Because you'll get a completely different search singular/plural.
This is one way in which Google can be improved or bested.
Since I use Opera, I can search multiple search engines just by typing "s " into an address bar. And the results will pop up side-by-side in separate tiled windows. How much fussing does that take in IE?
Calorie restriction has one BIG drawback: You are hungry all the damned
time. You can ignore hunger for a while, but it never lets up. Without the imposition
of some external discipline, you will eventually cave.
Not strictly true. There is a whole bunch of neural processing that conveys
that sensation of hunger to you You can train your brain to delay that
sensation until you really are at risk of malnutrition. As a hypnotist
I have done this with several clients.
There are two kinds of life extension: appending years to one's
life in which case you'd feel and look really old, i.e., at 160, you'd feel
160; or uniformly extending life so that if you lived to be 160 (roughly double),
at 80 you'd have the physical body of a current 40 year old, i.e., aging as
a whole would be uniformly slowed down. I'd want the latter only.
For the forseeable future, you are likely to get the latter only. People
die of old age because their DNA is a mess and prevents cells from performing
their function.
Even by replacing their organs, you are likely to extend the average life by
~10 years maximum.
OTOH, real life extension technology is already here. It's called Calorie
Restriction and it reduces damage done to DNA by the body's metabolism.
I looked at an old email account which had 400+ messages, 99% spam.
It doesn't seem difficult to create an email account that would accumulate 100% pure spam. If ISPs did this, they could block all this spam from their users.
Not at all. Intel was the first to dominate a growing market.
It's just that the market was relatively small at the time.
Microsoft use the same tactic. They also have the monopolistic powers to play
catchup without having to start risky new ventures.
3DO, Dreamcast etc were all competing with an established market of earlier
consoles.
Familiarity is one of the most powerful effects of advertising. There is an almost hard-wired association between familiarity and comfort: people will often stick with what they know, even if it's a spouse that beats them up on a regular basis.
Even if you ignore advertising, you must have noticed it. And by doing so, you have become significantly more familiar with it, especially in the short term.
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Exactly what in your brain is hardwired?
You can find out a lot about how you make decisions using NLP strategy elicitation.
For example, most people compare two options, and do whichever feels best.
This explains why a lot of people don't do their tax return until the threat of fines etc feels worse than actually doing it.
Pretty convenient for Microsoft that everyone's distracted.
Still the bad press must be having some effect, else they wouldn't have changed the name from Palladium.
I think that Microsoft has realised that they can sidestep a lot of flack just by making the issue more complicated than most people are capable of understanding.
Both these issues, Iraq and Palladium will change the world. Best to make use of an internet that encourages free speech while we still have it.
Bristol to London is about 200 miles each way. "Walk in and buy" tickets vary from £40 to £120 depending on the time. Did I mention most of the trains are late? Dave.
Rail travel should be the mode of choice over 50 miles. Instead it is cheaper to travel by car.
I can drive the family from here to the capital and back [about 150 miles] for about £25. Take the train and we're looking at £120 for the four of us.
Doesn't the UK have Europe's highest tax on petrol?
Presumably, you had to book that train in advance too...
There's one called Eclipse, featured in an excellent documentary called In Search of a Safer Cigarette. They found that the standard drying process created 99% of the carcinogens in the tobacco.
But burning any organic substance produces lots of carcinogens.
Eclipse contains no tobacco, yet looks, works and supposedly smells & tastes like a cigarette.
Most of Gimli's humour lines were slightly amusing and easily overlookable. But the shield/surfboard scene with Legolas was hard to stomach. I know they spent half their time in New Zealand surfing but show some restraint for Tolkein's sake, please.
There is an amazing tendency for people to confabulate around 'mental problems'. For example, the argument about whether this is a real addiction is truly a side-issue (especially when there's no accepted definition of what that means).
Yes, some people have ruined theirs and others' lives by playing computer games.
What is important here is how people decide to start/stop indulging.
When you start (or think about starting), do you exaggerate how it will make you feel? Do you minimise or not even think about the risks? Do you think about what your life will be like in 1 or 3 or 5 or 10 years time if you continue making awful decisions like this. BTW, computer games now are lame compared to how good they'll be in 10-20 years.
