Ok, here's the sexuality 101 of it as I see it. The various elements of human sexuality are distinctly separate. There is physical sex, gender, sexual preference, brain body map and possibility a part that has a tendency towards a specific social adherence to what's expected of you by society; which I like to call the rebel factor. None of those are binary by nature. Female, male or feminine, masculine aren't like zeros and ones in binary but more like fuzzy end points on a number line. It takes a unique specific set of conditions for a person to be a transsexual. Based on my experience, it has mostly to do how a person's brain maps their sexual body image. While there is a tendency for the various factors to fit to the male/female norms, sometimes they do not come out that way. Just like it's possible for a straight male to be feminine or a straight female to be masculine, it's possible for a ts person to have a gender of their birth sex but because of the body mapping, have an intense desire to correct their body to fit the way the brain maps the body image. That person would probably be confused and possibly at a high risk for suicide.
Where do I fit in on that? At birth, my physical sex wasn't totally male, my gender is definitely on the female side of neutral but not extremely feminine and somewhat dynamic, my sexual preference is bi although life experience has pushed me less into liking males but that nature is still there, my brain maps my body as definitely female and I have a tendency to rebel against the social hive mind.
I totally agree, I'm also a ts and a lesbian. I'm in a long term relationship with one woman; she and I are at the beginning of a relationship with yet another woman.
Why is it that some guys insist on belittling intelligent and assertive women? The main reason why there aren't as many woman in the computer and electronics field as men is because people in the education system do what they can to prevent women from choosing those fields. Thankfully things are changing but not fast enough.
If they start putting it on customer bottles, how long before the postal system uses RFID scanners to gather information and sell the information? Couldn't this be considered a breach of privacy between the pharmacy and patient?
What about increased erosion? Erosion is a big problem for many coastal areas. Also should some of the largest coastal ice sheets in antarctica break loose; we would be looking at higher ocean levels and flooding out of coastal lands and islands around the world. That would displace a good amount of the world's population and wipe out many species that depend on salt-water marsh areas.
I would love to winter over there but I doubt they'd need a help desk tech. I wish I'd been in the right state of mind to get a science degree years ago. Of course I could always become a chef. I can make some hot foods that would seriously set people on fire. Habanero salsa anyone? - Andrea
That was one thing that made the 8 bit computers and also Amigas so good was the openess of the hardware designs. I remember combing through hardware books to look for points in the systems to play with or alter. There isn't any reason why hardware should be closed unless it's a security product. I think this would bring about a new computer revolution starting in the open source community.
Yea, your right, in that case it would have been cool. It could have proceded the seperation of the upper and lower sections then their breakup into smaller sections of debris. Of course it would have blown out the planet cracking weapon emitter too.
The one thing that bugs me the most about the digital enhancements to Episode IV is the Alderaan and Death Star explosions. That damn ring effect bugs me to no end. If they wanted to show a more realisitic effect, they should have shown both the planet and Death Star fracturing along natural weak points in the structure and whole chunks of them being blown away from the exploding mass.
You should find a way to suggest this idea to the show's creator/writers. It'd make for an amusing episode to it reconfigure or even not reconfigure and everyone is totally confused and can't find their way around. lol
My question is how would it's error rate compare to texts compiled by historians? History books contain many errors. I'm sure encyclopedias do too.
In the history books, two of the biggest errors is that Columbus discovered America and that everyone thought the world was flat before Columbus's arrival in the Americas.
The sad thing is that many of those texts contain intentional errors. History is written by the victors and screwed up by the politicians.
I for one wouldn't want to have it out there on a public IP (IPv4 or IPv6). That is something you place behind a NAT router and then have your public box act as a relay to and from your protected devices such as the environmental controls, fridge, etc. Of course you would need good security on your public box, preferably with a rolling password token on your PDA, somewhat like the RSA SecurID system but as software on a PDA/phone.
Thankfully, some of us skipped using MS-DOS and early versions of Windows as our main operating systems. I'm glad I took the Commodore 8bit and Amiga path in my early computer years.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that's thought of building a ORAC computer mod. My Amiga on my LAN has been called Orac for years. I also named my wintel box Gambit, my gf's box Zen and our extra computer Slave.:)
Sounds like your modem got swapped with someone else by the installer monkey. I've seen that happen quite a few times. When I was working support, I don't know how many times I'd pulled up a customer's account up and see a different MAC, then pull up by MAC and see a different customer. The really funny thing is, all the other phone tech's missed it. I guess that is why I made it to mentor status so quick.
You'd be suprised how many times I had this one tech call me and go into a long story about some email issue. My response was "Have you done a modem check to see if their online?", having already pulled up the customer and checked the modem while the tech was yapping. That guy never learned to see if their online first. lol
Tricorders were envisioned at a time before technology started converging. PDAs are more like a merger of Tricorders and Datapads. Add cell functions and it adds a communicator the mix. What would make PDAs more Tricorder like is using external sensors that have BlueTooth connectivity. Even on TNG they had Tricorders with specialized medical remotes. PDAs have the potential of being a far more flexible device than Tricorders ever would be.
Yet another reason for me to not do business with them, not that I would anyway because of the way they did me about my name change years ago when I was on their dialup.
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Agreed, the current administration needs to stay put. Go down with the ship so to speak.
