I was wondering the exactly same thing - why there are so few comments. But perhaps this is just great news without causing too much controversy and there's not much to add?
Though I was expecting at least on some speculation on what else could be achieved with something similar. Also, for me it is very curious that two-way neural function has been restored. Perhaps the neurons are secreting some neural growth factors or through some other mechanism causing also other neurons to restore their function. There is a constant flow of stimulus from the skin etc., but for some reason this does not seem to help in the neural pathway restoring. Or is it that the stimulus coming from both directions (brain and legs, for example) is the key to success? If so, perhaps results like this could be achieved also with some two-way neuron stimulation.
I recently read an article about this. Some of the things are compared to the stone age, but many of these are quite recent changes as well. First, we have excessive amounts of food available - that is an obvious thing: if you have to ration your food, you will eat less. Portion sizes have been getting bigger. According to the article, when increasing the portion size by 50%, people will eat 30% more and still think they ate the same amount as with a smaller portion. Our appetite is food-specific. Earlier, that helped to maintain a rich diet, but with the abundance of food choices in buffets etc., we can easily have reach to tens of different kinds of foods on a meal, so we eat too much. Also, the food nowadays contains more energy and in a form where it will be digested more easily and rapidly. For example, sugar is a fairly recent addition to our diet and even in the youth of my grandmother, it used to be more of a luxury product. We are getting large amounts of energy in our drinks, whereas earlier water was almost the only drink there was. And of course, we are doing much less physical work, so the consumption just is not there. It would be a wonder if this all actually *didn't'* lead to obesity.
I agree that "living hell" is a far fetch. However, it is more than mildly annoying especially when viewing the desktop version on a mobile device. The banner takes a significant portion of screen real estate and sometimes also the dismiss button is difficult to hit. I think the savvy users already know cookies are used for tracking all over the internet and the less savvy ones probably will just ignore this. Essentially, after the first few times you see this, it is just additional noise on the web sites.
Voice Control performance may vary depending on language, local dialect, pronunciation, voice and ambient noise and lighting levels.
Is this a mistake? How can lighting level affect voice control performance? Or does the TV also use lip reading and also send video capture to third parties all times?
The reason why I'm stalling sometimes with the updates is that the whole process is interfering with my computer usage. There are annoying popups requiring attention at about 30 s - 1 min intervals, activating a random time after computer boot and trying to install 3rd party software, so I need to be in a mood for installing those updates. Not even to mention that every software has its own update software with its quirks. And Windows also now notifies you to disable "unnecessary" start up software, which often includes these update checkers. These should all come from a single source and be handled much more like they are handled in Linux distributions or mobile app stores.
No, the schools that are free are compatible to community colleges in the USA so in that realm of classes you can take what they offer. Even then it is not free, Germany charges you around $2000 a year for the "free" colleges.
I'm not sure if you're referring to the ones in Germany or Europe in general. But at least in Finland, you only have a fee of some €80 / year, and I don't really think the community colleges compare to that. All of the courses are included. Although the new government is likely to add a fee for non-EU students in the coming years - it would likely be somewhere in the ballpark of €500 / year. The fee includes also health care in the YTHS (or FSHS in English; basic health services are free of charge; dental check-ups are free of charge and filling a cavity, for example, is typically some €20).
How can the state afford this and public health care? We have higher tax rates. How can we afford the taxes? We don't pay crazy amounts for private schools and private health care.
Therefore I think each drive has to be chosen individually because with only 80 total positions the chances of any given drive playing consecutive semitone-spaced correct pitches would be small. So it would seem they've gone through a bunch of drives selecting the ones that have a track position that's nearest to each desired pitch to make up 49 semitone-spaced notes.
Actually no, since the frequency is not a property fo the drive and it actually doesn't have anything to do with the number of positions either. The frequency depends on the rate at which the drive head is moved. Most of the controllers used to have a software-controlled setting called "Step Rate Time" (or SRT for short) for controlling this frequency. But there are some drive-related characteristics that defines for example how quickly the motor can step and also what kind of resonant frequencies the drive generates. That mostly defines the usable frequency range for each drive.
You can replace that single color with a background image. With a properly selected image, it actually looks very nice. And of course applications can implement their tiles in colors they want (and there are also ways to replace a majority of the default icons with custom icons).
Actually in Europe, the ovens have more than just a couple of functions. It's quite typical to have lower, upper and combined heat, convection and grill plus some combinations of or alternating between those. Also some models have an integrated thermometer for meat etc. Not that setting them up would still require an Internet connection. But having the correct function, temperature and timer set ready perhaps reduces the risk of human error. But I'd actually rather see an oven that monitors the color of the food and informs me when the food has the correct hue.
Think of it like being in MDI mode all the time, in every application.
