The race to the bottom is complete, in the sense that these books were being given away free of charge long before any reward was offered. This is also the case with many more text books, and not only in undergraduate education. See e.g. Mark Srednicki's Quantum Field Theory book: http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~mark/qft.html
Sure, it's a preprint version with a few minor errors, but it was immensely useful when I took QFT 1. (Tony Zee's QFT in a Nutshell was the approved course book, and that is a good book as well, but completely opposite of Srednicki in terms of how detailed calculations they do, etc., so it was useful to have both.)
If your radio news sound like the difference between those two audio clips, I would suggest switching stations. (Also, I didn't know Fox makes radio noise^H^H^H^H^Hnews.)
The background noise is just that - noise. It mostly sound like white noise, although I can also hear something that sounds like a forklift. I can definitely not single out any voices, and I'm using the most advanced neural network on the planet with tens of years of training. The demo is in no way the same as filtering out one voice as compared to another.
Nope. If you own an SSD, you can claim that you performed an ATA-Enhanced Secure Erase to restore the unit to maximum performance, and then partitioned it to the size you needed. (Enhanced Secure Erase produces random data in most cases, but it can be vendor specific.) If a gigabyte or two at the end is left unpartitioned, it's a bit of a stretch to call it "suspicious", indeed some would call it good practice. Viola, you have your hidden volume.
(I'm assuming that anyone who wants a hidden volume uses a normal volume for "normal" tasks, and the hidden volume only for a few specialized tasks that would not require much disk space.)
This proves nothing about noise filtering. It only proves Siri is heavily primed towards recognizing statements such as "Set timer for xx" or "what is closest starbucks". This we have known for a long time. If you set the radio to the news, there is no difference between the "noise" and your voice as far as a computer is concerned. It would be beyond magic if any computer could identify one voice as "noise" and another as "relevant". We're more on the level of filtering out "highway rumble" or "wind noise", which is done based on spectral signatures.
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I'm assuming you are referring to Ulrich Thomsen? There is one scene where he is speaking danish rather than norwegian, but we Scandinavians tend to understand each other pretty well, so this is not a goof per se. It might very well happen in real life as well that a Danish person speaks danish to a Norwegian; in fact it happened to me less than two weeks ago, and I had no problem understanding her. The rest of the Norwegians are well-known Norwegian actors, who speak norwegian correctly.
Meh. Lynx is for old farts, we use Uzbl instead - the only browser that adheres to the Unix philosophy of "Do one thing, and do it well". If I want pure text, I browse gophernet, which gives me the infinite speed I expect.
Adding to those OECD numbers: the cost of only public healthcare in the US in 2008 was 7.4 percent of GDP. That's almost as much as we spent in total, and speaks volumes to the inefficiency of the American health care system.
It's true that we pay a bit more in income tax, in total. But if you look at it another way, you realize that americans spend way more than we do on healthcare, and they live shorter lives with a lower quality of life:
OECD data show that in 2008, the US paid 16 percent of GDP in total health care costs, public and private combined. This resulted in a life expectancy of 78.3 years, and the US is ranked 12th on the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index.
Same data for Norway show that in 2008, we paid 8.5 percent of GDP in total health care costs. We spent half as much! But our lives are 2.5% longer (80.2 years life expectancy), and we are ranked 1st on the IHDI.
Researchers beg to differ on this point.
(To be fair, they don't go as far as saying "it is impossible to detect this communication", just that "without spending the equivalent of the entire annual US Defense budget it is impossible to detect this communication". But still.)
This. My Sony mp3 player can play music for 2 hours after 15 minutes of charging from completely flat. Give it 2h of charging, and it plays music for 36 hours. Also, with a line-out dock cable and a FiiO E5 headphone amp, it kicks the shit out of my Android phone when it comes to sound quality/driving good headphones.
Well we can get the average price is easy enough. Divide Mac revenue by units in the Apple results. Answer $1282.
