Don't all ATX motherboards have USB ports on the back? The fact that I'd have to lean around the back of my computer, avoid all the other cables and grope for a couple of small rectangular holes...
I read all 6 when I was 21, agree with you about Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, and Heretics of Dune being the best. Chapterhouse was quite disappointing.
Just started reading House Atreides, the first by the same authors as the book reviewed. About a third of the way in and I'm enjoying it a lot so far. I'd say it's better than "Heretics" but not as good as the other two.
As far as transferring consciousness, imagine you could plug a hard drive into your brain. After a while, all the data you store on it becomes available to your consciousness.
Now, let's say that someone did this while you were asleep. Your brain naturally confabulates and incorporates this phenomenal change into your ongoing reality. All you would know is that you gradually developed something like a photographic memory.
Fact is, most of what you are ISN'T conscious anyway. Many people retain their sense of identity despite losing large parts of their brain.
So what IS conscious?
Is it impossible that you could substitute a computing algorithm for each neuron you remove from your brain such that you would eventually end up with your consciousness in the hardware rather than your brain?
1. The number of twins available for research who were separated at birth is less than 150 pairs.
I doubt any of them are autistic.
2. Genes interact with the environment. Short-signtedness runs in families but rarely existed before national education programmes.
3. As for identical vs fraternal twins studies, are you telling me that whether or not your brother/sister looks exactly like you isn't going to affect your relationship with them and other people?
That's just one of the obvious environmental factors assumed to be genetic.
I suspect a 3D display would produce less eye-strain than a 2D one. A 2D display is completely unnatural.
Eye-strain comes from eye muscles being locked in one position, essentially a muscle spasm. The more variation in depth, the less this can happen.
I also suspect the quality of the image has a minimal impact. I've certainly noticed no reduction in strain on my eyes in the 20 years I've been using monitors.
Society as a whole really doesn't have much control over an individual child's upbringing.
Your hypothalamus can be conditioned to make you lash out in response to external stimuli + emotional state.
There's little that can be done except to recognise this and recondition the hypothalamus using a NLP technique known as anchoring or something like EFT.
Society as a whole really doesn't have much control over an individual child's upbringing.<BR> <BR> Your hypothalamus can be conditioned to make you lash out in response to external stimuli + emotional state.<BR> <BR> There's little that can be done except to recognise this and recondition the hypothalamus using a technique known as anchoring:<BR> <URL>http://www.deep-trance.com/ar ticles/skills_models/anchoring.html</URL>
Plus the whole T&L issue. For a long time, T&L looked like a largely unsupported feature. There was Q3 of course, then a trickle of T&L games a year later. It took more than 2 years after the release of the GF256 before widespread T&L support. The article points out how Voodoo 4/5 missed this enormous window of opportunity.
We already know a lot about brain wave patterns during sleep.
We don't have a single frequency. EEGs detect multiple waves superimposed on each other.
The first sleep cycle is characterised by shifting from fast, unpredictable waves to slow, consistent waves. REM sleep usually doesn't occur until the second cycle
There's a hypothesis that our subjective comfort levels are related to harmonisation of brain waves.
I think it's more likely we indirectly and unconsciously pickup on brain waves through body language, voice rhythm etc.
It's kinda like the ridiculous amount of money big name actors get. The movie studio's not paying $20 million dollars for extreme high quality acting, they're paying that much because they're betting more people will go see the movie if Harrison Ford is in it. It's about audience draw.
Big names guarantee the film won't lose too much money because some schmucks will always go and see it.
Dave
I have never used Mozilla but I am a big fan of Opera.
It hasn't crashed for me in about 18 months (along with Forte Agent, probably the only pieces of software I use that haven't).
As for functionality, Opera has a couple of shortcomings (full DOM support, password manager), but I seriously doubt Mozilla can compete with a full MDI interface, mouse gestures etc.
I also understand that Mozilla is a huge resource hog. I have ~30 windows open and Opera is using ~21MB including the cache. Of course, Mozilla is free but considering how much browsing I do, I'm happy to pay the $39.
PKZIP was a moving target. I remember that several compressors worked better than it, until Phil Katz produced the version that we still use today.
But lossy compression is based on the idea that our perceptions are limited by our sense organs and nervous system.
Audio compression schemes are based on creating psychoacoustic models and testing them on real-life audiophiles.
This explains why LQT still sounds a lot better than all the newer formats.
Yet MP3 still rules because, as NiftyNews pointed out, for the majority of people, there's no compelling reason to change.
I think that a lossy compression market is different than lossless because the results are subjective, hence uncertain and prone to marketing power.
And because of that, unfortunately, I am certain that WMA will eventually take over.
Could Microsoft be banned from releasing another version of Windows until an IE-free version is available and meets the standards set by some committee?
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Don't all ATX motherboards have USB ports on the back? The fact that I'd have to lean around the back of my computer, avoid all the other cables and grope for a couple of small rectangular holes...
Makes it a big no-no for me.
1. Should clones have rights too?
2. Couldn't they see that one Steve Jobs was enough for any company?
I read all 6 when I was 21, agree with you about Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, and Heretics of Dune being the best.
Chapterhouse was quite disappointing.
Just started reading House Atreides, the first by the same authors as the book reviewed. About a third of the way in and I'm enjoying it a lot so far. I'd say it's better than "Heretics" but not as good as the other two.
Dave.
Mod this guy up!
As far as transferring consciousness, imagine you could plug a hard drive into your brain. After a while, all the data you store on it becomes available to your consciousness.
