I wonder if the fact that there was MP3 compression applied effected the sound. I'd rather hear an uncompressed version to be sure that I wasn't just perceiving some mpeg artefact.
No chance of it being an artifact. It's a single-frequency tone, so the MP3 version is loss-less. MP3 throws out the quieter frequency bands to get a file down to the desired bandwidth or "size." This sound has no quieter frequencies, just the one, so nothing is thrown out, hence no artifacts.
I know of only two ways to get to do free research without the teeth-grinding pain of grant-chasing and temporary job upon temporary job:
* Get a steady part-time job you can live on, and do research in your spare time....
* Make a fortune, retire and do research as a hobby.
I second that. There doesn't appear to be any other way these days. I think Einstein chose the first option at the start of his career, BTW...
The thing that keeps a Monopoly game mildly interesting is all of the under-the-table and back-room (or bathroom) wheeling and dealing going on. It makes it more about the people, and the players' interactions.
Take that away, and you get mind-numbing tedium. Wasn't that what computers and microeletronics were supposed to save us from?
FTA:Few people realize that when they buy software or music or movies, they are actually buying a license to use, watch or listen. That's why it violates copyright laws for people to sell copies of their music collection."
No, no, no, how can the LA Times get something so basic so wrong?
Buyers of legal copies of copyrighted works are buying the physical copy, and have a right to sell that legal copy to someone else. A book, a CD, a DVD, an Excel CD. It is called The Doctrine of First Sale.
Sony would of course prefer that you didn't know this. But now you do.
Microsoft owns what, 95+% of the global desktop OS market?....
There would be a blizzard of competition.
If Microsoft ceased to do business, then the numerous other companies trying to market their solutions could fill the gap. They would rush to, if they knew the giant from Redmond was dead, or at least asleep for a while. No reason to be scared of having the oxygen sucked out of the room by the monoploistic OS maker.
The video site http://www.current.tv/ has a similar setup, but they are connected to a TV network as well. Users submit videos, users watch them for free, and if other users mod them up enough, they get greenlit for airplay on the real TV channel. Then the makers get paid. $500 for your first greenlight.
FTA: "No, Microsoft antipiracy technologies cannot and will not turn off your computer," said a spokeswoman with Waggener Edstrom, Microsoft's public relations firm.
Ah, but will it disable my installation of Windows? That's the part I care about.
She did not answer the question. She did not deny that WGA can diasble your installation of Windows. Why do we listen to PR flaks so uncritically?
Your med has more than one drug, so you can't really know without checking one at a time.... It's the antihistamine in your combi med that makes you groggy. The pseudoephedrine in your combi med is a decongestant, and does little to alter your alertness at that dose.
But, some people take much higher amounts of pseudoephedrine (alone), like 4 Sudafed's-worth, and get an energy and concentration boost. And some high school football players take even more, which is why you hear about them dying of heatstroke or heart attacks evey once in a while. They get a little too motivated, you might say.
I got my high GPA the honest way, I'm going to take my GRE the honest way, and I'm going to persue my PhD the honest way.
That's what I did. Glad to hear there are others of the same mind. You will find that it is extremely satisfying. Also you will avoid mucho stress in the future, knowing that what you have rests on very solid ground.
Someone who is curious continues to mull over material long after the test has been passed. Someone who only cares about the grade will forget about it after the test.
Coffee?
No-Doz?
Decongestants with pseudoephedrine?
And if the smart kids start taking as much as Adderall as the doping suburbanites, aren't we all back where we started anyway? Fallacy of the collective anyone?
There are some great videos of a similar behavior in a drop of mercury undergoing a cyclic surface reaction. It's a classic, called the "mercury beating heart." The drop will pulse in trianguloid and hexagonoid patterns. "Activity 5" is particularly good.
You can't put the conspiracy theories to rest. They already believe you're covering something up...
Exactly. What it boils down to is belief, which is based on emotion, not facts. Believers in conspiracy theories are impervious to reason, logical argument, and facts.
I've always wanted to submit a paper to one of these vanity conference "peer reviewed journals" [cough cough], the ones where no paper is ever rejected, describing some work on long-discarded theories (>50 years). Just to be cheeky.
How does "N-ray studies of the Phlogiston Content of Polywater" sound?
This is a highly valuable skill. Yes, even in today's modern world.
I heard an interview with a Pixar animator. She said they do the storyboarding drawings by hand. Why? "Because it's just faster."
As a scientist, I can communicate complex ideas far, far easier because I can quickly sketch it while speaking. When I want pretty or accurate I go to a computer.
There is no substitute for hand-drawing skill if you are someone who does things.
Other studies have reported that Wikipedia entries are two or three times "longer" than Brittanica entries. Wiki's 4 errors per Brittanica's 3 works out to a lower error rate for Wikipedia, on a per-word basis. Further refinement of comparison would require a metric for "conciseness."
I like how all of the commenters were pretending to be annoyed. That was really funny. For a while there I thought they really were annoyed. Ha ha you all, the joke is on me! Good one!