Hi. I think you need to understand the concept of the median. Statistics 101 is not a bad idea. Also, outliers is the fancy name for those $3k Apple workstations that people working in movie-editing buy, which are causing your distribution to be skewed.
Please expound on your 4 W/m^2 value of the radiative
forcing of CO2. Last time I checked,
this was not a constant, but rather a function
of CO2 concentration relative to a baseline.
Also, just because the sun's variability is too small,
it doesn't mean there can't be other causes.
Sure, great ideas. My point is not that this is unusable, but that it's gonna be way too expensive for 99.9% of consumers to consider buying one. Especially since the use cases you mention are "this would be cool, kinda".
Now, to get a very optimistic (as in, low price) estimate of what this will cost: We add up 1 LCD screen of about 40 inches, 16 replacement Ipad digitizers from ebay, and an Atom-powered net-top to run the software and control everything. You end up with $500 for the screen + $800 for the digitizers + $200 for the net-top, or a total cost of $1500.
Note that this very optimistic estimate, assuming that everything scales linearly and that they are able to sell millions of these and get the same economics of scale as with LCD TVs, gives us an unbelievably expensive way to quickly check your email and watch TV while cooking. Particularly when you take into account that 99.9% of all consumers already own several devices that can do exactly these things. The question becomes "would you rather buy this, or would you buy three Ipads instead"? That is why this technology, while cool, will suffer the same fate as the Microsoft Surface.
I absolutely HATE most t-shirts people wear, particularly those with nonsensical sentences on them, either grammar- or content-wise.
I mean, sometimes you'd think they even outsourced design to China... E.g. like this.
However, clever t-shirts that make me smile, think, or even giggle a little, can sometimes make my day. The shirt linked in great-grandparent I actually quite liked.
So, you think it's gonna be mostly used like a TV with a few cool (but pretty useless) new features, except that the image quality will likely be worse (since it's a goddamned window), and much more expensive? Not to mention that most homes don't have windows positioned anywhere near the optimal viewing position for a large screen.
Sounds like exactly what I need for checking my flight schedule... Seriously, that's why we have smartphones, tablets, and the like. The only realistic application for this is businesses that want to look hyper-futuristic, maybe in museums, etc., but this will never make it into consumer's homes. Cf. Microsoft Surface, expect to "see one" (CGI) in the next James Bond movie.
Sounds like someone took The Day After Tomorrow a little too seriously...
Seriously, though, any method of producing energy will necessarily have a negative impact on something. Here in Norway, we have a lot of "clean" hydropower, but that has always faced opposition from environmentalists worrying about salmon and other fish, and from the native Sami people in the north. If you want to reduce global CO2 emissions, you are inevitably going to damage something else in some way. It is always a tradeoff, trying to find the least total negative impact.
This reminds me of one of the stories about the Manhattan Project. Before the first (Trinity) test, Enrico Fermi began offering anyone listening a wager on "whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world." They still went through with it.
This. An example of where GNU/Linux is "softer" would be very much appreciated. Perhaps the fact that the NSA had to make SELinux in the first place will do? (I am not an expert on this, pure speculation.)
I noticed that nuance after I answered, but in that case, I don't understand your argument. The people producing this software are not asking me to give them money, so I do not. Your point is then? I'm pretty sure that if Mozilla asked me to pay for Firefox, even if it was a voluntary payment a lá Wikipedia (to whom I already donate), I would give them money. The Wikipedia method of financing is pretty much the perfect counterexample to (what I assume is) your argument, BTW.
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The race to the bottom is complete, in the sense that these books were being given away free of charge long before any reward was offered. This is also the case with many more text books, and not only in undergraduate education. See e.g. Mark Srednicki's Quantum Field Theory book: http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~mark/qft.html
Sure, it's a preprint version with a few minor errors, but it was immensely useful when I took QFT 1. (Tony Zee's QFT in a Nutshell was the approved course book, and that is a good book as well, but completely opposite of Srednicki in terms of how detailed calculations they do, etc., so it was useful to have both.)
