As other posters have mentioned, playing games doesn't improve your "vision", but your "visual processing" capability. So it is likely that the improvement in your left eye is not due to playing UT. Still, congratulations on your better vision. I wish my eyes would spontaneously improve.
As long as we're throwing out anecdotal evidence...
January in Ottawa is usually -20 to -10 Celsius, but this year, we had rain on January 6th! The temperature that day was plus 10 Celsius. Rideau Canal, the world's longest outside skating rink, might not open this year unless the temperature stays low for an extended amount of time. I don't have a source for this unfortunately, but I don't think the canal has ever been closed for the entire year due to warm temperature.
Elsewhere in Canada, British Columbia is experiencing the third storm of the year. More people will be out of power, on top of the thousands that have already lost power this year due to storms. The roof of a stadium in Vancouver recently collapsed due to heavy rain and wind. I know we can't say this is a direct consequence of global warming, but I have to agree with another poster, the weather is certainly much stranger than I used to remember them.
At the risk of sounding like an idiot, could someone tell me how this works? Polonium 210 is a particular isotope of an atom, which should be identical to every polonium 210 isotope you find, right? So how do you trace the origin of an element which is identical to all other samples of the same element? Does the production of polonium 210 leave a particular signature? Perhaps the ratio of polonium 210 to other elements?
For Opera users, here is a userjs that does something very similar. If you're so inclined, you can also manually change what it blocks in the javascript itself.
That reminds me of the story of an intern's first day at work. The engineers asked the intern to bring back a one Farad capacitor. Needless to say, the intern came back empty handed... a few hours later.
My apology for not RTFA first, but my guess would be the controller they're using to assemble the data at the receiving end cannot process more data. Imagine a controller running at 1 MHz, it cannot process 2 million packets since it's not fast enough to look at each packet. So unfortunately, you can't just linearly scale up the system like you mentioned. This is probably very similar to the problem that we're facing today with optical networks. The amount of data we can pass through the fiber is too much for the switching equipment to handle, so we have to throttle the data.
If the actual article has the real explanation, please enlighten me.
Slightly off topic, but I'm wondering what else was part of the deal between the homeless man and the manager. To buy the PS3, the homeless man must've been given money that amounts to much more than 20,000 yen. So what's to stop the homeless man to just take that money and run? It's not like homeless man has any collateral. Perhaps his family? Then what's stopping a single homeless man who has nothing tying him down to just run for it?
Try that page in IE instead. I opened it in Opera and that was what I saw as well. But I know the interface is different in IE. Not too sure about which interface Firefox sees though.
A fellow engineer friend and I were talking about this actually. We were dreaming about somehow being brought back in time, and we could use that opportunity to teach everyone the technologies in the modern world. But we soon realized that despite being generally more knowledged than the public, we still had no idea how most things work in the modern society. We knew how things work theoretically and could apply some of that theory, in our respective fields, industrial and electrical engineering. However, I wouldn't be able to help them with designing a city for example. All the sewage systems, gas pipes, eletrical grid, zoning practices, the list goes on. So it's definitely a great idea to record most of the technological progress we've made in the past few millennium, both in electrical and hardcopy form.
Funny story. There was a guy in my residence that had an Alienware CASE with very average mid-range hardware inside. Every gamer that goes to his room would immediately start to comment on his Alienware PC, at which point, his roommate would quickly inform that person that it has just an Alienware case. Very entertaining to watch.:)
A bit off topic, but do you know if there exists such a video that applies to Canadians? Or is it safe to assume that I have the same rights? In the video, it said the rights those people excised derived from amendments 4, 5, and 6. Here in Canada, we have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I know that the Charter is pretty comprehensive in terms of what rights are guaranteed, but it's always safe to double check.
I studied the "normal" way and it still doesn't stick. A month after my Signals & Systems final, and I'm having trouble remembering exactly I studied in that course. I know, I know, anecdotal evidence, perhaps other people really do remember what they learn. I'm willing to bet I'm not in the minority here though.
Well written, and long:) , post. Unfortunatley, it's buried too deep in the comments for it to be modded up.
I was part of the Chinese system for 5 years before moving to the Western system. I hated all the memorization. That's a major reason why I despise biology, too much memorization. Anyway, I don't actually have a point. Just thought I'd say that your post was an interesting read for me.
Unfortunately, I don't think so. Like you, I also turned off the start up dialog. However, the way that Opera works now is actually quite smart. See, normally, I would start with a homepage. Opera respects that, and doesn't ask me every time. When it crashes though, it means the browser was killed at a time that the user was still using it. Therefore, it makes sense to prompt the user if it should start with the last session. Since you might want to go back to those pages that you were interrupted from so abruptly.
It's not totally out of the question, since it's so fashionable to bash the US these days. However, I don't see how it would benefit him in any way to lie about this. Plus, I have heard stories about the US custom making everyone do fingerprints.
I'm wondering the same thing. mgblst said you might be deported, but does that mean I can just get on the plane and continue on the trip? It makes no sense. Perhaps the worst they can do is detain you. But on what grounds? You're not trying to enter the country, you just want to continue on your flight. You haven't done anything wrong legally, they can't just detain you for no reason at all.
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As other posters have mentioned, playing games doesn't improve your "vision", but your "visual processing" capability. So it is likely that the improvement in your left eye is not due to playing UT. Still, congratulations on your better vision. I wish my eyes would spontaneously improve.
4 out of 5 dentists agree, FLOSS is good for you!
As long as we're throwing out anecdotal evidence...
