I can't comment on this dude having a normal memory or otherwise, but he certainly has a pretty closed mind. There's a big difference between a well trained mind and a true photographic memory. Some people just remember *everything*. It's not something they train themselves to do, or use a technique, it's something physically different about their brain that makes it work that way.
That you believe the myth doesn't make you more open minded.
*IF* there were true photographic memory, then the prizes at these world memory championships would be scooped up by people that have it. But they're not. They're won by ordinary people with pretty average memories who dedicate their spare time to mastering memory techniques.
"Photographic memory" is the stuff of magicians, hucksters and B movie thrillers.
Actually, there ARE some people who have near-perfect autobiographical memory. Hyperthymesia is the name for it. Though I really can't say with any certainty whether this particular kind of memory would convey any advantages in the memory competitions.
Absolute hearing (recognizing the pitch of a note of music): my dad has always been able to do it and can't remember a time when he couldn't, nor did he understand why others couldn't. But many musicians need to train quite hard at it. To some it comes naturally after years of making music, to others it doesn't.
Actually, "perfect pitch" (what most call it) isn't necessarily an asset, but can potentially be distracting. Imagine a perfect-pitch-hearing person listening to someone singing a capella. That person may be a quarter-step flat or sharp from a note on the traditional western scale, but they can still perfectly hit an octave, a third, a fifth, or sing the major scale up & down. But the perfect-pitch-hearing individual may only hear every single note in the major scale being a quarter-step off, and would be distracted from enjoying what they're hearing.
It's sometimes funny how foreigners have so mixed reactions to such scenes: some react like OP for having seen a male penis, some are just excited about how casual Finns are about it, some get enormously embarrassed and try to look anywhere else but the screen..
(emphasis mine)
*ahem*... imagine the uproar had the film depicted a female penis. Usually you can only rent those...
If you reach an experts-exchange.com page via Google, just scroll down to the very bottom for the solution.
That used to be the case, but from what I've seen, EE now entirely hides the answer -- it doesn't actually appear at the bottom of the page anymore. These days all I get is their paywall money-begging. I wish I could remove sites entirely using preferences in my Google account.
What you've described of your teachers sounds reasonable to me, but your attempt to defend this teacher might be more relevant had the remarks made not been abusive, name-calling, unconstructive, and behind the students' backs.
Quite the contrary! Creation and Intelligent Design would, in New Mexico, arguably fall under the umbrella of "other scientific topics," which means no teacher could be reprimanded for teaching the serious scientific weaknesses in those "theories." Sounds like they'll open the door for the real teachers to talk freely about how absurd arguments against evolution are.
I acknowledge that the Roman Catholic Church does not represent the entirety of Christianity within the world, but it's worth noting that Pope John Paul II himself stated that evolution was in no way incompatible with faith.
Of course that doesn't do much for the "independent-minded" Baptists and such of the southern USA.
Off-topic Joke: Muslims don't recognize the teachings of the Buddha; Jews don't recognize Jesus; Baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store.
Jim Carey and that other bitch both need to be hurt with hot pokers.
I know it's too little, too late, but for what it's worth, I'm not sure that Jim Carrey himself ever had anything to do with the anti-vaccine stuff (I welcome corrections), it was mostly ("that other bitch" as you say) his now ex-wife Jenny McCarthy. And interestingly, McCarthy recanted her claim that vaccines caused her child's problems a little over a year ago. Too bad the confession doesn't get as much traction as the anti-vaccine rant that McCarthy gave when on Oprah, etc.
The worst was the first few awkward years where everyone on TV or radio pronounced the "http://" as "h-t-t-p colon slash slash" every time they read a URL out loud. I do not miss those days.
... but I've heard somewhere that every time someone pronounces "/" as "backslash", God kills a kitten.
... this is to give the appearance of justifying the positions of the 5 sysadmins needed to support less than 50 computers (not including the lab computers which require minimal support because they suck so badly the students would rather go to an internet cafe to do their work, if they can't afford to use their own computers)..
