(apologise for including a fox news link, I think my point stands nonetheless)
"to conduct your 'survey' and concluding based on these biased methods (that you created) that your results are the only results possible"
My survey? Biased methods? That I created? All those articles aren't quoting me you know! I wasn't even alive for the 1958 study!
"Btw something which has 'exceptions' doesn't make 'fact' status"
Did I say 'fact' or did I say 'trend'? (problems with vocabulary recall?) I think you'll find it was the latter (and here's the link to my post if you're in doubt)... although, it is a fact that there is a trend, as the numerous research projects have shown. The fact that there are exceptions is what makes it a trend, not a law.
hmm, my experience is the oposite... the smarter people tend to be skinny. The fat ones are often at most very good at the one thing they sit on their ass doing all day.
Disable event logging, and disable swap (you'll need enough real memory for this). OSs will tend to write least often accessed pages to disk, even if there's no memory shortage, so that if memory is needed at some point, it can just quickly free that page and use it, without having to wait to swap it out to disk first. There's also last-accessed-time updates to files/folders that are read, even if they are cached, the writeback of the new time has to occure at some point (i believe this can be disabled in windows - google for it).
1914-1918 was a pretty good war, but I wouldn't go as far as to say it was great. The storyline was pretty weak, especially the beginning, and the effects left a lot to be desired. Hardly any of it was even in colour, and yeah I know black and white's supposed to be all "artsy" but I'd say it's more pretentious.
"Please sign your name here to state that you do not understand the issue" I think is how most of those petitions go. "Here is a flawed and heavily one-sided argument, please sign your name to it, and get hundreds of others to do so too, so prove how clueless the public really are and shouldn't be listened to"... this is truely a win for democracy.
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
-- Winston Churchill
I know at least here in the UK there are many rights which cannot be signed away. If I go into a shop, and buy something, signing an agreement saying I will not return for refund the product if it is faulty, that contract is deemed void; in the event that the product is faulty, I can still return it for refund.
There is also an explosion here of people requesting that banks refund chargies levvied due to going overdrawn, bouncing payments etc, as the law dictates that charges are for administrative costs, and not to be used for punitive reasons. Even though you agree to make those payments if you do for example, write a cheque you cannot pay, this is considered an "unfair contractual obligation" and is therefore null and void under law.
In the same respects, a EULA agreement with "unfair contractual obligations" quite probably would not stand up in court. Whether that means that the entire EULA is thrown out (it's either agreed upon, or it is not), or just the unfair clauses, would have to be left up to the court.
Try studying NLP, you'll be surprised. A "normal" person can learn a lot about the things they do subconsciously studying under the field, just as an aspergers can learn a lot of things that they don't do subconsciously, and the reactions they have.
Yeah one of my main problems has always been that people get the impression that I'm not interested in them or what they have to say, thus must be arrogant, or feel like I'm above them etc, which isn't true, I just never knew how to show it before (and often still don't). After studying conversations between "normal" people, I soon picked up a few things. If someone tells you they've been on holiday, I no longer expect them to keep telling me as much as they want to without cues back from me to say I'm interested. A raise of the eyebrows, turn of the head, and a "ah, how long did you go for?" works a treat. Now I do that more and more automatically whenever someone says they've been somewhere.
It's always helpful to have a third person in the conversation, so when it dies with you, the third person can pick it up, and you can pay attention to what their next response is, and remember it for the future.
I'm better in many situations now than I have been, although put me in an unrehersed situation, where I don't have scripted responses, and I'm as clueless as I ever have been.
That's absolute crap, I've been doing pretty much what he describes, and found it to work very effectively. If you can learn to be good at something, why do you think that cannot include social interaction? Aspergers is a kinda social dsylexia, and just as people who are dyslexic can put that extra bit of effort in to making sure they spell correctly etc, aspergers can put that extra bit of effort in to being able to interact with people socially. Study NLP, use of body language while developing a rapport with someone, standard acceptable responses that keep a conversation going (the easiest often being just knowing the right cues to allow the other person to keep talking), and you CAN come across as a natural (as natural as anyone is). The more you do it, the more your brain adapts to make these skills less methodic, script following, higher function skills, and more lower function, subconscious, and automatic (at least semi). I've had conversations where people have been shocked to learn everything that's going through my head in order to portray natural conversation, where I disclose each experience that dictated each response I gave them to something they said.
