It is not necessary that water remain liquid for viable specimens to be transported (this one works in their favor).
Effects of radiation on microbial DNA are significantly deleterious, creating a predictable half-life for the loss of material and probability of survival (this one blows them away).
The parent makes a very inaccurate assumption of why habits are hard to break.
The brain does not independently attempt to reinforce any particular pattern of its own accord - not even the subconsciousness performs this level of autonomous subversive activity.
However - the limbik region responsible for manifesting motivation and associating that motivation with behavior makes it feel that way. Which is to say, if someone smokes to relieve stress, and then stops smoking, that stress no longer has the familiar outlet. As the stress then continues to build, the limbik system increases the negative pressure associated with the typical relief and the urge to resume the habit also increases. However, if the stress (or whatever outlet or positive association [such as socialization or pleasurable sensation]) resumes a separate outlet, the motivation is satiated and the originally satisfying habit is more easily overridden.
The brain does not have an effective back-end cron process for optimization - it does well what it does *frequently*, and is a very very reactive organ.
Oh yeah, Friday's big, no question - but it's a far cry from the next Monday, when everyone gets back to work (access to broadband) and begins hunting online for those things which they did not get over the weekend.
That's when the trend starts, and beyond that marketing has a larger impact than predictable human behavior; so it could have been any time from then until the last week before Christmas when it begins to peter out.
I work for a significant online competitor of Amazon's and am citing personal experience from having reviewed our bandwith, order rate, and income over the same key points of the holiday season.
I've been on Modafanil before (market name Provigil) to counter narcolepsy - and never saw a marked effect. YMMV, but it would seem to me that drugs targetted toward the relief of some deficiency may not provide the desired effects when used for purposes of enhancement.
To point (though abused in context), hearing aids can interfere significantly with the hearing of a non-impared individual rather than granting super-human capability.
I once worked for a marketing and management practice consulting company. While I was there, they structured their offerings so that unless the participants hit metric X, they would pay a reduced price.
Right around the same time the CEO approached me and had me make modifications to "update" our metric reporting tools - which coincidentally made it much more likely that the target point would be reflected by the participants.
I don't work there any more, having left as they imploded under that poor management and the economy began to pick up enough that I had some other way to provide for the family.
I'm assuming since it's under an AC that this is just a troll, but I'll bite.
Technically we're using Russia for the development right now; India's just doing documentation work for us.
Personally, neither is to preference and I'm trying to find local candidates for hire as fast as I can; problem is getting people who really know their low-level C/C++ & SQL. Most developers in recent years only have high-level object oriented stuff or all Microsoft technologies.
Trust me - I'm working on it. Done ~8 interview this week so far.
I'm a development manager for a fairly tech-oriented firm, and we're getting hit by both of these to some degree - we do have some limited outsourcing to take immediate load off core staff and allow ourselves to scale-back guiltlessly upon the completion of projects, but with a lack of qualified local candidates to hire we're having to rely on them a little more heavily than may be appropriate.
I'm still hiring for 4 Sr. Software engineers in the Salt Lake City, Utah, US area if anyone's interested (will have more openings next year). Primary skill include Linux, C/C++ (stdlib & STL), and SQL/Oracle. XML/XSLT, HTML, Javascript, web technologies in general are a plus. Please drop me a line at pltomlinson at gmail dot com if you're interested and don't suck.
Once the car has finished the ascent out to the waypoint station, it begins a return on that expended energy. Using regenerative breaking on the descent, driven simply by gravity, will economically and safely slow the car (virtual friction as opposed to literal component wear) and store up massive amounts of energy - for local use or transmission, your pick.
Blocking launchTimedPrompt() wouldn't do you much good, as that's not a standard function, but rather one created for the demonstration. You might instead want to block just "prompt" (which takes a paranthetical argument, so the full string by which it may be executed will very, so be careful how it's done).
This is Slashdot - we well know the power of distributed community. Accidents like this are very costly ordeals, typically even with insurance. Can someone with the ability to make disbursement to these individuals (and the family of Mr. Bakker) set up accounts via PayPal (many mixed opinions, I know) or bank local to their residences for contributions and post the details?
All LCD panels are translucent, elsewhise the backlight would be entirely ineffective.
