DonCarlitos

Joined 16 years ago

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Co-founder of Trilobyte Games, LLC, publishers of The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour, Infection, and now: The 7th Guest: The Board Game. Also co-founder of impact420.com and Analytics2Insight, a data collection & analysis start-up. Former Oregon State Telecommunications Councilor (97-99). Former RN & nursing educator.
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Comment · 1 year ago
Yikes. Questionable source trying to sound scientific. The author is anti-vax, disputes the connection between saturated fats and heart disease, suggests vegitabnoe oil is more dangerous than animal fat; and that vaccines in general cause most disease. Studies and stats cited do not appear to be widely accepted. Draw your own conclusions.
Comment · 4 years ago
This corresponds with what I've read previously about brain activity following clinical death. What appears to be the case is that the brain continues to work for a period after the heart stops and a last breath is taken. So what that might mean is that if one is with a person who has just died, a relative or friend, there is still a moment, just a moment, to say good bye and I love you. And it is comforting to know that during that moment, the brain of the deceased might just be reliving all the greatest moments of that individual's life.
Comment · 5 years ago
I always ask myself, in matters philosophical: What would Wittgenstein say? Is this a useless exercise in cognitive copulation, or not?
Comment · 5 years ago
Of course they do, and this is why medicare for all is a great idea. It strikes me as rather perverse that health care is largely a for-profit business and that even non-profits (like systems associated with religions) are all about cutting corners and maximizing revenues. It seems logicl to me that health care be a right.
Comment · 6 years ago
Odd? I don't think so. Just like the Fibonacci sequence appears all over nature, so do other architectures. Evolution has, apparently, standardized on architectural infrastructure - and replicates it across a broad variety of environments.
Comment · 6 years ago
In actual fact, though the new network is experiencing record downloads of new titles like Mulan, it's daily user numbers are abysmal, only 3% of the available market. So their older content is evidently just not appealing, which is a problem going forward.
Comment · 6 years ago
My wife and I are looking into living in Mexico, if we sold our home in the US, we could afford a small place in Mazatlan for the winter, and in one of the mountain villages for the summer.
Comment · 6 years ago
Unpopular opinion: Remembering with great fondness Quarterdeck's DESQview/X, the open systems, off-the-shelf windowing environment that could have won the windowing war. How life would have been different if it had...
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
This reads a lot like quackery to this former RN & nursing educator. Good nutrition is, of course, a great way to stay healthy, but this article isn't really helpful in that regard.
Comment · 7 years ago
Disclaimer: Not a hardware engineer, nor a CP/M aficionado (though I definitely remember Gary Kildall), but a former AST Research (later AST Computer) employee. AST was an "expansion board" manufacturer turned systems OEM. During the transition from memory and connectivity boards to desktops, the company's top hardware engineers explored an architecture they based on an "intelligent, arbitrated, multi-master bus." The notion was to speed up operations and increase power by designing a bus that accommodated multiple processors (on boards, of course) operating independently - arbitrated by a central CPU. It never flew - but I always thought it an elegant model. This was in the 1986 timeframe, long before GPU's became popular.
Comment · 7 years ago
Great, (very) deep dive into a well-known cartel. Also a lesson in the power of marketing, advertising & PR. But from 1982... I'd be interested in hearing about contemporary outcomes of the events described.
Comment · 7 years ago
Google NEVER helps - with anything.

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