How is this different than if they used any other character you didn't know instead of ()? What if it were a Cyrillic letter you hadn't seen before? Still too challenging?
No, I've heard their Barbie dolls, and they don't say anything like that. I couldn't tell *what* they were saying, but it was something like, "Maths ah odd!" Wha...?
But if you think that's a problem, you can take it back another level: why do people draw such strong inferences from the fact that you've been arrested? Arguably, this could be because of the difficulty of getting a conviction, which makes an acquittal uninformative, meaning people have to place more weight on the fact of an arrest.
Why? The world doesn't format problems neatly for you. That's the job of the person approaching it. Simply identifying the mapping to known math formalisms is 90% of the challenge, if not more! If you can't convert a "put more apples on the table and find how many are on it now" into an addition problem, the world won't hold your hand and do it for you.
If the students genuinely understand (or even notice) what they're being taught, they won't be thrown off by stuff like this.
I mean, I'm a little sympathetic, but still, students shouldn't be taught some narrow skill that works *only* for your class. The skills you teach need to be grounded to the rest of the world so they know how it fits in and can adapt to novel situations as necessary.
If their understanding is so brittle that it requires this careful handling before it's a "fair" test, they haven't learned anything, except how to pass tests. Worse, tests presented by *that* teacher.
And this is why the FBI needs to consult with *someone* who is familiar with information theory before giving dictates like this. They can start with the Noisy Channel Coding Theorem -- the transfer rate is what you're trying to minimize, guys.
I wonder what the equivalent plateau is with video.
It would probably have to involve some 3D technology. One of your brain's biggest clues that something is "just a picture" is how your eyes see it from slightly different position so that it can infer the flatness of a surface (i.e. stereo vision). As long as the eye isn't getting the kind of image that would come from a real-life scene, with appropriate eye differences corresponding to depth, your brain spots the fake.
Isn't there also the problem of how, even if I had an alternative, then the Verizon lines in between me and the source could still throttle video packets (which are competing with their crappy TV service)?
I'm normally one to defend people who take inscrutable flak for using perfectly valid terms, but...
1) When people mock him, the "series of tubes" thing is just to refer to the whole speech, which had some howlers. Very few are criticizing him for the analogy to tubes specifically.
2) Mail sent by his staff would have come from the same intranet, and so couldn't be explained by general overloading of the internet, which would make a big difference for his point (to the extent he had one).
3) In giving his explanation, he obviously was trying to pass of a lobbyist pep talk as genuine understanding, which is pretty dangerous for someone having such authority over the internet and attempting to pass legislation thereon. It revealed that, "Whoa, is this their understanding on *other* issues?" See 1)
Well, I was trying to be funny, but since you make a substantive point:
A while back, a story here described teaching the monkeys that the tokens can be redeemed for grapes, and then the monkeys started using them as money, including for prostitution (among capuchins). In that case, the monkeys would get pretty pissed off if you "suspended convertibility", and soon they'd be smart enough to stop accepting them as payment.
Through a number of mechanisms, governments that have "suspended convertibility" of the notes have been able to prop up the value, such as by making the money required to pay taxes or debts created in the past, which keeps up demand. They'd even been able to disguise its loss of value. But its value did fall, with the resulting corrosive effects on society, even if humans did handle it a bit better than monkeys.
I think one significant difference between humans and monkeys, is that if you convince monkeys that little tokens can be traded for grapes, but then "suspend convertibility", they will go -- pardon the term -- apeshit.
In contrast, if you convince humans that their paper banknotes can be redeemed for an indicated quantity of gold and then suspend convertibility, they handle it pretty well.
I'm in talks with some central banks to try the experiment again...
On 10.5 and later, select the image and hit the space key. Use arrow keys as required to navigate.
So this wasn't an important feature until late 2007?
In 10.4, press Command+(1/2/3) to switch views. Command+2 is 'scientific', Command+3 is 'programmer'.
Okay, fair point -- I had though the dashboard calculator was the same as the OS bundled calculator. Still, I had brought this up on a Mac board, and one of the fanboys still on 10.4 confirmed the problem, not realizing there was a different OS calculator.
If your movie is full screen, hit Command+Shift+3 and it'll create a picture on your desktop. If your movie is windowed, hit Command+Shift+4 and use the cross-hairs to define the area to snapshot.
