the greatest variety of geography (how many of us live at the bottom of the ocean?), or that we are the most adaptable species.
We are the most intelligent species that live on the planet (and as far as we know that have ever lived on the planet), but in terms of evolutionary success (adaptability, and how long we have been around) we still have to prove ourselves.
All bacteria are extinct? That's a fact? Did you ever take a biology course? Do you know how many are "crawling" on your skin right now? And how many more are on the keyboard you type?
Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects are actually more powerful tools for creating images, animations and movies than Final Cut Pro and currently they work better on PC then they do on Macs.
And if you think I have something against Macs, don't. I switched to Macs and OS X at home and currently have 8 core MacPro, 24'' iMac, and 13'' Macbook.
Yeah, but there is no comparison. I want to open the document in c:/Documents and Settings/user name/Reference/CS/C++/ANSI/C++ Programming.pdf in Windows I would have to press Win key to get to start menu, then a sequence of arrow keys or to get to my docs, then navigate that etc to get to the document.
In OS X, I would do cmd+space to bring spotlight and then just type C++ prog and I would have my document as top hit. If I wanted to be more precise I could type kind:pdf C++ prog. Often times less typing (most of the time 3 letters) is enough.
And of course there are more complex searches like find me all images I ever took at aperture f1.4 and where I used flash. And one can save these searches as dynamic folders that update as you add more files that match the criteria. Once you get used to that kind of power using Windows becomes a major pain in the ass.
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Mayo Clinic's website is claiming that clinical studies have shown that Ginko Biloba increases memory (by supplying more blood to the brain) esp. when taken with Ginseng.
Fish oil is good for the brain too (but watch out for heavy metals) and of course exercise is good for your general health. 45min of cycling 3 times a week goes a long way.
for their definition of "evil".
Yes, indeed. Tell a Senior windows guy you are using VI to edit code and makefiles to build and watch them run :D.
Right, more fundamentalist stupid propaganda. I wonder if anyone falls for it any more these days.
I always thought that the notion of soul is in the realm of religion. No one in scientific community uses the term.
So let's see what the people who invented the term say what it is:
From Catholic encyclopedia:
"The soul may be defined as the ultimate internal principle by which we think, feel, and will, and by which our bodies are animated. The term "mind" usually denotes this principle as the subject of our conscious states, while "soul" denotes the source of our vegetative activities as well. That our vital activities proceed from a principle capable of subsisting in itself, is the thesis of the substantiality of the soul: that this principle is not itself composite, extended, corporeal, or essentially and intrinsically dependent on the body, is the doctrine of spirituality."
So according to this, anything that thinks, has a "mind" and is conscious (never found a satisfying definition for that word by the way), should have a soul.
This means that all animals have a soul. However, according to Catholic doctrine only humans have immortal soul :D.
You can choose to think that if you want. And you can think that I am dumb or what ever. All I am saying is that Apple makes well put together product, from hardware (all the details I care about and these are not just looks or aesthetics) and with a solid OS that I enjoy using and for affordable price. If you do not see the value in this then obviously you are not a target customer.
If the goal were to product most powerful computer for the money, it would look and feel quite different.
On the other hand, not too many PC run circles around my 8 core Mac Pro either. And for the measly $4000 with upgrades I paid for it, I would not bother buying components myself and putting some franken PC together myself (I've done that for more than 10 years, now I just want to enjoy myself).
I sincerely hope they never make a $400 Mac. I prefer Mac computers to remain high end, amazingly well designed and put together machines for those who appreciate such things.
If you want a $400 computer there are other players filling that market segment.
Yes, that is one of the major complaints echoed by the switchers from Windows.
However, in OS X you do not have to minimize the window to get rid of it temporarily.
command+H
will hide the window, giving you the same effect.
Then when you Command+TAB to the application, its window will be shown.
Whether there is other life in the Universe is irrelevant really. The fact is that we are here and that we are alive. We only draw conclusions from that. If life has evolved elsewhere in the Universe as well, it would not change the conclusion.
