There actually was a mystery solving game out. My sister and I played it. It happened in some museum featuring egyptian artifacts. You'd find clues (by examining things in the rooms, people would be murdered, and you'd have to find out how to get away from the murderer as well.
For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the game.
Macross was boyish? I certainly didn't think so. And I had to run out and get the music instantly from Macross Plus. I would think Akira was more boyish (not many girls out there like to see lots of gore, though this was the first anime I saw ).
Sailor Moon is trying to hit the *very* young girl population.
But honestly, I've never noticed one particular anime aimed toward one sex or another unless it was the ones with large bouncing spheres aimed at guys (though I do like Sorcerer Hunters also)
They completely stop the heart of anyone who's getting bypass surgery. A little hard to work on something that's not only a moving target, but squirting at you when you attempt to connect the bypass if it were still beating.
Then obviously you haven't been following medical technology.
Surgeons have been performing surgery remotely! Through a computer!
Hell, I even helped develop a virtual laparoscopic surgical simulator (3d spacial recognition and other goodies). Know where surgeons currently learn? On live patients. Wouldn't you rather have a surgeon who's gone a couple rounds with a simulator rather than someone who has no experience?
While you and several others brought up the relavant point that there *is* (and *must* be) hands on training in medical school, you seem to have fallen into the tv trap:
ER the tv show is NOT representative of an actual ER. How do I know this? First off, it's tv = sensationalism/drama/keep viewers interested. Second, I've done a fair amount of volunteering in hospitals (on my way to getting into medical school).
If you take a look at the MSAR(Medical school admissions requirements book: the bible for applicants) you can read the 4 yr curriculum of any medical school.
But it starts to get scary if you get sick in China, and the doctors ask which brand of harddrive you want installed in place of your appendix.
What was scary is that I stayed in a 5 star hotel, went to their "on-site" doctor, and he swabbed iodine over a bite that had been infected on my leg (andwas swollen 6 inches across) and thought that would take care of it. Fortunately, the tour guide took me to a "hospital" where the doctor there gave me antibacterial drugs to fight the infection.
Interestingly enough to keep this on topic: you know that the chinese word for computer translates to "electric brain," right? (dian nao) I wonder what the internals are called..
Or what about a situation where the material is available for check out at a library? You could continue to check out the work over an incredibly long amount of time (until someone else specifically requested it on hold) OR you could illegally copy it and allow someone else the advantage of immediate access.
I became quickly tired of all the overplayed songs on the radio. I used to listen to this really great discussion radio host but he was kicked off the air for discussing "controversial" topics. Anything the news station played, I had read on the net at least the day before (except for the 9/11 surprise).
A while ago, I started playing Cantonese learning cds on my way home. One thing about them is that they are meant as a supplimental to a book, so it goes by rather quickly. I find myself still on the third chapter (YOU try digesting a chapter's worth of information where they give you some vocabulary.. not the complete vocabulary.. nor any of the grammar.. and then shove 20 conversations at you... remember, this is a tonal language where you have to hear the tone as well).
Now, I have a rather sedate drive home: reverse commute and mostly a straight away. I once played the cd while in heavy traffic (not stop and go, but one you have to accelerate and decelerate a lot) and I just wasn't taking any of it in.
So if you have time to concentrate, then learning a language during the drive is great. If you have to keep your eyes glued to the road, you probably are better off listening to something that you can stop paying attention to now and then.
Probably the composers. A friend of mine wrote a piano piece about blue and it really did feel like blue to me (I play several musical instruments).
People have colors to me, but how is that to be distinguished from what many people call auras? And the color impressions are the same there as well: individual and meaning the most to the person who actually see them.
Lots of visuals have sound (as opposed to sound having color.. but I hear that too as mentioned earlier) but how is that distinguished from other things we associate with an object? Could be just projection.
I think that musicians are just more in tune with associations as opposed to having a different wiring.
a) The phone company (pacbell) would not give me DSL without a land line.
b) Land line minutes are cheaper than cell minutes.
question: are political pre-recorded messages illegal to be sent on cell lines? I got one in the past week from 744-696-3011 claiming to be from W. Bush.
People who owned the slaves weren't massive corporations with BILLIONS of dollars in money to write off for lawyers.
If you think that a law like this can be changed through anything other than civil disobediance, then obviously you don't see the capitalism of the US government.
