Larium is a serious mind-altering drug. I was in a Spanish immersion class in Quito, Ecuador, for my university degree. We were recommended to take Lariam before we left to get blood levels in our system. It prevents malaria. (It turns out we didn't really need it. Never got bit once while I was there, even in the jungle.)
Anyway, malaria gives you nightmares. Serious, terrifying nightmares. Everyone who was in our group reported having dreams about dead people. It also gave me weird lucid dreams -- after a few weeks, at one point in a dream I asked a character, "Is this one of those crazy Lariam dreams?" and he said, "Yes, this is a lariam dream."
Anywho, a girl who was on the program the year before us would wake up screaming in bed, sweating. They were ready to ship her home before they thought it might be the Lariam and took her off of it.
I think you can gain a glimpse into the reality of the schizophrenic by watching certain movies like the Matrix, 12 Monkeys, Donnie Darko, Brazil, Total Recall, and some others that I can't think of at the moment.
I believe these movies were written by people who are either schizophrenic or at least borderline (Terry Gilliam and Phillip K. Dick come to mind). They show you what it's like more than a movie like A Beautiful Mind.
Take the Matrix as our model. The hero believes that he has figured out that normal reality isn't really real, but there is another reality that is the actual one. The hero can percieve this actual reality. The fake reality is controlled by an evil conspiratorial organization who has everyone fooled with mind control techniques. They have henchmen (agents) who are out to get the hero. The hero concludes that he will have to defend himself violently, sooner or later. Sadly many schizophrenics often kill themselves and others because they are wrapped up in this fantasy world.
So, if your loved one shows signs of diconnecting from you or their normal life, make sure they are taking their medication! They are getting wrapped up in their fantasy. They may think that you are with Them. It sucks, but tough it out. Follow up on them. Make sure they have no guns, no means of getting them, etc.
I read the interview, R.I.P. At the beginning, Tanenbaum mentions Brown's reluctance to divulge information about his project, and his general lack of preparedness.
If you believe it is, fine. However, you disagree with the American justice system, and a long tradition of anglo-saxon jurisprudence. Theft is depriving someone of something. If you copy someone's song when you have no right to do so, they still have their song. What you've done is infringe on their rights to copies of that song.
"One English teacher could readily tell which of her students essays were conceived on a computer. "They don't link ideas," the teacher said. "They just write one thing, and then they write another one, and they don't seem to see or develop the relationships between them."
I've gotten this crap from writing teachers since high school. They always complain, giving you vague critiques such as "you don't link these ideas" or "these ideas aren't developed enough". Then when you ask them specifically how to 'better develop' these ideas, they can't give you an answer. Usually they show you an example of 'good' writing, or give you more vague, useless advise. If there is a method, no one yet has explicitly verbalised it, in my short academic career. You either have it, or you don't. If you don't, ol' teach can't help you.
So now we have an opportunity. Longhorn is supposed to be packed with great new features such as WinFS, C# and.net. Are we just going to copy them, or come up with some new personal computing paradigms? If so, what would they be?
What's stopping MS from doing the work and submitting it to the mozilla team? Or even forking the project? Why should the mozilla team go out of its way to incorporate these great new technologies?
If you look at the still shot of the skin, it looks pretty good, compared to what we've had before. Here's what we're missing:
Internal skin structure. Now that you can cast light on skin correctly, you have to model the layers of the skin, the blood vessels, the fat, etc.
Skin motion. The models in Final Fantasy movie looked good in the still images, but they moved like robots. The skin did not fold and wrinkle naturally.
Natural motion. The figures also have to move well, too. The best effects are done with motion capture.
They cheated. The guy was in the library before they stareted timing. They didn't include travel time to the library.
Of course, you could argue that a google search should also include travel time to the internet-connected computer, but I think computers are a bit better distributed than libraries.
Yes, it is true. We can't exist without polluting. However, I'm willing to bet, without doing the calaulations, that the pollution you personally generate by querying google is much less than what you generate browsing slashdot on your home computer.
"Now, maybe I'm just being an old fuddy-duddy, but it seems to me you can't land on Hispaniola and get away with calling it India for very long, no matter how exotic it looks."
I'm certain that they get it. The thing is, they have to trash-talk it in front of their customers, their employees, and also to themselves.
It's the job of a salesperson. If they were being totally honest, they would say "yes, sometimes linux beats us. Here's scenarios where you should go with linux." But as company men, they have to be total cheerleaders. "MS Rocks! Linux Sucks! You company will go bankrupt and you will lose your wife and kids of you buy linux!" It's Orwellian and cult-like, but that's what the corporate world is like today.
I actually partially agree with my fellow Steve here. There is no central body, or center of gravity, and that's a good thing. That's how linux got from wristwatches to outer space. Just because there is no central body investing in "engineering, manageability, compatibility and security" doesn't mean that linux has failed in any of those areas. In fact, it has certainly outshone MS.
Re:Logic, Logic -- Who's Got the Logic?
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This is using a socio-linguistic logic, which, surprisingly, many geeks are unfamiliar with. One of the 'rules' of conversation is that statements offer new information. The author is showing the audience that he knows that some already may know the information that he is presenting, and it's not intended for that audience.
Here's a quick hack. Note that people can function more or less normally with their corpus callosum severed -- that's the link between the left and right brain. So, cut the callosum, remove one-half of the brain, and replace with a freshly grown half. Sew patient back up, give them a couple months for re-adjustment. Repeat with next half. Voila! Brand-new brain, installed in two parts.
It's hard to say. You might be the type of person that belongs in a university setting. You have less abusive assholes to deal with there.