It's hard work, and takes a lot of practice, making a lot of mistakes, but it's not impossible for an intelligent enough person to accomplish.
"Sure, you could have the I/O owned by some independent process while the real parent goes away, but what would that accomplish in most situations?"
The freeing up of all other process memory, file handles, locks, and any other resource it's holding, possibly keeping you from unmounting/remounting a filesystem or accessing files from other processes.
yeah that was actually pretty clever i thought, i love the self referencing stuff... when they were brought back after being cancelled; the scene's set just as peter breaks the news to lois that the show's been cancelled, she asks if there's any hope, peter lists all the tv shows on the network, and says "well if all those shows go down the tube, we might be in with a shot!"
dunno... if I wanted to change the world, do the most good for the people at the bottom, i'd probably try and accumulate huge amounts of wealth first, then use it and the power it brings to change things. If I spent the money as I made it, I wouldn't be making such big changes, the total amount of 'change' I could make would be less. You can't make the difference in the world that the richest man in the world can make, without first becoming the richest man in the world.
Not saying this was his reasons or reasoning... just saying either way, it has put him in the best position to make improvements to peoples lives.
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"but you are relying on unscientific methods..."
Really? Are you sure it's just unscientific speculation?
(apologise for including a fox news link, I think my point stands nonetheless)
"to conduct your 'survey' and concluding based on these biased methods (that you created) that your results are the only results possible"
My survey? Biased methods? That I created? All those articles aren't quoting me you know! I wasn't even alive for the 1958 study!
"Btw something which has 'exceptions' doesn't make 'fact' status"
Did I say 'fact' or did I say 'trend'? (problems with vocabulary recall?) I think you'll find it was the latter (and here's the link to my post if you're in doubt)... although, it is a fact that there is a trend, as the numerous research projects have shown. The fact that there are exceptions is what makes it a trend, not a law.
and ignoring basic observation is a great way of ignoring the causes of problems allowing the problem to grow further.
Exceptions don't prove the lack of a trend.
Both! Well, guess it's not really a "remote" then...
I saw him competing in robot wars once...
"It paralyzed one side of his face."
Wow, that happens to me too whenever I watch any of his films!
hmm, my experience is the oposite... the smarter people tend to be skinny. The fat ones are often at most very good at the one thing they sit on their ass doing all day.
Disable event logging, and disable swap (you'll need enough real memory for this). OSs will tend to write least often accessed pages to disk, even if there's no memory shortage, so that if memory is needed at some point, it can just quickly free that page and use it, without having to wait to swap it out to disk first. There's also last-accessed-time updates to files/folders that are read, even if they are cached, the writeback of the new time has to occure at some point (i believe this can be disabled in windows - google for it).
1914-1918 was a pretty good war, but I wouldn't go as far as to say it was great. The storyline was pretty weak, especially the beginning, and the effects left a lot to be desired. Hardly any of it was even in colour, and yeah I know black and white's supposed to be all "artsy" but I'd say it's more pretentious.
"Please sign your name here to state that you do not understand the issue" I think is how most of those petitions go. "Here is a flawed and heavily one-sided argument, please sign your name to it, and get hundreds of others to do so too, so prove how clueless the public really are and shouldn't be listened to"... this is truely a win for democracy.
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
-- Winston Churchill
Some things never change.
Money's their business... tha's all there is to it really :-/
yeah but it's running on an 8086, it will be a while before it catches up.
I know at least here in the UK there are many rights which cannot be signed away. If I go into a shop, and buy something, signing an agreement saying I will not return for refund the product if it is faulty, that contract is deemed void; in the event that the product is faulty, I can still return it for refund.
