Those are all important questions in regards to the flight apparatus that they use in this experiment. The technique has been around for a number of years now and there have actually been tests done to establish the role of "attention" and other factors in the flys' behavior. A Neurosciences Institute (NSI) researcher, Bruno van Swinderen, published an excellent paper in Science recently using this flight simulator to investigate some of these interesting aspects of fly learning:
They can gauge the fly's learning based on a large number of criteria (crosses, colors, shapes, etc) and this learning won't occur with flies that are exposed to the "default" setup of simply a rotating drum with the glue and wire. Also, the limitations of the fly's viewing field are known to a fairly precise degree. The temperature is controlled and a valve releases air directly onto the fly from a single direction. All of these setups have been tested for just about any variation you could possibly imagine...otherwise the data would not be accepted as valid information.
As mentioned in other areas of the comments, I usually don't charge money or request money for two reasons: 1) the majority of the people are my friends and 2) once you start charging or taking money you are basically obligated to return for future visits / repairs.
In return, however, I've been offered snapple, lemonheads, all sorts of food stuffs (free dinner, lunch, etc.). Being a college student I'll take any free meal I can get:)
I don't really mind either - a "thank you" is good enough for me and if I can make someone's life a little easier with less hassle, it's a good thing.
Oh, it also gives me plenty of chances to install Firefox as the default broswer (with their approval of course) all the while praising the relatively stress-free experience of using a Mac.
According to the wireless policy of the school I attend:
Wireless networks use a finite and shared part of the radio spectrum. To ensure that all members of the community have fair access to this system, the university will regulate this airspace. The University reserves the rights to limit and restrict access to the wireless airspace on campus. No one may install their own wireless access point on the campus as it may interfere with the university-installed units. Because the wireless infrastructure differs from the wired network, certain limits on bandwidth will have to be maintained.
In order to insure reliable access to the wireless network, air space must be free of devices that could cause interference. The airspace on the university campus will be monitored for interfering devices. Should any such device be found, we will notify the party of the issues concerned with the use of that device.
"So let me get this straight? If someone really cares about what they're doing, then what they're getting paid doesn't matter? That's a bunch of....ahem, I mean, that's not very realistic, especially if you can't live off what you make."
First off, if you're loving what you're doing - if every morning when you wake up and head off to work you don't *mind* your job, than I don't think money is as big as an issue. This is, of course, provided you have enough to live on. I don't know many people (in fact I don't know any people) who can't live off of 30-40k a year.
You don't need have the stuff you buy. Look at other countries, look where people are starving for their meals and slaving for a dollar a day. We have the opportunity, the *gift*, to use our education and knowledge to pursue a career in science and maybe better this world a bit in our passing. I really wish more of this world would appreciate what they have and what they can use for others instead of wishing for what they think they need.
I'd rather work in a lab doing research that I feel might change something in society or maybe cure just one person's illness than slave with an M.B.A. dealing with the business end of the deal.
I really don't care if I'm getting 40,000 or so. To me it's not a big deal.
I think it's a hidden blessing that salaries aren't grossly overdone with Ph.D.'s because you weed out those who are in it just for the money and you're left with the people that truly care for what they are doing.
I switched over from FC1 to Gentoo mainly because I wanted a 2.6 distro and something that was very customizable. Granted I'm still having a little bit of problems with getting my ati card rendering properly but otherwise I'm more than satisfied.
Our entire school was brought down because of the network card theft (Fordham University). It was incredibly fustrating, especially with finals next week, because many students were unable to browse the internet or do online research for their various papers / projects. The total length of time for the outage was about 24 hours starting at around 4-5 pm that day.
People interested in downloading music might also want to check out the Internet Archive's Live Audio Archive which offers both mp3 and lossless shn compressed audio for free.
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Those are all important questions in regards to the flight apparatus that they use in this experiment. The technique has been around for a number of years now and there have actually been tests done to establish the role of "attention" and other factors in the flys' behavior. A Neurosciences Institute (NSI) researcher, Bruno van Swinderen, published an excellent paper in Science recently using this flight simulator to investigate some of these interesting aspects of fly learning:
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd
They can gauge the fly's learning based on a large number of criteria (crosses, colors, shapes, etc) and this learning won't occur with flies that are exposed to the "default" setup of simply a rotating drum with the glue and wire. Also, the limitations of the fly's viewing field are known to a fairly precise degree. The temperature is controlled and a valve releases air directly onto the fly from a single direction. All of these setups have been tested for just about any variation you could possibly imagine...otherwise the data would not be accepted as valid information.
