In short, it's too bad Apple killed the clones, or we'd have cheaper PPCs to play with.
well, according to my research, the given reason why Apple pulled in the clones was because the company was consistenly operating in the red, and clones like the Radius were blamed for the serious decline of consumer purchases of Apple products. i'm not sure if that's strictly true or not, but after they pulled back the clones, the *next quarter* they posted their first fiscal gain in a year and a half.
whatever the reason for doing it, it had the desired result.
the link to the cnx site has a statement that indicated that it'll be in the UK soon:
"In the UK, Toonami has just begun, with Dragon Ball Z leading the way, Batman of the Future (Batman Beyond to us Yanks) in the mix, and coming soon, Gundam Wing."
with the surge in popularity of the gundam wing merchandise (figurines etc etc), i'm surprised they'd pull the series. where does it say they're pulling it, though? it looks like they ran the whole series, and are now moving to mobile suit gundam as the next step...
personally, i'm looking forward to ReBoot, cheesy as it seems...
one of the things i've noticed about quite a few significant inventions in my lifetime is that companies buy them up and then NEVER RELEASE THEM because it would cut into their profit margin.
on the other side of the coin, those that *are* released are repressed, regulated, and patent-courted out of having a positive influence on society because of loss of profits, etc etc etc. it's a familiar rant on slashdot, and it's irritating to me to see the lack of 'inventiveness' (pardon the pun) blamed for a lack of societal impact - i blame society's fear of change, and corporations' fear of losing the almighty dollar.
you raise a lot of good points, but you're forgetting some points addressed in the article itself, such as:
And $2,000 of it is kept for teachers' salaries (in order to import a new breed of teachers)
take a read of this opening speech and you'll know why the people in the country think this is a good idea - and their opinion is the only one that really counts. better jobs mean better money for them, and it means a more educated group of people will be making better demands on their government.
i agree with you for most of your post (especially since the world bank has strict rules about child labor, and wouldn't fund a school that subsisted on child labor), except for this quote:
Cambodia is a nation that has had its culture and economy devistated by years of Communist misrule
you can't leave out the hundred years of colonialism and the bombing initiated by good old Henry Kissinger...that's just as bad if not worse, because the devastation cause by those two paved the way for the khmer rouge to gain the foothold that they did.
depends on what you term high tech...i'm sure you'll agree that some people regard printing presses as high tech, strictly due to the relative state of technology in their country.
however, i couldn't agree more that water supply, sanitary conditions, and transportation are at the forefront of the concerns addressed by governments of those countries, and are normally the first funded by outside sources. however, the most interesting part of this article for me was the mention of selling local products on a global market level, and i feel that aspect will be the true success of this project - enabling people to earn the money to bring in the infrastructure, piece by piece.
it's an illustration of the classic adage - the difference between giving a man a meal and teaching him to fish.
since the donations mentioned in the article also mention the world bank, try searching through www.worldbank.org and see if you can find a donation program that appeals to you. www.worldbank.org/wbi showcases some of the learning programs they've initiated. there's also gdnet.org, a side project of the world bank...
You can do this already, and not invalidate your warranty. Check out www.pjbox.com and email them. I think it's $300 for the new drive (they give you back the 6g also), transferring the data across, and shipping back to you.
You can also do it yourself, there's some resources on the web, using dd under Linux:> Happy hacking.
King announced that after the 6th installment (which should have been up on monday) he wasn't going to write any more chapters for a little while, but that he wasn't going to completely end it. there's no news as to when the hiatus should be over.
on his site there's an interesting commentary by him about the experiment - i think ZDNet viewed it as a profit-making experience, when King didn't;)
which would make best buy = strip club for geeks...
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think of it from the perspective of the partnership. this is a business development venture for both parties. as a bus dev venture, wouldn't it make sense for BMG to encourage the use of Napster in their *offices* as well as in their country - much the same way mtv and sonicnet encouraged their online people to visit the music.excite.com site? but if Napster allows access to Nazi music, then by encouraging their employees to use Napster BMG would be giving them means to break the law in their country - and the company is liable for this, under German law. but on the other hand, how can they logically prevent their employees from accessing the product of one of their partners?
