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You still have something similar:
A USB MP3-Player which plugs into your cigarette lighter and transmits on FM frequencies.

They existed long before the Iphone. It is ludicrous to suggest MS will be "copying Apple".

Agreed...but that will be the public perception.

I point you in the direction of the Sixaxis controller and the Wiimote...despite the fact that the Microsoft Freestyle existed long before either.

If you've never read it, the account of Thor Heyerdahl's trip is a fascinating read. How little they knew about the oceans (didn't know about the zooplankton coming to the surface to feed at night, etc) and how much fortitude was required and how many hardships would be endured to make such a journey.

Sadly, I'm not too sure we know an awful lot more about the oceans now, except that we're killing them.

We also have to accept that everything like the fossil record could be faked (or at least just evolved once and then put in place billions of times from backup copies

Have you read Terry Pratchetts' strata?

It describes a universe with "planet builders", who build in anachronisms "as a joke" (like dino's with rolexes) and design planets.

I wont give you further spoilers, but it's a really fascinating read and describes part of what you are suggesting.

I guess I assumed literacy was more concerned with reading comprehension than proper use of an apostrophe. As long as we're being dick lickers, I'll also provide a citation. You, ironically, are the one that failed at reading comprehension. I'm not sure which part of my post led you to believe I'm concerned about books.

FWIW, I understand how to use an apostrophe. I honestly read four words of the quote (that's right, I didn't even make it to YOUR comments) and stopped to think "Jesus Christ, I accidentally put an apostrophe where it doesn't belong and this douche bag goes out of his way to point it out." You can imagine my reaction to the last line.

Your hostility makes me feel like you ARE concerned about books, or at least authors, and don't like what I said. My best advice is to read this. And remember: Even though it worked for Will Hunting, insulting my intelligence isn't going to impress any girls.

In fact, you remind me of one of my favorite quotes, you fucking loser. Addresses the only two cases I can think of to explain your behavior.
Guy 1: I think he has Asperger's.
Guy 2: Yeah, but he's all ass and no burger.

Despite all that science, the advice in that flickr summary are basically the same as the advice and diagrams in the section of Business Etiquette for Dummies on handshakes.

(Don't ask me how I know that there's a Business Etiquette for Dummies, and that it has a section on handshakes.)

Last *month*? Thorne has been (in)famous for a lot longer than that...

http://www.amazon.com/Internet-Playground-David-Thorne/dp/0980672929

"This is the only photo of her I have she answers to the name Missy and is black and white and about 8 months old."

Cats don't answer to names.

While I'm sure you're joking, cats actually do tend to respond well to sibilant names. So in this case, "Missy" is a name a cat is likely to respond to.

Googling around at work didn't yield any articles that were both in support of my claim and cited other sources, so you'll have to perform the research yourself. I've had many cats over the years, and this seems like a reasonable observation to me. A good relationship with your cat and reasonable training usually means the cat will respond to whatever its name is, but a lot of this has to do with the cat recognizing the owner's voice, more than the actual sound the human voice is making. Much of human-range languaging phonetics are sophisticated enough that both cats and dogs are largely in the dark about them. (See Levin, 2007 for more on that.)

While Cleopatra of Egypt and Helen of Troy were very beautiful women, you may find it difficult or deadly to pursue even an introduction. Intervention in deadly situations may cause you to be just as dead as the famous target.

In Illium, the time traveler who goes to bed with Helen (under the apparency of Paris) is surprised to learn that she figured it out from the very first seconds and just went with it for kicks.

The very best time-travel book is The Man Who Folded Himself, where many of the paradoxes and consequences of time-travel discussed here are addressed.

While Cleopatra of Egypt and Helen of Troy were very beautiful women, you may find it difficult or deadly to pursue even an introduction. Intervention in deadly situations may cause you to be just as dead as the famous target.

In Illium, the time traveler who goes to bed with Helen (under the apparency of Paris) is surprised to learn that she figured it out from the very first seconds and just went with it for kicks.

The very best time-travel book is The Man Who Folded Himself, where many of the paradoxes and consequences of time-travel discussed here are addressed.

