There's no such thing as a lossless analog medium either. The difference is that the MTF (the modulation of the spectrum) for a digital system is dictated by the amount of memory you're willing to use. The MTF for an analog system is dictated by the physical constraints of the materials in your equipment.
For recorded music, microphones are a component in common, and are necessarily analog. The microphone will have peak sensitivity at a particular frequency and that will fall off with higher and lower frequencies because of the physical properties of the diaphragm + other pickup components.
Read carefully. The quote in the summary is straight from the horse's mouth:
"nothing else in the analog world gets you closer to the experience of being right there in the recording studio than reel-to-reel tape"
Note the qualifiers.
Digital mastering is better than analog. Digital reproduction is better than analog. Your speakers need to vibrate in an analog (approximately) world, but the more digital you've got before that, the better.
I dunno... Delphi used to be pretty easy. Modern PyQt with Qt Designer is equally toddler-accessible. There did seem to be a bit of a dark age in between though.
I'm not sure why you can pull data through the lightning port without authenticating at all. I guess so you can play music, but surely there's a better way to implement that specific feature.
Not just the EU. You can't waive your rights in Canada either.
It's always struck me as a particularly odd part of US law that you have "inalienable rights" and yet you're free to sign a piece of paper (or click on a button on a webpage) and waive them.
Yeah. Is there an easy way to autodetect websites with this installed yet? Maybe Chrome and Firefox could make the address bar have a scary red background when you visit such a site?
Now imagine that instead of cutting and pasting the normal way you have to take a text file, chop it in half, and the operating system will automatically insert whatever happens to be the next thing received by your network card, in promiscuous mode.
"Gene editing is extremely well understood: it makes predictable changes to human DNA. That's its attraction."
No, it doesn't. CRISPR is reasonably good at shutting off genes you want shut off... if you can identify the gene correctly, make a good template, deliver the therapy effectively, etc.
Gene "editing" is a whole different matter. You're basically chopping up a DNA strand and hoping some other DNA of your choosing happens to be floating by and gets shoved in the gap. There's been a lot of progress in making the whole thing a lot more reliable, but it's still pretty unreliable from a "I'm going to do this in an actual person" point of view. It's especially unreliable when you're talking about things bigger than individual cells, and the failures tend to be random mutations.
Things like this really don't help advance medicine at all. Giving someone a drug isn't an "oh, look they're cured"/"oh, crap, they're dead" dichotomy. Treatment works to different degrees, works differently in different people, has short, medium and long term effects, etc. And there's the placebo effect.
This is the very embodiment of the phrase "the plural of anecdote is not data."
Also, a medical treatment, particularly something like gene therapy, is nothing like repairing your own car.
And yet you have the greatest concentration of fund managers, a job that has been demonstrated repeatedly to be of no more use than a random number generator, in the world.
The US is a funny place where people are paid a lot of money to consult and come up with metrics and analytics and software to track it all so that "underperforming" peons can be fired and then judged to be inferior persons because they don't have a job.
That doesn't mean half the jobs aren't useless. It just means the useless jobs are concentrated at the top, and there's a lot of abuse of the lower classes. So they don't forget their place.
The problem with Montreal is that when you're young you're willing to ignore all that stuff because people like to go out and party a lot and everyone insists that it's the greatest city on the planet. By the time most people realize there's a downside, they're so far behind everyone else that they can't leave.
Exactly. Most jobs are pointless. Yet we have some moral terror of having people not work at or above their efficient maximum (40 hours a week) so we make up stuff for the excess labor to do.
I have a friend who wanted a shelf removed. He put in a ticket with facilities, who ignored it. He played this game for a couple of weeks, got tired, took down the shelf, and forgot about it.
A while later the facilities manager was in his office (probably to shoot the shit) and noticed the shelf was gone. He reported my friend to management. My friend dropped the stack of unfilled tickets on the manager's desk and walked out.
I think the US must be some kind of special case. Engineers are absolutely regulated here. A professional engineer must pass tests, work under another PEng for a period of time, pay annual dues to a professional association, has particular legal liabilities, and the title itself is regulated. Electricians are not electrical engineers, and programmers are not software engineers.
I was required to take a professional ethics course as part of my undergraduate degree. Your definition is indeed one of the accepted definitions. There are others, including the OP's. Another is that you belong to some recognizable group that adhere's to some acknowledged code. When I got my BSc and PhD I swore to be bound by the rights and responsibilities of the degree etc., which could qualify.
The course textbook had about a hundred pages on the subject. Which was far more interesting then the actual ethics bit that followed.
But where do you come from where the engineers (not the train driving ones) are weakly regulated!? Is it in Florida where that bridge collapsed?
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The old CIA would have let him go to Mexico, then made him disappear, either quietly or messily, depending on the message they wanted to send.
The new CIA just plants kiddie porn on your computer and lets the mob handle the problem.
Not quite. Women give birth to more men. But men are more often the victims of fatal violence and suicide, so they're in the minority overall.
There's no such thing as a lossless analog medium either. The difference is that the MTF (the modulation of the spectrum) for a digital system is dictated by the amount of memory you're willing to use. The MTF for an analog system is dictated by the physical constraints of the materials in your equipment.
