Sandisk: it's OK until you use the microsd expansion. My sandisk indexes its native 4 gig in a few seconds, but it takes 6 minutes to do the full 12 gigs. This'd be fine, if the card interface wasn't so touchy that it finds a "new" card every time you drop it or even squeeze it too hard. I wish they'd add a quick hash-check to see if the card had actually changed.
All mp3 players seem to have some crappiness to them.
But Hitchhiker's Guide was originally the radio show. I think you've indirectly supported the point even better than you thought!:-) The adaptation to book form suits your tastes better than the original did, and in part because it wasn't a "direct transcription" but rather was actively adapted to the new format.
Personally, my favorite adaptation is the BBC TV mini-series and, in second place, the scripts of the radio version (I've never listened to it, just read it). There might even be someone out there who prefers the Hollywood movie, though it seems rather unlikely.
Regarding Dune, I like the books as well as the Lynch movie. The Sci-Fi miniseries failed because... they tried to do a direct adaptation and thus missed the point entirely. (Also the production values were simply painful. e.g. the glowing blue Fremen eyes which wandered around in the general proximity of the face, and the title card reading "Maud'Dib" (sic).)
I watched this campy movie way too many times as a kid.
Johnny is carrying the data (why? well, I guess that, in the story universe, all crypto, including quantum mechanical, has been broken).
Meanwhile, the decryption key is sent electronically (two-factor approach; that makes sense). There's that silly hacking scene, where Johnny tracks the transmission of the key, to a fax shop in Newark (with a phone-line modem handshake noise thrown in just for kicks...).
Later on, they "loop [Johnny's mind] through Jones," the dolphin, so Neo^h^h^hJohnny fights an amorphous ICE construct "protecting the data". Johnny doubles himself in order to beat up a computer virus and wins.
In so doing (apparently?), Johnny reclaims/reconstructs the childhood memories he'd dumped in order to become a data courier, one of which involves a mother figure resembling the dead daughter of the Pharmakom founder. It's sort of vague, to put it mildly. One interpretation is that the dead daughter is Johnny's mother. I think the point is that although Johnny's past is fully and totally destroyed, he has nonetheless redeemed himself and been rewarded with new memories. These new memories are the product of society, and not the individual, and thus represent a sort of acquiescence/merging. Similar theme is in Gibson's Pattern Recognition and even The Belonging Kind.
The movie had some good ideas, but gosh... is it really worth finding them?
Strangely, I read that Gibson believes the movie was good, and that they ruined it in editing. I'd have to see it to believe it and, surprise surprise, there is no extended cut...
Totally. Maybe my favorite part of Dune was the dinner party at Arrakis, which takes place fairly early. Everyone is so cold and ruthless, nearly Balkanized and scheming for power, while existentially terrified in a new land. It really gave the impression that the "initial conditions" were all there, and if you were clever enough you could figure out everything just from that one scene.
And then the Sci-Fi channel version of that was just painfully flat; all the useless details were there but no one knew what was really happening. (Also, to nitpick: one of the title cards in the mini-series actually spelled out Maud'Dib (sic). It's a nitpick, but still... seriously?)
I just don't think Dune is filmable in a conventional way, and any such attempt will fail. I liked the Lynch version a lot, but I'm still glad Alejandro Jodorowski (shudder) didn't get his mitts on it.
Random trivia: Salvador Dali was a principal for the Jodorowski project; he insisted on having a Harkonnen toilet made up of two sculpted dolphin-heads facing each other, open-mouthed for obvious reasons. Yeah...
Wasn't it inferior, because the entire concept of parsed-natural language commands was boggy and inferior to a GUI for almost all users? There was no way Cornerstone could have been made a serious competitor, but I guess someone had to try. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time, but assuming even base-line literacy in your customers is a dangerous step...
The backlight thing was not specific to my hardware.
The wireless thing... well, maybe it is. But since Intel as apparently cooperating to get decent linux drivers developed, it's hard to believe that I could do much better except by getting lucky. (http://intellinuxwireless.org/)
If there is no systematic approach by which I can get good, up-to-date hardware that's linux-compatible, then claiming "hardware incompatibility" is kind of a weak excuse.
