Nevertheless, it raises an interesting question: if intelligence can be increased by something so simple as an increase in the expression of a single NMDA receptor subunit, why hasn't it already happened? Presumably, there is a selective advantage to improved learning and memory. Presumably, there is some kind of downside that balances that selective advantage. Are there other behaviors for which the rat is impaired?
Maybe the smarter rats are more curious and end up as cat food.
Well, bingo is technically a form of gambling. We all know how the government, state or federal, feels about gambling, especially when they aren't getting a cut...
For a/. geek, what does Windows 7 have that's *really* useful/desired/cool vs. Windows XP? Not trolling, just haven't had the time to install it/play with it yet.
64-bit support that doesn't suck, a lot of graphical and stability improvements, improved networking, and improved security (even if you turn off the UAC). I never used Vista so my question would be what improvements does Windows 7 have over Vista? I don't know, but I've been running the Windows 7 RC on a laptop and desktop for a while and I prefer it over XP and plan on upgrading all my Windows machines. Then again, I'm going to be buying my copy through my university for $15 so price isn't really a big concern for me.
As Scott Adams says; "The Holodeck will be mankind's last great invention". I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to work out why we'd never ever want to leave.
It will malfunction and release Evil Lincoln upon us?
While there may be many not-so-good programmers that love to code in their spare time, I have actually _NEVER_ met any good programmer/engineer/developer/whatever that DOESN'T WANT to code in their spare time. I don't think they exist. However, I do think many exist that THINK they're a good programmer.
While there may be many not-so-good programmers that love to code in vi, I have actually _NEVER_ met any good programmer/engineer/developer/whatever that DOESN'T WANT to code in vi. I don't think they exist. However, I do think many exist that THINK they're a good programmer.
In other words you're arguing that if people don't fit into the mold of what, in your opinion, makes a good programmer then they obviously aren't one.
I'm pretty sure Nintendo isn't forcing anyone to install the update. I've never had the Wii refuse to run a game I've purchased until I've installed the latest update. However, if you want to purchase/download things from their servers or use their multiplayer network then you have to play by their rules. I'll agree that it is pretty shitty of them if they released the update specifically to target homebrew activity but like I said, they aren't forcing you to download/install the update so I don't see how there is any lock-in. You just have to decide if using Nintendo's other services is worth the price of losing your homebrew channel.
My last job was full time, paid by the hour. I had to go in for jury duty selection and missed a day of work. Since I didn't work that day, I didn't get paid. The county paid me around $6 for the entire day and I had to pay $5.50 for parking and buy my own lunch downtown. I made sure to ask a few questions during the selection process in order to get myself removed because I honestly couldn't afford to miss a week of work.
My current job is salaried, so if I get a summons now I'd probably like to be selected for a jury. I've always been curious about the whole thing and I'd like to think that I'm fairly intelligent and that I could help out our society a bit by contributing to the judicial process.
Another interesting anecdote, my father was going through the jury duty selection process once and I believe he was actually selected. While sitting around chatting during a break a woman said to him that she hoped the bastard on trial would fry. My father went and told the bailiff and he and the woman ended up being removed.
I agreed with you until you made that stupid generalization about the south. There are plenty of racist, xenophobic idiots up north too.
Denigrating an entire group of people simply because they live south of an imaginary line isn't any better than hating on people because their skin color is different or because they speak a different language.
I have an older Tom Tom One and an iPhone 3G. For me, this is almost the perfect combination except that Apple's paranoia regarding Bluetooth prevents me from connecting my Tom Tom to the iPhone to retrieve traffic data. Even after the big iPhone 3.0 update, which is supposed to allow more access to the phone through Bluetooth, there is still no word on this being addressed. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this is on purpose so as to motivate users to buy the Tom Tom app instead of using the GPS they already have. Thanks, but no thanks.
It isn't too difficult. This is my routine whenever a new update comes out:
Download AptBackup and Chronus through Cydia. AptBackup makes a list of all the packages you've installed through Cydia and Chronus can be used to backup things like your SMS messages, program settings, and documents. Set these up how you like and choose what you would like to back up
(Optional) Download and install SharePod to ensure that all the music on your phone is also backed up on your computer
Backup your phone through iTunes. This will backup your package list created by AptBackup as well as a number of other settings and your contact list
Install the update (which will remove your jailbroken programs and data)
Re-jailbreak
Restore from iTunes backup.
Download AptBackup/Chronus again and restore
Maybe not the simplest or quickest solution, but this has worked pretty well for me. I find the actual update installation and jailbreak to be the most time consuming steps.
