And who are you (or that other girl/guy) to say who's stupid and who is not ? For all you know, the one you think of as stupid, might think the exact same thing about you. That's one of the good things about democracy - it eliminates the danger of those that think they are the clever/right ones, but actually are the stupid/wrong ones, from ruling the country. Instead the ones who wins the election are the ones who's best at persuading the voters to vote for them. The persuading should be done by arguments. I know the ideal is an informed society, where the majority of people are educated, and thus can make informed choices (and the politicians are not bought by companies, but actually wishes to do their job for the people, and you don't have a thousand different rules that can make people uneligitable to vote - like for example that you have to register for voting - if you are a citizen it should be your right to vote at election day, without the hazle of registering yourself as a voter). In most western societies that is actually the case, even though there can be a big difference in how well educated people are. So instead of running anyone down, you should help your favorite politician in persuading the ones that you think are stupid or wrong. And who knows ? Maybe the stupid girl with the wrong opinions turn out to be right and ends up persuading you. (I think the perfect example of this not working is USA electing Mr. Bush for President - there's always exceptions.)
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I find the subject of longevity research, its implications and possibilities very interesting, but I often find that its a difficult subject to talk about - for example at a dinner with friends and family. People simply laugh at the idea that it just might be possible, within their own normal expected lifespan, to live for 200 years or maybe even more. Some get frightened by the idea and others just say 'impossible!'. How do you best introduce/break the subject of longevity to people who doesn't know much about it, or never have thought about it ?
Several years ago I read about GM's Hy-wire concept, and thought it was amazingly cool. They predicted back then that this car would probably be driving on the streets before 2010... It is still just a concept car (with several actual working models though), but I think we'll have to wait a bit longer before this car can be bought by you and me - unfortunately. Cars driving themselves on the streets in the year 2019? Hmmm maybe but I think it's more likely in 2029.
I was thinking the same thing when I read the article. It's a galactic version of what Larry Niven's Ringworld engineers came up with (They are "shooting" with a star to destroy meteors and enemies).
he heee - that was funny:-) Definitely worth a watch that (weird!) review. I don't agree with him on ep2 though, but then again: he did say if you loved hl2 you would love ep2 and I did love hl2 (and ep2).
The fire alarms and sprinklers cannot be used to harm/wound/kill you or anyone else around you (maybe Wes Craven could figure out an obscure way...)
My point is: bad argument.
Why, after being a topic on/. one of the webs most visited sites, have only 7627 people signed the pledge? Doesn't/. readers care? I mean there have been several cases of internet censorship presented here on/. - it even has it's own topic here. It clearly shows that there's need for campaigns like this - so why not support it? It's so easy.
you are right - except your first line: it doesn't make the parent posts conjecture correct. The report clearly states that it helps to wear these bracelets. It doesn't matter for the people wearing them whether or not it's a placebo effect, and it certinly doesn't make the people buying them stupid or without brains as insinuated. I myself know of two people who wear these bracelets and it really helps them alot. I'm a science guy though and as you are pointing out, no one knows if it's the bracelets that helps, so I certinly would like to see more research go into this (ie: how does little magnetic fields affect diferent kinds of tissue and the blood flowing in your veins).
I gues they used regular peltier chips, invented a long time ago.
But I can't wait to these get to market.
They have build a prototype fab somewhere in eastern europe, are a little late on schedule because of lack of funding, but it still sounds prommising to me. They have been mentioned on Slashdot before.
that's a good estimate. Here it says it's (was) 83 million miles away when the probe hits (hit) (look under "NASA fact" to the left).
Here's a graphic.
The blog entry is just an arrow, a finger pointing at the moon. Why should the blogger get credit? Not only is the idea not theirs, they also didn't even offer an in-depth analysis of it (or more often: any analysis).
That's also the case with the majority of articles you can read in newspapers - they are from reuters or similar.
There are ofcourse also in depth analysing articles in the papers and Reuters in general can be trusted.
I think the big potential in blogs, is the sharing of thoughts and ideas - I think that blogs will help speed up the development, simply because people exchange thoughts and ideas all around the globe, and new ideas are born a lot more often.
Someone might get a great idea and post it in her blog, but never do anything else about it. Someone else reading the block might.
Scientists can read other scientists blogs, and maybe get an idea that they would never have thought of if they had not read the blog.
The same is true for ordinary people.
Some of those ideas will end up being a business, others a discovery of something new.
I totally agree with the guys here (some of them girls maybe? hahaha...) stating that there is some plot in Doom3 and it could have been a good movie. Last week I thought of how it could be, and it reminded me of Event Horizon, which I think was quite cool and creepy - anyone else had that thought?
It really is annoying that they've written Hell out of the movie. It does not sound like doom at all:(
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he he - I've thought the same
:)
(I'm not an AI)
That CSS-dock is sooo cool - thanks for the link ! :-) (even though it might be illegal)
Are they down and out now ? This is ridiculous - patenting a general desktop-GUI-thingy like that. I hope Apple/Steve don't enforce the patent.