By decrying that what you see is a bad law, you are voicing your opinion, but a voice isn't going to change this compared to campain contribution funds. If discussion changed things, millions of things should already be changed just through the slashdot crowd, but maybe that's already preaching to the choir.
Obviously we could not have expected an honest answer, especially with who runs slashdot and how they didn't even post about the RIAA website being hacked. Do *you* trust your identity to be safe? The best thing would be a post from an AC stating that if he was the interviewee, then this is what his answer would have been:...
My SO had his entire account shut down because he had a back-up file for irc stored in his account. They accused him of *running* irc on their servers which was blatantly false. This happened within the last two weeks.
But are you saying terrorism is OK, after a 10 month waiting period? You distrust anyone with an attention span that long?
I object to someone who uses terrorism as a platform when "terrorism" isn't something that can be defined nor prepared against (more than is already occuring). You can't have a "war on terror;" you can have a war against people who commit terror, but not on something insubstantially defined.
I dislike the fact that she appears to be *stuck* on the thought as are many politicians. Sure, terrorism isn't good, but it isn't really something that can be fought back against effectively with more war, more incorrect profiling, and more restrictions as to what we are allowed to say, do, or have.
From:"Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren" To: <luthien3 AT juno DOT com> Subject:Response from Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren Date:Tue, 30 Jul 2002 09:52:54 -0400 July 19, 2002 Mr. L. Williams <I'm female, damnit! Guess she hasn't read LOTR and heard about the female character LUTHIEN!> <Address removed to protect me!> San Jose, CA Dear Mr. Williams:
Thank you for your email expressing your concerns about Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002, H.R. 3482. I appreciate the chance to hear from you about this legislation, which passed the House on July 15 and has been sent to the Senate.
As a member of the House Judiciary Committee that marked up this bill in May, I can assure that the Committee took care to ensure that civil liberties are protected in this legislation. At our hearing on the bill, Alan Davidson, Associate Director at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a Washington non-profit seeking to protect civil liberties on the Internet testified that his organization, "commends this Committee for holding this hearing, and for the relatively measured approach taken in H.R. 3482. We agree that computer crime and security is a serious problem that requires serious Government response."
Regarding your concerns about Section 108, I would note that this section in no way changes the limitations under current law on the emergency use of pen registers and trap and trace devises. A Government official can only authorize emergency use of a "pen/trap" if there are grounds upon which a court could enter such a pen/trap order, and only then for 48 hours, after which time continued surveillance is illegal. Please also note that H.R. 3482 does not expand use of full-content wiretaps, which are far more invasive that pen/traps. These more limited devices provide information about the destination and source of information, but not its content.
As we enhance cyber security to protect our vital infrastructure against both terrorists and the type of high-tech vandals who crashed Yahoo in February 2000, I agree with you that civil liberties must be protected. Please do not hesitate to contact me again with your concerns, as I can benefit from hearing your views.
Sincerely,
Zoe Lofgren Member of Congress
ZL:ad
<I've since looked at her webpage and she has more information but seems to have "omitted" that she was responsible for being on the committee to help push this bill through. Now the congressman I *really* like is Mike Honda who had good explanations on his webpage such as this statement on why god shouldn't be in the pledge and why he voted against it: http://www.house.gov/honda/InCongress/pledge. html >
Do some research on her. She appears really clueless about what she pushes. Don't take my word for it: look up the info yourself and write to her. Check out her website.
Again, it is not likely this is going to get through: "Lawmakers are wrapping up their business for the year within weeks, and neither measure has any chance of making it through Congress by then."
If you read the article, it says that it's not going to get through because congress is wrapping up its work for the year in the week.
I see this as something to push Zoe Loftgren's ratings higher. She is my congresswoman and was a full supporter of Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002, H.R. 3482. I wrote to her about this and not only did she get my gender wrong (I'm female), but she also wrote, "I would note that this section in no way changes the limitations under current law on the emergency use..." which was a blatant and utter lie... or she was very mis-informed.
She took over a month responding to my email and her web-page was far less than impressive (unlike the congressional leader one district away who voted against keeping "god" in the pledge of allegiance.. I can't dig up who it is right now). She's also scared by terrorism noting it first in the following closing sentence,"As we enhance cyber security to protect our vital infrastructure against both terrorists and the type of high-tech vandals who crashed Yahoo in February 2000..." and anyone who was still bothered by "terrorism" at the end of July of this year definitely is being pushed by an agenda or is pushing her own.
