No, it's no surprise because most devices are soundcards and thus most drivers are soundcard drivers, and for some reason, linux driver writers are obsessed with covering them all. If only they could be half as obsessed with writing GOOD display drivers, then we'd have something.
"Linux supports the most hardware" is next to meaningless. It's like saying your unleaded gas car supports the most fuels.
Well, I know Karen Lipps personally, and that's not how she explained to me. Its the fungus. Not increased susceptibility to the fungus. The fungus is 100% fatal in healthy frogs, so... I'm not sure where the frogs gain any ground by having their habitat intact or not... sounds like a red herring from someone capitalizing on her work... but I admit I'm quite a bit biased in that regard.
That's interesting, because a search on scholar.google.com for her name and chytrid (and longer versions of the name of the disease) turns up no papers that she's authored on the matter. Could you point me to some?
hmm... I'm beginning to think you are a special kind of troll. If I'm wrong, apologies... but I'm reading a certain subtext to your responses... like instead of merely drawing in the information... you are resistant to it and merely wish to show that you are, well... smarter. You should know I just don't care, and I have no agenda... My feeling is that to blame something on "global warming" is like blaming it on the rain.
Did you try just searching for "Karen Lipps?" At any rate, scholar.google.com is hardly definitive... most scholarly articles are NOT available online, most of the ones that are require an expensive subscription to access. Furthermore, I believe Karen did much of her discovery and research before google existed, her work may very well not be available online, subscription or not. And, of course, like many things google, that is still beta. Also, I am search-engine-challenged.
And what of TFA? Shame on SciAm for hardly mentioning the hard science (the fungus), and not even by name, but instead giving us what amounts to an editorial.
Did we read the same article?
Throughout the tropics, amphibians are also falling prey to a devastating disease, believed to be exacerbated by climate change: chytrid fungus. This pathogen is marching though Central America at present, leaving silent streams--those without the chorus of dozens of frog species--behind.
The name of the fungus is not chytrid fungus... that's the kind of fungus it is. The name is Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. SciAm never used to take these kinds of shortcuts.
Also, as I've linked in another post in discussion, there's hard science behind the other claims, including the atrazine one.
Well, sure I think there is likely hard science behind the shrinking habitat... that's easy to prove. But linking shrinking habitat to a frog's immune system... I seriously doubt that. Also, while there is hard science behind global warming, in that it is happening, I find any science that claims or blames global warming for any number of things suspect. Not that global warming doesn't have many adverse affects on many many things... but proving this as hard science is another matter. Also, sorry, I did not read your other post or follow those links.
I'm not a biologist... in fact, I'd consider myself biologically challenged (I have lots of challenges), however, I'd like to give you a metaphor for how I think Karen is related and of prime importance to the discovery of and the extent of her research in the area using an area I feel a bit more comfortable in... pop music.
Paul Simon releases Graceland... and many laud his use of South African musicians and South African music on the record. Good record... but Peter Gabriel actually used South African musicians on a record earlier. Most don't know this, and give Simon credit for opening up South Africa's music to the world. In this metaphor... I'd say Karen is sorta like... David Byrne.
In addition to what the previous person responding to your post mentioned, it's worth noting that some researchers think the most likely origin of the spread of this fungus to a wide range of habitats is due to widespread use of a research frog species from Africa, though there is some evidence that puts some doubt on that.
certainly an interesting theory
Another prominent theory is mentioned in the article you linked:
In Costa Rica's Cloud Forest Preserve of the Tropical Science Center, biologist J. Alan Pounds and his colleagues recently reported the total disappearance of the Monteverde harlequin frog, along with one golden toad species -- caused, he said in the journal Nature, by their increased susceptibility to chytrid disease as rising global temperatures have weakened their ability to resist the toxin.
Well, I know Karen Lipps personally, and that's not how she explained to me. Its the fungus. Not increased susceptibility to the fungus. The fungus is 100% fatal in healthy frogs, so... I'm not sure where the frogs gain any ground by having their habitat intact or not... sounds like a red herring from someone capitalizing on her work... but I admit I'm quite a bit biased in that regard.
In other words, chytrid is likely to either be an invasive species introduced around the world by human actions or a species that amphibians were previously able to resist before rising temperatures weakened them. Or both.
You're conclusions do not follow from the premises. You may as well say "In completely different words and meaning..."