Because its so hard to add 5556667777@mms.cellphone.com to a contact?
User friendly or not, it has always been incorrect to say that iPhone users cannot send pictures to MMS devices.
MMS was designed for use with camera phones with a bare bones OS. With email to MMS available, specific MMS support on smartphones is just keeping alive a technology that should die sooner rather than later.
Do you do the same thing for contacts you send SMS messages to? If not, you're just being a hypocrite.
Safest is probably a policy of partial isolation. We should greet others firmly, while revealing little of our own cultures and history. Be respectful, and allow visitors to see a strictly controlled show. Given time, this can be relaxed. If they do seem interested in colonization, prepare for war. Demand commitments to peace and respect for our territory that, if broken deliberately, will give us moral high-ground in counterattacking. But if this should occur, act quickly to establish laws of war--display an aura of civility and discipline. Conversely, if they are interested in an exchange of knowledge, be open and willing--say nothing of atrocities and wars, and let the borders be opened slowly. Control their perception of us, so that we may appear to be a mixture of cultures that they could ally themselves with, rather than merely subjugate.
And if that fails, we can try giving them some blankets.
I accidentally began to format a drive with a lot of important data on it back in college (never try to install an operating system while drunk). I came across R-Studio and downloaded the demo. If I remember correctly, the demo allows you to do everything the full version does short of actually recovering the files. It allows you to get familiar with the program and see what data is recoverable. I immediately bought the full version after that and saved about 95% of my data. Now if I could just find the CD with the installer...
The side-effects of this reach further than one might expect. A number of people close to me are teachers and they have told me about how kids diagnosed with ADD or ADHD must be given extra time on tests or assignments. I have no problem with giving troubled kids a little extra time on something to make sure they understand the material. However, most of the time these are the students who turn in a completely blank test five minutes into class.
These parents who insist that their kids are just as good as everyone else and are being held back and discriminated against because they have sort of disorder are really doing a large disservice to their children. Almost no one in the professional world gives you more time to finish a project or assignment because you have ADD or ADHD. The scariest thing to me though was when a friend of mine in medical school told me about people getting extensions on their exams/boards for similar reasons. I'm sorry, but people aren't magically going to stay alive and give you an extra hour to finish an open heart surgery.
I'd go one step further and say that the main reason that I don't want to be seen naked is because its my fucking body and only I should get to decide who sees me naked and when. I have nothing to hide or to be ashamed of, but as I said, no one should be allowed to force me to expose myself to these full body scans or strip searches without a warrant or just probable cause.
The thing that annoys me most is that we've had something like two "bash Star Trek" threads a week since the movie came out. This isn't news. The majority of you seem to have hated the movie. Good for you. Personally, I liked it, but that doesn't mean we need to be debating the strengths and weaknesses of the movie twice a week. Is there honestly nothing else going on in the world worthy of discussion other than "OMG!! Too much shaky cam!" every fucking week?
Way to fuck over the native ants, Texas. Not to mention any other unpredictable side-effects, which, when talking about introduced species, are/ALWAYS BAD/.
You do realize fire ants come from South America and are not native to the US? They were introduced to the US in 1918, which is why they have no natural predators here and we have to import them.
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Maybe the smarter rats are more curious and end up as cat food.
Well, bingo is technically a form of gambling. We all know how the government, state or federal, feels about gambling, especially when they aren't getting a cut...
64-bit support that doesn't suck, a lot of graphical and stability improvements, improved networking, and improved security (even if you turn off the UAC). I never used Vista so my question would be what improvements does Windows 7 have over Vista? I don't know, but I've been running the Windows 7 RC on a laptop and desktop for a while and I prefer it over XP and plan on upgrading all my Windows machines. Then again, I'm going to be buying my copy through my university for $15 so price isn't really a big concern for me.
It will malfunction and release Evil Lincoln upon us?
While there may be many not-so-good programmers that love to code in vi, I have actually _NEVER_ met any good programmer/engineer/developer/whatever that DOESN'T WANT to code in vi. I don't think they exist. However, I do think many exist that THINK they're a good programmer.
In other words you're arguing that if people don't fit into the mold of what, in your opinion, makes a good programmer then they obviously aren't one.
I thought we killed that asshole at the end of season 3?!
Someone should arrange an appointment for him with Léon. I hear he's pretty good.
