Yeah, but he still had to come up with things to delegate. Perhaps his idea to electrocute stray pets for FUD was the result of one of his all-nighters.
Can't help but compare Tesla and Edison. Both achieved a lot, although Tesla was the better scientist and engineer. Tesla keep quite normal hours, whereas Edison was certainly the kind of person to pull all-nighters. I'm sure many great people have pulled all-nighters, but there is no reason to think that if hadn't they wouldn't have achieved as much. In fact, the science suggests the opposite. But like you say, it's also not going to kill you unless you do it all the time or have some other problem.
I don't think the parent is talking about parties, but people who stay up all night to get a project done. Working more productively means you can spend less time working.
While I'm sure that's true, I'm also sure that there are still many where you can taste the difference because they aren't all chemically identical. So unless you want to get into specifics...
Sorry, I get confused with one of his essays: Unhapppy Meals. I haven't read the book I mentioned, although I think it covers some similar topics. It's only the first chapter that's free.
I think it's a bit more complicated than people just being stupid. The food industry plays on the science so that things seem better than they are. Then there is the government in many places, who don't want to tread on too many commercial toes, so they try to change the wording of things to the public. Then there is the media who end up releasing confusing data because they don't understand what they're reporting. And yeah, the educational systems aren't exactly helping, either.
Toxicity is relative. I also suspect the natural one gains a higher price because it contains many more compounds in general, which effects the taste. Perhaps you can't tell the difference between many real and artificial flavors, but many can. I also don't buy the price argument -- it can still work out cheaper to buy ingredients and make healthy food yourself than it is to buy processed or ready-made all the time.
If you think that just looking at the calories a good way to judge healthy food, you don't know much about nutrition. I'm not saying that either one of these companies sell more nutritional food than the other, but just comparing how much they don't have of a couple of things is like comparing the "cons" of something and failing to take into account the "pros". I suggest reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma". Googling it should find you a free PDF or the entire article somewhere.
Visual Voicemail does show the phone number, and it will stay on your screen for a long time.
Does it still work if caller ID is blocked? Can it tell if the person wants you to call back on a different number? And what about other info that doesn't have anything to do with where the caller is calling from, such as an address, quote for an item number, etc...
And if you can't "quite make out" some piece of information, how do you expect a computer to do so?
Because the person sending it will be typing it out and seeing it on a display before they send it. I don't care about Google's text-to-speech thing because that's still partly voice mail.
I just want a way to easily turn it off, or at least make it harder for them to leave a message. The only voicemail I want are emergencies. Anything else is so much easier if it's sent as a txt or email. No amount of emotion is going to make the phone number or address they've just left any easier to understand if they're speaking too fast, or have a poor mic, they mumble or get distracted part way through, a bus passes by... Caller ID also doesn't work in many places, such as calling from a phone with no direct dial number, or they prefer you to call back on a different number they're calling from...
How is this not obvious? They have so many apps to screen, do you really think they spend that much time reviewing each one? Mistakes like this will happen.
Your stats could be misleading, as density is not uniform. I live in a city with a much lower population density than either of those places, yet we have commuter trains and buses.
Probably because you can already add an extra two gyros to a heli for cyclic control (they already have a gyro for the tail rotor) which will do the job much better, cheaper, and easier than the same type of sensors in the iPhone. But all that would do is make the aircraft less twitchy. It will still "slide" out of control and the GPS is nowhere near accurate or fast enough to help out in that area. And then there's altitude control...
What makes you say that? Many of them have stabilization systems. But from a purely mechanical and aerodynamic point of view, I don't see how they would be so much more stable than a heli of equivalent size.
You'll probably want more than just GPS and cameras. You can get autopilot/hover stability systems for RC models for a reasonable price (under $5000) that will basically allow you to use the aircraft as a UAV. You can also get much cheaper systems (under $100) that will hold a heli in a stable hover by using the horizon as reference, but they won't keep the aircraft in the intended position as well as the more expensive options.
Yeah, there are plenty of really small, toy-level RC aircraft around these days. The kind that are so small you can crash them and just keep flying. This iPhone control sounds fun for something like that. Anything bigger than that (such as the 450 he has) seems a bit risky.
On the other hand, I've also pondered this idea for a while, and it looks like it works. The transmitters are often bigger than the heli itself at the small end and it would be neat to be able to replace the bulky thing with the iPhone, not to mention the nerd points for controlling an RC model with it.
Wonder if there is enough bandwidth to also stream video to the iPhone, too.
Actually, most LCD screens don't even render all that many colors anyway.
As the contrast ratio of screens continue to improve, color (or shades, more specifically) might be a problem. A lot of banding issues I see are usually caused by poor editing or low quality encoding, but sometimes it just a limitation of only having 8 bits per channel. Of course, on a screen with high-enough DPI, dithering isn't so noticeable, so perhaps that will make a comeback.
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Yeah, that's what I meant. You charge more for less hours.
Yeah, but he still had to come up with things to delegate. Perhaps his idea to electrocute stray pets for FUD was the result of one of his all-nighters.