What's the point of NASCAR? If you drive like that in traffic, you'll be pulled over in a heartbeat. /. Yay!)
(This is my first car analogy on
If your radio news sound like the difference between those two audio clips, I would suggest switching stations. (Also, I didn't know Fox makes radio noise^H^H^H^H^Hnews.)
The background noise is just that - noise. It mostly sound like white noise, although I can also hear something that sounds like a forklift. I can definitely not single out any voices, and I'm using the most advanced neural network on the planet with tens of years of training. The demo is in no way the same as filtering out one voice as compared to another.
Nope. If you own an SSD, you can claim that you performed an ATA-Enhanced Secure Erase to restore the unit to maximum performance, and then partitioned it to the size you needed. (Enhanced Secure Erase produces random data in most cases, but it can be vendor specific.) If a gigabyte or two at the end is left unpartitioned, it's a bit of a stretch to call it "suspicious", indeed some would call it good practice. Viola, you have your hidden volume.
(I'm assuming that anyone who wants a hidden volume uses a normal volume for "normal" tasks, and the hidden volume only for a few specialized tasks that would not require much disk space.)
This proves nothing about noise filtering. It only proves Siri is heavily primed towards recognizing statements such as "Set timer for xx" or "what is closest starbucks". This we have known for a long time. If you set the radio to the news, there is no difference between the "noise" and your voice as far as a computer is concerned. It would be beyond magic if any computer could identify one voice as "noise" and another as "relevant". We're more on the level of filtering out "highway rumble" or "wind noise", which is done based on spectral signatures.
I'm assuming you are referring to Ulrich Thomsen? There is one scene where he is speaking danish rather than norwegian, but we Scandinavians tend to understand each other pretty well, so this is not a goof per se. It might very well happen in real life as well that a Danish person speaks danish to a Norwegian; in fact it happened to me less than two weeks ago, and I had no problem understanding her. The rest of the Norwegians are well-known Norwegian actors, who speak norwegian correctly.
In some US states, there are still laws being passed that enable persecution of "deviant" behaviour, e.g. being gay or transgender.
Meh. Lynx is for old farts, we use Uzbl instead - the only browser that adheres to the Unix philosophy of "Do one thing, and do it well". If I want pure text, I browse gophernet, which gives me the infinite speed I expect.
Adding to those OECD numbers: the cost of only public healthcare in the US in 2008 was 7.4 percent of GDP. That's almost as much as we spent in total, and speaks volumes to the inefficiency of the American health care system.
It's true that we pay a bit more in income tax, in total. But if you look at it another way, you realize that americans spend way more than we do on healthcare, and they live shorter lives with a lower quality of life:
OECD data show that in 2008, the US paid 16 percent of GDP in total health care costs, public and private combined. This resulted in a life expectancy of 78.3 years, and the US is ranked 12th on the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index.
Same data for Norway show that in 2008, we paid 8.5 percent of GDP in total health care costs. We spent half as much! But our lives are 2.5% longer (80.2 years life expectancy), and we are ranked 1st on the IHDI.
In the words of Napoleon: "If it will take that long, we must start at once!"
5. Encrypted content can be identified as such.
Researchers beg to differ on this point.
(To be fair, they don't go as far as saying "it is impossible to detect this communication", just that "without spending the equivalent of the entire annual US Defense budget it is impossible to detect this communication". But still.)
This. My Sony mp3 player can play music for 2 hours after 15 minutes of charging from completely flat. Give it 2h of charging, and it plays music for 36 hours. Also, with a line-out dock cable and a FiiO E5 headphone amp, it kicks the shit out of my Android phone when it comes to sound quality/driving good headphones.
I'm 90% sure that a *wooosh* is in order. 10% chance GP is just nuts.
Well we can get the average price is easy enough. Divide Mac revenue by units in the Apple results. Answer $1282.
