Yeah, yeah, Wikipedia - but there are plenty of good references there.
Unless you can't take aspirin or ibu profin, forget it.
And how are you so sure that the apirin/ibuprofen is what's doing the job? There are studies that show that the efficacy of painkillers is affected by the colour of the pill. Even by what the subject paid for the pill. The placebo effect is amazing.
Sure, for serious conditions, it's no substitute for proper treatment. But it's vastly more powerful than most people give it credit for, and of course it's an ethical minefield because it works best when the subject is being misled.
There's a good chapter on this in Ben Goldacre's book, Bad Science.
There are researchers who would be eager to hear from you, if you can really discern the presence of RF at these frequencies, in double-blind conditions.
Not that I doubt your experience - psychosomatic effects and placebos are very powerful things.
I don't know how effective a treatment it is to have your experience's lack of physical cause demonstrated. I imagine in many cases it would merely cause confusion and anger. Plenty of people continue to respond to homeopathy even though their rational mind knows it can only be a placebo.
How much more energy does it take to keep something hovering over a surface as compared to landing said something on the surface? I would imagine that fatigue (of the fingers, hands, forearms, and etc.) would be a much bigger problem should non-touch, gesture based navigation become widespread. Right now it's our wrists, imagine waving your arms in the air for 6 to 8 hours a day.
It's definitely an issue, but not an insurmountable one.
Firstly, it's clearly not practical to use a touch screen in the eye level position my monitor's currently at. My shoulder would be in agony after 10 minutes. You'd want the screen to be in a similar position to where you'd put a notepad or sketchbook when writing/drawing.
Secondly, you don't want to be hovering your entire hand for long periods. If you're writing or drawing, you usually rest the wrist or the heel of your hand on the paper. Hence, a good touch interface needs to let you do this, by recognising and ignoring those touches (how to do that: someone else's problem).
Yes, and the hardware needs to be reasonably widespread before the hot-shot UI designers work out how best to use it.
I thought pinch zoom/rotate was inspired when I first saw it, but I think we've only scratched the surface (heh) of what intuitive interfaces can be achieved with multitouch. Add pressure sensitivity and the palette becomes so much richer.
I think if you could somehow make the 1cm in front of your screen something you can interact directly with would be great - giving you 'hover' semantics on top of touch and pressure.
I prefer the keyboard. It's still the most effective input method and the fastest way to manage your computer and smartphone (provided you learned the hotkeys and commands)
That entirely depends what you're doing. If you're drawing a picture, the keyboard is usually a terrible interface
Even when there are exceptional cases -- for example, I've not found a better way to produce sequence diagrams than the text-driven http://www.websequencediagrams.com/ -- you can hypothesise a nicer interface based on touching/clicking and dragging.
It's not even the remoteness of the conversation. A conversation, or worse a heated argument, with passengers in the car can be just as dangerous.
I'm sure I've seen mention of studies that show that remote conversations are more dangers (yes, yes: [citation needed]).
A plausible explanation is that when you're having a conversation with someone in the passenger seat, they know when, for example, you're negotiation a busy junction, and will pause to let you concentrate on the road, tolerate pauses in your own speech without butting in, etc.
No, you can throw code at a computer and get it to produce something you want. Thats not impressive.
In fairness to the OP, he was responding to a meme that appears in Jeff Atwood's blog and elsewhere, that job candidates show up who can't even write a Fizzbuzz program when asked to.
Employers who take on new graduates for low salaries shouldn't expect to get someone who can produce well architected, production grade code with minimal supervision. Hell, I've been doing it 10 years, and I still have plenty of room for improvement. They should expect to mould their new employee and help them grow. But they have a right to expect someone who can write Fizzbuzz.
Look at Oracle solutions. All their fancy eBusiness software is still Oracle SQL DB backed and some of the biggest companies in the world are using it.
Yep, "nobody ever got fired for choosing Oracle".
But to get performance and fault tolerance for Oracle, you need to throw a lot of money at it -- high end hardware, RAC licenses etc. Whereas some of the NoSQL DBs promise lots of scalability on clusters of cheap hardware -- situations where failing hardware is the norm.
If your application suits it (i.e. your data fits the name/value system, and eventual consistency is adequate) why not use something fast and cheap?
See it like this: On a “free” site, they only get money for a click on an advertisement. Not for showing it.
I don't believe this is true for certain big sites. Yes, it's the model for lots of popular ad brokers. But there are advertisers who don't want or need click-throughs. An ad for Coke or McDonalds or Gap, or any number of other brands is worth money to them simply by exposing eyes to the logo once more.
How is the parent post not relevant? He is talking about a condition that some actually view as a disease, others view as a lifestyle choice, and still others view as just the way some people are.
If we can find someone who considers colour blindness to be a lifestyle choice, we're on our way to relevancy.
