Diseases had already adapted to infect humans when they were introduced to the Americas.
This can't be emphasized enough.
More specifically, diseases adapt to infect humans through long-term exposure to humans. This often come through domesticated animals eg. smallpox, measles, but sometimes through wild animals which live in close proximity to humans, eg. bubonic plague or AIDS. Jared Diamond author of
Guns, Germs and Steel develops these idea in this talk.
I just read through the comments at my usual mod level of 3. Every comment I read implied some need to keep the server warm. My own experience says that cold is not a problem. Heat is a problem, even in cold weather. Putting a computer in an insulated box is, in my opinion, a rather time-consuming way to destroy it.
So I decided to read all the comments. Lo and behold, the let it stay cold comments were there, but weren't being modded up. I'd take serious the overclocking suggestion; just generate a little more internal heat if you're worried about the cold.
Note to moderators: Don't jump on bandwagons. The "cold" commentators in this case were at least as "informative" and "insightful" as the "warm" commentators.
I personally would rather live 50 good, full years, and die gracefully
What makes you think that the first 50 years are more likely to be good and full than any other period of life? My wife, 50, and I, 48, just started bicycling more seriously the last couple of years. Last summer we rode 6 centuries and look forward to riding 1300 miles to the Atlantic coast next summer. We also enjoy Scrabble and are having the best games we've ever had; typically 2-3 bingos per game. We are reaping the benefits of lifelong learning and experience in all areas of our lives. Oh and did I mention having better sex now that we are empty nesters.
I can truly say without a trace of irony, life begins at 50!
That only seems scary in our generation-challenged world. In actuality, you only share 2^-8 of your genes with with your great^6 grandmother. This is not all that different from the baseline relationship coefficient in many populations.
The "balanced" response is one of the weirdest analyses I've seen in a long time. We're talking about current scientific research into molecular biology and he's refuting it by saying that a Chinese fellow 1600 years ago thought he had a breakthrough too, but he died. Its like "So what!!!"
That'd be like saying to Wilbur and Orville that their dream was futile because someone else tried it once and didn't get off the ground.
The military can do it, why not the private sector?
Yeah right! That would be why over a hundred thousand veterans of Gulf War I are registered as suffering from Gulf War Syndrome. Or maybe that's why Vietnam vets have such a pristine record regarding murders, suicides and mental illness. Come to think of it, many WWII vets came home with what was called at the time "shell shock." I knew a man like that once. We called him "Tarz" short for Tarzan. He wandered the streets of the small town where I grew up and little children laughed at him.
Oh yeah, the military is real good at screening people who are likely to be put into high-stress situations... beforehand to avoid breakdowns and other health problems.
All the requisite components are where you would expect them to be (Applications on a menu in the bottom left corner, close, minimise and maximise buttons where you would expect them, trash on the desktop, equivalents of system tray and quicklaunch bar). Visually they are superficially different but that's as far as it goes.
I expected you to conclude just the opposite of what you did. Your whole paragraph supports the idea that the GUIs are superficially similar, but thats as far as it goes. Linux was built ground up as a multi-user system which means that when I do something as simple as slip a CD into the drive it has to run around checking me out to see if I have permission even mount it let alone read it. I love Linux, but sometimes it can be a bear to work with despite superficial similarities with Windows.
Searching Google Scolar for "optical mouse motion sensor Ng" provides some useful information. The PDFs are slashdotted like others have mentioned, but the "View as Html" pages are the google cache. The graphs are worthless, but the text is all there.
As a high school teacher (10 yrs.) I have lots of chances to talk to and overhear teenagers. I find your remarks quite naive. Sure having a life helps students avoid drugs, but there a plenty of kids out there who had a life before they decided it was more important to be cool. My wife and I went to see "Ray", last weekend. Ray Charles had so much going for him, but he was a junky. There are plenty of men with girlfriends or wives who are risking their happiness by viewing porn.
Sure, growing up is hard work, and its important that teenagers have lots of private time to find there way in the world, but sometimes they can be their own worst enemy.
Just yesterday, I mentioned that one of the most important tasks of a teacher was to protect kids from themselves. I got several strong nods of affirmation from my students.
Guess the submitter didn't RTFA this time...
Three people in the world are known to have survived after the onset of rabies symptoms
I remember reading in a Reader's Digest around 1970 about a young boy who survived rabies. They didn't induce a coma, but treated everything that happened from the rabies symptomatically.
The parent is not insightful, that would require a genuinely new idea which the poster derived from multiple sources including TFA.
