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While this is a cool site, it's not like they are writing these articles. It'a a nicely themed blog, but if you ask me proper blogging etiquette would demand more visible recognition of the sites featuring the actual content.
I get a headache from using a mobile phone for more than a few minutes. There are plenty of other people who do also. Anecdotal for sure, but certainly something happens whether related to EM or not.
I believe you get a headache, but the question is: is it due to the mobile phone, psychosomatic, or something else? Have you tried using a headset?
The optimal way to fing out would be to have an appropriate EM-radiating device attached to your head for a few days, with it radiating at predefined (unknown to you) times. If you log headaches at the same times you know for sure... problem is I know of no such device, and I doubt the experiment would be worth it anyway;)
Also my English teacher (read tree hugger) mentioned that you get a headache when you are in one building since it got a cell antena on top. It is noticeable.
I'd say it's far more likely that any indoor headaches would be caused by bad air quality and/or ergonomics than elecromagnetic radiation.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but there is very little scientific evidence to support your teacher's claims. That I know of anyway, feel free to prove me wrong.
If you're writing code as fast as you can type, your language is overly verbose.
Exactly! And as the sibling post stated; using higher level languages is the key.
I see an application like this as a first step towards having a computer with the capability of writing the actual code. The task of the programmer is provide the creative energy: describing what the program should do, and how.
Python would be a prime candidate to start with on a project like this. It hasn't been called "executable pseudocode" for nothing...
One thought: read your own link: http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-voicetool s/index.html
Altough your comment is partially relevant to the article, it does not describe what I was referring to.
From the link you posted:
"This project proposal serves to take Eclipse into the voice application space. These tools can be used to develop interactive voice response (IVR) systems based on VoiceXML standards, such as speech-driven applications for performing bank transfers, retrieving e-mail, or querying flight information over the phone"
This project aims to facilitate voice application development with Eclipse. It does not focus on giving Eclipse itself voice capabilities.
Given the fact that most languages have a rather limited vocabulary, and the fact that class libraries and defined functions/variables can be extracted from existing code software like this could make educated guesses on what you were trying to say.
Eclipse is actually a kind-of Swiss Army Chainsaw -IDE. You can make plugins for pretty much everything, so one could speculate that a voice recognition plugin would be feasible.
I don't know about everyone else, but the concept of coding by voice does fascinate me. There are obvious issues (like eliminating having to say every single control character (if at all possible)), but with a background of RSI I think it's at least worth a shot.
The Who, The Clash, The Beatles, The Cure and so on: all native born.
Please save your politically correct/factually incorrect spewings for your social workers' get togethers.
Um, there is quite a bit more to popular music that the bands mentioned above. Take the whole Drum & Bass genre for example: quite a bit of very non-british influence, but much of the distribution is based in the UK.
I didn't claim that there's anything wrong with brits, but I claimed that a lot of people from all over got wind under their wings in the UK.
The rave scene in the early ninetees is another prime example. A rather international crowd, but lodas of publicity is to thank for the illegal raves and raids thereof.
I'm not sure what you were getting at in the first place, but pop music quite a bit more that the immediate rock derivatives...
The British impact on popular music over the last fifty years is arguably greater than that of any country in the world, including the US.
I'd be inclined to agree, but not because the brits themselves are that special. The UK just has happened to be the home of loads of talented people, many born elsewhere. The key factor was bringing the right people together (immigration), and having the means of getting the music out there (colonial history, anyone?)
The Google toolbar reports home to Google about sites people visit. Within a couple of minutes of someone viewing a URL that was private and only meant for them with a browser with the google toolbar installed the googlebot will come along to the site and grab the file for indexing. Nasty if you're not expecting it.
Nasty? Yes.
But then again, as far as I know Google does respect robots.txt. It's not hard to make a robots.txt file to exclude whatever dir you wish to use for temporary private viewing.
And it's not that hard (on Apache servers) to make an appropriate.htaccess file either.
A friend of mine said yesterday that he woke up at 4.30 and couldn't get back to sleep. I simply replied "As a parent, I can only say 'Screw you'."
I have four month old twins.
I bike to work, 12 miles every day.
I have not had to tell anyone to screw themselves.
I do get tired on occation, and I do feel down every now and then... but I doubt telling people to screw themselves would make me feel any better.
