that would make them even more sensitive to sarcasm, right?:P
valid point, nonetheless. but i'm pretty sure neuroscientists/psychologists try to create controlled conditions in their experiments, and therefore wouldn't mix American and Chinese subjects in such a study.
well he considers himself neither white or black hat (nor grey). i liked that part, in fact.
underground, black hat, etc, are just artificial constructs and very dependent on local law, which is not exactly the same in different parts of the world.
all right... i don't think the person posting this article took his time and read through the site, or else he wouldn't expect a balanced review.
this site is not exactly reasonable and balanced in its opinions. look at the "achilles heel of linux" article, in which he describes that he cannot get one particular sound card working on linux...
as long as there are people who expect OSS/Free Software solutions to work as well as the solutions provided by a certain company that forces almost all hardware vendors into compliance, there will be arguments like the ones presented on this site.
for one, the three papers you copy-paste aren't exactly related to neuroscience.
he complains about the reviewers of his paper on the "nonsense" of using symbolic systems to explain cognitive processes... "symbolic fanatics" he calls them (his words). but when he reveiws others' work, he is of course perfect. you know, he sounds like a critic, and a critic alone. let him write popularised science... obviously (his page demonstrates that) he is highly incapable of that.
i am a scientist, PhD and everything, and i dislike the effects of dogma and cognitive dissonance as much as he does. but at least i don't go all bitter and devote a website on theorising about what sucks about others. his whole site breathes "owww the world is out to get me" self-pity.
this guy might be smart but he's got his priorities all wrong. he should read some covey instead of scientific stuff, if you ask me...
(but i should shut up now, since i'm wasting valuable time posting on/. *smirk*)
per se: thank you for pointing that out. that anglificated expression has been annoying for me for quite a while already, and it pleases me to see that some people do know how to spell it correctly.
about blaming bugs on IE and whatnot: not very useful. let's just praise the wasp people for providing a thorough test, and let's see if the IE/Gecko/Opera developers can get it right.
"Now, this is pure speculation, but I think one of the reasons why large companies avoid open source codecs like FLAC or Xvid is that they are afraid of getting sued. In today's everything-is-patented world, many open source codecs out there probably violate at least one patent somewhere, perhaps without even realizing it. Right or wrong, a company could, in the current climate, be sued for using one of those codecs."
in principle this is a good argument, where it not that they also have to make sure that their *own* codecs are free of any patent infringement. using and open source codec that wa written from scratch (like FLAC or OGG) would only cost them the legal fees required to ensure this, and save them on software production costs. my guess is that they either miss some features in FLAC (but that cuold be resolved in collaboration) or that they just want control. the latter seems the more valid option IMO.
no resent. he just thought it was a bummer he didn't get funding to go. this is his HOBBY project!!! and he's kinda relaxed about it even ("maybe better luck next year" he writes)
honestly, you are being a prick. raster does great stuff in his spare time and releases it for the world to use, for nothing at all...
somebody hire this guy (and some talented hackers who like to work with him)!!!
saw the vids... although i don't like the theme (which of course is adjustable like i don't know what if E17 is going to be anything like its predecessors) the effects are astounding... really cool stuff!
i wish people would just stop commenting on E's useability. if there would be a team the size of gnomes' working on extending EWL and coding applications that use it, we would have some serious competition for OSX and "LONGWAIT^H^H^H^HHORN"
oh man... i'm aware of all these things you mention.
a unique identifier for each and every species needs a DNA sequence that is present in all these species and divergent enough, whether they want to use phylogeny or not.
if they use different features as well, there needs to be some kind of mapping between the differences they observe based on these features, and the DNA sequence of said gene, right?
hence, we *are* in the realm of classification. not as a goal, but as a means to an end.
in fact, the Myers-Briggs sorter is a weird mix of Jungs Ego defenses and some behavioral traits. i am ENFP with a PhD in molecular/cell biology, and supposedly quite smart. i know of INTJ, ESFP, ENTP, INTP, and ENTJ colleagues (scientists), and all of them can be challenged with the "shit there are too many options and i'm blocked" syndrome. many of them were severely stuck (chocked if you wish) ate some time or the other.
i think the explanation from the intelligence POV is more likely than one from the personality Type POV, since all of the above are smart people who differ quite a bit in personality Type.
regarding the article: i think a lot does have to do with getting experience. many people who are scared to fail, or cannot get their priorities straight, or whatever, learn to deal with this as they mature in their (working) life. in the end, the smart guy/gal is better off (thank god!).
