I had an MRI a few years ago, and I almost had something like this happen. I was wearing a thin stainless steel neclace with a small steel pendant, which I had forgotten to take off. Fortunately, the technician saw it before I went in the tube. When I handed it to her, it was hanging at a 45 degree angle even though it was about three feet from the foot of the tube. I wonder what would have happened if I had gone into the tube wearing it.
"Still, I knew what the test was about, so one could argue I was simply "looking for" something gory."
I think you misunderstood. The point is not to see the gory image. The point is to see the "target image", which is an ordinary image rotated 90 degrees. The point was to show that a gory image in the sequence shortly before the target image makes you miss the target (rotated) image, which most people wouldn't otherwise do.
I saw the sideways tree the first time in the first sequence. I didn't see the target image in either of the other two sequences. I think I was looking for a sideways tree, but it was something else. There is a sideways tree, isn't there?
IANAC (I am not a cow), but one of my friends was, and he assured me, shortly before his untimely demise, that the meat I eat is most certainly natural.
Seriously, do you become "unnatural" everytime you take a course of antibiotics for an upper respiratory infection?
"But for the sake of a little mouthful of flesh, I would be depriving myself of my low cholesterol level, and my reduced risk of heart disease, prostate cancer, colon cancer, etc."
Not all meat is high in fat. Chicken breast, for example, is extremely low in fat. As for the increased risk of cancer, while obesity is a cancer risk, no particular food has been conclusively proven to increase or decrease the risk of any type of cancer.
"Besides, the chief components in the flavor profile of meat are blood and urine."
You must marinate meat differently than the rest of us.
But seriously, what are you talking about? What we taste in meat is amino acids. Our tongues are adapted to tasting them. The protein in meat is one of the most powerful taste cues that humans (and carnivores) have. My cat goes crazy whenever I cook meat. The smell makes her instantly hungry. She doesn't react quite the same way when I take a piss;) By the way, humans subsisted largely on meat until about 12000 years ago when agriculture began.
Is this like one of those "guess how many jellybeans are in the jar" deals? What's the prize if we win? And who's doing the counting? For the record, my guess is 2,792,445,923,231.
"That is, they are down by about 1 bloakcbuster film, like say "The Passion of Christ" which managed to draw a lot of cash out of an otherwise non-movie going demographic."
But, The Passion was an independent film, so it didn't really make Hollywood any money. When you take that into account, this year looks even less like a slump.
Nice try, but exasperate doesn't mean what you think it means (at least not anymore). From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Main Entry: 1exasperate
Pronunciation: ig-'zas-p&-"rAt
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -ated; -ating
Etymology: Latin exasperatus, past participle of exasperare, from ex- + asper rough -- more at ASPERITY
1 a : to excite the anger of : ENRAGE b : to cause irritation or annoyance to
2 obsolete : to make more grievous : AGGRAVATE
synonym see IRRITATE
The Princeton WordNet thingy is not the best dictionary to rely on for precise meanings.
The way it should work:
1) your phone is able to determine its current location at any time
Why should I be forced to buy an expensive phone with GPS capability? Should I be forced to have this safety feature even though I've never called 911 in my entire life? It wasn't a problem before wireless phones. There are a lot of things we could do to make our everyday lives safer, but not all of them are worth the costs.
"Why does the news media keep reporting these *completely* unsubstantiated rumors about Google as if they were actually news?"
I don't know about the VoIP or IM things, but this was reported on Business 2.0. Considering them part of the news media is like considering Slashdot... um, part of the news media.
I'm afraid this post will get lost in all of the pee-pee jokes, but what the hell. I don't see what function urine serves in these batteries. I didn't think urine was all that energetic. The article says these things can output a maximum of 1.5 mW at 1.5 V, so why not just use a tiny alkaline battery? A very tiny battery could be produced for a few cents and they have shelf lives of several years. I just don't see why you need to involve urine at all (other than the fact that it gets your research in the news). What am I missing?
Oh no! Some idiots are spending real money on fake gold! Some stupid kid killed some other kid! Why is it that whenever a couple of crazy people do something crazy, it gets portrayed in the media as an epidemic? Is this taught in Journalism school, or is it something you learn how to do on the job?