The parent _is_ informative if it's true (which I have not verified) since it presents information which is available to anyone with a little time to seek it out.
As a mathematician, I find the logic of Landsburg to be totally flawed. First of all in a lottery there is only one winner. In an election, approximately half the population gets their choice for president. So in fact you have a 50% chance, more or less, of winning. Just because your vote didn't determine the winner, doesn't mean your vote didn't count.
In baseball, statistics are kept on the "winning run", meaning the run which put the winning team ahead to stay. Likewise, the losing pitcher is the pitcher who gave up the winning run. In fact it's nonsense. The winning run had no more effect on the score than the first run scored, and the first run allowed by a pitcher is just as much a part of the loss as the last one.
Its just as silly to try to pick out single vote that "counts" and then claim that all the others don't count. All the votes count equally and anyone who voted for the winner is as entitled as any other to claim their vote as the "winning vote"
On another level the piece is equally flawed. I live in a town of about 20,000 population. According to this piece, about 7 people in our town will be killed by their mothers. We've had only 2 murders in the last 25 or so years none of them by a mother. So unless we are highly unusual that's a overstated statistic.
Now, I live in Kansas and unless hell freezes over Bush will win our 6 electoral votes tomorrow. So my vote won't count, but thats because the electoral votes are winner take all, not because of any probalistic comparison to lotteries. Over 50% of the votes cast tomorrow in Kansas will count.
I consider myself a liberal, and expect most intelligent, well-educated people to have similar views. Some of the comments above make it sound like academia is a left-wing conspiracy to corrupt the country. I simply believe that when a person is exposed to a broader range of knowledge and theories that their ability to understand nuances and appreciate differing opinions grows. In a word, they become more liberal.
He ran an oil business and he spent more money than he took in and, well, he's not running an oil business anymore. He bought a baseball team and he spent more money than he took in and, well, he's no longer running a baseball team. He got elected president and he spent more money than he took in and, well, he may get elected president again.
Just like we were starting to see the affects of Clinton's policies as he left office
Umm, right, except for the small detail that Clinton served 8 years and other than a down-turn in the stock market in the last few months of his term it was an unprecedented period of economic expansion. So even with your 4-5 years of "inertia" thats still 3-4 years of Clinton's reaping the benefits of his own policies. Even as a distractor, you have to admit that he kept his promise of balancing the budget.
You can have your own opinion, but facts are for everybody.
Seriously! Bush is probably the greatest example of affirmative action known in modern politics. Time after time he failed to perform. Time after time he got bailed out by Daddy's friends. Finally they made the supreme sacrifice and made him president.
I am a fairly avid bicyclist, about 4000 miles in the last year. Seven century (over 100 miles) rides this summer. If you join me for a ride, it'd take about 15 minutes to prove that I'm safer in the lane. When I'm on edge of the road cars assume the lane is theirs and don't move over at all, or they may move over a foot or two. When I'm in the lane, even just a couple of feet, cars give me the entire lane, or if they can't because of traffic they slow way down before passing. I'm not talking about the occasional "nice" driver, I'm talking about Dodge Ram pickups, semis, etc. When I'm on the edge of the road most cars pass within 2-3 feet of me and I have a lot more close calls. When I'm in the lane, I rarely have less than 10 feet of clearance. This would be clear to anyone in 10-15 minutes of riding.
Occasionally, I'll find a road that has clean, wide shoulder. Then I'll happily ride it, but if it's rough or full of glass, then its not a safe option when I'm averaging 20 mph over several hours of riding.
I couldn't disagree more. Our electoral system is heavily weighted to favor a two party system. If we had an instant run-off system, like many other countries. You could vote your real first choice, and if they didn't finish in the top two your vote would roll-over to your 2nd choice. The voter doesn't have to second guess the general public as to whether or not their vote could be more effectively given to other than their 1st choice candidate.
David Cobb like everyone else knows that he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. In fact if he thought he could win, I'd disqualify him as a mental case. But don't blame him for the seemingly self-defeating statement regarding swing states, that's a by-product of our very unscientific voting system.
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Diseases had already adapted to infect humans when they were introduced to the Americas.
This can't be emphasized enough.
More specifically, diseases adapt to infect humans through long-term exposure to humans. This often come through domesticated animals eg. smallpox, measles, but sometimes through wild animals which live in close proximity to humans, eg. bubonic plague or AIDS. Jared Diamond author of Guns, Germs and Steel develops these idea in this talk.
