Personally, I chose the new SP instead of the Micro, after looking at both units. I don't really feel there's a huge size difference between the SP closed and the Micro. The SP is more comfortable for my large hands and the screen is brighter, larger, and easier to see.
Not to say the Micro didn't tempt me. Aside from the size, I liked the built-in headphone jack, and the response time of the Micro's screen seemed a bit better.
But, in the end, the new SP is just too cool. I always really liked the SP formfactor but hated the dim screen. Finally, it has the brighest screen of any Gameboy now, I was shocked at the difference between it and the DS's screen.
If you're going to buy a Micro because of the screen alone, I think the new SP bears consideration as well. I'm quite happy with mine.
Not to mention the extraction of the urine is seen by some as unethical, and premarin introduced into the water supply has been indicated in an increase in gynecomastia in males... don't flush your pills, kids.
Amphetamines have been around for what, 100 years or so? Dextroamphetamine is the Air Force's "go pill" and is quite effective at keeping someone alert when they should be sleeping.
While they argue that this drug is different because of possibly less abuse potential (yet have no data to back that assertation up with, such as self-reinforcing studies in animals), I think the real reason is because pharmaceutical patents only last 20 years. As far as abuse potential goes, addiction is usually characterized by increased dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens, of which amphetamine activates indirectly; I have seen no evidence as to whether or not CX717 will indirectly raise dopamine levels in that region of the brain as well.
They may claim they're not stimulants, but the action is that of binding to receptors and releasing a neurotransmitter called glutamate. Is that really so different than stimulants binding to a receptor and releasing norepinephrine, another neurotransmitter?
From the journal article, revealed increased activity in prefrontal cortex, dorsal striatum, and medial temporal lobe (including hippocampus) that was significantly enhanced over normal alert conditions following administration of CX717. You would see similar increases in brain activity following the administration of amphetamine as well.
Furthermore, high levels of glutamate have neurotoxic properties: In excess, glutamate causes neuronal damage and eventual cell death, particularly when NMDA receptors are activated.
Somehow though, I think the combination of a pharmaceutical company making $2.00 in profit per pill combined with possibly less of an abuse potential or political incorrectness of usage will make this drug preferred in spite of whatever risks it carries.
Of course, maybe I'm just bitter and skeptical in my old age.
While Japan was an aggressive nation at that time, and while Japanese troops committed many atrocities, especially in China, keep in mind most of the people killed by the nukes were civilians who had committed no crime. Perhaps their deaths were justified to end the war, but they were innocent people and it was pure horror for them. I see so many people getting caught up in nation vs. nation debates on this I think we lose sight of the individual.
There is nothing wrong with feeling empathy for those whose lives were harmed by this, regardless if they were on the "good" or "bad" side. They were still human.
There are always many pointless deaths of good people on either side of a war.
Textbooks display much more information, are far more durable, do not require power, are easier to read, and are less expensive. Considering the main issue here is cost-- especially over time-- perhaps textbooks and some food would be a better use of the money.
I have to wonder how much of the new features in this release are to "compete" with the old firmwares people are keeping to run ripped games and homebrew?
If so, it's certainly an interesting and bold move on Sony's part -- keep offering more and more compelling features in the "secure" firmware and eventually enough people will opt for it over their older firmware.
One thing I've always thought about is the huge, wasted potential of people who could become brilliant scientists simply not having educational opportunities elsewhere in the world.
I for one care about science and the advancement of human knowledge far more than any sort of jingoism, and I'm very glad to see people in China getting the opportunities to use their talents better.
The body armor in use by the US military is the Interceptor body armor system. It consists of a kevlar vest, two ceramic rifle plates, kevlar groin protector, and kevlar neck guard. The kevlar stops shrapnel and handgun rounds. The rifle plates will stop rifles.
They are not too heavy to carry around, considering pretty much EVERY active duty combat troop is wearing them. I'm not sure where you're getting your "facts" from. But they're incorrect.