I'm familiar with fair use. Fair use, in a nutshell, is the citation of another work or use of copies for non-profit educational use. Plagiarism is passing off another's work as your own or using parts of someone's work without citing the source. The "summary" begins with, "artemis67 writes...." He or she didn't write anything, they just copied and pasted. If it was stated that that was from the article, then it certainly would be fair use. I'm not saying they shouldn't be given credit for finding the link, but it should be made clear what was written by the submitter, and what is a quote or paraphrasing from the article. There are even worse submissions, where the submitter just makes a few trivial changes to the wording of the first couple paragraphs and tries to pass it off as his "summary". That is clearly plagiarism.
My thoughts exactly. Crying dupe's old and played out and just plain getting annoying. When you've seen the article before, you've seen it. Enjoy the new round of comments, or don't, and just move on. I didn't know this was a dupe. I hadn't seen the article before. Don't you dupe-catchers have much better to do with your time than go, "Oh I'm going to show my wealth of/. knowledge by catching a dupe and then wasting my time pulling up the old article and making a post, which I know at least five others will do." It's really tired.
artemis67 writes "Politicians and automakers say a car that can both reduce greenhouse gases and free America from its reliance on foreign oil is years or even decades away. Ron Gremban says such a car is parked in his garage. It looks like a typical Toyota Prius hybrid, but in the trunk sits an 80-miles-per-gallon secret -- a stack of 18 brick-sized batteries that boosts the car's high mileage with an extra electrical charge so it can burn even less fuel. Gremban, an electrical engineer and committed environmentalist, spent several months and $3,000 tinkering with his car."
From the article:
By TIM MOLLOY, Associated Press Writer Sat Aug 13, 7:08 PM ET
CORTE MADERA, Calif. - Politicians and automakers say a car that can both reduce greenhouse gases and free America from its reliance on foreign oil is years or even decades away. Ron Gremban says such a car is parked in his garage.
It looks like a typical Toyota Prius hybrid, but in the trunk sits an 80-miles-per-gallon secret -- a stack of 18 brick-sized batteries that boosts the car's high mileage with an extra electrical charge so it can burn even less fuel.
Gremban, an electrical engineer and committed environmentalist, spent several months and $3,000 tinkering with his car.
Notice any similarity between the two? This is plagiarism. If you're a regular reader of/., then you know that this is about as common as spelling or grammar errors in the summaries. I think how this happens is someone submits a story and just pastes the first couple paragraphs of the article into the "summary" section. Then the [sarcasm]highly competent slashdot editors[/sarcasm] skim the submission and post it on the main page without ever RTFA. Either that, or they don't understand what plagiarism is. So, they're either lazy or ignorant. I'm starting to think that CmdrTaco is not actually Rob Malda, but a Mexican migrant worker hired to accept slashdot submitions for $0.25/hr.
"That's right. However, it is only an APPLICATION - it may not be granted, but you never know."
I wonder just how many MS software patents actually get rejected. Are rejected patent applications public information?
After seeing some of the ridiculous software patents that have been granted, I'm starting to wonder if the USPTO just approves everything they receive that doesn't have any references to free energy or UFOs. After waiting a few years to make it look like they're actually doing something, that is.
Are you kidding?!! 4500 acres is 28226880000 square inches, 87120000 square cubits, or 18210853900000000000000000 square nanometers! Oh, wait, that's only 0.000000000000000000000000203469596 square lightyears. Nevermind.
"Today, they are knuckle draggers who dont even need computers, probably, as most of them are probably illiterate anyway."
As a resident of a small town in the US, I have maintained from the beginning that cops are illiterate, knuckle-draggers who shouldn't be trusted with computers, let alone guns.
I translated the last paragraph of your post to Traditional Chinese and back just once and here is what I got:
As for the Wiki material, it reminds me to play the competition [ altavista.com ] you picks the phrase by babelfish (place any common view labor to finish) and starts to translate looked how many step of you need to cause it to be difficult to recognize. The bonus direction for obtains the meaning original the opposite translation. I pass Chang Langfei the ton-hour in that.