1. MDI doesn't make sense with every application. It works for programs where you have multiple content items and some common tools for them (like an image processing program) or if the application needs for some other reason to have multiple windows open. MDI stands for "Multiple Document Interface", so it's not a coincidence that it works well for such usage, since it was designed for it.
2. Even MDI applications can be closed by the closing the main window, which you don't have in the OS X applications.
Because that's how the MacOS GUI has worked since time immemorial.
Just because it has been that way for a long time doesn't mean that it actually is the optimal solution. It just makes it an old solution.
But hey, there are lots of apps which behave the way you seem to want them to behave, they pop up a window with some menu options when you close the last document.
There's a difference: The user closes the last window, the application closes vs. the user closes the last window, the application opens a new window. That is just counterintuitive.
well the mac app-menu-at-top-of-screen is just stupid if there's multiple apps in view at a time...
Why? You cannot physically perform actions on more than one app at a single time. The menu is active for the one you are presently using as indicated by where you have clicked the mouse pointer. It's not the only way to do things (or even necessarily the best) but it's perfectly sensible and logical and consistent.
What I hate about the menu location is that on a big screen I have to drag my mouse all the way to the upper left corner, even if the window I'm dealing with is in the lower right corner. Combine that with the lack of decent keyboard navigation for the menus, they are pretty much useless for anything else than looking up the keyboard shortcuts.
Actually there are also random number generators and all kinds of controllers (memory controller etc.) in many CPUs nowadays. But yes, mostly still binary math.
The parent is not a joke and should not be modded as funny. The MTV in Finland is short for "mainostelevisio", literally "advertisement television", and is Finland's oldest commercial TV channel. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Music Television, and it actually IS a respected TV channel and news agency.
US is a big innovator. However, it far from being the source of "all major inventions and innovations" - it even is not the biggest source of inventions and innovations. On the innovation output, it is on rank 7.
Coming from Europe to live in Canada for a year, I never realized how much difference there is in the ovens (and appliances in general).
There is a lot to improve in the typical North American oven. First of all, the heating elements in the European style ovens are behind the enamel. The European models (if not fan-driven) may take a bit longer to heat up, but they won't have the problem of sudden heat transfer changes, since they don't really have that much infrared radiation. The oven is easier to clean, too, because of that, and the risk of the baking sheet catching fire is almost non-existent, whereas in an American-style oven, that happened during my first weeks here.
Another thing is that the European ovens have a heating element also in the upper area of the oven. This means that the oven trays can be as big as the interior of the oven, without worrying burning the food and that you can more control, since the elements can be controlled separately (most also have the grilling element, which is similar to the ones in America). The European ovens also have a seamless interior (I still don't know where the excess cleaning foam goes in the American ones, probably part of it ends up in the food later).
One last thing is the heat insulation. It barely exists here, as soon as the oven is switched on, the apartment gets hot like a poorly warmed sauna - and not only do you waste the electricity there, you double the pay if you want to switch on the A/C to remove that. Still the glass in the door is tiny and sometimes even painted with a similar pattern as a microwave door (why??!), so you always have to open the door to see if the food is ready.
Don't even get me started on the cooking platters. They, while fast, are red-hot in typical use, so imagine spilling oil on those. Instant fire. No wonder they are called burners here. And of course, the knobs to switch off are *behind*, now good luck reaching there through the flames. And since they need to be detachable for cleaning all of the stuff that leaked and through some miracle didn't burn, they are pretty unstable, too. Great combination with the tendency to catch stuff on fire.
Oh well. I guess also the ovens here are sold by the horse power, not by the usability. But yeah, let's integrate an optical sensor (and maybe a frigging laser) and fix everything else in software. It sounds much fancier than "safe", "energy efficient" or "usable".
Fields are a physical quantity, but not a tangible quantity. For a field to be digital, it could only have two states - on/off. Since most fields can vary or modulate, there must be some other state than on or off.
Actually, digital does not mean having just two states - that is a requirement by a binary state. Digital just means that the states are discrete.
Two million miles per hour is less than 0.003c, but still quite a clip, even in astronomical terms.
Well it is approximately 0.00298c, so taking into account that the speed reading only has one significant digit, the speed of the star cluster might very well be above 0.003c.
I would rather put it: Don't rely on market research studies, if you want to be a pioneer.
If Henry Ford had asked his customers what they wanted, they would have said "We want faster horses".
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I think you're onto something here!
I was wondering the exactly same thing - why there are so few comments. But perhaps this is just great news without causing too much controversy and there's not much to add?
Though I was expecting at least on some speculation on what else could be achieved with something similar. Also, for me it is very curious that two-way neural function has been restored. Perhaps the neurons are secreting some neural growth factors or through some other mechanism causing also other neurons to restore their function. There is a constant flow of stimulus from the skin etc., but for some reason this does not seem to help in the neural pathway restoring. Or is it that the stimulus coming from both directions (brain and legs, for example) is the key to success? If so, perhaps results like this could be achieved also with some two-way neuron stimulation.