Either way, saying "this time its [sic] not our fault" is disingenuous at best.
And what of TFA? Shame on SciAm for hardly mentioning the hard science (the fungus), and not even by name, but instead giving us what amounts to an editorial. Put my comment in light of that, and remember its an election year, and you'll see I'm just trying to balance out the FUD.
Well, nice explanation for a cause, but, not a good reason. The true reason iPhones and other GSM phones cause interference in cheap, unshielded, ungrounded electronics is that cheap electronics are unshielded and not properly grounded. If you walked into a professional recording studio and hung out by the console, or were sitting behind a sound board at a respectable venue, there will be no dutuh, dutuh, dutuh, dutuh, dutzzzzzzzz every few minutes coming across the mains. But if you're like most consumers and nearly all guitar players, your equipment is understandably ungrounded, and your cabling is as cheap as possible (unshielded, unbalanced), you're gonna get that.
In short, it isn't iPhone that's the bad RF citizen, its all your cheap electronics.
No. USB2 is about almost half as fast as FireWire400. Forget the 480mbps USB2 claims... Its completely false.
Probably Apple's view is that if you're into video editing, you ought to be paying the big bucks for the privilege
Their promotions up to this point were the exact opposite of that... iLife & all that, pro looking movies, consumer level products.
Does not Apple support target-mode with USB these days? It seems like it should be possible for Apple to make the device appear as a USB mass storage device.
Likely not... Firewire has its own chipset. Sucky USB offloads to the main CPU, so a TDM w/ USB would require an OS to be running the proc, making alterations to the running OS a very bad idea.
First of all, USB on camcorders is not AT ALL the same thing as firewire. Firewire captures video in realtime. The USB port you see on cams is for transferring video files. BIG difference. Generally speaking, in real world tests, USB2 is half as fast as fw400.
Second of all, Apple used to promote their consumer level products as a solution for non-pro's to create professional looking video. No more.:-(
Nope. Steve figures if you can afford a camera with a firewire port you will spring for the MBP. You might piss and moan but in the end you will pull out the credit card. It's all about the money.
That's probably true, and its very unApple of them (disappearing the allowing the non-pro to edit video like a pro). But its a deal breaker for me on the MacBook, I want firewire. And it hurts a little because I like the dimensions of the MacBook so much more than the MBP. If they've disappeared firewire target disk mode from OS X, I'm really going to be pissed.
I think it's a general sign of Firewire disappearing from general consumer products. The first major sign that I noticed was the lack of easy backwards compatibility between Firewire 800 and Firewire 400.
I wonder if Target Disk mode and such will be implemented for USB in Mac OS X?
doubtful:-( How would that even work? USB depends on the processor. FireWire has its own controller chip, which is awesome even if it does cost a little more. Did you even read your own "informative" post? (sorry for the grief... not you I'm mad at about this)
External hard drives were nice with Firewire because of how it in didn't burden the cpu like USB. But as with SCSI/ATA, chips are invented that offload the work from the CPU (sometimes diverging from the technology's spec to do so).
My observation, knowing many former liberals, many lifelong liberals and a few former conservatives, is that as an individual's personal wealth increases (and thus they have more to lose) they begin to care more about themselves and their material wealth and less about everyone else. In general, money changes peoples' political landscape. If you're poor, you care about civil rights and society's responsibility to human decency. If you're rich, you care about your money and your comfort, and little else. Of course, there are exceptions... but generally speaking, I think this applies to better than most of each group. Also, IMHO, middle-class liberals are the mean, middle-class conservatives are merely stubborn, rich liberals are saints, and poor conservatives are idiots and/or bigots.
you are so wickedly off base its ridiculous. It was the Republicans that halted the absentee ballots, not the Democrats. It was the Republicans that flooded the recount headquarters with rambuntious fake protesters, delaying the recount to the deadline and scarimg the crap out of the counters. I stand by the facts stated in my post. Gore had Bush by 20K uncounted votes. Nice try AC.
While I respect McCain's sacrifice 35 years ago as a single data point, unfortunately he's also proved himself to be a dishonorable liar since then.