Answer the same questions as for when you think about approaching hot women;)
When you think about stopping, do you generally put it off? How will you anticipate feeling if stop at that moment? What would have to happen for you to stop right then? Can you commit yourself to stopping?
FWIW, I have been unable to avoid wasting huge amounts of time on a game so I simply don't own any. Realise that games 10 years from now will make current ones look very lame indeed. Unless you are all still playing Wolfenstein...
Microsoft's strategy also requires leveraging old monopolies to create new ones.
Frankly they haven't been able to do it on PDAs. Phones are even further separated from PC operating systems, so MS has to leverage the internet itself (MS Java etc).
It's conceivable that MS might even lose this one:)
I did find an online paper by Lawson, not read it yet. As for rational, I would say we are pseudo-rational. If we were capable of being completely rational, we wouldn't get conned by salespeople, politicians etc. Look up the term "junko logic". Some people are obviously capable of being more rational than others. Your note about something presented as science is a well known influence technique. Another very cool book is "Influence" by Robert Cialdini.
Very cool study (chess players).
Your logic on human rationality sucks however. Which disproves your point twice;)
Your definition is fine. But even if humans can be rational, doesn't mean they are.
I haven't read Anton Lawson, but I suggest reading The Emotional Brain by Professor Joseph Le Doux.
It's more reasonable to say that we are sophisticated emotional beings rather than rational.
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Does it "work" or do you think it "works"?
Because you'll get a completely different search singular/plural.
This is one way in which Google can be improved or bested.
Since I use Opera, I can search multiple search engines just by typing "s " into an address bar. And the results will pop up side-by-side in separate tiled windows. How much fussing does that take in IE?
Dave.
Calorie restriction has one BIG drawback: You are hungry all the damned time. You can ignore hunger for a while, but it never lets up. Without the imposition of some external discipline, you will eventually cave.
Not strictly true. There is a whole bunch of neural processing that conveys that sensation of hunger to you You can train your brain to delay that sensation until you really are at risk of malnutrition. As a hypnotist I have done this with several clients.
There are two kinds of life extension: appending years to one's life in which case you'd feel and look really old, i.e., at 160, you'd feel 160; or uniformly extending life so that if you lived to be 160 (roughly double), at 80 you'd have the physical body of a current 40 year old, i.e., aging as a whole would be uniformly slowed down. I'd want the latter only.
For the forseeable future, you are likely to get the latter only. People die of old age because their DNA is a mess and prevents cells from performing their function.
Even by replacing their organs, you are likely to extend the average life by ~10 years maximum.
OTOH, real life extension technology is already here. It's called Calorie Restriction and it reduces damage done to DNA by the body's metabolism.
I looked at an old email account which had 400+ messages, 99% spam.
It doesn't seem difficult to create an email account that would accumulate 100% pure spam. If ISPs did this, they could block all this spam from their users.
Not sure if this is a new idea.
Microsoft use the same tactic. They also have the monopolistic powers to play catchup without having to start risky new ventures.
3DO, Dreamcast etc were all competing with an established market of earlier consoles.
There's an option for automatically saving all your sessions when you exit.
Familiarity is one of the most powerful effects of advertising. There is an almost hard-wired association between familiarity and comfort: people will often stick with what they know, even if it's a spouse that beats them up on a regular basis.
Even if you ignore advertising, you must have noticed it. And by doing so, you have become significantly more familiar with it, especially in the short term.
Exactly what in your brain is hardwired?
You can find out a lot about how you make decisions using NLP strategy elicitation.
For example, most people compare two options, and do whichever feels best.
This explains why a lot of people don't do their tax return until the threat of fines etc feels worse than actually doing it.
Dave.
Taste and pain, crucial traits that our ancestors must have needed in order to survive are genetically related? Wow. I'd never have guessed that.
Next you'll be telling me gender is genetic...
Dave.
Don't take shit.
Damn, where were you when I was 12? ;)
I'd be a little more specific:
Take up Kung Fu and hypnosis so you don't have to take shit.
