I guarantee that this ficticious grandmother will not notice 'slower' at all, mostly because she's only running Safari and Mail, and not XCode, Terminal, Adium, Photoshop, Numbers, iTunes and Firefox as well.
And 'not having enough memory to open applications' is something that the Mac hasn't had for ~8 years.
erm... in this case, empirical evidence would have to be testimonial evidence across subjects. The only way you could test the perceptual nature of flicker is to gather reactions from a sufficiently-sized test group.
Video cameras have very different optics and mechanics (frame-rates, refresh rates, etc.) than our eyes do, so even if you could capture it (or not) on a video camera, it doesn't mean squat when looking at human perception.
On a smaller level, societies where people own guns are usually more peaceful ones. Why? Because people can see them. Just the threat of being shot is enough to deter people from starting shit.
"...In a cross-border comparison for the year 2000, Statistics Canada says the risk of firearms death was more than three times as great for American males as for Canadian males and seven times as great for American females as for Canadian females.
Because more of the U.S. deaths were homicides (as opposed to suicides or accidental deaths), the U.S. rate of gun homicide was nearly eight times Canada's, the agency says. Homicides accounted for 38 per cent of deaths involving guns in the United States and 18 per cent in Canada."
Why can't we have environmentalism without the alarm?
Hmm... maybe because it's an urgent problem? It's like acting - you have to exaggerate your emoting in order to get the emotional point across to your audience. With the urgency of the problem (i.e. it's starting to happen RIGHT NOW), you need to make huge claims to get people to move just a bit. If you claim people in the Maldives are losing their homes due to global warming, you may get Phil in northern Alberta to carpool or take public transit instead of driving his SUV to work.
But you are on notice. You may be the most powerful *single* country in the world (and I think China might have something to say about that), but the aggregate of the countries that are watching you is much, much larger and has much more to lose. No president would ever invite conflict on American soil, but they have consistently had no problem doing it in other countries.
Obama's presidency will either be a turning point or an epic fail. However, I think he has two things going for him that a president absolutely needs: the ability to inspire and get people to push together, and the ability to pick talented people to get the jobs done.
Higher, but not obscenely so.
(It's old, but it's reputable: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/taxes.htm)
Plus we get health care & highways taken care of, as well as many other things.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather pay higher taxes and have the ability to walk into any hospital across the country, than to not pay it and worry that at any time my safety net could disappear when I need it most.
I was just at the conference they mentioned in the article (ISMIR). If you know something that they don't about extracting information from music, I'm sure there's about 300 PhDs who would love to hear what you have to say.
If you think this technology is like a midi->wav converter only better, you're off by orders of magnitude.
"Simply" data mining for music is a significant problem. What data do you mine? The audio signal does not contain all of the perceptual cues we understand as humans, and so things like "rhythm" and "tempo"; i.e. the things in music that get us to dance or tap our feet to it, are hard to pinpoint and even harder to extract.
Other problems, such as the Query-by-humming problem, are further complicated by two intractable problems: 1. People can't sing well out of their head, and 2. What they do sing may or may not bear any resemblance to the actual song they're remembering.
This research uses the latest advances in signal processing, machine learning, psychoacoustics, computer vision and pattern recognition. To compare it to a midi to wave converter is like comparing a paper airplane to the space shuttle.
It doesn't need to make sense to me. If I handed a page of C++ to my grandmother, she couldn't make sense of that either. The weather report is concise and practical, giving a lot of information with the fewest amount of words. Once you can read it, you find it valuable to not have to sift through mounds of useless or redundant information (like adjectives, verbs, etc.)
Just because you can't read and understand it doesn't mean it doesn't have value to someone.
And what's that shit you posted at the end of your comment? Black People suck? Grow up, asshole.
Except for the fact that for every plastic bag or tire that gets recycled into a usable product again, it's one less that's just sitting in the ground for thousands of years, being swallowed by birds, or floating out in a huge garbage dump in the south Pacific.
In terms of energy, you may be right. But in terms of net environmental impact, you're dead wrong.
That's awesome!
I've often thought that there would be this thing, I don't know, like a website. Where you could search for stuff and then FIND it. Kinda like a library card catalogue but for the ENTIRE internet.
Wouldn't that be great? Then we wouldn't have to wait years to find stuff out - we could just do a quick search and have the information we wanted.
Oh well, maybe sometime in the future.
It's a proprietary platform, but its web browser isn't. Safari (or WebKit, to be correct) is one of the best and most actively developed Open Source browsers out there. It's also one of the most standards-compliant browsers out there.
