I just bought an SD/MMC card based MP3 player (information and pictures here). When I opened it up, I was amazed how small the actual circuit board was, though bigger than the Nano. But I now have an SD/MMC card reader and USB thumb drive as well as an MP3 player all in one.
Security through obscurity is not security, everyone on Slashdot should know that.
What people on Slashdot might not know is that governments are also markets, except they trade in votes or the power to gelp get votes. The players in government are competing groups of voters and politicians. The only difference is that the real market and the political market wield different powers (the political market can do things like drop nuclear weapons legally) and they have different units of currency.
There is no "doing away with the market," there is only changing which market you play in.
How much suffering will be endured by less rich nations while we race to adapt our agritech?
History shows that if a country decided to adopt pro-market reforms leading to high levels of economic freedom, it can go from being extremely poor to a "western style economy" in 50 years.
Given the effects of global warming, some of which may be already locked-in, poor countries have just enough time to get the political will to do this...
If you really want to reduce CO2 emissions, you have to use military force to keep oil from being pumped from the ground at its source (without burining it in the process, so just bombing it won't help).
Also we need to rememeber that CO2 is just one part of global warming. Methane is the other, and more potent per mole. You'd have to drain rice paddies around the world to stop those emissions.
Consider satellite (if it is your last option), such as DirecWay. Yes, latency is a problem for gaming, but for web surfing the speeds are getting much better.
No matter how bad you think science reporting is, economic reporting is worse. Every day I hear things on the radio and read in the newspaper economic concepts that have been proven to be wrong for years within the science of economics.
From that site: "Reliable authorities have estimated that it would cost between US$65 and US$80 per barrel (and that was several years ago) to get oil from Antarctica."
Hmmm, might be time to go South! Thar's oil in dem glaciers!
The truth is that Chavez is doing really good stuff (from an economic/capitalist standpoint) and really bad stuff.
The good stuff he is doing is enabling people without title to their land to obtain formal title. Lack of formal title to land is a huge economic drag to many developing economies. People are also being better protected against government land-apropriation in "renewal" projects (like the kind going on in Zimbabwe that made tens of thousands homeless).
On the other hand, inflation is very high, and government oil revenues are basically being squandered. If oil prices decline (a big if these days), the government will have real funding problems.
Something is scientific if you can create a hypothesis, test it, and replicate it. IQ falls into that category.
I don't think anyone should take IQ as the last word on human intelligence, but it seems to point to some real kind of metric for reasoning capability.
I'm sure that actual analysis of brain circuitry (neurophysiology) and the genes that lead to their formation will reveal a very complex landscape, yet single-number IQ (as measured by test) appears to be real, partially heritable, and has an actual statistical influence on people's lives.
Actually this is very true. It has long been reported than American kids do worse than many other OECD countries in a wide range of math and science tests (whose outcome generally is not relevant to the tested students). However it has been noticed that if these are "high-stakes" tests linked to graduation or getting into college, American scores actually go up significantly.
It is fairly well understood scientifically that men have a higher variance in IQ results, meaning there are not only more high-IQ men than women, but also more low-IQ men than women.
It is also clear that IQ measures some kind of general reasoning capability. It is mostly heritable, and slightly modifiable (a few points) through good childhood nutrition and intellectual experiences. White males, interestingly enough, do not have the highest average IQs, that honor goes to Asian males.
What IQ probably does not measure is an amount of emotional and social awareness and complex language skills. You can have someone who is very smart, but unable to effectively handle social interactions. There is not a good body of work on the measurement of "Emotional IQ," yet I would not be at all surprised if women, on average, had higher emotional IQ than men. I expect that metrics for emotional IQ will be developed in the next few years.
The examination of IQ is important in understanding who we are as people. The existance of high levels of reasoning intelligence, which will eventually be tracked down to genetic differences between modern humans and our ancestors, is a key differentiator between humans and other animals. Of course, our language ability and social organization is important as well, so we need to study those as well.
Research shows that women of equal education and job experience actually do make as much as men, especially before key child-bearing years. Among people ages 27 to 33 who have never had a child, women's earnings approach 98% of men's.
Women are more likely to leave the workforce temporarilly to raise children, take care of elderly parents or move with their families.
Time out of the workforce is an enormous obstacle to building an attractive resume and working up the corporate ladder. Women 25 years of age and over have been with their current employer 4.4 years, on average, compared to 5.0 years for men.
