I usually let the bit-gods decide what data I have that is important enough to save. Over the years the bit-gods have taught me that:
Music files: not important, Styx crossed the Styx to/dev/null in 2002 Essay written for sophomore year high school english: Important, I assume to haunt me in some future political race. Porn collection: Like the subject matter within, it swells impressively, explodes, then enters a refractory period until it's ready to build up again. C++ program that graphs the Mandelbrot set: Important. I like feeling like an explorer navigating the cardioid's canyons. Photos of my children: Not important. If I need more baby photos, I can just have more babies.
Temperature could be a very simple external switch to tell the sperm to go between idle and full-throttle. Keeping them cool while in the scrotum may keep them viable for longer waiting for an opportunity to fertilize, kind of like refrigerating food. Then when the surrounding environment warms up 20F, they redline it towards the warmest thing they can find.
Consider further the additional temperature control features of the scrotum. First, it is one of only three regions of the modern human body that still has a lot of hair (armpits and head being the other two). There are variations in the amount of body hair to be sure, but these three regions are always hairy on healthy individuals. Hair does a very good job of regulating temperature by wicking sweat from the skin to help cool, and trapping body heat near the skin to keep warm. There are also elevator muscles in the scrotum to control the distance of the testicles from the body, and thereby the temperature. Given this added complexity, it would seem that regulating the temperature to a very small region is very important for the sperms' survival.
Also, immediately prior to ejaculation the elevator muscles pull the testicles as far into the body as possible. This would further support the idea that the sperm needs to be warmed up before it can do its thing.
I'm thinking some of his numbers were off. Particularly his estimate of the number of women in the acceptable age bracket. He had 5%, but I'm betting it's more like 68% for your average person (+/- 1 standard deviation) and that's the combined concept of "people he would find attractive that would also find him attractive". The human race simply would not exist if you could only bring yourself to schtup 5% of the population and only 5% of those would let you. That already increases his chances by a factor of almost 300. That brings his odds back to 1 in 1000, which seems reasonable and realistic. Then factor in the number of women he can poll in his productive years in search of those 1/1000ths (compared to the number of planets he can poll for signs of civilization in his lifetime) and the odds of finding someone rapidly approach one. Which makes intuitive sense, since as I mentioned before, the human race still exists.
The people who need to be worried are the outliers. The folks who are 2 or 3 deviations from the mean in terms of attractiveness (physically, mentally, emotionally, materially). Those on the high end may be forced to settle. Those on the low end may have to sample outside their species.
There are three users A, B, and C. I'm friends with user A. I'm not friends with B or C and their profiles are locked down. User B has an album with pictures of user A and also pictures of user C. Because User A is tagged, I can see that picture and can look through the rest of the album. In this album, there are pictures of user C wearing about as close to nothing as facebook allows (awesome for me, perhaps not so much for her)
So because of the way their security works: all of User C's friends can see the pic (expected) all of User B's friends can see the pic (expected) all of User A's friends can see the pic (very UNexpected) And in this case, every other person tagged in that album can be User A. For a reasonably sized album, this can amount to thousands or tens of thousands of people.
Agreed. I've posted this in another/. thread, but on my Asus netbook, I get 6.5 hours consistently while using the thing at full tilt. Brightness all the way up, wifi on, compiling code, etc, etc. One review I read claimed 11 hours, but I haven't gotten that personally.
Hey, stop trying to pigeonhole him as some kind of asshole. He's just looking at the statistics. I mean, based on his own observation, his solutions are correct 100% of the time.
Now let's see you try to argue your way out of this one using "logic" and "reason".
Interesting. I can think of another field where this could be useful:
Require all fund managers to have a significant portion of their net worth in the funds they manage. If the fund collapses, they go down with the ship.
I want somebody to make an option in Farmville for me to "salt the earth". I'd go through, killing off their gardens, just to see their reactions when they realize how much of their lives they've devoted to a fake garden.
It's probably not such a big deal for all those people who get their coffee loaded with sugar/chocolate/caramel/cream/etc. Those things are just milkshakes with a caffeine booster.
I usually drink straight espresso though, and there are very few shops that have good enough coffee for that.
Ever stopped to consider the implications of speed bumps?
The prospect of running over some hapless pedestrian isn't enough to get most people to slow down. The prospect of slowly wearing out your suspension and feeling mild discomfort for a second, however, will.
If there is more work than hire - unemployment is at 10%...