I'd publish the entire email she sent to me but there was recent discussion on slashdot about publishing correspondances that has me hesitating.
Mod this AC down. Obviously s/he isn't expecting someone to read the press release closely enough. There are SEVERAL studies out there that say DB2 outperforms Oracle in the mainframe business. Just noting that they were running Win2k OS should be a warning sign. Not to mention that DB2 DID beat Oracle in one of their graph charts.
Last I heard from Oracle, they were still advertising "Unbreakable" which was a blatant and utter lie.
DB2 is on several platforms. At least make comparisons in all the fighting rings.
My first BS, however, was Chemistry and the second Math.
* Do it if it takes you a year or less. 2 degrees in 5 years looks more impressive than 1 degree in 4. * Do it if it raises your gpa. GPA is not everything, but it is definitely BIG. More so when it stands out (either too low or very high). * Do it because it's easier to stay as a 6th year senior in college than trying to get back in for a second degree. You will have a harder and longer time getting a second degree once you have been shoved out the door with your first. However, you can always have a Post-Bacc gpa which often counts higher than your undergrad. * Do it if you enjoy that subject. You should take what you enjoy in college, not what you have to. * Do it for the diversity on your application. On this, however, most companies are stupid in that they overlook math majors in favor of the generic CS but I'm employed (currently) so it isn't all bad.
Again, people need ot talk about their work/home conditions. I've reduced a jade plant to a small percentage of its original leaves due to sliver of sunlight conditions. This was a residence in Washington with nice humid conditions and home lighting when the sliver of sunlight was not present.
Everyone's conditions are different and those used in books may not match your workplace environment (which are usually colder and dryer than most houses).
Chinese Evergreen will NOT last on a sliver of light. Low light, yes, but under house equivalent lights it will die.
Plants are also sensitive to toxins (even if they do clean the air) so you might want to be concerned about how much fabricated furniture (and associated fabrication fumes/resins/etc) will be slowly suffocating your plant.
Slashdot Mirror
There actually was a mystery solving game out. My sister and I played it. It happened in some museum featuring egyptian artifacts. You'd find clues (by examining things in the rooms, people would be murdered, and you'd have to find out how to get away from the murderer as well.
For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the game.
Macross was boyish? I certainly didn't think so. And I had to run out and get the music instantly from Macross Plus. I would think Akira was more boyish (not many girls out there like to see lots of gore, though this was the first anime I saw ).
Sailor Moon is trying to hit the *very* young girl population.
But honestly, I've never noticed one particular anime aimed toward one sex or another unless it was the ones with large bouncing spheres aimed at guys (though I do like Sorcerer Hunters also)
They completely stop the heart of anyone who's getting bypass surgery. A little hard to work on something that's not only a moving target, but squirting at you when you attempt to connect the bypass if it were still beating.
Then obviously you haven't been following medical technology.
Surgeons have been performing surgery remotely! Through a computer!
Hell, I even helped develop a virtual laparoscopic surgical simulator (3d spacial recognition and other goodies). Know where surgeons currently learn? On live patients. Wouldn't you rather have a surgeon who's gone a couple rounds with a simulator rather than someone who has no experience?
While you and several others brought up the relavant point that there *is* (and *must* be) hands on training in medical school, you seem to have fallen into the tv trap:
ER the tv show is NOT representative of an actual ER. How do I know this? First off, it's tv = sensationalism/drama/keep viewers interested. Second, I've done a fair amount of volunteering in hospitals (on my way to getting into medical school).
If you take a look at the MSAR(Medical school admissions requirements book: the bible for applicants) you can read the 4 yr curriculum of any medical school.
But it starts to get scary if you get sick in China, and the doctors ask which brand of harddrive you want installed in place of your appendix.
What was scary is that I stayed in a 5 star hotel, went to their "on-site" doctor, and he swabbed iodine over a bite that had been infected on my leg (andwas swollen 6 inches across) and thought that would take care of it. Fortunately, the tour guide took me to a "hospital" where the doctor there gave me antibacterial drugs to fight the infection.
Interestingly enough to keep this on topic: you know that the chinese word for computer translates to "electric brain," right? (dian nao) I wonder what the internals are called..
Or what about a situation where the material is available for check out at a library? You could continue to check out the work over an incredibly long amount of time (until someone else specifically requested it on hold) OR you could illegally copy it and allow someone else the advantage of immediate access.
