Sealed briefcase stops drug sniffing dog noses. Sealed polypropylene bags stop permeation of marijuana and cocaine; the residue on the outside from your handling of the bags, however....
Also, a detector to detect that a certain object should have airflow, but doesn't? Without holding every object up for screening?
Point 4 will never happen. A little duct tape over the security sensor. Sealed briefcase bomb.
The rest of this is stupid. We have already put RC receivers into regular cars and used a Radio Shack car controller to drive. They did that on Blues Brothers 2000, and probably The Simpsons. We have real RC car races. You just need a Pringles can, a wire, and a car.
Most people would pay $30/mo for a better Internet experience.
People are not dumb enough to pay for 30 individual sites; and paying a flat fee...that's what your ISP does. The cash troll filter is the secondary annoyance that drives away everyone but hard-core users, and filters out everyone but the most hard-core trolls (and hackers who cracked your password list).
Formal proofs are simply analytical. Every application of technical analytical skills is not "problem solving". Building a bridge is not "problem solving"; identifying why a bridge is not meeting performance requirements (i.e. why does it sway or resonate too much in the wind?) is problem solving.
It's not problem solving until there's a performance deviation from an established baseline, either a quality guideline or a prior performance measurement.
Yeah I'm convinced I have DSPD; however, recently it's become full-blown insomnia. I can't sleep early, and then I can't sleep in. I am now trained to awaken at 6am, even if my brain decides it doesn't want to sleep until 2am. Sleep is often restless.
When I went from a good 8 hours if I can have it between 2am-10am to not sleeping past 6am and still not being able to sleep early, it became full insomnia. Anecdotal evidence suggests chronic morning shift work is abusive to patients with DSPD, and it is medically harmful to require a regular schedule beginning work early in the morning.
I've been self-medicating with flotation-REST lately.
You often wake up to go to the bathroom, only to find once you're there that you really didn't need to go that badly.
Usually, I don't have to pee. I just wake up, annoyed, and go back to sleep. When I do have to pee, I've got enough to re-flush the toilet (flush it, then, while it's filling and there's water running into the bowl to raise the level to normal, piss like mad and the toilet flushes again).
Also, you sometimes have nightmares where you're running away from something, or doing anything that's physically exhausting, and then you wake up and breathe heavily for a while to catch your breath?
Only people who experience fear have nightmares. I don't. I only experience fear via debilitating nyctophobia--psychotic episodes triggered by specific conditions, notably, by darkness--and a large component of that is knowing the things are not real: I can't touch them, I can't fight them, they aren't real.
In dreams, I can kick the shit out of that stuff.
The monsters in my dreams are solid. They are real. They are there and I can touch them. Until I wake up, they are a part of my world. They do not frighten me, because they cannot hurt me.
I had nightmares when I was a kid. That didn't last, as I am made of steel: you can't break steel; when you strike it, it becomes stronger. I became stronger, and I wake up from those dreams feeling absolutely awesome; they are the best dreams.
The delayed sleep phase is due to your body having to make up some extra sleep, due to the poor quality.
No, a delayed phase isn't for exhaustion. A delayed phase is when your body doesn't WANT sleep until late, and doesn't WANT to wake up until late. You get 8 hours, but not 10pm-6am; you go to bed at 10pm, and you stare at the ceiling until 2am. Then you want to wake up at 10am. Even if you get to sleep at 10pm, your body just tries to sleep 12 hours and wake up at 10am anyway.
Even if I'm exhausted, I'll start to wake up as it becomes late. The period where most people start to shut down is where I become most active.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is bullshit. For those who aren't aware, it literally means "talk to the patient and figure out what they're doing wrong and tell them how to change it."
Being well-versed in statistics and having the most basic grasp of pharmapsychology, I must disagree. For primary insomnia (my case), CBT is superior to any known method. CBT is also effective for insomnia secondary to breast cancer; studies are ongoing for insomnia secondary to dementia, for example alzheimers or bipolar disorder. BPD should be especially interesting: better sleep should, in theory, stabilize BPD.
Claiming what you're looking at is bullshit because it doesn't fit your world-view is pseudoscience. It's like claiming going down to the river, rubbing mud on your wounds, and praying to the river god helps your wounds heal more quickly and gains you blessing of the water deity for the hunt. In psychological treatment, this is even more true: you're dealing with behavioral issues, and just convincing someone they're tired or not suffering from job-related stress is an effective way to make these things true.
I mean, just how many psychological conditions aren't known to be associated with sleep disturbances? Are there any?
Very few. Fucking up your brain is a good way to cause sleep disturbances. For example: drink 15 cups of strong java before bedtime; you will have sleep disturbances from an induced arousal state. Manic disorder (the hot side of bipolar disorder) is effectively that. Depression actually makes most people sleep more.
