Thanks for speaking up and telling us what depression is really like.
There are times when I tell myself "I feel so depressed!" but it is nothing like what you experience. There are many things I feel unhappy about, many things I am anxious about, but when my primary-care doctor asks me if I am depressed, I say, well no, there are projects at work as well as things at home that I enjoy doing and look forward to very much, so I don't think that I am depressed.
Thanks again for telling us what depression is really like and offering ideas of how we can help friends or family in that condition.
Only, don't you suppose it is a good idea to place this capsule and run this experiment on board an unmanned spacecraft? So if something goes terribly wrong, you don't have an exploding capsule on board a manned spacecraft such as a Soyuz ferry or the International Space Station?
Maybe I blame my concern on that famous paratrooper bread-baking-warrior turned software entrepreneur Joel Spolsky who recommended putting your tech workers in a quiet setting so they can "get in the zone" to get their coding done?
How come we agonize over booms from high-flying supersonic aircraft but door slams, loud, frequent, startling door slams are part of the office environment that no one seems to think is a big deal, especially in a college-campus building?
I seem to think this started in the mid 1980's when office PCs became commonplace along with the concern of them getting stolen from offices. The "U" never had security guards at the front gate, so locking the door or chaining stuff down is your only hope of equipment not walking out the front door.
Ka-chunk. Ka-chunk. Ka-chunk-ka-chunk-ka-chunk-ka-chunk when some lame-oid instructor from another department halfway across campus uses a classroom by your office, closes the door and then doesn't open it again when class lets out. Every person leaving the room has to let the door slam.
I am open to suggestions on technological fixes. There are some ancient Sargent door closers that I wish I knew how to "hack", but there are no instructions on the Web and I don't want to open a screw and bleed damper fluid all over the floor. Then there are the door handles and latches with so much clearance and slop and metal slapping against metal in their internals that I am at a loss what to do.
Ask help from Facilities Management? Ha! Those guys would bang garbage can lids outside your office doors for the pure fun of how it made you feel -- if their supervisors would give them time off to do it.
But this problem appears to be both mechanically and socially harder to fix than the SST, which they simply outlawed from overflight.
"I am altering the deal . . . pray that I don't alter it any further" has nothing to do with praying to the Abrahamic Deity.
It has more to do with telling Microsoft that their "sad devotion to that ancient religion has not conjured up" a stable release of Windows 10.
If you don't participate in the beta test the right way Microsoft will "find your lack of faith . . . disturbing" and start choking you over an open port on your PC . . .
One of the "beats" at the Oil Drum was that of (at the time) 85 million barrels per day world oil production, 10 million came from Saudi, and fully half of that or 5 million barrels per day was from a single province called Ghawar.
It was said that the Saudis used to be able to drive down the price of oil at will by "turning up the spigot", but their prized oil field was "drying up" because they were water flooding it to maintain production. Although the Saudis "hold their cards close to the vest", it was said that the "water cut" -- the amount of water they had to separate from the oil they recovered on account of the water flooding to wring more oil production -- was increasing to alarming levels.
One of the main themes of the Oil Drum web site was that oil wasn't just about "reserves" or how much you had in the ground, it was also about how fast you could produce it, and also how fast you could produce it without wrecking the reservoir and leaving the remaining oil unrecoverable.
Limit to how far (the Saudis) can push (a price war)? The Oil Drum people were arguing that they didn't have the production capacity anymore to do what they are doing right now.
I eat whole-wheat squares. Not much methane, we are talking "solid fuel", here.
Yeah, yeah, eating whole-wheat cereal and multi-grain bread makes me some kind of health nut. It is just when I switch to white bread when it is on sale, oh, man, a part of me stages a "sit-down strike."
I eat a brand of breakfast cereal that claims "Since 2006" their factory used enough wind energy to account for "taking nearly 6,200 cars of the road!" Note the exclamation point in what I am quoting, you cannot advocate for a cause or advertise a commercial product or write a fake ransom note ("Listen carefully! We are a group of individuals representing a small foreign faction" ) without one.
The alternative is eating a competing brand that requires me to exercise by serious swimming, bike riding, or tennis playing -- sweating in the summer heat sending tennis balls careening off the edge of the racket and over the chain-link fence and then trudging over to retrieve them, I did that in college P.E., but who needs that?
You mean to tell me that by taking only 6200 cars off the road I might as well be eating Lucky Charms?
I was just linking to Court Room TV covering Mr. Snowden's fair trial where he is exonerated by a Jury Nullification on the part of a panel of 12 pencil necks reacting to his moving defense, testimony, and summation.