It really depends on your drive.
I became quickly tired of all the overplayed songs on the radio. I used to listen to this really great discussion radio host but he was kicked off the air for discussing "controversial" topics. Anything the news station played, I had read on the net at least the day before (except for the 9/11 surprise).
A while ago, I started playing Cantonese learning cds on my way home. One thing about them is that they are meant as a supplimental to a book, so it goes by rather quickly. I find myself still on the third chapter (YOU try digesting a chapter's worth of information where they give you some vocabulary.. not the complete vocabulary.. nor any of the grammar.. and then shove 20 conversations at you... remember, this is a tonal language where you have to hear the tone as well).
Now, I have a rather sedate drive home: reverse commute and mostly a straight away. I once played the cd while in heavy traffic (not stop and go, but one you have to accelerate and decelerate a lot) and I just wasn't taking any of it in.
So if you have time to concentrate, then learning a language during the drive is great. If you have to keep your eyes glued to the road, you probably are better off listening to something that you can stop paying attention to now and then.
Probably the composers. A friend of mine wrote a piano piece about blue and it really did feel like blue to me (I play several musical instruments).
People have colors to me, but how is that to be distinguished from what many people call auras? And the color impressions are the same there as well: individual and meaning the most to the person who actually see them.
Lots of visuals have sound (as opposed to sound having color.. but I hear that too as mentioned earlier) but how is that distinguished from other things we associate with an object? Could be just projection.
I think that musicians are just more in tune with associations as opposed to having a different wiring.
a) The phone company (pacbell) would not give me DSL without a land line.
b) Land line minutes are cheaper than cell minutes.
question: are political pre-recorded messages illegal to be sent on cell lines? I got one in the past week from 744-696-3011 claiming to be from W. Bush.
People who owned the slaves weren't massive corporations with BILLIONS of dollars in money to write off for lawyers.
If you think that a law like this can be changed through anything other than civil disobediance, then obviously you don't see the capitalism of the US government.
By decrying that what you see is a bad law, you are voicing your opinion, but a voice isn't going to change this compared to campain contribution funds. If discussion changed things, millions of things should already be changed just through the slashdot crowd, but maybe that's already preaching to the choir.
Obviously we could not have expected an honest answer, especially with who runs slashdot and how they didn't even post about the RIAA website being hacked. Do *you* trust your identity to be safe? The best thing would be a post from an AC stating that if he was the interviewee, then this is what his answer would have been:...
My SO had his entire account shut down because he had a back-up file for irc stored in his account. They accused him of *running* irc on their servers which was blatantly false. This happened within the last two weeks.
There was a really good anonymous post on yesterday's article that referred to what she's done in the past:
But are you saying terrorism is OK, after a 10 month waiting period? You distrust anyone with an attention span that long?
I object to someone who uses terrorism as a platform when "terrorism" isn't something that can be defined nor prepared against (more than is already occuring). You can't have a "war on terror;" you can have a war against people who commit terror, but not on something insubstantially defined.
I dislike the fact that she appears to be *stuck* on the thought as are many politicians. Sure, terrorism isn't good, but it isn't really something that can be fought back against effectively with more war, more incorrect profiling, and more restrictions as to what we are allowed to say, do, or have.
From:"Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren"
. html
To: <luthien3 AT juno DOT com>
Subject:Response from Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren
Date:Tue, 30 Jul 2002 09:52:54 -0400
July 19, 2002
Mr. L. Williams <I'm female, damnit! Guess she hasn't read LOTR and heard about the female character LUTHIEN!>
<Address removed to protect me!>
San Jose, CA
Dear Mr. Williams:
Thank you for your email expressing your concerns about Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002, H.R. 3482. I appreciate the chance to hear from you about this legislation, which passed the House on July 15 and has been sent to the Senate.
As a member of the House Judiciary Committee that marked up this bill in May, I can assure that the Committee took care to ensure that civil liberties are protected in this legislation. At our hearing on the bill, Alan Davidson, Associate Director at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a Washington non-profit seeking to protect civil liberties on the Internet testified that his organization, "commends this Committee for holding this hearing, and for the relatively measured approach taken in H.R. 3482. We agree that computer crime and security is a serious problem that requires serious Government response."