Asian websites seem to reflect pictures of downtown areas of major asian cities - Tokyo, Hong Kong, parts of Beijing, Vietnam, etc. Shockingly, their major cities don't look terribly different from western megalopolises like NYC and London. Their colorful ads just happen to have asian character sets, which have a lot more lines and end up looking more busy to the western eye. Have you looked at yahoo.com/ or amazon.com lately? I mean, Yahoo has cleaned up their image some, but it's still very cluttered and messy. I can only imagine what Google News.jp or .cn looks like, or heaven forbid, the japanese translated version of Wunderground.com?? Just add some purple and yellow rounded corner rectangles in the background and it looks like every other stereotypical asian website out there.
 
Anyways, my point is, websites are driven by advertising. Websites of local languages are going to look similar to the Times Squares and Piccadilly Circuses of the world, in their local languages and alphabets. Certain color combinations might make certain alphabets stand out better. Helveltica (and all the child fonts it's spawned over the years) happens to look really good in Red, White or Blue on a White or dark colored background, which is probably why western advertising all looks the same for the most part. People tend to use more asian color schemes for party invitiations when using Comic Sans, and that font everyone loves to hate, Papyrus, tends to look best Black on white on tan.

my point is, even with the selection against agressive genes that wars provide, aggression, and most importantly, the ultra-violent people, get that way through a gradual learning process of though experiences most people in this forum will never be able to imagine.

"Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes" by Alfie Kohn
    http://www.amazon.com/Punished-Rewards-Trouble-Incentive-Praise/dp/0395710901
"Have Fun at Work" by W. L. Livingston
    http://www.amazon.com/Have-Fun-at-Work-Livingston/dp/0937063053/
"Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives" by Jeff Schmidt
    http://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-Battering/dp/0742516857

And something I organized on why work as we know it is going away (according to Marshall Brain and many others, given that the same technology that makes fancy computer games with fancy game AIs possible is also reducing the value of most human labor relative to automation and better design):
"Beyond a Jobless Recovery: A heterodox perspective on 21st century economics"
    http://knol.google.com/k/paul-d-fernhout/beyond-a-jobless-recovery

Ultimately, there will be no greener pastures to leave towards as robotics spreads; see for example Marshall Brain's "Manna":
    http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

"Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes" by Alfie Kohn
    http://www.amazon.com/Punished-Rewards-Trouble-Incentive-Praise/dp/0395710901
"Have Fun at Work" by W. L. Livingston
    http://www.amazon.com/Have-Fun-at-Work-Livingston/dp/0937063053/
"Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives" by Jeff Schmidt
    http://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-Battering/dp/0742516857

And something I organized on why work as we know it is going away (according to Marshall Brain and many others, given that the same technology that makes fancy computer games with fancy game AIs possible is also reducing the value of most human labor relative to automation and better design):
"Beyond a Jobless Recovery: A heterodox perspective on 21st century economics"
    http://knol.google.com/k/paul-d-fernhout/beyond-a-jobless-recovery

Ultimately, there will be no greener pastures to leave towards as robotics spreads; see for example Marshall Brain's "Manna":
    http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

"Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes" by Alfie Kohn
    http://www.amazon.com/Punished-Rewards-Trouble-Incentive-Praise/dp/0395710901
"Have Fun at Work" by W. L. Livingston
    http://www.amazon.com/Have-Fun-at-Work-Livingston/dp/0937063053/
"Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives" by Jeff Schmidt
    http://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-Battering/dp/0742516857

And something I organized on why work as we know it is going away (according to Marshall Brain and many others, given that the same technology that makes fancy computer games with fancy game AIs possible is also reducing the value of most human labor relative to automation and better design):
"Beyond a Jobless Recovery: A heterodox perspective on 21st century economics"
    http://knol.google.com/k/paul-d-fernhout/beyond-a-jobless-recovery

Ultimately, there will be no greener pastures to leave towards as robotics spreads; see for example Marshall Brain's "Manna":
    http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

I recently happened upon the work of Robert Conquest, an eminent historian of the modern era, who does a good job of presenting an explanation for ideological zealotry.

Here are a few paragraphs from his book 'Reflections on a Ravaged Century'

"What, then, is the mental material into which they insert their ideas, like certain wasps into certain grubs?