I visited China a few years ago. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it certainly seems clear that it's part of the Chinese culture to prevent idle hands (for better or worse). It would seem that it is better to employ numerous individuals who each have possibly inadequate tools rather than a few with exceptional training and/or equipment -- above all, everyone's got a job, even if that job is next to mindless and minuscule, something that would never exist in the west.
I get the feeling my karma will take a hit for this comment, though it's not intended to be a statement of superiority by any measure, it's just what I'd observed (and for what it's worth, nearly all the people/places I saw were wonderful).
Okay, I probably didn't get that right verbatim, but you get the gist.
Look, I saw the movie on television, and they didn't employ such filthy language. I'm pretty sure it's "monkey-fighting [sharks] on this Monday-to-Friday [street]".
I liked that game - but the really, REALLY disliked the amount of time it took to properly shape out letters with the mouse input. There just seemed to be no consistency with the way it judged the curves of input - I can understand the games with subtle puzzles on learning input mechanisms, but even with practice it came out more as random than a skill to build up.
After a while, I figured out the trick. The rune stones that showed the direction/angle of curves were displayed not perfectly upright, but they were tilted maybe 10 degrees. So if you saw a line on a runestone that suggested a perfectly vertical line, it probably isn't what you were supposed to draw. Tilt your head to figure it out. But yeah, it was annoying until you learn about that trick.
Your title suggesting "Canada bans..." is misleading. The first sentence says, "The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that Dire Straits’ 1980s [unedited] hit Money for Nothing is too offensive for Canadian radio." Now try and tell me that this is is very far from the kind of crap we get here in the US with the FCC.
Which is just downright stupid, anyhow... radio stations I've listened to here in the US always play a radio-edit version which completely removes the "faggot"-lyric verse. I didn't even KNOW all the lyrics or that that I was getting a radio-edited version for the longest time.
Parents are worse. I know several otherwise very reasonable people who gets absolutely shitbrained whenever they are evaluating fictional threats to their child.
(personal anecdote disclaimer)
When we had our first son, I asked questions to evaluate potential threats of the real (not imagined) variety. As an example, some vaccines contain a mercury-based preservative called Thimerosol (though this is now being phased out in the US and several other countries). I decided that if there were any vaccination choices that would let me choose to NOT have a known neurotoxin introduced to my child's body, I'd take it. (Some may say, "oh, but the amount of mercury is so very, very tiny!" So is the amount of radiation from the airport scanners, but accumulated exposure still matters, right?)
There were no other options, so I decided to accept the vaccinations for my son because the benefits outweigh the apparent risks by several magnitude. It was a logical benefit-risk analysis of a concerned parent, not of a conspiracy theorist. I'm sure I'm not the only parent who asked level-headed questions and made the correct decision.
Why stick to paper when much more advanced tech has been around for over 20 years and is being used by third world countries?
It seems to me that, provided the "old" currency formats continue to be acceptable payment (think twenty-year-old $20 USD bill), why bother counterfeiting the new styles? Just continue to counterfeit the older style bills.
Meanwhile, we have a recent case of two Irish guys beating a Swedish guy half to death on a cruise. They were caught by the guards and on camera, and their identities and whereabouts in Ireland are known, but the Swedish government are not willing to do anything because the crime was not serious enough. Compare this with a broken condom.
But did the Swedish guy actually ask them to stop?
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I blame the UN/Satanic New World Order/Illuminati population control conspiracy...
I blame the University of Southern California.
I can't comment on this dude having a normal memory or otherwise, but he certainly has a pretty closed mind. There's a big difference between a well trained mind and a true photographic memory. Some people just remember *everything*. It's not something they train themselves to do, or use a technique, it's something physically different about their brain that makes it work that way.
That you believe the myth doesn't make you more open minded.
*IF* there were true photographic memory, then the prizes at these world memory championships would be scooped up by people that have it. But they're not. They're won by ordinary people with pretty average memories who dedicate their spare time to mastering memory techniques.
"Photographic memory" is the stuff of magicians, hucksters and B movie thrillers.
Actually, there ARE some people who have near-perfect autobiographical memory. Hyperthymesia is the name for it. Though I really can't say with any certainty whether this particular kind of memory would convey any advantages in the memory competitions.
