When APD's have a processing failure, they do not process what is being said to them. They may be able to repeat the words back word for word, but the meaning of the message is lost, and not processed. Simply repeating the instruction is of no use if an APD is not processing. Neither will increasing the volume help.
When I have this problem, I cannot "repeat the words back word for word", and repeating it with clear enunciation (and maybe increased volume) almost always makes me hear and understand. This makes me think I have slight high frequency hearing loss, like you.
Also from the wiki:
One adult, who has had the disorder since childhood, writes:
"My hearing is fine, but what I hear is often garbled initially by my brain. Shortly later, I often figure it out. In conversation, about the same time I say "huh?", I figure out what it was that I just heard."
Those words could come right out of my mouth. I definitely identify with that.
This isn't really happening anymore. Yes, smart people still trump over stupid people in most aspects of life, but stupid people still reproduce. Civilization has removed the engine through which drives the evolution of the species.
Natural selection for smart minds has been halted by civilization. Natural selection for inferior bodies has been halted by modern medicine (where available). However, there is still one source of evolution -- random mutations.
Basically, we're not discarding the old bad stuff, but the rare random mutation that doesn't include sterility is pretty likely to get passed on.
How about hearing aids for people with good hearing, for use at the cinema or theatre, that would filter out the dim-wits with their mobile phones and packets of crisps?
How about a device to wear at the Pub which can allow you to filter out the background noise and actually hear, and converse with, your friends?
As long as it didn't cause me discomfort, I'd definitely try something like that. I have some trouble with that sort of thing. While I hear amplitude well, I commonly have to ask people to repeat themselves -- I've heard a bunch of noise come from them, but failed to decode it. Sometimes if I just wait and think about it before asking them to repeat, I can figure it out.
There's probably a medical term for this. Maybe geek-brain-developed-for-technical-stuff-at-the-co st-of-everything-else-itis. Maybe aural-decode-algorithm-failure. Either way, something that can effectively pick out what I want to hear, and filter the rest, would probably be a big help.
Music, OTOH, I hear well -- while incapable of reproducing or identifying notes, I definitely hear even minute differences in tone and timing. As such, I vastly prefer music to conversation...
But I digress...I suspect such a device would cause me discomfort. I find sunglasses extremely uncomfortable, even "good" or expensive ones. They all manage to hurt my nose. Wristwatches won't stay in the right position, and cause excessive sweating even when they do. I manage to wear jeans and a t-shirt okay, but my feet get excessively hot in enclosed shoes; I wear sandals almost exclusively (causes some career difficulties). I dread the day that my eyes begin to fail from staring at computer monitors (as well as from genetic inheritance); I will most certainly be getting them repaired surgically, rather than wear glasses or contacts. I don't know what I'll do if/when my hearing starts to go.
This isn't for people who aren't already walking around with a backpack full of stuff. In the city, it would only be useful for children at school, who carry that much weight in books. Mostly, it's for the sort of folk who have to carry a bunch of survival gear anyway -- hikers, soldiers, etc.
The ballast is whatever load you're already carrying anyway, not 85 pounds of power generating machinery.
you will find the first person to mention moving Earth's orbit is NOT me.
Please cite somebody else's message about modifying Earth's orbit preceding your message #13510037 which, in it's entirety, consisted of:
Also, to consider, while I doubt it will be able to shift Earth's orbit (assuming we COULD hook into it)...what kind of cabling system do we need that COULD sustain that kind of pressure. Even if the thing moved at 1 MPH, it is so freaking massive that any kind of cable we could currently design would snap in half. We simply do not have a method to anchor these things. Though maybe it would be possible to shift its trajectory and crash it into the moon and then mine the stuff from the moon.
Time to finally upgrade my 10MB MFM hard drive. This one looks like it should do the job. Bigger is better, right?
Your MFM drive is probably 5.25", and maybe full height. The Deathstar is 3.5" half height. If bigger is better, then you shouldn't fsck with it.
[ramble]Considering a 5.25" full height HD brings back memories. I somehow wound up with six 5.25" full height SCSI 327mb drives, which I ran on a 386 by running the SCSI ribbon cable out the back of the case and powered them with a Packard Bell power supply. Not only was the noise deafening, but I had to keep the room's windows open all winter, even when it was down to 0F, else I would boil. Running 4dos and Telix, BBSing over a 2400 baud (and later, 19.2k modem whose standard never materialized and was limited to 14.4k -- on BBSes that went that fast)...man, those were the days.[/ramble]
How do you plan on putting this thing into orbit? It is moving at a high rate of speed, are you going to ask it and hope it will respond? You could try blasting it into orbit, but do you really want to mess with that many (probably nuclear) bombs?
That would be my guess as to how to move it, yes. Are you suggesting using a cable and winching it to Earth?
what you fail to realize is that it will take a whole lot of mass to move the Earth, and simply put it, a comet of that size does not have the mass to do so. Even if it slammed into Earth it would not have the ability to change Earth's orbit.
I fail to see anywhere in this thread where anybody suggests that the comet should "move the Earth", or that the comet should be crashed into the Earth (which would indeed cause the question of whether or not it would modify the Earth's orbit). What I fail to realize is from where the idea that Earth's orbit would be modified came.
So the OP suggested putting it in orbit, and I suggested a potential method that would not work. So that is what I am talking about.
Do you mean that you were suggesting to "anchor these things" with a cable to Earth in order to enforce a geosynchronous orbit?