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey reveal that women between the ages of 18 and 34 have been out of the labor force 27 percent of the time, in contrast to 11 percent for men. Women ages 45 to 54 who have recently re-entered the workforce after a five- or 10-year break are competing against men who have had 20 years of continuous experience.
Women are also more likely to work part-time. In 2000, one-quarter of all women employees worked part-time, compared to less than 10 percent of men.
So if IQ tests were designed to show that white middle-class males are smarter than everyone else, why do IQ tests reveal Asians as having a higher average IQ than whites?
Reality: IQ is real, it measures something related to reasoning. That something is not everything (especially when it comes to emotional awareness, which is very important for sales & marketing, for instance). The variance on IQ is higher for men than women, thus there are fewer high-IQ women than men, and fewer low-IQ women than men.
IQ is mainly heritable, but also can be influenced up a bit by good nutrition and intellectual exposure as a youth.
The problem is that there is no business case for space.
Which is actually untrue. There is a great business case for geosynchronous communications satellites, and new ones are going up all the time, having gone from C-band to Ku-band and now to Ka-band with small spot-beam "cells" for enhanced frequency re-use that will deliver many more channels of HD video.
But outside of geosynchronous satellites, there isn't much business to be done. I suspect that sub-orbital and LEO space tourism will come about slowly, but that market will remain tight for quite a while due to a limited pool of of risk-taking rich people.
I've been talking with people who have gone through the Arabic training process in the military, and the person suggested that almost 90% of Americans don't make it through the training because the language is so hard for English speakers. It involves learning phonemes that just don't exist in any language similar to English.
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I just bought an SD/MMC card based MP3 player (information and pictures here). When I opened it up, I was amazed how small the actual circuit board was, though bigger than the Nano. But I now have an SD/MMC card reader and USB thumb drive as well as an MP3 player all in one.
Security through obscurity is not security, everyone on Slashdot should know that.
What people on Slashdot might not know is that governments are also markets, except they trade in votes or the power to gelp get votes. The players in government are competing groups of voters and politicians. The only difference is that the real market and the political market wield different powers (the political market can do things like drop nuclear weapons legally) and they have different units of currency.
There is no "doing away with the market," there is only changing which market you play in.
Yeah, and why can't the stories come first in Lynx??? (OK, this is half a joke)
How much suffering will be endured by less rich nations while we race to adapt our agritech?
History shows that if a country decided to adopt pro-market reforms leading to high levels of economic freedom, it can go from being extremely poor to a "western style economy" in 50 years.
Given the effects of global warming, some of which may be already locked-in, poor countries have just enough time to get the political will to do this...
This is a very good point.
If you really want to reduce CO2 emissions, you have to use military force to keep oil from being pumped from the ground at its source (without burining it in the process, so just bombing it won't help).
Also we need to rememeber that CO2 is just one part of global warming. Methane is the other, and more potent per mole. You'd have to drain rice paddies around the world to stop those emissions.
I was joking. Unfortunately, others are not.
Oh, so you do a "blomic"!
Consider satellite (if it is your last option), such as DirecWay. Yes, latency is a problem for gaming, but for web surfing the speeds are getting much better.
No matter how bad you think science reporting is, economic reporting is worse. Every day I hear things on the radio and read in the newspaper economic concepts that have been proven to be wrong for years within the science of economics.
From that site: "Reliable authorities have estimated that it would cost between US$65 and US$80 per barrel (and that was several years ago) to get oil from Antarctica."
Hmmm, might be time to go South! Thar's oil in dem glaciers!
The Netherlands provides per-pupil money to schools. Some of those schools are government-owned, some are privately owned.
The truth is that Chavez is doing really good stuff (from an economic/capitalist standpoint) and really bad stuff.
The good stuff he is doing is enabling people without title to their land to obtain formal title. Lack of formal title to land is a huge economic drag to many developing economies. People are also being better protected against government land-apropriation in "renewal" projects (like the kind going on in Zimbabwe that made tens of thousands homeless).
On the other hand, inflation is very high, and government oil revenues are basically being squandered. If oil prices decline (a big if these days), the government will have real funding problems.
How about allowing the free market to come up with effective solutions to schooling instead of lockng entire communities into government monopolies.
