from the story "AMD further attempts to dethrone the Core 2 Quad as the premier midrange CPU offering. While it may not be a world-beater by any stretch of the imagination, it certainly is catching Intel's attention in the breadbasket of the CPU market. " ?premier midrange cpu offering - talk about buzzwords strung together and how is this consistent with breadbasket ?
maybe I'm naive, but i'm pretty impressed that somthing can get thru 10s if not 100s of feet of concrete. HOwever, - do we have independent verififcation of pentagon claims ? maybe the thing doesn't really work, like Postol's study of patriot missles in teh 1st gulf war.
i really disagree with you, in that , yes thier is a lot of cool branding (ironic, given jobs famous comment, do you want to sell soda pop for the rest of your life) but I stand by my statement - they do figure out what it is people want. the success of the ipod is, surely, partly do to cool/marketing/style, but it is mostly cause apple figured out that people want music, and don't want to think about it.
the whole goal is to be more best buy like. They want to get rid of people who buy soldering irons, and other low margin items that require a lot of exspensive customer support.
Apple does not build high quality hardware (by def, anyone with freq battery problems is not a high qual hardware company; can you imagine the outcry on/. if MS or Sony or anyone else pulled stunts like apple often does with hardware) Apple does not build high quality software (come on guys - apple OS, for 99% of users 99% of the time is no better then MS, itunes ain't that great, etc etc)
Apple does do something really well They figure out one thing a customer really wants and deliver it - and since it is the thing the customer really wants, the customer will put up with bad hardware and software
with the ipod, what people wanted is simplicty go to the store, give the guy some money, download the songs i want. the ipod delivered that for the 90% of users who couldn't figure out bit torrent
when you understand all this, you understand apple
in 1984, the enemy of the state the hero lives in is simultaneously everywhere and all powefull, yet completely defeatable by the states armies, but to defeat the enemy, and prevent his literaly brutish attacks that might strike anywhere, you have to give up all freedom. it is very close to bush cheney strategy after 9 11
40 people ! you can't get statistics on anything from 40 people either the summary is wrong, or the science is worthless
In particular, you could not possibly get anything about heart disease from 40 people unless you started with a population that had, say, a 50% risk of something over the 1 year of the study math: say 50% risk of a cardiovascular event that requires hospitilization. That means, with the usual variability, that you would expect anywhere from say 20 -30 people to have an event. how much effect would choclate have to have to see an effect against this background ? huge
several posters have asked why salmon dna - ifyou look in a std catalog (say www.sial.com) you will see that fish dna is much cheaper then bacterial (e coli) this is cause each sperm cell has ~~1,000 times more dna then a bacterial cell, and sperm are easy to collect (hold the jokes) and easy to get dna out of - basically, you just put the sperm in a solution of detergent, and the dna pops out.
but dna is pretty $$ (retail price of 48 dollars a gram in 10 gram lots at sial.com), it degrades in the environment, and typically, the organic dyes that bind to dna have greatly reduced stability compared to inorganic phosphors
sounds like more ivory tower nonsense that will never lead to reasonably priced, cheap product
if you read about how medical tests are done, there is ahuge literature on this, and it makes the point of the article, that teaching this stuff, is not easy see the wiki article on negative predictive value - its all there, just not clear
3 of the best things in life are a good aircraft landing, a good poop, and a good orgasm a night landing on a carrier is one of the few times you get to experience all three at the same time
who demanded the same game his friends were playing this is what drives home adoption of new windows versions, and when people are comfortable at home, they will ask for it at work
the scenario CEO: my son has windows7 and he can do all this [MS BS app] cool stuff..why isn't it on our website IT Guy: [to ceo]yessir, right away sir
[to undelings] begin the windows 7 rollout for C suite execs, since thier laptops will now be incompatible with the other 99.99% of computers in teh company, we will have to upgrade everyone else
actually bothering to take, say, 5 min to find and read the original report would have zeroed out a lot of the nonsense on/. for instance: the report, in its intro, says that the SS administratin openly discloses that the first 3 digits are area number, AN....
gosh, even the PR from the NIH can't make it sound that exciting: in ONE of the studies, the 2 diseases map IN PART to the same regions of the chromosome...
