I'm amused by the fact that CNN seems to think a shrink and a psychologist are the same thing. Granted, a clinical psychologist who sees patients is rather similar to a psychiatrist, but in general two very different jobs.
Getting made fun of? Don't react, they'll get sick of teasing someone who doesn't ever do anything back.
That's possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard. And I've heard it many times. I was ridiculed endlessly by a couple of people throughout highschool, despite ignoring it completely and never reacting to them at all. It continued the entire four years until I graduated.
I'm sick of people suggesting kids "just ignore bullying and it'll go away." It doesn't work. Maybe on a small subset of bullying types, but certainly not on all of them.
Okay... so your's is 71.1x77.6x12.5mm, (2.8x3.06x.49 inches)
The ipod nano is 3.5x1.6x.27 inches (88.9x40.64x6.86 mm)
So yes, about 1.8cm shorter, but 3.7cm wider and a bit over.5 cm thicker.
Though I disagree with "not that much difference"
Volume wise, the nano is 24.78 cubic cm. Your MD player is 68.97. That's almost 3 times larger (~2.8)
So you accentuate the positives of your particular player of choice (40 hour battery life as opposed to the nano's 14 hours... gee... that's around 2.8 times longer... for something that's about 2.8 times bigger.) and ignore a size difference of the same magnitude.
Fine. Get Comcast. At least here in Chicago they offer video on demand that's pretty much exactly like that. Additionally, there's also a bunch of free content shows you can watch on-demand. For movies you pay to watch you typically get access to it for 24 hours and can watch it, pause/rewind/fast forward, and watch it as many times as you want within the 24 hours.
The major problem with it is in the price. New release movies tend to be 3.99 or so, so about the same as renting from the video store, but then a lot of older movies are the same price. Even a bunch of really old stuff that you could see on TBS pretty much anytime are like 1.99 or more.
Not exactly. The cerebellum does help to make the muscles actually move, but the movement itself is planned/controlled/generated in the motor cortex, which is a region of the cerebral cortex
I began using Mulberry in college, because that was the client that the school was pushing. I hated it pretty much from the beginning, and ended up spending most of the next 4 years using Pine for all my email needs. And I never looked back.
Price I can get a new mini at under $500 shipped direct from Apple, with a hard drive, CD-burner, memory, case, latest commercial software. Good Mini-ITX cases cost well over $100 just because the market is small. A recent Mini-ITX board is $200-$300. No, don't use the price of an original Epia, which can't hold a candle to a Celeron 400, not to mention a 1.25GHz G4. Don't use the price of a full-size cheapo ATX case, cause that's not a fair comparison. Then add storage, RAM, etc. Even after spending all that (easily $500-$700 for a system that can even attempt to rival a low-end Mini in terms of performance), you don't get...
Not so much. I recently started putting together a Mini-ITX system for my car. I got an EPIAMII 1ghz for under $100 from eBay (~$80). Got a 60GB laptop harddrive for ~40 from eBay again, a 10.4" Datalux touchscreen for ~$70, 512MB RAM for ~$35 (which admittedly I had to RMA to Kingston because it wasn't working, but that means I have brand new RAM for about $45 total after return shipping). I also got a car voltage regulator for about $20. I'm going to buy a Morex Cubid 3677 or 3688 case (which isn't quite as small as a Mac Mini, but at 2.5x8x10 (or almost 11 for the 3677) it's still pretty small). That case will run me about $90 new and includes the laptop harddrive adaptor, 60 or 80w power supply, and slimline CD-drive adaptor (which I haven't yet acquired). So all this will be running me about $315, and that includes a touchscreen monitor. So, no I don't see the point in a Mac Mini.
Well... where I work right now in a University Hospital I get 7 holiday days (Labor/Memorial/2@Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years/4th of July I think...) 5 personal days that accumlate at different times throughout the year, about 2.5 weeks (12-13 days) paid vacation time and about 1.5 weeks (7-8) paid sick days. So that's about 25 + sick time. And I can save up unused vacation time to use in the next year if I want. All of which I considered pretty good.
To contrast, when I worked retail for a drug store chain I got no holidays off because they were open 365 days a year (in truth we typically were required to work 1 out of every 3 holidays, but they could ask us to do more if they wanted). I got 1 week of paid vacation a year which I had to use in that year or I didn't get it, and there was a long approval time required whenever I requested time off. That was how it was until you worked there for 5 years and started getting 2 weeks a year and could bank it. This didn't even change when I got promotted to Assistant Manager. So that's really only 5 days/year + miscellaneous holidays that I may/may not have off. A maybe up to 5 days unpaid sick time.
