No. You have some facts that are correct, individually, but you are drawing nonsensical conclusions.
True, individual muscle fibers are either contracted or relaxed--on or off as you say, but surface electromyography records from far more than a single muscle fiber. So at the population level, measuring a graded response is not only possible, but typical. Furthermore, the signal recorded is roughly linear and proportional to the number of fibers and motor units recruited (let's ignore the differences between type I and type II skeletal muscle fibers for the moment).
Your aside about the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system appears completely off topic.
Check out CyanogenMod. It has a ton of nice features such as wifi tethering and Apps2SD (which, while it doesn't magically increase your RAM, it does help a lot).
It sounds a bit silly, but it makes sense when you know that burglary, as traditionally defined by common law, occurs at nighttime by definition. So felony daytime burglary was something that the state legislature specifically created, probably to increase the penalties of breaking and entering during the daytime.
(*) Caveat: It must be a small challenge involving a relatively simple task. I don't have a lot of time to waste on this.
Nice caveat. Let me rephrase that another way for you: it is difficult to implement complicated functionality in C. Indeed, this is one reason to use higher level languages. You can achieve more in less time.
Well, Chromium doesn't even compile and run on linux yet beyond some unit-tests passing (AFAIK). By the time it's actually a viable browser in linux, these issues will have worked themselves out. My point was not that every single user should be able to fix this for themselves but that this is a very solvable problem, and one that will be receiving a lot of attention in the coming months.
Google has done us all a great service by releasing the code-- many parts of Chromium will soon find use in other projects. Google-url, for example, looks pretty handy. It looks like Chromium uses a modular design with a lot libraries (both from google and third-party), so even if it is, in toto, an enormous codebase, it shouldn't be too hard to isolate any undesirable functionality. In conclusion: the sky is not falling.;-)
I'm half expecting people to declare IMAP to be obsolete in a new age of webmail, and then turn around in 5 years and build a complete e-mail client extension into the browser using XML to pass e-mail around, but no HTML for the interface. To me, the whole web application took a funny turn when I realized that Google Reader also published RSS, thereby allowing you to view their web-app RSS reader in a client-end RSS reader application.
I think you are dead-on. It would not surprise me at all if this, perverse as it seems now, comes to pass in some form or another.
I wonder if all software and systems await similar fates or if there have been any theoretical results on this topic? There does seem to be a tension between the power of a tool and the ability for a tool to interact with other tools that do different jobs. Much of the early success of the web was, in my opinion, due to the fact that you didn't need a separate program for viewing images. They could be seemlessly viewed inline, which was revolutionary for the time. Apparently, it's nice to do lots of stuff in one place. I guess this explains emacs too. But then at some point, you find yourself with a program trying to do everything and then you get a pull in the other direction. Hence RSS and AJAX and now maybe ubiquity too. I don't have any answers or even a certainty that I understand the process, but there is definitely something Deep going on here.
(PS Do you think emacs expands until it becomes an entire OS in each parallel universe or just this one?)
I disagree. Metro areas are probably better on balance for bike commuting than sprawl-towns. This is because of the slower speed-limits on urban grid streets (25-35 mph) versus 45+ speed-limits typical in the suburbs.
As for your case, LA may in fact be the worst of both urban and suburban worlds, and for that I am sorry. That said, with some creativity you may be able to find a route that you can be comfortable with. Check with your local bike and pedestrian advocacy groups for suggestions.
RSS aggregation has mostly eliminated the need for sites like/., at least to me. It just doesn't have the monopoly on tech news and commentary that it used to. All the big names used to post here. Maybe some still do?
I'm happy to see that the comment system has gotten more high-tech, at least!:)
Anyway, don't worry too much about my lack of recent activity. I used to post here entirely too often...
And as I have said, if THEY don't follow the law (when dealing with me, there is no logical reason *I* should have to follow the law (when dealing with them).
To be fair, what you are referring to is not dishonesty by chemists (after-all, chemistry, by itself, does not tell us anything about the toxicity of lead) but rather dishonesty by medical scientists-- toxicologists, or epidemiologists, or whomever.
But I do agree with your overall point: money = sqrt(evil):(
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Indeed. (I'd post some hot grits here if only I weren't on a smartphone.)
No. You have some facts that are correct, individually, but you are drawing nonsensical conclusions. True, individual muscle fibers are either contracted or relaxed--on or off as you say, but surface electromyography records from far more than a single muscle fiber. So at the population level, measuring a graded response is not only possible, but typical. Furthermore, the signal recorded is roughly linear and proportional to the number of fibers and motor units recruited (let's ignore the differences between type I and type II skeletal muscle fibers for the moment). Your aside about the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system appears completely off topic.