Dostoevsky writes of a human type "whom any strong idea strikes all of a sudden and annihilates his will, sometimes forever." The true Idea addict is usually something roughly describable as an 'intellectual.' The British writer A. Alvarez has (and meaning it favorably) defined an intellectual as one who is "excited by ideas." Ideas can indeed be exciting,, but the use of the intellect might be thought to be primarily one of subjecting them to knowledge and judgement- especially on the record of our century.

Intelligence alone is thus far from being a defense against the plague. Students, in particular, have traditionally been a reservoir of infection. The Nazis won the German students before they won the German state, and there are many similar examples. In much the same way, a leading scholar of Russian affairs (Ronald Hingley of Oxford) noted during the Soviet period that basic misapprehensions about it in the West were rare among truly serious scholars, and also among ordinary people, being confined to those of fair intelligence. He commented, "For it is surely true, if not generally recognized, that real prowess in wrong-headedness, as in most other fields of human endeavour, presupposes considerable education, character, sophistication, knowledge, and will to succeed."

To get an idea of what consumer bandwidth should cost, I look at Amazon's S3 offerings. They change $0.15/GB for bandwidth, and make money off of it. Like you said, this is completely ignoring the last mile, and I could see paying $1.50/GB as possibly reasonable... but $4.50? That's just ridiculous.

Often though it's not a continued effort by one person, but a whole series of mistakes, lies, and outright incompetence on the designer and operations manager of any given plant. An operator may ignore alarms, but why doesn't the control system automatically react, or the blow-out preventer have the power to sheer through drill pipe joins, or why wasn't the documentation on the blow-out preventer correct, the battery not charged, OR the damn well cemented properly.

Operators, systems engineer, mechanical engineers, maintenance department, and project manager. Each of these could have contributed if not outright prevented the disaster. It's very likely absolutely none of them had a clue what the other was doing. The many problems should make this a quite isolated incident, but history shows it simply is not so, and every 10 years there will be an industry defining event.

To see how little we have truly learnt I suggest you check out a book What Went Wrong by Trevor Kletz. It will be quite eye-opening just how often complete systems break down and disasters happen which could have been stopped on many levels.

I'll bet you've read "The Soul of a New Machine" :)

This reminds me of a system I worked with in the early 1980's (though I myself worked at the system and app level in a Pascal dialect, not the microhacking level). The processor was a 15x15 inch board filled with TTL. It had a sixteen-level stack implemented with four chips. The processor was 'designed to spec' (which means 'run the chips flat out'). Of course, chips vary - some can meet the spec, some don't _quite_ meet it. So in practice the manufacturer had to hand select the chips and install them in descending order of tiny differences in response time. In any other order, the processor would occasionally do random things - amusing but not useful. Several lessons arise from this problem...

Interestingly, the CPU also was microcoded, with a 64 bit internal memory and instruction path. So the instruction set of the CPU could be programmed - the CPU could look like a P-machine, a LISP machine, or a C-machine, etc. One of the things programmed into the CPU by default was what is now called 'bitblit' or 'RasterOp' - very fast logical operations on memory arrays, which is the core of fast display operations. This particular operation was minutely tuned to the hardware, such that the next memory fetch could be started in the same cycle as the store, allowing the entire fetch-process-store over the array to be done in one CPU cycle per memory location. Try writing that using objects!

If you are working with black and white, and want to try alternate chemistry and aren't afraid of chemistry, get Ansel Adam's book "The Negative".

Though I have some colour C41 for about 10 years I've been using mostly E6 colour slide film. I love chemistry so that's not a problem. As for the book, I'll check it out on Amazon, ah they have 43 book listed from or about him. Amazon also has The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes

For B&W printing, see if you can find 'Oriental' brand 'Seagull' fibre bases paper.

I don't know if they have that paper but there's a Dick Blick art supply store near me that has a bunch of art paper. I'm not sure if they have photography paper or not but for computer printing they have some good paper, and eventually I want to get into that. For now I'll shoot film then scan prints.

Falcon

If you are working with black and white, and want to try alternate chemistry and aren't afraid of chemistry, get Ansel Adam's book "The Negative".

Though I have some colour C41 for about 10 years I've been using mostly E6 colour slide film. I love chemistry so that's not a problem. As for the book, I'll check it out on Amazon, ah they have 43 book listed from or about him. Amazon also has The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes

For B&W printing, see if you can find 'Oriental' brand 'Seagull' fibre bases paper.