SproutCore doesn't write the code for you. It simply abstracts the low-level stuff (like calling XHttpRequest directly) to a higher level so you can just call:
drag_and_drop(Object)
and it will do all the backend stuff for you.
Almost. The iPhone is the most viable portable (as in, in-pocket) mobile web platform out there right now. So much so, in fact, that I would say that the awkwardness in having to pinch and squeeze websites to view them is cancelled out by the convenience of having the web without lugging around a laptop.
This type of free market thinking sounds attractive at first, but in reality it's proving to be anything but. The problem is that the big telecom corporations aren't playing fair. They are trying to impose the same restrictions on consumers across the board in order to create a corporate-favourable landscape where they dictate the rules, and not the consumer. The mentality that 'the market will fix itself' works only if you assume that each market player is out to differentiate themselves from their competition with better prices, better service, etc. If every area had a few reasonably sized regional corporations with consumer bases that were roughly equivalent, it might work. We're in the situation now where we have a few national corporations, each with millions of customers. Dropping one to go to another is hardly noticed, and many people don't have the technical knowledge to *know* they're getting screwed. You're not going to get any sort of market movement in that environment.
Up here in Canada, we have Bell, Rogers and a few other regional ISPs (Videotron, EastLink). It's not a 'healthy' landscape, but it's far from a monopoly situation. None of them are differentiating themselves with regards to traffic shaping, net neutrality, etc. because they know that, while it's good for the consumer, it's NOT good for them. Not because it will cause them to go out of business, but it means that they stand to make less profit than they would otherwise.
They have their lobbyists in government as well, and you can believe that they're trying to 'regulate' themselves a corporation-friendly environment. Getting the CRTC involved here gives customers a single place to voice their concerns, and hopefully in the end what will emerge is a compromise between fairness to consumers, and the freedom of corporations to make healthy (but not exorbitant) profits.
Did you even read the summary? The whole article is about the team finding that bacteria added to moon-like rocks negates the need for sending earth-dirt.
Ok, so other than Java, and Solaris and ZFS and OpenOffice and OpenSparc, Netbeans, NFS, Glassfish or Open Windows, what have the Romans^WSun ever given us?
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I guarantee that this ficticious grandmother will not notice 'slower' at all, mostly because she's only running Safari and Mail, and not XCode, Terminal, Adium, Photoshop, Numbers, iTunes and Firefox as well.
And 'not having enough memory to open applications' is something that the Mac hasn't had for ~8 years.
erm... in this case, empirical evidence would have to be testimonial evidence across subjects. The only way you could test the perceptual nature of flicker is to gather reactions from a sufficiently-sized test group.
Video cameras have very different optics and mechanics (frame-rates, refresh rates, etc.) than our eyes do, so even if you could capture it (or not) on a video camera, it doesn't mean squat when looking at human perception.
On a smaller level, societies where people own guns are usually more peaceful ones. Why? Because people can see them. Just the threat of being shot is enough to deter people from starting shit.
[citation needed]
Here's mine - From: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/06/28/gun-deaths050628.html
"...In a cross-border comparison for the year 2000, Statistics Canada says the risk of firearms death was more than three times as great for American males as for Canadian males and seven times as great for American females as for Canadian females.
Because more of the U.S. deaths were homicides (as opposed to suicides or accidental deaths), the U.S. rate of gun homicide was nearly eight times Canada's, the agency says. Homicides accounted for 38 per cent of deaths involving guns in the United States and 18 per cent in Canada."
Why can't we have environmentalism without the alarm?
Hmm... maybe because it's an urgent problem? It's like acting - you have to exaggerate your emoting in order to get the emotional point across to your audience. With the urgency of the problem (i.e. it's starting to happen RIGHT NOW), you need to make huge claims to get people to move just a bit. If you claim people in the Maldives are losing their homes due to global warming, you may get Phil in northern Alberta to carpool or take public transit instead of driving his SUV to work.
I'll go for +1 Godwin
But you are on notice. You may be the most powerful *single* country in the world (and I think China might have something to say about that), but the aggregate of the countries that are watching you is much, much larger and has much more to lose. No president would ever invite conflict on American soil, but they have consistently had no problem doing it in other countries. Obama's presidency will either be a turning point or an epic fail. However, I think he has two things going for him that a president absolutely needs: the ability to inspire and get people to push together, and the ability to pick talented people to get the jobs done.
Higher, but not obscenely so. (It's old, but it's reputable: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/taxes.htm) Plus we get health care & highways taken care of, as well as many other things. I don't know about you, but I'd rather pay higher taxes and have the ability to walk into any hospital across the country, than to not pay it and worry that at any time my safety net could disappear when I need it most.
Huh. I guess there's another meaning for the acronym "SFU" that I didn't know.
