The basic problem in perception is dealing with the drastic motions.
I saw a show on animal channel the other day that was about the fastest runners. Number one was the tiger beetle. What struck me is that the reason it runs in short bursts is that its perception system can't keep up with all the input. So it has to keep stopping to get its bearings. Roaches are very fast too, and they use this same method of short bursts and stops. (which has the added benefit of making them harder to stomp.:)
Another example of this inability to perceive too much movement input is the funky neck movements many ducks make while moving to hold their eyes still.
I have been trying to expunge goatse.cx from my memory but people are always mentioning it and now we get score:5 posts about it which just strengthens those persistent little neurons in that part of my memory. I guess I am scarred for life.:(
If we got rid of our own nuclear weapons then we would actually have a leg to stand on, and world support, when we try to prevent others from having them.
Our current policy of, "Do as I say, not as I do." has not worked very well.
If we managed to have a worldwide ban rather than the weak non-proliferation treaty, then countries trying to develop nuclear weapons would be under threat of actions similar to Israel's bombing of Osirak to prevent Iraq gaining nuclear weapons; but backed by the UN and the world, rather than the economic slap on the wrist they get now.
I remember reading somewhere that research into criminal fears concluded that dogs and disease were the things they were most afraid of. So just put a sign up that says, "Warning: dog has AIDS". 8^)
He meant you were an abnormal person; since, in his view, a normal person would not use their real name. I think this reveals to us a lot more about halfbaked than it does about normal people.:)
Often, when someone volunteers a claim that they are not doing something wrong, then it is precisely what they are doing. People that are truly not doing something wrong don't think about pre-emptively defending themselves. You'll notice that if you ever investigate one of those multi-level marketing scams that the first claim they will make is that they are not a MLM scam.:)
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Natural uranium is only slightly radioactive. It has to by mined in huge quantities and purified to produce weapons grade uranium and reactor fuel.
I also just found this page with some interesting information about natural radioactivity with stats like Annual estimated average effective dose equivalent received by a member of the population of the United States: http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/natural.htm
That only applies to comments, not story submissions.
I want the ability to exclude stories from the homepage submitted by this "Roland Piquepaille" the same way I have avoided years of nonsense from "JonKatz". My view of what is nonsense is obviously highly subjective; so a user configurable option seems to be the answer.
With the rising number of silly astroturfish advertising getting by the editors, slash needs an ability to let users filter submissions based on the submitter. hrm, it could be a simple extension to the 'foe' feature for comments.
Car insurance is not mandatory. At least it is not in Florida, where I live. The law just says that you have to be able to afford a certain amount ($20k medical + 10k for property damages). Car insurance is just one way of proving you can afford it. Another way, which I happened to renew just this week, is to fillout a form listing your net worth (excluding house), get it notarized, send it in, and you get a certificate of self-insurance.
I knew that the Japanese had this same type of discrepency of what frequency to differentiate between blue and green. According to wikipedia, the Welsh, Chinese, and Kurdish do as well. And the Vietnamese don't have a word for green at all.
My only gripe: I can't setup the game to split the screen vertically for 2 players
That would really restrict your field of view though. I think it is better to see more left and right, than it is to see more up and down.
oh, actually, I guess part of why I feel this way is because my group of friends always disables the radar. It makes the game a bit more exciting when people have a chance to sneak up behind you.
Noone claimed the USA invented immigration. If you had even a slight knowledge of world history, you would be aware that our nation consists entirely of immigrants; many of whom arrived here recently.
For some anecdotal evidence; of my group of friends in highschool, they were born in Italy, Colombia, Cuba, Pakistan, China, Korea, and Israel. One other and myself were the only two of the group born here.
Yeah, I was thinking that the criteria is simply citizenship. e.g. Martina Navratalova is representing the USA since she was naturalized as a U.S. citizen. But people maintaining dual citizenships seems more common nowadays, as well; so citizenship alone can not be used to decide. I suppose it just boils down to whoever the athlete claims they are playing for.
Can't you just accept that sometimes althletes from other countries might be better than the USA ones?
That's why the USA kicks ass in the olympics, we _have_ a bunch of those better folks from other countries. Thirty members of this year's USA team were born in other countries. I always thought it was neat that you couldn't tell who the American athletes were by their race, either.:)
Immigration to other parts of the world does seem more common nowadays, though. I often here the announcers mentioning athletes that have played for more than one country.
I'm not going to visit brazil, I might run into some green-skinned, spinning mutant a la Blanka.:)
But seriously, stereotypes are not always bad. There really are traits that span large groups of people. When you want to convey what country/culture a character is from and you can only convey that information through some graphics then your only choice is to dress the characters in a sterotypical/traditional outfit from that country and/or give the characters recognizable physical characteristics. e.g. liederhosen and blond hair for a german and a kimono and dark hair for japanese. Sure, some folks may do it to be insulting or out of ignorance, but I also think a lot of them just do it out of necessity.
that idiot John Edwards who "talks to stupid people"... oh - and supposedly their dead loved ones too (*cough* cold read *cough*)
I recall reading about how they would let the guests for the show onto the stage a while before the show started with the microphones live. What do you think the guests would talk to each other about? Possibly about the dead people they are hoping to hear from? Or at least enough information to classify them better to make it more like 'warm reading' than 'cold reading'.
Great post. Very good points. I just have one minor quibble.
Not that we have good data on it, but it seems that some of the "alchemists" _were_ motivated by obscene profits. Primarily by the holy grail of alchemy; turning lead into gold. Secondarily, taking money/room/board from nobles to pay for their research into turning lead into gold.:)
perl. I'm sure you could do it, but I certainly wouldn't want to maintain it. Besides that you'd have to start from scratch and create a bunch of library code before you could even think of starting.