I don't know if they have that paper but there's a Dick Blick art supply store near me that has a bunch of art paper. I'm not sure if they have photography paper or not but for computer printing they have some good paper, and eventually I want to get into that. For now I'll shoot film then scan prints.

Falcon

We all know Apple is a fascist company (down to selling Mussolini speeches in app store)

Well who da thunk it? This means Amazon, my local civic library, and even Project Gutenberg are all Nazis.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mein+kampf&x=0&y=0&ih=6_2_0_1_0_0_0_0_1_1.144_129&fsc=2
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt

Thanks for the ever so "insightful" heads up.

I got a wireless mouse and keyboard working on my XBox 360 and then played through Modern Warfare 2 in single player mode.

Were these Proprietary Microsoft products for the XBox or just any wireless device - and if not, was it difficult to get working?

I haven't tried it yet, I naturally assumed it wouldn't work exactly, but to have that... I would love to trump my friends across Live and have them baffled as to how my skill jumped so much.

Posting AC since this is pretty much a product endorsement but this should work if you don't have any EE friends savvy enough to build you a hack. READ THE REVIEWS, they have a lot of information on what you have to do to get that working!

Quicksort in C#: array.sort(); There... done. :) And yes, I could code quicksort from scratch, but what is the bloody point? I'm not trying to show off and very few people get to see my code anyway. I argue that picking the "right" language was once a very important thing. These days it is getting to be less so. It is far more important to pick the "right" design pattern. I recomend the following book for any coder. Know it and live it. http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Object-Oriented/dp/0201633612

When we talk about a $35 tablet computer, "average price" is not even remotely in the picture. It makes no sense for you to compare averages when we're talking about something extreme.

Don't like ebay? Palm IIIx runs for about $25 at Goodwill. $20 on Craigslist. And $15 at Weirdstuff(and places like it). But I don't know why you don't like ebay, there are a couple IIIx in good shape for $7 on there right now.

Here's a $75 Palm m500 on the same site you linked. Prefer color and WinCE? Dell Axim x51 runs for about $60 these days, which is coincidentally roughly what it would cost wholesale to produce with the same specs.

I have some idea what this stuff costs from working on the Kindle and other products, especially given that I actively tried to put together a minimalist low-cost tablet/ereader project. It is quite possible to get to a $35 BOM on a tablet computer, but I it won't be a very modern style tablet. sub-500MHz ARM9, no 3D acceleration, 128MB or less RAM, slow flash interface, poor battery life, not multi-touch, and the list goes on. I think with the right software it could be a practical gadget for the right purposes. But most people scoffed at me when I have proposed these kinds of minimalist devices at the places I've worked.

Yes you are right, but that's at ebay. I gave away my Palm for free to a friend...

The average price of Palm is still around $150+
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Palm&x=0&y=0

Except for this edition which has both versions on the same disc.

So you're going to see a tiered economy: the wannabes doing spec work for minimum wage on places like istockphoto.com and the golden glorious few doing high touch client-focused work for $200 an hour.

Similar to quite a lot of things. You might find this book interesting.

At the most expensive end... Saffron appears to retail for between $8/gram and [goes off, fiddles with calculator] $860/ounce, based on http://www.amazon.com/Frontier-Culinary-Spices-Saffron-Bottles/dp/B001EQ57NY

Which works out to a retail range of roughly $3600 to $13,000 per pound depending on the form and supplier. Based on what I know of other seasonings, wholesale price is probably about 5% to 10% of that.

Some cheaper prices cited here, http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/asianveg/msg0821032623921.html but flavouring prices have roughly doubled since then across the board.

At the other end of the scale, most culinary herbs and spices retail for around $4/ounce, but are around $4/pound for bulk packaging (like the big containers sold at Costco).

Anyway, it does appear that marijuana is rather overpriced, even allowing that the 'good' stuff requires some nitpicky handwork (tho not on the scale of saffron). But that's the penalty of an artificially restricted market. What does it sell for where it's legal, unrestricted, and locally-grown? I'm wild-assed-guessing somewhere around $25/lb.

I'd say that it is free. You would have bought the phone anyway, and there's (effectively) zero marginal cost to add the extra navigation features.

