Yeah, that jumped out at me too. A quick search confirmed the suspicion, from Wikipedia:
In the United States of America, the first state to do this was Oregon. In 1998, Oregonians passed an initiative requiring that all elections be conducted by mail. Voters may also drop their ballots off at a county designated official drop site. Oregon has since had reduced cost of elections, and increased voter turn-out. [4]
Again with the not reading what I write. I really wonder at the literacy of the computer geek crowd sometimes. Anyway, I understand what a pill is supposed to do. Duh. I was replying to the ignorant assertion that sleep yields no benefits that we consciously experience, which anyone can, with minimal investigation, find out is crap.
Well, A) he couldn't be too much worse than our current preemptive regime, and B) he doesn't strike me as a violent guy. Ruthless in business, yeah, but not violent.
Keep in mind that he did all that for *his* company. If he ran the U.S., then he'd be doing whatever he could to advance U.S. interests (theoretically), i.e. the interests of me and anyone else who lives there. In other words, it might be a *good* thing that he's ruthless. Certainly with the coming economic clashes with the EU and China we'll have, we may need it.
No value that we can experience? Did you even read my post? Jeez, do a simple experiment. Study for a test and then get no sleep, and then study for a similar test after sleeping. Guess what? You can feel a difference in how easy it is to remember (as well as concentrate, control mood, etc.). Slashdotters... yeesh. They don't read the article or the comments.
Note that the spinal column expands during the night (after taking a beating / gravity through the day), so most people will wake up taller than they were when they went to bed.
I'm fairly tired of this "sleep is a waste of time" idea. Do you really think evolution would have cranked out organisms who are as vulnerable as we are during sleep (there's a reason we're afraid of the dark--predators) if not for very good reasons? Memory consolidation happens when we sleep. It's pretty easy to prove--and has been done in studies--that we don't remember X nearly as well when not sleeping after encountering X. Not to mention rest for the body. Cranked up meth users crash *hard* after being awake for days/weeks, to the point of suicidal depression in some cases.
Believe it or not, even if you don't remember your dreams, a lot is still going on in the brain when you sleep. I'm sure you're familiar with the "just sleep on it" method of generating insightful ideas. That's not just a coincidence; the brain is still chugging along when we're "unconscious". In fact, we're not truly unconscious--ever had the experience of outside events (phone ringing, etc.) affecting your dreams? We're still sensing things (to a more limited degree, sure), even if we appear dead to the world.
It sounds like you think our "real" identities are solid, unchanging things. Granted, it usually takes some effort to change one's identity, but it's far from impossible. You can move, cut and dye your hair, get a fake ID, start using a new name, etc. Of course, this would be a pain for ordinary people, but mike hunt my cunt
No. There is no excuse. Bus drivers in Portland who go down Barbur Blvd. past a couple of *giant* Fred Meyer signs on a daily basis announce the stop with the wrong name too. It is a weird brain infection among people who live here. Apparently the original store was called Fred Meyer's, but I have heard young people and even the *store's own employees* refer to it wrongly.
I don't know. It can work both ways. Whatever you may think of George Lucas, he did do some good working/funding of preserving old film reels. Films were (still are?) being lost forever because they were only on one original reel. But one would think, thanks to perfect digital copies and distributed storage (Internet), that shouldn't happen again.
I love how Slashdot changes the page after someone points out an error, without actually acknowledging that they made an error. It's even more embarrassing for them since Firefox (and probably other browsers) have in-line spell checking.
Slashdot Mirror
So you're saying they'll all be runway models?
Wouldn't obscure articles get less traffic, by definition?
Yeah, that jumped out at me too. A quick search confirmed the suspicion, from Wikipedia:
In the United States of America, the first state to do this was Oregon. In 1998, Oregonians passed an initiative requiring that all elections be conducted by mail. Voters may also drop their ballots off at a county designated official drop site. Oregon has since had reduced cost of elections, and increased voter turn-out. [4]
Again with the not reading what I write. I really wonder at the literacy of the computer geek crowd sometimes. Anyway, I understand what a pill is supposed to do. Duh. I was replying to the ignorant assertion that sleep yields no benefits that we consciously experience, which anyone can, with minimal investigation, find out is crap.
