I wish they had forward thinking academic designers at my Polytechnic. At the time, they were still stuck in the medieval form of testing/grading. It would be nice to see a trend in undergraduate studies where what is learned is more important than the evaluation of what was learned. (btw, not sure why that set up would take more than a couple hours... then again, depending on the specs I guess, a slow winstall could hose your grade-- just updating Win could take 8hrs, and depending on when you install your AV, each reboot getting longer... really have to be strategic on the reboots, anyway, intersting test.)
Fuck these fish. Blue Whales, man. Blue fukin Whales. Maybe there were as many as a hundred left. Ok, sucks we hardly knew these fish, but a billion of them isn't worth the life of one Blue Whale. Maybe Blues were done for anyway, but if they no longer have a spawning ground, it still sucks their extinction was hastened just at the heartbreaking end.
That image is misleading at best. Digital audio does not generally produce a jaggy waveform. That would sound pretty bad. Regardless of how far apart the discrete samples are taken, the resulting waveform will be smooth, and not sound like a jaggy waveform when returned to analog and amplified through the air. The samples are what they are, but the analogue to digital converter (ADC) will complete the waveform by introducing the missing signal between the samples, connecting the dots, and thus the resulting waveform is smooth and regular. What is between the samples can't just be anything; a reasonable estimation is made, and that's the line connecting the samples in the resulting waveform.
"It really saddens me to think that, in the last years of her life, while Down Under was having huge commercial success, she was in a nursing home, not earning any money from it, and was probably entitled to."
Quoted above, Larrikin Music Publishing managing director Norm Lurie drags through his day, having not been able to help the author, he's had to settle for taking the money for himself, wiping his tears away with her royalties. It's so touching when a music executive is... sad.
Is there any other product ever released that was more scrutinized than the iPhone 4? Unless it grants wishes, Apple should forgo any more product releases.
It's complicated. Using NTFS without Windows seems like it would be less complicated, doesn't it? One would need to perform all sorts of tests paying close attention to resource forks and file names. And then even if you're not using the platform, check it in Windows... I can't think of a good reason why, other than Windows will bite you in the backside when you least expect it.
Recently I've been having some issues with Case-Sensitive Journaled HFS+ and I'm now looking for the ideal FS for the replacement NAS, but I don't have the constraints of the OP.
I am extremely glad that samzenpus has published this thoroughly informative and important discovery to the front page.
Anybody know of a tech news website that isn't run by teenagers and college dropouts? I'm about done with bullshit like this.
I guess... if anything, even though if we really look deep inside ourselves we'll realize we knew it all along, we can thank Apple for inadvertently showing us quite clearly that tech journalism, and journalism in general, is in crisis. Rarely is news reported these days without bias. I guess unbiased just doesn't draw the crowds it once did. So in that regard, I find this "news" in the raw refreshing (still cringing as I often do to news).
Ok, my last thin attempt at defending my crazy postulate as
If Nietzsche felt Socrates was mearly the mouthpiece for Plato, then, even as off the wall as it sounds, maybe he was using Socrates as his earpiece as well.
iirc, Nietsche says something to this effect himself in Twilight of the Idols, but I can't find any free translated version to find the exact paragraph and link to it.
I did find this. Plato was tremendously influential on Nietzsche, yet he (allegedly) only praises him once. I think that might actually be the same sentence or two I am referring to... and I believe it is probably sarcastic. It's something to the effect of "Oh, Plato, you great such and such that left us baron with blah blah blah" wish I could remember where and what it was exactly. sry. soooo lame.
So... is it just not possible to remove the "in all likelihood" part, and actually know, at least initially, were it went? I'd like to know... I don't understand the position of "it went somewhere... that's good enough for me."
Not entirely and always, no... yet in some of his dialogues, it is clear that historical Socrates never participated... and all words must be Plato. It comes down to the experts being able to decipher what is style and what is a poetical representation of history.
And Sappho the Lesbian (prostitute?) was Socrates' teacher.
Socrates was also merely a character in many of Plato's dialogues... meaning, Plato used his character as a device to teach philosophy, and there is little connection between the character and the man. We're pretty sure that's the real Socrates in Plato's Apology, but most of what Plato attributed to Socrates through the dialogues was Plato (speaking through the Socrates literary character) and not the real historical Socrates.
Nietzche calls Plato decadent, and attributes to him everything we think Socrates said. For him, Plato was to blame for the Dark Ages, and the lack of intellectual advancement for a thousand years. A bit extreme... but a valid opinion.
