Being shortsighted is, imo, actually good for computer related work. If you are short-sighted you should not wear contacts or glasses while doing computer work. I used to and my eyesight deteriorated. Since stopping with that my eyesight has improved from -1.5 to -.5
This, I believe, is because human eyesight is naturally designed to focus on long distances.
Also a good tip when your eyes feel sore is to focus on something a long distance away. This will considerably relax your eyes. Eye strain is actaully due to a physical change in your eye when focusing at short distances.
Since I started watching american television this is something that is especially noticeable. Where I come from a series is aired once a week, from ep 1 to end, at the same time, every week, very predicatably.
Over here you never know what's going to happen. One week the episode is on, the next it's replaced by something else, then you are watching a re-run from a previous season, then you are watching back-to-back episodes or back-to-back-to-back-to-back episodes. It's bizarre.
Yeah right. Pop will always be.99, because it's demand is extremely sensitive to price changes. The tracks that are going to increase are indie and underground music, because their demand is not affected by price change as much.
It's a different lifestyle, people buy pop music like they buy a load of wonder bread, they have little real interest in music quality. People who buy non-pop music are more discerning and will pay more for their good taste, just like organic grain bread is likewise more expensive.
Hmm good point about soap operas, they truely are just that. Maybe it's a generation bought up on those awful soaps they had in the 80's and 90's who get off on these shows.
I watched about 30 minutes of Serenity before leaving.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds to me like you're saying - "Gee I can't understand how evolution could possibly work, therefore evolution can't be the answer... but I can understand how some all-powerful entity could do this, so therefore that must be the answer"
This could just be a difference in upbringing and education rather than genetic.
I'm not sure that would tell you anything... Maybe smarter children are educated and bought up better because their parents are smarter. So is their intelligence due to genes or upbringing?
To be fair, if you are referring to the "hundred zeroes" blogger (can't find his blogsite now), he did reveal some sensitive forecasts or something iirc - which he then removed from his blog.
Though it was still kinda harsh/pathetic that he got fired, seemingly just because a bunch of google employees were pissed off by the "new kid" and what he was writing. Maybe vindictiveness is not evil in googleworld.
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That would never happen because then it would be too obvious. This is all about keeping the actual advertisment underneath the radar, because most geeks react negatively to advertising.
What will the ISP do with thr money saved?Because of competition, they'll spend it on service quality improvements for services their customers do use. If they pocketed it, they'd lose business.
Oh how naive you are.. the only place this money's going is AJ Burnetts pocket.
Your situation is not addiction. You are merely using gaming to fill in the blank periods of your life, just like a recreational drug user does, not an addict.
One definition of addiction: Habitual psychological and physiological dependence on a substance or practice beyond one's voluntary control.
Surely if the drug companies wanted to maximise profits they would have no interest in finding a cure for HIV/AIDS, since drugs that semi "treat" HIV are also, presumably, very profitable and can be sold to the customer for a number of years before they die, rather than a once off.
So him helping to find a cure would damage the drug compaines profits.
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If you RTFA id as a company is only worth 15 mil, rights to doom, quake and wolfenstein is valued at 90 mil. I guess the brands not the id name are worth a bunch...
No you are wrong. I was reading/. in 1998 and it was huge then. Though there are obviously many dupe a/c, I had another account then, for the life of me i can't remember what is was...
Got to say that I agree. In fact I have stopped reading the Onion as much as I used to, because for some reason I just find the new design incrediably pfft. Can't put my finger on the exact reason why it doesn't work though.
While your comment may be true, it is rather fanboish to implement your web app on a browser that has maybe 5% of the market share and then hack it to work on a browser that has 90% of the market share. I wonder how companies with this sort of attitude stay in business.
In addition, you could say that IE is the standard, which is why Safari's css is based largely on IE's rendering not on rigid standards. Safari and IE render css almost exactly the same. The apple developers recognise this fact of life, so why can't you?
By saying that a cpu n times more powerful will result in n number of insects is wrong imo. AI can only get more intelligent, it can't get less and it can't stay the same (well maybe we will hit a problem that can't be overcome, but that's unlikely).
So the singularity is coming, it's just a matter of when. Personally I agree with what you are saying, that it's an enormous problem, that we have hardly even scratched the surface of. But who knows what huge breakthroughs are around the corner. And faster cpu's is almost certainly linked to breakthroughs in AI.
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You're right it's not really significant. The only significance it seems to have is for google page rank abuse.
Being shortsighted is, imo, actually good for computer related work. If you are short-sighted you should not wear contacts or glasses while doing computer work. I used to and my eyesight deteriorated. Since stopping with that my eyesight has improved from -1.5 to -.5
This, I believe, is because human eyesight is naturally designed to focus on long distances.
Also a good tip when your eyes feel sore is to focus on something a long distance away. This will considerably relax your eyes. Eye strain is actaully due to a physical change in your eye when focusing at short distances.