Apple's solution for people with Windows apps isn't dual-boot - it's CrossOver. That's system-level emulation, versus dual-boot or launching Virtual PC. Apple has a few Windows apps running already this way (though not for you to try yet).
Can a Linux-ite elaborate? I only know what the reps tell me.
What about the other people that thrive on working to deadlines and with demanding workloads? I'm sure there are many professions that are very stressful that require people to keep themselves 'sharp' and alert at all times.
It depends what you would call "stress."
As a child, did you go to bed hungry?
Did you grow up only ever knowing one parent?
Were you stopped by cops on the street and searched, from as young as 10 years of age?
Were you taken away from your parents at an early age?
Did you, as a child, have to hide in the bathroom to get away from a day-and-night party your mother was having, just to get a little bit of your homework done?
Do you come from a "broken" home?
These things are the "stress" the researcher is looking at. The marathon sessions in the stacks at the library, or the projects working under deadline, that guys like us take on, are not that - they're taking on challenges. From TFA:
For the last several years, she and her post-doc, Mirescu, have been depriving newborn rats of their mother for either 15 minutes or three hours a day. For an infant rat, there is nothing more stressful. Earlier studies had shown that even after these rats become adults, the effects of their developmental deprivation linger: They never learn how to deal with stress. "Normal rats can turn off their glucocorticoid system relatively quickly," Mirescu says. "They can recover from the stress response. But these deprived rats can't do that. It's as if they are missing the 'off' switch."
And a little bit more from TFA:
On a cellular level, the scars of stress can literally be healed by learning new things.... As predicted, putting marmosets in a plain cage--the kind typically used in science labs--led to plain-looking brains. The primates suffered from reduced neurogenesis and their neurons had fewer interconnections.
However, if these same marmosets were transferred to an enriched enclosure--complete with branches, hidden food, and a rotation of toys--their adult brains began to recover rapidly. In under four weeks, the brains of the deprived marmosets... demonstrated significant increases in the density of their connections and amount of proteins in their synapses.
The realization that typical laboratory conditions are debilitating for animals has been one of the accidental discoveries of the neurogenesis field.
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I wonder if the fact that there was MP3 compression applied effected the sound. I'd rather hear an uncompressed version to be sure that I wasn't just perceiving some mpeg artefact.
No chance of it being an artifact. It's a single-frequency tone, so the MP3 version is loss-less. MP3 throws out the quieter frequency bands to get a file down to the desired bandwidth or "size." This sound has no quieter frequencies, just the one, so nothing is thrown out, hence no artifacts.
I know of only two ways to get to do free research without the teeth-grinding pain of grant-chasing and temporary job upon temporary job:
* Get a steady part-time job you can live on, and do research in your spare time....
* Make a fortune, retire and do research as a hobby.
I second that. There doesn't appear to be any other way these days. I think Einstein chose the first option at the start of his career, BTW...
The thing that keeps a Monopoly game mildly interesting is all of the under-the-table and back-room (or bathroom) wheeling and dealing going on. It makes it more about the people, and the players' interactions.
Take that away, and you get mind-numbing tedium. Wasn't that what computers and microeletronics were supposed to save us from?
Remember though, Kay Jewelers sells only Created gemstones not synthetic ones.
That's actually a more accurate description. A lab-grown diamond is a diamond, just as much as a mined diamond is a diamond.
FTA: Few people realize that when they buy software or music or movies, they are actually buying a license to use, watch or listen. That's why it violates copyright laws for people to sell copies of their music collection."
No, no, no, how can the LA Times get something so basic so wrong?
Buyers of legal copies of copyrighted works are buying the physical copy, and have a right to sell that legal copy to someone else. A book, a CD, a DVD, an Excel CD. It is called The Doctrine of First Sale.
Sony would of course prefer that you didn't know this. But now you do.
Microsoft owns what, 95+% of the global desktop OS market?
There would be a blizzard of competition.
If Microsoft ceased to do business, then the numerous other companies trying to market their solutions could fill the gap. They would rush to, if they knew the giant from Redmond was dead, or at least asleep for a while. No reason to be scared of having the oxygen sucked out of the room by the monoploistic OS maker.
The video site http://www.current.tv/ has a similar setup, but they are connected to a TV network as well. Users submit videos, users watch them for free, and if other users mod them up enough, they get greenlit for airplay on the real TV channel. Then the makers get paid. $500 for your first greenlight.
Lots of great video content there already.
FTA: "No, Microsoft antipiracy technologies cannot and will not turn off your computer," said a spokeswoman with Waggener Edstrom, Microsoft's public relations firm.
Ah, but will it disable my installation of Windows? That's the part I care about.
She did not answer the question. She did not deny that WGA can diasble your installation of Windows. Why do we listen to PR flaks so uncritically?
Those hikers would have to be really lost to end up in downtown LA!
Your med has more than one drug, so you can't really know without checking one at a time. ... It's the antihistamine in your combi med that makes you groggy. The pseudoephedrine in your combi med is a decongestant, and does little to alter your alertness at that dose.