If Canonical got into hardware and developed an ultraportable, that'd be sweet. I wouldn't even mind a proprietary-type linux that I had to pay for, although I doubt that'll ever happen, for better or worse.
Anyway, my point was just that I can get it fixed/worked around (that is, most of the time and barely), but I don't like doing it and certainly the "average user" couldn't.
If they did something like that, they wouldn't be allowed to call their stuff USB (which they do), since it's a trademark held by USB Implementers Forum Inc. and licensed only under agreement of compatibility.
Apple makes bank from people who don't know any better. Scrounging a few bucks from geeks isn't worth this kind of danger.
Seriously. On my desktop, the audio for an application would start out fine and then gradually fade to static in 5-10 seconds. What kind of a bug would do that? It's mind-boggling.
Anyway I installed some manager app and fiddled mindlessly with settings for a while, which magically fixed it.
If only I didn't have to write a script for ubuntu to reload my wireless modules periodically. At least its brightness actually controls my backlight, so I didn't have to script a hack like I did for 7.04. There's more bullshit, I just don't remember it now. I only wish that I didn't have to use the cli in ubuntu.
ubuntu has gotten easy enough to work for the technically-capable person who doesn't want to bother too much with details. it's still not something I'd recommend to an average user, unfortunately.
I'm just a naive ubuntu 9.10 user, but if nothing else: it recovers journal and, especially, fscks fast. Haven't noticed any speed difference in standard use, but I haven't really cared to measure.
For one, the proportions aren't independent. The college-educated tend, overall, to be more attractive than the general population, for one. (of course the specifics depend further on which college it is)
It seems to work in the given context. Also it sets up a physical audit trail, and makes it hard to over-distribute sensitive information. Sometimes design is about making it unobtrusively hard to do certain things.
I recall that they kept the "shredda", sterilized and sealed in helium canisters buried deep underground. This was their argument that the shredding-process is actually better for preservation, since the text is rot-free and could in principle be reconstructed later.
Or at least that's what they claim. Is it revealed somewhere that they actually were burning it? I don't remember.
It's a neat idea though and not like you need to destroy every copy of the book anyways. Unique or rare books could be scanned page-by-page, and this done to the others.
The current statistical research is in developing less conservative and thus more powerful methods. The standard practice in genetics is to over-correct, and the neuroscientists (having recently been shamed over it) are coming around too.
It's a state university. Like it or not, that's not the same thing as working for a private employer as has been affirmed in many court cases. Government money == you treat people by the public standard. (the problem is, of course, that we don't have a public standard, but we must keep pretending we do. it's, in fact, so bad that some people want to burn the whole place down and choose the chattel slavery of "libertarianism")
It doesn't show ignorance in statistics as such. I think that most of them would agree, more or less, with the statement "if you control for all confounding variables then, except for a few managable technical problems, the analysis will be causally valid."
Now from my observations, what the "c!=c" people generally believe is that scientists who've spent months or years on a subject, have not even tried accounting for even the most obvious confounders. It's a symptom of hubris and closedmindedness, not ignorance or stupidity.
Of course, often there is a valid criticism, but it's the burden of the critic to RTFA and give an insightful critique in terms of the experimental methodology at hand, instead of a sound bite. In that sense, I agree, it is very unfortunate that "c!=c" sounds so erudite; it helps one overlook the fact, that one is not contributing any information or insight.
I have. It's mostly common sense these days. Like heliocentrism, formally-argued ruthlessness has moved from heretical idea, to a mathematically-supported prescription for running the world. The historical details are interesting, and it's never a bad idea to read a classic, but I don't think any reasonably aware person is going to have their mind blown by Macchiavelli.
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Sandisk: it's OK until you use the microsd expansion. My sandisk indexes its native 4 gig in a few seconds, but it takes 6 minutes to do the full 12 gigs. This'd be fine, if the card interface wasn't so touchy that it finds a "new" card every time you drop it or even squeeze it too hard. I wish they'd add a quick hash-check to see if the card had actually changed.
All mp3 players seem to have some crappiness to them.
Clearly not. They were reacting very quickly to the headline.
