Actually, I had my ABS come on once when I was driving normally and it almost
caused an accident.
I was driving slowly down a steep hill in the rain (no choice really) when I came to the stop sign at the bottom I increased the pressure on the breaks to stop the vehicle. As I said, the road was wet which caused my tires locked up for just a fraction of a second but it was enough for the ABS to kick in which caused all the presure to leave my break petal and the petal sank to the floor and I started to actually increase in speed.. it wasnt a busy intersection but if I hadn't managed to stop I would have been hit or hit someone else 100%.
But apparently my ABS were working fine when I had them checked out, and that was considered a normal response to the situation. Yearh right...
"excessive levels glutamate is toxic, resulting in over stimulation of nerve cells, known as excitotoxicity, and causing excessive stress on the nerve cells eventually ending in cell death"
Dont get me wrong, very interesting, but these pictures proves nothing.
FTFA: "These spatial oscillations are quantum-mechanical interference patterns caused by scattering of the two-dimensional electron gas off the Fe adatoms and point defects."
Oscillations and interference patters, _not_ atoms, although they are pretty pictures I suppose.
Im was not trying to suggest that scientists are guessing, obviously
they do real scientific studys and check and recheck data and the results.
Maybe this example will help to clarify what I'm talking about, and this is also in reply to the parent poster who said that the programmers chinese book would have to be thought of as an individual.
Every human cell contains enough DNA information to make a complete copy of the entire human being. A cell with its DNA can be thought of as a chinese book.
Now what if every atom has atomic DNA and we just dont know it? What if there is something internal to every atom that is even smaller than electrons. This atomic DNA would be to an atom what regular DNA is to a human cell.
Perhaps this atomic DNA is even more complex than cellular DNA. Perhaps there is enough information in the Atomic DNA of a single atom to make a perfect copy of the entire universe.
Ok, pretty far out on the limb with that one, but hey, just trying to say that we really dont know and there's a chance we never will know, but meh.. uh, what was my point again?
Oh sure, we have mathematical formulas that prove that "something"
does exist and we can even do some manipulation, but what if it turns
out that all this stuff thats so tiny that we can't see it isnt at all what we think it is even though it does respond in predictable ways that we can understand and measure.
Its like an old programming analogy I once read, picture a man
in a box who only understands english, but has a big book on Chinese.
Now programmers feed the box instructions written in chinese and the man
inside is able to look up words in his book, and then he is also able to
write chinese replys using the book, but he doesnt actually understand the chinese language itself. The people on the outside would think he understands chinese because they send in chinese messages and get chinese replys in return.
Maybe atoms are like that as well. We poke atoms, and they respond in a predictable fasion, but since we cant actually see them how do we really know what we're poking?
This is a bit off topic, so my karmas' probably going to take
a hit for saying this..
But what I don't understand is how anyone can claim that light slows down
as it travels in near proximity to the even horizon.
Light is an immutable substance, that's one of lights unique property's.
For example: If you travel in a space ship towards Pluto at near the speed of light and someone travels in another ship from Pluto to earth at the same speed, and if as they travel towards one another they each flick on a powerful light, when each of them measures the speed of the light coming from the other ship they will find that although the speed of the lights transmitter is incredibly high the light itself is still travelling at "the speed of light" 186,000 miles per second. Weird, but true, the speed of light just isnt affected by anything, including gravity, or perhaps I was away that day in school.
Firstly, have you every tried sorting through legal documents? This is definitely an area we could use a little automation. Secondly, have you ever tried dealing with lawyers? Even when they work for you this is a frustraiting process and could use a little automation:)
Hell yes, bring on the robots! Actually what would be even better would just
be a law.google.com interface, or have they already got something like that and I just dont know about it?
It doesnt really matter that much to me if my ancestors
did a little canibalism, or even a lot for that matter.
After all Im pretty sure that somewhere down the line some
or perhaps even a lot of my ancestors engaged in equally
terrible things to survive or perhaps even took part in them
without "survival" really being an issue.
