Considering that dogs can recognise individuals (and vehicles, and other dogs) at distances of up to half a mile or so, without any time for scent to cover the distance, vision has a great deal more to do with it than scent.
In my experience, dogs identify stuff first and foremost by vision, and only use scent as a "backup" -- to confirm what they already thought, or to see where you've been (they're just like kids going "Daddy, where did you go today?...Hey!! Why did you go to the duck pond without me??")
It's a lot like how a parent can interpret a toddler's yammerings. They aren't exactly words, but they have meaning and context; you just have to learn to recognise them (and sort that out from mere mumbling to oneself, which some dogs do too).
Just like toddlers, dogs can become frustrated when the Stupid Human can't figure out what they're "saying". A very few dogs will attempt to deliberately mimic human speech, apparently thinking that this will make them more intelligible (tho needless to say that doesn't work very well).
As to pictures... it's just like with kids; if exposed to the concept, a reasonably bright dog will figure out "this represents something". Dogs' detail vision is very good (allowing for their typical but not universal blue/green colourblindness; most dogs see some range of yellow/orange/red), and their memory for specifics can be awesome.
BTW the notion that dogs are nearsighted is completely wrong; most have much better distance vision than humans. There is myopia in dogs (more commonly in small dogs) but it is neither typical nor normal.
An AC who is evidently even older than myself replied thus:
===== Reminds me of the 50s with McCarthy's witch hunt, except this time, its the whole government that seems to be on the prowl, and the whole citizenry that is on the menu.:( =====
If the system did grind to a halt and nothing got passed, we'd surely be better off than we are with the current state of affairs, where riders are used to sneak unrelated legislation past both Congress and voters, often to the detriment of all but a select few.
Second, if things did grind to a halt, maybe Congress would relearn how to actually compromise on a bill's terms, until it's something everyone can live with. That, too, protects minorities -- while sneak-riders do the exact opposite.
I think the defining moment was when JFK uttered those treasonous words, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what YOU can do for your country."
Excuse me?? since when do *I* exist for the good of my country? To the contrary, my country exists for MY (collective) good, and serves no other function whatsoever!! To claim that citizens exist for the good of the state is nothing less than slavery.
An unintended consequence of "zero tolerance" laws and policies -- no one with ANY trace of taint, no matter how stale, can be tolerated.
Second, I think the mindset was largely engendered by this notion that everyone must be GIVEN "self-esteem" (kids raised that way grew up to have zero tolerance to contrary thought-patterns). where nothing is earned, because everything is decreed. So there is no understanding of how such things aren't either ON or OFF but rather are a long path with many branches... and that includes rehabilitation and retraining of 'criminals'.
It's the new religion, where evildoers are condemned to the outer regions forever.
Too late... just because people aren't being lined up against the wall and shot, doesn't mean it isn't a police state.
I'm old enough to remember when we didn't worry about such things... we just lived our lives, and only the real criminals were at-risk. Now... you have to consider how everything you do will APPEAR, lest you be accused of [insert politically-incorrect behaviour here] and find yourself in custody or court, or your property confiscated.
Yes, in the olden days there was some discrimination and harrassment of [insert unpopular minority here]. But now EVERYONE is at risk, albeit in different ways. How is this progress?
I've been wondering the same thing. All I know for sure is that when Seagate bought Conner, they rebadged 'em as Seagates -- but the firmware tattled, since the drives still reported themselves as Conners.
(Not that I personally care, since I only buy W.D.)
"What I've been told is that some Seagate drives hold their own firmware on a few reserved sectors"
That strikes me as a HORRIBLE idea. What if those few reserved sectors go bad?? Yeah, modern HDs swap out bad sectors on their own... but to do so, the firmware has to be working...
Well, guess who now owns Maxtor... last time Seagate bought another HD mfgr (Conner) they rebadged the old Conner stock as Seagate. Sadly, this did nothing to improve their performance or reliability. No idea if they did the same with old Maxtor stock, but I agree with you there... Maxtors have this habit of just dying from one moment to the next, with zero warning, one day out of warranty. Seagates and W.D. have generally either died young (uncommon), or worked for years past their stale date, and WD give you a lot of warning before they croak. But I've never liked Seagate because they run hot and have generally had poor performance compared to concurrent WD drives.