Absolute hearing (recognizing the pitch of a note of music): my dad has always been able to do it and can't remember a time when he couldn't, nor did he understand why others couldn't. But many musicians need to train quite hard at it. To some it comes naturally after years of making music, to others it doesn't.
Actually, "perfect pitch" (what most call it) isn't necessarily an asset, but can potentially be distracting. Imagine a perfect-pitch-hearing person listening to someone singing a capella. That person may be a quarter-step flat or sharp from a note on the traditional western scale, but they can still perfectly hit an octave, a third, a fifth, or sing the major scale up & down. But the perfect-pitch-hearing individual may only hear every single note in the major scale being a quarter-step off, and would be distracted from enjoying what they're hearing.
"Why tech is not a bubble. Seriously."
http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/18/technology/thebuzz/index.htm
Accounts on the popular media-sharing site Bambuser have reportedly been blocked as well.
Either I don't spend enough time on the web, or that word "popular" doesn't mean what you think it means.
*ahem*... imagine the uproar had the film depicted a female penis. Usually you can only rent those...
Hah :D Sounds like you have some experience in that field, though ;)
Well, you know ... I heard about it from a friend.
It's sometimes funny how foreigners have so mixed reactions to such scenes: some react like OP for having seen a male penis, some are just excited about how casual Finns are about it, some get enormously embarrassed and try to look anywhere else but the screen..
(emphasis mine)
*ahem*... imagine the uproar had the film depicted a female penis. Usually you can only rent those...
If you reach an experts-exchange.com page via Google, just scroll down to the very bottom for the solution.
That used to be the case, but from what I've seen, EE now entirely hides the answer -- it doesn't actually appear at the bottom of the page anymore. These days all I get is their paywall money-begging. I wish I could remove sites entirely using preferences in my Google account.
Why didn't he wear a strap on?
I swear, if I had a nickel for every time I heard that... well .... *uncomfortable silence*
What you've described of your teachers sounds reasonable to me, but your attempt to defend this teacher might be more relevant had the remarks made not been abusive, name-calling, unconstructive, and behind the students' backs.
Quite the contrary! Creation and Intelligent Design would, in New Mexico, arguably fall under the umbrella of "other scientific topics," which means no teacher could be reprimanded for teaching the serious scientific weaknesses in those "theories." Sounds like they'll open the door for the real teachers to talk freely about how absurd arguments against evolution are.
I acknowledge that the Roman Catholic Church does not represent the entirety of Christianity within the world, but it's worth noting that Pope John Paul II himself stated that evolution was in no way incompatible with faith.
Of course that doesn't do much for the "independent-minded" Baptists and such of the southern USA.
Off-topic Joke: Muslims don't recognize the teachings of the Buddha; Jews don't recognize Jesus; Baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store.
Jim Carey and that other bitch both need to be hurt with hot pokers.
I know it's too little, too late, but for what it's worth, I'm not sure that Jim Carrey himself ever had anything to do with the anti-vaccine stuff (I welcome corrections), it was mostly ("that other bitch" as you say) his now ex-wife Jenny McCarthy. And interestingly, McCarthy recanted her claim that vaccines caused her child's problems a little over a year ago. Too bad the confession doesn't get as much traction as the anti-vaccine rant that McCarthy gave when on Oprah, etc.
Why don't you make that government mandated too? Split price over the entire population, remove private ISPs. Free internet.
Either you don't understand how government works, or you have a curiously different definition of the word "free".
The worst was the first few awkward years where everyone on TV or radio pronounced the "http://" as "h-t-t-p colon slash slash" every time they read a URL out loud. I do not miss those days.
... but I've heard somewhere that every time someone pronounces "/" as "backslash", God kills a kitten.
... this is to give the appearance of justifying the positions of the 5 sysadmins needed to support less than 50 computers (not including the lab computers which require minimal support because they suck so badly the students would rather go to an internet cafe to do their work, if they can't afford to use their own computers). .
