Since when has it been UnAmerican to be screwed by your employer? Being unable to get work and unable to get access to health care because a corporation's interests come above your own is as American as it gets.
The probability of there being life in the universe isn't infinitesimal. It's 1. And all our questions need to be conditioned on the fact that we know there is life here. The correct question is: given that there is in fact life on Earth is it more likely to have arisen as a result of 'blind' evolution or as a result of the work of a Creator. I don't see the former answer to be lacking in sanity at all.
Rarely seeing space because of the thick clouds. The sky lit up for extended periods with lightning. Every so often the clouds clear and what do you see: a f**king gigantic banded sphere dominating the beyond with beautiful stripy rings sweeping from one side of the sky to the other. Then the clouds close again as more hydrocarbons rain down onto the slowly undulating ocean waves. A slimy tentacle emerges from the sea onto the beach...
...Earth isn't hurtling through space at high speed relative to nearby objects, and certainly don't have a sense that it's orbiting the sun. Thankfully science is informed by more than intuition.
What do you call a lawyer in space w/no suit?
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Exactly. Once things swing too far from optimum people start making movies about how bad it is. That's why the US has a First Amendment (it's not there just to allow the download of pr0n).
I've never gone for the "the earth is a tiny spoeck" point of view. What matters isn't absolute size (no giggles please) but but how important something is. To a parent that little bundle of joy is worth many times more than a volume of space even if it contains 10^11 galaxies each containing 10^11 stars. 'matters' isn't concept that comes from physics and no matter how big the universe turns out to be it takes nothing away from how big the Earth and its inhabitants are in our personal lives. I simply don't measure importance in meters (or even feet).
Yup, I have a 1.33GHz. It cheers me up every time I forget this and someone reminds me that my PB is a few % faster than I thought! I actually have 1.25GB of RAM which is where my error keeps coming from.
BTW I'm getting less than 4 hours out of it on a new battery doing light work - much less playing 3D games (No One Lives Forever works nicely on it and is a great game). I wonder if the RAM is chewing up quite a bit of power.
There are all sorts of problems with this approach. The manufacturers claim that the surface is rewritable but after just one write/erase cycle you're seeing degradation of fidelity. You can't buy a surface with a backlight (though I believe you can get a light attachment for some styli, at many times the price of the original equipment, though with a limited field of illumination). One good thing about this approach is that the data has a long lifetime. If you use a decent quality surface the lifetime is longer than you need to worry about. But connectivity is poor and don't even think about wireless. It's also worth noting that if you want color you need extra equipment, and if you want a wide color gamut this equipment may start getting bulky and incompatible with the erase feature.
One nice thing is that nowadays this approach is quite interoperable with PCs and Macs. Tools to convert to the 3M format have been available for decades and now tools to convert from 3M to a digital format are almost as ubiquitous. On the down side there are some claims that the 3M approach can harm the environment, after all, it does grow on trees. On the other hand a high proportion of discarded equipment can be recovered and processed for reuse.
I was cheated. Cheated I say! At some point I fell through a rift in the spacetime continuum and ended up in this timeline where the future turns out to be as lame as can be with little sign of improvement. Where are the hovercars? Where are the big round space stations? Where are the bases on the moon? Where are the sonic showers? Where are the talking robots? Where's my shiny silver suit? Cheated! Give me back my real timeline!
They'd see when people had voided their warranties or even prevent unauthorized (by Microsoft of course) people opening PCs so as to switch to a non DRM-enabling BIOS.
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...a couple of hours each night.
I'm not overweight (making apnea unlikely), I exercise plenty (I run around 15 miles/week and work out at the gym), I don't use caffeine, my alcohol intake is pretty low and I don't usually suffer from stress (if another doctor tells me I have a stress related illness I will start suffering from stress and probably hit them). And yet I can go months living like a zombie with hardly any sleep. Even worse, the standard drug Ambien (Zolpidem) does nothing for me (in fact, I think it makes my insomnia worse). I tried warm baths, acupuncture, chinese herbs - all had no effect.
