While the platform is somewhat unorthodox, I've seen 3d graphics engines use similar techniques for awhile. A decade ago I saw a demo for an ASCII FPS in QBASIC that completely relied on characters to interpret depth and perspective for the viewer, which is essentially what this does but to a simplified degree. I'm sure there was a lot of creativity involved in creating the "screen" though, so in that respect I am amused but not impressed.
I couldn't find a link to read the article but here is the abstract.
For the lazy: Middle aged / young rats are put in a 3D maze with some middle-aged mice receiving 6 minute daily doses of IR. Middle aged mice treated with IR show (nebulously-termed) improved memory but do not navigate the 3D maze more quickly as a result.
Doesn't sound like such the panacea the Dailymail article makes it out to be.
... but isn't this easily solved by placing a grounded metal surface (faraday cage) around your electronics? The only consideration then is ensuring that your cage is thicker than the skin depth that the waves can penetrate at the primary harmonic of 10 MHz, which looks to come out to about 1cm.
I concur with this. My first and only experience with contributing to wikipedia involved adding a single line years ago about an application of pascal's triangle to geometry I had learned in class. I checked back a week later and it was simply gone. I guess someone considered it too insignificant to be considered part of the article, but it certainly stopped my inclination toward contributing again.
I saw a highschool-aged kid show one of these off at the Florida State Science Fair several years ago. I had heard about the concept prior as well. While it is an interesting idea, it should not be presented as brand-spanking new.
Perhaps 70 days/play'ed is impressive for someone with a 9-5 job, but I can guarantee that over half the people in my guild had more than that played - granted the majority of my guild are college students - and are probably just about as socially productive. This guy was not as hardcore as many players, and as far as I know there are no well-known RP guilds (he mentioned his guild RPs) so he's probably bullshitting about his fame as well. I don't buy his story, and how 30 hours a week was so hard to pull off with a 9-5 job, because there are 168 hours in a week.
Anyway, one thing playing WoW in a major end-game guild that has been top 10 in raiding since the beginning is that I learned how to manage time incredibly well. If you have no self control, don't have your priorities straight (which for me school is #1), and you are wasteful with what free time you have outside of raids and your other obligations, you will be dissatisfied with where your life is going. I have a feeling this guy is just one of those people who is highly susceptible to social pressure: If he had been addicted to something more socially acceptable (but equally destructive) such as alcohol, I doubt he would have written this post.
... is there anything from google that *isn't* in beta? I spent a good 10 minutes thinking of possible services that could be provided by Google and they're ALL there, ALL (minus two, one including the basic search engine itself) that are not in beta. See http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/
From the article:
"A remarkably high proportion of people seem to like living in cities. With the staggering amounts of wealth that will be freed up by not having any frail people around any more, it will become practical to build very high-quality urban accommodation for everyone, and the density of that accommodation is such that a population of at least 20 billion will hardly encroach at all on the amount of rural space that currently exists," he said.
This is based on the assumption that a state of stasis with regards to aging is possible. If you simply elongate life, wouldn't you elongate the period a person is infirmed before they ultimately die? Seems kind of cruel to me in a way - and costly.
How does the mental age scale with elongating physical age? Did this process increase the time it takes to reach sexual maturity? That's what I would like to know. Extending the process of reaching mental matury might greatly increase the amount of knowledge children can acquire during their impressionable years.
Their purported reason for bringing this lawsuit about was to punish this woman for damaging the reputation of the company, and yet having the filing of the suit appear on numerous websites such as/. is somehow good for its reputation?
Now/. is usually fair enough in its blurbs about articles, but what is going on with the title of this one? "U.S. Won't Let Go of DNS" connotes the U.S. is doing something wrong, which is certainly not the case of the opinions of most others here carry any weight. Too bad we can't mod down the Zonk's post for trolling:\
As long as the spelling/grammar is not too far off from what we're used to, I don't see what the big deal is. I think what the OP asks is absurd because well most of the rules and regulations of English are arbitrary standards that prominent people established as acceptable. It's the same reason why Latin was the accepted language of the upper tier of society all over until last century even though the republic it originated from had been defunct for over a thousand years. To me it's one of the most awkward-sounding, unstructured languages out there but it persisted (disregarding catholics) because of elitist people searching for a complicated standard that commoners would have trouble with.
There's no board of English-speaking people that establishes these rules as far as I know, but some grammar books try to change the rules every couple years to make schools repurchase to keep current. The trend is generally toward simplicity though and well internet speak is pretty simple if you ask me, even if it does look a little crazy to those not acquainted with the web.
Get off these peoples' backs. They should probably know what society expects of them as far as grammar goes, and ignorance shouldn't be a badge of honor, but languages are always diverging and being assimilated into others.