And very likely a lot of comedies would seem boring and trite if one didn't have an audience to laugh with.
I don't think this group behaviour is exactly news, tho. In retrospect, I'm pretty sure some of my teachers knowingly used the phenomenon to get and hold the class's attention -- get a few kids to focus toward the teacher, and pretty soon the whole room follows.
It's not just humans. The best canine performance candidates (ie. serious hunting and fieldtrial dogs) generally go through a stage where they're tough to control at best, and hyperactive at worst -- but it all boils down to they need MORE TO DO than the average non-pro-trainer can give them, because they have more desire to hunt, and need more of an outlet for it, than the average pet.
Substitute "child" for "dog" and the parallel is obvious.
Upon Reading TFA (and with enough biochem in my brain to grok the concepts) I had this thought:
What if *all* DNA originated as fragments of such viruses??
[Side thought: This would mean that *all* of the remainder of the organism is just a glorified protein coat, a la a virus' protein coat.]
Extended thought: mutations that generate new species tend to come in clumps. What if these clumps of mutations are merely the side effect of assimilating a new virus?? this might also account for mass die-offs, when assimilating a new virus radically reduced viability (and being pandemic, affected all related species, such as dinosaurs).
I found a 5.25" floppy laying on the highway; it had been run over numerous times and had a lot of punctures through the media. Miraculously, the disk was still largely readable!!
Generally, once a stictiond drive is in motion again, it stays in motion until you power it down... then it's liable to stiction again. But not always...
I have a 1995-vintage 800mb W.D. that I use as a bootup tester... when I got it, it was stictioned but good. Powered it on... rrrrrrrr. Gave it a light tap over the motor, which is enough to unstick most HDs... RRRRRRRR. Tapped it a bit harder... RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr. So finally I gave it a serious WHACK, and it fired right up and has worked fine ever since.
Good idea, that: A default copyright period, with an extension for registering. If both periods were for 7 years, that is quite reasonable for the value of most works (ephemera like blogs would be protected in the short term but not worth doing so in the long term; books, films, etc. could be protected for their reasonable profitable lifetime -- if you haven't made your killing off that book or film in the first 14 years, chances are you're not going to anyway!!)
Some have suggested that there should also be some sort of extended fee schedule for "for profit" works, to discourage copyright-squatting. Thoughts?
Oh yes, you're absolutely correct -- frex, the concept of "yield" when merging has been lost entirely. Now it's more like "push and shove and make the faster-moving vehicle get out of your way".:/
All the "yield right of way" and "yield when merging" signs were REMOVED from California freeways some years ago. WTF?!
Well, a lot of the long-haul truckers I see being rude have out-of-state plates, so the New Rudeness is not exclusively a Calif. thing... but from what I see, it may well be a "younger driver without any trucker culture behind him" thing. Now that having a second driver is rare, those newer drivers don't have an old hand along to teach them the unwritten rules of the road.
I reached the same conclusion. The seed bank is good; preservation of what may someday be otherwise impossible to replace is good; the article resurrects long-dead conspiracy wingnuts.
Every big company with a long history has some such skeletons in their closets; it's the nature of big business and big money. You don't always know what your investment dollar is going to be used for in advance (and it often goes through trusts, with little direct control), and sometimes even big companies believe well-crafted propaganda from evil sources.
On a similar note, I know someone who thinks that because Toshiba sold components to Japanese interests during WW2, that's sufficient reason to boycott Toshiba to this day... because after all, motivations from 60+ years ago must still be valid today, right?!:/
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Considering that dogs can recognise individuals (and vehicles, and other dogs) at distances of up to half a mile or so, without any time for scent to cover the distance, vision has a great deal more to do with it than scent.
...Hey!! Why did you go to the duck pond without me??")
In my experience, dogs identify stuff first and foremost by vision, and only use scent as a "backup" -- to confirm what they already thought, or to see where you've been (they're just like kids going "Daddy, where did you go today?
