What's the deal with this phone. It sort of looked like it was powered up but it didn't act like it. I mean, if this were a real iPhone wouldn't we expect to see some GUI action or something more happening on the display? Looks more like a mockup to me...
Again, in my neck of the universe we don't actually vote for teachers or school principals... maybe it's different where you come from...
If there is any dictatorship involved here, it's on the part of those school administrators who re-interpreted guidelines for what schools are allowed to provide as laws about what a student is allowed to possess and what might be appropriate punishment for such an infraction...
Nice use of the word "capriciously" in a sentence, though... I think it makes you seem very intelligent... ignoring the logic of your argument, of course...
Ummm... in what universe do you live? In mine, public school is not FREE... It's built into my tax structure. As such, I have certain expectations about how my money should be used to educate the kids rather than abuse them... and let's be clear, punishing that little girl for a piece of candy that is clearly not in violation of the state guideline is abuse and caused her much more harm than a few extra calories...
Kay proposed his Dynabook in 1972... but before that Gene Roddenberry and company proposed the PADD in Star Trek circa 1966. The iPad looks (and sounds) a lot more like PADD than the Dynabook.
Not to worry, it doesn't actually process thought. It just capitalizes on your brain's ability to create certain repeatable patterns. Then you train the device to recognize those patterns. It's a far cry from reading thoughts. In fact, it's much closer to typing... just without using your fingers
Similar story. I only seem to need about 5-6 hours of sleep at night. I've been this way for more than 30 years. I, too, typically wake up before the alarm goes off, which seems to confirm that I am not sleep deprived. I rarely get sick; my blood pressure and cholesterol levels are normal. I get lots of exercise, about an hour a day, on average. I'm a very happy and relaxed guy. No signs of depression, hyperactivity or attention deficit. I'm not even cranky when I first get up. Don't drink coffee or soft drinks, though I do occasionally drink tea - more often than not decafinated. I almost never feel sleepy/awkward/wrongish... just when I travel internationally and my sleep cycle gets thrown off.
Since I really have not experienced any negative reprecussions in all of these years, I have no dissatisfaction with the way I am. I am actually thankful because I think it gives me a slight competitive edge.
HOWEVER... there STILL not enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do...
Most of what is being described in this thread is not insomnia.
It is common for people to mis-lable situations where sleep patterns don't match the convention as insomnia. However, if your schedule is simply shifted, it's not insomnia. If your schedule doesn't follow the standard rhythm (for instance 20 hours up and 10 hours down), it's not insomnia. Even if you're one of those rare individuals who don't need as much sleep (6 hours per night), it's not insomnia.
Certainly some people do suffer from insomnia, but don't assume that everyone who doesn't go to sleep at 11pm and wake up at 7am has some sort of problem.
I don't know about cholesterol production, but the insufficient sleep / fat burning link has been disproved. The real link between lack of sleep and weight gain is due to caloric increases and lack of exercise. When people are tired and awake for longer periods of time, they tend to compensate for their energy dip with additional caloric intake. Also, tired people are less likely to get sufficient exercise. Therefore, they gain weight.
In fact, it doesn't read minds. It merely interprets certain kinds of brain activity. Not the same thing. Not nearly the same thing. In the same way your mind has to tell your brain to move your finger to type on your keyboard, your mind has to tell your brain to activate certain neuron groups to provide inputs to this device. It's just a fancy keyboard that you don't have to touch.
Real mind reading can't happen until we first understand how the brain creates the mind. Therefore, don't believe it when you see articles that say that some computer interface can read minds... no one has a clue, yet, how to get past that first step.
I think you misunderstand the definition of natural selection and the distinction between natural selection, cultural selection, sexual selection, kin selection, etc..
Under natural selection, if an individual possesses a particular trait that increases it's likelihood of survival, then it may pass on that trait to future generations. Cultural, sexual, kin, etc. selection does not impact the survival of the individual, though it might impact the survivability of a population. The trait that enables the target behavior is not passed on through survival mechanisms, but rather through serendipity.
It's still natural, in the colloquial sense of the word, but it is not natural selection, from a scientific definition.
That's cultural selection, as well. If cultural selection only applied to humans, it's unlikely that evolutionists would have bothered to dream up a name for it... or they would have called it homo selection.
Culture cannot play a role in natural selection, by definition. It does play a role in selection and evolution. That role is known as cultural selection.
Generally accepted scientific information from the FCC suggests that beyond about 5 meters from the antenna, the power levels are sufficiently safe. However a couple of studies in Germany and Israel suggest that the incidence of cancer is increased by 3 to 4 times at distances of several hundred meters. If it were me, I would play it safe and not take that apartment.