I remember reading many (>15) years ago a study about human sperm injected into chinese hamster eggs. The rationale is as follow: the DNA in human cells can be stained b a method called R banding or G banding, which , under the microcsope lets you look at the human genome - you can see something like 100 bands of dark and light, and there is a characteristic pattern; when you have large abnormalities, like an extra part of a chromosome, or a duplication, you see extra bands. This technique doesn't work on sperm, because the dna is "condensed" in the sperm head' and not stainable; the dna decondenses, and becomes stainable when the sperm enter an egg However, human eggs are hard to obtain (or harder then sperm) but you can use chinese hamster eggs; the human sperm enter the egg and the DNA becomes stainable. When you do this, you find that some (from memory) ~ 15% of human sperm have a visible defect. This staining technigue is quite crude - the human genome has ~ 2e9 base pairs of DNA, and you probably need something on the order of a change in 1e8 to see it with this stain, so if 15% are different by this stain.... you could argue that the above is an artifact of the chinese hamster eggs, and that if human eggs were available, the sperm would apear better
to commorate allthe people gassed, and killed, partly with the help of Dr. von Braun Oh, and lets not forget something to commeorate the hypocrysy of the US - maybe make all viewers where rose tinted glasses This is not dead history, there are still living people with tattos on their arms with the jew number
i've never understood why people mistake cool for good. apple makes stuff that has a definite look - if you like it great, if you don't not so great. But their hardware is not "good" - it is full of flaws - just look at the gen one ipod battery disaster; my wife had a very $$ laptop where the rubber keys stuck to the screen, and the power cord plug did nothave any strain relief.
I could go on quite a while; the point is, if any other vendor shipped stuff with these problems, the/. crowd would jeer with dersion. why does apple get some sort of free pass on this ? Apple doesn't make good hardware - they make good user interface systems; if you look at apple, everything they do revolves around some system and the user interface.
why does tufte get such praise ? afaik, most of what he says is his opinion - not backed up by studies or surveys of any sort just because he expresses his opinions vociferously doesn't mean they are right
rather then worrying about thin, how about the hardware and software people get to gether and have a std for web pages, so we don't have these awful problems of landscape screens and portrait pages (even worse for most pdfs - people edit them in word for portrait display, which never happens on screen, can't adobe make a pdf that auto changes the format of the file to fit screen or print mode ?)
I think I'm the target customer, and i think putting a web server in the browser is a fabulous idea. The market logic is as follows: people like me, who don't know anythiing about web server technology, or php or mysql, except that a lot of really cool software requires this stuff. Many times I personally have tried to install things like mysql or whatever, and the language and gui and whole gestalt is just totally wrong - orienteted to the tech expert, not the non specialist.
I think putting a web server in a browser could spark a real huge change in the way people like me - I'm the sort of guy who is first to try the software, the sort of guy who got everyone to use firefox, the sort of guy people come to when they need a utility - interact with their computers.
it is not the relative cost that matters, but the aboslute cost. If space is (on some scale) 1,000X as costly as ground, then if fuel is only 1% it is a huge cost,relative to ground
You have to get to very high velocity - that implies a lot of fuel, and very exspensive craft that can survive the high velocity It's hard to do repair, so you have to spend a lot for high reliability equipment Space is a harsh environment - you have temperature extremes, radiation, vacumn welding
many people get the low gravity equivalent of car sickness
although it is not publicized by nasa, in low gravity, liquid containment - like when you go to the bathroom - is difficult;' as a result, there is a lot of intestinal illness in space (think about that !)
The take home is that space is, and always will be, very $ relative to ground; therefore there has to be some compelling reason to go to space. Sadly, there are few compelling reasons.
I have been doing biotech high technology startups for 20+years, and aside from the.dom boom era, there is very little money or enthusiasm for gee wiz technology
am i the only curmudgeon who thinks telescope PR should start with 1st light ? Cover opening doesn't actually mean anything is working - when they have images that are within spec being sent to earth on a regular basis, they have a working scope
Slashdot Mirror
from the story "AMD further attempts to dethrone the Core 2 Quad as the premier midrange CPU offering. While it may not be a world-beater by any stretch of the imagination, it certainly is catching Intel's attention in the breadbasket of the CPU market. "
?premier midrange cpu offering - talk about buzzwords strung together
and how is this consistent with breadbasket ?
http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/mp200940a.html
most of the articles in this journal are genome association studys, which over the last few years have been largely wrong
maybe I'm naive, but i'm pretty impressed that somthing can get thru 10s if not 100s of feet of concrete.