Well, A) he couldn't be too much worse than our current preemptive regime, and B) he doesn't strike me as a violent guy. Ruthless in business, yeah, but not violent.
Keep in mind that he did all that for *his* company. If he ran the U.S., then he'd be doing whatever he could to advance U.S. interests (theoretically), i.e. the interests of me and anyone else who lives there. In other words, it might be a *good* thing that he's ruthless. Certainly with the coming economic clashes with the EU and China we'll have, we may need it.
No value that we can experience? Did you even read my post? Jeez, do a simple experiment. Study for a test and then get no sleep, and then study for a similar test after sleeping. Guess what? You can feel a difference in how easy it is to remember (as well as concentrate, control mood, etc.). Slashdotters... yeesh. They don't read the article or the comments.
Note that the spinal column expands during the night (after taking a beating / gravity through the day), so most people will wake up taller than they were when they went to bed.
I'm fairly tired of this "sleep is a waste of time" idea. Do you really think evolution would have cranked out organisms who are as vulnerable as we are during sleep (there's a reason we're afraid of the dark--predators) if not for very good reasons? Memory consolidation happens when we sleep. It's pretty easy to prove--and has been done in studies--that we don't remember X nearly as well when not sleeping after encountering X. Not to mention rest for the body. Cranked up meth users crash *hard* after being awake for days/weeks, to the point of suicidal depression in some cases.
Believe it or not, even if you don't remember your dreams, a lot is still going on in the brain when you sleep. I'm sure you're familiar with the "just sleep on it" method of generating insightful ideas. That's not just a coincidence; the brain is still chugging along when we're "unconscious". In fact, we're not truly unconscious--ever had the experience of outside events (phone ringing, etc.) affecting your dreams? We're still sensing things (to a more limited degree, sure), even if we appear dead to the world.
-Mike Hunt
It sounds like you think our "real" identities are solid, unchanging things. Granted, it usually takes some effort to change one's identity, but it's far from impossible. You can move, cut and dye your hair, get a fake ID, start using a new name, etc. Of course, this would be a pain for ordinary people, but mike hunt my cunt
Accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and personal savior? Yeah, I'll get right on that.
No. There is no excuse. Bus drivers in Portland who go down Barbur Blvd. past a couple of *giant* Fred Meyer signs on a daily basis announce the stop with the wrong name too. It is a weird brain infection among people who live here. Apparently the original store was called Fred Meyer's, but I have heard young people and even the *store's own employees* refer to it wrongly.
It is Fred Meyer. Not Fred Meyer's. Not Fred Meyers. Jesus I wish people would quit doing that.
http://www.fredmeyer.com/
You, sir, are a knave and a brigand! I demand from thee four gold coins bearing the mark of our King or a DUEL to the death!
Outsource to Angola? And even Africa?
I've got news for you...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola
I don't know. It can work both ways. Whatever you may think of George Lucas, he did do some good working/funding of preserving old film reels. Films were (still are?) being lost forever because they were only on one original reel. But one would think, thanks to perfect digital copies and distributed storage (Internet), that shouldn't happen again.
If you had a nickle? How much is that worth compared to a nickel?
I'm no expert, but doesn't this mean you'd have to check in two places for false positives?
That's why you add known-good words to the dictionary. It can't possibly come with every word, especially ones that are basically made-up.
Wish I could mod you up. This seriously irks me too. You'd think they'd at least have a poll at the main website for these kinds of changes.
If you've tried a 3.0 build, you'd know that rendering speed is definitely among their concerns and has already improved.
I love how Slashdot changes the page after someone points out an error, without actually acknowledging that they made an error. It's even more embarrassing for them since Firefox (and probably other browsers) have in-line spell checking.
"I prefer to live offline, away from my computer"
Sir, please leave and turn in your geek credentials at the door. Thank you.
Windows Media player will do DVD playing OOB as far as I know.
Yes, I already knew about the reasons for MP3 and DVD licensing. You think an average user wants to mess with that stuff, though, whatever the reason?
Yes, BitTorrent was a Linux problem. Windows used UPnP to automatically handle those ports, no router configuration necessary.