i wonder which specific DNA sequence they use, since it should be present in all species and sufficiently divergent to discriminate between species.
another thing that might be problematic, is the dicrepancy between different classification methods... sometimes morphological or biochemical classifications do not coincide with DNA based classifications.
i like the effort, but i have to see it work before i am convinced of the merits. the article is a bit vague regarding implementation.
smart people do upgrade their windows installation. not only because MS told them so, but also because they get more things done (and because it's less of a security nightmare, although the 1.0 to XP - current version instead of "promiseware" - upgrade probably would introduce security nightmares hehe).
in a corporate environment, it doesn't matter what MS says, it matters what the companies' policy is. if your boss tells you to upgrade you better do it. that's smart. and pragmatic.
idealistism and intellectual/technical freedom is IMO a much better explanation than smartness to choose the OSS/Free/whatever way (if this is what you're implicit;y trying to say to plaese the/. *nix fanboys *grin*)
this is SO NOT funny. imagine you are seriously ill yourself... and someone tells about you on TV, how you don't take care of yourself, implying it is your own fault, etc.
jesus man, how heartless can you be just to try to be funny
yeah lotsa people here try to be funny and talk about excessive intake. excessive intake is bad for the brain! especially at the age of typical/. readers (puberty/early adolesence) recent results point out that development of worldview etc is severely hampered by excessive alcohol intake during this period, and might cause irreversibel damage (your prefontal lobe is sort of hardwired after adolesence) possibly causing sociopathic behaviour.
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solid lead doesn't impose a great health risk... i'd be more worried about allergic reactions to tin.
you miss a crucial point: how would you know?
assumption is the mother... dah di dah. ya know the drill.
that was seriously funny! wish i could transfer mod points by modding this one down and yours up :-)
that would make them even more sensitive to sarcasm, right? :P
valid point, nonetheless. but i'm pretty sure neuroscientists/psychologists try to create controlled conditions in their experiments, and therefore wouldn't mix American and Chinese subjects in such a study.
the idea that people with damage in the prefrontal cortex have difficulties dealing with "hidden meaning" in words is hardly a new one.
damage to the prefrontal lobe can even cause sociopathy, to give an extreme example.
well he considers himself neither white or black hat (nor grey). i liked that part, in fact.
underground, black hat, etc, are just artificial constructs and very dependent on local law, which is not exactly the same in different parts of the world.
Agreed :)
MicroSoft only had a few flops in their overall pretty successful range of products, but every now and then people start laughing about Bob again.
Flops are inherent to doing innovative business. What if we started looking at all the failed attempts at useful software on sourceforge? *grin*
(i know the last argument is flawed, it's a weak attempt at humour)
"...and have 512 GDDR3 RAM."
that would be 512 M GDDR3 RAM i presume
else i'd be really impressed *grin*
ya ya, but a 300Gb DVD-R? it's not meant to replace harddisks, it's meant as a long term storage/backup solution.
all right... i don't think the person posting this article took his time and read through the site, or else he wouldn't expect a balanced review.
this site is not exactly reasonable and balanced in its opinions. look at the "achilles heel of linux" article, in which he describes that he cannot get one particular sound card working on linux...
as long as there are people who expect OSS/Free Software solutions to work as well as the solutions provided by a certain company that forces almost all hardware vendors into compliance, there will be arguments like the ones presented on this site.
nothing to see here... move along
hurray! a sensible sound on slashdot :)
for one, the three papers you copy-paste aren't exactly related to neuroscience.
/. *smirk*)
he complains about the reviewers of his paper on the "nonsense" of using symbolic systems to explain cognitive processes... "symbolic fanatics" he calls them (his words). but when he reveiws others' work, he is of course perfect. you know, he sounds like a critic, and a critic alone. let him write popularised science... obviously (his page demonstrates that) he is highly incapable of that.
i am a scientist, PhD and everything, and i dislike the effects of dogma and cognitive dissonance as much as he does. but at least i don't go all bitter and devote a website on theorising about what sucks about others. his whole site breathes "owww the world is out to get me" self-pity.
this guy might be smart but he's got his priorities all wrong. he should read some covey instead of scientific stuff, if you ask me...
(but i should shut up now, since i'm wasting valuable time posting on
per se: thank you for pointing that out. that anglificated expression has been annoying for me for quite a while already, and it pleases me to see that some people do know how to spell it correctly.
about blaming bugs on IE and whatnot: not very useful. let's just praise the wasp people for providing a thorough test, and let's see if the IE/Gecko/Opera developers can get it right.
