What? EA didn't purchase Zynga. Zynga did an IPO last year.
As for app downloads - the key number is revenue. On iOS at least games generate by far the most revenue of all apps.
Very cool device, but battery life won't be "infinite" or anything close. The article doesn't specify battery chemistry, but it does say that the battery will last "a few years"... and I don't imagine they're replaceable.
This is not to knock - this is a great achievement! Mainstream micro-controller that can power itself in a hassle-free manner? Awesome =]
It *is* correct. GP said "less than one electron in the apparatus at any one time on average and you still get the diffraction pattern" which is right. Even if you only ever send one electron through it will be detected in a location consistent with the fringe pattern.
From the link you included in your reply:
"Although electrons were sent one by one, interference fringes could be observed."
You say "Single electrons produce single dots. It's only after you dump many electrons through that you get a pattern" which I think is misleading at best. It suggests that the first electron could be found in a location consistent with classical mechanics. The reality is that from the very first dot you'll be seeing interference effects (this is the heart of the double slit experiment), although it's true it won't *look* like there's a pattern until you've accumulated many dots.
The popularity of a cultural work is largely a result not of any inherent qualities of the work itself, but of of the activities of the audience.
...doesn't work with this:
If I like a piece of music, I am likely to tell my friends. They tell their friends, and so on and so on. (This is preferential attachment in a scale-free network.)
Why do you "like" one piece of music more than another. Why do all your friends pass it along. It's because of something inherent in the "work itself", isn't it?
Basically a not as pretty version of "Reason"
This thing looks cool, but it's nothing like Reason. Reason is much more focused on emulating the experience of hardware. This thing lets you write your own synth as a text file!
I've been using the beta for a while, and really like it. But one thing I don't like is that there is now a close tab [x] on every tab, rather than just one on the far right? Is it possible (without downloading source and recompiling, thanks...) to make it so that there's just one close tab button that is anchored to the far right (like 1.5)?
I like the recent tabs function, but I probably wouldn't need it but for the multitudes of "close tab" buttons that are suddenly between my the webpage I'm looking at and the address bar.
No, it isn't. It's possible that functional subsections process information in a way that is (perhaps only superficially) similar to a neural network, but saying "the human brain is a neural network" is like saying "a car is a valve".
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Pretty much anything chargeable lights up/flashes/beeps/has a little animating icon when charging by wire. Why would you need anything extra or different?
Why not? Because it's "dependent on what the musician is feeling"? Please - that's mysticism. While I understand you in a general sense, I don't think you should be so quick to declare that it can't be done. A limited context like improvising on an instrument is actually a pretty fertile area for AI research, and there's no obvious barrier that I can see to making very sophisticated and subtle systems that play with - yes - feeling.
And, FWIW, I'm a "real" musician of almost 20 years experience. I play the guitar.
Finally, in principle there's no reason a system can't be made that can communicate with a crowd, and use its responses as an input to its improvisations (just like that "master guitarist" is doing).
I dialed 411 (information in Los Angeles) and got the recorded "State your listing" voice, which then said "...or for Star Wars movie times, press 2". Wow... that's reach!
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To show you how great the screen looks when watching movies. You really have to see it to believe it, and I've heard several reports of people who didn't think they'd want to watch movies on a portable device change their minds after seeing Spiderman 2 on the PSP.
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>productivity apps for kids
Huh?
That kind of fuzzy thinking is exactly why PSP is gonna take a major chunk out of Nintendo's handheld market share.
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Wrong. You're looking at the transfer speed for 1x Blu Ray _writing_, not reading.
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...is what this should be called =]
What? EA didn't purchase Zynga. Zynga did an IPO last year. As for app downloads - the key number is revenue. On iOS at least games generate by far the most revenue of all apps.
The decision doesn't grant the government power to compel you to buy things, only the power to penalize (tax) you if you don't.
Very different things.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/the-health-care-decision-explained-in-1-paragraph-on-scotusblog/259097/
I don't think anyone will ever try it, but here's an idea for how to run a store:
You just described the Apple Store
aka the most profitable (per square foot) retail business in the US
>I'd probably be worried about commodities as a bigger issue. Agreed. Rare earth elements are especially concerning.
Very cool device, but battery life won't be "infinite" or anything close. The article doesn't specify battery chemistry, but it does say that the battery will last "a few years"... and I don't imagine they're replaceable. This is not to knock - this is a great achievement! Mainstream micro-controller that can power itself in a hassle-free manner? Awesome =]
It *is* correct. GP said "less than one electron in the apparatus at any one time on average and you still get the diffraction pattern" which is right. Even if you only ever send one electron through it will be detected in a location consistent with the fringe pattern.