A bit harsh I think. While Palin is a terrible choice for a running mate, McCain is not some sith dark lord. What politician isn't a liar? Hate the game, not the player. McCain is probably more honest than most, if not all other republican politicians, so much so that he's arguably a republican in name only, but not at heart (perhaps in the same way Senator Lieberman is hardly a Democrat). An hominum attacks fail. And you get this thrashing from an independant that thinks Biden is the most presidential of the bunch. I'm not voting for McCain because I believe the Republican machine is evil (their only purpose is to eliminate government). But I think we're lucky he is so hardly a real Republican.
I guess you weren't paying attention, but the 4th Amendment was eliminated years ago, along with habeas corpus, by the Bush (aka Nixon) administration. The bastardization of the 2nd Amendment to magically include self-defense occured during this reign as well, however pinning it on Bush is difficult, as it was SCOTUS that somehow reinterpeted 'up' as legally 'down' in context (and I only mention it because they all originate in US law from the same legal document, the toilet paper formerly known as the US Constitution.)
Just because a job is salaried doesn't preclude overtime. Federal guidelines (although apparently unenforceable, Labor ALJ's don't have contempt powers) mandate FT to be 32hrs/wk, anything over 48hrs/wk or 12hrs/day to be time and a half, anything over 60hrs/wk or 16hrs/day or Sundays or Holidays as doubletime... Salaried or not, these are the guidelines. That being said, management & PHB's are exempt from overtime, and lawyers never get overtime (boo hoo). $75K/yr is a lot of money... cost of living is only insane in NoCal., so they will feel this (& I do feel for them because when everything is relative, the actual numbers don't matter). But cost of living in SoCal is really not that much higher than elsewhere, though salaries are still higher (they can deal). Government, IMHO should only interfere to protect labor, to regulate big business, not to protect big business and give them breaks.
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1) negligible compression gain
2) processor intensive
3) not ubiquitous
4) just another format to support with no great purpose
I ceased RTFA when I saw this. Anyone using this bullsh!t compression is a gullible fool; who cares how fast stupid is?
No, it's no surprise because most devices are soundcards and thus most drivers are soundcard drivers, and for some reason, linux driver writers are obsessed with covering them all. If only they could be half as obsessed with writing GOOD display drivers, then we'd have something.
"Linux supports the most hardware" is next to meaningless. It's like saying your unleaded gas car supports the most fuels.
Meh.
Well, I know Karen Lipps personally, and that's not how she explained to me. Its the fungus. Not increased susceptibility to the fungus. The fungus is 100% fatal in healthy frogs, so... I'm not sure where the frogs gain any ground by having their habitat intact or not... sounds like a red herring from someone capitalizing on her work... but I admit I'm quite a bit biased in that regard.
That's interesting, because a search on scholar.google.com for her name and chytrid (and longer versions of the name of the disease) turns up no papers that she's authored on the matter. Could you point me to some?
hmm... I'm beginning to think you are a special kind of troll. If I'm wrong, apologies... but I'm reading a certain subtext to your responses... like instead of merely drawing in the information... you are resistant to it and merely wish to show that you are, well... smarter. You should know I just don't care, and I have no agenda... My feeling is that to blame something on "global warming" is like blaming it on the rain.
Did you try just searching for "Karen Lipps?" At any rate, scholar.google.com is hardly definitive... most scholarly articles are NOT available online, most of the ones that are require an expensive subscription to access. Furthermore, I believe Karen did much of her discovery and research before google existed, her work may very well not be available online, subscription or not. And, of course, like many things google, that is still beta. Also, I am search-engine-challenged.
And what of TFA? Shame on SciAm for hardly mentioning the hard science (the fungus), and not even by name, but instead giving us what amounts to an editorial.
Did we read the same article?
Throughout the tropics, amphibians are also falling prey to a devastating disease, believed to be exacerbated by climate change: chytrid fungus. This pathogen is marching though Central America at present, leaving silent streams--those without the chorus of dozens of frog species--behind.
The name of the fungus is not chytrid fungus... that's the kind of fungus it is. The name is Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. SciAm never used to take these kinds of shortcuts.
Also, as I've linked in another post in discussion, there's hard science behind the other claims, including the atrazine one.
Well, sure I think there is likely hard science behind the shrinking habitat... that's easy to prove. But linking shrinking habitat to a frog's immune system... I seriously doubt that. Also, while there is hard science behind global warming, in that it is happening, I find any science that claims or blames global warming for any number of things suspect. Not that global warming doesn't have many adverse affects on many many things... but proving this as hard science is another matter. Also, sorry, I did not read your other post or follow those links.