I'm pretty sure Nintendo isn't forcing anyone to install the update. I've never had the Wii refuse to run a game I've purchased until I've installed the latest update. However, if you want to purchase/download things from their servers or use their multiplayer network then you have to play by their rules. I'll agree that it is pretty shitty of them if they released the update specifically to target homebrew activity but like I said, they aren't forcing you to download/install the update so I don't see how there is any lock-in. You just have to decide if using Nintendo's other services is worth the price of losing your homebrew channel.
1a. Childishly refer to Microsoft as M$ throughout the rest of the response.
My last job was full time, paid by the hour. I had to go in for jury duty selection and missed a day of work. Since I didn't work that day, I didn't get paid. The county paid me around $6 for the entire day and I had to pay $5.50 for parking and buy my own lunch downtown. I made sure to ask a few questions during the selection process in order to get myself removed because I honestly couldn't afford to miss a week of work.
My current job is salaried, so if I get a summons now I'd probably like to be selected for a jury. I've always been curious about the whole thing and I'd like to think that I'm fairly intelligent and that I could help out our society a bit by contributing to the judicial process.
Another interesting anecdote, my father was going through the jury duty selection process once and I believe he was actually selected. While sitting around chatting during a break a woman said to him that she hoped the bastard on trial would fry. My father went and told the bailiff and he and the woman ended up being removed.
I agreed with you until you made that stupid generalization about the south. There are plenty of racist, xenophobic idiots up north too. Denigrating an entire group of people simply because they live south of an imaginary line isn't any better than hating on people because their skin color is different or because they speak a different language.
Lisa: As Intelligence goes up, Happiness goes down. See, I made a graph. I make a lot of graphs.
Yeah, but now you can finally punch Jimbo right in his stupid toothless smiling face without damaging your fist or your fancy plasma TV!
I have an older Tom Tom One and an iPhone 3G. For me, this is almost the perfect combination except that Apple's paranoia regarding Bluetooth prevents me from connecting my Tom Tom to the iPhone to retrieve traffic data. Even after the big iPhone 3.0 update, which is supposed to allow more access to the phone through Bluetooth, there is still no word on this being addressed. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this is on purpose so as to motivate users to buy the Tom Tom app instead of using the GPS they already have. Thanks, but no thanks.
Maybe not the simplest or quickest solution, but this has worked pretty well for me. I find the actual update installation and jailbreak to be the most time consuming steps.
Am I the only one tired of hearing/seeing the word crowdsource?
Right, because that makes it ok...
Do you do the same thing for contacts you send SMS messages to? If not, you're just being a hypocrite.
And if that fails, we can try giving them some blankets.
I accidentally began to format a drive with a lot of important data on it back in college (never try to install an operating system while drunk). I came across R-Studio and downloaded the demo. If I remember correctly, the demo allows you to do everything the full version does short of actually recovering the files. It allows you to get familiar with the program and see what data is recoverable. I immediately bought the full version after that and saved about 95% of my data. Now if I could just find the CD with the installer...
The side-effects of this reach further than one might expect. A number of people close to me are teachers and they have told me about how kids diagnosed with ADD or ADHD must be given extra time on tests or assignments. I have no problem with giving troubled kids a little extra time on something to make sure they understand the material. However, most of the time these are the students who turn in a completely blank test five minutes into class.
These parents who insist that their kids are just as good as everyone else and are being held back and discriminated against because they have sort of disorder are really doing a large disservice to their children. Almost no one in the professional world gives you more time to finish a project or assignment because you have ADD or ADHD. The scariest thing to me though was when a friend of mine in medical school told me about people getting extensions on their exams/boards for similar reasons. I'm sorry, but people aren't magically going to stay alive and give you an extra hour to finish an open heart surgery.
I'd go one step further and say that the main reason that I don't want to be seen naked is because its my fucking body and only I should get to decide who sees me naked and when. I have nothing to hide or to be ashamed of, but as I said, no one should be allowed to force me to expose myself to these full body scans or strip searches without a warrant or just probable cause.
Wow! A superpowers drug you can just rub into your skin? You'd think it'd be something you have to freebase...
The thing that annoys me most is that we've had something like two "bash Star Trek" threads a week since the movie came out. This isn't news. The majority of you seem to have hated the movie. Good for you. Personally, I liked it, but that doesn't mean we need to be debating the strengths and weaknesses of the movie twice a week. Is there honestly nothing else going on in the world worthy of discussion other than "OMG!! Too much shaky cam!" every fucking week?
You do realize fire ants come from South America and are not native to the US? They were introduced to the US in 1918, which is why they have no natural predators here and we have to import them.