Well, if not reductionism, then what? The more we learn about the brain, the more we find surprisingly small systems controling surprisingly specific elements of the mind. And as for no advances predicated thereon, what do you call Prozac and other medications? Find the specific brain system which leads to a given disorder of the mind, develop a pharmacological or surgical technique to correct it, profit. It's not all about computer science.
Um, what? Just because AI isn't currently up to the level of reproducing the brain doesn't invalidate a reductionist view of the mind. Read Godel, Escher, Bach for a discussion of how even a reductionist mind requires a very complicated (and not yet produced) AI.
Cecil Adams wrote a article discussing toxoplama's effect on birth defects and schizophrenia, including the possibility that toxoplasma floods the human brain with LSD.
Maybe because, as this experiment shows, you can point to actual molecular effects in the individual being bullied? If specifically altered gene expression which specifically results from bullying dosn't suggest that the individual being bullied has some sort of "individual sickness," I don't know what does. Remember, all these circuits in your head evolved for cavemen, where being a bully was good for survival. Just because it isn't "right" on some higher moral level doesn't mean your biochemistry isn't going to do it anyway.
read the DNA into a form that reflects the ordering of G, T, A or C which are abbreviations for the different possible amino acids.
Oh really? Last I checked, G, T, A, and C stood for guanine, thymine, adenine, and cytosine, the four nitrogenous bases of DNA. There are 20 amino acids (no, I won't list them all), none of which are components of DNA (ignoring histones, etc.).
This is ajax technology. It has been spreading rampant around the web recently. www.ajaxian.com is a great resource for AJAX type information. also wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) This technology, if used write, well revolutionize many web sites. Realtime sports w/o flash (Already seen on ESPN.com Scoreboard) Probably a few sites with stock market tickers.. etc. I really love AJAX!
Losing the 20 ton craft is intended. However, you can actually get more bang for your buck by not just crashing the craft into the asteroid. By doing that, you'd only get the momentum change from an instantaneous thrust of m*v_impact; however, by holding the spacecraft near the asteroid for a long time, you get a constant thrust of m*v_thruster/r^2 which lasts for decades. Sure, v is smaller in the latter case, but it's applied for much longer.
It seems to me that Knight submitted this patent explicitely to show how stupid storyline patents, and by extension software patents, are. Basically, he took the oft-suggested business method patent on making stupid patents and decided to try a variant of it in reality.
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Staying away from the iPod? You got to be kidding me! http://povpod.com/
I know this is Slashdot, but if you bothered to RTFA, you'd see that povPod.com is specifically mentioned in the article as providing porn for the iPod. Sheesh.
It's not that he broke the law, it's that he wrote about it in a national newspaper. Would you go to your local police station and announce that you jay-walk on a regular basis?
In addition, we obtained from a friend an illegally downloaded episode of the TV show "Battlestar Galactica," which she had converted to one of the video formats the iPod supports.
What, Mossberg has no fear of repercussions? Or does he figure that the Sci Fi channel will figure the plug is worth the copyright infringement?
Honestly, the Kahuna interface, along with the new Yahoo! mail interface, is much better than Gmail. If it were practical to import all my Gmail messages to either (and be guarenteed to get the new interface), I'd switch to one or the other. Of course, there's a fairly high change Google will get the message soon and make an interface such as this optional for Gmail (there'd be too much negative backlash if they forced it upon users)...but until then, don't claim that "Oh no, these more advanced interfaces are much worse than Gmail, because not only can Google do no evil, it can do no wrong." As soon as Gmail has it, you'll be ranting about how "innovative" Google is.
What's the point of this, when they already have the Google Personalized Homepage with RSS feeds? Yea, you can't see the article text through there, but you can also organize your stuff better and view your Gmail inbox, weather, etc. I don't get the point.
WTF are you talking about? Ch 41 is Organic Chemistry (though if you mean one term of it, I guess it could have a more specific name), and there's no such publication as the Nothing. There's the BFD and the Fishing Quarterly, but that's about it for humorous publications. (Unless you want to include the Tech's comically bad production values...but I digress.) Anyway, what year did you graduate?
Hamilton Sundstrand...also is completing a $1 million contract for a high-powered dehumidifier the size of a dorm-room refrigerator that can extract water vapor from the air, even in the desert. The Army plans to display the water-from-air box this week in Washington, D.C., at the annual convention of the Association of the U.S. Army, a lobbying and support group for active and retired personnel.