I'm not a biologist... in fact, I'd consider myself biologically challenged (I have lots of challenges), however, I'd like to give you a metaphor for how I think Karen is related and of prime importance to the discovery of and the extent of her research in the area using an area I feel a bit more comfortable in... pop music.
Paul Simon releases Graceland... and many laud his use of South African musicians and South African music on the record. Good record... but Peter Gabriel actually used South African musicians on a record earlier. Most don't know this, and give Simon credit for opening up South Africa's music to the world. In this metaphor... I'd say Karen is sorta like... David Byrne.
In addition to what the previous person responding to your post mentioned, it's worth noting that some researchers think the most likely origin of the spread of this fungus to a wide range of habitats is due to widespread use of a research frog species from Africa, though there is some evidence that puts some doubt on that.
certainly an interesting theory
Another prominent theory is mentioned in the article you linked:
In Costa Rica's Cloud Forest Preserve of the Tropical Science Center, biologist J. Alan Pounds and his colleagues recently reported the total disappearance of the Monteverde harlequin frog, along with one golden toad species -- caused, he said in the journal Nature, by their increased susceptibility to chytrid disease as rising global temperatures have weakened their ability to resist the toxin.
Well, I know Karen Lipps personally, and that's not how she explained to me. Its the fungus. Not increased susceptibility to the fungus. The fungus is 100% fatal in healthy frogs, so... I'm not sure where the frogs gain any ground by having their habitat intact or not... sounds like a red herring from someone capitalizing on her work... but I admit I'm quite a bit biased in that regard.
In other words, chytrid is likely to either be an invasive species introduced around the world by human actions or a species that amphibians were previously able to resist before rising temperatures weakened them. Or both.
You're conclusions do not follow from the premises. You may as well say "In completely different words and meaning..."
Either way, saying "this time its [sic] not our fault" is disingenuous at best.
And what of TFA? Shame on SciAm for hardly mentioning the hard science (the fungus), and not even by name, but instead giving us what amounts to an editorial. Put my comment in light of that, and remember its an election year, and you'll see I'm just trying to balance out the FUD.
EXTINCTION CRISIS FOR AMPHIBIANS
this time its not our fault... but maybe we can help them (or... is it not nice to fool with Mother Nature?)
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Seconded. it is essentially useless for doing anything interesting unless you jailbreak it.
Oh, the horror!
stupid people fear smart people
Well, nice explanation for a cause, but, not a good reason. The true reason iPhones and other GSM phones cause interference in cheap, unshielded, ungrounded electronics is that cheap electronics are unshielded and not properly grounded. If you walked into a professional recording studio and hung out by the console, or were sitting behind a sound board at a respectable venue, there will be no dutuh, dutuh, dutuh, dutuh, dutzzzzzzzz every few minutes coming across the mains. But if you're like most consumers and nearly all guitar players, your equipment is understandably ungrounded, and your cabling is as cheap as possible (unshielded, unbalanced), you're gonna get that.
In short, it isn't iPhone that's the bad RF citizen, its all your cheap electronics.
I can't believe its still Carbon.
USB... is about as fast.
No. USB2 is about
almost
half as fast as FireWire400. Forget the 480mbps USB2 claims... Its completely false.
Probably Apple's view is that if you're into video editing, you ought to be paying the big bucks for the privilege
Their promotions up to this point were the exact opposite of that... iLife & all that, pro looking movies, consumer level products.
Does not Apple support target-mode with USB these days? It seems like it should be possible for Apple to make the device appear as a USB mass storage device.
Likely not... Firewire has its own chipset. Sucky USB offloads to the main CPU, so a TDM w/ USB would require an OS to be running the proc, making alterations to the running OS a very bad idea.
First of all, USB on camcorders is not AT ALL the same thing as firewire. Firewire captures video in realtime. The USB port you see on cams is for transferring video files. BIG difference. Generally speaking, in real world tests, USB2 is half as fast as fw400.
Second of all, Apple used to promote their consumer level products as a solution for non-pro's to create professional looking video. No more. :-(
No Expresscard slot in MacBooks. IEEE1394c is our only hope... but then how would fw TDM still work? Apple obviously hates IT workers.
Nope. Steve figures if you can afford a camera with a firewire port you will spring for the MBP. You might piss and moan but in the end you will pull out the credit card. It's all about the money.