Do you think?
In America, our answer is drugs, in high doses, and then more drugs. We don't try anything; we look for single miracle-cures, and then dump them on people. Our doctors don't take any sort of in-depth approach to health; they just assess your symptoms, diagnose a disease, and grab a treatment off the shelf.
Think about this: our doctors put all old people on lovastatin to help control cholesterol. They don't assess their health, their diet, or any of that; they just hand them lovastatin, because cholesterol could be bad for your weakening heart as you get older. This isn't a recommended treatment at a certain age; it's something doctors started doing, because they are concerned about old peoples's hearts getting weaker, concerned about cholesterol straining a weakened heart, and know Lipitor lowers cholesterol.
You're in Sweden. When was the last time you met a woman who gave birth by cesarian? In America, we cut the baby out through the abdomen some 40% of the time.
Our doctors are nuts. If I wanted medication prescribed in this manner, I would petition the FDA to give me license to self-medicate and use Google.
Phenotropil works for ADHD because of a weak stimulant effect. Side effects include insomnia, because it's a stimulant. Side effects also include enhanced memory and treatment of dementia, though, so there's that. Negative side effects are largely minimal to non-existent; and phenotropil shows no acute toxicity at some 20 times the normal dose (I find 20mg of Pheno works, even though most people are taking 100mg; 100mg is too high and builds tolerance. 400mg is common).
Methylphenedate and adderall are stronger stimulants at dosage levels which don't cause tolerance (higher doses of Methylphenedate and dex do cause tolerance; this is well-explored in ADHD literature, and the recommended control is lower dosing). They also have high chances of psychosis (6% after 3 months on Methylphenedate), severe insomnia, anxiety, paranoia, etc. It's also extremely toxic: try taking 20 doses at once, let me know how that goes for you after you come out of dialysis. This is not stuff you want to be amped up on; you want the doses low.. (Lithium is worse: the dosing window is so small it's hard to get pharmacological effect without going into toxicity.)
Don't whip out the biggest hammer you've got to start with unless you know the job's that big.
The doctors suggested 60mg twice per day when I was 8 years old. Parents negotiated them down to 20 x 2.
Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.
Robert Heinlein defined the difference between a physicist and an engineer as something like this - warning, mild misogyny ahead:
"Put an engineer and a physicist across the room from a beautiful woman, and tell them that if they approach the woman each step must be no larger than half the distance of the previous step. The physicist gives up because he knows he can never reach her, while the engineer starts walking because he knows he can get close enough for all practical purposes".
I once worked for an engineer who previously had a physicist working for him. The physicist couldn't understand why a couple of 6-volt lantern batteries in series wouldn't start his car - after all, they were putting out 12 volts...
There's more than one Linux, and it's very easy to choose a stable distro that doesn't live on the bleeding edge.
Do you mean like Debian Testing, (Jessie), that broke both my sound and my ability to suspend during the last dist-upgrade? Or do you mean like Debian Stable, (Wheezy), which won't work with my wired network hardware so I can't even install it in my new machine without a bunch of CD's and a few prayers? Or perhaps you mean Ubuntu, (I moved to Xubuntu when I got fed up with trying to get Debian working), which prompts me to reboot after updates a couple of times a week like some crappy Windows box?
I don't think I could ever really go back to Windows, (especially given my recent experiences with 8.1 on my GF's new laplet), but recently there have been days when I've toyed with the idea...
This is something I don't have enough information on -- I figure they're doing something like this, but Dolby is being somewhat vague with the branding and not really making a clear distinction.
I wonder how much this will complicate mixes though. As it is, we can spend a month doing the final mix on a big action movie, and then two months making all of the deliverables:
All of these mixes are slightly different, mixed on appropriate speakers, and then you do a second version of most of these for the 3D, to accentuate panning effects. I guess to this we'd add to that the Atmos home theater mix.
Again, you highlight the key argument here: how is the incremental cost justifying the incremental benefit? 3D did the same thing and I doubt the theater owners ever recovered their investment.
3D doesn't actually cost theaters that much. The business model is very slick for them-- all the projection hardware is leased from Real3D (or whatever) and paid for with some percentage/per-seat formula off the top of each ticket sold. Real3D handles all the glasses, the DCP and other delivery chain items are basically the same. The downside risk to offering 3D for an exhibitor is actually quite low, the upfront costs are marginal and they're effectively guaranteed a return as long as they get butts in seats.
Actually late update- a guy on the crew of Transformers tells me they'd pan music as objects occasionally. The choir would be panned to the ceiling, among other things.
Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache. -- Dolph Sharp, "I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot"