Try looking at the good things, concentrating on the bad stuff will only serve to make you bitter.
Besides, given that your friend had a different basis of comparison, his lack of sleep might have been a major issue for him. Stuff like this is always subjective, and trying to compare who has it harder is ofter rather pointless.
Using your monopoly position in illegal anticompetitive ways however, is.
Sort of quasi-off-topic, but here goes:
In Finland we have a rather interesting and deliberate monopoly situation in regards to gambling. Slot machines, tables and casinos are all controlled by RAY (decided by the state, I believe), but RAY on the other hand is a non-profit organization. RAY actially funds all sorts of cultural and social service activities. The same applies to Veikkaus, which controls the lottery, betting on sports and similar stuff.
The result is that gambling in Finland is indirectly giving money to charity, weird, but nice in it's own way. I guess I'm just trying to say that even a regulated monopoly can be a good thing, sometimes anyhow.
You going to pay for us to change all of the road signs all over the country that deal with "XXX tons maximum", "Height: 16'", "45 miles to _______", or "Speed limit: 70"?
Good point, but actually tons are a metric unit. One ton is 1000Kg:)
Before recording a WAV file (pcm coding), frequencies higher than half of the sample rate must have already been thrown away, to avoid aliasing.
This has nothing to do with MP3 compression. This is a direct result of the way sampling works, as proven by the Nyquist theorem (as referred to in your aliasing link.)
MP3, on the other hand, takes a sampled signal and applies psychoacoustic encoding, removing stuff we effectively can't hear, as stated by the grandparent post.
I know this is kind of off topic, but here goes anyway:
I used to use POV-Ray on a 486 in the early nineties, writing scenes by hand. At the time there was a POV artist called Mike Miller, who has created some very impressive scenes by the standars of yesteryear.
Does anyoe know what happened to Mike? It seems he disappeared from the POV scene completely. I bet some Slashdot reader is bound to know... Or not?
I'm curious to know if anyone out there has any experience with enhancing the ability to have lucid dreams.
I have the ability to have lucid dreams, but I've only had them in the morning. Basically all I do is decide to stay in bed and dream even though I'm actually waking up and could just as well get up.
I've found that in a sufficiently calm environment (alone in bed) I can induce lucid dreams if I relax and refrain from thinking to intensly. Moving is also a bad thing, as it makes you aware of your physical surroundings. I just let myself wake up really slowly while my mind keeps on dreaming.
A sidenote: I was able to do this while in school, nowadays with a wife & kids waking me up in the mornings I'm not able to enter a lucid dreamstate.
It's like learning a language wrong the first time. You are relearning. She'll be learning HTML properly for the very first time. As long as she reads books and tutorials and doesn't look at random web-page source, she'll learn it the proper way.
You have a good point, but I'd still claim it's only partially true. Most people learn basic HTML syntax to start with, but eventually start asking how to make "real" web pages. That's where the tricky bit comes in... it's magnitudes more complex to make semantc HTML and style it properly than it is to resort to introducing design hacks into the HTML.
But yes, if guided properly, a tabula rasa style HTML neophyte could probably learn to do things the right way straight away:)
I disagree. The syntax is easy enough, especially in XHTML (no this tag ends this tag doesn't mess.) But mastering HTML is much more than the syntax.
I've been doing HTML professionally for years, and I'm still working towards creating proper semantic documents and learning how to structure my content and then apply design.
Furthermore almost no sites actually validate against W3C's validator, and if you have mastered HTML you should be able to create valid documents.
But yes, HTML is easy to learn how to use in a matter of days.
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While this is a cool site, it's not like they are writing these articles. It'a a nicely themed blog, but if you ask me proper blogging etiquette would demand more visible recognition of the sites featuring the actual content.
Just my 2 cents, anyway.
I get a headache from using a mobile phone for more than a few minutes. There are plenty of other people who do also. Anecdotal for sure, but certainly something happens whether related to EM or not.
;)
I believe you get a headache, but the question is: is it due to the mobile phone, psychosomatic, or something else? Have you tried using a headset?
The optimal way to fing out would be to have an appropriate EM-radiating device attached to your head for a few days, with it radiating at predefined (unknown to you) times. If you log headaches at the same times you know for sure... problem is I know of no such device, and I doubt the experiment would be worth it anyway
Also my English teacher (read tree hugger) mentioned that you get a headache when you are in one building since it got a cell antena on top. It is noticeable.
