What is incredible, though, is human brain's interpretation. We would never be able to tell a difference in time that it takes for the light to go from across the street to our retina...
but our brain (our sight) looks ahead, meaning that if a car is driving by and we want to trace it with our eyes, we do not look at where it was a second ago, we look at where it will be at the time when the light will hit the retina and our brain will process the information - sort of looking ahead, based on the pattern/speed/direction of its movement.
We have been discussing MIcrosoft on this site before, how it would often make announcements about its upcoming technology (something that competes with existing technology) and where businesses and consumers would not buy current products and services from competing manufacturers because all were awaiting this great, low cost, high feature product from Microsoft.
Only to discover that good quality products have disappeared because they companies had to shut down, and Microsoft either did not deliver or delivered something that was very poorly done.
phone (or other device) gets its location from GPS.
it then sends this location to a server via cellular data signal.
If you remove the SIM card, the phone will not register with the network, and unless it is sending its data to emergency 911 server, no information is sent.
Most devices are capable of storing history in case they go out of coverage area. So even if you remove the SIM card, the moment you put it back all the data is dumped to the server.
The only solution is, remove the battery, or "forget" the phone in the office.
My cable ISP, Rogers (located in Canada) is already capping BitTorrent traffic. Interesting enough, it will permit torrents with extension *.exe to download fast, but everything else (*.avi, *.mpg, etc...) is blocked virtually to a standstill (1-2 KB/s, and 5-10 KB/s if I'm lucky).
What can I do? Not much, other than try to switch to its only competitor where high speed is concerned, Bell. Is there any guarantee they won't do it soon either?
When contacting Rogers, I was told that they have the right to "prioritize" traffic, giving priority to email and web surfing (like I need 3 Mb/s for that!). They may introduce a new price plan that truly offers unlimited, or they may cripple bittorrent altogether because their infrastructure is taxed.
Our minds are not Designed to process the world at 60mph, only 10-20mph.
Is there a study that confirms this? I would like to disagree that our brain is incapable of processing the world at 60mph.
At 60 mph, the world is indeed moving much faster. There is more information that passes before our eyes going 60 mph than going 3 mph in any given time period. Our mind is very selective, and is incredible at filtering information to reduce information overload.
Even at 60 mph, though, our brain still pays attention (incredibly!) to detail. If you concentrate on the road and do not get distracted, you will be amazed at how much detail you can catch, process, remember and still control.
Do not confuse "inability to process the world at 60 mph" with "too preoccupied with own thoughts to notice the world". Oftentimes when we are walking and have things on our mind, we will hardly pay attention to the sidewalk, to the storefronts, even to passersby. Much of the time people are just as preoccupied when driving, but not paying attention to detail should not be attributed to the fact that we're travelling at 20X the speed we're walking.
The danger lies that we can react just so quickly. If it takes us 1 second from the time we recognize a situation, make a decision about it, send electric impulse to our muscles at 3 mph, it still takes us the same 1 second at 60 mph, even at 600 mph. A whole lot can happen during that 1 second, and the faster we go the more dangerous it becomes.
Does this mean we can't process the world at higher speeds? I think it becomes more and more challenging, but 60 mph is nothing to fret about.
Any lack of desire to study things has nothing to do with belief in ID/creationism/existence or absense of any supernatural being.
Personally, I don't know why belief in ID has to automatically exclude all science, research and scientific method. ID, in theory, is separate from religion, and does not advocate the existence of one being or another.
I have vast interest in acquiring your phone data for the bargain price of $110 that you quoted. I will be happy to transfer you the money. I employ you to offer 5 minutes of your time to dedicate to this highly important nature of the matter.
Please provide your bank account information that I may promptly deposit the funds.
It may also be of interest to you that it has been revealed to me through my team of lawyers and financial advisors that I have inherited large money. I would beg you to consider helping me to recover the money - your loyalty will not go unrewarded.
There may be a delay in our communication, as I have to bypass the security spies of our Nigerian government.
I trust you will reply to this matter in good faith.
Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for.
A little more tolerant definition. Faith is not limited to religious uses, and without faith certain (if not many) scientific discoveries would not have been made.
But this is slashdot, where narrowminded, snarky remarks of intolerance are modded up.
Even a casual reading of Genesis 1 and 2 shows logical inconsistencies in things as basic as to the order of Creation.
And it is fascinating that it occurs in the same book written by the same writer. Because he thought that nobody would catch the inconsistency. And he himself did not want it to be logically convincing. Brilliant!
That aside, I will ask for this: details. Please provide details of what you think is inconsistent.
