In nature I'd have been weeded out as a young child, but thanks to modern technology I have the opportunity to spread my heritage of substandard genes.
Well, but you are in nature. Modern technology happened within nature and is part of it. Where else could you be?
Does anyone know what the terms of the settlement were? I could not find this info in TFA. I see a lot of posts claiming victory for one side or the other, but how do we know if we do not know what the terms of the settlement were? Or am I missing something?
I actually find that when I allow students to record my lectures they pay more attention since they don't feel the need to write everything down.
I can't really imagine having a problem with the recordings for IP reasons though - it's not like lectures contain information that is not available elsewhere. I mean are they selling them or using them to learn from? Is there some black market for university lecture tapes than I'm unaware of?
Well, aside from the technicaliites of the law, even if he didn't committ a crime (I think age of consent varies by state) this is pretty sketchy. This guy's job was to protect kids from being propositioned for sex - it's pretty sleazy to use that position to monitor chatrooms until the girls become "barely legal" and then go for it...
In the category of making sure things "just work," Allchin cited enhancements such as making sure that a laptop that connects to a projector displays correctly without having to press any keys. In addition, he said, are settings tailored for specific tasks, such as watching a DVD. The computer will just assume that the user doesn't want the movie muted and probably wants to watch it full-screen
It's kinda too bad actually. I go to a lot of scientific talks and I always enjoy watching Windows users tapping all sorts of keys, restarting, etc. just to get their presentation to show up on the projector screen.
I don't understand what you are saying here. If they have access to numbers showing that free exposure increases sales, then what is the advantage in controlling the distribution channel? You are saying they want control just for the sake of control? Why would you want control if you don't think it increases profit?
They must believe that free music hurts their profits.
Well, there is still feedback. First off, depending on the patient there may be some proprioceptive sensation intact (if only motor fibers are cut, for example). More importantly, you have visual and auditory feedback. These can be very effective sources of feedback - premotor cortex receives visual and auditory inputs (and even responds to seeing someone else acting more than other things). With time, the brain may be able to squeeze a lot from this information...At the very least you will know about the gross success or failure of your action and can adjust based on that.
Actually, my favorite part of Tivo is the sounds it makes. The little click-click coo-coo is so friendly and nice I sometimes press buttons just to hear it.
If Comcast gets these sounds coming out of their boxes the deal will be worth it for them.
But you may be able to prevent the cells from becoming damaged in the first place if you really know what is damaging them and can address it. To take your car analogy, a car in California needs less maintainance than a car in New York because some of the factors that cause wear and tear are not in the environment out here.
I guess the point is that living things were designed to grow, and by that I mean go from small to large, into adult form, and then die
They are also designed to want to stay alive, and to work to stay alive. Staying alive is quite an active, effortful process, and this is taking it to the extreme of our ability.
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Is he wrong though? According to this page coreimage, to come with Tiger:
"allows developers to easily leverage these programmable GPUs for blistering-fast image processing that can eliminate rendering time delays. Effects and transitions can be expressed with a few lines of code. Core Image handles the rest, optimizing the path to the GPU. The result is real-time, interactive responsiveness as you select and apply filters."
and:
Not Just for Still Images -
Core Video, joining Core Image in Mac OS X Tiger, delivers a modern foundation for video services, providing a bridge between QuickTime and the GPU for hardware-accelerated video processing. This highly optimized pipeline for video presentation increases performance and reduces CPU load, freeing up resources for other operations.
Sems like this could be important for those planning on using the mini as a PVR, provided you can get or write software that takes advantage of it...Am I misunderstanding something?
1. fMRIs don't have very high resolution (not much less than 100 cubic millimeters per voxel)
Compared with other brain imaging techniques, fMRI has excellent spatial resolution. Where it is lacking is that is has relatively poor temporal resolution - since you can only take a scan every 2 seconds or so (if you are scanning the whole brain) then you can't get very fine information about temporal dynamics.
2. They measure blood flow, which might be related to where the "thinking" in the brain is most intense, but who's to say that the "real work" isn't happening somewhere else by a smaller number of less blood-consuming neurons.
Years of research. The connection between blood flow and increased neural activity is fairly well established.