HOwever, - do we have independent verififcation of pentagon claims ?
maybe the thing doesn't really work, like Postol's study of patriot missles in teh 1st gulf war.
i really disagree with you, in that , yes thier is a lot of cool branding (ironic, given jobs famous comment, do you want to sell soda pop for the rest of your life) but I stand by my statement - they do figure out what it is people want.
the success of the ipod is, surely, partly do to cool/marketing/style, but it is mostly cause apple figured out that people want music, and don't want to think about it.
the whole goal is to be more best buy like. They want to get rid of people who buy soldering irons, and other low margin items that require a lot of exspensive customer support.
Apple does not build high quality hardware (by def, anyone with freq battery problems is not a high qual hardware company; can you imagine the outcry on /. if MS or Sony or anyone else pulled stunts like apple often does with hardware)
Apple does not build high quality software (come on guys - apple OS, for 99% of users 99% of the time is no better then MS, itunes ain't that great, etc etc)
Apple does do something really well
They figure out one thing a customer really wants and deliver it - and since it is the thing the customer really wants, the customer will put up with bad hardware and software
with the ipod, what people wanted is simplicty go to the store, give the guy some money, download the songs i want.
the ipod delivered that for the 90% of users who couldn't figure out bit torrent
when you understand all this, you understand apple
in 1984, the enemy of the state the hero lives in is simultaneously everywhere and all powefull, yet completely defeatable by the states armies, but to defeat the enemy, and prevent his literaly brutish attacks that might strike anywhere, you have to give up all freedom.
it is very close to bush cheney strategy after 9 11
40 people !
you can't get statistics on anything from 40 people
either the summary is wrong, or the science is worthless
In particular, you could not possibly get anything about heart disease from 40 people unless you started with a population that had, say, a 50% risk of something over the 1 year of the study
math: say 50% risk of a cardiovascular event that requires hospitilization. That means, with the usual variability, that you would expect anywhere from say 20 -30 people to have an event.
how much effect would choclate have to have to see an effect against this background ? huge
several posters have asked why salmon dna - ifyou look in a std catalog (say www.sial.com) you will see that fish dna is much cheaper then bacterial (e coli)
this is cause each sperm cell has ~~1,000 times more dna then a bacterial cell, and sperm are easy to collect (hold the jokes) and easy to get dna out of - basically, you just put the sperm in a solution of detergent, and the dna pops out.
but dna is pretty $$ (retail price of 48 dollars a gram in 10 gram lots at sial.com), it degrades in the environment, and typically, the organic dyes that bind to dna have greatly reduced stability compared to inorganic phosphors
sounds like more ivory tower nonsense that will never lead to reasonably priced, cheap product
if you read about how medical tests are done, there is ahuge literature on this, and it makes the point of the article, that teaching this stuff, is not easy
see the wiki article on negative predictive value - its all there, just not clear
3 of the best things in life are a good aircraft landing, a good poop, and a good orgasm
a night landing on a carrier is one of the few times you get to experience all three at the same time
who demanded the same game his friends were playing
this is what drives home adoption of new windows versions, and when people are comfortable at home, they will ask for it at work
the scenario
CEO: my son has windows7 and he can do all this [MS BS app] cool stuff..why isn't it on our website
IT Guy: [to ceo]yessir, right away sir
[to undelings] begin the windows 7 rollout for C suite execs, since thier laptops will now be incompatible with the other 99.99% of computers in teh company, we will have to upgrade everyone else
free pdf of full text
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/07/02/rspb.2009.0807.full.pdf+html?sid=33180554-cb6e-4047-abd9-c3a16bc8667a
thanks /.ers - I'm guessing may 2010
I think we should have a pool as to when google becomes the new borg for the majority of
you can get a pdf of the actual report by the researchers - no 2nd, 3rd and 4th hand stuff, for free from this url /.ers, who obviously consider themselves above average, make do with 2nd hand reports when they can so easily get the real thing.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/07/02/0904891106.full.pdf+html?sid=5e51e1ab-8945-420c-8013-29182641090e
which raises an interesting question: why do
actually bothering to take, say, 5 min to find and read the original report would have zeroed out a lot of the nonsense on /. for instance: the report, in its intro, says that the SS administratin openly discloses that the first 3 digits are area number, AN....
gosh, even the PR from the NIH can't make it sound that exciting: in ONE of the studies, the 2 diseases map IN PART to the same regions of the chromosome...