It does if you increase your hourly rate.
Can't help but compare Tesla and Edison. Both achieved a lot, although Tesla was the better scientist and engineer. Tesla keep quite normal hours, whereas Edison was certainly the kind of person to pull all-nighters. I'm sure many great people have pulled all-nighters, but there is no reason to think that if hadn't they wouldn't have achieved as much. In fact, the science suggests the opposite. But like you say, it's also not going to kill you unless you do it all the time or have some other problem.
I don't think the parent is talking about parties, but people who stay up all night to get a project done. Working more productively means you can spend less time working.
While I'm sure that's true, I'm also sure that there are still many where you can taste the difference because they aren't all chemically identical. So unless you want to get into specifics...
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Sorry, I get confused with one of his essays: Unhapppy Meals. I haven't read the book I mentioned, although I think it covers some similar topics. It's only the first chapter that's free.
I think it's a bit more complicated than people just being stupid. The food industry plays on the science so that things seem better than they are. Then there is the government in many places, who don't want to tread on too many commercial toes, so they try to change the wording of things to the public. Then there is the media who end up releasing confusing data because they don't understand what they're reporting. And yeah, the educational systems aren't exactly helping, either.
Toxicity is relative. I also suspect the natural one gains a higher price because it contains many more compounds in general, which effects the taste. Perhaps you can't tell the difference between many real and artificial flavors, but many can. I also don't buy the price argument -- it can still work out cheaper to buy ingredients and make healthy food yourself than it is to buy processed or ready-made all the time.
If you think that just looking at the calories a good way to judge healthy food, you don't know much about nutrition. I'm not saying that either one of these companies sell more nutritional food than the other, but just comparing how much they don't have of a couple of things is like comparing the "cons" of something and failing to take into account the "pros". I suggest reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma". Googling it should find you a free PDF or the entire article somewhere.
I don't want voice mail. I don't speak for everyone, that should go without saying.
I don't recall saying that there is no place for voicemail.
Visual Voicemail does show the phone number, and it will stay on your screen for a long time.
Does it still work if caller ID is blocked? Can it tell if the person wants you to call back on a different number? And what about other info that doesn't have anything to do with where the caller is calling from, such as an address, quote for an item number, etc...
And if you can't "quite make out" some piece of information, how do you expect a computer to do so?
Because the person sending it will be typing it out and seeing it on a display before they send it. I don't care about Google's text-to-speech thing because that's still partly voice mail.
And how would you know what I should be doing?
I just want a way to easily turn it off, or at least make it harder for them to leave a message. The only voicemail I want are emergencies. Anything else is so much easier if it's sent as a txt or email. No amount of emotion is going to make the phone number or address they've just left any easier to understand if they're speaking too fast, or have a poor mic, they mumble or get distracted part way through, a bus passes by... Caller ID also doesn't work in many places, such as calling from a phone with no direct dial number, or they prefer you to call back on a different number they're calling from...
Still means you have to scramble for a keyboard or paper to take down a phone number or whatever important info that you can't quite make out.
How is this not obvious? They have so many apps to screen, do you really think they spend that much time reviewing each one? Mistakes like this will happen.
Your stats could be misleading, as density is not uniform. I live in a city with a much lower population density than either of those places, yet we have commuter trains and buses.
Probably because you can already add an extra two gyros to a heli for cyclic control (they already have a gyro for the tail rotor) which will do the job much better, cheaper, and easier than the same type of sensors in the iPhone. But all that would do is make the aircraft less twitchy. It will still "slide" out of control and the GPS is nowhere near accurate or fast enough to help out in that area. And then there's altitude control...
If your sim lets you view from the control tower, try landing like that.
What makes you say that? Many of them have stabilization systems. But from a purely mechanical and aerodynamic point of view, I don't see how they would be so much more stable than a heli of equivalent size.
You'll probably want more than just GPS and cameras. You can get autopilot/hover stability systems for RC models for a reasonable price (under $5000) that will basically allow you to use the aircraft as a UAV. You can also get much cheaper systems (under $100) that will hold a heli in a stable hover by using the horizon as reference, but they won't keep the aircraft in the intended position as well as the more expensive options.
Yeah, there are plenty of really small, toy-level RC aircraft around these days. The kind that are so small you can crash them and just keep flying. This iPhone control sounds fun for something like that. Anything bigger than that (such as the 450 he has) seems a bit risky.
On the other hand, I've also pondered this idea for a while, and it looks like it works. The transmitters are often bigger than the heli itself at the small end and it would be neat to be able to replace the bulky thing with the iPhone, not to mention the nerd points for controlling an RC model with it.
Wonder if there is enough bandwidth to also stream video to the iPhone, too.
Actually, most LCD screens don't even render all that many colors anyway.
As the contrast ratio of screens continue to improve, color (or shades, more specifically) might be a problem. A lot of banding issues I see are usually caused by poor editing or low quality encoding, but sometimes it just a limitation of only having 8 bits per channel. Of course, on a screen with high-enough DPI, dithering isn't so noticeable, so perhaps that will make a comeback.