It's a personal project in the sense that it's self-directed. It's not some PHB saying "code this", but you doing *whatever the hell you want.* It's not personal in the sense that you own it.
When I started school, I didn't know what I wanted to take either. At Ohio State, they had a program for people just like me. I wound up majoring in Anthropology and Religious Studies.
I also did a lot of travelling. For my Spanish language credit, I spent 10 weeks in Quito, Ecuador in a Spanish immersion program through OSU. The next summer I spent 10 weeks in the Ecuadorian rain forest with a Quichua family through Arizona State.
In the meantime I visited friends in other cities and traveled around Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany with my brother.
Seriously, you will never have more money, time, or freedom than your college years. You can get loans from the government -- do so. This will be the cheapest money you ever encounter. Right now my loan rate is locked in around 3.25 %. There are programs through the school where you can study abroad. There a programs through travel agencies that will give student discounts. In fact, an undergrad program is the best way to travel.
I don't buy the idea that infection and immune system 'technologies' are linear. I think probably we are immune to what's going around *now*. The buggers may have met their match 70 million years ago, but that doesn't mean that our white blood cells are carrying around a foil for every trick their ancestors ever encountered.
Probably the most it would do is harm modern birds, which are descendants of T-Rex.
Addiction, sex, cloning, and climate change?! This guy has a lot of personal issues! I guess nerds are still members of the human race. For all the idealists commited to science, they are still subject to the same frailties of any other ordinary person.
Have you bought anything with your credit card at the post office? At least at the ones I've been to, unless you have something that looks like a signature (not blank or "Please ID"), they won't take it. On one card I had "Please ID" in thick magic marker, along with a blue Bic pen signature. The cashier almost gave it back to me until she noticed there was also a signature there.
OK, I've downloaded and watched the videos. I don't see any researchers 'interrogating bateria one by one'. It looks more like they are electromagnetically attracted to a conductive pathway.
You are right. The only way MS will lose the browser monopoly is if they lose their desktop monopoly, or another browser offers some new killer app that MS doesn't.
The only thing that can get MS to change their browser is website developers. If they design CSS2 compliant websites that break IE, MS will fix it.
Bet let's get real: MS still controls over 90% of the browser market. Web developers will develop sites that function more or less identically in IE, FF, NS, etc. CSS will not break MS' monopoly on web browsers.
My point is not that getting a death sentence from a doctor (modern or otherwise) will kill you, or that being an outcast will kill you, but that there are certain situations where a person dies and the best explanation seems to be a socially defined stigma that ruined their health to the point of fatality.
True, people get cancer, but that isn't a stigmatized disease like AIDS was aruond 1985. In the cases where AIDS patients died, the doctors report could find no cause of death *despite having AIDS*. These people died within days of *diagnosis*, with **no progression of symptoms**. That's not the normal course of death for an AIDS patient. The best explanation was the shock and stigmatization -- how will I tell my family, who did I get it from, who did I give it to, how long do I have to live You have no problem believing A, B and C, but you're not a doctor and you obviously haven't reviewed these cases.
Starvation really does take a while to kill. A while as in weeks. People evolved in a situation where food is scarce, so if you died in 2-3 days without food, we weoudn't be here today. Your body can live off of your own muscles for quite a while, and hunter gatherers have plenty of muscle.
People go on fasts and hunger strikes for weeks all the time. Wikipediapegs 'prolonged' starvation at 1-2 months. The point is that there is some psychosomatic something that is killing these people.
It's a similar situation to when the AIDS epidemic first hit -- a few people diagnosed with it simply lingered and died in the hospital -- of course there were the diseases they suffered because of AIDS, but medically speaking, they shouldn't have died from them. The people essentially recieved a death sentence from our modern day medicine man, a disease highly stigmatized, which would make them an outcast. They sort of willed themselves to death.
In any case, you're not an outcast. Nerds have a home to live in, right? A school that the government forced you to go to? Teachers that demanded work from you? If you go to the store, the clerk will say 'hi' and ring you up? You're definitely not invisible.
"There were some actual anthropology studies on that topic, after the media had done their sensationalist bullshit number of showing it all as either para-normal or psycho-somatic. Invariably the actual studies never found any evidence of anything being purely psycho-somatic there. Just plain old murder and propaganda."
I would be interested to see how the studies were conducted. My guess is that it's just one anthropologist's (and informant's) word against another's. I find it unlikely that an anthropologist would get permission to do an autopsy (if facilities were available) to check for internal organ damage, and I doubt you would get a straight story from a shaman. I think some family member would have to conspire with the shaman to put the stuff in the food, and then who is going to confess to conspiracy to commit murder? In any case, I know that food poisoning is not the case in bone pointing, because the victim doesn't eat. No one gives him food, no one prepares him food, and he doesn't feed himself. He just dies within days (faster than he would from starvation).
I think the placebo effect is because of our evolution as a social animal. People live in a group, and a healthy person receives attention. If you aren't getting attention, your health suffers. If a doctor is treating you, that means that someone values you enough to keep you alive, and your health will improve because of some psychosomatic recognition of your standing in the community.
It's like the opposite of 'bone-pointing'. In some aboriginal cultures, a medicine man could kill people just by pointing some bone or small object. People would really die if they got bone pointed -- not only because they believed that death was certain, but also because everyone else in the community treated them as a walking corpse. No food, no conversation, no medicine. An invisible.
If you're interested in either of these fields, they will give you an advantage for certain types of work.
With a linguistics background, you will be able to make computers parse and analysis human speech, which will become increasingly important in the future. Think google and search engine capability. This could also lead into AI.
With GIS, you can get a job doing mapping, which is an increasing market for GIS devices, navigations, logistics, and military applications.