You are in luck, it is simple:
Start terminal and type
sudo vi /etc/rc.shutdown.local
and append the following line /usr/sbin/nvram SystemAudioVolume=%80
and you will never hear the startup sound again.
substitute your favourite editor for vi above. Also, rc.shutdown.local might not exist. Create it in that case.
Java 1.6 for OS X, has been available for months now. And JDK 1.7 will not be out in a few months either.
I don't think you get it either. Observable universe is 15 billion years old. Considering that universe is expanding, and has an age, it's size is well determined. Younger universe is not sufficiently evolved to support life. Hence the universe has to be as big as it is to support us.
All this follows from the anthropic principle which is really stating the obvious (at least the weak anthropic principle).
If you are more interested in the topic may I suggest an interesting book: "The Anthropic Cosmological Principle" [ http://www.amazon.com/Anthropic-Cosmological-Principle-Oxford-Paperbacks/dp/0192821474 ]
It's an interesting read and delves into the analysis of some of these questions deeper.
I think you are missing the point. The universe has to be at least as large as it is in order for us to exist. Put another way, the universe is the smallest hole in which man can hide his head.
If universe were smaller, we would not be here. This does not mean that universe has to be such as to allow life everywhere.
People should be careful here. When you describe a mathematical object in a consistent manner it only exists as mathematical ideal, an object whose existence does not contradict any theorem of the theory.
The question of physical existence of such object remains open.
Essentially the existence of other universes remains a matter of belief here.
Except the "empire" you talk about is neither cultural (one can be English or Japanese and still be Catholic), nor political (one can support any political party and still be Catholic), and hence it is not an empire at all.
If you are Catholic though, you believe that the reason there is Catholic church still around is because Jesus said that it will be here until he comes back.
The church just became the official religion of the greatest empire at the time. But now it is the religion of the globe, which is an even greater feat.
No it's a statistic that supports a superstition.
I would disagree about the statement that humans have colonized the greatest variety of geography (how many of us live at the bottom of the ocean?), or that we are the most adaptable species.
We are the most intelligent species that live on the planet (and as far as we know that have ever lived on the planet), but in terms of evolutionary success (adaptability, and how long we have been around) we still have to prove ourselves.
All bacteria are extinct? That's a fact? Did you ever take a biology course? Do you know how many are "crawling" on your skin right now? And how many more are on the keyboard you type?
Where does the half billion years of useful life figure come from? I'm just curious.
and it's quite different than logic studied in philosophy classes.
Ever heard of templates?
Well, I still have not heard anything from you that would explain why vi is working better for you than VIM?
I happen to work for a company that makes plain vanilla implementation of vi as part of our Toolkit (a UNIX subsystem for Windows)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKS_Toolkit
and funny thing is, we all prefer to use VIM here. I guess we must all be idiots.
Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects are actually more powerful tools for creating images, animations and movies than Final Cut Pro and currently they work better on PC then they do on Macs.
And if you think I have something against Macs, don't. I switched to Macs and OS X at home and currently have 8 core MacPro, 24'' iMac, and 13'' Macbook.
Ah, add "set compatible" to your .vimrc file and you have 99% vi behavior.
Why would you use plain vi, when vim is so much better?
Yeah, but there is no comparison. I want to open the document in c:/Documents and Settings/user name/Reference/CS/C++/ANSI/C++ Programming.pdf in Windows I would have to press Win key to get to start menu, then a sequence of arrow keys or to get to my docs, then navigate that etc to get to the document.
In OS X, I would do cmd+space to bring spotlight and then just type C++ prog and I would have my document as top hit. If I wanted to be more precise I could type kind:pdf C++ prog. Often times less typing (most of the time 3 letters) is enough.
And of course there are more complex searches like find me all images I ever took at aperture f1.4 and where I used flash. And one can save these searches as dynamic folders that update as you add more files that match the criteria. Once you get used to that kind of power using Windows becomes a major pain in the ass.