I just read through the comments at my usual mod level of 3. Every comment I read implied some need to keep the server warm. My own experience says that cold is not a problem. Heat is a problem, even in cold weather. Putting a computer in an insulated box is, in my opinion, a rather time-consuming way to destroy it.
So I decided to read all the comments. Lo and behold, the let it stay cold comments were there, but weren't being modded up. I'd take serious the overclocking suggestion; just generate a little more internal heat if you're worried about the cold.
Note to moderators: Don't jump on bandwagons. The "cold" commentators in this case were at least as "informative" and "insightful" as the "warm" commentators.
I personally would rather live 50 good, full years, and die gracefully
What makes you think that the first 50 years are more likely to be good and full than any other period of life? My wife, 50, and I, 48, just started bicycling more seriously the last couple of years. Last summer we rode 6 centuries and look forward to riding 1300 miles to the Atlantic coast next summer. We also enjoy Scrabble and are having the best games we've ever had; typically 2-3 bingos per game. We are reaping the benefits of lifelong learning and experience in all areas of our lives. Oh and did I mention having better sex now that we are empty nesters.
I can truly say without a trace of irony, life begins at 50!
That only seems scary in our generation-challenged world. In actuality, you only share 2^-8 of your genes with with your great^6 grandmother. This is not all that different from the baseline relationship coefficient in many populations.
The "balanced" response is one of the weirdest analyses I've seen in a long time. We're talking about current scientific research into molecular biology and he's refuting it by saying that a Chinese fellow 1600 years ago thought he had a breakthrough too, but he died. Its like "So what!!!"
That'd be like saying to Wilbur and Orville that their dream was futile because someone else tried it once and didn't get off the ground.
That's weird, you're willing to camp out for 352 years to get a UID of 1 but you post with no UID at all, Anonymous Coward!!!
First first That's a stress reliever...
The military can do it, why not the private sector?
... beforehand to avoid breakdowns and other health problems.
Yeah right! That would be why over a hundred thousand veterans of Gulf War I are registered as suffering from Gulf War Syndrome. Or maybe that's why Vietnam vets have such a pristine record regarding murders, suicides and mental illness. Come to think of it, many WWII vets came home with what was called at the time "shell shock." I knew a man like that once. We called him "Tarz" short for Tarzan. He wandered the streets of the small town where I grew up and little children laughed at him.
Oh yeah, the military is real good at screening people who are likely to be put into high-stress situations
All the requisite components are where you would expect them to be (Applications on a menu in the bottom left corner, close, minimise and maximise buttons where you would expect them, trash on the desktop, equivalents of system tray and quicklaunch bar). Visually they are superficially different but that's as far as it goes.
I expected you to conclude just the opposite of what you did. Your whole paragraph supports the idea that the GUIs are superficially similar, but thats as far as it goes. Linux was built ground up as a multi-user system which means that when I do something as simple as slip a CD into the drive it has to run around checking me out to see if I have permission even mount it let alone read it. I love Linux, but sometimes it can be a bear to work with despite superficial similarities with Windows.
Searching Google Scolar for "optical mouse motion sensor Ng" provides some useful information. The PDFs are slashdotted like others have mentioned, but the "View as Html" pages are the google cache. The graphs are worthless, but the text is all there.
As a high school teacher (10 yrs.) I have lots of chances to talk to and overhear teenagers. I find your remarks quite naive. Sure having a life helps students avoid drugs, but there a plenty of kids out there who had a life before they decided it was more important to be cool. My wife and I went to see "Ray", last weekend. Ray Charles had so much going for him, but he was a junky. There are plenty of men with girlfriends or wives who are risking their happiness by viewing porn.
Sure, growing up is hard work, and its important that teenagers have lots of private time to find there way in the world, but sometimes they can be their own worst enemy.
Just yesterday, I mentioned that one of the most important tasks of a teacher was to protect kids from themselves. I got several strong nods of affirmation from my students.
Guess the submitter didn't RTFA this time... Three people in the world are known to have survived after the onset of rabies symptoms I remember reading in a Reader's Digest around 1970 about a young boy who survived rabies. They didn't induce a coma, but treated everything that happened from the rabies symptomatically.
Ooh...some people don't like to be told they don't know English.
The parent is not insightful, that would require a genuinely new idea which the poster derived from multiple sources including TFA.
The parent _is_ informative if it's true (which I have not verified) since it presents information which is available to anyone with a little time to seek it out.