After reading the article I was naturally curious about the vagus nerve because I like to understand the mechanisms of how things work. I figured I'd might as well share my findings, which I clearly stated were from Wikipedia in the title, as I assumed I wasn't the only person on Slashdot who likes understanding things better.
I certainly wouldn't call it irrelevant to the story, in fact I'd call in integral, especially the part about vagus nerve stimulation and the heart when you consider the sympathetic effects of nerve stimuation.
The vagus nerve is tenth of twelve paired cranial nerves and is the only nerve that starts in the brainstem (somewhere in the medulla oblongata) and extends all the way down past the head, right down to the abdomen. The vagus nerve is arguably the single most important nerve in the body.
The medieval Latin word vagus means literally "wandering" (the words "vagrant", "vagabond", and "vague" come from the same root).
This nerve supplies motor and sensory parasympathetic fibres to pretty much everything from the neck down to the first third of the transverse colon. In this capacity, it is involved in, amongst other things, such varied tasks as heart rate, gastrointestinal peristalsis, sweating and speech (via the recurrent laryngeal nerve).
The vagus also controls a few skeletal muscles, namely:
* levator veli palatini muscle
* salpingopharyngeus muscle
* stylopharyngeus muscle
* palatoglossus muscle
* palatopharyngeus muscle
* superior, middle and inferior pharyngeal constrictors
* muscles of the larynx (speech).
This means that the vagus nerve is responsible for quite a few muscle movements in the mouth and also is vitally important for speech and in keeping the larynx open for breathing.
It also receives some sensation from the outer ear and part of the meninges.
The vagus nerve and the heart
Parasympathetic innervation of the heart is mediated by the vagus nerve. The right vagus innervates the SA node. Parasympathetic hyperstimulation predisposes those affected to bradyarrhythmias. The left vagus when hyperstimulated predisposes the heart to AV blocks.
Not really dangerous. I'm not even sure about addictive. At the time I played EQ1 almost 24/7, it wasn't because it was fun or I was addicted, it was because I didn't want to face my RL problems and just distracted myself instead. In the end though it actually ended up being very theraputic and taught me a lot about myself. Go figure. It also improved my social skills tremendously, even out of game.
That's the hague conventions, and we never signed either, we aren't bound by anything.
The 5.56mm rounds fired from a M16, M249, or M4 are far more devestating than a hollowpoint, at ranges up to about 150m they tumble and fragment, producing horrific wounds with tons of blood loss. The 5.56mm round is one of the most lethal rifle rounds in existance provided it has enough velocity to tumble and fragment.
This guy tells it like it is. All id games have been pretty lame, and similar, in terms of single player gameplay... the reason id is legendary is their advances in engine technology and the cool multiplayer mods people made for their games.
The same is more or less true of Doom 3. id makes the tools that other people use to make a good end product.
Doom 3 had gameplay like every other id game created-- a shitty engine demo. Nothing more, nothing less.
Unfortunately, given the activity level of most Slashdot readers, you'd be out of breath upon arriving at the cave, not be able to see in that bright light called the "sun" that happens outdoors, and get clubbed by the "prehistoric ho".
I don't know, $399 is what I paid for my GeForce 6800GT, a "bargain" video card that wasn't anywhere near top of the line a few months back. For an entire console that will last years with no upgrades, that's cheap.
Too bad your hand will live for hours after it's severed. Most of the cells, anyway. I'm sure some will live for days, if not weeks. The neural cells die within minutes.
You can try looking for blood moving, ie, the "pump" of a heartbeat, but the poor resolution going through an entire hand in 3D combined with natural variabilities in blood pressure make that seem unlikely.
Windows multitasks just as well, those processes will slow down your gaming and eat RAM on any OS, period. If that's a sacrifice you want to make, fine, that's your perogative, but it has nothing to do with a platform war.
Windows will run games literally twice, if not more, quickly than any other desktop OS, including Linux and OS X.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Linux and OS X just aren't good gaming environments, and probably never will be.
When they said, "...cold, dead fingers."
Stealing someone's private, legally owned land to give to a corporation to increase corporate profits is the most fucked up shit ever.
