Or, you could do it the Dharmic way and say, if you fuck up this life, you're going to pay for it in the next one.
The whole concept of mercy and forgiveness is just delusional self-service. Reality is, if you fuck up, you're fucked. You can hope to be less fucked, but you'll still be fucked in some way, shape, or form.
I haven't read TFA because the genius who submitted it used a registration-required link. But I'm guessing it's more of a mix between vibration perception and echo location.
When somebody or something moves, it create vibrations, in the air, and on the ground. On certain types of flooring, I can sense when somebody is approaching me with my eyes closed, because I can feel the tiny vibrations that their step creates. If the movement is fast, I can feel the air displacement. It's not accurate, but it's enough that I usually turn towards where the movement is.
And, barring that, there's always the ability for one to create their own vibrations and hence echoes. You can create it by stomping (to determine where walls are), or by snapping. Again, it's not accurate, but it's probably enough.
As for the chi theory, I'm going to go ahead and say it's not chi. In fact, I'm not going to go into depth about what I think chi is, but I'm not sure this fits within the concept of chi at all.
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There's a lot of mysticism in acupuncture. That's how it's traditionally been taught, and that's how people know how to frame their explanations. If you don't come from that sort of background, you won't get it.
At the same time, this means that it's real easy to trick idiots into believing anything and everything they say. People figure they don't understand anyway, so they'll make believe they do so they don't look stupid.
The whole thing about acupuncture is in fact about redirecting energy. If you think of your circulatory system, your nervous system, your digestive system, etc. they are all powered somehow. ATP, yes, but that gets turned into energy. You can think of acupuncture as redirecting that energy to certain parts of the body, focusing it on those points, so that the body can heal faster. You can think of it as releasing or dissolving blockages in energy flow (in the same sense that a clogged blood vessel is a blockage).
It's not a cure-all. It won't fix a dislocation or a sprain. Nor would it be able to drive out bacteria causing inflammation or cancer (though it remains to be seen whether using acupuncture in combination with something else works). But it might relieve muscle tension, or promote the healing of the ligaments after it's been set in place. And it also can alter a person's psyche, whether it is by encouraging the production of certain hormones or by altering the brain's connections itself.
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Surgery comes with its own risks, and its own set of problems. You might eliminate the back pain, but you might have other chronic problems, particularly later on in life.
If you think surgery is a cure-all, you need a better understanding of the human body.
Sometimes, not always, but sometimes, the placebo effect is more effective than actually having an effect.
Unfortunately, the placebo effect doesn't work on most intelligent people, especially those always asking questions. Once you begin to question the effectiveness of a placebo, it nullifies any effect it might have.
At the end of the day, treatment is like the software you'd use to remove malware. It's not so much which one is the best, as it is which one is appropriate for the situation. Sometimes, popping a pill is the way to go, and sometimes, getting manipulated or stuck with needles would be the right treatment. And as always, it depends on the person administering the treatment.
Everybody here has worked tech support before. I think we all know just how important the right diagnosis can be when disinfecting a computer, which is highly dependent on the person. Running an antivirus when there's actually a rootkit will remove the symptoms, but not the problem. Likewise, trying to find a rootkit when all it is is just a bad screensaver would be time-consuming and overkill.
Illegal immigrants don't pay tax, but then again, the same applies for most poor families. And yes, that includes consumption taxes like sales tax. But this description pretty much applies to any poor family, legal or illegal. They don't pay jack in taxes, but they have lots of kids.
So what are you going to do about it? Banish them to the dark corners and turn the other way as they climb over themselves trying to get out, or actually try to lift them out of poverty, so that they or even their children might become useful contributors to society?
Illegal immigrants aren't the problem. Wasteful administrative spending is the problem. How much of that $12K-$14K a year per child actually goes to the child's education? The state's limit is about 32 students per class. Teachers certainly aren't making $384K a year. They'd be lucky to make 1/10th of that. So where's the rest of the money going?
Local corruption, soft power, personal greed and ambition. These are the problems that should be addressed, not trying to kick out a bunch of poor people, nor trying to kick out a bunch of wealthy people.
I wouldn't call that example sarcasm per se. It's more like an absurdity. Sarcasm tends to have an underlying meaning that is in direct contradiction to the statement.
FWIW, how you answer questions not related to the position in question can determine whether you get hired or not. If I was an interviewer (which I once was for a brief period of time) and I had two equally or nearly-equally qualified candidates, I'd rather hire the more open, friendly person than the smartass. The latter candidate will be a troublesome hire.
and it's tremendously difficult to replace "good enough" in three years
Someone forgot to forward the memo to the BD people.
For laptops, again, the vertical screen problem and arm-tiredness/screen smudging issues persist, and people find trackpads good enough with a touch screen not really offering any worthwhile benefit on a full size laptop.
I agree with you, except for this part. Touch is ideal for any portable device where you look down. Laptop displays are not at eye-level, though they could be if you put them on a desk. But then it'd wouldn't really be a laptop... For laptops, touch interfaces probably would fit the netbook form factor best. Anything larger that wouldn't typically go on someone's lap would be more aptly named notebook or portable desktop.