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Well, if not reductionism, then what? The more we learn about the brain, the more we find surprisingly small systems controling surprisingly specific elements of the mind. And as for no advances predicated thereon, what do you call Prozac and other medications? Find the specific brain system which leads to a given disorder of the mind, develop a pharmacological or surgical technique to correct it, profit. It's not all about computer science.
Um, what? Just because AI isn't currently up to the level of reproducing the brain doesn't invalidate a reductionist view of the mind. Read Godel, Escher, Bach for a discussion of how even a reductionist mind requires a very complicated (and not yet produced) AI.
Cecil Adams wrote a article discussing toxoplama's effect on birth defects and schizophrenia, including the possibility that toxoplasma floods the human brain with LSD.
Maybe because, as this experiment shows, you can point to actual molecular effects in the individual being bullied? If specifically altered gene expression which specifically results from bullying dosn't suggest that the individual being bullied has some sort of "individual sickness," I don't know what does. Remember, all these circuits in your head evolved for cavemen, where being a bully was good for survival. Just because it isn't "right" on some higher moral level doesn't mean your biochemistry isn't going to do it anyway.
...when Gould came up with it 20 years ago.
Seriously, is the author of TFA a moron or what? Punctuated Equilibria is not the same as "Science is wrong!!!11one"
Oh really? Last I checked, G, T, A, and C stood for guanine, thymine, adenine, and cytosine, the four nitrogenous bases of DNA. There are 20 amino acids (no, I won't list them all), none of which are components of DNA (ignoring histones, etc.).
Were you trying to be Insightful or Funny?
There still should be a -1, Factually Incorrect, even if not for your post.
What part of "Kazuya Ikematsu and his colleagues anesthetized and then killed" did you not understand?
http://www.the-electric-universe.info/welcome.html
Burn baby, burn
This is why we need a -1, Factually Incorrect.
even better, you can also add walking straight and turning continuously using the same trick, or combine them for more fun :)
I've got my guy bunny-hopping in circles around the central square-ish thing. Hours of fun!
Maybe you'd prefer a game of Tetris?
I know exactly how many dice I own: 92. Thank you, Chessex, for your Pound-O-Dice.
Losing the 20 ton craft is intended. However, you can actually get more bang for your buck by not just crashing the craft into the asteroid. By doing that, you'd only get the momentum change from an instantaneous thrust of m*v_impact; however, by holding the spacecraft near the asteroid for a long time, you get a constant thrust of m*v_thruster/r^2 which lasts for decades. Sure, v is smaller in the latter case, but it's applied for much longer.
It seems to me that Knight submitted this patent explicitely to show how stupid storyline patents, and by extension software patents, are. Basically, he took the oft-suggested business method patent on making stupid patents and decided to try a variant of it in reality.
I know this is Slashdot, but if you bothered to RTFA, you'd see that povPod.com is specifically mentioned in the article as providing porn for the iPod. Sheesh.
It's not that he broke the law, it's that he wrote about it in a national newspaper. Would you go to your local police station and announce that you jay-walk on a regular basis?
Honestly, the Kahuna interface, along with the new Yahoo! mail interface, is much better than Gmail. If it were practical to import all my Gmail messages to either (and be guarenteed to get the new interface), I'd switch to one or the other. Of course, there's a fairly high change Google will get the message soon and make an interface such as this optional for Gmail (there'd be too much negative backlash if they forced it upon users)...but until then, don't claim that "Oh no, these more advanced interfaces are much worse than Gmail, because not only can Google do no evil, it can do no wrong." As soon as Gmail has it, you'll be ranting about how "innovative" Google is.
What's the point of this, when they already have the Google Personalized Homepage with RSS feeds? Yea, you can't see the article text through there, but you can also organize your stuff better and view your Gmail inbox, weather, etc. I don't get the point.
Not that I remember, but it's hard staying conscious during a 9 AM class.
I guess that makes sense. I'm a current junior, and recall taking Ch 41a with Grubbs last year. Sorry for being confrontational.
WTF are you talking about? Ch 41 is Organic Chemistry (though if you mean one term of it, I guess it could have a more specific name), and there's no such publication as the Nothing. There's the BFD and the Fishing Quarterly, but that's about it for humorous publications. (Unless you want to include the Tech's comically bad production values...but I digress.) Anyway, what year did you graduate?
They've invented vaporators!
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