These aren't scientists. There are 18 authors and 15 are affiliated with electrical engineering departments, one with chemical engineering, one with chemistry, and one with physics. 16 out of 18 are engineers and the author of the article classifies them all as "scientists. God I get fucking tired of this.
Listener preference for LP over CD-or-better digital—is not based on LP being a better medium; it is not, by any objective and any fidelity-based subjective measure. I suppose others on this thread have commented on nostalgia or faux-nostalgia—think "millennial" or "hipster"—but there is a better reason that some prefer LPs. That reason is that LPs in many cases are not created with the same signal as the corresponding CD. The LP signal is _better_! It is a documented and audible fact that many LPs use a signal that has been subjected to less dynamic range compression and less peak limiting, both of which are used extremely heavily to horrible effect on most recordings of the last 25-30 years. Look up "loudness wars." I have personally seen histograms of the same tracks taken from LP and CD by a colleague and the differences are striking. The track was "300 m.p.h. Torrential Outpour Blues" from Icky Thump by the White Stripes. And here https://www.soundonsound.com/t... is an interview with the recording folks involved, including this quote from the second sidebar:
"Jack wanted the CD to sound loud and aggressive, so it was cut as hot and exciting as possible, whereas the vinyl was cut in a more traditional way. The vinyl version has more size and dynamics and air, all the things about vinyl that we love. Was the CD version brickwalled to compete in the loudness wars? Let’s hope not!”"
is something of a turd. There is no indication that it is doing anything. The preference page has no controls. The icon that is placed in the menu bar shows no state information—supposedly if you click on it, the FPI feature will be disabled for five minutes. There is absolutely no indication that anything happens when you click on it. plus, the icon is so hard to see that at first I thought there was no icon at all. The linked article mentions that you can also edit two entries in the about:config page. Nice if a little obscure. But you might think that the add-on would simply toggle these items, but installing the add-on does not affect these about:config items. So, again, the FPI add-on is poorly designed.
Someone at Gizmodo should be shot or sued for editing the memo, "Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber," by removing the references—"hyperlinks," as they call them. The hyperlinks are to many scholarly journal pieces and otherwise respectable publications. Without the references to back up the author's claims, he just looks like a boob to most folks.
Here is a link to a PDF that contains all the hyperlinks to references and also two missing figures left out from the Gizmodo version.
Why don't those Mozilla imbeciles spend a a few days making Firefox so that releases some memory after it is done with it? It's normal to have FF sitting there WITH NO OPEN WINDOWS using 1.5-2 GB of RAM.
LibreOffice, after these many years, still has many problems. Here is an example of a very basic one: at least on macOS, it does not properly render text, leaving unevenly-spaced characters within some words—one letter will appear e.g. too far to the right, colliding with the character to the right, while leaving a too-large space to the left. It is ugly and impedes reading.
The Writer component, continues to be essentially worthless for technical writing. Its rendering of inline math leaves giant white space to both the left and right sides of math. It has no idea how to break equations across line breaks of inline math. It does not correctly reduce the height of inline equations. I can't help but notice that the entire 50+page user's guide to the math typesetting function doesn't once display an inline equation. And Write has no ability whatsoever to intelligently place figures and tables—they are treated simply as giant characters.
Of course, the Google-powered Raspberry Pi devices will all phone home. Right?
3D TV screens were too small for some images
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3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com)
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· Score: 5, Informative
I think one reason 3D TV never caught on is that the screens generally were not large enough. There is a problem with a finite screen when objects appear near the left or right edges and relatively close to the viewer: the required binocular disparity is such that the image in one eye goes black (blank), leaving the image in only one eye. This is very uncomfortable, even if it happens for a brief instant. The screen needs to be large enough for the left and right edges to be nearly out of ones peripheral vision so that then one eye goes blank it is less noticeable. Most movie theater screens are large enough. But still, the director needs to be aware of this problem and be careful not to place up-close images near the edges of the screen. I think James Cameron knew this in making Avatar. I'm sure that Martin Scorsese did not know this when he made Hugo, as this happens many times during that movie. With TV, especially live action sports, I suspect that this might be hard to control.
Of course, the other problem is the disparate needs for the viewer to focus at one distance (the screen) and cross the eyes at another distance (the object). Most people adapt to this nearly instantly but I suppose even they find it a little fatiguing.
This work goes beyond the normal logical confusion of "correlation implies causation." It's just a really poorly designed experiment. A better experiment would have compared blood flow in brains of people who have never used marijuana and them had them use marijuana and then again measured blood flow. (This also lacks a control but at least it measures something useful. And I spent all of five seconds coming up with it and I'm not in the field. So.....)
So what's wrong? Maybe people who have abnormally low brain blood flow are prone to using marijuana, perhaps even to _increase_ blood flow, but less than perfectly. And instead of _causing_ psychosis, maybe people who are psychotic are prone to using marijuana. I know people who have told me that they need to use marijuana to feel normal, and maybe normal for them means non-psychotic.