I've found one or two things that help. The drug Clonazepam works for me. I found I could take half a pill and get two nights sleep (it stays in the body a long time but I had no problems in the intervening day). I tried to keep the dose low so I wouldn't become tolerant - but after 2 or 3 months it stopped working. Luckily my last bout of insomnia came to an end a week or two after that. Thank God!
Bizarrely, one thing that currently helps me is completely contrary to standard advice not to clockwatch. I wear a watch that lights up in the dark (Casio Illuminator). If I wake up I check the time. The fact is, even if you think you're such a bad insomniac that you can't sleep at all you probably do sleep. When you're expectations are so low that you expect to have zero hours sleep it's actually a pretty pleasant experience to look at your watch, see it says 2am and what seems like a few seconds later look again and see that it now says 3am.
Incidentally, I had a sleep study recently. Let me warn you - these are often a scam. It's a collusion between surgeons who get a nice flow of cash from customers looking for surgery to fix apnea and sketchy companies who provide the surgeons with the justification the insurance company needs. Sleep studies are often run as a franchise like McDonald's. I wish I could remember the name of the company that did mine. They had a web site promoting franchises basically discussing how this business was easy money. The worst thing for me was that my study was 6 hours. I was kicked out of the hospital at 4am to drive home on the freeway. (I thought I had a hospital bed for the night. No. What had actually happened was that the sleep study company had rented the room from the hospital for a fixed number of hours.) The entire environment of my study seemed to be geared to me not sleeping. When I arrived at the ward the TV was on and the administrator of the study left it running while preparing me. I had no down-time between lights on and lights out - I wasn't allowed to read for example (because they only had 6 hours) my usual way to wind down. So be warned. I did actually sleep 30 minutes that night - but that's not really enough for any kind of conclusive results. (I haven't even touched on how ridiculous it is to expect someone to sleep who is that wired up.)
Are you for real? In my experience ordinary people don't say things like 'Many "pop" books regarding sleep, and a number of physicians, have plenty of misconceptions about sleep and sleep problems'. That sounds like advertising copy to me.
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That way nobody can accuse me of carrying secrets with me when I leave. I suggest you all do the same too.
Since when has it been UnAmerican to be screwed by your employer? Being unable to get work and unable to get access to health care because a corporation's interests come above your own is as American as it gets.
The probability of there being life in the universe isn't infinitesimal. It's 1. And all our questions need to be conditioned on the fact that we know there is life here. The correct question is: given that there is in fact life on Earth is it more likely to have arisen as a result of 'blind' evolution or as a result of the work of a Creator. I don't see the former answer to be lacking in sanity at all.
Rarely seeing space because of the thick clouds. The sky lit up for extended periods with lightning. Every so often the clouds clear and what do you see: a f**king gigantic banded sphere dominating the beyond with beautiful stripy rings sweeping from one side of the sky to the other. Then the clouds close again as more hydrocarbons rain down onto the slowly undulating ocean waves. A slimy tentacle emerges from the sea onto the beach...
...Earth isn't hurtling through space at high speed relative to nearby objects, and certainly don't have a sense that it's orbiting the sun. Thankfully science is informed by more than intuition.
A good start!
Exactly. Once things swing too far from optimum people start making movies about how bad it is. That's why the US has a First Amendment (it's not there just to allow the download of pr0n).
We're talking about portable devices here. :-)
I've never gone for the "the earth is a tiny spoeck" point of view. What matters isn't absolute size (no giggles please) but but how important something is. To a parent that little bundle of joy is worth many times more than a volume of space even if it contains 10^11 galaxies each containing 10^11 stars. 'matters' isn't concept that comes from physics and no matter how big the universe turns out to be it takes nothing away from how big the Earth and its inhabitants are in our personal lives. I simply don't measure importance in meters (or even feet).
BTW I'm getting less than 4 hours out of it on a new battery doing light work - much less playing 3D games (No One Lives Forever works nicely on it and is a great game). I wonder if the RAM is chewing up quite a bit of power.
