That's a well known problem to photographers, photos colors are affected over time. Keep the photo negatives in a safe place!
That struck me as odd too. If the colours in digital photos or movies don't look right, I would try to display them with different software. It's more likely that the software that displays is reading and interpreting the format of the file differently than bit-rot would only affect the colour pallette and not make the whole file unreadable.
Is this even possible long term? What would have happened if you stored all of your information on PATA drives 10 years ago, its rare to find a motherboard with PATA on it now, yes there are converters and 3rd party PCI cards, but those are eventually going to dry up too.
Now, say you choose SATA, what happens when M2 becomes the defacto standard? So, why dont you choose M2? What happens when M2 is phased out?
It is not just the file system and the data you need to think about, its the physical hardware too. With the rate things change in hardware, and connecting that hardware to other hardware, its unrealistic that you could expect to be able to use your current storage media in 10 years, let alone 20, 30 or 40 years.
This is the problem with maintaining your own hardware, and a really useful use case for cloud storage, so long as you can trust the provider to keep the hardware up to date while your files stay clean, private and available.
I tried downloading an old attachment (6-7 years ago now) from my gmail account but the attachment is corrupted. No matter how many times I download it or to what computer, it's corrupted. I wonder what Google is using?
What type of file is it? It might be a media format the player software no longer recognises (find an older player). Or if it is an exe it might be a 16 or 32 bit exe that won't run in a 64 bit environment. (find an older operating system). If it's not confidential, could you post a link so we can try it?
A lesson always learnt the hard way. Those of us who have learnt it the hard way have known the feeling before: I'll trust that this is correct and the feeling after: Shiat!
The people who invented computing had a grounding in the "basic" sciences. I don't think a person who only needs to know how to code can bootstrap even more advances in computing. Unless they bang the blocks together in a new and imaginative way.
For all the common areas use floor stickers. Like breadcrumbs.
For rooms that might get messy depending on number of residents and distribution
Not sure why this got modded down. Thinking outside the smartphone is a good way to help many of the elderly of our generation. Lit signs all over the place that can be turned on and off is another idea.
What is with the modern obsession with renaming things? Does your boss measure your performance by the number of lines needlessly changed in the code or something? Before refactoring support was the must have feature of IDEs, we had stable APIs to program to. Now some kid that grew up with his attention span crippled by the internet and smartphones wants to change the names of everything every five minutes.
If you want to keep a changing source code base as easily understandable as possible over time without confusing future programmers who have to work with it, you will need to refactor and rename as you go.
As requirements and thus code changes, the names of your functions, classes and files will become less correct, and lead future maintainers on a wild goose chase.
Keeping names appropriate by changing them is protection against future confusion and wasting of time.
It's actually a long-term solution to a long-standing problem and has little to do with crippled attention spans. It requires concentration to keep the names of things accurately matching their content. This investment of concentration will pay dividends on non-throwaway code.
Heh, leave it to the tech community to start nitpicking which language was actually used rather than the fact that we're seeing the very rare sight of a computer programmer in political office.
I took a look at the code - yeah, it's really just C code, but that's fine for a tiny project like this. Nice code, very clean and readable, but not very well commented.
Well he might be following Uncle Bob's Clean Code concepts and not filling his code with comments that could become crufty and misleading over time.
I take that back after reading all the one letter variable names:)
Heh, leave it to the tech community to start nitpicking which language was actually used rather than the fact that we're seeing the very rare sight of a computer programmer in political office.
I took a look at the code - yeah, it's really just C code, but that's fine for a tiny project like this. Nice code, very clean and readable, but not very well commented.
Well he might be following Uncle Bob's Clean Code concepts and not filling his code with comments that could become crufty and misleading over time.