I guess you were joking, but just for the benefit of any passing geek wannabes:
The Turing Test (an "hard AI" concept) and the Turing Machine (a conceptual computer) are related only in that they were conceived by the same man. You don't need a Turing Machine to pass the Turing Test.
I've been using XBMC since.... well, since it first came out for the original XBox. It didn't stream web content though, and to this day it's still a PITA to stream through the modern XBMC, even in Windows.
There are XBMC scripts for various kinds of streaming. I've not bothered with them very much, but in my brief attempts, it seemed to do a decent job of YouTube and BBC 'listen again' streaming (can't remember whether it did iPlayer video).
I use XBMC on the original Xbox a lot, streaming AVI files etc. from my Mac over SMB. It works beautifully. It's not got the grunt for 720p, but I'm not particularly bothered by that.
13, 14 & 15 y/o's need supervision (and some even older).
Just out of curiosity, what country are you in? And if the US, what state?
I'm in the UK. Aged 11, it was pretty normal for me and most of my peers to find our own way to the bus stop, get the bus 5 miles into town, walk the rest of the way to school, then get back. The school allowed us to walk into town for lunch, unsupervised.
At 16 you're old enough to leave school, get a job and live independently.
Whether it's a good idea, is another matter. Sure, nothing will be technically wrong with the rendering. But those scenes were never framed to be viewed in stereo. Someone carefully chose the angles and the focal lengths, based on a 2D target.
It's not that they think Theora will win in the end. It's that they want some free standard to win in the end, and they know that won't happen if they (of all people) fold on H.264.
The money they'd have to pay for including it in their distribution isn't the issue. It's the fees people in future would have to pay for creating and distributing movies. They want the Web to be democratic, and that means everyone gets to contribute, whatever their financial means.
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It looks like this game has 4 dimensions of space.
If time is the 4th dimension, then older games like Pac Man are 3D, conventional modern games are 4D, and this game is 5D.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Symptoms_and_conditions
Yeah, yeah, Wikipedia - but there are plenty of good references there.
Unless you can't take aspirin or ibu profin, forget it.
And how are you so sure that the apirin/ibuprofen is what's doing the job? There are studies that show that the efficacy of painkillers is affected by the colour of the pill. Even by what the subject paid for the pill. The placebo effect is amazing.
Sure, for serious conditions, it's no substitute for proper treatment. But it's vastly more powerful than most people give it credit for, and of course it's an ethical minefield because it works best when the subject is being misled.
There's a good chapter on this in Ben Goldacre's book, Bad Science.
Are you trying to tell me that the placebo effect is not powerful?
Have you read much about it? Placebos are miracle cures!
There are researchers who would be eager to hear from you, if you can really discern the presence of RF at these frequencies, in double-blind conditions.
Not that I doubt your experience - psychosomatic effects and placebos are very powerful things.
I don't know how effective a treatment it is to have your experience's lack of physical cause demonstrated. I imagine in many cases it would merely cause confusion and anger. Plenty of people continue to respond to homeopathy even though their rational mind knows it can only be a placebo.
For that to work, he'd have to believe that Faraday cages work.
Since he clearly has no truck with science, why would he believe that?
How much more energy does it take to keep something hovering over a surface as compared to landing said something on the surface? I would imagine that fatigue (of the fingers, hands, forearms, and etc.) would be a much bigger problem should non-touch, gesture based navigation become widespread. Right now it's our wrists, imagine waving your arms in the air for 6 to 8 hours a day.
It's definitely an issue, but not an insurmountable one.
Firstly, it's clearly not practical to use a touch screen in the eye level position my monitor's currently at. My shoulder would be in agony after 10 minutes. You'd want the screen to be in a similar position to where you'd put a notepad or sketchbook when writing/drawing.
Secondly, you don't want to be hovering your entire hand for long periods. If you're writing or drawing, you usually rest the wrist or the heel of your hand on the paper. Hence, a good touch interface needs to let you do this, by recognising and ignoring those touches (how to do that: someone else's problem).
No, I mean like 10 mouse pointers.
Although at present, it's 10 mice with a single button, that only transmit position data when the button is held down.
Yes, and the hardware needs to be reasonably widespread before the hot-shot UI designers work out how best to use it.
I thought pinch zoom/rotate was inspired when I first saw it, but I think we've only scratched the surface (heh) of what intuitive interfaces can be achieved with multitouch. Add pressure sensitivity and the palette becomes so much richer.
I think if you could somehow make the 1cm in front of your screen something you can interact directly with would be great - giving you 'hover' semantics on top of touch and pressure.
I prefer the keyboard. It's still the most effective input method and the fastest way to manage your computer and smartphone (provided you learned the hotkeys and commands)
That entirely depends what you're doing. If you're drawing a picture, the keyboard is usually a terrible interface
Even when there are exceptional cases -- for example, I've not found a better way to produce sequence diagrams than the text-driven http://www.websequencediagrams.com/ -- you can hypothesise a nicer interface based on touching/clicking and dragging.