3. Brain scans only show correlation, not causation- We might be able to say that certain brian activity and behavior seem to be connected, but you never know whether an uncontrollable "third variable" might be mucking up the results (note how these experiments involve some math- maybe the brian regions are just showing activity because of math calculations?)
I'm not sure what the criticism is here. In any scientific experiment, you manipulate one variable and examine it's effect on some measurement, in this case blood oxygenation in the brain. No one experiment answers all the questions.
There seems to be a lot of grant money out there for people who say "hey! I know! let's research X by sticking people doing X in a brain scanner!"
Not enough! It's quite expensive to do fMRI and federal funding from NSF is decreasing. It's not really as if people are throwing money around - grants are very competitive.
Absolutely. It carries some top science. It is cross-disciplinary, though, so it's supposed to be accessible to all scientists. The Nature Publishing Group is big business, and has a bunch of subsidiary journals that are also well-respected. For example, in my field, Nature Neuroscience publishes a lot of the top articles. Nature Neuroscience alone has a paid staff of about 10-15 people I think.
But his point is true, that the review process takes some funding to accomplish.
There are some journals that operate with a "volunteer" editor, but they have trouble competing with journals that have a paid full-time staff, like Nature for example. Running a journal of that size is a huge operation; it requires so much time and effort that it can't be done by volunteers.
Reminds me of the TNG episode The Measure of a Manwhere Data's legal rights are established.
I think the question of personal responsibility will get very fuzzy in the not-too-distant future...especially once brain/computer interfaces start appearing and the issue of what controls what is a real one...For example, as covered on slashdot before there are a few labs working on interfaces to the motor cortex that allow external control of a robotic arm right from the brain...well, what about controling the motor cortex from a computer.... or from another brain? Who is responsible then?
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In nature I'd have been weeded out as a young child, but thanks to modern technology I have the opportunity to spread my heritage of substandard genes.
Well, but you are in nature. Modern technology happened within nature and is part of it. Where else could you be?
I guess it's true -- using Linux does lead to communism.
it's technically illegal here to convert songs from CD to MP3, or to record a TV show unless it's a live broadcast)
Can't you just say you were "studying" the recording? Or you were preparing a critique? The exceptions sound rather broad, are they enforced at all?
I guess thats why they call you grumpygrodyguy.
Funny, I assumed it looked like this.
Does anyone know what the terms of the settlement were? I could not find this info in TFA. I see a lot of posts claiming victory for one side or the other, but how do we know if we do not know what the terms of the settlement were? Or am I missing something?
I actually find that when I allow students to record my lectures they pay more attention since they don't feel the need to write everything down.
I can't really imagine having a problem with the recordings for IP reasons though - it's not like lectures contain information that is not available elsewhere. I mean are they selling them or using them to learn from? Is there some black market for university lecture tapes than I'm unaware of?
but what about symlinks?
Well, aside from the technicaliites of the law, even if he didn't committ a crime (I think age of consent varies by state) this is pretty sketchy. This guy's job was to protect kids from being propositioned for sex - it's pretty sleazy to use that position to monitor chatrooms until the girls become "barely legal" and then go for it...
Who's watching the watchers?
Sounds like they are watching each other.
If we cannot perceive well enough to read something, does the phrase "in existence" really apply to it?
Yes.
Yeah, and don't forget this one:
In the category of making sure things "just work," Allchin cited enhancements such as making sure that a laptop that connects to a projector displays correctly without having to press any keys. In addition, he said, are settings tailored for specific tasks, such as watching a DVD. The computer will just assume that the user doesn't want the movie muted and probably wants to watch it full-screen
It's kinda too bad actually. I go to a lot of scientific talks and I always enjoy watching Windows users tapping all sorts of keys, restarting, etc. just to get their presentation to show up on the projector screen.
I don't understand what you are saying here. If they have access to numbers showing that free exposure increases sales, then what is the advantage in controlling the distribution channel? You are saying they want control just for the sake of control? Why would you want control if you don't think it increases profit?
They must believe that free music hurts their profits.
Well, there is still feedback. First off, depending on the patient there may be some proprioceptive sensation intact (if only motor fibers are cut, for example). More importantly, you have visual and auditory feedback. These can be very effective sources of feedback - premotor cortex receives visual and auditory inputs (and even responds to seeing someone else acting more than other things). With time, the brain may be able to squeeze a lot from this information...At the very least you will know about the gross success or failure of your action and can adjust based on that.