Although his might have come a little closer. As an aside, you won't see gender-sensitive writing like this anymore, except as comedy:
And voice after voice repeated, "It is nearer," and the clicking telegraph took that up, and it trembled along telephone wires, and in a thousand cities grimy compositors fingered the type. "It is nearer." Men writing in offices, struck with a strange realisation, flung down their pens, men talking in a thousand places suddenly came upon a grotesque possibility in those words, "It is nearer." It hurried along wakening streets, it was shouted down the frost-stilled ways of quiet villages; men who had read these things from the throbbing tape stood in yellow-lit doorways shouting the news to the passersby. "It is nearer." Pretty women, flushed and glittering, heard the news told jestingly between the dances, and feigned an intelligent interest they did not feel. "Nearer! Indeed. How curious! How very, very clever people must be to find out things like that!"
'The technology uses a computer algorithm to scour Google's image database for faeces, then buries them, said John Hanke, director of Google Earth and Google Maps, in an interview at the Where 2.0 conference...'
Prepositions can be very important, though because they define the relationship or context between two objects. e.g. cat in box, cat under box, cat behind box. How can you get the meaning if you drop the preposition?
Interesting point. The central system approach is akin to creating better traffic flow by controlling the individual drivers. This would seem even better than using traffic lights, until you realise that each driver is trying to maximise his own personal speed and not the overall speed of everyone. You want people to cooperate in order for this to work. The prisoner's dilemma has now just included the centralised system as another player in the mix with possibly no improved outcome.
This kind of information feedback loop when introduced on a large scale will provide interesting opportunities for behavioural study.
Do you follow the GPS advice like everyone else and get congested along the "best route?" Or do you pick the busiest route knowing that everyone will avoid it?
I think the most effective general strategy is meant to be to alternate between obeying it and disobeying it.
There looks like there could be a link between what we see on media and our actions, and the mirroring of the behaviour we see may not necessarily even be conscious. Tell me this effect would be lessened during the playing of an actual game. I want to believe it doesn't have an effect, but...
Media Violence Induces Imitative Violence: The Problem With Super Mirrors
Media violence induces imitative violence. If true, this idea is dangerous for at least two main reasons. First, because its implications are highly relevant to the issue of freedom of speech. Second, because it suggests that our rational autonomy is much more limited than we like to think. This idea is especially dangerous now, because we have discovered a plausible neural mechanism that can explain why observing violence induces imitative violence. Moreover, the properties of this neural mechanism -- the human mirror neuron system -- suggest that imitative violence may not always be a consciously mediated process. The argument for protecting even harmful speech (intended in a broad sense, including movies and videogames) has typically been that the effects of speech are always under the mental intermediation of the listener/viewer. If there is a plausible neurobiological mechanism that suggests that such intermediate step can be by-passed, this argument is no longer valid.
For more than 50 years behavioral data have suggested that media violence induces violent behavior in the observers. Meta-data show that the effect size of media violence is much larger than the effect size of calcium intake on bone mass, or of asbestos exposure to cancer. Still, the behavioral data have been criticized. How is that possible? Two main types of data have been invoked. Controlled laboratory experiments and correlational studies assessing types of media consumed and violent behavior. The lab data have been criticized on the account of not having enough ecological validity, whereas the correlational data have been criticized on the account that they have no explanatory power. Here, as a neuroscientist who is studying the human mirror neuron system and its relations to imitation, I want to focus on a recent neuroscience discovery that may explain why the strong imitative tendencies that humans have may lead them to imitative violence when exposed to media violence.
Mirror neurons are cells located in the premotor cortex, the part of the brain relevant to the planning, selection and execution of actions. In the ventral sector of the premotor cortex there are cells that fire in relation to specific goal-related motor acts, such as grasping, holding, tearing, and bringing to the mouth. Surprisingly, a subset of these cells -- what we call mirror neurons -- also fire when we observe somebody else performing the same action. The behavior of these cells seems to suggest that the observer is looking at her/his own actions reflected by a mirror, while watching somebody else's actions. My group has also shown in several studies that human mirror neuron areas are critical to imitation. There is also evidence that the activation of this neural system is fairly automatic, thus suggesting that it may by-pass conscious mediation. Moreover, mirror neurons also code the intention associated with observed actions, even though there is not a one-to-one mapping between actions and intentions (I can grasp a cup because I want to drink or because I want to put it in the dishwasher). This suggests that this system can indeed code sequences of action (i.e., what happens after I grasp the cup), even though only one action in the sequence has been observed.
