MarsPhoenix: Team wants to see how quickly test shavings sublimate (turn to vapor) to help them estimate how quickly I need to move real samples to oven.
Except that Gentoo happens to be one of the best. Maybe if one of the dozens of Red Hat clones using the same crappy RPM system died, nobody would miss it, but... Gentoo is too important. Even the non-Gentoo users I know rely on the Gentoo forums and wiki and documentation for help.
Woah! This is exactly the premise of A. A. Attanasio's Radix!
A line of energy from a black hole hits earth (after having passed over countless other worlds) and interferes with its magnetic field, eventually leading to mass mutations. Brilliant book.:D Out of print, though, as far as I can tell.:(
Well, "just get over it" is in fact a significant part of the whole phobia cure.
You know desensitising through repeated exposure, and trying to in fact approach it rationally. Correct. My point was that it takes time. It's not something that people can overcome in an instant.
Some of these phobias are a bit complex to suggest it is some animal instinctual thing. I was suggesting that the response to the fear-provoking stimulus can be deep animal panic. The brain is complex. Our rational and animal minds are more deeply interconnected than one may think.
Clearly an intelligent part of the brain is being stupid. Not stupid. Simply oversensitive. Phobias arise in response to sufficiently unpleasant experiences. In my case, a traumatic spinal tap when I was very young. The experience at the time caused me sufficient pain and anxiety to produce a very strong aversion to even mild analogues of the experience (i.e. having a needle inserted in my arm to draw blood).
Hopefully you are seeking therapy instead of just making others put up with it. I am indeed, when I can afford it. Therapy is not cheap. That said, I have made significant progress in dealing with my fears (like the ability to remain conscious and generally calm while blood is being drawn). It takes time and money, and unfortunately, sometimes medical problems crop up before it's possible to reduce or eliminate a phobia.
It is the job of doctors and nurses to provide a comfortable experience with understanding and unconditional positive regard. This often doesn't happen (not always the fault of the doctors, though! Being overworked can make one cranky.)
If it were easy (or even moderately hard) to control a phobia, I suspect most people would. Justification is irrelevant. It matters only that the fear exists. Conquering a phobia typically requires exposure (with neutral or rewarding consequences) to the fear-provoking stimulus. In his case, gradual exposure to being in the tube.
I realize that many people find it difficult to understand the lack of control inherent in a phobia. I (with my injection phobia) am often told (by medical professionals) simply to get over it. Unfortunately, when a needle is present, I descend into blind animal panic. My rational mind ceases to function. The thoughts of controlling and pushing through the fear don't even occur to me. It is a pure flight-or-fight response, and I have done both.
Additionally, the guilt of having wasted time (of the doctors or other patients) needlessly adds to the unpleasantness of the situation. His attempts to undergo the procedure are, in my opinion, courageous.
Schering-Plough are developing an antiviral drug, pleconaril, that targets picornaviruses, the viruses that cause the majority of common colds. Pleconaril has been shown to be effective in an oral form. Picornaviridae is a family that supersets rhinoviruses and enteroviruses. So it seems that the vast majority of colds could be targeted with a single drug.
I already see with every sense. I'm a synaesthete who maps every sense to vision in some way. My finger in my nose looks kind of dark blue with a rolling violent turbulence.:P
Though that description doesn't do it justice. It's hard to put most such experiences into words...
Indeed. Actually, I had plenty of parental affection and hugs as a child. Anxiety disorders run in my family (though my parents are fine), so I'm guessing this is more "nature" than "nurture".:)
Couldn't decide which post to reply to, so I'm replying at the bottom of the thread.
Probably, but it's better than nothing. I suffer from severe OCD, often making real hugs more stressful than simply avoiding human contact. This vest sounds like a reasonable stand-in for those times that I need a hug but can't bring myself to actually go through with one.
3. How bright is the screen and how do they get 10 hours out of 2 AA batteries?
The screen is bright enough. It's similar to the original GBA SP screen (though it looks horrible currently - I assume this can be fixed with firmware upgrades). Also, they don't get 10 hours of battery life. They promise to somehow increase it with firmware upgrades (by reducing processor utilization, I believe)
The rest I can't answer - but for #7. Too bad I own one already.;)
if something truly groundbreaking happens expect a Nature, Science, or PNAS publishing.
