I was upset about them changing from using my SSN to a proprietary number scheme
What? Are you saying you were content with them using your social security number as an means of unique identification? I am not sure about the specifics, but I know there is legal restriction involving using someone's SSN for anything but social security. Secondly, my university does the same thing, and I don't like the idea at all. Sometimes I have to fill it out on scantrons and other forms that include my full name. By law, I believe the school has a certain deadline before, assuming my SSN is used for, as they sometimes call it, "my student ID number" has to be changed.
Actually, I've noticed that 2003b Pro has message history turned off by default. If this law applied to something like ICQ, wouldn't the TOS just state something like "by using this service you consent to the fact that other ICQ users may/are able to log or save any commmunication they engage in with you?" That would make sense also for IRC and chatrooms like those on AOL?
For optimal bone remodeling to occur, significant resistance must be used.
Good point. Everyone should go at a pace they are comfortable with, but what is sort of annoying these days is a lot of women (atleast from my experience) have this fear of bulking up, which in our society is somewhat socially "abnormal". The truth is that they do not produce enough testosterone, so they aren't going to see exactly the same results as a male would. So they'll do something like 30 reps at a low weight, and show no signs of fatigue. It's better than nothing, but it's seems to be ineffective.
Also, as you made a point in aging. A lot of the idea of aging involves getting weaker. Muscle tone does decrease for a lot of people in their thirties and just about everyone in their fourties and further on, but effective strength training can completely reverse a big part of the natural process. A person at 50 can be much stronger than they were at 40. It's true. There are even 60 year olds competing in powerlifting competitions.
...to strength train. Jogging is great for cardiovascular endurance but strength training has several other health benefits. You don't have to be a heavy bodybuilder or powerlifter to benefit. Even twice a week is excellent. Many people believe that jogging burns calories. It does but very little compared to a regular, fairly moderate weight training, as your body's overall metabolism shoots up during the process of rebuilding the muscle fiber (please don't nail me on the precise medical wording, ok!). It greatly prevents ostereoperosis(sp?), among many other benefits, and also is effective in eliminating the risks (newly found research, check CNN) involved with the non-genetic diabetes type. You can't exactly mix the extremes of both weight lifting and cardiovascular endurance very well, but moderate amount of both for someone concerned about their own health and well-being is an excellent lifestyle choice. Exercise like jogging releases neurotrophins and promotes healthy neuron function/growth (if someone could elaborate on that specifically i'd appreciate it)
I'd say also suggest to always keep in mind your target audience. This is commonly overlooked. As you prepare the more later stages of technical writing don't forget the level of knowledge of your audience. This will help improve the ease of the reading experience, considering that you have an authoritative perspective and your readers certainly may not.
totally offtopic to your point and the discussion, but honda makes the best jet skis. period. ride the honda aquatrax turbocharged model. you have to literally hold onto the handle bars to avoid getting pushed off from the force of acceleration (if you accelerate correctly which means you don't jerk the impeller out of the water). oh god it's april. oh please make it may soon. then june! *crying* i can't help it. i am a boating addict:(
Well, the thing is that if we get a very secure voting system, it may encourage the amount of voters to increase. I believe the statistic is that only 1 out of every 10 person (correct me if I am wrong) in America votes in the presidential election. Also, absentee ballots are nice for people that cannot make it to the polls or are actually working the polls. But electronic / online voting system, I think, provides a much more efficient way to vote if you can't get to a precinct location. If you ask me, I prefer to go to the polls myself. It has just been the traditional way and that is what feels right to me. Others, I can certainly understand, would prefer to just do it from home if that is every possible.
Watch out for the "I hate Bush, I'm voting for Nader" effect, which of course virtually assures that you will spoil the democrats chance at plurality and allow the Republicans to win.
> In some ways, HyperCard is (er was) analagous to Logo
darn, when i read Logo i accessed a memory in my brain that has been lying dormant, unaccessed for atleast eight years. good ol' grade school days. i will cherish them forever.
In addition to the first reply, take a look at the proxy settings for IE, I am using 6.0 and I still see a text box for a gopher proxy, and I am also having no problem without using any registry modifications.
Very few companies are actually innovating these days, and those that are, do their work in the good ol' USA because of strong patenting laws
Take a look at US Steel. The executives went for profit and not development. They slowly became outproduced by Japan, which focused on technological development, not boosting profits and pocketing the money. When they knew the steel industry was headed for bust in America they layed off all of their workers, and looked elsewhere for profitable investments. Take a look at the steel industry in Germany. Laborers and executives fight for equal say in where surplus labor capital goes to, mainly not in CEO's pockets but rather the companies development. Toyota is also a good example, which assures lifetime employment. This does not mean that all companies in the US screw their employees when they see profit, or that other countries have across the board better social protection, either. But looking at the past does provide some insight.