I visited China a few years ago. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it certainly seems clear that it's part of the Chinese culture to prevent idle hands (for better or worse). It would seem that it is better to employ numerous individuals who each have possibly inadequate tools rather than a few with exceptional training and/or equipment -- above all, everyone's got a job, even if that job is next to mindless and minuscule, something that would never exist in the west. I get the feeling my karma will take a hit for this comment, though it's not intended to be a statement of superiority by any measure, it's just what I'd observed (and for what it's worth, nearly all the people/places I saw were wonderful).
If I rotate this emoticon keyboard 180 degrees, will it type (: instead of :) ? Grandma's gonna try that, you know. :P
(or did I mean d: ?)
motherfuckin' street.
Okay, I probably didn't get that right verbatim, but you get the gist.
Look, I saw the movie on television, and they didn't employ such filthy language. I'm pretty sure it's "monkey-fighting [sharks] on this Monday-to-Friday [street]".
Ironic you should mention this shortly after a post regarding placebo effect.
I liked that game - but the really, REALLY disliked the amount of time it took to properly shape out letters with the mouse input. There just seemed to be no consistency with the way it judged the curves of input - I can understand the games with subtle puzzles on learning input mechanisms, but even with practice it came out more as random than a skill to build up.
After a while, I figured out the trick. The rune stones that showed the direction/angle of curves were displayed not perfectly upright, but they were tilted maybe 10 degrees. So if you saw a line on a runestone that suggested a perfectly vertical line, it probably isn't what you were supposed to draw. Tilt your head to figure it out. But yeah, it was annoying until you learn about that trick.
It will be hard for anything else to beat this for the dumbest thing I've seen on the internet today.
A CHALLENGER APPEARS!
Canada bans Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing"
Your title suggesting "Canada bans..." is misleading. The first sentence says, "The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that Dire Straits’ 1980s [unedited] hit Money for Nothing is too offensive for Canadian radio." Now try and tell me that this is is very far from the kind of crap we get here in the US with the FCC.
Which is just downright stupid, anyhow... radio stations I've listened to here in the US always play a radio-edit version which completely removes the "faggot"-lyric verse. I didn't even KNOW all the lyrics or that that I was getting a radio-edited version for the longest time.
Actually... there hasn't been Thimerosol used in vaccines in the U.S. since 2001.
Perhaps in your area. But if I recall correctly, it was either MMR or influenza vaccine that still had it.
Parents are worse. I know several otherwise very reasonable people who gets absolutely shitbrained whenever they are evaluating fictional threats to their child.
(personal anecdote disclaimer)
When we had our first son, I asked questions to evaluate potential threats of the real (not imagined) variety. As an example, some vaccines contain a mercury-based preservative called Thimerosol (though this is now being phased out in the US and several other countries). I decided that if there were any vaccination choices that would let me choose to NOT have a known neurotoxin introduced to my child's body, I'd take it. (Some may say, "oh, but the amount of mercury is so very, very tiny!" So is the amount of radiation from the airport scanners, but accumulated exposure still matters, right?)
There were no other options, so I decided to accept the vaccinations for my son because the benefits outweigh the apparent risks by several magnitude. It was a logical benefit-risk analysis of a concerned parent, not of a conspiracy theorist. I'm sure I'm not the only parent who asked level-headed questions and made the correct decision.
Those clever Swiss, they sure know how to make cheese that works like a clockwork!
And yet, ironically, I hear that too much Swiss Cheese will prevent a Swiss Movement.
Why stick to paper when much more advanced tech has been around for over 20 years and is being used by third world countries?
It seems to me that, provided the "old" currency formats continue to be acceptable payment (think twenty-year-old $20 USD bill), why bother counterfeiting the new styles? Just continue to counterfeit the older style bills.
He's wanted for questioning.
Meanwhile, we have a recent case of two Irish guys beating a Swedish guy half to death on a cruise. They were caught by the guards and on camera, and their identities and whereabouts in Ireland are known, but the Swedish government are not willing to do anything because the crime was not serious enough. Compare this with a broken condom.
But did the Swedish guy actually ask them to stop?