Nearly my entire life I've grappled with some of what you are talking about. Despite living in a large city, people around me were constantly telling me how bright I was and well, it extends through today. I suppose math was my forte and and I had moderate success, a few strange ideas (I was fixated on Pascal's Triangle for like a year). It was very easy to feed into what people said, so I coped by attempting seemingly impossible tasks. Although this only resulted in people thinking I was more intelligent, it was extremely effective in showing to me that I am nothing unless I prove myself worthy. I draw on personal experience from my family because well, what you describe is the story of their lives, and well, not surprisingly, they all lead unhappy lives: low-paying jobs, numerous ailments of the mind, divorced, etc). If you are what you say you are, you should try to develop a certain amount of discipline before your life ends up like so many others, because society hardly ever throws bones to those who don't "contribute", as you make yourself out to be. I am in your position (age-wise) but tend to be the obsessive type rather than the dabbler in many things you make yourself out to be. Also, never seek any sort of gratification from people (as exemplified here it seems). If you are who you say you are (unless you're the next Einstein or Ramanujan), you CAN find the discipline to jump through the hoops that are higher education and achieve your ends.
I'm going to blame Comcast for never getting my World of Warcraft beta e-mail:) There was a big stink about that awhile back where Comcast blocked all of Blizzard's e-mails to their customers.
I've been playing various versions of DDR (as well as Stepmania) for about two years. I couldn't even jog a mile, heck I couldn't walk it without cramping up, but since then I've been able to pass pretty much every song (sans Paranoia Survivor Max Oni), and through this, I can now run a mile in less than seven minutes. I wasn't ever fat to begin with so unfortunately I don't have any I lost 100 lbs story, but wow, having not done any other physical activity besides type on a computer for close to 6 years (when I quit soccer due to lack of being in shape), I can run a freakin 6:40 mile. Hail DDR in all its nerd-refining glory!
C++ at least had some value to it beyond dang applets. Having taken the Comp AB test last year when it was C++ based I would say a majority of the test would not translate over this year. A lot of my friends who took it this year said it was far too easy (this coming from people who got 2's last year). For example, C++ forces one to understand the construction of a binary tree to parse data, but Java has built-in commands such as those for linked lists, so what are kids actually learning? Java is, in a word, cheap. Sorry to all those who think it has some merit beyond being way too user-friendly.
.. then the cost of their products should go down proportionally to the amount of jobs shipped overseas (well not directly, but you know). How much have the prices of Intel's products actually gone down? One could argue that the extra profits would allow Intel to fund more research, but unfortunately I do not think this money has begun to trickle down, a la Reagan *cough*. Perhaps it got stuck in the CEO filter?
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While the platform is somewhat unorthodox, I've seen 3d graphics engines use similar techniques for awhile. A decade ago I saw a demo for an ASCII FPS in QBASIC that completely relied on characters to interpret depth and perspective for the viewer, which is essentially what this does but to a simplified degree. I'm sure there was a lot of creativity involved in creating the "screen" though, so in that respect I am amused but not impressed.
I couldn't find a link to read the article but here is the abstract.
For the lazy: Middle aged / young rats are put in a 3D maze with some middle-aged mice receiving 6 minute daily doses of IR. Middle aged mice treated with IR show (nebulously-termed) improved memory but do not navigate the 3D maze more quickly as a result.
Doesn't sound like such the panacea the Dailymail article makes it out to be.
... but isn't this easily solved by placing a grounded metal surface (faraday cage) around your electronics? The only consideration then is ensuring that your cage is thicker than the skin depth that the waves can penetrate at the primary harmonic of 10 MHz, which looks to come out to about 1cm.
I concur with this. My first and only experience with contributing to wikipedia involved adding a single line years ago about an application of pascal's triangle to geometry I had learned in class. I checked back a week later and it was simply gone. I guess someone considered it too insignificant to be considered part of the article, but it certainly stopped my inclination toward contributing again.
I saw a highschool-aged kid show one of these off at the Florida State Science Fair several years ago. I had heard about the concept prior as well. While it is an interesting idea, it should not be presented as brand-spanking new.
Perhaps 70 days /play'ed is impressive for someone with a 9-5 job, but I can guarantee that over half the people in my guild had more than that played - granted the majority of my guild are college students - and are probably just about as socially productive. This guy was not as hardcore as many players, and as far as I know there are no well-known RP guilds (he mentioned his guild RPs) so he's probably bullshitting about his fame as well. I don't buy his story, and how 30 hours a week was so hard to pull off with a 9-5 job, because there are 168 hours in a week.
Anyway, one thing playing WoW in a major end-game guild that has been top 10 in raiding since the beginning is that I learned how to manage time incredibly well. If you have no self control, don't have your priorities straight (which for me school is #1), and you are wasteful with what free time you have outside of raids and your other obligations, you will be dissatisfied with where your life is going. I have a feeling this guy is just one of those people who is highly susceptible to social pressure: If he had been addicted to something more socially acceptable (but equally destructive) such as alcohol, I doubt he would have written this post.
Some service from Google FINALLY left Beta.
