Please, for all the knowledge-loving geeks out there, don't consider everyone who is a 'dork' to be a 'geek' nor the reverse. While there may be a good correlation between the two, they are certainly not mutually inclusive.
Napoleon Dynamite is a dork. His friend, Pedro, should have had a shirt that said, "I'm with dork."
It's currently funny to be a dork, or dorky, but it's still not cool to be a geek. People can't respect an invisible geek, because they can't recognize him/her. They can only see it when you breathe through your mouth and behave like you knew other people existed, but you'd never actually seen one.
I'm not saying that I am not just a big dork, but I do know many people who possess those attributes that correlate to being socially maladjusted, while not being socially deficient in any obvious way. The best of both worlds: a passion for knowledge and tinkering and science and math combined with social skills and an understanding of how people relate.
In any case, as soon as parents started quoting Napoleon Dynamite, any cool was destroyed. Score one for parents everywhere. This was a role model that generations to come can certainly afford to live without.
AJAX is a great way to make it harder to get at the data you want without following the intended process. Take flash as another good example of this. Unless a flash author goes out of his/her way to make the thing indexable, the information is locked in. You can't link in to the middle of a flash script the way you can with an html site.
You have to walk through the silly flash stuff to get to the data you want. I tried to get information on automobiles recently, but the trend there is flash in a big way. Well, they didn't really say anything useful about their cars, anyway. The only information I could get was from the third-party sites. It's like any advertising in that they make you walk through the data in the fashion that most influences you to ignore the things you don't like (or don't know) and pay attention to the pretty color.
AJAX, as far as I can tell, is a great way to limit the indexability of information and provide a single point of entry for it.
Of course, XML was supposed to do exactly the opposite by making the information completely indexable, and Mr. Bossman totally got on the hypetrain to Nowhere.
I have been very conscious of power use lately (I write as I see that I've left my 100W+ bathroom lights on).
Of course, I think we'd do a lot better to worry about the active draw of our appliances. For example, the humble 19" box-fan draws a whopping 150W on high. With only a tiny increase in cost, that can drop by a factor of three, yet no one cares because no one realizes what a massive power sucker they have sitting happily humming in the window.
What product is the result of the tiny increase in cost is it that you write of? Fan technology is pretty barbaric. Aside from running a cooler unit, which is going to have a fan anyway, what could they do to decrease the power consumption of a fan? Presumably you're not talking about a different product entirely, but just an increase in efficiency. Movement of air is pure work, so I don't see how you're going to up the efficiency much.
Biological systems tend to reuse proteins for a lot of things, and when you're dealing with something as complicated as fear, you're certainly going to have some crossover.
For example, imagine that this protein is involved in memory. Turn off the protein and you are unable to remember things for more than 5 minutes. This is going to manifest itself as fear would, in that you won't have any inhibition due to past experience, which would be similar to being fearless. Fearless like a goldfish.
Then you get into the whole cortex thing(i.e. not in mice, but in humans). Having a cortex almost certainly moves the center of the brain which handles fear around in space.
Any basic economics class will tell you that if there is a high demand for your product you can increase the price and make more money (but sell fewer).
The marginal cost to produce another unit is around 0 (close enough) as it's really just the CPU it takes to do any signing and the bandwidth it takes to transfer it. However, if too many people buy the song, then you will saturate your market at a lower price per unit than you could have.
I imagine that the biggest variable at $0.99/song is time-to-market-saturation, rather than a question of max-percent-of-market-at-saturation.
For Apple, the best market strategy would be to sell things at a variable price where it starts high and over time the price lowers, as demand lowers, so they could sell both at a high average-price-per-unit and achieve a relatively high max-percent-of-market-saturation.
Microsoft has threatened to withdraw its Windows software from South Korea if the country's antitrust agency orders it to unbundle its instant-messaging and media player software from the operating system.
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This behavior reminds me of a kid I went to pre-school with.
I imagine that iPods already have a software-readable serial number of some sort.
The server doesn't know your MAC address inherently, anyway. You'd have to send it to them specifically.
Just as you say: every program that plays MP3s has to track the MP3 statistics, so you're never going to get complete statistics. On the other hand, TV ratings aren't done by a complete statistic, either.
