Geek.com has an article (probabky not an original reference) that indicates excessive game play changes brainwave patterns.
http://geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Jul/gam200207090 15292.htm
Long story short, the games stimulate your visual memory and create a sense of heightened anxiety to help amplify the intensity of the memory, so it's not surprising that visual cues in the real world which "seem familiar" will cause disassociative thinking.
It's funny how these games are creating a generation of Pavlov's dogs, and tragic that people don't realize how much the mass media and so called entertainment is actually conditioning them.
The trick, of course, is whether you still have a strong enough grasp on reality not to act on these impulses. If the answer is no, you really should consider another hobby, or possibly getting some mental help.
What kind of IT/MIS group takes a mail server down for two days without using a queueing relay server to avoid creating undeliverable mail on servers all over the place? Who the heck (in their right mind) puts an exchange server directly on the internet anyway (without using a border mail server)?
When these guys took their server down, the amount of spam I was getting probably decreased too... Can you say "open relay"?
America needs to get over its manic paranoia regarding nuclear power if it expects to continue to meet the energy needs of its industrial base and mass population centers without strip mining the south east and burning millions of tons of coal.
Nuclear reactors are safe, and the waste produced (and I mean real waste, after multiple reprocessing) is substantially less harmful to the population than the by-products of burning fossil fuels at an equivalent rate. New reactor technologies (like pebble-bed reactors) are fool-proof and stunningly cost-effective versus heavy water reactor designs, and could easily be deployed in proximity to high demand areas, eliminating the need for the (re)construction of a massive (nationwide) power transport grid.
Allergies are much more common in the modern "Western world" than in, for instance, the old "East block". And this even though there is a much higher percentage of coal used in heating homes... What I would personally like to see, is more research focused on this...
Sure, we could do more research, or we could just look quickly at the inferences and jump to a rash decision that would have a positive economic impact. The way I interpret your data, burning huge amount of coal should eliminate allergies! Imagine it, coal burning cars, coal heating our homes, 100% power generation from coal. Recent surveys say North America has enough coal to last 100 years... let the good times roll!!! (cough, cough).
I have both Windows and Linux desktops at home, and I never backup anything. The way I figure it, all the software on my Windows box came on CDs, so I already have backup copies of everything I paid for, and I don't have reams of data just lying around on my HD that I need to backup. If it weren't for the occasional crash, I'd probably never reinstall my PC, so my Athlon XP 2800+ would run like a 486/66.
Linux changes so much and so often, you pretty much have to reinstall twice a year anyway, if you want to stay current, so I don't see an issue there either... and of course, all PC hardware is obsolete after 18 months, so reinstalling periodically is inevitable.
(Sarcasm mode off)
These things are crap... Everyone I know who bought one has returned it at least once because of the 1" HD "hard locking". One friend has been through 5 units so far, with the average lifespan being 7-10 days per unit.
I haven't heard similar things about the iPod (anyone?), but I suspect it's the 1" HDs that are to blame, rather than the design of the unit housing them.
The place you're working for is a sinking ship... they've run out of cash, and they're trying to download the costs of doing business on to their employees. Having lived through the dot.com bomb, I've seen this thing a half dozen times. If you don't play ball, you'll get bad reviews, and you'll eventually be dismissed for your "poor attitude".
Better start looking for a new gig.
S
You guys are a bunch of enviro-hippies who don't seem to understand the economics of running any kind of a business. The construction cost of the plant is one thing, but you've COMPLETELY IGNORED the operating costs. How is all that organic waste going to get to these plants? How is the oil going to get to market? "Thermal Conversion"? Sounds like you're going to need to put energy in to get oil out, and that means the process won't become appreciably cheaper when you scale it up.
This is just another useless project, that produces an oil substitute for tens (if not hundreds) of times what the world market price of oil is. And don't kid yourself, if oil actually was expensive enough to make this sort of lunacy viable, no one would be able to use it for anything. Look at BioDiesel, which costs 4$-5$ a gallon, another white elephant invented by tree huggers.