Side note: I was looking at cheap geocaching GPSes and was stunned to see what Garmin charges for GPS updates. Holy crap! It's like the razor-and-blade business model, except that the razor is also ludicrously priced. I can't think of a single reason why I would buy a dedicated GPS unit instead of putting those few hundred dollars towards a smartphone and having all the extra features they offer.

...people have been translating/inventing "lessons learned in the virtual world" to the boardroom for quite sometime. Which is not to say it's not all bullshit.

Playboy has been doing this sort of thing for a while (this from 1994). T

Nobody has stopped farmers from producing seed crops except themselves. The enormously higher productivity of modern varieties of wheat, corn and rice developed in the Green Revolution are the only things that allow the planet to support six billion (with a 'B') people. In fact, it is only because of the surplus food that is produced that we have all the choices in heirloom varieties that I see at my local grocery store. When I was a kid, there were only one or two choices of tomato, big and little. Now there are a dozen choices in all colors and sizes. The same abundance of choices is available in many other foods.

Developing and producing these new varieties required enormous investment in time and money, and then it took more investment to make them available to farmers worldwide. Learn something about the man who fed the world and how he did it.

"If the computer says there is a subway station in the mayor's office, then there is a subway station in the mayor's office". The kids' book Jonathan Cleaned Up -- Then He Heard a Sound should be a fundamental part of any computer science education.

E-books don't make economical sense to me. For example: this book, as of this writing the paperback version is $8.99 and it has the four books for the price of three promotion so if I buy four books (about one month's worth) it will cost me $26.97. I could also go with the kindle version and buy four books at $7.99 each or $31.96 and I'm not even getting something physical out of that transaction. It simply does not make sense to me.

Usually when a new best seller first comes out, it will only be available in hardcover, so it's a little worse than simply not supplying enough paperbacks, they don't make them available at all. Think of it as the early adopter fee, if you're willing to wait 6 months you can get the same book in paperback for much less. That annoys me but doesn't really piss me off, yes you have to pay extra for a new release but you get a superior product in the form of a more durable hardcover. What pisses me off is when they charge $10 (or some publishers even $15 now that the courts decided they can decide pricing) for a new release eBook. Now you're getting the exact same product as someone who pays $5 a few months later, and it seems like many books stay at that price point even after the paperback versions are available.

Basically, if you want to see what's wrong with the eBook industry just take a look at this.

Kindle price: 9.17
New Hardcover: 6.70

I shouldn't have to price shop between a purely electronic, zero marginal cost version and a hardcover version. Even assuming the problem is simply that they overestimated demand and now someone has a stock of hardcovers lying around they're trying to get rid of, the Kindle price should be adjusted to at most the lowest available hard cover price.

The HP 50G is definitely a top flight calculator in terms of key action, processor, and programming. I definitely prefer it over any TI I've used, which is pretty much their whole line except the Nspire. Most people I've heard that have used both prefer the 50G, but I tend to hang around engineering nerds.

To me the keyboard is the biggest win, though I do prefer RPN. The main advantage of a hardware calculator is the dedicated keyboard, which is why using TIs crappy keyboards is such a drag. Though to be fair, the HP 49 series also had crappy keyboards. The 48 and 50 series are golden though.

The downside is the place where stand alone evaluators make the most sense, education, your teacher probably will be showing you how to do things on a TI instead.

I love my 50G, but SAGE is more convenient and powerful for many tasks, so if I'm in front of a computer I'm probably using that. On my IBM model M, because input devices make a difference in input speed and correctness.

On a tangentally related note, if you're in the market for a non-graphing calculator, I was shocked at what you get for $15 these days with the Casio FX-115ES. Picked one up on a whim, and was fairly impressed.

