Definition: Addiction is a compulsion to repeat a behaviour regardless of its consequences.
I guess "consequences" is the key word. How does one measure what a "bad" consequence of something is? With gambling it could be finacial or social or both. With Video game or tv it could be the removal of one from intercation with others. But there can be good consequences, a family spends time playing video games together, how much different is that then playing Sorry or Monopoly as a family. Is it an addiction if it does not have any or little negative consequences? but it could just be the definition of the word consequencses in World in which you live in.
Will seafaring ships don't they chrisen it when it is in the water? with that whole smashing the bottle of wine thing. I would think they should work on "building it". I love the fact thay they are designing it but how many NASA projects get built after the design let alone put into use.
How would the Betamax law or any other apply to TV shows that are taped not DVD rips. I have watched the first 4 seasons of 24 in HD and you can't get those on DVD and they have those little show promos on the bottom of the screen. If I miss a episode of BSG I don't have to worry about how that is going to effect my viewing experience because I can download it the next day. I think this is very important to shows that have story arcs (24, lost, BSG) because missing an episode is more important in the shows history than missing a Seinfeld episode. But it still may be illegal, thoughts
One of the problems that Vista was going to run into was all the embedded video cards out there($300 Dells and HPs) This is a way to allow them to upgrade without having to buy a new video card. Some of the cheap dells have the AGP slot taken off the board so those won't be able to run Vista w/ Aero at all. I want to see how long it takes for someone to crack the ultimate edition. Vista Business = XP pro - media stuff Vista Ultimate = XP pro They will probably sell the business in corp version but since it can't do any cool stuff no one will bother pirating it. Ultimate will be all key based, no corp version.
Crackers will have alot of fun when these guys come out.
Absolutely wonderful, a nice homemade meal(chicken cordon bleu, green beans and fresh bread). EQ has been out for quite a while I was referring to not having money before I was married(i.e. could not afford a broadband connection.)
Right now my wife plays WoW more than I do, She is 55 and I am 43. I married a great woman she loves video games(and sports for that matter) and has start playing RPGs(Kingdom Hearts and Dark Cloud, now WoW). The only problem is that I am lower than her but I can deal.
Learn more about the JerdKing and family.
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Thanks for your concern though, I hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day as well.
I never played EQ(didn't have the money) but I am playing WoW and I just would not time for this(I split WoW time with my wife as it is). If I am going to play a new MMO I think this would be interesting, going away from the medieval genre Tabula RasaI checked out Eve Online but it was too involved. But maybe by the time Tabula Rasa comes out I will be WoW to Death.
Here is a good example of player created content Ryzom Ring It is an expansion to a current MMORPG Ryzom From the looks of it, the engine looks pretty good and it looks like the contiunity is not going to be messup. It would be pretty cool if blizzard came up with some sort of engine, even one that was a standalone that people could mess around with and post/turn in stories or scenarios
But there is an intrinsic difference between a law and a theory. For every reaction there is an opposite and equal reaction. This is a "Law" which I see everyday in use. It is an experiment that I can repeat over an over using the Scientific Method. I do not see and I cannot evolve a monkey into a human in a experiment at all let alone over and over again. That does not mean that it did not happen but it just means that it is not a law it is a theory. Like I said before placing the word theory on the website is not going to lead to the mass corruption of this nations youth. To believe in evolution or creationism blindly is equally wrong. Some Christians don't just say "I believe in creationism" and that is it. There is a very deep thought process that goes into it and the consutation of Science as with other "controvercial" issues.
I am not trying to a troll but I think that this guys is a bit over reacting. The kid did something stupid in actually explaing why he requested the web design to change the site. No matter what this kids motives are or who he works for, it is still true. Placing the word "Theory" in the Website is not going to lead to the mass corruption of the nations youth. The more kids that getting into science the better. I come from a religous background and I love science. I am an electrical engineer and my zeal to understand technology and science that relates to it is just as much as the next person. To say that if someone does not believe in Evolution, stem cell research or global warming has nothing to give to science is ridiculous. Many religous sciences and engineers have great determination and zeal because science explains characteristics about the "god" that created the world. And many of the great scientists in history were religous people.
I think the issue is where does life begin? How and where you draw the line? Is it a person at 8 months because it can survive outside the womb? Is it a person when neuron start to grow?
One thing that is interesting to me is how a persons desires dictate the state of the "fetus" life. ie couple wants a child very badly, when the child is aborted naturally they have lost a child to them, As opposed to a mother who does not what to be pregnant, it is just a part of her body that she can do whatever she wants to with.
From just minimal research, a majority 80% of RU486 instances the egg is fertilized and the drug does not allow the egg to implant in the uterus wall, the other 20% prohibits fertilization.