These thoughts dont exactly delight me.
However they dont really frighten me either.
To me all this article really says is that genetics is more complicated that we are currently able to understand and goes a lot deeper than just decoding a genome. One scientists sees some data and comes to a conclusion, another scientist looks at the same data a couple years later and reaches the opposite
conclusion.
Just look at the modern computing industry.
You've got hardware junkies that spend stupid money
on marginal improvments to already insanely fast systems.
Then you've got people who upgrade every year or two.
Then you have people who still run <500mhz systems
because they dont _need_ more for what they indend to do.
I imagine that if implants ever become a reality we'll
see more of the same.
Im sure we've all mused on the potential
for memory or other implants in human beings to boost
abilitys in ways that mere flesh can not hope
to dream of.
Well, I would say a solid state memory chip
powered from bioelectricity could be just
the ticket we are all waiting for.
After all, implanting a non-tissue object
into a human is traumatic enough, but if its one
that also has moving parts like a regular hard drive, well..
no thanks.
I just find it amazing how security experts are getting paid
such big bucks yet according to recent audits show they arent
really making things all that much safer.
And over the same time period how many versions
(not to mention seperately bundled distrobutions)
have been released for Linux? I dunno, but lots. Tones.
So where MS is just basically patching 5 year old
software, Linux is constantly pusing the envelope
and pumping fresh code into the system, it's no
wonder there are more bugs reported.
Whereas with Linux, coders are always looking and
reporting bugs imediately because its cool to do so.
Who wouldnt like to say "Hey I found and reported a
security bug in the Kernel last week" to their geeky
friends?
Honestly, who would want to buy
a Google labeled PC-clone?
Call me a troll, but Im being serious, this
isnt a shot at Google, I love those guys.
All Im saying is what would be the point of
buying a computer from them as opposed to
Toshiba, IBM, Dell, or whomever else is selling
puters now a days.
Other than just wanting
to throw money at a non-evil company I cant
see any compeling reason.
Google is an advertising and software company,
if I want hardware Im going to go to someone with
a proven record. Making computers is like making
sausage, you really dont want to buy any from someone
whos never made any before.
I keep getting heart palpitations just dreading
the day when one of these idiotic rhumors is going
to turn out to be true.
So far Google has played things very smart, I really
hope they keep it up..
What made Luke a better Jedi than his father?
Luke was primarily taught by Yoda, whereas Anakin was
taught by Obiwan.
Having a better teacher can make all the difference in the world;)
I understand how someone who says "hey ID makes sense to me" could be viewed
as a loudmouthed cry baby because I've met a few and when asked the big "why?"
they proceed to list off reasons why evolution makes no sense which isnt exactly
a Pro for ID but rather a Con for Evolution.
However, having said that, I am going to go out on a limb
and say that's its my opinion that believe in evolution takes
just as much faith as belief in Inteligent Design.
If you want to know why I feel that way, or just feel like
proving me wrong, then read yesterdays post in my blog.
Its a funny coincidence that I happened to be writing about
this very thing just the other day.
Slashdot Mirror
..doomsday suddenly arrives, do we really want seeds to be the only thing that survives?
How about a clone bank so that if we hit doomsday clone production starts and asures the survival of humanity?
And if things get really bad we can always eat our clones.
Babys: the other OTHER white meat. --fatbastard
..and say "Windows Media Player" and "http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encyclope dia/overview.aspx?idvirus=57265delivering the best experience" in the same sentance without flinching.
WMP is a steaming pile.
I feel so sure about that statement Im not even going to bother to qualify it.
Actually, I had my ABS come on once when I was driving normally and it almost caused an accident.
I was driving slowly down a steep hill in the rain (no choice really) when I came to the stop sign at the bottom I increased the pressure on the breaks to stop the vehicle. As I said, the road was wet which caused my tires locked up for just a fraction of a second but it was enough for the ABS to kick in which caused all the presure to leave my break petal and the petal sank to the floor and I started to actually increase in speed.. it wasnt a busy intersection but if I hadn't managed to stop I would have been hit or hit someone else 100%.