500 barrels a day @ 40$ barrel = 20,000$ / day
There isn't a refinery (or waste management plant, or power plant for that matter) in the world that can operate for that, and even less so under EPA regulation.
I don't know where the rest of these so called Canadians have been living all their lives, but let me tell you, EVERYTHING is more expensive here. It's the Canadian way, for Christ's sake.
Example: Comprehensive health care for a family of four in most parts of the US is about 6000$ a year. I pay more than 20000$ just for myself, and I should count myself luckly if I can get to see a doctor within two weeks, and a specialist within a year.
Why are cell phones more expensive in Canada? Socialism. I have no doubt there are at least fourteen hidden taxes from the various levels of government buried in the price of every damn thing I buy.
The sky is blue on earth because of the predominantly nitrogen atmosphere and the effect that atmosphere has on whole light; The so called "scattering" or defraction effect that someone else eluded to.
The Atmosphere on Mars is predominately carbon dioxide, which would yield a different color from earth(I would suspect red-ish), plus a dab of blue for the nitrogen (second most abundant gas) and I'm not sure what for the Argon 40 isotope (third).
Reddish-brown seems sensible to me.
Tks.
This run-away reaction they're warning us about starts at 140F... that's pretty warm to the touch, and if your devices get that warm when you're using or charging them, you really should contemplate the safety engineering of the device in question.
e.g. I have a Siemens cell phone with a li-ion battery, and it *never* gets warm, even if I run the battery down from a full charge to completely flat (over two hours on the phone). My girlfriend's Samsung phone, also using a li-ion battery, is warm to the touch after 5 minutes of talk time.
If the gas tank on one (or more) manufacturers cars reached ignition temperature during operation, would we blame the characteristics of gasoline for the fires?
Caveat Emptor.
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Why, does mars have vast oil reserves?
S
Geek.com has an article (probabky not an original reference) that indicates excessive game play changes brainwave patterns. http://geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Jul/gam200207090 15292.htm
Long story short, the games stimulate your visual memory and create a sense of heightened anxiety to help amplify the intensity of the memory, so it's not surprising that visual cues in the real world which "seem familiar" will cause disassociative thinking.
It's funny how these games are creating a generation of Pavlov's dogs, and tragic that people don't realize how much the mass media and so called entertainment is actually conditioning them.
The trick, of course, is whether you still have a strong enough grasp on reality not to act on these impulses. If the answer is no, you really should consider another hobby, or possibly getting some mental help.
What kind of IT/MIS group takes a mail server down for two days without using a queueing relay server to avoid creating undeliverable mail on servers all over the place? Who the heck (in their right mind) puts an exchange server directly on the internet anyway (without using a border mail server)? When these guys took their server down, the amount of spam I was getting probably decreased too... Can you say "open relay"?
America needs to get over its manic paranoia regarding nuclear power if it expects to continue to meet the energy needs of its industrial base and mass population centers without strip mining the south east and burning millions of tons of coal.
Nuclear reactors are safe, and the waste produced (and I mean real waste, after multiple reprocessing) is substantially less harmful to the population than the by-products of burning fossil fuels at an equivalent rate. New reactor technologies (like pebble-bed reactors) are fool-proof and stunningly cost-effective versus heavy water reactor designs, and could easily be deployed in proximity to high demand areas, eliminating the need for the (re)construction of a massive (nationwide) power transport grid.
Is there another choice? Sure, go live in a cave.
Allergies are much more common in the modern "Western world" than in, for instance, the old "East block". And this even though there is a much higher percentage of coal used in heating homes... What I would personally like to see, is more research focused on this...
Sure, we could do more research, or we could just look quickly at the inferences and jump to a rash decision that would have a positive economic impact. The way I interpret your data, burning huge amount of coal should eliminate allergies! Imagine it, coal burning cars, coal heating our homes, 100% power generation from coal. Recent surveys say North America has enough coal to last 100 years... let the good times roll!!! (cough, cough).
