The price/performance graph for most every imaginable computer component can be represented by a bell curve.
It just so happens that I'm in the market for a 300$ graphics card. I plan on buying the Nvidia 7800 GS, which is the most powerful AGP card available. While it sucks that those with AGP mobos have been left without an upgrade path, this particular price range works fine for me. I figure it'll be the last major upgrade to my close-to-obsolete AGP slotted computer.
Actually, they could use the same line of reasoning to do just that. When you post to/., it is quite clear that "sets of coded instruction" are sent back and forth "which cause the computer to perform a task".
Pretty much every single transmission using the internet could be taxed using their line of reasoning.
IMHO, the line should be drawn at tangible media, such as CDs and floppies (it's funny, laugh). If that forces these ways of distribution into nonexistence, then so be it. The internet is a (at least conceivably) a much better way of disitribution, at least when it comes to cost and ease of use.
So - you're going to need a special 'receptor' sugar for each toxin type.
That doesn't neccessarily have to pose a challenge to having a substance cabable of detecting a wide variety of toxins. It may be possible to mix several of these particles in a cocktail. But then, if these particles are supposed to be readable by eyesight (in sufficient quantity, that is), then additional equipment may be needed in order to read the results of measurements using the substance.
But then, I know very little about all this, there's way too little info in TFA to tell about these things at the moment.
I'm not sure if what I'm saying is painfully obvious already. If I get a (Score:-1, Redundant), then I'll just have to live with it.
Why can't this invention be deemed notable for its own worth? News outlets continually drag some kind of terrorism into everything these days...
Suddenly, a new way to detect toxins isn't notable because it helps those with medical conditions, but rather because it hinders terrorists from achieving their goals... not that it isn't a good side effect or anything.
What's next? "New construction techniques defend against terrorist bombings"?
Watching him grow older, in my eyes, he learned how to understand new things on his own (just sometimes it took a little longer than it does for most kids his age), like how the rest of us learn things (cause & effect / trial and error) it's not impossible for autistic individuals to perceive and comprehend this kind of stimuli, they just receive it on a different wavelength than we do, and in turn process it in a different manner.
Well said. Neurotypicals essentially have a section (not neccassarily defined by a particular spot) of the brain dedicated to processing social stimuli. It's largely unconcious, so you won't have to think about it unless you want to. In us autistics (including those with Asperger's) that part of the brain is dysfunctional, essentially causing variably pronounced learning problems in that area (along with others).
This is why we largely have to think about social stimuli conciously. Most people don't even have to think about individual social cues in order to be influenced by them, it all comes automatically, registering either conciously or unconciously.
It has been found that if people like someone, they'll generally imitate their social cues (such as body language) without realizing it, and in turn be like more by the other person. Us autistics can't do that automatically. In hindsight, much of the unpleasant communication I've had in the past may have been because of something that was largely out of control of either me or the person I was talking with.
I'm not sure I'd like to have the device mentioned in TFA. I'd probably benefit more from actually learning the social cues directly, even if the device might catch details that I won't.
must we citizens fear the power of the officials we elect? I have seen stupid shit like this the world over. Doesn't matter whether it's in the U.S., Africa, Europe or Asia, we all have to deal with it (Notice how I don't mention the Antarcticans. They brought it on themselves. Whatever that means.)
We constantly have to fight stupid laws either intended to have a good effect (but on closer inspection wouldn't), or laws simply intended to pad someones pocket. There's NIMBY, astroturfing, you name it.
It's a big freakin' tragedy of the commons.
Oh well, at least I have the right to openly critisize my government. Oh, wait, I'm only allowed to critisize elected officials if I don't whine. That's a bit open to interpretation. Am I whining now?
Nah, probably no)O(&==)(/&[CARRIER LOST]
Anandtech is far from just a parrot of company advertisements, they do do a good job with the reviews on the most part and many of us like to keep up with the products available as well as those competing.
