but if you look at ubuntu.com versus debian.org you'll notice...
Alternatively, one may as well realize that there exist different target groups with different attitudes, needs, (and average age, (and knowledge), presumably).
"Customer defections and a drop in average revenue per customer led to an 8.7 percent drop in wireless revenue to $7.96 billion for the quarter, compared with $8.72 billion during the same period a year earlier."
As I sad, they almost cannot afford food to live on now, not to speak of infrastructure.
... in this case, driving, which is learned long after a person grasps a native language
Assuming that in the near future most people will not ever get a grip on a 'native language', their driving capability will not be impeded by their 'ingrained' language skills.
At least, it did not succeed with attempts to sell data- or powergloves to gamers.
Given the general failure (businesswise) of more sophisticated input devices beyond keyboard and mouse there is enough room to be suspicious about the useability of this "new" approach.
Your muscles can't pull a trigger at the right moment without having input from your eyes.
There might be other input channels, gravisensing comes to mind here, which directly control body motions. At the time being, this might sound implausible, but so did the idea of mirror neurons (which is still not quite mainstream). Besides, my personal opinion is that generally too much processing power is dedicated to visual input.
something has to happen in the brain for you to do anything
Patellar reflex, quote: "This reflex helps maintain posture, allowing one to walk without consciously thinking about each step." Which, BTW, helps you to activate other (body-)senses, even more so if you are able to maintain proper posture effortlessly.
Time to again draw attention to us patent 6368227: "A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling alternately on one chain and then the other."
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_patent_number:6368227
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Einstein
Quote: "PLATO originated in the early 1960's at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. Professor Don Bitzer became interested in using computers for teaching, and with some colleagues founded the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory (CERL). Bitzer, an electrical engineer, collaborated with a few other engineers to design the PLATO hardware. To write the software, he collected a staff of creative eccentrics ranging from university professors to high school students, few of whom had any computer background. Together they built a system that was at least a decade ahead of its time in many ways." (emphasis mine)
Please note that they had a place for "eccentrics" back then.
1960: E. V. Yevreinov at the Institute of Mathematics in Novosibirsk (IMN) begins work on tightly-coupled, coarse-grain parallel architectures with programmable interconnects. ( c.f. )
An extra core or so on a desktop is nice, beyond that they really won't be anywhere near the speedup its hyped.
And of course any virtual reality scenario will not profit from extra power.
where someone loses their head and an autodoc manages to grow one back
Hmm...
Quote: "But they got him into the autodoc anyway. It was a puppeteer-shaped coffin, form-fitted to Nessus himself, and bulky Puppeteer surgeons and mechanics must have intended that it should handle any conceivable circumstance. But had they thought of decapitation?
They had. There were two heads in there, and two more with necks attached, and enough organs and body parts to make several complete puppeteers. Grown from Nessus himself, probably; the faces on the heads looked familiar.
From Ringworld, by Larry Niven."
Besides, I am quite optimistic that mankind will present itself as an evolutionary failure in the long run (or as a component of a transient process, since failures are impossible if one shares the view that each and every process contributes to a current state of affairs).
using a bottle opener to crack open a cold, refreshing brew
Just reminds me...
"Our hero is Gallegher, an inventor who can only invent when dead drunk. Upon sobering up in this story, he finds himself in possession of a perfectly useless and perfectly vain robot. He has all sorts of contractual obligations that he has to fulfill, but he can't do a darn thing sober, and can't get the robot to help him unless he can figure out what its actual purpose is. (It turns out it's the world's most complex and over-engineered can opener.) Gallegher is pretty much the inverse of the typical science fiction hero, whose superior knowledge of science and engineering and superior rationality will help him win through. Gallegher only wins through when he gets his mind turned completely off with the aid of liberal amounts of booze. It's a fun puzzle story, and Gallegher is a great comic protagonist." (link, emphasis mine)
I can't find the reference, but clearly remember reading about the physics of traffic jams 20 years ago.
I do as well, and I recall there was even software (e.g. GPSS) to simulate the phenomenon. But nice to see how an experiment validates historic findings (which have probably not made it to Google yet and thus practically do not exist).
A thing to remember though is that the average cost of developing a new drug easily runs into hundreds of millions of dollars and that they need to make that back to stay in business.
This is why they struggle so hard, quote: "
In 2001, the ten American drug companies in the Fortune 500 list (not quite the same as the top ten worldwide, but their profit margins are much the same) ranked far above all other American industries in average net return, whether as a percentage of sales (18.5 percent), of assets (16.3 percent), or of shareholders' equity (33.2 percent). These are astonishing margins. For comparison, the median net return for all other industries in the Fortune 500 was only 3.3 percent of sales. Commercial banking, itself no slouch as an aggressive industry with many friends in high places, was a distant second, at 13.5 percent of sales." (emphasis mine)
Slashdot Mirror
... there is no shortage of students to provide a better overview or definition than the text book or case study is offering
Probably tells something about the aspiration level of the 'text book' or 'case study' (singular ?!).
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but if you look at ubuntu.com versus debian.org you'll notice ...
Alternatively, one may as well realize that there exist different target groups with different attitudes, needs, (and average age, (and knowledge), presumably).
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and Blender's interface is one of the worst I've ever seen
:)
... cue in 3d version of EMACS vs. vi discussion.
You for sure missed this
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"Customer defections and a drop in average revenue per customer led to an 8.7 percent drop in wireless revenue to $7.96 billion for the quarter, compared with $8.72 billion during the same period a year earlier."
As I sad, they almost cannot afford food to live on now, not to speak of infrastructure.
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because the whole idea that cell towers and the like just sprouted like weeds is appealing but they are costly.
