Binary? Hardly! There is one thing about the signal that you are forgetting. The signal is passes to other nerves, and the strenth of that signal depends on how close the axon is to the dendrite.
Locally (for the nerve) - it is in one of these states: firing recovery ready
There are slight differences for different nevers as to how fast they can recover. There is also a group of neurons (Pyramidal?) that engage in a non-drive oscillitory manner.
Globally, though, the signal of a nerve is felt strongly or weakly by other nerves, so the signal it sends is not binary.
Personally, I would bet that the real information that the nerve contains is the frequency that it fires at, not if it fires or not, since nerves do tend to fire off a certain noise level while inactive.
Am I the only person who thinks the GTK widget set is ugly? And I do think that KDE looks too much like Windows, but in an inoffensive way. They could have been a bit more creative (not necessary in eye candy, eh Enlightenment?).
Looks pretty good but it's not new, like others I've seen it before but then it gives you a good quick look around a site with all possible links to attend. Cool stuff.
John Dvorak's just said it: "The heir to windows is a gentrified Linux". The mainstream press is starting to crack. As soon one of the big computer vendors lets you order a pre-configured linux box with your choice of KDE or GNOME, then it's all over for "Alpha Borg" Bill Gates.
"Do not call up what you cannot put down, by that, meaning, do not call up one who can in turn call up others against whom your most powerful devices are of no avail".
Reputedly a quotation from Al Azif that appeared in the H.P.Lovecraft story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward".
Happy news is at hand for those wishing a UDF filesystem for Linux. Under contract in '97 I wrote a complete R/W UDF kernel filesystem for Linux 2.0.34 that drove CD-R drives. YOu could pop a blank CD-R into the drive, mount it (autoformat on mount) and then proceed to copy files onto the disc or just cruise around it in your favorite shell checking out the contents. Pop the disc out, put it on the shelf, pop it back in later and add more goodies. Small files pigged the disc due to the packet size of the CD-R drive, but the overhead wasn't too terrible with larger files. My understanding was that this code should have appeared in the Linux community within six months of it's being incorporated into their Linux based product. If anyone knows the legalities of how to liberate this code legally please let me know. I am the original and sole author of the original code (it was based partly on the ext2fs) and the copyright to it was never transfered in a written contract to anyone.
I at one time wrote a windoze program that took a text file, and flashed it a word-at-a-time in the same point on the computer screen. You'd be surprised how easily the brain can recognize words without having to actually read or process each one. --Thus, eliminating the need to move your eyes around the page allowed me to exceed 1000 words/min with good comprehension.
I don't know if i still have it around, but I'm sure it could be reproduced pretty easily if i don't. (ask me to look if you'd like...)
Ths nice thing here, is that it allows you to speed up your reading, without going to classes or having to learn how.
What we now know as speed reading grew out of research the military did with fighter pilots. They were showed slides of various enemy aircraft at various distances and the object was to find out how far away a pilot could be from an enemy plane and still know it to be a hostile, and how quickly he could do it.
Speed reading is a subtle change in the way our minds naturally process information to maximize the results.
I read a book once by Gary Buzan about speed reading and it gives a lot of history as well as his method.
What we now know as speed reading grew out of research the military did with fighter pilots. They were showed slides of various enemy aircraft at various distances and the object was to find out how far away a pilot could be from an enemy plane and still know it to be a hostile, and how quick he could do it.
Speed reading is a subtle change in the way our minds naturally process information to maximize the results.
I read a book once by Gary Buzan about speed reading and it gives a lot of history as well as his method.
get a stylus-type thingie. run over the text with it. you will probably double your reading speed. This is because the primary problem the eye faces is going to the next line and making sure that is actually the next line. so if the pen does it for your eye, all your eye has to do is read... time yourself./me will now get flamed.
What? I find Netscape to be just as stable as IE, probably more so. If you're running a PC, download the latest JRE from java.sun.com. Granted; I don't use IE too much, only when I have to to test out Java apps and look'n'feel portablility. I hate to break it too you but IE crashes too and both have problems with Java.
First, it's not the users deleting these files. They are just getting corrupted.
Second, I can't share it from the network because a) we are short on network file space and b) our network admin is a moron.
Third, I said nothing about Clippy. I am well aware that it is simple to turn him off.
Fourth, the reason people tout Office as the be-all end-all of office software is the intuitive easy of use. If I have to RTFM to figure out how to use tabstops because the "obvious" actions don't work, there is a problem.
You're A Freakin' Perry Mason, eh Tom?