Exactly. You're easily replaceable by somebody who's willing to work twice the hours for half the pay since they've burned through their savings over the last six months.
That is unless, of course, your job requires a modicum of skill making it kind of hard to hire somebody qualified at 5pm on the day a server crashes.
In general, I agree with you. If there is any kind of consistent excess work, then that problem needs to be resolved quickly. But in the event of unexpected mayhem, the guy who still checks out at 5pm while the rest of the group is trying to fix the problem will be remembered at the next round of layoffs.
Taking pride in lack of sleep is like taking pride in hitting yourself with a hammer. Taking pride in living on coffee, mountain dew and pizza, is like taking pride in drinking a shot glass of poison once a day. It is not cool, it is not “manly”, it is not hackerish, is is not geeky. It”s Joe-Lower-Class-level retard-“coolness”.
Speaking as a coffee drinking, beer swilling, pizza eating, 4-hour-a-night sleeping Joe-Lower-Class-level retard, I agree completely. I can take a hammer better than anybody. They don't call me Mjolnir's Bane for nothing.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to my hooker & blackjack party.
I'm kind of a beast, so having the larger display and keyboard for my club-like fingers is handy. For me, the distinction between a 12" netbook and a 13" laptop has more to do with battery life. I have the 12" Asus that was the precursor the one in this article, and I get roughly the same battery life out of it that I do my smartphone, which means I can use it consistently all day long without needing to plug it in. Charge up overnight, and keep on going the next day. And since it's roughly the width and length of a piece of paper, weighing less than three pounds, it's perfect for when I'm on the road traveling or working.
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This one (http://xkcd.com/387/) was involved in the discussion when we decided to have kids.
I usually let the bit-gods decide what data I have that is important enough to save. Over the years the bit-gods have taught me that:
Music files: not important, Styx crossed the Styx to /dev/null in 2002
Essay written for sophomore year high school english: Important, I assume to haunt me in some future political race.
Porn collection: Like the subject matter within, it swells impressively, explodes, then enters a refractory period until it's ready to build up again.
C++ program that graphs the Mandelbrot set: Important. I like feeling like an explorer navigating the cardioid's canyons.
Photos of my children: Not important. If I need more baby photos, I can just have more babies.
Temperature could be a very simple external switch to tell the sperm to go between idle and full-throttle. Keeping them cool while in the scrotum may keep them viable for longer waiting for an opportunity to fertilize, kind of like refrigerating food. Then when the surrounding environment warms up 20F, they redline it towards the warmest thing they can find.
Consider further the additional temperature control features of the scrotum. First, it is one of only three regions of the modern human body that still has a lot of hair (armpits and head being the other two). There are variations in the amount of body hair to be sure, but these three regions are always hairy on healthy individuals. Hair does a very good job of regulating temperature by wicking sweat from the skin to help cool, and trapping body heat near the skin to keep warm. There are also elevator muscles in the scrotum to control the distance of the testicles from the body, and thereby the temperature. Given this added complexity, it would seem that regulating the temperature to a very small region is very important for the sperms' survival.
Also, immediately prior to ejaculation the elevator muscles pull the testicles as far into the body as possible. This would further support the idea that the sperm needs to be warmed up before it can do its thing.
Oh, since you bring up the Mac, what ever happened to the closed-apple key?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Apple_iieb.jpg
That should read number of attractive women in the acceptable age bracket.
I'm thinking some of his numbers were off. Particularly his estimate of the number of women in the acceptable age bracket. He had 5%, but I'm betting it's more like 68% for your average person (+/- 1 standard deviation) and that's the combined concept of "people he would find attractive that would also find him attractive". The human race simply would not exist if you could only bring yourself to schtup 5% of the population and only 5% of those would let you. That already increases his chances by a factor of almost 300. That brings his odds back to 1 in 1000, which seems reasonable and realistic. Then factor in the number of women he can poll in his productive years in search of those 1/1000ths (compared to the number of planets he can poll for signs of civilization in his lifetime) and the odds of finding someone rapidly approach one. Which makes intuitive sense, since as I mentioned before, the human race still exists.
The people who need to be worried are the outliers. The folks who are 2 or 3 deviations from the mean in terms of attractiveness (physically, mentally, emotionally, materially). Those on the high end may be forced to settle. Those on the low end may have to sample outside their species.
'One such annoying technology around today is rollover ads. Our eyes often make tiny glances at colours and items that grab our attention.