Antenna design for hand-held devices at these frequencies and power levels is not exactly trivial, and minimizing the effect of the human body (hand) on the antenna characteristics is the subject of much research in the industry.

http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&fileOId=1152137

http://www.rfm.com/corp/appdata/antenna.pdf

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120848913/articletext?DOI=10.1002%2Fmop.23715

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/11208/36089/01710996.pdf

http://e-citations.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/pub:18638

http://www.waset.org/journals/waset/v49/v49-156.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Hands-effect-Shahla-Moradi-Shahrbabak/dp/3639175425

http://www.google.com/search?q=effect+of+hand+on+antenna&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&ei=GbZBTOP-NIP-8Aaw_aUZ&start=10&sa=N

http://rfdesign.com/mag/505RFDF1.pdf

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijap/2009/491262.html

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F4913660%2F4957855%2F04958011.pdf%3Farnumber%3D4958011&authDecision=-203

http://wireless.per.nl/wireless/articles/08_WIC_correlated_coupled_MIMO.pdf

http://www.impinj.com/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2563>

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.66.2119&rep=rep1&type=pdf

http://202.194.20.8/proc/VTC09Spring/DATA/02-07-08.PDF

AND THAT'S IN JUST THE FIRST THREE PAGES OF MY GOOGLE SEARCH!!!!!!!!!!

Note that this "antennaphile" site called the iPhone 4's antenna design "cool", and said to expect to see other manufacturers adopting similar designs.

Note that the forum thread linked below says that your hand can affect a GHz-band antenna from as far way as 3cm. So where on a phone that is FAR less than 1cm. thick are you going to place that antenna that WON'T have "hand-effects" to some degree? Now, factor in the fact that the FCC MANDATES that the antenna be on the LOWER half of the phone (where your hand naturally grips!), and you can readily see that, as Jobs stated (and demonstrated), EVERY cellphone suffers from the presence of the user. Keep that in mind when you hear people proclaim "NO other phone has these issues." WRONG! EVERY cellphone struggles mightily with this limitation (the presence of the user), during EVERY SINGLE CALL and with EVERY SINGLE USER.

I am also waiting for a better cable company

That is impossible as long as government controls block competition for your cable dollar (satellite doesn't really count being essentially unidirectional). So while you are railing on capitalism the very regulation you wish to impose on airlines is denying you choice in cable.

better internet service

See: Cable.

a better bank

There are great banks if you are willing to look beyond the monsters.

and oh, a better PC...

Found it.

Nobody* is growing potatoes hydroponically, at least not with inert media. It can be done but potatoes are one of those stupid easy crops to grow... if you do it on soil. Basically all you need to do is plow your field once a year and otherwise leave it the hell alone, weeds and all. Weeds mulch. Potatoes grow. Actually you can grow them in hay bales, which is about as close as you get to hydroponics in common practice. Then you just tear the bales apart to get out the potatoes, compost the old bales, and start over again with new ones. This is a good way to grow potatoes in your back yard garden.

* (statistically)

Now the government wants to start influencing our kids at the gaming level? Eeeewwwwwww! How creepy is that?

About as creepy as The Oregon Trail.
1971. Still in print after 39 years. The Oregon Trail

Would Steve Jobs be abusive? Quote from Publishers Weekly: "Like other commentators, Deutschman portrays Jobs as both engaging and troubling, a natural charmer who is also an abusive, egomaniacal boss fond of meting out public humiliations."

I disagree, but feel free to enlighten me.

Ok, I will.

Antenna design for hand-held devices at these frequencies and power levels is not exactly trivial, and minimizing the effect of the human body (hand) on the antenna characteristics is the subject of much research in the industry.

http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&fileOId=1152137

http://www.rfm.com/corp/appdata/antenna.pdf

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120848913/articletext?DOI=10.1002%2Fmop.23715

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/11208/36089/01710996.pdf

http://e-citations.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/pub:18638

http://www.waset.org/journals/waset/v49/v49-156.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Hands-effect-Shahla-Moradi-Shahrbabak/dp/3639175425

http://www.google.com/search?q=effect+of+hand+on+antenna&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&ei=GbZBTOP-NIP-8Aaw_aUZ&start=10&sa=N

http://rfdesign.com/mag/505RFDF1.pdf

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijap/2009/491262.html

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F4913660%2F4957855%2F04958011.pdf%3Farnumber%3D4958011&authDecision=-203

http://wireless.per.nl/wireless/articles/08_WIC_correlated_coupled_MIMO.pdf

http://www.impinj.com/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2563>

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.66.2119&rep=rep1&type=pdf

http://202.194.20.8/proc/VTC09Spring/DATA/02-07-08.PDF

AND THAT'S IN JUST THE FIRST THREE PAGES OF MY GOOGLE SEARCH!!!!!!!!!!

