Kygron

Perhaps it would if we took a broader perspective? If you consider, rather than an individule species, the entire "family tree", or "symbiotic group" or even ecosystem, the data may read differently. That australian fruit may go extinct, but its ancestors likely still exist and would, in this case, have removed themselves from the situation.

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I read this and got myself a little theory, here goes: Whenever you speak (and I mean EVERY time), your brain remembers/predicts the sound it hears. You learn to associate this sound with the mental processes that went on in order to create it. Later you can skip the vocalization and recall/predict the sound that you would have heard. Then the part of your brain that processes spoken words can still be active on that memory/prediction. Personally I find that I think differently depending on the method of input, and speaking to myself helps me think a bit more logically. I'm sure you'll find that with practice you can think with ANY voice, even create one for yourself. I bet it would help if you're trying to imitate a style as well; I wouldn't be surprized if actors do that. I remember a time when I was having problems with my teeth (before and durring braces, yuck!), and I would get annoyed when I'd be reading a get stopped on something that I would have a hard time saying, even though I was reading to myself!

Yes, that's what I said. Hmm, you seem to have misunderstood. I'm not talking about the difference, say, when my eyes are open or closed, as your post could be interpreted to answer, but more like the difference between being asleep and awake. Completely different brain functioning. Something that could be measured by, say, brainwaves. Or perhaps neurotransmitters as you suggest. I'd never heard of measuring neurotransmitters outside of emotional states, is that what you ment? I think I could better ask: what is the mechanism that produces different brainwaves?

I've noticed a difference in how my mind works when I'm daydreaming vs when I'm solving a simple problem. I tried looking up info but I'm not getting the answers I'm looking for. Mostly I read about "brain waves". Beta waves are supposed to be concious thought and theta waves daydreaming, but thoses are just labels and don't help me understand what's happening. Are the neurons firing differently? Stronger? Slower? Are they using more local connections vs half the brain away?

and how did you discover it? how are you dealing with it?

Firstly, this is not the kind of thing you get to think about. You either already have developed those techniques and use them, or you use whatever other methods you usually use. The results measure your natural tendencies, not whether you are capable of being "right". Second... You're absolutely right! It wasn't a hard test, it was to make sure there wasn't something major wrong, and I passed it easily. What I was trying to point out was that within 3 seconds of hearing something (and then going through the mental proccess of repeating it) I had forgotten it. I'm trying to describe the difference between "working" memory and short-/long-term memory. I've heard claims that noone can ever "forget" something they've remembered, it just may be difficult to recall. I happen to know that there are some things I'll NEVER remember, because they never made it into my short term memory.

I think I've heard this three times now in this thread. Is it really that important? It may be true, but, what if we're simply the first? What if our form IS one of the better types, it just has some prerequisits that have only been met in the last few million years?

The 100 part item. No one would dare make the 10,000 one until some work had been done first. And it's still tough. Then they use those principles to make 'em into 1000 each. Then when they put 10 of them together to make the 10,000 there's very few bugs left to shake out My personal idea is that the technological "culture shock" is what slowed things down a bit. The pace of significant change suddenly gets its cycles in within a generation or two. Innovators weren't prepared for it. But now that each generation will teach the next that major changes happen within lifetimes, people will settle back into a stable rate of growth (whatever that may be). Like Mokele, I don't like the tree analogy, but if you're gunna use it, remember that sometimes you find a seed at the end of one of those twigs, and it grows into a whole new tree!

I'm having trouble comming up with ways to describe this. I'm in my mid-20's and have always considered my memory to be excellent (and I still do, but now I'll distinguish types ), so I already have habits and techniques to overcome this in natural situations, that I developed unconsiously. The main test that picked up on this was something like this: 1=f, 2=s, 3=u, 4=g, 5=r, 6=w, 7=d, 8=p, 9=v, 0=e decode(purposly random): 7247624895715731650715619328760139 I was not given enough time to think about it really, so I just started doing it and ended up memorizing ONLY ONE (emphesis added to remind myself that it's not normal). Supposably most people would have memorized 5-6 and done the job in half the time it took me. Another thing that's interesting now that I'm thinking about it is something that happened in an early conversation as part of testing: "I'm going to ask you to remember three things and you repeate them to me again in 5 minutes, ok?" "ok" "Red truck, yellow pencil, blue book" "Red .... uhhhhhhh, what was that again?" "Red truck, yellow pencil, blue book" "Red truck, yellow pencil, blue book" "right" -5 minutes later- "and do you remember those three things? "Red truck, yellow or orange pencil, blue book" "right" Strange, I forgot them intantly! and then once I'd had a few seconds to put them into memory, I can even now remember that part of the conversation weeks later! My habit is to write down "trivia" whenever possible. Otherwise, I'll repeat it to myself a few times to force it into longer-term memory. I can't think of any trouble doing several things at once, prob'ly because in those situations most tasks have already become habitual, like, walking and chewing gum Wait, I did recently have to put down a book I was reading because a familiar song was playing on the radio and I couldn't sing to it while reading, is that what you meant??

I just got some preliminary results of some simple tests I went through. The one thing that surprized me is that I apparently have a Working Memory much smaller than normal. Now that I think about it there may be MANY things I consider normal that may not be so. I thought it would be interesting to have a general discussion about Working Memory. How it helps, how to take advantage of/overcome problems with it, experiences that might or might not be effects of it, etc. I'll write soon with more specific (possible) problems I've had.