I'm no expert in film, but I'm wondering if there's a more robust way to digitize film. Depending on how large the color crystals are, I don't think it would be too hard to plot each crystal's location. You could either plot the center, or try to draw the geometric shape of the grain using shape ananlysis algorithms. It's that's too much data for now, just wait a few years for storage process to drop;)
A bonus of this technique is that it would allow for near-perfect analogue re-creation of the original film by plotting grains for exposure on new film. If you want to get really fancy, you can look at the arrangement of the crystals, try to reverse-engineer the light as it struck the film, and virtually re-expose the image by plotting a new grain map on film.
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Will google design the search engine that comes after it? Will it give us the search criteria, instead of the results?
It's a personal project in the sense that it's self-directed. It's not some PHB saying "code this", but you doing *whatever the hell you want.* It's not personal in the sense that you own it.
I also did a lot of travelling. For my Spanish language credit, I spent 10 weeks in Quito, Ecuador in a Spanish immersion program through OSU. The next summer I spent 10 weeks in the Ecuadorian rain forest with a Quichua family through Arizona State.
In the meantime I visited friends in other cities and traveled around Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany with my brother.
Seriously, you will never have more money, time, or freedom than your college years. You can get loans from the government -- do so. This will be the cheapest money you ever encounter. Right now my loan rate is locked in around 3.25 %. There are programs through the school where you can study abroad. There a programs through travel agencies that will give student discounts. In fact, an undergrad program is the best way to travel.
Probably the most it would do is harm modern birds, which are descendants of T-Rex.
I believe this is called 'enlightenment' ;)
24 foot long man-eating pythons, head hunters, giant lesbian women...
Addiction, sex, cloning, and climate change?! This guy has a lot of personal issues! I guess nerds are still members of the human race. For all the idealists commited to science, they are still subject to the same frailties of any other ordinary person.
I prefer instead a rap battle.
13 computer years? That's like 112 human years. That is a long time!
Have you bought anything with your credit card at the post office? At least at the ones I've been to, unless you have something that looks like a signature (not blank or "Please ID"), they won't take it. On one card I had "Please ID" in thick magic marker, along with a blue Bic pen signature. The cashier almost gave it back to me until she noticed there was also a signature there.
OK, I've downloaded and watched the videos. I don't see any researchers 'interrogating bateria one by one'. It looks more like they are electromagnetically attracted to a conductive pathway.
You are right. The only way MS will lose the browser monopoly is if they lose their desktop monopoly, or another browser offers some new killer app that MS doesn't.
Bet let's get real: MS still controls over 90% of the browser market. Web developers will develop sites that function more or less identically in IE, FF, NS, etc. CSS will not break MS' monopoly on web browsers.
True, people get cancer, but that isn't a stigmatized disease like AIDS was aruond 1985. In the cases where AIDS patients died, the doctors report could find no cause of death *despite having AIDS*. These people died within days of *diagnosis*, with **no progression of symptoms**. That's not the normal course of death for an AIDS patient. The best explanation was the shock and stigmatization -- how will I tell my family, who did I get it from, who did I give it to, how long do I have to live You have no problem believing A, B and C, but you're not a doctor and you obviously haven't reviewed these cases.
It's a similar situation to when the AIDS epidemic first hit -- a few people diagnosed with it simply lingered and died in the hospital -- of course there were the diseases they suffered because of AIDS, but medically speaking, they shouldn't have died from them. The people essentially recieved a death sentence from our modern day medicine man, a disease highly stigmatized, which would make them an outcast. They sort of willed themselves to death.
In any case, you're not an outcast. Nerds have a home to live in, right? A school that the government forced you to go to? Teachers that demanded work from you? If you go to the store, the clerk will say 'hi' and ring you up? You're definitely not invisible.
I would be interested to see how the studies were conducted. My guess is that it's just one anthropologist's (and informant's) word against another's. I find it unlikely that an anthropologist would get permission to do an autopsy (if facilities were available) to check for internal organ damage, and I doubt you would get a straight story from a shaman. I think some family member would have to conspire with the shaman to put the stuff in the food, and then who is going to confess to conspiracy to commit murder? In any case, I know that food poisoning is not the case in bone pointing, because the victim doesn't eat. No one gives him food, no one prepares him food, and he doesn't feed himself. He just dies within days (faster than he would from starvation).
You would perfer a dictatorship maybe?
It's like the opposite of 'bone-pointing'. In some aboriginal cultures, a medicine man could kill people just by pointing some bone or small object. People would really die if they got bone pointed -- not only because they believed that death was certain, but also because everyone else in the community treated them as a walking corpse. No food, no conversation, no medicine. An invisible.
This is a great idea. Sometimes I imagine my ideal house, and the kitchen table would have a garbage receptacle right in the middle.
With a linguistics background, you will be able to make computers parse and analysis human speech, which will become increasingly important in the future. Think google and search engine capability. This could also lead into AI.
With GIS, you can get a job doing mapping, which is an increasing market for GIS devices, navigations, logistics, and military applications.
Hm. Now it's fixed.
Does anyone else see that on the main slashdot page, the headline reads "Can Sci-Fi Fab..." while the readmore says "Can Sci-Fi Fans..."?
A bonus of this technique is that it would allow for near-perfect analogue re-creation of the original film by plotting grains for exposure on new film. If you want to get really fancy, you can look at the arrangement of the crystals, try to reverse-engineer the light as it struck the film, and virtually re-expose the image by plotting a new grain map on film.
Would this work?
Here, I think, is the best set up for the experiment -- pass the light through a single slit first to make the results more obvious or something.
Seriously, is Pentium IV any sillier than Pentium II or III?