But Hitchhiker's Guide was originally the radio show. I think you've indirectly supported the point even better than you thought! :-) The adaptation to book form suits your tastes better than the original did, and in part because it wasn't a "direct transcription" but rather was actively adapted to the new format.
Personally, my favorite adaptation is the BBC TV mini-series and, in second place, the scripts of the radio version (I've never listened to it, just read it). There might even be someone out there who prefers the Hollywood movie, though it seems rather unlikely.
Regarding Dune, I like the books as well as the Lynch movie. The Sci-Fi miniseries failed because... they tried to do a direct adaptation and thus missed the point entirely. (Also the production values were simply painful. e.g. the glowing blue Fremen eyes which wandered around in the general proximity of the face, and the title card reading "Maud'Dib" (sic).)
I watched this campy movie way too many times as a kid.
Johnny is carrying the data (why? well, I guess that, in the story universe, all crypto, including quantum mechanical, has been broken).
Meanwhile, the decryption key is sent electronically (two-factor approach; that makes sense). There's that silly hacking scene, where Johnny tracks the transmission of the key, to a fax shop in Newark (with a phone-line modem handshake noise thrown in just for kicks...).
Later on, they "loop [Johnny's mind] through Jones," the dolphin, so Neo^h^h^hJohnny fights an amorphous ICE construct "protecting the data". Johnny doubles himself in order to beat up a computer virus and wins.
In so doing (apparently?), Johnny reclaims/reconstructs the childhood memories he'd dumped in order to become a data courier, one of which involves a mother figure resembling the dead daughter of the Pharmakom founder. It's sort of vague, to put it mildly. One interpretation is that the dead daughter is Johnny's mother. I think the point is that although Johnny's past is fully and totally destroyed, he has nonetheless redeemed himself and been rewarded with new memories. These new memories are the product of society, and not the individual, and thus represent a sort of acquiescence/merging. Similar theme is in Gibson's Pattern Recognition and even The Belonging Kind.
The movie had some good ideas, but gosh... is it really worth finding them?
Strangely, I read that Gibson believes the movie was good, and that they ruined it in editing. I'd have to see it to believe it and, surprise surprise, there is no extended cut...
Totally. Maybe my favorite part of Dune was the dinner party at Arrakis, which takes place fairly early. Everyone is so cold and ruthless, nearly Balkanized and scheming for power, while existentially terrified in a new land. It really gave the impression that the "initial conditions" were all there, and if you were clever enough you could figure out everything just from that one scene.
And then the Sci-Fi channel version of that was just painfully flat; all the useless details were there but no one knew what was really happening. (Also, to nitpick: one of the title cards in the mini-series actually spelled out Maud'Dib (sic). It's a nitpick, but still... seriously?)
I just don't think Dune is filmable in a conventional way, and any such attempt will fail. I liked the Lynch version a lot, but I'm still glad Alejandro Jodorowski (shudder) didn't get his mitts on it.
Random trivia: Salvador Dali was a principal for the Jodorowski project; he insisted on having a Harkonnen toilet made up of two sculpted dolphin-heads facing each other, open-mouthed for obvious reasons. Yeah...
Or for those who already use the R package, that's also nice. When dc doesn't cut it, I fire up R.
Also, this never clicked for me, but it seems like a good idea: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html
Wasn't it inferior, because the entire concept of parsed-natural language commands was boggy and inferior to a GUI for almost all users? There was no way Cornerstone could have been made a serious competitor, but I guess someone had to try. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time, but assuming even base-line literacy in your customers is a dangerous step...
The backlight thing was not specific to my hardware.
The wireless thing... well, maybe it is. But since Intel as apparently cooperating to get decent linux drivers developed, it's hard to believe that I could do much better except by getting lucky. (http://intellinuxwireless.org/)
If there is no systematic approach by which I can get good, up-to-date hardware that's linux-compatible, then claiming "hardware incompatibility" is kind of a weak excuse.
If Canonical got into hardware and developed an ultraportable, that'd be sweet. I wouldn't even mind a proprietary-type linux that I had to pay for, although I doubt that'll ever happen, for better or worse.
Anyway, my point was just that I can get it fixed/worked around (that is, most of the time and barely), but I don't like doing it and certainly the "average user" couldn't.