I especially like the last sentence. I have this theory that if you translate some text back and forth between two languages, it will eventually reach equilibrium and won't change with more round-trip translations. If we all learned to speak these equilibrium dialects, then machine translation would work perfectly.;)
I put in, "Wikipedia has adopted a more stringent editorial policy," and I got back, "um, no, I never said that. It was a translation error. Yeah, that's the ticket."
Once I got a box from UPS that was badly smashed, and--here's the kicker--it had a big dusty footprint on top of it. At first, I thought the guy had just stomped on it for fun, but later I figured he probably just climbed over it to get to another package in the truck.
Slashdot Mirror
I had an MRI a few years ago, and I almost had something like this happen. I was wearing a thin stainless steel neclace with a small steel pendant, which I had forgotten to take off. Fortunately, the technician saw it before I went in the tube. When I handed it to her, it was hanging at a 45 degree angle even though it was about three feet from the foot of the tube. I wonder what would have happened if I had gone into the tube wearing it.
"Still, I knew what the test was about, so one could argue I was simply "looking for" something gory."
I think you misunderstood. The point is not to see the gory image. The point is to see the "target image", which is an ordinary image rotated 90 degrees. The point was to show that a gory image in the sequence shortly before the target image makes you miss the target (rotated) image, which most people wouldn't otherwise do.
I saw the sideways tree the first time in the first sequence. I didn't see the target image in either of the other two sequences. I think I was looking for a sideways tree, but it was something else. There is a sideways tree, isn't there?
IANAC (I am not a cow), but one of my friends was, and he assured me, shortly before his untimely demise, that the meat I eat is most certainly natural.
Seriously, do you become "unnatural" everytime you take a course of antibiotics for an upper respiratory infection?
"But for the sake of a little mouthful of flesh, I would be depriving myself of my low cholesterol level, and my reduced risk of heart disease, prostate cancer, colon cancer, etc."
;) By the way, humans subsisted largely on meat until about 12000 years ago when agriculture began.
Not all meat is high in fat. Chicken breast, for example, is extremely low in fat. As for the increased risk of cancer, while obesity is a cancer risk, no particular food has been conclusively proven to increase or decrease the risk of any type of cancer. "Besides, the chief components in the flavor profile of meat are blood and urine."
You must marinate meat differently than the rest of us.
But seriously, what are you talking about? What we taste in meat is amino acids. Our tongues are adapted to tasting them. The protein in meat is one of the most powerful taste cues that humans (and carnivores) have. My cat goes crazy whenever I cook meat. The smell makes her instantly hungry. She doesn't react quite the same way when I take a piss
How many HIV virii would it take to fill 1 mL?
Is this like one of those "guess how many jellybeans are in the jar" deals? What's the prize if we win? And who's doing the counting? For the record, my guess is 2,792,445,923,231.
"What do you get when you combine 1000 used iBooks being sold for $50 and 1000 people desperately wanting to buy them?"
Hold on, let me get my calculator...
(1000 laptops)/(1000 persons) = 1 laptop/person. Sheesh, what was all the fuss about, then?
"That is, they are down by about 1 bloakcbuster film, like say "The Passion of Christ" which managed to draw a lot of cash out of an otherwise non-movie going demographic."
But, The Passion was an independent film, so it didn't really make Hollywood any money. When you take that into account, this year looks even less like a slump.
Nice try, but exasperate doesn't mean what you think it means (at least not anymore). From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Main Entry: 1exasperate
Pronunciation: ig-'zas-p&-"rAt
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -ated; -ating
Etymology: Latin exasperatus, past participle of
exasperare, from ex- + asper rough -- more at ASPERITY
1 a : to excite the anger of : ENRAGE b : to cause irritation or annoyance to
2 obsolete : to make more grievous : AGGRAVATE
synonym see IRRITATE
The Princeton WordNet thingy is not the best dictionary to rely on for precise meanings.
The way it should work:
1) your phone is able to determine its current location at any time
Why should I be forced to buy an expensive phone with GPS capability? Should I be forced to have this safety feature even though I've never called 911 in my entire life? It wasn't a problem before wireless phones. There are a lot of things we could do to make our everyday lives safer, but not all of them are worth the costs.
"Why does the news media keep reporting these *completely* unsubstantiated rumors about Google as if they were actually news?"
