I have the 8560w too and I love that laptop. After my company was acquired by a bigger company they migrated us to desktop machines and took our laptops (probably only to throw them away, accounting refused to allow us to keep or buy them) so I went out on Craigslist and found a beat up one for real cheap and I replaced all the damaged parts and the chassis.
I just wish HP hadn't put a whitelist in the BIOS so we could hold onto these machines a bit longer by using more powerful video cards. Maybe someone will come up with a BIOS hack to work around?
Mark my words HP will never top their EliteBook series; it was relatively thick, durable and easy to take apart to repair. At the time all of us in the office had one and my colleague even had his backpack fall apart and it dropped onto the parking lot asphalt and it survived and was still fully functional albeit some scratches.
Also Netflix is working on doing a reboot of Lost in Space; a project no network was willing to take on. I love the original campy 60's show so that alone is enough to keep me hooked on Netflix.
Yup. Back in the mid-90s, I was rather hoping we'd learn more about depression over the course of my lifetime. I'm rather disappointed over the progress made in the past twenty years.
Well to be fair there are a newer class of drugs called NDRI's (Wellbutrin; buproprion, is one) that target Norepinephrine and Dopamine receptors and Effexor; venlafaxine, supposedly is targets all three but regardless of how these medications work we still unfortunately, as you pointed out, know so little about the actual cause of biological depression so really all we're doing is symptomatic treatment.
Maybe all the recent breakthroughs in modeling neural networks in software will eventually lead to a software model that researchers can poke at rather than merely hypothesize much like those super computers that can model weather patterns or the interaction between heavenly bodies.
There are studies that suggest that antidepressants often do nothing, which suggests to me that the same biochemical causes aren't present for all depression.
Interestingly I've also seen some studies that suggest Serotonin may not be the only neurotransmitter responsible, if at all, for depression. Some research suggests that the root cause may be, fully or partially in some people, to be Norepinephrine and Dopamine deficiency. In some cases it may be all three neurotransmitters or even ones we don't know about yet.
I'm also wondering why everyone is complaining about the lack of motion controls with the Rift. Is really using a Keyboard+Mouse with a headset really that tough? I mean I can use my keyboard with my eyes closed (I just tried it).
For me the real appeal of the Rift is not so much total immersion as it is having depth perception into a virtual environment without having to deal with the idiosyncrasies of 3D monitors.
On top of that chronic, clinical, depression is typically a biological problem so I doubt browsing too much Facebook will change how your cylinders are firing so to speak. Not that a person can't bury themselves in despair but I guess what I'm trying to say that in a sense there is a difference between feeling depressed and being depressed.
Obligatory citation: I have an actual diagnoses of clinical depression.
Furthermore I always think to myself whenever I see those Roslyn Capital commercials that if the doomsday fiat currency crash happens (think Depression-era tier or worse) like the spokesman says then who will be able to buy all that gold you been hording if everyone is broke? It's really a clever scam targeted at seniors IMO
So now you know why the US is a Republic with the Electorial College and a House of Representatives instead of a true democracy.
I shutter to think what the reality TV show generation would have done to this country otherwise and fortunately the founding fathers had the foresight that the average voter is too dumb to vote.
If you need caffeine to function normally, you have a problem.
I drink coffee because I enjoy the aroma and flavor and it gives me a perk up in the morning. However, to an extent you have a point; if you need excessive amounts of caffeine to function it may be a sign of an underlying problem such as, for example; one's thyroid or adrenal glands not functioning properly or even depression. See a physician for an exam.
and replaceable batteries mean you're more-inclined to just buy a new phone in a year or 2 when the capacity of the battery drops significantly.
Furthermore people who claim a replaceable battery isn't necessary must be boring city dwellers without a sense of adventure. Having several removable batteries, and an emergency-only battery, for my S5 proved useful when hiking in Arizona and on a long bus trip through Utah in a bus without working 12v receptacles.
Still doesn't have removable batteries for some reason. The new S7 has a 3,000 mAh non-removable battery but the old S5 has a 2,800 mAh removable battery you can swap out for a new one.
The majority of the good open source apps have moved to GitHub over this, and user trust in the site is dead. I know myself and a number of people I know don't go there anymore, hell, uBlock even blocks it by default.
On the other hand GitHub is slowly going down the toilet so maybe we might see a migration back one day.
If I am not mistaken Amazon could do this since anyone can write a bill; it's just a matter of finding a congressman or a senator willing to take a big enough campaign "donation" to sponsor the bill and introduce it to their respective legislative body.
It might be fix or repair daily but at least you can repair it. I can't say the same thing for Chevy which, in my experience, always fail in the most catastrophic way possible that necessitates getting a new car.
If the new city people call the cops and you're not doing anything that's against county laws, then the cops can't do anything.
This is exactly the situation and the sheriff's department usually follows up on any calls they get and sometimes you get a condescending deputy regardless of the law (sometimes because the neighbor told them something that isn't true or out of proportion). At one point I had talked to an attorney and he recommended filing a harassment complaint but fortunately those neighbors moved away before that became necessary.