... is there anything from google that *isn't* in beta? I spent a good 10 minutes thinking of possible services that could be provided by Google and they're ALL there, ALL (minus two, one including the basic search engine itself) that are not in beta. See http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/
This is based on the assumption that a state of stasis with regards to aging is possible. If you simply elongate life, wouldn't you elongate the period a person is infirmed before they ultimately die? Seems kind of cruel to me in a way - and costly.
How does the mental age scale with elongating physical age? Did this process increase the time it takes to reach sexual maturity? That's what I would like to know. Extending the process of reaching mental matury might greatly increase the amount of knowledge children can acquire during their impressionable years.
Their purported reason for bringing this lawsuit about was to punish this woman for damaging the reputation of the company, and yet having the filing of the suit appear on numerous websites such as /. is somehow good for its reputation?
Now /. is usually fair enough in its blurbs about articles, but what is going on with the title of this one? "U.S. Won't Let Go of DNS" connotes the U.S. is doing something wrong, which is certainly not the case of the opinions of most others here carry any weight. Too bad we can't mod down the Zonk's post for trolling :\
Good thing I am disagreeing with proper english because /. definitely poofed my paragraphs :)
As long as the spelling/grammar is not too far off from what we're used to, I don't see what the big deal is. I think what the OP asks is absurd because well most of the rules and regulations of English are arbitrary standards that prominent people established as acceptable. It's the same reason why Latin was the accepted language of the upper tier of society all over until last century even though the republic it originated from had been defunct for over a thousand years. To me it's one of the most awkward-sounding, unstructured languages out there but it persisted (disregarding catholics) because of elitist people searching for a complicated standard that commoners would have trouble with. There's no board of English-speaking people that establishes these rules as far as I know, but some grammar books try to change the rules every couple years to make schools repurchase to keep current. The trend is generally toward simplicity though and well internet speak is pretty simple if you ask me, even if it does look a little crazy to those not acquainted with the web. Get off these peoples' backs. They should probably know what society expects of them as far as grammar goes, and ignorance shouldn't be a badge of honor, but languages are always diverging and being assimilated into others.
Nearly my entire life I've grappled with some of what you are talking about. Despite living in a large city, people around me were constantly telling me how bright I was and well, it extends through today. I suppose math was my forte and and I had moderate success, a few strange ideas (I was fixated on Pascal's Triangle for like a year). It was very easy to feed into what people said, so I coped by attempting seemingly impossible tasks. Although this only resulted in people thinking I was more intelligent, it was extremely effective in showing to me that I am nothing unless I prove myself worthy. I draw on personal experience from my family because well, what you describe is the story of their lives, and well, not surprisingly, they all lead unhappy lives: low-paying jobs, numerous ailments of the mind, divorced, etc). If you are what you say you are, you should try to develop a certain amount of discipline before your life ends up like so many others, because society hardly ever throws bones to those who don't "contribute", as you make yourself out to be. I am in your position (age-wise) but tend to be the obsessive type rather than the dabbler in many things you make yourself out to be. Also, never seek any sort of gratification from people (as exemplified here it seems). If you are who you say you are (unless you're the next Einstein or Ramanujan), you CAN find the discipline to jump through the hoops that are higher education and achieve your ends.
I'm going to blame Comcast for never getting my World of Warcraft beta e-mail :) There was a big stink about that awhile back where Comcast blocked all of Blizzard's e-mails to their customers.
I must be the saddest 18 yr old ever if I knew the significance of 1729 for a few years. I guess that's why I'm majoring in EECS -_-;
I've been playing various versions of DDR (as well as Stepmania) for about two years. I couldn't even jog a mile, heck I couldn't walk it without cramping up, but since then I've been able to pass pretty much every song (sans Paranoia Survivor Max Oni), and through this, I can now run a mile in less than seven minutes. I wasn't ever fat to begin with so unfortunately I don't have any I lost 100 lbs story, but wow, having not done any other physical activity besides type on a computer for close to 6 years (when I quit soccer due to lack of being in shape), I can run a freakin 6:40 mile. Hail DDR in all its nerd-refining glory!
C++ at least had some value to it beyond dang applets. Having taken the Comp AB test last year when it was C++ based I would say a majority of the test would not translate over this year. A lot of my friends who took it this year said it was far too easy (this coming from people who got 2's last year). For example, C++ forces one to understand the construction of a binary tree to parse data, but Java has built-in commands such as those for linked lists, so what are kids actually learning? Java is, in a word, cheap. Sorry to all those who think it has some merit beyond being way too user-friendly.
.. then the cost of their products should go down proportionally to the amount of jobs shipped overseas (well not directly, but you know). How much have the prices of Intel's products actually gone down? One could argue that the extra profits would allow Intel to fund more research, but unfortunately I do not think this money has begun to trickle down, a la Reagan *cough*. Perhaps it got stuck in the CEO filter?