That's probably true, and its very unApple of them (disappearing the allowing the non-pro to edit video like a pro). But its a deal breaker for me on the MacBook, I want firewire. And it hurts a little because I like the dimensions of the MacBook so much more than the MBP. If they've disappeared firewire target disk mode from OS X, I'm really going to be pissed.
I think it's a general sign of Firewire disappearing from general consumer products. The first major sign that I noticed was the lack of easy backwards compatibility between Firewire 800 and Firewire 400.
What? dude... it doesn't get any easier
I wonder if Target Disk mode and such will be implemented for USB in Mac OS X?
doubtful :-(
How would that even work? USB depends on the processor. FireWire has its own controller chip, which is awesome even if it does cost a little more. Did you even read your own "informative" post? (sorry for the grief... not you I'm mad at about this)
External hard drives were nice with Firewire because of how it in didn't burden the cpu like USB. But as with SCSI/ATA, chips are invented that offload the work from the CPU (sometimes diverging from the technology's spec to do so).
exactly.
Meh.
Wah!
gee, I wonder if that's what causes the predictable fluctuation...
My observation, knowing many former liberals, many lifelong liberals and a few former conservatives, is that as an individual's personal wealth increases (and thus they have more to lose) they begin to care more about themselves and their material wealth and less about everyone else. In general, money changes peoples' political landscape. If you're poor, you care about civil rights and society's responsibility to human decency. If you're rich, you care about your money and your comfort, and little else. Of course, there are exceptions... but generally speaking, I think this applies to better than most of each group. Also, IMHO, middle-class liberals are the mean, middle-class conservatives are merely stubborn, rich liberals are saints, and poor conservatives are idiots and/or bigots.
you are so wickedly off base its ridiculous. It was the Republicans that halted the absentee ballots, not the Democrats. It was the Republicans that flooded the recount headquarters with rambuntious fake protesters, delaying the recount to the deadline and scarimg the crap out of the counters. I stand by the facts stated in my post. Gore had Bush by 20K uncounted votes. Nice try AC.
While I respect McCain's sacrifice 35 years ago as a single data point, unfortunately he's also proved himself to be a dishonorable liar since then.
A bit harsh I think. While Palin is a terrible choice for a running mate, McCain is not some sith dark lord. What politician isn't a liar? Hate the game, not the player. McCain is probably more honest than most, if not all other republican politicians, so much so that he's arguably a republican in name only, but not at heart (perhaps in the same way Senator Lieberman is hardly a Democrat). An hominum attacks fail. And you get this thrashing from an independant that thinks Biden is the most presidential of the bunch. I'm not voting for McCain because I believe the Republican machine is evil (their only purpose is to eliminate government). But I think we're lucky he is so hardly a real Republican.
I guess you weren't paying attention, but the 4th Amendment was eliminated years ago, along with habeas corpus, by the Bush (aka Nixon) administration. The bastardization of the 2nd Amendment to magically include self-defense occured during this reign as well, however pinning it on Bush is difficult, as it was SCOTUS that somehow reinterpeted 'up' as legally 'down' in context (and I only mention it because they all originate in US law from the same legal document, the toilet paper formerly known as the US Constitution.)
Palin is the most dangerous. She's Dick Cheney without all the charm.
Hmm... I thought she was Dan Quale with better reheased lines but without all the useless testicals.
1Gbit? That's nothing. Just wait until the world sees the batshitcrazy bandwidth we're gonna pump though those 6" iron pipes!
Just because a job is salaried doesn't preclude overtime. Federal guidelines (although apparently unenforceable, Labor ALJ's don't have contempt powers) mandate FT to be 32hrs/wk, anything over 48hrs/wk or 12hrs/day to be time and a half, anything over 60hrs/wk or 16hrs/day or Sundays or Holidays as doubletime... Salaried or not, these are the guidelines. That being said, management & PHB's are exempt from overtime, and lawyers never get overtime (boo hoo). $75K/yr is a lot of money... cost of living is only insane in NoCal., so they will feel this (& I do feel for them because when everything is relative, the actual numbers don't matter). But cost of living in SoCal is really not that much higher than elsewhere, though salaries are still higher (they can deal). Government, IMHO should only interfere to protect labor, to regulate big business, not to protect big business and give them breaks.
I say not small enough. I want to meet a babe with 10 web servers built into her false nails.