But my main point is those of us who live in the country have an influx of city dwellers who have dreams of Green Acres but when they find that country living isn't the same as what they imagined some of them start harassing their neighbors until they get their way. I recommend anyone who wants to live in the country maybe rent a place, if they're serious, and live out there for a few months and see if it fits them before making a serious commitment to an environment they may not feel comfortable in, otherwise they might want to stay in their suburban HOA.
Why should I move out of the city? In my experience, people in the country are even worse.
I live out in the country and what really grinds my gears is when someone from the city moves into the country and starts calling the cops about every little thing trying to control everything their neighbors do.
I'm surrounded by neighbors with barking dogs and the sound of gunshots. I've never been a big fan of the wanna-be dictators that live in cities so it actually brings pleasure to my ears to hear the report of liberty ringing through the woods and my fellow freedom loving country dwellers don't mind it either.
The NRA is nothing more than a (very effective) lobbying arm of the firearms industry.
Entirely false; the firearms industry has its own lobbyist group separate from the NRA, and the NRA represents the interests of its members who are obviously gun owners. It's really a civil rights organization.
This just doesn't apply to tickets but to other commodities as well as we've learned in the US like what is going on with 22 LR; people keep buying from scalpers because they can't find any ammo at stores because all the scalpers bought it all out (often using sly tactics to get around purchase limits) driving up demand. If people would stop giving into scalpers then the supply and demand would equalize.
In my state there are only one or two insurance companies participating in the healthcare exchange and even their crappiest plans with outrageous deductibles and HSA accounts are unaffordable, and to make matters worse my employer also dropped their PPO plan and replaced it with a high deductible insurance plan with an HSA so, for me personally, I found it was cheaper to not buy into the system and just pay all my own healthcare on top of the tax penalty instead of having to pay for all my healthcare anyway on top of outrageous premiums for insurance I'll likely never get to use.
Anyway I figure with the tax penalty there might be the chance the money going to the government will do some good whereas if I bought into the ACA healthcare exchange my money would only be used to buy some insurance executive another gold plated sports car.
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I have the 8560w too and I love that laptop. After my company was acquired by a bigger company they migrated us to desktop machines and took our laptops (probably only to throw them away, accounting refused to allow us to keep or buy them) so I went out on Craigslist and found a beat up one for real cheap and I replaced all the damaged parts and the chassis.
I just wish HP hadn't put a whitelist in the BIOS so we could hold onto these machines a bit longer by using more powerful video cards. Maybe someone will come up with a BIOS hack to work around?
Mark my words HP will never top their EliteBook series; it was relatively thick, durable and easy to take apart to repair. At the time all of us in the office had one and my colleague even had his backpack fall apart and it dropped onto the parking lot asphalt and it survived and was still fully functional albeit some scratches.
Creating a new account on Windows 10 REQUIRES an e-mail address at Outlook.com
Actually you can still add a local user account during or after setup.
See also this and this.
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Aging should be studied, understood, controlled and eventually reversed.
Funny you should mention that.
Also Netflix is working on doing a reboot of Lost in Space; a project no network was willing to take on. I love the original campy 60's show so that alone is enough to keep me hooked on Netflix.
Yup. Back in the mid-90s, I was rather hoping we'd learn more about depression over the course of my lifetime. I'm rather disappointed over the progress made in the past twenty years.
Well to be fair there are a newer class of drugs called NDRI's (Wellbutrin; buproprion, is one) that target Norepinephrine and Dopamine receptors and Effexor; venlafaxine, supposedly is targets all three but regardless of how these medications work we still unfortunately, as you pointed out, know so little about the actual cause of biological depression so really all we're doing is symptomatic treatment.
Maybe all the recent breakthroughs in modeling neural networks in software will eventually lead to a software model that researchers can poke at rather than merely hypothesize much like those super computers that can model weather patterns or the interaction between heavenly bodies.
There are studies that suggest that antidepressants often do nothing, which suggests to me that the same biochemical causes aren't present for all depression.
Interestingly I've also seen some studies that suggest Serotonin may not be the only neurotransmitter responsible, if at all, for depression. Some research suggests that the root cause may be, fully or partially in some people, to be Norepinephrine and Dopamine deficiency. In some cases it may be all three neurotransmitters or even ones we don't know about yet.
I'm also wondering why everyone is complaining about the lack of motion controls with the Rift. Is really using a Keyboard+Mouse with a headset really that tough? I mean I can use my keyboard with my eyes closed (I just tried it).
For me the real appeal of the Rift is not so much total immersion as it is having depth perception into a virtual environment without having to deal with the idiosyncrasies of 3D monitors.
On top of that chronic, clinical, depression is typically a biological problem so I doubt browsing too much Facebook will change how your cylinders are firing so to speak. Not that a person can't bury themselves in despair but I guess what I'm trying to say that in a sense there is a difference between feeling depressed and being depressed.