15 years old is not too young to work, as long as the work is voluntary.
I got my first real job working at a gas station when I was 14 , but before that I was mowing lawns, shoveling snow, putting up hay, digging ditches, and probably a dozen other truly backbreaking activities. I did all of this because I wanted things that I couldn't afford if I didn't work. Things like a guitar and amplifier. Then later a car and gasoline. It would have sucked if I couldn't have worked when I was a kid.
There are actually many kinds of surgical scissors, but the kind that I'm referring to have a smooth duck-bill shaped point. They use them for cutting bandages and they are designed to go right against the skin without scratching or otherwise breaking the skin.
And the medical basis for this is what? I assume you went to a doctor for their advice. You might consider following it.
In the US, the generally accepted practice for an eye infection is immediate treatment. While there are some cases where infections are generally harmless, in most of these cases, the infections are highly contagious, so treatment prevents spread. In other cases, infection can cause blindness. It's not always easy to tell the difference. With my children, I prefer not to take chances. Antibiotics are cheap and effective.
And the medical basis for this is what? You had a non emergency case. You wait. Just like in the US.
My cut was pretty severe. Severe enough that several hours of pressure was not stopping the bleeding. People that were admitted before me were a lady with cold symptoms (not sure why she was at the ER), a drunk guy complaining of a headache, a little boy with a scraped knee (I guess he could have had something more serious), but I was the only one bleeding profusely. BTW, I wasn't complaining, per se, I just thought it seemed strange that there was no triage, like you normally see in an ER. In fact, until I met with the doctor, the only person I talked with was the admitting clerk.
You refused the care and it cost you time and effort. The saw would have worked.
You are confused. I didn't refuse the treatment. They balked before I had a chance to, when they saw how thin the cast was compared to what they were used to and how little cloth buffer there was. Make no mistake, I was about to protest... anyway, I told them how it was done and they still had to consult???
As to your wisdom teeth example, that is pretty dependent on the person and condition.
This is true, but I had mine removed by an oral surgeon and my buddy had his removed by a dentist. My point was less about the misery and more about the approach, though I think the approach contributed greatly to his misery.
The US system gets a bad rap because there are patients and doctors that abuse the system, but most people get just the amount of health care that they need and don't contribute to the excess. It's just the bad examples that get sensationalized in the press.
No, I haven't seen the vibrating kind, but the one they whipped out in Glasgow was circular and had teeth all around the cutting blade. True I didn't see it spin, but it looked just like the ones that they used to use in the US 40 years ago. Back then, though there was half an inch of cloth between your arm and the inner shell of the cast. With the fiberglass ones, there's not much cloth - just enough to prevent abrasion.
BTW, THEY were the ones that were afraid to use the saw. I kept telling them that they could use simple surgical scissors. In fact, I asked them to let me do it myself, but they were freaking out.
I have experienced both the US health care system and the UK health care system. While I am sure the US system is given to excess and abuse, there is a huge difference in the quality of health care.
When they diagnosed an eye infection in my kid's eye, they opted to "wait and see" if the infection cleared up on it's own. I don't know about you, but when it comes to my kid's eyesight, "wait and see" is not good enough.
When I seriously cut my hand, I waited in the emergency room for three hours bleeding all over their floor. It was not that busy, but several doctors were out on holiday. They let several obviously non emergencies go in front of me, so I guess it's first-come-first-served. Then when I finally saw the doctor, they were so short handed that I actually had to assist in the operation by sponging the blood away from my cut while the doctor sewed me up. Good thing I'm not squeamish.
The other kid had a broken arm set in one of those fiberglass casts before we left the US. After we arrived in the UK and it was time to remove the cast, they didn't know how to deal with it. They started to get out a rotary saw and I told them that it could be removed safely with scissors. They sent us to several different hospitals and then made us come back after they consulted with some doctors in the US. Of course, they removed the cast with scissors...
I had a friend who had his wisdom teeth removed in the UK. It was done with only local anesthetic and there was quite a bit of collateral damage. He was in excruciating pain and couldn't come to work for about a week and had a liquid-only diet. He complained of soreness in his jaw for several weeks. When I had the same procedure done in the US, I never even had to take pain pills, I was eating solid food the next day and returned to work right after the operation.
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What's the deal with this phone. It sort of looked like it was powered up but it didn't act like it. I mean, if this were a real iPhone wouldn't we expect to see some GUI action or something more happening on the display? Looks more like a mockup to me...
Wow! If ever someone lived up to their handle...
Again, in my neck of the universe we don't actually vote for teachers or school principals... maybe it's different where you come from...
If there is any dictatorship involved here, it's on the part of those school administrators who re-interpreted guidelines for what schools are allowed to provide as laws about what a student is allowed to possess and what might be appropriate punishment for such an infraction...