I remember reading many (>15) years ago a study about human sperm injected into chinese hamster eggs.
The rationale is as follow: the DNA in human cells can be stained b a method called R banding or G banding, which , under the microcsope lets you look at the human genome - you can see something like 100 bands of dark and light, and there is a characteristic pattern; when you have large abnormalities, like an extra part of a chromosome, or a duplication, you see extra bands.
This technique doesn't work on sperm, because the dna is "condensed" in the sperm head' and not stainable; the dna decondenses, and becomes stainable when the sperm enter an egg
However, human eggs are hard to obtain (or harder then sperm) but you can use chinese hamster eggs; the human sperm enter the egg and the DNA becomes stainable.
When you do this, you find that some (from memory) ~ 15% of human sperm have a visible defect.
This staining technigue is quite crude - the human genome has ~ 2e9 base pairs of DNA, and you probably need something on the order of a change in 1e8 to see it with this stain, so if 15% are different by this stain....
you could argue that the above is an artifact of the chinese hamster eggs, and that if human eggs were available, the sperm would apear better
to commorate allthe people gassed, and killed, partly with the help of Dr. von Braun
Oh, and lets not forget something to commeorate the hypocrysy of the US - maybe make all viewers where rose tinted glasses
This is not dead history, there are still living people with tattos on their arms with the jew number
i've never understood why people mistake cool for good.
apple makes stuff that has a definite look - if you like it great, if you don't not so great. But their hardware is not "good" - it is full of flaws - just look at the gen one ipod battery disaster; my wife had a very $$ laptop where the rubber keys stuck to the screen, and the power cord plug did nothave any strain relief.
I could go on quite a while; the point is, if any other vendor shipped stuff with these problems, the /. crowd would jeer with dersion. why does apple get some sort of free pass on this ?
Apple doesn't make good hardware - they make good user interface systems; if you look at apple, everything they do revolves around some system and the user interface.
why does tufte get such praise ? afaik, most of what he says is his opinion - not backed up by studies or surveys of any sort
just because he expresses his opinions vociferously doesn't mean they are right
rather then worrying about thin, how about the hardware and software people get to gether and have a std for web pages, so we don't have these awful problems of landscape screens and portrait pages (even worse for most pdfs - people edit them in word for portrait display, which never happens on screen, can't adobe make a pdf that auto changes the format of the file to fit screen or print mode ?)
I think I'm the target customer, and i think putting a web server in the browser is a fabulous idea.
The market logic is as follows: people like me, who don't know anythiing about web server technology, or php or mysql, except that a lot of really cool software requires this stuff. Many times I personally have tried to install things like mysql or whatever, and the language and gui and whole gestalt is just totally wrong - orienteted to the tech expert, not the non specialist.
I think putting a web server in a browser could spark a real huge change in the way people like me - I'm the sort of guy who is first to try the software, the sort of guy who got everyone to use firefox, the sort of guy people come to when they need a utility - interact with their computers.
it is not the relative cost that matters, but the aboslute cost.
If space is (on some scale) 1,000X as costly as ground, then if fuel is only 1% it is a huge cost,relative to ground
You have to get to very high velocity - that implies a lot of fuel, and very exspensive craft that can survive the high velocity
It's hard to do repair, so you have to spend a lot for high reliability equipment
Space is a harsh environment - you have temperature extremes, radiation, vacumn welding
many people get the low gravity equivalent of car sickness
although it is not publicized by nasa, in low gravity, liquid containment - like when you go to the bathroom - is difficult;' as a result, there is a lot of intestinal illness in space (think about that !)
The take home is that space is, and always will be, very $ relative to ground; therefore there has to be some compelling reason to go to space.
Sadly, there are few compelling reasons.
I have been doing biotech high technology startups for 20+years, and aside from the .dom boom era, there is very little money or enthusiasm for gee wiz technology
am i the only curmudgeon who thinks telescope PR should start with 1st light ?
Cover opening doesn't actually mean anything is working - when they have images that are within spec being sent to earth on a regular basis, they have a working scope