I went to the dentist recently and they prescribed a 1.1% fluoride toothpaste($7), saying that it would help remineralize some spots where the enamel is eroding.
Fluoride compounds, usually calcium fluoride, are naturally found in low concentration in drinking water and some foods, like tea. The ocean itself has an averaged concentration of 1.3 ppm (parts per million). Fluoride ions replace hydroxide ions in calcium hydroxyapatite, Ca5[(PO4)3OH], in teeth, forming calcium fluoroapatite, Ca5[(PO4)3F], which is more chemically stable and dissolves at a pH of 4.5, compared to 5.5 pH for calcium hydroxyapatite. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride
From my studying in chemistry and human physiology, this jives. Fluorine is much more stable than OH, especially when you're dealing with acids (free H+ ions) which want to form a bond with the OH group and leave the molecule. Also, they say that cavities often come from the enzymes and acids that the bacteria use to break down food particles on your teeth. These enzymes and acids end up breaking down hydroxyapatite and expose the dentum.
Fluoride should not need be ingested for the fluoridation to happen. Simply putting the fluoride ions in contact with the hydroxyapatite should cause a reaction.
Almost identical information is located in one of my college psychology text books from 2002. The book is called Sensation and Perception, but I'm sure that just about any textbook on the subject of neurophysiology would cover this. The research involved is probably a few years older than the book.
Recording the activity of hundreds of IT neurons produced a large database of IT neural patterns generated in response to each object under many different conditions.
This translates to a cortical probe(maybe sub-cortical) sticking out the back of a monkey's head with leads that go into the brain. Charming. One of my biology professors does research on frogs in a similar way and frogs don't seem to mind.
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Well, duh!
We still have the same problem, though. Where are they going to find water?
The first thing you're going to have to find to have Earth organisms on another planet will be a bacteria (or complex of them) that can produce water. There is plenty of material in just about any rock to make water(H2O), but it would take a lot of energy. On the other hand, the sun provides a lot of energy.
Someday they'll notice a correlation between time spent learning/working to their suicide rate.
Bah! You're thinking right in front of your face. Don't ignore pharmacuticals, especially when people are making money off the situation.
If this trend continues and 75% of children are entering university significantly early, the ones that don't will be the abnormal ones. And the heart of the problem is having an upbringing abnormal to the society. It would be difficult to argue that there is some absolute form of normal upbringing.
Spending all that time with your peers in order to learn to socialize is only important in a society of peers who learned to socialize.
All my male, teen students do in their free time is play Starcraft. When I go to a restaurant near lunchtime, the TV is always on OnGameNet (AKA 24 hours CS / Starcraft). The female teens all play MAple Story (online MMORPG). The young adults that I know spend their evenings playing Kart Rider (online racing). Everybody wants to be a progamer when he or she grows up.
That's what teens do anywhere they are able. Thing is, people will find a way to do what they want to do. For games, think Transgaming--I just checked their website and they support even the newest games. If piracy is an option, it will happen, too.
There is plenty of talent in SK that could be trained to do a lot of the work, a whole hell of a lot cheaper than if you tried to ship techs over to do it or try to support it remotely.
I imagine that spoken English is fairly common there, but you still create a language barrier if you're trying to do phone support that you wouldn't have if you hired Koreans to do it.
I can't imagine that Linspire will be supported by US techs. That's sort of ridiculous, actually, considering the shift from US-based support to foreign even within the US.
I think that if you follow this through, it will create jobs in S. Korea. Not only will it create support jobs surrounding this OS, but it will create programming jobs to fill the gaps that it currently leaves.
Presumably they won't hire one tech over here who speaks Korean, but rather they will hire a group over there who know the issues in current Korean computing. This may be way off base, but I can only assume that the standard wage over there is lower than the US or UK/EU and that hiring talented people there would be cheaper and more efficient in terms of language and locality.
How do RFID chips hold up to moisture? Being passive, I'd imagine that they don't care much, but when you intend to make it very thin, you must give up insulation and protection.
Would metal start to oxydize?
What happens if it is currently damp when it is scanned? My understanding of RFID is that you have to induce current to read it. Aren't the security alarms at the door of clothing stores using RFID?