I don't know about the VoIP or IM things, but this was reported on Business 2.0. Considering them part of the news media is like considering Slashdot... um, part of the news media.
I'm afraid this post will get lost in all of the pee-pee jokes, but what the hell. I don't see what function urine serves in these batteries. I didn't think urine was all that energetic. The article says these things can output a maximum of 1.5 mW at 1.5 V, so why not just use a tiny alkaline battery? A very tiny battery could be produced for a few cents and they have shelf lives of several years. I just don't see why you need to involve urine at all (other than the fact that it gets your research in the news). What am I missing?
"If you can't get octopropane's molecular formula (C3F8) right, how can I believe anything else you say?"
If you can't get octafluoropropane's name right, why should you criticize someone else?
BTW, it's more commonly known as perfluoropropane.
Oh no! Some idiots are spending real money on fake gold! Some stupid kid killed some other kid! Why is it that whenever a couple of crazy people do something crazy, it gets portrayed in the media as an epidemic? Is this taught in Journalism school, or is it something you learn how to do on the job?
I'm familiar with fair use. Fair use, in a nutshell, is the citation of another work or use of copies for non-profit educational use. Plagiarism is passing off another's work as your own or using parts of someone's work without citing the source. The "summary" begins with, "artemis67 writes...." He or she didn't write anything, they just copied and pasted. If it was stated that that was from the article, then it certainly would be fair use. I'm not saying they shouldn't be given credit for finding the link, but it should be made clear what was written by the submitter, and what is a quote or paraphrasing from the article. There are even worse submissions, where the submitter just makes a few trivial changes to the wording of the first couple paragraphs and tries to pass it off as his "summary". That is clearly plagiarism.
My thoughts exactly. Crying dupe's old and played out and just plain getting annoying. When you've seen the article before, you've seen it. Enjoy the new round of comments, or don't, and just move on. I didn't know this was a dupe. I hadn't seen the article before. Don't you dupe-catchers have much better to do with your time than go, "Oh I'm going to show my wealth of /. knowledge by catching a dupe and then wasting my time pulling up the old article and making a post, which I know at least five others will do." It's really tired.
From the article:
Notice any similarity between the two? This is plagiarism. If you're a regular reader of
Retep Vosnul? Somehow I don't think that'll catch on. What does it even mean, anyway?
Too late, I already patented letters.
"That's right. However, it is only an APPLICATION - it may not be granted, but you never know."
I wonder just how many MS software patents actually get rejected. Are rejected patent applications public information?
After seeing some of the ridiculous software patents that have been granted, I'm starting to wonder if the USPTO just approves everything they receive that doesn't have any references to free energy or UFOs. After waiting a few years to make it look like they're actually doing something, that is.
Are you kidding?!! 4500 acres is 28226880000 square inches, 87120000 square cubits, or 18210853900000000000000000 square nanometers! Oh, wait, that's only 0.000000000000000000000000203469596 square lightyears. Nevermind.
Thanks, google calculator.
"Today, they are knuckle draggers who dont even need computers, probably, as most of them are probably illiterate anyway."
As a resident of a small town in the US, I have maintained from the beginning that cops are illiterate, knuckle-draggers who shouldn't be trusted with computers, let alone guns.
I translated the last paragraph of your post to Traditional Chinese and back just once and here is what I got:
;)
As for the Wiki material, it reminds me to play the competition [ altavista.com ] you picks the phrase by babelfish (place any common view labor to finish) and starts to translate looked how many step of you need to cause it to be difficult to recognize. The bonus direction for obtains the meaning original the opposite translation. I pass Chang Langfei the ton-hour in that.
I especially like the last sentence. I have this theory that if you translate some text back and forth between two languages, it will eventually reach equilibrium and won't change with more round-trip translations. If we all learned to speak these equilibrium dialects, then machine translation would work perfectly.
I put in, "Wikipedia has adopted a more stringent editorial policy," and I got back, "um, no, I never said that. It was a translation error. Yeah, that's the ticket."
Once I got a box from UPS that was badly smashed, and--here's the kicker--it had a big dusty footprint on top of it. At first, I thought the guy had just stomped on it for fun, but later I figured he probably just climbed over it to get to another package in the truck.