Note that this "antennaphile" site called the iPhone 4's antenna design "cool", and said to expect to see other manufacturers adopting similar designs.

Note that the forum thread linked below says that your hand can affect a GHz-band antenna from as far way as 3cm. So where on a phone that is FAR less than 1cm. thick are you going to place that antenna that WON'T have "hand-effects" to some degree? Now, factor in the fact that the FCC MANDATES that the antenna be on the LOWER half of the phone (where your hand naturally grips!), and you can readily see that, as Jobs stated (and demonstrated), EVERY cellphone suffers from the presence of the user. Keep that in mind when you hear people proclaim "NO other phone has these issues." WRONG! EVERY cellphone struggles mightily with this limitation (the presence of the user

Amazon has already done this. I think it was a silly move, since most of us are down here on earth.

Yeah, such a horrible ban. Oh wait, it's not banned at all, but the author is in fact a crackpot.

Claims of parent to support "Fascism is coming"...

- Books like The Federal Mafia have been banned: No.
- NYT reporters have been silenced [...] in jail: "reporters" == Judith Miller, who got to do a couple months in the can to ponder the meaning of "contempt of court". She's not the first, and won't be the last.

I've tried many binaural beats CDs, including esoteric expensive ones I borrowed from a friend into them. Most of them suck because although they probably (?) have the right difference in frequency between left and right ear, the two frequencies were fairly high up in frequency, and I find it dissonant and irritating pretty quick. My guess is that most CDs do this because they can't assume that you have good headphones that can really do deep bass. If you have both L and R sides at low frequencies, it is **powerful** and it is less irritating, or at least it is for me. Also a bunch on the market have crappy new agey chimes or amateurish music that is lame the first time you hear it, and way more so the 20th time you've heard it.

In contrast, there are TWO CDS THAT ARE AWESOME, which I continue to use, with my big headphones that can do the low bass...

• Awakened Mind System 2.0 by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.
• Gamma Meditation System by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.

I listen to these two CD repeatedly and enjoy the meditative and sorta head-trippy effect. I find they tend to calm me and focus me. It feels like it is increasing cooperation between my brain hemispheres. Like, when I'm doing very left brain stuff like programming, I feel more creative. And sometimes I feel more grounded, and more social (less shy and less self-involved) afterward so it's easier to do other things in life.

I'll listen to both of these in quite varied settings. Not just meditation, but also cleaning the house, or programming code, or blocking out sounds at work, or running on a treadmill.

As I mentioned, these two CDs require headphones with GOOD BASS RESPONSE. For the record, I'm extremely fond of my Ultrasone 650 headphones, which btw do not need a headphone amp to have deep bass with iPod / iPhone, btw. Ultrasone is a brand not well known outside recording studio / pro audio worlds. Here's a link to more of their headphones.

I strongly recommend these two CDs to geeks and non-geeks alike, and to those who like traditional drugs and for those who are 'straight edge'! :-)

I hope you enjoy them!

I'm not affiliated with the guy who made them, I just like his work.

I've tried many binaural beats CDs, including esoteric expensive ones I borrowed from a friend into them. Most of them suck because although they probably (?) have the right difference in frequency between left and right ear, the two frequencies were fairly high up in frequency, and I find it dissonant and irritating pretty quick. My guess is that most CDs do this because they can't assume that you have good headphones that can really do deep bass. If you have both L and R sides at low frequencies, it is **powerful** and it is less irritating, or at least it is for me. Also a bunch on the market have crappy new agey chimes or amateurish music that is lame the first time you hear it, and way more so the 20th time you've heard it.

In contrast, there are TWO CDS THAT ARE AWESOME, which I continue to use, with my big headphones that can do the low bass...

• Awakened Mind System 2.0 by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.
• Gamma Meditation System by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.

I listen to these two CD repeatedly and enjoy the meditative and sorta head-trippy effect. I find they tend to calm me and focus me. It feels like it is increasing cooperation between my brain hemispheres. Like, when I'm doing very left brain stuff like programming, I feel more creative. And sometimes I feel more grounded, and more social (less shy and less self-involved) afterward so it's easier to do other things in life.

I'll listen to both of these in quite varied settings. Not just meditation, but also cleaning the house, or programming code, or blocking out sounds at work, or running on a treadmill.