But apparently my ABS were working fine when I had them checked out, and that was considered a normal response to the situation. Yearh right...
If you havent been on the road lately, heres an update for you: People are fricken idiots.
You would think stuff like automatic blindspot checkers, or abs, or traction control, or auto breaking wouldn't be nessisary but they totally are.
DONT BELIEVE ME? Go drive for yourself in a major metropolitan area for a day.
ps. The real reason I know there are a lot of bad drivers out there is because I am one, so there.
"excessive levels glutamate is toxic, resulting in over stimulation of nerve cells, known as excitotoxicity, and causing excessive stress on the nerve cells eventually ending in cell death"
Who knew stress was bad for you, eh?
Dont get me wrong, very interesting, but these pictures proves nothing.
FTFA: "These spatial oscillations are quantum-mechanical interference patterns caused by scattering of the two-dimensional electron gas off the Fe adatoms and point defects."
Oscillations and interference patters, _not_ atoms, although they are pretty pictures I suppose.
Im was not trying to suggest that scientists are guessing, obviously they do real scientific studys and check and recheck data and the results.
Maybe this example will help to clarify what I'm talking about, and this is also in reply to the parent poster who said that the programmers chinese book would have to be thought of as an individual.
Every human cell contains enough DNA information to make a complete copy of the entire human being. A cell with its DNA can be thought of as a chinese book.
Now what if every atom has atomic DNA and we just dont know it? What if there is something internal to every atom that is even smaller than electrons. This atomic DNA would be to an atom what regular DNA is to a human cell.
Perhaps this atomic DNA is even more complex than cellular DNA. Perhaps there is enough information in the Atomic DNA of a single atom to make a perfect copy of the entire universe.
Ok, pretty far out on the limb with that one, but hey, just trying to say that we really dont know and there's a chance we never will know, but meh.. uh, what was my point again?
What makes you so certain Atoms really do exist?
Oh sure, we have mathematical formulas that prove that "something" does exist and we can even do some manipulation, but what if it turns out that all this stuff thats so tiny that we can't see it isnt at all what we think it is even though it does respond in predictable ways that we can understand and measure.
Its like an old programming analogy I once read, picture a man in a box who only understands english, but has a big book on Chinese. Now programmers feed the box instructions written in chinese and the man inside is able to look up words in his book, and then he is also able to write chinese replys using the book, but he doesnt actually understand the chinese language itself. The people on the outside would think he understands chinese because they send in chinese messages and get chinese replys in return.
Maybe atoms are like that as well. We poke atoms, and they respond in a predictable fasion, but since we cant actually see them how do we really know what we're poking?
This is a bit off topic, so my karmas' probably going to take a hit for saying this..
But what I don't understand is how anyone can claim that light slows down as it travels in near proximity to the even horizon.
Light is an immutable substance, that's one of lights unique property's.
For example: If you travel in a space ship towards Pluto at near the speed of light and someone travels in another ship from Pluto to earth at the same speed, and if as they travel towards one another they each flick on a powerful light, when each of them measures the speed of the light coming from the other ship they will find that although the speed of the lights transmitter is incredibly high the light itself is still travelling at "the speed of light" 186,000 miles per second. Weird, but true, the speed of light just isnt affected by anything, including gravity, or perhaps I was away that day in school.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I think this is probably a good idea.
Firstly, have you every tried sorting through legal documents? This is definitely an area we could use a little automation. Secondly, have you ever tried dealing with lawyers? Even when they work for you this is a frustraiting process and could use a little automation :)
Hell yes, bring on the robots! Actually what would be even better would just be a law.google.com interface, or have they already got something like that and I just dont know about it?
..10 robot lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A pretty good start.
In 15th century Guadaloupe, cannibals eat YOU!
Oh wait..