Sure, the idea that I will be tracked is not good, but I'd be more worried that my passport would become either bulky or fragile.
Worry about privacy, but in the worst case, it shouldn't be hard to make a passport RFID jammer or the some sort of signal dampening like the metal shield.
Amazon was a brand name for a while, but people quickly forgot about it.
They certainly aren't dead, but they aren't on the tip of the non-tech's tongue, as they were for a while.
I guess what I'm sayin g is that they can't rely on this alone, and they don't. They also happen to have a business model that technical people should appreciate, and those technical people are setting up computers for non-technical people, recommending things to their superiors, and making decisions about technology.
Logo removal has come a long way. If you track objects as they fall under the opaque area, you can find when they are opaque and when they are not. You can calculate what area of the screen is opaque and you can adjust for it. A quick Google search turned up LogoAway and DeLogo.
Watermarks are more of a problem. I don't think I'd let a screener DVD out my door without comparing it to another screener DVD for watermarks. The biggest problem is that you aren't supposed to know if a watermark is even there without knowing its design. That means you can't really ever be sure that there isn't watermarking unless you compare two sources.
Don't be sad, my/. friend. These over-detained individuals will almost certainly sue and win a large portion of money for their troubles.
Even one day over seems to constitute "wrongful imprisonment." If I understand that legal term at all, that would be grounds for a monetary settlement.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there is a small minority of deaf people who could have the implant done, but don't and think he is doing the wrong thing.
On the other hand, probably a pretty good portion of deaf people have been deaf long enough (and through development) that they are not receptive to brain interfaces such as this anymore.
When you lose your hearing young (or never had it), you lose (or never make) the brain/circuits/ necessary to process that sound enough to make it useful. The same holds true for vision. Most attempts to pipe vision in through the old optic nerve result in a disoriented (and nauseous) half-blind person who now has more difficulty in getting around than when fully blind.
I could definitely see those unreceptive people calling it unnatural or ungodly or similar unfounded nonsense. It would be similar to my reaction about brain implants. I'd think them wonderful unless unavailable to me--then abominable.
-- Depending on your definition, humans are either very natural(because we are part of it) or we are grand corrupters of nature that will ultimately destroy it(because we are not part of it).
Seriously, it wouldn't be that hard to catch a horny male.
Collect scent from a ripe female and allow it to diffuse into the air in an open area and that guy would be out there within 10 minutes.
The way these scientists are going, they are likely to put the female in a small open box(obviously she can't out-do that) and check back every 2 hours to see if he was there.
Whatever they do do (heh), they had better do it quick--before he learns how to implant his own DNA into a surrogate mother.
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Please, for all the knowledge-loving geeks out there, don't consider everyone who is a 'dork' to be a 'geek' nor the reverse. While there may be a good correlation between the two, they are certainly not mutually inclusive.
Napoleon Dynamite is a dork. His friend, Pedro, should have had a shirt that said, "I'm with dork."
It's currently funny to be a dork, or dorky, but it's still not cool to be a geek. People can't respect an invisible geek, because they can't recognize him/her. They can only see it when you breathe through your mouth and behave like you knew other people existed, but you'd never actually seen one.
I'm not saying that I am not just a big dork, but I do know many people who possess those attributes that correlate to being socially maladjusted, while not being socially deficient in any obvious way. The best of both worlds: a passion for knowledge and tinkering and science and math combined with social skills and an understanding of how people relate.
In any case, as soon as parents started quoting Napoleon Dynamite, any cool was destroyed. Score one for parents everywhere. This was a role model that generations to come can certainly afford to live without.
AJAX is a great way to make it harder to get at the data you want without following the intended process. Take flash as another good example of this. Unless a flash author goes out of his/her way to make the thing indexable, the information is locked in. You can't link in to the middle of a flash script the way you can with an html site.
You have to walk through the silly flash stuff to get to the data you want. I tried to get information on automobiles recently, but the trend there is flash in a big way. Well, they didn't really say anything useful about their cars, anyway. The only information I could get was from the third-party sites. It's like any advertising in that they make you walk through the data in the fashion that most influences you to ignore the things you don't like (or don't know) and pay attention to the pretty color.
