At school in 10th grade we had to build a diorama based around a 555 timer. I was playing half-life at the time so I wanted to incorporate the alarm sound from the 'resonance cascade' at the beginning. I asked my teacher if I could do that and he went mental. Apparently he had just given a 15 minute lecture about why we wouldn't be able to do that and I wasn't listening...:-\
...smoke some dope? Of course, patients selection should be stressed, but I think this is one of the few disease where prescibed cannabis really would help. Maybe not smoke, but ingestion or something like that. And I'm sure the side-effects will be very welcome B-) Seriously though, there's some decent evidence out there for the use of cannabis for Parkinson's.
Looking back, it seems that I "hated" Microsoft because everyone in the alternative software (for need of a better description) community did as well. It was simply because I thought it was cool to hate Microsoft.
Now that I can think for myself a bit more, I'm actually in awe of Microsoft and Bill Gates. It's quite amazing what Gates has accomplished.
However, I do think that Gates and Microsoft are immoral, and possibly hypocrites. Gates is a capitalist. But he also gives money to the poor. Now that makes me wonder, if he's being all philanthropic, is that just for recognition or does he actually believe that everyone deserves an equal chance? Because if he does believe in equal opportunity, he wouldn't be a capitalist in the first place would he?
However, trying to find a solution that doesn't require using the thumb is like shopping in a bizarro world where we just didn't evolve with that opposing digit.
..surely, if it's like shopping in a world with no thumbs, then it would be easy??? Heh, you should check your similies...
Okay lets say all this was right an females were infact naturally not as good at maths and science. Why is this a bad thing? Who says that the only way forward for the world is through maths and science? Obviously they are important to an extent but they aren't everything.
I'll bet anything that females are better at the arts, literature, and things like social work. All these things are just as imporant as maths and science, if not more.
Back in my days (last month) as a enthusiastic new debian user, I decided to set up a network at home using an old PC as a gateway. I put two old ethernet cards into it and turned it on and tried to boot a debian CD et voila; it didn't work.
So frustrated-old-me opened up the case and poked around to see if I cud figure anything out. Looked here, looked there - and then I saw this little switch. In a split-second, I decided that nothing else worked so might as well try this...
BOOOM! The PSU exploded on my head, temporarily blinding AND deafening me.
The fact that for millions of years on Earth, nothing happened, and then all of a sudden BOOM life arose in the gap of about 10,000 (which is a small gap), might be suggestive that life really might not be able to happen many other way!
If you look at life on Earth, it is based on long chains of carbon and some nitrogen, mixed with various other molecules. Not many other elements have the combining properties of carbon and nitrogen, so nothing too complex could be formed with anything else.
If you take the example of a DNA molecule, this ia an extremely complex and precise little thing. It's double-helix structure is only possible because of the way it has been formed, and its replication has been masterfully engineered by millions of years of evolution.
There are many, many other things about life on Earth that are so complex and specific, that I - and many biologists agree with this - think that life probably could not have happened any other way.
Btw, the reason capillary action happens is because water molecules are polar, with the hydrogen side being slightly positive and the oxygen side being slightly negative. This is not true with most other liquids. And besides mercury, or ethanol wouldnt be very useful to plants, even if they could absorb it by capillary action.
OK we all know that water is needed to sustain life on earth, which is why its such a biggie when the possibility of water on extra-terrestial terrains arises.
But what is it exactly about water that makes it so important? Here is a page which shows some of the most important properties of water. It shows, for example, how capillary action works, a property that allows plants up to 20 feet (i think!) tall to absorb water without using any energy whatsoever!
With all these stories about HDTV and big screens and wotnot, I felt inspired to hook up my TV to my computer. I have a 50-inch plasma tv, and surround sound with a hefty woofer, and - apart from the movie experience - how cool would UT2004 be on that!
Well anyway This site [ramelectronics.net] has some useful information about wot the holes at the back of ure TV do, and various other stuff.
I don't think it matters if this is a proprietary driver, just yet. With big people like Intel and IBM showing an interest in Linux, its bound to encourage others to do the same. Then with time, open source drivers might just happen?
Coincidentially, I switched my home network's Internet gateway from slackware to debian just today! Slackware was the first and only linux I used until a friend recommended that I use Debian Woody as my gateway. The security updating with apt-get on Woody keeps everything up-to-date and closes exposed holes automatically. In slackware I did not keep track of much except the odd openssh patch.
Approximately 7 hours after the switch, I can honestly say that I'm pleased with Debian so far, although I do feel guilty for ditching Slackware:\
My first encounter of a haiku was in a Simpsons episode, when The Simpsons went to Japan. Lisa recited it in her what-im-saying-now-is-very-noble voice. I can't remember what it actually was, but I didn't quite see the point of it. After googling haikus, I found out that Haiku's have three lines, the first and last consisting of 5 syllables and the second of 7 syllables and are usually designed in a cryptic way.
But I still fail to see why this makes them so great. It seems to me a haiku is just 3 almost unrelated lines that rarely rhyme. Why then are haikus considered to be so humbling, why to they conjure so much excitement in some people?
Here is a haiku I have made. Explain to me if/why it is flawed, and what makes a good haiku.
A bird sits on me,
I am walking away now,
It shits on my head.