As a mathematician, I find the logic of Landsburg to be totally flawed. First of all in a lottery there is only one winner. In an election, approximately half the population gets their choice for president. So in fact you have a 50% chance, more or less, of winning. Just because your vote didn't determine the winner, doesn't mean your vote didn't count.
In baseball, statistics are kept on the "winning run", meaning the run which put the winning team ahead to stay. Likewise, the losing pitcher is the pitcher who gave up the winning run. In fact it's nonsense. The winning run had no more effect on the score than the first run scored, and the first run allowed by a pitcher is just as much a part of the loss as the last one.
Its just as silly to try to pick out single vote that "counts" and then claim that all the others don't count. All the votes count equally and anyone who voted for the winner is as entitled as any other to claim their vote as the "winning vote"
On another level the piece is equally flawed. I live in a town of about 20,000 population. According to this piece, about 7 people in our town will be killed by their mothers. We've had only 2 murders in the last 25 or so years none of them by a mother. So unless we are highly unusual that's a overstated statistic.
Now, I live in Kansas and unless hell freezes over Bush will win our 6 electoral votes tomorrow. So my vote won't count, but thats because the electoral votes are winner take all, not because of any probalistic comparison to lotteries. Over 50% of the votes cast tomorrow in Kansas will count.
"We are not building a browser," Mr Schmidt said.
Well that about cinches it, doesn't it? Now the only question is when they release it.
State-of-the-art generator/PDA. Comes complete with noise-canceling headphones so you can listen to your mp3 in relative quiet!
I'm not trolling...
I consider myself a liberal, and expect most intelligent, well-educated people to have similar views. Some of the comments above make it sound like academia is a left-wing conspiracy to corrupt the country. I simply believe that when a person is exposed to a broader range of knowledge and theories that their ability to understand nuances and appreciate differing opinions grows. In a word, they become more liberal.
Maybe Bush is cut out to be president after all.
He ran an oil business and he spent more money than he took in and, well, he's not running an oil business anymore.
He bought a baseball team and he spent more money than he took in and, well, he's no longer running a baseball team.
He got elected president and he spent more money than he took in and, well, he may get elected president again.
Maybe he has finally found his calling...
Just like we were starting to see the affects of Clinton's policies as he left office
Umm, right, except for the small detail that Clinton served 8 years and other than a down-turn in the stock market in the last few months of his term it was an unprecedented period of economic expansion. So even with your 4-5 years of "inertia" thats still 3-4 years of Clinton's reaping the benefits of his own policies. Even as a distractor, you have to admit that he kept his promise of balancing the budget.
You can have your own opinion, but facts are for everybody.
Or go into politics!!!
Seriously! Bush is probably the greatest example of affirmative action known in modern politics. Time after time he failed to perform. Time after time he got bailed out by Daddy's friends. Finally they made the supreme sacrifice and made him president.
Actually Google does link into the books. Try this link to a line in Alice in Wonderland for example:
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Did you RTFA? It has nothing to do with being in a small town. It's a solid editorial made ironic by the fact its from Bush's home town.
I am a fairly avid bicyclist, about 4000 miles in the last year. Seven century (over 100 miles) rides this summer. If you join me for a ride, it'd take about 15 minutes to prove that I'm safer in the lane. When I'm on edge of the road cars assume the lane is theirs and don't move over at all, or they may move over a foot or two. When I'm in the lane, even just a couple of feet, cars give me the entire lane, or if they can't because of traffic they slow way down before passing. I'm not talking about the occasional "nice" driver, I'm talking about Dodge Ram pickups, semis, etc. When I'm on the edge of the road most cars pass within 2-3 feet of me and I have a lot more close calls. When I'm in the lane, I rarely have less than 10 feet of clearance. This would be clear to anyone in 10-15 minutes of riding.
Occasionally, I'll find a road that has clean, wide shoulder. Then I'll happily ride it, but if it's rough or full of glass, then its not a safe option when I'm averaging 20 mph over several hours of riding.
I couldn't disagree more. Our electoral system is heavily weighted to favor a two party system. If we had an instant run-off system, like many other countries. You could vote your real first choice, and if they didn't finish in the top two your vote would roll-over to your 2nd choice. The voter doesn't have to second guess the general public as to whether or not their vote could be more effectively given to other than their 1st choice candidate.
David Cobb like everyone else knows that he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. In fact if he thought he could win, I'd disqualify him as a mental case. But don't blame him for the seemingly self-defeating statement regarding swing states, that's a by-product of our very unscientific voting system.