January in Ottawa is usually -20 to -10 Celsius, but this year, we had rain on January 6th! The temperature that day was plus 10 Celsius. Rideau Canal, the world's longest outside skating rink, might not open this year unless the temperature stays low for an extended amount of time. I don't have a source for this unfortunately, but I don't think the canal has ever been closed for the entire year due to warm temperature.
Elsewhere in Canada, British Columbia is experiencing the third storm of the year. More people will be out of power, on top of the thousands that have already lost power this year due to storms. The roof of a stadium in Vancouver recently collapsed due to heavy rain and wind. I know we can't say this is a direct consequence of global warming, but I have to agree with another poster, the weather is certainly much stranger than I used to remember them.
Holy crap. Putting aside what you said for a second, I congratulate you on the first MEANINGFUL use of the Slashdot tag system.
yes, no, maybe?
At the risk of sounding like an idiot, could someone tell me how this works? Polonium 210 is a particular isotope of an atom, which should be identical to every polonium 210 isotope you find, right? So how do you trace the origin of an element which is identical to all other samples of the same element? Does the production of polonium 210 leave a particular signature? Perhaps the ratio of polonium 210 to other elements?
For Opera users, here is a userjs that does something very similar. If you're so inclined, you can also manually change what it blocks in the javascript itself.
That reminds me of the story of an intern's first day at work. The engineers asked the intern to bring back a one Farad capacitor. Needless to say, the intern came back empty handed ... a few hours later.
As long as we're on the topic of spelling correction... That should be "... *than* a book will solve."
My apology for not RTFA first, but my guess would be the controller they're using to assemble the data at the receiving end cannot process more data. Imagine a controller running at 1 MHz, it cannot process 2 million packets since it's not fast enough to look at each packet. So unfortunately, you can't just linearly scale up the system like you mentioned. This is probably very similar to the problem that we're facing today with optical networks. The amount of data we can pass through the fiber is too much for the switching equipment to handle, so we have to throttle the data.
If the actual article has the real explanation, please enlighten me.
Slightly off topic, but I'm wondering what else was part of the deal between the homeless man and the manager. To buy the PS3, the homeless man must've been given money that amounts to much more than 20,000 yen. So what's to stop the homeless man to just take that money and run? It's not like homeless man has any collateral. Perhaps his family? Then what's stopping a single homeless man who has nothing tying him down to just run for it?
Try that page in IE instead. I opened it in Opera and that was what I saw as well. But I know the interface is different in IE. Not too sure about which interface Firefox sees though.
You're such a Dick.
A fellow engineer friend and I were talking about this actually. We were dreaming about somehow being brought back in time, and we could use that opportunity to teach everyone the technologies in the modern world. But we soon realized that despite being generally more knowledged than the public, we still had no idea how most things work in the modern society. We knew how things work theoretically and could apply some of that theory, in our respective fields, industrial and electrical engineering. However, I wouldn't be able to help them with designing a city for example. All the sewage systems, gas pipes, eletrical grid, zoning practices, the list goes on. So it's definitely a great idea to record most of the technological progress we've made in the past few millennium, both in electrical and hardcopy form.
Sorry to nitpick, but I believe you meant E=(1/2)(mv^2).
Analogy is like a vacuum, it sucks.
Funny story. There was a guy in my residence that had an Alienware CASE with very average mid-range hardware inside. Every gamer that goes to his room would immediately start to comment on his Alienware PC, at which point, his roommate would quickly inform that person that it has just an Alienware case. Very entertaining to watch. :)
A bit off topic, but do you know if there exists such a video that applies to Canadians? Or is it safe to assume that I have the same rights? In the video, it said the rights those people excised derived from amendments 4, 5, and 6. Here in Canada, we have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I know that the Charter is pretty comprehensive in terms of what rights are guaranteed, but it's always safe to double check.
I studied the "normal" way and it still doesn't stick. A month after my Signals & Systems final, and I'm having trouble remembering exactly I studied in that course. I know, I know, anecdotal evidence, perhaps other people really do remember what they learn. I'm willing to bet I'm not in the minority here though.
Well written, and long :) , post. Unfortunatley, it's buried too deep in the comments for it to be modded up.
I was part of the Chinese system for 5 years before moving to the Western system. I hated all the memorization. That's a major reason why I despise biology, too much memorization. Anyway, I don't actually have a point. Just thought I'd say that your post was an interesting read for me.
It's quite sad that I took the exam just a month ago, and now I'm having difficulty recalling what I learned in Signals & Systems.
Unfortunately, I don't think so. Like you, I also turned off the start up dialog. However, the way that Opera works now is actually quite smart. See, normally, I would start with a homepage. Opera respects that, and doesn't ask me every time. When it crashes though, it means the browser was killed at a time that the user was still using it. Therefore, it makes sense to prompt the user if it should start with the last session. Since you might want to go back to those pages that you were interrupted from so abruptly.
It's not totally out of the question, since it's so fashionable to bash the US these days. However, I don't see how it would benefit him in any way to lie about this. Plus, I have heard stories about the US custom making everyone do fingerprints.
If you're that paranoid, I don't suppose you would get much junk mail. :)
I'm wondering the same thing. mgblst said you might be deported, but does that mean I can just get on the plane and continue on the trip? It makes no sense. Perhaps the worst they can do is detain you. But on what grounds? You're not trying to enter the country, you just want to continue on your flight. You haven't done anything wrong legally, they can't just detain you for no reason at all.
What a crazy world we're living in.
I'm with you, still using 8.54 here. Although, I really like some of the new features in Opera 9, I guess I'll just have to wait a bit longer.