One nice thing is that nowadays this approach is quite interoperable with PCs and Macs. Tools to convert to the 3M format have been available for decades and now tools to convert from 3M to a digital format are almost as ubiquitous. On the down side there are some claims that the 3M approach can harm the environment, after all, it does grow on trees. On the other hand a high proportion of discarded equipment can be recovered and processed for reuse.
But I couldn't watch Heat on my 12" Powerbook (1.25GHz) without the batteries giving up before the end.
For all X, the future X will resemble something out of a science fiction movie. So trivially it's true for X=soldiers.
Ultraviolet Haze actually. But purple's close enough I suppose.
Yeah! I bet my no God can kick your God's butt any time.
What's that? Sounds like a kind of bet, like a European call option.
I was cheated. Cheated I say! At some point I fell through a rift in the spacetime continuum and ended up in this timeline where the future turns out to be as lame as can be with little sign of improvement. Where are the hovercars? Where are the big round space stations? Where are the bases on the moon? Where are the sonic showers? Where are the talking robots? Where's my shiny silver suit? Cheated! Give me back my real timeline!
It doesn't prevent anyone opening anything however.
This is also assuming the guy can get laid. This is /. after all.
They'd see when people had voided their warranties or even prevent unauthorized (by Microsoft of course) people opening PCs so as to switch to a non DRM-enabling BIOS.
I'm not overweight (making apnea unlikely), I exercise plenty (I run around 15 miles/week and work out at the gym), I don't use caffeine, my alcohol intake is pretty low and I don't usually suffer from stress (if another doctor tells me I have a stress related illness I will start suffering from stress and probably hit them). And yet I can go months living like a zombie with hardly any sleep. Even worse, the standard drug Ambien (Zolpidem) does nothing for me (in fact, I think it makes my insomnia worse). I tried warm baths, acupuncture, chinese herbs - all had no effect.
I've found one or two things that help. The drug Clonazepam works for me. I found I could take half a pill and get two nights sleep (it stays in the body a long time but I had no problems in the intervening day). I tried to keep the dose low so I wouldn't become tolerant - but after 2 or 3 months it stopped working. Luckily my last bout of insomnia came to an end a week or two after that. Thank God!
Bizarrely, one thing that currently helps me is completely contrary to standard advice not to clockwatch. I wear a watch that lights up in the dark (Casio Illuminator). If I wake up I check the time. The fact is, even if you think you're such a bad insomniac that you can't sleep at all you probably do sleep. When you're expectations are so low that you expect to have zero hours sleep it's actually a pretty pleasant experience to look at your watch, see it says 2am and what seems like a few seconds later look again and see that it now says 3am.
Incidentally, I had a sleep study recently. Let me warn you - these are often a scam. It's a collusion between surgeons who get a nice flow of cash from customers looking for surgery to fix apnea and sketchy companies who provide the surgeons with the justification the insurance company needs. Sleep studies are often run as a franchise like McDonald's. I wish I could remember the name of the company that did mine. They had a web site promoting franchises basically discussing how this business was easy money. The worst thing for me was that my study was 6 hours. I was kicked out of the hospital at 4am to drive home on the freeway. (I thought I had a hospital bed for the night. No. What had actually happened was that the sleep study company had rented the room from the hospital for a fixed number of hours.) The entire environment of my study seemed to be geared to me not sleeping. When I arrived at the ward the TV was on and the administrator of the study left it running while preparing me. I had no down-time between lights on and lights out - I wasn't allowed to read for example (because they only had 6 hours) my usual way to wind down. So be warned. I did actually sleep 30 minutes that night - but that's not really enough for any kind of conclusive results. (I haven't even touched on how ridiculous it is to expect someone to sleep who is that wired up.)
Are you for real? In my experience ordinary people don't say things like 'Many "pop" books regarding sleep, and a number of physicians, have plenty of misconceptions about sleep and sleep problems'. That sounds like advertising copy to me.
Er...that's because they're paying you to do a job. When you pay someone else to do a job then you can expect them to come up with a solution.
Care to point out the bugs in the current NTFS that make you sure the next one will also be?