Now, let's say that someone did this while you were asleep. Your brain naturally confabulates and incorporates this phenomenal change into your ongoing reality. All you would know is that you gradually developed something like a photographic memory.
Fact is, most of what you are ISN'T conscious anyway. Many people retain their sense of identity despite losing large parts of their brain.
So what IS conscious?
Is it impossible that you could substitute a computing algorithm for each neuron you remove from your brain such that you would eventually end up with your consciousness in the hardware rather than your brain?
Dave.
http://www.deep-trance.com
1. The number of twins available for research who were separated at birth is less than 150 pairs.
I doubt any of them are autistic.
2. Genes interact with the environment. Short-signtedness runs in families but rarely existed before national education programmes.
3. As for identical vs fraternal twins studies, are you telling me that whether or not your brother/sister looks exactly like you isn't going to affect your relationship with them and other people?
That's just one of the obvious environmental factors assumed to be genetic.
Dave.
http://www.deep-trance.com
6)Doesn't look like the groups were randomised.
7)Unless they gave the second group some kind of substitute oil, there was no placebo group.
Dave.
I suspect a 3D display would produce less eye-strain than a 2D one. A 2D display is completely unnatural.
Eye-strain comes from eye muscles being locked in one position, essentially a muscle spasm. The more variation in depth, the less this can happen.
I also suspect the quality of the image has a minimal impact. I've certainly noticed no reduction in strain on my eyes in the 20 years I've been using monitors.
Dave.
Perhaps Kazaa's totals includes users you can't search and WinMX (Peer-to-Peer) doesn't?
Society as a whole really doesn't have much control over an individual child's upbringing.
Your hypothalamus can be conditioned to make you lash out in response to external stimuli + emotional state.
There's little that can be done except to recognise this and recondition the hypothalamus using a NLP technique known as anchoring or something like EFT.
Dave.
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Society as a whole really doesn't have much control over an individual child's upbringing.<BR>r ticles/skills_models/anchoring.html</URL>
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Your hypothalamus can be conditioned to make you lash out in response to external stimuli + emotional state.<BR>
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There's little that can be done except to recognise this and recondition the hypothalamus using a technique known as anchoring:<BR>
<URL>http://www.deep-trance.com/a
Plus the whole T&L issue. For a long time, T&L looked like a largely unsupported feature. There was Q3 of course, then a trickle of T&L games a year later.
It took more than 2 years after the release of the GF256 before widespread T&L support. The article points out how Voodoo 4/5 missed this enormous window of opportunity.
Dave.
The numbers on Kazaa are obviously distorted or outright lies.
Unless you keep your mind in a box, how do you tell the difference?
Dave.
We already know a lot about brain wave patterns during sleep.
We don't have a single frequency. EEGs detect multiple waves superimposed on each other.
The first sleep cycle is characterised by shifting from fast, unpredictable waves to slow, consistent waves. REM sleep usually doesn't occur until the second cycle
There's a hypothesis that our subjective comfort levels are related to harmonisation of brain waves.
I think it's more likely we indirectly and unconsciously pickup on brain waves through body language, voice rhythm etc.
Dave.
Why would anyone want to associate themselves with Godzilla? Didn't you see the film?
Dave, http://www.deep-trance.com
It's kinda like the ridiculous amount of money big name actors get. The movie studio's not paying $20 million dollars for extreme high quality acting, they're paying that much because they're betting more people will go see the movie if Harrison Ford is in it. It's about audience draw.
Big names guarantee the film won't lose too much money because some schmucks will always go and see it.
Dave
I have never used Mozilla but I am a big fan of Opera.
It hasn't crashed for me in about 18 months (along with Forte Agent, probably the only pieces of software I use that haven't).
As for functionality, Opera has a couple of shortcomings (full DOM support, password manager), but I seriously doubt Mozilla can compete with a full MDI interface, mouse gestures etc.
I also understand that Mozilla is a huge resource hog. I have ~30 windows open and Opera is using ~21MB including the cache.
Of course, Mozilla is free but considering how much browsing I do, I'm happy to pay the $39.
Dave, http://www.deep-trance.com
What about the DoJ forcing MS to support an open standard in return for being allowed to bundle MS Messenger?
Dave.
Could it be that what deterimines individual abilities is the user-friendliness of their mind in that situation?
Dave
I'm not sure about the legal position but if Microsoft aren't punished, that tells other corporations "until you get caught, it's OK."
That's hardly pro-consumer.
Dave, http://www.deep-trance.com
Full DOM support is scheduled for v7.
This has been public knowledge since v5.
Perhaps a simple way to de-age is to get telomerase to only work on good, healthy cells.
Dave, http://www.deep-trance.com
Soon the police helicopters' infra-red camera will have to go back to only tracking sweaty criminals.
But lossy compression is based on the idea that our perceptions are limited by our sense organs and nervous system.
Audio compression schemes are based on creating psychoacoustic models and testing them on real-life audiophiles.
This explains why LQT still sounds a lot better than all the newer formats.
Yet MP3 still rules because, as NiftyNews pointed out, for the majority of people, there's no compelling reason to change.
I think that a lossy compression market is different than lossless because the results are subjective, hence uncertain and prone to marketing power.
And because of that, unfortunately, I am certain that WMA will eventually take over.
Dave, http://www.deep-trance.com
Could Microsoft be banned from releasing another version of Windows until an IE-free version is available and meets the standards set by some committee?
Dave.