You've obviously never seriously used perl since you don't know about CPAN and its nearly 7k modules.
I can understand endorsing your favorite language. But to try to do it by spreading ignorant FUD about other languages is not a wise method.
Agree with them 100% of the time. Then do whatever you were going to do anyway.
I completely disagree. I truly despise the dishonest people that "resolve" any conflict in that manner.
(No offense to you intended; you are on my friends list after all. I just feel very strongly about dishonest tactics. And that technique will simply gain you a reputation as a liar.)
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I saw a show on animal channel the other day that was about the fastest runners. Number one was the tiger beetle. What struck me is that the reason it runs in short bursts is that its perception system can't keep up with all the input. So it has to keep stopping to get its bearings. Roaches are very fast too, and they use this same method of short bursts and stops. (which has the added benefit of making them harder to stomp. :)
Another example of this inability to perceive too much movement input is the funky neck movements many ducks make while moving to hold their eyes still.
I have been trying to expunge goatse.cx from my memory but people are always mentioning it and now we get score:5 posts about it which just strengthens those persistent little neurons in that part of my memory. I guess I am scarred for life. :(
Our current policy of, "Do as I say, not as I do." has not worked very well.
If we managed to have a worldwide ban rather than the weak non-proliferation treaty, then countries trying to develop nuclear weapons would be under threat of actions similar to Israel's bombing of Osirak to prevent Iraq gaining nuclear weapons; but backed by the UN and the world, rather than the economic slap on the wrist they get now.
I remember reading somewhere that research into criminal fears concluded that dogs and disease were the things they were most afraid of. So just put a sign up that says, "Warning: dog has AIDS". 8^)
He meant you were an abnormal person; since, in his view, a normal person would not use their real name. I think this reveals to us a lot more about halfbaked than it does about normal people. :)
Often, when someone volunteers a claim that they are not doing something wrong, then it is precisely what they are doing. People that are truly not doing something wrong don't think about pre-emptively defending themselves. You'll notice that if you ever investigate one of those multi-level marketing scams that the first claim they will make is that they are not a MLM scam. :)
If that were true then I doubt that we would be seeing naturally occuring nuclear reactors. :)1 6/167237&tid=134&tid=14
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/
That link to APOD should actually have been:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021016.html
I also just found this page with some interesting information about natural radioactivity with stats like Annual estimated average effective dose equivalent received by a member of the population of the United States:
http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/natural.htm
I want the ability to exclude stories from the homepage submitted by this "Roland Piquepaille" the same way I have avoided years of nonsense from "JonKatz".
My view of what is nonsense is obviously highly subjective; so a user configurable option seems to be the answer.
With the rising number of silly astroturfish advertising getting by the editors, slash needs an ability to let users filter submissions based on the submitter. hrm, it could be a simple extension to the 'foe' feature for comments.
It's also quite common for that curve to loop back around to an earlier joke, typically on the last joke of the set.
"Be ethical." == "Don't be evil." ? :)
Car insurance is not mandatory. At least it is not in Florida, where I live. The law just says that you have to be able to afford a certain amount ($20k medical + 10k for property damages). Car insurance is just one way of proving you can afford it. Another way, which I happened to renew just this week, is to fillout a form listing your net worth (excluding house), get it notarized, send it in, and you get a certificate of self-insurance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green
Yes.
That would really restrict your field of view though. I think it is better to see more left and right, than it is to see more up and down.
oh, actually, I guess part of why I feel this way is because my group of friends always disables the radar. It makes the game a bit more exciting when people have a chance to sneak up behind you.
For some anecdotal evidence; of my group of friends in highschool, they were born in Italy, Colombia, Cuba, Pakistan, China, Korea, and Israel. One other and myself were the only two of the group born here.
p.s. "begs the question" does not mean what you think it means.
Right now the USA is 4th by golds and 3rd by total medals. I don't see such a huge discrepency. 8^)
That's why the USA kicks ass in the olympics, we _have_ a bunch of those better folks from other countries. Thirty members of this year's USA team were born in other countries. I always thought it was neat that you couldn't tell who the American athletes were by their race, either. :)
Immigration to other parts of the world does seem more common nowadays, though. I often here the announcers mentioning athletes that have played for more than one country.
But seriously, stereotypes are not always bad. There really are traits that span large groups of people. When you want to convey what country/culture a character is from and you can only convey that information through some graphics then your only choice is to dress the characters in a sterotypical/traditional outfit from that country and/or give the characters recognizable physical characteristics. e.g. liederhosen and blond hair for a german and a kimono and dark hair for japanese. Sure, some folks may do it to be insulting or out of ignorance, but I also think a lot of them just do it out of necessity.
"Dhalsim flame!"
And Streetfighter II is certainly not unique in that the cast of characters to choose from represent many different countries and cultures.
I recall reading about how they would let the guests for the show onto the stage a while before the show started with the microphones live. What do you think the guests would talk to each other about? Possibly about the dead people they are hoping to hear from? Or at least enough information to classify them better to make it more like 'warm reading' than 'cold reading'.
Not that we have good data on it, but it seems that some of the "alchemists" _were_ motivated by obscene profits. Primarily by the holy grail of alchemy; turning lead into gold. Secondarily, taking money/room/board from nobles to pay for their research into turning lead into gold. :)
You've obviously never seriously used perl since you don't know about CPAN and its nearly 7k modules.
I can understand endorsing your favorite language. But to try to do it by spreading ignorant FUD about other languages is not a wise method.
I completely disagree. I truly despise the dishonest people that "resolve" any conflict in that manner.
(No offense to you intended; you are on my friends list after all. I just feel very strongly about dishonest tactics. And that technique will simply gain you a reputation as a liar.)