It's not even the remoteness of the conversation. A conversation, or worse a heated argument, with passengers in the car can be just as dangerous.
I'm sure I've seen mention of studies that show that remote conversations are more dangers (yes, yes: [citation needed]).
A plausible explanation is that when you're having a conversation with someone in the passenger seat, they know when, for example, you're negotiation a busy junction, and will pause to let you concentrate on the road, tolerate pauses in your own speech without butting in, etc.
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No, you can throw code at a computer and get it to produce something you want. Thats not impressive.
In fairness to the OP, he was responding to a meme that appears in Jeff Atwood's blog and elsewhere, that job candidates show up who can't even write a Fizzbuzz program when asked to.
Employers who take on new graduates for low salaries shouldn't expect to get someone who can produce well architected, production grade code with minimal supervision. Hell, I've been doing it 10 years, and I still have plenty of room for improvement. They should expect to mould their new employee and help them grow. But they have a right to expect someone who can write Fizzbuzz.
Look at Oracle solutions. All their fancy eBusiness software is still Oracle SQL DB backed and some of the biggest companies in the world are using it.
Yep, "nobody ever got fired for choosing Oracle".
But to get performance and fault tolerance for Oracle, you need to throw a lot of money at it -- high end hardware, RAC licenses etc. Whereas some of the NoSQL DBs promise lots of scalability on clusters of cheap hardware -- situations where failing hardware is the norm.
If your application suits it (i.e. your data fits the name/value system, and eventual consistency is adequate) why not use something fast and cheap?
See it like this: On a “free” site, they only get money for a click on an advertisement. Not for showing it.
I don't believe this is true for certain big sites. Yes, it's the model for lots of popular ad brokers. But there are advertisers who don't want or need click-throughs. An ad for Coke or McDonalds or Gap, or any number of other brands is worth money to them simply by exposing eyes to the logo once more.
It's hinted in the article -- and I've seen it elsewhere -- that if they retain 5% of their current online readership, that counts as a win.
That's a small enough number that my instinct ("Nobody'll pay for it") doesn't feel all that reliable.
Is it just about possible that 5% will pay? I think it's unlikely, but not completely impossible. It'll be interesting to see, that's for sure.
How is the parent post not relevant? He is talking about a condition that some actually view as a disease, others view as a lifestyle choice, and still others view as just the way some people are.
If we can find someone who considers colour blindness to be a lifestyle choice, we're on our way to relevancy.
I guess you were joking, but just for the benefit of any passing geek wannabes:
The Turing Test (an "hard AI" concept) and the Turing Machine (a conceptual computer) are related only in that they were conceived by the same man. You don't need a Turing Machine to pass the Turing Test.
I'm sure with effort you could draw an ASCII art Turing machine that looks like goatse...
The WiFi on my Wii is terrible - not good enough for basic SD YouTube streaming. I gather that's not unusual.
It's not the internet connection or the access point -- other devices connecting the same way do just fine.
I've been using XBMC since.... well, since it first came out for the original XBox. It didn't stream web content though, and to this day it's still a PITA to stream through the modern XBMC, even in Windows.
There are XBMC scripts for various kinds of streaming. I've not bothered with them very much, but in my brief attempts, it seemed to do a decent job of YouTube and BBC 'listen again' streaming (can't remember whether it did iPlayer video).
I use XBMC on the original Xbox a lot, streaming AVI files etc. from my Mac over SMB. It works beautifully. It's not got the grunt for 720p, but I'm not particularly bothered by that.
13, 14 & 15 y/o's need supervision (and some even older).
Just out of curiosity, what country are you in? And if the US, what state?
I'm in the UK. Aged 11, it was pretty normal for me and most of my peers to find our own way to the bus stop, get the bus 5 miles into town, walk the rest of the way to school, then get back. The school allowed us to walk into town for lunch, unsupervised.
At 16 you're old enough to leave school, get a job and live independently.
Correct. It was a way to increase the yield of usable products from a fab plant.
Yep. Toy Story is already (re)done.
Whether it's a good idea, is another matter. Sure, nothing will be technically wrong with the rendering. But those scenes were never framed to be viewed in stereo. Someone carefully chose the angles and the focal lengths, based on a 2D target.
With some exceptions (exclusivity deals on Google Maps content!), Google hasn't so far played the overly controlling game.
They've fairly consistently played the "grow the pie for everyone" game.
It's not that they think Theora will win in the end. It's that they want some free standard to win in the end, and they know that won't happen if they (of all people) fold on H.264.
The money they'd have to pay for including it in their distribution isn't the issue. It's the fees people in future would have to pay for creating and distributing movies. They want the Web to be democratic, and that means everyone gets to contribute, whatever their financial means.
I was going to argue that the nose terminates at the lung, but you're right -- there is a hole starting at the nose and ending at the mouth.