I hate to say this, but as someone who deals with MRIs of brains pretty much every day, there is something seriously wrong with your brain!
Ok, I'm just kidding. It looks perfectly normal. (I wasn't kidding about dealing with MRIs on a daily basis though). Nice images; thanks for the links.
I have Cox cable. Their monthly cap is a paltry 40 GB a month (the limit is buried on some obscure webpage) and I get to pay $42/month for the service - so I always have to laugh about people complaining about a 200 GB cap.
I know you're just being humorous but our eyes don't have "trichromatic vision;" We (most people anyway) have three main types of photosensitive cones in our eyes. These cones are most sensitive to different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that correspond with red, green, and blue. However, each cone responds to a range of wavelengths (see http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/vision6.gif), so we view different colors because of the differential reaction to "visible light." Anyway and again, I know you weren't serious but I just had to clear up your whole "trichromatic vision" statement.
Maybe we could learn from reality TV (after all isn't politics pretty much == reality TV?) and set up 866 numbers where we can call in as many times as we want to keep our candidate in the game.
Why does a business have to buy a law? Maybe the legislator used to be in business and maybe he came up with the idea on his own (maybe he didn't but you can't just assume that this is a law a business bought).
"I much prefer the Mormon position of people being denied adaquate [sic] legal healthcare in a commercial health establishment based on particular whims related to imagined magic."
What in the world are you talking about? I think you're confusing Mormons with some other religious group (like Jehovah's Witnesses) (if I understand what you're trying to say, which I'm not sure I do because it really doesn't make any sense).
Except that the machine will just rip that tin-foil hat off your head as you walk by and align all those spinning protons and measure the oxygenated hemoglobin in your brain anyway. You can't win dude, you can't win.:)
I know the wasted energy is heat, I just meant that the amount of heat put off is minuscule compared to what a furnace puts out and so, even in cold climates, it still doesn't make sense to use incandescents just for their heat output. Of course, I could be completely wrong here but unless you have something like 1000 lights in your house, I can't see them having more than about a half degree impact on the temperature (that isn't expensive to heat/cool the difference with a furnace or AC).
Wait, "colder" light is more blue, which is where CFLs generally are - it's not on the opposite side of the spectrum from "natural light" incandescents.
If youlike the "soft light" look, there are "soft" CFLs. If you like "natural light" you can get "full spectrum" CFLs. Search around on the web for reviews of the different brands of bulbs. I haven't purchased any, but I hear good things about HomeDepot's CFL brand (I don't work for HD, I'm just passing on what I've heard).
The technology behind CFLs has dramatically improved within the past 2 years.
I don't know if the heat output makes that much of a difference in heating/cooling savings. I still think you are better with the CFL bulbs and running your furnace just that little extra bit. Not using CFLs just because they don't put off as much heat as incandescents is a little like using your oven more to help heat your house (inefficient and expensive). Furnaces are made to heat and light bulbs are made to produce light.
We've replaced most of the main lights with CFLs in our house. I agree with your estimates that it takes only a few months to recoup the up-front expenses of the CFLs over incandescents. I will save a minimum of $30 in electricity costs this year just by replacing 8 regular light bulbs (that's also only running them an average of about 4 hours a day - if you have lights on more, you save more, obviously). The bulbs only cost something like $8 for 6 at Lowe's, which is a savings of about $20 versus traditional bulbs just on electricity after factoring in the higher up-front cost.
Just don't put the bulbs in tight enclosed spaces, they burn out more quickly; however, the technology of these bulbs is constantly improving. You can also get ones now that are "vanity" shaped to fit in those weird fixtures you may have.
Please provide links for your statements. Where are there official statements from before the U.S. invaded Iraq that Iraq definitely did not have WMD? I must have missed those UN releases saying Iraq had complied with UN resolutions and provided proof that they had no WMD. Hindsight is 20/20. Maybe I just missed all of the news stories about how there weren't WMD (again, pre-invasion or threat of invasion).
Again, please provide links to various articles where "the entire world went 'told you so'" (these should obviously reference the times when they had "told the U.S. so" before the threat of invasion).