No one was suggesting assigning functions to single neurons - but rather studying the nervous system on the basis of the signals of single neurons.
that works well when you're discussing motor responses/reactions or injury-induced malfunctions, but it doesn't work when you're discussing something like increasing attention span, when a single neuron is a tiny part of the picture;)
i agree that the helmet is of no use for the means they discuss.
but i do have to say that i know EEGs that can register up to 400 Hz, now...
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/MONOGRAPHS/ ROSENBOOM/rosenboom.html#PART2
scroll down in that doc, and there's one example of my reference. you can do a simple google search and read a LOT of information that will verify what it has to say.
for those of you who don't want to do the search:
alpha is 8 - 12 Hz., daydreaming and creativity.
regular beta is 13 - 30 Hz. thinking in 20-25 Hz is still normal concentrative activity.
theta is 4 - 8 Hz., and it's the halfsleep state. high levels of theta denote relaxation and meditation, and has NOTHING to do with losing consciousness.
delta is 2 - 4 Hz. - high levels of delta activity *normally* indicate deep sleep and/or unconsciousness.
K-complex waves are currently defined another form of beta. there is no specific Hz brainwave correlation to the REM state - dreaming involves most Hz.
interesting to note: they say that delta indicates deep sleep. however, my brain map indicated *very* high levels of delta activity while awake, and lower levels while asleep. i also have a great deal of alpha activity while reading.
your comment is interesting and true, but it only applies to animals who have *consistently* similar lifestyles - as lab animals always do. there's been no demonstrated ability to replicate the experiment in wild animals, and in a brain as complex and multifaceted as a human brain, trying to associate single neurons with particular brain processes is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. EEG-type monitoring measures the *level* of particular types of activity in each section of the brain - it's a less labor-intensive way of getting an idea of how a complex individual brain's patterns are set.
i can understand your skepticism, but unfortunately, it is completely impossible to do double-blind trials on EEG biofeedback. this company referred to is pretty full of it, agreed, but if you look at sites like the peakperformance one mentioned above and eegspectrum.com, you'd see a bit more 'controlled' anecdotal evidence.
the two reasons why double-blind trials can't work in confirming the efficacy of neurofeedback training is because a) every brain has to be assessed individually and b) creating a 'placebo' treatment would be problematic.
in regards to a), a treatment process that would work on one person would not necessarily work on another. the process of starting training is very involved - sensors are placed all over your skull with conductive paste, like any good EEG, and then your alpha/beta/SMR/delta/theta waves are all measured in four different states - eyes open and at rest, eyes closed, while reading, and one more which is determined by the attendant neurologist or neuropsychologist. then the computer program which is recording this information will make a long report (mine was 30 pages) of all the data received - this is called the brain map. it is up to the neuro*** to look at the data and determine where the patterns are, and based on the condition to be treated, determine the brain waves to be trained, and how.
since i did computer support for the clinical trials at a large pharma co., i know how the data for doubleblinds is submitted, compiled, and compared - and i can't see a way, with the guarantee of wide variation in users, to do an effectual and *replicable* double blind trial with EEG biofeedback.
as someone who has been undergoing biofeedback for one year for PTSD, i can say that the standard theory of how PTSD operates in the brain did not quite apply to me - and most PTSD (and ADD) sufferers show an astoundingly wide range of effects based on how they learned to cope with their symptoms. however, after looking at my individual map, my neuropsychologist was able to see specific unusual patterns and work with me to determine what actually *would* help me. it's an anecdotal account, sure, but i think the treatment is far less arbitrary than the actual psychiatric diagnosis itself...