I am well aware of Anandtech as an extremely useful source for hardware reviews. However,/. is all about new developments, and RAM chips which are slightly faster and better in every regard than previous chips simply aren't newsworthy.
And I also know that I don't have to read the article. It's just that I don't like it when/. is used to advertise things, it devalues it's worth and is in no way informative, interesting nor worthwile discussing in any other regard than as being uninteresting slashvertisments.
I don't go to/. for advertisments. Yes, I know that high-end computer gear keeps improving, and that's all very exciting for rich computer enthusiasts and gamers. But I don't need to read about it on/. as it's not particularly exciting for me unless I just happen to be in the market for high-end gear (which I'm not at the moment), and any info on the subject is almost completely uninformative.
We icelanders have been using geothermal energy for ages, so this won't be a _huge_ leap.
Oh, and about that Blue Lagoon monster pic in the article. I've been getting worried about that. How will we continue our energy-production methods if all the hot water is being hogged by these blue-skinned creatures?
Tourism in Iceland is very safe. So safe, in fact, that we have tour buses going to the Blue Lagoon for the sole purpose of visiting these blue-skinned water-dwellers. Reports of visitor's disappearances have been greatly exaggerated.
Aren't script-kiddies basically just unpaid volunteer workers for the (presumably blackhat) writers of these click-and-point hacking tools?
Why go to the trouble of writing an easily-countered virus when you can just make cracking tools more convenient for the hordes of script-kiddies with nothing better to do, thus having a much more damaging effect?
When my boss complained about my spelling and vocabulary, I told him I'd gotten dyslexic.
atm, I'm an RSI-free full time couch potato. Too bad I can't outsource channel switching...
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This sounds like a great idea, my only concern is what happens to your vision when you take off the glasses? Will your vision be impaired when they are off due to the effect that the correction glasses have while they are on? Will they cause headaches? Hallucinations?
I dont know about impaired vision (my vision has been degrating slightly, but steadily, in the decade since I first got my glasses, but I have no real knowledge of whether corrective lenses can or do have that effect), but I already get headaches when I take my glasses off.
Hallucinations, though? Not unless they actually coat those things with some hallucinogenic chemical or another. I wouldnt worry about it if I were you.
Those genes linked with autism may be (and probably are, methinks) bad for the survival chances of an individual, but still better for society.
Even if early autistics were much worse off when it came to spreading their genes, their respective societies probably benefited from their tendencies to analyze and reprocude things like fire, tools, etc.
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I just hope they can get the guy who did all the voice overs in WCII to do some work on the movie.
"Don't you have a kingdom to run"? -Footman
"Stop rocking the boat! you're making me seasick *puking sound*" -Elven destroyer
"Yeeessss Massssterr" - Death Knight
"I'm the smart one! No, I'M the smart one!" - Ogre mage
Slashvertismentation.
These words are fillers.
The price/performance graph for most every imaginable computer component can be represented by a bell curve. It just so happens that I'm in the market for a 300$ graphics card. I plan on buying the Nvidia 7800 GS, which is the most powerful AGP card available. While it sucks that those with AGP mobos have been left without an upgrade path, this particular price range works fine for me. I figure it'll be the last major upgrade to my close-to-obsolete AGP slotted computer.
Actually, they could use the same line of reasoning to do just that. When you post to /., it is quite clear that "sets of coded instruction" are sent back and forth "which cause the computer to perform a task".
Pretty much every single transmission using the internet could be taxed using their line of reasoning.
IMHO, the line should be drawn at tangible media, such as CDs and floppies (it's funny, laugh). If that forces these ways of distribution into nonexistence, then so be it. The internet is a (at least conceivably) a much better way of disitribution, at least when it comes to cost and ease of use.
But then, I know very little about all this, there's way too little info in TFA to tell about these things at the moment.
I'm not sure if what I'm saying is painfully obvious already. If I get a (Score:-1, Redundant), then I'll just have to live with it.
Why can't this invention be deemed notable for its own worth? News outlets continually drag some kind of terrorism into everything these days...