As for the 9/11 - Iraq link: I've heard the news conferences where Bush or other government leaders supposedly said there was a link between Iraq and 9/11 and that was not what I got out of them. Maybe I'm just stupid but I think people were just putting words into Pres. Bush's mouth that he never said.
Although, some of the Founding Fathers believed in equality of the races and the ones who owned slaves generally treated them quite well (do some research into how Washington treated his slaves).
Some of them also would have been quite happy to have women voting but majority rules.
Ok fellow geeks. What are everyones' predictions about what computer storage will be like in 50 years? Include capacity, medium, and whatever else you want.
My guess is with organic/biological storage with essentially unlimited capacity - if you need more just grow more.
I just want to contradict you on one point. I think George Lucas is a great story-teller - his script writing and directing are lacking but his story-telling is fabulous (look at Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow). I think George Lucas is at his best when he can come up with the general and many specific ideas for stories then let someone else write the dialog and scripts. Then let Lucas be involved with special effects directing and some of the cinematography. That is how you get amazing films from Lucas.
I just want to contradict you on one point. I think George Lucas is a great story-teller - his script writing and directing are lacking but his story-telling is fabulous (look at Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow). I think George Lucas is at his best when he can come up with the general and many specific ideas for stories then let someone else write the dialogue and scripts. Then let Lucas be involved with special effects directing and some of the cinematography. That is how you get amazing films from Lucas.
From a behaviorist's standpoint that is true; however from a cognitive psychologist's standpoint that is false. There are two types of memory - implicit (roughly training and routines) and explicit (what we typically think of as memory).
We'll have to see if they reveal other features. During the keynote Jobs did say that there were a lot of other features that they didn't want to "unveil" right now. So maybe they just talked about ones that had been done before on other systems and with 3rd party software. So, we'll see if there are some other really revolutionary features.
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I hate to say this, but as someone who deals with MRIs of brains pretty much every day, there is something seriously wrong with your brain!
Ok, I'm just kidding. It looks perfectly normal. (I wasn't kidding about dealing with MRIs on a daily basis though). Nice images; thanks for the links.
How in the world did you get modded up Interesting? That was a well-crafted pun. +1 funny.
I have Cox cable. Their monthly cap is a paltry 40 GB a month (the limit is buried on some obscure webpage) and I get to pay $42/month for the service - so I always have to laugh about people complaining about a 200 GB cap.
I know you're just being humorous but our eyes don't have "trichromatic vision;" We (most people anyway) have three main types of photosensitive cones in our eyes. These cones are most sensitive to different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that correspond with red, green, and blue. However, each cone responds to a range of wavelengths (see http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/vision6.gif), so we view different colors because of the differential reaction to "visible light." Anyway and again, I know you weren't serious but I just had to clear up your whole "trichromatic vision" statement.
Maybe we could learn from reality TV (after all isn't politics pretty much == reality TV?) and set up 866 numbers where we can call in as many times as we want to keep our candidate in the game.
Google.
Why does a business have to buy a law? Maybe the legislator used to be in business and maybe he came up with the idea on his own (maybe he didn't but you can't just assume that this is a law a business bought).
"I much prefer the Mormon position of people being denied adaquate [sic] legal healthcare in a commercial health establishment based on particular whims related to imagined magic."
What in the world are you talking about? I think you're confusing Mormons with some other religious group (like Jehovah's Witnesses) (if I understand what you're trying to say, which I'm not sure I do because it really doesn't make any sense).
storing personal information such as the amount of bandwidth consumed is illegal in German
;)
Then they'll just store the info in English.
Except that the machine will just rip that tin-foil hat off your head as you walk by and align all those spinning protons and measure the oxygenated hemoglobin in your brain anyway. You can't win dude, you can't win. :)
I know the wasted energy is heat, I just meant that the amount of heat put off is minuscule compared to what a furnace puts out and so, even in cold climates, it still doesn't make sense to use incandescents just for their heat output. Of course, I could be completely wrong here but unless you have something like 1000 lights in your house, I can't see them having more than about a half degree impact on the temperature (that isn't expensive to heat/cool the difference with a furnace or AC).
Wait, "colder" light is more blue, which is where CFLs generally are - it's not on the opposite side of the spectrum from "natural light" incandescents.