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At school in 10th grade we had to build a diorama based around a 555 timer. I was playing half-life at the time so I wanted to incorporate the alarm sound from the 'resonance cascade' at the beginning. I asked my teacher if I could do that and he went mental. Apparently he had just given a 15 minute lecture about why we wouldn't be able to do that and I wasn't listening... :-\
...smoke some dope? Of course, patients selection should be stressed, but I think this is one of the few disease where prescibed cannabis really would help. Maybe not smoke, but ingestion or something like that. And I'm sure the side-effects will be very welcome B-) Seriously though, there's some decent evidence out there for the use of cannabis for Parkinson's.
Looking back, it seems that I "hated" Microsoft because everyone in the alternative software (for need of a better description) community did as well. It was simply because I thought it was cool to hate Microsoft.
Now that I can think for myself a bit more, I'm actually in awe of Microsoft and Bill Gates. It's quite amazing what Gates has accomplished.
However, I do think that Gates and Microsoft are immoral, and possibly hypocrites. Gates is a capitalist. But he also gives money to the poor. Now that makes me wonder, if he's being all philanthropic, is that just for recognition or does he actually believe that everyone deserves an equal chance? Because if he does believe in equal opportunity, he wouldn't be a capitalist in the first place would he?
Okay lets say all this was right an females were infact naturally not as good at maths and science. Why is this a bad thing? Who says that the only way forward for the world is through maths and science? Obviously they are important to an extent but they aren't everything.
I'll bet anything that females are better at the arts, literature, and things like social work. All these things are just as imporant as maths and science, if not more.
This is that bastard organisation that predicted that global warming would actually make the UK colder..
Now just a few more years
of global warming and England
will be dry enough to buy one
of these environmental house
thingys...
When we got Ireland next door! (Go here if you don't get that.)
Back in my days (last month) as a enthusiastic new debian user, I decided to set up a network at home using an old PC as a gateway. I put two old ethernet cards into it and turned it on and tried to boot a debian CD et voila; it didn't work.
So frustrated-old-me opened up the case and poked around to see if I cud figure anything out. Looked here, looked there - and then I saw this little switch. In a split-second, I decided that nothing else worked so might as well try this...
BOOOM! The PSU exploded on my head, temporarily blinding AND deafening me.
A console msn client, gtmess, for all of those friends who you can't convert to jabber ;-)
The fact that for millions of years on Earth, nothing happened, and then all of a sudden BOOM life arose in the gap of about 10,000 (which is a small gap), might be suggestive that life really might not be able to happen many other way!
If you look at life on Earth, it is based on long chains of carbon and some nitrogen, mixed with various other molecules. Not many other elements have the combining properties of carbon and nitrogen, so nothing too complex could be formed with anything else.
If you take the example of a DNA molecule, this ia an extremely complex and precise little thing. It's double-helix structure is only possible because of the way it has been formed, and its replication has been masterfully engineered by millions of years of evolution.
There are many, many other things about life on Earth that are so complex and specific, that I - and many biologists agree with this - think that life probably could not have happened any other way.
Btw, the reason capillary action happens is because water molecules are polar, with the hydrogen side being slightly positive and the oxygen side being slightly negative. This is not true with most other liquids. And besides mercury, or ethanol wouldnt be very useful to plants, even if they could absorb it by capillary action.
It afternoon here in the UK, you insensitive clod!
OK we all know that water is needed to sustain life on earth, which is why its such a biggie when the possibility of water on extra-terrestial terrains arises.
But what is it exactly about water that makes it so important? Here is a page which shows some of the most important properties of water. It shows, for example, how capillary action works, a property that allows plants up to 20 feet (i think!) tall to absorb water without using any energy whatsoever!
With all these stories about HDTV and big screens and wotnot, I felt inspired to hook up my TV to my computer. I have a 50-inch plasma tv, and surround sound with a hefty woofer, and - apart from the movie experience - how cool would UT2004 be on that!
Well anyway This site [ramelectronics.net] has some useful information about wot the holes at the back of ure TV do, and various other stuff.
I don't think it matters if this is a proprietary driver, just yet. With big people like Intel and IBM showing an interest in Linux, its bound to encourage others to do the same. Then with time, open source drivers might just happen?
Coincidentially, I switched my home network's Internet gateway from slackware to debian just today! Slackware was the first and only linux I used until a friend recommended that I use Debian Woody as my gateway. The security updating with apt-get on Woody keeps everything up-to-date and closes exposed holes automatically. In slackware I did not keep track of much except the odd openssh patch.
:\
Approximately 7 hours after the switch, I can honestly say that I'm pleased with Debian so far, although I do feel guilty for ditching Slackware
My first encounter of a haiku was in a Simpsons episode, when The Simpsons went to Japan. Lisa recited it in her what-im-saying-now-is-very-noble voice. I can't remember what it actually was, but I didn't quite see the point of it. After googling haikus, I found out that Haiku's have three lines, the first and last consisting of 5 syllables and the second of 7 syllables and are usually designed in a cryptic way.
But I still fail to see why this makes them so great. It seems to me a haiku is just 3 almost unrelated lines that rarely rhyme. Why then are haikus considered to be so humbling, why to they conjure so much excitement in some people?
Here is a haiku I have made. Explain to me if/why it is flawed, and what makes a good haiku.
A bird sits on me, I am walking away now, It shits on my head.
I best tell my gf to stop calling me Longhorn, before MS find out about it...