Good point. There is also some phenomena where the brains of couples, or a small group of people, operate differently, or at a great deficit, if separated from the other or the group. Maybe 'normal' or 'average' is hard to pin down because of the amount of variety or even social or occupational specialization. It isn't exactly clear, but socialization is important to proper brain function.
Nice to see treatments being developed. At least when I took that Philosophy of Mind course in the early 90's, most of what we knew about the brain came from trauma... specifically, bicycle accidents. Basically, case studies looked at where the trauma was located, and built hypothesis about what that area did based on what no longer worked correctly in the patient. Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was one of our texts, a collection of interesting studies along these lines. Brain damaged patients didn't get treatment regarding their brain truama, per se, they got studied. Sacks was a pure researcher... but somehow got involved with studying patients, and subsequently got fed up with the established idea that there were no treatments. see Awakenings.
We knew then that the brain tries to reroute things. I met someone recently that suffered from trauma induced skitzophrenia. He said it had been explained to him that a head trauma caused damage to a part of his brain that was between his eyes and that which interprets what he sees... and over time his brain rerouted the signals through other parts that were not damaged, such as memory centers... so he constantly is seeing people that aren't there, but are part of his memory. He claims there is a seamless interaction between these memory people, and the empirical environment... they are not ghosts, so he has to watch closely in crowds to see the reactions of people, and that's how he tells them apart... the memory people only react to movement, avoiding the real people and solid objects, but real people react to what is happening, what is being said, what they are watching.
Stem cell research appears to hold a lot of promise for brain trauma patients such as the man I met.
I don't understand the point of the SAG. Why do the highest paid workers of all industries combined need unionized protection when they can all individually afford many lawyers each?
What is needed is a union for the targeted audience.
vinyl is a more solid investment. CD's don't last as long, will deteriorate after 10 years or so (the "forever" hype was BS... maybe it's cosmic rays, maybe it's microwaves, idk, the inner foil falls apart often in less than 10 years). Vinyl, of course, will deteriorate due to friction and heat, but as it turns out, this can take 30-50 years or longer... but each time the record is played, technically, it changes slightly. But the resale value of vinyl is much higher, if you store them correctly, keep them in good condition, and if you sell at the right place to the right audiophiles. I have to say, vinyl does sound like it has more punch, but I think this is due to the HiFi system it's played on, the room it's in, and isn't exactly literally high fidelity... good components enhance music beyond it's fidelity, and for CD's consider that most commercial ADC's, while they've gotten standardized at a nice level, are still kind of cheap. A great ADC, in pro audio, like a Lavry AD, is about at least a grand, and then consider that you'd still need a great clean amplifier and good speakers to get the best sound out of it.
I myself prefer to make lossless rips from original CDs, and then back up that music library... replacing the drives every few years. Turntables are too mechanical, and I'm not mechanically oriented. Digital rips, of course, have no resale value... but if I still have all my digital rips 20 years from now, I'll be pleased.
He's right, currently,compared together, looks like eBook are bringing down about half the net monies that printed books are, which says a lot considering of all book sales eBooks are only 6% of the sales. GP's use of the word 'lucrative' may be suspect... eBooks are far more lucrative per unit, but his math appears good enough. Thanks GP!
I agree the idea sounds silly, but invoking Darwin? I guess you missed the part of the summary that reads "introduced predators," as in not so natural selection. When humans inadvertently or deliberately endanger a species, we should just throw up our hands and say "oh, well?" When your roof leaks, you try to fix it.
There is a rather significant difference between 40,000€ at once and a 40,000€/yr salary. One can get rich quicker with the lump sum than having pay spread across the whole year.
Cool, I was hoping to find someone with the determination to figure out the math.
The interesting discrepancy, to me, is that something like 70% of the cost of printed books is lost in distribution, and all the costs associated with that (like labor, fuel, shipping, and shelf-space placement). Considering that an offset printing press is expensive, and the skilled pressman isn't cheap either, and a letter press is even more expensive (quite possibly an antique), and the skilled pressman for that quite rare and thus more expensive, and binding isn't free either, assumming average press runs, I'm gonna arbitrarily throw a figure out there that at least 20-25% of the cost of printing books is lost in the actual printing and binding.
I'll throw another arbitrary (perhaps incorrect) number out there for eBooks, and assuming eBook distribution is practically free, say.1% (point one percent), with most of the production cost lost to operators and licensing for software that autoformats the raw text, let's say 3%.