Yes, I dynamited those buildings but they were MY buildings.
A core-collapse supernova is theorized to produce a neutron star. This type of explosion is regarded as the end stage of evolution of a star much more massive than the Sun having enough mass to fuse heavier elements when it exhausts hydrogen form its core.
A white dwarf is theorized to be the end stage of evolution of a star much like our Sun. Such stars are not massive enough to end in core-collapse after fusing all the light elements. Instead, they end their lives by intense mass outflow resulting in a "planetary" nebula, and what is left behind is the white dwarf.
A white dwarf accreting mass from an evolved binary companion, especially a swollen red giant that has expanded its atmosphere, such a star can generate "ordinary nova" explosions (rapid fusion of the accreted matter) that leave the white dwarf behind to "do it again" in the future. A white dwarf that accretes a critical amount of mass, however, explodes with the violence of the Type Ia supernova, a particularly bright "standard candle" used in cosmology research from which "accelerating expansion" and "dark energy" has been hypothesized to describe the evolution of the Universe. When one of these blows, it leaves nothing behind.
Sheesh, people know as much about stellar evolution as elephant evolution . . .
We have computers offering grammar and spelling checkers. Spelling checkers are not only active in MS-Word, they can be found on text entry on many Web pages.
Do you suppose a well-designed auto-correct system could make inferences regarding the selection of the word and automatically supply the accents? Or if there is ambiguity, to have a popup selection of alternative orthography -- just like in Visual Studio, Eclipse, or other such text-entry system for an (artificial programming) language?
We are talking about the Singularity being only 10-20 years away, and we don't have computer systems that cannot make reasonable assumptions to supply the accents in the French language?
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Let it go -- he's on a roll!
No one is mocking you . . . the other hand is needed to make mouse clicks . . .
When your hand is your "date" . . .
Ooooo, bro . . . that must hurt!
Thanks for speaking up and telling us what depression is really like.
There are times when I tell myself "I feel so depressed!" but it is nothing like what you experience. There are many things I feel unhappy about, many things I am anxious about, but when my primary-care doctor asks me if I am depressed, I say, well no, there are projects at work as well as things at home that I enjoy doing and look forward to very much, so I don't think that I am depressed.
Thanks again for telling us what depression is really like and offering ideas of how we can help friends or family in that condition.
From TFA, that appears to be exactly the plan.
Only, don't you suppose it is a good idea to place this capsule and run this experiment on board an unmanned spacecraft? So if something goes terribly wrong, you don't have an exploding capsule on board a manned spacecraft such as a Soyuz ferry or the International Space Station?
'nuff sed.
you insensitive clod!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Maybe I blame my concern on that famous paratrooper bread-baking-warrior turned software entrepreneur Joel Spolsky who recommended putting your tech workers in a quiet setting so they can "get in the zone" to get their coding done?
How come we agonize over booms from high-flying supersonic aircraft but door slams, loud, frequent, startling door slams are part of the office environment that no one seems to think is a big deal, especially in a college-campus building?
I seem to think this started in the mid 1980's when office PCs became commonplace along with the concern of them getting stolen from offices. The "U" never had security guards at the front gate, so locking the door or chaining stuff down is your only hope of equipment not walking out the front door.
Ka-chunk. Ka-chunk. Ka-chunk-ka-chunk-ka-chunk-ka-chunk when some lame-oid instructor from another department halfway across campus uses a classroom by your office, closes the door and then doesn't open it again when class lets out. Every person leaving the room has to let the door slam.
I am open to suggestions on technological fixes. There are some ancient Sargent door closers that I wish I knew how to "hack", but there are no instructions on the Web and I don't want to open a screw and bleed damper fluid all over the floor. Then there are the door handles and latches with so much clearance and slop and metal slapping against metal in their internals that I am at a loss what to do.
Ask help from Facilities Management? Ha! Those guys would bang garbage can lids outside your office doors for the pure fun of how it made you feel -- if their supervisors would give them time off to do it.
But this problem appears to be both mechanically and socially harder to fix than the SST, which they simply outlawed from overflight.
Maybe Deltas or Epsilons lack the cognitive skills to operate anything as counter-intuitive as Windows 10?
that has such OS features in it!
"I am altering the deal . . . pray that I don't alter it any further" has nothing to do with praying to the Abrahamic Deity.
It has more to do with telling Microsoft that their "sad devotion to that ancient religion has not conjured up" a stable release of Windows 10.