All of those methods still require me to individually rename the files from scratch, and *then* navigate to the directory I want them in, and then drag them to where I want them, which is hard if you're working just from the trackpad. On any Windows app, you'd choose the save still option (certainly accessible from the keyboard) and it would jump to the last-used directory from *that program* (i.e., you don't have to navigate to it again and have that spot open in Finder if you used that location for your last still save). Then, in the (very likely event) you want the name to be similar to name you used for the last still, you just select that previous file and modify the name a bit.
Show me something that easy on Mac.
I really don't get this. Either use the 'browse' button like anyone else, or just drag and drop the file in question into the file upload control.
Have you ever actually tried this? The "browse" button doesn't show on any site I've used, and some of them try to show your Finder view or iPhoto, which is really flaky and in most cases stalled and didn't finish loading. Now, maybe you've kept up to date with a Mac under 6 months old so it never craps out when it tries to call up a glitzy interface, but I have run into the problem with a MacBook bought October '07 and used December '07.
Turn on 'full keyboard access' in the System Prefs (Ctrl+F1).
Um, that was one of the first things I did. Still doesn't do what I want (access to any menu option from the keyboard), and what I can expect out of every single Windows app (and Linux for that matter, which allows the same thing). But prove me wrong: Show me how to call up "merge all windows" in Safari (no shortcut listed in the menu). I have keyboard shortcuts turned on in System Prefs -- still doesn't help.
And again, this matters when you're browsing the web from a trackpad -- but who does that, right?
Perhaps your time and energy would be better spend learning to use your damn machine instead of ranting about non-existent problems.
Already tried it, and that's the problem. Here's what typically happens:
- How do you [gain basic functionality I'm accustomed to on Windows/Linux]? I can't find how to do that on my Mac, it just lets me do [inferior Method 1]. -- LOL you just don't know how to use your Mac, it does things a little differently, you just have to learn how. - Okay, so what's the Mac way? -- [amidst insults] Duh, obviously, the closest thing you want is [Method 1]! - But I already found that, and it it's a pain in the ass!
And it's happening here to, like in your answer to the stills question or keyboard non-shortcuts.
Sorry, the GP is right and a Mac user in a sibling comment confirms (as did I on my MacBook). The first two options don't do what he asked: they display a small preview. And no, people shouldn't have to open the *entire fucking directory* to be able to do that.
In Windows, for whatever other flaws it might have (and it does have them), the way to do what he is asking (and quite reasonably) is:
1) Open the picture.
By default, there are buttons you can click to view next and previous, or you can use the arrow keys, and probably a dozen other ways.
So they *still* don't let you do that on Macs... in twenty-fuckin'-ten? This reminds me of why I reluctantly shy away from Apple products now. They'll be nice in so many respects... and then scatter around a ton of annoying, basic don't-haves. Like how the OS calculator doesn't have scientific functions until 10.5.
Or how to extract a still from a movie, you have to re-navigate to the directory every... fuckin'... time. Or how you can't use the standard upload file interface on websites, but have to hope it's compatible with iPhoto or some other hack. Or the lack of alt-shortcuts which makes it so that you can't call up a function from a menu unless it's been hot-keyed.
Probably because the researcher who wrote the algorithm was bad at representing the problem abstractly, which in turn was because they didn't recognize the connection between that subdomain (protein folding research) and the rest of scientific knowledge.
What if I told you that the whole time they were just playing recordings? Would you have any way of proving that I was lying? Is there anything you can observe and point to that would not be present if my claim were true but would be if it were false?
Have you ever actually put your ability to distinguish them to any serious, demonstrative test? Or do you just take it on faith?
If you like being around fellow FNM fans and FNM themselves, great. But you're a dupe if you think you have some supernatural, paranormal ability to distinguish live musics from live playback.
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Name one Apple product that failed at its core functionality recent memory. Just one.
How is this different than if they used any other character you didn't know instead of ()? What if it were a Cyrillic letter you hadn't seen before? Still too challenging?
No, I've heard their Barbie dolls, and they don't say anything like that. I couldn't tell *what* they were saying, but it was something like, "Maths ah odd!" Wha...?
