Finding it all stressful, so have booked flight to relax and recover.
This flight will be taking me to Thailand for the New Year.
I got it from Spring Airlines which is a new airline in Shanghai.
Having checked on the forum before , the reports are not all good. Ryanair for Chinese.
If that draws pictures in the mind. I will be reporting them.
My itinerary includes slightly more expensive seats. Around £15 more. Apart from that it’s the bog standard, lowest grade ticket.
It’s not transferable or refundable.
I’m looking forward to some time away.
If you’ve got any advice for Thailand, let me know. (People tell me the monkeys are a danger to everyone!)
When man stands not to act by his own volition, but only act through bullying or duress! When man remains not true to himself, but to be tempted by money or financial reward! When man’s own nature takes second place to the domination of others!
These times are upon us!
Iran is the final non-conformer! Once they are beaten, the world is ours! No man will be able to stand!
Free will will be beaten!
We will own God!
All will bow before us!
Give up your reasoning. Give up your education. Give up your instinct.
Priced at just 1,200 Yuan, or around £140 it seemed pretty cheap for a Toshiba tablet.
1st day of use, I discover there is no apps store and Google Play Store isn’t installed. Nor is any other app store.
Next step! Root the AT200! Get the Google Apps installed and have the thing do what I want.
Shock Horror!
Toshiba have something written into their EULA! Yes Toshiba and Android have conspired against the customer!
Contrary to previous court rulings on allowing users UNRESTRICTED access to their devices, in this case you aren’t granted those rights. Toshiba will not let you access and change core aspects of this tablet.
You don’t have the rights and abilities you might have when you buy a new PC.
Can’t add or alter things in the operating system, making it useless for many developers and professional level users.
Let this be a warning to any buyers of the Toshiba Excite AT.
Tyler, my new American housemate popped into my room looking for painkillers.
Turns out he’d been hit by a car.
Waiting at the end of the road, it had been looking the other way and run over his foot and smashed into his leg!
Haha. Ooops!
He looked fairly stressed, so I gave him some of moms best, which had been passed to me by my other American housemate, Ed.
He looked at them and said ‘thanks sir’.
Now that’s an approach I like.
I had to shout at a Chinese yesterday. Just blatantly pushed in. Shouted ‘HEY’ at the top of my voice. Seemed to do the job.
Next thing Chinese comes and mows me down on an E-bike! Crazy fucker just ran straight into me! This made me a little angry, as I shouted ‘what’s wrong with you! Are you stupid! JESSUS’ (I don’t believe in him because Christmas is so Commercial).
In a stunning first for neuroscience, researchers have created an electronic link between the brains of two rats, and demonstrated that signals from the mind of one can help the second solve basic puzzles in real time — even when those animals are separated by thousands of miles.
Here’s how it works. An “encoder” rat in Natal, Brazil, trained in a specific behavioral task, presses a lever in its cage it knows will earn it a reward. A brain implant records activity from the rat’s motor cortex and converts it into an electrical signal that is delivered via neural link to the brain implant of a second “decoder” rat.
Still with us? This is where things get interesting. Rat number two is in an entirely different cage. In fact, it’s in North Carolina. The second rat’s motor cortex processes the signal from rat number one and — despite being unfamiliar with the behavioral task the first rat has been conditioned to perform — uses that information to press the same lever.
The experiment, the results of which are published free of charge in today’s issue of Scientific Reports, was led by Duke neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, a pioneer in the field of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs). Back in 2011, Nicolelis and his colleagues unveiled the first such interface capable of a bi-directional link between a brain and a virtual body, allowing a monkey to not only mentally control a simulated arm, but receive and process sensory feedback about tactile properties like texture. Earlier this month, his team unveiled a BMI that enables rats to detect normally invisible infrared light via their sense of touch.
But an intercontinental mind-meld represents something new: a brain-to-brain interface between two live rats — one that enables realtime sharing of sensorimotor information. It’s a scientific first, and while it’s not telepathy, per se, it’s certainly something close. Neither rat was necessarily aware of the other’s existence, for example, but it’s clear that their minds were, in fact, communicating. “It’s not the Borg,” Nicolelis tells Nature’s Ed Yong. What he has created, he says, is “a new central nervous system made of two brains.”
Said nervous system is far from perfect. Untrained decoder rats receiving input from a trained encoder partner only chose the correct lever around two-thirds of the time. That’s definitely better than random odds, but still a far cry from the 95% accuracy of the encoder rats.
What this two-brain system does do, Nicolelis argues, is enable the rats to work with one another in unprecedented ways. And while neural communication between two animals on entirely separate continents is impressive in its own right*, Nicolelis says the most groundbreaking application of this technology — a 3-, 4-, or n-mind “brain net” — is still to come.
“These experiments demonstrated the ability to establish a sophisticated, direct communication linkage between rat brains,” he said in a statement, “so basically, we are creating an organic computer that solves a puzzle.”
“We cannot predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net,” he continues. “In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.”
The study is published in the latest issue of Scientific Reports. (No subscription required!)
After the problems with my little tablet. I had to return to Shanghai, the Baoshan Road market.
I took two of my students from Foxconn and after did a little bit of shopping around town.
Here’s some pics.
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