Do these app rejections apply internationally? there are app stores in many other countries - and AT&T lock-in doesn't exist outside the US! I know Skype for iPhone was originally (still is?) US-only. Are these other apps being made available internationally always and rejected internationally?
Well, you made a statement that is provably false, i.e. that a magnetic field is not comparable to EM waves - except, EM is electromagnetic, and you can't have a magnetic field without the electric field to go along with it thereby nicely giving you an electromagnetic field, or EM field.
Look, I see where you're going but you're confusing the matter when you interchange field, force and wave which are not the same things.
Yes, an EM wave is a special case of oscillating magnetic and electric fields that propagates through space. But as I said in my original post, EM waves do not cause speakers to work, nor do they interfere with CRT screens. In this way they are NOT comparable to magnetic fields that are used in these devices to make them work.
You also stated that an electromagnetic field cannot have electric charge or a magnetic field, when infact the very definition of an electromagnetic field, or force, is a force with both and electric and magnetic component. That's why it's called electro-magnetic - not just because it sounds cool.
I said EM radiation (EM waves - NOT EM fields in general) cannot have charge or magnetic fields. The field bit I'll give you, because I agree I was unclear - EM radiation waves are a SPECIAL case of magnetic/electric field oscillations but they do not contribute a magnetic field that exhibits any force in such as way that a WiFi signal will mess with a CRT screen or the magnet in a speaker to create sound. And they do not have charge. Yes, cell phone radiation (EM waves) can mess with speakers but it's my understanding that that is due to inducing current in the speaker coil which induces a magnetic field which causes the force that causes sound to be made, rather than from a direct influence of the oscillating magnetic field of the wave on the magnetic material in the speaker causing it to move. Subtle, perhaps, but significant.
You're right in saying electric and magnetic fields can exert force on electric charges or magnetic materials, but all magnetic fields are not EM radiation waves. That's basically the summary of my point, though it took a while to get there.
Magnetic field != EM waves. Conversion of electrical energy into magnetic flux (ie speaker coil) != EM waves. Yes, speakers and other electronic components emit electromagnetic radiation (EM waves) but a speaker does not work _because_ of EM waves, it works because a coil of wire with current flowing through it produces a magnetic field which repels or attracts a magnet which in turn products sound (pressure) waves.
Speakers will "screw with CRT TVs" presumably because the magnetic field (either from the fixed or electro-magnets in the speaker) affect the magnetic field inside the CRT, exerting an additional force on the electrons hitting the screen and therefore having them hit the wrong spot on the screen, screwing up the image. The effect is not caused by EM radiation.
The name "electron-magnetic" radiation is a granted a little confusing, but it does not have an electric charge or a magnetic field...
When I learnt to 'running-write' (as we call it in Australia) we were NOT allowed to learn 'cursive' - instead we HAD TO learn a modified form that had NO LOOPS. The teacher was quite adamant that we would NOT loop the y or g or l or b or any other letter. I actually wanted to learn proper cursive - I thought it looked swell, and so I would always use it for my own private writings. In class, though, no loops allowed. It took me a while to get my pen license (~4th grade, about the same time as learning running writing) and my writing was pretty bad until about year 7 (sorry, 7th grade) when I modified my writing (incorporated a few loops here and there) and formed what is my current style (which I really like). By year 7 they couldn't force you to change your writing, but we were definitely taught a particular style (can't think of what it was called, don't care to look it up).
As a leftie, I taught myself to write backwards in cursive, and I find it really nice and fluid, which I believe is the point of cursive - though a lot of you here seem to find it cramping. To each their own I guess..
Interestingly, I've often found that Chinese (or Singaporean or Malaysian) students have the nicest (English) handwriting of all my Engineering students. In Australia cursive has been out for a long while and most Aussie-taught students have a illegible scrawl (I was taught running-writing but strictly NOT cursive-style - no loops allowed).
they had a Ms Pac Man at the Melbourne "Game-On" exhibition - it was awesome! I played it for ages. The value was in the joystick - responsive, but you could still be pretty violent with it (hm.) anyway - I played a knock off 4-1 version and the joystick was so bad it was unplayable (or rather unwinnable).