Hi. I think you need to understand the concept of the median. Statistics 101 is not a bad idea. Also, outliers is the fancy name for those $3k Apple workstations that people working in movie-editing buy, which are causing your distribution to be skewed.
Please expound on your 4 W/m^2 value of the radiative forcing of CO2. Last time I checked, this was not a constant, but rather a function of CO2 concentration relative to a baseline.
Also, just because the sun's variability is too small, it doesn't mean there can't be other causes.
Please, enlighten me, how do public copies of algorithms "disappear"? Counterpoint: deCSS, the release of (master) keys for AACS and HDCP.
Anyway, we can just publish it as a poem and it's protected under free speech:
Now help me, Muse, for
I wish to tell a piece of
controversial math.
Sure, great ideas. My point is not that this is unusable, but that it's gonna be way too expensive for 99.9% of consumers to consider buying one. Especially since the use cases you mention are "this would be cool, kinda".
Now, to get a very optimistic (as in, low price) estimate of what this will cost: We add up 1 LCD screen of about 40 inches, 16 replacement Ipad digitizers from ebay, and an Atom-powered net-top to run the software and control everything. You end up with $500 for the screen + $800 for the digitizers + $200 for the net-top, or a total cost of $1500.
Note that this very optimistic estimate, assuming that everything scales linearly and that they are able to sell millions of these and get the same economics of scale as with LCD TVs, gives us an unbelievably expensive way to quickly check your email and watch TV while cooking. Particularly when you take into account that 99.9% of all consumers already own several devices that can do exactly these things. The question becomes "would you rather buy this, or would you buy three Ipads instead"? That is why this technology, while cool, will suffer the same fate as the Microsoft Surface.
I both agree and disagree with you.
I absolutely HATE most t-shirts people wear, particularly those with nonsensical sentences on them, either grammar- or content-wise. I mean, sometimes you'd think they even outsourced design to China... E.g. like this.
However, clever t-shirts that make me smile, think, or even giggle a little, can sometimes make my day. The shirt linked in great-grandparent I actually quite liked.
So, you think it's gonna be mostly used like a TV with a few cool (but pretty useless) new features, except that the image quality will likely be worse (since it's a goddamned window), and much more expensive? Not to mention that most homes don't have windows positioned anywhere near the optimal viewing position for a large screen.
Sounds like exactly what I need for checking my flight schedule... Seriously, that's why we have smartphones, tablets, and the like. The only realistic application for this is businesses that want to look hyper-futuristic, maybe in museums, etc., but this will never make it into consumer's homes. Cf. Microsoft Surface, expect to "see one" (CGI) in the next James Bond movie.
Just to clarify, the russians still power lighthouses with RTGs. The US also uses several of them at Burnt Mountain in Alaska (google Sentinel 100F)
Sounds like someone took The Day After Tomorrow a little too seriously...
Seriously, though, any method of producing energy will necessarily have a negative impact on something. Here in Norway, we have a lot of "clean" hydropower, but that has always faced opposition from environmentalists worrying about salmon and other fish, and from the native Sami people in the north. If you want to reduce global CO2 emissions, you are inevitably going to damage something else in some way. It is always a tradeoff, trying to find the least total negative impact.
This reminds me of one of the stories about the Manhattan Project. Before the first (Trinity) test, Enrico Fermi began offering anyone listening a wager on "whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world." They still went through with it.
This. An example of where GNU/Linux is "softer" would be very much appreciated. Perhaps the fact that the NSA had to make SELinux in the first place will do? (I am not an expert on this, pure speculation.)
I noticed that nuance after I answered, but in that case, I don't understand your argument. The people producing this software are not asking me to give them money, so I do not. Your point is then? I'm pretty sure that if Mozilla asked me to pay for Firefox, even if it was a voluntary payment a lá Wikipedia (to whom I already donate), I would give them money. The Wikipedia method of financing is pretty much the perfect counterexample to (what I assume is) your argument, BTW.