I'd say it's far more likely that any indoor headaches would be caused by bad air quality and/or ergonomics than elecromagnetic radiation.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but there is very little scientific evidence to support your teacher's claims. That I know of anyway, feel free to prove me wrong.
9 terabits were transfered...
Yes, but how many Libraries of Congress is 9 terabits equivalent to?
If you're writing code as fast as you can type, your language is overly verbose.
Exactly! And as the sibling post stated; using higher level languages is the key.
I see an application like this as a first step towards having a computer with the capability of writing the actual code. The task of the programmer is provide the creative energy: describing what the program should do, and how.
Python would be a prime candidate to start with on a project like this. It hasn't been called "executable pseudocode" for nothing...
One thought: read your own link: http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-voicetool s/index.html
Altough your comment is partially relevant to the article, it does not describe what I was referring to.
From the link you posted:
"This project proposal serves to take Eclipse into the voice application space. These tools can be used to develop interactive voice response (IVR) systems based on VoiceXML standards, such as speech-driven applications for performing bank transfers, retrieving e-mail, or querying flight information over the phone"
This project aims to facilitate voice application development with Eclipse. It does not focus on giving Eclipse itself voice capabilities.
One more thing I forgot to mention in the parent:
Given the fact that most languages have a rather limited vocabulary, and the fact that class libraries and defined functions/variables can be extracted from existing code software like this could make educated guesses on what you were trying to say.
Eclipse is actually a kind-of Swiss Army Chainsaw -IDE. You can make plugins for pretty much everything, so one could speculate that a voice recognition plugin would be feasible.
I don't know about everyone else, but the concept of coding by voice does fascinate me. There are obvious issues (like eliminating having to say every single control character (if at all possible)), but with a background of RSI I think it's at least worth a shot.
Thoughts?
The Who, The Clash, The Beatles, The Cure and so on: all native born.
Please save your politically correct/factually incorrect spewings for your social workers' get togethers.
Um, there is quite a bit more to popular music that the bands mentioned above. Take the whole Drum & Bass genre for example: quite a bit of very non-british influence, but much of the distribution is based in the UK.
I didn't claim that there's anything wrong with brits, but I claimed that a lot of people from all over got wind under their wings in the UK.
The rave scene in the early ninetees is another prime example. A rather international crowd, but lodas of publicity is to thank for the illegal raves and raids thereof.
I'm not sure what you were getting at in the first place, but pop music quite a bit more that the immediate rock derivatives...
The British impact on popular music over the last fifty years is arguably greater than that of any country in the world, including the US.
:)
I'd be inclined to agree, but not because the brits themselves are that special. The UK just has happened to be the home of loads of talented people, many born elsewhere. The key factor was bringing the right people together (immigration), and having the means of getting the music out there (colonial history, anyone?)
Just my two cents
The Google toolbar reports home to Google about sites people visit. Within a couple of minutes of someone viewing a URL that was private and only meant for them with a browser with the google toolbar installed the googlebot will come along to the site and grab the file for indexing. Nasty if you're not expecting it.
.htaccess file either.
Nasty? Yes.
But then again, as far as I know Google does respect robots.txt. It's not hard to make a robots.txt file to exclude whatever dir you wish to use for temporary private viewing.
And it's not that hard (on Apache servers) to make an appropriate
You definitely, utterly, absolutely must have to are obliged to rent and watch Split Second with Rutger Hauer.
;)
People like you are inhuman. You remind me of the English cop. The rest of us, on the other hand, are probably hung over.
I probably will, although I find it somewhat amusing that you determined me to be inhuman based on a single Slashdot comment
I have a 6 month old daughter.
A friend of mine said yesterday that he woke up at 4.30 and couldn't get back to sleep. I simply replied "As a parent, I can only say 'Screw you'."
I have four month old twins.
I bike to work, 12 miles every day.
I have not had to tell anyone to screw themselves.
I do get tired on occation, and I do feel down every now and then... but I doubt telling people to screw themselves would make me feel any better.
Try looking at the good things, concentrating on the bad stuff will only serve to make you bitter.