So - I agree and it's an experience that cannot be replicated with modern consoles - even though it's still fun on the iPod.:)
fair point, except that TFA talks about downhill slalom skiers, and the text is all about modelling the turn - whereas (from my limited experience) cross-country skiing has a lot more moves involved.
actually the upper body should come around to follow the feet, but not initiate the turn... and it depends on how you are skiing (carving turns or short radius etc). Also it depends on who teaches you - the Canadian CSIA method had a few instructors who would keep their upper body down the hill a lot, whereas my French ski instructor had a very different style - follow your skis! would be the cry...
It's interesting that they need to "decipher" the art of skiing - ask a good ski instructor and they can easily tell you about a lot of optimal body positioning, angles, joint movements etc, to be a great skier. That said, perhaps this is for improving already great skiers... but if they are trying to investigate even more precise angles etc, will a robot really deliver the correct data if it's not anatomically correct? If the center of mass of the robot body is different to a human, surely the angles of the joints and the base of support of the robot for optimal performance will be different to a real person??
It's also strange that they state "the researchers also programmed a motion plan based on the skiing style of world cup racer Gaku Hirasawa, who turns his waist to face inside the turn arc" when I was taught (while learning to instruct, under the Canadian method) that your feet must initiate the turn, and the body then follows (there should be upper/lower body separation).
Anyway, interesting... crazy Japanese, they really don't get enough props for loving robots so much!
All I know is that in a (very unscientific) poling of family and friends, my power bill (with instant flow-through electric hot water) was about four times their combined gas+electricity (tank gas hot water) per month. Yes, gas is much cheaper, but since I don't know of anyone with gas flow-through I assumed that a gas-heated tank is ever better (we don't have variable electricity rates).
Seems to me as though Palm simply went about this the wrong way. Instead of working WITH Apple (and no doubt paying them wads of cash) to get the Pre into the iTunes fold as a supported device they just messed around and made a hack, then were so obnoxious as to advertise it as a FEATURE.
Now, maybe you think there is no way in hell that Apple would ever let iTunes support the Pre officially, given the existence of the iPhone, but I doubt Palm even tried that route. I would have though getting Pre owners to use iTunes would be one more step to getting them to buy iPods (and then iPhones instead) which would be advantageous to Apple, as well as selling more Macbooks to owners of phones like Pre since they wouldn't have to use whatever (presumably windows only) syncing program came with the Pre instead.
That is a good point - even though I have no contacts in gmail I've always thought "yeah right get fkd" when those sorts of questions come up. Twitter does it now too. In the end I think it just serves to desensitise people to social engineering hacks - how is that a good thing????
I think they meant that the amount of the damages is decided by (the right to make the decision on the amount is awarded to) the court not the plaintiff.
I noticed this the very first time I ever viewed a NYT slideshow. It is consistent across them all - there is always one less slide than the total given at the top right.
I didn't say no-one has ADD/ADHD, just that the grandparent poster seemed to commit to ADD as an excuse rather than recognising what might simply be a developmental issue. Just because the effect is the same doesn't mean the diagnosis is.
I understand the frustrations of being unable to focus, and if medication helps you without serious side effects I say go for it. Especially if (as it seems) you have tried your damnedest without.
I liked your post, and I think your son will really benefit from your honesty and approach. I got really bored in grade school and I had to figure out on my own how to deal with it. If someone had taken an interest and told me to get it down quickly then go out and play, I think I'd be less of a loner:P
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... or, more likely, will not give Google anything to worry about. at all.
Do these app rejections apply internationally? there are app stores in many other countries - and AT&T lock-in doesn't exist outside the US! I know Skype for iPhone was originally (still is?) US-only. Are these other apps being made available internationally always and rejected internationally?