Not necessarily. If I recall from Kary Mullis' "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field", major journals rejected his initial paper on PCR, which I would call truly groundbreaking.
...you have to suppose that there was some purpose for it in the first place, which automatically implies the existence of an intelligence or reasoning entity that designed the purpose.
I dislike this argument as it's equivalent to the "no creator" scenario with an added layer of complexity. Why, then, does the creator exist? By your argument something had to have created it. And so on, ad infinitum.
One could argue "well, maybe it's beyond human understanding/logic", which is basically non-falsifiable; but then one has to ask how far one needs to go. How many creator-levels are there?
You could say there is one god created everything. Why not say that some god created that god? They're both equivalently non-falsifiable. It's just that the more you add, the more complex the situation becomes.
By the same token, you could say the universe just exists of its own accord, and THAT is beyond human understanding or logic. Again, non-falsifiable; just simpler.
So the question then boils down to: "how simple do you want your universe to be?".
This reminds me of the unwieldly Nintendo 64 controller.
It's only unwieldy if you hold it by the two outer prongs and try to manipulate the analog stick. The controller is meant to be held by the middle and right prong for most games (read the console instruction manual), and is quite comfortable.
Oh please, then what triggered 9/11?
War.
The US attacked places bin Laden cared about. It doesn't justify his actions but it does appear to be the motivating factor.
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MarsPhoenix: Team wants to see how quickly test shavings sublimate (turn to vapor) to help them estimate how quickly I need to move real samples to oven.
Maybe he changed his mind. It does happen. If people's opinions were immutable, we'd be incapable of learning anything.
Except that Gentoo happens to be one of the best. Maybe if one of the dozens of Red Hat clones using the same crappy RPM system died, nobody would miss it, but... Gentoo is too important. Even the non-Gentoo users I know rely on the Gentoo forums and wiki and documentation for help.
Have you seen "Cat Soup"?
:D
A completely trippy 30 minutes of animation. In one scene, god cracks open the earth and eats the mantle with a spoon.
Woah! This is exactly the premise of A. A. Attanasio's Radix! A line of energy from a black hole hits earth (after having passed over countless other worlds) and interferes with its magnetic field, eventually leading to mass mutations. Brilliant book. :D Out of print, though, as far as I can tell. :(
You know desensitising through repeated exposure, and trying to in fact approach it rationally. Correct. My point was that it takes time. It's not something that people can overcome in an instant.
Some of these phobias are a bit complex to suggest it is some animal instinctual thing. I was suggesting that the response to the fear-provoking stimulus can be deep animal panic. The brain is complex. Our rational and animal minds are more deeply interconnected than one may think.
Clearly an intelligent part of the brain is being stupid. Not stupid. Simply oversensitive. Phobias arise in response to sufficiently unpleasant experiences. In my case, a traumatic spinal tap when I was very young. The experience at the time caused me sufficient pain and anxiety to produce a very strong aversion to even mild analogues of the experience (i.e. having a needle inserted in my arm to draw blood).
Hopefully you are seeking therapy instead of just making others put up with it. I am indeed, when I can afford it. Therapy is not cheap. That said, I have made significant progress in dealing with my fears (like the ability to remain conscious and generally calm while blood is being drawn). It takes time and money, and unfortunately, sometimes medical problems crop up before it's possible to reduce or eliminate a phobia.
It is the job of doctors and nurses to provide a comfortable experience with understanding and unconditional positive regard. This often doesn't happen (not always the fault of the doctors, though! Being overworked can make one cranky.)
If it were easy (or even moderately hard) to control a phobia, I suspect most people would. Justification is irrelevant. It matters only that the fear exists. Conquering a phobia typically requires exposure (with neutral or rewarding consequences) to the fear-provoking stimulus. In his case, gradual exposure to being in the tube.
I realize that many people find it difficult to understand the lack of control inherent in a phobia. I (with my injection phobia) am often told (by medical professionals) simply to get over it. Unfortunately, when a needle is present, I descend into blind animal panic. My rational mind ceases to function. The thoughts of controlling and pushing through the fear don't even occur to me. It is a pure flight-or-fight response, and I have done both.