They work like this:
1. Plasma backlight source provides whitish illumination. 2. Red, Green, and Blue subpixel LCDs sandwiched between two layers of glass selectively obstruct this light to either pass through easily at one of these colors (the three together perceived as white) or block it out. 3. User perceives cohesive image.
This is grossly oversimplified, others (or googling or howstuffworks) can expound on the details.
Now, if the backlight and its reflectors were removed, you'd only be seeing light coming through from whatever sources lay beyond it; overlaid on a window the natural light would be used, though probably inefficiently (normal LCDs depend on polarization for crisp presentation, some natural bleed would probably result from other sources).
Even though the terms gene therapy are being bandied about in conjunction with this story, there is no such thing as a slacker gene.
What the experiment did here was essentially introduce a learning disorder into the primates, using a method to inhibit a dopamine (specific kind of neurotransmitter) generating process in a localized area. This made it impossible for the primates to connect the visual stimulus indicating the number of tasks remaining and the introduction of a reward - hence the completion criteria becomes effectively decoupled through this dissociation and they have no clue when they will be rewarded.
This does not translate well into humans, which have several other cues that can connect activity with the expectation of reward. The induced learning dissability would have to cover these as well, and would have a disastrous societal effect; no effective expectation of reward also translates to reduced expectation of punishment.
Alternatively this same behavior could be produced in the workplace without the chemistry by having managers arbitrarily provide discipline and praise. This technique has been known for some time, and even quantized into a specific practice (though without conscious concession to this premise as the genesis for the method) in the awful book "The One Minute Manager," whereby an environment is constructed to remove personal validation of the employees and place the entirety of that role on the manager, who is then free to act illogically (or semi-logically, personality and cluefulness depending) in their delivery of the same.
Freezing causes significant problems for large critters though. Some amphibeans due this be excreeting large amounts of a glucose-based protein from their liver just prior to freezing solid, which serves to prevent cellular damage.
Even if humans try the same trick, the issue is thawing evenly. Differences in the freeze/thaw rates of different tissues (as well as pressures associated with different levels of expansion) make this a stuttered process that would have some areas into nectrotic asphyxiation by the time others were even barely hypothermic.
Double checked, good sir or madame or troll. I'm working on my certification of hypnosis for therapeutic methods, so this is a recent topic.
The trance state is detectable via MRI, but not EEG; not unless that trance is used to create specific feedback or incite a form of activity or inactivity which does of itself differ measurably; but which could also be achieved without the hypnosis itself. To reiterate, hypnosis makes other tools more effective, but in itself doesn't look very different from normal activity (though, I will concede that if a person's patterns are extremely well known beforehand some deviation may appear; though the deviation might also be associated with additionally manifest behavior, so the study to review this would require very stringent controls).
There are other likely physiological indicators though; skin conductivity, capillary dilation, reduced respiration and heartrate, increased oxygen saturation, etc. These of course are when associated with a relaxation type induction; rapid, instantaneous, or excitation inductions will yield significantly different results.
Unless you're narcoleptic, in which case it can occur in as few as 30 *seconds*.
Also, hypnosis could be use to increase concentration which may prove useful in achieving the desired feedback state, but hypnosis in itself does not make any measurable change in wave patterns.
I work as a programming manager for a major online closeout retailer, combining a number of both core and partner items which are tracked via similar in-house-assigned SKU (stock keeping unit). The standard has been a 6 digit SKU for the 5 year life of the company, which has recently caused us some significant troubles - especially as some blocks have been reserved so that some applications could differentiate particular classes of product by that reserved prefix.
We almost ran out, and in fact were about a week and a half away from exhausting our usable space when we off-loaded a significant portion to a 7 digit space. The idea is to go to 8, but that's all we could guarantee would work with those particular products given the nature of legacy applications; others might not handle it at all. Which bought us some time, but we still have a lot of work to do to get the legacy systems stabalized.
Being in Utah, I wrote and complained about this. With elections coming up next month hopefully enough media back-lash can be generated to can this effort, and if not that the candidate.
All this does it talk about regular rules of composition and put "Digital" in front of it to some how expand the applicability. The digital portion never begins to enter into consideration in the discussion.
There are some differing rules for working digitally; not many of them take place at the camera though (and most there are with regards of which of your camera's features *not* to use).
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Bingo.
And succinctly put, might I add.
The parent makes a very inaccurate assumption of why habits are hard to break.
