The point is more that in the menstrual part of the cycle, women feel bad and consequently look worse too. So it's the other way around. The study offers no way to disentangle this.
I made the most horrible typo in my message: I wrote "up" instead of "funny". And I thought that all I would be speaking to the deaf, since this site seems to be awash with Perl and Python lovers.
You're all missing the good thing: type in a book you loath and it will come up with a good one instead! Perfect for changing Christmas gifts!
I typed in "Da vinci code" and it came back with (amongst others) two Lisp books and Knuth's Art of Programming (3 volumes). If that isn't a good alternative to world famous besteller author Dan Brown's biggest cash cow...
Sort of true. The reason is called: head-room. You cannot record acoustic instruments or voices in such a way that their peak outputs produce the maximum sample values (e.g. -2^15 and 2^15-1), which would effectively give the optimal S/N ratio (which is 15 * 6 = 90dB), especially when there are many instruments around. So, you record with a higher dynamic range, which gives you a lot of head room for peak passages. Afterwards, you can normalize the levels and mix them. That will give a cleaner final sound.
Another reason for recording with 24 bits is that signal processing works better. If you use a compressor on a 16-bit signal, you're going to increase the noise floor considerably in quiet passages. Every extra bit of resolution reduces that increase with 6dB.
Higher sample rates improve the sound slightly because it reduces the audible effects of anti-aliassing.
In digital recording environments, there are several plug-ins that add any type of coloration to a sound. A popular one imitates tape saturation, which makes e.g. bass sounds sit better in the mix; others imitate tube amplifiers. If you have a Mac, you can route the CD output to AULab and then pass it through a plug-in to hear what it would do to your record; I guess similar software exists for PCs. Mind you, you'd have to buy the correct plug-in first, and they can be quite expensive.
As much as I prefer OS X over Windows, it seems the guys in Redmond did do a lot of work. I recognize quite a few items Apple introduced in 10.4 and is supposed to introduce in 10.5, and some Apple might like to copy. Some of these are quite useful and deep, so just quoting adaptation of a few games is unfair.
So the conclusion is: Google performs worse than docters. And that was using input from trained doctors. Is it a slow news day or is it time again to boost Google's stock value?
A code rewrite is hardly reinventing the wheel, is it? It's more like replacing the engine, or in some cases, the lining of the trunk.
How can technology be outdated? Do you honestly believe that a rocket that worked 40 years ago doesn't work any longer just because there is better stuff around?
I'd suggest India starts working on water and erosion management first. That's quite a challenge.
Let's say that it's not the most efficient way of redistributing wealth. You can copy all technology you want, like other countries have done, and get your jump ahead a lot cheaper and faster.
Having your own moon program is just ambition, to show that you're there with the rest of them. Well, the Americans to be more specific. You just want to be more American than the Americans, as one in every two Bollywood movies shows...
I'm not American. I live in a small country with a lot of parties. I find your statement ridiculous.
Yes, the US has a weird system with winner-takes-all constituencies and the president is elected half directly, and they end up with just two parties. In India, a lot of representatives are indirectly elected, including the president, and some are even appointed. Politicians and election officials are corrupt.
And about the number of parties: they get their votes based on nationalism and religious convictions. Some of the bigger parties have an awful program. I almost wrote pogrom there. If they're not going to nuke Pakistan, it's either because of fear or complete ineptitude.
No, India is not a model democracy. And criticizing the US isn't going to make it more democratic.
Do not disclose until there is evidence that the information has been used. The people who received the data might not know that they have it and they will not be able to find it without further information. Once you go public, they will start looking for it.
So, until you've got evidence that they already did use the information, you should seriously consider keeping silent. Even mentioning the name of the company could lead to a series of IP-addresses and hence to the data.
Condeming a person to death does not strike me as particular ethical, but ok, he was a bad guy. Had I been the judge, he would have stayed in jail the rest of his life. And out of humanitarian reasons, I would have allowed him a suicide pill.
But.. the sentence itself is nothing to be proud of. It marks the failure of international law and the sad state of the world today, and I know of at least one world leader that really should acknowledge that.
Generally speaking, checking for plagiarism and reporting it, is a sound idea. It does not take a lot of dedication and hard work. It's understandable Brandt presents the cases as criticism to Wikipedia, but it does not cripple it. With every slash, Wikipedia grows stronger. It won't be long before many people with different motivations will be told they are plagiarizing Wikipedia.
In one of the pages (can't tell you how to get there!), they explain the Click Ergonomy. In the section "The brain", which happens to be my topic of research, they claim that an acoustic signal takes 700ms to provoke a reaction. As everyone can find for themselves, that's absolutely false. The first effect is immediate. Serious processing (such word recognition) takes around 100ms. Visual signals do seem to start working faster, but it takes at least 60ms before any cognitive effect of a visual system can be found.
As stated before, Spain was not in NATO at that time. And NATO does not have any control over nuclear weapons: the US has it.
If some oil carrier spilled a large part of its cargo somewhere, say Alaska, would you say that the people living there should pay for the cleaning? After all, it was there for the good of these people as well and they knew the risks living near the coast...
Just check the literature on Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI): this has been done 10 years ago. It has even been done in MRI scanners: check this http://in.news.yahoo.com/040829/139/2fr2y.html
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The point is more that in the menstrual part of the cycle, women feel bad and consequently look worse too. So it's the other way around. The study offers no way to disentangle this.
Zune...
What's that suppose to mean?
It was tasteless, we agree. But why mod it funny? Please, enlighten me.
It only took four or five smug geeks without any sense of human dignity to mod the parent 5, funny...