Since I started watching american television this is something that is especially noticeable. Where I come from a series is aired once a week, from ep 1 to end, at the same time, every week, very predicatably.
Over here you never know what's going to happen. One week the episode is on, the next it's replaced by something else, then you are watching a re-run from a previous season, then you are watching back-to-back episodes or back-to-back-to-back-to-back episodes. It's bizarre.
Yeah right. Pop will always be .99, because it's demand is extremely sensitive to price changes. The tracks that are going to increase are indie and underground music, because their demand is not affected by price change as much.
It's a different lifestyle, people buy pop music like they buy a load of wonder bread, they have little real interest in music quality. People who buy non-pop music are more discerning and will pay more for their good taste, just like organic grain bread is likewise more expensive.
try this Not sure if you could stretch out much, but it's as about as comfortable as you can get on a plane.
Hell yeah, I tried to Ad-Block the page but it doesn't seem to work :( But it's incrediably stupid.
I am picturing Judge Judy in "Tech Guy vs. Evil Spammer"
Chances are good at least one of them will have an IQ above 100, so it should be good.
Hmm good point about soap operas, they truely are just that. Maybe it's a generation bought up on those awful soaps they had in the 80's and 90's who get off on these shows.
I watched about 30 minutes of Serenity before leaving.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds to me like you're saying - "Gee I can't understand how evolution could possibly work, therefore evolution can't be the answer... but I can understand how some all-powerful entity could do this, so therefore that must be the answer"
1) only buy from reputable sites. this has been going on since computer shopper days. its even more true today.
That's sortof the crux of the matter. How do you know who is reputable on the net (besides say amazon). You look at reviews...
May I suggest an appropriate sig for our cause?
This could just be a difference in upbringing and education rather than genetic.
I'm not sure that would tell you anything... Maybe smarter children are educated and bought up better because their parents are smarter. So is their intelligence due to genes or upbringing?
To be fair, if you are referring to the "hundred zeroes" blogger (can't find his blogsite now), he did reveal some sensitive forecasts or something iirc - which he then removed from his blog.
Though it was still kinda harsh/pathetic that he got fired, seemingly just because a bunch of google employees were pissed off by the "new kid" and what he was writing. Maybe vindictiveness is not evil in googleworld.
Why not write an email to Google about it. I'm sure they will be interested in Page Rank abuse.
"This post brought to you by Microsoft Windows Vista. Vista, for all your computing needs!"
That would never happen because then it would be too obvious. This is all about keeping the actual advertisment underneath the radar, because most geeks react negatively to advertising.
What will the ISP do with thr money saved?Because of competition, they'll spend it on service quality improvements for services their customers do use. If they pocketed it, they'd lose business.
Oh how naive you are.. the only place this money's going is AJ Burnetts pocket.
Yeah, it takes at least 2000 years for everyone to forget the precise details of what happened, and after that anythings possible.
Your situation is not addiction. You are merely using gaming to fill in the blank periods of your life, just like a recreational drug user does, not an addict.
One definition of addiction: Habitual psychological and physiological dependence on a substance or practice beyond one's voluntary control.
Surely if the drug companies wanted to maximise profits they would have no interest in finding a cure for HIV/AIDS, since drugs that semi "treat" HIV are also, presumably, very profitable and can be sold to the customer for a number of years before they die, rather than a once off.
So him helping to find a cure would damage the drug compaines profits.
If you RTFA id as a company is only worth 15 mil, rights to doom, quake and wolfenstein is valued at 90 mil. I guess the brands not the id name are worth a bunch...
No you are wrong. I was reading /. in 1998 and it was huge then. Though there are obviously many dupe a/c, I had another account then, for the life of me i can't remember what is was...
Got to say that I agree. In fact I have stopped reading the Onion as much as I used to, because for some reason I just find the new design incrediably pfft. Can't put my finger on the exact reason why it doesn't work though.
Real's (or even SCO's) gameplan:
1. Make product that noone wants.
2. ?????
3. LOSS!!
4. ?????
5. Sue the shit out of everyone.
While your comment may be true, it is rather fanboish to implement your web app on a browser that has maybe 5% of the market share and then hack it to work on a browser that has 90% of the market share. I wonder how companies with this sort of attitude stay in business. In addition, you could say that IE is the standard, which is why Safari's css is based largely on IE's rendering not on rigid standards. Safari and IE render css almost exactly the same. The apple developers recognise this fact of life, so why can't you?
By saying that a cpu n times more powerful will result in n number of insects is wrong imo. AI can only get more intelligent, it can't get less and it can't stay the same (well maybe we will hit a problem that can't be overcome, but that's unlikely).
So the singularity is coming, it's just a matter of when. Personally I agree with what you are saying, that it's an enormous problem, that we have hardly even scratched the surface of. But who knows what huge breakthroughs are around the corner. And faster cpu's is almost certainly linked to breakthroughs in AI.