From what I've seen, MOST graphics cards go much lower then that (I haven't seen the top of the line, but I doubt they're different). The problem is that windows isn't designed to use anything lower normally. If you run an old graphical program, like a game, your resolution will be set to 320x200 or below. It would take a special program to convince a desktop version of windows to go that low, and I dunno if one exists.

Back to this new desicion please. I didn't know about all this controversy when I posted. I didn't know about eminent domain until I first heard this story on the news. What surprized me is that the supreme court got involved, and then voted AGAINST property rights. Now, maybe their desicion will be strictly regulated or something, but it sounds like it's too open for abuse. It was also surprizing because I thought of one solution without loss of rights right away. Now, I'm new at this so it may not be a good one, but here goes: If someone's going to make money off this deal, they should have enough money to pay for the property. If they don't have enough to pay for the property, then the deal isn't worth it. They should NOT be able to go to the athorities and say, "He won't accept my offer, make him move anyway!" When demand is high, the value of a property skyrockets, this is a NORMAL part of the economy and I don't think it should be sidestepped. There is no "market value" when one individule is buying from one other. When the case is that a stubborn person won't sell (and I'm talking 10+ times the "market value") then why can't you just build a few blocks down? I doubt there's THAT many stuborn people! Maybe it'll cost you "more" for that property, but it's still less than the infinite value that one person demands. To me this looks like someone thinks they deserve to have someone else's property, and so they get laws made saying so. I thought respecting others' rights was what law was all about. It takes some extra work to do so, but it's that extra work that makes society livable for everyone! Maybe people don't share my opinions. Maybe they want this "accidental socialism" that Pangloss mentioned. I didn't know that fact about the country I'm living in. I think that's why I was surprized.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/23/scotus.property.ap/index.html Someone please tell me there's a GOOD reason for this decision! The repercussions could be disatrous!

I wrote it as a personal reminder of the style of writing I need to be using on this forum. I'm good at understanding, but have little precise technical knowledge. When I state someting as fact someone will tell me I'm wrong and I'll be frustrated. When I try and point someone in the right direction someone always comes by with a different perspective and sees me pointing backwards. My only solution was to ask a question, that when answered, leads to a realization about the original problem. Then I sit back and let someone else get frustrated for example:

You're using two different scales to relate them. 1 flop = 1 floating point operation per second, like 4.4365264E-63 * 2.54626256E31. 1 hz = one clock pulse per second. You can do different ammounts of calculation in a clock pulse depending on the size/complexity of the computer. This is why most companies don't use the hz numbers any more. I seriously doubt the gene machine is any more than 5ghz or so. But aside from that I don't know how they relate, you'll have to look it up

The daily temp increased significantly in a matter of days here, and my appetite did the same. Changed from mainly meat/grain to fruit/veggie with loss of overall intake. I have a high metabolism and my current lifestyle involves little phyisical activity. Perhaps my body simply needs less fuel to maintain temperature? I'm not worried about damaging my health, this is just about maintaining "optimum balance" or something like that. My question is, how significant is this effect? Should I try to over/under compensate? Is it standard or different for each person?

heh, I thought about what I wrote and realized I used one other app. An old version of "GetRight" a download acceleraror. I only use it now because it's got a nifty trick of turning off my internet at whatever time I want. I checked options and you can specify referer!!!!!!! Moral: Just download the file. Make sure your downloader knows where you came from. Wow, I like that trick, finnaly something usefull from these hacking challenges!!

I'm at this same level, and I've never used telnet before. But before I learn, I'm wondering: why do I need it? every other challenge I've gotten through with a bit of HTML knowledge, some JS, and ALL WITHIN my browser (IE, heh) or a simple text file. Are they really jumping outside of those two apps? <complain> why do this to me now! I'm doing so well!</complain>

Firstly, there's people without depth perception that see "normally", so this may not be an issue. But, secondly, if I recall, the eyes don't feed into seperate hemispheres, in fact one side of each eye feeds into one hemisphere and the other side into the other hemisphere. So each hemisphere actually gets full visual data of half your field of view.

Any good examples of rings/ring usage other than the real numbers?

I had previously read the book "The User's Guide to the Brain" but it was returned to the local library and I don't have the details for you (You'll notice I didn't even remember the term "corpus collosum"). The other half of that was that the person had a (spoken) reason for the action performed with the left hand, it was a good reason, but, as this was a controlled expirement, it was the wrong reason. The person felt normal! I think there are other coordinating brain processes that connect the hemispheres lower down the "chain of command", so these people are able to walk and dress and perform most habitual actions without problem. I'm not certain of this though. My guess is that to each side of the brain, the commands of the other side appear to be habits, when in fact they are reasoned actions. This is not unusual for the brain, just try catching something thrown to you. So this wouldn't feel any different from anything else. I'd be interested to hear what happens to these people 20+ years later, when each side has been developing on its own. I'll have to look it up sometime.

Ada also has its OOP version, Ada95. --- so we have binary->assembly with named instructions assembly->midlevel with mathamatical notation and function building midlevel->highlevel with OOP and code templates(as C++ calls them) Interpreted languages allow self-modifying code (How often is it actually used?). Code re-use comes in many forms. What other methods are available?

When you accelerate you notice that you are pressed into the backrest of your seat. As you change in acceleration you feel yourself moving further into (or out of) your seat. When I drive I like to accelerate this "rate of seat compression" so that it feels more natural.

Out of curiosity, what are some high-level programming languages out there? It's been a few years since I heard of any. C++ and simmilar is all I know about. Are there any higher-level/easier languages? I'm asking more out of "what makes a high-level" than anything else. I remember C++ because when I was learning it there were many libraries being standardized to make it behave at a higher level. Any ideas?