So... if 90% of the cost of printing books is in printing, binding and distribution, but only 3.1% of the cost of eBooks is lost to production and distribution (all assuming a "free" text in the public domain), just what is the real meaning, the bottom line, behind eBooks only being 6% of the sales of eBooks? What's the analysis from a business standpoint (bearing in mind the average differences in retail price between physical books and eBooks, a figure I don't know)? Is it as I suspect, that publishers (and authors) would like to eliminate the sales of actual physical books altogether? At what percentage of printed book sales will eBook sales actually equal printed book sales' net profit?
Feel free to correct any of my figures (but that 70% distribution figure is solid), or add in or guess at the missing figures. Your mentat powers are seriously appreciated. TIA
Programming is not computer science. It is merely coding, writing instruction. Neither is the IT specialist a computer scientist; s/he is a computer practitioner. The humility inherent in the position will allow you to project whatever you may to describe them or fit them into your understanding... but you are projecting.
The first Mac I ever played with was a Mac Plus, circa 1986.
If you have an iPhone and can jailbreak it, you'll love this Mac Plus emulator, once you figure out (remember) how to make the old disk images, and dust off your old software... works great.
Not sure how different the port is from one proc to the other, but someone has the x86 version of OPENSTEP emulated on Mac OS X in Parallels. BasiliskII was the gold standard of 68k emus, but I haven't heard of anyone running anything but MacOS on it (I had researched a little trying to find a way to emulate A/UX, but the math coprocessor isn't emulated, so no dice).
DTP? Most commonly, when talking about printing/publishing, that means Direct To Plate... which I don't think was even around until the mid to late 90's... I don't know what you mean by DTP, concerning video...?
I realize the thread is about color, but I got here late and don't see where I can put this.. anyway... also kinda sad CMU had Mach OS before NeXT. I don't see Mach OS mentioned anywhere... it wasn't just a kernel. My understanding is NeXT took Mach OS, and shoved it into the FreeBSD kernel (and built dev tools and a GUI)... they didn't swap the kernels.
Don't think so two dimensionally. How cool would it be to have wifi on commercial airliners that weren't based on the plane? Astronauts will be able to use it from space! Or, if you need it there, up to 50 miles straight down! Finally, Internet for the mole people.
Speaking as this guy's former roommate, one of the draws for him was that the aerodynamics and mechanics of flapping wing flight was not fully understood.
The science here is understanding aerodynamics to the point that a human-scaled device can be built.
From my point of view, Apple has missed the boat. I would have welcomed an iPad that ran OS X with the bells that come with it, most particularly the *nix shell of my choice (zsh if anyone cares)
I thought the exact same thing. But I thought I'd give it 10 days of a trial before returning it and sticking it to Apple. You'd be surprised. Just try getting it away from me now. I never really use my laptop anymore... well, not directly. I use it now mostly as a media server. Want zsh? There's oodles of ssh apps that will allow you to connect to your Linux server to satisfy your shell tooth.
In other words, what I really is a tablet computer, not just a locked-in box that dishes up any trinkets and baubles that Apple cares to sell me.
Not so much. What you really is closed minded, like I used be.
We all know the girl was a bit stupid ("I didn't know it was illegal"? Seriously? That's your defense?) What should be focused on is the judgement...$750 per track? What's bad is that's on the low-end compared to some of their other lawsuits:/
I am skeptical that it was illegal to begin with... Napster losing, so long ago now, was really a huge injustice, the wool pulled over our ears. No one tapes off radio anymore, but when they did, the idea of prosecuting them was and still is absurd. The RIAA based their Napster case on the idea that digital copies were pristine, but anyone that knows what quality audio is can tell, say, a radio broadcast quality recording from a CD, or an mp3 rip (under a certain bitrate threshold, which most rips are, lossless notwithstanding) from the original CD or LP (pay attention the the high end, you'll hear it too... cymbals aren't supposed to sound like cheap glass breaking). IMHO, what needs to be challenged is the original Napster decision (though I imagine all it's appeals were exhausted). For a cheesy metaphor, just because a cell phone camera photograph of the Mona Lisa can be duplicated without data loss doesn't mean that the reproduction has taken anything away from viewing the original. The courts should have decided "So what if crappy copies of pristine originals are circulated? It's free advertising for the artist."
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Good point. There is also some phenomena where the brains of couples, or a small group of people, operate differently, or at a great deficit, if separated from the other or the group. Maybe 'normal' or 'average' is hard to pin down because of the amount of variety or even social or occupational specialization. It isn't exactly clear, but socialization is important to proper brain function.