AJAX, as far as I can tell, is a great way to limit the indexability of information and provide a single point of entry for it.
Of course, XML was supposed to do exactly the opposite by making the information completely indexable, and Mr. Bossman totally got on the hypetrain to Nowhere.
What product is the result of the tiny increase in cost is it that you write of? Fan technology is pretty barbaric. Aside from running a cooler unit, which is going to have a fan anyway, what could they do to decrease the power consumption of a fan? Presumably you're not talking about a different product entirely, but just an increase in efficiency. Movement of air is pure work, so I don't see how you're going to up the efficiency much.
Yeah, that sounds reasonable.
Biological systems tend to reuse proteins for a lot of things, and when you're dealing with something as complicated as fear, you're certainly going to have some crossover.
For example, imagine that this protein is involved in memory. Turn off the protein and you are unable to remember things for more than 5 minutes. This is going to manifest itself as fear would, in that you won't have any inhibition due to past experience, which would be similar to being fearless. Fearless like a goldfish.
Then you get into the whole cortex thing(i.e. not in mice, but in humans). Having a cortex almost certainly moves the center of the brain which handles fear around in space.
Duh!
Any basic economics class will tell you that if there is a high demand for your product you can increase the price and make more money (but sell fewer).
The marginal cost to produce another unit is around 0 (close enough) as it's really just the CPU it takes to do any signing and the bandwidth it takes to transfer it. However, if too many people buy the song, then you will saturate your market at a lower price per unit than you could have.
I imagine that the biggest variable at $0.99/song is time-to-market-saturation, rather than a question of max-percent-of-market-at-saturation.
For Apple, the best market strategy would be to sell things at a variable price where it starts high and over time the price lowers, as demand lowers, so they could sell both at a high average-price-per-unit and achieve a relatively high max-percent-of-market-saturation.
I'm not talking about those futuristic IR sensors they build into toilets these days, but one that could open the door to the future.
Something like gnutella, then?
Yeah, gnutella is wrought with problems, though. Now, gnutella over I2P, that would be.. oh..
W.A.S.T.E.
I imagine that iPods already have a software-readable serial number of some sort.
The server doesn't know your MAC address inherently, anyway. You'd have to send it to them specifically.
Just as you say: every program that plays MP3s has to track the MP3 statistics, so you're never going to get complete statistics. On the other hand, TV ratings aren't done by a complete statistic, either.
From my studying in chemistry and human physiology, this jives. Fluorine is much more stable than OH, especially when you're dealing with acids (free H+ ions) which want to form a bond with the OH group and leave the molecule. Also, they say that cavities often come from the enzymes and acids that the bacteria use to break down food particles on your teeth. These enzymes and acids end up breaking down hydroxyapatite and expose the dentum.
Fluoride should not need be ingested for the fluoridation to happen. Simply putting the fluoride ions in contact with the hydroxyapatite should cause a reaction.
This translates to a cortical probe(maybe sub-cortical) sticking out the back of a monkey's head with leads that go into the brain. Charming. One of my biology professors does research on frogs in a similar way and frogs don't seem to mind.
Well, duh!
We still have the same problem, though. Where are they going to find water?
The first thing you're going to have to find to have Earth organisms on another planet will be a bacteria (or complex of them) that can produce water. There is plenty of material in just about any rock to make water(H2O), but it would take a lot of energy. On the other hand, the sun provides a lot of energy.
Sweet, now we can liberate the dead bacteria we tracked up there on expeditions!
If this trend continues and 75% of children are entering university significantly early, the ones that don't will be the abnormal ones. And the heart of the problem is having an upbringing abnormal to the society. It would be difficult to argue that there is some absolute form of normal upbringing.
Spending all that time with your peers in order to learn to socialize is only important in a society of peers who learned to socialize.
All my male, teen students do in their free time is play Starcraft. When I go to a restaurant near lunchtime, the TV is always on OnGameNet (AKA 24 hours CS / Starcraft). The female teens all play MAple Story (online MMORPG). The young adults that I know spend their evenings playing Kart Rider (online racing). Everybody wants to be a progamer when he or she grows up.