Regarding your concerns about Section 108, I would note that this section in no way changes the limitations under current law on the emergency use of pen registers and trap and trace devises. A Government official can only authorize emergency use of a "pen/trap" if there are grounds upon
which a court could enter such a pen/trap order, and only then for 48 hours, after which time continued surveillance is illegal. Please also note that H.R. 3482 does not expand use of full-content wiretaps, which are far more invasive that pen/traps. These more limited devices provide information about the destination and source of information, but not its content.
As we enhance cyber security to protect our vital infrastructure against both terrorists and the type of high-tech vandals who crashed Yahoo in February 2000, I agree with you that civil liberties must be protected. Please do not hesitate to contact me again with your concerns, as I can benefit from hearing your views.
Sincerely,
Zoe Lofgren
Member of Congress
ZL:ad
<I've since looked at her webpage and she has more information but seems to have "omitted" that she was responsible for being on the committee to help push this bill through. Now the congressman I *really* like is Mike Honda who had good explanations on his webpage such as this statement on why god shouldn't be in the pledge and why he voted against it:
http://www.house.gov/honda/InCongress/pledge
>
See my comment posted before this one.
Do some research on her. She appears really clueless about what she pushes. Don't take my word for it: look up the info yourself and write to her. Check out her website.
Again, it is not likely this is going to get through: "Lawmakers are wrapping up their business for the year within weeks, and neither measure has any chance of making it through Congress by then."
If you read the article, it says that it's not going to get through because congress is wrapping up its work for the year in the week.
I see this as something to push Zoe Loftgren's ratings higher. She is my congresswoman and was a full supporter of Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002, H.R. 3482. I wrote to her about this and not only did she get my gender wrong (I'm female), but she also wrote, "I would note that this section in no way changes the limitations under current law on the emergency use..." which was a blatant and utter lie... or she was very mis-informed.
She took over a month responding to my email and her web-page was far less than impressive (unlike the congressional leader one district away who voted against keeping "god" in the pledge of allegiance.. I can't dig up who it is right now).
She's also scared by terrorism noting it first in the following closing sentence,"As we enhance cyber security to protect our vital infrastructure against both terrorists and the type of high-tech vandals who crashed Yahoo in February 2000..." and anyone who was still bothered by "terrorism" at the end of July of this year definitely is being pushed by an agenda or is pushing her own.
I'd publish the entire email she sent to me but there was recent discussion on slashdot about publishing correspondances that has me hesitating.
Mod this AC down. Obviously s/he isn't expecting someone to read the press release closely enough. There are SEVERAL studies out there that say DB2 outperforms Oracle in the mainframe business. Just noting that they were running Win2k OS should be a warning sign. Not to mention that DB2 DID beat Oracle in one of their graph charts.
Last I heard from Oracle, they were still advertising "Unbreakable" which was a blatant and utter lie.
DB2 is on several platforms. At least make comparisons in all the fighting rings.
My first BS, however, was Chemistry and the second Math.
* Do it if it takes you a year or less. 2 degrees in 5 years looks more impressive than 1 degree in 4.
* Do it if it raises your gpa. GPA is not everything, but it is definitely BIG. More so when it stands out (either too low or very high).
* Do it because it's easier to stay as a 6th year senior in college than trying to get back in for a second degree. You will have a harder and longer time getting a second degree once you have been shoved out the door with your first. However, you can always have a Post-Bacc gpa which often counts higher than your undergrad.
* Do it if you enjoy that subject. You should take what you enjoy in college, not what you have to.
* Do it for the diversity on your application. On this, however, most companies are stupid in that they overlook math majors in favor of the generic CS but I'm employed (currently) so it isn't all bad.
Again, people need ot talk about their work/home conditions. I've reduced a jade plant to a small percentage of its original leaves due to sliver of sunlight conditions. This was a residence in Washington with nice humid conditions and home lighting when the sliver of sunlight was not present.
Everyone's conditions are different and those used in books may not match your workplace environment (which are usually colder and dryer than most houses). Chinese Evergreen will NOT last on a sliver of light. Low light, yes, but under house equivalent lights it will die. Plants are also sensitive to toxins (even if they do clean the air) so you might want to be concerned about how much fabricated furniture (and associated fabrication fumes/resins/etc) will be slowly suffocating your plant.
Granted, Silicon Valley is a fairly humid area...
Which Silicon Valley are you talking about? Unless you're incredibly close to the water, you're in the desert.
It's called Dance Maniax and is from the same people that brought you DDR. It really hurts when they put the machine too close to a wall.