I was just at the conference they mentioned in the article (ISMIR). If you know something that they don't about extracting information from music, I'm sure there's about 300 PhDs who would love to hear what you have to say.
No, not that long at all. Have a look at last.fm if you're interested in automated music recommendation.
If you think this technology is like a midi->wav converter only better, you're off by orders of magnitude.
"Simply" data mining for music is a significant problem. What data do you mine? The audio signal does not contain all of the perceptual cues we understand as humans, and so things like "rhythm" and "tempo"; i.e. the things in music that get us to dance or tap our feet to it, are hard to pinpoint and even harder to extract.
Other problems, such as the Query-by-humming problem, are further complicated by two intractable problems: 1. People can't sing well out of their head, and 2. What they do sing may or may not bear any resemblance to the actual song they're remembering.
This research uses the latest advances in signal processing, machine learning, psychoacoustics, computer vision and pattern recognition. To compare it to a midi to wave converter is like comparing a paper airplane to the space shuttle.
It doesn't need to make sense to me. If I handed a page of C++ to my grandmother, she couldn't make sense of that either. The weather report is concise and practical, giving a lot of information with the fewest amount of words. Once you can read it, you find it valuable to not have to sift through mounds of useless or redundant information (like adjectives, verbs, etc.)
Just because you can't read and understand it doesn't mean it doesn't have value to someone.
And what's that shit you posted at the end of your comment? Black People suck? Grow up, asshole.
Except for the fact that for every plastic bag or tire that gets recycled into a usable product again, it's one less that's just sitting in the ground for thousands of years, being swallowed by birds, or floating out in a huge garbage dump in the south Pacific.
In terms of energy, you may be right. But in terms of net environmental impact, you're dead wrong.
I was going to comment on how much of a douchebag you were, but then I got bel-aired.
stupid memes.
It's called "ongoing maintenance." You don't just build something and then walk away. Everything requires work to maintain.
That's awesome! I've often thought that there would be this thing, I don't know, like a website. Where you could search for stuff and then FIND it. Kinda like a library card catalogue but for the ENTIRE internet. Wouldn't that be great? Then we wouldn't have to wait years to find stuff out - we could just do a quick search and have the information we wanted. Oh well, maybe sometime in the future.
Godwin++ Good call.
I know about 12 million people who might disagree with you...
It's a proprietary platform, but its web browser isn't. Safari (or WebKit, to be correct) is one of the best and most actively developed Open Source browsers out there. It's also one of the most standards-compliant browsers out there.
SproutCore doesn't write the code for you. It simply abstracts the low-level stuff (like calling XHttpRequest directly) to a higher level so you can just call: drag_and_drop(Object) and it will do all the backend stuff for you.
Almost. The iPhone is the most viable portable (as in, in-pocket) mobile web platform out there right now. So much so, in fact, that I would say that the awkwardness in having to pinch and squeeze websites to view them is cancelled out by the convenience of having the web without lugging around a laptop.
This type of free market thinking sounds attractive at first, but in reality it's proving to be anything but. The problem is that the big telecom corporations aren't playing fair. They are trying to impose the same restrictions on consumers across the board in order to create a corporate-favourable landscape where they dictate the rules, and not the consumer. The mentality that 'the market will fix itself' works only if you assume that each market player is out to differentiate themselves from their competition with better prices, better service, etc. If every area had a few reasonably sized regional corporations with consumer bases that were roughly equivalent, it might work. We're in the situation now where we have a few national corporations, each with millions of customers. Dropping one to go to another is hardly noticed, and many people don't have the technical knowledge to *know* they're getting screwed. You're not going to get any sort of market movement in that environment.
Up here in Canada, we have Bell, Rogers and a few other regional ISPs (Videotron, EastLink). It's not a 'healthy' landscape, but it's far from a monopoly situation. None of them are differentiating themselves with regards to traffic shaping, net neutrality, etc. because they know that, while it's good for the consumer, it's NOT good for them. Not because it will cause them to go out of business, but it means that they stand to make less profit than they would otherwise.
They have their lobbyists in government as well, and you can believe that they're trying to 'regulate' themselves a corporation-friendly environment. Getting the CRTC involved here gives customers a single place to voice their concerns, and hopefully in the end what will emerge is a compromise between fairness to consumers, and the freedom of corporations to make healthy (but not exorbitant) profits.
Did you even read the summary? The whole article is about the team finding that bacteria added to moon-like rocks negates the need for sending earth-dirt.
Ok, so other than Java, and Solaris and ZFS and OpenOffice and OpenSparc, Netbeans, NFS, Glassfish or Open Windows, what have the Romans^WSun ever given us?