S
I have both Windows and Linux desktops at home, and I never backup anything. The way I figure it, all the software on my Windows box came on CDs, so I already have backup copies of everything I paid for, and I don't have reams of data just lying around on my HD that I need to backup. If it weren't for the occasional crash, I'd probably never reinstall my PC, so my Athlon XP 2800+ would run like a 486/66. Linux changes so much and so often, you pretty much have to reinstall twice a year anyway, if you want to stay current, so I don't see an issue there either... and of course, all PC hardware is obsolete after 18 months, so reinstalling periodically is inevitable. (Sarcasm mode off)
These things are crap... Everyone I know who bought one has returned it at least once because of the 1" HD "hard locking". One friend has been through 5 units so far, with the average lifespan being 7-10 days per unit.
I haven't heard similar things about the iPod (anyone?), but I suspect it's the 1" HDs that are to blame, rather than the design of the unit housing them.
If I had known the first "I" was for "IOWA", I wouldn't haver clicked through on this one.
[Photocopy at library,
Download from Internet]
S
The place you're working for is a sinking ship ... they've run out of cash, and they're trying to download the costs of doing business on to their employees. Having lived through the dot.com bomb, I've seen this thing a half dozen times. If you don't play ball, you'll get bad reviews, and you'll eventually be dismissed for your "poor attitude".
Better start looking for a new gig.
S
You guys are a bunch of enviro-hippies who don't seem to understand the economics of running any kind of a business. The construction cost of the plant is one thing, but you've COMPLETELY IGNORED the operating costs. How is all that organic waste going to get to these plants? How is the oil going to get to market? "Thermal Conversion"? Sounds like you're going to need to put energy in to get oil out, and that means the process won't become appreciably cheaper when you scale it up.
This is just another useless project, that produces an oil substitute for tens (if not hundreds) of times what the world market price of oil is. And don't kid yourself, if oil actually was expensive enough to make this sort of lunacy viable, no one would be able to use it for anything. Look at BioDiesel, which costs 4$-5$ a gallon, another white elephant invented by tree huggers.
500 barrels a day @ 40$ barrel = 20,000$ / day
There isn't a refinery (or waste management plant, or power plant for that matter) in the world that can operate for that, and even less so under EPA regulation.
Stupid.
I don't know where the rest of these so called Canadians have been living all their lives, but let me tell you, EVERYTHING is more expensive here. It's the Canadian way, for Christ's sake.
Example: Comprehensive health care for a family of four in most parts of the US is about 6000$ a year. I pay more than 20000$ just for myself, and I should count myself luckly if I can get to see a doctor within two weeks, and a specialist within a year.
Why are cell phones more expensive in Canada? Socialism. I have no doubt there are at least fourteen hidden taxes from the various levels of government buried in the price of every damn thing I buy.
The sky is blue on earth because of the predominantly nitrogen atmosphere and the effect that atmosphere has on whole light; The so called "scattering" or defraction effect that someone else eluded to. The Atmosphere on Mars is predominately carbon dioxide, which would yield a different color from earth(I would suspect red-ish), plus a dab of blue for the nitrogen (second most abundant gas) and I'm not sure what for the Argon 40 isotope (third). Reddish-brown seems sensible to me. Tks.
This run-away reaction they're warning us about starts at 140F... that's pretty warm to the touch, and if your devices get that warm when you're using or charging them, you really should contemplate the safety engineering of the device in question. e.g. I have a Siemens cell phone with a li-ion battery, and it *never* gets warm, even if I run the battery down from a full charge to completely flat (over two hours on the phone). My girlfriend's Samsung phone, also using a li-ion battery, is warm to the touch after 5 minutes of talk time. If the gas tank on one (or more) manufacturers cars reached ignition temperature during operation, would we blame the characteristics of gasoline for the fires? Caveat Emptor.