I believe this is an option for a backlit keyboard on some of the models.
Prior to this machine I'd been using Mac laptops back to a G4 PowerBook (2004) to a 2011 MacBook (last release pre-retina display). While my current laptop isn't as polished as an Apple, I wasn't looking for one. The screen wasn't a step back (I know from screens I've published in peer-reviewed journals on them) and the keyboard better than the MB Pro -- the speakers are about as good. The major negative is the mic placement on my machine -- beside the trackpad. I think this is a quirk of the model I bought. The touch pad is really nice, more sensitive than the MBP and flush with the body (a nice touch).
I was generally disappointed with the 2011 MB Pro on battery/power issues -- the battery life wasn't great and it ran too hot most of the time.
Buying a System 76 laptop was the last step on a long road from being an Apple fan who played around with linux to finally embracing linux as good enough for everything I do now. There's a nice touch here or there that I miss or some quirks that I know exist because I've left the walled garden, but I am glad not to be forking over cash for Apple's corporate shenanigans and to be supporting a small company.
Dedicated hardware sure. But laptops? Especially *good* laptops of a build quality comparable to Macbooks? Please do share your findings, I'm going to need to replace this ASUS eventually...
System 76 has some good options -- I bought one a year back and haven't regretted it. $500 cheaper than a MacBook with similar specs.
It isn't the most elegant post but the mods definitely need to mod this up. The idea that neuroscience retreads the ground trod by cognitive scientists, psychologists and psyhcophysicists is essentially and profoundly true.
Take the case of light detection where a study by Hecht, Schlaer & Pirenne done with psychophysical methods in the 40s estimated the minimum number of photons needed to detect a light. This result was only "measured directly" by neuroscientists in the late 1980s.
Color vision is another example. Well worked out by psychophysicsts long before neuroscientists could say anything about opponent colour channels in the brain.
There's been a recent bias to laud people who stick electrodes into cells... but this doesn't make the science particularly ground-breaking.
"Just make up your fucking minds already, every other week coffee is bad, then good, then bad again. like it's going to stop anyone drinking it anyway..."
Then it might be f'in good or bad depending on your genetic makeup... or at least that's what my girlfriend says. (Oh wait, this is/. no one will believe that... the girlfriend part I mean.)
Not really, you loose stereo vision/stereopsis - there are many monocular cues to depth (linear perspective, shape from shading, interposition/occlusions, motion parallax). Stereo vision also is only good out to 4m or so... so beyond that, the benefits of having two eyes that have a region of visual field overlap is negligible.
Damn! That was scary... I just had that surge of NO CARRIER panic from back in the ol' BBSing days on a 2400 Baud modem. I think I have PTSD from a flaky USR Modem in late 80s and seeing NO CARRIER over and over again.
After the photoreceptors there's a MASSIVE compression of information into the ganglion cells and to the optic nerve. The representation then gets expanded in visual cortex.
Horace Barlow has done very interesting and readable work on this subject.
There's one thing that seems to be forgotten in the minimum wage idea of the original post -- all Canadian workers (even those earning minimum wage) have wages that are wages plus full medical benefits (yay, nationalized medicine!).Of course a company would want to move jobs to Canada they don't have to pay medical benefits. Perhaps to increase jobs Washington should think not about taxing imports, but nationalizing health care.
I ran a RENEGADE system myself back in the early nineties but the online games were the thing. TradeWars, BRE and LORD are the first to come to mind. Not sure about today but as of last year there were still a few telnet BBS systems kicking around that you can log in and play the golden oldies. Take a look for the telnet BBS list if anyone is interested.
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I believe this is an option for a backlit keyboard on some of the models. Prior to this machine I'd been using Mac laptops back to a G4 PowerBook (2004) to a 2011 MacBook (last release pre-retina display). While my current laptop isn't as polished as an Apple, I wasn't looking for one. The screen wasn't a step back (I know from screens I've published in peer-reviewed journals on them) and the keyboard better than the MB Pro -- the speakers are about as good. The major negative is the mic placement on my machine -- beside the trackpad. I think this is a quirk of the model I bought. The touch pad is really nice, more sensitive than the MBP and flush with the body (a nice touch). I was generally disappointed with the 2011 MB Pro on battery/power issues -- the battery life wasn't great and it ran too hot most of the time. Buying a System 76 laptop was the last step on a long road from being an Apple fan who played around with linux to finally embracing linux as good enough for everything I do now. There's a nice touch here or there that I miss or some quirks that I know exist because I've left the walled garden, but I am glad not to be forking over cash for Apple's corporate shenanigans and to be supporting a small company.
Dedicated hardware sure. But laptops? Especially *good* laptops of a build quality comparable to Macbooks? Please do share your findings, I'm going to need to replace this ASUS eventually...
System 76 has some good options -- I bought one a year back and haven't regretted it. $500 cheaper than a MacBook with similar specs.
It isn't the most elegant post but the mods definitely need to mod this up. The idea that neuroscience retreads the ground trod by cognitive scientists, psychologists and psyhcophysicists is essentially and profoundly true. Take the case of light detection where a study by Hecht, Schlaer & Pirenne done with psychophysical methods in the 40s estimated the minimum number of photons needed to detect a light. This result was only "measured directly" by neuroscientists in the late 1980s. Color vision is another example. Well worked out by psychophysicsts long before neuroscientists could say anything about opponent colour channels in the brain. There's been a recent bias to laud people who stick electrodes into cells... but this doesn't make the science particularly ground-breaking.
"Just make up your fucking minds already, every other week coffee is bad, then good, then bad again.
/. no one will believe that... the girlfriend part I mean.)
like it's going to stop anyone drinking it anyway..."
Then it might be f'in good or bad depending on your genetic makeup... or at least that's what my girlfriend says. (Oh wait, this is
Not really, you loose stereo vision/stereopsis - there are many monocular cues to depth (linear perspective, shape from shading, interposition/occlusions, motion parallax). Stereo vision also is only good out to 4m or so... so beyond that, the benefits of having two eyes that have a region of visual field overlap is negligible.
Damn! That was scary... I just had that surge of NO CARRIER panic from back in the ol' BBSing days on a 2400 Baud modem. I think I have PTSD from a flaky USR Modem in late 80s and seeing NO CARRIER over and over again.
Is there a support group for this?
After the photoreceptors there's a MASSIVE compression of information into the ganglion cells and to the optic nerve. The representation then gets expanded in visual cortex.
Horace Barlow has done very interesting and readable work on this subject.
There's one thing that seems to be forgotten in the minimum wage idea of the original post -- all Canadian workers (even those earning minimum wage) have wages that are wages plus full medical benefits (yay, nationalized medicine!).Of course a company would want to move jobs to Canada they don't have to pay medical benefits. Perhaps to increase jobs Washington should think not about taxing imports, but nationalizing health care.
I ran a RENEGADE system myself back in the early nineties but the online games were the thing. TradeWars, BRE and LORD are the first to come to mind. Not sure about today but as of last year there were still a few telnet BBS systems kicking around that you can log in and play the golden oldies. Take a look for the telnet BBS list if anyone is interested.