Ok, here's the sexuality 101 of it as I see it. The various elements of human sexuality are distinctly separate. There is physical sex, gender, sexual preference, brain body map and possibility a part that has a tendency towards a specific social adherence to what's expected of you by society; which I like to call the rebel factor. None of those are binary by nature. Female, male or feminine, masculine aren't like zeros and ones in binary but more like fuzzy end points on a number line. It takes a unique specific set of conditions for a person to be a transsexual. Based on my experience, it has mostly to do how a person's brain maps their sexual body image. While there is a tendency for the various factors to fit to the male/female norms, sometimes they do not come out that way. Just like it's possible for a straight male to be feminine or a straight female to be masculine, it's possible for a ts person to have a gender of their birth sex but because of the body mapping, have an intense desire to correct their body to fit the way the brain maps the body image. That person would probably be confused and possibly at a high risk for suicide.
Where do I fit in on that? At birth, my physical sex wasn't totally male, my gender is definitely on the female side of neutral but not extremely feminine and somewhat dynamic, my sexual preference is bi although life experience has pushed me less into liking males but that nature is still there, my brain maps my body as definitely female and I have a tendency to rebel against the social hive mind.
I totally agree, I'm also a ts and a lesbian. I'm in a long term relationship with one woman; she and I are at the beginning of a relationship with yet another woman. Why is it that some guys insist on belittling intelligent and assertive women? The main reason why there aren't as many woman in the computer and electronics field as men is because people in the education system do what they can to prevent women from choosing those fields. Thankfully things are changing but not fast enough.
If they start putting it on customer bottles, how long before the postal system uses RFID scanners to gather information and sell the information? Couldn't this be considered a breach of privacy between the pharmacy and patient?
What about increased erosion? Erosion is a big problem for many coastal areas. Also should some of the largest coastal ice sheets in antarctica break loose; we would be looking at higher ocean levels and flooding out of coastal lands and islands around the world. That would displace a good amount of the world's population and wipe out many species that depend on salt-water marsh areas.
I would love to winter over there but I doubt they'd need a help desk tech. I wish I'd been in the right state of mind to get a science degree years ago. Of course I could always become a chef. I can make some hot foods that would seriously set people on fire. Habanero salsa anyone? - Andrea
That was one thing that made the 8 bit computers and also Amigas so good was the openess of the hardware designs. I remember combing through hardware books to look for points in the systems to play with or alter. There isn't any reason why hardware should be closed unless it's a security product. I think this would bring about a new computer revolution starting in the open source community.
Yea, your right, in that case it would have been cool. It could have proceded the seperation of the upper and lower sections then their breakup into smaller sections of debris. Of course it would have blown out the planet cracking weapon emitter too.
The one thing that bugs me the most about the digital enhancements to Episode IV is the Alderaan and Death Star explosions. That damn ring effect bugs me to no end. If they wanted to show a more realisitic effect, they should have shown both the planet and Death Star fracturing along natural weak points in the structure and whole chunks of them being blown away from the exploding mass.
You should find a way to suggest this idea to the show's creator/writers. It'd make for an amusing episode to it reconfigure or even not reconfigure and everyone is totally confused and can't find their way around. lol
My question is how would it's error rate compare to texts compiled by historians? History books contain many errors. I'm sure encyclopedias do too.
In the history books, two of the biggest errors is that Columbus discovered America and that everyone thought the world was flat before Columbus's arrival in the Americas.
The sad thing is that many of those texts contain intentional errors. History is written by the victors and screwed up by the politicians.
I for one wouldn't want to have it out there on a public IP (IPv4 or IPv6). That is something you place behind a NAT router and then have your public box act as a relay to and from your protected devices such as the environmental controls, fridge, etc. Of course you would need good security on your public box, preferably with a rolling password token on your PDA, somewhat like the RSA SecurID system but as software on a PDA/phone.
Screwing up a classic superhero like that is just wrong!!! Why can't they invent their own superheros.
Thankfully, some of us skipped using MS-DOS and early versions of Windows as our main operating systems. I'm glad I took the Commodore 8bit and Amiga path in my early computer years.
What I'd like to know is who the a__hole was that decided to use the \ as a directory separator in MS-DOS, which was passed along to Winblows.
I wonder what effect the blockers would have on the human body in zero gravity.
Wouldn't copies of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy be more appropriate?
I'm glad I'm not the only one that's thought of building a ORAC computer mod. My Amiga on my LAN has been called Orac for years. I also named my wintel box Gambit, my gf's box Zen and our extra computer Slave. :)
I just they'd enable a user to select IE style favorite handling (in .lnk files) if a user wanted it. I prefer the way IE handles favorites.
Imagine Scotty popping in to help them whip their ship in shape. They'd be doing warp 10 in no time.
Sounds like your modem got swapped with someone else by the installer monkey. I've seen that happen quite a few times. When I was working support, I don't know how many times I'd pulled up a customer's account up and see a different MAC, then pull up by MAC and see a different customer. The really funny thing is, all the other phone tech's missed it. I guess that is why I made it to mentor status so quick.
You'd be suprised how many times I had this one tech call me and go into a long story about some email issue. My response was "Have you done a modem check to see if their online?", having already pulled up the customer and checked the modem while the tech was yapping. That guy never learned to see if their online first. lol
Tricorders were envisioned at a time before technology started converging. PDAs are more like a merger of Tricorders and Datapads. Add cell functions and it adds a communicator the mix. What would make PDAs more Tricorder like is using external sensors that have BlueTooth connectivity. Even on TNG they had Tricorders with specialized medical remotes. PDAs have the potential of being a far more flexible device than Tricorders ever would be.
How about Slashdot getting the funding to create a Slashdot TV channel and hire the fired Tech TV staff. ;)
They should have included some kind of wiper to brush the dust off from time to time.
Yet another reason for me to not do business with them, not that I would anyway because of the way they did me about my name change years ago when I was on their dialup.