If they did something like that, they wouldn't be allowed to call their stuff USB (which they do), since it's a trademark held by USB Implementers Forum Inc. and licensed only under agreement of compatibility.
Apple makes bank from people who don't know any better. Scrounging a few bucks from geeks isn't worth this kind of danger.
Seriously. On my desktop, the audio for an application would start out fine and then gradually fade to static in 5-10 seconds. What kind of a bug would do that? It's mind-boggling.
Anyway I installed some manager app and fiddled mindlessly with settings for a while, which magically fixed it.
If only I didn't have to write a script for ubuntu to reload my wireless modules periodically. At least its brightness actually controls my backlight, so I didn't have to script a hack like I did for 7.04. There's more bullshit, I just don't remember it now. I only wish that I didn't have to use the cli in ubuntu.
ubuntu has gotten easy enough to work for the technically-capable person who doesn't want to bother too much with details. it's still not something I'd recommend to an average user, unfortunately.
I'm just a naive ubuntu 9.10 user, but if nothing else: it recovers journal and, especially, fscks fast. Haven't noticed any speed difference in standard use, but I haven't really cared to measure.
For one, the proportions aren't independent. The college-educated tend, overall, to be more attractive than the general population, for one. (of course the specifics depend further on which college it is)
It seems to work in the given context. Also it sets up a physical audit trail, and makes it hard to over-distribute sensitive information. Sometimes design is about making it unobtrusively hard to do certain things.
I recall that they kept the "shredda", sterilized and sealed in helium canisters buried deep underground. This was their argument that the shredding-process is actually better for preservation, since the text is rot-free and could in principle be reconstructed later.
Or at least that's what they claim. Is it revealed somewhere that they actually were burning it? I don't remember.
It's a neat idea though and not like you need to destroy every copy of the book anyways. Unique or rare books could be scanned page-by-page, and this done to the others.
The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell... hi-ho the merry-o, the farmer in the dell.
Once again, random slashdotters are come to reveal basic statistics to those benighted scientists!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_testing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_discovery_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonferroni_correction
The current statistical research is in developing less conservative and thus more powerful methods. The standard practice in genetics is to over-correct, and the neuroscientists (having recently been shamed over it) are coming around too.
don't expect society (and me) to take responsibility instead
So, hypothetically, if there were absolutely no public funding, direct or indirect, for abortion services, you'd be OK with it?
Or does private enterprise count as "society taking responsibility"? In this case, are you willing to admit that you are a socialist?
"Manually altering the eigenvectors of a link matrix, is like cutting warm butter..."
"I'll be back, Bennett!"
It's a state university. Like it or not, that's not the same thing as working for a private employer as has been affirmed in many court cases. Government money == you treat people by the public standard. (the problem is, of course, that we don't have a public standard, but we must keep pretending we do. it's, in fact, so bad that some people want to burn the whole place down and choose the chattel slavery of "libertarianism")
It doesn't show ignorance in statistics as such. I think that most of them would agree, more or less, with the statement "if you control for all confounding variables then, except for a few managable technical problems, the analysis will be causally valid."
Now from my observations, what the "c!=c" people generally believe is that scientists who've spent months or years on a subject, have not even tried accounting for even the most obvious confounders. It's a symptom of hubris and closedmindedness, not ignorance or stupidity.
Of course, often there is a valid criticism, but it's the burden of the critic to RTFA and give an insightful critique in terms of the experimental methodology at hand, instead of a sound bite. In that sense, I agree, it is very unfortunate that "c!=c" sounds so erudite; it helps one overlook the fact, that one is not contributing any information or insight.
In the land of irritated vaginas, the one nozzled-douche is king?
"Sometimes its not."
So you apparently DO believe in the "brain-wiring" (as you oversimplify it) theory in some cases. Why then would you deny it outright?
It's been around for over 10 years, man. 22-10=12.
I have. It's mostly common sense these days. Like heliocentrism, formally-argued ruthlessness has moved from heretical idea, to a mathematically-supported prescription for running the world. The historical details are interesting, and it's never a bad idea to read a classic, but I don't think any reasonably aware person is going to have their mind blown by Macchiavelli.