And who are you (or that other girl/guy) to say who's stupid and who is not ? For all you know, the one you think of as stupid, might think the exact same thing about you. That's one of the good things about democracy - it eliminates the danger of those that think they are the clever/right ones, but actually are the stupid/wrong ones, from ruling the country. Instead the ones who wins the election are the ones who's best at persuading the voters to vote for them. The persuading should be done by arguments. I know the ideal is an informed society, where the majority of people are educated, and thus can make informed choices (and the politicians are not bought by companies, but actually wishes to do their job for the people, and you don't have a thousand different rules that can make people uneligitable to vote - like for example that you have to register for voting - if you are a citizen it should be your right to vote at election day, without the hazle of registering yourself as a voter). In most western societies that is actually the case, even though there can be a big difference in how well educated people are. So instead of running anyone down, you should help your favorite politician in persuading the ones that you think are stupid or wrong. And who knows ? Maybe the stupid girl with the wrong opinions turn out to be right and ends up persuading you.
(I think the perfect example of this not working is USA electing Mr. Bush for President - there's always exceptions.)
Have a look: :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
he he
That means the aging GeForce 6800 GT card in your closet might be useful once again
I've still got a 6600 GT in my machine you insensitive clod !
I find the subject of longevity research, its implications and possibilities very interesting, but I often find that its a difficult subject to talk about - for example at a dinner with friends and family. People simply laugh at the idea that it just might be possible, within their own normal expected lifespan, to live for 200 years or maybe even more. Some get frightened by the idea and others just say 'impossible!'. How do you best introduce/break the subject of longevity to people who doesn't know much about it, or never have thought about it ?
Several years ago I read about GM's Hy-wire concept, and thought it was amazingly cool. They predicted back then that this car would probably be driving on the streets before 2010... It is still just a concept car (with several actual working models though), but I think we'll have to wait a bit longer before this car can be bought by you and me - unfortunately. Cars driving themselves on the streets in the year 2019? Hmmm maybe but I think it's more likely in 2029.
I was thinking the same thing when I read the article. It's a galactic version of what Larry Niven's Ringworld engineers came up with (They are "shooting" with a star to destroy meteors and enemies).
0: learn to read.
or for some people in Peru it would be
0: learn Spanish.
You have a very good point though
he heee - that was funny :-) Definitely worth a watch that (weird!) review. I don't agree with him on ep2 though, but then again: he did say if you loved hl2 you would love ep2 and I did love hl2 (and ep2).
This Italian firm has sold stuff like that for years.
The fire alarms and sprinklers cannot be used to harm/wound/kill you or anyone else around you (maybe Wes Craven could figure out an obscure way ...)
My point is: bad argument.
Why, after being a topic on /. one of the webs most visited sites, have only 7627 people signed the pledge? Doesn't /. readers care? I mean there have been several cases of internet censorship presented here on /. - it even has it's own topic here. It clearly shows that there's need for campaigns like this - so why not support it? It's so easy.
There's still the games - as you mention yourself the big game developers doesn't make games for Linux.
As far as I'm concerned that's the only reason to keep Windows.
you are right - except your first line: it doesn't make the parent posts conjecture correct. The report clearly states that it helps to wear these bracelets. It doesn't matter for the people wearing them whether or not it's a placebo effect, and it certinly doesn't make the people buying them stupid or without brains as insinuated. I myself know of two people who wear these bracelets and it really helps them alot. I'm a science guy though and as you are pointing out, no one knows if it's the bracelets that helps, so I certinly would like to see more research go into this (ie: how does little magnetic fields affect diferent kinds of tissue and the blood flowing in your veins).
Off topic reply:
Maybe you should read this
More details here, if you are not convinced (pdf).
Above links may require that you access them from a institution (a university fx) that subsribes to The British Medical Journal.
I gues they used regular peltier chips, invented a long time ago.
But I can't wait to these get to market.
They have build a prototype fab somewhere in eastern europe, are a little late on schedule because of lack of funding, but it still sounds prommising to me. They have been mentioned on Slashdot before.
that's a good estimate.
Here it says it's (was) 83 million miles away when the probe hits (hit) (look under "NASA fact" to the left). Here's a graphic.
This is a gif animation of the impact as observed from the Lowell Observatory.
Read about this last year:4 ,00.asp
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,155513
That's also the case with the majority of articles you can read in newspapers - they are from reuters or similar.
There are ofcourse also in depth analysing articles in the papers and Reuters in general can be trusted.
I think the big potential in blogs, is the sharing of thoughts and ideas - I think that blogs will help speed up the development, simply because people exchange thoughts and ideas all around the globe, and new ideas are born a lot more often.
Someone might get a great idea and post it in her blog, but never do anything else about it. Someone else reading the block might.
Scientists can read other scientists blogs, and maybe get an idea that they would never have thought of if they had not read the blog.
The same is true for ordinary people.
Some of those ideas will end up being a business, others a discovery of something new.
Oh yeah! Give me that CELL based Linux desktop right away! I sure hope that is what they will launch :) - next year :(
... reminds me of f... oh wait...
doh!
I totally agree with the guys here (some of them girls maybe? hahaha...) stating that there is some plot in Doom3 and it could have been a good movie. Last week I thought of how it could be, and it reminded me of Event Horizon, which I think was quite cool and creepy - anyone else had that thought? :(
It really is annoying that they've written Hell out of the movie. It does not sound like doom at all