Anyone know where a copy of that commercial can be downloaded?
As mentioned in other areas of the comments, I usually don't charge money or request money for two reasons: 1) the majority of the people are my friends and 2) once you start charging or taking money you are basically obligated to return for future visits / repairs.
:)
In return, however, I've been offered snapple, lemonheads, all sorts of food stuffs (free dinner, lunch, etc.). Being a college student I'll take any free meal I can get
I don't really mind either - a "thank you" is good enough for me and if I can make someone's life a little easier with less hassle, it's a good thing.
Oh, it also gives me plenty of chances to install Firefox as the default broswer (with their approval of course) all the while praising the relatively stress-free experience of using a Mac.
i'm getting the same segmentation fault as well.
2.6.9-gentoo-r13
Can someone please change that article title and content? Seriously that has to be the dumbest mistake I've ever seen here on slashdot.
Just use mirrordot.
According to the wireless policy of the school I attend:
Wireless networks use a finite and shared part of the radio spectrum. To ensure that all members of the community have fair access to this system, the university will regulate this airspace. The University reserves the rights to limit and restrict access to the wireless airspace on campus. No one may install their own wireless access point on the campus as it may interfere with the university-installed units. Because the wireless infrastructure differs from the wired network, certain limits on bandwidth will have to be maintained.
In order to insure reliable access to the wireless network, air space must be free of devices that could cause interference. The airspace on the university campus will be monitored for interfering devices. Should any such device be found, we will notify the party of the issues concerned with the use of that device.
link is here.
i dunno man, i would pay half the $55 just to play a remastered version of "The Edge" (q2dm1).
wtf?
"So let me get this straight? If someone really cares about what they're doing, then what they're getting paid doesn't matter? That's a bunch of....ahem, I mean, that's not very realistic, especially if you can't live off what you make." First off, if you're loving what you're doing - if every morning when you wake up and head off to work you don't *mind* your job, than I don't think money is as big as an issue. This is, of course, provided you have enough to live on. I don't know many people (in fact I don't know any people) who can't live off of 30-40k a year. You don't need have the stuff you buy. Look at other countries, look where people are starving for their meals and slaving for a dollar a day. We have the opportunity, the *gift*, to use our education and knowledge to pursue a career in science and maybe better this world a bit in our passing. I really wish more of this world would appreciate what they have and what they can use for others instead of wishing for what they think they need.
Absolutely.
I'd rather work in a lab doing research that I feel might change something in society or maybe cure just one person's illness than slave with an M.B.A. dealing with the business end of the deal.
I really don't care if I'm getting 40,000 or so. To me it's not a big deal.
I think it's a hidden blessing that salaries aren't grossly overdone with Ph.D.'s because you weed out those who are in it just for the money and you're left with the people that truly care for what they are doing.
Excellent idea, I think I shall try that out later this week.
I switched over from FC1 to Gentoo mainly because I wanted a 2.6 distro and something that was very customizable. Granted I'm still having a little bit of problems with getting my ati card rendering properly but otherwise I'm more than satisfied.
um, actually it's "Stuff that matters".
^_^
fp?
Our entire school was brought down because of the network card theft (Fordham University). It was incredibly fustrating, especially with finals next week, because many students were unable to browse the internet or do online research for their various papers / projects. The total length of time for the outage was about 24 hours starting at around 4-5 pm that day.
People interested in downloading music might also want to check out the Internet Archive's Live Audio Archive which offers both mp3 and lossless shn compressed audio for free.
Whoops, forgot the tags. Use this instead. http://parts.mit.edu/
MIT Registry of Standard Biological Parts:
http://parts.mit.edu/
As mentioned in the article.
Why don't they just put a camera in SCO's offices?
jumanji
In Soviet Russia, laptop finds you.
Judging from the Windows XP backgrounds on these computers lets just hope they don't get the blue screen of death when they test the final setup.
That's not the point, the point is that they didn't give credit were credit was due.
Yeah, but I hope that doesn't mean this whole mess will be over soon or it'll be alot harder to get some good Karma and +5 Funny posts around here....