But if you think that's a problem, you can take it back another level: why do people draw such strong inferences from the fact that you've been arrested? Arguably, this could be because of the difficulty of getting a conviction, which makes an acquittal uninformative, meaning people have to place more weight on the fact of an arrest.
Why? The world doesn't format problems neatly for you. That's the job of the person approaching it. Simply identifying the mapping to known math formalisms is 90% of the challenge, if not more! If you can't convert a "put more apples on the table and find how many are on it now" into an addition problem, the world won't hold your hand and do it for you.
If the students genuinely understand (or even notice) what they're being taught, they won't be thrown off by stuff like this.
I mean, I'm a little sympathetic, but still, students shouldn't be taught some narrow skill that works *only* for your class. The skills you teach need to be grounded to the rest of the world so they know how it fits in and can adapt to novel situations as necessary.
If their understanding is so brittle that it requires this careful handling before it's a "fair" test, they haven't learned anything, except how to pass tests. Worse, tests presented by *that* teacher.
And this is why the FBI needs to consult with *someone* who is familiar with information theory before giving dictates like this. They can start with the Noisy Channel Coding Theorem -- the transfer rate is what you're trying to minimize, guys.
I wonder what the equivalent plateau is with video.
It would probably have to involve some 3D technology. One of your brain's biggest clues that something is "just a picture" is how your eyes see it from slightly different position so that it can infer the flatness of a surface (i.e. stereo vision). As long as the eye isn't getting the kind of image that would come from a real-life scene, with appropriate eye differences corresponding to depth, your brain spots the fake.
Yeah, that's what I thought, bitch.
Isn't there also the problem of how, even if I had an alternative, then the Verizon lines in between me and the source could still throttle video packets (which are competing with their crappy TV service)?
I'm normally one to defend people who take inscrutable flak for using perfectly valid terms, but ...
1) When people mock him, the "series of tubes" thing is just to refer to the whole speech, which had some howlers. Very few are criticizing him for the analogy to tubes specifically.
2) Mail sent by his staff would have come from the same intranet, and so couldn't be explained by general overloading of the internet, which would make a big difference for his point (to the extent he had one).
3) In giving his explanation, he obviously was trying to pass of a lobbyist pep talk as genuine understanding, which is pretty dangerous for someone having such authority over the internet and attempting to pass legislation thereon. It revealed that, "Whoa, is this their understanding on *other* issues?" See 1)
Oh, can I do one?
Ted Stevens isn't fucked; he just got a series of screws.
Well, I was trying to be funny, but since you make a substantive point:
A while back, a story here described teaching the monkeys that the tokens can be redeemed for grapes, and then the monkeys started using them as money, including for prostitution (among capuchins). In that case, the monkeys would get pretty pissed off if you "suspended convertibility", and soon they'd be smart enough to stop accepting them as payment.
Through a number of mechanisms, governments that have "suspended convertibility" of the notes have been able to prop up the value, such as by making the money required to pay taxes or debts created in the past, which keeps up demand. They'd even been able to disguise its loss of value. But its value did fall, with the resulting corrosive effects on society, even if humans did handle it a bit better than monkeys.
I think one significant difference between humans and monkeys, is that if you convince monkeys that little tokens can be traded for grapes, but then "suspend convertibility", they will go -- pardon the term -- apeshit.
In contrast, if you convince humans that their paper banknotes can be redeemed for an indicated quantity of gold and then suspend convertibility, they handle it pretty well.
I'm in talks with some central banks to try the experiment again...
I'm seeing a lot of downmods to my GP comment.
I'm not seeing a lot in the way of address my follow-up.
Could you take a look? See if you can tell me what's wrong with my reply there.
On 10.5 and later, select the image and hit the space key. Use arrow keys as required to navigate.
So this wasn't an important feature until late 2007?
In 10.4, press Command+(1/2/3) to switch views. Command+2 is 'scientific', Command+3 is 'programmer'.
Okay, fair point -- I had though the dashboard calculator was the same as the OS bundled calculator. Still, I had brought this up on a Mac board, and one of the fanboys still on 10.4 confirmed the problem, not realizing there was a different OS calculator.
If your movie is full screen, hit Command+Shift+3 and it'll create a picture on your desktop. If your movie is windowed, hit Command+Shift+4 and use the cross-hairs to define the area to snapshot.