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Posted by !ErrorBookmarkNotDefined:
Me fragment the community? Am I the one posting nonsense like:
9.958% is not 10%
No. Look in the mirror, pal . .. Oh, wait, you're an AC. Guess you don't have a face, eh?
In any event, Tom's little missive actually convinced me to give RMS' arguments another look. Tom was so absurd, so prone to hair splitting that I actually think RMS has a point now.
Oh, one last gob of spit in your face. If you don't want to use an OS because of its name (witness ol' Tommy, ever the fount of reason: "rename Linux to the repugnant 'GNU/Linux'"), then, well, you got real problems.
----------------------------- Computers are useless. They can only give answers.
I was doing evaluations of Java Charting Applets for work -- With NS 4.5 it crashed 18 of 20 tries...on totally different applets. NS 4.51 actually worked on 18 of 20....Imagine that.
Fraid not old boy. Well not from the way I see it. It looks to me like Oracle stacked the deck in their favour when defining the challenge to give a good result.
Microsoft then decided the test wasn't valid to the real world (which might mean they couldnt match the result, or it might not), and devised their own alternative test that gave good results.
So in my book they both won. Microsoft didn't respond to the exact challenge, but they also showed results from a similar (?) test that gave similar performance.
What would be a challenge would be to use the same hardware define by an independant third party, using *exactly* the same test as defined by said people. To me (not that I'm an expert) the results prove nothing.
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Posted by Phantom of the Operating Syste:
Binary? Hardly! There is one thing about the signal that you are forgetting. The signal is passes to other nerves, and the strenth of that signal depends on how close the axon is to the dendrite.
Locally (for the nerve) - it is in one of these states:
firing
recovery
ready
There are slight differences for different nevers as to how fast they can recover. There is also a group of neurons (Pyramidal?) that engage in a non-drive oscillitory manner.
Globally, though, the signal of a nerve is felt strongly or weakly by other nerves, so the signal it sends is not binary.
Personally, I would bet that the real information that the nerve contains is the frequency that it fires at, not if it fires or not, since nerves do tend to fire off a certain noise level while inactive.
-phantom
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
Have you ever heard of the GPL? Or Linus Torvalds?
Look into it and your fears will be allayed.
Posted by Open Matrix:
I got the drift from the babelfish but this makes it much more understandable.
Posted by stodge:
:)
I agree. Personally I hate messing with themes. Do themes waste CPU cycles?? I'd rather have something I prefer to use out of the box. I'm lazy!
Stodge in disguise.......
Posted by stodge:
Am I the only person who thinks the GTK widget set is ugly? And I do think that KDE looks too much like Windows, but in an inoffensive way. They could have been a bit more creative (not necessary in eye candy, eh Enlightenment?).
Posted by WVG:
Looks pretty good but it's not new, like others I've seen it before but then it gives you a good quick look around a site with all possible links to attend. Cool stuff.
Posted by fieldmarshallburrito:
John Dvorak's just said it: "The heir to windows is a gentrified Linux". The mainstream press is starting to crack. As soon one of the big computer vendors lets you order a pre-configured linux box with your choice of KDE or GNOME, then it's all over for "Alpha Borg" Bill Gates.
Posted by AnnoyingMouseCoward:
...please get it right.
"Do not call up what you cannot put down, by that, meaning, do not call up one who can in turn call up others against whom your most powerful devices are of no avail".
Reputedly a quotation from Al Azif that appeared in the H.P.Lovecraft story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward".
Posted by Scotty1024:
Happy news is at hand for those wishing a UDF filesystem for Linux. Under contract in '97 I wrote a complete R/W UDF kernel filesystem for Linux 2.0.34 that drove CD-R drives. YOu could pop a blank CD-R into the drive, mount it (autoformat on mount) and then proceed to copy files onto the disc or just cruise around it in your favorite shell checking out the contents. Pop the disc out, put it on the shelf, pop it back in later and add more goodies. Small files pigged the disc due to the packet size of the CD-R drive, but the overhead wasn't too terrible with larger files.
My understanding was that this code should have appeared in the Linux community within six months of it's being incorporated into their Linux based product.
If anyone knows the legalities of how to liberate this code legally please let me know. I am the original and sole author of the original code (it was based partly on the ext2fs) and the copyright to it was never transfered in a written contract to anyone.
Posted by beer4me:
I at one time wrote a windoze program that took a text file, and flashed it a word-at-a-time in the same point on the computer screen. You'd be surprised how easily the brain can recognize words without having to actually read or process each one. --Thus, eliminating the need to move your eyes around the page allowed me to exceed 1000 words/min with good comprehension.
I don't know if i still have it around, but I'm sure it could be reproduced pretty easily if i don't. (ask me to look if you'd like...)
