At the same time, though, who really cares? As long as the standard suite of Linux-compiled applications still run, they can do whatever they want with the basic components that power it. The fact that these components ARE so modular and interchangeable is part of why Linux is such a great starting point for someone looking to roll their own distro. If they think they have a reason to swap them out, more power to them.
Awesome, this article reminded me of the exact same book (although in a slightly different way). I've always been fascinated with his idea that the human mind is not just an interconnected bunch of synapses, but such a complex piece of electrical machinery (so to speak) that it generates quantum interference with itself and that complexity is what produces human consciousness.
Somewhat the same as the concepts behind Neal Stephenson's Anathem, also. It just seems to make sense that the biology would have evolved to take advantage of quantum interference, or at least electrical interference like this study is claiming.
the user experience is the same, the walls are the same height that they were before, and the gate is just as secure
Actually, the walls are a good 30% higher, since Apple is imposing a 30% tax on any 3rd party market that wants to operate on the device. They're trying to make it look like it's not a tax by forcing sellers to give them the lowest price as well, but the net result is that you either lose content on Apple devices, or prices EVERYWHERE go up because Apple wants money to play in their walled garden.
Which is all fair, as far as it goes. It's also why I won't go anywhere near an Apple device.
And why is that cheating? Sounds like simple observance in an effort to get improve results.
It is just observing, but it's observing your competitors. To put it another way, if Google for some reason shut down tomorrow, a portion of Bing's relevance improvement would cease immediately. That strikes me as a sign of something dishonest.
A. I call bullshit on the "more stable" claim, except for a few key architectural decisions that Firefox is implementing as we speak, and B. I call bullshit on the idea that they're entirely a Beta product. Their rendering engine is a solid, stable external system that has gone through many non-beta releases. If they didn't have an 8 year stable product as the core of Chrome, it wouldn't be nearly as high quality as it is.
It also sounds like somebody should lose their license over this. The entire reason we have licensing for electricians and such is so there's someone directly responsible for knowing that this kind of stuff is dangerous.
I did go through and delete everything first. Who knows what that actually does, but it's probably the same as overwriting it with something.
I did notice that at some point in the past 2 years they lost all my music/movies/books preferences, so there's a fair bit of data gone without me even having to do anything.
It's a thinly veiled attempt to play with homeopathy
From TFA:
In each cycle it was diluted 10-fold, and "ghost" DNA was only recovered after between seven and 12 dilutions of the original. It was not found at the ultra-high dilutions used in homeopathy.
So, not so much. Unless by "play with" you mean "dismiss offhand". I really don't get why so many people in the commentary are being completely dismissive of this as new age nonsense. He's not obviously trying to push an agenda in the paper as far as I could tell. It really seems like he saw some weird effects and documented them, and that's all. Either he's flat out lying, or he really saw something odd which hasn't been fully explained. Why assume that he's lying before any independent trials are done?
Really? The explanation I guessed is pretty simple: "We spilled some bacteria in tube 2."
I think you missed the part where not having DNA in tube 1, not having the coil, not having the coil powered up, etc. all yielded negative results. Unless they just happened to spill bacteria on all 12 out of 12 positive trials, and spill none on the dozens of negative control trials, which is relatively improbable.
They don't do the proper controls for step 4 to 5. What happens when no DNA is present in tube #1? What happens when there is no inducing field?
From TFA:
The following controls
were found to suppress the EMS transmission in the water tube:
- Time of exposure of the two tubes less than 16 18 hrs
- No coil
- Generator of magnetic field turned off
- Frequency of excitation
- Absence of DNA in tube 1.
They did in fact answer all your concerns, and I would think that the fact that the generator turned off resulted in a negative trial addresses most of your concerns about contamination... they shouldn't have gotten a negative for basically ANY of those variables if it was just contamination.