All of those methods still require me to individually rename the files from scratch, and *then* navigate to the directory I want them in, and then drag them to where I want them, which is hard if you're working just from the trackpad. On any Windows app, you'd choose the save still option (certainly accessible from the keyboard) and it would jump to the last-used directory from *that program* (i.e., you don't have to navigate to it again and have that spot open in Finder if you used that location for your last still save). Then, in the (very likely event) you want the name to be similar to name you used for the last still, you just select that previous file and modify the name a bit.
Show me something that easy on Mac.
I really don't get this. Either use the 'browse' button like anyone else, or just drag and drop the file in question into the file upload control.
Have you ever actually tried this? The "browse" button doesn't show on any site I've used, and some of them try to show your Finder view or iPhoto, which is really flaky and in most cases stalled and didn't finish loading. Now, maybe you've kept up to date with a Mac under 6 months old so it never craps out when it tries to call up a glitzy interface, but I have run into the problem with a MacBook bought October '07 and used December '07.
Turn on 'full keyboard access' in the System Prefs (Ctrl+F1).
Um, that was one of the first things I did. Still doesn't do what I want (access to any menu option from the keyboard), and what I can expect out of every single Windows app (and Linux for that matter, which allows the same thing). But prove me wrong: Show me how to call up "merge all windows" in Safari (no shortcut listed in the menu). I have keyboard shortcuts turned on in System Prefs -- still doesn't help.
And again, this matters when you're browsing the web from a trackpad -- but who does that, right?
Perhaps your time and energy would be better spend learning to use your damn machine instead of ranting about non-existent problems.
Already tried it, and that's the problem. Here's what typically happens:
- How do you [gain basic functionality I'm accustomed to on Windows/Linux]? I can't find how to do that on my Mac, it just lets me do [inferior Method 1].
-- LOL you just don't know how to use your Mac, it does things a little differently, you just have to learn how.
- Okay, so what's the Mac way?
-- [amidst insults] Duh, obviously, the closest thing you want is [Method 1]!
- But I already found that, and it it's a pain in the ass!
And it's happening here to, like in your answer to the stills question or keyboard non-shortcuts.
Sorry, the GP is right and a Mac user in a sibling comment confirms (as did I on my MacBook). The first two options don't do what he asked: they display a small preview. And no, people shouldn't have to open the *entire fucking directory* to be able to do that.
In Windows, for whatever other flaws it might have (and it does have them), the way to do what he is asking (and quite reasonably) is:
1) Open the picture.
By default, there are buttons you can click to view next and previous, or you can use the arrow keys, and probably a dozen other ways.
So they *still* don't let you do that on Macs ... in twenty-fuckin'-ten? This reminds me of why I reluctantly shy away from Apple products now. They'll be nice in so many respects ... and then scatter around a ton of annoying, basic don't-haves. Like how the OS calculator doesn't have scientific functions until 10.5.
Or how to extract a still from a movie, you have to re-navigate to the directory every ... fuckin' ... time. Or how you can't use the standard upload file interface on websites, but have to hope it's compatible with iPhoto or some other hack. Or the lack of alt-shortcuts which makes it so that you can't call up a function from a menu unless it's been hot-keyed.
Well, then how am I supposed to sue Firestone and Ford and get a big settlement?
Don't worry about it. Just use your iPhone like a good little consumer, and buy your software from Microsoft.
Um, I don't think Microsoft makes software for the iPhone, but I could be mistaken.
How would the Taliban access the internet, though?
Chuck Norris.
Probably because the researcher who wrote the algorithm was bad at representing the problem abstractly, which in turn was because they didn't recognize the connection between that subdomain (protein folding research) and the rest of scientific knowledge.
It is!!! :-( I'm yusing a noo program, I hope it works.
What insurance file?
What if I told you that the whole time they were just playing recordings? Would you have any way of proving that I was lying? Is there anything you can observe and point to that would not be present if my claim were true but would be if it were false?
Have you ever actually put your ability to distinguish them to any serious, demonstrative test? Or do you just take it on faith?
If you like being around fellow FNM fans and FNM themselves, great. But you're a dupe if you think you have some supernatural, paranormal ability to distinguish live musics from live playback.