Do you mean "Crohn's disease," which affects the GI system?
I am unaware of any connection, other than conicidental, between the two. If there is, shame on me for not knowing better, since I have: a) Crohn's, and b) a Ph.D. and a decade of research in nystagmus.
This is so exciting! I finally have a chance to talk about something I actually know about on slashdot. It's nothing like I dreamed it would be!!!
Have you ever had your eye movements recorded in a laboratory that specializes in nystagmus research?
My laboratory (www.omlab.org, in Cleveland, OH) is one such place, and we routinely see patients for free. As in beer.
You can get my email from the my page in the "personnel" section. (I'm Dr. Jacobs.) Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Agreed. And we'll assume that my ability to post on/. does not necessarily meet the requirement.
But consider that there are many ways of dealing with stress. What may be incapacitating to you may be exhilirating to someone else. And vice versa. Also, extraordinarily stressful long-term situations may well be accompanied by long-term physical deprivation, such as subsistence (or worse) nutrition which has pretty conclusively been shown to limit neurological development.
I agree that the basic physiological operations (e.g. habituation, etc.) are most probably conserved up and down the line from me to marmoset. However there is more to neuropsychology than just these basic ops.
And yes, I do not leap to assume that just because something is true in a mouse, it must necessarily be true in anything but a mouse, if that someting is too far above the level of the most basic operation. That said, I suspect that TFA is more correct than not, and that stress does have a powerful effect on learning and development. My original post was a (sorta) humorous attempt to point out that it is waaaaaaay too easy to draw conclusions far beyond what the science actually says.
Gosh! Such precision! I'd like to see some analysis of these numbers, as I suspect that the uncertainty in how they are gathered could very well be much greater than this devastating half of a percent.
There's been a video floating around for a few years that purports to show someone being sucked into the intake of a jet engine. It looks vaguely fake to me, but sounds like it could happen. As jet engines are somewhat expensive, I don't know how practical a test could be done, but I'd be interested in watching what happens to 150 lbs of ballistics gel and bones. Urk.
Just when you think it's not possible to make the Finder worse...
For some reason that I have not been able to appreciate, the spacing for windows that have been set to view "as Icon" has been changed. In 10.4.2 and earlier, there was a larger white buffer space between the left edge of the window and the left edge of an icon. For 16x16-pixel icons, at least, this white space has been so greatly reduced (from about 12 to 4 pixels) that it now that much harder to visually distinguish a window's contents from the background.
I could understand this sudden urge to conserve pixels if 1) we were all using 640 x 480 monitors, or 2) Finder windows weren't incredibly wasteful of space in almost every other way possible.
If I were the tinfoil hat sort who looks for conspiracies, I would suspect that there is a plot to force everyone to use Column view, by the unceasing chipping away at the usefulness and appearance of Icon and List views.
This is NOT the attention to detail that I used to expect from Apple. While it is possible to argue the aesthetics of the Finder's evolution of late, there is no way to defend it from a functional point of view. Almost every change goes against what I have learned studying visual science.
Have a looksee for yourself to decide if you agree:
I count a grand total of one reply in this thread, and already the site seems to be slashdotted. I guess this just proves that the existence of the silent majority of./ readers who actually try to RTFA before they post. My faith in humanity is restored!
Slashdot Mirror
That's funny; I just brought mine in on Monday, and they had me create a guest account.
Of course, it had admin privileges.
Of course, all that is necessary is an install CD to reset your password, anyway.
Guess what? If someone has physical access to your machine, they have free access to anything you haven't encrypted to a fare-thee-well.
... Time! For the "First bruise on the Apple" stories to swamp the intertubes.
Somehow a bunch of "journalists" are going to find a way to spin this as a negative.
Everybody put on your pundit hat. How would _you_ do it?
>>one for sex, and one for bearing children
>I don't know if I should be the one to tell you this... but those two are directly related!
I don't know if I should be the one to tell _you_ this, but it is possible to, um, uncouple the act from the result. In either direction, actually.
I'm currently using the beta of MATLAB for Intel Macs. It is available to anyone whose subscription is current.
It's fast enough if you are not doing graphics-intensive work. OpenGL is not working particularly well yet.
I really don't get it. This is just using copyright to prevent competition isn't it?
Yeah. If only Apple had some sort of competition. If only...
I use MATLAB pretty much every day. No dongle. Just a crappy FLEXlm licence manager that needs to be reinstalled depending on phase of moon.
We already have people that are as dumb as computers. I say leave well enough alone.
