As an fMRI researcher this article is frustrating. Simply knowing what areas of the brain are being utilized for a task says nothing about the political views of a person. Nor does it reveal how to recruit voters for your cause. It is a single person's reaction to seeing someone that they either affiliate with or don't - the same as most other social interactions.
Couple this with the fact that you cannot discern much from single subject data in fMRI. With some robust paradigms you can get good signal, but only through hundreds or thousands of trials on the part of the subject, adn then only for more basic sensory processes. I doubt these conditions were met for experimental research paid for by outside parties.
I agree that we will be seeing more of this, but take it allwith a grain of salt, please. fMRI is beginning to get a bad rap and it is studies like this that are making it happen...
Slate should have had to say in this article that they are essentially a subsidiary of Microsoft. Does anyone else sniff the air when an article like this comes out the day of the G5 unveiling?
The only trouble is that the iPod would have to power the iSight. What was a very energy-thrifty portable music unit might not last long at all using the disk constantly to record video and maxing out the 'pods CPU.
Would still be awesome though. Captains log anyone?
Keep in mind that the XServe isn't only about profit. It is also about mindshare and having a broad enough hardware selection that any company could approach Apple with a need and our favorite fruit company could turn right around and tell them, "yeah, we can do that." Clustering? Big RAID arrays? Redundancy? No problem.
Sales numbers notwithstanding, it is a competitive box. In the future it will be interesting to see how many of the things fly out of the warehouse. Time will tell, time will tell...
It is nice to hear that Sprint will be moving long distance telephony into the next generation. It sounds like it will save them a bundle and help them manage growth. Still, I am languishing with an analog copper-pair connecton to my home phone. Will someone (anyone) drop a fiber into my backyard?
This may have been posted already, but I didn't see it in a tertiary glance of the comments.
I have been sharing for over a year with previous versions of iTunes. Just set up your home mac for file sharing in system preferences and log into it from another computer using Appleshare over IP (apple-K from the finder). Then make an alias of your home iTunes folder and put it on your work machine in the music folder of your work's home directory. When you launch iTunes everything will be exactly like it is on your home machine, ratings and all. It is just that when you play the music it pulls it through appleshare.
It works great, but can get choppy with bigger mp3 files over my cable connection. It is also admittedly less graceful than iTunes sharing... : \
Actually from my recollection it is quite the other way around. AMD started out making a myriad of devices and then shifted focus to the desktop processor industry.
In other terms, they were running around town at night but lately they have settled down. Bully for them, I dig it.
Don't forget about the software! One of the big positive points for the iPod on a Mac is that it work seamlessly with iTunes. All of my playlists are sync'd automatically and I can make lists of just my highest rated music, which makes managing space on the iPod a piece of cake.
Supreme Ruler S. Jobs has promised iTunes by the end of the year for Win32 (to get them onto the new music service). In calculating value of a portable device like this don't forget to factor in intangibles such as ease of use and integration...
As a huge Counting Crows fan I was delighted to see that there were four exclusive tracks on the Apple Music Store that I could not buy here in town. That was the bait and now I am hooked. As an alternative distribution model I hope to see the Music Store flourish by offering both album music and live preformances. Opening it up to independent labels would be good karma as well.
Oh, and for all the Win users out there the Mac boards are abuzz with rumors of iTunes for Windows by the end of the year...
Well, this will probably get buried because there are so many comments, but anyway...
I just downloaded a track off of the new site. In toying around I opened it up in the Quicktime player and saved the music file as a self-contained movie. Then I threw it back into iTunes to see what would happen.
It doesn't see the file as protected audio. If I get info for the purchased tracks it lists them as "Protected AAC Audio", but the track I ran through Quicktime is listed as a "Quicktime Movie File". It sounds exactly the same and iTunes treats it as just another music file. Interesting.
Anybody else have any luck? I love the new store and I plan on purchasing often, but it is odd that the DRM can be stripped out (possibly) by another Apple software product.
As a future graduate student at Dartmouth I can only say that this is a fantastic idea. I wonder though how this would be implemented. Is this a plan through the college, or a municipal push?
If you want feasibility information then a good place to ak might be some of the IT administrators for very large universities. I know that the Network & Telecom folks here at KU service 25,000+ students, faculty, and staff across three campuses. They would have valuable advice about terms of service, equipment, and other lessons that only experience can provide.