Neither format took off because of DRM. The same will apply to BD.
Companies currently don't seem to understand that people don't like DRM, that DRM can only cause problems, and will never transparent because they are by nature designed to prevent certain conveniences. They'll start understanding when the money stops flowing their way.
And considering the adoption rate of anything encumbered by DRM even in non-media products (look at the bad rap Vista has), I think they'll understand very, very soon. If not, technology companies from the 3rd world (China, various South American countries, etc.) are always ready to replace the dinosaurs from the 1st and 2nd world.
It's a paradigm issue. Developers who do the type of games that fall into the "hardcore" category are too used to designing for regular button controllers. Push a button to get this to happen. Point and click. D-pads.
The Wii's controller not only changes control design, but it also changes the kind of activities games can offer. Advances in both of these areas will take time. Baby steps. Integration of game and control design to the point where it will satisfy a hardcore gamer can only happen afterward both sides have become mature. Unless of course, some genius at the right place and the right time comes along to accelerate the process. But considering the barriers to entry, I'm very doubtful we'll see more than minor advances at a time.
1+1=2 is stable. 1+1= 2 are both unstable. Therefore, while universes can exist based on one of the latter two, 1+1=1 will turn into a singularity, and 1+1=3 will expand into infinity.
Actually, we might be in a 1+1= >2 universe, where 1+1 is very close to 2, but just a little over it.
It's not always easy to clean up an infection. You can clean it up once, and then get infected again the next day because the cleanup didn't catch something. And having to clean up the same infection every day will hurt customer experience.
And Microsoft's need to validate Windows before allowing access to patches doesn't help anything all. People who run illegal copies of Windows just won't update. It's not like being a part of a botnet has any effect on them.
People worried all the time about viruses back in the 90's, because they wiped away important data and because it affected the end user. These days, the virus writers are so clever you can't tell there's a bot running on the computer at all, and so end users don't care anymore.
It may not be a bad idea to start spreading time bombs via these security holes, to bring back user awareness of viruses and the damage they can cause. And, it would probably reduce the ability for such massive botnets to be created, thus render ineffective such blackmail tactics.
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Or, you could do it the Dharmic way and say, if you fuck up this life, you're going to pay for it in the next one.
The whole concept of mercy and forgiveness is just delusional self-service. Reality is, if you fuck up, you're fucked. You can hope to be less fucked, but you'll still be fucked in some way, shape, or form.
You have to get your campaign contributions from somewhere...
I haven't read TFA because the genius who submitted it used a registration-required link. But I'm guessing it's more of a mix between vibration perception and echo location.
When somebody or something moves, it create vibrations, in the air, and on the ground. On certain types of flooring, I can sense when somebody is approaching me with my eyes closed, because I can feel the tiny vibrations that their step creates. If the movement is fast, I can feel the air displacement. It's not accurate, but it's enough that I usually turn towards where the movement is.
And, barring that, there's always the ability for one to create their own vibrations and hence echoes. You can create it by stomping (to determine where walls are), or by snapping. Again, it's not accurate, but it's probably enough.
As for the chi theory, I'm going to go ahead and say it's not chi. In fact, I'm not going to go into depth about what I think chi is, but I'm not sure this fits within the concept of chi at all.
And they'll get one proportional to the size of their cars.
To be fair, it was a very effective tape dispenser that dispensed tape very well.
Not to fear! It will soon be replaced by the NSA Red Stapler--as soon as they figure out their tape dispenser went missing that is.
It's not like /. requires SSL to log in.
There's a lot of mysticism in acupuncture. That's how it's traditionally been taught, and that's how people know how to frame their explanations. If you don't come from that sort of background, you won't get it.
At the same time, this means that it's real easy to trick idiots into believing anything and everything they say. People figure they don't understand anyway, so they'll make believe they do so they don't look stupid.
The whole thing about acupuncture is in fact about redirecting energy. If you think of your circulatory system, your nervous system, your digestive system, etc. they are all powered somehow. ATP, yes, but that gets turned into energy. You can think of acupuncture as redirecting that energy to certain parts of the body, focusing it on those points, so that the body can heal faster. You can think of it as releasing or dissolving blockages in energy flow (in the same sense that a clogged blood vessel is a blockage).
It's not a cure-all. It won't fix a dislocation or a sprain. Nor would it be able to drive out bacteria causing inflammation or cancer (though it remains to be seen whether using acupuncture in combination with something else works). But it might relieve muscle tension, or promote the healing of the ligaments after it's been set in place. And it also can alter a person's psyche, whether it is by encouraging the production of certain hormones or by altering the brain's connections itself.
Surgery comes with its own risks, and its own set of problems. You might eliminate the back pain, but you might have other chronic problems, particularly later on in life.
If you think surgery is a cure-all, you need a better understanding of the human body.
Sometimes, not always, but sometimes, the placebo effect is more effective than actually having an effect.
Unfortunately, the placebo effect doesn't work on most intelligent people, especially those always asking questions. Once you begin to question the effectiveness of a placebo, it nullifies any effect it might have.
