This is just a pure stab in the dark here, but could a drug stimulating this region be used to help depression? One of the symptoms seems to be a feeling of despair and inability - turning this feeling around by (chemically) convincing folks that they/can/ pull themselves out of the hole they're in might work.
Hmm, wasn't there a sci-fi story about a completely automated house that continued to serve breakfast, clean the floor, and schedule entertainment even after the entire family had been reduced to ash after a nuclear blast? Heinlein or Asimov, from memory. Quite sad and a bit creepy, in a way, as everything started off normal - the house wasn't aware that the people weren't there, and the reader wasn't told. It started to get a bit creepy when the family dog, shivering, burned, and dying of radiation poisoning, limped into the kitchen and died...where it was treated as a mess to be cleaned up. Can't remember where I read that story, now...
This is like one I heard about a few years ago...back during the cold war, Western intelligence agents were tripped up because the passports they had forged were perfect in any way - except for the stainless steel staples, which were unavailable in the USSR. Border guards noticed that the center-fold of the passport had no rust stains.
Windowmaker has had the "break into itty bitty bits on delete" graphical frippery for as long as I can remember - in fact, from memory, its the only graphical frippery it has!
Your comments about - while intended to be humourous - aren't too far off the mark. Jeremy Clarkson (he of top gear fame) described the Ferrari 355 as "fabulous - and fragile" - this from a car built in the 90's. The build quality of the early cars was quite incredibly poor, something that wasn't addressed until very recently (witness the 612 trans-china trip). Ferrari's aren't exactly a "daily driver" - not like (flamebait) the Porsche 911 or *gasp* something japanese (the NSX was the one that really scared the italians - its a Ferrari built by people who understand a exotic car shouldn't really require exotic servicing)
In the win3.1 days, XYZZY used to be the code for minesweeper...dunno about solitaire. I remember a pal of mine had a program that came with his soundcard (SBPro?) that would read the cards out for you...even the face-down ones.
Hey, I remember that Heinlein story! You forgot to add that the protagonist in the story was, in fact, Heinlein, and the girl in the story was Heinlein as a girl.
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This is just a pure stab in the dark here, but could a drug stimulating this region be used to help depression? One of the symptoms seems to be a feeling of despair and inability - turning this feeling around by (chemically) convincing folks that they /can/ pull themselves out of the hole they're in might work.
Hmm, wasn't there a sci-fi story about a completely automated house that continued to serve breakfast, clean the floor, and schedule entertainment even after the entire family had been reduced to ash after a nuclear blast? Heinlein or Asimov, from memory. Quite sad and a bit creepy, in a way, as everything started off normal - the house wasn't aware that the people weren't there, and the reader wasn't told. It started to get a bit creepy when the family dog, shivering, burned, and dying of radiation poisoning, limped into the kitchen and died...where it was treated as a mess to be cleaned up. Can't remember where I read that story, now...
This is like one I heard about a few years ago...back during the cold war, Western intelligence agents were tripped up because the passports they had forged were perfect in any way - except for the stainless steel staples, which were unavailable in the USSR. Border guards noticed that the center-fold of the passport had no rust stains.
...I can't believe that nobody has tagged this article "realignthedeflector"
I wonder if call centers are cheaper to run on the moon?
I think the codename for a quad-core notebook would have to be either "china syndrome" or "crotchburner".
Windowmaker has had the "break into itty bitty bits on delete" graphical frippery for as long as I can remember - in fact, from memory, its the only graphical frippery it has!
Your comments about - while intended to be humourous - aren't too far off the mark. Jeremy Clarkson (he of top gear fame) described the Ferrari 355 as "fabulous - and fragile" - this from a car built in the 90's. The build quality of the early cars was quite incredibly poor, something that wasn't addressed until very recently (witness the 612 trans-china trip). Ferrari's aren't exactly a "daily driver" - not like (flamebait) the Porsche 911 or *gasp* something japanese (the NSX was the one that really scared the italians - its a Ferrari built by people who understand a exotic car shouldn't really require exotic servicing)
In the win3.1 days, XYZZY used to be the code for minesweeper...dunno about solitaire. I remember a pal of mine had a program that came with his soundcard (SBPro?) that would read the cards out for you...even the face-down ones.
Hey, I remember that Heinlein story! You forgot to add that the protagonist in the story was, in fact, Heinlein, and the girl in the story was Heinlein as a girl.
You truly are a gimboid. :)