So it really all just depends on where you work. Another person I know who works in the academic side of the university gets about 2 months off over the summer because there's almost no students there. Now obviously her salary takes this into account, but it still widely varies with position/company.
Yes... just over a year old... 18 months... a year and a half. Out of the typical 2-year lifespan of a mouse... so compared to a person they'd be somewhere in their late 50's or 60's probably.
I'd agree if it did simply involve missing changes in the enviornment or something. However they were being shown a rapid series of pictures and asked to identify something in a specific picture. When that specific picture was shown right after a gory/erotic picture they didn't see it.
It's not that they didn't notice some other stimulus or event in the enviornment, but they didn't see the next picture after an emotionally charged one. I'd call that blindness.
It would certainly be stronger if they could back it up with some sort of change/lack of neuronal activity, but that doens't mean this isn't blindness.
It's no one's fault. The library needs to realize the importance of libraries and stop censoring -- or trying to anyway -- what people are allowed to access. Especially at a public library. I mean sure, make rules about where someone can access it, but why stop it?
I'm quite happy to have worked a college library for 5 years that completely refused to censor anything. Apparently at some point someone did complain about someone else accessing pornography on the library computers, so a policy was formed that required us to ask people to move to a less visible computer if someone complained about what they were viewing.
Of course we never went quite so far as to set up the roped off, velvet padded Porn Computer in a dark corner as my supervisor suggested, but we didn't censor it.
If I may be so crude... fuck censorship. The only reason they're getting so worked up is that it was a sex offender. And I'm sorry but I just don't buy the "the porn made him rape that woman" argument that seems to be presented in so many Law and Order: SVU episodes.
There is still one major short coming of fMRI. Imagine that 50% of the neurons in an area of the brain increase their electrical activity while 50% equaly decrease their activity. This would result in a large change in signal processing but no change in blood flow and therefore would not show up in a fMRI scan.
That depends on how small an area you're talking about. fMRI can get decent spatial resolution -- obviously nothing near as good as single cell electrodes, but we do studies with a voxel size of 3x3mm inplane resolution. And if we were only concerned with a specific part of the brain and didn't need to cover the entire brain with each 2-second scan we could increase that resolution. Alternately we could use a stronger machine (currently we use a 3T).
Of course, as to the article and 'reading minds' with fMRI, that's pretty much complete crap. Like you said, the time course of an fMRI signal is far to slow. And it's a sensationalist title as journalists tend to use. There's a big difference between knowing which picture someone was looking at and actually knowing what they're thinking.
No... he doesn't. Walk out on the street and ask a random sample of people who Walt Disney is. They'll probably all (or nearly all) know. Ask them who John Carmack is. You'll most likely get blank stares back from most of them... assuming you're not doing the survey at a lan party or something:)
Not really. The original dupe bug in Diablo involved dropping an item on the ground, then clicking to pick it up and just as you were picking it up dropping a potion on the ground. If you did it just right the potion actually dropped as a copy of the item.
Had nothing to do with loaded servers or changing areas.
Of course there may very well have been other dupe bugs later on that I don't know about, as I didn't really play that long. And I can't say anything for Diablo II, never played that one long enough to learn any dupe bug.
Actually yes. If you take a picture of a billboard, which is someone's copyrighted material, and try to publish it in a textbook without their permission, you should be sued by them.
However, this is more akin to taking a picture of the billboard, and then later using the picture to somehow prove that the billboard company did something wrong. Which you shouldn't get sued for.
Yeah, unfortunately when I worked at Walgreens all the DVDs they got in had big stickers right on the DVD package that said "Do not sell until xx/xx/xx". Made it kind of hard to try to slip one by a clerk:)
So, the main site is down. The first working download link posted in the comments resulted in a corrupt file twice, and for some reason I can't connect to the torrent. Any working download links?
Basically I hated college. I constantly considered dropping out, but instead just switched majors, added another one, took a lot of unrelated courses. And eventually ended up getting a damn good and broad-based education because of it. So, in that sense, part of what Jobs says is right: perhaps sitting in on a wide variety of classes is the best way to go, whether you're enrolled or not.
On the other hand, I'm definitely a self-motivated learner, and much of what I know about many topics has been self-taught, BUT I could never have gotten my current job without some sort of degree. The fact is, as many have said already, employeers try to hire people with degrees because they believe it's the easiest way to limit their potential applicant pool to those with the proper skills, whether or not that's actually the case.
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I'm amused by the fact that CNN seems to think a shrink and a psychologist are the same thing. Granted, a clinical psychologist who sees patients is rather similar to a psychiatrist, but in general two very different jobs.
Getting made fun of? Don't react, they'll get sick of teasing someone who doesn't ever do anything back.