If youlike the "soft light" look, there are "soft" CFLs. If you like "natural light" you can get "full spectrum" CFLs. Search around on the web for reviews of the different brands of bulbs. I haven't purchased any, but I hear good things about HomeDepot's CFL brand (I don't work for HD, I'm just passing on what I've heard).
The technology behind CFLs has dramatically improved within the past 2 years.
I don't know if the heat output makes that much of a difference in heating/cooling savings. I still think you are better with the CFL bulbs and running your furnace just that little extra bit. Not using CFLs just because they don't put off as much heat as incandescents is a little like using your oven more to help heat your house (inefficient and expensive). Furnaces are made to heat and light bulbs are made to produce light.
We've replaced most of the main lights with CFLs in our house. I agree with your estimates that it takes only a few months to recoup the up-front expenses of the CFLs over incandescents. I will save a minimum of $30 in electricity costs this year just by replacing 8 regular light bulbs (that's also only running them an average of about 4 hours a day - if you have lights on more, you save more, obviously). The bulbs only cost something like $8 for 6 at Lowe's, which is a savings of about $20 versus traditional bulbs just on electricity after factoring in the higher up-front cost.
Just don't put the bulbs in tight enclosed spaces, they burn out more quickly; however, the technology of these bulbs is constantly improving. You can also get ones now that are "vanity" shaped to fit in those weird fixtures you may have.
There are dolphins that are fish though: http://indian-river.fl.us/fishing/fish/dolphin.htm l, which is quite confusing. Those dolphins (the fish ones) are obviously not the mammals in the story though.
Please provide links for your statements. Where are there official statements from before the U.S. invaded Iraq that Iraq definitely did not have WMD? I must have missed those UN releases saying Iraq had complied with UN resolutions and provided proof that they had no WMD. Hindsight is 20/20. Maybe I just missed all of the news stories about how there weren't WMD (again, pre-invasion or threat of invasion).
Again, please provide links to various articles where "the entire world went 'told you so'" (these should obviously reference the times when they had "told the U.S. so" before the threat of invasion).
As for the 9/11 - Iraq link: I've heard the news conferences where Bush or other government leaders supposedly said there was a link between Iraq and 9/11 and that was not what I got out of them. Maybe I'm just stupid but I think people were just putting words into Pres. Bush's mouth that he never said.
Hey, at least he wouldn't be "moral" enough to go fight in the war.
I'd mod you up if I could.
Although, some of the Founding Fathers believed in equality of the races and the ones who owned slaves generally treated them quite well (do some research into how Washington treated his slaves).
Some of them also would have been quite happy to have women voting but majority rules.
Excellent point. I'd mod you up to 5 if I had the points.
Interesting point.
Ok fellow geeks. What are everyones' predictions about what computer storage will be like in 50 years? Include capacity, medium, and whatever else you want.
My guess is with organic/biological storage with essentially unlimited capacity - if you need more just grow more.
I just want to contradict you on one point. I think George Lucas is a great story-teller - his script writing and directing are lacking but his story-telling is fabulous (look at Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow). I think George Lucas is at his best when he can come up with the general and many specific ideas for stories then let someone else write the dialog and scripts. Then let Lucas be involved with special effects directing and some of the cinematography. That is how you get amazing films from Lucas.
I just want to contradict you on one point. I think George Lucas is a great story-teller - his script writing and directing are lacking but his story-telling is fabulous (look at Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow). I think George Lucas is at his best when he can come up with the general and many specific ideas for stories then let someone else write the dialogue and scripts. Then let Lucas be involved with special effects directing and some of the cinematography. That is how you get amazing films from Lucas.
Or try this one: http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn%2C+youtube%2C+ slashdot%2C+digg&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
You lost me at girlfriend.
From a behaviorist's standpoint that is true; however from a cognitive psychologist's standpoint that is false. There are two types of memory - implicit (roughly training and routines) and explicit (what we typically think of as memory).
We'll have to see if they reveal other features. During the keynote Jobs did say that there were a lot of other features that they didn't want to "unveil" right now. So maybe they just talked about ones that had been done before on other systems and with 3rd party software. So, we'll see if there are some other really revolutionary features.