This will probably make me sound like a dick, but are you effing kidding me? After all these years Windows still crashes? How often does this happen? Does it happen less than it used to? Is this behavior so baked in to the OS that it can't be fixed? How much of NT is in Windows 10? Pre-NT?
The OP apparently does not understand the difference between a design patent and a utility patent. He/She should learn this before calling this design patent stupid or whatever other inappropriate language was used. Utility patents describe a function; design patents describe only the appearance.
Any language that purports to be a good for technical computing needs to get away from a forced base for indexing arrays. No, this is not a 0 or 1 problem. Arrays should be numbered from whatever the programmer specifies. The Pascal-type languages including Ada have this feature and it prevents many many errors. Maybe the $600K can buy this, but somehow I doubt it as this fixed-index-base is usually in the mindsets of the language's designers.
"...the slowly lengthening solar day" "Do you have a better idea of how to handle this?"
I do. Have everyone run west. This will transfer the force of their feet to the earth, causing it to rotate faster. Don't stop running or the earth will slow down again, wreaking the havoc described in the article.
The Kodak system also did not store stuff in the same location every time, either. (Note that I did not say that it did.) In fact, that is the reason for my comment "the computers remembered where stuff was...." Which implies that similar items could be stored anywhere, not necessarily next to each other. I suppose that they might have simplified the actual picking process by standardizing storage bins to a few common shapes. Dunno for sure. My recollection is that (1) it was a huge warehouse and (2) each aisle contained a large vertically extendable device with some sort of attaching thingy on the end which ran back and forth down the aisle on some kind of track—horizontal extendability. I don't see any problem in principle with scaling of a system like this.
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Love the symmetry since dogs have at least one car mode.
These aren't scientists. There are 18 authors and 15 are affiliated with electrical engineering departments, one with chemical engineering, one with chemistry, and one with physics. 16 out of 18 are engineers and the author of the article classifies them all as "scientists. God I get fucking tired of this.
Listener preference for LP over CD-or-better digital—is not based on LP being a better medium; it is not, by any objective and any fidelity-based subjective measure. I suppose others on this thread have commented on nostalgia or faux-nostalgia—think "millennial" or "hipster"—but there is a better reason that some prefer LPs. That reason is that LPs in many cases are not created with the same signal as the corresponding CD. The LP signal is _better_! It is a documented and audible fact that many LPs use a signal that has been subjected to less dynamic range compression and less peak limiting, both of which are used extremely heavily to horrible effect on most recordings of the last 25-30 years. Look up "loudness wars." I have personally seen histograms of the same tracks taken from LP and CD by a colleague and the differences are striking. The track was "300 m.p.h. Torrential Outpour Blues" from Icky Thump by the White Stripes. And here https://www.soundonsound.com/t... is an interview with the recording folks involved, including this quote from the second sidebar:
"Jack wanted the CD to sound loud and aggressive, so it was cut as hot and exciting as possible, whereas the vinyl was cut in a more traditional way. The vinyl version has more size and dynamics and air, all the things about vinyl that we love. Was the CD version brickwalled to compete in the loudness wars? Let’s hope not!”"
The add-on, First Party Isolation, linked from the article, to
https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...
is something of a turd. There is no indication that it is doing anything. The preference page has no controls. The icon that is placed in the menu bar shows no state information—supposedly if you click on it, the FPI feature will be disabled for five minutes. There is absolutely no indication that anything happens when you click on it. plus, the icon is so hard to see that at first I thought there was no icon at all. The linked article mentions that you can also edit two entries in the about:config page. Nice if a little obscure. But you might think that the add-on would simply toggle these items, but installing the add-on does not affect these about:config items. So, again, the FPI add-on is poorly designed.
Does it still suck memory like my ex-wife sucks dick?
Someone at Gizmodo should be shot or sued for editing the memo, "Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber," by removing the references—"hyperlinks," as they call them. The hyperlinks are to many scholarly journal pieces and otherwise respectable publications. Without the references to back up the author's claims, he just looks like a boob to most folks.
Here is a link to a PDF that contains all the hyperlinks to references and also two missing figures left out from the Gizmodo version.
https://assets.documentcloud.o...
Why don't those Mozilla imbeciles spend a a few days making Firefox so that releases some memory after it is done with it? It's normal to have FF sitting there WITH NO OPEN WINDOWS using 1.5-2 GB of RAM.
LibreOffice, after these many years, still has many problems. Here is an example of a very basic one: at least on macOS, it does not properly render text, leaving unevenly-spaced characters within some words—one letter will appear e.g. too far to the right, colliding with the character to the right, while leaving a too-large space to the left. It is ugly and impedes reading.