And if you need any more help I will be more than happy to help when I arrive in Hanover next Fall!
Is it just me, or is there suprisingly little Iraqi military to impress with our "Shock and Awe" campaign? What good is a 20 mile long wall of steel, Tomahawks, and MOAB bombs when negligible resistance has been encountered thus far?
CNN was reporting earlier that Iraq has fired al Samoud missles at American forces and that Patriots were fired in an attempt to take them down. A total of four al Samoud missles were fired and Patriots were launched in response to two of them. During the Gulf War I remember many experts citing the poor accuracy of the Patriot. I am concerned that it is a continuing trend in Gulf War II - it took three Patriots to take down one missle. : \
This has actually been an issue for years. Want to know why so many legislators were against the bill? Mostly because in the last five years SBC has repeatedly lied to them about broadband deplyoment in rural areas of Kansas. The House has been trying to develop incentives to get SBC and others to install DSL and other high speed services to the most remote parts of the state. Today's bill was the lobbyists trying to capitalize on the needs of the people of Kansas.
If you need access to Lexis-Nexis or Westlaw more often than not you can walk into any public university computer lab and search to your heart's content. At the University of Kansas any computer in the University's subnet is able to access Lexis-Nexis - including the dorms.
During our time in the womb and in the few years after birth the brain literally explodes with new connections. Millions are produced that will never be used. As we learn and develop something on the order or 90% of all connections we have when we are two are eliminated through disuse. The pathways that we use are reinforced and the pathways that are not used go away.
The ability to remember is contingent upon a working memory system, but the basics of the memory system are not readily implemented until years after we are born. There is also a tradeoff between neural plasticity and memory. Our brains can either be very flexible or hold a lot of memories, but not both. This is why we can get brain injuries and adapt when we are young, but brain injuries when we are older are harder to recover from.
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As an fMRI researcher this article is frustrating. Simply knowing what areas of the brain are being utilized for a task says nothing about the political views of a person. Nor does it reveal how to recruit voters for your cause. It is a single person's reaction to seeing someone that they either affiliate with or don't - the same as most other social interactions.
Couple this with the fact that you cannot discern much from single subject data in fMRI. With some robust paradigms you can get good signal, but only through hundreds or thousands of trials on the part of the subject, adn then only for more basic sensory processes. I doubt these conditions were met for experimental research paid for by outside parties.
I agree that we will be seeing more of this, but take it allwith a grain of salt, please. fMRI is beginning to get a bad rap and it is studies like this that are making it happen...
Gives new meaning to the word 'crash'... ;)
The three day availability is a mistake. When Airport Express was introduced they said it would be mid-july before any units were shipped.
They announced, you can buy, but no streaming tunes 'til mid-july.
And it rhymes.
The report still doesn't address Richard Feynman's analysis after Challenger that even with good odds we are probably going to lose 1 in 50 shuttles.
I am all for a new launch system. But who do I write?
~CB
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Slate should have had to say in this article that they are essentially a subsidiary of Microsoft. Does anyone else sniff the air when an article like this comes out the day of the G5 unveiling?
The only trouble is that the iPod would have to power the iSight. What was a very energy-thrifty portable music unit might not last long at all using the disk constantly to record video and maxing out the 'pods CPU.
Would still be awesome though. Captains log anyone?
Keep in mind that the XServe isn't only about profit. It is also about mindshare and having a broad enough hardware selection that any company could approach Apple with a need and our favorite fruit company could turn right around and tell them, "yeah, we can do that." Clustering? Big RAID arrays? Redundancy? No problem.
Sales numbers notwithstanding, it is a competitive box. In the future it will be interesting to see how many of the things fly out of the warehouse. Time will tell, time will tell...
It is nice to hear that Sprint will be moving long distance telephony into the next generation. It sounds like it will save them a bundle and help them manage growth. Still, I am languishing with an analog copper-pair connecton to my home phone. Will someone (anyone) drop a fiber into my backyard?
This may have been posted already, but I didn't see it in a tertiary glance of the comments.
I have been sharing for over a year with previous versions of iTunes. Just set up your home mac for file sharing in system preferences and log into it from another computer using Appleshare over IP (apple-K from the finder). Then make an alias of your home iTunes folder and put it on your work machine in the music folder of your work's home directory. When you launch iTunes everything will be exactly like it is on your home machine, ratings and all. It is just that when you play the music it pulls it through appleshare.