Something is scientific if you can create a hypothesis, test it, and replicate it. IQ falls into that category.
I don't think anyone should take IQ as the last word on human intelligence, but it seems to point to some real kind of metric for reasoning capability.
I'm sure that actual analysis of brain circuitry (neurophysiology) and the genes that lead to their formation will reveal a very complex landscape, yet single-number IQ (as measured by test) appears to be real, partially heritable, and has an actual statistical influence on people's lives.
Actually this is very true. It has long been reported than American kids do worse than many other OECD countries in a wide range of math and science tests (whose outcome generally is not relevant to the tested students). However it has been noticed that if these are "high-stakes" tests linked to graduation or getting into college, American scores actually go up significantly.
It is fairly well understood scientifically that men have a higher variance in IQ results, meaning there are not only more high-IQ men than women, but also more low-IQ men than women.
It is also clear that IQ measures some kind of general reasoning capability. It is mostly heritable, and slightly modifiable (a few points) through good childhood nutrition and intellectual experiences. White males, interestingly enough, do not have the highest average IQs, that honor goes to Asian males.
What IQ probably does not measure is an amount of emotional and social awareness and complex language skills. You can have someone who is very smart, but unable to effectively handle social interactions. There is not a good body of work on the measurement of "Emotional IQ," yet I would not be at all surprised if women, on average, had higher emotional IQ than men. I expect that metrics for emotional IQ will be developed in the next few years.
The examination of IQ is important in understanding who we are as people. The existance of high levels of reasoning intelligence, which will eventually be tracked down to genetic differences between modern humans and our ancestors, is a key differentiator between humans and other animals. Of course, our language ability and social organization is important as well, so we need to study those as well.
Research shows that women of equal education and job experience actually do make as much as men, especially before key child-bearing years. Among people ages 27 to 33 who have never had a child, women's earnings approach 98% of men's.
Women are more likely to leave the workforce temporarilly to raise children, take care of elderly parents or move with their families.
Time out of the workforce is an enormous obstacle to building an attractive resume and working up the corporate ladder. Women 25 years of age and over have been with their current employer 4.4 years, on average, compared to 5.0 years for men.
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey reveal that women between the ages of 18 and 34 have been out of the labor force 27 percent of the time, in contrast to 11 percent for men. Women ages 45 to 54 who have recently re-entered the workforce after a five- or 10-year break are competing against men who have had 20 years of continuous experience.
Women are also more likely to work part-time. In 2000, one-quarter of all women employees worked part-time, compared to less than 10 percent of men.
So if IQ tests were designed to show that white middle-class males are smarter than everyone else, why do IQ tests reveal Asians as having a higher average IQ than whites?
Reality: IQ is real, it measures something related to reasoning. That something is not everything (especially when it comes to emotional awareness, which is very important for sales & marketing, for instance). The variance on IQ is higher for men than women, thus there are fewer high-IQ women than men, and fewer low-IQ women than men.
IQ is mainly heritable, but also can be influenced up a bit by good nutrition and intellectual exposure as a youth.
This is all scientifically proven.
So where is GMail's WAP? It is kind of sad that I can use Yahoo Mail via WAP, but not GMail.
I realize there are WAP gateways to GMail one could set up on your own server, but why can't they just offer it natively???
Flying Spaghetti Monster breathes life into embryos with his noodly tendrils.
Sometimes he doesn't even wait until after conception. Sometimes he breathes life into rocks. Don't hurt rocks!
The problem is that there is no business case for space.
Which is actually untrue. There is a great business case for geosynchronous communications satellites, and new ones are going up all the time, having gone from C-band to Ku-band and now to Ka-band with small spot-beam "cells" for enhanced frequency re-use that will deliver many more channels of HD video.
But outside of geosynchronous satellites, there isn't much business to be done. I suspect that sub-orbital and LEO space tourism will come about slowly, but that market will remain tight for quite a while due to a limited pool of of risk-taking rich people.
Dude, gamma ray radios would rock!
I've been talking with people who have gone through the Arabic training process in the military, and the person suggested that almost 90% of Americans don't make it through the training because the language is so hard for English speakers. It involves learning phonemes that just don't exist in any language similar to English.
If it is good enough for my puppies, it is good enough for me. Chip away!
The MCE QuickStream DV comes with its own Lithium Ion battery. The 360 minute device is about $900.