Look at who voted on what-- the most conservative judges were against the corporate takeover of the private land.
The liberal judges all voted in favor of the corporation.
The Republicans here were the only ones that stood up for the middle class.
Oh, and that city council in the first place? Democrats.
You'll need to find a new scapegoat, the Republican aren't the demon this time.
One thing to also keep in mind is that most all of the news reported is AP news that is simple read/rebroadcast by the major news outlet. If there is bias in that, that is from the AP, not Fox, CNN, etc.
Now it's entirely correct that pretty much all of Fox's commentators are Republican, yes... but I fail to see how that makes their copy-and-paste AP news any more or less valid than CNN.
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Personally, I chose the new SP instead of the Micro, after looking at both units. I don't really feel there's a huge size difference between the SP closed and the Micro. The SP is more comfortable for my large hands and the screen is brighter, larger, and easier to see.
Not to say the Micro didn't tempt me. Aside from the size, I liked the built-in headphone jack, and the response time of the Micro's screen seemed a bit better.
But, in the end, the new SP is just too cool. I always really liked the SP formfactor but hated the dim screen. Finally, it has the brighest screen of any Gameboy now, I was shocked at the difference between it and the DS's screen.
If you're going to buy a Micro because of the screen alone, I think the new SP bears consideration as well. I'm quite happy with mine.
Not to mention the extraction of the urine is seen by some as unethical, and premarin introduced into the water supply has been indicated in an increase in gynecomastia in males... don't flush your pills, kids.
The world's biggest selling drug has been Premarin for many years.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd= Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=1462046 8&query_hl=4
While they argue that this drug is different because of possibly less abuse potential (yet have no data to back that assertation up with, such as self-reinforcing studies in animals), I think the real reason is because pharmaceutical patents only last 20 years. As far as abuse potential goes, addiction is usually characterized by increased dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens, of which amphetamine activates indirectly; I have seen no evidence as to whether or not CX717 will indirectly raise dopamine levels in that region of the brain as well.
They may claim they're not stimulants, but the action is that of binding to receptors and releasing a neurotransmitter called glutamate. Is that really so different than stimulants binding to a receptor and releasing norepinephrine, another neurotransmitter?
From the journal article, revealed increased activity in prefrontal cortex, dorsal striatum, and medial temporal lobe (including hippocampus) that was significantly enhanced over normal alert conditions following administration of CX717. You would see similar increases in brain activity following the administration of amphetamine as well.
Furthermore, high levels of glutamate have neurotoxic properties: In excess, glutamate causes neuronal damage and eventual cell death, particularly when NMDA receptors are activated.
Somehow though, I think the combination of a pharmaceutical company making $2.00 in profit per pill combined with possibly less of an abuse potential or political incorrectness of usage will make this drug preferred in spite of whatever risks it carries.
Of course, maybe I'm just bitter and skeptical in my old age.
There is nothing wrong with feeling empathy for those whose lives were harmed by this, regardless if they were on the "good" or "bad" side. They were still human.
There are always many pointless deaths of good people on either side of a war.
Textbooks display much more information, are far more durable, do not require power, are easier to read, and are less expensive. Considering the main issue here is cost-- especially over time-- perhaps textbooks and some food would be a better use of the money.
Actually, I was going to ask if she could be sent back in time to kill John Conner.
I have to wonder how much of the new features in this release are to "compete" with the old firmwares people are keeping to run ripped games and homebrew? If so, it's certainly an interesting and bold move on Sony's part -- keep offering more and more compelling features in the "secure" firmware and eventually enough people will opt for it over their older firmware.
I for one care about science and the advancement of human knowledge far more than any sort of jingoism, and I'm very glad to see people in China getting the opportunities to use their talents better.
They are not too heavy to carry around, considering pretty much EVERY active duty combat troop is wearing them. I'm not sure where you're getting your "facts" from. But they're incorrect.
I certainly wouldn't call it irrelevant to the story, in fact I'd call in integral, especially the part about vagus nerve stimulation and the heart when you consider the sympathetic effects of nerve stimuation.
