Using a Trendnet TEW-639GR (BGN) in mixed mode. I will have to check with the neighbors what channels they are on. So I take it that if we are on similar channels that can be a source of interference?

I don't really get it. How is this any different than entering 'Spirit mode' or whatever from any number of games? Prey is a good example. And bringing some object with you? You can call it whatever you want, 4th dimension, Spirit World, Dreamtime etc. but it still seems like the same concept to me.

I find learning a new language is easy, learning the new tools is a pain in the ass. Java was easy. I found Eclipse RCP/Spring/Hibernate more difficult to learn. C# was easy too. Learning WPF, WCF and all the .NET 3.5 (and now 4.0) technologies was much harder (still doing it in fact). Not to say these things are truly difficult, they're not. But there is a LOT to them and it takes time to understand it all. I don't think most programming jobs are about the language at all anymore, its more about the tools used to build apps. Understanding the syntax of a language seems to be kind of a given.

I'll second this one, and take it even a step further. I worked in academia for a while, surrounded by our (and other) nation's brightest scientists. As a general rule, they were indeed brilliant. But there was also a large group of people with MD's or PhD's who were just friggin IDIOTS. I mean no common sense whatsoever, no ability to function in a normal way. But they got good grades in school, didn't they! Maybe even went to a school for the gifted because they were so 'smart'?

Which brings me to the second point- I bet if you were to track the success (don't ask me how to define success, use your own definition) of average people vs the 'smart' ones you might be suprised. I doubt very much it would be skewed towards the smart ones. My personal theory is the smart ones know what they are in for so don't try and take risks they feel are unacceptable. The less smart just go for it, and sometimes succeed in a spectacular fashion.

I hate misleading articles like this.

Have to say Im pretty sure this guy would have been able to walk as described sans spider bite. In fact, if he had been hospitalized several years before maybe the outcome would have been the same.

And on top of that, I doubt even more that he was bitten by a brown recluse. These are extremely rare if not nonexistant in California (http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html).

And on top of THAT, what looks like a brown recluse spider bite is most often a misdiagnosed staph or other necrotic infection (http://spiders.ucr.edu/necrotic.html).

And despite all this misinformation, probably safe to say people will believe that brown recluse spider bites are like the next stem cell technology.