Open source phones will do just fine because there are great big markets
1% of the most profitable users > 30% of razor thin profit margin users. That is why the iphone is a success, it has nothing to do with userbase. It's all a function of effort to profit. Most users aren't that profitable. Fat middle aged housewives using a $1500 iphone to occasionally call starbucks to see if they left their purse there where the $$ is at.
I build myself computers and install opensource software. I tell me relatives to buy macs. Mac is like bowling with bumpers. Sure it's a poor skill-less representation of the game, but at least the kids won't cry.
Isn't a stuck floor mat a far more likely explanation than a mysterious computer bogeyman? Even with a recall there would be tons of cars that never changed them out. No doubt this should be investigated, but the article seems to be nothing but speculation and hearsay.
Although this is within the letter of the law, it is very clearly against it's spirit. The amendment exists for a very valid reason, and finding a loophole sure as hell doens't mean you can ignore the constitution. This is even worse than ignoring really, they are fully aware of the limitations placed upon them. Their intent from that point is to find a way to defeat an aspect of the constitution. A law enforcement department that purposefully acts to ignore the law.
As the coordination of govt agencies continues this will become commonplace. It will happen by increments, so nobody will notice.
Too bad I can't copywrite the constituion and start DCMA'ing them once they try and circumvent it.
Personally, I am for a national ID system - and a national ID card. Verify social security numbers and biometric data (and even DNA) - and unless govt screws the pooch - identity theft is a thing of the past.
I suggest you listen to your own arguments, might change your mind.
I see this being very useful for things like mail delivery trucks, or other daily government or fleet uses. The routes are predictable, and even the excess charge needed to avoid being stranded in the event of delay would be pretty easy to take into account. Big purchases from agencies and fleets would do wonders to keep this floating till the tech improves to the level needed for regular consumers.
The bloodhound analogy doesn't work because populations do not self cull. Evolution is more complicated than trait preference = trait propagation. I suggest your read some more on evolutionary theory then you'll see this study suddenly explains very little.
No, it shows that people (and sadly many scientists) don't understand their statistics. It showed a central tendency when looking at the geometric averages of faces. Of course higher sample sizes would have less variance, too bad the analysis didn't take this into account. Psychologists in particular need to start looking a little deeper at their SPSS results.
Being from L.A. i've seen lots of beautiful women dig some gold and let me tell you rich kids looking good is more a function of percieved status and excellent grooming than them being physically more attactive.
There are only two physical traits with universal sexual appeal cross-culturally, symmetry you mentioned and clear skin. All of these ratios and such are measuring the current cultural zeitgeist with regards to beauty, and those standards are largely culturally plastic. Little better in methodology than phrenology.
Ah yea, I never did the drumming on rockband because i'm embarressingly bad at it for a musician. Maybe I should play it more, I can totally see how it could teach drums though. But don't diss the guitar man! I'm not a guitar magazine shred head jerking off the scales guitarist. But any guitarist can tell you, picking up the guitar is easy relative to other instruments. But getting GOOD at it is much much harder. Knowing your open chords and some basic scale forms you have a very limited understanding on the possibilities of the instrument. Some of the hardest songs to play correctly are very simple and slow (that is, easy to hit the notes), but proper expressioning for the slow is probably one of the hardest things to do in music.
Sorry I didn't mean to imply that there was no music at all in it, it is a music based game afterall. Hell, just inspiring people to pick up the guitar its a great thing. I'm glad you are learning some basic music analysis from, never really thought of it from that angle. Still though, that's listening ability not really playing ability.
I'm a musician, I've been playing for as long as I can remember. And all my musician jackass friends snidely say this exact same thing to people who are good at rock band, and it has started to irritate me. Guitar hero is not playing music, and the skills do not transfer as people seem to think. Pressing buttons while holding your hands in a similar position as when playing a guitar gives you zero indication of musical ability or any positive benefit for your playing. It only shows you can move your fingers in time with a beat, but thats where the similarity ends. Its like me saying "oh fly fishing you wave a big wooden stick and baseball you do the same! Fisherman should be good at baseball!"
Don't get me wrong, I think these games are fun as hell even though I don't own them. I love when a friend has rock band and we all knock back a few and rock out, cheap easy fun. But don't dellude yourself, rock band will do little to lessen the years it takes to be able to play live with people and not make horrible noise. That being said, I respect people who are really good at it becase although i'm a pretty decent guitarist, I can't do those nutso songs on expert. And my friends are wrong to presume I should be able to.
Becuase wind doesn't meet the needs of today's energy grid (baseline power needs, peak power needs). It takes alot to maintain such a distrubuted generation system, some people don't like the aesthetics, they grind up birds like no tomorrow. Sure they will be nice here and there but they don't have the potential to solve the problems we have now while nuclear does.