Some years ago, when we still were a very small group of neuroscientists studying mirror neurons and we were just starting investigating the role of mirror neurons in intention understanding, we discussed the possi
Tell me this. Are US TV series' "season finales" now called "season finals" because of the anti-french bullshit drummed up by the US govt? (Aussie govt is doing it with muslims now, it's the age-old political practise of scape-goating to take attention off the govt's mistakes.)
I used to think Darfur was just a fairy tale Until that genocide until that first smile But if I had to do it all again I wouldn't change a thing Cause this war is everlasting
Sudanly "gangaweed" has new meaning to me There's beauty up above and things we never take notice of You wake up Sudanly you're in poverty
Girl you're everthing a man could rape and more One thousand words are not enough to say what I feel inside Holding dismembered hands as we walk along the shore Never felt like this before now you're dying in Darfur
Each day I pray this love affair would last forever There's beauty up above and things you never take notice of You wake and Sudanly you're at war
Mac mini looks great until you need to plug in a bunch of peripherals, then it looks like a retarded spider. But to each their own. It does the job nicely for me.
Slashdot Mirror
Novel writer myself. Losing words sucks. But it might be good practise for making the cuts you need to :) All the best.
They get a physical look at prospective applicants before they look at their resume. Well played, McDonalds. No ugly front-end people.
That's a well known problem to photographers, photos colors are affected over time. Keep the photo negatives in a safe place!
That struck me as odd too. If the colours in digital photos or movies don't look right, I would try to display them with different software. It's more likely that the software that displays is reading and interpreting the format of the file differently than bit-rot would only affect the colour pallette and not make the whole file unreadable.
Is this even possible long term? What would have happened if you stored all of your information on PATA drives 10 years ago, its rare to find a motherboard with PATA on it now, yes there are converters and 3rd party PCI cards, but those are eventually going to dry up too.
Now, say you choose SATA, what happens when M2 becomes the defacto standard? So, why dont you choose M2? What happens when M2 is phased out?
It is not just the file system and the data you need to think about, its the physical hardware too. With the rate things change in hardware, and connecting that hardware to other hardware, its unrealistic that you could expect to be able to use your current storage media in 10 years, let alone 20, 30 or 40 years.
This is the problem with maintaining your own hardware, and a really useful use case for cloud storage, so long as you can trust the provider to keep the hardware up to date while your files stay clean, private and available.
I tried downloading an old attachment (6-7 years ago now) from my gmail account but the attachment is corrupted. No matter how many times I download it or to what computer, it's corrupted. I wonder what Google is using?
What type of file is it? It might be a media format the player software no longer recognises (find an older player). Or if it is an exe it might be a 16 or 32 bit exe that won't run in a 64 bit environment. (find an older operating system). If it's not confidential, could you post a link so we can try it?
A lesson always learnt the hard way. Those of us who have learnt it the hard way have known the feeling before: I'll trust that this is correct and the feeling after: Shiat!
If you're not making an impact while not under mortal threat, you might not be the hero you think you are.
The people who invented computing had a grounding in the "basic" sciences. I don't think a person who only needs to know how to code can bootstrap even more advances in computing. Unless they bang the blocks together in a new and imaginative way.
I can watch the credits full screen by arrowing to the small credits box and pressing select. Your particular button selection might be different.
Oh, OK. They were using ADE651s.
For all the common areas use floor stickers. Like breadcrumbs.