Nice point. But the story was big enough, regardless of the amount of money, that there should have been a follow up on it... those dollars... a "Where are they now?" piece would have made a nice epilogue.
$19.6 Billion is just too much money to just ignore and let go missing. Each and every citizen has been hoodwinked out of $65 by Uncle Sam. Thanks for all the help, Google.
Also, kind of annoyed me Slashdot reported so well right up to the auction, then gave the results... then not one word about the billions of dollars in revenue the US collected from the auction, which was the whole reason I was following the story in the first place. Where the hell did the money go? Why isn't anyone following it??
Regardless of what you call it, I'm sure it will work equally well!
There's so much truth in that!
nexus one reception issueseve reception issues
I don't see how the story should be anything other than about Gizmodo, desperately compromising their journalistic integrity, or lack thereof
I always knew AOL was a decoy network set up to trap black hats! But not even the grey beards of the US Gov't could match the talent pool that meets daily on ICQ to discuss their new devious missions.
By now you’ve all heard reports that the iPhone 4 has a “terrible design flaw” that makes it useless for calls once you pick it up. Well, ok, I’m exaggerating a bit but you’d be forgiven for thinking that with the way this story has spread like wild fire. Now, I don’t doubt that some people are having an issue with this, but I’m amazed at the way this story was reported and the way it was picked up by the mainstream news media. First of all, Gizmodo were pushing this big time on Thursday, along with any other story they could find to paint the iPhone in a bad light (including, surprise surprise, you drop it and it breaks). Big surprise. From there other blogs started picking up on it and then it reached the mainstream media. What amazes me about this is that, first of all, most of the people reviewing the phone never noticed an issue with it and that most reviewers had noticed improved reception.
Secondly, as has already been pointed out, the same thing happens to existing phones. When Apple said this in their email they were set upon by bloggers for being dismissive of the “fatal design flaw” but they’re telling the truth. I tried it with my iPhone 3G and it does the exact same thing. Hold it in the bottom left corner and the signal drops. I’ve had my phone for over 2 years and I never noticed this issue until someone pointed it out and I tried to replicate it. But what I find really telling about the reporting on this is that virtually none of the mainstream media reports into this did any research or looked even remotely into the issue. They just reported on the Gizmodo story coupled with a few anecdotes from viewers or readers who were having reception issues. I’m not trying to down play the problems of those who are having problems, what I’m annoyed about is the complete and utter lack of perspective. For a start, a little bit of research would have found out that the Nexus one had the exact same issue when it was launched. But where was the outrage there? Where was the massive controversy about the Nexus being “flawed”? Why wasn’t this pushed as the main story by Gizmodo for several days? It certainly never reached the mainstream media, and yet according to the people experiencing the issue, it’s pretty much the same.
The problem is now that regardless of the extent of the reception issue, it will forever be seen as the “design flaw” of the iPhone. Anyone who tries to point out that other phones do in fact experience this are immediately branded as fanboys. It’s amazing how people are so eager to buy any controversy that involves Apple that they loose all sense of reason or balance. It’s gotten so bad lately that I’ve almost given up blogging about Apple and the mac, two subjects close to my heart. It seems that people are only interested in expressing phoney outrage at some inconsequential thing Apple does and creating giant controversies out of insignificant issues (I’m not talking about the iPhone 4 reception issue here before people start giving out about that I’m saying it’s an insignificant issue – although for many people apparently it is). It’s amazing to me how there has developed this complete disconnect between the impression you get about Apple from reading technology sites and publications, and the reality on the ground. The tech press (particularly tech blogs*) has lately been overwhelmingly negative about the Cupertino company, and yet contrast that with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for an iPhone 4. We’re given the impression that the iPhone is a terrible platform for developers and that its atrocious policies mean developers are abandoning it in droves for Android, and yet contrast that with WWDC selling out in 8 days.
I think the root of the problem, or at least part of it is the way a story spreads. It often starts on a blog when someone publishes their opinion on something
You mean there are places where you don't get ideal reception? Huh. Sucks for you I guess. And everyone with a cell phone. Yes, newsflash, in poor cell areas you. may loose calls. Try finding that death touch when you're sitting under a tower. This is such utter garbage it's ridiculous... in the face of SCIENCE telling you there is nothing wrong... the multitudes that still believe... incredible
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I wish they had forward thinking academic designers at my Polytechnic. At the time, they were still stuck in the medieval form of testing/grading. It would be nice to see a trend in undergraduate studies where what is learned is more important than the evaluation of what was learned. (btw, not sure why that set up would take more than a couple hours... then again, depending on the specs I guess, a slow winstall could hose your grade-- just updating Win could take 8hrs, and depending on when you install your AV, each reboot getting longer... really have to be strategic on the reboots, anyway, intersting test.)
GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY! The Proton is shrinking! We're all getting smaller at an infinitesimal rate.
fixed.
Fuck these fish. Blue Whales, man. Blue fukin Whales. Maybe there were as many as a hundred left. Ok, sucks we hardly knew these fish, but a billion of them isn't worth the life of one Blue Whale. Maybe Blues were done for anyway, but if they no longer have a spawning ground, it still sucks their extinction was hastened just at the heartbreaking end.
That image is misleading at best. Digital audio does not generally produce a jaggy waveform. That would sound pretty bad. Regardless of how far apart the discrete samples are taken, the resulting waveform will be smooth, and not sound like a jaggy waveform when returned to analog and amplified through the air. The samples are what they are, but the analogue to digital converter (ADC) will complete the waveform by introducing the missing signal between the samples, connecting the dots, and thus the resulting waveform is smooth and regular. What is between the samples can't just be anything; a reasonable estimation is made, and that's the line connecting the samples in the resulting waveform.
"It really saddens me to think that, in the last years of her life, while Down Under was having huge commercial success, she was in a nursing home, not earning any money from it, and was probably entitled to."
Quoted above, Larrikin Music Publishing managing director Norm Lurie drags through his day, having not been able to help the author, he's had to settle for taking the money for himself, wiping his tears away with her royalties. It's so touching when a music executive is... sad.
They all sound like Hoodoo Gurus to me.
I can't look anymore.
Is there any other product ever released that was more scrutinized than the iPhone 4? Unless it grants wishes, Apple should forgo any more product releases.
It's complicated. Using NTFS without Windows seems like it would be less complicated, doesn't it? One would need to perform all sorts of tests paying close attention to resource forks and file names. And then even if you're not using the platform, check it in Windows... I can't think of a good reason why, other than Windows will bite you in the backside when you least expect it.
Recently I've been having some issues with Case-Sensitive Journaled HFS+ and I'm now looking for the ideal FS for the replacement NAS, but I don't have the constraints of the OP.
I am extremely glad that samzenpus has published this thoroughly informative and important discovery to the front page. Anybody know of a tech news website that isn't run by teenagers and college dropouts? I'm about done with bullshit like this.
I guess... if anything, even though if we really look deep inside ourselves we'll realize we knew it all along, we can thank Apple for inadvertently showing us quite clearly that tech journalism, and journalism in general, is in crisis. Rarely is news reported these days without bias. I guess unbiased just doesn't draw the crowds it once did. So in that regard, I find this "news" in the raw refreshing (still cringing as I often do to news).
Ok, my last thin attempt at defending my crazy postulate as
If Nietzsche felt Socrates was mearly the mouthpiece for Plato, then, even as off the wall as it sounds, maybe he was using Socrates as his earpiece as well.
Close enough. paragraph 4
The Kierkegaard note stuck out as blatantly false to me, but I thought with as many times as Nietzsche mentions Plato, maybe he never praises Plato.
iirc, Nietsche says something to this effect himself in Twilight of the Idols, but I can't find any free translated version to find the exact paragraph and link to it.
I did find this. Plato was tremendously influential on Nietzsche, yet he (allegedly) only praises him once. I think that might actually be the same sentence or two I am referring to... and I believe it is probably sarcastic. It's something to the effect of "Oh, Plato, you great such and such that left us baron with blah blah blah" wish I could remember where and what it was exactly. sry. soooo lame.
So... is it just not possible to remove the "in all likelihood" part, and actually know, at least initially, were it went? I'd like to know... I don't understand the position of "it went somewhere... that's good enough for me."
Not entirely and always, no... yet in some of his dialogues, it is clear that historical Socrates never participated... and all words must be Plato. It comes down to the experts being able to decipher what is style and what is a poetical representation of history.
And Sappho the Lesbian (prostitute?) was Socrates' teacher.
Socrates was also merely a character in many of Plato's dialogues... meaning, Plato used his character as a device to teach philosophy, and there is little connection between the character and the man. We're pretty sure that's the real Socrates in Plato's Apology, but most of what Plato attributed to Socrates through the dialogues was Plato (speaking through the Socrates literary character) and not the real historical Socrates.
Nietzche calls Plato decadent, and attributes to him everything we think Socrates said. For him, Plato was to blame for the Dark Ages, and the lack of intellectual advancement for a thousand years. A bit extreme... but a valid opinion.