Cardboard would taste delicious if you coated in as much mayonnaise and sugar (in the form of "ketchup" and "mustard") as a Big Mac. There's a distinct possibility that you wouldn't much care for it if you ordered it sans toppings, whereas a higher quality hamburger is at least somewhat tasty on its own.
The bail out decision was something that wasn't merely controversial, but absolutely absurd and no good-faith politician would have supported it
Not saying that the companies deserved an out (personally I think we should have let them collapse), but the US Govt ended up making a tidy profit on TARP overall, and there are still some companies left to pay back. So we make money, companies get saved from complete collapse at the cost of temporary government oversight and financial compensation to those that saved them, and everybody wins. What's so absurd about that?
Why the hell does an investment bank, who normally act as a "service provider" want to take a direct stake in a Social networking company ?
Because they're one of the (supposedly) hottest companies around, and don't have public stock.
Remember, Goldman isn't just providing a service to let other people invest. That's just a way to get a larger stockpile of money that they can use to leverage themselves deep into the stock market on their own positions. They could care less about the $20 commission on your quarterly stock purchase.
Uh... the Japanese "eat" wales (at least consume them for an economically driven purpose), and that isn't working out so great for them. And pretty much every sea-faring nation at one point or another had whalers, because the fat alone was worth quite a lot back in the early industrial era, since whales are basically giant mobile blobs of lamp fuel.
I think it's more: "be delicious or have useful byproducts, and be small / dumb enough to be easily farmed"
if we knock out everyone on the plane. The Pilot/Copilot have a seperate O2 supply, but the main cabin is gassed as the plane taxis onto the runway.
I'm halfway convinced that we already started doing this around 5 years ago. I used to have no luck sleeping on planes, and still don't take naps or anything like that on a regular day. But get me on a plane, and I'm out within 5 minutes of takeoff, magically awake for about 10 minutes when they serve drinks, and then wake up like clockwork 5 minutes before the descent for landing. It's eerily accurate, and it's happened the last 8 or 10 times I've flown.
1. this is about movies
2. the "limited activation keys" thing is SIMULTANEOUS, not total for all time, which for Kindle seems reasonable given that the books themselves are cheaper. At least it's a tradeoff you can decide upon for yourself, I thought it seemed reasonable. Also, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the story above.
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At the same time, though, who really cares? As long as the standard suite of Linux-compiled applications still run, they can do whatever they want with the basic components that power it. The fact that these components ARE so modular and interchangeable is part of why Linux is such a great starting point for someone looking to roll their own distro. If they think they have a reason to swap them out, more power to them.
It sounded more like "when a couple people do it (sometimes me, sometimes not) it's okay, when everyone does it at once it's unacceptable" to me.
Awesome, this article reminded me of the exact same book (although in a slightly different way). I've always been fascinated with his idea that the human mind is not just an interconnected bunch of synapses, but such a complex piece of electrical machinery (so to speak) that it generates quantum interference with itself and that complexity is what produces human consciousness.
Somewhat the same as the concepts behind Neal Stephenson's Anathem, also. It just seems to make sense that the biology would have evolved to take advantage of quantum interference, or at least electrical interference like this study is claiming.
Actually, the walls are a good 30% higher, since Apple is imposing a 30% tax on any 3rd party market that wants to operate on the device. They're trying to make it look like it's not a tax by forcing sellers to give them the lowest price as well, but the net result is that you either lose content on Apple devices, or prices EVERYWHERE go up because Apple wants money to play in their walled garden.
Which is all fair, as far as it goes. It's also why I won't go anywhere near an Apple device.
It is just observing, but it's observing your competitors. To put it another way, if Google for some reason shut down tomorrow, a portion of Bing's relevance improvement would cease immediately. That strikes me as a sign of something dishonest.
I would hope that they refund the purchase price to those who bought the app. Is that not the case?
It only looks like hypocrisy if you didn't really understand the original complaint to begin with.