For rooms that might get messy depending on number of residents and distribution
Not sure why this got modded down. Thinking outside the smartphone is a good way to help many of the elderly of our generation. Lit signs all over the place that can be turned on and off is another idea.
I wrote a sci-fi novel that involved reincarnation called Transcendence.- shameful plug
http://www.lulu.com/au/en/shop...
What is with the modern obsession with renaming things? Does your boss measure your performance by the number of lines needlessly changed in the code or something? Before refactoring support was the must have feature of IDEs, we had stable APIs to program to. Now some kid that grew up with his attention span crippled by the internet and smartphones wants to change the names of everything every five minutes.
If you want to keep a changing source code base as easily understandable as possible over time without confusing future programmers who have to work with it, you will need to refactor and rename as you go.
As requirements and thus code changes, the names of your functions, classes and files will become less correct, and lead future maintainers on a wild goose chase.
Keeping names appropriate by changing them is protection against future confusion and wasting of time.
It's actually a long-term solution to a long-standing problem and has little to do with crippled attention spans. It requires concentration to keep the names of things accurately matching their content. This investment of concentration will pay dividends on non-throwaway code.
Heh, leave it to the tech community to start nitpicking which language was actually used rather than the fact that we're seeing the very rare sight of a computer programmer in political office.
I took a look at the code - yeah, it's really just C code, but that's fine for a tiny project like this. Nice code, very clean and readable, but not very well commented.
Well he might be following Uncle Bob's Clean Code concepts and not filling his code with comments that could become crufty and misleading over time.
I take that back after reading all the one letter variable names :)
Heh, leave it to the tech community to start nitpicking which language was actually used rather than the fact that we're seeing the very rare sight of a computer programmer in political office.
I took a look at the code - yeah, it's really just C code, but that's fine for a tiny project like this. Nice code, very clean and readable, but not very well commented.
Well he might be following Uncle Bob's Clean Code concepts and not filling his code with comments that could become crufty and misleading over time.
Although his might have come a little closer. As an aside, you won't see gender-sensitive writing like this anymore, except as comedy:
And voice after voice repeated, "It is nearer," and the clicking telegraph took that up, and it trembled along telephone wires, and in a thousand cities grimy compositors fingered the type. "It is nearer." Men writing in offices, struck with a strange realisation, flung down their pens, men talking in a thousand places suddenly came upon a grotesque possibility in those words, "It is nearer." It hurried along wakening streets, it was shouted down the frost-stilled ways of quiet villages; men who had read these things from the throbbing tape stood in yellow-lit doorways shouting the news to the passersby. "It is nearer." Pretty women, flushed and glittering, heard the news told jestingly between the dances, and feigned an intelligent interest they did not feel. "Nearer! Indeed. How curious! How very, very clever people must be to find out things like that!"
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebook...
'The technology uses a computer algorithm to scour Google's image database for faeces, then buries them, said John Hanke, director of Google Earth and Google Maps, in an interview at the Where 2.0 conference...'
Prepositions can be very important, though because they define the relationship or context between two objects. e.g. cat in box, cat under box, cat behind box. How can you get the meaning if you drop the preposition?
Interesting point. The central system approach is akin to creating better traffic flow by controlling the individual drivers. This would seem even better than using traffic lights, until you realise that each driver is trying to maximise his own personal speed and not the overall speed of everyone. You want people to cooperate in order for this to work. The prisoner's dilemma has now just included the centralised system as another player in the mix with possibly no improved outcome.
This kind of information feedback loop when introduced on a large scale will provide interesting opportunities for behavioural study.
Do you follow the GPS advice like everyone else and get congested along the "best route?"
Or do you pick the busiest route knowing that everyone will avoid it?
I think the most effective general strategy is meant to be to alternate between obeying it and disobeying it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma
There looks like there could be a link between what we see on media and our actions, and the mirroring of the behaviour we see may not necessarily even be conscious. Tell me this effect would be lessened during the playing of an actual game. I want to believe it doesn't have an effect, but...