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actually, as a writer, i think it is completely wonderful to be able to do so. i understand that some people will be scared by it, but think of it this way:
- it can assist in preventing plagiarism
- it can assist in tracking email stalkers
- it's an important anthropological tool
- it gives terrific insight into yourself, if you look at it properly;)
being able to track someone through writing style can be a time consuming process. i would doubt that anyone is going to use it as a "Big Brother" tool unless you're already breaking the law.
i think this is a somewhat silly question on the part of Katz - VC's suffer the same sort of entropy that actual real-life communities do. people move in, say a place is wonderful; hang out there for a while. then people start moving in, it becomes busier, with more commercialism and/or more idiots. then the people who originally established the community get disillusioned, get the "it's not like it was in the old days" attitude, and disperse to other areas.
there are a few communities (both RL and VC) that manage to hang on and withstand the changes by either growing in new directions or being very flexible about their attitudes but strict about the rules. but there is one thing those communities all have which is hard to find everywhere: people who are dedicated to the *other people involved.* the idea and/or the purpose of an existing community will end up being either outdated or abused after a while - it's dedication to the *people* that keeps it going.
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well, according to my research, the given reason why Apple pulled in the clones was because the company was consistenly operating in the red, and clones like the Radius were blamed for the serious decline of consumer purchases of Apple products. i'm not sure if that's strictly true or not, but after they pulled back the clones, the *next quarter* they posted their first fiscal gain in a year and a half.
whatever the reason for doing it, it had the desired result.
from a computer/Mac standpoint, how do you feel about your multi-faceted progress since your days in Madison?
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going past jupiter?? cassini?
that's inconceivable!
"In the UK, Toonami has just begun, with Dragon Ball Z leading the way, Batman of the Future (Batman Beyond to us Yanks) in the mix, and coming soon, Gundam Wing."
personally, i'm looking forward to ReBoot, cheesy as it seems...
on the other side of the coin, those that *are* released are repressed, regulated, and patent-courted out of having a positive influence on society because of loss of profits, etc etc etc. it's a familiar rant on slashdot, and it's irritating to me to see the lack of 'inventiveness' (pardon the pun) blamed for a lack of societal impact - i blame society's fear of change, and corporations' fear of losing the almighty dollar.
And $2,000 of it is kept for teachers' salaries (in order to import a new breed of teachers)
take a read of this opening speech and you'll know why the people in the country think this is a good idea - and their opinion is the only one that really counts. better jobs mean better money for them, and it means a more educated group of people will be making better demands on their government.
you can't leave out the hundred years of colonialism and the bombing initiated by good old Henry Kissinger...that's just as bad if not worse, because the devastation cause by those two paved the way for the khmer rouge to gain the foothold that they did.
however, i couldn't agree more that water supply, sanitary conditions, and transportation are at the forefront of the concerns addressed by governments of those countries, and are normally the first funded by outside sources. however, the most interesting part of this article for me was the mention of selling local products on a global market level, and i feel that aspect will be the true success of this project - enabling people to earn the money to bring in the infrastructure, piece by piece.
it's an illustration of the classic adage - the difference between giving a man a meal and teaching him to fish.
since the donations mentioned in the article also mention the world bank, try searching through www.worldbank.org and see if you can find a donation program that appeals to you. www.worldbank.org/wbi showcases some of the learning programs they've initiated. there's also gdnet.org, a side project of the world bank...
You can do this already, and not invalidate your warranty. Check out www.pjbox.com and email them. I think it's $300 for the new drive (they give you back the 6g also), transferring the data across, and shipping back to you. You can also do it yourself, there's some resources on the web, using dd under Linux :> Happy hacking.
on his site there's an interesting commentary by him about the experiment - i think ZDNet viewed it as a profit-making experience, when King didn't ;)
which would make best buy = strip club for geeks...
can you say Very Bad Thing?
well, in my opinion - the Germans DID learn, as a country, and they learned the hard way. that's *why* they ban Nazi stuff.
it wouldn't be anime anymore if that existed ;) thanks for making me laugh, though!
and use the head-rattle as a sample, too :>
after seeing it again, i'm still impressed with the realism in the anatomy of the beasts...
that works well when you're discussing motor responses/reactions or injury-induced malfunctions, but it doesn't work when you're discussing something like increasing attention span, when a single neuron is a tiny part of the picture ;)
i agree that the helmet is of no use for the means they discuss.
but i do have to say that i know EEGs that can register up to 400 Hz, now...