Or were you trying to imply that we would tow it with a cable, and we don't have a method to anchor the cable to the comet? I suppose that could make your post nearly coherent, but there's no reason I could think of why we would try to alter a comet's orbit by anchoring a cable in the comet and pulling. Various push methods would be both easier and more obvious.
So, to sum up my questions about your post: 1. Why would the idea of alteration of Earth's orbit come up? 2. To what do you suggest anchoring each end of a cable?
Dammit! Not again...reminding me of the Clutch song 10001110101. I finally had gotten it out of my head (only to be replaced by Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Don't Ask Me No questions and I Won't Tell You No Lies").
The likely cause of the bulge is a pool of magma [snip]...[/snip] Other causes could be anything from the birth of a new volcano -- a fourth Sister in the making -- to a routine and anticlimactic pooling of liquid rock, researchers say.
So, the likely cause is magma, but another cause could be...liquid rock?
I am lazy, too. Of course, it's my own laziness that inspires my creativity. Scripts to automate repetitive stuff, easy instructions that help users before they ask me, programs that do stuff that needs to get done. Therefore, the more lazy I am, the more productive I am.
My retirement will probably result in the solution to all the world's problems. I should retire right now, rather than in another 40 or 50 years. I'll get right on it...
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When I have this problem, I cannot "repeat the words back word for word", and repeating it with clear enunciation (and maybe increased volume) almost always makes me hear and understand. This makes me think I have slight high frequency hearing loss, like you.
Also from the wiki:Those words could come right out of my mouth. I definitely identify with that.
Basically, we're not discarding the old bad stuff, but the rare random mutation that doesn't include sterility is pretty likely to get passed on.
There's probably a medical term for this. Maybe geek-brain-developed-for-technical-stuff-at-the-c
Music, OTOH, I hear well -- while incapable of reproducing or identifying notes, I definitely hear even minute differences in tone and timing. As such, I vastly prefer music to conversation...
But I digress...I suspect such a device would cause me discomfort. I find sunglasses extremely uncomfortable, even "good" or expensive ones. They all manage to hurt my nose. Wristwatches won't stay in the right position, and cause excessive sweating even when they do. I manage to wear jeans and a t-shirt okay, but my feet get excessively hot in enclosed shoes; I wear sandals almost exclusively (causes some career difficulties). I dread the day that my eyes begin to fail from staring at computer monitors (as well as from genetic inheritance); I will most certainly be getting them repaired surgically, rather than wear glasses or contacts. I don't know what I'll do if/when my hearing starts to go.
This isn't for people who aren't already walking around with a backpack full of stuff. In the city, it would only be useful for children at school, who carry that much weight in books. Mostly, it's for the sort of folk who have to carry a bunch of survival gear anyway -- hikers, soldiers, etc.
The ballast is whatever load you're already carrying anyway, not 85 pounds of power generating machinery.
Am I the only one who read the title as "New Corpse buys..."?
Yes you can. The term is "critical mass" and I don't see a reason why it couldn't be applied to geeks as well as fissionable material.
Step 1: Collect geeks.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Big Profits!@
[ramble]Considering a 5.25" full height HD brings back memories. I somehow wound up with six 5.25" full height SCSI 327mb drives, which I ran on a 386 by running the SCSI ribbon cable out the back of the case and powered them with a Packard Bell power supply. Not only was the noise deafening, but I had to keep the room's windows open all winter, even when it was down to 0F, else I would boil. Running 4dos and Telix, BBSing over a 2400 baud (and later, 19.2k modem whose standard never materialized and was limited to 14.4k -- on BBSes that went that fast)...man, those were the days.[/ramble]
Or were you trying to imply that we would tow it with a cable, and we don't have a method to anchor the cable to the comet? I suppose that could make your post nearly coherent, but there's no reason I could think of why we would try to alter a comet's orbit by anchoring a cable in the comet and pulling. Various push methods would be both easier and more obvious.
So, to sum up my questions about your post:
1. Why would the idea of alteration of Earth's orbit come up?
2. To what do you suggest anchoring each end of a cable?
Dammit! Not again...reminding me of the Clutch song 10001110101. I finally had gotten it out of my head (only to be replaced by Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Don't Ask Me No questions and I Won't Tell You No Lies").
Maybe I'm just missing something here.
The comet seems to have survived:i media/addscolor90605.htmli media/1118923Fig7-90605.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/mult
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/mult
I believe they are referring to the current Iraqi government, not the land.
I'd like to see the firewall rules for that.
Something like:
REFUSE: 0/0 port tcp 80
Or do they have content filtering that looks for webmail system keywords?
This guy is from Venus?
There is an email flamewar in here. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
(Did you bring your grue gun?)
Wouldn't that be magma?
Step 1: ®
Step 2: Beowulf cluster
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Boredom!
And what does the pirate in the circle say? He says "®"!
Hollywood, pronouncing something incorrectly in a movie? Say it ain't so! ;)
There's a funny story behind the username. There's more than just sex and drugs in it...there's bovinity, too.
Actually, that's 1.21 Gigawatts. Ungeek.
You forgot Natas. I probably still have some Natas infected floppies somewhere.
Any Slashdot readers using NS4 are probably disallowed from using anything else by corporate policy.
What's wrong with the existing html, anyway?
I am lazy, too. Of course, it's my own laziness that inspires my creativity. Scripts to automate repetitive stuff, easy instructions that help users before they ask me, programs that do stuff that needs to get done. Therefore, the more lazy I am, the more productive I am.
My retirement will probably result in the solution to all the world's problems. I should retire right now, rather than in another 40 or 50 years. I'll get right on it...