It has been my impression that Genesis does not support one physical shape of the earth or the other. It simply speaks of the order of creation, and what appeared before what. Which it does in remarkable agreement with what science perceives appeared at what stage and order.
But that is not the point. May I ask what you feel makes the Genesis account support flat disc/dome idea of "cosmology"?
Interestingly enough, Hebrew scripture writers wrote of the "circle" of the earth and "sphere", also the earth hanging upon nothing. Hundreds of years BCE (before common era).
Since I was not there and the only take on the story I have is what you have provided, I dare say it had nothing to do with the question at hand but with your motive and perhaps manner of speaking.
You make it sound like Jehovah's Witnesses support slavery, teach slavery or promote it. The fact of the matter is, they don't.
However, consider something. I will allow you to answer your own question by asking this: is working for a company wrong? Is working for a box factory for minimum wage wrong? Is working for a silk factory for $1 day wrong? Is working for food wrong?
So, do I support slavery if I say that there isn't anything wrong to be "owned" by someone in order to live? It is unfair, at the very least, but your employer owns 40 hours of your time a week, so that you could "survive". Again, is it wrong? You answer it.
In x number of years (perhaps decades, or centuries) someone will look at the menial tasks performed by MacDonald's employees for $7.25 and will call it inhumane, intolerable,.... even slavery. Who knows? Again, is it wrong?
I'm sorry for being so harsh, but after the umpteen-hundreth time of people demonstrating their ignorance and making the same flagrantly INVALID arguments it tends to get a bit tedious and one tends to lose patients.
Between your loss of patients and sasking, and making up words like ththat I proclaim that you're full of it and hence your entire argument is wrong. In fact, you're a stellar example of why the ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY IS WRONG.
Long live $sys$Religious $sys$Extremism, $sys$not Science!
:)
You forgot to add "In Well-Developed Nations"
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Which make up a small percentage of the world population. Specifically, your comment on plain malnutrition being rarities is largely mistaken on the global scale. I will need to dig up the report from UN, but trust me, it is no rarity. The statistics introduced by it are just staggering. 1 in 4 goes to bed hungry every day, and the percentage of malnourished people is quite large (i will refrain from quoting any number because i don't remember at present).
Lice and bed bugs, while not so common in well developed countries (excluding unsanitary conditions) are still widely spread in central/latin america. It is significant enough even here in Canada that I stumbled upon a leaflet in doctor's office on how to spot bed bugs and how to clean your place from them, even lice. The leaflet has 2005 as the year printed.
* The vast majority of people sleep in their own beds, in warm bedrooms.
The vast majority of where, again? Worldwide, there is a huge housing crisis. In some countries people who are fortunate enough to have a bed still go to sleep in COLD bedrooms because their heating is turned off in -20 degree weather. Former USSR is just one examples of hoarding communities like that.
A significant percentage of world populace goes to sleep hungry in a shoebox.
* Most people take hot soapy showers every day; soap and hot running water are available in restaurants and workplaces.
Unfortunately, soap is not simply a right, it's a luxury in various places around the world still. The good news is that you do not need crystal clear and pure water to wash yourself, you can do it in a local river near a village with a bar of soap.
I did not disagree with your point of view, but it was rather limited to a civilized, developed world. And just a small percentage of world population has access to all the items you listed, while majority don't to at least some of them.
Actually, they can read instanteneous speed without GPS.
Our units (not OnStar) can trigger an alarm at any time the vehicle reaches a certain speed. It can be set by the user (for example, whenever the vehicle reaches 90 mph, send an alarm).
As for privacy... the engine diagnostics cannot really do much there, but the whole GPS system on the whole provides OnStar (or whoever) with information that they (usually) store in their database. So your driving history is saved.
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What is incredible, though, is human brain's interpretation. We would never be able to tell a difference in time that it takes for the light to go from across the street to our retina...
but our brain (our sight) looks ahead, meaning that if a car is driving by and we want to trace it with our eyes, we do not look at where it was a second ago, we look at where it will be at the time when the light will hit the retina and our brain will process the information - sort of looking ahead, based on the pattern/speed/direction of its movement.
2. Sleep on it
We have been discussing MIcrosoft on this site before, how it would often make announcements about its upcoming technology (something that competes with existing technology) and where businesses and consumers would not buy current products and services from competing manufacturers because all were awaiting this great, low cost, high feature product from Microsoft.
Only to discover that good quality products have disappeared because they companies had to shut down, and Microsoft either did not deliver or delivered something that was very poorly done.
Nothing personal, it's just that if I'm going to play the part of a grammar nazi, I should be insulting.