Nice point. But the story was big enough, regardless of the amount of money, that there should have been a follow up on it... those dollars... a "Where are they now?" piece would have made a nice epilogue.
$19.6 Billion is just too much money to just ignore and let go missing. Each and every citizen has been hoodwinked out of $65 by Uncle Sam. Thanks for all the help, Google.
Also, kind of annoyed me Slashdot reported so well right up to the auction, then gave the results... then not one word about the billions of dollars in revenue the US collected from the auction, which was the whole reason I was following the story in the first place. Where the hell did the money go? Why isn't anyone following it??
Regardless of what you call it, I'm sure it will work equally well!
There's so much truth in that! nexus one reception issues eve reception issues I don't see how the story should be anything other than about Gizmodo, desperately compromising their journalistic integrity, or lack thereof
I always knew AOL was a decoy network set up to trap black hats! But not even the grey beards of the US Gov't could match the talent pool that meets daily on ICQ to discuss their new devious missions.
By now you’ve all heard reports that the iPhone 4 has a “terrible design flaw” that makes it useless for calls once you pick it up. Well, ok, I’m exaggerating a bit but you’d be forgiven for thinking that with the way this story has spread like wild fire. Now, I don’t doubt that some people are having an issue with this, but I’m amazed at the way this story was reported and the way it was picked up by the mainstream news media. First of all, Gizmodo were pushing this big time on Thursday, along with any other story they could find to paint the iPhone in a bad light (including, surprise surprise, you drop it and it breaks). Big surprise. From there other blogs started picking up on it and then it reached the mainstream media. What amazes me about this is that, first of all, most of the people reviewing the phone never noticed an issue with it and that most reviewers had noticed improved reception.
Secondly, as has already been pointed out, the same thing happens to existing phones. When Apple said this in their email they were set upon by bloggers for being dismissive of the “fatal design flaw” but they’re telling the truth. I tried it with my iPhone 3G and it does the exact same thing. Hold it in the bottom left corner and the signal drops. I’ve had my phone for over 2 years and I never noticed this issue until someone pointed it out and I tried to replicate it. But what I find really telling about the reporting on this is that virtually none of the mainstream media reports into this did any research or looked even remotely into the issue. They just reported on the Gizmodo story coupled with a few anecdotes from viewers or readers who were having reception issues. I’m not trying to down play the problems of those who are having problems, what I’m annoyed about is the complete and utter lack of perspective. For a start, a little bit of research would have found out that the Nexus one had the exact same issue when it was launched. But where was the outrage there? Where was the massive controversy about the Nexus being “flawed”? Why wasn’t this pushed as the main story by Gizmodo for several days? It certainly never reached the mainstream media, and yet according to the people experiencing the issue, it’s pretty much the same.
The problem is now that regardless of the extent of the reception issue, it will forever be seen as the “design flaw” of the iPhone. Anyone who tries to point out that other phones do in fact experience this are immediately branded as fanboys. It’s amazing how people are so eager to buy any controversy that involves Apple that they loose all sense of reason or balance. It’s gotten so bad lately that I’ve almost given up blogging about Apple and the mac, two subjects close to my heart. It seems that people are only interested in expressing phoney outrage at some inconsequential thing Apple does and creating giant controversies out of insignificant issues (I’m not talking about the iPhone 4 reception issue here before people start giving out about that I’m saying it’s an insignificant issue – although for many people apparently it is). It’s amazing to me how there has developed this complete disconnect between the impression you get about Apple from reading technology sites and publications, and the reality on the ground. The tech press (particularly tech blogs*) has lately been overwhelmingly negative about the Cupertino company, and yet contrast that with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for an iPhone 4. We’re given the impression that the iPhone is a terrible platform for developers and that its atrocious policies mean developers are abandoning it in droves for Android, and yet contrast that with WWDC selling out in 8 days.
I think the root of the problem, or at least part of it is the way a story spreads. It often starts on a blog when someone publishes their opinion on something
but right now, I'm in a huge concrete box
You mean there are places where you don't get ideal reception? Huh. Sucks for you I guess. And everyone with a cell phone. Yes, newsflash, in poor cell areas you. may loose calls. Try finding that death touch when you're sitting under a tower. This is such utter garbage it's ridiculous... in the face of SCIENCE telling you there is nothing wrong... the multitudes that still believe ... incredible
Please tell me where I can touch my Nexus One (with a single finger, mind you) that will cause it to drop a call. Calling this a nonissue is moronic.
shows you in the manual
see page 6, moron