That's possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard. And I've heard it many times. I was ridiculed endlessly by a couple of people throughout highschool, despite ignoring it completely and never reacting to them at all. It continued the entire four years until I graduated.
I'm sick of people suggesting kids "just ignore bullying and it'll go away." It doesn't work. Maybe on a small subset of bullying types, but certainly not on all of them.
Okay... so your's is 71.1x77.6x12.5mm, (2.8x3.06x.49 inches)
.5 cm thicker.
The ipod nano is 3.5x1.6x.27 inches (88.9x40.64x6.86 mm)
So yes, about 1.8cm shorter, but 3.7cm wider and a bit over
Though I disagree with "not that much difference"
Volume wise, the nano is 24.78 cubic cm. Your MD player is 68.97. That's almost 3 times larger (~2.8)
So you accentuate the positives of your particular player of choice (40 hour battery life as opposed to the nano's 14 hours... gee... that's around 2.8 times longer... for something that's about 2.8 times bigger.) and ignore a size difference of the same magnitude.
I won't even get into the sound quality debate.
Fine. Get Comcast. At least here in Chicago they offer video on demand that's pretty much exactly like that. Additionally, there's also a bunch of free content shows you can watch on-demand. For movies you pay to watch you typically get access to it for 24 hours and can watch it, pause/rewind/fast forward, and watch it as many times as you want within the 24 hours.
The major problem with it is in the price. New release movies tend to be 3.99 or so, so about the same as renting from the video store, but then a lot of older movies are the same price. Even a bunch of really old stuff that you could see on TBS pretty much anytime are like 1.99 or more.
Not exactly. The cerebellum does help to make the muscles actually move, but the movement itself is planned/controlled/generated in the motor cortex, which is a region of the cerebral cortex
I began using Mulberry in college, because that was the client that the school was pushing. I hated it pretty much from the beginning, and ended up spending most of the next 4 years using Pine for all my email needs. And I never looked back.
Price I can get a new mini at under $500 shipped direct from Apple, with a hard drive, CD-burner, memory, case, latest commercial software. Good Mini-ITX cases cost well over $100 just because the market is small. A recent Mini-ITX board is $200-$300. No, don't use the price of an original Epia, which can't hold a candle to a Celeron 400, not to mention a 1.25GHz G4. Don't use the price of a full-size cheapo ATX case, cause that's not a fair comparison. Then add storage, RAM, etc. Even after spending all that (easily $500-$700 for a system that can even attempt to rival a low-end Mini in terms of performance), you don't get...
Not so much. I recently started putting together a Mini-ITX system for my car. I got an EPIAMII 1ghz for under $100 from eBay (~$80). Got a 60GB laptop harddrive for ~40 from eBay again, a 10.4" Datalux touchscreen for ~$70, 512MB RAM for ~$35 (which admittedly I had to RMA to Kingston because it wasn't working, but that means I have brand new RAM for about $45 total after return shipping). I also got a car voltage regulator for about $20. I'm going to buy a Morex Cubid 3677 or 3688 case (which isn't quite as small as a Mac Mini, but at 2.5x8x10 (or almost 11 for the 3677) it's still pretty small). That case will run me about $90 new and includes the laptop harddrive adaptor, 60 or 80w power supply, and slimline CD-drive adaptor (which I haven't yet acquired). So all this will be running me about $315, and that includes a touchscreen monitor. So, no I don't see the point in a Mac Mini.
Well... where I work right now in a University Hospital I get 7 holiday days (Labor/Memorial/2@Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years/4th of July I think...) 5 personal days that accumlate at different times throughout the year, about 2.5 weeks (12-13 days) paid vacation time and about 1.5 weeks (7-8) paid sick days. So that's about 25 + sick time. And I can save up unused vacation time to use in the next year if I want. All of which I considered pretty good.
To contrast, when I worked retail for a drug store chain I got no holidays off because they were open 365 days a year (in truth we typically were required to work 1 out of every 3 holidays, but they could ask us to do more if they wanted). I got 1 week of paid vacation a year which I had to use in that year or I didn't get it, and there was a long approval time required whenever I requested time off. That was how it was until you worked there for 5 years and started getting 2 weeks a year and could bank it. This didn't even change when I got promotted to Assistant Manager. So that's really only 5 days/year + miscellaneous holidays that I may/may not have off. A maybe up to 5 days unpaid sick time.
So it really all just depends on where you work. Another person I know who works in the academic side of the university gets about 2 months off over the summer because there's almost no students there. Now obviously her salary takes this into account, but it still widely varies with position/company.