It doesnt really matter that much to me if my ancestors did a little canibalism, or even a lot for that matter. After all Im pretty sure that somewhere down the line some or perhaps even a lot of my ancestors engaged in equally terrible things to survive or perhaps even took part in them without "survival" really being an issue.
These thoughts dont exactly delight me.
However they dont really frighten me either.
To me all this article really says is that genetics is more complicated that we are currently able to understand and goes a lot deeper than just decoding a genome. One scientists sees some data and comes to a conclusion, another scientist looks at the same data a couple years later and reaches the opposite conclusion.
Yeah I can imagine.
Just look at the modern computing industry. You've got hardware junkies that spend stupid money on marginal improvments to already insanely fast systems. Then you've got people who upgrade every year or two. Then you have people who still run <500mhz systems because they dont _need_ more for what they indend to do.
I imagine that if implants ever become a reality we'll see more of the same.
I ate fp!
Im sure we've all mused on the potential for memory or other implants in human beings to boost abilitys in ways that mere flesh can not hope to dream of.
Well, I would say a solid state memory chip powered from bioelectricity could be just the ticket we are all waiting for.
After all, implanting a non-tissue object into a human is traumatic enough, but if its one that also has moving parts like a regular hard drive, well.. no thanks.
Solid state would definitly be the way to go.
Man I wish I was in security right now.
I just find it amazing how security experts are getting paid such big bucks yet according to recent audits show they arent really making things all that much safer.
And over the same time period how many versions (not to mention seperately bundled distrobutions) have been released for Linux? I dunno, but lots. Tones.
So where MS is just basically patching 5 year old software, Linux is constantly pusing the envelope and pumping fresh code into the system, it's no wonder there are more bugs reported.
Whereas with Linux, coders are always looking and reporting bugs imediately because its cool to do so. Who wouldnt like to say "Hey I found and reported a security bug in the Kernel last week" to their geeky friends?
I know I would. :)
Honestly, who would want to buy a Google labeled PC-clone?
Call me a troll, but Im being serious, this isnt a shot at Google, I love those guys. All Im saying is what would be the point of buying a computer from them as opposed to Toshiba, IBM, Dell, or whomever else is selling puters now a days.
Other than just wanting to throw money at a non-evil company I cant see any compeling reason.
Google is an advertising and software company, if I want hardware Im going to go to someone with a proven record. Making computers is like making sausage, you really dont want to buy any from someone whos never made any before.
I keep getting heart palpitations just dreading the day when one of these idiotic rhumors is going to turn out to be true.
So far Google has played things very smart, I really hope they keep it up..
Its so nice to hear GIMP is still alive and well after 10 years.
In that time I imagine that there has been dozens of proprietary apps that have come and gone, lets face it, but Gimp hasn't been one of them.
I would be willing to bet money that in 10 years or even 20 Gimp is still going to be alive and well.
...biology programs you!
Go ahead and mark this funny if you must, but seriously, has anyone considered targeting the adult entertaiment industry to gain firefox supporters?
I think its sad how much p0rn is on the web these days, but lets face the facts that its there.. so why not use it to our advantage.
Might Firefox only flesh pits be just the motivation needed to get firefox above and into the 25% user market?
Lets hope the adult entertainment industry likes firefox ass well..
I tried not too, but it just slipped out.
What made Luke a better Jedi than his father? Luke was primarily taught by Yoda, whereas Anakin was taught by Obiwan. Having a better teacher can make all the difference in the world ;)
I understand how someone who says "hey ID makes sense to me" could be viewed as a loudmouthed cry baby because I've met a few and when asked the big "why?" they proceed to list off reasons why evolution makes no sense which isnt exactly a Pro for ID but rather a Con for Evolution.
However, having said that, I am going to go out on a limb and say that's its my opinion that believe in evolution takes just as much faith as belief in Inteligent Design.
If you want to know why I feel that way, or just feel like proving me wrong, then read yesterdays post in my blog. Its a funny coincidence that I happened to be writing about this very thing just the other day.
Just follow your nose. It always knows.