The brain does not independently attempt to reinforce any particular pattern of its own accord - not even the subconsciousness performs this level of autonomous subversive activity.
However - the limbik region responsible for manifesting motivation and associating that motivation with behavior makes it feel that way. Which is to say, if someone smokes to relieve stress, and then stops smoking, that stress no longer has the familiar outlet. As the stress then continues to build, the limbik system increases the negative pressure associated with the typical relief and the urge to resume the habit also increases. However, if the stress (or whatever outlet or positive association [such as socialization or pleasurable sensation]) resumes a separate outlet, the motivation is satiated and the originally satisfying habit is more easily overridden.
The brain does not have an effective back-end cron process for optimization - it does well what it does *frequently*, and is a very very reactive organ.
Is this anything like the digestion for understanding (and subsequent output from) applied to christmas music? If so, they'll need a lot of work...
Oh yeah, Friday's big, no question - but it's a far cry from the next Monday, when everyone gets back to work (access to broadband) and begins hunting online for those things which they did not get over the weekend.
That's when the trend starts, and beyond that marketing has a larger impact than predictable human behavior; so it could have been any time from then until the last week before Christmas when it begins to peter out.
I work for a significant online competitor of Amazon's and am citing personal experience from having reviewed our bandwith, order rate, and income over the same key points of the holiday season.
I've been on Modafanil before (market name Provigil) to counter narcolepsy - and never saw a marked effect. YMMV, but it would seem to me that drugs targetted toward the relief of some deficiency may not provide the desired effects when used for purposes of enhancement.
To point (though abused in context), hearing aids can interfere significantly with the hearing of a non-impared individual rather than granting super-human capability.
I once worked for a marketing and management practice consulting company. While I was there, they structured their offerings so that unless the participants hit metric X, they would pay a reduced price.
Right around the same time the CEO approached me and had me make modifications to "update" our metric reporting tools - which coincidentally made it much more likely that the target point would be reflected by the participants.
I don't work there any more, having left as they imploded under that poor management and the economy began to pick up enough that I had some other way to provide for the family.
I'm assuming since it's under an AC that this is just a troll, but I'll bite.
Technically we're using Russia for the development right now; India's just doing documentation work for us.
Personally, neither is to preference and I'm trying to find local candidates for hire as fast as I can; problem is getting people who really know their low-level C/C++ & SQL. Most developers in recent years only have high-level object oriented stuff or all Microsoft technologies.
Trust me - I'm working on it. Done ~8 interview this week so far.
I'm a development manager for a fairly tech-oriented firm, and we're getting hit by both of these to some degree - we do have some limited outsourcing to take immediate load off core staff and allow ourselves to scale-back guiltlessly upon the completion of projects, but with a lack of qualified local candidates to hire we're having to rely on them a little more heavily than may be appropriate.
I'm still hiring for 4 Sr. Software engineers in the Salt Lake City, Utah, US area if anyone's interested (will have more openings next year). Primary skill include Linux, C/C++ (stdlib & STL), and SQL/Oracle. XML/XSLT, HTML, Javascript, web technologies in general are a plus. Please drop me a line at pltomlinson at gmail dot com if you're interested and don't suck.
Once the car has finished the ascent out to the waypoint station, it begins a return on that expended energy. Using regenerative breaking on the descent, driven simply by gravity, will economically and safely slow the car (virtual friction as opposed to literal component wear) and store up massive amounts of energy - for local use or transmission, your pick.
Stupid link didn't make it in:
IR Cutoff Filters.
Serves me right for not previewing.
More specifically, IR Cutoff filters.
Edmund Industrial Optics.
Blocking launchTimedPrompt() wouldn't do you much good, as that's not a standard function, but rather one created for the demonstration. You might instead want to block just "prompt" (which takes a paranthetical argument, so the full string by which it may be executed will very, so be careful how it's done).
This is Slashdot - we well know the power of distributed community. Accidents like this are very costly ordeals, typically even with insurance. Can someone with the ability to make disbursement to these individuals (and the family of Mr. Bakker) set up accounts via PayPal (many mixed opinions, I know) or bank local to their residences for contributions and post the details?
All LCD panels are translucent, elsewhise the backlight would be entirely ineffective.
They work like this:
1. Plasma backlight source provides whitish illumination.
2. Red, Green, and Blue subpixel LCDs sandwiched between two layers of glass selectively obstruct this light to either pass through easily at one of these colors (the three together perceived as white) or block it out.