As I mentioned, these two CDs require headphones with GOOD BASS RESPONSE. For the record, I'm extremely fond of my Ultrasone 650 headphones, which btw do not need a headphone amp to have deep bass with iPod / iPhone, btw. Ultrasone is a brand not well known outside recording studio / pro audio worlds. Here's a link to more of their headphones.

I strongly recommend these two CDs to geeks and non-geeks alike, and to those who like traditional drugs and for those who are 'straight edge'! :-)

I hope you enjoy them!

I'm not affiliated with the guy who made them, I just like his work.

I've tried many binaural beats CDs, including esoteric expensive ones I borrowed from a friend into them. Most of them suck because although they probably (?) have the right difference in frequency between left and right ear, the two frequencies were fairly high up in frequency, and I find it dissonant and irritating pretty quick. My guess is that most CDs do this because they can't assume that you have good headphones that can really do deep bass. If you have both L and R sides at low frequencies, it is **powerful** and it is less irritating, or at least it is for me. Also a bunch on the market have crappy new agey chimes or amateurish music that is lame the first time you hear it, and way more so the 20th time you've heard it.

In contrast, there are TWO CDS THAT ARE AWESOME, which I continue to use, with my big headphones that can do the low bass...

• Awakened Mind System 2.0 by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.
• Gamma Meditation System by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.

I listen to these two CD repeatedly and enjoy the meditative and sorta head-trippy effect. I find they tend to calm me and focus me. It feels like it is increasing cooperation between my brain hemispheres. Like, when I'm doing very left brain stuff like programming, I feel more creative. And sometimes I feel more grounded, and more social (less shy and less self-involved) afterward so it's easier to do other things in life.

I'll listen to both of these in quite varied settings. Not just meditation, but also cleaning the house, or programming code, or blocking out sounds at work, or running on a treadmill.

As I mentioned, these two CDs require headphones with GOOD BASS RESPONSE. For the record, I'm extremely fond of my Ultrasone 650 headphones, which btw do not need a headphone amp to have deep bass with iPod / iPhone, btw. Ultrasone is a brand not well known outside recording studio / pro audio worlds. Here's a link to more of their headphones.

I strongly recommend these two CDs to geeks and non-geeks alike, and to those who like traditional drugs and for those who are 'straight edge'! :-)

I hope you enjoy them!

I'm not affiliated with the guy who made them, I just like his work.

I've tried many binaural beats CDs, including esoteric expensive ones I borrowed from a friend into them. Most of them suck because although they probably (?) have the right difference in frequency between left and right ear, the two frequencies were fairly high up in frequency, and I find it dissonant and irritating pretty quick. My guess is that most CDs do this because they can't assume that you have good headphones that can really do deep bass. If you have both L and R sides at low frequencies, it is **powerful** and it is less irritating, or at least it is for me. Also a bunch on the market have crappy new agey chimes or amateurish music that is lame the first time you hear it, and way more so the 20th time you've heard it.

In contrast, there are TWO CDS THAT ARE AWESOME, which I continue to use, with my big headphones that can do the low bass...

• Awakened Mind System 2.0 by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.
• Gamma Meditation System by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.

I listen to these two CD repeatedly and enjoy the meditative and sorta head-trippy effect. I find they tend to calm me and focus me. It feels like it is increasing cooperation between my brain hemispheres. Like, when I'm doing very left brain stuff like programming, I feel more creative. And sometimes I feel more grounded, and more social (less shy and less self-involved) afterward so it's easier to do other things in life.

I'll listen to both of these in quite varied settings. Not just meditation, but also cleaning the house, or programming code, or blocking out sounds at work, or running on a treadmill.

As I mentioned, these two CDs require headphones with GOOD BASS RESPONSE. For the record, I'm extremely fond of my Ultrasone 650 headphones, which btw do not need a headphone amp to have deep bass with iPod / iPhone, btw. Ultrasone is a brand not well known outside recording studio / pro audio worlds. Here's a link to more of their headphones.

I strongly recommend these two CDs to geeks and non-geeks alike, and to those who like traditional drugs and for those who are 'straight edge'! :-)

I hope you enjoy them!

I'm not affiliated with the guy who made them, I just like his work.