Since I am posting so late this will probably get lost in the masses of slashdot but I said my piece
To my knowledge, I think verizon is the only carrier that you can make calls on the train and in the stations, I know that people have had problems with Cingular but their overal coverage sucks I think.
I call my wife from the train to pick me up at the station so It would be a pain to have wait the call her when I get there.
I don't know if somebody touched this but If you have Digital Cable or DirecTV you have to have a receiver for each card espically if you wanted to record non-air broadcast HD channels or if you just did not want to mess with an antenna. Then each card would have to be tried into the receiver to make the receiver change Channels. Is there going to be a solution for this in the future ie a receiver with 2 or 3 outputs? Now that would cool, but I would think that networks would nix that in a hurry, wouldn't want us to skip those commericals.
Think there was an article awhile back about what the average cost of an Intel processor compared to a PowerPC and How would Mac rationalized keeping the same price? I did a quick and keep in mind quick price comparison of a Macbook and a Dell. The Mac costs $2500 and the Dell about $2300. The Dell does not come configured like the mac so I had to do some tweeking to get the above prices. The only diffence that I can see in configuration is the Dell has a 7800go and 17" screen and the Mac has a 15.4" and a XT1600. The price for the hardware that you get was a lot closer than I thought(I thought that the difference would be greater) It just depends if you are a mac person or if not do you want to invest time and money into another Computer/OS. For the mass public, I can't see Babyboomers trying to learn a whole new OS, my Dad has a hard enough time as it is with windows.
In the circumstance with the CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames Case, He is a US citizen(searching his US residence) so he does not fall under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In that Case, the FBI would go to a regular judge and get a warrant to search his house and that did not happen.
One of the benefits of filing Civil Liberty cases is the possibility to get your Legal Fees paid for by the government. As the case with the ACLU, the more cases they file the more likely their are to receive legal fees. They are fund with donations as well.
If it is external then it is going to take up more room and could be ackward depending on the cabling (than being internal) but not as much room as being a dedicated device. The question is will xbox360 owners buy this external player for watching media only or would they purchase a standalone. IMHO I would want an internal, I watch DVDs on my PS2 and it does the job but I know that standalones can do it better with more options.
The Sega CD was awesome haha, I bought a couple of RPGs for it, probably spent too much money on it, but I had fun.
I loved the idea behind the first Mindstorms back when it was released in the late 90s.
I have been looking at the Vex kits and other european kits(FischerTechnik). The one thing that I wonder is how easy is it going to be able to use the other Technic kits with this new system. They probably will wait to see how well this does before coming out with an offical expansion (ie treads). It would be awesome if they allowed the servos and sensors to be purchase through Lego Factory. Overall I think this is great but I have a slight hesitation because it looks too sleek ("We wanted to create robots with more personality," Lund says. "We wanted them to go from being more mechanical to more human."). To me if you can do very functional and/or fun projects with the kits it does not matter how it looks.
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Well there are a couple of rabbit trails I could go down with this one.
To my understanding, embryonic stems cells come from leftover fertilized eggs from invitro etc not from aborted pregnancies but it could include both, I am not sure. One of the future treatments, for curing nongenetic problems(ie spinal cord, organ damage) is to create and an embyro(then stem cells) with your own DNA(clone). I don't think that would work with probems such as alzheimer's unless the embyro's DNA is changed to remove that problem. I think that is going to be an even bigger argument than the current one, but is technically no different that the current one.
To make a statement about the flushing of embryos down the drain. Most leftover embryos are kept in cryo for future pregnancies but I am not sure how long. My mom is the state director of an adoption agency(make of that what you want). She said that they have started to do embryo adoptions for couples who can't get pregnant because of fertility, not incubation problems. So know that some embryos are not getting flush down the drain and to ME that is a good thing.
One of the problems that I see with this. Is that they want people to come up with totally new "Revolutionay" ideas. What if I have a great idea that takes one of their failed projects and improves it.
I guess they are just not interested.
The NIAC is specifically NOT interested in concepts that have one or more of the following characteristics:
Evolutionary, not revolutionary
Duplicative of concepts previously studied by NASA
From what I have seen of their webpage, it does not look like this platform is currently intended for autonomous control just remote.
I still think this is a great idea and I have thought about doing something similar to this but on the electronics side. (designing cheap modular microcontrollers)
You run into many cost situations when dealing with autonomous robots (sensors and motors)
One problem that I have run across in my brainstorming is spatial resolution, if you are going to have a robot that is mowing the lawn or plowing the street it has to know where it is and GPS just does not have that kind of resolution (in feet/ inches) any thoughts?