Enviromentalism needs to wake up and face the fact that the problem is now so bad that idealism must take a back seat to pragmatics.
fMRI is one of many imaging techniques which continue to evolve and give us more and more amazing data about the brain. But its just data, and subject to the limitations of its tech. Any neuroscientist worth their salt knows the limitations of their technology. The problem desribed in the article is something people have been dicussing as a valid methodological criticism of some studies, not all fMRI data. The summary is misleading, basically its saying a tool used incorrectly results in bad data. Duh.
fMRI has great spatial but bad temporal resolution
EEG and MEG and great temporal resolution but bad spatial
PET has amazing metabolic resoultion but fuzzy temporal and spatial resolution
These are a few examples. The media and bad researchers can't get past the pretty visualization but fit into a proper theoretical model of exploration it still remains one of the most amazing tools of brain exploration thus far.
Bravo, i'm glad someone out there is defending academics! Sure, it has lots of problems, and it isn't the only source of knowlege out there. But remember that most of the people doing research in the field spent the better part of their lives studying the living hell out of it while being repeatedly tested, scrutinized, and reviewed on the information. They *might* know a little more about the subject that an ABT tinkerer...
While I understand the DIY biologists argument about how wild varieties are inherently more robust than organisms created via engineering, I find it incredibly naive to assume that since something is generally true that it will always be true. With the dangers so potentially devastating, even an extremely low probably event must be accounted for. Advocating less regulation than ham radio is the height of stupidity.
While it is true that encoding for new introduced proteins is probably going to be energy wasteful and therefore put the organism at a selective disadvantage, there is always some remote chance the new process could confer some sort of unintended selective advantage, allowing it to flourish. Adding to this danger is that many microorganisms swap genetic code via non-sexual methods as well, allowing for even more chance of unintended conference of advantage. All this ignores the possibility of malicious intent as well, and while it would be rare it isn't impossible. This kind of danger needs to be approached much like how risk assessment is done on nuclear facilities. Biology is as or more powerful a tool than nuclear science is, and needs to be approached with similar standards of safety. I don't want to sound like jurassic park here, but having due respect for the power of nature should be pre-requisite to tinkering with it.
*Car analogy* This is like giving a bunch of 20 somethings with a 300hp imports formula one racecars and then having them race around the city. Leave it to the racers on the racetracks please.
I, for one, am sick to death of these alien comets just waltzing into our solar system taking jobs away from good hard working comets of our own solar system!
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Open source phones will do just fine because there are great big markets
1% of the most profitable users > 30% of razor thin profit margin users. That is why the iphone is a success, it has nothing to do with userbase. It's all a function of effort to profit. Most users aren't that profitable. Fat middle aged housewives using a $1500 iphone to occasionally call starbucks to see if they left their purse there where the $$ is at.
I build myself computers and install opensource software. I tell me relatives to buy macs. Mac is like bowling with bumpers. Sure it's a poor skill-less representation of the game, but at least the kids won't cry.
There's is no proof that suggests that it can either.
Suppose you were an idiot and a member of congress. But I repeat myself.
Isn't a stuck floor mat a far more likely explanation than a mysterious computer bogeyman? Even with a recall there would be tons of cars that never changed them out. No doubt this should be investigated, but the article seems to be nothing but speculation and hearsay.
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Take that you health freaks! I chainsmoke like a chimney, so enjoy your tofu and cancer!!
Although this is within the letter of the law, it is very clearly against it's spirit. The amendment exists for a very valid reason, and finding a loophole sure as hell doens't mean you can ignore the constitution. This is even worse than ignoring really, they are fully aware of the limitations placed upon them. Their intent from that point is to find a way to defeat an aspect of the constitution. A law enforcement department that purposefully acts to ignore the law. As the coordination of govt agencies continues this will become commonplace. It will happen by increments, so nobody will notice. Too bad I can't copywrite the constituion and start DCMA'ing them once they try and circumvent it.
Personally, I am for a national ID system - and a national ID card. Verify social security numbers and biometric data (and even DNA) - and unless govt screws the pooch - identity theft is a thing of the past.
I suggest you listen to your own arguments, might change your mind.
I see this being very useful for things like mail delivery trucks, or other daily government or fleet uses. The routes are predictable, and even the excess charge needed to avoid being stranded in the event of delay would be pretty easy to take into account. Big purchases from agencies and fleets would do wonders to keep this floating till the tech improves to the level needed for regular consumers.
Yeah but now we can measure the extent of our frustrations!
The bloodhound analogy doesn't work because populations do not self cull. Evolution is more complicated than trait preference = trait propagation. I suggest your read some more on evolutionary theory then you'll see this study suddenly explains very little.
No, it shows that people (and sadly many scientists) don't understand their statistics. It showed a central tendency when looking at the geometric averages of faces. Of course higher sample sizes would have less variance, too bad the analysis didn't take this into account. Psychologists in particular need to start looking a little deeper at their SPSS results.
Being from L.A. i've seen lots of beautiful women dig some gold and let me tell you rich kids looking good is more a function of percieved status and excellent grooming than them being physically more attactive.
