Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]

[talksthetorque]

Truckosaurus said:

glazbagun said:

Is it just me, or do modern higher definition TV's have wierd image properties that make them look "wrong"?....

As the owner of a shonky tv whenever I see a show on a large fancy HD tv there seems to be some uncanny valley action going on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

That's just the programs your friends are watching on their TVs

[SCEtoAUX]

talksthetorque said:

That's just the programs your friends are watching on their TVs

How did an old guy pull a piece of faff like that? Good on you ol' timer

[paua]

Doesn't look real. Where is the blow up nozzle?

[Jonboy_t]

paua said:

Doesn't look real. Where is the blow up nozzle?

And the constant look of surprise :O

[paua]

Jonboy_t said:

paua said:

Doesn't look real. Where is the blow up nozzle?

And the constant look of surprise :O

Does "she" have AI, does she say "hi Jack, glad we're not on a plane"?

[Shakermaker]

Badda said:

Shakermaker said:

Yes, yes it would.

In fact, here is a reasonably effective way to clear your nose if you don't want to sniff all the time, and dont have a tissue nearby:

Hold your breath.
Pinch the top of your nose
Gently shake your head side to side, for 15-30 seconds,

Your body will naturally clear whatever snotty blockage it has built up to allow you to breathe once more.

As others have said, a blocked nose is usually inflammation rather than mucus so this isn't true sadly. Funny how old wives tales are still popular though despite better education and understanding.

You say it isn't true, and yet it works very well when I try it.

[talksthetorque]

Shakermaker said:

Badda said:

Shakermaker said:

Yes, yes it would.

In fact, here is a reasonably effective way to clear your nose if you don't want to sniff all the time, and dont have a tissue nearby:

Hold your breath.
Pinch the top of your nose
Gently shake your head side to side, for 15-30 seconds,

Your body will naturally clear whatever snotty blockage it has built up to allow you to breathe once more.

As others have said, a blocked nose is usually inflammation rather than mucus so this isn't true sadly. Funny how old wives tales are still popular though despite better education and understanding.

You say it isn't true, and yet it works very well when I try it.

If it's inflamed blood vessels, then pinching the top of the nose could be cutting off the supply of blood?

I prefer airwaves extreme chewing gum.

[schmunk]

talksthetorque said:

If it's inflamed blood vessels, then pinching the top of the nose could be cutting off the supply of blood?

I prefer airwaves extreme chewing gum.

One in each nostril?

[P-Jay]

TTmonkey said:

GIYess said:

Why do large company IT systems not let you change your desktop background? What it the benefit of this? Is there any? Other than some dodgy photos I suppose.

Corporate policy. Corporate look and feel.

They paid some company millions for that corporate logo, look and feel

This, and frankly our industry does attract some total control freaks.

If you gave the average IT head a long tick-list of permissions to give end users,they would start by clicking 'deny all' and then work down the list only allowing what users need for their job, rather than the other way around.

Which would only be half a cringeworthy as they act when you ask them to make a justifiable exception.

[prand]

I read about the "mammalian diving response" today, which I'd never heard of before. Apparently is an ancient evolutionary throwback we humans have, going back to whales and dolphins, and possibly even fish.

To activate it, submerge your face in water, and hold your breath. Your body then gets ready to spend some time under water without air, so a dark corner of your brain comes to life and orders your spleen to flood the body with extra red blood cells, your pulse rate drops and your brain instructs all oxygenated blood to divert to heart, lungs and brain only.

It's a reflex used by free divers to help with their long dive times, but can also be used to relax if stressed out - hold your breath, splash or cover your face with water or a cold wet towel and you heart rate drops.

Am going to see if this works later....

[Ayahuasca]

prand said:

I read about the "mammalian diving response" today, which I'd never heard of before. Apparently is an ancient evolutionary throwback we humans have, going back to whales and dolphins, and possibly even fish.

To activate it, submerge your face in water, and hold your breath. Your body then gets ready to spend some time under water without air, so a dark corner of your brain comes to life and orders your spleen to flood the body with extra red blood cells, your pulse rate drops and your brain instructs all oxygenated blood to divert to heart, lungs and brain only.

It's a reflex used by free divers to help with their long dive times, but can also be used to relax if stressed out - hold your breath, splash or cover your face with water or a cold wet towel and you heart rate drops.