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Definition: Addiction is a compulsion to repeat a behaviour regardless of its consequences. I guess "consequences" is the key word. How does one measure what a "bad" consequence of something is? With gambling it could be finacial or social or both. With Video game or tv it could be the removal of one from intercation with others. But there can be good consequences, a family spends time playing video games together, how much different is that then playing Sorry or Monopoly as a family. Is it an addiction if it does not have any or little negative consequences? but it could just be the definition of the word consequencses in World in which you live in.
Will seafaring ships don't they chrisen it when it is in the water? with that whole smashing the bottle of wine thing. I would think they should work on "building it". I love the fact thay they are designing it but how many NASA projects get built after the design let alone put into use.
How would the Betamax law or any other apply to TV shows that are taped not DVD rips. I have watched the first 4 seasons of 24 in HD and you can't get those on DVD and they have those little show promos on the bottom of the screen. If I miss a episode of BSG I don't have to worry about how that is going to effect my viewing experience because I can download it the next day. I think this is very important to shows that have story arcs (24, lost, BSG) because missing an episode is more important in the shows history than missing a Seinfeld episode. But it still may be illegal, thoughts
One of the problems that Vista was going to run into was all the embedded video cards out there($300 Dells and HPs) This is a way to allow them to upgrade without having to buy a new video card. Some of the cheap dells have the AGP slot taken off the board so those won't be able to run Vista w/ Aero at all. I want to see how long it takes for someone to crack the ultimate edition. Vista Business = XP pro - media stuff Vista Ultimate = XP pro They will probably sell the business in corp version but since it can't do any cool stuff no one will bother pirating it. Ultimate will be all key based, no corp version.
Crackers will have alot of fun when these guys come out.
Absolutely wonderful, a nice homemade meal(chicken cordon bleu, green beans and fresh bread). EQ has been out for quite a while I was referring to not having money before I was married(i.e. could not afford a broadband connection.) Right now my wife plays WoW more than I do, She is 55 and I am 43. I married a great woman she loves video games(and sports for that matter) and has start playing RPGs(Kingdom Hearts and Dark Cloud, now WoW). The only problem is that I am lower than her but I can deal.
Learn more about the JerdKing and family. hahahaha
Thanks for your concern though, I hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day as well.
I never played EQ(didn't have the money) but I am playing WoW and I just would not time for this(I split WoW time with my wife as it is). If I am going to play a new MMO I think this would be interesting, going away from the medieval genre Tabula RasaI checked out Eve Online but it was too involved. But maybe by the time Tabula Rasa comes out I will be WoW to Death.
Not unless I could get each season on a single Disc. 26 straight episodes of TNG w/o getting off the couch
Here is a good example of player created content Ryzom Ring It is an expansion to a current MMORPG Ryzom From the looks of it, the engine looks pretty good and it looks like the contiunity is not going to be messup. It would be pretty cool if blizzard came up with some sort of engine, even one that was a standalone that people could mess around with and post/turn in stories or scenarios
But there is an intrinsic difference between a law and a theory. For every reaction there is an opposite and equal reaction. This is a "Law" which I see everyday in use. It is an experiment that I can repeat over an over using the Scientific Method. I do not see and I cannot evolve a monkey into a human in a experiment at all let alone over and over again. That does not mean that it did not happen but it just means that it is not a law it is a theory. Like I said before placing the word theory on the website is not going to lead to the mass corruption of this nations youth. To believe in evolution or creationism blindly is equally wrong. Some Christians don't just say "I believe in creationism" and that is it. There is a very deep thought process that goes into it and the consutation of Science as with other "controvercial" issues.
I am not trying to a troll but I think that this guys is a bit over reacting. The kid did something stupid in actually explaing why he requested the web design to change the site. No matter what this kids motives are or who he works for, it is still true. Placing the word "Theory" in the Website is not going to lead to the mass corruption of the nations youth. The more kids that getting into science the better. I come from a religous background and I love science. I am an electrical engineer and my zeal to understand technology and science that relates to it is just as much as the next person. To say that if someone does not believe in Evolution, stem cell research or global warming has nothing to give to science is ridiculous. Many religous sciences and engineers have great determination and zeal because science explains characteristics about the "god" that created the world. And many of the great scientists in history were religous people.
I think the issue is where does life begin? How and where you draw the line? Is it a person at 8 months because it can survive outside the womb? Is it a person when neuron start to grow? One thing that is interesting to me is how a persons desires dictate the state of the "fetus" life. ie couple wants a child very badly, when the child is aborted naturally they have lost a child to them, As opposed to a mother who does not what to be pregnant, it is just a part of her body that she can do whatever she wants to with.