Yes... just over a year old... 18 months... a year and a half. Out of the typical 2-year lifespan of a mouse... so compared to a person they'd be somewhere in their late 50's or 60's probably.
I'd agree if it did simply involve missing changes in the enviornment or something. However they were being shown a rapid series of pictures and asked to identify something in a specific picture. When that specific picture was shown right after a gory/erotic picture they didn't see it.
It's not that they didn't notice some other stimulus or event in the enviornment, but they didn't see the next picture after an emotionally charged one. I'd call that blindness.
It would certainly be stronger if they could back it up with some sort of change/lack of neuronal activity, but that doens't mean this isn't blindness.
It's no one's fault. The library needs to realize the importance of libraries and stop censoring -- or trying to anyway -- what people are allowed to access. Especially at a public library. I mean sure, make rules about where someone can access it, but why stop it?
I'm quite happy to have worked a college library for 5 years that completely refused to censor anything. Apparently at some point someone did complain about someone else accessing pornography on the library computers, so a policy was formed that required us to ask people to move to a less visible computer if someone complained about what they were viewing.
Of course we never went quite so far as to set up the roped off, velvet padded Porn Computer in a dark corner as my supervisor suggested, but we didn't censor it.
If I may be so crude... fuck censorship. The only reason they're getting so worked up is that it was a sex offender. And I'm sorry but I just don't buy the "the porn made him rape that woman" argument that seems to be presented in so many Law and Order: SVU episodes.
There is still one major short coming of fMRI. Imagine that 50% of the neurons in an area of the brain increase their electrical activity while 50% equaly decrease their activity. This would result in a large change in signal processing but no change in blood flow and therefore would not show up in a fMRI scan.
That depends on how small an area you're talking about. fMRI can get decent spatial resolution -- obviously nothing near as good as single cell electrodes, but we do studies with a voxel size of 3x3mm inplane resolution. And if we were only concerned with a specific part of the brain and didn't need to cover the entire brain with each 2-second scan we could increase that resolution. Alternately we could use a stronger machine (currently we use a 3T).
Of course, as to the article and 'reading minds' with fMRI, that's pretty much complete crap. Like you said, the time course of an fMRI signal is far to slow. And it's a sensationalist title as journalists tend to use. There's a big difference between knowing which picture someone was looking at and actually knowing what they're thinking.
No... he doesn't. Walk out on the street and ask a random sample of people who Walt Disney is. They'll probably all (or nearly all) know. Ask them who John Carmack is. You'll most likely get blank stares back from most of them... assuming you're not doing the survey at a lan party or something :)
Not really. The original dupe bug in Diablo involved dropping an item on the ground, then clicking to pick it up and just as you were picking it up dropping a potion on the ground. If you did it just right the potion actually dropped as a copy of the item.
Had nothing to do with loaded servers or changing areas.
Of course there may very well have been other dupe bugs later on that I don't know about, as I didn't really play that long. And I can't say anything for Diablo II, never played that one long enough to learn any dupe bug.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/ 13/2352215&tid=196&tid=188&tid=129&tid=137
I remembered it too... just took a few minutes to actually find it.
Actually yes. If you take a picture of a billboard, which is someone's copyrighted material, and try to publish it in a textbook without their permission, you should be sued by them.
However, this is more akin to taking a picture of the billboard, and then later using the picture to somehow prove that the billboard company did something wrong. Which you shouldn't get sued for.
Yeah, unfortunately when I worked at Walgreens all the DVDs they got in had big stickers right on the DVD package that said "Do not sell until xx/xx/xx". Made it kind of hard to try to slip one by a clerk :)
So, the main site is down. The first working download link posted in the comments resulted in a corrupt file twice, and for some reason I can't connect to the torrent. Any working download links?
No, you don't.
For most other possessives, you're right. However, "its" is possessive, "it's" is a contraction for "it is."
And it's possessive, not "possesive."
Yeah, even here in Chicago, where I'm assuming the cost of living is higher than Nebraska, the Banquet brand meals frequently go on sale 10/$10.
Of course, I'd have just as many reservations eating that all the time as I would eating non-stop ramen.
Basically I hated college. I constantly considered dropping out, but instead just switched majors, added another one, took a lot of unrelated courses. And eventually ended up getting a damn good and broad-based education because of it. So, in that sense, part of what Jobs says is right: perhaps sitting in on a wide variety of classes is the best way to go, whether you're enrolled or not.
On the other hand, I'm definitely a self-motivated learner, and much of what I know about many topics has been self-taught, BUT I could never have gotten my current job without some sort of degree. The fact is, as many have said already, employeers try to hire people with degrees because they believe it's the easiest way to limit their potential applicant pool to those with the proper skills, whether or not that's actually the case.