I don't think this is specific to IT. I bet 95% of all human deadlines are missed....
Actually, my favorite part of Tivo is the sounds it makes. The little click-click coo-coo is so friendly and nice I sometimes press buttons just to hear it.
If Comcast gets these sounds coming out of their boxes the deal will be worth it for them.
There's no such thing as pointless art.
You apparently have never been to an art musem.
They are still a "networking" company and networks are becoming security battlefields.
Remember, these are Los Angeles police officers. Do you really want more of those?
Even if you replace every damaged cell
But you may be able to prevent the cells from becoming damaged in the first place if you really know what is damaging them and can address it. To take your car analogy, a car in California needs less maintainance than a car in New York because some of the factors that cause wear and tear are not in the environment out here.
I guess the point is that living things were designed to grow, and by that I mean go from small to large, into adult form, and then die
They are also designed to want to stay alive, and to work to stay alive. Staying alive is quite an active, effortful process, and this is taking it to the extreme of our ability.
Is he wrong though? According to this page coreimage, to come with Tiger:
"allows developers to easily leverage these programmable GPUs for blistering-fast image processing that can eliminate rendering time delays. Effects and transitions can be expressed with a few lines of code. Core Image handles the rest, optimizing the path to the GPU. The result is real-time, interactive responsiveness as you select and apply filters."
and:
Not Just for Still Images - Core Video, joining Core Image in Mac OS X Tiger, delivers a modern foundation for video services, providing a bridge between QuickTime and the GPU for hardware-accelerated video processing. This highly optimized pipeline for video presentation increases performance and reduces CPU load, freeing up resources for other operations.
Sems like this could be important for those planning on using the mini as a PVR, provided you can get or write software that takes advantage of it...Am I misunderstanding something?
IANA neuroscientist...
I am.
1. fMRIs don't have very high resolution (not much less than 100 cubic millimeters per voxel)
Compared with other brain imaging techniques, fMRI has excellent spatial resolution. Where it is lacking is that is has relatively poor temporal resolution - since you can only take a scan every 2 seconds or so (if you are scanning the whole brain) then you can't get very fine information about temporal dynamics.
2. They measure blood flow, which might be related to where the "thinking" in the brain is most intense, but who's to say that the "real work" isn't happening somewhere else by a smaller number of less blood-consuming neurons.
Years of research. The connection between blood flow and increased neural activity is fairly well established.
3. Brain scans only show correlation, not causation- We might be able to say that certain brian activity and behavior seem to be connected, but you never know whether an uncontrollable "third variable" might be mucking up the results (note how these experiments involve some math- maybe the brian regions are just showing activity because of math calculations?)
I'm not sure what the criticism is here. In any scientific experiment, you manipulate one variable and examine it's effect on some measurement, in this case blood oxygenation in the brain. No one experiment answers all the questions.
There seems to be a lot of grant money out there for people who say "hey! I know! let's research X by sticking people doing X in a brain scanner!"
Not enough! It's quite expensive to do fMRI and federal funding from NSF is decreasing. It's not really as if people are throwing money around - grants are very competitive.
Is Nature really a scientific journal?
Absolutely. It carries some top science. It is cross-disciplinary, though, so it's supposed to be accessible to all scientists. The Nature Publishing Group is big business, and has a bunch of subsidiary journals that are also well-respected. For example, in my field, Nature Neuroscience publishes a lot of the top articles. Nature Neuroscience alone has a paid staff of about 10-15 people I think.
But his point is true, that the review process takes some funding to accomplish.
There are some journals that operate with a "volunteer" editor, but they have trouble competing with journals that have a paid full-time staff, like Nature for example. Running a journal of that size is a huge operation; it requires so much time and effort that it can't be done by volunteers.
Reminds me of the TNG episode The Measure of a Man where Data's legal rights are established.
I think the question of personal responsibility will get very fuzzy in the not-too-distant future...especially once brain/computer interfaces start appearing and the issue of what controls what is a real one...For example, as covered on slashdot before there are a few labs working on interfaces to the motor cortex that allow external control of a robotic arm right from the brain...well, what about controling the motor cortex from a computer.... or from another brain? Who is responsible then?