That's what teens do anywhere they are able. Thing is, people will find a way to do what they want to do. For games, think Transgaming--I just checked their website and they support even the newest games. If piracy is an option, it will happen, too.
There is plenty of talent in SK that could be trained to do a lot of the work, a whole hell of a lot cheaper than if you tried to ship techs over to do it or try to support it remotely.
I imagine that spoken English is fairly common there, but you still create a language barrier if you're trying to do phone support that you wouldn't have if you hired Koreans to do it.
I can't imagine that Linspire will be supported by US techs. That's sort of ridiculous, actually, considering the shift from US-based support to foreign even within the US.
I think that if you follow this through, it will create jobs in S. Korea. Not only will it create support jobs surrounding this OS, but it will create programming jobs to fill the gaps that it currently leaves.
Presumably they won't hire one tech over here who speaks Korean, but rather they will hire a group over there who know the issues in current Korean computing. This may be way off base, but I can only assume that the standard wage over there is lower than the US or UK/EU and that hiring talented people there would be cheaper and more efficient in terms of language and locality.
How do RFID chips hold up to moisture? Being passive, I'd imagine that they don't care much, but when you intend to make it very thin, you must give up insulation and protection.
Would metal start to oxydize?
What happens if it is currently damp when it is scanned? My understanding of RFID is that you have to induce current to read it. Aren't the security alarms at the door of clothing stores using RFID?
Sure, the idea that I will be tracked is not good, but I'd be more worried that my passport would become either bulky or fragile.
Worry about privacy, but in the worst case, it shouldn't be hard to make a passport RFID jammer or the some sort of signal dampening like the metal shield.
Well, if Microsoft pulls out of South Korea (which it won't), I'm sure those internet cafes will be really worried about keeping up their licenses.
The real question is what percentage of those internet cafe computers are legitimately licensed now.
Amazon was a brand name for a while, but people quickly forgot about it.
They certainly aren't dead, but they aren't on the tip of the non-tech's tongue, as they were for a while.
I guess what I'm sayin g is that they can't rely on this alone, and they don't. They also happen to have a business model that technical people should appreciate, and those technical people are setting up computers for non-technical people, recommending things to their superiors, and making decisions about technology.
Logo removal has come a long way. If you track objects as they fall under the opaque area, you can find when they are opaque and when they are not. You can calculate what area of the screen is opaque and you can adjust for it. A quick Google search turned up LogoAway and DeLogo.
Watermarks are more of a problem. I don't think I'd let a screener DVD out my door without comparing it to another screener DVD for watermarks. The biggest problem is that you aren't supposed to know if a watermark is even there without knowing its design. That means you can't really ever be sure that there isn't watermarking unless you compare two sources.
Don't be sad, my /. friend. These over-detained individuals will almost certainly sue and win a large portion of money for their troubles.
Even one day over seems to constitute "wrongful imprisonment." If I understand that legal term at all, that would be grounds for a monetary settlement.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there is a small minority of deaf people who could have the implant done, but don't and think he is doing the wrong thing.
/circuits/ necessary to process that sound enough to make it useful. The same holds true for vision. Most attempts to pipe vision in through the old optic nerve result in a disoriented (and nauseous) half-blind person who now has more difficulty in getting around than when fully blind.
On the other hand, probably a pretty good portion of deaf people have been deaf long enough (and through development) that they are not receptive to brain interfaces such as this anymore.
When you lose your hearing young (or never had it), you lose (or never make) the brain
I could definitely see those unreceptive people calling it unnatural or ungodly or similar unfounded nonsense. It would be similar to my reaction about brain implants. I'd think them wonderful unless unavailable to me--then abominable.
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Depending on your definition, humans are either very natural(because we are part of it) or we are grand corrupters of nature that will ultimately destroy it(because we are not part of it).
Seriously, it wouldn't be that hard to catch a horny male.
Collect scent from a ripe female and allow it to diffuse into the air in an open area and that guy would be out there within 10 minutes.
The way these scientists are going, they are likely to put the female in a small open box(obviously she can't out-do that) and check back every 2 hours to see if he was there.
Whatever they do do (heh), they had better do it quick--before he learns how to implant his own DNA into a surrogate mother.