Whoever mentions the word "Agile", do the opposite of what they say.
So... Should this advice be followed or not? The A-word was mentioned, after all...
They seem to have lost something in translation here... The Finnish version states 2.8 million households, which I think is all of the households.
I recently read an article about this. Some of the things are compared to the stone age, but many of these are quite recent changes as well. First, we have excessive amounts of food available - that is an obvious thing: if you have to ration your food, you will eat less. Portion sizes have been getting bigger. According to the article, when increasing the portion size by 50%, people will eat 30% more and still think they ate the same amount as with a smaller portion. Our appetite is food-specific. Earlier, that helped to maintain a rich diet, but with the abundance of food choices in buffets etc., we can easily have reach to tens of different kinds of foods on a meal, so we eat too much. Also, the food nowadays contains more energy and in a form where it will be digested more easily and rapidly. For example, sugar is a fairly recent addition to our diet and even in the youth of my grandmother, it used to be more of a luxury product. We are getting large amounts of energy in our drinks, whereas earlier water was almost the only drink there was. And of course, we are doing much less physical work, so the consumption just is not there. It would be a wonder if this all actually *didn't'* lead to obesity.
I agree that "living hell" is a far fetch. However, it is more than mildly annoying especially when viewing the desktop version on a mobile device. The banner takes a significant portion of screen real estate and sometimes also the dismiss button is difficult to hit. I think the savvy users already know cookies are used for tracking all over the internet and the less savvy ones probably will just ignore this. Essentially, after the first few times you see this, it is just additional noise on the web sites.
Especially. When. Coming. From a. Country. Where. We. Don't. Do. That, -- I. Keep. Reading the. Headlines. Like. This and. It. Is. Very. Annoying.
The disclaimer on the page http://www.samsung.com/ph/smar... says:
Voice Control performance may vary depending on language, local dialect, pronunciation, voice and ambient noise and lighting levels.
Is this a mistake? How can lighting level affect voice control performance? Or does the TV also use lip reading and also send video capture to third parties all times?
That's 300 m for every microsecond. So it is 300 m * 13.7 us = 4.11 km.
The reason why I'm stalling sometimes with the updates is that the whole process is interfering with my computer usage. There are annoying popups requiring attention at about 30 s - 1 min intervals, activating a random time after computer boot and trying to install 3rd party software, so I need to be in a mood for installing those updates. Not even to mention that every software has its own update software with its quirks. And Windows also now notifies you to disable "unnecessary" start up software, which often includes these update checkers. These should all come from a single source and be handled much more like they are handled in Linux distributions or mobile app stores.
No, the schools that are free are compatible to community colleges in the USA so in that realm of classes you can take what they offer. Even then it is not free, Germany charges you around $2000 a year for the "free" colleges.
I'm not sure if you're referring to the ones in Germany or Europe in general. But at least in Finland, you only have a fee of some €80 / year, and I don't really think the community colleges compare to that. All of the courses are included. Although the new government is likely to add a fee for non-EU students in the coming years - it would likely be somewhere in the ballpark of €500 / year. The fee includes also health care in the YTHS (or FSHS in English; basic health services are free of charge; dental check-ups are free of charge and filling a cavity, for example, is typically some €20).
How can the state afford this and public health care? We have higher tax rates. How can we afford the taxes? We don't pay crazy amounts for private schools and private health care.
Therefore I think each drive has to be chosen individually because with only 80 total positions the chances of any given drive playing consecutive semitone-spaced correct pitches would be small. So it would seem they've gone through a bunch of drives selecting the ones that have a track position that's nearest to each desired pitch to make up 49 semitone-spaced notes.
Actually no, since the frequency is not a property fo the drive and it actually doesn't have anything to do with the number of positions either. The frequency depends on the rate at which the drive head is moved. Most of the controllers used to have a software-controlled setting called "Step Rate Time" (or SRT for short) for controlling this frequency. But there are some drive-related characteristics that defines for example how quickly the motor can step and also what kind of resonant frequencies the drive generates. That mostly defines the usable frequency range for each drive.
You can replace that single color with a background image. With a properly selected image, it actually looks very nice. And of course applications can implement their tiles in colors they want (and there are also ways to replace a majority of the default icons with custom icons).
Seems there's Bake, Broil, or Convection
Actually in Europe, the ovens have more than just a couple of functions. It's quite typical to have lower, upper and combined heat, convection and grill plus some combinations of or alternating between those. Also some models have an integrated thermometer for meat etc. Not that setting them up would still require an Internet connection. But having the correct function, temperature and timer set ready perhaps reduces the risk of human error. But I'd actually rather see an oven that monitors the color of the food and informs me when the food has the correct hue.