Sorry, but I have to ask this. Is everyone in this thread aware that CTRL-click on a one button mouse produces the equivalent of a right button mouse click in os x? There are a lot of little key presses like this that aren't very well documented, like command ~ scrolls through application windows, command-tab scrolls through applications (like in windows). you can move the little menu icons (airport, time display) by holding command down and dragging them with the mouse... lots more.
They make the eMac as a low end machine for home users. Duh. Not everyone needs or wants a $1500 computer.
I believe the emacs are focused mainly on elementary schools and a similar environmnet (ie, youngsters). They are heavy and not very mobile like the imacs. Everything is in one case, including the CRT. A CRT is used because it's much cheaper, but also because it is very durable compared to an LCD. Also, if you notice on the apple store if you are buying for an educational institution you have the option of getting them wtih a superdrive, which is not available even for the students buying one for themselves. Visit an apple store and you'll notice (atleast the two near my house) that there is a little kids area with emacs. emacs also look like a redesigned and update version of the older imac models, which you see in tons of schools. i see more powermacs in universities, and more imacs in high schools and even more in elementary schools.
Ok, so average user has his outlook express configured to a.mail service. His computer his hijacked by spyware and it's sending tons of spam using the.mail account settings found in outlook express. I don't see a solution, or am I pisssing the point?
I got the main page to load. It's got a lot of stuff to look at. At the bottom of it is this: In the galleries there are currently 1973 pictures and 442 icons from 42 interfaces divided into 10 families. A few sections on the main page include the evolution of certain Windows icons (like the globe), a history of splash screens, and what looks to be a special on the QNX Momentics. Those are just on the main page. It even has seperate sections for interfaces, components, and icons
Dear webmaster,
You are about to receive a huge amount of traffic and attention to your website. It will linked from an extremely popular website known as slashdot. Watch your hits rise from the hundreds to the thousands. Would you like this or would you rather remain ignored?
..theoretically before the experience of playing a game or even watching a movie is completely "neural" without extermal stimuli. If you've taken any psychology class you might have studied the research involving converting analogue sound to digital sound then to chemical neural impulses for the brain. The same thing goes for vision. Originally the patient had to carry around a cart that had housed the eleoctronic device that did this. Now it's a small belt sort of device, essentially smaller and more accurate. Imagine sometime in the future (and who knows when) that we have perfected the conversion of sound we hear to action potentials in the brain. We could even have devices that pick up signals unrecognizable by the human ear (radio waves) and convert them into action potentials. Think of this for somatosensory mechanisms in the brain, vision, smell, everything. If you've read the science fiction series Otherland you may understand what I am talking about. I also think it opens a lot of doors in discovering what really creates the "conscious" experience of sense. That is, how action potentials in our brain create the reality of the outside world that see, feel, hear, etc.
I sort of agree wtih you. I dislike how the whole negative connotation that swearing has earned. I view the word fuck as any other word in the English dictionary... A fucking word! It has its general definition, regional variations in usage and context and what not. But that's it. I hate how this whole stipulation of "bad" words keeps on prevailing in America. The same goes for visual censorship. The word fuck is constantly used in everyday language by many people commonly, quite a few still not so commonly, and at least everyone once in their life. Personally, I view the US's energy to censor words and nudity as a weakness. Go to Europe, you'll see a lot more mature view about the human body, and a lot less of the "oh my! taboo" bullshit here. Censorship sucks:(
Be careful though. I've encountred a lot of software labeled as freeware on download.com, only to end up being dissapointed with a spyware loaded POS. If you're looking for an image viewer, by chance, Irfanview is arguably one of the best out there. I've been using it for years. It's very stable and quick, and supports a boatload of image formats, as well as video and audio (if you download the plugin package).
synthesthesia for your case? not quite. it's strongly more complex than that. it involves total sensory abnormal function. seeing colors excites smell. sounds produce other sensations. normally, the brain can only interpret receptors input from a hair cell as hearing, or from the recepters in the retina as light (law of specific nerve energies). that is why rubbing your eyes produces spots of light, even though your are only applying pressure to them. people with synesthesia do not follow this law. i don't think performing math calculations by imagining them as colors (albeit very interesting) or thinking about letters has anything to do with what you think synesthia is.
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I was upset about them changing from using my SSN to a proprietary number scheme
What? Are you saying you were content with them using your social security number as an means of unique identification? I am not sure about the specifics, but I know there is legal restriction involving using someone's SSN for anything but social security. Secondly, my university does the same thing, and I don't like the idea at all. Sometimes I have to fill it out on scantrons and other forms that include my full name. By law, I believe the school has a certain deadline before, assuming my SSN is used for, as they sometimes call it, "my student ID number" has to be changed.