There are only two physical traits with universal sexual appeal cross-culturally, symmetry you mentioned and clear skin. All of these ratios and such are measuring the current cultural zeitgeist with regards to beauty, and those standards are largely culturally plastic. Little better in methodology than phrenology.
Ah yea, I never did the drumming on rockband because i'm embarressingly bad at it for a musician. Maybe I should play it more, I can totally see how it could teach drums though. But don't diss the guitar man! I'm not a guitar magazine shred head jerking off the scales guitarist. But any guitarist can tell you, picking up the guitar is easy relative to other instruments. But getting GOOD at it is much much harder. Knowing your open chords and some basic scale forms you have a very limited understanding on the possibilities of the instrument. Some of the hardest songs to play correctly are very simple and slow (that is, easy to hit the notes), but proper expressioning for the slow is probably one of the hardest things to do in music.
Sorry I didn't mean to imply that there was no music at all in it, it is a music based game afterall. Hell, just inspiring people to pick up the guitar its a great thing. I'm glad you are learning some basic music analysis from, never really thought of it from that angle. Still though, that's listening ability not really playing ability.
Didn't hurt the sims...
I'm a musician, I've been playing for as long as I can remember. And all my musician jackass friends snidely say this exact same thing to people who are good at rock band, and it has started to irritate me. Guitar hero is not playing music, and the skills do not transfer as people seem to think. Pressing buttons while holding your hands in a similar position as when playing a guitar gives you zero indication of musical ability or any positive benefit for your playing. It only shows you can move your fingers in time with a beat, but thats where the similarity ends. Its like me saying "oh fly fishing you wave a big wooden stick and baseball you do the same! Fisherman should be good at baseball!"
Don't get me wrong, I think these games are fun as hell even though I don't own them. I love when a friend has rock band and we all knock back a few and rock out, cheap easy fun. But don't dellude yourself, rock band will do little to lessen the years it takes to be able to play live with people and not make horrible noise. That being said, I respect people who are really good at it becase although i'm a pretty decent guitarist, I can't do those nutso songs on expert. And my friends are wrong to presume I should be able to.
Becuase wind doesn't meet the needs of today's energy grid (baseline power needs, peak power needs). It takes alot to maintain such a distrubuted generation system, some people don't like the aesthetics, they grind up birds like no tomorrow. Sure they will be nice here and there but they don't have the potential to solve the problems we have now while nuclear does.
Enviromentalism needs to wake up and face the fact that the problem is now so bad that idealism must take a back seat to pragmatics.
fMRI is one of many imaging techniques which continue to evolve and give us more and more amazing data about the brain. But its just data, and subject to the limitations of its tech. Any neuroscientist worth their salt knows the limitations of their technology. The problem desribed in the article is something people have been dicussing as a valid methodological criticism of some studies, not all fMRI data. The summary is misleading, basically its saying a tool used incorrectly results in bad data. Duh.
fMRI has great spatial but bad temporal resolution
EEG and MEG and great temporal resolution but bad spatial
PET has amazing metabolic resoultion but fuzzy temporal and spatial resolution
These are a few examples. The media and bad researchers can't get past the pretty visualization but fit into a proper theoretical model of exploration it still remains one of the most amazing tools of brain exploration thus far.
Bravo, i'm glad someone out there is defending academics! Sure, it has lots of problems, and it isn't the only source of knowlege out there. But remember that most of the people doing research in the field spent the better part of their lives studying the living hell out of it while being repeatedly tested, scrutinized, and reviewed on the information. They *might* know a little more about the subject that an ABT tinkerer...
While I understand the DIY biologists argument about how wild varieties are inherently more robust than organisms created via engineering, I find it incredibly naive to assume that since something is generally true that it will always be true. With the dangers so potentially devastating, even an extremely low probably event must be accounted for. Advocating less regulation than ham radio is the height of stupidity.
While it is true that encoding for new introduced proteins is probably going to be energy wasteful and therefore put the organism at a selective disadvantage, there is always some remote chance the new process could confer some sort of unintended selective advantage, allowing it to flourish. Adding to this danger is that many microorganisms swap genetic code via non-sexual methods as well, allowing for even more chance of unintended conference of advantage. All this ignores the possibility of malicious intent as well, and while it would be rare it isn't impossible.
This kind of danger needs to be approached much like how risk assessment is done on nuclear facilities. Biology is as or more powerful a tool than nuclear science is, and needs to be approached with similar standards of safety. I don't want to sound like jurassic park here, but having due respect for the power of nature should be pre-requisite to tinkering with it.
*Car analogy* This is like giving a bunch of 20 somethings with a 300hp imports formula one racecars and then having them race around the city. Leave it to the racers on the racetracks please.
40,000 SEK is about $4500
I, for one, am sick to death of these alien comets just waltzing into our solar system taking jobs away from good hard working comets of our own solar system!