(keeping my fingers crossed)
it's open source. they can fork it.
http://flac.sourceforge.net/license.html
libs under some variant of BSD, the rest under GPL
"Now, this is pure speculation, but I think one of the reasons why large companies avoid open source codecs like FLAC or Xvid is that they are afraid of getting sued. In today's everything-is-patented world, many open source codecs out there probably violate at least one patent somewhere, perhaps without even realizing it. Right or wrong, a company could, in the current climate, be sued for using one of those codecs."
in principle this is a good argument, where it not that they also have to make sure that their *own* codecs are free of any patent infringement. using and open source codec that wa written from scratch (like FLAC or OGG) would only cost them the legal fees required to ensure this, and save them on software production costs. my guess is that they either miss some features in FLAC (but that cuold be resolved in collaboration) or that they just want control. the latter seems the more valid option IMO.
yada yada yada
no resent. he just thought it was a bummer he didn't get funding to go. this is his HOBBY project!!! and he's kinda relaxed about it even ("maybe better luck next year" he writes)
honestly, you are being a prick. raster does great stuff in his spare time and releases it for the world to use, for nothing at all...
somebody hire this guy (and some talented hackers who like to work with him)!!!
saw the vids... although i don't like the theme (which of course is adjustable like i don't know what if E17 is going to be anything like its predecessors) the effects are astounding... really cool stuff!
i wish people would just stop commenting on E's useability. if there would be a team the size of gnomes' working on extending EWL and coding applications that use it, we would have some serious competition for OSX and "LONGWAIT^H^H^H^HHORN"
all IM not very HO of course
oh man... i'm aware of all these things you mention.
a unique identifier for each and every species needs a DNA sequence that is present in all these species and divergent enough, whether they want to use phylogeny or not.
if they use different features as well, there needs to be some kind of mapping between the differences they observe based on these features, and the DNA sequence of said gene, right?
hence, we *are* in the realm of classification. not as a goal, but as a means to an end.
" There are some great resources out there
http://barcodinglife.com/, The official site."
thanks, that site was informative and good instead of the shallow PR story linked in the main article.
personality type is not linked to intelligence.
in fact, the Myers-Briggs sorter is a weird mix of Jungs Ego defenses and some behavioral traits. i am ENFP with a PhD in molecular/cell biology, and supposedly quite smart. i know of INTJ, ESFP, ENTP, INTP, and ENTJ colleagues (scientists), and all of them can be challenged with the "shit there are too many options and i'm blocked" syndrome. many of them were severely stuck (chocked if you wish) ate some time or the other.
i think the explanation from the intelligence POV is more likely than one from the personality Type POV, since all of the above are smart people who differ quite a bit in personality Type.
regarding the article: i think a lot does have to do with getting experience. many people who are scared to fail, or cannot get their priorities straight, or whatever, learn to deal with this as they mature in their (working) life. in the end, the smart guy/gal is better off (thank god!).
i wonder which specific DNA sequence they use, since it should be present in all species and sufficiently divergent to discriminate between species.
another thing that might be problematic, is the dicrepancy between different classification methods... sometimes morphological or biochemical classifications do not coincide with DNA based classifications.
i like the effort, but i have to see it work before i am convinced of the merits. the article is a bit vague regarding implementation.
smart people do upgrade their windows installation. not only because MS told them so, but also because they get more things done (and because it's less of a security nightmare, although the 1.0 to XP - current version instead of "promiseware" - upgrade probably would introduce security nightmares hehe).
/. *nix fanboys *grin*)
in a corporate environment, it doesn't matter what MS says, it matters what the companies' policy is. if your boss tells you to upgrade you better do it. that's smart. and pragmatic.
idealistism and intellectual/technical freedom is IMO a much better explanation than smartness to choose the OSS/Free/whatever way (if this is what you're implicit;y trying to say to plaese the
this is SO NOT funny. imagine you are seriously ill yourself... and someone tells about you on TV, how you don't take care of yourself, implying it is your own fault, etc.
jesus man, how heartless can you be just to try to be funny
~When in Rome, do as Romanians do.
"salut! ce faci?" -> bunch of italians looking at you weirdly...
yeah lotsa people here try to be funny and talk about excessive intake. excessive intake is bad for the brain! especially at the age of typical /. readers (puberty/early adolesence) recent results point out that development of worldview etc is severely hampered by excessive alcohol intake during this period, and might cause irreversibel damage (your prefontal lobe is sort of hardwired after adolesence) possibly causing sociopathic behaviour.
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:) i'm living proof!
http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/brain/a/blacer03
a few drinks won't hurt you, though