All of these tasks originally required a lot of conscious control and expenditure of brain power (and in the case of skiing, a lot of bruises). And as long as it stays at this level, it stays awkward and stilted. It is at the point in which you transcend the raw mechanics and are capable of controlling it at a higher level (which is what this study found), that the skier becomes graceful, the video game player can race through flaming rotating death traps in super mario brothers, and the space shuttle control can quickly and adroitly manipulate stuff. This is all very true, but I noticed a strange fact with myself: be it driving or skiing or playing baseball or whatever, every time I undergo this transition from having to schedule every movement consciously to everything coming natural to me I seem to get worse for a while - that is, I fall more often, I miss more throws, and so on. This used to be an endless source of frustration when training as a kid, it's kind of maddening when you notice that the more you practice the less you are able to accomplish. Eventually, with enough patience and some more training I usually start to improve again.
I guess I'm just wondering if I have something weird in my brain or if this is a widely known fact.
AFAIK, pressure and temperature should be within definite ranges for water to be in liquid state. My question is, if Mars was once able to support liquid water on its surface and now it isn't, what has happened to the planet and the atmosphere in the meantime? Why is it different now? Could it happen to the Earth as well? What do we know about these kind of things? Are there any studies, evidence, and so on?
It doesn't look so brilliant to me. What will happen to downloadable content, swap space for games, huge savegames (I'm thinking about Morrowind) and so on? Moreover, even if they manage to fit that into some 512 Mb of Flash RAM, that memory would be very difficult to upgrade (I'm speaking about orders of magnitude here, maybe someone could manage to solder a 1 Gb module or so but that would still not enough), and that means no more ripping games and saving them into an ordinary IDE HD. Yes, stopping piracy is the thing that M$ wants, but (as they've taught us with Windows) before thinking about piracy you should own the Greatest and Only Marketshare, which they still don't.
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I guess I'm just wondering if I have something weird in my brain or if this is a widely known fact.
AFAIK, pressure and temperature should be within definite ranges for water to be in liquid state. My question is, if Mars was once able to support liquid water on its surface and now it isn't, what has happened to the planet and the atmosphere in the meantime? Why is it different now? Could it happen to the Earth as well? What do we know about these kind of things? Are there any studies, evidence, and so on?
It doesn't look so brilliant to me. What will happen to downloadable content, swap space for games, huge savegames (I'm thinking about Morrowind) and so on? Moreover, even if they manage to fit that into some 512 Mb of Flash RAM, that memory would be very difficult to upgrade (I'm speaking about orders of magnitude here, maybe someone could manage to solder a 1 Gb module or so but that would still not enough), and that means no more ripping games and saving them into an ordinary IDE HD. Yes, stopping piracy is the thing that M$ wants, but (as they've taught us with Windows) before thinking about piracy you should own the Greatest and Only Marketshare, which they still don't.