Some people go into business and become obnoxious jerks. They think they have to be tough to make it in business. (who knows, maybe you do, but I know enough small-business guys who are moderately successul and aren't 100% asshole). Some bosses hire people just so they can abuse them and take their stress out on them.
You have to look at your situation and figure out what the deal is. Is is short term stress because of a change in the office? A new client? Or is someone in the office a major rod, and they're nopt going to change, ever? If that's the case, leave, but don't leave until you get
a year's time in there
a raise
a certification
a set of projects, or a major project, accomplished
Well, I think that all that the grand-parent is arguing is that quantum cryptography is increased security where we don't need it. One-way traps are good enough, and no-one forsees them being broken. Why do we need quantum-encrypted transactions? The money and effort is better spend developing procedures and technologies to prevent more pressing weaknesses, such as social engineering and insider fraud.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot is dying. Graph of slashdot for the past year.
Anyway, malaria gives you nightmares. Serious, terrifying nightmares. Everyone who was in our group reported having dreams about dead people. It also gave me weird lucid dreams -- after a few weeks, at one point in a dream I asked a character, "Is this one of those crazy Lariam dreams?" and he said, "Yes, this is a lariam dream."
Anywho, a girl who was on the program the year before us would wake up screaming in bed, sweating. They were ready to ship her home before they thought it might be the Lariam and took her off of it.
I believe these movies were written by people who are either schizophrenic or at least borderline (Terry Gilliam and Phillip K. Dick come to mind). They show you what it's like more than a movie like A Beautiful Mind.
Take the Matrix as our model. The hero believes that he has figured out that normal reality isn't really real, but there is another reality that is the actual one. The hero can percieve this actual reality. The fake reality is controlled by an evil conspiratorial organization who has everyone fooled with mind control techniques. They have henchmen (agents) who are out to get the hero. The hero concludes that he will have to defend himself violently, sooner or later. Sadly many schizophrenics often kill themselves and others because they are wrapped up in this fantasy world.
So, if your loved one shows signs of diconnecting from you or their normal life, make sure they are taking their medication! They are getting wrapped up in their fantasy. They may think that you are with Them. It sucks, but tough it out. Follow up on them. Make sure they have no guns, no means of getting them, etc.
Help us, Gennady, you're our only hope.
What about the rest of the interview?
Now maybe IBM can sue SCO for using their business model!
Copyright infringement is not theft.
If you believe it is, fine. However, you disagree with the American justice system, and a long tradition of anglo-saxon jurisprudence. Theft is depriving someone of something. If you copy someone's song when you have no right to do so, they still have their song. What you've done is infringe on their rights to copies of that song.
The [American Civil Liberties Union] Liberties Union.
I've gotten this crap from writing teachers since high school. They always complain, giving you vague critiques such as "you don't link these ideas" or "these ideas aren't developed enough". Then when you ask them specifically how to 'better develop' these ideas, they can't give you an answer. Usually they show you an example of 'good' writing, or give you more vague, useless advise. If there is a method, no one yet has explicitly verbalised it, in my short academic career. You either have it, or you don't. If you don't, ol' teach can't help you.
So now we have an opportunity. Longhorn is supposed to be packed with great new features such as WinFS, C# and .net. Are we just going to copy them, or come up with some new personal computing paradigms? If so, what would they be?
What's stopping MS from doing the work and submitting it to the mozilla team? Or even forking the project? Why should the mozilla team go out of its way to incorporate these great new technologies?
It's spelled (and promounced) Sampo. Learn vowel harmony, you insensitive clod!
Of course, you could argue that a google search should also include travel time to the internet-connected computer, but I think computers are a bit better distributed than libraries.
Yes, it is true. We can't exist without polluting. However, I'm willing to bet, without doing the calaulations, that the pollution you personally generate by querying google is much less than what you generate browsing slashdot on your home computer.
But you can still call them Indians!
It's the job of a salesperson. If they were being totally honest, they would say "yes, sometimes linux beats us. Here's scenarios where you should go with linux." But as company men, they have to be total cheerleaders. "MS Rocks! Linux Sucks! You company will go bankrupt and you will lose your wife and kids of you buy linux!" It's Orwellian and cult-like, but that's what the corporate world is like today.
I actually partially agree with my fellow Steve here. There is no central body, or center of gravity, and that's a good thing . That's how linux got from wristwatches to outer space. Just because there is no central body investing in "engineering, manageability, compatibility and security" doesn't mean that linux has failed in any of those areas. In fact, it has certainly outshone MS.
So, yes, it is logical.
Here's a quick hack. Note that people can function more or less normally with their corpus callosum severed -- that's the link between the left and right brain. So, cut the callosum, remove one-half of the brain, and replace with a freshly grown half. Sew patient back up, give them a couple months for re-adjustment. Repeat with next half. Voila! Brand-new brain, installed in two parts.
Some people go into business and become obnoxious jerks. They think they have to be tough to make it in business. (who knows, maybe you do, but I know enough small-business guys who are moderately successul and aren't 100% asshole). Some bosses hire people just so they can abuse them and take their stress out on them.
You have to look at your situation and figure out what the deal is. Is is short term stress because of a change in the office? A new client? Or is someone in the office a major rod, and they're nopt going to change, ever? If that's the case, leave, but don't leave until you get
I think existing bike pathways, which you will find in a lot of European cities, will easily handle segway traffic.
Actually, they also needed an emulator to run the ancient multimedia program.
Well, I think that all that the grand-parent is arguing is that quantum cryptography is increased security where we don't need it. One-way traps are good enough, and no-one forsees them being broken. Why do we need quantum-encrypted transactions? The money and effort is better spend developing procedures and technologies to prevent more pressing weaknesses, such as social engineering and insider fraud.
Aluminum. Not very strong, but how often do you see it shatter? It just bends.