Look, I see where you're going but you're confusing the matter when you interchange field, force and wave which are not the same things.
Yes, an EM wave is a special case of oscillating magnetic and electric fields that propagates through space. But as I said in my original post, EM waves do not cause speakers to work, nor do they interfere with CRT screens. In this way they are NOT comparable to magnetic fields that are used in these devices to make them work.
I said EM radiation (EM waves - NOT EM fields in general) cannot have charge or magnetic fields. The field bit I'll give you, because I agree I was unclear - EM radiation waves are a SPECIAL case of magnetic/electric field oscillations but they do not contribute a magnetic field that exhibits any force in such as way that a WiFi signal will mess with a CRT screen or the magnet in a speaker to create sound. And they do not have charge. Yes, cell phone radiation (EM waves) can mess with speakers but it's my understanding that that is due to inducing current in the speaker coil which induces a magnetic field which causes the force that causes sound to be made, rather than from a direct influence of the oscillating magnetic field of the wave on the magnetic material in the speaker causing it to move. Subtle, perhaps, but significant.
You're right in saying electric and magnetic fields can exert force on electric charges or magnetic materials, but all magnetic fields are not EM radiation waves. That's basically the summary of my point, though it took a while to get there.
You haven't changed anything I said, apart from the typo. The thread was talking about EM radiation vs current/mag fields, not current vs mag fields.
You also can't change a slashdot post, so you'll want to read and understand what thread you're replying to.
Magnetic field != EM waves. Conversion of electrical energy into magnetic flux (ie speaker coil) != EM waves. Yes, speakers and other electronic components emit electromagnetic radiation (EM waves) but a speaker does not work _because_ of EM waves, it works because a coil of wire with current flowing through it produces a magnetic field which repels or attracts a magnet which in turn products sound (pressure) waves.
Speakers will "screw with CRT TVs" presumably because the magnetic field (either from the fixed or electro-magnets in the speaker) affect the magnetic field inside the CRT, exerting an additional force on the electrons hitting the screen and therefore having them hit the wrong spot on the screen, screwing up the image. The effect is not caused by EM radiation.
The name "electron-magnetic" radiation is a granted a little confusing, but it does not have an electric charge or a magnetic field...
Yeah Europe forms a lot of letters/numbers strangely (ie the stroke on a 1 that always makes it look like a 7).
Were you allowed to use loops in your letters when learning to running-write? When I was taught you were specifically NOT allowed to loop any letter.
When I learnt to 'running-write' (as we call it in Australia) we were NOT allowed to learn 'cursive' - instead we HAD TO learn a modified form that had NO LOOPS. The teacher was quite adamant that we would NOT loop the y or g or l or b or any other letter. I actually wanted to learn proper cursive - I thought it looked swell, and so I would always use it for my own private writings. In class, though, no loops allowed. It took me a while to get my pen license (~4th grade, about the same time as learning running writing) and my writing was pretty bad until about year 7 (sorry, 7th grade) when I modified my writing (incorporated a few loops here and there) and formed what is my current style (which I really like). By year 7 they couldn't force you to change your writing, but we were definitely taught a particular style (can't think of what it was called, don't care to look it up).
As a leftie, I taught myself to write backwards in cursive, and I find it really nice and fluid, which I believe is the point of cursive - though a lot of you here seem to find it cramping. To each their own I guess..
Interestingly, I've often found that Chinese (or Singaporean or Malaysian) students have the nicest (English) handwriting of all my Engineering students. In Australia cursive has been out for a long while and most Aussie-taught students have a illegible scrawl (I was taught running-writing but strictly NOT cursive-style - no loops allowed).
they had a Ms Pac Man at the Melbourne "Game-On" exhibition - it was awesome! I played it for ages. The value was in the joystick - responsive, but you could still be pretty violent with it (hm.) anyway - I played a knock off 4-1 version and the joystick was so bad it was unplayable (or rather unwinnable).