2 ^ 32,582,657 - 1th post. Eventually...
Why Centrino, Apple? Wasn't the existing Airport hardware, a known quantity, good enough?
Stop yolking around already.
(I shall try again to reply to the proper posting...)
Have you ever had your eye movements recorded in a laboratory that specializes in nystagmus research?
My laboratory (www.omlab.org, in Cleveland, OH) is one such place, and we routinely see patients for free. As in beer.
You can get my email from the my page in the "personnel" section. (I'm Dr. Jacobs.) Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
"chrones"?
Do you mean "Crohn's disease," which affects the GI system?
I am unaware of any connection, other than conicidental, between the two. If there is, shame on me for not knowing better, since I have: a) Crohn's, and b) a Ph.D. and a decade of research in nystagmus.
This is so exciting! I finally have a chance to talk about something I actually know about on slashdot. It's nothing like I dreamed it would be!!!
Have you ever had your eye movements recorded in a laboratory that specializes in nystagmus research? My laboratory (www.omlab.org, in Cleveland, OH) is one such place, and we routinely see patients for free. As in beer. You can get my email from the my page in the "personnel" section. (I'm Dr. Jacobs.) Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Agreed. And we'll assume that my ability to post on /. does not necessarily meet the requirement.
But consider that there are many ways of dealing with stress. What may be incapacitating to you may be exhilirating to someone else. And vice versa. Also, extraordinarily stressful long-term situations may well be accompanied by long-term physical deprivation, such as subsistence (or worse) nutrition which has pretty conclusively been shown to limit neurological development.
I agree that the basic physiological operations (e.g. habituation, etc.) are most probably conserved up and down the line from me to marmoset. However there is more to neuropsychology than just these basic ops.
And yes, I do not leap to assume that just because something is true in a mouse, it must necessarily be true in anything but a mouse, if that someting is too far above the level of the most basic operation. That said, I suspect that TFA is more correct than not, and that stress does have a powerful effect on learning and development. My original post was a (sorta) humorous attempt to point out that it is waaaaaaay too easy to draw conclusions far beyond what the science actually says.
Interesting, but with few exceptions, humans are not marmosets.
There is a bit more happening in my brain than in a marmoset's.
For US personnel, you get your astronaut wings at 50 miles.
Of course... (wait for it...) Your Milage Might Vary.
Sure. Just go try to collect.
Thought so.
Don't you remember when Steve had the NSA guy on stage to demo iTunes?
One word: Hellastorage
Gosh! Such precision! I'd like to see some analysis of these numbers, as I suspect that the uncertainty in how they are gathered could very well be much greater than this devastating half of a percent.
There's been a video floating around for a few years that purports to show someone being sucked into the intake of a jet engine. It looks vaguely fake to me, but sounds like it could happen. As jet engines are somewhat expensive, I don't know how practical a test could be done, but I'd be interested in watching what happens to 150 lbs of ballistics gel and bones. Urk.
(I sent this observation to Macintouch this AM)
c /spacingchange.jpg
Just when you think it's not possible to make the Finder worse...
For some reason that I have not been able to appreciate, the spacing for windows that have been set to view "as Icon" has been changed. In 10.4.2 and earlier, there was a larger white buffer space between the left edge of the window and the left edge of an icon. For 16x16-pixel icons, at least, this white space has been so greatly reduced (from about 12 to 4 pixels) that it now that much harder to visually distinguish a window's contents from the background.
I could understand this sudden urge to conserve pixels if 1) we were all using 640 x 480 monitors, or 2) Finder windows weren't incredibly wasteful of space in almost every other way possible.
If I were the tinfoil hat sort who looks for conspiracies, I would suspect that there is a plot to force everyone to use Column view, by the unceasing chipping away at the usefulness and appearance of Icon and List views.
This is NOT the attention to detail that I used to expect from Apple. While it is possible to argue the aesthetics of the Finder's evolution of late, there is no way to defend it from a functional point of view. Almost every change goes against what I have learned studying visual science.
Have a looksee for yourself to decide if you agree:
http://www.omlab.org/OMLAB_page/Personnel/jbj/mis
The Engineer (Mech) motto:
"If it doesn't fit, hit it harder.
If it jams, force it.
If it breaks, it needed to be replaced anyhow."
I count a grand total of one reply in this thread, and already the site seems to be slashdotted. I guess this just proves that the existence of the silent majority of ./ readers who actually try to RTFA before they post. My faith in humanity is restored!