Pardon my total ignorance of the subject, but does this mean that it might occasionally snow on mars? Or would the environment be too different to allow it?
Passive and risk adverse behavior are better suited to short term genetic survival. It's a gamble, but in the long term the genes of a successful warlord can become one of the most widely distributed on the planet.
I remember something similar. We all wanted computers we could carry around. And, we got it. They weren't on our wrist, unless we bought a strap to put it there for some reason. But wearable computers is what we wanted, and we have them now. Bring on more feature creep if that's what you want to call it.
There's some specs out there for building your own fairly cheap automated book scanner. I have far too many myself, and am giving the idea of just scanning them all into pdf some consideration.
I might be recalling this incorrectly, but I think it was even shown a while back that most tool use comes about by this mechanism. Basically our mind remapping external objects into our body interaction.
There's another term that entered youth culture through jazz, with roots that go all the way back to Mother Africa. The word "hip" comes from a West African word "hep", mean "one who knows."
Hip + youth? I can't remember the last time I heard someone under the age of 40 use the word hip non-ironically.
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Not only that, but after he has Hermione do his work for him he'll proceed to ignore her as anything but an androgynous tool that he'd never actually go out with.
Not really on the side effects. It's only fairly recently that good studies have been performed on the subject. I had to sort through caffeine studies for a paper a few years ago, and it was amazing how bad most of the early methodology was. Bad as in taking someone who has three or more cups of coffee a day, keeping them off it two days, giving it to them again, and concluding that it's a cognition enhancer because they did better on tests during the last day than the two days they were off. The addictive side was horribly underestimated in a vast number of studies.
That odd state of numbed tiredness is something I've only ever experienced with it. Even with stimulants, I'm either tired and jittery or awake. With modafinil it's more like what ibuprofin is to pain. It's often still there, but numbed down to a point where one no longer cares.
What bugged me is when I wound up testing virtual machines to see which could play best on the linux and osx box in our house. Apparently there's a limit to how many can use the service, and there's no way to revoke it. So not only do they force you to use windows, you get punished for even trying to find a workaround on other platforms.
It's a bit of a balancing act though, things stopped being black and white quite a while back. We know enough about genetics for example, to see that some of the effects caused by athletes doping themselves occur naturally in some of the best competitors. There's a slippery slope where the end effect is only a certain "pure" kind of human being allowed to participate.
I've heard that come up in an interview, and basically the answer was the Penn excuse. Demonstration of proper methodological understanding off camera, but apologetic insistence that they have to present things as conclusive to get it on the air.
Same here. I move fairly often, and books are by far the number one pain in that situation. Always have to dragon them around, state to state, country to country. Hundreds of pounds of shipping costs and troubles.
The default position is assumed innocence. People are discussing the case, and attempting to do so unemotionally. So they start from that position and then reason out from that point.
If one ever needs an example of cognitive dissonance at its finest, arguments about vegetarianism is a great place to look. It's amazing how emotional people get about their food, without even realizing it.
Agreed. I'm a vegetarian as well, and I too have a strong dislike of PETA. Strawman arguments, no matter how deserving the recipient might be, never do a cause any good. Hell, PETA's love of arguing from logical fallacy is one of the first things I disliked about them!
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Pardon my total ignorance of the subject, but does this mean that it might occasionally snow on mars? Or would the environment be too different to allow it?
Passive and risk adverse behavior are better suited to short term genetic survival. It's a gamble, but in the long term the genes of a successful warlord can become one of the most widely distributed on the planet.
But somehow, because it's a remote area they think they can do it without getting caught.
A rpg could certainly be done with the touchscreen. Look at "The World Ends With You" for the DS. Very enjoyable, and 100% playable with stylus.
I remember something similar. We all wanted computers we could carry around. And, we got it. They weren't on our wrist, unless we bought a strap to put it there for some reason. But wearable computers is what we wanted, and we have them now. Bring on more feature creep if that's what you want to call it.
Problem 'kinda' solved. Traditionally, anything which has required an additional add-on has spelled death for a gaming platform.
That's what a journal was, way back in the day. It's not what a journal is.
The same could be said about online publishing. The methodology might not be implemented today, but there's nothing preventing it.
There's some specs out there for building your own fairly cheap automated book scanner. I have far too many myself, and am giving the idea of just scanning them all into pdf some consideration.
The money they pump into mozilla?
I might be recalling this incorrectly, but I think it was even shown a while back that most tool use comes about by this mechanism. Basically our mind remapping external objects into our body interaction.
There's another term that entered youth culture through jazz, with roots that go all the way back to Mother Africa. The word "hip" comes from a West African word "hep", mean "one who knows."
Hip + youth? I can't remember the last time I heard someone under the age of 40 use the word hip non-ironically.
Not only that, but after he has Hermione do his work for him he'll proceed to ignore her as anything but an androgynous tool that he'd never actually go out with.
Or did the singer sound a lot like David Wayne from Stella?
Not really on the side effects. It's only fairly recently that good studies have been performed on the subject. I had to sort through caffeine studies for a paper a few years ago, and it was amazing how bad most of the early methodology was. Bad as in taking someone who has three or more cups of coffee a day, keeping them off it two days, giving it to them again, and concluding that it's a cognition enhancer because they did better on tests during the last day than the two days they were off. The addictive side was horribly underestimated in a vast number of studies.
That odd state of numbed tiredness is something I've only ever experienced with it. Even with stimulants, I'm either tired and jittery or awake. With modafinil it's more like what ibuprofin is to pain. It's often still there, but numbed down to a point where one no longer cares.
What bugged me is when I wound up testing virtual machines to see which could play best on the linux and osx box in our house. Apparently there's a limit to how many can use the service, and there's no way to revoke it. So not only do they force you to use windows, you get punished for even trying to find a workaround on other platforms.
It's a bit of a balancing act though, things stopped being black and white quite a while back. We know enough about genetics for example, to see that some of the effects caused by athletes doping themselves occur naturally in some of the best competitors. There's a slippery slope where the end effect is only a certain "pure" kind of human being allowed to participate.
I'm getting the discarded arm from one of you guys on mine! I will be known as "Mr. Two Arms", and fight crime when I'm not busy winning the olympics.
I've heard that come up in an interview, and basically the answer was the Penn excuse. Demonstration of proper methodological understanding off camera, but apologetic insistence that they have to present things as conclusive to get it on the air.
Same here. I move fairly often, and books are by far the number one pain in that situation. Always have to dragon them around, state to state, country to country. Hundreds of pounds of shipping costs and troubles.
The default position is assumed innocence. People are discussing the case, and attempting to do so unemotionally. So they start from that position and then reason out from that point.
If one ever needs an example of cognitive dissonance at its finest, arguments about vegetarianism is a great place to look. It's amazing how emotional people get about their food, without even realizing it.
Agreed. I'm a vegetarian as well, and I too have a strong dislike of PETA. Strawman arguments, no matter how deserving the recipient might be, never do a cause any good. Hell, PETA's love of arguing from logical fallacy is one of the first things I disliked about them!
There's electronic devices these days that don't have wifi built in?
I quite agree. We apes really lost out when that particular trait went away. We're the flightless birds of the primates.