Ths nice thing here, is that it allows you to speed up your reading, without going to classes or having to learn how.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Appearantly you don't know what speed reading is.
What we now know as speed reading grew out of research the military did with fighter pilots. They were showed slides of various enemy aircraft at various distances and the object was to find out how far away a pilot could be from an enemy plane and still know it to be a hostile, and how quickly he could do it.
Speed reading is a subtle change in the way our minds naturally process information to maximize the results.
I read a book once by Gary Buzan about speed reading and it gives a lot of history as well as his method.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Appearantly you don't know what speed reading is.
What we now know as speed reading grew out of research the military did with fighter pilots. They were showed slides of various enemy aircraft at various distances and the object was to find out how far away a pilot could be from an enemy plane and still know it to be a hostile, and how quick he could do it.
Speed reading is a subtle change in the way our minds naturally process information to maximize the results.
I read a book once by Gary Buzan about speed reading and it gives a lot of history as well as his method.
LK
Posted by liver:
/me will now get flamed.
get a stylus-type thingie. run over the text with it. you will probably double your reading speed. This is because the primary problem the eye faces is going to the next line and making sure that is actually the next line. so if the pen does it for your eye, all your eye has to do is read... time yourself.
Posted by Kastern:
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!
MS is really making a Stupid descicion in going against Oracle!!!! Those DA. Now Gates has gone mad.
Posted by fieldmarshallburrito:
damn it, you're a marine!
Posted by fieldmarshallburrito:
What? I find Netscape to be just as stable as
IE, probably more so. If you're running a PC, download the latest JRE from java.sun.com. Granted; I don't use IE too much, only when I have to to test out Java apps and look'n'feel portablility. I hate to break it too you but IE crashes too and both have problems with Java.
Posted by US Marine:
Dear Microsoft -
Keep your damn office software.
I can code better on my free time than the dufuses you pay $70,000 a year for.
Posted by Hackin Bey:
obviously you live in a less cultured region than northern california...harumph!
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
First, it's not the users deleting these files. They are just getting corrupted.
Second, I can't share it from the network because a) we are short on network file space and b) our network admin is a moron.
Third, I said nothing about Clippy. I am well aware that it is simple to turn him off.
Fourth, the reason people tout Office as the be-all end-all of office software is the intuitive easy of use. If I have to RTFM to figure out how to use tabstops because the "obvious" actions don't work, there is a problem.
Posted by !ErrorBookmarkNotDefined:
.
Me fragment the community? Am I the one posting nonsense like:
9.958% is not 10%
No. Look in the mirror, pal . .
Oh, wait, you're an AC. Guess you don't have a face, eh?
In any event, Tom's little missive actually convinced me to give RMS' arguments another look. Tom was so absurd, so prone to hair splitting that I actually think RMS has a point now.
Oh, one last gob of spit in your face. If you don't want to use an OS because of its name (witness ol' Tommy, ever the fount of reason: "rename Linux to the repugnant 'GNU/Linux'"), then, well, you got real problems.
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Computers are useless. They can only give answers.
Posted by aalain:
Finally, I say goodbye to the need to create custom install-disks to be able to recognize an Ultra2.
It's been a pain, but I have been running RH5.2 with 2.2.3. The upgrade from 5.1 with 2.1.x was painful, as I had to create a custom upgrade disk...
Now, if only OpenSound releases drivers for the latest sound cards...droool....
--Alain
Posted by deskjock:
I was doing evaluations of Java Charting Applets for work -- With NS 4.5 it crashed 18 of 20 tries...on totally different applets. NS 4.51 actually worked on 18 of 20....Imagine that.
Posted by stodge:
Fraid not old boy. Well not from the way I see it. It looks to me like Oracle stacked the deck in their favour when defining the challenge to give a good result.
Microsoft then decided the test wasn't valid to the real world (which might mean they couldnt match the result, or it might not), and devised their own alternative test that gave good results.
So in my book they both won. Microsoft didn't respond to the exact challenge, but they also showed results from a similar (?) test that gave similar performance.
What would be a challenge would be to use the same hardware define by an independant third party, using *exactly* the same test as defined by said people. To me (not that I'm an expert) the results prove nothing.
Posted by Wayne Steele:
Try asking Mr. Paperclip this question...
Why does Microsoft suck so much wank?
The answer may be interesting to the DOJ.
Posted by hackerzarus:
/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/starbuck/ /linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/starbuck/
ftp://phyppro1.phy.bnl. gov/pub/mirror/redhat-main/starbuck/
ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu
ftp://ftp.wtfo.com/pub
and of course, ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/starbuck/