I made the most horrible typo in my message: I wrote "up" instead of "funny". And I thought that all I would be speaking to the deaf, since this site seems to be awash with Perl and Python lovers.
Someone mod up parent and grandparent, PLEASE!
Anyone?
Hello...???
You're all missing the good thing: type in a book you loath and it will come up with a good one instead! Perfect for changing Christmas gifts!
I typed in "Da vinci code" and it came back with (amongst others) two Lisp books and Knuth's Art of Programming (3 volumes). If that isn't a good alternative to world famous besteller author Dan Brown's biggest cash cow...
Sort of true. The reason is called: head-room. You cannot record acoustic instruments or voices in such a way that their peak outputs produce the maximum sample values (e.g. -2^15 and 2^15-1), which would effectively give the optimal S/N ratio (which is 15 * 6 = 90dB), especially when there are many instruments around. So, you record with a higher dynamic range, which gives you a lot of head room for peak passages. Afterwards, you can normalize the levels and mix them. That will give a cleaner final sound.
Another reason for recording with 24 bits is that signal processing works better. If you use a compressor on a 16-bit signal, you're going to increase the noise floor considerably in quiet passages. Every extra bit of resolution reduces that increase with 6dB.
Higher sample rates improve the sound slightly because it reduces the audible effects of anti-aliassing.
In digital recording environments, there are several plug-ins that add any type of coloration to a sound. A popular one imitates tape saturation, which makes e.g. bass sounds sit better in the mix; others imitate tube amplifiers. If you have a Mac, you can route the CD output to AULab and then pass it through a plug-in to hear what it would do to your record; I guess similar software exists for PCs. Mind you, you'd have to buy the correct plug-in first, and they can be quite expensive.
As much as I prefer OS X over Windows, it seems the guys in Redmond did do a lot of work. I recognize quite a few items Apple introduced in 10.4 and is supposed to introduce in 10.5, and some Apple might like to copy. Some of these are quite useful and deep, so just quoting adaptation of a few games is unfair.
So the conclusion is: Google performs worse than docters. And that was using input from trained doctors. Is it a slow news day or is it time again to boost Google's stock value?
A code rewrite is hardly reinventing the wheel, is it? It's more like replacing the engine, or in some cases, the lining of the trunk.
How can technology be outdated? Do you honestly believe that a rocket that worked 40 years ago doesn't work any longer just because there is better stuff around?
I'd suggest India starts working on water and erosion management first. That's quite a challenge.
Let's say that it's not the most efficient way of redistributing wealth. You can copy all technology you want, like other countries have done, and get your jump ahead a lot cheaper and faster.
Having your own moon program is just ambition, to show that you're there with the rest of them. Well, the Americans to be more specific. You just want to be more American than the Americans, as one in every two Bollywood movies shows...
I'm not American. I live in a small country with a lot of parties. I find your statement ridiculous.
Yes, the US has a weird system with winner-takes-all constituencies and the president is elected half directly, and they end up with just two parties. In India, a lot of representatives are indirectly elected, including the president, and some are even appointed. Politicians and election officials are corrupt.
And about the number of parties: they get their votes based on nationalism and religious convictions. Some of the bigger parties have an awful program. I almost wrote pogrom there. If they're not going to nuke Pakistan, it's either because of fear or complete ineptitude.
No, India is not a model democracy. And criticizing the US isn't going to make it more democratic.
Ugh!
Do not disclose until there is evidence that the information has been used. The people who received the data might not know that they have it and they will not be able to find it without further information. Once you go public, they will start looking for it.
So, until you've got evidence that they already did use the information, you should seriously consider keeping silent. Even mentioning the name of the company could lead to a series of IP-addresses and hence to the data.
Condeming a person to death does not strike me as particular ethical, but ok, he was a bad guy. Had I been the judge, he would have stayed in jail the rest of his life. And out of humanitarian reasons, I would have allowed him a suicide pill.
.. the sentence itself is nothing to be proud of. It marks the failure of international law and the sad state of the world today, and I know of at least one world leader that really should acknowledge that.
But
Generally speaking, checking for plagiarism and reporting it, is a sound idea. It does not take a lot of dedication and hard work. It's understandable Brandt presents the cases as criticism to Wikipedia, but it does not cripple it. With every slash, Wikipedia grows stronger. It won't be long before many people with different motivations will be told they are plagiarizing Wikipedia.
So what is the number of the post that is not interesting to post?
In one of the pages (can't tell you how to get there!), they explain the Click Ergonomy. In the section "The brain", which happens to be my topic of research, they claim that an acoustic signal takes 700ms to provoke a reaction. As everyone can find for themselves, that's absolutely false. The first effect is immediate. Serious processing (such word recognition) takes around 100ms. Visual signals do seem to start working faster, but it takes at least 60ms before any cognitive effect of a visual system can be found.
And like this
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it also contains thirteen zeroes.
This is horrible! This must be doomsday!!
No, wait, it's the 14th already...
Check http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=IQ
OK, so you're karma whoring, fine. But could you at least correct the spelling errors: "the search efford" has hurt my eyes.
As stated before, Spain was not in NATO at that time. And NATO does not have any control over nuclear weapons: the US has it.
If some oil carrier spilled a large part of its cargo somewhere, say Alaska, would you say that the people living there should pay for the cleaning? After all, it was there for the good of these people as well and they knew the risks living near the coast...
Just check the literature on Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI): this has been done 10 years ago. It has even been done in MRI scanners: check this http://in.news.yahoo.com/040829/139/2fr2y.html