Pretty convenient for Microsoft that everyone's distracted.
Still the bad press must be having some effect, else they wouldn't have changed the name from Palladium.
I think that Microsoft has realised that they can sidestep a lot of flack just by making the issue more complicated than most people are capable of understanding.
Both these issues, Iraq and Palladium will change the world. Best to make use of an internet that encourages free speech while we still have it.
Dave.
No chance. The UK government is just as much in MS's pocket as the US's is.
Dave.
Bristol to London is about 200 miles each way. "Walk in and buy" tickets vary from £40 to £120 depending on the time.
Did I mention most of the trains are late?
Dave.
As I understand it, it's both cheap and easy to enter the ISP market. Small ISPs will represent a smaller target to RIAA than AOL.
Dave.
As I understand it, the brain is far better at pattern recognition than any computer.
Dave.
Rail travel should be the mode of choice over 50 miles. Instead it is cheaper to travel by car. I can drive the family from here to the capital and back [about 150 miles] for about £25. Take the train and we're looking at £120 for the four of us.
Doesn't the UK have Europe's highest tax on petrol?
Presumably, you had to book that train in advance too...
Dave.
Think of IE as crippleware.
Haven't tried Moz.
Dave.
If you sit for too long, your spine will deteriorate.
If you stare at a screen for too long, your eyes will fade.
I stand at my computer. It forces me to move once in a while.
Dave.
There's one called Eclipse, featured in an excellent documentary called In Search of a Safer Cigarette. They found that the standard drying process created 99% of the carcinogens in the tobacco.
But burning any organic substance produces lots of carcinogens.
Eclipse contains no tobacco, yet looks, works and supposedly smells & tastes like a cigarette.
For those of you lacking willpower, I've made freely available a method that will make becoming an ex-smoker much easier.
Dave.
Most of Gimli's humour lines were slightly amusing and easily overlookable.
But the shield/surfboard scene with Legolas was hard to stomach. I know they spent half their time in New Zealand surfing but show some restraint for Tolkein's sake, please.
What games do you play?
I used to play the strategy games for a few days non-stop.
Dave.
There is an amazing tendency for people to confabulate around 'mental problems'. For example, the argument about whether this is a real addiction is truly a side-issue (especially when there's no accepted definition of what that means).
;)
Yes, some people have ruined theirs and others' lives by playing computer games.
What is important here is how people decide to start/stop indulging.
When you start (or think about starting), do you exaggerate how it will make you feel? Do you minimise or not even think about the risks? Do you think about what your life will be like in 1 or 3 or 5 or 10 years time if you continue making awful decisions like this. BTW, computer games now are lame compared to how good they'll be in 10-20 years.
Answer the same questions as for when you think about approaching hot women
When you think about stopping, do you generally put it off? How will you anticipate feeling if stop at that moment? What would have to happen for you to stop right then? Can you commit yourself to stopping?
FWIW, I have been unable to avoid wasting huge amounts of time on a game so I simply don't own any. Realise that games 10 years from now will make current ones look very lame indeed. Unless you are all still playing Wolfenstein...
Dave (addictions therapist).
Microsoft's strategy also requires leveraging old monopolies to create new ones.
:)
Frankly they haven't been able to do it on PDAs. Phones are even further separated from PC operating systems, so MS has to leverage the internet itself (MS Java etc).
It's conceivable that MS might even lose this one
I did find an online paper by Lawson, not read it yet.
As for rational, I would say we are pseudo-rational. If we were capable of being completely rational, we wouldn't get conned by salespeople, politicians etc. Look up the term "junko logic".
Some people are obviously capable of being more rational than others.
Your note about something presented as science is a well known influence technique.
Another very cool book is "Influence" by Robert Cialdini.
Very cool study (chess players). Your logic on human rationality sucks however. Which disproves your point twice ;)
Your definition is fine. But even if humans can be rational, doesn't mean they are.
I haven't read Anton Lawson, but I suggest reading The Emotional Brain by Professor Joseph Le Doux.
It's more reasonable to say that we are sophisticated emotional beings rather than rational.