A. I call bullshit on the "more stable" claim, except for a few key architectural decisions that Firefox is implementing as we speak, and B. I call bullshit on the idea that they're entirely a Beta product. Their rendering engine is a solid, stable external system that has gone through many non-beta releases. If they didn't have an 8 year stable product as the core of Chrome, it wouldn't be nearly as high quality as it is.
It also sounds like somebody should lose their license over this. The entire reason we have licensing for electricians and such is so there's someone directly responsible for knowing that this kind of stuff is dangerous.
Paid back to the same ones who loaned it nearly 2 years ago.
I did go through and delete everything first. Who knows what that actually does, but it's probably the same as overwriting it with something.
I did notice that at some point in the past 2 years they lost all my music/movies/books preferences, so there's a fair bit of data gone without me even having to do anything.
Aaaaand my account is now closed.
I was thinking about doing this just earlier today, but thanks, Mark, for giving me a very obvious shove in the right direction.
Incorrect, sure. It's the part where a bunch of comments assume he's either malicious or insane that I don't get.
From TFA:
So, not so much. Unless by "play with" you mean "dismiss offhand". I really don't get why so many people in the commentary are being completely dismissive of this as new age nonsense. He's not obviously trying to push an agenda in the paper as far as I could tell. It really seems like he saw some weird effects and documented them, and that's all. Either he's flat out lying, or he really saw something odd which hasn't been fully explained. Why assume that he's lying before any independent trials are done?
I think you missed the part where not having DNA in tube 1, not having the coil, not having the coil powered up, etc. all yielded negative results. Unless they just happened to spill bacteria on all 12 out of 12 positive trials, and spill none on the dozens of negative control trials, which is relatively improbable.
From TFA:
They did in fact answer all your concerns, and I would think that the fact that the generator turned off resulted in a negative trial addresses most of your concerns about contamination... they shouldn't have gotten a negative for basically ANY of those variables if it was just contamination.
Cardboard would taste delicious if you coated in as much mayonnaise and sugar (in the form of "ketchup" and "mustard") as a Big Mac. There's a distinct possibility that you wouldn't much care for it if you ordered it sans toppings, whereas a higher quality hamburger is at least somewhat tasty on its own.
Not saying that the companies deserved an out (personally I think we should have let them collapse), but the US Govt ended up making a tidy profit on TARP overall, and there are still some companies left to pay back. So we make money, companies get saved from complete collapse at the cost of temporary government oversight and financial compensation to those that saved them, and everybody wins. What's so absurd about that?
I can eat his food. He cannot eat my food. I win.
I meant that Facebook has no public stock.
Because they're one of the (supposedly) hottest companies around, and don't have public stock.
Remember, Goldman isn't just providing a service to let other people invest. That's just a way to get a larger stockpile of money that they can use to leverage themselves deep into the stock market on their own positions. They could care less about the $20 commission on your quarterly stock purchase.
I can only say that you have no IDEA what tasty goodness you're missing out on.
Uh... the Japanese "eat" wales (at least consume them for an economically driven purpose), and that isn't working out so great for them. And pretty much every sea-faring nation at one point or another had whalers, because the fat alone was worth quite a lot back in the early industrial era, since whales are basically giant mobile blobs of lamp fuel.
I think it's more: "be delicious or have useful byproducts, and be small / dumb enough to be easily farmed"
I'm halfway convinced that we already started doing this around 5 years ago. I used to have no luck sleeping on planes, and still don't take naps or anything like that on a regular day. But get me on a plane, and I'm out within 5 minutes of takeoff, magically awake for about 10 minutes when they serve drinks, and then wake up like clockwork 5 minutes before the descent for landing. It's eerily accurate, and it's happened the last 8 or 10 times I've flown.
1. this is about movies
2. the "limited activation keys" thing is SIMULTANEOUS, not total for all time, which for Kindle seems reasonable given that the books themselves are cheaper. At least it's a tradeoff you can decide upon for yourself, I thought it seemed reasonable. Also, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the story above.