Suddenly, a new way to detect toxins isn't notable because it helps those with medical conditions, but rather because it hinders terrorists from achieving their goals... not that it isn't a good side effect or anything.
What's next? "New construction techniques defend against terrorist bombings"?
Well said. Neurotypicals essentially have a section (not neccassarily defined by a particular spot) of the brain dedicated to processing social stimuli. It's largely unconcious, so you won't have to think about it unless you want to. In us autistics (including those with Asperger's) that part of the brain is dysfunctional, essentially causing variably pronounced learning problems in that area (along with others).
This is why we largely have to think about social stimuli conciously. Most people don't even have to think about individual social cues in order to be influenced by them, it all comes automatically, registering either conciously or unconciously.
It has been found that if people like someone, they'll generally imitate their social cues (such as body language) without realizing it, and in turn be like more by the other person. Us autistics can't do that automatically. In hindsight, much of the unpleasant communication I've had in the past may have been because of something that was largely out of control of either me or the person I was talking with. I'm not sure I'd like to have the device mentioned in TFA. I'd probably benefit more from actually learning the social cues directly, even if the device might catch details that I won't.
must we citizens fear the power of the officials we elect? I have seen stupid shit like this the world over. Doesn't matter whether it's in the U.S., Africa, Europe or Asia, we all have to deal with it (Notice how I don't mention the Antarcticans. They brought it on themselves. Whatever that means.) We constantly have to fight stupid laws either intended to have a good effect (but on closer inspection wouldn't), or laws simply intended to pad someones pocket. There's NIMBY, astroturfing, you name it. It's a big freakin' tragedy of the commons. Oh well, at least I have the right to openly critisize my government. Oh, wait, I'm only allowed to critisize elected officials if I don't whine. That's a bit open to interpretation. Am I whining now? Nah, probably no)O(&==)(/&[CARRIER LOST]
I don't go to /. for advertisments. Yes, I know that high-end computer gear keeps improving, and that's all very exciting for rich computer enthusiasts and gamers. But I don't need to read about it on /. as it's not particularly exciting for me unless I just happen to be in the market for high-end gear (which I'm not at the moment), and any info on the subject is almost completely uninformative.
(Score -1, Redundant)
We icelanders have been using geothermal energy for ages, so this won't be a _huge_ leap.
Oh, and about that Blue Lagoon monster pic in the article. I've been getting worried about that. How will we continue our energy-production methods if all the hot water is being hogged by these blue-skinned creatures?
Tourism in Iceland is very safe. So safe, in fact, that we have tour buses going to the Blue Lagoon for the sole purpose of visiting these blue-skinned water-dwellers. Reports of visitor's disappearances have been greatly exaggerated.
Aren't script-kiddies basically just unpaid volunteer workers for the (presumably blackhat) writers of these click-and-point hacking tools?
Why go to the trouble of writing an easily-countered virus when you can just make cracking tools more convenient for the hordes of script-kiddies with nothing better to do, thus having a much more damaging effect?
I used to outsource all my typing to India.
When my boss complained about my spelling and vocabulary, I told him I'd gotten dyslexic.
atm, I'm an RSI-free full time couch potato. Too bad I can't outsource channel switching...
This sounds like a great idea, my only concern is what happens to your vision when you take off the glasses?
Will your vision be impaired when they are off due to the effect that the correction glasses have while they are on?
Will they cause headaches? Hallucinations?
I dont know about impaired vision (my vision has been degrating slightly, but steadily, in the decade since I first got my glasses, but I have no real knowledge of whether corrective lenses can or do have that effect), but I already get headaches when I take my glasses off.
Hallucinations, though? Not unless they actually coat those things with some hallucinogenic chemical or another. I wouldnt worry about it if I were you.
Those genes linked with autism may be (and probably are, methinks) bad for the survival chances of an individual, but still better for society. Even if early autistics were much worse off when it came to spreading their genes, their respective societies probably benefited from their tendencies to analyze and reprocude things like fire, tools, etc.