Bah! Nothing personal? You must be new here, or you're one of the Neo-Grammar-Nazis, they are a bunch of pussies, I tell ya.
GPS and cellular technology work in this way:
phone (or other device) gets its location from GPS.
it then sends this location to a server via cellular data signal.
If you remove the SIM card, the phone will not register with the network, and unless it is sending its data to emergency 911 server, no information is sent.
Most devices are capable of storing history in case they go out of coverage area. So even if you remove the SIM card, the moment you put it back all the data is dumped to the server.
The only solution is, remove the battery, or "forget" the phone in the office.
My cable ISP, Rogers (located in Canada) is already capping BitTorrent traffic. Interesting enough, it will permit torrents with extension *.exe to download fast, but everything else (*.avi, *.mpg, etc...) is blocked virtually to a standstill (1-2 KB/s, and 5-10 KB/s if I'm lucky).
What can I do? Not much, other than try to switch to its only competitor where high speed is concerned, Bell. Is there any guarantee they won't do it soon either?
When contacting Rogers, I was told that they have the right to "prioritize" traffic, giving priority to email and web surfing (like I need 3 Mb/s for that!). They may introduce a new price plan that truly offers unlimited, or they may cripple bittorrent altogether because their infrastructure is taxed.
touche, man, touche
You can use it as a USB drive as well.
Peter Griffin: Gays don't vomit. They're a very clean people. And they've been that way ever since they came over to this country from France.
;)
So now they are developing a "queero" search engine to locate them all?
A new study, commenced by xxxxxxxxx found that Windows 95/98/Me operating systems are more secure than Windows 2000/XP.
[small font] The study was based on [insert number here] 1 [/insert number here] test(s). [/small font]
Coming up next: which is more secure, Windows or Linux?
"Network Operations Centre" Centre?
Our minds are not Designed to process the world at 60mph, only 10-20mph.
Is there a study that confirms this? I would like to disagree that our brain is incapable of processing the world at 60mph.
At 60 mph, the world is indeed moving much faster. There is more information that passes before our eyes going 60 mph than going 3 mph in any given time period. Our mind is very selective, and is incredible at filtering information to reduce information overload.
Even at 60 mph, though, our brain still pays attention (incredibly!) to detail. If you concentrate on the road and do not get distracted, you will be amazed at how much detail you can catch, process, remember and still control.
Do not confuse "inability to process the world at 60 mph" with "too preoccupied with own thoughts to notice the world". Oftentimes when we are walking and have things on our mind, we will hardly pay attention to the sidewalk, to the storefronts, even to passersby. Much of the time people are just as preoccupied when driving, but not paying attention to detail should not be attributed to the fact that we're travelling at 20X the speed we're walking.
The danger lies that we can react just so quickly. If it takes us 1 second from the time we recognize a situation, make a decision about it, send electric impulse to our muscles at 3 mph, it still takes us the same 1 second at 60 mph, even at 600 mph. A whole lot can happen during that 1 second, and the faster we go the more dangerous it becomes.
Does this mean we can't process the world at higher speeds? I think it becomes more and more challenging, but 60 mph is nothing to fret about.
Shouldn't have listened to NSync, now, should you? ;)
Any lack of desire to study things has nothing to do with belief in ID/creationism/existence or absense of any supernatural being.
:)
Personally, I don't know why belief in ID has to automatically exclude all science, research and scientific method. ID, in theory, is separate from religion, and does not advocate the existence of one being or another.
Just my opinion, of course
Maybe i didn't catch your point, but what is your beef with chiropractors?
You can either take tylenol/advil for back pain relief, or visit the chirpractor (if the cause is physiological, located in the muscles of the back).
You can even be your own chiropractor by doing various exercises to put your back in order/better shape.
Dear Friend,
I have vast interest in acquiring your phone data for the bargain price of $110 that you quoted. I will be happy to transfer you the money. I employ you to offer 5 minutes of your time to dedicate to this highly important nature of the matter.
Please provide your bank account information that I may promptly deposit the funds.
It may also be of interest to you that it has been revealed to me through my team of lawyers and financial advisors that I have inherited large money. I would beg you to consider helping me to recover the money - your loyalty will not go unrewarded.
There may be a delay in our communication, as I have to bypass the security spies of our Nigerian government.
I trust you will reply to this matter in good faith.
[Royal] Prince
Mustapha Abadallah
Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for.
A little more tolerant definition. Faith is not limited to religious uses, and without faith certain (if not many) scientific discoveries would not have been made.
But this is slashdot, where narrowminded, snarky remarks of intolerance are modded up.