It works great, but can get choppy with bigger mp3 files over my cable connection. It is also admittedly less graceful than iTunes sharing... : \
Actually from my recollection it is quite the other way around. AMD started out making a myriad of devices and then shifted focus to the desktop processor industry.
In other terms, they were running around town at night but lately they have settled down. Bully for them, I dig it.
Don't forget about the software! One of the big positive points for the iPod on a Mac is that it work seamlessly with iTunes. All of my playlists are sync'd automatically and I can make lists of just my highest rated music, which makes managing space on the iPod a piece of cake.
Supreme Ruler S. Jobs has promised iTunes by the end of the year for Win32 (to get them onto the new music service). In calculating value of a portable device like this don't forget to factor in intangibles such as ease of use and integration...
As a huge Counting Crows fan I was delighted to see that there were four exclusive tracks on the Apple Music Store that I could not buy here in town. That was the bait and now I am hooked. As an alternative distribution model I hope to see the Music Store flourish by offering both album music and live preformances. Opening it up to independent labels would be good karma as well.
Oh, and for all the Win users out there the Mac boards are abuzz with rumors of iTunes for Windows by the end of the year...
Well, this will probably get buried because there are so many comments, but anyway...
I just downloaded a track off of the new site. In toying around I opened it up in the Quicktime player and saved the music file as a self-contained movie. Then I threw it back into iTunes to see what would happen.
It doesn't see the file as protected audio. If I get info for the purchased tracks it lists them as "Protected AAC Audio", but the track I ran through Quicktime is listed as a "Quicktime Movie File". It sounds exactly the same and iTunes treats it as just another music file. Interesting.
Anybody else have any luck? I love the new store and I plan on purchasing often, but it is odd that the DRM can be stripped out (possibly) by another Apple software product.
That would be the first port I would firewall off...
Brings up interesting ideas of ways to prank your friends & enemies though.
I would be satisfied if Mozilla's new name was just "Not Internet Explorer".
Methinks even more people would want to use it too.
Using Not Internet Explorer 1.3...
As a future graduate student at Dartmouth I can only say that this is a fantastic idea. I wonder though how this would be implemented. Is this a plan through the college, or a municipal push?
If you want feasibility information then a good place to ak might be some of the IT administrators for very large universities. I know that the Network & Telecom folks here at KU service 25,000+ students, faculty, and staff across three campuses. They would have valuable advice about terms of service, equipment, and other lessons that only experience can provide.
And if you need any more help I will be more than happy to help when I arrive in Hanover next Fall!
Is it just me, or is there suprisingly little Iraqi military to impress with our "Shock and Awe" campaign? What good is a 20 mile long wall of steel, Tomahawks, and MOAB bombs when negligible resistance has been encountered thus far?
Let us all hope it stays this way...
CNN was reporting earlier that Iraq has fired al Samoud missles at American forces and that Patriots were fired in an attempt to take them down. A total of four al Samoud missles were fired and Patriots were launched in response to two of them. During the Gulf War I remember many experts citing the poor accuracy of the Patriot. I am concerned that it is a continuing trend in Gulf War II - it took three Patriots to take down one missle. : \
As it turns out Apple needed Gore's patented "LockBox" technology to store their horde of billions.
...there are lies and then there are damned lies...
sigh, the humanity of it all...
I am a Kansan, and SBC can suck it.
If you need access to Lexis-Nexis or Westlaw more often than not you can walk into any public university computer lab and search to your heart's content. At the University of Kansas any computer in the University's subnet is able to access Lexis-Nexis - including the dorms.
During our time in the womb and in the few years after birth the brain literally explodes with new connections. Millions are produced that will never be used. As we learn and develop something on the order or 90% of all connections we have when we are two are eliminated through disuse. The pathways that we use are reinforced and the pathways that are not used go away.
The ability to remember is contingent upon a working memory system, but the basics of the memory system are not readily implemented until years after we are born. There is also a tradeoff between neural plasticity and memory. Our brains can either be very flexible or hold a lot of memories, but not both. This is why we can get brain injuries and adapt when we are young, but brain injuries when we are older are harder to recover from.
Or so I am told.