Actually, I've noticed that 2003b Pro has message history turned off by default. If this law applied to something like ICQ, wouldn't the TOS just state something like "by using this service you consent to the fact that other ICQ users may/are able to log or save any commmunication they engage in with you?" That would make sense also for IRC and chatrooms like those on AOL?
For optimal bone remodeling to occur, significant resistance must be used.
Good point. Everyone should go at a pace they are comfortable with, but what is sort of annoying these days is a lot of women (atleast from my experience) have this fear of bulking up, which in our society is somewhat socially "abnormal". The truth is that they do not produce enough testosterone, so they aren't going to see exactly the same results as a male would. So they'll do something like 30 reps at a low weight, and show no signs of fatigue. It's better than nothing, but it's seems to be ineffective.
Also, as you made a point in aging. A lot of the idea of aging involves getting weaker. Muscle tone does decrease for a lot of people in their thirties and just about everyone in their fourties and further on, but effective strength training can completely reverse a big part of the natural process. A person at 50 can be much stronger than they were at 40. It's true. There are even 60 year olds competing in powerlifting competitions.
...to strength train. Jogging is great for cardiovascular endurance but strength training has several other health benefits. You don't have to be a heavy bodybuilder or powerlifter to benefit. Even twice a week is excellent. Many people believe that jogging burns calories. It does but very little compared to a regular, fairly moderate weight training, as your body's overall metabolism shoots up during the process of rebuilding the muscle fiber (please don't nail me on the precise medical wording, ok!). It greatly prevents ostereoperosis(sp?), among many other benefits, and also is effective in eliminating the risks (newly found research, check CNN) involved with the non-genetic diabetes type. You can't exactly mix the extremes of both weight lifting and cardiovascular endurance very well, but moderate amount of both for someone concerned about their own health and well-being is an excellent lifestyle choice. Exercise like jogging releases neurotrophins and promotes healthy neuron function/growth (if someone could elaborate on that specifically i'd appreciate it)
I'd say also suggest to always keep in mind your target audience. This is commonly overlooked. As you prepare the more later stages of technical writing don't forget the level of knowledge of your audience. This will help improve the ease of the reading experience, considering that you have an authoritative perspective and your readers certainly may not.
totally offtopic to your point and the discussion, but honda makes the best jet skis. period. ride the honda aquatrax turbocharged model. you have to literally hold onto the handle bars to avoid getting pushed off from the force of acceleration (if you accelerate correctly which means you don't jerk the impeller out of the water). oh god it's april. oh please make it may soon. then june! *crying* i can't help it. i am a boating addict :(
Well, the thing is that if we get a very secure voting system, it may encourage the amount of voters to increase. I believe the statistic is that only 1 out of every 10 person (correct me if I am wrong) in America votes in the presidential election. Also, absentee ballots are nice for people that cannot make it to the polls or are actually working the polls. But electronic / online voting system, I think, provides a much more efficient way to vote if you can't get to a precinct location. If you ask me, I prefer to go to the polls myself. It has just been the traditional way and that is what feels right to me. Others, I can certainly understand, would prefer to just do it from home if that is every possible.
and don't forget to send in the "Computer Forensic Specialists" too.
Watch out for the "I hate Bush, I'm voting for Nader" effect, which of course virtually assures that you will spoil the democrats chance at plurality and allow the Republicans to win.
> In some ways, HyperCard is (er was) analagous to Logo
darn, when i read Logo i accessed a memory in my brain that has been lying dormant, unaccessed for atleast eight years. good ol' grade school days. i will cherish them forever.
In addition to the first reply, take a look at the proxy settings for IE, I am using 6.0 and I still see a text box for a gopher proxy, and I am also having no problem without using any registry modifications.
maybe that should be a new subscriber perk.
Very few companies are actually innovating these days, and those that are, do their work in the good ol' USA because of strong patenting laws
Take a look at US Steel. The executives went for profit and not development. They slowly became outproduced by Japan, which focused on technological development, not boosting profits and pocketing the money. When they knew the steel industry was headed for bust in America they layed off all of their workers, and looked elsewhere for profitable investments. Take a look at the steel industry in Germany. Laborers and executives fight for equal say in where surplus labor capital goes to, mainly not in CEO's pockets but rather the companies development. Toyota is also a good example, which assures lifetime employment. This does not mean that all companies in the US screw their employees when they see profit, or that other countries have across the board better social protection, either. But looking at the past does provide some insight.