(Yes, IAA Professional Dog Trainer)
[old-time professional dog trainer hat]
It's a lot like how a parent can interpret a toddler's yammerings. They aren't exactly words, but they have meaning and context; you just have to learn to recognise them (and sort that out from mere mumbling to oneself, which some dogs do too).
Just like toddlers, dogs can become frustrated when the Stupid Human can't figure out what they're "saying". A very few dogs will attempt to deliberately mimic human speech, apparently thinking that this will make them more intelligible (tho needless to say that doesn't work very well).
As to pictures... it's just like with kids; if exposed to the concept, a reasonably bright dog will figure out "this represents something". Dogs' detail vision is very good (allowing for their typical but not universal blue/green colourblindness; most dogs see some range of yellow/orange/red), and their memory for specifics can be awesome.
BTW the notion that dogs are nearsighted is completely wrong; most have much better distance vision than humans. There is myopia in dogs (more commonly in small dogs) but it is neither typical nor normal.
An AC who is evidently even older than myself replied thus:
:(
=====
Reminds me of the 50s with McCarthy's witch hunt, except this time, its the whole government that seems to be on the prowl, and the whole citizenry that is on the menu.
=====
'Nuf said.
If the system did grind to a halt and nothing got passed, we'd surely be better off than we are with the current state of affairs, where riders are used to sneak unrelated legislation past both Congress and voters, often to the detriment of all but a select few.
Second, if things did grind to a halt, maybe Congress would relearn how to actually compromise on a bill's terms, until it's something everyone can live with. That, too, protects minorities -- while sneak-riders do the exact opposite.
Anyone have these industries' gross annual sales figures handy? Because ISTM the numbers from TFA exceed that.
I think the defining moment was when JFK uttered those treasonous words, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what YOU can do for your country."
Excuse me?? since when do *I* exist for the good of my country? To the contrary, my country exists for MY (collective) good, and serves no other function whatsoever!! To claim that citizens exist for the good of the state is nothing less than slavery.
An unintended consequence of "zero tolerance" laws and policies -- no one with ANY trace of taint, no matter how stale, can be tolerated.
Second, I think the mindset was largely engendered by this notion that everyone must be GIVEN "self-esteem" (kids raised that way grew up to have zero tolerance to contrary thought-patterns). where nothing is earned, because everything is decreed. So there is no understanding of how such things aren't either ON or OFF but rather are a long path with many branches... and that includes rehabilitation and retraining of 'criminals'.
It's the new religion, where evildoers are condemned to the outer regions forever.
Too late... just because people aren't being lined up against the wall and shot, doesn't mean it isn't a police state.
I'm old enough to remember when we didn't worry about such things... we just lived our lives, and only the real criminals were at-risk. Now... you have to consider how everything you do will APPEAR, lest you be accused of [insert politically-incorrect behaviour here] and find yourself in custody or court, or your property confiscated.
Yes, in the olden days there was some discrimination and harrassment of [insert unpopular minority here]. But now EVERYONE is at risk, albeit in different ways. How is this progress?
Which is why we NEED a "one bill, one topic" law.
http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=83
I've been wondering the same thing. All I know for sure is that when Seagate bought Conner, they rebadged 'em as Seagates -- but the firmware tattled, since the drives still reported themselves as Conners.
(Not that I personally care, since I only buy W.D.)
"What I've been told is that some Seagate drives hold their own firmware on a few reserved sectors"
That strikes me as a HORRIBLE idea. What if those few reserved sectors go bad?? Yeah, modern HDs swap out bad sectors on their own... but to do so, the firmware has to be working...
Well, guess who now owns Maxtor... last time Seagate bought another HD mfgr (Conner) they rebadged the old Conner stock as Seagate. Sadly, this did nothing to improve their performance or reliability. No idea if they did the same with old Maxtor stock, but I agree with you there... Maxtors have this habit of just dying from one moment to the next, with zero warning, one day out of warranty. Seagates and W.D. have generally either died young (uncommon), or worked for years past their stale date, and WD give you a lot of warning before they croak. But I've never liked Seagate because they run hot and have generally had poor performance compared to concurrent WD drives.
Interesting, and I think explains some issues I heard about way back when...
Anyway, I'm wondering if this bug might also affect *some* Windows systems? coming back on as USB1 would definitely be a problem there, too.