Think of it like being in MDI mode all the time, in every application.
1. MDI doesn't make sense with every application. It works for programs where you have multiple content items and some common tools for them (like an image processing program) or if the application needs for some other reason to have multiple windows open. MDI stands for "Multiple Document Interface", so it's not a coincidence that it works well for such usage, since it was designed for it.
2. Even MDI applications can be closed by the closing the main window, which you don't have in the OS X applications.
Because that's how the MacOS GUI has worked since time immemorial.
Just because it has been that way for a long time doesn't mean that it actually is the optimal solution. It just makes it an old solution.
But hey, there are lots of apps which behave the way you seem to want them to behave, they pop up a window with some menu options when you close the last document.
There's a difference: The user closes the last window, the application closes vs. the user closes the last window, the application opens a new window. That is just counterintuitive.
well the mac app-menu-at-top-of-screen is just stupid if there's multiple apps in view at a time...
Why? You cannot physically perform actions on more than one app at a single time. The menu is active for the one you are presently using as indicated by where you have clicked the mouse pointer. It's not the only way to do things (or even necessarily the best) but it's perfectly sensible and logical and consistent.
What I hate about the menu location is that on a big screen I have to drag my mouse all the way to the upper left corner, even if the window I'm dealing with is in the lower right corner. Combine that with the lack of decent keyboard navigation for the menus, they are pretty much useless for anything else than looking up the keyboard shortcuts.
Actually there are also random number generators and all kinds of controllers (memory controller etc.) in many CPUs nowadays. But yes, mostly still binary math.
The parent is not a joke and should not be modded as funny. The MTV in Finland is short for "mainostelevisio", literally "advertisement television", and is Finland's oldest commercial TV channel. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Music Television, and it actually IS a respected TV channel and news agency.
https://www.globalinnovationindex.org/content.aspx?page=data-analysis
US is a big innovator. However, it far from being the source of "all major inventions and innovations" - it even is not the biggest source of inventions and innovations. On the innovation output, it is on rank 7.
Coming from Europe to live in Canada for a year, I never realized how much difference there is in the ovens (and appliances in general). There is a lot to improve in the typical North American oven. First of all, the heating elements in the European style ovens are behind the enamel. The European models (if not fan-driven) may take a bit longer to heat up, but they won't have the problem of sudden heat transfer changes, since they don't really have that much infrared radiation. The oven is easier to clean, too, because of that, and the risk of the baking sheet catching fire is almost non-existent, whereas in an American-style oven, that happened during my first weeks here. Another thing is that the European ovens have a heating element also in the upper area of the oven. This means that the oven trays can be as big as the interior of the oven, without worrying burning the food and that you can more control, since the elements can be controlled separately (most also have the grilling element, which is similar to the ones in America). The European ovens also have a seamless interior (I still don't know where the excess cleaning foam goes in the American ones, probably part of it ends up in the food later). One last thing is the heat insulation. It barely exists here, as soon as the oven is switched on, the apartment gets hot like a poorly warmed sauna - and not only do you waste the electricity there, you double the pay if you want to switch on the A/C to remove that. Still the glass in the door is tiny and sometimes even painted with a similar pattern as a microwave door (why??!), so you always have to open the door to see if the food is ready. Don't even get me started on the cooking platters. They, while fast, are red-hot in typical use, so imagine spilling oil on those. Instant fire. No wonder they are called burners here. And of course, the knobs to switch off are *behind*, now good luck reaching there through the flames. And since they need to be detachable for cleaning all of the stuff that leaked and through some miracle didn't burn, they are pretty unstable, too. Great combination with the tendency to catch stuff on fire. Oh well. I guess also the ovens here are sold by the horse power, not by the usability. But yeah, let's integrate an optical sensor (and maybe a frigging laser) and fix everything else in software. It sounds much fancier than "safe", "energy efficient" or "usable".
Fields are a physical quantity, but not a tangible quantity. For a field to be digital, it could only have two states - on/off. Since most fields can vary or modulate, there must be some other state than on or off.
Actually, digital does not mean having just two states - that is a requirement by a binary state. Digital just means that the states are discrete.
Two million miles per hour is less than 0.003c, but still quite a clip, even in astronomical terms.
Well it is approximately 0.00298c, so taking into account that the speed reading only has one significant digit, the speed of the star cluster might very well be above 0.003c.
I would rather put it: Don't rely on market research studies, if you want to be a pioneer. If Henry Ford had asked his customers what they wanted, they would have said "We want faster horses".
A great euphemism for "I have the weirdest bonre"
"Facebook, Facebook, on the wall
Who is the fairest of them all?"