Check out CyanogenMod. It has a ton of nice features such as wifi tethering and Apps2SD (which, while it doesn't magically increase your RAM, it does help a lot).
It sounds a bit silly, but it makes sense when you know that burglary, as traditionally defined by common law, occurs at nighttime by definition. So felony daytime burglary was something that the state legislature specifically created, probably to increase the penalties of breaking and entering during the daytime.
(*) Caveat: It must be a small challenge involving a relatively simple task. I don't have a lot of time to waste on this.
Nice caveat. Let me rephrase that another way for you: it is difficult to implement complicated functionality in C. Indeed, this is one reason to use higher level languages. You can achieve more in less time.
Well, Chromium doesn't even compile and run on linux yet beyond some unit-tests passing (AFAIK). By the time it's actually a viable browser in linux, these issues will have worked themselves out. My point was not that every single user should be able to fix this for themselves but that this is a very solvable problem, and one that will be receiving a lot of attention in the coming months.
Google has done us all a great service by releasing the code-- many parts of Chromium will soon find use in other projects. Google-url, for example, looks pretty handy. It looks like Chromium uses a modular design with a lot libraries (both from google and third-party), so even if it is, in toto, an enormous codebase, it shouldn't be too hard to isolate any undesirable functionality. In conclusion: the sky is not falling. ;-)
This is a non-issue. It's open-source, after all. Just remove or disable the parts that you find objectionable.
I'm not sure that I understand you: "using Yahoo's search engine" ??? What is this crazy talk?
I'm half expecting people to declare IMAP to be obsolete in a new age of webmail, and then turn around in 5 years and build a complete e-mail client extension into the browser using XML to pass e-mail around, but no HTML for the interface. To me, the whole web application took a funny turn when I realized that Google Reader also published RSS, thereby allowing you to view their web-app RSS reader in a client-end RSS reader application.
I think you are dead-on. It would not surprise me at all if this, perverse as it seems now, comes to pass in some form or another.
I wonder if all software and systems await similar fates or if there have been any theoretical results on this topic? There does seem to be a tension between the power of a tool and the ability for a tool to interact with other tools that do different jobs. Much of the early success of the web was, in my opinion, due to the fact that you didn't need a separate program for viewing images. They could be seemlessly viewed inline, which was revolutionary for the time. Apparently, it's nice to do lots of stuff in one place. I guess this explains emacs too. But then at some point, you find yourself with a program trying to do everything and then you get a pull in the other direction. Hence RSS and AJAX and now maybe ubiquity too. I don't have any answers or even a certainty that I understand the process, but there is definitely something Deep going on here.
(PS Do you think emacs expands until it becomes an entire OS in each parallel universe or just this one?)
Taxes?
That's what she said!
Thank you for doing your part to destroy the planet, jerk.
I disagree. Metro areas are probably better on balance for bike commuting than sprawl-towns. This is because of the slower speed-limits on urban grid streets (25-35 mph) versus 45+ speed-limits typical in the suburbs.
As for your case, LA may in fact be the worst of both urban and suburban worlds, and for that I am sorry. That said, with some creativity you may be able to find a route that you can be comfortable with. Check with your local bike and pedestrian advocacy groups for suggestions.
some people might say that a "list" is not the "property" of anyone.
Those people would be wrong. Depending on your jurisdiction databases (lists) may be covered by copyright or database rights[1].
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
Your point is well taken.
RSS aggregation has mostly eliminated the need for sites like /., at least to me. It just doesn't have the monopoly on tech news and commentary that it used to. All the big names used to post here. Maybe some still do?
I'm happy to see that the comment system has gotten more high-tech, at least! :)
Anyway, don't worry too much about my lack of recent activity. I used to post here entirely too often...
Buoys, rather. *Sigh*.
They're likely communicating with a surface bouys over a more appropriate frequency. The bouys then do the actual communicating with the satellites. See, eg: http://www.underwater-gps.com/uk/technology-GIB-concept.php
Wow, 6 digit UIDs are considered (s)low now?
You know, there's no law that requires you to own a car... ;)
my kingdom for some mod points!
Congratulations, you have rediscovered why trademarks exist.
Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.
To be fair, what you are referring to is not dishonesty by chemists (after-all, chemistry, by itself, does not tell us anything about the toxicity of lead) but rather dishonesty by medical scientists-- toxicologists, or epidemiologists, or whomever.
:(
But I do agree with your overall point: money = sqrt(evil)