If it's true, said Hacker should have his/her computer taken away. It's not like the planet was going to go away. Were astrologers or other "common people" suffering for lack of the data? The astronomer was right to confirm and tighten up the data before going public. He'd be embarassed and ridiculed if he released too soon and got it wrong.
The world is doing an absolutely massive experiment in public health by having hundreds of millions of people using cell phones every day. If this were even remotely true, ophthalmologists would be overwhelmed with people having trouble with their eyes.
A most gracious reply.
This whole grammar thing is such a difficult issue, actually. I think a lot of us sticklers have almost an obsessive compulsive disorder or low level autism when it comes to proper English. At least, when I hear or see an error, I feel a real sense of physical discomfort that won't really go away until the error is corrected. It's similar to seeing an error in some code and knowing it's going to bomb and you can't relax until it's fixed.
And yet, it's not my "code". It's someone else's and who am I to presume to correct him or her.
I struggle with this all the time.
Couldn't agree with you more, but it's "try to" make sense, not "try and" make sense. If you try and make sense, then you have succeeded for sure. If you try to, then it's not clear whether you'll succeed, which the sense people are usually trying to give.
And what about crossing the street? Is the robot going to be able to see a car coming from a block away? I can imagine it leading its master into an "empty" crosswalk only to have a car come barreling through 5 seconds later.
'Cuz now, when I hear some a***ole on the phone in the departure lounge shouting at his secretary or some girl in the drugstore telling her friend in full voice about last night's 3-some, I give them a little card that says "I can hear you now".
Here's what the electromagnetic field studies are all about. You take a bunch of people who have high EMF exposure and compare them to people who have low exposure. You then take 100 different diseases like leukemia and brain tumors and ask do the high-exposure people have more of it. And viola, 1 or 2 diseases show up positive. But they are positive at the 0.01 probability level. That is, the probability of any one disease showing up is about 1:100. So if you screen 100 diseases, you're SURE to find one that comes up by chance. And funny thing...every one of the many studies comes up with a different disease.
So bottom line is, that there is NO good evidence that electromagnetic fields cause any real problems.
All those bumper stickers that say "Kill your TV": Someone must have misunderstood and killed TiVo by mistake.
Just another case of anything that is well designed, useful, tastes good or has some intrinsic value in this world disappearing, while all the junk sticks around endlessly.
Doesn't automatically save downloads to disk. Have to press a button. I suppose that's a feature, but when I click on a link, I know it's what I want downloaded.
On the Mac, Dowloaded dmg images should automatically open as disks.
Moving bookmarks around is much more cumbersome than Safari, where you can just drag them in the bookmarks window.
No history submenus like Safari that let you go back several days.
History list does not show small icons.
Is there a key-combination that can close the current tab?
Ampakines simply turn up the gain on a large fraction of the synapse in the brain. Is that going to make you smarter? There is NO good evidence for it.
Imagine indescriminately increasing the output voltage of every transistor in some complex electronic device. This will likely play havoc on the orignal design, not improve function.
The drugs are interesting as research tools, but the path to a viable drug is very long, and very fraught. I'm not signing up for their clinical studies any time soon.
In my book, when a human is running (or an animal is galloping) there are moments in each step where all feet have left the ground. The video shows clearly that one or the other foot is touching the ground at all times. So this is technically not running. Just power-walking.
Impressive, though.
Seen it (a fine wavering line of light and dark along the wing). And I even figured out what it was. I've looked for it since on many flights and never saw it again, so I wonder what determines when it appears.
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If it's true, said Hacker should have his/her computer taken away. It's not like the planet was going to go away. Were astrologers or other "common people" suffering for lack of the data? The astronomer was right to confirm and tighten up the data before going public. He'd be embarassed and ridiculed if he released too soon and got it wrong.
It's just not plausible.
Sorry, my dog ate my sig...
A most gracious reply. This whole grammar thing is such a difficult issue, actually. I think a lot of us sticklers have almost an obsessive compulsive disorder or low level autism when it comes to proper English. At least, when I hear or see an error, I feel a real sense of physical discomfort that won't really go away until the error is corrected. It's similar to seeing an error in some code and knowing it's going to bomb and you can't relax until it's fixed. And yet, it's not my "code". It's someone else's and who am I to presume to correct him or her. I struggle with this all the time.
Couldn't agree with you more, but it's "try to" make sense, not "try and" make sense. If you try and make sense, then you have succeeded for sure. If you try to, then it's not clear whether you'll succeed, which the sense people are usually trying to give.
We'll call it Oogle.
"Obsticals"? Maybe that's how robots spell it.
'Cuz now, when I hear some a***ole on the phone in the departure lounge shouting at his secretary or some girl in the drugstore telling her friend in full voice about last night's 3-some, I give them a little card that says "I can hear you now".
Here's what the electromagnetic field studies are all about. You take a bunch of people who have high EMF exposure and compare them to people who have low exposure. You then take 100 different diseases like leukemia and brain tumors and ask do the high-exposure people have more of it. And viola, 1 or 2 diseases show up positive. But they are positive at the 0.01 probability level. That is, the probability of any one disease showing up is about 1:100. So if you screen 100 diseases, you're SURE to find one that comes up by chance. And funny thing...every one of the many studies comes up with a different disease.
So bottom line is, that there is NO good evidence that electromagnetic fields cause any real problems.
All those bumper stickers that say "Kill your TV": Someone must have misunderstood and killed TiVo by mistake. Just another case of anything that is well designed, useful, tastes good or has some intrinsic value in this world disappearing, while all the junk sticks around endlessly.
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Doesn't automatically save downloads to disk. Have to press a button. I suppose that's a feature, but when I click on a link, I know it's what I want downloaded.
On the Mac, Dowloaded dmg images should automatically open as disks.
Moving bookmarks around is much more cumbersome than Safari, where you can just drag them in the bookmarks window.
No history submenus like Safari that let you go back several days.
History list does not show small icons.
Is there a key-combination that can close the current tab?
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Ampakines simply turn up the gain on a large fraction of the synapse in the brain. Is that going to make you smarter? There is NO good evidence for it. Imagine indescriminately increasing the output voltage of every transistor in some complex electronic device. This will likely play havoc on the orignal design, not improve function. The drugs are interesting as research tools, but the path to a viable drug is very long, and very fraught. I'm not signing up for their clinical studies any time soon.
In my book, when a human is running (or an animal is galloping) there are moments in each step where all feet have left the ground. The video shows clearly that one or the other foot is touching the ground at all times. So this is technically not running. Just power-walking. Impressive, though.
...talk about having too much time on your hands.
Seen it (a fine wavering line of light and dark along the wing). And I even figured out what it was. I've looked for it since on many flights and never saw it again, so I wonder what determines when it appears.
I'm a biology professor/scientist by day, and an IT specialist "on the side", but the IT stuff is often more fun and more remunerative.