Additionally, the guilt of having wasted time (of the doctors or other patients) needlessly adds to the unpleasantness of the situation. His attempts to undergo the procedure are, in my opinion, courageous.
People need help, not guilt or reprimands.
I always assumed the wings were for mounting weapons.
Schering-Plough are developing an antiviral drug, pleconaril, that targets picornaviruses, the viruses that cause the majority of common colds. Pleconaril has been shown to be effective in an oral form.
Picornaviridae is a family that supersets rhinoviruses and enteroviruses. So it seems that the vast majority of colds could be targeted with a single drug.
I love you.
Over a nice meal.
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I already see with every sense. I'm a synaesthete who maps every sense to vision in some way. My finger in my nose looks kind of dark blue with a rolling violent turbulence. :P
Though that description doesn't do it justice. It's hard to put most such experiences into words...
I assumed a word in the data storage sense. n bits to a word. Then I thought "wait a minute, which architecture?".
If it bothers you, as it does me, you should tag with !itsatrap to counter it.
But it's only ironic if it's true.
:)
Indeed. Actually, I had plenty of parental affection and hugs as a child. Anxiety disorders run in my family (though my parents are fine), so I'm guessing this is more "nature" than "nurture".
Couldn't decide which post to reply to, so I'm replying at the bottom of the thread.
Probably, but it's better than nothing. I suffer from severe OCD, often making real hugs more stressful than simply avoiding human contact. This vest sounds like a reasonable stand-in for those times that I need a hug but can't bring myself to actually go through with one.
No, but our long "relationship" with snakes may have inspired the story of Genesis.
Carl Sagan suggests this (and in general discusses the (possible) relationship between mythology and evolution) in his book "The Dragons of Eden".
As a new GP2X owner, I can answer some of these questions.
;)
1. Is it Mac compatible? I assume it is just a basic Mass Storage device on the USB chain.
You assume correctly. An SD card is required though.
2. Does anyone have a link to the actual technical specs? I can't find anything on that site about the tech specs, other than the ARM processors.
links to tech specs (gp2x wiki)
3. How bright is the screen and how do they get 10 hours out of 2 AA batteries?
The screen is bright enough. It's similar to the original GBA SP screen (though it looks horrible currently - I assume this can be fixed with firmware upgrades). Also, they don't get 10 hours of battery life. They promise to somehow increase it with firmware upgrades (by reducing processor utilization, I believe)
The rest I can't answer - but for #7. Too bad I own one already.
if something truly groundbreaking happens expect a Nature, Science, or PNAS publishing.
Not necessarily. If I recall from Kary Mullis' "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field", major journals rejected his initial paper on PCR, which I would call truly groundbreaking.
...you have to suppose that there was some purpose for it in the first place, which automatically implies the existence of an intelligence or reasoning entity that designed the purpose.
I dislike this argument as it's equivalent to the "no creator" scenario with an added layer of complexity. Why, then, does the creator exist? By your argument something had to have created it. And so on, ad infinitum.
One could argue "well, maybe it's beyond human understanding/logic", which is basically non-falsifiable; but then one has to ask how far one needs to go. How many creator-levels are there?
You could say there is one god created everything. Why not say that some god created that god? They're both equivalently non-falsifiable. It's just that the more you add, the more complex the situation becomes.
By the same token, you could say the universe just exists of its own accord, and THAT is beyond human understanding or logic. Again, non-falsifiable; just simpler.
So the question then boils down to: "how simple do you want your universe to be?".
Try to say "I should get less than some people", it is logically equivalent but somehow much harder to pronounce :-)
"Some" is not the negation of "most".
This reminds me of the unwieldly Nintendo 64 controller.
It's only unwieldy if you hold it by the two outer prongs and try to manipulate the analog stick. The controller is meant to be held by the middle and right prong for most games (read the console instruction manual), and is quite comfortable.
Oh please, then what triggered 9/11? War. The US attacked places bin Laden cared about. It doesn't justify his actions but it does appear to be the motivating factor.
I've seen people backspace correct spellings in favour of netspeak. Scary stuff.