From the link you included in your reply:
"Although electrons were sent one by one, interference fringes could be observed."
You say "Single electrons produce single dots. It's only after you dump many electrons through that you get a pattern" which I think is misleading at best. It suggests that the first electron could be found in a location consistent with classical mechanics. The reality is that from the very first dot you'll be seeing interference effects (this is the heart of the double slit experiment), although it's true it won't *look* like there's a pattern until you've accumulated many dots.
Anyway, my point is that GP had it right.
A minor point, but this:
The popularity of a cultural work is largely a result not of any inherent qualities of the work itself, but of of the activities of the audience.
...doesn't work with this:
If I like a piece of music, I am likely to tell my friends. They tell their friends, and so on and so on. (This is preferential attachment in a scale-free network.)
Why do you "like" one piece of music more than another. Why do all your friends pass it along. It's because of something inherent in the "work itself", isn't it?
Reaper is amazingly tiny for what it does. Justin Frankel wins.
Basically a not as pretty version of "Reason" This thing looks cool, but it's nothing like Reason. Reason is much more focused on emulating the experience of hardware. This thing lets you write your own synth as a text file!
"The way to succeed in anything is to be goal oriented; I guess I haven't really seen either side offer up a goal. It's like writing a program..."
You're an idiot. Equating a war with architecting a computer program is a ludicrously broken analogy.
"all we have is the big picture; a free, safe, secure and democratic Iraq."
That isn't the goal of the US occupation in Iraq.
I've been using the beta for a while, and really like it. But one thing I don't like is that there is now a close tab [x] on every tab, rather than just one on the far right? Is it possible (without downloading source and recompiling, thanks...) to make it so that there's just one close tab button that is anchored to the far right (like 1.5)?
I like the recent tabs function, but I probably wouldn't need it but for the multitudes of "close tab" buttons that are suddenly between my the webpage I'm looking at and the address bar.
To what does Intel needs to comply? some quite trivial FCC regulations.
The laws of physics
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So Jobs now has a controlling hand over at Disney?
No. He would have about 7%. Well short of the 51% required for a controlling interest.
When the heck did Apple become a world-shaping media-production company?
They haven't. The issue at hand is Disney buying Pixar.
Why wasn't I paying attention.
Drugs?
Pixar kind of just crept up all quiet-like.
Yes. By releasing all those blockbuster hit movies. Very stealthy.
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Since the human brain is a neural net
No, it isn't. It's possible that functional subsections process information in a way that is (perhaps only superficially) similar to a neural network, but saying "the human brain is a neural network" is like saying "a car is a valve". grib.
Pretty much anything chargeable lights up/flashes/beeps/has a little animating icon when charging by wire. Why would you need anything extra or different?
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You mean like this:
http://www.db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
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Yeah, I always thought the "My" in My Computer was me. Now I know it's really Bill. My (as in me) mistake =]
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"And no, this cannot be done programatically"
Why not? Because it's "dependent on what the musician is feeling"? Please - that's mysticism. While I understand you in a general sense, I don't think you should be so quick to declare that it can't be done. A limited context like improvising on an instrument is actually a pretty fertile area for AI research, and there's no obvious barrier that I can see to making very sophisticated and subtle systems that play with - yes - feeling.
And, FWIW, I'm a "real" musician of almost 20 years experience. I play the guitar.
Finally, in principle there's no reason a system can't be made that can communicate with a crowd, and use its responses as an input to its improvisations (just like that "master guitarist" is doing).
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"SVG is to Flash what PNG was to GIF. Flash is history!"
Right, just like GIF is history. Try doing a "Save Image As" on any image on slashdot.
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I dialed 411 (information in Los Angeles) and got the recorded "State your listing" voice, which then said "...or for Star Wars movie times, press 2". Wow... that's reach!
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Note to mention, this thing is just plain ugly. I mean:
f eatures/2009-1041_3-5686841.html?tag=st.num
http://news.com.com/Photos+Nokia+phones+pack+the+
Damn.
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To show you how great the screen looks when watching movies. You really have to see it to believe it, and I've heard several reports of people who didn't think they'd want to watch movies on a portable device change their minds after seeing Spiderman 2 on the PSP.
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>productivity apps for kids
Huh?
That kind of fuzzy thinking is exactly why PSP is gonna take a major chunk out of Nintendo's handheld market share.
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Wrong. You're looking at the transfer speed for 1x Blu Ray _writing_, not reading.
Try here:
http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#2.3
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