The Writer component, continues to be essentially worthless for technical writing. Its rendering of inline math leaves giant white space to both the left and right sides of math. It has no idea how to break equations across line breaks of inline math. It does not correctly reduce the height of inline equations. I can't help but notice that the entire 50+page user's guide to the math typesetting function doesn't once display an inline equation. And Write has no ability whatsoever to intelligently place figures and tables—they are treated simply as giant characters.
"Three times as many pixels means three times the resolution."
WRONG. Three times as many pixels means sqrt(3) times the resolution.
Of course, the Google-powered Raspberry Pi devices will all phone home. Right?
I think one reason 3D TV never caught on is that the screens generally were not large enough. There is a problem with a finite screen when objects appear near the left or right edges and relatively close to the viewer: the required binocular disparity is such that the image in one eye goes black (blank), leaving the image in only one eye. This is very uncomfortable, even if it happens for a brief instant. The screen needs to be large enough for the left and right edges to be nearly out of ones peripheral vision so that then one eye goes blank it is less noticeable. Most movie theater screens are large enough. But still, the director needs to be aware of this problem and be careful not to place up-close images near the edges of the screen. I think James Cameron knew this in making Avatar. I'm sure that Martin Scorsese did not know this when he made Hugo, as this happens many times during that movie. With TV, especially live action sports, I suspect that this might be hard to control.
Of course, the other problem is the disparate needs for the viewer to focus at one distance (the screen) and cross the eyes at another distance (the object). Most people adapt to this nearly instantly but I suppose even they find it a little fatiguing.
Surely it is faster to block an ad than it is to load it and render it.
This work goes beyond the normal logical confusion of "correlation implies causation." It's just a really poorly designed experiment. A better experiment would have compared blood flow in brains of people who have never used marijuana and them had them use marijuana and then again measured blood flow. (This also lacks a control but at least it measures something useful. And I spent all of five seconds coming up with it and I'm not in the field. So.....)
So what's wrong? Maybe people who have abnormally low brain blood flow are prone to using marijuana, perhaps even to _increase_ blood flow, but less than perfectly. And instead of _causing_ psychosis, maybe people who are psychotic are prone to using marijuana. I know people who have told me that they need to use marijuana to feel normal, and maybe normal for them means non-psychotic.
Does Servo leak memory like a sieve like Firefox, causing one to relaunch one or two times a day or watch memory use climb to > 1 GB?
It is absolutely astonishing that it has taken _this_long_ for someone to make these basic fixes to C.
This will probably make me sound like a dick, but are you effing kidding me? After all these years Windows still crashes? How often does this happen? Does it happen less than it used to? Is this behavior so baked in to the OS that it can't be fixed? How much of NT is in Windows 10? Pre-NT?
What is stress? Seriously. I mean physiologically.
The OP apparently does not understand the difference between a design patent and a utility patent. He/She should learn this before calling this design patent stupid or whatever other inappropriate language was used. Utility patents describe a function; design patents describe only the appearance.
"...information theory, a branch of applied mathematics..."
It is not; it is a branch of electrical engineering.
Any language that purports to be a good for technical computing needs to get away from a forced base for indexing arrays. No, this is not a 0 or 1 problem. Arrays should be numbered from whatever the programmer specifies. The Pascal-type languages including Ada have this feature and it prevents many many errors. Maybe the $600K can buy this, but somehow I doubt it as this fixed-index-base is usually in the mindsets of the language's designers.
"Ah, who can forget the cold-fusion fiasco of the early 1990s?"
Uh, it was the 1980s first.
I'm starting a campaign to get more women into movies with Shawshank in the title.
Honestly, if she was using the e-mail address associated with that SMTP server before she become Secretary of State, yes.
Geez, do your homework. Here, I'll do it for you.
whois clintonemail.com turns up Creation Date: 13-jan-2009.
On the first screen for Hillary Clinton at Wikipedia: "In office January 21, 2009 – February 1, 2013"
So, yea, [sarcasm] she did use it before becoming Secretary of State.
"...the slowly lengthening solar day"
"Do you have a better idea of how to handle this?"
I do. Have everyone run west. This will transfer the force of their feet to the earth, causing it to rotate faster. Don't stop running or the earth will slow down again, wreaking the havoc described in the article.
The Kodak system also did not store stuff in the same location every time, either. (Note that I did not say that it did.) In fact, that is the reason for my comment "the computers remembered where stuff was...." Which implies that similar items could be stored anywhere, not necessarily next to each other. I suppose that they might have simplified the actual picking process by standardizing storage bins to a few common shapes. Dunno for sure. My recollection is that (1) it was a huge warehouse and (2) each aisle contained a large vertically extendable device with some sort of attaching thingy on the end which ran back and forth down the aisle on some kind of track—horizontal extendability. I don't see any problem in principle with scaling of a system like this.