From just minimal research, a majority 80% of RU486 instances the egg is fertilized and the drug does not allow the egg to implant in the uterus wall, the other 20% prohibits fertilization.
Since I am posting so late this will probably get lost in the masses of slashdot but I said my piece
To my knowledge, I think verizon is the only carrier that you can make calls on the train and in the stations, I know that people have had problems with Cingular but their overal coverage sucks I think. I call my wife from the train to pick me up at the station so It would be a pain to have wait the call her when I get there.
I don't know if somebody touched this but If you have Digital Cable or DirecTV you have to have a receiver for each card espically if you wanted to record non-air broadcast HD channels or if you just did not want to mess with an antenna. Then each card would have to be tried into the receiver to make the receiver change Channels. Is there going to be a solution for this in the future ie a receiver with 2 or 3 outputs? Now that would cool, but I would think that networks would nix that in a hurry, wouldn't want us to skip those commericals.
Think there was an article awhile back about what the average cost of an Intel processor compared to a PowerPC and How would Mac rationalized keeping the same price? I did a quick and keep in mind quick price comparison of a Macbook and a Dell. The Mac costs $2500 and the Dell about $2300. The Dell does not come configured like the mac so I had to do some tweeking to get the above prices. The only diffence that I can see in configuration is the Dell has a 7800go and 17" screen and the Mac has a 15.4" and a XT1600. The price for the hardware that you get was a lot closer than I thought(I thought that the difference would be greater) It just depends if you are a mac person or if not do you want to invest time and money into another Computer/OS. For the mass public, I can't see Babyboomers trying to learn a whole new OS, my Dad has a hard enough time as it is with windows.
To each his own I guess
In the circumstance with the CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames Case, He is a US citizen(searching his US residence) so he does not fall under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In that Case, the FBI would go to a regular judge and get a warrant to search his house and that did not happen.
One of the benefits of filing Civil Liberty cases is the possibility to get your Legal Fees paid for by the government. As the case with the ACLU, the more cases they file the more likely their are to receive legal fees. They are fund with donations as well.
If it is external then it is going to take up more room and could be ackward depending on the cabling (than being internal) but not as much room as being a dedicated device. The question is will xbox360 owners buy this external player for watching media only or would they purchase a standalone. IMHO I would want an internal, I watch DVDs on my PS2 and it does the job but I know that standalones can do it better with more options.
The Sega CD was awesome haha, I bought a couple of RPGs for it, probably spent too much money on it, but I had fun.
I loved the idea behind the first Mindstorms back when it was released in the late 90s. I have been looking at the Vex kits and other european kits(FischerTechnik). The one thing that I wonder is how easy is it going to be able to use the other Technic kits with this new system. They probably will wait to see how well this does before coming out with an offical expansion (ie treads). It would be awesome if they allowed the servos and sensors to be purchase through Lego Factory. Overall I think this is great but I have a slight hesitation because it looks too sleek ("We wanted to create robots with more personality," Lund says. "We wanted them to go from being more mechanical to more human."). To me if you can do very functional and/or fun projects with the kits it does not matter how it looks.
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Decrement the counter to zero
Well there are a couple of rabbit trails I could go down with this one.
To my understanding, embryonic stems cells come from leftover fertilized eggs from invitro etc not from aborted pregnancies but it could include both, I am not sure. One of the future treatments, for curing nongenetic problems(ie spinal cord, organ damage) is to create and an embyro(then stem cells) with your own DNA(clone). I don't think that would work with probems such as alzheimer's unless the embyro's DNA is changed to remove that problem. I think that is going to be an even bigger argument than the current one, but is technically no different that the current one.
To make a statement about the flushing of embryos down the drain. Most leftover embryos are kept in cryo for future pregnancies but I am not sure how long. My mom is the state director of an adoption agency(make of that what you want). She said that they have started to do embryo adoptions for couples who can't get pregnant because of fertility, not incubation problems. So know that some embryos are not getting flush down the drain and to ME that is a good thing.
I think that they should do Starcraft II with a good story like Warcraft III. Then have a mmorpg Universe of Starcraft HAHAHAHA
From what I have seen of their webpage, it does not look like this platform is currently intended for autonomous control just remote. I still think this is a great idea and I have thought about doing something similar to this but on the electronics side. (designing cheap modular microcontrollers) You run into many cost situations when dealing with autonomous robots (sensors and motors) One problem that I have run across in my brainstorming is spatial resolution, if you are going to have a robot that is mowing the lawn or plowing the street it has to know where it is and GPS just does not have that kind of resolution (in feet/ inches) any thoughts?