Besides, given that your friend had a different basis of comparison, his lack of sleep might have been a major issue for him. Stuff like this is always subjective, and trying to compare who has it harder is ofter rather pointless.
Being a monopoly isn't illegal
Using your monopoly position in illegal anticompetitive ways however, is.
Sort of quasi-off-topic, but here goes:
In Finland we have a rather interesting and deliberate monopoly situation in regards to gambling. Slot machines, tables and casinos are all controlled by RAY (decided by the state, I believe), but RAY on the other hand is a non-profit organization. RAY actially funds all sorts of cultural and social service activities. The same applies to Veikkaus, which controls the lottery, betting on sports and similar stuff.
The result is that gambling in Finland is indirectly giving money to charity, weird, but nice in it's own way. I guess I'm just trying to say that even a regulated monopoly can be a good thing, sometimes anyhow.
You going to pay for us to change all of the road signs all over the country that deal with "XXX tons maximum", "Height: 16'", "45 miles to _______", or "Speed limit: 70"?
:)
Good point, but actually tons are a metric unit. One ton is 1000Kg
I only recently discovered the Google calculator, so in case it's new to you to:
100Km in feet
20 inches in cm
Instructions for the Google calculator
Googling is the solution to your problem...
"site:slashdot.org formula one genetic" -> Breeding Race Cars With Genetic Algorithms
Maybe we should treat other economic bads (e.g., pollution) in such a way: subsidize the non-production thereof.
;)
Taxing excessive pollution is rather common in Europe. Unfortunately actually paying people for doing the opposite is not
Before recording a WAV file (pcm coding), frequencies higher than half of the sample rate must have already been thrown away, to avoid aliasing.
This has nothing to do with MP3 compression. This is a direct result of the way sampling works, as proven by the Nyquist theorem (as referred to in your aliasing link.)
MP3, on the other hand, takes a sampled signal and applies psychoacoustic encoding, removing stuff we effectively can't hear, as stated by the grandparent post.
I know this is kind of off topic, but here goes anyway:
I used to use POV-Ray on a 486 in the early nineties, writing scenes by hand. At the time there was a POV artist called Mike Miller, who has created some very impressive scenes by the standars of yesteryear.
Does anyoe know what happened to Mike? It seems he disappeared from the POV scene completely. I bet some Slashdot reader is bound to know... Or not?
I'm curious to know if anyone out there has any experience with enhancing the ability to have lucid dreams.
I have the ability to have lucid dreams, but I've only had them in the morning. Basically all I do is decide to stay in bed and dream even though I'm actually waking up and could just as well get up.
I've found that in a sufficiently calm environment (alone in bed) I can induce lucid dreams if I relax and refrain from thinking to intensly. Moving is also a bad thing, as it makes you aware of your physical surroundings. I just let myself wake up really slowly while my mind keeps on dreaming.
A sidenote: I was able to do this while in school, nowadays with a wife & kids waking me up in the mornings I'm not able to enter a lucid dreamstate.
i own a LED dotmatrix display - Dude, I totally read that as "i own a LED dominatrix display"...
;)
The real question is: What would a LED dominatrix display actually be?
It's like learning a language wrong the first time. You are relearning. She'll be learning HTML properly for the very first time. As long as she reads books and tutorials and doesn't look at random web-page source, she'll learn it the proper way.
:)
You have a good point, but I'd still claim it's only partially true. Most people learn basic HTML syntax to start with, but eventually start asking how to make "real" web pages. That's where the tricky bit comes in... it's magnitudes more complex to make semantc HTML and style it properly than it is to resort to introducing design hacks into the HTML.
But yes, if guided properly, a tabula rasa style HTML neophyte could probably learn to do things the right way straight away
On HTML:
It can be mastered in a matter of days
I disagree. The syntax is easy enough, especially in XHTML (no this tag ends this tag doesn't mess.) But mastering HTML is much more than the syntax.
I've been doing HTML professionally for years, and I'm still working towards creating proper semantic documents and learning how to structure my content and then apply design.
Furthermore almost no sites actually validate against W3C's validator, and if you have mastered HTML you should be able to create valid documents.
But yes, HTML is easy to learn how to use in a matter of days.
What insensitive clods! What about those of us who need to pick up a few extra pounds?
There's a solution for that. It's called The Skinny Bastard Diet.