Am going to see if this works later....

Yes, the US authorities reportedly used waterboarding to induce feelings of deep relaxation and contentment in Guantanamo Bay prisoners.

[Dr Jekyll]

prand said:

I read about the "mammalian diving response" today, which I'd never heard of before. Apparently is an ancient evolutionary throwback we humans have, going back to whales and dolphins,

But we aren't descended from whales or dolphins...

prand said:

and possibly even fish.

It's one of the few perks of being a fish that you can breath underwater anyway, so no need for a diving reflex, a surfacing reflex perhaps.

There is a grain of truth in it, but our diving reflex is very different from that of aquatic mammals.

There was a popular idea some years ago that humans are different from other apes because we partially evolved to be aquatic. Hence lack of hair, diving reflex etc. Nice theory but total lack of evidence spoilt it. It still lingers in some quarters but has been softened from 'humans are aquatic apes' to 'maybe our ancestors lived on the coast and swam rather a lot'.

[Camelot1971]

glazbagun said:

Is it just me, or do modern higher definition TV's have wierd image properties that make them look "wrong"?

I don't know if it's the refresh rate, but particularly when people/objects are in front of others it's like the parralax effect doesn't quite run right.

Anyone know what I mean?

I think you might be referring to the "soap opera effect"?

https://www.cnet.com/news/what-is-the-soap-opera-e...

[prand]

Ayahuasca said:

Yes, the US authorities reportedly used waterboarding to induce feelings of deep relaxation and contentment in Guantanamo Bay prisoners.

ha! that's what the CIA say anyway...

[talksthetorque]

Dr Jekyll said:

It's one of the few perks of being a fish that you can breath underwater anyway, so no need for a diving reflex, a surfacing reflex perhaps.

There is a grain of truth in it, but our diving reflex is very different from that of aquatic mammals.

There was a popular idea some years ago that humans are different from other apes because we partially evolved to be aquatic. Hence lack of hair, diving reflex etc. Nice theory but total lack of evidence spoilt it. It still lingers in some quarters but has been softened from 'humans are aquatic apes' to 'maybe our ancestors lived on the coast and swam rather a lot'.

What we can do is examine one of the world's most backwards communities with ancient values and beliefs to verify this.

[Ayahuasca]

prand said:

cover your face with water or a cold wet towel and you heart rate drops.

Am going to see if this works later....

Cover your face with a wet flannel and direct the shower water at it, and see how relaxed you feel.

[kowalski655]

Subtitles. I get how hard it is to do LIVE commentary as subtitles, but with films and other "non-live" programmes, the subtitles dont always exactly match what is said-it's usually a shorter version.
Why dont these subtitles exactly match what is said,surely they can just cut & paste the script.
is it to make what is written on screen not too long,to enable slow readers to get the gist of the speech before the scene moves on?

[SCEtoAUX]

paua said:

Jonboy_t said:

paua said:

Doesn't look real. Where is the blow up nozzle?

And the constant look of surprise :O

Does "she" have AI, does she say "hi Jack, glad we're not on a plane"?

No, according to the show "she" didn't really do much. The newer versions that were also shown in the show however were certainly being programmed to "do stuff".

[TTmonkey]

P-Jay said:

TTmonkey said:

GIYess said:

Why do large company IT systems not let you change your desktop background? What it the benefit of this? Is there any? Other than some dodgy photos I suppose.

Corporate policy. Corporate look and feel.

They paid some company millions for that corporate logo, look and feel

This, and frankly our industry does attract some total control freaks.

If you gave the average IT head a long tick-list of permissions to give end users,they would start by clicking 'deny all' and then work down the list only allowing what users need for their job, rather than the other way around.

Which would only be half a cringeworthy as they act when you ask them to make a justifiable exception.

Working at a large bank once, and one of the tech architects wanted a GPO changed. He stupidly thought someone on the other end of the telephone would understand what he meant when he said he wanted the 'computer settings side of the GPO disabled'.

The guy on the other end of the phone even asked 'are you sure?'

What he got was all the settings on the computer side of the GPO disabled. Every single one of them.

12000 UADs needed rebuilding.

[talksthetorque]

Can someone pass me a parrot please.