Maybe they plan to take AdSense to the next level. You can now set ad billing based on how long someone is actually looking at an ad.
If a 'Loss of Signal' can interrupt a POP session, wouldn't it also interrupt a file upload?
If they could get a few more shuttles into orbit, they could probably use BitTorrent.
Yup, that git didn't notice she's a GiT.
Exactly. I've come across this situation:
There are three users A, B, and C. I'm friends with user A. I'm not friends with B or C and their profiles are locked down.
User B has an album with pictures of user A and also pictures of user C.
Because User A is tagged, I can see that picture and can look through the rest of the album.
In this album, there are pictures of user C wearing about as close to nothing as facebook allows (awesome for me, perhaps not so much for her)
So because of the way their security works:
all of User C's friends can see the pic (expected)
all of User B's friends can see the pic (expected)
all of User A's friends can see the pic (very UNexpected)
And in this case, every other person tagged in that album can be User A.
For a reasonably sized album, this can amount to thousands or tens of thousands of people.
Agreed. I've posted this in another /. thread, but on my Asus netbook, I get 6.5 hours consistently while using the thing at full tilt. Brightness all the way up, wifi on, compiling code, etc, etc. One review I read claimed 11 hours, but I haven't gotten that personally.
Word. I, for one, would love to see how the movie might have changed if Han shot first!
Hey, stop trying to pigeonhole him as some kind of asshole. He's just looking at the statistics. I mean, based on his own observation, his solutions are correct 100% of the time.
Now let's see you try to argue your way out of this one using "logic" and "reason".
t-mobile can't give you herpes.
18-21 year old undergrads
Pics?
Since you just need to remove yourself from the gene pool, you don't have to lose your life. You could just horribly maim your genitals!
Interesting. I can think of another field where this could be useful:
Require all fund managers to have a significant portion of their net worth in the funds they manage. If the fund collapses, they go down with the ship.
I want somebody to make an option in Farmville for me to "salt the earth". I'd go through, killing off their gardens, just to see their reactions when they realize how much of their lives they've devoted to a fake garden.
It's probably not such a big deal for all those people who get their coffee loaded with sugar/chocolate/caramel/cream/etc. Those things are just milkshakes with a caffeine booster.
I usually drink straight espresso though, and there are very few shops that have good enough coffee for that.
It's not the first time.
Ever stopped to consider the implications of speed bumps?
The prospect of running over some hapless pedestrian isn't enough to get most people to slow down.
The prospect of slowly wearing out your suspension and feeling mild discomfort for a second, however, will.
with a design based on 10-year old technology
Wow, complaining about 10 year old tech? I'd hate to hear what you have to say about Unix!
If there is more work than hire - unemployment is at 10%...
Exactly. You're easily replaceable by somebody who's willing to work twice the hours for half the pay since they've burned through their savings over the last six months.
That is unless, of course, your job requires a modicum of skill making it kind of hard to hire somebody qualified at 5pm on the day a server crashes.
In general, I agree with you. If there is any kind of consistent excess work, then that problem needs to be resolved quickly. But in the event of unexpected mayhem, the guy who still checks out at 5pm while the rest of the group is trying to fix the problem will be remembered at the next round of layoffs.
Taking pride in lack of sleep is like taking pride in hitting yourself with a hammer.
Taking pride in living on coffee, mountain dew and pizza, is like taking pride in drinking a shot glass of poison once a day.
It is not cool, it is not “manly”, it is not hackerish, is is not geeky.
It”s Joe-Lower-Class-level retard-“coolness”.
Speaking as a coffee drinking, beer swilling, pizza eating, 4-hour-a-night sleeping Joe-Lower-Class-level retard, I agree completely. I can take a hammer better than anybody. They don't call me Mjolnir's Bane for nothing.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to my hooker & blackjack party.
/. needs to add a "+1, Fucking A" mod. You have it exactly right.
Playing the blame game is deadly to an organization. You end up spending more time trying to CYA than just fixing the problem.
I'm kind of a beast, so having the larger display and keyboard for my club-like fingers is handy. For me, the distinction between a 12" netbook and a 13" laptop has more to do with battery life. I have the 12" Asus that was the precursor the one in this article, and I get roughly the same battery life out of it that I do my smartphone, which means I can use it consistently all day long without needing to plug it in. Charge up overnight, and keep on going the next day. And since it's roughly the width and length of a piece of paper, weighing less than three pounds, it's perfect for when I'm on the road traveling or working.