Apple usually buys small, technical adept companies and rolls the new tech into a shiny product. The largest recent purchases have been less than $300 million (Quattro & P.A. Semi). Facebook is overvalued and would burn up more than half Apple's cash reserve. If Apple is "poised to make a major acquisition" as the article suggests, how about a company worth $1-2 billion? That would still be several times larger than any other purchase. This article is silly.
It's not just "a magnetic field" which was used in this study, it's TMS. TMS uses a strong magnetic field to induce an electrical current inside someone's head, similar to direct stimulation using electrodes but without all the surgery. There is a electromagnetic "paddle" held next to the skull in a specific orientation so that the electrical current will be in the intended spot in the brain.
Also, TMS has no special relationship with the brain area which affects moral judgement. TMS can be used to stimulate any area and often the effect is disrupting the function of that area. So with some good aiming you can inhibit speech, distort vision, etc.
The "magnets == amoral judgement" bit is just silly.
This concept was in Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town. A mesh network was set up throughout the city. People were encouraged to use & extend it for free. Eventually the protagonist used it to monitor someone during a foot chase around the neighborhood. Good stuff.
FTFA:
Dubbed SuperSpeed USB, the third major incarnation of the serial bus standard is set to deliver data transfer speeds of around 4.7Gb/s - ten times today's 480Mb/s limit.
The gp said the Mac is a universal platform with native Mac applications, many Linux packages through MacPorts and Fink, and Windows apps through Parallels. Also:
I can run Linux in Bootcamp or Parallels, so if I really want something only Linux can deliver, I can have that too.
Your "Not Quite Universal" response said Ubuntu has more free apps and people only care about price.
I don't get it. How does that make the mac any less universal? Why is this modded insightful?
Offering DRM-free audio to other labels isn't that surprising. What gets me is the DRM-free music videos. Jobs has taken care not to imply that video (movies) should be DRM-free. I'd like to see other types of video show up, short movies, clips, etc.
Seems excessive. Why not just put it in a ring or bracelet or necklace or earring, etc? If people can wear wedding rings, they can wear "medic-rings" or somesuch.
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Apple usually buys small, technical adept companies and rolls the new tech into a shiny product. The largest recent purchases have been less than $300 million (Quattro & P.A. Semi). Facebook is overvalued and would burn up more than half Apple's cash reserve. If Apple is "poised to make a major acquisition" as the article suggests, how about a company worth $1-2 billion? That would still be several times larger than any other purchase. This article is silly.
Personally, I fear this won't be "middle path" so much as "Third Position."
Sounds like the third position is a compromise after all:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/fcc-outlines-new-third-way-internet-regulatory-plan-will-spli/
No need to worry.
It's not just "a magnetic field" which was used in this study, it's TMS. TMS uses a strong magnetic field to induce an electrical current inside someone's head, similar to direct stimulation using electrodes but without all the surgery. There is a electromagnetic "paddle" held next to the skull in a specific orientation so that the electrical current will be in the intended spot in the brain.
Also, TMS has no special relationship with the brain area which affects moral judgement. TMS can be used to stimulate any area and often the effect is disrupting the function of that area. So with some good aiming you can inhibit speech, distort vision, etc.
The "magnets == amoral judgement" bit is just silly.
This concept was in Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town. A mesh network was set up throughout the city. People were encouraged to use & extend it for free. Eventually the protagonist used it to monitor someone during a foot chase around the neighborhood. Good stuff.
FYI, Google Reader is a RSS reader, and has nothing to do with books.
Gel electrophoresis using drinking straws:
http://maradydd.livejournal.com/417631.html
DiYBio Club:
http://io9.com/5014059/a-homebrew-club-for-biogeeks
Home-brew science is becoming more possible.
Instant Runoff Voting is used in several places in the US:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRV_implementations_in_United_States
Your "Not Quite Universal" response said Ubuntu has more free apps and people only care about price.
I don't get it. How does that make the mac any less universal? Why is this modded insightful?
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
Isn't this the point of OpenSocial? If each of your social networks implement an open API, that makes aggregation easier.
Female character sniffed. "Wooly-headed men," she thought.
you need a "as she stood arms akimbo" in there.Wow, I wish I had mod points. That's probably the most effective thing the government can do to Microsoft.
Here's an online version at Google Books:P A11&dq=flatland
http://books.google.com/books?id=HKackp-vG-YC&pg=
"antibiotics are good medicine but you wouldn't administer them by putting them on the tip of a knitting needle and jamming it into your eyeball"
Oh no? Warren Ellis' story about getting eye tattoos with ink & antibiotics on the needle:
http://suicidegirls.com/news/culture/21863/
Offering DRM-free audio to other labels isn't that surprising. What gets me is the DRM-free music videos. Jobs has taken care not to imply that video (movies) should be DRM-free. I'd like to see other types of video show up, short movies, clips, etc.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/about-new-o rleans-imagery-in-google.html
> Firefox also drops Win98 support in the next release.
Win98 support will be in Firefox's next release. It's the 3.0 release due in late 2007 that won't have support.
Good answer. I'd mod you up if I could.
The "Developer Transition Kit" used BIOS.
I guess the bugs were as minor as he claimed...
/ 01/unofficial_intel_mac_firefox_b.html
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/josh/archives/2006
Why aren't there any posts? There isn't even one complaining about yet another google story.
He didn't said anything patriotic. It's very scary that christian == patriotic in so many peoples' minds...
Thanks for the link! I was getting so frustrated with the streaming video - it kept pausing and giving audio only.
They took down the link to their ex-manager's butt.
Here's the google cache and the picture.
Seems excessive. Why not just put it in a ring or bracelet or necklace or earring, etc?
If people can wear wedding rings, they can wear "medic-rings" or somesuch.