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/MONOGRAPHS/ ROSENBOOM/rosenboom.html#PART2
scroll down in that doc, and there's one example of my reference. you can do a simple google search and read a LOT of information that will verify what it has to say.
for those of you who don't want to do the search:
alpha is 8 - 12 Hz., daydreaming and creativity.
regular beta is 13 - 30 Hz. thinking in 20-25 Hz is still normal concentrative activity.
theta is 4 - 8 Hz., and it's the halfsleep state. high levels of theta denote relaxation and meditation, and has NOTHING to do with losing consciousness.
delta is 2 - 4 Hz. - high levels of delta activity *normally* indicate deep sleep and/or unconsciousness.
K-complex waves are currently defined another form of beta. there is no specific Hz brainwave correlation to the REM state - dreaming involves most Hz.
interesting to note: they say that delta indicates deep sleep. however, my brain map indicated *very* high levels of delta activity while awake, and lower levels while asleep. i also have a great deal of alpha activity while reading.
proof enough, they don't know everything yet ;)
your comment is interesting and true, but it only applies to animals who have *consistently* similar lifestyles - as lab animals always do. there's been no demonstrated ability to replicate the experiment in wild animals, and in a brain as complex and multifaceted as a human brain, trying to associate single neurons with particular brain processes is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. EEG-type monitoring measures the *level* of particular types of activity in each section of the brain - it's a less labor-intensive way of getting an idea of how a complex individual brain's patterns are set.
i can understand your skepticism, but unfortunately, it is completely impossible to do double-blind trials on EEG biofeedback. this company referred to is pretty full of it, agreed, but if you look at sites like the peakperformance one mentioned above and eegspectrum.com, you'd see a bit more 'controlled' anecdotal evidence.
the two reasons why double-blind trials can't work in confirming the efficacy of neurofeedback training is because a) every brain has to be assessed individually and b) creating a 'placebo' treatment would be problematic.
in regards to a), a treatment process that would work on one person would not necessarily work on another. the process of starting training is very involved - sensors are placed all over your skull with conductive paste, like any good EEG, and then your alpha/beta/SMR/delta/theta waves are all measured in four different states - eyes open and at rest, eyes closed, while reading, and one more which is determined by the attendant neurologist or neuropsychologist. then the computer program which is recording this information will make a long report (mine was 30 pages) of all the data received - this is called the brain map. it is up to the neuro*** to look at the data and determine where the patterns are, and based on the condition to be treated, determine the brain waves to be trained, and how.
since i did computer support for the clinical trials at a large pharma co., i know how the data for doubleblinds is submitted, compiled, and compared - and i can't see a way, with the guarantee of wide variation in users, to do an effectual and *replicable* double blind trial with EEG biofeedback.
as someone who has been undergoing biofeedback for one year for PTSD, i can say that the standard theory of how PTSD operates in the brain did not quite apply to me - and most PTSD (and ADD) sufferers show an astoundingly wide range of effects based on how they learned to cope with their symptoms. however, after looking at my individual map, my neuropsychologist was able to see specific unusual patterns and work with me to determine what actually *would* help me. it's an anecdotal account, sure, but i think the treatment is far less arbitrary than the actual psychiatric diagnosis itself...
actually, as a writer, i think it is completely wonderful to be able to do so. i understand that some people will be scared by it, but think of it this way:
;)
- it can assist in preventing plagiarism
- it can assist in tracking email stalkers
- it's an important anthropological tool
- it gives terrific insight into yourself, if you look at it properly
being able to track someone through writing style can be a time consuming process. i would doubt that anyone is going to use it as a "Big Brother" tool unless you're already breaking the law.
i think this is a somewhat silly question on the part of Katz - VC's suffer the same sort of entropy that actual real-life communities do. people move in, say a place is wonderful; hang out there for a while. then people start moving in, it becomes busier, with more commercialism and/or more idiots. then the people who originally established the community get disillusioned, get the "it's not like it was in the old days" attitude, and disperse to other areas.
there are a few communities (both RL and VC) that manage to hang on and withstand the changes by either growing in new directions or being very flexible about their attitudes but strict about the rules. but there is one thing those communities all have which is hard to find everywhere: people who are dedicated to the *other people involved.* the idea and/or the purpose of an existing community will end up being either outdated or abused after a while - it's dedication to the *people* that keeps it going.