Sorry, but I have to ask this. Is everyone in this thread aware that CTRL-click on a one button mouse produces the equivalent of a right button mouse click in os x? There are a lot of little key presses like this that aren't very well documented, like command ~ scrolls through application windows, command-tab scrolls through applications (like in windows). you can move the little menu icons (airport, time display) by holding command down and dragging them with the mouse... lots more.
False. Any customer can buy an eMac with SuperDrive.
Whoops. My mistake. Buying for a school allows you to buy a cdrom only model.
$699.00
1GHz PowerPC G4
128MB SDRAM
40GB Ultra ATA drive
CD-ROM drive
Apparently it is identical except of for the cdrom and absence of a 56k modem.
They make the eMac as a low end machine for home users. Duh. Not everyone needs or wants a $1500 computer.
I believe the emacs are focused mainly on elementary schools and a similar environmnet (ie, youngsters). They are heavy and not very mobile like the imacs. Everything is in one case, including the CRT. A CRT is used because it's much cheaper, but also because it is very durable compared to an LCD. Also, if you notice on the apple store if you are buying for an educational institution you have the option of getting them wtih a superdrive, which is not available even for the students buying one for themselves. Visit an apple store and you'll notice (atleast the two near my house) that there is a little kids area with emacs. emacs also look like a redesigned and update version of the older imac models, which you see in tons of schools. i see more powermacs in universities, and more imacs in high schools and even more in elementary schools.
Ok, so average user has his outlook express configured to a .mail service. His computer his hijacked by spyware and it's sending tons of spam using the .mail account settings found in outlook express. I don't see a solution, or am I pisssing the point?
I got the main page to load. It's got a lot of stuff to look at. At the bottom of it is this: In the galleries there are currently 1973 pictures and 442 icons from 42 interfaces divided into 10 families. A few sections on the main page include the evolution of certain Windows icons (like the globe), a history of splash screens, and what looks to be a special on the QNX Momentics. Those are just on the main page. It even has seperate sections for interfaces, components, and icons
Dear webmaster,
You are about to receive a huge amount of traffic and attention to your website. It will linked from an extremely popular website known as slashdot. Watch your hits rise from the hundreds to the thousands. Would you like this or would you rather remain ignored?
Sincerely, The Editors.
Duh!
..theoretically before the experience of playing a game or even watching a movie is completely "neural" without extermal stimuli. If you've taken any psychology class you might have studied the research involving converting analogue sound to digital sound then to chemical neural impulses for the brain. The same thing goes for vision. Originally the patient had to carry around a cart that had housed the eleoctronic device that did this. Now it's a small belt sort of device, essentially smaller and more accurate. Imagine sometime in the future (and who knows when) that we have perfected the conversion of sound we hear to action potentials in the brain. We could even have devices that pick up signals unrecognizable by the human ear (radio waves) and convert them into action potentials. Think of this for somatosensory mechanisms in the brain, vision, smell, everything. If you've read the science fiction series Otherland you may understand what I am talking about. I also think it opens a lot of doors in discovering what really creates the "conscious" experience of sense. That is, how action potentials in our brain create the reality of the outside world that see, feel, hear, etc.
Please allow me to retrieve my wooden baseball bat.
I sort of agree wtih you. I dislike how the whole negative connotation that swearing has earned. I view the word fuck as any other word in the English dictionary... A fucking word! It has its general definition, regional variations in usage and context and what not. But that's it. I hate how this whole stipulation of "bad" words keeps on prevailing in America. The same goes for visual censorship. The word fuck is constantly used in everyday language by many people commonly, quite a few still not so commonly, and at least everyone once in their life. Personally, I view the US's energy to censor words and nudity as a weakness. Go to Europe, you'll see a lot more mature view about the human body, and a lot less of the "oh my! taboo" bullshit here. Censorship sucks :(
Be careful though. I've encountred a lot of software labeled as freeware on download.com, only to end up being dissapointed with a spyware loaded POS. If you're looking for an image viewer, by chance, Irfanview is arguably one of the best out there. I've been using it for years. It's very stable and quick, and supports a boatload of image formats, as well as video and audio (if you download the plugin package).
...the new ipod?
synthesthesia for your case? not quite. it's strongly more complex than that. it involves total sensory abnormal function. seeing colors excites smell. sounds produce other sensations. normally, the brain can only interpret receptors input from a hair cell as hearing, or from the recepters in the retina as light (law of specific nerve energies). that is why rubbing your eyes produces spots of light, even though your are only applying pressure to them. people with synesthesia do not follow this law. i don't think performing math calculations by imagining them as colors (albeit very interesting) or thinking about letters has anything to do with what you think synesthia is.