(From edge.org, http://edge.org/q2006/q06_print.html )
MARCO IACOBONI
Neuroscientist; Director, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab, UCLA
Media Violence Induces Imitative Violence: The Problem With Super Mirrors
Media violence induces imitative violence. If true, this idea is dangerous for at least two main reasons. First, because its implications are highly relevant to the issue of freedom of speech. Second, because it suggests that our rational autonomy is much more limited than we like to think. This idea is especially dangerous now, because we have discovered a plausible neural mechanism that can explain why observing violence induces imitative violence. Moreover, the properties of this neural mechanism -- the human mirror neuron system -- suggest that imitative violence may not always be a consciously mediated process. The argument for protecting even harmful speech (intended in a broad sense, including movies and videogames) has typically been that the effects of speech are always under the mental intermediation of the listener/viewer. If there is a plausible neurobiological mechanism that suggests that such intermediate step can be by-passed, this argument is no longer valid.
For more than 50 years behavioral data have suggested that media violence induces violent behavior in the observers. Meta-data show that the effect size of media violence is much larger than the effect size of calcium intake on bone mass, or of asbestos exposure to cancer. Still, the behavioral data have been criticized. How is that possible? Two main types of data have been invoked. Controlled laboratory experiments and correlational studies assessing types of media consumed and violent behavior. The lab data have been criticized on the account of not having enough ecological validity, whereas the correlational data have been criticized on the account that they have no explanatory power. Here, as a neuroscientist who is studying the human mirror neuron system and its relations to imitation, I want to focus on a recent neuroscience discovery that may explain why the strong imitative tendencies that humans have may lead them to imitative violence when exposed to media violence.
Mirror neurons are cells located in the premotor cortex, the part of the brain relevant to the planning, selection and execution of actions. In the ventral sector of the premotor cortex there are cells that fire in relation to specific goal-related motor acts, such as grasping, holding, tearing, and bringing to the mouth. Surprisingly, a subset of these cells -- what we call mirror neurons -- also fire when we observe somebody else performing the same action. The behavior of these cells seems to suggest that the observer is looking at her/his own actions reflected by a mirror, while watching somebody else's actions. My group has also shown in several studies that human mirror neuron areas are critical to imitation. There is also evidence that the activation of this neural system is fairly automatic, thus suggesting that it may by-pass conscious mediation. Moreover, mirror neurons also code the intention associated with observed actions, even though there is not a one-to-one mapping between actions and intentions (I can grasp a cup because I want to drink or because I want to put it in the dishwasher). This suggests that this system can indeed code sequences of action (i.e., what happens after I grasp the cup), even though only one action in the sequence has been observed.
Some years ago, when we still were a very small group of neuroscientists studying mirror neurons and we were just starting investigating the role of mirror neurons in intention understanding, we discussed the possi
Tell me this. Are US TV series' "season finales" now called "season finals" because of the anti-french bullshit drummed up by the US govt? (Aussie govt is doing it with muslims now, it's the age-old political practise of scape-goating to take attention off the govt's mistakes.)
Exactly. Government research in Australia has linked fast food consumption with geography, education, income, available services, etc.
State government policy is based around this research.
I used to think Darfur was just a fairy tale
Until that genocide until that first smile
But if I had to do it all again I wouldn't change a thing
Cause this war is everlasting
Sudanly "gangaweed" has new meaning to me
There's beauty up above and things we never take notice of
You wake up Sudanly you're in poverty
Girl you're everthing a man could rape and more
One thousand words are not enough to say what I feel inside
Holding dismembered hands as we walk along the shore
Never felt like this before now you're dying in Darfur
Each day I pray this love affair would last forever
There's beauty up above and things you never take notice of
You wake and Sudanly you're at war
Mac mini looks great until you need to plug in a bunch of peripherals, then it looks like a retarded spider. But to each their own. It does the job nicely for me.