If you don't participate in the beta test the right way Microsoft will "find your lack of faith . . . disturbing" and start choking you over an open port on your PC . . .
One of the "beats" at the Oil Drum was that of (at the time) 85 million barrels per day world oil production, 10 million came from Saudi, and fully half of that or 5 million barrels per day was from a single province called Ghawar.
It was said that the Saudis used to be able to drive down the price of oil at will by "turning up the spigot", but their prized oil field was "drying up" because they were water flooding it to maintain production. Although the Saudis "hold their cards close to the vest", it was said that the "water cut" -- the amount of water they had to separate from the oil they recovered on account of the water flooding to wring more oil production -- was increasing to alarming levels.
One of the main themes of the Oil Drum web site was that oil wasn't just about "reserves" or how much you had in the ground, it was also about how fast you could produce it, and also how fast you could produce it without wrecking the reservoir and leaving the remaining oil unrecoverable.
Limit to how far (the Saudis) can push (a price war)? The Oil Drum people were arguing that they didn't have the production capacity anymore to do what they are doing right now.
I don't know what gives here.
The folks on (the late) Oil Drum were assuring me that the Saudi's were running out of oil?
I eat whole-wheat squares. Not much methane, we are talking "solid fuel", here.
Yeah, yeah, eating whole-wheat cereal and multi-grain bread makes me some kind of health nut. It is just when I switch to white bread when it is on sale, oh, man, a part of me stages a "sit-down strike."
who said, (channeling a deep Southern-Illinois accent) "A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there, and pretty soon it runs into real money."
Yeah, a gas leak in L.A., one in New Jersey, a couple in New Orleans, and pretty soon you have some serious environmental impact.
I eat a brand of breakfast cereal that claims "Since 2006" their factory used enough wind energy to account for "taking nearly 6,200 cars of the road!" Note the exclamation point in what I am quoting, you cannot advocate for a cause or advertise a commercial product or write a fake ransom note ("Listen carefully! We are a group of individuals representing a small foreign faction" ) without one.
The alternative is eating a competing brand that requires me to exercise by serious swimming, bike riding, or tennis playing -- sweating in the summer heat sending tennis balls careening off the edge of the racket and over the chain-link fence and then trudging over to retrieve them, I did that in college P.E., but who needs that?
You mean to tell me that by taking only 6200 cars off the road I might as well be eating Lucky Charms?
I was just linking to Court Room TV covering Mr. Snowden's fair trial where he is exonerated by a Jury Nullification on the part of a panel of 12 pencil necks reacting to his moving defense, testimony, and summation.
Yes, I dynamited those buildings but they were MY buildings.
Is this what you and Mr. Snowden have in mind?
There are men who take first steps . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
A core-collapse supernova is theorized to produce a neutron star. This type of explosion is regarded as the end stage of evolution of a star much more massive than the Sun having enough mass to fuse heavier elements when it exhausts hydrogen form its core.
A white dwarf is theorized to be the end stage of evolution of a star much like our Sun. Such stars are not massive enough to end in core-collapse after fusing all the light elements. Instead, they end their lives by intense mass outflow resulting in a "planetary" nebula, and what is left behind is the white dwarf.
A white dwarf accreting mass from an evolved binary companion, especially a swollen red giant that has expanded its atmosphere, such a star can generate "ordinary nova" explosions (rapid fusion of the accreted matter) that leave the white dwarf behind to "do it again" in the future. A white dwarf that accretes a critical amount of mass, however, explodes with the violence of the Type Ia supernova, a particularly bright "standard candle" used in cosmology research from which "accelerating expansion" and "dark energy" has been hypothesized to describe the evolution of the Universe. When one of these blows, it leaves nothing behind.
Sheesh, people know as much about stellar evolution as elephant evolution . . .
On the third planet . . .
. . . there is no third planet . . .
. . . that he will have all the information to sell me junk that I don't need?
I thought it was the dialect of Swedish spoken in parts of Finland . . .
We have computers offering grammar and spelling checkers. Spelling checkers are not only active in MS-Word, they can be found on text entry on many Web pages.
Do you suppose a well-designed auto-correct system could make inferences regarding the selection of the word and automatically supply the accents? Or if there is ambiguity, to have a popup selection of alternative orthography -- just like in Visual Studio, Eclipse, or other such text-entry system for an (artificial programming) language?
We are talking about the Singularity being only 10-20 years away, and we don't have computer systems that cannot make reasonable assumptions to supply the accents in the French language?