There is also an explosion here of people requesting that banks refund chargies levvied due to going overdrawn, bouncing payments etc, as the law dictates that charges are for administrative costs, and not to be used for punitive reasons. Even though you agree to make those payments if you do for example, write a cheque you cannot pay, this is considered an "unfair contractual obligation" and is therefore null and void under law.
In the same respects, a EULA agreement with "unfair contractual obligations" quite probably would not stand up in court. Whether that means that the entire EULA is thrown out (it's either agreed upon, or it is not), or just the unfair clauses, would have to be left up to the court.
Try studying NLP, you'll be surprised. A "normal" person can learn a lot about the things they do subconsciously studying under the field, just as an aspergers can learn a lot of things that they don't do subconsciously, and the reactions they have.
Perhaps a "social skills for aspies" wiki?
Yeah one of my main problems has always been that people get the impression that I'm not interested in them or what they have to say, thus must be arrogant, or feel like I'm above them etc, which isn't true, I just never knew how to show it before (and often still don't). After studying conversations between "normal" people, I soon picked up a few things. If someone tells you they've been on holiday, I no longer expect them to keep telling me as much as they want to without cues back from me to say I'm interested. A raise of the eyebrows, turn of the head, and a "ah, how long did you go for?" works a treat. Now I do that more and more automatically whenever someone says they've been somewhere.
It's always helpful to have a third person in the conversation, so when it dies with you, the third person can pick it up, and you can pay attention to what their next response is, and remember it for the future.
I'm better in many situations now than I have been, although put me in an unrehersed situation, where I don't have scripted responses, and I'm as clueless as I ever have been.
That's absolute crap, I've been doing pretty much what he describes, and found it to work very effectively. If you can learn to be good at something, why do you think that cannot include social interaction? Aspergers is a kinda social dsylexia, and just as people who are dyslexic can put that extra bit of effort in to making sure they spell correctly etc, aspergers can put that extra bit of effort in to being able to interact with people socially. Study NLP, use of body language while developing a rapport with someone, standard acceptable responses that keep a conversation going (the easiest often being just knowing the right cues to allow the other person to keep talking), and you CAN come across as a natural (as natural as anyone is). The more you do it, the more your brain adapts to make these skills less methodic, script following, higher function skills, and more lower function, subconscious, and automatic (at least semi). I've had conversations where people have been shocked to learn everything that's going through my head in order to portray natural conversation, where I disclose each experience that dictated each response I gave them to something they said.
It's hard work, and takes a lot of practice, making a lot of mistakes, but it's not impossible for an intelligent enough person to accomplish.
"Sure, you could have the I/O owned by some independent process while the real parent goes away, but what would that accomplish in most situations?"
The freeing up of all other process memory, file handles, locks, and any other resource it's holding, possibly keeping you from unmounting/remounting a filesystem or accessing files from other processes.
yeah that was actually pretty clever i thought, i love the self referencing stuff... when they were brought back after being cancelled; the scene's set just as peter breaks the news to lois that the show's been cancelled, she asks if there's any hope, peter lists all the tv shows on the network, and says "well if all those shows go down the tube, we might be in with a shot!"
"The work well on Linux, so maybe the drivers can be "reverse engineered" to work with Vista"
Feb 2/3, 2007. Let us remember this day, the day on slashdot "but does it run linux?" got replaced with "yeah, but does it run on vista?"
dunno... if I wanted to change the world, do the most good for the people at the bottom, i'd probably try and accumulate huge amounts of wealth first, then use it and the power it brings to change things. If I spent the money as I made it, I wouldn't be making such big changes, the total amount of 'change' I could make would be less. You can't make the difference in the world that the richest man in the world can make, without first becoming the richest man in the world.
Not saying this was his reasons or reasoning... just saying either way, it has put him in the best position to make improvements to peoples lives.
Their arms must have become tired from knocking on so many peoples doors, cuz they're knocking so gently, i don't hear a thing...
:-)
or maybe being in the UK helps, very few FBI here
Um... the moon and mars are actually two completely different things.
"are you saying that NASA wants to unlawfully imprison you?"
Can you be sure that they don't?!!
hehe, I liked the bit where you you thought I was being serious somehow