Even a casual reading of Genesis 1 and 2 shows logical inconsistencies in things as basic as to the order of Creation.
And it is fascinating that it occurs in the same book written by the same writer. Because he thought that nobody would catch the inconsistency. And he himself did not want it to be logically convincing. Brilliant!
That aside, I will ask for this: details. Please provide details of what you think is inconsistent.
It has been my impression that Genesis does not support one physical shape of the earth or the other. It simply speaks of the order of creation, and what appeared before what. Which it does in remarkable agreement with what science perceives appeared at what stage and order.
But that is not the point. May I ask what you feel makes the Genesis account support flat disc/dome idea of "cosmology"?
Interestingly enough, Hebrew scripture writers wrote of the "circle" of the earth and "sphere", also the earth hanging upon nothing. Hundreds of years BCE (before common era).
Since I was not there and the only take on the story I have is what you have provided, I dare say it had nothing to do with the question at hand but with your motive and perhaps manner of speaking.
.... even slavery. Who knows? Again, is it wrong?
You make it sound like Jehovah's Witnesses support slavery, teach slavery or promote it. The fact of the matter is, they don't.
However, consider something. I will allow you to answer your own question by asking this: is working for a company wrong? Is working for a box factory for minimum wage wrong? Is working for a silk factory for $1 day wrong? Is working for food wrong?
So, do I support slavery if I say that there isn't anything wrong to be "owned" by someone in order to live? It is unfair, at the very least, but your employer owns 40 hours of your time a week, so that you could "survive". Again, is it wrong? You answer it.
In x number of years (perhaps decades, or centuries) someone will look at the menial tasks performed by MacDonald's employees for $7.25 and will call it inhumane, intolerable,
I'm sorry for being so harsh, but after the umpteen-hundreth time of people demonstrating their ignorance and making the same flagrantly INVALID arguments it tends to get a bit tedious and one tends to lose patients.
:)
Between your loss of patients and sasking, and making up words like ththat I proclaim that you're full of it and hence your entire argument is wrong. In fact, you're a stellar example of why the ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY IS WRONG.
Long live $sys$Religious $sys$Extremism, $sys$not Science!
Which make up a small percentage of the world population. Specifically, your comment on plain malnutrition being rarities is largely mistaken on the global scale. I will need to dig up the report from UN, but trust me, it is no rarity. The statistics introduced by it are just staggering. 1 in 4 goes to bed hungry every day, and the percentage of malnourished people is quite large (i will refrain from quoting any number because i don't remember at present).
Lice and bed bugs, while not so common in well developed countries (excluding unsanitary conditions) are still widely spread in central/latin america. It is significant enough even here in Canada that I stumbled upon a leaflet in doctor's office on how to spot bed bugs and how to clean your place from them, even lice. The leaflet has 2005 as the year printed.
* The vast majority of people sleep in their own beds, in warm bedrooms.
The vast majority of where, again? Worldwide, there is a huge housing crisis. In some countries people who are fortunate enough to have a bed still go to sleep in COLD bedrooms because their heating is turned off in -20 degree weather. Former USSR is just one examples of hoarding communities like that.
A significant percentage of world populace goes to sleep hungry in a shoebox.
* Most people take hot soapy showers every day; soap and hot running water are available in restaurants and workplaces.
Unfortunately, soap is not simply a right, it's a luxury in various places around the world still. The good news is that you do not need crystal clear and pure water to wash yourself, you can do it in a local river near a village with a bar of soap.
I did not disagree with your point of view, but it was rather limited to a civilized, developed world. And just a small percentage of world population has access to all the items you listed, while majority don't to at least some of them.
Brillian!
Yes, let's put bigger and bigger screens. Now that we have all this space, why not make bigger keyboards? Perhaps including a numeric keypad.
Actually, let's make a full size keyboard that folds out of the case.
But now, what if I want to move my keyboard here and the screen there? Why don't we separate the components? What's that you say? Brilliant? Indeed!
Let's have a separate 20" LCD, a separate keyboard, and the pc itself, which I can actually store under my desk to remove the clutter...
And now, I shall file my patents.
My favourite for font resizing is CTRL + mouse wheel up or down.
Actually, they can read instanteneous speed without GPS.
Our units (not OnStar) can trigger an alarm at any time the vehicle reaches a certain speed. It can be set by the user (for example, whenever the vehicle reaches 90 mph, send an alarm).
As for privacy... the engine diagnostics cannot really do much there, but the whole GPS system on the whole provides OnStar (or whoever) with information that they (usually) store in their database. So your driving history is saved.