Obligatory citation: I have an actual diagnoses of clinical depression.
Furthermore I always think to myself whenever I see those Roslyn Capital commercials that if the doomsday fiat currency crash happens (think Depression-era tier or worse) like the spokesman says then who will be able to buy all that gold you been hording if everyone is broke? It's really a clever scam targeted at seniors IMO
So now you know why the US is a Republic with the Electorial College and a House of Representatives instead of a true democracy.
I shutter to think what the reality TV show generation would have done to this country otherwise and fortunately the founding fathers had the foresight that the average voter is too dumb to vote.
If you need caffeine to function normally, you have a problem.
I drink coffee because I enjoy the aroma and flavor and it gives me a perk up in the morning. However, to an extent you have a point; if you need excessive amounts of caffeine to function it may be a sign of an underlying problem such as, for example; one's thyroid or adrenal glands not functioning properly or even depression. See a physician for an exam.
and replaceable batteries mean you're more-inclined to just buy a new phone in a year or 2 when the capacity of the battery drops significantly.
Furthermore people who claim a replaceable battery isn't necessary must be boring city dwellers without a sense of adventure. Having several removable batteries, and an emergency-only battery, for my S5 proved useful when hiking in Arizona and on a long bus trip through Utah in a bus without working 12v receptacles.
Still doesn't have removable batteries for some reason. The new S7 has a 3,000 mAh non-removable battery but the old S5 has a 2,800 mAh removable battery you can swap out for a new one.
The majority of the good open source apps have moved to GitHub over this, and user trust in the site is dead. I know myself and a number of people I know don't go there anymore, hell, uBlock even blocks it by default.
On the other hand GitHub is slowly going down the toilet so maybe we might see a migration back one day.
If I am not mistaken Amazon could do this since anyone can write a bill; it's just a matter of finding a congressman or a senator willing to take a big enough campaign "donation" to sponsor the bill and introduce it to their respective legislative body.
They're all already double Irish, how much more Irish can they get?
By encoding everything in Gaelic given that possibly only two people in the world speak it.
It might be fix or repair daily but at least you can repair it. I can't say the same thing for Chevy which, in my experience, always fail in the most catastrophic way possible that necessitates getting a new car.
And no religion too.
But don't you want to MAKE US WHOLE?
If the new city people call the cops and you're not doing anything that's against county laws, then the cops can't do anything.
This is exactly the situation and the sheriff's department usually follows up on any calls they get and sometimes you get a condescending deputy regardless of the law (sometimes because the neighbor told them something that isn't true or out of proportion). At one point I had talked to an attorney and he recommended filing a harassment complaint but fortunately those neighbors moved away before that became necessary.
But my main point is those of us who live in the country have an influx of city dwellers who have dreams of Green Acres but when they find that country living isn't the same as what they imagined some of them start harassing their neighbors until they get their way. I recommend anyone who wants to live in the country maybe rent a place, if they're serious, and live out there for a few months and see if it fits them before making a serious commitment to an environment they may not feel comfortable in, otherwise they might want to stay in their suburban HOA.
Why should I move out of the city? In my experience, people in the country are even worse.
I live out in the country and what really grinds my gears is when someone from the city moves into the country and starts calling the cops about every little thing trying to control everything their neighbors do.
I'm surrounded by neighbors with barking dogs and the sound of gunshots. I've never been a big fan of the wanna-be dictators that live in cities so it actually brings pleasure to my ears to hear the report of liberty ringing through the woods and my fellow freedom loving country dwellers don't mind it either.
The NRA is nothing more than a (very effective) lobbying arm of the firearms industry.
Entirely false; the firearms industry has its own lobbyist group separate from the NRA, and the NRA represents the interests of its members who are obviously gun owners. It's really a civil rights organization.
This just doesn't apply to tickets but to other commodities as well as we've learned in the US like what is going on with 22 LR; people keep buying from scalpers because they can't find any ammo at stores because all the scalpers bought it all out (often using sly tactics to get around purchase limits) driving up demand. If people would stop giving into scalpers then the supply and demand would equalize.
PHP 7 is slated for a full release tomorrow.
Yeah but I won't be able to use it until 2020 because all the commercial hosting servers are still running PHP 4.
In my state there are only one or two insurance companies participating in the healthcare exchange and even their crappiest plans with outrageous deductibles and HSA accounts are unaffordable, and to make matters worse my employer also dropped their PPO plan and replaced it with a high deductible insurance plan with an HSA so, for me personally, I found it was cheaper to not buy into the system and just pay all my own healthcare on top of the tax penalty instead of having to pay for all my healthcare anyway on top of outrageous premiums for insurance I'll likely never get to use.
Anyway I figure with the tax penalty there might be the chance the money going to the government will do some good whereas if I bought into the ACA healthcare exchange my money would only be used to buy some insurance executive another gold plated sports car.