The medieval Latin word vagus means literally "wandering" (the words "vagrant", "vagabond", and "vague" come from the same root).
This nerve supplies motor and sensory parasympathetic fibres to pretty much everything from the neck down to the first third of the transverse colon. In this capacity, it is involved in, amongst other things, such varied tasks as heart rate, gastrointestinal peristalsis, sweating and speech (via the recurrent laryngeal nerve).
The vagus also controls a few skeletal muscles, namely:
* levator veli palatini muscle
* salpingopharyngeus muscle
* stylopharyngeus muscle
* palatoglossus muscle
* palatopharyngeus muscle
* superior, middle and inferior pharyngeal constrictors
* muscles of the larynx (speech).
This means that the vagus nerve is responsible for quite a few muscle movements in the mouth and also is vitally important for speech and in keeping the larynx open for breathing.
It also receives some sensation from the outer ear and part of the meninges.
The vagus nerve and the heart
Parasympathetic innervation of the heart is mediated by the vagus nerve. The right vagus innervates the SA node. Parasympathetic hyperstimulation predisposes those affected to bradyarrhythmias. The left vagus when hyperstimulated predisposes the heart to AV blocks.
MMORPGs, group therapy for the introverted dork.
That's the hague conventions, and we never signed either, we aren't bound by anything. The 5.56mm rounds fired from a M16, M249, or M4 are far more devestating than a hollowpoint, at ranges up to about 150m they tumble and fragment, producing horrific wounds with tons of blood loss. The 5.56mm round is one of the most lethal rifle rounds in existance provided it has enough velocity to tumble and fragment.
That's not the first body part that comes to mind when I think of female characters in video games...
This guy tells it like it is. All id games have been pretty lame, and similar, in terms of single player gameplay... the reason id is legendary is their advances in engine technology and the cool multiplayer mods people made for their games. The same is more or less true of Doom 3. id makes the tools that other people use to make a good end product. Doom 3 had gameplay like every other id game created-- a shitty engine demo. Nothing more, nothing less.
Unfortunately, given the activity level of most Slashdot readers, you'd be out of breath upon arriving at the cave, not be able to see in that bright light called the "sun" that happens outdoors, and get clubbed by the "prehistoric ho".
I don't know, $399 is what I paid for my GeForce 6800GT, a "bargain" video card that wasn't anywhere near top of the line a few months back. For an entire console that will last years with no upgrades, that's cheap.
Too bad your hand will live for hours after it's severed. Most of the cells, anyway. I'm sure some will live for days, if not weeks. The neural cells die within minutes. You can try looking for blood moving, ie, the "pump" of a heartbeat, but the poor resolution going through an entire hand in 3D combined with natural variabilities in blood pressure make that seem unlikely.
His sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped him conjure up the WMD in Iraq, or given him clairvoyance enough to find Osama Bin Laden.
Of the studios screwing over the artists that make them money as they lobby congress for harsher laws to "protect" the artists.
Windows multitasks just as well, those processes will slow down your gaming and eat RAM on any OS, period. If that's a sacrifice you want to make, fine, that's your perogative, but it has nothing to do with a platform war. Windows will run games literally twice, if not more, quickly than any other desktop OS, including Linux and OS X. Sorry to burst your bubble, but Linux and OS X just aren't good gaming environments, and probably never will be.
When they said, "...cold, dead fingers." Stealing someone's private, legally owned land to give to a corporation to increase corporate profits is the most fucked up shit ever.
Look at who voted on what-- the most conservative judges were against the corporate takeover of the private land. The liberal judges all voted in favor of the corporation. The Republicans here were the only ones that stood up for the middle class. Oh, and that city council in the first place? Democrats. You'll need to find a new scapegoat, the Republican aren't the demon this time.
One thing to also keep in mind is that most all of the news reported is AP news that is simple read/rebroadcast by the major news outlet. If there is bias in that, that is from the AP, not Fox, CNN, etc.
Now it's entirely correct that pretty much all of Fox's commentators are Republican, yes... but I fail to see how that makes their copy-and-paste AP news any more or less valid than CNN.