..., quote: "Vodafone posts profit of £3.29 billion" ($6.82 billion, November 14, 2007)
Well
Yep, time to collect some extra cash for those poor chaps.
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... in this case, driving, which is learned long after a person grasps a native language
Assuming that in the near future most people will not ever get a grip on a 'native language', their driving capability will not be impeded by their 'ingrained' language skills.
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genius@work :)
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business world would succeed
At least, it did not succeed with attempts to sell data- or powergloves to gamers.
Given the general failure (businesswise) of more sophisticated input devices beyond keyboard and mouse there is enough room to be suspicious about the useability of this "new" approach.
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Stop. Think about the meaning of the words you are using. Select correct words. Continue.
The heuristics (?) you recommend has faded like FORTRAN.
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Please name one example of facism we have in the US where someone was prosecuted for speaking out against the government.
McCarthyism
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most optimal
Um. Fits well to "random decision" (instead of "random choice").
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Your muscles can't pull a trigger at the right moment without having input from your eyes.
There might be other input channels, gravisensing comes to mind here, which directly control body motions. At the time being, this might sound implausible, but so did the idea of mirror neurons (which is still not quite mainstream). Besides, my personal opinion is that generally too much processing power is dedicated to visual input.
something has to happen in the brain for you to do anything
Patellar reflex, quote: "This reflex helps maintain posture, allowing one to walk without consciously thinking about each step." Which, BTW, helps you to activate other (body-)senses, even more so if you are able to maintain proper posture effortlessly.
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ski jump instructions
Time to again draw attention to us patent 6368227: "A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling alternately on one chain and then the other."
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_patent_number:6368227
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Einstein
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Their objective is to provide you with information that makes you want their product ...
In my days, the objective of marketing was to boost profits, and the ultimate wet dream was to find a means to make people addicted.
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.. was missed, if I scanned the text properly:
Quote: "PLATO originated in the early 1960's at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. Professor Don Bitzer became interested in using computers for teaching, and with some colleagues founded the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory (CERL). Bitzer, an electrical engineer, collaborated with a few other engineers to design the PLATO hardware. To write the software, he collected a staff of creative eccentrics ranging from university professors to high school students, few of whom had any computer background. Together they built a system that was at least a decade ahead of its time in many ways." (emphasis mine)
Please note that they had a place for "eccentrics" back then.
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the latest thing
1960: E. V. Yevreinov at the Institute of Mathematics in Novosibirsk (IMN) begins work on tightly-coupled, coarse-grain parallel architectures with programmable interconnects. ( c.f. )
An extra core or so on a desktop is nice, beyond that they really won't be anywhere near the speedup its hyped.
And of course any virtual reality scenario will not profit from extra power.
CC.
where someone loses their head and an autodoc manages to grow one back
...
Hmm
Quote: "But they got him into the autodoc anyway. It was a puppeteer-shaped coffin, form-fitted to Nessus himself, and bulky Puppeteer surgeons and mechanics must have intended that it should handle any conceivable circumstance. But had they thought of decapitation?
They had. There were two heads in there, and two more with necks attached, and enough organs and body parts to make several complete puppeteers. Grown from Nessus himself, probably; the faces on the heads looked familiar.
From Ringworld, by Larry Niven."
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Crichton's Prey
The Invincible
(link)
(the Seventies are calling)
Besides, I am quite optimistic that mankind will present itself as an evolutionary failure in the long run (or as a component of a transient process, since failures are impossible if one shares the view that each and every process contributes to a current state of affairs).
CC.
using a bottle opener to crack open a cold, refreshing brew
...
Just reminds me
"Our hero is Gallegher, an inventor who can only invent when dead drunk. Upon sobering up in this story, he finds himself in possession of a perfectly useless and perfectly vain robot. He has all sorts of contractual obligations that he has to fulfill, but he can't do a darn thing sober, and can't get the robot to help him unless he can figure out what its actual purpose is. (It turns out it's the world's most complex and over-engineered can opener.) Gallegher is pretty much the inverse of the typical science fiction hero, whose superior knowledge of science and engineering and superior rationality will help him win through. Gallegher only wins through when he gets his mind turned completely off with the aid of liberal amounts of booze. It's a fun puzzle story, and Gallegher is a great comic protagonist."
(link, emphasis mine)
Lewis Padgett aka Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore
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I can't find the reference, but clearly remember reading about the physics of traffic jams 20 years ago.
I do as well, and I recall there was even software (e.g. GPSS) to simulate the phenomenon. But nice to see how an experiment validates historic findings (which have probably not made it to Google yet and thus practically do not exist).
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that people generally choose the processor that suits their needs best at the lowest cost
Interesting how this is balanced when it comes to the OS.
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or maybe the U.S. government is just gathering data on how far they can push their citizens. Useful info.
Probably the 'Stanford Prison Experiment' on a larger scale?
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... already has it, the UK and Germany to follow.
Wish those other countries could also follow up with Coffee Shops.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A218882
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A thing to remember though is that the average cost of developing a new drug easily runs into hundreds of millions of dollars and that they need to make that back to stay in business.
This is why they struggle so hard, quote: " In 2001, the ten American drug companies in the Fortune 500 list (not quite the same as the top ten worldwide, but their profit margins are much the same) ranked far above all other American industries in average net return, whether as a percentage of sales (18.5 percent), of assets (16.3 percent), or of shareholders' equity (33.2 percent). These are astonishing margins. For comparison, the median net return for all other industries in the Fortune 500 was only 3.3 percent of sales. Commercial banking, itself no slouch as an aggressive industry with many friends in high places, was a distant second, at 13.5 percent of sales." (emphasis mine)
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