Nice use of the word "capriciously" in a sentence, though... I think it makes you seem very intelligent... ignoring the logic of your argument, of course...
Ummm... in what universe do you live? In mine, public school is not FREE... It's built into my tax structure. As such, I have certain expectations about how my money should be used to educate the kids rather than abuse them... and let's be clear, punishing that little girl for a piece of candy that is clearly not in violation of the state guideline is abuse and caused her much more harm than a few extra calories...
You are confused. Here are a couple of images to prove my point:
Capitan Kirk uses a TOS PADD
Uhura uses a TOS PADD
True, these pads utilized a stylus, but Kay's Dynabook used a dedicated keypad area, so was less like an iPad and more like a Timex Sinclair:
Timex Sinclair
Kay proposed his Dynabook in 1972... but before that Gene Roddenberry and company proposed the PADD in Star Trek circa 1966. The iPad looks (and sounds) a lot more like PADD than the Dynabook.
Hey, credit where credit is due!
Well known by what standards? They are both a little dated, but they are well known by people who know OSes...
> ARM makes the processor chips...
ARM does NOT make chips, they make IP used to make chips.
In other words, ARM makes software; somebody else makes the chips.
Not to worry, it doesn't actually process thought. It just capitalizes on your brain's ability to create certain repeatable patterns. Then you train the device to recognize those patterns. It's a far cry from reading thoughts. In fact, it's much closer to typing... just without using your fingers
Similar story. I only seem to need about 5-6 hours of sleep at night. I've been this way for more than 30 years. I, too, typically wake up before the alarm goes off, which seems to confirm that I am not sleep deprived. I rarely get sick; my blood pressure and cholesterol levels are normal. I get lots of exercise, about an hour a day, on average. I'm a very happy and relaxed guy. No signs of depression, hyperactivity or attention deficit. I'm not even cranky when I first get up. Don't drink coffee or soft drinks, though I do occasionally drink tea - more often than not decafinated. I almost never feel sleepy/awkward/wrongish... just when I travel internationally and my sleep cycle gets thrown off.
There may be a genetic explanation...
Since I really have not experienced any negative reprecussions in all of these years, I have no dissatisfaction with the way I am. I am actually thankful because I think it gives me a slight competitive edge.
HOWEVER... there STILL not enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do...
Are you begging people to mod you up?
Incredible!!!
Whodathunk slashdotters would be so gullible?
Most of what is being described in this thread is not insomnia.
It is common for people to mis-lable situations where sleep patterns don't match the convention as insomnia. However, if your schedule is simply shifted, it's not insomnia. If your schedule doesn't follow the standard rhythm (for instance 20 hours up and 10 hours down), it's not insomnia. Even if you're one of those rare individuals who don't need as much sleep (6 hours per night), it's not insomnia.
Certainly some people do suffer from insomnia, but don't assume that everyone who doesn't go to sleep at 11pm and wake up at 7am has some sort of problem.
I don't know about cholesterol production, but the insufficient sleep / fat burning link has been disproved. The real link between lack of sleep and weight gain is due to caloric increases and lack of exercise. When people are tired and awake for longer periods of time, they tend to compensate for their energy dip with additional caloric intake. Also, tired people are less likely to get sufficient exercise. Therefore, they gain weight.
In fact, it doesn't read minds. It merely interprets certain kinds of brain activity. Not the same thing. Not nearly the same thing. In the same way your mind has to tell your brain to move your finger to type on your keyboard, your mind has to tell your brain to activate certain neuron groups to provide inputs to this device. It's just a fancy keyboard that you don't have to touch.
Real mind reading can't happen until we first understand how the brain creates the mind. Therefore, don't believe it when you see articles that say that some computer interface can read minds... no one has a clue, yet, how to get past that first step.
I think you misunderstand the definition of natural selection and the distinction between natural selection, cultural selection, sexual selection, kin selection, etc..
Under natural selection, if an individual possesses a particular trait that increases it's likelihood of survival, then it may pass on that trait to future generations. Cultural, sexual, kin, etc. selection does not impact the survival of the individual, though it might impact the survivability of a population. The trait that enables the target behavior is not passed on through survival mechanisms, but rather through serendipity.
It's still natural, in the colloquial sense of the word, but it is not natural selection, from a scientific definition.
That's cultural selection, as well. If cultural selection only applied to humans, it's unlikely that evolutionists would have bothered to dream up a name for it... or they would have called it homo selection.
> Too bad smarter people tend to breed less.
That is just natural selection doing it's job...
Culture cannot play a role in natural selection, by definition. It does play a role in selection and evolution. That role is known as cultural selection.