So - I agree and it's an experience that cannot be replicated with modern consoles - even though it's still fun on the iPod. :)
fair point, except that TFA talks about downhill slalom skiers, and the text is all about modelling the turn - whereas (from my limited experience) cross-country skiing has a lot more moves involved.
actually the upper body should come around to follow the feet, but not initiate the turn... and it depends on how you are skiing (carving turns or short radius etc). Also it depends on who teaches you - the Canadian CSIA method had a few instructors who would keep their upper body down the hill a lot, whereas my French ski instructor had a very different style - follow your skis! would be the cry...
It's interesting that they need to "decipher" the art of skiing - ask a good ski instructor and they can easily tell you about a lot of optimal body positioning, angles, joint movements etc, to be a great skier. That said, perhaps this is for improving already great skiers... but if they are trying to investigate even more precise angles etc, will a robot really deliver the correct data if it's not anatomically correct? If the center of mass of the robot body is different to a human, surely the angles of the joints and the base of support of the robot for optimal performance will be different to a real person??
It's also strange that they state "the researchers also programmed a motion plan based on the skiing style of world cup racer Gaku Hirasawa, who turns his waist to face inside the turn arc" when I was taught (while learning to instruct, under the Canadian method) that your feet must initiate the turn, and the body then follows (there should be upper/lower body separation).
Anyway, interesting... crazy Japanese, they really don't get enough props for loving robots so much!
All I know is that in a (very unscientific) poling of family and friends, my power bill (with instant flow-through electric hot water) was about four times their combined gas+electricity (tank gas hot water) per month. Yes, gas is much cheaper, but since I don't know of anyone with gas flow-through I assumed that a gas-heated tank is ever better (we don't have variable electricity rates).
Except that instant (flow-through) water heaters are horribly inefficient and power hungry. Better to use a tank system.
hmm not in WA
Seems to me as though Palm simply went about this the wrong way. Instead of working WITH Apple (and no doubt paying them wads of cash) to get the Pre into the iTunes fold as a supported device they just messed around and made a hack, then were so obnoxious as to advertise it as a FEATURE.
Now, maybe you think there is no way in hell that Apple would ever let iTunes support the Pre officially, given the existence of the iPhone, but I doubt Palm even tried that route. I would have though getting Pre owners to use iTunes would be one more step to getting them to buy iPods (and then iPhones instead) which would be advantageous to Apple, as well as selling more Macbooks to owners of phones like Pre since they wouldn't have to use whatever (presumably windows only) syncing program came with the Pre instead.
"I wuv you, iPhone" ahaha so adorable.
That is a good point - even though I have no contacts in gmail I've always thought "yeah right get fkd" when those sorts of questions come up. Twitter does it now too. In the end I think it just serves to desensitise people to social engineering hacks - how is that a good thing????
Everyone is becoming *a* mass downloader. (singular-singular)
I think they meant that the amount of the damages is decided by (the right to make the decision on the amount is awarded to) the court not the plaintiff.
I noticed this the very first time I ever viewed a NYT slideshow. It is consistent across them all - there is always one less slide than the total given at the top right.
mod parent up.
I didn't say no-one has ADD/ADHD, just that the grandparent poster seemed to commit to ADD as an excuse rather than recognising what might simply be a developmental issue. Just because the effect is the same doesn't mean the diagnosis is.
I understand the frustrations of being unable to focus, and if medication helps you without serious side effects I say go for it. Especially if (as it seems) you have tried your damnedest without.
What do you mean by their dependence on you for regular social stuff is scary?
I liked your post, and I think your son will really benefit from your honesty and approach. I got really bored in grade school and I had to figure out on my own how to deal with it. If someone had taken an interest and told me to get it down quickly then go out and play, I think I'd be less of a loner :P