3. User perceives cohesive image.
This is grossly oversimplified, others (or googling or howstuffworks) can expound on the details.
Now, if the backlight and its reflectors were removed, you'd only be seeing light coming through from whatever sources lay beyond it; overlaid on a window the natural light would be used, though probably inefficiently (normal LCDs depend on polarization for crisp presentation, some natural bleed would probably result from other sources).
I'm probably wrong. But I'm also done.
Even though the terms gene therapy are being bandied about in conjunction with this story, there is no such thing as a slacker gene.
What the experiment did here was essentially introduce a learning disorder into the primates, using a method to inhibit a dopamine (specific kind of neurotransmitter) generating process in a localized area. This made it impossible for the primates to connect the visual stimulus indicating the number of tasks remaining and the introduction of a reward - hence the completion criteria becomes effectively decoupled through this dissociation and they have no clue when they will be rewarded.
This does not translate well into humans, which have several other cues that can connect activity with the expectation of reward. The induced learning dissability would have to cover these as well, and would have a disastrous societal effect; no effective expectation of reward also translates to reduced expectation of punishment.
Alternatively this same behavior could be produced in the workplace without the chemistry by having managers arbitrarily provide discipline and praise. This technique has been known for some time, and even quantized into a specific practice (though without conscious concession to this premise as the genesis for the method) in the awful book "The One Minute Manager," whereby an environment is constructed to remove personal validation of the employees and place the entirety of that role on the manager, who is then free to act illogically (or semi-logically, personality and cluefulness depending) in their delivery of the same.
Freezing causes significant problems for large critters though. Some amphibeans due this be excreeting large amounts of a glucose-based protein from their liver just prior to freezing solid, which serves to prevent cellular damage.
Even if humans try the same trick, the issue is thawing evenly. Differences in the freeze/thaw rates of different tissues (as well as pressures associated with different levels of expansion) make this a stuttered process that would have some areas into nectrotic asphyxiation by the time others were even barely hypothermic.
Double checked, good sir or madame or troll. I'm working on my certification of hypnosis for therapeutic methods, so this is a recent topic.
The trance state is detectable via MRI, but not EEG; not unless that trance is used to create specific feedback or incite a form of activity or inactivity which does of itself differ measurably; but which could also be achieved without the hypnosis itself. To reiterate, hypnosis makes other tools more effective, but in itself doesn't look very different from normal activity (though, I will concede that if a person's patterns are extremely well known beforehand some deviation may appear; though the deviation might also be associated with additionally manifest behavior, so the study to review this would require very stringent controls).
There are other likely physiological indicators though; skin conductivity, capillary dilation, reduced respiration and heartrate, increased oxygen saturation, etc. These of course are when associated with a relaxation type induction; rapid, instantaneous, or excitation inductions will yield significantly different results.
Unless you're narcoleptic, in which case it can occur in as few as 30 *seconds*.
Also, hypnosis could be use to increase concentration which may prove useful in achieving the desired feedback state, but hypnosis in itself does not make any measurable change in wave patterns.
What about the cadaver-cam?
I work as a programming manager for a major online closeout retailer, combining a number of both core and partner items which are tracked via similar in-house-assigned SKU (stock keeping unit). The standard has been a 6 digit SKU for the 5 year life of the company, which has recently caused us some significant troubles - especially as some blocks have been reserved so that some applications could differentiate particular classes of product by that reserved prefix.
We almost ran out, and in fact were about a week and a half away from exhausting our usable space when we off-loaded a significant portion to a 7 digit space. The idea is to go to 8, but that's all we could guarantee would work with those particular products given the nature of legacy applications; others might not handle it at all. Which bought us some time, but we still have a lot of work to do to get the legacy systems stabalized.
Being in Utah, I wrote and complained about this. With elections coming up next month hopefully enough media back-lash can be generated to can this effort, and if not that the candidate.
All this does it talk about regular rules of composition and put "Digital" in front of it to some how expand the applicability. The digital portion never begins to enter into consideration in the discussion.
There are some differing rules for working digitally; not many of them take place at the camera though (and most there are with regards of which of your camera's features *not* to use).
I stand corrected; it's when sulfur and oxygen are temporarily removed from the environment.
This is a fairly light article but still a good read.