... that Microsoft would complain about this since, in most other software realms, Microsoft gets to play the part of the 800 pound gorilla.
Generally accepted scientific information from the FCC suggests that beyond about 5 meters from the antenna, the power levels are sufficiently safe. However a couple of studies in Germany and Israel suggest that the incidence of cancer is increased by 3 to 4 times at distances of several hundred meters. If it were me, I would play it safe and not take that apartment.
15 years old is not too young to work, as long as the work is voluntary.
I got my first real job working at a gas station when I was 14 , but before that I was mowing lawns, shoveling snow, putting up hay, digging ditches, and probably a dozen other truly backbreaking activities. I did all of this because I wanted things that I couldn't afford if I didn't work. Things like a guitar and amplifier. Then later a car and gasoline. It would have sucked if I couldn't have worked when I was a kid.
So apparently IE7 is considered a "modern browser"???
There are actually many kinds of surgical scissors, but the kind that I'm referring to have a smooth duck-bill shaped point. They use them for cutting bandages and they are designed to go right against the skin without scratching or otherwise breaking the skin.
Interesting theory, I'd like to understand how that works. Here's an image of the kind of cast saw that they wanted to use:
http://www.atlasprosales.com/images/MPACT/T_CC_100.jpg
It looks like it could do some damage to skin...
In the US, the generally accepted practice for an eye infection is immediate treatment. While there are some cases where infections are generally harmless, in most of these cases, the infections are highly contagious, so treatment prevents spread. In other cases, infection can cause blindness. It's not always easy to tell the difference. With my children, I prefer not to take chances. Antibiotics are cheap and effective.
My cut was pretty severe. Severe enough that several hours of pressure was not stopping the bleeding. People that were admitted before me were a lady with cold symptoms (not sure why she was at the ER), a drunk guy complaining of a headache, a little boy with a scraped knee (I guess he could have had something more serious), but I was the only one bleeding profusely. BTW, I wasn't complaining, per se, I just thought it seemed strange that there was no triage, like you normally see in an ER. In fact, until I met with the doctor, the only person I talked with was the admitting clerk.
You are confused. I didn't refuse the treatment. They balked before I had a chance to, when they saw how thin the cast was compared to what they were used to and how little cloth buffer there was. Make no mistake, I was about to protest... anyway, I told them how it was done and they still had to consult???
This is true, but I had mine removed by an oral surgeon and my buddy had his removed by a dentist. My point was less about the misery and more about the approach, though I think the approach contributed greatly to his misery.
The US system gets a bad rap because there are patients and doctors that abuse the system, but most people get just the amount of health care that they need and don't contribute to the excess. It's just the bad examples that get sensationalized in the press.
No, I haven't seen the vibrating kind, but the one they whipped out in Glasgow was circular and had teeth all around the cutting blade. True I didn't see it spin, but it looked just like the ones that they used to use in the US 40 years ago. Back then, though there was half an inch of cloth between your arm and the inner shell of the cast. With the fiberglass ones, there's not much cloth - just enough to prevent abrasion.
BTW, THEY were the ones that were afraid to use the saw. I kept telling them that they could use simple surgical scissors. In fact, I asked them to let me do it myself, but they were freaking out.
I have experienced both the US health care system and the UK health care system. While I am sure the US system is given to excess and abuse, there is a huge difference in the quality of health care.
When they diagnosed an eye infection in my kid's eye, they opted to "wait and see" if the infection cleared up on it's own. I don't know about you, but when it comes to my kid's eyesight, "wait and see" is not good enough.
When I seriously cut my hand, I waited in the emergency room for three hours bleeding all over their floor. It was not that busy, but several doctors were out on holiday. They let several obviously non emergencies go in front of me, so I guess it's first-come-first-served. Then when I finally saw the doctor, they were so short handed that I actually had to assist in the operation by sponging the blood away from my cut while the doctor sewed me up. Good thing I'm not squeamish.
The other kid had a broken arm set in one of those fiberglass casts before we left the US. After we arrived in the UK and it was time to remove the cast, they didn't know how to deal with it. They started to get out a rotary saw and I told them that it could be removed safely with scissors. They sent us to several different hospitals and then made us come back after they consulted with some doctors in the US. Of course, they removed the cast with scissors...
I had a friend who had his wisdom teeth removed in the UK. It was done with only local anesthetic and there was quite a bit of collateral damage. He was in excruciating pain and couldn't come to work for about a week and had a liquid-only diet. He complained of soreness in his jaw for several weeks. When I had the same procedure done in the US, I never even had to take pain pills, I was eating solid food the next day and returned to work right after the operation.
It's not apples-to-apples.