For recorded music, microphones are a component in common, and are necessarily analog. The microphone will have peak sensitivity at a particular frequency and that will fall off with higher and lower frequencies because of the physical properties of the diaphragm + other pickup components.
Read carefully. The quote in the summary is straight from the horse's mouth:
"nothing else in the analog world gets you closer to the experience of being right there in the recording studio than reel-to-reel tape"
Note the qualifiers.
Digital mastering is better than analog. Digital reproduction is better than analog. Your speakers need to vibrate in an analog (approximately) world, but the more digital you've got before that, the better.
That's pretty brilliant actually. A working web browser would also be good.
I dunno... Delphi used to be pretty easy. Modern PyQt with Qt Designer is equally toddler-accessible. There did seem to be a bit of a dark age in between though.
Did it have the redneck language choice?
I'm not sure why you can pull data through the lightning port without authenticating at all. I guess so you can play music, but surely there's a better way to implement that specific feature.
Ah, the modern world. You must do it this way because we have one broken-ass piece of software that can't handle it any other way.
Also, you're holding your phone wrong.
No, you can alienate your rights. You remain an imperial subject.
Google (and all it's services) are compliant.
Not just the EU. You can't waive your rights in Canada either.
It's always struck me as a particularly odd part of US law that you have "inalienable rights" and yet you're free to sign a piece of paper (or click on a button on a webpage) and waive them.
Yeah. Is there an easy way to autodetect websites with this installed yet? Maybe Chrome and Firefox could make the address bar have a scary red background when you visit such a site?
Yeah, you're right. The EU regulations probably don't go far enough making it difficult for the big companies to profit off users' data.
14.5 PSI is the change in pressure which each 33 feet (10 m) of depth.
The tires on most cars have about twice that pressure in them.
Now imagine that instead of cutting and pasting the normal way you have to take a text file, chop it in half, and the operating system will automatically insert whatever happens to be the next thing received by your network card, in promiscuous mode.
"Gene editing is extremely well understood: it makes predictable changes to human DNA. That's its attraction."
No, it doesn't. CRISPR is reasonably good at shutting off genes you want shut off... if you can identify the gene correctly, make a good template, deliver the therapy effectively, etc.
Gene "editing" is a whole different matter. You're basically chopping up a DNA strand and hoping some other DNA of your choosing happens to be floating by and gets shoved in the gap. There's been a lot of progress in making the whole thing a lot more reliable, but it's still pretty unreliable from a "I'm going to do this in an actual person" point of view. It's especially unreliable when you're talking about things bigger than individual cells, and the failures tend to be random mutations.
Things like this really don't help advance medicine at all. Giving someone a drug isn't an "oh, look they're cured"/"oh, crap, they're dead" dichotomy. Treatment works to different degrees, works differently in different people, has short, medium and long term effects, etc. And there's the placebo effect.
This is the very embodiment of the phrase "the plural of anecdote is not data."
Also, a medical treatment, particularly something like gene therapy, is nothing like repairing your own car.
And yet you have the greatest concentration of fund managers, a job that has been demonstrated repeatedly to be of no more use than a random number generator, in the world.
The US is a funny place where people are paid a lot of money to consult and come up with metrics and analytics and software to track it all so that "underperforming" peons can be fired and then judged to be inferior persons because they don't have a job.
That doesn't mean half the jobs aren't useless. It just means the useless jobs are concentrated at the top, and there's a lot of abuse of the lower classes. So they don't forget their place.
Hey, a Montrealer!
The problem with Montreal is that when you're young you're willing to ignore all that stuff because people like to go out and party a lot and everyone insists that it's the greatest city on the planet. By the time most people realize there's a downside, they're so far behind everyone else that they can't leave.
Exactly. Most jobs are pointless. Yet we have some moral terror of having people not work at or above their efficient maximum (40 hours a week) so we make up stuff for the excess labor to do.
I have a friend who wanted a shelf removed. He put in a ticket with facilities, who ignored it. He played this game for a couple of weeks, got tired, took down the shelf, and forgot about it.
A while later the facilities manager was in his office (probably to shoot the shit) and noticed the shelf was gone. He reported my friend to management. My friend dropped the stack of unfilled tickets on the manager's desk and walked out.
I think the US must be some kind of special case. Engineers are absolutely regulated here. A professional engineer must pass tests, work under another PEng for a period of time, pay annual dues to a professional association, has particular legal liabilities, and the title itself is regulated. Electricians are not electrical engineers, and programmers are not software engineers.
I was required to take a professional ethics course as part of my undergraduate degree. Your definition is indeed one of the accepted definitions. There are others, including the OP's. Another is that you belong to some recognizable group that adhere's to some acknowledged code. When I got my BSc and PhD I swore to be bound by the rights and responsibilities of the degree etc., which could qualify.
The course textbook had about a hundred pages on the subject. Which was far more interesting then the actual ethics bit that followed.
But where do you come from where the engineers (not the train driving ones) are weakly regulated!? Is it in Florida where that bridge collapsed?
Rule #2 of analytics: your subjective choices and interpretation are wildly biased.
The correct approach is to compare drives or manufacturers based on statistical testing while making a minimum of arbitrary choices.