But, some people take much higher amounts of pseudoephedrine (alone), like 4 Sudafed's-worth, and get an energy and concentration boost. And some high school football players take even more, which is why you hear about them dying of heatstroke or heart attacks evey once in a while. They get a little too motivated, you might say.
I got my high GPA the honest way, I'm going to take my GRE the honest way, and I'm going to persue my PhD the honest way.
That's what I did. Glad to hear there are others of the same mind. You will find that it is extremely satisfying. Also you will avoid mucho stress in the future, knowing that what you have rests on very solid ground.
You can't buy curiosity.
Someone who is curious continues to mull over material long after the test has been passed. Someone who only cares about the grade will forget about it after the test.
Smart employers can tell the two apart.
Where would you draw the line?
Coffee?
No-Doz?
Decongestants with pseudoephedrine?
And if the smart kids start taking as much as Adderall as the doping suburbanites, aren't we all back where we started anyway? Fallacy of the collective anyone?
There are some great videos of a similar behavior in a drop of mercury undergoing a cyclic surface reaction. It's a classic, called the "mercury beating heart." The drop will pulse in trianguloid and hexagonoid patterns. "Activity 5" is particularly good.
You can't put the conspiracy theories to rest. They already believe you're covering something up...
Exactly. What it boils down to is belief, which is based on emotion, not facts. Believers in conspiracy theories are impervious to reason, logical argument, and facts.
I've always wanted to submit a paper to one of these vanity conference "peer reviewed journals" [cough cough], the ones where no paper is ever rejected, describing some work on long-discarded theories (>50 years). Just to be cheeky.
How does "N-ray studies of the Phlogiston Content of Polywater" sound?
Should probably wait until after tenure...
Has CNET ever posted an atricle that was not negative on Apple?
yawn.
It sounds like this is aimed at closing the analog hole, rather than at protecting users.
This is a highly valuable skill. Yes, even in today's modern world.
I heard an interview with a Pixar animator. She said they do the storyboarding drawings by hand. Why? "Because it's just faster."
As a scientist, I can communicate complex ideas far, far easier because I can quickly sketch it while speaking. When I want pretty or accurate I go to a computer.
There is no substitute for hand-drawing skill if you are someone who does things.
The error rate is closer than that.
Other studies have reported that Wikipedia entries are two or three times "longer" than Brittanica entries. Wiki's 4 errors per Brittanica's 3 works out to a lower error rate for Wikipedia, on a per-word basis. Further refinement of comparison would require a metric for "conciseness."
Call it Roughly Equal.
You tricky commenters!
I like how all of the commenters were pretending to be annoyed. That was really funny. For a while there I thought they really were annoyed. Ha ha you all, the joke is on me! Good one!
Apple's solution for people with Windows apps isn't dual-boot - it's CrossOver. That's system-level emulation, versus dual-boot or launching Virtual PC. Apple has a few Windows apps running already this way (though not for you to try yet).
Can a Linux-ite elaborate? I only know what the reps tell me.
WoW player's tough choices:
Option 1 - Do the in-game "work" to earn the rewards.>
Result - No time for a date.
Option 2 - Buy the gold instead.br> Result - No money for a date.
Option 3 - Realize WoW is a time sucking click-sink. Result - Time and money for a date.
What about the other people that thrive on working to deadlines and with demanding workloads? I'm sure there are many professions that are very stressful that require people to keep themselves 'sharp' and alert at all times.
It depends what you would call "stress."
As a child, did you go to bed hungry?
Did you grow up only ever knowing one parent?
Were you stopped by cops on the street and searched, from as young as 10 years of age?
Were you taken away from your parents at an early age?
Did you, as a child, have to hide in the bathroom to get away from a day-and-night party your mother was having, just to get a little bit of your homework done?
Do you come from a "broken" home?
These things are the "stress" the researcher is looking at. The marathon sessions in the stacks at the library, or the projects working under deadline, that guys like us take on, are not that - they're taking on challenges. From TFA:
For the last several years, she and her post-doc, Mirescu, have been depriving newborn rats of their mother for either 15 minutes or three hours a day. For an infant rat, there is nothing more stressful. Earlier studies had shown that even after these rats become adults, the effects of their developmental deprivation linger: They never learn how to deal with stress. "Normal rats can turn off their glucocorticoid system relatively quickly," Mirescu says. "They can recover from the stress response. But these deprived rats can't do that. It's as if they are missing the 'off' switch."
And a little bit more from TFA:
On a cellular level, the scars of stress can literally be healed by learning new things.
However, if these same marmosets were transferred to an enriched enclosure--complete with branches, hidden food, and a rotation of toys--their adult brains began to recover rapidly. In under four weeks, the brains of the deprived marmosets
The realization that typical laboratory conditions are debilitating for animals has been one of the accidental discoveries of the neurogenesis field.
That sounds like just a point-and-click set of canned questions and multiple choice responses. There are better things.
Speech-to-speech translators and universal dictionaries are getting pretty good these days. These guys make one.