Nice to see treatments being developed. At least when I took that Philosophy of Mind course in the early 90's, most of what we knew about the brain came from trauma... specifically, bicycle accidents. Basically, case studies looked at where the trauma was located, and built hypothesis about what that area did based on what no longer worked correctly in the patient. Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was one of our texts, a collection of interesting studies along these lines. Brain damaged patients didn't get treatment regarding their brain truama, per se, they got studied. Sacks was a pure researcher... but somehow got involved with studying patients, and subsequently got fed up with the established idea that there were no treatments. see Awakenings.
We knew then that the brain tries to reroute things. I met someone recently that suffered from trauma induced skitzophrenia. He said it had been explained to him that a head trauma caused damage to a part of his brain that was between his eyes and that which interprets what he sees... and over time his brain rerouted the signals through other parts that were not damaged, such as memory centers... so he constantly is seeing people that aren't there, but are part of his memory. He claims there is a seamless interaction between these memory people, and the empirical environment... they are not ghosts, so he has to watch closely in crowds to see the reactions of people, and that's how he tells them apart... the memory people only react to movement, avoiding the real people and solid objects, but real people react to what is happening, what is being said, what they are watching.
Stem cell research appears to hold a lot of promise for brain trauma patients such as the man I met.
I don't understand the point of the SAG. Why do the highest paid workers of all industries combined need unionized protection when they can all individually afford many lawyers each?
What is needed is a union for the targeted audience.
vinyl is a more solid investment. CD's don't last as long, will deteriorate after 10 years or so (the "forever" hype was BS... maybe it's cosmic rays, maybe it's microwaves, idk, the inner foil falls apart often in less than 10 years). Vinyl, of course, will deteriorate due to friction and heat, but as it turns out, this can take 30-50 years or longer... but each time the record is played, technically, it changes slightly. But the resale value of vinyl is much higher, if you store them correctly, keep them in good condition, and if you sell at the right place to the right audiophiles. I have to say, vinyl does sound like it has more punch, but I think this is due to the HiFi system it's played on, the room it's in, and isn't exactly literally high fidelity... good components enhance music beyond it's fidelity, and for CD's consider that most commercial ADC's, while they've gotten standardized at a nice level, are still kind of cheap. A great ADC, in pro audio, like a Lavry AD, is about at least a grand, and then consider that you'd still need a great clean amplifier and good speakers to get the best sound out of it.
I myself prefer to make lossless rips from original CDs, and then back up that music library... replacing the drives every few years. Turntables are too mechanical, and I'm not mechanically oriented. Digital rips, of course, have no resale value... but if I still have all my digital rips 20 years from now, I'll be pleased.
He's right, currently,compared together, looks like eBook are bringing down about half the net monies that printed books are, which says a lot considering of all book sales eBooks are only 6% of the sales. GP's use of the word 'lucrative' may be suspect... eBooks are far more lucrative per unit, but his math appears good enough. Thanks GP!
I agree the idea sounds silly, but invoking Darwin? I guess you missed the part of the summary that reads "introduced predators," as in not so natural selection. When humans inadvertently or deliberately endanger a species, we should just throw up our hands and say "oh, well?" When your roof leaks, you try to fix it.
There is a rather significant difference between 40,000€ at once and a 40,000€/yr salary. One can get rich quicker with the lump sum than having pay spread across the whole year.
Cool, I was hoping to find someone with the determination to figure out the math.
The interesting discrepancy, to me, is that something like 70% of the cost of printed books is lost in distribution, and all the costs associated with that (like labor, fuel, shipping, and shelf-space placement). Considering that an offset printing press is expensive, and the skilled pressman isn't cheap either, and a letter press is even more expensive (quite possibly an antique), and the skilled pressman for that quite rare and thus more expensive, and binding isn't free either, assumming average press runs, I'm gonna arbitrarily throw a figure out there that at least 20-25% of the cost of printing books is lost in the actual printing and binding.
I'll throw another arbitrary (perhaps incorrect) number out there for eBooks, and assuming eBook distribution is practically free, say .1% (point one percent), with most of the production cost lost to operators and licensing for software that autoformats the raw text, let's say 3%.
So... if 90% of the cost of printing books is in printing, binding and distribution, but only 3.1% of the cost of eBooks is lost to production and distribution (all assuming a "free" text in the public domain), just what is the real meaning, the bottom line, behind eBooks only being 6% of the sales of eBooks? What's the analysis from a business standpoint (bearing in mind the average differences in retail price between physical books and eBooks, a figure I don't know)? Is it as I suspect, that publishers (and authors) would like to eliminate the sales of actual physical books altogether? At what percentage of printed book sales will eBook sales actually equal printed book sales' net profit?