And very likely a lot of comedies would seem boring and trite if one didn't have an audience to laugh with.
I don't think this group behaviour is exactly news, tho. In retrospect, I'm pretty sure some of my teachers knowingly used the phenomenon to get and hold the class's attention -- get a few kids to focus toward the teacher, and pretty soon the whole room follows.
It's not just humans. The best canine performance candidates (ie. serious hunting and fieldtrial dogs) generally go through a stage where they're tough to control at best, and hyperactive at worst -- but it all boils down to they need MORE TO DO than the average non-pro-trainer can give them, because they have more desire to hunt, and need more of an outlet for it, than the average pet.
Substitute "child" for "dog" and the parallel is obvious.
Upon Reading TFA (and with enough biochem in my brain to grok the concepts) I had this thought:
What if *all* DNA originated as fragments of such viruses??
[Side thought: This would mean that *all* of the remainder of the organism is just a glorified protein coat, a la a virus' protein coat.]
Extended thought: mutations that generate new species tend to come in clumps. What if these clumps of mutations are merely the side effect of assimilating a new virus?? this might also account for mass die-offs, when assimilating a new virus radically reduced viability (and being pandemic, affected all related species, such as dinosaurs).
Very interesting! Thanks for the story. Very amusing that Bayer is now, uh, Bayer again :)
I found a 5.25" floppy laying on the highway; it had been run over numerous times and had a lot of punctures through the media. Miraculously, the disk was still largely readable!!
There was a torture-test review a couple years ago that did all sorts of awful things to memory sticks.
All survived being washed, dried, dishwashered, and assorted other wet and heat abuses.
IIRC, they also all survived being run over by a truck.
One even survived having a nail driven through it (all the data other than what was physically mangled was still readable, and the stick worked).
Generally, once a stictiond drive is in motion again, it stays in motion until you power it down ... then it's liable to stiction again. But not always...
:)
I have a 1995-vintage 800mb W.D. that I use as a bootup tester... when I got it, it was stictioned but good. Powered it on... rrrrrrrr. Gave it a light tap over the motor, which is enough to unstick most HDs... RRRRRRRR. Tapped it a bit harder... RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr. So finally I gave it a serious WHACK, and it fired right up and has worked fine ever since.
Don't try this at home, kids
Good idea, that: A default copyright period, with an extension for registering. If both periods were for 7 years, that is quite reasonable for the value of most works (ephemera like blogs would be protected in the short term but not worth doing so in the long term; books, films, etc. could be protected for their reasonable profitable lifetime -- if you haven't made your killing off that book or film in the first 14 years, chances are you're not going to anyway!!)
Some have suggested that there should also be some sort of extended fee schedule for "for profit" works, to discourage copyright-squatting. Thoughts?
I wondered about that too.. wouldn't a Japanese company naturally sell to, uh, Japan?!
Hadn't heard that about Bayer; what's the scoop?
Oh yes, you're absolutely correct -- frex, the concept of "yield" when merging has been lost entirely. Now it's more like "push and shove and make the faster-moving vehicle get out of your way". :/
All the "yield right of way" and "yield when merging" signs were REMOVED from California freeways some years ago. WTF?!
Well, a lot of the long-haul truckers I see being rude have out-of-state plates, so the New Rudeness is not exclusively a Calif. thing ... but from what I see, it may well be a "younger driver without any trucker culture behind him" thing. Now that having a second driver is rare, those newer drivers don't have an old hand along to teach them the unwritten rules of the road.
I reached the same conclusion. The seed bank is good; preservation of what may someday be otherwise impossible to replace is good; the article resurrects long-dead conspiracy wingnuts.
:/
Every big company with a long history has some such skeletons in their closets; it's the nature of big business and big money. You don't always know what your investment dollar is going to be used for in advance (and it often goes through trusts, with little direct control), and sometimes even big companies believe well-crafted propaganda from evil sources.
On a similar note, I know someone who thinks that because Toshiba sold components to Japanese interests during WW2, that's sufficient reason to boycott Toshiba to this day... because after all, motivations from 60+ years ago must still be valid today, right?!