At the end of the day, treatment is like the software you'd use to remove malware. It's not so much which one is the best, as it is which one is appropriate for the situation. Sometimes, popping a pill is the way to go, and sometimes, getting manipulated or stuck with needles would be the right treatment. And as always, it depends on the person administering the treatment.
Everybody here has worked tech support before. I think we all know just how important the right diagnosis can be when disinfecting a computer, which is highly dependent on the person. Running an antivirus when there's actually a rootkit will remove the symptoms, but not the problem. Likewise, trying to find a rootkit when all it is is just a bad screensaver would be time-consuming and overkill.
Illegal immigrants don't pay tax, but then again, the same applies for most poor families. And yes, that includes consumption taxes like sales tax. But this description pretty much applies to any poor family, legal or illegal. They don't pay jack in taxes, but they have lots of kids.
So what are you going to do about it? Banish them to the dark corners and turn the other way as they climb over themselves trying to get out, or actually try to lift them out of poverty, so that they or even their children might become useful contributors to society?
Illegal immigrants aren't the problem. Wasteful administrative spending is the problem. How much of that $12K-$14K a year per child actually goes to the child's education? The state's limit is about 32 students per class. Teachers certainly aren't making $384K a year. They'd be lucky to make 1/10th of that. So where's the rest of the money going?
Local corruption, soft power, personal greed and ambition. These are the problems that should be addressed, not trying to kick out a bunch of poor people, nor trying to kick out a bunch of wealthy people.
In a word: unions.
I wouldn't call that example sarcasm per se. It's more like an absurdity. Sarcasm tends to have an underlying meaning that is in direct contradiction to the statement.
FWIW, how you answer questions not related to the position in question can determine whether you get hired or not. If I was an interviewer (which I once was for a brief period of time) and I had two equally or nearly-equally qualified candidates, I'd rather hire the more open, friendly person than the smartass. The latter candidate will be a troublesome hire.
So what's the mental disorder associated with detection of irony (or the lack thereof)?
and it's tremendously difficult to replace "good enough" in three years
Someone forgot to forward the memo to the BD people.
For laptops, again, the vertical screen problem and arm-tiredness/screen smudging issues persist, and people find trackpads good enough with a touch screen not really offering any worthwhile benefit on a full size laptop.
I agree with you, except for this part. Touch is ideal for any portable device where you look down. Laptop displays are not at eye-level, though they could be if you put them on a desk. But then it'd wouldn't really be a laptop... For laptops, touch interfaces probably would fit the netbook form factor best. Anything larger that wouldn't typically go on someone's lap would be more aptly named notebook or portable desktop.
You "click" by pressing down on the entire touch pad (well, the part towards the front), meaning no room is lost to buttons.
That only works when your UI paradigm is built around one mouse button.
But would it run on linux?
Neither format took off because of DRM. The same will apply to BD.
Companies currently don't seem to understand that people don't like DRM, that DRM can only cause problems, and will never transparent because they are by nature designed to prevent certain conveniences. They'll start understanding when the money stops flowing their way.
And considering the adoption rate of anything encumbered by DRM even in non-media products (look at the bad rap Vista has), I think they'll understand very, very soon. If not, technology companies from the 3rd world (China, various South American countries, etc.) are always ready to replace the dinosaurs from the 1st and 2nd world.
millions of poor dead kitties...
That's not something you should be proud of. But, it would make for an awesome t-shirt.
To clarify:
O(n) vs. O(log n) -> O(2^n) vs. O(n)
It's a paradigm issue. Developers who do the type of games that fall into the "hardcore" category are too used to designing for regular button controllers. Push a button to get this to happen. Point and click. D-pads.
The Wii's controller not only changes control design, but it also changes the kind of activities games can offer. Advances in both of these areas will take time. Baby steps. Integration of game and control design to the point where it will satisfy a hardcore gamer can only happen afterward both sides have become mature. Unless of course, some genius at the right place and the right time comes along to accelerate the process. But considering the barriers to entry, I'm very doubtful we'll see more than minor advances at a time.
1+1=2 is stable. 1+1= 2 are both unstable. Therefore, while universes can exist based on one of the latter two, 1+1=1 will turn into a singularity, and 1+1=3 will expand into infinity.
Actually, we might be in a 1+1= >2 universe, where 1+1 is very close to 2, but just a little over it.
Haven't you learned by now that you can't fit a round peg into a square hole?
It's not always easy to clean up an infection. You can clean it up once, and then get infected again the next day because the cleanup didn't catch something. And having to clean up the same infection every day will hurt customer experience.
And Microsoft's need to validate Windows before allowing access to patches doesn't help anything all. People who run illegal copies of Windows just won't update. It's not like being a part of a botnet has any effect on them.
People worried all the time about viruses back in the 90's, because they wiped away important data and because it affected the end user. These days, the virus writers are so clever you can't tell there's a bot running on the computer at all, and so end users don't care anymore.
It may not be a bad idea to start spreading time bombs via these security holes, to bring back user awareness of viruses and the damage they can cause. And, it would probably reduce the ability for such massive botnets to be created, thus render ineffective such blackmail tactics.
My wife and I tried to sit on the deck yesterday and watch the kids play, but every time a kid came buy we would get pelted.
Those were the kids at play.