Feel free to correct any of my figures (but that 70% distribution figure is solid), or add in or guess at the missing figures. Your mentat powers are seriously appreciated. TIA
Old news. Apple has been using atoms in QuickTime movies for some time. I don't really get it, but if the atom is public, the movie won't play.
Programming is not computer science. It is merely coding, writing instruction. Neither is the IT specialist a computer scientist; s/he is a computer practitioner. The humility inherent in the position will allow you to project whatever you may to describe them or fit them into your understanding... but you are projecting.
You seem to know a lot, it's a shame you posted AC, because I'd really like to know wtf Taligent was, and I bet you know.
The first Mac I ever played with was a Mac Plus, circa 1986.
If you have an iPhone and can jailbreak it, you'll love this Mac Plus emulator, once you figure out (remember) how to make the old disk images, and dust off your old software... works great.
Not sure how different the port is from one proc to the other, but someone has the x86 version of OPENSTEP emulated on Mac OS X in Parallels. BasiliskII was the gold standard of 68k emus, but I haven't heard of anyone running anything but MacOS on it (I had researched a little trying to find a way to emulate A/UX, but the math coprocessor isn't emulated, so no dice).
I actually would like to see "make everything greyscale" button
Look in System Preferences under Universal Access.
But the other Macintosh operating system was pretty fsck'n cool. I miss A/UX
DTP? Most commonly, when talking about printing/publishing, that means Direct To Plate... which I don't think was even around until the mid to late 90's... I don't know what you mean by DTP, concerning video...?
I realize the thread is about color, but I got here late and don't see where I can put this.. anyway... also kinda sad CMU had Mach OS before NeXT. I don't see Mach OS mentioned anywhere... it wasn't just a kernel. My understanding is NeXT took Mach OS, and shoved it into the FreeBSD kernel (and built dev tools and a GUI)... they didn't swap the kernels.
Don't think so two dimensionally. How cool would it be to have wifi on commercial airliners that weren't based on the plane? Astronauts will be able to use it from space! Or, if you need it there, up to 50 miles straight down! Finally, Internet for the mole people.
I also fantasize about dinosaurs fucking. Maybe there are others like us. I should start a website.
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No exceptions!
This is a press release written by some guys hawking their book, it was not written by a journalist.
Of course not, silly, jounalists are extinct. They were overrun by the vastly inferior bloggers, that somehow had the edge on reproduction.
Speaking as this guy's former roommate, one of the draws for him was that the aerodynamics and mechanics of flapping wing flight was not fully understood.
The science here is understanding aerodynamics to the point that a human-scaled device can be built.
I would like to see his paintings.
nice.
From my point of view, Apple has missed the boat. I would have welcomed an iPad that ran OS X with the bells that come with it, most particularly the *nix shell of my choice (zsh if anyone cares)
I thought the exact same thing. But I thought I'd give it 10 days of a trial before returning it and sticking it to Apple. You'd be surprised. Just try getting it away from me now. I never really use my laptop anymore... well, not directly. I use it now mostly as a media server. Want zsh? There's oodles of ssh apps that will allow you to connect to your Linux server to satisfy your shell tooth.
In other words, what I really is a tablet computer, not just a locked-in box that dishes up any trinkets and baubles that Apple cares to sell me.
Not so much. What you really is closed minded, like I used be.
My prefs are set to keep sigs hidden, you insensitive clod!
We all know the girl was a bit stupid ("I didn't know it was illegal"? Seriously? That's your defense?) What should be focused on is the judgement...$750 per track? What's bad is that's on the low-end compared to some of their other lawsuits :/
I am skeptical that it was illegal to begin with... Napster losing, so long ago now, was really a huge injustice, the wool pulled over our ears. No one tapes off radio anymore, but when they did, the idea of prosecuting them was and still is absurd. The RIAA based their Napster case on the idea that digital copies were pristine, but anyone that knows what quality audio is can tell, say, a radio broadcast quality recording from a CD, or an mp3 rip (under a certain bitrate threshold, which most rips are, lossless notwithstanding) from the original CD or LP (pay attention the the high end, you'll hear it too... cymbals aren't supposed to sound like cheap glass breaking). IMHO, what needs to be challenged is the original Napster decision (though I imagine all it's appeals were exhausted). For a cheesy metaphor, just because a cell phone camera photograph of the Mona Lisa can be duplicated without data loss doesn't mean that the reproduction has taken anything away from viewing the original. The courts should have decided "So what if crappy copies of pristine originals are circulated? It's free advertising for the artist."